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Smith resident George Marshall willCrossing alert cade, Marshall says. and County Forest protocols, Smith resident George about he volunteered for the Will Smith Crossing resident George residents seminars “We see George as aCrossing great help all knows a thing or two Preserves, buildMarshall, center, shares a moment residents about seminars and “We see George as ing a great helpfor exhibits knows a thing or two County Forest Preserves, build- Marshall, center, shares a moment forums; for instance, a meeting security and safety security. From 1955 to 1959 to Smith’s Marshall shelves and even with Smith Crossing environmental Are you looking to get out of the about security. From 1955 to 1959 to Smith’s security and safety forums; for instance, a meeting ved in the U.S. Air Force team. He is forward thinking with the Mokena Fire Protection one bridge along a trail. He also services ing shelves director Brad Waitkus,for left,exhibits and even with Smith Crossing environmental house and want to make some new he served in the U.S. Air Force team. He is forward thinking with the Mokena Fire Protection ryptographer working with about communicating matters of District is slated for the Febru- volunteered for the American and Chris August, one environmental bridge along a trail. He also services director Brad Waitkus, left, friends?

Then Worth Township is ary Resident Council meeting. Cancer residentsworking slated for the Februmous Enigma secret code safety and for communicating mattersSociety, of District asproviding a cryptographer with about services and safetyvolunteered director for Smith raised ismoney for the American and Chris August, environmental where be. The Living.

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Cancer Society, raised money services and safety director for Smith ship offers many different services willserreviewwith protocols for findoutages,” says e worked in sales— 40 years events or electrical “When we updates concerning machine.

After his time we in the Mercy,storm and volunteered as ameet fire- with residents, for the United Way Crusade of Senior Living.

Byoutages,” Tim Hadac an average of about 549,000 reported measles and activities for and all their seniors. ing40shelter well as Chris August, environmental hicago Steel and Wire, fighter insays the mountain forests protocols of Aboutfor Smith we will review find- Crossing events oraselectrical vice, he worked in sales— years in-place Mercy, and volunteered as a fireLocated at 11601 S. Pulaski Road Staff reporter ing shelter in-place Smith cases—and about 495 deaths—every year. says services andwith safety director forand evacuation s with S & D Wire.

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Senior7 Living which sponn Marshall’s background may13have been up to 4 million unIn addition now servingprocedures,” as CCRCs insays IllinoisWyoming. awarded a fiveservicesfire and safety director for toevacuation years with S& D Wire.

Smith Crossing isThere one of only place to demeanor, play some cards, join aSmith cro- Crossing “Smith Crossing always Smith background iendly, calm it’s sors Safety Security ambassador, year foraddition “exemplary Joe Cirelli, assistant fireaccreditation chief.

Smith Senior LivingWhether which and sponGiven and Marshall’s the current multi-state outbreak of reported In to now serving as CCRCs in Illinois awarded a cases five- each year, as well, according chet class, or Crossing sign up for Village a bus trip makes it’s safety sors a priority. ap- Marshall in Chicago’s Southside rprising the Smith volunteers as a driver conformance” international “Smith Crossing always to Smith We Crossing and in Smith and friendly, calm demeanor, Safety and Security year accreditation for “exemplary — Dr. Stephen J. ambassador, Sokalski measles the U.S. will reach the Southwest to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and to a show. preciate the community’s com“In the nt Council appointed him Beverly neighborhood. to Southside transport fellow Smith Crossstandards CARF-CCAC, the makes safety a priority.

We set ap-by Marshall not surprising the Smith Crossing Village in Chicago’s volunteers as a driver conformance” to Prevention international Suburbs remains to be seen, but local physi(CDC).

Worth Township Senior Room is mitment to keeping residents outage, George’s Safety and Security ambas- event of a power ing residents doctors’ appointindustry’scomsole accrediting the community’s “In the to preciate Resident Council appointed him Beverly neighborhood. to transportbody. fellow Smith Cross- standards set by CARF-CCAC, the open Monday – Friday phone 9:00 a.m. informed helping tree network informs cians agree that mitment now is the for residents parents As a young physician in the 1970s, Sokalski ments.

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by Smith Senior Livto time keeping of athem powerunoutage, George’s as its Safety andresiSecurity ambas-andevent ing residents to doctors’ appoint- industry’s sole accrediting body.

- 4:00created p.m. Drop in during to do tree in the event dentsthese and enables newly position Marshall moved Smith ing, them aare not-for-profit to make sure sonstoand daughters up and organization even death. sawSenior measles’ impact at Chicago’s contagious informed and helping un- ments. network informs resi-their sador. us to focus on derstand whatphone Sponsored by Smith Livgetting back on track. We of an emergency.” wellhours of Marshall’s to buildcommua puzzle, read one things of Crossing from the Brook Hills since 1924, itrisk are infants, because the first derstand what to doserving in theolder eventadultsMarshall to focus on vaccinations.

The newly created position dents and enablestousdate on their At greatest disease hospital near 31st Street and California. moved to Smith ing, a not-for-profit organization In fulfilling his new role, Mar- subdivision in Orland Park in provides spacious residences and avoid answering quesn abilities and books they have the many onlosing the time ofsomething an emergency.” track. We speaks well of Marshall’s commu- getting things back on Crossing from the Brook Hillsmumps, servingrubella) older adults since 1924, it is not to take lightly,” doseforofindepenthe MMR (measles, “I saw children suffer and die in front of from individuals by provid- shall already is spending plenty “Measles as ashelves, sign that safety is some a tions October 2013 after his wife, Peg, or to pick up informaengaging programs fulfilling his new role, Maravoid losing time answering quesnication abilities and subdivision innotOrland Park in until provides spacious residences and saidpassed Dr. Stephen J.InSokalski, a longtime in-as well is as typically administered a child is me,” he recalled.

“Most people thought that pertinent information to all of time listening to and gathering ioritytion at Smith Crossing, a ing in away. Since then, the fadent living, assisted livregarding local services the serves shall already is spending plenty tions from individuals by providas a sign that safety is a October 2013 after his wife, Peg, engaging programs for indepenresidents want and need that topics from residents for discusuing area. care retirement com-up for ther ofdisease five, grandfather of ing, memory andold. skilled You can sign bridgewho fectious at nine Advocate Health support a year Older children are generally not measles was an ordinary, benign disease, but of time listening to and gathering information to all specialist top priority at Smith Crossing, a ing pertinent passed Since then, the fa- dent living, as well as assisted livsion at Resident Council meety at 10501 Emilie Lane in information.” andingreat-grandfather of one, has nursing care. It also away. provides and pinochle tournaments, join a continuing care retirement Care Oak Lawn. considered at risk, sinceofproof vaccination what I saw was anything but. I saw the worst topics from residents for discusresidents who want and need that comther of five, grandfather nine of ing, memory support and skilled Waitkus, Envi- ings. Already he has welcomed befriended many fellow-residents. short-term rehabilitation services d Park. knitting or crocheting class,Says or testBrad While the large majority of children and others is required to enroll in school, and because of the worst.” sion at Resident Council meetinformation.” munity at 10501 Emilie Lane in and great-grandfather of one, has nursing care.

It also provides director at significant suggestions from Don “I’ve never had so many friends for residents and others requiring epresenting the painting CCRC’s 200 out your skills ronmental in our oil Services ings.measles Already he has welcomed Says Brad Waitkus, Orland Park. befriended many fellow-residents. short-term rehabilitation whoatbecome recover fully with students required to get an MMR booster Evenservices as late as the measles epidemic Ryan,Control a retired electrical contracSmith Crossing, “We also want ndependent living residents one Envitimeillinwith my life,” he says. assistance after surgery or aare mediPhoto

by James Gathany, Centers for Disease and Prevention painting class.

The Senior Room significant suggestions from Don “I’ve ronmental Services director atfamily In representing the CCRC’s 200 so many for residents and others requiring more than 3,000 children in tor, and Joe Barrett, the retired to make sure residents are regesidealso in offers apartments and “We’re like here.

If you go cal incident. no lasting effects, a very small number—typically shot never duringhad their gradefriends school years. of 1989-90, Rules the mother, Road classes, Held byofhis a baby receives a vaccination from a nurse.

Public Ryan,without a retired electrical contracSmithforCrossing, “We alsofor or so independent livingdirector residents at In onethe time in my before life,” he the says.measles assistance after surgery or a mediof security a large inularly reminded of what to do -styleRTA villas, Marshall al- 55 away a few days tellForcomplimore information about less than 1want percent—endure dangerous decade vaccine Bus passes, and –recommend Alive health authorities children receive their dose of MMR tor,say, and‘Where’ve Joe Barrett, the Crossing, retired call to make sure residents are reg-people who that reside in apartments andfirst “We’re like family here. If you go cal incident. ternational company. during safety-related occurrenchas developed a phone tree ing anyone, Smith 708-326-2300 class. It’s a great place for social cations that can include encephalitis, deafness was licensed thewithout U.S. in there wasinformation about See MEASLES, Page 2 (measles, mumps, rubella)helps vaccine at 12villas, months ofMarshall’s age.al- ularly of security or forvisit a large in- away reminded of what to do duplex-style for a few in days tell-1963,For more strong people es. George reinforce our ef- Marshall an relay information rapidly been?

We’vedirector missed you!’”

SmithCrossing.org. interaction, to keep active, and to ready has developed a phone tree during safety-relatedyou occurrenc- ternational company. ing anyone, people say, ‘Where’ve Smith Crossing, call 708-326-2300 learn a new skill or two.

Marshall’s strong people you been? We’ve missed you!’” that can relay information rapidly es. George helps reinforce our efor visit SmithCrossing.org.

Do you need to get your blood pressure checked or a basic dental cleaning? The Worth Township Clinic offers many different services for a very low price. Preventative podiatry services, fasting blood sugar, and fasting total cholesterol screenings are all available by appointment.

For those lucky enough to be traveling abroad, visit our Clerk’s office to apply for your passport.

The Clerk’s office also supplies temporary handicap Being Smithparking Smartpermits, means understanding county vehicle stickers, and voter registration. how different types of retirement communities Seniors in Worth TownByresiding Tim Hadac addition, if we didn’t do something ship canStaff use their Mini-Bus services. reporter with itthat now…fi ve years down the operate.

For example, did you know Smith They transport senior citizens and road, we’d be saying, ‘Well, why adults with disabilities to medi-i À Û } Ã > Ì v À «À wÌ À}> â>Ì ¶ The grounds surrounding the didn’t we do something with it?’ cal appointments and shopping in Palos Heights Recreation got a couple of potential Worth Township.

You must be regThat means the money weCenter make is“It’s invested istered to use expand the mini-bus, will by so as call much as an uses [in relation to the Rec Center] the Township to have them mail members for water retention, parking, difacre, after City Council À } Ì L>V Ì ÕÀ V Õ Ì ià v À Ì i Li iwÌ you an application. emerged from a brief, closed-door ferent things during construction,” The Worth Township Assessor’s ofoffice residents.

Because we are committed to the concluding Tuesday night’s Straz continued.

“It makes sense, is session located on the west side of meeting andcanvoted unanimously if we have the money available, to the building.

Here you complete residents we$237,000 serve; to stockholders. your Senior Exemption application, to pay tonot purchase the procure it. So that’s kind of what Senior Freeze application, De- at 6597 we’re going to do.”

Feldner family Tax property ferral application, and Benefit Access W. 127th St. The unexpected land acquisition application.

(866) 678-5111 •towww.SmithSeniorLiving.org Next the aeast of the comes before the Rec Center is to Each month the door Township plans Rec Center, thePlace land a be IL expanded 2320 113th • Chicago, 60643 beyond its current varietyWest of activities for seniors.

On contains the second Tuesday of every month 56-year-old single-family home, brick-and-mortar footprint, as well they willgarage host Senior Information and small barn. The city as upward with the addition of a Days, providing seniors with various will likely demolish some or all of second story. The city will draw health and wellness presentations the buildings unless it determines from its general fund, not revenues from many different organizations.

Sign upsome for theuseful variouspurpose bus tripsfor keeping from the bond issue approved by Photo by Tim Hadac of them standing. voters last November, to buy the to plays any and theatres.

Sometimes they bring the show to the Town“It came available for sale just property. ship byrecently,” inviting entertainers in Straz told Mayor Robert Plans calls for expansion of the while offering a delicious catered Some 3,000 paczki in 14 different varieties practically jumped off the shelves Tuesday morning at Bella’s Bakery, 12246 S. Harlem Ave., Palos Alderman Michael McGrogan (4th current rectangular Rec Center into meal. February 24th Vito Zatto will Heights, as hundreds of customers swarmed owner Michael Spizzirri and staff to get one last bite of delicious decadence. The tradition of who had him to an L-shaped building that will inbe thereWard), with catering fromprodded Fox’s Paczki Day has come to be celebrated in the Chicago area and other Polish-American communities across the Midwest on Fat Tuesday, or describe explain the real estate clude a multi-purpose gymnasium Restaurant.

Moreand entertainment Mardi Gras, the day before Ash Wednesday begins the Lenten season of fasting and sacrifice for most Christians worldwide. is planned for the coming months, purchase.

“It’s the kind of thing so be sure to callwith themthe and get on See HEIGHTS, Page 2 where, Recreation Center their email or mailing list.

For more information on any of these programs and services, please visit their website at www.worthtownship.com or call the Township at (708) 371-2900.

Worth Township is located at 11601 S. Pulaski Road in Alsip, IL. throughout the community. “In

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(866) 678-5111 • www.SmithSeniorLiving.org 2320 West 113th Place • Chicago, IL 60643

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To learn more, or if you would like to receive invitations to our monthly educational series, Smith’s Smart Sessions, pleaseTo call 866-678-5111. learn more, or if you would like to receive invitations to our monthly educational series, Smith’s Smart Sessions, please call 866-678-5111.

Orland events will pay tribute to veterans of the Vietnam War WORTH TOWNSHIP WORTH TOWNSHIP

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By Tim Hadac one ofand Chicago Ridge’s ations Best Wishes Staff reporter Hall and the Orland Park Civic Center.

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McLaughlin said he welcomes veterans from that era serving on the commission.

Also Monday, trustees voted, unanimously and without discussion, to create a development and advisory board that McLaughlin said would help “coordinate, organize and oversee the Orland Park and Fun Senior Clubs! o Preventative Podiatry Services* - Senior Room o Fasting Blood Sugar * Monday–Friday 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. month 11:00 “A little over a at year ago,amwe applied their families to a range of services.

History Museum that we’ve been talking o Fasting Blood Sugar * Monday–Friday 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Chicago Ridge Friendship Club Chicago Ridge Senior Club o Fasting Total Cholesterol Drop-In Center 11601 S. PULASKI ROAD, ALSIP, IL 60803 to be a partner with the Department of Several invited Vietnam veterans were about for a while.”

- oClinic Senioro Services provided to our Residents: - Clinic Senior Services provided to our Residents: Fasting Total Cholesterol o Drop-In Center Screening* Chicago Ridge Friendship Club of Chicago oRidge’s Rules of the Road Classes - Clinic Senior Services provided to our Residents: b Come Join one th of the Road Classes Screening* o Rules o Freeand Blood Pressure Checksled a o Cleaning Free Blood Checks Defense, the Vietnam-era in the audience, McLaughlin According to a published report, Mcst 708-371-2900 President: Lorene Pontarelli o Basic Dental * Pressure o RTA Bus Mee�ngs 2nd &RTA 4Passes Monday of each o Free Blood Pressure Checks Mee�ngs 1honoring & 3rd Monday of each veto Basic Dental Cleaning * o Bus Passes o Preventative Podiatry Services* Senior Room o Preventative Podiatry Services* - Senior Room nd th eransMee�ngs over the next three years,” Mayor round of applause for them and encourLaughlin said that the new museum, *by appointment only plus a fee o 55 – Alive Class and Fun Clubs!

Friendly Senior o Preventative Podiatry Services* - Senior Room 2at 11:00 & 4Midge Monday of each Vice President: ach *by appointment plus a fee o 55 – Alive s o Fasting Blood Sugar * Monday–Friday a.m. only – Blood 4:00 p.m.

11:00 am – 4:00 p.m. month am Schneider Fasting Sugar * Monday–Friday 9:00Class a.m.

- Assessor’s Officeo9:00 o month Bridge &atPinochle Tournaments McLaughlin told the Village Board. “The aged them to offer their input to help guide planned to be situated in the old Village o Fasting Blood Sugar * Monday–Friday 9:00 a.m.

– 4:00 p.m.

- oAssessor’s Office o Bridge & Pinochle Tournaments Total Cholesterol Drop-In Center Exemption Treasurer: Mice�ch atJoan 11:00 am month o Services Senior (Homestead) o oOil Drop-In Painting Classes i oprovided Fasting Total Cholesterol Center - Fasting Senior to our Residents: the village’so three-year oClinic Fastingremembrance.

Total Cholesterol Drop-In Center Department of Defense isClub asking us to Hall, 14413 S. Beacon Ave., will build oo Senior (Homestead) Exemption o Oil Painting Classes Club Screening* Chicago Ridge Friendship o Rules of the Road Classes Chicago Ridge Senior Application o oKnitting and Classes Screening* o Application RulesScreening* of the Road Classes of Crocheting the Road Classes o Cleaning Free Blood Pressure Joyce O’Connor oRules Knitting and Crocheting Classes putPresident: on Secretary: at least two things a year for “We appreciate your service our Checks upon the work of the Orland HistoriLorene Pontarelli o Basic Dental * to RTA Bus Passes Gerda Van Howe oo Senior Freeze Application - President: Mini- Bus Service o Basic Dental Cleaning *Podiatry Services* o Senior RTA Bus Passes o Basic Dental Cleaning * o RTA Bus Passes o Freeze Application MiniBus Service o Preventative Senior Room nd th st rd *bywe’re appointment onlyto plus a fee this o Tax 55Deferral – Alive Class 2015, 2016 and 2017.” country, and happy have cal Society, which maintains the John President: Lorene Pontarelli o Application o Transports senior citizens and Mee�ngs 2 & 4 Monday of each Vice President: Midge Schneider Mee�ngs g 1 & 3 Mary Monday y of each *by appointment only plus a fee 55 – Alive Class Vice President: Waitches oo Tax Application o55Transports senior citizens and *by appointment only plus oadults – Alive Class o this Fasting Blood Sugar *Humphrey House, 9830 W. 144th Place.

Monday–Friday 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.a fee - Assessor’s Office Bridge &Deferral Pinochle Tournaments oo Benefit Access Application McLaughlin unveiled framed flag opportunity toAssessor’s give you ‘extra thank with disabilities to medical Vice President: Midgea Schneider Office o Bridge & Pinochle Tournaments rma�ve Mee�ngs with: s o Benefit Access Application adults with disabilities to medical Treasurer: Mice�ch Assessor’s Office oappointments Bridge & Pinochle atJoan 11:00 am Tournaments month Senior (Homestead) Exemption o -Office Painting Classes Treasurer: Pawlowski o anniversary Fasting TotalasCholesterol oOilo Drop-In Center month at 11:00 - Clerk’s and grocery given to theDolores village byam thece�ch Department you’—usingo the an The new board will include seven memo50th Senior (Homestead) Exemption Oil Painting Classes - oClerk’s Office and grocery Rolls Treasurer: Joan Mice�ch Application Screening* Knitting Crocheting Classes oand Senior (Homestead) Exemption oshopping Oilappointments Painting Classes ioffee & Sweet o o County Vehicle Stickers in Worth Township.

Rules of the Road Classes Secretary: Joyce O’Connor Application o Knitting and Crocheting Classes of Secretary: Defense. ItSandra will beJacobsen on display through opportunity,” he said. bers.

Officials said that several Orland oService County Vehicle Stickers shopping in Worth Township. o Senior Freeze Application MiniBus o o TempRTA Handicap Parking Permits be registered; call to haveClasses Application oMust Knitting and Crocheting Bingothe end of Secretary: Joyce O’Connor onnor o local Basic Dental Cleaning * Bus Passes o all Senior Freezeveterans Application - MiniBus Service o Temp Handicap Parking Permits Must be registered; call to have 2017 in the lobby of Village He encouraged to Park residents have already forwarded President: Lorene Pontarelli President: Gerda Van Howe o Tax Deferral Application Transports senior citizens and oo Passport Acceptance mailed. o Senior Freeze Application - Mini-application Bus Service o Tax Deferral Application Transports senior citizens and Luncheons &Hall, Tours oo55 Passport Acceptance application mailed. *by appointment only plus a fee oadults – Alive Class Supplied photo 14700 S. Ravinia Ave. He also unsend an email message to MayorsVietresumes, and that decisions will be made o Benefit Access Application with disabilities to medical o Voter Registration Vice President: Midge Schneider o Registration Deferral Application senior citizens and Informa�ve Mee�ngs with: o Transports President: Mary Waitches Vice Pre oAssessor’s Benefit Access Application o flBridge Voter adults with disabilities to medical oappointments &well Pinochle Dan McLaughlin shows a commemorative ag, asTax theTournaments village’s - Clerk’s -Office andas grocery veiledVillage a newClerk village vehicle sticker that Orland Park Mayor namVets@orlandpark.org toOffice stay abreast in the near future on membership, acrma�ve Mee�ngs with: Clerk’s Office appointments and grocery o Benefit Access Application adults with disabilities to medical Treasurer: Mice�ch ce�ch Coffee & Sweet Rolls o Senior (Homestead) oshopping Oil Painting Classes - Vietnam Other activities atJoan the Township: Kevin M. Treasurer: Dolores Pawlowski Treasur o County Vehicle Stickers new veteran-themed vehicle sticker, at MondaySupervisor night’s Village Board meeting. inHughes Worth Township. sports a Vietnam veteran-themed design. of the three-year as it Exemption cording to a published report.

- Other appointments activities at the Township: Supervisor Kevin M. Trustees: Michael Mahoney o commemoration County Vehicle Stickers shopping inHughes Worth Township.

Supervisor Kevin M.- Hughes Coffee & Sweet Rolls ar George M. Schleyer Clerk’s Office and grocery o Temp Handicap Parking Permits Must be registered; call to have Clerko Katie Elwood -Senior Information Days Application Knitting and Crocheting Classes Bingo Secretary: Joyce O’Connor onnor Patrick J. Hanlon Secretary: Sandra Jacobsen Secret The sticker will go on sale this summer. o Temp Handicap Parking Permits Also Monday, trustees voted unaniMust be registered; callStickers to have takes shape.

Clerk Katie Elwood -Senior Information Days Clerk Katie Elwood o County Vehicle shopping in Worth Township.

Bingo o PassportoAcceptance application mailed. Richard J. Lewandowski Assessor JohnService H. Dietrick Trips to Plays, Theatres, etc.

Village Trustees Senior Application - MiniBus Tours It -Bus Assessor H. Dietrick o Passport Acceptance application mailed.

Trips Plays, Theatres, etc.haveAssessor “We’re alsoR.going to have a flLuncheons oat in the & added. will -Bus be held May half-sized replica ofJohn the acclaimed VietEarlier, McLaughlin swore inFreeze two new mously to grant an additional liquor liJohn H.Trustee Dietrick Temp Handicap Permits Must betoregistered; call to MichaeloMahoney Trustee Patrick J. Hanlon o Voter Registration -Plus great programs at the31.

Township Theresa M.Parking Roche Amanda V. Cardin, Michael Davies, Luncheons & Tours o Tax Deferral Application o Transports senior citizens Trustee Michael Mahoney Trusteeand Patrick J. Hanlon -Plus great programs at the Township o Voter Registration Days parade, and we’re inviting Accompanied by Orland Park Veterans nam Veterans Memorial in Washington, members of the Veterans Commission, cense to The Brass Tap, 14225 S. 95th Trustee Richard J. Lewandowski Trustee Theresa M. Roche o Passport Acceptance application mailed. , John “Jack”Orland Lind, Bruce D. Quintos with: Trustee Richard J. Lewandowski Trustee Theresa M. Roche MayorInforma�ve Mee�ngs Village o M. Benefit Access Application adults with disabilities to medical Other activities at the Township: Supervisor Kevin Hughes Raymond, Vietnam veterans and their families CommissionClerk Secretary Gailinformation Blummer, thethe Township D.C.,- will a return visit to Orland Dennis Durak and Michael For more about go -to:make www.worthtownship.com o Voter Registration orta�on forall Chicago Ridge Seniors activities at the Township: Supervisor Kevin M. Hughes Trustees: Michael Mahoney Kevin M.- Hughes Coffee & Sweet Rollsalso Charles E. Tokar George M. Schleyer or call 708-371-2900. Sign up to be on our Other Clerk’s Office appointments groceryIt Supervisor ortation fortoChicago Seniors mailing or e-mail list.

Clerk Katie Elwood Information Days join usRidge at the parade,” McLaughlin mayor said Moving Wall, a Park See VETERANS, Page 2 fi-Senior rst four days ofcalland October. both of whom are Vietnam veterans.

Forthat moreThe information about the Township go to the www.worthtownship.com or 708-371-2900 Patrick J. Hanlon Clerk Katie Elwood -Senior Information Days For more information about the Township go to www.worthtownship.com or call 708-371-2900 Clerk Katie Elwood o County Vehicle Stickers shopping in Worth Township.

Bingo Assessor John H. Dietrick -Bus Trips to Plays, Theatres, etc.

Village Trustees - Other activities at the Township: Richard J. Lewandowski Sign up to be on our mailing or e-mail list.

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Trustee Richard J. Lewandowski Trustee Theresa M. Roche Assessor John H. Dietrick For more information about the Township go to: www.worthtownship.com o Voter Registration Trustee Michael Mahoney Trustee Patrick J. Hanlon or call 708-371-2900.

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Answers to common questions about measles

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ince December 2014, a measles outbreak that began at Disneyland in California has grown to more than 100 cases in multiple states. Most of the people who have gotten sick were not vaccinated against measles. This is a stark reminder of the importance of making sure your children are fully vaccinated.

The following are answers to questions many parents have about this measles outbreak.

Q: I thought measles was a mild illness. Why the alarm now?

A: Measles was once a common childhood disease and almost an expected part of growing up.

While most children recovered from the measles without problems, many others did not. In some children, the infection caused pneumonia and in a few, encephalitis (infection of the brain) and even death. Of every 1,000 people who got measles, 1 to 2 would die. Before the measles vaccine was available, every year an average of 450 people died from measles; most of them were healthy children.

Thanks to the success of the measles vaccine, we are now able to protect children from the measles.

However, in recent years some parents have refused or delayed vaccinating their children out of fear or misinformation about the safety of the measles vaccine. This means there are more unvaccinated children, adolescents, and adults in our communities.

Choosing to not vaccinate your children not only leaves them susceptible to measles, but also exposes other children to measles. This includes infants who are too young to be vaccinated and those who are unable to be vaccinated due to other health conditions. In addition, measles is still common and large outbreaks still occur in many other parts of the world. Thus, measles is just a plane ride away, or even closer.

Above: Vietnam War veterans raise their hands to be recognized and applauded for their service at the mayor’s behest at Monday’s Orland Park Village Board meeting. McLaughlin swears in Vietnam veterans Michael Raymond (right) and Dennis Durak (below) as new members of the Orland Park Veterans Commission.

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Q: How is measles spread?

A: The measles virus spreads easily through the air when an infected person sneezes or coughs and someone nearby inhales the infected droplets. It can also be transmitted by direct contact with fluids from the nose or mouth of an infected person. It is one of the most infectious agents known to man.

Most of the recent outbreaks in the U.S. have started with an unvaccinated person from the U.S. traveling to another country with measles outbreaks and bringing it back to the U.S. Measles is very contagious, and the virus can live for up to two hours on surfaces infected patients have touched or in the air where they may have coughed or sneezed.

As a result, anyone in an airport or crowded venue such as an amusement park has a chance of coming into contact with measles.

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Before the rash appears, children with measles develop cold-like symptoms, including cough, runny nose, fever, and red, watery eyes. These symptoms tend to get worse during the first 1 to 3 days of the illness.

Q: We have a trip to Disneyland planned.

Should we cancel? What about other travel?

A: Health department officials in California have stated that if you and your children are fully vaccinated, you do not need to worry about going to Disneyland. Be sure your child’s immunizations are up-to-date if traveling outside the U.S. Tell your pediatrician if you are traveling outside the country — including Europe.

Q: When do children need to get the measles vaccine?

A: The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the American Academy of Family Physicians all recommend children receive the MMR vaccine at age 12-15 months, and again at 4-6 years. Children can receive the second dose earlier as long as it is at least 28 days after the first dose.

High immunization rates in a community protects those who are too young to be vaccinated, including infants under 12 months of age. These infants are at the highest risk of serious illness, hospitalization, and death due to measles.

Q: How long does the measles vaccine provide protection?

A: The measles vaccine is very effective in protecting against measles. However, no vaccine is 100 percent protective so very rarely, people who are vaccinated may develop measles. Some people may also be at risk for getting the measles if they only received one dose of the measles vaccine, which was the recommendation until 1989 when it changed to two doses. The second dose of measles vaccine increases protection to greater than 95 percent.

Q: I’m not sure if I’ve received measles vaccine.

Do I need a booster?

A: If you are not sure if you or your children have been fully vaccinated against measles, talk to your doctor to see if anyone in your family needs to be vaccinated. There is no risk to receiving measles vaccine if you have been immunized before.

Measles is a live vaccine so children with immune problems or receiving medications that suppress the immune system should not receive the measles vaccine. Your pediatrician is your best source of advice on vaccinations.

Q: Is the measles vaccine safe?

A: Yes, very. A vaccine, like any medicine, is capable of causing side effects but usually these are mild, such as pain or swelling at the injection site and a fever that lasts a day or two. The risk of the measles vaccine causing serious harm is extremely small. Getting the measles vaccine is much safer than getting the measles infection.

Q: What are the symptoms of the measles?

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Last November, Palos Heights voters approved—62 to 38 percent—the borrowing of $6.3 million to renovate and expand the Rec Center, an aging building built more than 50 years ago as Crab Orchard School.

