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Thursday, April 2, 2015

74rd Year, NO. 14 • 3 Sections

Serving Palos, Orland and Worth townships and neighboring communities

Experience aplenty with these three D218 candidates

By Bob Rakow Staff Reporter

The three candidates running for a seat on the Community High School District 218 board have one thing in common: they know their way around school boards.

The three-way race to represent the board’s 5th subdistrict, which includes Palos Heights and Worth, pits incumbent Marco Corsi against Jennifer Bylut, a member of the Palos Heights School District 128 board, and Carol Kats, a member of the Worth School District 127 board.

The subdistrict 5 race is in the only contested one for the district in the April 7 election.

Corsi, the current board president, has served for 15 years and maintains that his experience and achievements qualify him for another term.

Bylut and Kats, who are both teachers, believe it’s time for new faces on the board.

“You have to have the experience,” said Corsi, a Palos Heights resident.

He added that it takes a long time to understand the terminology and nuances associated with education.

Corsi said the district has significantly improved while he’s served on the board, including the addition of science wings at the Richards, Shepard and Eisenhower high schools.

“That was something that was desperately needed,” he said.

He added that board has been effective in the past several years in providing a quality education for students at all levels.

Bylut has served for the past six years on the District 128 board. She’s worked as a high school teacher and guidance counselor for more than two decades, experience that will serve her well on the school board, she said.

“It’s something I feel knowledgeable about,” she said.

If elected, Bylut wants to repair the severed relationships between District 218 faculty, board members and administrators.

Additionally, she hopes to bring an end to nepotism in the district, she said.

She admits that she sympathizes with some of the faculty complaints throughout the district.

“I’m not going to lie. I probably am like-minded,” she said.

But she added that she has experience on both sides of the bargaining table, a skill that would benefit District 218.

She said that Corsi cannot take full credit for all of the district’s achievements over the past four years.

And, he also should be held accountable leading a board that conducted a search for a new superintendent only to hire a candidate from inside the district.

She believes the search was “a dog and pony show” and that the district always planned to hire a new superintendent from within Bylut is married to Palos Heights Ald. Don Bylut.

Kats, a special education teacher in Chicago Ridge School District 127.5, has served on the Worth District 127 school board for the past nine years. Her term expires in April.

Like Bylut, she believes her classroom and boardroom experience woul benefit her as a member of the District 218 board.

Kats’s son is a freshman at Shepard High School, which gives her a vested interest in the school district, she said.

“A lot of my skills translate into high school,” said Kats, a Worth resident.

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Kats said she attended a District 218 focus group when the search for a new superintendent was underway.

“I took away from (the meeting) that people are looking for a change,” she said.

She too believes nepotism is a problem in the district, saying the issue has been brought to her attention on several occasions. She did not, however, point to any specific examples of the problem.

“There has to be something there,” Kats said.

She added that the district must improve communications with the community and repair reSee DIST. 218, Page 2

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Schussler flies solo vs. First Orland slate

By Tim Hadac Staff reporter

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Left: Like the friendly frog on her Easter basket, Gileena Rezzardi, 8, of Orland Park, smiles as she scoops up another egg last Saturday on the lawn of Christ Lutheran Church in Orland Park. Above: Luke O’Reilly, 3, of Orland Park, reaches into his basket to carefully inspect the eggs he gathered on the church lawn. Organizers scattered approximately 10,000 plastic eggs, each with a candy treat inside, around the grounds as part of an “Easter Eggstravaganza” event. More coverage: Page 10.

District 230 voters will settle it Seven hopefuls vie for three seats on board of education

Not much separates the optimistic views of the four candidates seeking three Village Board slots in Orland Park.

Incumbents Edward G. Schussler, Patricia A. Gira and Carol Griffin Ruzich, along with challenger Michael F. Carroll, all typically express satisfaction with the status quo and see a bright future for the village.

Unopposed for a two-year term is Trustee Dan Calandriello, appointed to fill the unexpired term of Brad O’Halloran, who resigned.

Gira, Ruzich and Carroll are running under Mayor Dan McLaughlin’s First Orland Party, and Schussler, who has run with McLaughlin’s team in the past, is flying solo this time. Unopposed for a two-year term is Trustee Dan Calandriello, appointed to fill the unexpired term of Brad O’Halloran, who resigned.

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“Winning isn’t worthwhile unless one has something finer and nobler behind it,” Amos Alonzo Stagg once said, which may be one of the few things two clashing sets of candidates agree upon as the election race Nogal for the High School District 230 Board of Education heads to the wire on Tuesday.

District 230, which includes three high schools—Stagg in Palos Hills, Sandburg in Orland Park and Andrew in Tinley Park—is one of the largest in Illinois. And its election contest is shaping into the Battle Royale of any local race on the ballot in Palos-Orland in this election.

If ever there was a need for a meet-the-candidates forum that was never held to help voters sort out the credentials and views of the hopefuls, it was in this race where seven

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contenders are vying for three four-year terms up for grabs on District 230’s school board.

One set of candidates offers two incumbents—President Rick Nogal and Vice President Patrick O’Sullivan, along with Denis Ryan, a District 146 school board member, running together as the 230 United slate.

John Thomas Donovan, Frank Ryan and Mary Ryan Norwell make up the other set of candidates. The seventh candidate, Palos Heights resident Wesley Boske, does not appear to be visibly campaigning and did not respond to a request to be interviewed

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Battles lines drawn

Nogal has essentially portrayed Donovan’s candidacy as nothing short of an invasion of the suburbs by what he calls “Chicago-style Machine politics,” noting Donovan’s position as a key member of Illinois House Speaker Michael J. Madigan’s staff. He has chafed at what he calls lies by Donovan’s camp regarding District 230 finances and academic performance.

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“I’ve always been kind of independent,” Schussler said last month. “I’ve been a team player, but I’ve always been one to call a spade a spade—now more so.”

Schussler was replaced on the See ORLAND, Page 2

Five seek Moraine seats

By Jeff Vorva

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By Tim Hadac

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There are five candidates up for a pair of six-year positions at Moraine Valley Community College board of trustees and they come from varying walks of life.

There are a couple of engineers, a teacher, a realtor and a student at the school.

Here, in alphabetical order, is a thumbnail sketch of the candidates: William Christian is a teacher and softball coach at Thornton High School in Harvey. He has degrees from Chicago State and Olivet Nazarene.

He is an Oak Lawn resident who is vice president of the Oak Lawn Baseball league and has a son going to the school now and three other children who plan to attend the school in future years.

Tom Cunningham has been on

the board after his election two years ago and is seeking a six-year spot this time.

He is a realtor in the south suburbs who graduated from Moraine Valley and has previously served on the District 135 board in Orland Park.

Kimberly Hastings, 30, is a structural and transportation engineer who attended Moraine Valley and Southern Illinois University in Carbondale.

According to her Facebook page, the is endorsed by a plethora of heavy hitters including State Senator Bill Cunningham, State Representative Fran Hurley, Bridgeview Mayor Steve Landeck and three teachers’ unions.

Michael Murphy of Evergreen Park is an MVCC and University of Illinois graduate and is a strucSee MORAINE, Page 2

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Parents of Dist. 230 alums tell how heroin destroys young lives

By Tim Hadac Staff reporter

Those who say that heroin is not an issue in District 230 schools “are crazy,” the father of an Andrew High School alum told The Regional on Tuesday.

“No parent should have to go through this, and it only adds to the problem when those in charge of our schools ignore drug abuse,” Tinley Park resident Ed Sonne said Tuesday afternoon.

Sonne’s son, Adam, died in 2013 at age 24 of a heroin overdose. His father said he took his first hit of the drug at age 21 “at a party with his high school buddies.”

Prior to that, Adam was an ordinary young man, his father said, “an occasional drinker” whose life turned into a nightmare once he was addicted to heroin.

He was in and out of rehab several times, and his name started popping in local police blotters when he was arrested for shoplifting to support his habit. He also stole from friends and relatives.

“Heroin is powerful, and many get hooked on the very first hit,” Sonne observed. “It’s something that no one—schools especially—should take lightly.”

Sonne added that what compounds the problem for parents is a lack of effective support groups that focus on coping and moving forward, rather than reliving painful memories.

Another parent of former District 230 students agreed with Sonne’s assessment of the heroin epidemic.

“One of my sons took his first hit of heroin, with his friends, just weeks before he graduated from Sandburg High School,” said the Palos Park man, who requested that The Regional withhold his name and the names of his two sons, who have battled heroin addiction. “If these people at the high schools think it’s not an issue, they’ve got it wrong.”

His sons are both a decade or more out of Sandburg, still struggling to put their lives back together after years of addiction.

“These kids often aren’t actually doing heroin in school, but heroin addiction often starts with something else, like these kids in high school

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slate by the mayor, with McLaughlin claiming that Schussler said he would not seek re-election. Schussler has said he has who get hooked on OxyContin or some other no recollection of saying that. drug,” he said.

Schussler, who has served on “It’s rough,” he added. “At first, when you find the Village Board for 17 years— out your kid is on heroin—and you not find that out including a brief stint as acting for a while, because kids are good at hiding it—you mayor—is using his experience do all you can to help, but then at some point you as a selling point with voters. learn that only they can solve their problem.

“I’ve put in 17 years of hard “I’ve told both of them that I have the money work, and I think I’ve done a ready to pay for their burials,” the father added, credible job for the village,” he displaying the kind of tough love that addictions said. “I’m very interested in the experts agree is necessary.

The father added that what exacerbates the her- road program, which is front and oin dilemma is when people fail to acknowledge center these days. I’ve spent a it openly and honestly. lot of time with our engineers “This is a taboo subject, and people out here on that. still think that heroin is something you only find “It’s not just La Grange Road,” in the city, so they hide their kids’ addictions Schussler continued. “We’ve got because they are afraid of what the neighbors will other roads that need to be widthink,” he said. “We can’t confront this probened here—159th, 143rd, Wolf lem if we won’t talk about it, and if the people Road, just to name a few.” running our schools too often sugarcoat it. That The veteran trustee also achelps no one and hurts everyone.” knowledged that Orland Park has A mother The Regional spoke to Tuesday “a lot of flooding issues, which said her daughter Robyn would have graduated kind of falls in my Public Works Stagg High School in 2004, but dropped out area. We’re working on that before that. Her freshman year at Stagg she started snorting heroin, she said. The family lived diligently and spending a lot of money to do flood-control work.” in Palos Park at the time. She did it with her Schussler said this week that friends, other Stagg students, she said. Where did they obtain it? “They go into the city; they know while the village does a comwhere to find it,” she said. mendable job with parks and She is now in Cook County jail on theft recreation facilities and programcharges relating to her heroin abuse, facing ming, “Orland Park is a little bit prison time. She has been in rehab, most of them light on the cultural side” and said court-ordered, six different times. that if re-elected, he will push for For about 18 months to two years, “she got her the village to establish a new, self together, got her GED, a house and a car, but free-standing theater (a modest, it all went back to heroin. She has nothing right 250-seat venue) to encourage the now.” growth of live theater, musical The mother learned of her daughter’s heroperformances and other artistic in use in her junior year. “The only thing they expressions.” did do was suggest night school,” she said of Schussler, an attorney and diStagg’s response. “Nothing was done at Stagg.” rector of the Orland Area ChamShe dropped out in her junior year. “It has been ber of Commerce, is often seen pushed under the rug for a long time and schools as an advocate in government for don’t like to admit it,” she said. “I know it happens in all schools. Heroin is cheap and they can businesses large and small. He also served on the Orland School afford it, and highly addictive. Once she started District 135 Board of Education injecting, it is was all over.”

and is a past president of the Orland Park Kiwanis Club.

Gira was first elected to the Village Board in 2003, although she served on the Orland Park Plan Commission for a decade before that. She first became involved in 1982 as an advisory board member on parks and recreation.

That kind of experience and institutional memory serves well, she said, giving village government someone who knows the lay of the land.

In recent years, she is most proud of her work to help develop Orland Park’s downtown in the Main Street Triangle bounded by Southwest Highway, 143rd Street and La Grange Road.

She also speaks with pride about her role in establishing the annual Taste of Orland in 2004, an event that has grown and proven popular, in some respects, as an alternative to Taste of Chicago.

If re-elected, Gira hopes to continue work on downtown development, as well as development of the southern edge of the village, just north of Interstate 80.

A native of Chicago’s Southwest Side, Gira attended Queen of Peace High School before attending Loyola University. She earned a degree in business from Governors State University in 2006.

She has served in a number of volunteer capacities in the area, for such organizations as the Kiwanis, Bridge Teen Center, and the Alden Nursing Center.

Ruzich is finishing her first term and, like Gira, points with pride to the ongoing development of Orland Park’s downtown area.

“With the economy being what it is, progress has gone a little more slowly than anticipated, but there are a number of positive signs,” Ruzich said. “The Ninety7Fifty development is finished and almost completely occupied.

The University of Chicago [oncology center] is moving forward, and then on the east side of La Grange Road, Mariano’s is coming in, along with a new residential development.”

If re-elected, Ruzich plans to make that development in the village’s north end a priority, saying that its success will have a positive ripple effect felt throughout Orland Park.

An Evergreen Park native, Ruzich attended Mother McAuley High School and St. Mary’s College of Notre Dame, earning her law degree from the University of Illinois Law School. She was a board member of the St. George Corporation, parent company of Palos Community Hospital, but resigned a year ago.

Carroll is running mostly on the strength of his service as vice president to the Orland School District 135 Board of Education, which just a couple of years ago was “a mess. You can’t call it anything else.”

He said that under the leadership of Board President Joseph La Margo, the school district engineered a “quick turnaround” and “righted a sinking ship,” both from a financial and academic perspective.

Carroll said he wants to bring those same management skills and spirit of public service to the Village Board.

A former police officer, he is an attorney practicing locally and is a past president of the Southwest Bar Association.

A Scout leader and youth athletics coach, Carroll has lived in Orland Park since age 13.

“I know it sounds a bit corny, but I want to provide my children with the same good things I’ve had here—a strong sense of community and a hometown feel, a place where you’re glad you grew up.”

cization” of what are supposed to be non-partisan contests.

■ Mary Ryan Norwell, 59, of Orland Park, describes herself as “a lawyer, professor, volunteer and a Sandburg mom.”

A retired assistant state’s attorney, she currently serves as legal services director for Catholic Charities. She ran for judicial posts twice in recent years, falling short both times.

For the past decade, she has taught law as an adjunct professor at IIT Chicago Kent Law School.

She also has taught in the law enforcement program at Kaplan University.

She grew up in Chicago and attended Queen of Peace High School.

Norwell’s view of the district has been shaped by her family’s positive experiences at Sandburg, especially how many students are involved in extra-curricular activities that enhance their life learning experience.

At Sandburg, she has served in several volunteer capacities.

She also is active in the youth ministry and other efforts at St. Michael the Archangel Parish, as well as in Scouting.

As Donovan has, Norwell has criticized the district on several fronts, saying it ought to be doing a better job academically, and that the district should have convinced the Illinois Department of Transportation to make Sandburg’s section of La Grange Road a top priority, since the torn-up roadway is “an accident waiting to happen for our young drivers. There are large ruts where there were once road, lanes are narrow, lights are

dim and the road is cluttered with construction horses. The danger is enhanced with poor weather and heavy traffic,” she said.

■ Denis Ryan, 55, of Orland Park, has served on the Community Consolidated School District 146 Board of Education since 2009.

Before that, he was a member of the board’s finance committee.

He is a Certified Insurance Counselor with the Ryan Reum Insurance Agency. As a member of the Independent Insurance Agents of Illinois’ Legislative Committee, Ryan helped draft legislation to protect businesses in Illinois, according to his campaign biography.

Additionally, he is a director at large with the Illinois Association of Schools Boards and is chairman of the Orland Park Civic Center Authority. He also has coached youth athletics in the area.

As a supporter of Nogal, O’Sullivan and the current board, Ryan said he “wants to make our schools shine” and that “what they accomplish at Sandburg is amazing.”

He said he plans to continue what he said is the fiscal responsibility of the current board.

“If you look at your property tax bill, 67 percent of that is schools,” he noted. “It’s a considerable investment for an extremely important job, educating the children of our community, and we must continue to make sure that funds are spent wisely, for everyone’s sake.”

■ Frank Ryan, 58, of Palos Heights, is an attorney in general practice in Oak Forest.

Like Norwell, he has run for judge before but fell short at the polls. He also ran but lost a close

race for Palos Township supervisor more than a dozen years ago.