The plan is for Palos Heights to have a public recreation center that rivals those in Crestwood, Orland Park and Tinley Park—facilities currently patronized by a number of Palos Heights residents.

Also Tuesday, aldermen voted 5-1 to allow a special use for a law firm to set up shop in space zoned for retail sales at 12224 S. Harlem Ave. The storefront, nestled in between Mid-Villa Pizza and Computer Greeks, formerly

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Palos Heights aldermen voted Tuesday to purchase a residential lot containing a house, garage and small barn, a portion of which is shown here looking east from the Recreation Center.

housed a Sylvan Learning Center, which was also a non-retail use.

Kramarski cast the lone vote of dissent. Consistent in her defense of retail zoning, Kramarski had voted against Sylvan’s use of the same spot years before.

Additionally, on a unanimous vote and without discussion, the Council approved the re-appointment of local insurance executive Matt Hunt to the city’s Police Pen-

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Straz noted the city will hold a hearing to consider granting a liquor license to Zachary Kubiak, who plans to establish Zachary’s Lounge & Grill in the recently vacated Mondello City Grill space at 13415 S. Ridgeland Ave. The hearing is set for 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 3 at City Hall, 7607 W. College Drive.

The next Palos Heights City Council meeting is set for 7 p.m.

in Chicago and suburban Cook County became ill with measles.

Hundreds were hospitalized, and a dozen children died.

The subsequent success of the safe, effective measles vaccine — to the point where public health authorities in 2000 declared that measles had been eliminated from the U.S. (but not other parts of the world) — has led to potentially dangerous complacency among parents today, Sokalski added.

“People forget how terrible things were decades ago,” he told The Regional News earlier this week. “Plus there is a whole generation of parents now who have never seen or even heard of measles. That presents a challenge for us to make sure that they take vaccination seriously.

“With safe, effective vaccines readily available, there is absolutely no reason that a child should have to suffer through a vaccine-preventable disease,” he added.

No need for panic While measles is highly contagious — the airborne virus can linger in a room for hours after an infected person has left — the current outbreak should not be cause for panic, said Dr. Bhagavatula Ramakrishna, a veteran infectious disease physician affiliated with Palos Community Hospital.

“The challenge is convincing parents to vaccinate their children promptly and completely,” he said, alluding to apathy or even fear of vaccine stoked by the anti-vaccination movement, some of whom still point to a 1998 research paper linking vaccine with autism, although the study was long ago exposed as not only inaccurate, but fraudulent.

“Vaccines today can eliminate disease and do tremendous good,” Ramakrishna continued.

“But it does no good at all if it just sits in a vial.”

No one takes measles more seriously that health care providers, he added.

“At Palos Community Hospital, everyone — doctors, nurses, other staff and even volunteers and candy stripers —is carefully screened to ensure that they will not transmit disease to patients,” he said. “Safety comes first, with no room for compromise.”

Beyond infection control and prompt vaccinations, Ramakrishna encourages everyone to fight measles and other vaccine-preventable diseases by having a global perspective.

“The only reason that we still see measles cases in the U.S. is because it has not been eliminated in other parts of the world,” he said. “And with a large amount of international travel every day of the year, we simply can’t stop viruses from crossing borders.

“So really, the smartest thing for us to do is support efforts to eliminate these diseases globally,” Ramakrishna concluded, citing the near-elimination of polio from the planet as an example.

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Death on Christmas: Teen charged with speeding

By Jack Murray

Regional News editor The teenage driver of a car that struck and killed a 71-year-old Orland Park man on Christmas night was speeding more than 35 mph over the speed limit before the impact, police said.

The 16-year-old driver was charged Monday with aggravated

speeding and failure to exercise due care with pedestrian in roadway, a traffic offense, Orland Park police said in a media release on Tuesday. Aggravated speeding is a Class A misdemeanor.

The charges against the teen were filed after the Orland Park Police Traffic Safety Unit concluded its investigation and reconstruction of the Christmas night tragedy.

Orland Park resident Jack Haggerty was walking across 104th Avenue just south of San Luis Lane soon before 7:30 p.m. when he was hit, according to the Will County coroner. His family told police that he was taking some food left over from Christmas dinner to feed to wild animals in the forest preserve across from his home, police said.

The driver’s 2005 Honda Accord

was southbound on 104th Avenue when the car fatally struck Mr. Haggerty. Police said the investigation determined that the car was speeding in excess of 35 miles per hour over the posted 45 mph speed limit just prior to the fatal crash.

The name of the driver is not being released because he is a juvenile. Nor have Orland Park released the gender of the driver, although

he is said to be a male in reports published by another newspaper.

The driver, who is also an Orland Park resident, was released pending a court appearance scheduled for March 3 at the 5th Municipal District Cook County Courthouse in Bridgeview, police said.

Mr. Haggerty was transported to Silver Cross Hospital in New Lenox, where he was pronounced

dead at 7:56 p.m., police said.

The driver and a passenger, also16, had minor injuries and were taken to Silver Cross, police said.

Toxicology tests have ruled out drugs or alcohol as factors in the crash, Orland Park police Lt. Tony Farrell said Tuesday. There were no citations or charges at the time of the crash, pending the police investigation, now concluded.

Artworks of Stagg student talents grace the walls of McCord Gallery Freezing cold temperatures kept turnout a bit lower than anticipated at a reception for the Stagg High School student art exhibit held last Friday evening at the McCord Gallery & Cultural Center in Palos Park. More than 70 works exhibiting student talent in photography, painting and drawing hang on the walls of the historic farmhouse, in an exhibit that will run through Friday, March 6.

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Patrick and Julia Bisch have opened The Open Bottle, a craft beer store and taproom, at 7101 W. 183rd St. in Tinley Park.

‘Beer nerds’ tap Open Bottle in Tinley

By Bob Bong

Southwest Regional News Patrick Bisch is a self-confessed “beer nerd” to the point that he chucked his job in the IT field to open a craft beer store and tap room called The Open Bottle last month in Tinley Park.

“I love to talk beer,” Bisch said from the store at 7101 W. 183rd St. “We are fully submerged into the store,” he said describing how he and his partner and wife, Julia Bisch, started planning for the store about a year ago.

“We wanted to do something we were passionate about,” he said.

The couple are well acquainted with the area. Bisch grew up in Mokena and his wife grew up in Palos Heights and attended Stagg.

The couple’s passion was ignited in 2010 when they were frequent customers of Hackney’s downtown location.

“We went there a lot and I knew they had a great burger menu and a great beer menu,” he said. “One day I discovered Bell’s Two Hearted Ale. That started it all.”

In late January, the couple opened The Open Bottle. Unlike many of the new tap rooms pop-

ping up in the south suburbs, they are a retail operation that has a tap room and not a craft brewer.

“We have eight taps to complement our store,” he said. “That allows our customers to taste the beer and take a bottle home. It’s enough to get people interested in beer.”

Bisch said he offers daily tastings (one-ounce pours) to introduce people to some of the unique beers he carries.

He said the tap beers rotate frequently, though they try to focus on local brewers. “We just ran out of Pollyanna from Lemont,” he said. “We kick a beer every day.”

The Open Bottle carries more than 300 kinds of beer, Bisch said, adding that more is coming.

“We have more shelf space that needs to be filled,” he said. The shelves are divided into Eastern, Central and Western United States.

The store has four tables and seats eight at the bar. It offers a variety of small bites and encourages people to bring in their own food.

“We love to see people bring in their own,” he said. “We just had an elderly couple that came in with Subway sandwiches to have with their beer. We love to see that.”

The Open Bottle also has an arrangement with Rich’s Pizza Place across the street to deliver food for free to the store.

Kids are always welcome with parents. “We have a number of craft sodas for the kids.”

They chose 183rd Street because of its traffic, and proximity to Interstate 80 and the Tinley Convention Center.

“We had a lot of customers who came in after the recent Tinley Golf Expo at the convention center,” he said.

If all goes well, Bisch said expansion was a definite possibility.

“We have plans for more locations,” he said. “In different areas.”

The couple is planning a grand opening from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Saturday, Feb. 21, that will double as a fundraiser for the National Domestic Violence Hotline.

Regular store hours are 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday, from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday to Saturday and from noon to 6 p.m. Sunday. The store is closed Mondays.

For information, call 708-2630449 or visit them on Facebook at The Open Bottle or check their website at www.theopenbottle.com.

Hickory Hills resident Vereshia Noble, a Stagg senior, poses with her untitled sketch inspired by a very close friend. She plans to pursue a career as a forensic chemist.

The exhibit showcases the works of some 57 student artists.

Worth resident Amanda Velasquez, a senior planning a career in psychology, stands near “Starburst,” a black-and-white photo she shot and colorized by hand. The work shows an interesting and unusual flower she encountered during a trip to the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago.

COMINGS & GOINGS Stay tuned – three Radio Shacks are still around BOB BONG Electronics retailer Radio Shack filed for bankruptcy last week and announced that it would close hundreds of stores across the country after holding liquidation sales, including several in the south suburbs.

But it turns out at least three of the chain’s local stores are not closing.

Employees at the Frankfort, Palos Heights and Lansing Radio Shack stores said it was business as usual at their locations, at least for the time being.

A worker at the Lansing store at 16915 S. Torrence Ave. said his store had been holding a clearance sale in advance of it closing, but then those sales ended and new merchandise started coming in to the store.

“As of now, we’re staying open, but who knows what may happen?” said the worker who asked to remain anonymous.

The Texas-based retailer last week filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization and said it planned to sell from 1,500 to 2,400 of its stores to its largest shareholder, investment firm Standard General. It plans to close the remainder of its 4,000 locations.

The company, which was founded more than 90 years ago, also plans to open Sprint stores-in-a-store in up to as many as 1,750 of the Radio Shack locations that stay open.

In addition to the stores now holding liquidation sales, the chain recently closed several locations in the south suburbs including its Tinley Park, Homewood, South Holland and Matteson stores.

Stores slated for closing in the south suburbs include locations in Chicago’s Beverly community, Burbank, Dolton, Chicago Heights, Bourbonnais, Joliet, Country Club Hills, Crestwood and Bolingbrook.

Also closing is its store in Munster in northwest Indiana.

Also included in the closing is the Oak Lawn store at 4819 W. 95th St. That store reopened in August 2012 after it was seriously damaged in a massive fire in November 2010 that also knocked out Eva’s Bridal and Miss Fantasia Boutique.

“Stores that are closing are expected to sell remaining inventory,” the company said in a news

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Radio Shack has already closed its store at 16036 S. Harlem Ave. in Tinley Park.

Freshman Olivia Heimberg, of Worth, looks at “Deathly Forest,” her black-and-white photo of a fallen log she saw at the Lake Katherine Nature Center & Botanic Gardens in Palos Heights. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.

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The Michigan-based retailer held a “Let it Snow” promotion that customers on those dates would be reimbursed for their purchases if more than three inches of snow fell in Chicago on Sunday, Feb. 1.

Mother Nature cooperated and dropped more than 19 inches of snow, which means about 2,000 people who shopped at stores in Bedford Park, Orland Park, Batavia, Chicago and Bolingbrook will be notified

by Art Van Furniture that reimbursements will be coming. Art Van will reimburse the cost of the furniture or mattresses along with sales tax and delivery charges.

The tab will be more than $2 million, the company said in a news release.

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You can’t make this up — and, well, you shouldn’t

By Gene Policinski

You can’t make this kind of thing up.

On the very day America’s top real news anchor gets suspended for telling faking news, the nation’s leading anchor of a mock news program tells us he’s leaving his job — really.

Brian Williams got tossed Tuesday from “NBC Nightly News” for six months without pay for misstating the facts about facing enemy fire in a helicopter in Iraq in 2003.

Jon Stewart — within hours — tossed out to an unsuspecting audience that he’s leaving Comedy Central’s satirical news program “The Daily Show” sometime within months.

For those concerned about good journalism and the future of a free press, neither announcement is a laughing matter.

Williams’s aggrandizing misstatements, apparently made over multiple years about a wartime experience in 2003 in Iraq, give unnecessary fuel to those who attack all journalists as biased, uncaring or inept. And Stewart’s departure will leave a void among those who use humor to hold newsmakers and news providers accountable, a task the nation’s founders would have approved of — and chortled over.

Even pundits such as The New York Times’ media and culture writer David Carr joked that perhaps the pair should just switch jobs.

No less a figure than Fox News commentator Bill O’Reilly, the Los Angeles Times said, initially blamed Williams’ pursuit of beyondthe-news celebrity — appearing on “The Late Show with David Letterman,” as the example — for the NBC anchor’s admitted tall tale about being in a helicopter with U.S. forces that was struck by a rocket-propelled grenade.

O’Reilly said Williams’s blunder “could be attributed to the pressure to ‘be cool’ in front of a hip talk-show audience that doesn’t watch the news” ... where “truth becomes secondary in such situations.”

“Truth” — or as Stewart’s colleague, Stephen Colbert, called it in 2005, “Truthiness” — really wasn’t secondary to “The Daily Show,” or as polls showed, to its viewers, either. It just came wrapped around entertainment engineered by one of the sharpest wits of our era.

Stewart’s approach gleefully skewed politicians, pundits and others — often through the use of video footage that showed in a clear way inconsistencies or politically expedient shifts in viewpoint.

The news media was not spared Stewart’s barbs, from cable TV financial gurus or commentators who gave grossly erroneous or self-serving advice to consumers, to the hosts of talk shows that he saw as meaningless or even harmful to real public discussion.

Most famously, as a guest on the former CNN program “Crossfire” that he had characterized as contributing to the “dumbing down” of America, Stewart told the two hosts that “you’re partisan — what do you call it — hacks.” When the show was canceled some months later, a CNN news executive said he agreed “wholeheartedly with Jon Stewart’s premise.”

On the Williams scandal, Stewart mockingly contrasted news media huffiness about the anchor’s damaged credibility with examples of repeated media failure to challenge the Bush Administration’s later-discredited claims leading up to the Iraq War about “weapons of mass destruction” and nuclear development — challenging viewers to consider which was the worse error.

Stewart’s impact on the news media was even the subject of academic study. In 2010, in the “Journal of Mass Media Ethics,” a report cited multiple examples of how his show has held the news media accountable for shallow, excessive or erroneous reports. At various times, “The Daily Show” was rated a significant source of news for younger Americans; and in a 2011 online poll by Time magazine, Stewart ranked highest as “most trusted” when posed against actual news anchors — including Brian Williams.

Williams was considered the most-visible and likely the most-influential of the current crop of anchors — before he was challenged first over the helicopter-RPG story and then his accounts of other news events. Of the many hurdles that Williams faces in restoring his journalistic standing is that the incident comes in a period of ever-greater danger around the world to journalists genuinely risking their lives to report news and information.

The Newseum’s Journalists Memorial in Washington, D.C., bears the names of thousands who have died since 1837 in pursuit of news.

It’s rededicated annually to those who died in the previous year, as a reminder that news gathering and reporting is a dangerous and sometimes fatal task. In 2014, the Committee to Protect Journalists listed 61 killed — and already lists 15 more dead in the first six weeks of this year.

A walk through the soaring glass and metal Memorial, with all those names etched on multiple panels, makes Williams’s faked account of risking his life while on a news assignment all the more tragic, mystifying and profoundly disappointing.

Gene Policinski is chief operating officer of the Newseum Institute and senior vice president of the Institute’s First Amendment Center. He can be reached at gpolicinski@newseum.org.

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Cheating is cheating, plain and simple Dear Editor: By now everyone has heard about or read about the Jackie Robinson Little League Cover up. The team has lost its title and the fallout is spreading like a tidal wave. It is all over the media and what usually happens, happened! The race card has been laid out in front of all of us.

My two favorite race baiters, Jesse Jackson and the Rev. Pfleger, are saying the ONLY reason this was investigated and that the sanctions have been handed down is because the players are black. No, the reason is because the adults and the officials involved knowingly cheated to steal top players from other restricted areas to pad their team.

I have seen this first hand. I coach boys Basketball. My team played against Pfleger’s St. Sabina team at the Brother Rice tournament the weekend before last.

This was a 7th-grade boys tourney. We were not allowed to bring older kids. Well,

when I saw them warm up I noticed the size of the team. They had five kids over 5 feet 10 inches, three over 6 feet tall. Their center was 6 feet 5. I walked over to the coach and asked the age of the kids. He said he a “few” 8th – graders, but none of them were the starters. He lied. After we were defeated I met with another coach who told me he started ALL 8th-graders.

So you know the saying: Don’t throw stones in a glass house! Pfleger’s own grammar school team has a coach that knowingly cheats. The kids on the court know they

should not be playing. I told the tournament what I discovered and it was corrected after a few games. But what a lesson for my kids.

I told them we play by the rules by OUR action, not words. We played fair and still lost, but we actually won in the long run.

We live in one of the most corrupt State, County, and City. Teach your kids the right way to live. Teach them that the reward is not the result but the path in your life.

— Brian J. Callahan, Palos Heights

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Growing corruption in sports should make us all sick Why am I not surprised that Little League International’s baseball organization is tainted with the same kind of corruption that taints everything else in professional American sports?

Worse is the phoniness of people who are supposed to be role models who are exploiting the controversy for personal political gain.

Where is the outrage over the lesson that the Jackie Robinson West little league team is teaching our young people? That it’s OK to cheat as long as you don’t get caught?

It makes me sick and it should make everyone sick. But it shouldn’t surprise us.

What surprises me is that public leaders like Rahm Emanuel, who so badly needs to repair his damaged public image as a failed Chicago mayor, is protesting the decision by Little League to strip the Jackie Robinson West Little League team of its U.S. Championship. He is demanding that the title be reinstated.

The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson and the Rev. Michael Plfeger, both of whom have never seen a controversy they can’t insert themselves into for personal political gain, denounced Evergreen Park Little league coach Chris Janes for blowing the whistle on the Jackie Robinson West fraud.

Janes complained to everyone about the cheating for months, but no one would listen. He wrote letters to the Little

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READERS WRITE

The list of cheating in sports is growing at super speed.

I blame it on sports journalism. The mainstream news media has serious problems, but the worst are sports reporters.

They don’t write news. They write opinions and call it news. They champion athletes they love, bash those they hate, and decide who gets canonized and who gets dumped. They close their eyes to cheating, League International charging the JRW until it can’t be hidden. team stacked its roster with ringers from As the father of a young boy, I am outside its district. The public ignored him. saddened by the failure of our leaders to Chicago’s leaders ignored him. The news media ignored him, until the Little League stand up for honesty, fairness and sports ethics. Defending the cheaters sends the couldn’t ignore the truth. wrong message to young kids all over the In my book, Chris Janes is a hero. He’s country who think they can win in sports the only person who cares about the most important part of sports. It’s called “sports- by working hard, training hard, and by folmanship.” It’s called honesty. It’s called not lowing the rules. By being good sportsmen and women. cheating.

Long ago my dad told me that winning Cheating seems to be the newest sports statistic. It deserves its own category along is NOT the most important thing in life. I want my son to know it’s about how you with batting averages, stolen bases and play the game. It’s about being honest, fair home runs. and doing your best.

Just two weeks ago, it was the New These days, it seems like all anyone England Patriots football team winning cares about is winning, and how to turn the playoffs by deflating its footballs to that into financial profit and personal make them easier to catch. It doesn’t prestige. seem like anyone cares. We care more about protecting the integrity of the Ray Hanania is an award-winning forSuper Bowl, which long ago lost its virginity to advertising commercialization mer Chicago City Hall reporter. Reach him at rghanania@gmail.com. and profits.

RAY HANANIA

What would Jackie Robinson think about the Little League controversy?

Bob Harris Bridgeview

Ken Kaminski Oak Lawn

Jesus Ponce Oak Lawn

David Bennett Oak Lawn

Robin Neumann Oak Lawn

“He’d be glad that the kids got as far they did, but he wouldn’t condone the way it was done.”

“He probably would take the side of the kids.”

“He would think that it was a shame the team had to go through it.”

“He would be embarrassed.”

“He would be disappointed in the adults.”

• Asked at the Oak Lawn Pavilion. Photos by Bob Rakow.

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Thursday, February 19, 2015

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POLICE BLOTTER: PALOS HEIGHTS Passenger allegedly yells at cop during traffic stop Palos Heights police charged Natalie M. Cesario, 26, of Orland Hills, with obstructing a peace officer after she allegedly yelled profanities at officers and tried to disrupt a sobriety test being administered to a friend.

Cesario was a passenger in a vehicle stopped by police in the 7100 block of West 127th Street at 2:21 a.m. Saturday. Police said she exited the vehicle twice and told the driver not to cooperate with them.

After she was warned to stop interfering, she was taken into custody, according to the police report.

Bond was set at $1,500, and Cesario was given a court date of April 2 in Bridgeview. The driver of the vehicle passed the sobriety test, police added.

Charged with DUI Police charged Alfonso Vazquez, 26, of Tinley Park, with DUI, no proof of insurance, and following another vehicle too closely, after they stopped him in the 7200 block of West Ishnala Drive at 3:30 a.m. Sunday. Bond was set at $3,000, and Vazquez is scheduled to appear in court in Bridgeview on March 19.

Charged with DUI/drugs Police charged Felicia Iturbe, 25, of Blue Island, with DUI (drugs), as well as possession of drug paraphernalia and making an improper turn, after they curbed her vehicle in the 7100 block of West 127th Street at 1 a.m. Friday. A passenger in the vehicle, Lucy Iturbe, 23, also of Blue Island, was charged with possession of cannabis after a search of the vehicle yielded a smoking pipe and a cannabis cigarette, according to the police report. Bond was set at $3,000 for each woman, and they are set to appear in court in Bridgeview on March 11.

Driver talking on cell phone while license suspended: police Police charged Brittany N. Jackson, 25, of Gary, Ind. with talking on a cell phone while driving, as well as driving on a suspended license, after they stopped her vehicle in the 6400 block of West College Drive at 7:36 a.m. Sunday. Bond was set at $1,500, and Jackson is set to appear in court in Bridgeview on April 2.

Charged with driving with suspended license

Raven Parker, 32, of Country Club Hills, was charged with driving on a suspended license, no proof of insurance, and operating a motor vehicle with suspended registration. Her vehicle was pulled over by police in the 12200 block of South Harlem Avenue at 12:36 p.m. Feb. 10. Bond was set at $3,000, and Parker is due in court in Bridgeview on April 2.

Police charged Saran Luckett, 31, of Chicago, with driving on a suspended license and no proof of insurance after they curbed her vehicle in the 11700 block of South Southwest Highway at 10:37 a.m. Monday. Bond was set at $2,000, and Luckett is scheduled to appear in court in Bridgeview on April 2.

Trenese Mitchell, 23, of Robbins, was charged with driving on a suspended license, as well as disobeying a red light, after police stopped her vehicle in the 6400 block of West College Drive at 4:22 p.m. Monday. Bond was set at $1,500, and Mitchell was given a court date of April 2 in Bridgeview.

Police charged Jeffrey A. Dufrain, 26, of Chicago, with driving on a suspended license, as well as improper lane usage, after they curbed his vehicle in the 11800 block of South Harlem Avenue at 4:22 a.m. Friday. Bond was set at $1,500, and Dufrain is set to appear in court in Bridgeview on March 19.

Felicia Fleming, 40, of Chicago, was charged with driving on a suspended license, as well as operating a motor vehicle with expired registration, after police stopped her vehicle in the 7100 block of West College Drive at 11:14 p.m. Feb. 11. Bond was set at $1,500, and Fleming is due in court in Bridgeview on March 11.

Police charged Princeton Arieus Arnold, 27, of Chicago, with driving on a suspended license, as well as operating a motor vehicle with expired registration, after they curbed his vehicle in the 7200 block of West College Drive at 1:27 a.m. last Thursday. Bond was set at $1,500, and Arnold is set to appear in court in Bridgeview on April 2.

Rudolph Stith, 21, of Tinley Park, was charged with driving on a suspended license. Police said they stopped his vehicle in the 12300 block of South Harlem Avenue at 7:48 p.m. last Thursday, after they spotted it following another vehicle too closely, according to the police report. Bond was set at $2,000, and Stith is scheduled to appear in court in Bridgeview on March 19.

Accused cell phone driver charged with paraphernalia

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The Trombetta/Saharkhiz family offered delicious tastes of Persian cuisine and a cultural display for attendees to enjoy during last year’s Taste of Jerling International Night. It returns this Friday.

Taste of Jerling this Friday The Taste of Jerling will feature foods from around the world, cultural displays and performances from the Sandburg High School International Club this Friday, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., at Jerling Junior High School, 8851 W. 151st St. in Orland Park.

Attendees are treated to samplings of a vast array of ethnic foods while viewing displays depicting life and history of the country represented. Guests then move into the performance area to be entertained by the dancers

A 54-year-old man told Orland Park police that a thief stole four wheel caps, worth a total of $500, from his car while it was parked in an upper level lot at Orland Square Mall at about 3 p.m. Jan. 28.

A witness described the thief as a black man age 20-30, 6 feet 2 inches tall, weighing 220 pounds, driving a gray Buick.

Woman reports wallet stolen at Dave & Busters

A 30-year-old woman reported that someone stole her cell phone and wallet while she played a video game at Dave & Busters, 49 Orland Square Drive, at 10:30 p.m. Jan. 24. The wallet contained a debit card and driver’s license, but no cash, the victim told police.

Orland teen charged with battery, obstructing

Michael A. Pawlak, 18, of Orland Park, was charged with battery, obstructing a peace officer, possession of cannabis, and possession of drug paraphernalia after.

Police responding to a call of two people acting suspiciously in a parked car in the 13500 block of South 88th Avenue at 10:40 p.m. Feb. 2 said they found Pawlak and Anne N. Porenski, 20, of Frankfort, in the vehicle. Pawlak was found to be in possession of a smoking pipe and a small amount of cannabis and then resisted arrest and repeatedly kicked an officer in the legs, according to the police report.

Porenski also was charged with obstructing a peace officer after she allegedly tried to close the car door as a police officer was attempting to look inside. She was additionally charged with possession of cannabis and possession of a controlled substance after police found a plastic bag containing several ecstasy pills, according to the police report. She was set to appear at a bond hearing on Feb. 3, and Pawlak was given a court date of March 17 in Bridgeview, according to the police report.

Charged with retail theft Police charged Daniel John Gries, 19, of Palos Heights, with retail theft after he allegedly stole a PlayStation 4 remote controller by stuffing it down his pants and walking out of an electronics store in the 15800 block of South La Grange Road at 8:39 p.m.

Jan. 29. The merchandise was worth $59, according to police. Gries allegedly tried to flee the scene with companions, but was restrained by a store security guard who kneeled on his back until police arrived, according to the police report. He was set to appear at a bond hearing on Jan. 30.

Lucyna Agnieszka Kedra-Gas, 51, of Palos Hills, was charged with retail theft after she allegedly stole two bras and two ladies’ tops from a department store in Orland Square Mall at 4:30 p.m. Jan. 31.

Her car was towed and impounded, and Kedra-Gas was given a court date of March 20 in Bridgeview.

Charged with DUI Police charged Caleb J. Work, 30, of Palos Heights, with DUI, as well as failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident, as they investigated a two-car crash in the 15100 block of South Harlem Avenue at 1:47 a.m.

Jan. 25, police said. Work refused medical treatment offered by the Orland Fire Protection District, police said, and he was scheduled to appear in court in Bridgeview on Feb. 10.

Man charged with disorderly conduct Kelvin McGahee, 37, of Chicago, was charged with disorderly conduct after he allegedly was spotted touching himself in his car, which was parked in a lower-level parking lot at Orland Square Mall at about 1 p.m. Jan. 26. A 31-year-old woman told police that she was putting her 16-month-old child in her car when she saw McGahee stroking his crotch.

When police arrived, McGahee was no longer in the vehicle, but walking out of the mall. He reportedly was not wearing underpants and allegedly explained that he was running late to get his computer fixed and did not have time to put on a pair. He reportedly told police that he does occasionally put his hand in his pants while driving, according to the police report. McGahee is due in court today in Bridgeview.

Orland Park man charged after crash Police charged Daniel Hernandez-Pedraza, 21, of Orland Park, with failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident, as well as driving without a valid license.

His SUV ran off the road and struck a pole at 30 Orland Square Drive at 10:44 p.m. Feb. 4, police said. The vehicle was towed and impounded, and Hernandez-Pedraza was due at a bond hearing on Feb. 5, according to the police report.

Charged with driving while license suspended

from Jerling families to fill the raffle baskets this year,” said Jerling parent and raffle organizer Kelly Cantillon. “The raffle is always a crowd favorite, especially the prizes like Principal for a Day and school announcement leader, which the kids really enjoy.”

For more information, email jerlingpfe@gmail.com or visit the Jerling PFE Facebook page at Facebook.com/jerlingpfe.

—Jerling Parents for Education

Palos Park PD recruiting new cadets

Police charged Jamie L. Hasty, 21, of Oak Forest, with possession of drug paraphernalia, as well as talking on a cell phone while driving, after they curbed her vehicle in the 12700 block of South The goal of the Palos Park Police Ridgeland Avenue at 11:41 p.m. Saturday. Bond Explorer Cadet Program is to teach was set at $1,500, and Hasty was given a court young adults the values needed date of March 19 in Bridgeview. to succeed in a law enforcement career and in life.

Charged with speeding The cadet program is designed Mohammad M. Mustafa, 29, of Chicago Ridge, for young men and women ages was charged with speeding, as well as driving without 14 to 20 interested in pursuing a a valid license, after police curbed his vehicle in career in law enforcement. the 11800 block of South Harlem Avenue at 3:17 The program is designed to prop.m. Feb. 11. Police said his vehicle was traveling vide law enforcement training and at 49 mph, 14 mph over the posted limit. Bond experience to the Explorer Cadet was set at $1,500, and Mustafa is due in court in through mentoring, classroom inBridgeview on March 19. struction, and hands-on training.