He earned his undergraduate degree at Northern Illinois University and his law degree from The John Marshall Law School.

Ryan said he is running for the District 230 board because he is concerned about the three school’s academic performance. He pointed to a ranking that showed that no school in the district is in the top 100 statewide. “I think we can and must do better than that,” he said.

He also claimed that district officials treat Stagg High School “like the poor stepchild of the district.”

“There aren’t enough [Stagg] kids going to college,” he said.

Additionally, he recalled last year’s Stagg graduation as a “fiasco,” chiding school officials for scheduling an outdoor graduation “with heavy rain in the forecast” and which resulted in furious parents and students. “If these people can’t even run a graduation ceremony properly, what makes anyone think they can get the rest of it right on a daily basis?” he asked.

District 230 serves about 8,000 students and all or parts of 11 municipalities in its nearly 73 square miles, including Palos Heights, Palos Park, Orland Park, Palos Hills, Hickory Hills, and Worth.

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A business litigation attorney, Nogal earned regional and even statewide acclaim last year as a champion of the successful movement by suburban school districts to fight Senate Bill 16, the proposed School Funding Reform Act of 2014. Had it passed, the legislation would have resulted in a loss of millions of tax dollars annually from District 230, as well as its elementary school feeder districts.

Nogal helped lead two public forums that rallied citizen opposition to the bill, and his detailed analysis of the projected impacts of SB 16 was used as a model by other school districts.

This year, Nogal is engaged in the push against Senate Bill 1, the successor to SB 16 and was scheduled to convene a public meeting of the minds on the bill last night.

Nogal has repeatedly pointed with pride to what he calls the school board’s fiscal integrity on his watch, as well as the academic performance of students in the district.

■ John Thomas Donovan, 28, of Palos Park, has not yet held elective office but grew up around public service. His father, Thomas R. Donovan, was a top official in the administrations of Chicago Mayors Richard J. Daley and Michael A. Bilandic, and later served as longtime president of the Chicago Board of Trade.

Candidate Donovan is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and DePaul College of Law. He currently serves as a top legislative advisor to Illinois House Speaker Michael J. Madigan.

A theme of his campaign is that district residents are paying too much in property taxes for schools, while the quality of education at all three high schools has declined.

He also disputes the current board’s assertion that it has not raised its tax levy in recent years and vows to “ensure that our property taxes do not increase.”

Donovan has also criticized the district for ignoring a student population that, like other teens across

the nation, “is plagued by drugs.”

He scoffed at those who say that heroin is not a significant issue at the schools and said a friend of his who attended Stagg is currently serving a drug-related sentence.

He has proposed expanding the use of naloxone, a drug credited with saving increasing numbers of lives of people who have overdosed on heroin. First responders are making more use of naloxone, and Donovan said he wants to make it available to parents in the district.

He added that his experience in Springfield with Madigan makes him well suited to help lead the district’s fight against SB 1 and any other attempts to pull state dollars away from the district.

■ Patrick O’Sullivan, 44, of Orland Park, was elected to the board in 2007 and is finishing his second term. He has served as board president, as well as chairman of the building and finance committee, which he said gives him a “well rounded” view of district operations, which serves taxpayers well. He also pointed to his involvement in contract negotiations as a valuable experience.

The president of PRO Insurance Services, O’Sullivan is a Sandburg graduate and earned a bachelor’s degree at Bradley University. He also coaches youth athletics in the area.

In the fight against SB 16 and SB 1, he has been at Nogal’s shoulder, figuratively and sometimes literally.

O’Sullivan pointed with pride to a number of achievements during his eight years on the board, including adding a 30-minute block of time to the school day, which can be used by struggling students to get tutoring and other assistance, and for enrichment purposes for those who don’t.

If re-elected, he said he plans to continue on the same track, including fighting SB 1 and resisting what he said are attempts by some in Springfield to move local school board elections to the fall, which he said could lead to the “politi-

he has been a STEM guest lecturer at Moraine and is a co-chair of the Maureen Murphy/Jolene Churak Continued from Page 1 Service and Leadership Scholtural engineer in Chicago. arship. He is also a runner who According to his Facebook page, completed four marathons.

James Monroe Talbot, 24, is currently a student at the school and is working on a degree in political science.

He has worked as a volunteer with several veterans organizations.

Continued from Page 1 Nogal and others in his camp have questioned why Donovan’s team includes two people named Ryan, and have implied that the move is an example of “ballot shenanigans” designed to confuse voters and pull votes away from Denis Ryan—a charge that Donovan flatly denies.

Donovan, in turn, has mounted an aggressive push to portray board members as lying to themselves and voters by painting an overly rosy picture of district finances and academic performance, as well as claiming they are asleep at the switch when it comes to beating back efforts by some state lawmakers to pull funds away from the district and re-distribute them to needy areas. He also claims that some board members and district officials are attempting to sweep what he calls a “heroin problem” under the rug.

Donovan has said publicly that he considers himself “loosely allied” with Frank Ryan and Mary Ryan Norwell, and Donovan’s bright green campaign signs carry his name only—but a mailer touting the trio as “Team 230” recently appeared in mailboxes in the district.

Both camps have thrown other accusations at each other, ranging from harassment at early-voting sites to pilfered lawn signs, and more.

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■ Rick Nogal, 58, of Palos Park, served two terms on the Palos School District 118 Board of Education, from 2003-11, including two years as president.

He is finishing his first term on the District 230 board. Prior to his election in 2011, he served on the board’s Student Services Committee for four years.

He also served as chairman of the board of directors of Palos Community Hospital from 200010, as well as in a number of

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Four hopefuls vie for 3 Palos Dist. 118 seats

By Tim Hadac Staff reporter

While elementary education in the Palos area today is far more sophisticated than it was in 1838 at the first local school (a lean-to attached to Melachan A. Powell’s log cabin near what today is 123rd Street and 100th Avenue), the desire to provide the best for boys and girls remains simple.

That desire is expressed this year by four local candidates vying for three seats on the Palos District 118 Board of Education, as election day approaches on Tuesday.

All four are parents of children who currently attend district schools, or have in the past.

Two of the four are incumbents: Nadine Antonini and MariJo Calacci are running as a team with newcomer Pamela Paris, although Paris has served in a number of positions with the district’s parent-faculty group.

Michael C. Baker, of Palos Park, is running as an independent.

In his campaign biography, Baker said that his “business and teaching experience will bring new perspective and leadership to the board.

“As a global vice president of a large media research company, I lead the development and implementation of new methods and technologies across more than 100 countries,” he added. “My experience has equipped me with the ability to optimize resources and successfully negotiate in order to achieve desired outcomes. My experience teaching courses in economics and statistics at Roosevelt University has given me firsthand appreciation for the importance of teachers having the support and resources necessary to create effective learning environments.”

Baker said that if elected, he will place a “stronger emphasis” on ensuring that tax dollars spent by the district have a direct benefit to students. He used the recent building and grounds improvement at Palos East School, 7700 W. 127th St., Palos Heights, as an example.

“How much does this really improve education for the kids?” he asked, saying that he would look more closely at “return on investment” than the current board does.

Paris is an Orland Park resident. According to her campaign biography, she served as a Par-

ent Faculty Association president from 2010-12. Within the PFA, she served as chair for cardinal courier, hospitality committee and graduation committee. She also served on the PFA executive board as treasurer and president of the association.

She is an active member at Southbridge Church, serving as treasurer and on various boards and committees. Paris is also the former treasurer and board member of the Association of Women in the Metal Industries and continues to volunteer for other non-profit organizations, according to her campaign biography.

Paris said she wants to “continue the good work that District 118 has done in the past. It has been recognized for excellence by a number of organizations, and I want to be a part of that.”

Calacci, an Orland Park resident, is finishing her first term on the board, which she serves as secretary.

According to her campaign biography, she earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Northern Illinois University and is a Certified Public Accountant

working as a national director for the KPMG accounting firm, KPMG. On the district board, Calacci chairs the Safety and Crisis Management Committee and is vice chairperson of the Finance Committee. She was one of two board members chosen to sit on the board contract negotiation team and has negotiated the past two employment contracts with the teachers’ union, according to her biography.

Calacci also is a board member of the Palos 118 Educational Foundation and currently serves as its treasurer.

“I believe I would be a good choice because of my prior school board experience and financial background,” she told The Regional News. “I understand the legislative and financial issues faced by the board, and I’m well equipped to handle these issues.

I’ve worked with these issues with local legislators.

She added that she wants “to continue the tradition of excellence of 118 by providing great opportunities for the students, a supportive environment for the

Heights 1st Ward voters will send Moran or Key to victory

By Tim Hadac Staff reporter

The 1st Ward aldermanic race in Palos Heights has thus far been a clash of lawn signs and direct-mail cards, but not much else—at least publicly—between incumbent Jeffrey M. Key and challenger William R. Moran.

In the only contested election for a seat on the Palos Heights City Council on the April 7 ballot, no debates or public forums have been held, and neither candidate appears to have a campaign website.

Key, finishing his first fouryear-term and seeking another, said he is running on his record of achievement.

“It has been a busy and productive four years, and I have been privileged to be a part of it,” Key said earlier this week.

The alderman pointed to several changes he helped bring about as a City Council member.

“I’m proud of the work I did to help change the way we process crime-scene evidence,” Key said.

“We now use a private crime lab, as opposed to the Cook County lab, and that’s significant because under the old system, it was taking months and months and months for results to get back to Palos Heights police. Now it’s processed in a matter of days.

“Don’t get me wrong,” Key added. “We have a great police force, and Palos Heights is a relatively safe place, so this may not be a big issue in terms of numbers. But when you’re the victim of, say, a burglary or some other crime, you

want answers in a timely manner and you don’t want to keep hearing the police say, ‘We’re working on it, we’re working on it.’”

More recently, Key played a pivotal role in convincing voters to approve borrowing $6.3 million to renovate and expand the Palos Heights Recreation Center, 6601 W. 127th St. While the ballot referendum passed with a nearly two-thirds majority last November, Key said it wasn’t easy, and many voters may remain skeptical, especially perhaps senior citizens.

“But I’m convinced that when the [renovated] Rec Center opens and people start using that walking track above the gym, as well as all the other amenities, it will be fantastic for everyone, young and old alike,” he said.

Key also has been bullish on economic development in the city, serving as a cheerleader for the proposed Boardwalk of Palos Heights at College Drive and Harlem Avenue, as well as retail re-development of Harlem Avenue.

He also was a key member of the city’s partnership with Trinity Christian College’s “Welcome Back” campaign launched in the fall of 2013, an effort to make new and returning students feel good about Palos Heights and shop at its businesses.

A native of Chicago’s North Side, Key attended Foreman High School and later graduated from the American Conservatory of Music. He was a band director for 35 years at a junior high school in Alsip before retiring six years ago.

staff, while maintaining financial stability for the district…which strengthens the property values of residents.”

Antonini, a lifelong Palos Heights resident, is a Realtor in the Southwest Suburbs with a “full appreciation to the number of families who move to our district specifically to attend one of our fine schools. Previous, she worked as a commercial insurance broker, as well as a teacher in Darien and Chicago.

She is finishing her second term on the board and pointed with pride to her role in “helping the district expand curriculum, technology, and buildings to their current outstanding levels, all while maintaining a balanced budget.

“I am proud of the fact that I am never afraid to ask the tough questions, and I don’t settle for second best for an answer,” she wrote in her biography. “I have worked with the board and community through the recent superintendent search, concluding in the hiring of Anthony Scarsella.

She has been a member of board of education committees.

“I founded the legislative com-

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mittee in 2010 and have lobbied on behalf of Palos 118 students and taxpayers locally and in Springfield, most recently in February of 2015,” she added, saying that her experience with legislation and legislators makes her an asset to the board, especially with state threats to education funding.

The three schools of Palos School District 118, Palos East, West and South, have a combined enrollment of about 1,200.

The district includes all of Palos Park, as well as parts of Palos Heights, Orland Park, Palos Hills, and Worth.

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His lawn signs emphasize “principles above politics,” and he has been a consistent critic of the City Council and the way it conducts business.

Moran has voiced his reservations about the traffic and other congestion that the proposed Boardwalk development might bring, and he spoke against the Rec Center referendum last year, describing it as something not necessarily needed and an expense that many Palos Heights residents, especially those on fixed incomes, could not afford.

Incumbent Aldermen Bob Basso (2nd Ward), Alan Fulkerson (3rd Ward) and Michael McGrogan (4th Ward) are each running for re-election unopposed on the April 7 ballot. The mayor, city clerk and treasurer’s posts are not up for election until 2017.

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OPINION

4 Thursday, April 2, 2015

READERS WRITE Consider change on H.S. District 218 board Dear Editor: As I look around our towns at all of the signs, it seems we have accomplished the first feat of communicating to our community that there is an important election coming up. Many of you have already done your duty by casting an early vote. For those of you who are waiting for Election Day on April 7 or heading to early vote though this Saturday, I urge you to consider the current state of the High School District 218 board.

Marco Corsi, the incumbent, recused himself from the consent agenda vote that hired his son as an administrator in District 218. However, during his 16-year tenure on the board he supported the hiring of family of other board members and administrators. Taking care of family and friends should not be the primary responsibility of school boards.

What is really important is the education of students. I have spent my entire career working in a high school setting both as a teacher and a guidance counselor. I am knowledgeable about the needs of students and the challenges that teachers and administrators face. I have been a board member for six years for Palos Heights District 128, a board that has a policy regarding not hiring family. Palos 128 has a long history of passing balanced budgets and receiving the highest financial recognition from the state of Illinois.

I will bring my experience as an educator and a board member as well as my role as a parent and taxpayer to provide a well-rounded perspective. I will work to restore the confidence of the community and staff in the 218 Board of Education.

— Jennifer Bylut, Palos Heights Candidate for CHSD 218, District 5 Seat

We need experience on Dist. 230 board Dear Editor: In the upcoming school board election on Tuesday it is important that voters pay very close attention to the credentials that each candidate brings to the table. Rick Nogal, Patrick O’Sullivan, and Denis Ryan have been very involved in District 230 for many years. Their children have attended District 230 schools, so they are aware of the programs that are offered to our students and have a deep understanding of how the district works. Most importantly they have served on area district school boards so they understand the challenges that District 230 faces.

This year it will be very important to have experienced people sitting on our school boards.

The state pays a small percentage of the cost to educate our children and due to the budgeting disaster that the politicians in Springfield have created, that percentage will probably be even smaller. We have already seen the efforts by Springfield to alter local school funding (Senate Bill 16). It was through the efforts made by these candidates Senate Bill 16 was tabled.

We urge you to vote for candidates with school board experience. Vote for Rick Nogal, Patrick O’Sullivan and Denis Ryan for the District 230 School Board.

— Patricia Cooney, Susan Adamo, Susan Hennessey, Sheila Pacholski and Theresa Horvath.

Experienced candidate who won’t litter community with signs Dear Editor: It saddens me to see politics entering into School Board elections. School Board candidates holding fund raisers. School Board candidates’ signs are popping up in ditches and right-ofways, stuffing mail boxes illegally with handbills, and paying for newspaper ads.

School Board members are not paid – there is no monetary compensation.

I am running for re-election to the CHSD 218 THESchool Board. Shepard HS is part of CHSD 218.

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I will not litter our community with political signs.

Please note that I am the experienced candidate who has responsibly invested our tax dollars to maintain a successful school district over the last 15 plus years. A lot of good long term decisions were made and we are benefiting now. Some school districts made different decisions along the way and are now not that fortunate. It is more than luck for our success, hard work and touchy decisions were needed and I think I do that best.

We’re turning out graduates ready for the work force or to continue their education at colleges and trade schools. We’ve maintained our buildings and made additions and renovations to empower our students in our changing technology.

Look at Shepard High School, it is a gem.

It takes a lot of planning and experience in running a big business like a $110 million high school district. I work at one every day. Lots of employee contracts and big expenditures happen all the time in the district. Big numbers can overwhelm inexperienced decision makers.

My opponents are new to this view of District 218. After they have many years on the job, my opponents will then probably be up to speed. We do not have to go that route.

Please help me to continue to work on your behalf.

Vote for Marco Corsi on April 7.

— Marco Corsi, Palos Heights District 218 board president

Support for Corsi in Dist. 218 Dear Editor: We are all moms, some with children still at Shepard, and some with grown kids who attended there.

We’ve had many positive experiences with SD 218, and maybe some more trying ones, but the constant has been the responsiveness and respectfulness of our school board.