The program was created in 1999 with the sole purpose to involve teenagers in the Police Department and to let them observe the workings of a law enforcement Kyann Maria Murday, 37, of Hammond, Ind., was agency. As time went on, and as charged with DUI, speeding, and improper lane usage the number of members grew, the after police stopped her car near 159th Street and cadet program’s duties have also Ravinia Avenue at 3:18 a.m. Jan. 26. Police said grown. they spotted her car traveling at 60 mph, 15 mph Today, in addition to observing over the posted limit. The vehicle was towed an the Police Department, cadets now impounded, and Murday was set to appear in court provide traffic control at major in Bridgeview on Feb. 10. village events and participate in Police charged Sean B. Kelley, 45, of Brandon, a ride-along program. They also Fla., with DUI, talking on a cell phone while driving, assist people crossing the interand failure to use headlights when required, after section of 123rd Street and 86th they stopped his car in the 8400 block of West 159th Avenue in front of the Plush Horse Street at 10:39 p.m. Jan. 27. The vehicle was towed iced cream parlor during the busy and impounded, and Kelley was given a court date of March 9 in Bridgeview.

POLICE BLOTTER: ORLAND PARK Wheel caps stolen from car parked at the mall

from Sandburg.

Cost for admission is $1, children 4 and under are free. Baskets filled with gift cards to local venues, various prizes and international items of interest will be raffled during the performance portion of the event.

Cash and credit card are accepted for raffle baskets and spirit wear.

Cash only for admission. The Jerling PFE (Parents for Education) sponsors the event and invites the community to come and enjoy the evening.

“We had some great donations

Palos Park PD team will take Polar Plunge icy dip A group of Palos Park Police officers, Cadets, retirees, friends and family members calling themselves The Palos Park Shufflers will plunge into frigid waters in support of Illinois Special Olympics.

The Palos Park team will be “Freezin’ for a Reason” when they participate in the annual Polar Plunge challenge at Lake Manteno on Saturday, March 7.

“Palos Park is proud to take on this challenge each year in support of Special Olympics,” said Officer Ross Ricobene. “The Special Olympic athletes have summer months.

Cadets regularly conduct senior /elderly checks as part of the police departments “You Are Not Alone” program for seniors during inclement weather.

overcome so many challenges in their lives, we find them a true inspiration.”

Special Olympics Illinois, which began in Illinois with the first games at Soldier Field in July 1968, provides opportunities for more than 21,000 athletes, 40,000 volunteers and thousands more people statewide through 18 Area programs in all 102 counties of the state and it.

There are now more than 4 million athletes in 170 countries.

To participate or donate, you can go to www.soill.org/ polar-plunge.

Anyone 14-21 years of age can apply to be a cadet or inquire about the cadet program by picking up an application at the Palos Park Police Department, at 8999 W. 123rd St., or call671-3770.

Crisis Center’s Dianne Masters Award will go to AAUW Palos-Orland branch Crisis Center gala this Saturday The American Association of University Women Palos-Orland Area Branch will be presented the Dianne Masters Award at the Crisis Center’s annual Heart to Heart Dinner Dance this Saturday.

This prestigious award is named after the founder of the organization and recognizes individuals who emulate Dianne’s vision, commitment, and ability to overcome obstacles while creating a brighter future for women and children in crisis.

The American Association of University Women has helped CCSS since the beginning when they provided the seed money CCSS needed to begin training volunteers. The Corporate Recognition Award will be presented to the Aileen S. Andrew Foundation.

The Foundation has contributed to non-profit organizations, civic organizations, schools, as well as to students through its scholarship program. Over the years, the Aileen S. Andrew Foundation has provided over $80,000 in grants to the Crisis Center under the leadership of President Robert Hord Jr. Jean Riley, of Orland Park, will be awarded the CCSS Volunteer Spirit Award for her unbelievable dedication to the Crisis Center for 13 years.

Ronald W. Sparks, 22, of Chicago, was charged with driving on a suspended license and possession of drug paraphernalia after police curbed his vehicle in the 15600 block of South La Grange Road at 12:39 a.m. Jan. 27 after conducting a random plate check. A search of the vehicle yielded two smoking pipes, a hitter box and a grinder, according to the police report. Sparks is due in court in Bridgeview on March 17.

Police charged Pablo Perez-Bacilio, 27, of Orland Park, with driving on a suspended license, no proof of insurance, and speeding in a school zone after they stopped his car in the 8600 block of West Shagbark Court at 7:56 DIVORCE IS TRAUMATIC ENOUGH a.m. Jan. 27.

The “traditional” adversarial process, with opposing Police said they attorneys, adds financial and emotional burdens. spotted his veA better alternative exists… hicle traveling at 36 mph, 16 PRE-LITIGATION MEDIATION limits the total financial cost to mph over the $2500 or less and greatly reduces emotional stress. posted limit.

HERMANN LAW & MEDIATION Perez-Bacilio is scheduled to Cynthia Hermann, Attorney & Counselor at Law appear in court To learn more: in Bridgeview www.hermannlaw-mediation.com or (708) 576-8043 on March 3.

The Crisis Center for South Suburbia’s Heart to Heart Dinner Dance will be held this Saturday at Silver Lake Country Club in Orland Park. The annual fundraiser will include cocktails, a delectable four-course dinner, silent and live auctions, a raffle with first prize being $5,000, entertainment by The Jimmy O and Rhonda Lee Duo and celebrity emcee, WGN’s Andrea Darlas. The live auction will feature items such as getaways to Hawaii and St. John, tickets to sporting events, as well as a Chicago Blackhawks logo painting

by Elliott From and many other special items.

Dinner dance tickets ($95), raffle tickets, ad book advertising space, and sponsorship opportunities are still available. Interested parties can contact Christopher Beele at

429-7255, ext. 118 for reservations and additional information. To date, Diamond Sponsors are Advocate Christ Medical Center, Exelon, IN TECH Insulation Technology, Mechanical Equipment, Inc. and Sheet Metal Werks. Our Platinum Sponsors include Republic Bank and Patrick and Susan Frangella.

The Crisis Center for South Suburbia’s mission is to provide emergency shelter and other essential services for individuals and families victimized by domestic violence and address the societal issues that contribute to domestic violence.

Visit www.crisisctr.org for more information on the Crisis Center for South Suburbia, ways to support its mission, and the services it provides.

— The Crisis Center for South Suburbia

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COMMUNITY NOTES Coffee with lawmakers

State Rep. Fran Hurley and State Sen. Bill Cunningham will be available for Coffee & Conversation this Saturday, Feb. 21, from 9 to 10 a.m., at Starbucks, 7202 W. College Drive in Palos Heights.

These Coffee and Conversation events are free and open to the public. For more information, contact Hurley’s office at 773-445-8128 or repfranhurley@ gmail.com.

Palos Fine Arts 2015 scholarships

Palos Fine offers its 2015 scholarships to students, the Donna O’Brien Memorial Scholarship to a student or adult learner and the Cathy Holmes Weigel Founder’s Scholarship to a student. Areas of Interest should include theater, music, visual arts, creative writing or dance.

Scholarship deadline to apply is April 9. For application information, visit the website palosfineartsscholarship.com,or call 448-0425.

Heroin awareness for parents, teens

Orland Park Fire Protection District Battalion Chief

COMMUNITY NEWS Michael Schofield will address the local heroin problem at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 26, at Our Lady of the Woods Church, 10731 W. 131st St. in Orland Park.

Learn the signs to watch for, and what loved ones can do. “You are a product of your choices” is the overall theme. Schofield will be followed by Patty Brucki, a teacher, parent and community leader who will talk about making good choices within the framework of Catholic social teaching – the sacredness of the human person. The program is sponsored by the Multi Parish Respect Life Knowledge and Prayer Series.

Palos Pool early season pass discount Season pass sales for the 2015 season at the Palos Heights Pool are now on sale at the Palos Heights Recreation Center, 6601 W. 127th St. in Palos Heights.

Season passes will be discounted until May 15.

Those who take advantage of the preseason discounted rate will be eligible for complimentary passes to bring guests to the pool. For information on rates, visit www.palosheightsrec.org, or call 361-1807.

CLUB ACTIVITIES Palos Heights Garden Club

This is the first tea that will be catered. Doors open at 12:30 p.m. The theme is Easter Eggstravaganza, with the Easter Bunny greeting guests, who will get to bid on many raffle prizes.

Cost is $35. For tickets, call Marie at 480-4103.

The garden club will meet Monday, Feb. 23, at Lake Katherine Nature Center, 7402 W. Lake Katherine Drive in Palos Heights.

Fellowship at 6:30, meeting at 7 p.m. Speaker Wayne Gruber, an Indiana master horticulturist, will Daughters of the American Revolution discuss Seasonal, Sustainable, Suicidal, and Stimulating Perennials. “Oh, the lure of perennials; they sing us The Swallow Cliff Chapter of the Daughters of the a siren’s song of the promise of everlasting beauty. American Revolution will meet at 1 p.m. this Saturday, But which ones will be true to you and not just lead Feb. 21, at the Palos Heights Public Library, 12501 you down the garden path?” Guest fee is $5.

S. 71st Ave. Palos Heights.

This is the annual youth awards program to recogPalos Park Woman’s Club annual high tea nize the winners of the DAR American History Essay The Palos Park Woman’s Club’s third high tea will and Good Citizens contests. Prospective members and be served on Sunday, March 8, at the Kaptur Center, guests are welcome to attend.

8999 W. 123rd St. in Palos Park.

For information, email swallowcliffdar@gmail.com.

BUSINESS NOTES Employers needed for Moraine Valley spring job and internship fair Employers from all industries who have position openings are sought for Moraine Valley Community College’s Spring Job and Internship Fair on Thursday, March 26, from 2 to 5 p.m., in the Moraine Business and Conference Center, Building M, on campus, 9000 W. College Pkwy., Palos Hills. Employer check-in is at noon, and the employer luncheon is at 12:30 p.m.

The fair provides an opportunity for employers to recruit diverse students, alumni and com-

BENEFITS & FUNDRAISERS Heights Dist. 128 PFA Dancing with the District The School District 128 Parent Faculty Association will hold its first-ever Dancing with the District fundraiser on Saturday, Feb. 28, at Shepard High School in Palos Heights. Doors will open at 5 p.m.; dancing will begin at 6.

Eight faculty members, representing each of the district’s four schools will dance in the event.

They have been practicing with their partners from the Arthur Murray Dance Center in Oak Brook, and finalizing their outfits.

The winner will be determined by local celebrity judges and audience voting. Each vote costs $1; unlimited voting, cash and checks will be accepted.

Pizza, soft drinks, and baked goods will be sold. Following the competition, the Arthur Murray dancers and Legacy Dance Studio students will perform. The PFA’s “locally famous” silent auction will be held, as well.

All proceeds from this event will benefit the District 128 PFA. For ticket and more information, including dancers’ profiles, visit the website at www.d128.k12.il.us

Concert at Elim

An Elim Benefit Concert will take place on Sunday, March 8, at 4 p.m., on the campus of Elim Christian Services, 13020 S. Central Ave. in Palos Heights The concert will feature The Peg Mooney Singers performing music favorites such as “Circle of Life” (Lion King), “With a Little Help from My Friends”, “Hallelujah” (Shrek soundtrack version), and “Put a Little Love in Your Heart.”

The one-hour performance will also include a brief intermission and a free will offering, with proceeds benefiting Elim Christian Services.

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Night to Linger will benefit The Center

The Center’s Night to Linger benefit for summer camp scholarships will be held next Thursday, Feb. 26, at 7:30 p.m., at Hackney’s restaurant, 12300 S. LaGrange Road, Palos Park.

A Night to Linger is held each February as a

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Bryan Riess, Joanna Leafblad, Lisa Glatz and Len Wcislo will appear in “Gods of Carnage,” the Palos Village Players’ season-opener coming to the stage of Palos South Middle School.

Palos Village Players’ season opens with ‘Gods of Carnage’

The Palos Village Players will go boom… The play is a study in Lisa Glatz (Downers Grove) and present their first play of the 2015 the tension between civilized sur- Len Wcislo (Hickory Hills). season, “Gods of Carnage,” by face and savage instinct…”

The play is directed by Lori Yasmina Reza (translation by A playground altercation be- Nussle, of Palos Park, who is asChristopher Hampton). tween 11-year-old boys brings sisted by Peg Crawford, of Palos Showtimes are 7:30 p.m. on together two sets of Brooklyn Heights. The producer is Richard Friday and Saturday, Feb. 27, 28, parents for a meeting to resolve Thompson, of Orland Park.

March 6 and 7, and at 2 p.m. on the matter. At first, diplomatTickets are $18; $15 for students Sunday, March 1. The one-act play ic niceties are observed, but as and seniors, and can be reserved will be performed in the Little The- the meeting progresses, and the by calling 877-PVP-TIXS (877ater of Palos South Middle School, rum flows, tensions emerge and 787-8497). Anyone who attends 131st and 82nd Avenue. the gloves come off, leaving the the Sunday matinee and eats lunch Winner of the 2009 Tony Award, couples with more than just their at Hackney’s Restaurant, 123rd and “Gods of Carnage” is a “streamlined liberal principles in tatters. The LaGrange Road, can reserve their theanatomy of the human animal… couples are portrayed by Joanna ater tickets and receive a $5 discount munity members to fulfill employment needs, delivers the cathartic release of Leafblad (Orland Park) and Bryan on the cost of their meal by calling including hourly or salary jobs and paid or watching other people’s marriages Riess (Burbank), who meet with Hackney’s in advance at 448-8300. non-paid internships. Commission-only positions and undisclosed third-party recruiting will not be included.

The registration fee is $105 for a six-foot table and lunch for two recruiters. The fee for Heights library youth programs the spring and fall fairs is $160. Registration Visitors to the library can also pick up an enrollment and payment are due by March 12. To register, • The Chicago Wolves Read to Succeed winter form. If necessary, a staff member will come to visit morainevalley.edu/jrc and click on Job reading program – It’s not too late to sign up at the your home to gather the information needed and and Internship Fair. Space is limited. For more Youth Services desk. Pick up a Book Bingo Card; deliver your card on the next visit. information, call the Job Resource Center at read and complete five things on your card to win Heights library upcoming programs 974-5737, or visit the website. finish. You might also win a prize by attending a program. Prizes include Chicago Wolves tickets, The following clubs meet at the Palos Heights hats, and more. Program ends Feb. 22.

Public Library, 12501 S. 71st Ave. No registration • Bluestem Buddies – Grades 3-5 are invited necessary. to explore a 2015 Bluestem nominated book each • Needle Club – Bring your projects to the Neemonth, and enjoy activities, snacks, giveaways, or dle Club, and enjoy the company of others while benefit for The Center’s summer camp program. crafts inspired by the book today (Thursday), at 4 working, on Tuesday, Feb. 24, from 10 a.m. to noon. New members always welcome.

It includes a silent auction and basket raffle, p.m. Registration is required.

• Teen and Tween Corner – Students in grades • Mah Jongg – Meet at the Library and bring plus a slideshow of past camp summers and an opportunity to learn about The Center and 4-5 are invited to have fun and enjoy a snack today your game to play American Mah Jongg on Tuesday, Feb. 24, at 1 p.m. Novice and experienced players its camp program. (More details on page 12.) (Thursday), at 7 p.m. Registration is appreciated.

• Dragon Feathers with the Melikin Puppets – welcome.

Tickets are available at The Center, 12700 • Scrabble Club – Scrabble Club now meets Southwest Highway. For more, call 361-3650 Merlin, the world’s foremost authority on dragons, will tell three classic dragon tales before inviting weekly. Play Scrabble with other enthusiasts of or visit www.thecenterpalos.org. selected members of the audience to join in an game. Scrabble Club will meet Tuesday, Feb. 24, authentic Chinese Dragon Dance this Sunday, Feb at 1 p.m.

Pancake breakfast 22, at 2 p.m. Registration is required for this event.

• Winter Reading Program: Chill Out and Read at Indian Hill preschool • Crafty Kids – Kids in grades K-4 are welcome – Winter Reading is underway through Feb. 28.

A pancake breakfast celebrating Disney’s “Fro- to bring out your creative side with a fun craft on Stop by the Adult Services Desk to sign up and zen” will be held this Saturday, Feb. 21, from Tuesday, Feb. 24, at 4 p.m. Registration is appreciated. pick up the brochure. Participants will be entered 8 to 11 a.m., at Indian Hill Preschool, 12800 • Downloadable Books, Music and More – Bring into a prize drawing.

S. Austin Ave. in Palos Heights.

• There’s an App for That! – Learn about some your device and your Palos Heights library card This new event is sponsored by the Kiwanis to learn how to download all kinds of free fun free or useful apps available through the Google Club of Palos Heights and Indian Hill School on Thursday, Feb. 26 at 4 p.m. Registration is not Play and Android app stores during this class today to benefit tuition scholarships for Indian Hill necessary.

(Thursday) at 2 p.m. This class is hands-on and will Preschool.

• Check out the library’s teen blog at http://php- be held in the Technology Lab. Class size is limited; Tickets cost $5; free for children under 2. lya.blogspot.com. Find out what’s happening at the registration will be taken up to ½ hour before the Tickets can be pre-ordered through the preschool library, and read reviews of books and movies. Give class starts. Register online or call 448-1473. until Feb. 13, and will be sold at the door. Chil- your feedback.

• Clean Up Your Computer – Steve from Comdren at the breakfast will be able to pose with All programs are free and open to everyone at puter Greeks will teach you how to clean up your some princesses for $5 and do crafts for $3. the Palos Heights Public Library, located at 12501 computer and get rid of the clutter on Tuesday, Baskets will be raffled for $1/ticket or $5/six S. 71st Ave. in Palos Heights. For more information Feb. 24, at 6:30 p.m. tickets. Tours of the preschool in addition to or to register for a program, visit www.palosheight• Ageless Grace – Join International Ageless information on joining/helping the Kiwanis will slibrary.org, call 448-1473, or stop by the Youth Grace Educator/Trainer Peggy Kinst for this simple be available.

Services desk. and fun anti-aging fitness program on Wednesday, For more, email Principal Cathy Leslie at clesFeb. 25, at 10 a.m.

Heights library homebound delivery lie@d128.k12.il.us or call the school at 597-1285.

• Thursday at the Movies – The Library will Have Books, Will Travel, the library’s homebound show the 2014 film “Maleficent,” starring Angelina PAWWS for Love delivery service, provides free pick-up and deliv- Jolie, on Thursday, Feb. 26. The film will play at PAWWS for Love is set for 6 p.m. this Sat- ery of library materials to Palos Heights Library 10 a.m. (with subtitles), 2 p.m., and 6:30 p.m.

For information on upcoming programs, visit the urday at the Lexington House, 7717 W. 95th cardholders who are temporarily or permanently disabled and thus unable to visit the library. website at www.palosheightslibrary.org and view the St., Hickory Hills.

Those who qualify for the program can request online calendar. All programs are free and open to Tickets are $50 at the door, $40 in advance, T: 5.6875 in the public unless otherwise noted. Registration is and may be obtained at Pack Leader Academy specific items or rely on our expert reader advisory. or online at pawws.org. The event, expected to To request this service, call the library at 448-1473. required as noted and always encouraged. run to midnight, will include a buffet dinner, cash bar, entertainment, and prize drawings.

PAWWS aims to acquire dogs and train them as service dogs to be paired with veterans in need, particularly men and women with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder or traumatic brain injuries, at no cost to veterans, including the cost of food and veterinary care.

For more information on the event, call Pam Barnett at 369-1981.

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SENIOR NOTES Fireside Theatre trip with Orland Township

This coming Wednesday is the last chance this year for new members to join the Palos Heights Senior Club this year; meetings are held at 1 p.m. on the second and fourth Wednesdays at Moraine Valley Church, 6300 W. 127th St. Only in January and February is membership open to join the senior club. Dues for the year are $20. Anyone 55 and older with a Palos Heights mailing address is welcome. Transportation if needed is available through the Palos Heights Recreation Department. Cost is $4 roundtrip.

Doors open at 12:30 p.m. Benefits of club membership include day trips, informational speakers and live entertainment. Questions? Call 448-7498.

Orland Township offers a trip to the Fireside Theatre in Fort Atkinson, Wis., on Thursday, March 5, for lunch and the musical “The Wizard of Oz.” Tickets are now on sale; proof of residency is required. The residential ticket price is $95 per person, Non-resident add $5.00. Ticket prices cover transportation by motor coach. All ages are welcome to travel with Orland Township on this trip.

Orland Township offers a variety of day and overnight trips throughout the year for senior residents. All trips depart from the parking lot next to Bank Financial on the northwest corner of 151st and 94th Avenue. For more, call 403-4222 or visit www.orlandtwp.org.

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HEALTH & FITNESS

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Some pet owners just don’t get it JOHN FLEMING

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Ageless Grace gets bodies moving

Theresa Suchy McGraw demonstrates the principles of Ageless Grace® to the Palos Park Woman’s Club. Ageless Grace® is a fitness and wellness program now offered at Dr. John Principe’s WellBeingMD in Palos Heights on Wednesdays at 1 pm. The program consists of 21 different exercises. Each is designed to work particular joints and muscle groups and targets a certain cognitive function. Done in a chair, the workout combines music and movement. The exercises work everything from facial muscles to balance points in the body. For more, call 448-9450.

HEALTH BEAT Cholesterol screenings at Palos Township Palos Township Health Service will offer cholesterol screenings on Monday, Feb. 23, from 8:30 a.m. to noon, at the township, 10802 S. Roberts Road in Palos Hills.

The total cholesterol screening gives the total value. Cost is $10 for township residents; $15 others.

HA1C reflects the average blood sugar levels over the previous few months, which is useful for diabetics. HA1C testing is offered for $10 residents; $15 others.

Cholestech screening gives a breakdown of total cholesterol values, high density cholesterol, low density cholesterol, triglycerides, ratios, and glucose values. This test is $35 for residents; $45 others.

Call 598-2441 for an appointment.

Orland holds signup for annual indoor duathlon Orland Park’s Indoor Duathlon will be held Saturday, March 7, at the village’s Sportsplex, 11351 W. 159th St. in Orland Park. The first heat begins at 7:15 a.m. The last day to register is Feb. 23, or until the event is filled.

The 13-mile event, open to participants age 12 and older, includes a 1.5 mile run, a 10-mile stationary bike ride and ends with a second 1.5 mile run. Medals will be awarded to the first and second place finishers, both men and women in each age category.

Pre-registration is required for

the event with a cost of $20 for Sportsplex members, $25 for Orland Park residents and $31 for non-residents.

Registration is available at the Recreation Administration Office at 14600 Ravinia Ave. and at the Sportsplex, 11351 W. 159th St. For more information, call the Orland Park Recreation Department at 645-PLAY.

Vitamin D and thyroid screenings at Palos Twp.

mobilization, soft tissue modalities and customized exercise programs.

A reservation is required. Call 403-4222.

Orland Twp. knee injuries seminar Orland Township and Flexeon Rehabilitation will host a seminar on knee injuries on Tuesday, Feb. 24, at 11:30 a.m., at the township, 14807 S. Ravinia Ave., in Orland Park.

Knee injuries are common in all ages, including ACL tears, meniscus injuries, patella femoral syndrome and osteoarthritis.

Learn about prevention, exercises and tips for healing, such as certain stretching and strengthening exercises. For more, or to make an appointment, call 403-4222.

Palos Township Health Service will sponsor a Vitamin D and thyroid screening on Thursday, Feb. 26, from 9 to 11 a.m., at the township, 10802 S. Roberts Road, Palos Hills.

The screening is open to both residents and non-residents. Vitamin D screening will be $25 and thyroid screening will be Overeaters Anonymous $15. Checks and credit cards are accepted. Cash must be exact. Call Do you suspect food rules your to reserve a spot at 598-2441. life? Overeaters Anonymous (OA) may be the answer for you. It is not a diet club, but a fellowship of peoFrozen shoulders ple recovering from compulsive seminar at Orland Twp. overeating. The only requirement Orland Township and Flexeon for membership is a desire to stop Rehabilitation will host a seminar eating compulsively; bulimics and on frozen shoulders on Tuesday, anorexics welcome. There are no March 3, at 11 a.m., at the town- dues, fees or weigh-ins. ship, 14807 S. Ravinia Ave. Groups meet locally on Fridays, Frozen shoulders, also known at 10 a.m., at Palos Heights Chrisas adhesive capsulitis, are treated tian Reformed Church, 7059 W. with physical therapy. Learn more 127th St., Contact: Judy 903-3595; about how to control the pain and and Saturdays, 8:30 a.m., in Orland improve range of motion, as well as Park, at Faith United Methodist exercises for strengthening and sta- Church, 15101 S. 80th Ave. Conbilization, posture education, joint tact: Patsy, 773-251-3448.

Dear Dr. Fleming, I am really ticked off at my vet and I want your take on the issue. I have an 8-year-old golden retriever, Boo, who has been not acting right for about two weeks.

I did some research on the Internet and thought that I should get a full blood test. I thought a CBC and a chemistry test would be good for starters. My vet was nice and let me go into her clinic and I saw a technician who drew the blood and sent it to the lab. This was good because I didn’t want to pay for an office visit since I knew what test to ask for.

Unfortunately there are a bunch of blood test values that are out of the normal range and I can’t figure them all out. I called my vet’s office today and asked to have her call me to discuss the test results, but I was told I would have to come in (and pay for an office visit) in order for my vet to go over and interpret the results for me. Could I fax or drop off the tests at your office and have you or one of your vets look at the results and give me a call?

Bob, Palos Park Dear Bob, How did you get my phone number? Try going down to the auto shop and buying a carburetor and ask them to install it for free. Or perhaps pick up a new hot water heater and ask for free installation. People like you are a real drag on the joy of practice. I feel bad for your dog and your vet.

Don’t call back.

Dear Dr. Fleming, My friend took her sick cat that goes outdoors to a vet and the clinic wouldn’t examine her cat because it had not been vaccinated for rabies. Would you have seen the cat?

Martha Dear Martha, Yes, we would have seen your friend’s cat, but after the initial visit, and the hopeful recovery of the cat, we would tell her that in the future if she wanted our services she would have to have her cat vaccinated for rabies. If she doesn’t want to vaccinate her pet for distemper or leukemia the worst that could happen is that the cat could die, but in the case of rabies, humans could be at risk.

That’s why rabies vaccinations are legislated.

Dear Dr. Fleming, I have a 7-year-old German shepherd who is losing control of her back end. She has always been healthy and never injured. Over the past two months she has started using her back legs like a drunken sailor. A guy at the pet store thinks Rocco may have degeneration of her spinal cord. Could he be right?

Rex, Palos Heights Dear Rex, I bet I can guess the pet store where you buy your

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Meet Dr. Joe and Winston from Orland Park. Winston is Joe’s new Cavalier King Charles Spaniel.

supplies. The owner of such a store had a German Shepherd with such a problem that we treated for a long time. Yes, he could be, and probably is, right. The condition, called degenerative myelopathy (DM), is a spinal cord condition that results in progressive hind leg weakness and incoordination.

The spinal cord is composed of nerve cells and fibers. Nerve impulses are transmitted along these fibers (axons) from the brain to the limbs, and vice versa. When portions of the spinal cord degenerate, nerve impulses are not properly transmitted in both directions. Consequently, the legs become weaker, and eventually the dog cannot voluntarily move them.

The exact reason DM develops is not well understood but an inherited basis is suspected. The German shepherd is the most commonly affected breed. In fact, in all of my years in practice I have only seen one non-German Shepherd with DM. DM causes a chronic, progressive, non-painful rear end weakness. The animals become unsteady in the hind legs, they scuff or knuckle over on the toes, will stumble and have trouble rising. Eventually the dog can no longer walk and drags his or her hind legs. Late in the disease some dogs become urine and fecal incontinent.

There is no definitive test for DM but with the breed and clinical signs a presumptive diagnosis can be made. For those owners who want to pursue or rule out other conditions, the best imaging technique is an MRI. Unfortunately, a definitive diagnosis can be made only by evaluating the spinal cord after death.

Currently there is no proven effective treatment for DM. Many veterinarians still prescribe aminocaproic acid to slow the progression of the disease, as was originally described by a University of Florida neurologist in the l980s. There are many other unproven treatments and that are certainly worth trying.

As water reflects a face, so a man’s heart reflects the man.

—Proverbs 27:19.

St. Catherine’s sixth-graders win regional Verizon Innovative App ChallengeTeam inspired by Smith Village resident Chuck Lavin

Submitted by Smith Village ogy to do more. So we developed competition, they learned how to In April of 2014, Charles Lavin, a retired pipe coverer, and his wife, Alice, moved from their home in Evergreen Park to Smith Village, a continuing care retirement community in Chicago’s Southside Beverly neighborhood. Having endured some serious falls, the cheerful 82-year-old readily adapted to his new skilled nursing care lifestyle.

While Lavin and his family recognized he needed daily medical services and support, they soon understood the important role a great variety of entertaining and engaging activities played in providing memory support assistance.

The father of eight, grandfather of 27 and great-grandfather of three counts on plenty of visits from loving family members. As his dementia progressed, close relatives became painfully aware of Lavin’s inability to recognize family members. Wanting to assist, Lavin’s daughter Julie Kosinski created a photo album containing clearly labeled images of relatives and friends with short bios about each.

“The album seemed to help, and he enjoyed looking at it,” says Lavin’s granddaughter, Annie Gainer, 12, a resident of Oak Lawn.

“My aunt did a wonderful job, but we thought we could tap technol-

a phone app to help.” The “we” Gainer refers to includes fellow sixth-graders at St. Catherine of Alexandria School in Oak Lawn, who participated in the Verizon Innovative App Challenge: Isabelle Arquilla, Molly Fineran, Clare Murphy, Bridget Murphy, Ellen Murphy and Autumn Stanke.