Our friend and neighbor, Marco Corsi, is president of the school board and has been extremely dedicated to the educational needs of our children while responsibly budgeting our tax dollars.

We’d like Marco Corsi to continue to represent us on the 218 school board. He’s an experienced board member, a successful business man and a wonderful neighbor. Let’s keep the good ones.

Please vote for Marco Corsi on April 7 — Arlene Buyan, Mary Sawertailo, Barbara Rys, Lorraine Wideikis, Linda Mac Donald, Sue Murphy and Laura Schnoor Palos Heights

Endorsing Kats Dear Editor: As April 7 approaches, there is a real opportunity for change in CHSD 218.

After years of uncontested races in School Board District 5 someone has finally stepped up to challenge Marco Corsi. Carol Kats is one of those candidates challenging the incumbent.

I have known Carol for several years and I have been privileged to work with her on the Worth School Board District 127 for nine years.

Carol has been the board secretary for eight years and has chaired many committees.

She also brought to the board her expertise as an educator. Her knowledge of board governance is second to none. The people of our community have put their trust in Carol with their children’s education.

Tough financial decisions had to be made over the years in order to bring our district into a status of financial recognition.

Student instruction was never compromised during this time nor was our commitment to staff in making them partners as we worked through this challenging situation. Carol’s leadership and ideas were key to this process.

For these reasons, I feel that Carol is a much needed addition to the 218 board. The community has been seeking change to move the district forward, bringing integrity, consistency and collaboration to all its stakeholders. Carol possesses enthusiasm, knowledge and personality which are valuable assets for any board.

It’s easy to support a candidate like Carol, as many community members have already rallied around her.

As much as Carol will be missed on our board, I believe

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the District 218 community will gain a top-notch educational advocate. Carol will always put our kids’ education first.

Embrace the future and vote for Carol Kats on April 7.

— Drew Sernus, Board President Worth School District 127

For Calacci, Paris and Antonini in Dist. 118 Dear Editor: As I prepare to leave my board seat on the Palos District 118 Board of Education I would like to appeal to the voters of our district to be sure to vote on April 7. Early voting is available now and until April 4 for those leaving town for Spring break. Your vote is important to the children of our community and to those of us who serve. Please take the time cast your vote and be heard.

After careful consideration I am supporting MariJo Calacci, Pam Paris and Nadine Antonini as board members of Palos District 118. I have worked alongside these candidates in Palos District 118 in various capacities. I know them to be dedicated to the children and residents of our community. They have already devoted countless hours to us and always have the best interests of our children first and foremost in their decision-making.

I look forward to a continued association with Palos District 118. My hope is that MariJo, Pam and Nadine have the opportunity to continue the standards of excellence already in place in our school district. Please consider checking numbers 101, 102 and 103 on your ballot. Learn more and visit them at www.ProvenSuccessFor 118. com. I look forward to seeing you at the polls.

—Sheila M Pacholski, president, Palos District 118 Board of Education

I lost my friends to heroin Dear Editor: I hope you give this submission the attention it truly deserves, for it addresses an issue long swept under the rug in our high schools. I am writing in response to current H.S. District 230 School Board members, some of which are candidates running for election as “230 United.”

One March 20, the “230 United” candidates posted an endorsement letter from their fellow school board members to their Facebook page.

In order to advance their political agenda, these current board members wrote, “We have not had one single case [of heroin] reported in any of our three schools.” This is misleading. As a District 230 alum, I immediately felt obligated to share this post with 150-plus alumni from the district. What unfolded next was both alarming and shameful.

My experiences as an alum can be summed on in one word –“heartbreaking.” Since graduating in 2004, I have attended the funerals of four very dear friends. These once beautiful souls all had one fatal thing in common—Heroin. Each overdosed on heroin, not only ending their lives much too soon, but also forever altering the lives of their families and friends. Our lives will never be the same. In addition to these losses, I have had several close friends that have been, or are currently, in prison or rehab because of this deadly addiction. My best friend is currently serving a 3-year sentence in prison due to heroin.

Additionally, my identity has been stolen twice in the last year by former high school friends who are facing heroin-related arrests and desperate to use a clean record. This is all a result of an addiction that started while attending District 230 high schools. I know this to be true because I watched their addictions begin just as quickly as I watched their downfalls.

While in high school, I know many friends who were doing heroin in the bathrooms of school, both before and after classes. I know friends who had to drop out of school to get a hold of their addictions. I know Dist. 230 staff members/deans who are fully aware of the heroin problem at school. I have spoken to several of them since graduation, and each time, these individuals have admitted their knowledge and concern for the students on this dangerous drug.

One March 20, I pleaded with fellow alumni to tell “230 United” of their experiences with heroin usage in our schools and just how severe the problem has been over the last 10 years.

Many alumni posted countless stories of inschool heroin abuse and addiction on the “230 United” Facebook page, informing these incum-

bent Board members of how heroin has impacted their lives. Over the course of five-plus hours, the “230 United” candidates intentionally tried to silence the loud and clear voices of concerned District 230 alum. The “230 United” candidates not only dismissed these stories, but they also deleted and hid almost every alumni post. They blocked many of us, preventing us from posting anything further on their page. I personally messaged these members but still received no response. They chose not to listen. The “230 United” candidates and their fellow Board members have intentionally tried to bury this very frightening and real issue in the sand.

Last week, your newspaper published the very same letter I read on March 20. There was, however, a glaring omission. The submitting Board members removed the very line that unveiled the truth about the never-ending heroin problem in Dist. 230. Once again, intentionally hiding the issue from the public, and silencing its most concerned residents. In a deleted post, a former alum and friend stated, “Denying that your district has a substance abuse/heroin problem, especially in the face of so many graduates who insist [otherwise] based on their personal experiences, is not only unacceptable but irresponsible… We expect, and deserve better than that… this is not optional – it is your elected responsibility.” For too long, the board has silenced our voices. We owe more to the loved ones who lost their lives to this horrible drug. We owe it to those who are in the process of losing their lives. We owe it to their families and friends, our families and our friends. We owe it to the community. I refuse to remain silent. I hope you will speak out, too. It’s time for change in District 230.

—Brittany Stevenson, M.A., L.P.C., Palos Heights, Stagg High School, ‘04

Jesus lovingly calls Dear Editor: During this Lenten season, I have been studying and meditating on passages from a very powerful and meaningful book, “The Incomparable Christ.” It reminded me of our visit to the Holy Land, particularly in Jerusalem where some of our most poignant moments were spent on the Via Dolorosa...the way of suffering. This is the road Jesus walked on during the last hours of His passion. We stopped at the “Ecce Homo” arch which is a chiseled echo of the proclamation Pilate made to the jeering, hostile crowd as he presented to them the Lord Jesus, scourged, bound and crowned with thorns, shortly before His crucifixion. Ecce homo – behold the Man! This message is just as important today and calls us to take a few moments to contemplate the real meaning of Easter as we look at Jesus and His life.

In the festive celebration of Jesus’ birth at Christmas it is easy to miss the reason He came to earth. The whole purpose of His earthly life was to solve the stupendous problem caused by Adam’s sin. The wages of sin is death...but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. His death was unlike any other. At the cross, all the sin of the ages was placed on the heart of the sinless Son of God as He became the representative of all humanity. As substitute, Christ took on Himself the sinner’s guilt and sin, and bore its penalty in the sinner’s place. Justice and mercy met in the transaction at the cross.

He came to pay the debt that we owe but could not pay. He endured the suffering and pain that should have been ours. He came to die the death we all deserve.

But thankfully the story does not end with His death! Jesus turned the darkest day in history into the world’s greatest victory. No other event in the entire history of mankind even comes close to the importance and significance of Jesus’ death and resurrection.

The cross shows the depth of His love and the resurrection shows the depth of His power! He was declared to be the Son of God with power

by His resurrection from the dead. As in Adam, all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

Now the Lord Jesus lovingly calls to each one of us to come to Him. As many as receive Him, to them He gives the authority to become children of God. Whoever believes in Him will not perish, but have everlasting life. It is up to us to respond. The events celebrated that first Easter changed the world. Invite Jesus into your heart and He will change your life and world as well!

— Susan Tesauro, Palos Heights

Emanuel isn’t great but Chuy would be worse I pity the people of Chicago. On Tuesday, they must choose between the lesser of two evils: Mayor Rahm Emanuel or Jesus “Chuy” Garcia. Which will pull Chicago out of its growing financial and social abyss?

The ad campaigns of both are disappointing. All they do is bash each other.

Neither tells anyone what they plan to do about Chicago’s problems.

It’s one reason why I am glad my parents fled Chicago in the 1960s. I didn’t have to experience the deteriorating school system, the rising crime or have to ride the crime-ridden CTA system to and from work.

As a suburbanite, I enjoyed more of life.

I still found work in Chicago’s downtown, rushing out before sunset.

Yet, I recognize that Chicago is the economic engine that drives northern Illinois and the suburbs. And if Chicago collapses like Detroit did, Chicago’s suburban communities will suffer, too.

The relationship between Chicago and its suburbs is a lot different than Detroit and its suburbs. There’s no comparison. We’re much tighter, and the powers that control Chicago in Springfield control the fate of the suburbs, too.

So, I care about who wins. Personally, my favorite candidate in the Feb. 24 election was Ald. Bob Fioretti. Fioretti had a stronger handle on Chicagoland issues

RAY HANANIA as a member of the Chicago City Council, which deals with $8.9 billion in spending.

In contrast, Garcia was a lackluster former Chicago alderman manipulated by slickster Congressman Luis Gutierrez. Garcia is now a member of the Cook County board, dealing with a budget of only $3.9 billion.

I always found it hard to believe that Gutierrez wasn’t playing both sides when he backed Emanuel. Gutierrez and Garcia were always attached at the political hip.

Ironically, looking back, if Gutierrez had endorsed Garcia, Emanuel might have done worse and Garcia would have done better.

But Fioretti was never popular with the leftwing movement that surrounded Garcia, and he couldn’t cut away at Emanuel’s base. Fioretti couldn’t compete with Emanuel’s campaign cash, more than $14 million. But, had Fioretti made it into the runoff April 7, I know he would have won.

But Fioretti is tragic spilled milk at this point. On April 7, Chicago voters will have to choose between Emanuel and

Garcia. As an American Arab, I am no fan of Emanuel, even though I endorsed him four years ago believing that he would be fair.

Instead, his first act was to abolish the Arab Advisory Commission, then pull the rug out from under the Arabesque Festival. He shut out most American Arabs from his administration and prefers to work with non-Arab Muslims instead.

Garcia has catered to the disenfranchised American Arabs, promising to restore the Advisory Commission, the Arabesque Festival and treat American Arabs like human beings, something Emanuel has not done.

But the future of Chicago is about more than Emanuel’s discrimination against American Arabs. It’s about which of the two is more qualified to run Chicago.

Emanuel isn’t great but Garcia would be worse.

I’d rather see Emanuel win and continue my campaign to convince him to recognize American Arabs rights, rather than see Garcia win and drag the city down. There’s somewhat of a future with Emanuel, but little hope with Garcia.

Ray Hanania is an award-winning former Chicago City Hall reporter and President/CEO of Urban Strategies Group media consulting. Reach him at rghanania@gmail.com.

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Thursday, April 2, 2015

POLICE BLOTTER: ORLAND PARK

Crisis Center seeks Marathon golfers The Crisis Center for South Suburbia will hold its 11th annual Longest Day of Golf Marathon on Thursday, May 7, at Silver Lake Country Club.

Up to 36 golfers are invited to play up to 54 holes of golf in one day.

The concept is simple; each participant golfs for free, and has a goal to secure sponsors and pledges for each hole played or for the entire day. Sponsorships allow the Crisis Center to provide clients with shelter, counseling, clothing, food, transportation to job interviews, and more.

A minimum goal of at least $750 in sponsorships is set for each golfer: $750 can provide resources demonstrating healthy relationships at a school assembly and diapers and wipes for one month to infants who have lost their homes due to domestic violence. By asking 20 friends, family, co-workers, and employers to pledge only $1 per hole, the goal is easily attainable and offers a large

impact to the clients in need. All proceeds provide services to over 2,000 women and children assisted each year as they begin their journeys toward a life free from abuse.

The day will begin at 6:30 a.m. as golfers check-in and are offered a continental breakfast. At 7 a.m. golfers start the marathon. While golfing, participants receive refreshments throughout the day including lunch on the go and dinner after a day on the course. Weary players will have no worries; each golfer has their own cart for speed, ease, and enjoyment.

More information about how to register for or support this event is available on the Crisis Center’s website at www.crisisctr.org, or by contacting Special Events Coordinator Chris Beele at cbeele@crisisctr.

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— The Crisis Center surroundings at Silver Lake for South Suburbia Country Club.

POLICE BLOTTER: PALOS HEIGHTS Man charged with DUI after crash, police say Palos Heights police charged William J. Vinci, 24, of Frankfort, with DUI, failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident, and failure to signal when required. Police investigating a one-car crash at 2:11 a.m. Sunday saw Vinci’s vehicle stopped on the median in the 12700 block of South Harlem Avenue, according to the police report. Bond was set at $1,000, and Vinci is scheduled to appear in court in Bridgeview on April 24.

Driver charged with aggravated speeding

Police charged Anthony J. Swistek Jr., 22, of Bridgeview, with aggravated speeding after they curbed his vehicle in the 12000 block of South Harlem Avenue at 3:55 a.m. Sunday. His vehicle was spotted traveling at 70 mph, twice the posted limit, according to the police report. Swistek was released on his signature and was given a court date of May 8 in Bridgeview.

Minor charged with alcohol Sydney R. Gonzalez, 20, of Blue Island, was charged with illegal consumption of alcohol by a minor, as well as improper lane usage, after police stopped her vehicle in the 12200 block of South Ridgeland Avenue at 1:55 a.m. Saturday. She was released on her signature and is set to appear in court in Bridgeview on April 24.

Charged with using cell phone while driving

Police charged Brian M. Lukas, 42, of Carol Stream, with talking on a cell phone while driving,

as well as driving on a suspended license, after they curbed his vehicle in the 6900 block of West College Drive at 11:31 a.m. March 24. Bond was set at $1,500, and Lukas is due in court in Bridgeview on April 16.

Charged with driving with suspended license

Mahmud Damooni, 21, of Tinley Park, was charged with driving on a suspended license after police stopped his vehicle in the 12700 block of South Ridgeland Avenue at 4:25 p.m. Saturday, after a random plate check. Bond was set at $1,500, and Damooni was given a court date of April 16 in Bridgeview.

Police charged Mazen Almaqbul, 22, of Indianapolis, with driving on a suspended license after they curbed his vehicle in the 6600 block of West College Drive at 4:10 p.m. Sunday, after a random plate check.

Bond was set at $1,500, and Almaqbul is scheduled to appear in court in Bridgeview on May 18.

Drivers charged with no valid license Froylan Bahena-Vargas, 51, of Midlothian, was charged with driving without a valid license, no proof of insurance, and improper lane usage after police stopped his vehicle in the 12500 block of South Harlem Avenue at 6:10 a.m. March 25. Bond was set at $2,000, and Bahena-Vargas is due in court in Bridgeview on April 16.

Police charged Walter A. Allen, 22, of Chicago, with driving without a valid license, as well as operating a motor vehicle with only one working headlight, after they pulled his vehicle over in the 12200 block of South Harlem Avenue at 12:12 a.m. Sunday. Bond was set at $1,500, and Allen is set to appear in court in Bridgeview on May 8.

Homeless man charged with armed robbery: police Orland Park police charged a homeless man with armed robbery and unlawful use of a weapon by a felon after he allegedly used a pistol-handled shotgun to rob a 28-yearold man and a 21-year-old woman of an undisclosed amount of cash during a cannabis buy near 143rd Street and Wolf Road at 9:40 p.m. March 9, police said. Jeffrey Alberts, 25, was apprehended at a relative’s house a short distance away, according to the police report. He was due at a bond hearing on March 10.

Charged with retail theft Police charged Robert V. Mabbott, 47, of Alsip, with felony retail theft after he allegedly stole 11 dozen golf balls—worth $525—from a display at a store in the 15700 block of South La Grange Road. The crime occurred on Oct. 19, police said, with the offender successfully fleeing.

Police analysis of surveillance video resulted in Mabbott being positively identified in a photo lineup in January, and he was taken into custody and charged on March 11, police said. The police report did not include court information.