Because the other girls were already close friends with Gainer, they were eager to help her grandfather. The Verizon Wireless-sponsored contest, which attracted more than one thousand entries from students across the country, required the students to develop an original concept for a mobile app that would apply STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) principles and address a real need or problem in their community.

In developing the proposal for their app, called “Remember Me,” which can call-up information about relatives and friends, the girls won “Best in State” competing with 1,000 Illinois school teams and, then, “Best in Region.” St. Catherine received a $5,000 grant from Verizon Wireless to advance STEM education programs. While the sixthgrade girls at St. Catherine’s did not win the national

work as a team to solve a problem by using technology.

“We did it to have fun and to possibly help my grandpa. We thought it was a cool possibility our idea might become a phone app,” says Gainer, “but we didn’t think about recognition. While I don’t think I’ll go on to design phone apps, I learned that I enjoy working as part of a team.”

To hone their idea, the girls spent 45 minutes after school, three days a week for four weeks, working together and with teachers, Carolyn Anderson and Sean Haneberg.

The app they proposed would scan the face of a person and apply facial recognition software to open files containing the individual’s bio and family photos—much on the order of what appeared in Lavin’s traditional photo album—as well as videos. This way, the app could serve as a memory tool.

“This idea is great,” says Diane Morgan, memory support coordinator for Smith Village, which provides comprehensive services and programs for about 60 of the community’s 300 residents.

“Helping our residents and, in fact, anyone remember and acclimate themselves to another person is a plus. Any loss in cognitive function can make a person feel unsettled

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Annie Gainer and her teammates from St. Catherine of Alexandria who created “Remember Me”, a phone app with facial recognition to help her grandfather, Chuck Lavin, a memory support resident at Smith Village, a continuing care retirement community in Chicago’s Beverly neighborhood. Pictured left to right: Bridget Murphy, Molly Fineran, Isabelle Arquilla, Annie Gainer, Clare Murphy, Autumn Stanke and Ellen Murphy, Chuck Lavin (front).

and confused. So a tool like this can help them get their bearings.”

Adds Andrea Meyer, PR manager for Verizon Wireless, "We congratulate the St. Catherine of Alexandria students for taking-on this challenge and proposing a great concept. It's exciting to see young people being positive stewards in their communities. Verizon's Innovative App Challenge works to do just that—to provide a valuable experience that inspires young people to critically think about the world around them and use technology to improve lives."

Annie Gainer’s mother, Bridget Gainer, is one of Lavin’s daughters.

She was thrilled to witness her daughter and her daughter’s friends growing so enthusiastic about the project and wanting to help Lavin.

She also observed the proposed app might have additional applications and even help her in her work as a principal at Nathan Hale Primary School in Crestwood. “Yes, I think an app such as this could help anyone who must remember lots of names and faces,” she says.

“The girls really came up with a great idea!”

About Smith Village

Smith Village, 2320 W. 113th Place, is sponsored by Smith Senior Living, a not-forprofit organization serving older adults since 1924. It provides spacious residences and engaging programs for independent living, as well as assisted living, memory support and skilled nursing care. Smith Village also offers short-term rehabilitation services for residents and others requiring assistance after surgery or a medical incident.

For more information, call 773474-7300 or visit SmithVillage.org.

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FINANCIAL FOCUS

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Are you following a ‘taxsmart’ investment strategy?

We’re getting closer to April 15: Tax Filing Day. And while there may not be much you can do to change your results for the 2014 tax year, you can certainly look closely at your tax returns to find areas you might be able to improve next year — and one such area is your investment portfolio.

Of course, you may also find opportunities in other places, too. Could you have taken more deductions? Could you have moved some of your debts into a tax-deductible loan, such as a home equity loan or line of credit? You’ll want to consult with your tax advisor to determine areas of potential savings.

However, you may be able to brighten your tax picture by making some “tax-smart” investment moves, such as the following: • Resist the urge to trade frequently. It can be costly to constantly buy and sell investments.

In addition to the commissions you may incur, and the possibility that such excessive trading can impede a consistent investment strategy, you could rack up a sizable tax bill. If you sell an asset that you’ve held for a year or less, any profit you earn is considered a short-term capital gain, which is taxed at the same rate as your ordinary income. So, for example, if you bought Investment ABC for $1,000 on January 5, 2014, and you sold it for $1,250 on Dec. 31, 2014, you’d be taxed on your $250 gain. If you are in the 28% tax bracket, you’d owe $70 in taxes. But if you had waited until January 6, 2015, and you sold your investment for the same $250 gain, you’d pay the more favorable long-term capital gains tax rate of 15 percent, which translates into $37.50 in taxes — just over half of what you’d owe at the short-term rate. If you habitually sold investments after owning them less than a year, the taxes could really add up —so try to be a “buy-and-hold” investor.

• Increase your 401(k) contributions. If you aren’t already participating in your 401(k) or similar plan, start now. And if you are contributing, boost your contributions whenever your

JIM VAN HOWE

Edward Jones Investments salary goes up. You typically put “pretax” dollars in your 401(k), so the more you add, the lower your annual taxable income. Plus, your earnings can grow tax deferred.

• “Max out” on your IRA. Depending on your income level, you may be able to deduct some, or all, of your contributions to your traditional IRA — and these deductible contributions can lower your taxable income. Plus, your investment can grow tax deferred. (Keep in mind, though, that taxes will be due upon withdrawal, and any withdrawals made before you reach 59½ are subject to a 10 percent IRS penalty.)

If you contribute to a Roth IRA, your contributions are never deductible and won’t lower your taxable income, but your earnings are distributed tax free, provided you’ve had your account at least five years and you are older than 59½. In 2015, you can contribute $5,500 to your IRA, plus an additional $1,000 catch-up contribution if you are 50 or older— and it’s almost always a good idea to “max out” your contributions each year.

By following a buy-and-hold investment strategy and using those tax-advantaged accounts available to you, you may be able to help yourself — at tax time and beyond.

Jim Van Howe is a financial advisor with Edward Jones Investments, in Palos Heights. His office is at 7001 W. 127th St. He can be reached at 361-3400. This article was written by Edward Jones for use by your local Edward Jones Financial Advisor.

AREA PROPERTY TRANSFERS Following are the property transfers in the area, according to the latest report, as received from the Cook County Recorder of Deeds Office. The Regional News does not attempt to correct errors made by that office.

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Lorden Madelon Tr to Bielinski Dianne C Tr, 14460 Morningside Rd, $405,000; Judicial Sales Corp to Residential Solutions Inc, 15544 Whitehall Ln, Unit #47C, $87,000; Kampsen Amy R to Guo RemmMin, 9840 W 153rd St, Unit #98403NW, $79,500; Lattanzio Mary J Tr to Schilling Amanda N, 14747 Montgomery Dr, $168,000; First Midwest Bk Tr to Fuentebella Matthew, 15438 Sunset Ridge Dr, $242,000; Juhl Sandra A Tr to Frenkel I Thomas Tr, 9215 Willow St, $107,000; Isemonger Leonard R to Besse Randy L, 17142 Ashwood Ln, $245,000; Pagnucci Linda Tr to Boersma Gilbert J Tr, 17801 Marley Creek Blvd, $272,500; Kieldsen Michael C to Bowers James R Jr, 8640 163rd St, $180,000; Schultz Ronald to Jansen Jonathan W, 13801 Mayflower Ln, $499,000; Venturelli Brad to Beck Steve, 14309 S Vintage Ct, $374,000; Kopinski Stanislaw to Pohlit Valerie G, 9750 Koch Ct, Unit #2C, $140,000; Liscano Vincent Tr to Gundich Richard H, 9020 Kathy Ct, $230,000; Skowron Ronald M Tr to Miller Carol M Tr, 8807 S Berkeley Ct, $310,000; Filipiak Diane M to Diane M Filipiak Trust, 11446 W 170th St,

$405,000; Driscoll Richard to Leopold Daniel, 15431 Sheffield Ln, $282,000; Dillon Margaret Extr to Pipiriene Danute, 9047 Somerset Ct, Unit #10, $110,000; Rochon John J to Kopca Joseph A, 11905 Brookshire Dr, $307,000;

Palos Heights

First Midwest Bk Tr to Laumann Robert L, 13318 S Country Club Ct, Unit #133182B, $160,000; Fannie Mae to Ksiezyc Pawel, 28 Lake Katherine Way, $224,000; Leaders Bank to Maloney William E, 7851 Golf Dr, Unit #78511A, $117,500; Biel Carol E Tr to Wielgus

Krzysztof, 12333 S Harold Ave, $230,000; Nizick Thomas R to Pendziszewski Linda J, 13201 Golf Dr, Unit #32012AA, $185,000.

Palos Park

Mchale Patrick J to Bukowski Krzysztof, 8317 W 118th St, $250,000; Astoria Bk to Chicago Title Land Trust Co Tr, 8650 Penny Ln, $480,000; Pennymac Corp to Stoddard Lawrence, 10 S Black Walnut Trl, $480,000; Armstrong Louise J Tr to Wawrzyniak Patrick M, 9744 E Mill Dr, Unit #B1L19, $137,000.

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Orland Park Mayor Dan McLaughlin installed the 2015 Orland Park Area Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors at a ceremony held on Jan. 29 at Silver Lake Country Club. Journalist Heather Warthen was installed as the chamber’s 2015 president. A longtime chamber board member, Warthen has been instrumental in the success of the annual Chamber Fine Art Fair. Shown are the members of the Orland Park Area Chamber of Commerce 2015 Executive Board and Board of Directors (seated, from left) Paul Novak (Secretary), Renee Oswald (First Vice President), Heather Warthen (President), Rob Wehmeier (Immediate Past-President), debi Ross (Second Vice President), Rene Tabor (Treasurer); (standing, from left) Michael Buck, Susan Byrne, Lynn Ciadella, Mike Hardek, Ray Klosowski, Keith Massey, Karen Nemeth, Ed Schussler and Andy Varga.

Orland Park Area Chamber to host mayor’s state of the village address The Orland Park Area at this event, either as Feb. 27 to be included at no charge.

Chamber of Commerce a table sponsor ($100 The Orland Park Area Chamber is pleased to host Mayor Chamber members, of Commerce serves as the primaDan McLaughlin’s annual $175 non-members) or ry resource for business and the State of the Village Adinclusion in goodie bags community in Orland Park and the dress during a luncheon that will be given to all surrounding suburbs. For more inscheduled on Wednesday, attendees. Drop off 200 formation, or membership opporMarch 11, at 11:15 a.m., items (flyers, coupons tunities, call Bonnie at 349-2972. at the Elements Conferor discount cards) at the —Orland Park Area Mayor McLaughlin ence Center & Banquets, Chamber office by Friday, Chamber of Commerce at 16235 S. La Grange Road in Orland Park.

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Smith Crossing resident keeps fellow-residents up-to-date on safety and security protocols Worth Township:

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throughout the community. “In less than an hour, we can reach everyone in independent living,” Marshall says.

“We see George as a great help to Smith’s security and safety team. He is forward thinking about communicating matters of safety and for providing residents with updates concerning storm events or electrical outages,” says Chris August, environmental services and safety director for Smith Senior Living which sponsors Smith Crossing and Smith Village in Chicago’s Southside Beverly neighborhood. “In the event of a power outage, George’s phone tree network informs residents and enables us to focus on getting things back on track. We avoid losing time answering questions from individuals by providing pertinent information to all residents who want and need that information.”

Says Brad Waitkus, Environmental Services director at Smith Crossing, “We also want to make sure residents are regularly reminded of what to do during safety-related occurrences. George helps reinforce our ef-

forts in this area too.”

In keeping with educating fellow-residents about safety protocols, Marshall will alert residents about seminars and forums; for instance, a meeting with the Mokena Fire Protection District is slated for the February Resident Council meeting.

“When we meet with residents, we will review protocols for finding shelter in-place as well as evacuation procedures,” says Joe Cirelli, assistant fire chief.

“Smith Crossing always makes safety a priority. We appreciate the community’s commitment to keeping residents informed and helping them understand what to do in the event of an emergency.”

In fulfilling his new role, Marshall already is spending plenty of time listening to and gathering topics from residents for discussion at Resident Council meetings. Already he has welcomed significant suggestions from Don Ryan, a retired electrical contractor, and Joe Barrett, the retired director of security for a large international company.

Marshall’s strong people

Smith Crossing resident George Marshall knows a thing or two Are you looking to get out of the about security. From 1955 to 1959 house and want to make some new he served in the U.S. Air Force friends? Then Worth Township is as a cryptographer working with where you want to be. The Town- the famous Enigma secret code ship offers many different services machine. After his time in the serand activities for all their seniors. vice, he worked in sales— 40 years Located at 11601 S. Pulaski Road with Chicago Steel and Wire, and in Alsip, Worth Township is a great 7 years with S & D Wire. place to play some cards, join a croGiven Marshall’s background chet class, or sign up for a bus trip and friendly, calm demeanor, it’s to a show. not surprising the Smith Crossing Worth Township Senior Room is Resident Council appointed him open Monday – Friday 9:00 a.m. as its Safety and Security ambas- 4:00 p.m. Drop in during these sador. hours to build a puzzle, read one of The newly created position the many books they have on the speaks well of Marshall’s commushelves, or to pick up some informa- nication abilities and tion regarding local services in the serves as a sign that safety is a area. You can sign up for bridge top priority at Smith Crossing, a and pinochle tournaments, join a continuing care retirement comknitting or crocheting class, or test munity at 10501 Emilie Lane in out your painting skills in our oil Orland Park. painting class. The Senior Room In representing the CCRC’s 200 also offers Rules of the Road classes, or so independent living residents RTA Bus passes, and 55 – Alive who reside in apartments and class. It’s a great place for social duplex-style villas, Marshall alinteraction, to keep active, and to ready has developed a phone tree learn a new skill or two. that can relay information rapidly Do you need to get your blood pressure checked or a basic dental cleaning? The Worth Township Clinic offers many different services for a very low price. Preventative podiatry services, fasting blood sugar, and fasting total cholesterol screenings are all available by appointment.

For those lucky enough to be traveling abroad, visit our Clerk’s office to apply for your passport.

The Clerk’s office also supplies temporary handicap parking permits, county vehicle stickers, and voter registration.

Being Smith Smart means understanding Seniors residing in Worth Township can use their Mini-Bus services.

They transport senior citizens and how different types of retirement communities adults with disabilities to medical appointments and shopping in operate. For example, did you know that Smith Worth Township. You must be registered to use the mini-bus, so call -i À Û } Ã > Ì v À «À wÌ À}> â>Ì ¶ the Township to have them mail you an application.

That means the money we make is invested The Worth Township Assessor’s office is located on the west side of À } Ì L>V Ì ÕÀ V Õ Ì ià v À Ì i Li iwÌ the building. Here you can complete your Senior Exemption application, of residents. Because we are committed to the Senior Freeze application, Tax Deferral application, and Benefit Access residents we serve; not to stockholders. application.

Each month the Township plans a variety of activities for seniors. On the second Tuesday of every month (866) 678-5111 • www.SmithSeniorLiving.org they will host Senior Information Days, providing seniors with various 2320 West 113th Place • Chicago, IL 60643 health and wellness presentations from many different organizations.

Sign up for the various bus trips to plays and theatres. Sometimes they bring the show to the Township by inviting entertainers in while offering a delicious catered meal. February 24th Vito Zatto will be there with catering from Fox’s Restaurant. More entertainment is planned for the coming months, so be sure to call them and get on their email or mailing list.

For more information on any of these programs and services, please visit their website at www.worthtownship.com or call the Township at (708) 371-2900.

Worth Township is located at 11601 S. Pulaski Road in Alsip, IL.

What does it mean to be Knowledge is power.

skills and desire to help others also have benefitted others; for instance, for more than a decade, he volunteered for the Will County Forest Preserves, building shelves for exhibits and even one bridge along a trail. He also volunteered for the American Cancer Society, raised money for the United Way Crusade of Mercy, and volunteered as a firefighter in the mountain forests of Wyoming.

In addition to now serving as Safety and Security ambassador, Marshall volunteers as a driver to transport fellow Smith Crossing residents to doctors’ appointments.

Marshall moved to Smith Crossing from the Brook Hills subdivision in Orland Park in October 2013 after his wife, Peg, passed away. Since then, the father of five, grandfather of nine and great-grandfather of one, has befriended many fellow-residents.

“I’ve never had so many friends at one time in my life,” he says.

“We’re like family here. If you go away for a few days without telling anyone, people say, ‘Where’ve you been? We’ve missed you!’”

Smith Crossing resident George Marshall, center, shares a moment with Smith Crossing environmental services director Brad Waitkus, left, and Chris August, environmental services and safety director for Smith Senior Living.

About Smith Crossing Smith Crossing is one of only 13 CCRCs in Illinois awarded a fiveyear accreditation for “exemplary conformance” to international standards set by CARF-CCAC, the industry’s sole accrediting body.

Sponsored by Smith Senior Living, a not-for-profit organization serving older adults since 1924, it provides spacious residences and engaging programs for independent living, as well as assisted living, memory support and skilled nursing care. It also provides short-term rehabilitation services for residents and others requiring assistance after surgery or a medical incident.

For more information about Smith Crossing, call 708-326-2300 or visit SmithCrossing.org.

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To learn more, or if you would like to receive invitations to our monthly educational series, Smith’s Smart Sessions, please call 866-678-5111.

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WORTH TOWNSHIP 11601 S. PULASKI ROAD, ALSIP, IL 60803 11601 S. PULASKI ROAD, ALSIP, IL 60803 708-371-2900 708-371-2900

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Clinic - Clinic Blood Pressure Checks 708-371-2900 o Free o Free Blood Pressure Checks o Preventative Podiatry Services* - Senior Room o Preventative Podiatry Services* - Senior Room o Fasting Blood Sugar * Monday–Friday 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. o Fasting Blood Sugar * Monday–Friday 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. o Fasting Total Cholesterol Drop-In Center - oClinic Senioro Services provided to our Residents: Fasting Total Cholesterol o Drop-In Center Screening* o Rules of the Road Classes Screening* o Rules of the Road Classes o Cleaning Free Blood o Basic Dental * Pressure Checks o RTA Bus Passes o Basic Cleaning * o RTA Bus Passes o Dental Preventative - Senior *by appointment only plus a fee Podiatry Services* o 55Room – Alive Class *by appointment only plus a fee o 55 – Alive Class Monday–Friday 9:00 Tournaments a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

- Assessor’s Officeo Fasting Blood Sugar * o Bridge & Pinochle - Assessor’s Office o Bridge & Pinochle Tournaments o Senior (Homestead) o oOil Drop-In Painting Classes o FastingExemption Total Cholesterol Center o Senior (Homestead) Exemption o Oil Painting Classes Application Screening* o oKnitting and Crocheting Classes Rules of the Road Classes Application o Knitting and Crocheting Classes o Senior Freeze Application - Mini- Bus Service o Basic Cleaning * o RTA Bus Passes o Senior FreezeDental Application - MiniBus Service o Tax Deferral Application o Transports senior citizens and o Tax Deferral Application o55Transports senior citizens and *by appointment oadults – Alive Class o Benefit Access Application only plus a fee with disabilities to medical oAssessor’s Benefit Access Application adults&with disabilities to medical Office oappointments Bridge Pinochle Tournaments - Clerk’s -Office and grocery - Clerk’s Office appointments and grocery o Senior (Homestead) Exemption oshopping Oil Painting Classes o County Vehicle Stickers in Worth Township. o County Vehicle Stickers shopping in Worth Township. o Temp Handicap Parking Permits be registered; call to haveClasses Application oMust Knitting and Crocheting o Temp Handicap Parking Permits Must be registered; call to have o PassportoAcceptance mailed.

Senior Freeze Application - Mini-application Bus Service o Passport Acceptance application mailed. o Voter Registration o Registration Tax Deferral Application o Transports senior citizens and o Voter Senior Services provided to our Residents: Senior Services provided to our Residents:

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- Other activities at the Township: Supervisor Kevin M. Hughes - Other appointments activities at the Township: Supervisor M. Hughes Trustees: Michael Mahoney Supervisor Kevin M.- Hughes Clerk’sKevin Office and grocery Clerk Katie Elwood -Senior Information Days Patrick J. Hanlon Clerk Katie Elwood -Senior Information Days Clerk Katie Elwood oDietrick County Vehicle Stickers shopping Worth etc.

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Assessor John H. -Bus Trips to Plays,in Theatres, Richard J. Lewandowski Assessor John H. Dietrick -Bus Trips Plays, Theatres, etc.haveAssessor John H. Dietrick o Temp Handicap Permits Must betoregistered; call to Trustee Michael Mahoney Trustee Patrick J. Hanlon -Plus great programs at the Township Theresa M.Parking Roche Trustee Michael Mahoney Trustee Patrick J. Hanlon -Plus great programs at the Township

application mailed.

Trustee RichardoJ. Lewandowski Trustee Theresa M. Roche Passport Acceptance Trustee Richard J. Lewandowski Trustee Theresa M. Roche

For more information about the Township go to: www.worthtownship.com o Voter Registration or call 708-371-2900.

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For more information about the Township go to www.worthtownship.com or call 708-371-2900

Sign up to be on our mailing or e-mail list.

- Other activities at the Township: Supervisor Kevin M. Hughes Sign up to be on our mailing or e-mail list.

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Two students from Landmark Christian Academy in Palos Heights finished first and second at the Association of Christian Schools International (ACSI) district spelling bee on Feb. 3. Luisse Iringan, a 6th-grader, finished first and David Vales, a 7th-grader finished second. Both students will advance to the ACSI Mid-America regional spelling bee on March 20 in Elgin. Top winners in the regional spelling bee will advance to the national spelling bee.

Two local students were named to the Fall 2014 Dean’s List at Arizona State University. They are Michelle Heemstra and Margaret Johnson, both of Orland Park. *** Hannah Gallagher, of Orland Park, made the Dean’s List for fall semester at the Georgia Institute of Technology. This designation is awarded to undergraduate students who have a 3.0 or higher academic average for the semester. *** Kerry Kennedy, an Interdisciplinary Studies major from Palos Heights, has been named to the University of Dallas Honor Roll for the Fall 2014 semester for earning a semester grade point average of 3.0-3.49. *** Corbett Chico, of Palos Park, was named to the dean’s list at Carroll University in Waukesha, Wis., for the fall 2014 semester.

To be named to the dean’s list, students must have a grade point average for the semester of at least 3.5 on a 4-point scale.

SCHOOL NOTES Orland Twp. scholarship application deadline nears The deadline nears to apply for the 2015 Orland Township scholarship program: applications are at the township office, 14807 S. Ravinia Ave., Orland Park.

The program will give numerous awards to the class of 2015 totaling $16,500: one $2,000 scholarship, eight $1,000 scholarships and 13 $500 scholarships.

The township scholarship foundation will select and award scholarship recipients based on a combination of the applicant’s leadership skills, dedication to community service, academic focus, participation in extracurricular activities, recommendations from school representatives, references from volunteer supervisors or employers, an assigned essay question response and any other pertinent information requested within the application. Students faced with hardships will be given strong consideration.

Eligible applicants must reside within the boundaries of Orland Township, applicants must be graduating high school seniors and recipients awarded scholarships must enroll as full-time students at a college, university, trade or vocational school. Additional criteria may be obtained within the application.

Scholarship applications completed in their entirety must be delivered

by Friday, Feb. 27, to Orland Township, 14807 S. Ravinia Ave., Orland Park, IL 60462. The township is open Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and

Friday from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and Tuesday from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.

An additional scholarship opportunity is also available at Orland Township: applications for the Township Officials of Illinois Scholarship are available at www.orlandtwp.org or at the township office. Applications are due by Sunday, March 1, 2015 and should be mailed to Township Officials of Illinois, Attn.: Scholarship Committee, 3217 Northfield Drive, Springfield,Illinois 62702.

For more information, call 4034222.

Stagg arts and crafts show call for vendors Stagg High School Music Boosters is accepting applications from crafters and artists for the Art for the Season show on March 21 and 22 at Stagg, 111th Street and Roberts Road in Palos Hills.

The show is both well received and attended. Cost is $85 per 80 sq. ft. booth space for the two-day run of the show. All proceeds benefit the music programs at Stagg. For more information or an application, call 974-7520 or 361-8298, or go to staggbands.org.

Rep. Lipinski accepting applications for All-American honors U.S. Rep. Dan Lipinski sponsors his All-American Boy & Girl program to honor young men and women in the 3rd Congressional District who are involved in their

community, excel in the classroom, and participate in extracurricular activities.

It is open to all 7th and 8th grade students who reside or attend school in the 3rd District. The competition begins with an initial application due at one of Lipinski’s offices by Monday, Feb. 23. After finalists are chosen, they will be interviewed by a panel of judges; community leaders, teachers and others during the week of March 2.

All finalists will receive congressional recognition for their participation. The top three finalists in each category will receive a plaque and prize at a ceremony scheduled for mid-March.

For more info or an application, contact Frank Salerno at 312-8860481, or email him at Frank.Salerno@mail.house.gov.

Shepard Band Boosters annual dinner dance The Shepard High School Band boosters will hold their annual dinner dance featuring Shepard’s Jazz Band this Friday, Feb. 20, at 6 p.m., at Gaelic Park, 6119 W. 147th St. in Oak Forest.

All proceeds go to support Shepard’s award-winning band program.

For a cost of only $35, adults can enjoy an evening filled with good food, music provided by the Jazz Band students, silent auction and an instant raffle.

Tickets can be purchased by calling 921-2818. Student tickets are also available for $25.

SIMPLE GIFTS Neat Repeats seeks donations and volunteers Are you spring cleaning? Bring your gently used men’s, women’s and children’s clothing, housewares, books, toys, etc. to Neat Repeats Resale.

The shops are accepting donations seven days a week at either location, Worth 7026 W. 111th St. ph. 361-6860, or Orland Park 9028

W. 159th St. ph. 364-7605 Volunteers are also sought to work at the stores, one five-hour shift. All sales at Neat Repeats Resale benefit the clients served by the Crisis Center for South Suburbia. The Crisis Center for South Suburbia is a non-profit community organization that provides emergency shelter and other services for individuals and families victimized by domestic violence.

Souper Bowl canned soup dropoff at Heights library The Palos Heights Public Library is participating in the Souper Bowl canned soup drive throughout February to help make cold winter nights a bit warmer for neighbors in need. Donated cans of soup will be delivered to the food pantries of both Palos and Worth Townships. The library is at 12501 S. 71st Ave.

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Chicago Christian adds four to Wall of Honor

Chicago Christian High School held its fifth annual Wall of Honor ceremony on Feb. 7. Four former athletes were inducted during the ceremony held before the boys’ varsity basketball game against Walther Christian. Shown are Chicago Christian High School Wall of Honor 2015 inductees Ken Hiskes (from left) Laura Erffmeyer Schnyders, Niaya Howard and Ken Black. The alums’ achievements: Ken Hiskes (Class of 1977 – basketball, baseball, cross country, and football), Laura Erffmeyer Schnyders (Class of 1991 – cross country, basketball, and track), Niaya Howard (Class of 1992 — track and field and cheerleading), and Ken Black (Class of 2006 – basketball, baseball, and football). The evening included a dinner reception for the inductees and their families and awards ceremony, where each inductee received a plaque honoring his or her accomplishments.

DEATH NOTICES Warren T. Moone

Warren T. Moone, 86, of Palos Heights, died on Feb. 7.

Visitation was held at Schmadeke Funeral Home in Worth on Feb. 11. A funeral service was held at the funeral home on Feb. 12.

Interment Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery, Elwood.

Beloved husband of Joyce nee: Lawler. Loving father of Heather (Robert) Janc. Cherished grand-

father of Alaina and Kyle Evans.

Uncle of George (Marlene) Moone, Patricia (Frank) Glinski and Cheryl (Chris) Martin.

Mr. Moone was born in Chicago.

He was an account executive. He was a Navy veteran of World War II.

Elaine Shell

Elaine Shell, nee Raley, 83, of Orland Park, died on Feb. 6 at Palos Community Hospital in Palos Heights.

Visitation was held at Colonial

Chapel funeral home in Orland Park on Feb. 12 until time of funeral service at Colonial Chapel.

Interment was private at Sunset Lawn Cemetery in Harrisburg.

Mrs. Shell is survived by her daughter, Susan Shell; her brother, Charles Raley; her sister, Peggy Prosser; and many nieces and nephews.

Mrs. Shell was born in Harrisburg, Ill. She was a retired administrative assistant at General Electric.

HOUSES OF WORSHIP Teen dating violence awareness program

Celebrate Recovery at Moraine Valley Church

The Sacred Heart Parish Domestic Violence Outreach Ministry and parish teen group will offer a program about dating violence and healthy relationships at 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 23, at the Sacred Heart Parish Ministry Center gym, 8245 W. 111th St. in Palos Hills.

Representatives from South Suburban Family Shelter will also provide information on intervention resources. The program marks Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month.

For more information, contact Elizabeth Droel at 974-3336 Ext. 6, or droel@sacredheartpalos.org.

People struggling with addictions, compulsions, or other unhealthy behaviors can with others in fellowship and support at Celebrate Recovery at 7 p.m. on Thursdays at Moraine Valley Church, 6300

W. 127th St. Palos Heights.

A Christ-centered program for those suffering with hurts, habits, and hang-ups. Based on the eight recovery principles and the 12-step recovery process, the Celebrate Recovery program provides a place of healing, hope and anonymity.

For information, contact 389-1268.

LEGAL NOTICE VILLAGE OF PALOS PARK PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE The Plan Commission of the Village of Palos Park, Cook County, IL has scheduled a public hearing on Thursday, March 19, 2015 at 7:30 p.m. in the Council Chambers of the Kaptur Administrative Center, 8999 W. 123rd St., Palos Park, IL to consider the following: PC 2015 – 1: The owner, The Catholic Bishop of Chicago, of 12210, 12218, 12220, and 12230 Will-Cook Road and 12375 McCarthy Road, and the owner, the Village of Palos Park, of 12216 Will-Cook Road, have requested approval of a Preliminary and Final Plat of Subdivision for the creation of a six (6) lot subdivision in relation to the property legally described as follows: The Northeast Quarter (NE1/4) and the East Half (E1/2) of the Northwest Quarter (NW1/4) of Section 25, Township 37 North, Range 11 East of the 3rd Principal Meridian, in the Village of Palos Park, Cook County, Illinois.