Rachel R. Weaver, 25, of Orland Park, was charged with retail theft after she allegedly stole a shopping cart full of food and other items at a grocery store in the 9300 block of West 159th Street at 4:53 p.m. March 2. Weaver was due in court in Bridgeview on March 20.

Vandalism reported A vandal used silver spray paint to deface the rear door of a dance studio in the 9000 block of West 151st Street. Images of male genitals, as well as a political slogan (“Bush did 9/11”) were found on the building by an employee shortly after midnight March 18, according to the police report. Police noted that a building a block away was similarly defaced.

Charged with DUI Police charged Brandon B. Fahle, 36, of Tinley Park, with DUI, driving on a suspended license, no proof of insurance, making an improper turn, and illegal transportation of alcohol. They curbed his SUV at 7:54 p.m. March 17 in the 7600 block of West 159th Street. A search of the vehicle yielded an open can of Coors Light beer, and an open bottle of Bud Light beer, according to the police report. Fahle was due at a bond hearing on March 18.

James P. Powers, 26, of Orland Park, was charged with DUI, speeding, and following another vehicle too closely after police stopped his car in the 12900 block of South La Grange Road at 11:47 p.m. March 6. The vehicle was towed and impounded, and Powers is scheduled to appear in court in Bridgeview on April 22, police said.

Police charged Walter P. Bordoshuk, 28, of Tinley Park, with DUI, disobeying a stop sign, and making an improper turn after they curbed his car near 159th Street and Park Center Drive at 3:28 a.m. March 5. The vehicle was towed and impounded, and Bordoshuk was due in court in Bridgeview on Monday, police said.

Laura A. Cobb, 42, of Orland Park, was charged with DUI, driving on a suspended license, improper lane usage, and failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident. Police said her car crashed into the side of a semi-trailer truck parked in the 14100 block of South 108th Avenue at 2:12 p.m. Feb. 24. Cobb was taken to Silver Cross Hospital, where she was treated and released. The car was towed and impounded, and she was set to appear in court in Bridgeview on March 20.

Orland teen charged with reckless driving

Police charged Eduardo A. Acevedo, 18, of Orland Park, with reckless driving, failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident, possession of drug paraphernalia, improper lane usage, and talking on a cell phone while driving. Police said that Acevedo’s car spun off the road and came to rest on a lawn in the 17100 block of South Highwood Drive at 2:20 a.m. March 5.

Police found a glass smoking pipe in his pocket, according to the police report. Acevedo offered two versions of the spin out, police said. He claimed that a patch of ice was the cause, and then he claimed that he lost control of the vehicle when he was changing the music on his cell phone, according to the police report. The car was towed and impounded, and Acevedo is set to appear in court in Bridgeview on Wednesday.

Charged with driving while license suspended

Police charged Shatae L. Garner-Franklin, 24, of Orland Park, with driving on a suspended license, no proof of insurance, operating a motor vehicle with expired registration, and failure to wear a seatbelt after her car was curbed by police in the 9700 block of West Crescent Circle at 10:05 a.m. March 9. Garner-Franklin is due in court in Bridgeview on Wednesday.

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Stagg’s image at issue at Dist. 230 meeting

By Tim Hadac Staff reporter

Dueling views of Stagg High School briefly dominated the discussion at last Thursday’s meeting of the High School District 230 Board of Education.

“Even a perception of poor-quality schools can hurt a community in many ways, including property values,” said longtime education activist Bob Shelstrom, a former Palos Park resident and Stagg parent who now lives in Arizona but said he returns to the area on occasion “for certain business things.”

During the public-comment portion of the meeting, Shelstrom chided district officials for what he said are actions that make Stagg look less desirable than it is.

While he offered no data to back his claims, he said that people sometimes “run into real problems” selling homes in Stagg’s attendance area.

“Apparently, when buyers look at homes, they take a look and say, ‘Oh, that’s in Stagg High School’s district? What else have you got?’”

Shelstrom said. “It’s a problem of perception and perhaps quality.”

He claimed that the problem can be found in Stagg’s school improvement plan, posted online, which he

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said focuses too much on “at-risk” students and discipline problems.

“I’ll tell you this right now,” Shelstrom said. “If I was moving into this area and I read that school improvement plan, there’s no way I’d move to Stagg’s district.”

He claimed that the focus on academically at-risk students ignored the majority of students.

“In the improvement plan, I see no questions about how do we get those kids with an ACT score of 25 up to a 28, nothing about how do we get those students to be National Merit Scholars…or how do we move students from a B to an A,” he added.

Shelstrom said that there are “pockets of excellence” at Stagg and “people are accomplishing amazing things,” but that the school board and administration are creating “the perception that Stagg is the poor stepchild of this district.”

He said that when he looks at Stagg’s improvement plan, he sees “a list of all sorts of discipline problems. The perception is that ‘Stagg’s got mostly at-risk kids, that’s their biggest problem’…and that isn’t the case. But it is damaging.”

Shelstrom contrasted Stagg’s plan with that of Sandburg High School, which he said focused less on at-risk students and more on

the general student population. He cited the difference as evidence that the school board and administration consider Stagg “the poor stepchild” of the three-school district.

Shelstrom did not hear board members’ response to his claims.

He left the room before the end of the meeting.

Board member Tony Serratore defended the focus on at-risk students, after a presentation on Stagg’s Academic Mentor Program, which serves about 60 students a year and has documented success in improving test scores.

“We can’t let those [at-risk] kids drop through the cracks,” he said.

“Yes, it’s great for the district that’s we’ve got great graduation rates and great ACT scores, but it’s also great for this district to say, ‘You know what? We help everybody here,’ and so, I am proud, as a board member, that you guys are doing this and keep doing this because this is what we’re all about, so I applaud you. This is just fantastic.”

Several on the board and in the audience wondered aloud about Shelstrom’s remarks coming less than two week before an election that includes a spirited race for three board slots.

“Mr. Shelstrom hasn’t addressed the board in at least two years, so I

Photo by Tim Hadac

District 230 parents clamor to take cell-phone photos of their children, who were recognized for academic excellence last Thursday night at Stagg High School.

thought his timing was odd,” board President Rick Nogal said after the meeting.

Several board members also expressed displeasure with some of what they said were “wild” allegations flying about in the political whirlwind leading up to the election.

Kathy Quilty criticized those who claim that Stagg, Sandburg and Andrew High Schools have heroin problems. She said that while heroin may be an issue in the community at large, the schools

“don’t have a heroin issue.”

Serratore challenged those who claim that the board is lacking in fiscal responsibility.

“Despite the fact that we’re not going to get all the categorical payments from the state—we have thus far received only one of four—we’re still going to be able to keep a balanced budget, because of our fiscal responsibility,” he said. “We look at things before we spend, we have one of the lower costs per student in the whole area.

“We have not raised the tax levy for the last two years, it’s been zero,” Serratore concluded. “But there’s misinformation out that there that we have raised taxes, and we have not.”

Also Thursday, more than 50 Stagg, Sandburg and Andrew students were cited for excellence in academics and athletics.

The next meeting of the District 230 Board of Education is set for 7 p.m. Thursday, April 30 at Stagg High School, 8015 W. 111th St., Palos Hills.

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ing schools can pick up an applicaThe Chicago Christian High tion from their guidance counselor’s School DECA (Distributive Eduoffice. Schools must submit their cation Club of America) team reThe Orland Park Area Chamber scholarship recipient by April 24. cently competed at the State finals. of Commerce awards three $1,000 Of the 450 student DECA members scholarships to children of Chamber in the south suburbs, only 20-25 St. Alexander 5K members or parents who are emstudents qualified for nationals, and Raider Run/Walk ployed by Chamber members. Apeight of them were from Chicago plicants do not have to be in District St. Alexander School in Palos Christian High School. One third of 230 to apply.

Heights plans the second annual the qualifiers come from Chicago The 2015 scholarship application 5K Raider Run/Walk on Saturday, Christian High School. is now available on www.orlandpark- April 25, at 9 a.m. at St. Alexander The eight young men who qualchamber.org. Completed applications School in Palos Heights. ified for the national competition must be received at the Chamber This event will benefit the school’s in Orlando, Florida on April 25-29 office by end of day, Monday, April 6. technology department. Race entry is are Eddie Damstra, Luke Boss, and For more information, call 349-2972. $28 and includes: race bib, perfor- Jim Vos for Entrepreneurship Promance-fit T-shirt and post race snacks. motion Plan; Chad Ellens and Josh Register by April 10 to receive a Van Dyk for Finance Operations; Marquette Bank T-shirt. Funds raised will purchase Kyle Starostka and Grant Bollman offers scholarships additional computers and updates for Marketing Communications; Marquette Bank has selected 61 for the school. To register, visit the and Caleb DeRuiter for Business local high schools for the 2015 Mar- website stalexanderschool.com.

Services Marketing. quette Bank Education Foundation Scholarship Program. The program Alumni memorial provides scholarships to graduating Mass at St. Laurence seniors from schools near Marquette Bank’s 22 branch locations. ScholSt. Laurence High School will host arships of $2,500 are awarded to its annual solemn Mass of rememstudents who demonstrate financial brance, honoring deceased alumni need, have an outstanding record of of the school, on Saturday, April 11, community service and maintain at at 4:30 p.m., in the school’s library. least a “B” average to continue their The Rev. Norm Trela, from St. education.

Symphorosa Parish, and the school’s Scholarship recipients are selected chaplain, will celebrate the Mass. by their school’s principal, guidance A wreath-laying ceremony will counselors or principal-appointed take place at the outdoor memorial, committee and are recognized at weather permitting. Following the an awards ceremony attended by liturgy, snacks and refreshments will friends and family. The scholarship be served. can be used to cover expenses at any Family, friends, and relatives of higher education program including: deceased alumni of St. Laurence are four-year colleges and universities, welcome to attend this liturgy. For community colleges, vocational train- reservations, call Ed Kozak, alumni ing or trade schools. relations, at 458-6900. For more, call To apply, students from participat- ext. 244 at the school.

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Koraes School 7thgrader Niko Dalmares, of Orland Park, won first place at the local science fair competition sponsored by Koraes School and the Illinois Academy of Science.

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Top finishers of the annual spelling at Prairie School in Orland Park are 1st place winner Layan Ibrahim, 2nd place Amal Vazques and 3rd place Rylee Erickson. All three girls are in 3rd grade.

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McCord’s annual tea

McCord Gallery and Cultural Center’s annual tea will feature Betsy Means dressed as Juliette Kinzie, wife of John Kinzie, a fur trader and Chicago pioneer settler, who will tell their story.

McCord’s annual tea will be held Sunday, April 12, with seatings at 1 and 3:30 p.m. Tickets cost $30.

McCord Gallery & Cultural Center is at 129th and La Grange Road in Palos Park. Call 671-0648

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.

Lake Katherine Fishing Classic Lake Katherine Nature Center in Palos Heights will hold its annual Fishing Classic on Saturday, April 11, from 7 a.m. to noon.

Participants can fish the entire shore for muskie, catfish, walleye and bass in the cath-and-release contest.

No hot dogs are permitted as bait during the fishing classic but competitors are allowed to use worms and mealworms to tempt their catch.

Registration forms for the event can be found on the nature center’s website at lakekatherine.org.

A donation of $100 per competitor includes lunch at noon. Lake Katherine is located at 7402 W. Lake Katherine Drive,

The District 230 Foundation will hold its first Final Event with the NCAA semifinal basketball games on three big screens, unlimited food and drink, attractions and more this Saturday. Doors open at 4 p.m. at Elements Banquet at Homewood Suites,16245 S. LaGrange Road in Orland Park, and close after the second game. Tickets cost $25 each. In addition to the Final Event, a raffle will be held. The top prize is $10,000, and $22,500 in cash prizes will be awarded. Raffle tickets cost $50 each. Event and raffle tickets are available at www.d230foundation.org or from any committee member. Shown are Final Event committee members Susan Larson Spencer, Bob Keane, Mike Probasco, Tara Davis, Anthony Chimera, Sue Hodges, Patrick Zomparelli, Tim Dalton, Ann Oliver, Chriss Hassel, Carla Erdey and Jeanne Krapauskas.

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Orland Twp. trip will cross Lake Michigan Orland Township seniors can ferry across Lake Michigan aboard the S.S. Badger, which departs June 24.

The trip lasts three days and includes four meals (two dinners and two breakfasts), a night at the Soaring Eagle Casino and Resort, free time for shopping in downtown Bay City, touring the historic Temple Theatre, watching a silent film with Barton pipe

organ accompaniment, and a trip to the Kalamazoo Air Zoo. Free home or local pick up and return is available. The trip costs $729 per person twin room and single room is an additional $149.

The group will travel to Manitowoc, Wis., where they will board the vessel to cross Lake Michigan.

While on the four hour cruise, seniors can enjoy a movie, play bingo, or just relax and appreciate

The Center Toastmasters Club will meet on Wednesday, April 15, at 7 p.m., at 12700 Southwest Highway, Palos Park.

Toastmasters is for people interested in improving and practicing their public speaking skills.

Members take turns leading the

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LIBRARY NOTES Book & Film The Book & Film Series at Palos Park Public Library will show “Gone Girl” based on the bestselling book by Gillian Flynn at 2 p.m. Wednesday, April 8, at the library, 12330 Forest Glen Blvd.

Ben Affleck stars in the Oscar-nominated thriller about a man who falls under suspicion after the sudden disappearance of his wife.

Free. All who attend will be entered in a raffle to win a free copy of the book. Call the library to register at (708) 448-1530.

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Monarchs and milkweed talk Nature lovers are invited to Lake Katherine in Palos Heights at 7 p.m.

Thursday, April 16, for an informative talk about how to help the endangered monarch butterfly. Lake Katherine’s Operations manager Gareth Blakesley will explain how easy it is to cultivate different native host plants for a variety of species of butterfly. Each attendee will receive a small bag of milkweed seeds to sow at home. The monarch butterfly talk costs $5 per person and will take place in Lake Katherine’s nature center auditorium. Call 361-1873 to book your place.

to give lady luck a try. Also included is a visit to the Kalamazoo Air Zoo, the 10th largest non-governmental aviation museum in the nation, featuring 4-D theatres, flight simulators and a collection of rare and historical aircraft.

For reservations or more information on the “Crossing Lake Michigan” trip, contact Marie Ryan, Senior Services Coordinator 403-4222.

The Golden Oaks Seniors began the club’s new year this month with a special occasion: a corned beef and cabbage lunch at noon, followed by entertainment by The Convertibles Barbershop Quartet and celebrating the 102nd birthday of Golden Oaks member Frances Watson. The group will next meet at 11:30 a.m. on Wednesday, April 1. The cost for lunch is $5; the cost for membership to join Golden Oaks is $8 for the year. Following lunch, entertainment lasts for about one hour. To attend the next luncheon at Palos Park Presbyterian Community Church, 12312 S. 88th Ave., call 448-0819 to make a reservation.

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meetings and giving speeches, gaining confidence from the encouragement of each other.

The Center Toastmasters meet on the first and third Wednesdays of every month. New members and guests are always welcome.

For more, call Dave Sanders or Lois Lauer at The Center at 3613650.

the view from the comfort of their desk chair.

Time will be spent in downtown Bay City with its fine architecture, its “Early Americana” shopping district, and historic waterfront. From there it is over to Saginaw to visit the historic Temple Theatre for a tour and viewing of a silent film with accompaniment on the Barton pipe organ and an overnight stay at Soaring Eagle Casino and Resort

Golden Oaks Seniors invite new members

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Scholarship deadline to apply is April 9. For application information, visit the website palosfineartsPalos Heights Parks and Rec- scholarship.com,or call 448-0425. reation Department will hold its annual Chocolate Chase Rabbit Palos Twp. assessment Race 5K this Saturday, April 4. appeal period underway The race will start at 9 a.m. and finish rain or shine on Navajo Drive Palos Township residents may behind the Harvest Bible Chapel, file a property assessment appeal 6600 W. 127th St. The registration application now through April 13 fee is $27; $32 after March 27. at the township assessor’s office, All race participants and supporters 10802 S. Roberts Road, Palos Hills. are invited back to the finish line Hours are Monday through Frito enjoy free chocolate. day, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. For All participants receive two more information, call 598-4418. chocolate-covered strawberries Appeal applications must be recourtesy of Tastee Freez. All fit- ceived by the Cook County Assesness levels welcome. sor no later than April 13, so Palos Register at the website Township will assist residents with palosheightsrec.org. Call 361-1807 applications until Friday, April 10, for more information. allowing the last day, Monday, April 13, for delivery.

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The Palos Park Public Library will present Writing Your Life at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 7. This writing workshop will provide tips and examples for ways to write about your life in a variety of ways using the techniques of professional poets and writers. Presenter Charlie Rossiter has authored numerous books, some autobiographically.

Call the library to register at 448-1530 or visit the library online at www.palosparklibrary.org.

The library is at 12330 Forest Glen Blvd. in Palos Park.

Heights library upcoming programs • Featured Database – Academic Search Premier is one of sever-

al EBSCO Host databases carried

by Palos Heights Public Library, 12501 S. 71st Ave. It provides full-text access to thousands of articles published in peer-reviewed academic journals. This database is well-suited to college and graduate-level research. To explore Academic Search Premier, visit the Library’s homepage at www. palosheightslibrary.org, hover on “Services,” select “Online Databases,” and choose Academic Search Premier.

• Roadside History of Illinois – Join author Stan “Tex” Banash as he explores the history of the Prairie State through its highways and byways at 7 p.m. today (Thursday). Copies of his book will be available for purchase, and a book signing will follow the program.

• Zinio Digital Magazines – Learn how the Library provides access to many digital magazines on your computer, tablet or smartphone on Monday, April 6 at 6:30 p.m. You must have a Palos Heights Public Library card to use this service. Space is limited for this class; registration is required by calling Adult Services at 448-1473 or by registering through the Library’s online events calendar at www. palosheightslibrary.org.

• Mood Foods – Community Nurse Educator Eileen McNichols discusses the Happiness Diet and elevating your mood with food on Wednesday, April 8, at 7 p.m.

• Thursday @ the Movies – The Library will show the 2015 film “The Judge,” starring Robert Downey Jr. and Robert Duvall, on April 9 at 10 a.m. (with subtitles), 2 p.m., and 6:30 p.m.

For information on upcoming programs, visit the website at www.palosheightslibrary.org. and All programs are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.

Registration is required as noted and always encouraged.

Heights library youth programs • Brown Bag Movies – Eat your lunch while you watch “Big Hero 6” at the library on Friday, April 3, at 1 p.m. Registration is apprecitated.

• Crafty Gardening – Children ages 3 will create spring flowers from craft materials to decorate the library or to take home on Thursday, April 2, at 4 p.m. Registration is needed.

• Miss Jamie’s Farm Show – Kids can sing along, dance, and more during this interactive musical play with farm animal puppets on Friday, April 3, at 10 a.m. Registration is required for this event.

• Upcycled Eggs – Children ages 2 and up are invited to use leftover plastic eggs to make a bird feeder for your yard on Monday, April 6, at 10 a.m. Registration is appreciated.

• Meet a service dog – Lee Kriska of the Spinal Cord Injury Association and her service dog Merlot will show kids how they work together on Monday, April 6, at 2 p.m. Registration is required for this event.

• Messy Art – Kids 3 and up will get creative with the library’s art supplies on Tuesday, April 7 at 10 a.m. Registration is appreciated.

• After School Club – Kids in grades 1-3 can enjoy stories, games, experiments, crafts and snacks with friends on Tuesday, April 7 at 4 p.m. Registration is appreciated.

• Fun with Frog Stories – stories and songs about frogs on Wednesday, April 8, at 1 p.m. No registration necessary.

• Chess Club – Children ages 6 and up play chess and get advice from Stagg High School’s Chess Team on Wednesday, April 8, at 7 p.m. No registration required.

• Friday Gaming – Grades 6 and up can unwind at the end of the week with gaming in our Young Adult Section every Friday, from 2:30-4:30 p.m. No registration required.

All programs are free and open to everyone at the Palos Heights Public Library, located at 12501 S. 71st Ave. For more information or to register for a program, visit www.palosheightslibrary.org, call 448-1473, or stop by the Youth Services desk.

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Little Company of Mary named PICK OF THE LITTER one of nation’s 100 top hospitals Trachea ills can afflict toy dogs Little Company of Mary Hospital was named one of the nation’s 100 Top Hospitals® by Truven Health Analytics,TM a leading provider of data-driven analytics and solutions to improve the cost and quality of healthcare.

The Truven Health 100 Top Hospitals® study identifies hospitals and leadership teams that provide the highest level of value to their communities, based on a national balanced scorecard. The 100 Top Hospitals balanced scorecard measures overall organizational performance across 11 key analytic measures including patient care, operational efficiency and financial stability. The study has been conducted annually since 1993.

This is the first time Little Company of Mary Hospital has been recognized with this honor.

Committed to its patients, the hospital in 2013 launched improvement initiatives across a number of nationally reported quality measures. To tackle 30-day readmissions, its leaders implemented a care-transition program hiring a nurse navigator to help prepare

high-risk patients for the transition to their home environment.

And in May 2014, the hospital launched a nurse-driven initiative to reduce catheter-associated urinary-tract infections by limiting the use of catheters. The quality team also works with the internal communications team to announce or disseminate these patient-safety campaigns.

“CMS provides hospitals their specific data and we drilled down into that data and what we learned is we need to make improvements to our venous thromboembolism rates,” said Cindy Deuser. The hospital already has set up a task force to address the issue, and is using a risk score to assess patients’ likelihood of developing the blood clots.

To conduct the 100 Top Hospitals study, Truven Health researchers evaluated close to 3,000 short-term, acute-care, nonfederal hospitals. Risk-adjusted methodologies were used to analyze public information — Medicare cost reports, Medicare Provider Analysis and Review (MEDPAR) data, and

core measures and patient satisfaction data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Hospital Compare reports.

Hospitals do not apply, and winners do not pay to market this honor.

The winning hospitals were announced in the March 2, 2015, edition of Modern Healthcare magazine.

The study shows that if all hospitals in the U.S. performed at the level of this year’s winners: • 126,471 additional lives could be saved • 108,926 additional patients could be complication-free • $1.8 billion in inpatient costs could be saved • The average patient stay would decrease by half a day • Episode-of-illness expense would be 2 percent lower than the peer average More information on this study and other 100 Top Hospitals research is available at www.100tophospitals.com.

— Little Company of Mary Hospital

HEALTH BEAT Ageless Grace fitness at Palos Township Palos Township Health Service will sponsor Ageless Grace on Wednesday, April 8, from 10 to 11 a.m., at the township building, 10802 S. Roberts Road, Palos Hills.

Ageless Grace is a fitness and wellness program, which consists of 21 different exercises each designed to work particular joints and muscle groups and to target certain cognitive functions. Done in a chair, the workout combines music and movement. Call 598-2441 to reserve a spot.

Food safety talk at Orland Township Orland Township, 14807 S. Ravinia Ave., will host a free discussion on food safety, presented by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service on Wednesday, April 8 at 6:30 p.m.

About 2 million people, including children, die each year from eating unsafe food. Foods containing bacteria, viruses, parasites or chemical substances are responsible for more than 200 diseases, including cancer.

Attendees will learn steps to help prevent illness and disease when preparing and eating food. Registration is required. Call 403-4222.

Seminar on gait, balance and vertigo Orland Township and Flexeon Rehabilitation will host a seminar on gait, balance and vertigo on Tuesday, April 14, at 11 a.m. at the township, 14807 S. Ravinia Ave. Gait refers to the manner in which one walks.

Walking abnormalities can be caused by disease or injury to the legs, feet, brain, spine or inner ear. Learn how to craft a plan for improving gait abnormalities through exercise, as well as how to regain balance, prevent spinning feelings and restore normal activities.

A reservation is required. Call 403-4222.

Drug abuse workshop for parents of teens Orland Township will hold a workshop for parents called “The Most Common Parent Trap: What can I do if my teen started using drugs?” presented by Orland Township Youth and Family Counseling Services with guest speaker David Lee and sponsored by Rosecrance.

It will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 9, at the township, 14807 S. Ravinia Ave. in Orland Park.

This workshop is for families of teens who are experimenting with or are in a pattern of abusing drugs and alcohol. Information will be provided on how to recapture the relationship your family had before drugs and alcohol entered your teen’s life.

For more, contact Kathy Passafiume, Youth and Family Services clinical director, at 403-4001 or visit rosecrance.org..

Orland Twp. monthly immunization clinics Orland Township will offer its monthly immunization clinic on Tuesday, April 7, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., and Saturday, May 2, from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. at the township building, 14807 S. Ravinia Avenue.

Monthly Orland Township immunization clinics are open to all eligible children 18 and under regardless of township residency. Adults receiving vaccines must be residents of the township and should have proof of residency on the day of clinics.

Free vaccines are available to township children 18 and under. Some eligibility restrictions apply. For children residing outside of the township’s boundaries, a $20 administration fee per vaccine will be charged (does not apply to those with Medicaid/ All Kids). An up-to-date shot record is mandatory to receive any vaccine, and children must be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian.

Children’s vaccines that are available include

DTaP, DTaP-Hep B-IPV, DTaP-IPV-Hib, DTaP-IPV, Hep A, Hep B, Hep B-Hib, HPV, Meningococcal, MMR, IPV, Pneumococcal, Rotavirus, Tdap and Varicella. Adult vaccines that are available include HPV, Pneumococcal, Hep A, Tuberculosis, Hep B, Tdap, IPV, Meningococcal, Hep A-Hep B, MMR, Typhoid, Varicella and Shingles.

For additional clinic dates and adult immunization prices, visit www.orlandtwp.org.

Moraine Valley: Stem cells and bone marrow Moraine Valley Community College will hos its Medical Education Series presentation on “Stem Cell/ Bone Marrow Transplantation: The Basics,” from 7 to 8 p.m., on Wednesday, April 8, in the Dorothy Menker Theater, in the Fine and Performing Arts Center, 9000 W. College Pkwy., Palos Hills. The event is co-sponsored by Northwestern Memorial Hospital and is free and open to the public.

Presenter Dr. Kehinde Adekola is a hematologist/ oncologist and assistant professor in the Division of Hematology/Oncology at the Feinberg School of Medicine and Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center at Northwestern University.

For more, contact Mari Smith at 608-4039 or Smithm@morainevalley.edu.

Silver Cross Hospital free support groups • A free Bipolar Disease Support Group for individuals and family members coping with bipolar disease on Tuesday, April 7 and 21, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. in Silver Cross Hospital’s Behavioral Health Services, 1900 Silver Cross Blvd., New Lenox. First time participants should call 1-888660-HEAL (4325) or visit www.silvercross.org to register to attend.

• Breastfeeding Support Group will meet on Monday, April 13, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. and Friday, April 17, from 10:30 a.m. to Noon in the Hospital’s Conference Center, Pavilion A, 1890 Silver Cross Blvd., New Lenox. Free. Infants are welcome to attend. First time participants should register in advance at www.silvercross.org or 1-888-660-HEAL (4325).

• Stroke Support Group for survivors, family members or caregivers will meet on Wednesday, April 8 and 22, from 4 to 5 p.m. at Silver Cross Hospital, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago Inpatient Unit Dining Room, 1900 Silver Cross Blvd., New Lenox. First time participants should call 1-888660-HEAL (4325) or visit www.silvercross.org for more information or to register.

Smith support group Smith Village’s memory support coordinator Diane Morgan will host an open discussion for family members of adults with memory issues at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 7, at Smith Village, 2320 W. 113th Place, in the Beverly/Morgan Park area of Chicago. Light refreshments will be served.

To reserve a seat, call 773-474-7300 or send an email to familyandfriends@smithvillage.org.

Access to Care at Orland Township Orland Township residents who have a family income less than 300 percent of the federal poverty guidelines, no health insurance or a deductible of $500 more per person and are ineligible for Medicaid, Medicare Part B (Medicare Part A coverage is acceptable), AllKids, FamilyCare or CountyCare can apply for Access to Care at Orland Township, 14807 S. Ravinia Ave. An appointment is necessary.

The Access to Care program provides visits to an assigned Access to Care doctor for $5, basic lab and X-ray services for $5 per draw or procedure, and prescription medication for $15 (generic), $30 preferred brand and $40 (non-preferred brand). Brand name medications are available only at Walgreens.

To make an appointment, call 403-4222.

JOHN FLEMING

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Dear Dr. Fleming, I have been following your last couple of articles about anesthesia, coughing and collapsing trachea (CT) problems in toy dogs. I have an older toy poodle that has also been coughing for years. Can you tell me what treatments are available for this problem?

Jason, Orland Park Dear Jason, Depending upon whose study you read, the incidence of CT in toy breed dogs ranges from 58 to 90 percent, based upon bronchoscopic examinations under anesthesia. The vast majority of toy dogs, even those with some degree of CT that are sedated for surgery in this country, are anesthetized with no problems and no one even knows that the dog is affected.

Most dogs with CT need no treatment. Some will cough occasionally (goose-honk – like cough) but the problem is most often not severe enough to seek diagnosis and treatment. For those dogs that do need some treatment there are bronchodilators like Theochron, cough suppressants such as hycodan, steroids like prednisone to reduce inflammation and mild tranquilizers if excitement is expected in the home, such as a big party.

Two lesser-known treatment modalities are especially intriguing. The first is a tracheal stent, which is a titanium/nickel alloy mesh (spring) that is placed down into the trachea at the area of collapse using a bronchoscope. This stent once placed keeps the airway open at all times.

The second treatment that is even less well known comes out of a study done by Dr. Katarina and colleagues at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Thessaloniki, Greece. The study, “Conservative Management Of Canine Tracheal Collapse With Stanozolol: A Double-Blinded, Placebo Controlled Clinical Trial,” appeared in 2011 in an international immunopathology journal. Of the stanozolol treated CT dogs in the study, long-lasting improvement was seen in approximately 93 percent of dogs, while 57.1 percent were cured and 35.8 percent demonstrated a less severe tracheal cough (TC) grade, while only one dog did not improve at all.

They concluded that stanozolol seems to be an effective drug in the management of canine TC and that it may have potential for use in humans with tracheomalacia (TM).

Stanozolol is an anabolic androgenic steroid drug.

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The effects of stanozolol seen in the dogs in this study may be due to enhancement of protein synthesis and its action on the increase in chondroitin sulfate content in the trachea along with increased collagen synthesis.

A few thoughts on this stanozolol treatment are in order. No veterinarian I have talked to has ever heard of this study. I was reading the respiratory chapter in our new internal medicine text this past week and found this study briefly mentioned at the end of the chapter, almost as a one-liner after-thought. It took me some time to locate the specific journal, and from there I was able to make contact with Dr. Adamama.

She graciously sent me a reprint of the article. We used to use stanozolol quite a bit back in the 1980s when UpJohn Company marketed it under the trade name Winstrol-V. I have seen on the Internet that bodybuilders can buy and abuse what is claimed to be Winstrol, but I’d never give a dog anything bought from those sources much less take it myself.

I contacted our compounding pharmacy in Arizona and found that we can still get the drug on a case-by-case basis for use in dogs. In the future, this could become an accepted treatment for canine tracheobronchomalacia. We will be on the lookout for any clients who want to consider this option. If the results of this study are shown to be repeatable in clinical practice this treatment would be an attractive alternative to stenting. One of our clients, Ruth, had her little Maltese stented at the university last year and I think her overall total cost was around $4,000.

Silver Cross offers childbirth classes Silver Cross Hospital offers an array of classes to help new parents prepare and expect the best from their birthing experience in the hospital’s beautiful Women and Infant Services Birthing Center. For more information or to register for one or more childbirth classes, visit www.silvercross.org/ specialdeliveries or call 1-888-660-HEAL (4325).

Baby Basics Parents-to-be and new parents can learn about their baby’s physical care and health, using child care, common problems, stress management and positive child guidance skills at a special one-day Baby Basics Class. This program will be held Monday, April 13, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. in the Silver Cross Hospital Conference Center, 1890 Silver Cross Blvd., New Lenox. Cost is $25 per couple.

Bereavement support The hospital now offers a support group for parents who have experienced loss during pregnancy, at birth or shortly after, or from early SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome). The Baby Bereavement Support Group will meet Thursday, April 9, from 7 to 8 p.m. in the Hospital’s Conference Center, 1890 Silver Cross Blvd., Pavilion A, New Lenox.

First time participants should register in advance.

Birthing Center Tours Silver Cross will offer free Birthing Center Tours for expectant families at 1900 Silver Cross Blvd., New Lenox. The tours will be offered every Saturday in April at 1:30 p.m., and on Sunday at 1:30 p.m. and 4 p.m. Tours will also take place on Tuesday, April 7 and 21 at 7 p.m. to help parents prepare and expect the best from their birthing experience in the hospital’s new luxurious birthing suites.