PINs: 22-25-202-002-0000, 22-25-202-003-0000, 22-25-202-004-0000 Commonly known as to Northwest corner of McCarthy Road and Will-Cook Road, Palos Park, Illinois.

All are welcome to review the applications for relief, and proposed Village staff recommendations, to send correspondence, attend the public hearing, submit evidence, and testify at the public hearing.

For further information, please contact the Community Development Director, Lori Sommers at 708-671-3731 or lsommers@palospark.org.

Respectfully submitted by: Marie Arrigoni, Village Clerk

Pictured are most of the seniors from Shepard High School named Illinois State Scholars for 2014-2015.

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“THE NEXT GENERATION TO CARE FOR YOU”

Shepard’s top 40: Students earn scholar honors Shepard High School in Palos Heights announced that nearly 40 members of the 2015 senior class have been named Illinois State Scholars by the Illinois Student Assistance Commission.

Roughly 10 percent of the state’s high school seniors earn this recognition each year. In order to earn Illinois State Scholar honors, students must: • attend an Illinois State recognized high school; • be a United States citizen

or an eligible noncitizen; • be a resident of Illinois; • take the ACT, SAT I, or Prairie State Achievement Exam during the third or fourth semester prior to graduation from high school (typically between September 1 and June 30 of the junior year); • rank in the top one-half of his or her high school class at the end of the third semester prior to graduation from high school (typically as a junior in

their sixth semester); and • graduate from high school during the academic year in which the student is selected as a State Scholar.

Shepard seniors named Illinois State Scholars this year include Eva Adomaitye, Nicolette Alex, David Atut, Alex Bohm, Monica Bova, Macryan Caballero, Gabrielle Casillas, Alex Covone, Jordyn Czarny, Brandon Dechene, Brianna Devitt, Logan Dolehide, Nate Gibson, Rebecca

Gleich, and Rhonda Habbal.

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Fund drive volunteers: Looking at the fund drive workers kit they received at a recent meeting held in the WTTW/ Channel 11 studios are Jan Chivers, of Palos Park (from left), chairman of the door-to-door drive being conducted in Palos by the members of the Westminster Fellowship of the Palos Park Presbyterian Church; co-chairman Jean Sheldon and David Peterson, of Palos Heights, chairman of the door-to-door drive that will be conducted by the members of the Senior High M.Y.F. of Palos Heights Community Methodist Church. The Channel 11 fund drive will raise money to help support educational television.

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Hearts together: The Valentine dance for seniors sponsored by Orland Township last Thursday at the Orland Chateau banquet hall was a double celebration for Gene and Val Piontek, of Orland Park (from left), who were celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary and her birthday with their friends since childhood, Alice Rusiecki and Bernie Shedor. Val Piontek’s parents named her Val because she was born on Valentine’s Day, she said. The four have known each other since they attended St. Joseph School together.

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IMPRESSIONS

iPhone and apps make me go gaga over radio Note: I have PLENTY of thoughts about the Jackie Robinson West story and shared some with you weeks ago in a front page column on Evergreeen Park coach Chris Janes that I did.

Since Bob Rakow and Ray Hanania are writing about the issue on page 6, I will run this column, which I had in the hopper for a few weeks, that is not close to being as relevant as the Robinson columns, but hopefully a nice diversion: Thanks to my iPhone, I have become a radio geek.

I’ve always kind of liked radio anyway and always got a kick out of hearing different radio stations whenever I would travel to other areas.

But now it’s getting out of hand.

Thanks to my iPhone and several free apps, including TuneIn Radio, RadiOn, various specialty stations from Mad Calf Apps and about four or five others, I can get stations from all over the world.

Over the past year or so, I’ve listened to Venice Classic Radio Italia, GrrrRadio1, Gabba Gabba Radio (All Ramones All the Time), KROQ out of California and even a channel that has Oak Lawn and Evergreen Park police calls.

On Thanksgiving morning, I peeled potatoes to the programming of a station in Dublin and when I was tired of that, I switched to a station in Switzerland that played a bunch of cool new wave 80s songs.

Before football season started, I loaded up on stations in Illinois that covered high school football. There are not a lot of stations in the Chicago area that cover high school sports but once you get to the other side of I-80, look out. Many of them have announcers who are abysmal or boring. But there are times when I landed on a game featuring two teams I never gave any thought to and stayed on it for a while because the announcers were interesting, told a few stories and had a nice pace to the call of the game.

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TuneIn Radio also breaks down sporting events such as college basketball, so that you just hit a button and you could listen to a University of Kentucky game or a Kent State-Central Michigan battle. While listening to mid-Division I basketball may not sound like a ton of fun, every once in a while I’ll hear the name of a player or two whom I

covered when they played high school ball here.

A few weeks ago, I listened to WCBS in New York – the Big Apple’s version of WBBM-AM in Chiciago. On a Monday night, I drove home from work and worried announcers were warning that streets and subway stations throughout NYC in anticipation of the worst snowstorm in the city’s history.

The next morning, I drove to work listening to relieved announcers talking about how the storm missed Gotham and played sound bites of people griping about how the city shouldn’t have been shut down and from city and state bosses saying they did the right thing with the information they had at the time.

Good stuff.

There is also a station from France – Jolio’s Party Radio.

One of the things I dislike about oldies radio stations is they play the most popular tunes of the decade and it gets a bit boring.

This Jolio station plays not only obscure songs from the 50s but obscure artists tearing through rockabilly, jump, western swing, doo wop and surf music.

I thought I knew a bunch of seldom-heard artists but just last week, the DJ on this station strung together Jackie Lee, Benny Joy, the Maddox, the Chimes, Hardrock Gunter, Jimmy Crain, Katmen, Tibby Edwards and Ray Melton before they got to someone I heard of – Warren Smith. I know Smith for “Ubangi Stomp” but Jolio played “So Long, I’m Gone,” which I wasn’t really familiar with.

That’s a lot of “who’s that?” right there. A few songs later, the station returned to Hardrock Gunter and this song was called “The Right Key But the Wrong Key Hole” which I’m sure was pretty provocative back in the day.

So thanks to those geeks who are making technology what it is today. It’s helped turn me into a real radio geek.

WHATIZIT?

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We couldn’t even get a foursome last week!

Just two people guessed that this place where you can mix your sticks was a golf bag.

Linda Pinto of Palos Hills was the first to card a hole-in-one with her guess and Evergreen Park’s Henrietta Mysliwiec scored a double eagle by being second.

We didn’t think it was that tough, but you never know how these things will work.

This week’s clue is that it’s nice to have around but you really don’t want to use it.

Send those guesses to thereporter@ comcast.net with WHATIZIT? in the subject line by Monday night. Don’t forget your name and hometown.

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FASHION CHAT

Photo courtesy of The Status Group Inc.

Azeez Alayah, Isaias Perez Torres, Calvin Roldan and Robert Suarez walked the runway in sleek and dapper ensembles in The Status Group Inc.’s event to launch The Dapper Club.

Break from trends in favor of timeless style CAROLINE FOREMAN

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Caroline Foreman wears a timeless chiffon gown by J-na Couture at EPIC Chicago.

We are seeing the spring and summer looks trickling into stores, and Mercedes Benz Fashion Week wraps up its fall showcase today in New York.

We are surrounded by notions of fashion change! However, amidst all of this futuristic fashion planning and the acknowl-

edgment and examination of changing and remorphing trends, we can relax a moment by stepping back to savor a reminder of the classic style and timeless fashions.

The Status Group Inc. presented its “Modern Man Fashion Show” on Feb. 7 at Chicago’s EPIC nightclub. During this

show, the group officially launched The Dapper Club, its novel approach to upscale men’s suit service.

Ricardo Pérez, the founder of The Dapper Club has joined forces with Jimmy Guzman of Señor Dapper to provide clients with extremely luxe and chic tailored looks with consultations, singular service and affordability. Outfits receive one-of-akind accents and details, including printed pocket squares, rugged leather bags, scarves and bowties. The men walking the runway wore fully styled suits in fabrics of burgundy, navy, black, grey, silver and red in luxurious fabrics, including surprises like luminous sheen, velvet and corduroy.

Along with menswear, the show featured classically beautiful women’s wear from designers J-na Couture and FIBRE by Rae Hurst. I relished the opportunity to wear looks by these designers, including a floor length marine chiffon dress and Hurst’s quirky sculptural knits. The hallmarks of time-honored style provided a much-needed punctuation of timelessness to our recent fashion whirlwind.

The Center’s summer campers will benefit from A Night to Linger auction The Center’s “A Night to Linger” annual auction benefit for its summer camp program is set for next Thursday, Feb. 26, from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m., at Hackney’s Restaurant, 12300 S. La Grange Road, Palos Park.

The event will include a silent auction, basket raffle, hors d’ oeuvres and photos of camp at The Center.

The auction and raffle offer a large variety of items, such as an iPad Mini, Google Chromebook, a week stay in a condo in Breckenridge, Yacht tour of the Chicago River, tools, cookware, pottery, sports tickets and memorabilia, and gift certificates for area restaurants and merchants.

The public is invited to join this effort to benefit the camp scholarship fund, which helps send children to camp who would otherwise be financially unable to attend. Each summer scholarships are granted to one-third of the 160 children and teens who attend The Center’s one – and two-week camps, which immerse the kids in a world of nature, horses, new friends, group living, and outdoor fun at The Children’s Farm.

Tickets for A Night to Linger are only $10 and are available in advance at The Center, 12700 Southwest Highway, and at the door of Hackney’s the night of the event. For more information, call Supplied photo The Center at 361-3650, or visit The Center’s Development Director Mark Walker holds a large photograph www.thecenterpalos.org. titled “Bean,” one of the items for The Center’s A Night to Linger benefit auction to be held next Thursday at Hackney’s in Palos Park.

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CHICAGO CHRISTIAN 46, GUERIN PREP 37

Knights stay the course

By Ken Karrson Sports Editor

Oh yeah!

Photo by Jeff Vorva

Trinity Christian College’s Trey Johnson reacts after putting down a dunk last Wednesday. Johnson had several of them en route to a 20-point performance that helped the Trolls defeat Indiana University-Northwest 82-70 in Palos Heights. Story on Page 4.

Chicago Christian fans can rest easy that the Knights aren’t prep basketball’s version of the S.S. Minnow.

When that vessel blew off course back in the 1960s, it never found its way back to civilization, at least not until a madefor-TV movie was produced a decade later. As for Christian, it has emerged from a vortex of inconsistency to chart a steady path toward a conference title.

Nothing is yet guaranteed, but if Friday night’s 46-37 conquest of Guerin Prep was an accurate barometer it’s only a matter of time. The Knights’ third consecutive victory and their fifth in the last seven outings kept them in a first-place tie with longtime rivals Illiana Christian

and Timothy Christian in the Metro Suburban Conference East.

Chicago Christian (12-12, 8-2) hosts the Trojans on Friday. Before that it squared off with Elmwood Park in a Tuesday matchup coach Kevin Pittman said absolutely could not be overlooked.

“We’re almost belaboring the point to death — nothing is going to matter [on Friday] if we don’t get the ones in between,” he said. “We’re doing our best to focus on the next game, not the one that’s two or three games away.”

That strategy was followed in the Knights’ first two contests after they downed Illiana to create the aforementioned deadlock at the top. That didn’t mean, though, Pittman was always comfortable with what transpired versus the Gators.

“Guerin is just pesty — they don’t seem to go away,” he said. “They were never really close enough [for the outcome] to be in doubt, but I was just never able to relax until time ran out.”

The two teams were tied once in the opening half and Christian trailed 1716 with 3:35 left in the second quarter before freshman Jack Ellison’s 3-pointer put the hosts in front to stay. Ahead by four at intermission, the Knights began the third period with four quick scores, two of which were set up by steals from Daylon Washington and Jay Spencer.

Washington (field goal, two free throws) supplied the points in both of those latter instances and Trevor Wolterink hit a shot off a nifty pass from See KNIGHTS, Page 3

RICHARDS 59, SHEPARD 44

Bulldogs are fourth-right in victory

By Ken Karrson Sports Editor

Richards escapes Shepard’s grip

Photo by Jeff Vorva

Richards’ Andy Sonichsen (left) finds herself in a tough spot as she tries to keep a rebound away from Shepard’s Abby Newsome last Tuesday in Palos Heights. The Bulldogs edged the Astros 52-48 in a South Suburban Conference Red matchup. Story: Page 2.

To paraphrase a football term, Shepard found itself fourth-and-gone Friday night.

That’s because host Richards was fourth-right. In particular, a brief span during which the Bulldogs revved up their defense and used that as a lead-extending trigger proved critical.

The Astros were within 46-42 with under three minutes remaining in the South Suburban Conference Red game after Kenny Gorski hit a putback, but turnovers on back-to-back possessions enabled Richards to move in front by double digits. From there it closed the deal on a 59-44 victory at D-Wade Court that kept it mathematically alive for another divisional crown.

The Bulldogs (12-11, 5-5) became Shepard fans this past Tuesday when the Astros met Eisenhower. The Cardinals were two games ahead of Richards, which is seeking a 10th straight SSC Red title, at the start of the current week.

“There’s still a lot of little things we need to clean up, but I think the guys are really focusing in more,” said Richards coach Jevon Mamon, whose squad achieved its first three-game win streak of the season.

“We got pretty good contributions off the bench [here] and it was a good team win. If guys stick to their roles, I think we can be pretty dangerous and can play with anybody.”

Three Bulldogs — Chris Bender (16 points, including four 3s), Jaylen Catledge (16 on 6-of-9 shooting) and Ameen Hussein (12) — scored in double figures and Lucas White finished with nine points. Catledge augmented his offense with 10 boards, four steals and three assists, the rebounding total being one more than was hauled in by Carlos Draper.

See BULLDOGS, Page 2

OT is not OK for Spartans Late flurry in 4th quarter goes for naught

By Ken Karrson Sports Editor

Oak Lawn learned last Tuesday that momentum can only take a team so far.

What the Spartans needed was for it to carry over an additional four minutes. By hitting visiting Argo with a late flurry in the fourth quarter, Oak Lawn expunged a 12-point deficit in the span of just 3½ minutes.

But with all the energy seemingly pointing in their direction, the Spartans couldn’t take advantage in overtime. They definitely came close — when Josh Prince tallied with 8.1 seconds remaining in the

extra session, Oak Lawn was up by a point — but the Argonauts managed to have the final say.

First, they got two seconds put back on the clock, an act Spartans coach Jason Rhodes didn’t quite comprehend. Then Argo avoided what Rhodes believed should have been a double-dribble call, rebounded its own missed shot and drew a foul with .3 seconds left. Two free throws later Oak Lawn was on the wrong end of a 58-57 final in the South Suburban Conference Red matchup.

“It was frustrating,” Rhodes said of the outcome. “That was tough, especially after [losing] the Reavis game [by three

points] on [the previous] Friday. But we should have gathered in the rebound.”

Actually, there were several things Rhodes would have preferred being different. He didn’t like the ill-advised 3-pointer the Spartans (9-14, 3-8) took while holding a two-point lead in OT and he especially regretted a huge differential in fouls — Oak Lawn was assessed 14 of them in the second half while Argo did not get charged with any.

“I’ve never seen anything like it,” Rhodes said. “Were we fouling? Yes, but were they a perfect defensive team?

“It seemed like every questionable call went against us — at home. I’m at a loss to explain it.”

In the early going everything came See SPARTANS, Page 3

Photo by Jeff Vorva

Oak Lawn’s Odeh Alshaikh looks up at the scoreboard after being whistled for a foul early in the third quarter of last Tuesday’s South Suburban Conference Red game against Argo.

The Argonauts squeezed out a 58-57 win in overtime.

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Knights are kings of their league

Everybody would love to be Raymond

As Chicago Christian prepared to meet Thornridge in the Class 3A Chicago Brooks Regional, it did so on a wave of momentum.

Two weeks ago the Knights captured a Metro Suburban Conference East championship, just the third league title in program history. Christian did so with an impressive 11-1 conference ledger, part of an overall 15-11 overall record.

The starting lineup, made up of five athletes possessing diverse talents, far surpassed even the expectations of head coach Linda Stuursma, who was a member of the school’s first conference championship squad in 1983-84.

Senior point guard Emily Lemmenes, who also plays soccer for the Knights, is Christian’s leading scorer at 9.8 points per game. Senior guard Abbie Bulthuis (softball) is averaging nine points and senior guard Leah Kamp (volleyball) is the team’s third-best scorer. Sophomore center Lexi Van Ryn (volleyball, track) and freshman forward Bethany Regenerus (volleyball, softball) round out the starting five.

“This team has great chemistry,” Stuursma said. “All the girls get along and that always helps on the court. Many of them are close friends, and you can see that in the way they work together and succeed. We’ve had a very good season, especially in conference. “ I believed this team would be good, but I wouldn’t have said they would win the conference outright.

It was our goal to be in the top three.”

The Knights began their conference season in thrilling fashion by edging Ridgewood 43-42 and capped it with a championshipclinching 49-41 win over Timothy Christian on Feb. 5 Chicago Christian’s lone conference setback was to longtime rival Illiana Christian, a 57-50, on Jan. 24.

Despite the gaudy league record, the Knights needed to defeat Timothy in the finale to avoid sharing the Metro crown with Illiana. Leading Chicago Christian past the Trojans were Bulthuis (17 points) and Van Ryn (20 rebounds).

“Considering we’ve had losing records in conference and [finished no higher than] third place in recent years, winning the Metro East was a very satisfying accomplishment for the girls,” Stuursma said “They worked very hard all year and never lost focus “Whether Illiana would win or lose that last game, we still played the game with the mindset that we had to win it. We’re glad we didn’t have to share the title.”

One strength Stuursma her team possesses is having a variety of players who can lead offensively on a given night.

“We really have a team,” she said. “Four out of the five starters have been a high scorer from one game to another. Apart from Lexi, all are close in scoring. They share the load and it seems to ro-

I hate it when TV gives us incorrect information, which means I spend a fair share of my viewing time steamed.

Sure, television is supposed to be a land of make-believe and we should try to suspend common sense — which would account for “American Idol” being so popular — when we watch most things. But even in fictional portrayals, how can Hollywood’s scriptwriters be allowed so much “creative license” without subjecting themselves to severe ridicule from people who know the real deal?

This thought comes to mind in the wake of the “Everybody Loves Raymond” departure from the first-run airwaves. A longtime entry in CBS’ Mondaynight lineup, “Raymond” enjoyed a healthy ratings life; in fact, poor ratings are not what prompted its exit now.

Rather, the show’s stars got too wealthy to stay motivated and new storylines apparently became too difficult to unearth, although the latter excuse is debatable. After all, the writers never had any trouble dreaming up far-fetched ideas in the past.

The craziest was that star Ray Romano’s character was a sportswriter for a major New York newspaper. I’ve hung around sportswriters for a long time — heck, I’ve even played one myself on occasion — and I’ve yet to meet anybody like Raymond.

While writers for local publications avoid long road trips and can lead something that remotely resembles a normal home life, even they must deal with strange work hours, shortened — or, in many cases, nonexistent — weekends and screwed-up holiday plans. Now, imagine the lot of a beat writer or columnist who covers the national scene, such as Ray is supposed to do.

Bye-bye family. See you in a week or two.

Ah, but not old Ray. Nope, Ray spends more time with his wife than a retiree and devotes as many hours to his vocation as the legendary Ozzie Nelson, who didn’t have an actual vocation on his 1950s TV show, unless changing cardigans and asking wife Harriet, “What’s for dinner?” constitutes gainful employment.

Before Ray, Oscar Madison of “Odd Couple” fame was television’s best-known scribe. But Oscar was shown typing away at his office on occasion, wolfing down bad-for-you food while on the run and interacting with various jocks, including real sports folks such as former Los Angeles Rams lineman Deacon Jones.

By contrast, Ray’s basketball-sized brother, Robert, was the closest thing to an athletic experience that supposedly big-time columnist had.

And a home-cooked meal awaited him almost every night to boot. Of course, considering how much time Ray spent around the old homestead, he should have been the one preparing most of those dishes.

While I can’t profess to being an expert on all things Raymond — unlike him, I have to show up at my job once in a while, including most Mondays — I’ve seen it enough times in reruns that I should have stumbled upon a Ray-at-work scenario every so often. Or so I assumed.

Another real columnist recently pointed out some of these same inconsistencies within Ray’s world and talked about a particular episode in which Ray gives one of his media tickets to the Super Bowl to a buddy instead of a family member. There’s only one problem with that situation: Media members get passes, not tickets, to big events, and there are no extras to hand out to spouses, kids, parents or friends.

You may think I’m nitpicking here, but if Ray was supposed to be a sportswriter, couldn’t he have acted like one at least once or twice each season? If the occupation really didn’t matter in his character development, then why not make him a truck driver, pastry chef, insurance salesman or something equally low-profile instead?

One thing’s for sure, though: Any young people who have watched “Raymond” over the years and have their sights set on a journalism career are in for a rude awakening if they think life imitates art. Just imagine this sort of job interview taking place: Employer: “OK, I think we’re interested in you. We’d like you to start this weekend by traveling to ...”

Writer: “Uh, excuse me, sir, but that’s not going to work out. I’ve been invited to a party this weekend and I already made plans to be there.”

E: “You are joking, right?”

W: “No sir. All my buddies from college are going to be there, and I haven’t seen them in four months.”

E: “Maybe this job isn’t for you ...”

W: “Yes it is. Please, sir, only this once and then I’m yours fulltime.”

E: “This goes against my better judgment, but I think you’ve got potential, so I’ll let it slide. So figure on coming in on Tuesday and ...”

W: “Excuse me again, sir, but my parents invited me over for dinner that night. If I don’t show up, my mother’s going to kill me. You understand, don’t you?”

E: “Are you sure this is the occupation you really want to be involved with?”

W: “Oh absolutely. I fell in love with it when I saw on “Everybody Loves Raymond” how much fun he had being a sportswriter and hanging around with his family all the time. I thought, ‘I could see myself doing this, too. It looks pretty easy.’”

In Ray’s world, nothing could be simpler. In the real world, nothing could be further from the truth.

GIRLS BASKETBALL ROUNDUP

By Anthony Nasella

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Photo by Jeff Vorva

Shepard’s Emily Urban (left) and Richards’ Kennedy Brister fight to gain possession of the basketball during last Wednesday’s South Suburban Conference Red contest in Palos Heights.

tate when it comes to [being the] high scorer.

“It’s nice to basically have offense between four girls. We’ve seen teams who maybe scouted us when Emily [who scored 15 in a losing effort last Thursday against Lemont] had a really good game, [so] they would double down on her and Leah would have a good game. That has worked to our advantage.

“We have a multitalented girls who work very hard. They have helped this team succeed tremendously.”

Stuursma felt confident Christian could handle its Thornridge challenge after doing a schedule comparison.

“We played some of the same teams and I think we have a good chance to emerge victorious,” she said. “Provided that we play the game we’re capable of playing, I think we’ll do fine. I’m proud of what the girls have accomplished, but they don’t want to stop there.

“They have a regional title in their gaze.”

STAGG

The Chargers closed out their regular season by dropping two close SouthWest Suburban Conference Blue decisions last week: 55-52 to Joliet Central on Monday and 50-41 to Joliet West on Friday.

Stagg coach Bill Turner started his five seniors against the Steelwomen to recognize them, along with their parents, at the final home game for the contributions made to the basketball program.

“Mia DiGiacomo, Katie Dwyer, Alex Abed, Sam Owens and Megan Sullivan all spent four years competing on the hardwood for

Photo by Jeff Vorva

Richards’ Sydni Tears, who led her team with 17 points last Tuesay, has a hair-raising experience while hauling in a late rebound against Shepard.

The Bulldogs beat the Astros 52-48.

Stagg,” Turner said. “They got us off to a good start and we had the lead for a majority of the game.

It was only the last minute or so that we lost the lead.”

Junior Michelle Rentauskas (11 points, eight rebounds) came off the bench when DiGiacomo found herself in early foul trouble to bol-

Eagles are double-oh severed Two extra sessions pay off for Joliet West

By Ken Karrson If Sandburg coach Todd Allen engages in a certain behavioral habit, he’s likely chewed through more nails than a far-sighted roofer.

Certainly the veteran leader has been exposed to an unusually high number of cliffhangers this season, the latest of which occurred Friday night against Joliet West. Two extra periods were required to decide a winner in the SouthWest Suburban Conference Blue contest, but that victor wound up being the Tigers, who prevailed 63-62 when Peter Paxinos was unable to sink his final shot.

But that wasn’t the major happening. Looming larger was the Eagles’ untimely struggles at the foul line — a total of six free throws were missed in the pair of overtimes, five of those in the second one as Sandburg hit just 3-of-8 tosses in those final four minutes.

The Eagles, who beat Lockport 49-38 in another SWSC Blue clash last Tuesday, have lost four of their last six games by a total of 10 points.

“It’s a broken record,” Allen said.

“We could go on and on about if one of the final 10 plays had gone our way. It was a heartbreaking loss for our kids.”

What made Sandburg’s performance especially impressive was the fact it battled Joliet West without Tommy Demogerontas, who suffered a broken nose against the Porters. Demogerontas had hung 25 points on the Tigers in an earlier matchup.

“He rebounds, he defends and he can create his own shot,” Allen said.

"We had to find a way to replace

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25 points."

Luckily for the Eagles, Teddy Kotsogiannis returned from an injury of his own to deliver nine points.

He ranked third in team scoring behind Niko Kogionis (24 points) and Paxinos (11).

That threesome was nearly good enough to topple Joliet West, which was ahead after each of the first three period stops. But Sandburg (8-14, 4-7) inched in front during the fourth quarter and got up by three in the late going. And when Zak Razik stole the ball and headed toward a breakaway, the Eagles seemed in great shape.

Razik never scored the basket, however, as he got whistled for a carry instead. Allen disagreed with the call but was unable to elicit a reversal of it. Another miscue just before time expired left Sandburg in need of an extra session if it hoped to succeed.

Sean McShane’s layup erased a two-point Eagles deficit with seven seconds left in the first OT and when the Tigers misfired on their last shot, the teams returned to the court for four more minutes. Sandburg was up by 1, but a pair of Joliet West charity tosses — combined with two of the Eagles’ misses at the line — decided the issue in the Tigers’ favor.

Allen liked what Sandburg did offensively, saying it was “doing a good job of being aggressive and getting to the basket.” But a 13-of24 showing at the stripe proved to be its downfall.

“Both teams really battled,” Allen said. “We told the kids, ‘You’re doing what we’re asking you to do.’

We’ll hang in there.”

The Eagles squared off against Andrew this past Tuesday and meet Stagg on Friday.

Sandburg 49 Lockport 38 The free-throw line was the Eagles’ saving grace on Tuesday as they buried 15-of-17 in the fourth frame after attempting no foul shots in the 24 minutes prior to that. Razik’s threepoint play began Sandburg’s trips to the stripe and gave it a six-point edge.

The Porters did not shoot at all from the line as the Eagles were charged with just five fouls for the evening.

Lockport, playing in front of a big home crowd, jumped out to a 21-10 lead in the second stanza before a pair of 3-pointers from Mo Abed sparked a closing 8-0 run for Sandburg. Allen pegged that surge as crucial, asserting that “an 11-point deficit against Lockport seems like 20 points. I think we took some of that momentum into the second half.”

The Eagles got off 13 fewer shots than the Porters but registered only one less field goal.

Paxinos (13 points, four assists), Demogerontas (11 points) and Razik (nine) paced Sandburg’s attack, but Kogionis lent a big hand with a season-high nine rebounds.

Sandburg 49 Lockport 38 Sandburg scoring: Paxinos 13, T. Demogerontas 11, Razik 9, Abed 8, Kogionis 6, McShane 2. Rebounds: Kogionis 9. Assists: Paxinos 4.

Joliet West 63 Sandburg 62 Sandburg scoring: Kogionis 24, Paxinos 11, Kotsogiannis 9, Abed 6, Razik 6, McShane 4, L. Demogerontas 2.

ster the offense. A 22-point second quarter gave the Chargers a 31-24 halftime lead.

“The girls did a nice job of getting to the basket and converting at the free-throw line in the first half,” Turner said.

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Bulldogs

Continued from page 1 Richards’ 28-15 edge on the glass was cited as the contest’s most critical statistic by both Mamon and Astros boss Tony Chiuccariello.

However, the Bulldogs also benefited from a late Shepard miscue that Bender caused and then turned into a dunk at the other end.

Catledge sank a couple charity tosses after an ensuing turnover and the sophomore also converted a three-point play that was sandwiched between a pair of Astros misses.

“In the flick of a switch those things happened, unfortunately,” Chiuccariello said. “They scored fast and furiously in the last 3:38 — they had 13 points and we had two. If the game had been 3:38 shorter, we’d have looked more competitive.

“I thought we played them much tougher than we did the first time [at Thanksgiving]. They had control of the game, but we battled. [But] when we tried to press and trap [in the late going] they were faster and more athletic.”

Kyle Longfield paced the Astros (5-17, 0-10) with 12 points while Zack Haxel and Kenjrick Watson both added nine. Shepard connected on only 35 percent of its shots, compared to the ‘Dogs’ 44 percent mark.

“Shepard did a great job of competing,” Mamon said. “They didn’t stop playing [hard] and they’ve been solid defensively. They don’t gamble much and they’re pretty well disciplined.”

Mamon had warned his guys to expect a stiffer challenge than they received previously when the Astros succumbed by 24 points.