Breastfeeding classes A certified lactation consultant will teach the basics of breastfeeding, including establishing a milk supply, breast pumps, avoiding difficulties and more on Wednesday, April 1 and 8 from 6:30 to 9 p.m. at Silver Cross Hospital, Pavilion A, Conference Center, 1890 Silver Cross Blvd., New Lenox. Cost is $15 per person.

Breastfeeding support The Silver Cross Birthing Center’s certified lactation consultants will host a free support group meeting on Monday, April 13 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. and Friday, April 17, from 10:30 a.m. to Noon in the Hospital’s Conference Center, Pavilion A, 1890 Silver Cross Blvd., New Lenox. New mothers have many questions and concerns about breastfeeding in the weeks leading up to and after birth. Breastfeeding support groups are a wonderful way to exchange information and experiences. Infants are welcome to attend. First time participants should register in advance.

Post-partum Pilates The Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago at Silver Cross will host a five week Pilates Class for women 6 weeks to 6 years post-partum. Exercise will be tailored to all fitness levels. The series will consist of five 60-minute classes on Mondays, April 13 to May 11, from 6-7 pm. Classes will be held on the second floor of the Silver Cross Health Center, located at 12701 West 143rd St., Homer Glen. Led by a Certified Pre-Post Natal Pilates Specialist, each class will include 15 minutes of educational material specific to the post-partum mom. The remaining 45 minutes will consist of Pilates-based stretching and strengthening focusing on the pelvic floor and core muscles. Introductory Cost for this new five-week series is $50. Register to attend at www.silvercross. org or by calling 1-888-660-HEAL (4325).

Prepared childbirth class A weekend Prepared Childbirth Class will be held April 4 and 5 from 8:30 to 11 a.m.; a Saturday class April 25 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., and a threeday class Tuesday, April 7 to 21 from 6:30 to 9 p.m. All classes will be held in the Silver Cross Hospital, Pavilion A, Conference Center, 1890 Silver Cross Blvd., New Lenox. Participants will receive instruction from a registered nurse on breathing, relaxation and floor exercise techniques. She will also review the labor, delivery, recovery and postpartum processes. Cost is $80 per couple. There is no charge for patients under the care of an OB/GYN with the Aunt Martha’s Joliet Community Health Center or the Will County Community Health Center.

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Time for some financial ‘spring cleaning’ Meatheads opens in Oak Lawn We’ve just about arrived at spring, the time when many people spruce up their homes, yards and other parts of their surroundings. This year, why not extend that practice a little further and give your financial and investment environment a good “spring cleaning”?

Here are a few suggestions for doing just that: • Reduce duplication. If you’ve ever worked to “de-clutter” your home, you may have discovered a lot of extraneous items. Did you really need three blenders? Did you have more remote control devices than you did televisions?

As you look through your investment portfolio, you might also find some duplication, perhaps in the form of multiple stocks of companies in the same industry. You might want to consider whether you’d be better off by reducing this concentration and using the proceeds to broaden your investment mix to create new potential for growth, income or a combination of both.

• Repair your “roof.” As part of your exterior spring-cleaning efforts, you might examine your roof to determine if you need to repair or replace any torn or missing shingles. After all, a strong roof is essential to protecting your home. And your financial foundation needs protection, too — so, review your life and disability insurance to ensure they are still adequate to meet your family’s needs. You also might want to consult with a financial professional for ways of dealing with the potentially devastating costs of an extended nursing home stay or another type of long-term care.

• Plant some “seeds.” Spring is a good time for re-seeding parts of your lawn that may be bare. Once you’ve planted the seeds, of course, you’ll need to water and fertilize them to encourage growth. As you look over your financial landscape, you may also find areas that are somewhat barren. For example, you might be adequately funding your own retirement goals through your employer-sponsored retirement plan and other investments, but are you putting

JIM VAN HOWE

Edward Jones Investments away enough money for your children’s college education? If not, you might need to “plant some seeds” for potential growth by investing in a college savings account, such as a 529 plan. And you may need to continually “nourish” your plan by contributing money each year.

• Update your “furnishings.” When you bought and arranged your home’s furnishings, they might have been perfectly suited for your needs.

But now, many years later, your situation may be quite different. Perhaps you’ve said goodbye to grown children who have struck out on their own, so you might want to make new uses for old rooms. And maybe your old “stuff” just isn’t as comfortable as it was before, or the layout of your furniture isn’t as efficient. Whatever the case, it may well be time to update your environment. And the same thing can happen with your financial “house.” To reflect changes in your family situation, employment, economic circumstances, retirement goals and other factors, you will need to periodically review your financial strategy and your investment portfolio, and make adjustments as needed.

Tidying up your living space may help improve your overall outlook on life. The same might be said of a financial spring cleaning — and you won’t even need a mop.

Jim Van Howe is a financial advisor with Edward Jones, in Palos Heights. His office is at 7001 W. 127th St. He can be reached at 3613400. This article was written by Edward Jones for use by your local Edward Jones Financial Advisor.

Beware common springtime scams As springtime blooms, so do new scams. Scammers will be going door-to-door with plans to rip-off the residents. The Better Business Bureau (BBB) advises consumers that now is the time to be on their guard.

“Most of the scams aren’t new but because con artists know how to work them they appear year after year,” says Steve J. Bernas, president and CEO of the Better Business Bureau serving Chicago and Northern Illinois. “What we want to do is educate consumers on what to look for so they can stay one step ahead.”

Alarm system scams

No one wants to have their home burglarized and many homeowners pay substantial sums to have their homes protected by security systems. These scam artists, who are often alarm company sales people, comb neighborhoods looking for signs posted in yards warning that the home has a security system.

They knock on the door and tell you the system needs to be upgraded.

Once inside they give you the bad news that the system cannot protect you against today’s modern theft techniques and offer to “upgrade” your system. In reality, they are disconnecting your service provider and installing a system from their company. If you agree to the “upgrade” and sign their agreement you could be locked into a multi-year contract that can end with a costly penalty if you try to break it.

How to protect yourself: • Never allow anyone into your

home who claims to be from your alarm company without contacting the company first.

• Ask questions if they are reluctant to provide answers – that’s a red flag • Don’t be frightened by reports from them of an increase of burglaries in your area.

• Never sign any agreement where you feel pressured to do so.

• Do not sign anything that you have not read thoroughly.

Storm chasers

Spring can bring severe weather leaving behind hail-damaged roofs.

Following the storms are fraudsters known as “storm chasers”. These scam artists sell themselves as roofing contractors. They go town-totown, door-to door, taking money for work, under performing or not performing at all, and then moving on to the next town before the homeowners can get their money back.

Homeowners can lose thousands of dollars in these scams.

The BBB offers these tips before choosing a roofing contractor: • If approached by a contractor, ask for proof of licensing, insurance and bonding.

• Try to get at least 3-4 quotes from contractors and insist that payments be made to the company, not an individual.

• Resist high-pressure sales tactics such as the “good deal” you’ll get only if you hire the contractor on the spot.

• Check out the company first with the BBB at www.bbb.org/chicago and deal only with reputable

contractors.

• Get a written contract that specifies the price and the work to be done and a time frame. In Illinois, state law requires a written contract with all costs enumerated for home repair or remodeling work over $1,000.

• Prices are often high in the immediate aftermath of a storm.

Only buy the services that are necessary to make your home safe and habitable. Wait at least a few days to hire other contractors because the rates are likely to drop.

• Pay by credit card, if possible; you may have additional protection if there’s a problem. Otherwise, pay by check. Never pay in cash.

• Be sure that all promises made are put in writing.

Magazine sales scams

You open your door to find someone selling subscriptions to magazines. They say it’s a great deal but often the prices are as much as three times the regular price. You pay with a check or credit card and then you receive nothing in return.

What to do to avoid being scammed: • Many municipalities require door-to-door solicitors to have a permit. Ask to see it.

• Before paying, check out the businesses at bbb.org.

• If the cost of the subscriptions is $25 or more, you must be informed of your 3-day right to cancel. If they do not, assume it is a scam.

For more information on scams, visit www.bbb.org/chicago.

Meatheads, a fast-casual restaurant that specializes in gourmet hamburgers, opened its 14th location in Illinois Monday March 30, at 11026 S. Cicero Ave. in Oak Lawn’s new Stony Creek Promenade shopping center.

There was a ribbon cutting with members of the Oak Lawn Chamber of Commerce and village officials.

The Oak Lawn location is the chain’s second site in the south suburbs. A location opened a couple of years ago in Frankfort. It is the restaurant chain’s 16th location overall.

In addition to gourmet burgers, the Meatheads menu includes chicken sandwiches, chop salad, veggie melt, chicken tenders, New England-style hot dog and hand-dipped milkshakes.

The 2,000-square-foot restaurant will seat 90 inside and additional seating on a patio will be available when weather permits.

Hours will be from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily.

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Tinnes Maribeth to Schuler William, 15720 Deerfield Ct, Unit #157202S, $114,000; Laban Ahmad A to Sakalas Brian N, 13512 Overland Trl, $250,000; Maslan Amy L Tr to Sims Mark A, 14812 Greenview Ter, $375,000; Grella Jonathan to Brown Christopher J, 15811 S 76th Ave, Unit #158112G, $107,000; Fortino Naomi to Czarnik Erik D, 9125 Fairmont Ct, Unit #55, $110,000; Amsfr LLC to Mozerka Cathleen A, 15353 Treetop Dr, Many, $65,000; Illinois Equine Prop LLC to 16201 118th St LLC, 16201 118th Ave, $500,000; Janeczek Adam to Otoole Eileen, 11916 S Pine Creek Dr, $305,000; Judicial Sales Corp to North Shore Holdings Ltd, 7345 Tiffany Dr, Unit #3E, $71,000; Volkman Pamela Ann to Smith Carol M, 17950 Iowa Ct, Unit #174, $158,000;

Two businesses are partnering up to build a new clean fuel station in southwest suburban Hodgkins.

U.S. GAIN, a division of U.S. Venture, and Midwest Cargo Systems Inc. have decided to work together to build a compressed natural gas station at Midwest Cargo’s facility at 9750 W. 75th St. in Hodgkins.

The site is perfect for trucks that use CNG fuel as it is a half-mile south of the busy Interstate 294 and Interstate 55 corridor.

Construction on the new station is expected to begin this month.

Midwest Cargo is in the process of acquiring 10 Class 8 CNG tractors via leases with Ryder Transportation. With a fleet of more than 100 dry vans and reefers and 50 tri-axle chassis, Midwest Cargo serves a variety of transportation needs in the region including the delivery of intermodal containers and dedicated fleet operations.

Robert W. Cunningham, president, and Thomas L. Ciukaj, vice president of Midwest Cargo, detailed their company’s commitment to CNG. “We evaluated the many benefits of converting to CNG and embraced the ideal of being environmental leaders within the transportation community,” Cunningham said. “When we look back to our origins, some 80 years ago, we’re reminded of how my grandfather, Jim, start-

If you see a new business in town or wonder what happened to an old favorite, drop me a line at bobbong@hotmail.com.

You can also catch up on Comings & Goings in other parts of the Southland at www.southlandbusinessnews.com and www.southlandsavvy. blogspot.com.

Moraine offers networking workshop Job seekers can learn how to positively present themselves at networking events during Moraine Valley Community College’s free workshop.

This event, which is part of the college’s Career Paths and Coffee Speaker Series, is Thursday, April 16, from 5 to 7 p.m., in Building M on campus, 9000 W. College Pkwy in Palos Hills. Sign-in and networking begins at 5 p.m. before the presentation at 5:30 p.m.

Lauren Milligan, CEO and founder of ResuMAYDAY, will lead the workshop on “Perfect Your ‘Pitch’ to Become a Networking Star.” Milligan will help participants, from business professionals at networking events and job seekers with potential employers to business owners with clients, learn how make impressive “elevator pitches” for positive first impressions. Through this interactive presentation, participants will develop and polish a compelling and clearly defined pitch, learn insider tips on public speaking and methods to develop a personal delivery style, and network with and deliver pitches to other attendees for instant feedback.

Milligan is the author of the book “Conversations with a Career Coach” and a contributor on topics related to employment and careers for WGN Radio, ABC News, CNN, and “The New York Times,” among other media outlets.

In addition to this event, Career Paths and Coffee host adult information sessions, which are monthly hour-long gatherings on all three of Moraine Valley’s campuses. They provide information

for adults interested in learning about programs and resources or enrolling at Moraine Valley.

To register for the event go to mvccfreeworkshop.eventbrite. com. For more information, contact Peggy Heenan at 974-5312 and heenanm6@morainevalley. edu or visit morainevalley.edu/ adultsuccess.

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ed out delivering ice with a horse and wagon and as my father, Bob, grew the company, he continued transitioning to cutting-edge vehicle technology. Tom and I feel that by converting to CNG, we are continuing their innovative path.”

“Midwest Cargo is another great example of a company making the decision to transition to CNG,” said Bill Renz, general manager for U.S. Gain. “Even with the recent drop in diesel fuel prices, CNG still provides significant savings.

We’re not only meeting a growing need in the industry, but we’re building our national network, which allows more fleets to leverage the savings and environmental benefits of CNG.” This is first time Midwest Cargo will be operating trucks that use CNG. “Converting 10 vehicles is a great first step and I’m confident Midwest Cargo will convert more trucks in the future as the savings adds up,” Renz added.

GAIN Clean Fuel’s expanding national network of compressed natural gas stations offers a lower cost, environmentally friendly alternative to diesel fuel, with stations strategically located along major carrier routes, creating significant benefit for its partner trucking firms.

With this partnership, GAIN Clean Fuel is on track with its plan to have more than 100 CNG stations in operation within the next two years.

There are currently 43 GAIN Clean Fuel stations in operation or under construction throughout the U.S., including one in Joliet Each provides fast-fill capabilities and has fleet card acceptance. All of the stations are open for use by other companies and the general public.

Midwest Cargo partners for clean fuel station in Hodgkins

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Egg hunt heads into Holy Week

DEATH NOTICES Marie Kraemer

Marie Kraemer (nee Turi) of Naples Florida passed away peacefully on March 18, 2015 at the age of 83. Born April 13, 1931 in New York. Beloved wife of the late Frederick. Loving mother of Kurt (Wendy), Mark, and Glenn. Proud Grandmother of Alyssa and Kyle Kraemer, Samantha (Josh) Moore, and Matthew Herrmann. Adoring Great-Grandmother of Brian Aden Huerta, Lilly Grace Huerta, and Skylar Lee Moore.

She resided in Chicago, Illinois; Palos Heights, Illinois; and finally in Naples, Florida as an active member of Glades Country Club. She enjoyed a successful

Alice C. Fitzgerald

Alice C. Fitzgerald, nee Mathieu, age 93, late of Orland Park, died March 21, at the Waterford Estates in Hazel Crest.

A funeral Mass was held on March 26 at St. Michael Church Photos by Anthony Caciopo

Joseph Sullivan, 11, of Orland Park (left), and his brother, Stephen, 7, take stock of their haul of plastic eggs last Saturday on the lawn of Christ Lutheran Church in Orland Park. Organizers scattered approximately 10,000 plastic eggs, each with a candy treat inside, as part of an “Easter Eggstravaganza” event.

career in the legal community of Chicago where she was a secretary, Service Department Manager, and Human Resources Director for the law firm of Wildman, Harrold, Allen, and Dixon. She also served as President of the Chicago Chapter of the Association of Legal Administrators. An avid writer, she continued to produce many articles for the ALA during her retirement. She enjoyed golf, crossword puzzles, and walking.

in Orland Park. Interment was at Good Shepherd Cemetery in Orland Park.

Mrs. Fitzgerald is survived by five nieces and nephews and many great-nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her husband,

She would often be seen walking around The Glades where she was known and loved by countless friends. She will be greatly missed by her family and friends in Illinois and Naples.

Services will be held at 10:00 a.m. on April 13, 2015 at St. Peter the Apostle Church 5130 Rattlesnake Hammock Road Naples, FL. Online condolences may be made at: www.legacyoptionsllc. com In lieu of flowers donations may be made in her memory to the Glades Country Club Memorial Fund 210 Teryl Road Naples, FL 34112.

Jack, and her long-time companion Richard Sokolowski.

Mrs. Fitzgerald was a supervisor with MetLife. Arrangements were entrusted to Thornridge Funeral Home, Orland Park.

HOUSES OF WORSHIP Calvary Church Easter egg hunt

Labyrinth walks and Stations of the Cross

Calvary Church in Orland Park will hold a morning of Easter activities this Saturday, April 4, from 10 to 11:30 a.m., at the church, 16100 S. 104th Ave. in Orland Park.

The egg hunt will be held indoors inside the church gym.

Arrive early and bring a basket for age-divided egg hunts and free raffle giveaways. There will be a gift for each child and lots of eggs filled with candy and small trinkets.

For more, visit the website Calvaryop.org.

Labyrinth walks will be held at The Center, 12700 Southwest Highway, Palos Park today (Thursday) at 5:30 p.m., on Saturday morning, April 4, at 8 a.m., and from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Good Friday, April 3.

The labyrinth, a large outdoor circular stone path for spiritual meditation is located at the north end of The Center parking lot. In addition to the group walks focused on welcoming in the new year, the labyrinth is available for individual walks at any time during the month.

On Good Friday, Pastoral Director Chris Hopkins invites people to gather at the large outdoor labyrinth for a Stations of the Cross pilgrimage, which is a unique way to experience the passion of Jesus on a personal level in an ancient and yet new way. The scriptural Stations of the Cross are modeled on those celebrated by Pope John Paul II on Good Friday, 1991.

There will be prayer books to guide participants on their journeys.

There is no cost to those wishing to walk the labyrinth and no reservations are necessary. The walks will take place rain or shine.

For information, call Pastor Chris Hopkins 361-3650.

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Sweet Wine, a touring music ministry group from Valparaiso University, entertains an estimated 500 children and adults in Ledogar Hall at the Church, helping connect the secular Easter bunny fun with a joyful Christian message about Christ’s victory and message of eternal salvation.

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Rejoice With Us Easter Sunday Saint Luke The Evangelist Orthodox Church 9300 W. 107th Street, Palos Hills, IL 60465 (630) 243-0893

“COME RECEIVE THE LIGHT” on April 11th Friday, April 10, Lamentation and Procession of the Holy Shroud (Epitaphios) 7 p.m.

Saturday, April 11 - Pascha (Easter) Service begins at 10:30 p.m. Dinner following Sunday, April 12 Agape Service with Easter Egg Hunt at 12 Noon

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2015 EASTER SCHEDULE Holy Thursday, April 2 7:00 p.m., Mass of the Last Supper Adoration after Mass until Midnight Good Friday, April 3 3:00 p.m. Stations of the Cross - Youth Group 7:00 p.m., Liturgy of the Passion & Death of the Lord Holy Saturday, April 4 11:00 a.m., Easter Baskets Blessed 7:00 p.m., Easter Vigil Service Easter Sunday, April 5 Masses: 7:30, 9:30 & 11:30 a.m.

Heaven ~ A Place of Rest with God Darlene Bonnema, of the Christ Lutheran hospitality staff, brought a touch whimsy to the congregation’s annual Easter event.

Heaven is not a ghostlike, foggy atmosphere where disembodied spirits float around. Heaven is as real as this Earth. Jesus told His disciples, “I go to prepare a place for you.” Paul taught that Christians would have new imperishable bodies.

Again, contrary to many popular ideas, Heaven is not dull.

The things that are killjoys on Earth — selfishness, hatred, death — all will be gone. Heaven will not be a place where we sit around with nothing to do.

The Bible suggests that Heaven will be a place for dynamic, creative and untiring activity, but without toil and fatigue.

God sent his son Jesus to take away the sins of those who bel ieve Jesus is who He said He was, the son of God. He offers peace, joy and contentment now with the assurance of being forever with Jesus Christ in Heaven.

Heaven will also be a place of intellectual stimulation. Here we “see through a glass darkly,” but there, “face to face,” we shall see God.

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Young hunters collect candy booty: Young hunters in Palos Heights and Palos Park braved the cool weather last weekend to enjoy a holiday tradition – the annual Easter egg hunt. Palos Park youngsters like Jonathan Winkelblech and his sister hunted for Easter goodies at Palos Woods South. Jonathan collected some candy from Peter Cottontail himself.

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IMPRESSIONS

Here is what Paul should play at the Palooza OK, I’m going to be a part of the solution rather than a part of the problem.

When it was announced the Paul McCartney was going to headline the 2015 Lollapalooza Festival, I was disgusted.

Lolla used to be a traveling circus of edgy alternative groups with cult status rather than mainstream chart toppers.

Now it is calling Chicago its home and had grown into a megamonster event and a lot more mainstream acts have joined in on the act. But Paul McCartney? He’s older than some kids’ great grandfathers for gosh sakes. This is just so wrong in so many ways.

Let the guy sell out Wrigley Field. Let him sell out Soldier Field. But keep him out of Lollapalooza, pal-eeze.

Oh, well, I am spitting in the wind if I think that it’s going to change. Sir Paul will be there with his AFM and AARP cards on July 31 whether I like it or not.

So I will suggest a set list from his career more worthy of Lollapalooza.

First off, Sir Paul has a lot of lame garbage in his collection. So we’ll allow him a few soft ballads but NOTHING from “Give My Regards to Broad Street.” No “Ebony and Ivory” either.

Let’s keep this bad boy to about 90 minutes because if it goes any longer, the real McCartney fans will be nodding off to sleep because it will be past our, er, their bedtime. And they have to get home to soak their feet.

So here is what Sir Paul should play: Revolution: Let’s open the show with a big scream and some guitars and catch the attention of the teens in the crowd wondering “Why am I here?” This Beatles rocker should get the show off on a good note.

Back in the U.S.S.R.: As long as we have everybody on their feet, let’s throw in this Chuck Berry romp that the Beatles covered.

Another Day: This give us old goats, er, those old goats a chance to sit down and rest with this medium-tempo hit from the early days of his solo career.

Uncle Albert / Admiral Halsey: Another big hit from his early solo career, this

JEFF VORVA song is so offbeat some of the shoegazers and avant garde crowd in the funny outfits might stop what they are doing and give it a listen.

Helter Skelter: OK, everybody back on their feet again! Make it loud enough to let Mr. Manson hear it in his cell in California.

I’m Down: A short Beatles B-side with more screaming and guitar that is worth plugging in here.

Ballroom Dancing: Not too fast. Not too slow. It’s just a cool song from his “Tug of War” album that isn’t played too much, but is worth reviving here.

Transpiritual Stomp: Now THIS is the ultimate McCartney Lolla song. Few know or remember that Sir Paul started up a group called The Fireman and recorded some offbeat songs. This is more Brian Eno than Brian Epstein. This song, off the 1993 “Strawberries Oceans Ships Forest” is an ambient techno piece that should fascinate some of the younger crowd and, if it is played in its full nine minutes, could give the older crowd time for a little nap.

I would add more of his Fireman work to the concert, but this is all one big moneygrab, so let’s just stick with some of the basics.

You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away: I’ve always been bored by this song except when Pearl Jam puts its spin on it. So, we bring up Eddie Vedder to play guitar and sing it and let Sir Paul take a three- or four-minute break.

Rock Show: This is just a great, great live song from his Wings days for a festival of this size and he can change the lyrics around to localize Chicago and the Lollapalooza fest.

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Vorva isn’t a big fan of having Sir Paul McCartney headlining Lollapalooza in Chicago this summer but is making the best of it by constructing a killer setlist for the show.

for another Wings-ding for rock fans and James Bond fans as well.

Hi, Hi, Hi: OK, we’re done with the Wings era after this fist-in-the-air rocker.

I Saw Her Standing There: Ratchet this baby up like Elton John and John Lennon did many years ago and you have a great way to end the regular part of this event.

And now for the one encore: Hey Jude: He can’t leave town without playing this one, but how can we make this special?

Well, when it’s time for the na-na-na-nana part of the song, various acts from the fest can start to fill the stage. You can have Florence and her Machine. You can have members of TV on the Radio, Of Monsters and Men, the Alabama Shakes with the Shakey Graves, the Black Tiger Sex Machine, Mista Cookie Jar and the Chocolate Chips, Sam Smith and even one of the chaps from Metallica to all cram the stage and have the tens of thousands of fans nana-na-ing in unison for about 10 minutes.

Sounds like a good show. Now, I’ll go out and buy a ticket…

WHATIZIT

Photo by Jeff Vorva

After a great three-week run of Guest WHATIZITs, we’re back to using our good old goofball shutterbug.

Last week, Worth’s Gene Sikora sent us vapor trails from the skies of Oregon and it’s also the name of a Rush album and song.

Worth’s Theresa and George Rebersky were the vapor trailblazers with the first correct guess.

Other sky-high guessers were Evergreen Park’s Bernadette Pratl, Henrietta Mysliwiec and Jan Merchantz, Oak Lawn’s Thom Czyzewski, Palos Heights’ Jim Cap and Walter Mlynarski, Worth’s Robert Solner Chicago Ridge’s Patty Vandenberg and the Friday Night Ladies Poker and Aerospace Engineering and Alien Sighting club of Oak Lawn, Orland Park and Oak Forest.

Incorrect guesses were “a picture capturing both the sun and moon (a Rush song, but the wrong one),” the Aurora Borealis, the band Rush and “some reference to the band Rush – one of their songs, I guess.’’

This week’s clue: You may grimace when you find out what this is.

Send those guesses to thereporter @comcast.net by Monday night.

Don’t forget your name and hometown.

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Quality School Board = QUALITY SCHOOLS Our District 230 high schools are recognized for academic excellence, quality educational programs, great teachers and fiscal responsibility to taxpayers.

Just a few highlights …

•Named to America’s Top High Schools (The Daily Beast) •ACT average score 22.1 vs. State average of 20 •Average GPA 3.03 •93% graduation rate •Zero increase in tax levy two years in a row •Average per student spending $1,500 less than other area high schools •Highest financial ranking from Illinois State Board of Education •Operating tax rate among the lowest in Cook County

This group of Trinity Christian College students serve in Tennessee during spring break.

Spring break means service to others for Trinity Christian College students For many Trinity Christian College students, spring break involved serving others.

A group of 32 Trinity students traveled to Coalmont, Tenn., to serve with Mountain TOP (Tennessee Outreach Program), an organization dedicated to helping families in need.

Five groups of students worked on several projects throughout the week, such as repairing a house damaged by fire and building a ramp for an elderly resident.

Trinity’s softball team took their annual spring break trip to Florida to kick off their season.

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Before the games started, the team members met with the residents of Living Hope, a transitional home for women, and helped with property improvements by raking, weeding, mulching, and planting.

“Living Hope was an eye opening experience,” said junior April Lynn of Pontiac, Illinois.

“It felt great to serve because they were in need and depend on donations.”

Candidates Rick Nogal (current board president), Patrick O’Sullivan (current board vice president), and Denis Ryan (an experienced school board member who now serves on the District 146 school board) are committed to quality schools and fiscal responsibility.

CAST YOUR VOTE FOR THE 230 UNITED CANDIDATES!

— Trinity Christian College

RICK NOGAL • PATRICK O’SULLIVAN • DENIS RYAN Members from the Trinity softball team work on property improvements in Florida.

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Lewis basketball revels in record-setting year

By Jeff Vorva Reporter Editor

The area wasn’t represented in NCAA Division I March Madness, but at the Division II level of women’s basketball Palos Heights resident Alyssa Sliwek took a trip to the Elite Eight.

Sliwek, a Mother McAuley alumnus, is a reserve sophomore guard for Lewis University, which finished 31-3 and was four points away from advancing to the Final Four of the Division II tournament.

The Flyers fell 61-58 to Limestone last Tuesday in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

Lewis, which led most of the game, had three chances to tie in the last 12 seconds, but a trio of 3-pointers didn’t fall. Sliwek only played a minute in that game but saw action in 33 this year while averaging 1.8 points and 1.3 rebounds per contest.

She ranked eighth among Flyers with 28 assists and nailed nine 3-pointers in 20 attempts for a team-best 45 percent showing. Sliwek, who appeared in 15 games as a freshman, was also a 70 per-

cent free-throw shooter.

While at McAuley Sliwek helped the Mighty Macs win back-to-back regional championships in 2010 and 2011. She was also a mainstay on the Illinois Defenders AAU team and helped that organization bring home a Junior National title.

This year Sliwek was part of a Lewis squad that established single-season school records for most victories and fewest losses and became the first Great Lakes Valley Conference team to win at least 30 games since Drury did so in the 2005-06 campaign. The Flyers won 14 games by 25 or more points and enjoyed a schoolbest 23-game winning streak.

They made their initial Elite Eight appearance after capturing the first regional title in program history. Lewis was also ranked No. 1 in the nation for the first time ever and spent a total of five weeks in the top spot between January and February.

And things remained interesting even in the closing minutes of the Elite Eight.

“This is a group that I knew would never quit,” Flyers coach Lisa Carlsen said during the postgame news conference.

“They were going to fight to the end.

What this group was able to accomplish was pretty remarkable. We had a feeling this would be special year and it really has been.

“These guys have been playing together for a long time [and] they believed they would be here. They believed they had a shot at the national title. You can never question their heart.

“We beat three Division I teams in exhibition games in a week and that got people’s attention. We started climbing the polls and were ranked No. 1 for a while for the first time [and] we had a long home win streak that spanned over a couple of years. It brings a lot of recognition to the university and to the Lewis community.’’

The Flyers return some talent next year including Jamie Johnson, who led the team in scoring at 18.2 points per game, and Mariyah Brawner-Henley, who was second at 17.6. There’s a good chance Sliwek will play an expanded role as well.

“It won’t be the last people hear of Lewis,” Carlsen said.

Photo courtesy of Lewis University

Mother McAuley grad Alyssa Switek (front row, right of trophy with index finger raised) and her Lewis University basketball teammates celebrate winning the first regional title in program history.

Living in a perfect world Knights set a school record for best start to the season

By Ken Karrson Sports Editor

Photo by Jeff Vorva

Dan Vos, shown during a game in 2014, won on Saturday for Chicago Christian and already has a 3-0 record on the mound this season.

While other teams scramble to find baseball games, Chicago Christian keeps on playing — and winning.

The Knights raised their season total of completed contests to eight, the same number that is counted on the left side of the ledger. Victories six, seven and eight came last week, one of them at the expense of a first-time foe.

Never before Thursday had Christian and Lincoln-Way East met on the diamond, but that changed now that Mark Vander Kooi is in charge of athletics at the Frankfort school. A former football coach and AD at Christian, Vander Kooi contacted Knights coach Eric Brauer to ask if he was interested in a game.

Brauer, also Christian’s current AD,

Chargers tell them to ‘scRam’

Early uprisings enable Stagg to overpower Reavis

By Ken Karrson Sports Editor

Three games into the 2015 season Matt O’Neill looks like quite the sage.

When asked about his team’s assets prior to the start of the campaign, Stagg’s coach projected that offense should be among its stronger ones. Seeing as how the Chargers’ attack had been somewhat sketchy in recent years, O’Neill’s assessment might have seemed like little more than wishful thinking to many.

But as Stagg demonstrated last Thursday, he was right on the money. The Chargers won’t be mistaken for the 1927 Yankees, but they definitely possess greater punch than they have of late.

Reavis learned that the hard way. Normally a competitive squad against most opponents, the Rams were out of their element versus Stagg.

Part of Reavis’ undoing came at its

own hands — it was guilty of an uncharacteristically high seven errors — but the Chargers also did their share of the lifting as they knocked out 17 hits.

Seven of those were doubles and Stagg runners crossed the plate 15 times over the first two innings.

Those early explosions laid the groundwork for a stunningly lopsided 19-2 victory over the Rams that improved the Chargers’ ledger to 2-1. They had lost to Nazareth Academy and edged Romeoville the week before.

“I think we have the ability to do this hopefully pretty consistently,” O’Neill said of his squad’s onslaught. “Everybody that got a chance to bat did pretty well in that game.

“We did what we should do. [Reavis is] really young and they’re a little Photo by Jeff Vorva down, and we took advantage of their Brett Stratinsky, seen here during a 2014 game, slammed a two-RBI mistakes.” double as part of Stagg’s 10-run second inning against Reavis last See CHARGERS, Page 5 Thursday. The Chargers rolled over the Rams 19-2.

didn’t hesitate to say yes.

“If somebody calls and wants to play, we’ll usually try to find a way to play it if we can,” he said. “We felt pretty good about it.”

Brauer and his players felt even better by day’s end as the Knights made the most of their opportunity against a member of the highly regarded SouthWest Suburban Conference Blue. Despite owning a roster that was about double the size of Christian’s, the Griffins wound up short on the scoreboard.