“It was a conference game, a district game, and the game in November was three months ago so these were different teams,” he said. “I feel like it got a little sloppy at the beginning of the fourth quarter, but we were able to clean it up, sustain and put it away.”

Richards visited Reavis this past Tuesday and hosts cross-town neighbor Oak Lawn on Friday. In addition to trying to play spoiler for the Bulldogs against Eisenhower, Shepard had a nonconference makeup game versus Universal on Monday and will meet Reavis on Friday.

Although the season has not unfolded in the manner Chiuccariello would have liked, he said he’s “proud of the kids. I think there’s improvement from the beginning of the season to now. If you look at the record, you might not see it, but we’re a lot more competitive.”

“It’s been one of those years,” said Chiuccariello, who pointed to the buzzer-beating 3-ball Richards nailed to conclude the first half as an example of how things have gone for his team. “It’s frustrating because you can feel it’s gotten better — a lot of our games have been close.

“Our kids have played hard and hopefully we’ll find a way to get a conference win. It’ll be nice to break through.”

Richards 59 Shepard 44 Richards scoring: Bender 16, Catledge 16, Hussein 12, White 9, Draper 4. Rebounds: Catledge 10, Draper 9. Assists: Catledge 3. Steals: Catledge 4.

Shepard scoring: Longfield 12, Haxel 9, Watson 9, Gorski 6, Humphrey 6, Newhall 2. Rebounds: Humphrey 5. Assists: Gorski 4.

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Mustangs’ struggles at line are costly in loss to Rams

By Ken Karrson Sports Editor

The best things in life are free?

Pat Flannigan may beg to differ with that assessment.

That’s at least true when it comes to free throws, which Flannigan’s Evergreen Park team received in quantity during the first half of Friday night’s South Suburban Conference Red game against Reavis. The Mustangs led early and their cause wasn’t hurt any by them being placed in the double bonus before the opening period was out — in theory anyway.

The reality was that Evergreen squandered a golden opportunity to shove the Rams into a fairly deep hole. The Mustangs were ahead by six after one quarter but never did stretch their lead out to double digits as they went just 2-of-11 at the stripe before intermission.

And that shakiness ultimately cost them. The Rams began dominating on the boards in the second half and that eventually carried them to a 57-48 victory.

“It felt like a hockey game — we couldn’t get the ball out of our zone,” Flannigan said. “We got outphysicaled and most of their scoring came off rebounds — Reavis got 17 more rebounds than us [on the night].

“We’ve got to box out, no matter what the size difference is. We have

a bad habit of running to the ball instead of getting on the body. It kills you when a team finally misses a free throw and then they get the rebound.”

That rugged style of play came after the Rams' bench picked up a technical foul because of their coaches’ displeasure at all the early infractions whistled on Reavis.

“It was a strange game [in that regard],” Flannigan said. “It was tightly called in the first quarter, but I knew the game would be officiated differently in the second half and I told our kids that.

“The big difference was [us missing free throws]. We could have extended our lead, but we couldn’t knock them down.”

Flannigan said he was at a loss to explain Evergreen’s difficulties.

“I can’t put my finger on it,” he said. “We practice them and make them in practice. They can knock it down all night long in an empty gym, but I guess Friday night is different. It’s [a matter of] confidence.

“It’s unreal. We find ways to put ourselves behind the 8-ball.”

That tight officiating wasn’t a oneway street. Evergreen (6-19, 1-9) also incurred several fouls, meaning Flannigan had to summon “a few guys who don’t normally go out there on the floor.”

Among those affected by fouls

was Mustangs star Isaac Matthews, whose 15 points represented a somewhat sub-par offensive performance for him. That still made him Evergreen’s top scorer, however. Declan Smyth (12 points) and Tyler Sorbellini (nine points on three 3s) were other notables.

The Mustangs ended the night with a 7-of-17 display at the line, which did nothing to compensate for their 33 percent accuracy from the floor. Although Sorbellini connected thrice from long range, Evergreen struggled as a team as it made good on just 7-of-27 attempts.

The Mustangs had 16 turnovers and collected 27 rebounds.

“I wasn’t too disappointed about the effort,” Flannigan said. “But we always have those three or four minutes where we can’t score that comes back to bite us.”

Road games against Lincoln-Way West and Argo were on Evergreen’s docket this week. The Argonauts, who host the Mustangs on Friday, garnered a one-point overtime victory over Oak Lawn last Tuesday.

Reavis 57 Evergreen Park 48 Evergreen Park scoring: Matthews 15, Smyth 12, Sorbellini 9, Brown 6, Smith 4, Langston 2. Rebounds: Brown 5. Assists: Pritchett 3. Steals: Brown 3, Matthews 3. Blocks: Ford 2, Pritchett 2.

Hilltoppers play the spoiler Loss likely locks RedHawks out of title chase

By Ken Karrson Sports Editor

Joliet Catholic Academy has been a thorn in the side of East Suburban Catholic Conference teams for years.

But usually when any sort of Hilltoppers dominance is discussed, the talk centers on football, where a state-record number of championships have been captured. Occasionally baseball and softball get their due as well.

Not so notable is JCA’s boys’ basketball program, which has lived a rather mundane existence. But those days appear to be ending.

The Hilltoppers aren't a candidate for a title just yet, but Marist coach Gene Nolan had spoken highly of JCA before the RedHawks met up with it Friday night. And then the Hilltoppers proceeded to make Nolan look like a sage.

When Harold Davis hit a basket with less than a full second remaining, JCA had the points it needed to knock off Marist 43-41 and all but snuff out the latter’s hopes for an ESCC championship. The RedHawks won their first five conference encounters but have since dropped two straight, putting them two games in arrears of front-running Notre Dame.

While Marist (19-7, 5-2) is now a long shot to earn even a piece of the title, Nolan doesn’t want his players belaboring the recent string of events.

“We’ll need help and so will others, [but] everything we’re doing is looking forward and moving forward,” he said. “We kept talking [to the players] that it’s not what happens during the course of the season. It’s how we respond to it.”

Obviously, Nolan didn’t know for sure the manner in which the RedHawks would react to Friday's defeat until this past Tuesday’s matchup with Hubbard. But he didn’t hesitate to compliment JCA for its role in making Marist stumble to its third setback in four games.

“They’re very good and very young — every kid they play is a non-senior,” Nolan said. “I thought our kids played outstanding defense,

but their kids played outstanding defense too.

“They didn’t make scoring easy.

That’s to their credit, but we also have to find [other] ways.”

The RedHawks’ 35 percent marksmanship was their lowest in any ESCC contest thus far. Included in that number was a 4-of-17 exhibition from 3-point territory; not included were six missed free throws in 15 tries, two of them being the front end of 1-and-1s.

But despite all that was working against it, Marist twice held fivepoint leads. One of those followed a fourth-quarter-opening 8-0 run that put the visitors ahead 37-32.

The Hilltoppers quickly pulled even, however, on two free throws and a 3-pointer.

JCA got up by a deuce, the RedHawks created another tie at 41, then the Hilltoppers held for the final shot that Davis sank.

Maurice Commander (13 points, three assists, two steals), Chamar Hawkins (10 points, four boards) and sophomore Justin Brown (seven points, six rebounds, four blocks) spearheaded Marist’s attack. Jeremiah Ferguson managed only six points but earned raves from his coach for his defensive work on JCA’s Jalen Jackson, the ESCC’s No. 1 scorer. Jackson was held eight points below his average and made only four field goals.

“It’s as good defensively as, or better than, any team we’ve had,” Nolan said. “Offensively, we haven’t been able to score as well. So much [success] revolves around being able to shoot and finish — we’ve got to find a way to be more efficient offensively.

“The biggest thing going forward is piecing and pulling together the best parts of what we’ve done offensively so far and putting it with our defense.”

One area in which the RedHawks performed well involved taking care of the ball. They were charged with only eight turnovers, 10 fewer than the Hilltoppers committed.

Marist 51 Tinley Park 48 The Titans defeated the Red-

Hawks a year ago and came close to doing so again last Tuesday.

Tinley was ahead 41-34 midway through the final quarter before Marist caught fire.

While the Titans continued scoring, the RedHawks were trading 3s for twos. Commander deposited a pair of long-range buckets and Ferguson had one in quick succession to keep Marist nipping at Tinley’s heels. A Hawkins layup and Ferguson’s three-point play also were part of the comeback, the latter’s effort giving the RedHawks their first lead since the second period.

Bradley Hill’s two charity tosses extended Marist’s edge to four and then Taylor Weaver stole the ball to close out the Titans, whom Nolan said “played good, played hard and played sound.”

Ferguson (15 points, four rebounds, three assists) paced the RedHawks, but Hill (10 points) and Brown (eight points, seven rebounds) were also valuable individuals. Although Nolan would have loved to not experience more edge-of-your-seat excitement, he felt Marist will benefit in the long run from the experience.

“You have to learn to win in as many different ways as possible,” Nolan said. “There is a value in being able to say to your kids, ‘We’ve been in this position before. We can win this game.’”

In addition to Tuesday's tilt with Hubbard, the RedHawks square off with Notre Dame on Friday.

Marist 51 Tinley Park 48 Marist scoring: Ferguson 15, Hill 10, Brown 8, Commander 6, Hawkins 6, Parker 6. Rebounds: Brown 7. Assists: Commander 3, Ferguson 3.

Steals: Commander 2, Hawkins 2.

JCA 43 Marist 41 Marist scoring: Commander 13, Hawkins 10, Brown 7, Ferguson 6, Parker 5. Rebounds: Brown 6. Assists: Commander 3, Ferguson 3.

Steals: Commander 2, Ferguson 2.

Blocks: Brown 4.

CCAC PLAYOFFS

Crusaders, Vikings fall early in tournament Any hopes for a rapid turnaround in fortunes went by the boards quickly.

Both Brother Rice and St. Laurence were seeking a pick-me-up in the second annual Chicago Catholic League Tournament, but none was forthcoming as the Crusaders and Vikings each got bounced in their first-round matchups on Friday.

Rice did rebound to defeat Seton Academy on Sunday at St. Laurence, but even that required a fourth-quarter outburst by the Crusaders. By outscoring the Sting 27-18 over the final eight minutes, Rice bagged a hard-fought 61-53 triumph.

Before that Fenwick rolled over the Crusaders 62-41. St. Laurence was equally flummoxed by Hales Franciscan on Friday as it suffered a 79-45 setback. Back-to-back 22-point periods by the Spartans got the job done as the Vikings only offered 19 points in response during those middle two quarters.

As for Rice, an 18-7 disadvan-

tage in the third stanza proved costly versus the Friars as the latter held a 17-point edge after that surge.

Fenwick canned 57 percent of its field-goal attempts to easily outdistance the Crusaders (37 percent) in that category.

The Friars were also the better team from 3-point land (46 percent to 16), at the foul line (84 percent to 57), in assists (13-9) and in turnovers (5-13). Rice’s only advantage was in rebounding and that was only by two (21-19).

Seven Crusaders tallied, but only Jake Kosakowski (10 points) reached double digits. Mike Shepski tossed in nine points and Josh Niego had eight, plus six rebounds. *** Shepski (12 points, three assists, three steals, one block), Joe Ruzevich (11 points, seven rebounds) and Morgan Taylor (nine points, three assists) paced Rice in its win over Seton.

The Sting registered a superior shooting percentage (52 percent

to 49), but the Crusaders made up for that with a couple more 3-point baskets, eight additional free throws and 10 more assists. *** Prior to beginning tournament play, Rice fell short of Providence Catholic, 56-47, last Tuesday. The Celtics spotted the Crusaders a 19-10 lead in the first period but answered with 10- and 11-point edges in the even-numbered quarters. Providence’s 20-9 blitz in the fourth easily wiped out its two-point deficit.

Shepski (16 points), Niego (15) and Kosakowski (nine points, nine rebounds) were the main men for Rice, which fared well statistically in comparison to the Celtics. The one glaring discrepancy was Providence’s 19-of-23 performance at the stripe, which obliterated the Crusaders meager 6-of-8 display.

In its other game last week, St. Laurence lost 60-42 to Mt. Carmel, which outscored the Vikings in each of the first three frames.

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Oak Lawn’s Jimmy Wiltzius shovels the ball toward a teammate as an Argo player is too late to stop him. The Spartans fell short of the Argonauts by one point in overtime.

Spartans

Continued from Page 1 up roses for the Spartans, who jumped out to a 17-9 edge in the opening period. As Rhodes explained, it “was just a half-court game and we were executing well.”

The scenario changed, though, once the Argonauts began employing a 2-2-1 zone defense.

With standout Marcus Fry fueling its offense with 11 points, Argo outscored Oak Lawn 21-8 in the second stanza to seize control.

The lead was six after three quarters and got extended to 12 midway through the final stanza before the Spartans made a push.

Photo by Jeff Vorva Three-pointers by Jimmy Wiltzius Oak Lawn’s Leo Nelson holds the ball aloft while an Argo defender gives and Rashad Johnson on consecu- him little room to operate during last Tuesday’s South Suburban Confertive possessions quickly sliced the ence Red contest. margin in half, then Joe Cosenza’s to send everyone to the glass in an steal set up another bucket.

Eisenhower 93 attempt to grab rebounds. While the The Argonauts were clinging Oak Lawn 73 Cardinals’37 percent shooting paled to a three-point advantage in the Pitted against the SSC Red- next to the Spartans’ 50 percent suclast 30 seconds with two fouls to cess rate, the former launched 35 give before they would send Oak leading Cardinals on Friday, the more shots thanks largely to 30 Lawn to the free-throw line. But Spartans couldn’t afford to let their offensive rebounds. Eisenhower after Rhodes asked for a timeout latest disappointment linger. And in scored 35 second-chance points. at the six-second mark to set up Rhodes’ opinion his players didn’t.

Prince did his part to keep Oak “We were able to refocus pretty an out-of-bounds play, Johnson Lawn competitive by totaling 30 delivered from beyond the arc quickly and get on to [preparing for] points and eight rebounds. Khater Eisenhower right away,” he said. to create the need for overtime.

Of course, to the casual onlooker it checked in with 16 points, 15 reJohnson, who established a bounds and five assists, Johnson single-game school record for 3s might not have appeared that way as netted 10 points and Cosenza disthe week before by hitting eight the Cardinals jetted out to a massive tributed 10 assists. versus Fenton, nailed six more 40-14 lead in the first period behind The Spartans, who were charged here to finish with a team-best 18 nine 3-point buckets, four of which with two-dozen turnovers — a numpoints. Prince added 16 points and came on their first five possessions. ber Rhodes thought adequate given six boards while Wiltzius had 13 Eisenhower threw up 58 shots from the game’s up-tempo nature — actubeyond the arc on the evening and points, passed out six assists and ally outpointed the Cardinals in each canned 16 of them. did not commit any turnovers. of the last three quarters but never Cosenza tied Wiltzius for the asWhile Rhodes admitted the Cards’ by more than three points. sist lead and Dean Khater collected offensive prowess was mostly reOak Lawn squares off with crossseven rebounds to top the Spartans sponsible for his team’s early pretown neighbor Richards on Friday. in that category. dicament, he also felt Oak Lawn “Our guys just fight,” Rhodes hadn’t done itself any favors when Argo 58 said. “That’s the great thing about it had the ball.

Oak Lawn 57 coaching this group. They’ve really “I thought we had a good game turned the corner in how they play plan going in, but we missed some Oak Lawn scoring: Johnson 18, together and trust in each other. easy ones,” Rhodes said. “You have Prince 16, Wiltzius 13, Alshaikh 3, They’re doing a great job of mov- to make the layups and finish at Nelson 3, Cosenza 2, Khater 2. Reing the ball and sharing the ball.” the rim. bounds: Khater 7, Prince 6. Assists: Oak Lawn shot 11 percentage “What we wanted to do was Cosenza 6, Wiltzius 6. points worse than Argo from the break their press and try to play field (39-50) but had a dozen more keep-away, but we played right into Eisenhower 93 73 attempts, due in part to 17 assists their hands. We can’t beat them at Oak Lawn and only seven miscues, seven their game. They’re a longer, more fewer than the Argonauts. The real athletic team, which makes it tough Oak Lawn scoring: Prince 30, Khater difference was found at the charity when they’re crashing five guys.” 16, Johnson 10, Alshaikh 7, Smith 4, Wiltzius 4, Richardson 2. Rebounds: stripe — while Argo missed half of The last part of Rhodes’ statement Khater 15, Prince 8. Assists: Cosenza its chances, it took 28 free throws referred to Eisenhower’s willingness 10, Khater 5. compared to nine for the Spartans.

Knights

Continued from Page 1 Marcus Parker to hand Christian a 31-21 advantage. Wolterink finished as the Knights’ scoring leader with 16 points and also grabbed a team-best 12 rebounds.

Spencer and Washington both tossed in eight points, Ellison had six and Bradford Fitzpatrick earned praise for his defense.

According to Pittman, the latter “guarded everybody on the floor at some point and did a good job.”

Guerin wound up with a field-goal percentage of just 34.

“We took away a little of our gambling on defense — we want everybody to have to shoot over us or go through us,” Pittman said. “The number of turnovers [caused] has gone down but so have the points we’ve given up.

I like that tradeoff.”

Christian’s own accuracy rate languished too but helping to compensate for that was a 31-25 edge on the glass, six more made free throws and only five turnovers.

“All in all, I’m glad we’re not putting pictures [of our performance] in the scorebook, but a win’s a win,” Pittman said. “We need to play in games like that to be prepared [for the playoffs] and know what things to clean up.

“It’s been a while since we played this late in the season

with the games meaning something. I’m glad the guys get to go through this.”

Pittman said his players “fought hard to get back to .500,” and one reason for that is the Knights’ schedule. Starting with the seasonopening District 218 Tournament at Thanksgiving, Christian has featured a significant number of bigger schools on its slate.

“We kind of set our schedule up that way on purpose,” Pittman said. “Playing an easier schedule gives you false hope and expectations.”

The Knights’ last league championship was in 2010-11 when they were a member of the Suburban Christian Conference. Back then, however, neither Timothy Christian nor Illiana Christian was part of the mix.

“This kind of reminds me of the old [Private School League] days,” Pittman said. “You beat a team once and it’s hard to beat them again.”

Of course, Pittman hopes his club bucks that trend seeing as how it already owns one win against the Trojans.

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Chicago Christian scoring: Wolterink 16, Spencer 8, Washington 8, Ellison 6, Fitzpatrick 5, Parker 3.

Rebounds: Wolterink 12. Assists: Fitzpatrick 3, Parker 3.

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Former Chicago Christian standout Corey Bulthuis keeps a close eye on Indiana University-Northwest’s Nate Flores during last Wednesday’s game at Trinity Christian College.

TRINITY CHRISTIAN ATHLETICS WRAP

Rhorer selected as Player of the Week for men’s basketball

By Amy Strong

The year hasn’t been the best, but for one week Cody Rhorer was.

Rhorer was selected as the men’s basketball Player of the Week by both the National Christian College Athletic Association and Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference for the week ending Feb. 7. The honors followed a week in which he scored a career-high 37 points — including seven 3-point baskets — on 58 percent shooting in Trinity Christian College’s 80-77 win over Trinity International University and complemented that offense with eight rebounds and three steals.

Rhorer also helped the Trolls edge Roosevelt University 8885. In that contest he registered 11 points on 50 percent shooting, three rebounds, three assists and two steals.

Rhorer was at it again last Wednesday as his team-best 21 points on 57 percent accuracy lifted Trinity to an 82-70 triumph over Indiana University-Northwest in Palos Heights. Backing Rhorer were Jared Jones (19 points, including five 3s) and Trey Johnson (18 points on 9-of-11 shooting, 11 rebounds, five blocks).

Jones’ 3-ball six minutes into the contest put the Trolls up 12-11 and the lead was never relinquished.

Another 3-point basket, this one with a minute-and-half remaining before intermission, extended Trinity’s advantage to double digits at 35-25. The Trolls were ahead by eight after 20 minutes.

One of Johnson’s six dunks restored the double-figure lead at the start of the second half and the margin soon grew to an insurmountable 20. Trinity outshot IU-Northwest 52 percent to 40 from the field. *** Cardinal Stritch brought an end to the Trolls’ three-game win streak on Saturday as it doled out a 74-56 defeat in CCAC play.

Trinity (9-19, 4-13) was down by

only four at halftime but could never overtake the Wolves.

The Trolls went through a nineminute dry spell in the opening half that resulted in just four points and prevented the locals from maintaining an early edge. A shorter drought in the second half was equally debilitating as it allowed Stritch to extend a 12-point lead to 19 in less than three minutes.

Trinity connected on only 38 percent of its shots, 27 percent of its 3s and 60 percent of its foul shots. The Wolves weren’t much better from the floor, but they canned a dozen more free throws while shooting 81 percent at the line and also out-rebounded the Trolls by 15.

Rhorer had 17 points, three assists and three steals to pace Trinity. He was the lone man to tally in double digits. Other contributors for the Trolls were Johnson (nine points, five rebounds), Joe Hehir (seven points) and Austin Halcomb (seven rebounds).

Trinity wrapped up its regular schedule this week with games against Judson University and St. Xavier University on Wednesday and Saturday, respectively.

Saturday’s encounter begins at 3 p.m. in Chicago.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

The Trolls climbed ever closer to the .500 plateau after going 2-1 last week. A Saturday CCAC loss to NAIA Division II No. 5-ranked Cardinal Stritch stopped a four-game Trinity win streak.

Before falling to the Wolves by a 61-46 count, the Trolls (13-15, 7-9) scored nonconference victories over Moody Bible Institute (71-49) and Greenville College (54-53) on Tuesday and Thursday, respectively. The game against Moody became Trinity’s to lose after Caitlin Cody’s threepoint play put the Trolls ahead 13-12 six minutes into the contest.

From there the lead grew to 17 by halftime and Trinity was never threatened. Cody finished with a double-double of 19 points and 13 rebounds, Celina Wanta scored

14 points and Olivia Schipper tossed in 10 for the Trolls, who survived 40 percent shooting by limiting Moody to a 34 percent success rate. *** A 12-3 spurt enabled Trinity to establish a 30-19 halftime lead on Thursday and the margin ballooned to 18 early in the second half. Seemingly in control at that juncture, the Trolls watched their edge dwindle to seven and then had to endure a scoreless final three minutes before emerging triumphant.

Greenville hit a couple late 3s and was superior to Trinity from beyond the arc (39 percent to 25). The Trolls were also outshot from two-point territory (33 percent to 36) but were better than Greenville at the stripe (75 percent to 64).

Schipper was Trinity’s only double-figure scorer with 12 points. Cody chipped in seven points and five rebounds, Lauren Stokes matched Cody’s point total and Holly Boetsma, Rebecca DeHaan and Erynn Schuh all grabbed four boards. *** The Wolves’ game-opening 16-2 run didn’t portend a good day for the Trolls on Saturday, but they weathered the storm well enough to stay competitive for quite a while. Stritch was ahead 29-17 at halftime but only after benefiting from Trinity’s late offensive slump.

Boetsma’s 3-pointer had drawn the Trolls within five a short time before that.

Trinity was within two as late as 13-plus minutes into the second half, but a pair of Schuh free throws and another Boetsma 3 were all it could muster over the last 6:45. The Wolves, meanwhile, erupted for 18 points during that stretch to create the sizable differential at the end.

The Trolls were plagued by 26 percent shooting, which included a 19 percent display from behind the arc. Trinity’s defense kept it See TRINITY, Page 5

Baskets by Dwyer (four points. seven rebounds), Abed (10 points, four assists, five steals) and Rentauskas allowed Stagg to hold a 4137 lead going into the final stanza.

The fourth quarter was back and forth until the final horn. DiGiacomo (15 points, seven rebounds, three blocks) provided almost all of the Chargers’ offense in the last eight minutes.

“Joliet spread the floor when they got the lead and were able to drive to the basket,” Turner said.

Trailing by three points, Stagg was forced to foul. However, the Steelwomen missed some free throws and left the door ajar before the Chargers, who were unable to capitalize.

“We drew up set plays, but we failed to connect on the inbounds pass the first attempt [with 4.6 seconds remaining],” Turner said.

“And we ran out of time on the second attempt before we could get the shot up.

“It was an evenly matched game in almost every category. It was a tough one to lose after leading for most of it. We dropped both games to them this season by a total of five points.”

Stagg was chasing Joliet West throughout Friday’s contest. Turner placed five juniors in the starting lineup and they stayed close for a while, but the Chargers were undone by some more offensive struggles.

“When shots are not falling, we have to go to the offensive board more aggressively,” Turner said. “Joliet West hit a couple of long-range, bank-in 3-pointers to end the half. There is not much you can do when that happens.”

The Chargers (6-21, 2-12) were down 35-27 after three periods and could never catch up. Eight-of-9 foul shooting in the late going kept them in the hunt, however.

DiGiacomo (17 points, six rebounds, two blocks) and Abed (13 points, four steals) were Stagg’s principal figures. DiGiacomo’s rejections gave her 40 and made her the Chargers’ single-season leader in that category.

Turner also praised guard Jaime

Ryan (five steals, four assists, three rebounds) for her contributions.

“Playing up at this level as a freshman will pay dividends in the future,” he said.

Turner hoped Stagg’s fortunes could be reversed in the tournament, which began with a regional assignment versus Thornwood.

“This was another game that was close enough to go the other way,” he of Friday’s matchup. “We are competing in every game. That is good to see. We’re hoping to start strong against Thornwood.”

RICHARDS

The Bulldogs’ final week was a rewarding one as they defeated Shepard (52-48) and Eisenhower (45-27) in South Suburban Conference Red games last Tuesday and Wednesday, respectively.

Sydni Tears (17 points, seven rebounds, six assists) and Takesha Powell (16 points, seven rebounds, three assists) were a dynamic duo for Richards (914, 6-7) versus the Astros. They didn’t have to go it alone, though, as Halee Barker (seven points, four rebounds), Kennedy Brister (six points), Andy Sonichsen (four points, seven rebounds) and Briana Kuchenny (six rebounds) all lent a hand.

“I thought we came out and played well early against Shepard,” Bulldogs coach Jeff Kortz said. “We jumped out to a little lead, they fought back, [but] I was very proud of the effort. We finally came out on the winning end of a close game. Takesha made some big shots in the fourth quarter and hopefully [that] will fuel her confidence.”

Myrissha Mitchell had 21 points for the Astros (7-18, 3-10) in a losing cause.

Richards held slim leads over Eisenhower at each of the first two periods stops but outscored the Cardinals 12-0 in the third frame to take control. Powell (18 points, six rebounds, three assists), Tears (14 points, five rebounds, three steals), Sonichsen (six points, eight rebounds), Barker (10 rebounds) and Nadia Shehadeh (two assists) led the way for the Bulldogs.

“Well, the girls were fired up and came out and shot the ball well,” Kortz said. “I’m very thankful for our six seniors: Kennedy Brister,

Halee Barker, Andy Soniichsen, Jasmine Warr, Briana Kuchenny and Brittany Huttner. It was a great atmosphere for a game -- the gym was lively [and there was] lots of cheering.

“I’m very proud of our last week because we could have felt sorry for ourselves and went in the tank.”

*** Shepard also fell short of Argo, 53-37 last Thursday, despite 23 points from Mitchell.

MARIST

The RedHawks split a pair of East Suburban Catholic Conference as they fell 58-52 to Joliet Catholic Academy last Monday before bouncing back with a 6323 rout of Carmel on Wednesday.

Julia Ruzevich led Marist (20-7, 7-3) against the Angels with 21 points and eight rebounds while Dajae Black added 15 points.

Marist trailed by as many as 16 points in the second half before fighting back to make the final score more respectable. Nicole Ekhomu was JCA’s top performer with 13 points, eight assists, four steals, three rebounds and two blocks.

Bri Rosa (14 points) and Black (12) powered the RedHawks past the Corsairs.

OAK LAWN

After beating Eisenhower 58-46 in an SSC Red clash last Tuesday, the Spartans had to settle for a split as Evergreen Park doled out a 52-40 loss on Friday.

Brianna Markusic accumulated 38 points, 14 rebounds and five steals to power visiting Oak Lawn (18-12, 10-3) to its victory. Another Markusic double-double of 23 points and 14 rebounds wasn’t enough to derail the Mustangs, however.

Megan Pfister dropped in 19 points to lead Evergreen (19-8, 7-6) past the Spartans. The Mustangs fell short of Reavis (74-40) in their other conference outing of last week.

SANDBURG

The Eagles improved to 22-7 and 11-3 in the SouthWest Suburban Conference Blue with a 5337 victory over Bolingbrook on Friday. Jess Merino and Victoria Stavropoulos added 12 and 10 points, respectively, for Sandburg.

MORAINE ATHLETICS WRAP

Cyclones women earn piece of first

By Maura Vizza

There's nothing wrong with sharing.

Moraine Valley College's women have been pursuing the top spot in the Illinois Skyway Collegiate Conference for quite some time.

And when the Cyclones rolled over Morton College 82-59 last Thursday, they reached their destination.

They're not alone — three others were tied for first place with them entering the current week — but Moraine definitely has momentum built up for the stretch run.

The Cyclones' win on Thursday was accomplished without starting guard Kailey Foster, but Oak Lawn grad Duneya Shatat proved a huge asset in her absence. Shatat contributed 15 points and eight rebounds to Moraine's cause.

Even bigger in importance was Nariman Jaber, who produced a double-double of 30 points and 13 rebounds while also blocking six Morton shots. She now has 126 rejections for the season and is averaging 4.7 per game.

Chipping in 11 points apiece were Sharnita Breeze and Shavonne Lewis. The former complemented her scoring with seven rebounds.

In improving to 15-11 overall and 9-3 in league action, the Cyclones established a double-digit lead in the early going and pretty

much retained control the entire way. *** Before upending Morton, Moraine beat McHenry College 62-49 last Tuesday despite being in a shorthanded state. Lewis was out of the lineup and Foster sustained an injury in the second half.

Breeze and Jaber were again an effective 1-2 punch. Breeze paced the offense with 19 points and also snared six rebounds while Jaber backed her with a double-double of 10 points and 15 boards, plus seven blocks. Rachel Ruzevich added 10 points and eight rebounds.

MEN'S BASKETBALL

The Cyclones stopped a twogame skid by easing past McHenry 76-65 last Tuesday. Moraine led early, then responded to a 12-3 Scots surge that had put it in arrears at halftime by reclaiming the advantage during the second half.

“We were tired of losing," as-

sistant coach James Daniels said.

"The last two losses scared us. The players were a little too [cocky] from the [recent] win streak and realized they have to compete well every game. Every win is important now."

Sandburg product Niko Cahue returned to the lineup and supplied 15 points, nine boards and two blocks. Also tallying in double digits were Ermias Nega (13 points, five rebounds, two assists) and Vicpatrick Harris (12 points, six assists). Additional help came from Paul Ostruskevicius (nine points, three assists), Richards alum Randall Rushing (eight points, six rebounds, four steals) and Evergreen Park grad Brian Townsend (seven points, seven rebounds, two assists). *** The Cyclones' joy was shortlived, however, as Morton avenged an earlier loss with an 84-74 verdict on Thursday.

Moraine led by two at intermission but was unable to get key stops down the stretch.

Nega was the Cyclones' top gun with 19 points, six rebounds and two assists, but Cahue was an able accomplice with a double-double of 15 points and 12 rebounds. Also heard from were Rushing (13 points, three rebounds), DJ Deere (six points, eight assists) and Townsend (five points, 10 rebounds).

ST. XAVIER ATHLETICS WRAP

Krieger in peak form as Cougars win twice

For three seasons Jack Krieger played in the shadow of Brad Karp, St. Xavier University’s career scoring leader in men’s basketball and one of the top athletes to have ever played for veteran coach Tom O’Malley.

But last week Krieger managed something even his heralded predecessor didn’t. In fact, no one since Mike Walaszek in 1978 had.

Krieger poured in 43 points against Trinity International University on Saturday, the most since Cougars Hall of Famer Walaszek went off for 46 in a game 27 seasons ago. That outburst lifted SXU to a 90-80 Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference victory over the Trojans and capped a memorable week for Krieger.

Three days earlier his free throw with .7 seconds remaining in the third overtime gave the Cougars the deciding margin in a 118-117 conference triumph over Robert Morris University. The charity

toss finished off a 35-point performance by Krieger.

“Even Brad didn’t have that many for two games [in a row],” O’Malley said. “His teammates are starting to say, ‘Hey, maybe we’ve got to look for him a little more.’ You don’t have to do much for Jack to score.

“I just hope Jack can continue like this. He deserves it. He’s been a great kid.”

What made the senior guard’s efforts all the more noteworthy was that they came at a time of year when SXU (17-10, 11-6) can’t afford any more slipups.

“You look at the importance of the games — we said we wanted to win out,” O’Malley said. “We told the players, ‘We’ve got to win five in a row’ after our loss at Purdue Cal [on Feb. 4] and we’ve gotten the first three.”

While any late surge won’t be enough to bring the Cougars a regular-season CCAC champion-

ship, O’Malley believes it would enhance SXU’s chances of capturing its third conference-tourney crown in five years.

The Cougars’ clash with Robert Morris certainly had all the ingredients of a postseason confrontation, right down to Krieger’s tiebreaking free throw with less than a full second remaining. Junior guard Stanley Moore also stood tall at the end as he rebounded Krieger’s missed toss and allowed SXU to run out the clock.

Moore recorded his third double-double of the season with a 27-point, 12-rebound stats line.

Krieger’s points were amassed on 10-of-16 shooting and a 15-of-21 showing at the stripe.

Even with that potent duo giving them plenty of juice, the Cougars could never shake free of the Eagles, who swapped leads with SXU numerous times in the first half. Cougars freshman Larry Motuzis snapped a 35-all tie with

three free throws and the visitors brought a 40-37 advantage with them into the break.

Moore stepped forward with a layup with 12 seconds left in regulation that drew SXU into a 76-all deadlock. Robert Morris missed a jumper on its last possession.

The Cougars appeared to take control in overtime as they constructed an 87-80 edge, but the Eagles responded with an 12-3 run that put SXU on the brink of defeat. Moore then came to the rescue again with another layup to continue the contest.

In the second extra session it was Robert Morris unable to hang on to a lead as the Cougars erased a 102-96 deficit. Kyle Tackett’s two free throws forged another tie at 107. Kyle Huppe connected twice from the line late in the third overtime to establish the game’s final deadlock and then, after the Eagles committed a turnover, Krieger sank

his game-winning foul shot.

The three-OT affair was SXU’s first since Dec. 22, 2010, when it lost by four to the University of St. Francis. The win completed a rare season sweep of the Eagles.

“That’s where I think I got this [hoarse] voice — the three-overtime game,” O’Malley joked. “When you go through that, you say, ‘My gosh, there’s some bad plays.’

“One of our kids gets fouled late [in the game], but nothing is called.

And we probably fouled them twice [on the ensuing possession]. No referee wants to decide the game.” *** Krieger was the Cougars’ main man on Saturday at the Shannon Center, but SXU was pretty sharp across the board as it shot 70 percent as a team over the last 20 minutes.

Motuzis supported Krieger with 14 points and a team-high eight rebounds while Huppe chipped in nine points and a team-best four

assists.

Behind Krieger’s 22 markers SXU held a 42-40 halftime edge and it never surrendered the lead.

Trinity did close to within one several times at the start of the second half, but Krieger’s three-point play engineered a 13-2 run that gave the Cougars a more comfortable advantage. The Trojans made one late charge and narrowed the gap to five (81-76) with 1:46 left, but SXU nailed some free throws to hang on.

When asked what has gone differently for the Cougars in recent games, O’Malley credited improved cohesion.

“I wish I could say ‘defense,’” he said. “There’s been times [it’s good], but I think it’s more a coming together of the players.”

SXU met Roosevelt University See COUGARS, Page 5

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Sports Wrap

Seven Eagles will compete at state wrestling

By Anthony Nasella Sandburg achieved a high level of success at Saturday's Class 3A Downers Grove Sectional when seven wrestlers advanced to the state tournament at State Farm Center in Champaign that kicks off today.

But Eagles coach Eric Siebert observed the accomplishment as somewhat bittersweet because four more athletes on Sandburg’s roster missed advancing by just one match.

Louis Hayes (106 pounds) and Rudy Yates (126) both captured sectional titles for the Eagles. They will be joined at state by runners-up Robbie Precin (113), Tom Slattery (160) and Patrick Brucki (182), plus Brian Krasowski (third at 170) and Cole Bateman (fourth, 195).

The four Eagles wrestlers who just missed advancing were Colin Glascott, Kevin Stearns, SouthWest Suburban Conference champion Matt Frostman and Christian Robertson, a state qualifier last season.

“You always have some that will be so overjoyed because they’ve accomplished one of their goals of advancing to state, but then there’s the four like we had who were just one match away," Siebert said. "And two of those four matches lasted to overtime.

"To qualify seven guys, that’s a great number.

At the same time we had those four who fell short. The state series tends to be bittersweet.”

Yates (36-0) was dominant in the winners' bracket -- his 10-2 major decision over Brother Rice’s Julian Blanco in the championship match was the closest of his three sectional bouts. Hayes (36-3) pinned Mt. Carmel's Joey Egan at 3:08 in the 106 final.

“Our success really speaks to our depth as a team,” Siebert said. “We have 11 guys who were in the top six at sectionals. Our sectional is really tough. There’s just so many great wrestlers who we compete against every year -- that’s just how it goes.

“But it is frustrating because the guys who are advancing to state are going to see wrestlers who they already beat during the season because they advanced out of sectionals that were nowhere near as tough as the Downers Grove Sectional. It’s a tough pill to swallow.”

Siebert did say, however, there is one noticeable advantage to advancing out of a sectional like the one at Downers.

“Once you’re moving on to the state finals, those guys who are in your sectional get split up among the brackets,” he said.

“That will hopefully keep us away from some of the other wrestlers who advanced for a while.

“But we have to be ready for next Tuesday when we face Mt. Carmel for the dual-meet sectional with the goal of advancing to state as a team for that Saturday. We have a lot of good wrestling ahead.”

Cougars

Continued from Page 4 this past Wednesday and ends its regular campaign Saturday versus Trinity Christian College. — Ken the jump on people right off the Karrson bat. It’s definitely shown in our WOMEN’S BASKETBALL long winning streak."

The Cougars drilled 56 percent While the Cougars men had to scratch for their two victories last of their field-goal attempts in week, such was not the case for the the game, 62 percent of them women, who steamrolled Robert in the opening half. Along with Morris 107-63 on Wednesday and that potent offense was stellar Trinity International 96-41 on Sat- defense — SXU made off with urday to guarantee themselves at a total of 13 steals, part of an least a share of the CCAC regular- 18-turnover performance by Robert Morris. season title.

“We’re just operating on all Freshman guard Kara Krolicki cylinders right now," Hallberg finished with 26 points on 10-of13 shooting to lead all scorers in said. "These girls also practice NAIA Division II No. 4-ranked so hard that I don’t even have SXU’s Wednesday triumph. Her to raise my voice to motivate output included five 3-point field them. They play hard every day; goals as well as two assists and that’s just the way they are. It’s a rebound. Morgan Stuut had 19 a fun group to coach because points and 10 rebounds for her their intensity level is so high.”

18th double-double of the season *** while also providing five assists Senior Suzie Broski was Satand three steals.

Also tallying in double figures urday’s ringleader as she tossed were junior Caitlin McMahon in 21 points for the Cougars (25(14 points, six rebounds), fresh- 2, 16-0), who scored the first man Brittany Collins (14 points, 15 points en route to captursix rebounds) and sophomore ing their 14th straight victory.

Mikayla Leyden (12 points, Stuut finished with 19 points, five rebounds, five assists). That nine rebounds and nine assists balanced attack helped the Cou- in 19 minutes of action.

McMahon (eight points, six gars embark on an 18-0 tear that handed them a 27-4 lead seven rebounds, four assists), Leyden (eight points), senior Margaret minutes into the contest.

“Kara hit four 3-pointers early Wildner (eight) and Collins (six in the game,” SXU coach Bob points, seven rebounds) also did Hallberg said. “Then Mikayla their part as all but one of 13 Leyden starting hitting 3s and Cougars produced at least three we were off and running. And points. SXU was up by 30 (49what was really impressive was 19) at intermission after sinking we had 28 points scored in the 56 percent of its first-half shots.

Conversely, Trinity was limpost [by] Caitlin McMahon and Brittany Collins — both went ited to 21 percent accuracy by a 6-for-6 from the free-throw line. Cougars defense that forced 22 "I respect Robert Morris be- turnovers, 13 of them on steals. cause they’re a good team, but The miscues led to a total of 26 we just overwhelmed them on SXU points.

“Just like the Robert Morris Wednesday. We’re certainly not trying to run up the score on game, the Trinity game was basianybody. I was shocked with the cally over at halftime,” Hallberg [58-33] halftime score against said. “Then you become a substitution coach, trying to do your Robert Morris.

"We’ve just been getting out best to make sure you respect of the starting block so quickly, the other team. But as we’ve whether on the road against a seen in previous games we’ve team like Robert Morris or at been fortunate with a talented home. The girls are coming out and deep roster of players.” of the locker room not worried During their 14-game unbeatabout who they’re playing, and en streak, the Cougars' average they’re playing everybody with margin of victory has been over the same intensity level — they 32 points. They rank first nationplay with a very intense style ally in assists per game (21.3), and I think that’s why we get assist-to-turnover ratio (6-1)

GYMNASTICS

Even though Sandburg/Stagg failed to advance as a team to the state finals, a pair of freshmen had outstanding performances at the sectional meet and moved on as individuals.

First-year performers Maddy Roe and Holly Chudzik turned heads at the Hinsdale Central Sectional and will represent their program at state. Piling up 37.875 points at the sectional, Roe won the all-around competition by edging Naperville North's Michaela Robert (37.825 points). Roe was first in the vault (9.7), second on the balance beam (9.325) and in floor exercise (9.6) and fifth on the uneven bars (9.25).

Chudzik, meanwhile, finished in a tie for third in floor exercise (9.525 points). As a team Sandburg/Stagg placed third with 140.025 points.

GIRLS' BOWLING

Sandburg's Emily Schrader rolled a 1,279 at Saturday’s Lockport Sectional at Strike N Spare II and advanced as an individual to Friday’s state tournament.

GIRLS' TRACK

Khalia McIntyre won the long jump (16 feet, 3 inches) and triple jump (34-3) in pacing Shepard (113.5 points) to a secondplace showing behind host Morton (154) at a six-team indoor invitational on Saturday.

and blocks (6.5). SXU, which has topped 100 points in eight games this season, is second in the NAIA in scoring (88.8 ppg) and victory margin (24.7).

The Cougars visited Roosevelt this past Wednesday and host Trinity Christian on Saturday.

“Mathematically we’ve clinched a tie after this [past] week’s wins," Hallberg said. "So a win against Roosevelt will seal the conference title and secure home-court advantage for the conference tournament." — Anthony Nasella

MEN’S VOLLEYBALL

A match-high 11 kills from sophomore outside hitter Dan O'Keefe weren’t enough to prevent the Cougars from absorbing a 25-18, 25-19, 25-18 road loss against No. 5-ranked St. Ambrose University on Friday night at Lee Lohman Arena in Davenport, Iowa.

SXU struggled offensively as its 30 kills were largely offset by 21 hitting errors, which resulted in a .107 attack percentage for the match.

Sophomore outside hitter Sean Barry finished with eight kills and a pair of block assists, sophomore setter Moises Lopez totaled 21 assists and six digs and senior middle hitter Sam Kull registered five kills and two blocks (one solo) on the Cougars’ behalf. Other contributors were freshman middle blocker Bradley Gadek (four total blocks, including one solo) and sophomore libero Dominic Villa (match-leading 11 digs).

SXU returned to Great Lakes Conference play this past Tuesday when it traveled to Whiting, Ind., for a match against Calumet College of St. Joseph. *** O’Keefe had two fewer kills last Tuesday, but those nine plus a match-high six digs helped the Cougars down Trinity International 25-15, 25-15, 25-21 in a GLC encounter in Deerfield.

With O’Keefe’s .500 attack percentage serving as the catalyst, SXU (4-5, 2-3) registered a team mark of .339, a seasonbest effort. Kull (seven kills, five service aces, two blocks) was another headliner for the Cougars. Along the way he notched his 500th career kill and 200th career block.

Lopez distributed 24 assists and served four aces and Barry added seven kills and three digs

Community Sports News TRINITY TO HOST YOUTH SOCCER LEAGUE THIS SPRING

BASEBALL REGISTRATION IN PALOS HILLS, HICKORY HILLS

Trinity Christian College will be the site of a youth soccer league, which will conduct scrimmage-style matches each Saturday morning beginning March 7 and running through May 9.

Trolls soccer coaches Jose Dominguez and Josh Lenarz will direct the league, with help from athletes. The cost is $85 per player, and includes a T-shirt, shorts and socks.

For more information, call Emily Bosscher at 239-4779 or email emily.bosscher@trnty. edu.

Hills Baseball/Softball, serving the communities of Palos Hills and Hickory Hills, will conduct registration for the 2015 season on Saturday, Feb. 21, from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. at Conrady Junior High School, 97th Street and Roberts Road.

Youngsters between the ages of 4 and 16 are welcome to sign up. For more information, call George Czarnik at 599-6983 or www.thehillsbaseball.org

PBO REGISTRATION STILL OPEN

In-person registration for Oak Lawn Baseball & Softball’s 2-15 season will be accepted each Sunday in February from noon-1:30 p.m. at Kolb Field, 99th Street and Central Avenue.

Online registration is also available at www. oaklawnbaseball.com. Openings are available for baseball and softball players aged 4-14.

Registration for the 2015 Palos Baseball Organization season is still open.

For details on the signups or information on other questions, contact Chris Bogner at bognerc@hotmail.com, Scott Ladewig at sladelaw@sbcglobal.net or visit palosbaseball.org.

REGRISTRATION ONGOING FOR OAK LAWN BASEBALL & SOFTBALL

to further aid SXU. Senior outside hitter David Priest finished with a match-best 11 kills and three total blocks for the Trojans.

WOMEN'S TRACK

Qualifying for the NAIA Women’s Indoor Track & Field National Championships for the first time in her collegiate career, sophomore Nicole Watkins finished second in the 1,000-meter run with a provisional qualifying time of 3 minutes, 3.97 seconds to highlight the Cougars' outing at the Chicagoland Intercollegiate Championships last weekend at North Central College.

The time was a personal-best effort for Watkins in the event.

She becomes SXU's first national qualifier this season.

In addition to Watkins, the Cougars also received strong performances from freshman Rachal Brooks and senior Ali Proffitt. Brooks wound up ninth in the 200-dash (26.82) and 16th in the 400 (1:02.95) while Proffitt clocked an 18:58.01 in the 5,000 that landed her in the No. 11 position.

The 35th annual NAIA Championships will be held March 5-7 at the SPIRE Institute in Geneva, Ohio.

SXU wraps up its indoor regular season on Saturday at the Last Chance Qualifier hosted by Olivet Nazarene University in Bourbonnais. The meet is scheduled to kick off at 10 a.m.

MEN'S TRACK

With senior Brian Corcoran and junior Rexford Wiafe both qualifying for the NAIA Men’s Indoor Track & Field National Championships and freshman Kyonn Keith winning the 200dash, there was plenty of excitement for first-year head coach Kyle Rago and his Cougars at last weekend's Chicagoland Intercollegiate Championships.

Corcoran ran an automatic "A"-standard qualifying time of 4:17.09 to finish third overall in the mile run while Wiafe took fourth in the 800 with a provisional "B"-standard qualifying time of 1:57.08. In addition, Keith broke a school record his 22.42 clocking in the 200, an event that drew a total of 67 competitors.

Keith also earned a sixth in the 60-dash with a school-record time of 7.10 while senior teammate John Scancato placed 12th in 7.17. Another notable performance was turned in by junior Janis Pastars, who wound up 10th in the mile by completing the race in 4:22.58, which was .58 seconds shy of a provisional qualifying time. Sophomore Abel Hernandez finished the 3,000 in 8:59.48.

For the meet the Cougars registered nine personal-best times and 18 season-best performances.

SXU's men will also take part in Saturday's Last Chance Qualifier at Olivet.

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Trinity Christian College’s Cody Rhorer drives to the hoop against Indiana University-Northwest last Wednesday in Palos Heights. Rhorer was named Player of the Week for the week ending Feb. 7 by both the National Christian College Athletic Association and Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference.

Trinity

Continued from Page 4 in the game as Stritch connected on only 38 percent of its field-goal tries and 24 percent of its 3s. The Wolves out-rebounded the Trolls 42-34.

Cody was Trinity’s top performer with 15 points and nine rebounds.

Boetsma added nine points on three 3s and four rebounds and Bethany Jansma tallied seven points.

The Trolls hosted Judson this past Wednesday and play St. Xavier Saturday at 1 p.m. in Chicago.

TRACK & FIELD

The Trolls women were ninth among 17 schools and the men placed 14th in a 20-team field at last weekend’s Chicagoland Championships hosted by North Central College.

But while the team showings seemed rather pedestrian, there were some noteworthy event performances.

Between the two Trinity programs six school records were set. Besides the four standards they established, the Trolls women qualified a relay unit for the NAIA national meet and produced three more NCCAA qualifiers.

Reaching the NAIA qualifying time was the distance-medley quartet of Ashley Jourdan, Emily Dykstra, Courtney Kalous and Jessica Dis-

selkoen, who wound up third in their race while posting a school-record clocking of 12 minutes, 21.02 seconds. Kalous (school-record 1:00.19 in the 400; fifth place) and Jourdan (2:22.39 in the 800; seventh) also ran NCCAA-qualifying times as individuals.

Kalous now has qualified for the NCCAA meet in three events. The other NCCAA qualifier was Daisy Guerink in the weight throw (40 feet, 1 inch; 17th place). She had previously qualified in the shot put.

Anna Bos had already produced an NAIA-qualifying effort in the 3,000, but she improved on her time with a 10:17.05 clocking, which netted her fourth place. Trinity’s other record setter was Jessica Wiersma in the 60-dash (8.34 in the semis).

On the men’s side Marcus Devers eclipsed his own school mark in the 400 by completing that race in 50.32, .1 seconds faster than before. That gave Devers fifth place.

Matthew Schaap also bettered a school record he previously set in the 60-low hurdles by crossing the finish line in 9:49.

The men’s other points came from the distance-medley foursome of Michael Potter, Devers, Chris Paepke and Alex Clark, who took sixth in a time of 10:29.19.

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Plaintiff, -v.VERONICA P. MCGINNIS, CAPITAL ONE BANK (USA), N.A., MICHAEL G. GAFNRY, MARLENE R. GAFNRY Defendants 10 CH 33230 9255 PARK PLACE ORLAND HILLS, IL 60487 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on December 8, 2014, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on March 10, 2015, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive - 24th Floor, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 9255 PARK PLACE, ORLAND HILLS, IL 60487 Property Index No. 27-22-310-014-0000. The real estate is improved with a single family home with an attached 2 car garage. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted.

The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/ or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale.

The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property.

Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required

by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales.

For information: Visit our website at service. atty-pierce.com. between the hours of 3 and 5 pm. PIERCE & ASSOCIATES, Plaintiff’s Attorneys, One North Dearborn Street Suite 1300, CHICAGO, IL 60602. Tel No. (312) 476-5500.

Please refer to file number PA1302333. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 606064650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. PIERCE & ASSOCIATES One North Dearborn Street Suite 1300 CHICAGO, IL 60602 (312) 476-5500 Attorney File No. PA1302333 Attorney Code. 91220 Case Number: 10 CH 33230 TJSC#: 34-21188 I643826

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. Plaintiff, -v.FRANK V. DEL MORO, THE RIVIERA IN PALOS IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION Defendants 14 CH 005407 11 COUR MARQUIS PALOS HILLS, IL 60465 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on June 27, 2014, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on March 20, 2015, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive - 24th Floor, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 11 COUR MARQUIS, PALOS HILLS, IL 60465 Property Index No. 23-23-112-011. The real estate is improved with a residence. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property.

Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information, examine the court file or contact Plaintiff’s attorney: CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876 Please refer to file number 14-14-05142.

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 Attorney File No. 14-14-05142 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 14 CH 005407 TJSC#: 34-19942 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION MRF ILLINOIS ONE, LLC Plaintiff, -v.RICK SUMERA, AMERICAN CHARTERED BANK, CHARLES QUINN, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants 14 CH 006743 9100 S. 87TH AVENUE HICKORY HILLS, IL 60457 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on November 17, 2014, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on March 13, 2015, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive - 24th Floor, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 9100 S. 87TH AVENUE, HICKORY HILLS, IL 60457 Property Index No. 23-02-311-010. The real estate is improved with a single family residence. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted.

The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS� condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property.

Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information, examine the court file or contact Plaintiff’s attorney: CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876 Please refer to file number 14-13-33828. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 Attorney File No. 14-13-33828 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 14 CH 006743 TJSC#: 34-21033 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION BAYVIEW LOAN SERVICING, LLC Plaintiff, -v.JAMES J. MCINTYRE, LAURA L. MCINTYRE, FIRST BANK, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

For Sale IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, I L L I N O I S ďż˝ COUNTY DEPARTMENT, CHANCERY DIVISION BANCO POPULAR NORTH AMERICA, P l a i n t i f f ďż˝ V . ďż˝ MANUEL CASTILLO; GLORIA CASTILLO; BANCO POPULAR NORTH AMERICA; CAPITAL ONE BANK (USA), N.A.; D e f e n d a n t s ďż˝ 10 CH 18827 Property Address: 12650 SOUTH 76TH AVENUE PALOS HEIGHTS, IL 60463 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE Shapiro Kreisman & Assoc. file # 10-035969 (It is advised that interested parties consult with their own attorneys before bidding at mortgage foreclosure s a l e s . ) ďż˝ PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered on September 4, 2014, Kallen Realty Services, Inc., as Selling Official will at 12:30 p.m. on March 26, 2015, at 205 W. Randolph Street, Suite 1020, Chicago, Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described real property: Commonly known as 12650 South 76th Avenue, Palos Heights, IL 60463 Permanent Index No.: 23-25-302-012 The mortgaged real estate is improved with a dwelling.

The property will NOT be open for inspection.

The judgment amount was $648,740.37. Sale terms for non-parties: 10% of successful bid immediately at conclusion of auction, balance by 12:30 p.m. the next business day, both by cashier's checks; and no refunds.

The sale shall be subject to general real estate taxes, special taxes, special assessments, special taxes levied, and superior liens, if any. The property is offered "as is," with no express or implied warranties and without any representation as to the quality of title or recourse to Plaintiff.

Prospective bidders are admonished to review the court file to verify all information and to view auction rules at w w w . k a l l e n r s . c o m . ďż˝ For information: Sale Clerk, Shapiro Kreisman & Associates, LLC, Attorney # 42168, 2121 Waukegan Road, Suite 301, Bannockburn, Illinois 60015, (847) 291-1717, between 1:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. weekdays o n l y . ďż˝ I645917

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Defendants 11 CH 026223 10570 KINDLING COURT PALOS PARK, IL 60464 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on December 17, 2014, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on March 19, 2015, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive - 24th Floor, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 10570 KINDLING COURT, PALOS PARK, IL 60464 Property Index No. 23-32207-010. The real estate is improved with a residence. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS� condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. Where a sale of real estate is made to satisfy a lien prior to that of the United States, the United States shall have one year from the date of sale within which to redeem, except that with respect to a lien arising under the internal revenue laws the period shall be 120 days or the period allowable for redemption under State law, whichever is longer, and in any case in which, under the provisions of section 505 of the Housing Act of 1950, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1701k), and subsection (d) of section 3720 of title 38 of the United States Code, the right to redeem does not arise, there shall be no right of redemption. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property.

Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information, examine the court file or contact Plaintiff’s attorney: CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876 Please refer to file number 14-11-23127. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 Attorney File No. 14-11-23127 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 11 CH 026223 TJSC#: 35-374 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

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For Sale IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, I L L I N O I S ďż˝ COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION PNC BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO NATIONAL CITY BANK SUCCESSOR B Y ďż˝ MERGER TO MIDAMERICA BANK, FSB; Plaintiff, v s . ďż˝ WALTER LESNICKI; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND N O N R E C O R D ďż˝ CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 12 CH 15256 PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause on November 10, 2014, Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Tuesday, March 17, 2015, at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described property: P.I.N. 23-13-204-012-0000.

Commonly known as 10441 South 75th Avenue, Palos Hills, IL 60465.

The mortgaged real estate is improved with a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 25% down by certified funds, balance within 24 hours, by certified funds. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the premises after confirmation of the sale.

For information: Visit our website at http://service.atty-pierce.com. Between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. only. Pierce & Associates, Plaintiff's Attorneys, 1 North Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois 60602. Tel.No. (312) 476-5500. Refer to File Number 1207555.

INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I645243

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For Sale IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY D I V I S I O N ďż˝ WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. P l a i n t i f f , ďż˝ v . ďż˝ GIEDRIUS DUDAVICIUS, HSBC NEVADA, N.A. F/K/A HOUSEHOLD BANK, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS D e f e n d a n t s ďż˝ 10 CH 44055 9307 SOUTH 84TH AVENUE HICKORY HILLS, IL 6 0 4 5 7 ďż˝ NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on December 9, 2014, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on March 10, 2015, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive - 24th Floor, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate:Commonly known as 9307 SOUTH 84TH AVENUE, HICKORY HILLS, IL 60457 Property Index No. 23-02-402-004. The real estate is improved with a single family residence. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted.

The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "AS IS" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property.

Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver's license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales.

For information: Visit our website at service.atty-pierce.com. between the hours of 3 and 5 pm. PIERCE & ASSOCIATES, Plaintiff's Attorneys, One North Dearborn Street Suite 1300, CHICAGO, IL 60602. Tel No. (312) 476-5500. Please refer to file number PA1120252. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. PIERCE & ASSOCIATES One North Dearborn Street Suite 1300 CHICAGO, IL 60602 (312) 476-5500 Attorney File No. PA1120252 Attorney Code. 91220 Case Number: 10 CH 44055 TJSC#: 34-21238 I643634

For Sale IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY D I V I S I O N ďż˝ BEAL BANK USA P l a i n t i f f , ďż˝ v . ďż˝ TOMASZ SLABY D e f e n d a n t s ďż˝ 14 CH 13596 9001 WEST 89TH STREET HICKORY HILLS, IL 60457 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on November 25, 2014, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on March 24, 2015, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive - 24th Floor, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 9001 WEST 89TH STREET, HICKORY HILLS, IL 60457 Property Index No. 23-03-216-001-0000. The real estate is improved with a single family home with a detached 1.5 car garage. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale.

The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "AS IS" condition.

The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver's license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information: Visit our website at service.atty-pierce.com. between the hours of 3 and 5 pm. PIERCE & ASSOCIATES, Plaintiff's Attorneys, One North Dearborn Street Suite 1300, CHICAGO, IL 60602. Tel No. (312) 476-5500. Please refer to file number PA1405531. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. PIERCE & ASSOCIATES One North Dearborn Street Suite 1300 CHICAGO, IL 60602 (312) 476-5500 Attorney File No. PA1405531 Attorney Code. 91220 Case Number: 14 CH 13596 TJSC#: 34-20495 I645505

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RESIDENTIAL BROKERAGE For Sale IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION CHRISTIANA TRUST, A DIVISION OF WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY BUT AS TRUSTEE OF ARLP TRUST 2 Plaintiff, -v.KENNETH STOKLOSA A/K/A KENNETH DANIEL STOKLOSA, ALICE STOKLOSA A/K/A ALICE JOAN STOKLOSA, JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NA, AS PURCHASER OF THE LOANS AND OTHER ASSETS OF WASHINGTON MUTUAL BANK, F/K/A WASHINGTON MUTUAL BANK, FA SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO LONG BEACH MORTGAGE COMPANY FROM THE FDIC, ACTING AS RECEIVER FOR THE SAVINGS BANK AND PURSUANT TO THE FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE ACT Defendants 11 CH 004132 10940 E. EASTWOOD DRIVE PALOS HILLS, IL 60465 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on December 18, 2014, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on March 20, 2015, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive - 24th Floor, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 10940 E. EASTWOOD DRIVE, PALOS HILLS, IL 60465 Property Index No. 23-13-304-016. The real estate is improved with a single family residence. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS� condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property.

Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information, examine the court file or contact Plaintiff’s attorney: CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876 Please refer to file number 14-11-02625. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 Attorney File No. 14-11-02625 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 11 CH 004132 TJSC#: 35-542 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION HSBC BANK USA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR DEUTSCHE ALT-A SECURITIES INC. MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 2006-AR5 Plaintiff, -v.MONIKA CHMURA, MIROSLAW JACEK CHMURA, MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., TREETOP CONDOMINIUM #39, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants 14 CH 010731 9910 TREETOP DRIVE UNIT #3E ORLAND PARK, IL 60462 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on December 22, 2014, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on March 24, 2015, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive - 24th Floor, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 9910 TREETOP DRIVE UNIT #3E, ORLAND PARK, IL 60462 Property Index No. 27-16-209-050-1005. The real estate is improved with a condo/townhouse. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS� condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property.

Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information, examine the court file or contact Plaintiff’s attorney: CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876 Please refer to file number 14-14-04487. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 Attorney File No. 14-14-04487 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 14 CH 010731 TJSC#: 35-640 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION GREEN TREE SERVICING LLC Plaintiff, -v.GREGORY MARINO A/K/A GREGORY P. MARINO, KIMBERLY S. MARINO, FERTILITY CENTERS OF ILLINOIS, S.C. Defendants 12 CH 34605 16731 HIGHVIEW AVENUE ORLAND HILLS, IL 60487 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on December 9, 2014, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on March 10, 2015, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive - 24th Floor, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate:Commonly known as 16731 HIGHVIEW AVENUE, ORLAND HILLS, IL 60487 Property Index No. 27-27-205-006-0000.

The real estate is improved with a two story, single family home with a two car detached garage.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS� condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information: Visit our website at service.atty-pierce.com. between the hours of 3 and 5 pm. PIERCE & ASSOCIATES, Plaintiff’s Attorneys, One North Dearborn Street Suite 1300, CHICAGO, IL 60602. Tel No. (312) 476-5500. Please refer to file number PA1218481. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. PIERCE & ASSOCIATES One North Dearborn Street Suite 1300 CHICAGO, IL 60602 (312) 476-5500 Attorney File No. PA1218481 Attorney Code. 91220 Case Number: 12 CH 34605 TJSC#: 34-21260 I643822

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AS TRUSTEE, SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO BANK OF AMERICA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AS TRUSTEE SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO LASALLE BANK NA AS TRUSTEE FOR WASHINGTON MUTUAL ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES WMABS SERIES 2006-HE4 TRUST Plaintiff, -v.NAGLA T. ELHASSAN A/K/A NAGLA ELHASSAN, MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., CIT LOAN CORPORATION F/K/A THE CIT GROUP/CONSUMER FINANCE, INC., WORLDWIDE ASSET PURCHASING, LLC, BROOK HILLS HOMEOWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants 09 CH 043338 11765 S. BROOKSHIRE DRIVE ORLAND PARK, IL 60467 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on March 4, 2014, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on March 4, 2015, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive - 24th Floor, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 11765 S. BROOKSHIRE DRIVE, ORLAND PARK, IL 60467 Property Index No. 27-30-310-004. The real estate is improved with a residence. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS� condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property.

Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information, examine the court file or contact Plaintiff’s attorney: CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876 Please refer to file number 14-09-26139.

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 Attorney File No. 14-09-26139 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 09 CH 043338 TJSC#: 35-1432 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC Plaintiff, -v.BRIAN ROHLICEK, KRISTIN ROHLICEK, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS, WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. AS INDENTURE TRUSTEE FOR GMACM HOME EQUITY LOAN TRUST 2005-HE1 Defendants 14 CH 004580 8930 TALLY HO LANE ORLAND PARK, IL 60462 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on September 19, 2014, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on March 5, 2015, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive - 24th Floor, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 8930 TALLY HO LANE, ORLAND PARK, IL 60462 Property Index No. 27-15-213-007. The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS� condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property.

Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information, examine the court file or contact Plaintiff’s attorney: CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876 Please refer to file number 14-13-32201.

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 Attorney File No. 14-13-32201 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 14 CH 004580 TJSC#: 35-1615 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION OCWEN LOAN SERVICING, LLC. Plaintiff, -v.VITA ZIGMANTIENE, RIVIERA REGAL I CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION, RIVIERA REGAL CONDOMINIUM UMBRELLA ASSOCIATION Defendants 13 CH 004514 11123 S. 84TH AVENUE UNIT #1B PALOS HILLS, IL 60465 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on December 10, 2014, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on March 12, 2015, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive - 24th Floor, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 11123 S. 84TH AVENUE UNIT #1B, PALOS HILLS, IL 60465 Property Index No. 23-23-200-026-1068. The real estate is improved with a residence. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted.

The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS� condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property.

Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information, examine the court file or contact Plaintiff’s attorney: CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876 Please refer to file number 14-13-01879. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 Attorney File No. 14-13-01879 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 13 CH 004514 TJSC#: 35-57 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

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For Sale IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON, FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS TRUSTEE FOR COUNTRYWIDE MORTGAGE-BACKED SECURITIES 2004-R1 Plaintiff, -v.DAWN FRY AKA DAWN T. FRY, TONY FRY Defendants 10 CH 18183 9348 SOUTH 87TH AVENUE HICKORY HILLS, IL 60457 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on September 3, 2010, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on March 23, 2015, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive - 24th Floor, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 9348 SOUTH 87TH AVENUE, HICKORY HILLS, IL 60457 Property Index No. 23-02-302-037-0000. The real estate is improved with a brick house; attached 2 car garage.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours.

No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS� condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information: Visit our website at service.atty-pierce. com. between the hours of 3 and 5 pm. PIERCE & ASSOCIATES, Plaintiff’s Attorneys, One North Dearborn Street Suite 1300, CHICAGO, IL 60602.

Tel No. (312) 476-5500. Please refer to file number PA1009527. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www. tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

PIERCE & ASSOCIATES One North Dearborn Street Suite 1300 CHICAGO, IL 60602 (312) 4765500 Attorney File No. PA1009527 Attorney Code.

91220 Case Number: 10 CH 18183 TJSC#: 35-71 I645342

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Thursday, February 19, 2015

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Out & About

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Your Guide to Arts and Events in the Southwest Suburbs and Beyond

Art classes ahead at Log Cabin The Log Cabin Center for the Arts offers new six-week sessions of art classes, starting Feb. 23 through 27, at 12700 Southwest Highway in Palos Park.

Monday classes include Lapidary at 9 a.m. with Larry Rothenberg, Silversmithing at 2 and 6:30 p.m. with Dan Snyder, and Knitting at 6:30 p.m. with Georganne Ring.

Wednesday classes begin Feb. 25, featuring Weaving with Nettie Botts and Collage with April Schabes at 9:30 a.m., and Quilting with Denise Dulzo at 1 p.m.

Evening Watercolor classes at 6:30 p.m. with Lenox Wallace are offered beginning Wednesday, Feb. 25, for beginners and Thursday, Feb. 26, for experienced painters.

Watercolor painting is also offered with instructor Lois Hrejsa for both beginners and experienced painters on Thursdays at 1 p.m., in addition to a Drawing class at 9 a.m. Other Thursday classes include Basketry at 9:30 a.m. with Lois Shive and at 6:30 p.m. with Jane Dwyer. Woodcarving classes are offered at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday evenings with Arlene and Don Lesiak and on Thursday morning at 9 a.m. with Keith Miller.

Collage, Drawing, and Watercolor classes last 2½ hours each

PINTO’S POPCORN PICKS

‘Kingsman: The Secret Service’ pays homage to previous action movies

By Tony Pinto

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Lois Shive instructs The Center’s six-week Thursday morning basketry class.

week and cost $110. Two-hour Quilting, Woodcarving, Weaving, Knitting, and Basketry classes cost $90 for six weeks. Students provide their own materials for most classes. Pottery and Basket classes provide all materials for students and thus require additional materials fees of $25 for Basketry and $15 for Pottery.

Lapidary and Weaving classes require an additional $10 materials fee for new students only, for supplies for their first project.

Registration is required for all classes at the Log Cabin Center for the Arts. To register and to receive a supply list for a class, call The Center at 361-3650 or visit www. thecenterpalos.org .

BROADEN YOUR HORIZONS This Week The Bridge Teen Center programs • Sign Language – 5 to 6 p.m. today (Thursday) and Feb. and 26, The Bridge Teen Center, 15555 S. 71st Court, Orland Park, will host a program to teach students the basics of sign language.

• Live music – 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. Feb. 20, “Friday Night Live” event with live music from Alissa Turner and Jacob Jones, and with free pizza from Wooden Paddle Pizza.

• Ear Cuffs – 4 to 5 p.m. Feb. 24, students will create a fashionable new accessory for themselves.

• Everyday Science – 5 to 6 p.m. Feb. 24, teaches students how to conduct science experiments with items they can find at home.

• Something Fishy – 4 to 5 p.m. Feb. 25, a program with Something Fishy, an aquarium servicing company that maintains aquariums in the Chicagoland area, to teach students about sea creatures.

• Black and White Photography – 4:30 to 6 p.m.

Feb. 25, teaches students the basics of black and white Photography.

• Robotics – 4 to 5:30 p.m. Feb. 26, a program with the Illinois Institute of Art will teach students how to design and construct a real robot.

• Sign Language – 5 to 6 p.m. Feb. 26, teaches students the basics of sign language.

These free events are for teens in 7th through 12th grade. For more information call 532-0500.

• Parent Program: Pressure to Succeed – 7 to 8:30 p.m. Feb. 26, a parent program to talk about how parents can prevent drug abuse in their teen’s life. This free is open to the community. Free salad and pizza from Nonna’s will be served. For more information, call 532-0500.

Smartphone and Tablet Luncheon

How to use smartphones and tablets is the topic of a Tuesday luncheon on Feb. 24, from noon to 2 p.m., at The Center, 12700 Southwest Highway, Palos Park.

Development director Mark Walker invites folks to bring their smartphones and/or tablets and he will show them how to use them more effectively, for email, web searching, Facebooking, music, streaming audio books or videos, photos, and even making good old phone calls. Audience members

who do not yet own these devices are welcome to come to be inspired to do so. Walker welcomes questions in advance and invites audience members to stay after to ask for specific help. Send questions to Mark at the.center@mac.com.

The luncheon costs $18 per person and requires advance reservations. For further information, interested persons should call The Center at 361-3650.

What do you get when you combine “James Bond,” “Star Wars” and “X-Men?” You get the movie “Kingsman: The Secret Service.” It’s part James Bond spoof and part homage to action movies of the past.

Based on the “Kingsman” comic book from Mark Miller and Dave Gibbons, the film brings the Kingsman agency to life. A super secret agency that is not affiliated with any government and operates on the highest level of secrecy is what the Kingsman are about.

With no government oversight, they can do what they want with no political games being played, or so we’re to believe. A high-end tailor in the front, a secret agency in the back seems perfect in this ode to movies of the past.

With the agency loosing its Lancelot after a crazy one-man rescue effort to save a scientist (Mark Hamill), the agency must find its new Lancelot. Agent Harry (Colin Firth) puts up this street-wise young punk, Gary “Eggsy” Unwin (Taron Egerton), a young kid who spends his days getting into trouble, while living with his mom and her abusive boyfriend. He seems way out of place to join the gentlemanly Kingsman, but in a sentimental twist, his father was a Kingsman who gave his life to save agent Harry and his fellow agents.

It’s a pick by agent Harry to help repay the boy’s father for saving his life. The leader of the clan, Arthur (Michael Cain), expects him to wash out quickly, which not surprisingly doesn’t happen right away because if he did there’d be no movie. Out of place and unsophisticated compared to the other candidates, he goes about his

TONY PINTO training all while an evil plot is boiling.

Throughout the film, the characters talk about old spy movies in this sort of homage to movies of the past. One thing they agree on is that spy movies need to have a good villain. There’s no Bond-type villain here, but we do get Richmond Valentine (Samuel L. Jackson), a social misfit who sees his endless supply of money as reason to rule the Earth. This so-called social philanthropist is a true believer of global warming and will stop at nothing even if it includes mass genocide.

“Kingsman” is a very conservative movie that tosses shout-outs to the likes of Ronald Reagan, among others. Even President Obama gets a shout-out of sorts. If the goal is to get you not to trust the government, this film might do the trick.

The left wing, tech billionaires, Westboro Baptist Church, Hollywood elitists and snobby environmentalists all get satirized and eliminated very brutally. A lot of people seem to die very violently for no reason other than the fact director Matthew Vaughn wanted too. A lot of the violence is very stylized and unneeded.

Overall, you have a decent satire that’s mostly enjoyable.

—Tony Pinto’s grade B+

OMARR’S WEEKLY ASTROLOGICAL FORECAST

By Jeraldine Saunders

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Get a paper towel because all your luscious ideas could overflow. Take The Center, 12700 Southwest Highway, Palos your time about starting new projects or launchPark, will host its monthly Womantalk coffee hour ing plans. Wait until late in the week to put your and discussion on Tuesday, Feb. 24, from 10 a.m. creative ideas into action. until 11:30 a.m.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Good things come Led by MaryAnn Grzych, ladies are invited to to those who wait. You might find that your partners join the discussion of “Simple Abundance” by Sar- or close companions are simply not in the mood ah Ban Breathnach or other inspirational readings to discuss changes and challenges until after the that participants wish to bring. There is no cost, but middle of the week. advance reservations are required. Call The Center GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Put your nose to at 361-3650. the grindstone. This week, you may be challenged to complete your work on time or in a manner that makes those in charge happy. Inspiring movies and books keep your spirits up.

Children and teen art classes CANCER (June 21-July 22): Don’t blame yourNew six-week sessions of Children’s Art Classes self for your misfortunes. Forces beyond your control will begin at The Log Cabin Center for the Arts on might impact your finances in the week ahead.

Saturday morning, Feb. 28, at 10 and 11:30 a.m. at You’d be wise to work hard and to not expect to the Log Cabin Art Center, a part of The Center at receive something for nothing.

12700 Southwest Highway in Palos Park. Teen PotLEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Your charming ways tery classes begin Tuesday evening, Feb. 24, 6:00 can put you in the money. You may receive proof – 7:30 p.m. for six weeks. that people trust and respect you in the week ahead, Art instructor Heather Young teaches the children but it might be wise to wait until after mid-week to use a variety of artistic media and techniques, to put crucial plans into motion. including drawing, painting, papermaking, papierVIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The only real obmâché, printmaking, pottery, and more. Children stacles are in your mind. In the week ahead, you might are divided into two grade-level groups: K-3rd hobble yourself with unreasonable grade meet from 10 to 11:30 a.m., followed by the fears. Caution is useful until the 4th-8th grade class from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. The second half of the week, when natural areas of The Center’s farm and woods pro- you feel more confident. vide subject matter, inspiration and sometimes the LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): raw materials for the classes. Heather Young also Accentuate the positive. Dwelling teaches the teen potters, who learn to handbuild over past mistakes and doubting your future won’t get you anyclay pieces and throw pots on the wheels. where. As this week unfolds, The classes combine the worlds of art and concentrate on the things you do nature, and are kept small to encourage individual self-expression. Class fees of $75 for Children’s Art well to derive immediate benefits.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): and $80 for Teen Pottery cover all supplies for each You simply don’t have the knowsix-week session. Advance registration is required. how to start a new project now.

Call The Center at 361-3650.

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Upcoming

Bide your time until you have all the facts and figures even if you’re enthused about the prospects for your big plan.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The only thing to fear is fear itself. You may be hesitant over a new undertaking or drag your feet about getting things started. Things will improve by the middle of the week and you can get the ball rolling.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Just because someone is well-spoken doesn’t mean they know what they’re talking about. In the first half of the week, you should accept flattery, as well as criticism, with a grain of salt.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You might learn that you can’t pay your bills with wishful thinking.

In the week to come, you should avoid taking on new obligations that might threaten your long-term holdings and security.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): It’s time for a reality check. Both vagueness and efforts to be non-committal can be seen in a poor light. Work hard during the upcoming week and be clear as a bell about your intentions and goals.

Previews on Jan. 28, 29, 30 January 31 – March 1

A Tale of Frankenstein’s Monster

Directed by Alison C. Vesely Featuring René Ruelas, Hayley L. Rice, and Kevin McKillip

Insanity Reigns Amongst the Greatest Comedy Writers in History!

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The Orland Park Theatre Troupe will perform its USO Tribute at the Orland Park Civic Center at 7 p.m. Feb. 27 and 28 and 2 p.m. on March 1. The show includes songs dating back to World War I up to current day.

Orland Theatre Troupe presents USO Tribute The Orland Park Theatre Troupe’s USO Tribute is a trip down memory lane as the ensemble performs songs from war eras.

Performances will be at the Orland Park Civic Center, 14750 S. Ravinia Ave. at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Feb. 27 and 28, with a 2 p.m. matinee on Sunday, March 1.

“We’ve chosen favorites from different periods and it’s a musical time travel dating back to some of the early classics,” said Director Frann Carnivele, who also performs in the show.

Narrated by Orland Park’s Dan McMillan, the all-female cast includes Orland Park residents in

addition to Carnivele, Jennifer Carroll, Tina Cucci-Fischer, Molly Ricker and Jessica Winston.

The show’s repertoire features songs dating back to World War I through a number of decades and musical milestones up to present day.

Tickets are $13 for adults, $11 for seniors and students and $9

for children age 12 and under.

Reserved seat tickets may be purchased at Recreation Administration, 14600 S. Ravinia Ave. A limited number of tickets may be available at the door.

For more information, call the Recreation Department at 4037275.

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Your Guide to Arts and Events in the Southwest Suburbs and Beyond

‘Annie’ at Chicago Christian High School WOLFGANG PUCK’S KITCHEN Chicago Christian High School students Shannon Kuiper, of Tinley Park, and Abby Haan, of Palos Heights, will share the title role in the upcoming production of the musical “Annie.”

Chicago Christian will present “Annie” at 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 27, and 2 p.m. and 7 p.m.

Saturday, Feb. 28, in the CCHS Auditorium in Palos Heights. Reserved seating tickets cost $8 students and seniors, and $10 adults. The 2 p.m. matinee costs $6 and $8. Tickets are on sale in the main office at the school. Tickets may also be purchased at the door. For more, call 388-7650.

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TOP POP SINGLES 1. Uptown Funk!, Mark Ronson, featuring Bruno Mars, Elektra 2. Thinking Out Loud, Ed Sheeran, Atlantic 3. Take Me to Church, Hozier, Columbia 4. Blank Space, Taylor Swift, Big Machine Records 5. Sugar, Maroon 5, Interscope Records

6. Lips Are Movin, Meghan Trainor, Epic 7. I’m Not the Only One, Sam Smith, Capitol Records 8. Jealous, Nick Jonas, Island 9. Shake It Off, Taylor Swift, Big Machine Records 10. Centuries, Fall Out Boy, Island

TOP POP ALBUMS 1. 1989, Taylor Swift, Big Machine Records 2. X, Ed Sheeran, Atlantic 3. Title, Meghan Trainor, Epic 4. In the Lonely Hour, Sam Smith, Capitol Records (Universal) 5. Non-Fiction, Ne-Yo, Motown/Pgd

6. American Beauty/American Psycho, Fall Out Boy, Island 7. Uptown Special, Mark Ronson, RCA 8. The Pinkprint, Nicki Minaj, Motown/Universal 9. V, Maroon 5, Interscope Records 10. Grammy 2015 Nominees, Various artists, RCA

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Indulge yourselves with a luxurious yet light dessert

By Wolfgang Puck So many luxurious yet lean desserts start with fresh fruit, which provides great sources of flavor while also being high in fiber, great sources of vitamins, and virtually fat-free; and the natural sweetness of fruit doesn’t jolt your system with as much sugar as you’ll find in processed treats.

With that in mind, I think souffles make a perfect dessert. My recipe for spectacular-looking, delicious Raspberry Souffles amazingly contains only 127 calories per serving, with just 12 percent of those from fat. And if you sprinkle in just a small amount of semisweet chocolate chips, you’ll add only 25 more calories (including 14 fat calories) per serving — which still works out to a modest 19 percent of calories from fat.

As you’ll note, the recipe here actually yields four servings, because it becomes difficult to whip the egg whites properly if you make fewer portions. That doesn’t create any problems, really, because I know that at least some of you will be making this for the entire family. If the dessert is just for two, however, you can loosely cover a pair of the uncooked Fotolia.com souffles by inverting large bowls What could be more romantic than raspberry souffle? over them and refrigerating them overnight, to bake the next day. medium heat. Cook, stirring oc- firm peaks that stand up when casionally, until the mixture has the beaters are lifted out.

RASPBERRY AND a jam-like consistency, about 4 With a wire whisk, gently stir CHOCOLATE CHIP minutes. Strain through a fine- about a third of the egg whites SOUFFLÉS WITH FRESH meshed sieve over a heatproof into the reserved ¼ cup (60 ml) RASPBERRY SAUCE bowl, pressing it through with a of raspberry sauce until combined.

Makes 4 souffles rubber spatula. Discard the solids Then, with the whisk, fold in the from the sieve. Set aside to cool remaining egg whites. Sprinkle RASPBERRY SOUFFLÉS: to room temperature. in the chocolate chips and gently • 1½ cups (375 ml) Measure out ¼ cup (60 ml) of fold them in with a rubber spatula. fresh raspberries this mixture and transfer to a large Fold in the remaining reserved • 3 tablespoons sugar, plus bowl, leaving the rest in the pan. whole raspberries. ½ tablespoon for coating Set aside.

Spoon the egg white mixramekins Position a rack in the lowest ture into the prepared ramekins, • ¾ teaspoon fresh lemon level of the oven. Preheat the oven mounding it in peaks. Bake until juice to 425 degrees F. (220 degrees C). well puffed and dark golden, 7 • ¹∕8 teaspoon balsamic With the butter, coat the insides to 10 minutes. vinegar of four ½-cup (125-ml) ramekins.

While the souffles are baking, • ½ tablespoon unsalted Lightly dust with the ½ tablespoon make the Raspberry Sauce. In a butter, softened sugar. Place the ramekins on a small, nonreactive saucepan, com• 2 large cage-free baking tray. bine the raspberries, sugar and egg whites, at room Divide half of the remain- lemon juice. Cook over medium temperature ing raspberries for the souffles heat, stirring occasionally, until • Pinch of cream of tartar among the ramekins. Drizzle the the berries have given up their • 2 tablespoons semisweet raspberry sauce left in the pan juices, about 3 minutes. Bring chocolate chips evenly over the raspberries in the to a boil and continue cooking, ramekins. stirring frequently, until syrupy, RASPBERRY SAUCE: Using a stand mixer with the about 2 minutes longer. Strain • 1 cup (250 ml) wire whip, or a clean mixing bowl through a fine-mesh sieve over fresh raspberries with a hand mixer, beat the egg a heatproof bowl, pressing with • 2 tablespoons sugar whites at low speed until foamy, a rubber spatula and discarding • ¼ teaspoon fresh about 1 minute. Add the cream the solids. lemon juice of tartar and continue beating 1 As soon as the souffles are For the Raspberry Souffles, in minute longer. Increase the speed done, transfer each ramekin to a small saucepan combine half of to medium and, while beating, individual plates and serve immethe raspberries, 1 tablespoon of slowly sprinkle in the remaining diately. At the table, use a spoon to the sugar, the lemon juice and 2 tablespoons sugar. Continue break open the top of the souffle, the vinegar. Bring to a boil over beating until the whites form spooning the sauce inside.

VIDEOVIEW BY JAY BOBBIN (NOTICE: Ratings for each film begin with a ‘star’ rating — one star meaning ‘poor,’ four meaning ‘excellent’ — followed by the Motion Picture Association of America rating, and then by a family-viewing guide, the key for which appears below.)

STARTING THIS WEEK: “DUMB AND DUMBER TO”: Two decades later, the not particularly bright Lloyd and Harry — played again by Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels — reunite, as do the actors with writer-directors Bobby and Peter Farrelly — in this sequel that suggests the stars wore the roles better 20 years earlier. The fellows set out to locate the daughter Harry didn’t know he had, since he needs a kidney from her ... but that serious undercurrent doesn’t stop the duo from generating their trademark mayhem. Laurie Holden (“The Walking Dead”), Kathleen Turner and Rob Riggle also are in the cast. ** (PG-13: AS, N, P) (Also on Blu-ray and On Demand) “THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING”: One of 2014’s most acclaimed movies, this superb drama detailing the relationship of astrophysicist Stephen Hawking and his then-wife Jane — both put to a major test by his debilitating physical condition — is up for five Oscars including best picture, actor (Eddie Redmayne, who earned a Golden Globe Award for his performance) and actress (Felicity Jones).

Hawking applies himself even more to his work, becoming a global icon for his accomplishments against very visible odds.

Director James Marsh’s visualization of Jane’s memoir also features Charlie Cox, Emily Watson and David Thewlis. DVD extras: “making-of” documentary; audio commentary by Marsh; deleted scenes. **** (PG-13: AS) (Also on Blu-ray and On Demand) “THE INTERVIEW”: It was being released ... then it wasn’t being released ... then it was released on a limited basis.

Finally, the controversial Seth Rogen-James Franco comedy gets its widest distribution to date, courtesy of home video. The two stars play a television journalist and his

producer, whose mission to interview North Korea’s leader (Randall Park, “Fresh Off the Boat”) lands them an unexpected, related assignment from the CIA. Lizzy Caplan (“Masters of Sex”) also stars, and a number of famous faces turn up in cameos. DVD extras: audio commentary by Rogen and co-director Evan Goldberg; “Naked and Afraid” special. *** (R: AS, P, V) (Also on Blu-ray) “THE HOMESMAN”: Tommy Lee Jones is the director, co-screenwriter and top-billed star of this frontier drama, based on a Glendon Swarthout novel ... but fellow Oscar winner Hilary Swank has the biggest showcase as an unhappy spinster who tries to change her destiny by transporting several troubled woman (Grace Gummer, Miranda Otto, Sonja Richter) to a care facility. Jones plays a man she saves from a lynching, then forces him to help with the journey. Meryl Streep — Gummer’s mother — John Lithgow, James Spader, Tim Blake Nelson and Hailee Steinfeld also appear, but the picture really is Swank’s show. *** (R: AS, N, P, V) (Also on Bluray and On Demand) “ST. VINCENT”: Bill Murray earned some of his best film reviews to date for writer-director Theodore Melfi’s seriocomic tale, casting him as the unlikely, very rough-around-the-edges guardian of a young neighbor (newcomer Jaeden Lieberher) whose single mother (Melissa McCarthy) has a demanding work schedule.

With added insight from a pregnant stripper (Naomi Watts), the youngster learns a lot about life ... and about the vice-ridden fellow who’s minding him. Terrence Howard, Chris O’Dowd and Nate Corddry also appear, but Murray pretty much owns the movie. DVD extras: deleted scenes; interview with Murray. *** (PG-13: AS, P) (Also on Blu-ray and On Demand) “GAME OF THRONES: THE COMPLETE FOURTH SEASON”: The enormously popular HBO saga continues with this round, which begins with more wedding-related treachery that Tyrion (Peter Dinklage) is blamed for — with his own

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As Jon Snow (Kit Harington) attempts to warn others of an imminent attack by Mance Rayder (Ciaran Hinds), Davos Seaworth (Liam Cunningham) tries to get an army ready. Peter Dinklage, Nikolaj CosterWaldau, Lena Headey, Emilia Clark and Aidan Gillen also star in the George R.R. Martin-inspired series. DVD extras: four “making-of” documentaries; audio commentary by cast and crew members; deleted and extended scenes. *** (Not rated: AS, N, V) (Also on Blu-ray) COMING SOON: “HORRIBLE BOSSES 2” (Feb. 24): When the oppressed pals’ (Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, Jason Sudeikis) idea for a new innovation is stolen, they seek revenge. (R: AS, P) “THE ITALIAN AMERICANS” (Feb. 24): The PBS miniseries includes interviews with Tony Bennett and Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, among many others. (Not rated) “SONS OF ANARCHY: SEASON SEVEN” (Feb. 24): The saga concludes as Jax (Charlie Hunnam) realizes how close to home the source of a personal tragedy is — and weighs his need for vengeance.

(Not rated: AS, N, P, V) “WHIPLASH” (Feb. 24): The Oscar nominee for best picture examines the relationship between a music student (Miles Teller) and a relentlessly demanding professor (J.K. Simmons). (R: AS, P) “THE CAPTIVE” (March 3): Eight years after a young girl vanished, new clues surface in director Atom Egoyan’s melodrama; Ryan Reynolds, Scott Speedman and Rosario Dawson star. (Not rated: AS, P) “FIREBALL XL5: THE COMPLETE SERIES” (March 10): Col. Steve Zodiac and Venus are among the characters in a reissue of the classic, Gerry and Sylvia Anderson-produced “Supermarionation” adventure. (Not rated: V) FAMILY-VIEWING GUIDE KEY: AS, adult situations; N, nudity; P, profanity; V, violence; GV, particularly graphic violence.

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