They did draw first blood but went dry after the opening frame. There were a couple threats issued, but Knights pitchers were equal to the task. And a three-run third inning snapped a 2-all tie and sent Christian on its way to See KNIGHTS, Page 5

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Orland’s Wood is Big Ten’s best

Chances are no one around St. Laurence was surprised by Kyle Wood’s accomplishments.

After all the two-time area Player of the Year certainly performed his fair share of heroics while wearing a Vikings baseball uniform. Now at Purdue, the Orland Park native gave fans in West Lafayette, Ind., a sampling of what he’s capable of doing with a bat in his hand — and fans in Norman, Okla., nightmares.

Wood proved an almost impossible out during the Boilermakers’ three-game series with the Oklahoma Kyle Wood Sooners in early March. The junior first baseman went 9-for-11 at the plate with two solo homers, a three-run double and seven RBI in all. Wood also drew a pair of walks, scored four times and finished the weekend with a .786 on-base percentage as he was retired just twice in 14 plate appearances.

That effort was impressive enough to net Wood Big Ten Player of the Week honors for the first time. He became the first Purdue player to be feted in nearly two full seasons.

Wood’s performance, which included multiple-hit See COMMUNITY, Page 6

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Hooping it up on the Internet

On the attack Stagg’s Patrick Roach tries to put down a kill last Tuesday against Richards. The Chargers scored a 25-18, 25-16 victory in Oak Lawn.

We all are thankful for the Internet, that wonderful creation Al Gore dreamed up for us, but we’ve likely only scratched the surface as far as what we’re able to do on there.

All of us know about on-line auctions and purchases, and the young people among us are fully aware of just how much research material can be purloined — excuse me, extracted — from Web sites. Instead of having to borrow the same set of library books, copying identical stuff out of them for use on a project or term paper and fooling only the densest of educational professionals when they claim the work to be original and solely their own, students can surf the Web and plagiarize a much wider variety of materials, some of which they might actually find to be useful.

The delinquent faction of society, of course, uses the Internet for more nefarious undertakings, like visiting pornography sites or ones established to get politicians elected. I guess a dark cloud must hover over even the best-intentioned inventions.

The latest thing that savvy computer types can log onto is the NCAA men’s basketball tournament, coming to you free of charge through the courtesy of CBS Sports. Almost every game played in the first three rounds of the 64-team extravaganza can be accessed, except for those being televised by the CBS affiliate in a computer user’s particular geographical region.

So now, thanks to modern technology, we all have yet another way to avoid working while at work. Naturally, business managers who aren’t employed by CBS probably won’t take kindly to productivity levels dropping at their offices, but the network’s geeks have considered that scenario and developed a “boss button,” which allows computer viewers to instantaneously exit basketball coverage and return to the solitaire game they had been playing on company time whenever somebody wearing an expensive suit comes snooping around.

To a techno feeb such as my­self, all this stuff gets pretty confusing. Sure, I’ve typed all these sentences on a computer, but only because I’d develop hand cramps if I wrote them out longhand.

From what I read in a Chicago Tribune account of the whole NCAA Tournament-on-computer experiment, this sort of marriage between traditional media outlets and newfangled electronic devices is not entirely new. According to the story, CBS, NBC and ABC have made other programming available via the Internet or iPods, which I just love to eat whenever my dining choice is Chinese.

Besides learning that “broadband” refers not to the piece of elastic around the top of my pants but a computer-related item, the most interesting tidbit I took from this story was the quote of the vice president of programming for CBS Sports­Line, whose approval rating right now makes the nation’s vice president openly weep. Said Joe Ferreira: “A free product seems like a winner to us.”

But for how long? CBS admittedly is test-driving this livesports-on-computer package, but what happens if it’s a huge hit?

History tells us that “free” is the most profane four-letter word in a businessman’s vocabulary. Companies don’t make money off “free,” so it’s only a matter of time before the “r” gets dropped and “free” becomes “fee.”

Don’t believe me? If you’re old enough to remember, think back to the earliest days of cable television — what was the selling point? NO ADS. That was the reason viewers were asked to pay for the privilege of having cable.

Looked at cable programming lately? Of course, you have — when you finally get past all the commercials. Today, there are at least as many product ads — and probably more — on cable than on free TV. And yet, we must still subscribe to a cable service, which raises its rates every single year.

So before we all grow too comfortable with this sports-ondemand deal, we should consider what may await down the road. Even if CBS entices enough on-line advertisers to join in and make this endeavor a rousing success right from the getgo, the chances of the network continuing to offer a freebie for years to come are slim.

And if pay-per-view computer watching arrives, can pay-perview network watching be far behind? This simply cannot be allowed to happen. We’ve got to keep free airwaves in existence.

We cheapskate techno feebs won’t accept it any other way.

BARTOSH

Photo by Jeff Vorva

SOFTBALL ROUNDUP

Eagles regain their form in Tennessee

By Anthony Nasella When Sandburg started its 2015 season two weeks ago with a pair of lopsided defeats on the road against Moline, coach Jim Fabianski was disheartened with the results.

But after watching his Eagles rebound at last weekend's Lady Warrior Southern Classic in Murfreesboro, Tenn., by winning four of five games he's feeling a bit more settled.

Sandburg was rained out on Thursday night at the Lady Warrior Classic and had to play three games on Friday. It captured the first two over Bolton, Tenn. (182 in three innings) and Oakland, Tenn. (9-4 in six stanzas) but lost 17-3 to Lauderdale, Ala., in five innings.

Instead of being discouraged by the late turn of events, the Eagles simply got refocused and concluded their tourney appearance with

a pair of Saturday successes: 2-1 over Dyer County, Tenn., and 16-2 over Tullahoma, Tenn.

“I saw a lot of things that I definitely liked,” Fabianski said.

“We got some good pitching performances from Niki Saviano and some solid hitting from the likes of Katie Krzus, Daniela Amador and Brianna Soltis.

“The losses to Moline were pretty bad. We definitely didn't play the way we were capable of. Our pitching and hitting wasn’t what it could be, and I think the girls were a little embarrassed because they know they’re a better team than that, so the wins in Tennessee were a good rebound in that belief."

Saviano recorded wins against Oakland on Friday and Dyer County on Saturday. In between those was the loss to Lauderdale, but Fabianski was not disappointed with that outcome due to the grind of Friday.

“I’m convinced that we would have won nine of ten games against that team,” he said. “I know the score was lopsided, but it was our third game of the day and the wind was blowing pretty bad. Granted, it was the same for our opponent and the other teams, but I do know that our opponent hadn’t played three games that day like us.

And to the girls’ credit they came back on Saturday and won both games.”

Fabianski said another positive point from the weekend was the play of a sophomore Molly Kaspar, who was recently brought up to the varsity.

“I think Molly might be staying with us for a while,” he said. “I brought her down to play at Tennessee and she proved that she can hit the heck out of the ball.

She also pitched pretty well for us. I was very pleased.

“And our freshman shortstop,

Armed and dangerous

Ashley Wood, is doing things in the field that others can’t do. She sometimes makes an error, but she’s also a freshman. Her bat is also coming around.

"It’s nice to know you have somebody like that for four years.”

As far as redeeming themselves from the nightmare in Moline, Fabinaski said his girls are definitely looking more like the team they’re capable of being.

“I don’t think we’ve put it all together yet, but at times in Tennessee we showed a lot of promise,” he said. “That’s what I’m taking away from the weekend, and I think the girls made the best of their opportunities to get together and play together as a team.

“That’s why we go to Tennessee every year. We accomplished that goal.” *** Chicago Christian earned a 12-6 triumph over Queen of Peace last Wednesday.

Every which way they can

Pitching keys two more Crusaders victories Vikings use different means to bag pair of wins

By Ken Karrson Sports Editor

A baseball team can never have enough pitching.

That mantra has been spouted by managers and coaches at every level of the sport for as long as games have been played. Many high school teams possess an ace on the staff, but only a lucky few have multiple arms that can be considered dangerous to opposing batters.

Brother Rice had three pretty reliable hurlers in 2014, one of whom — Mike Enriquez — garnered all-area first-team status.

But when he and fellow pitchers Brian Musielak and Ian McGinnis picked up their diplomas last spring, Crusaders coach John McCarthy figured they’d be difficult to replace.

In fact, when mentioning preseason question marks, two of the three things McCarthy said and he and his assistants “were really concerned about [were] our arms [and] bullpen.” Five games into the 2015 season, though, the worries are disappearing — fast.

Not only has Rice looked sharp on the hill against an array of tough early-season foes, but it also appears to have corrected its other perceived flaw.

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against good pitching.

Rice stroked 17 hits in two outings last week, which it used to subdue Oak Forest (80) on Wednesday at the Ray Kroc Center in Chicago and New Trier (6-2) on Thursday in a Steven Bajenski Memorial Tournament game at Wheaton College.

But overshadowing the solid bat work was some dynamic mound efforts, beginning with junior Jack Nelligan’s no-hitter through five innings versus the Bengals. In improving his record to 2-0 Nelligan struck out five and walked only one.

“Jack Nelligan was absolutely fantastic,” McCarthy said. “He set a good tone. As I’ve said before, any time your pitching is really good it gives your bats time to get adjusted and there’s no pressing [from] having to come back [from behind].

Once we got ahead we felt really good.”

And while Oak Forest did break up the no-hitter when Tom Przekwas relieved Nelligan, the former was nicked for just two hits and rang up three more strikeouts. He did not issue any free passes.

The Crusaders gave Nelligan the only runs he’d need to notch the win when Mike Schalasky slammed a two-RBI double following Danny Paluch’s single and a walk to Andrew Dyke in the first. Dyke (solo) and Schalasky (two-run) both homered in the third, and Dyke (single), Paluch (fielder’s choice) and Ryan Kutt (sacrifice fly) were RBI men in the fourth. *** The combo of Kutt and Pat Smith was equally frustrating to the Trevians as the duo stopped them on five hits while whiffing six and giving up no free passes.

A three-run fifth highlighted by Schalasky’s two-run double and Dyke’s RBI on an infield single broke the game open as that rally handed Rice a 5-1 edge.

“In terms of us competing, these were two really good, well-coached programs and we continue to face good arms, so I’m hopeful that builds our confidence and our hitters get [more] comfortable,” McCarthy said. “We’re doing what good programs do: They see other team’s top arms and hit them.

“You’re not going to be good every day and have everything clicking, [but] everyone feels like whether we do it or don’t do it that day we can beat good teams. [And] I’m very pleased with our seniors being good leaders — there was good energy in the dugout and everybody was supporting each other.”

The Crusaders have won four of their first five, with both earlier triumphs coming by shutout against Whitney Young and Lincoln-Way North. Among Rice’s opposition this week was another storied Illinois program, Lyons Township.

“We’re happy with the start,” McCarthy said. “We feel blessed to leave all these games with a win. We feel like we have a long way to go, but we also feel that with our preparation and how hard the players and coaches work anything’s possible.

“Are we surprised? No, not really. A few of those [questions] have been answered and we’ve earned a little of what we’ve gotten.”

Other notables for the Crusaders versus New Trier were Kutt (RBI double), Michael Massey (triple) and Paluch (RBI single).

Rice’s other run was plated on a passed ball.

By Ken Karrson Sports Editor

Give St. Laurence some credit for ingenuity.

When a team musters just five hits in one game and commits nine errors in the next, the odds against success would appear to be stacked pretty high.

But not only did the Vikings overcome both those circumstances in their first week of action, their triumphs were gained by shockingly wide margins.

In last Thursday’s season-opener versus Lake View, for example, St. Laurence tallied at least three times in three separate innings to win via mercy rule, 11-0. Then on Saturday the Vikings traveled to Peoria for what was planned as a twogame stay.

Peoria Notre Dame, however, bowed out, perhaps after seeing St. Laurence survive a slew of mishaps in the field to defeat Peoria Richwoods 14-6. While Vikings coach Pete Lotus wasn’t especially enamored of making a long journey for just one contest or seeing all the defensive breakdowns, watching a high-octane offense do its thing brightened his mood.

“We didn’t play well defensively — I’ve never been a part of nine errors and it was a little frustrating,” Lotus said. “[But] we swung the bats great.”

Fifteen hits testified to that, and St. Laurence augmented those with 13 stolen bases. Kevin Aderman swiped four bags, four other players had two thefts and the Vikings boasted five multiple-hit guys, a quintet led by Anthony Rios (4-for-5, two RBI) and Jimmy Burnette (3-for-3).

Also getting into the batting act were Mike Finger (two hits, three RBI), Tommy Farrell (double, triple, two RBI), Jack Cavanaugh (two hits), Nick Verta (bases-clearing triple) and Anthony Chimera (one hit, two RBI).

Undoubtedly St. Laurence’s assault caught at least some people by surprise. Don’t count Lotus among that group, however.

“We’re possibly overlooked because of the guys we lost,” said Lotus, whose 2014 graduates included 2013 Player of the Year Mike Kornacker (Purdue) and Brad Wood (Northern Illinois). “These are not as recognizable names and some new guys are going to have to step up, but don’t get me wrong: We’re going to be good. We have some talented kids.

“I think our guys have worked really hard and I don’t expect anything different than in other years, [which means] going out there and truly compet-

ing. I think the guys expect that too.”

The Vikings’ two lower-level clubs both posted more than 20 victories last spring and seriously challenged for Chicago Catholic League titles, so a winning mentality is already in place. St. Laurence did receive a tough blow, though, as senior John Riordan broke a bone in his hand in a non-game situation and will be lost for the remainder of the season.

“It’s disappointing for John and I feel awful for him,” Lotus said. “Even with the big guys we had last year, he had four or five wins and he had a great summer. He was kind of a leader for us.”

Frank Greco, who knocked in one of the Vikings’ runs with a sacrifice fly, surrendered 10 hits during a five-inning stint on the hill but was touched for only three earned runs. He struck out four while capturing his eighth consecutive varsity triumph without a loss dating back to last season.

Mike Munoz and Cavanaugh each threw an inning of relief, with the latter striking out the side in the seventh.

St. Laurence 11 Lake View 0 Five hits aren’t normally enough to get an offense labeled potent, but when they’re mixed with eight hit batsmen and seven walks it spells trouble for the opposition. Such was the scenario on Thursday as the Wildcats got rolled.

“It wasn’t like their pitchers were terrible — they just didn’t throw many strikes,” Lotus said. “It’s obviously tough to tell much when you’re getting walked and hit by pitches that many times, but I thought we did a pretty good job [capitalizing on chances].”

Rios’ RBI triple was St. Laurence’s lone extrabase hit and one of two on the day for him. Greco (hit by pitch, sacrifice fly), Riordan (single), Finger (hit by pitch), Burnette (walk) and Dan Cummings (walk) were the Vikings’ other RBI men. Hitting safely in addition to Rios and Riordan were Cavanaugh and Anthony Robles.

Dan Heiden, the first of three St. Laurence hurlers, was credited with the win after going three stanzas on a yield of one hit while fanning four. Lake View notched just two other hits in the remaining frames off relievers Zach Erdman and Munoz.

Three games were on this week’s schedules, the last of those being Saturday’s matchup with WheatonSt. Francis. Prior to that, the Vikings were due to square off with Lincoln-Way Central and Harlan.

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All’s quiet on the Central front Winter blast keeps Bulldogs baseball players dormant

By Ken Karrson Sports Editor

Serving it up

Photo by Jeff Vorva

Richards’ Jake Fleming prepares to serve the ball against Stagg last Tuesday in Oak Lawn.

Snow covered the baseball field just off 106th and Central Avenue last Monday, as was the case at every other south suburban diamond. And spring’s brief retreat back into winter didn’t end there.

When thermometers struggled to get past 40 on other days, it wreaked further havoc on local baseball schedules. Among those teams most affected was Richards, which had matchups with Stagg, Thornwood, De La Salle and Homewood-Flossmoor postponed by the unseasonable weather.

Fresh off a season-opening win against Rich Central the Saturday before, Bulldogs coach Brian Wujcik was hoping his youthdominated club could keep positive momentum going. While realizing that playing in 5 inches of white stuff was an obvious no-go, Wujcik held out hope that once the snow melted — which it mostly had by

SPORTS SUMMARY

Lourdes has no mercy on Cougars Lourdes took it away on Saturday.

What the Ohio university, seeded No. 1 in the Great Lakes Conference volleyball tournament, removed was St. Xavier University from the 2015 postseason. Matched up against Lourdes in the tourney semifinals, the Cougars suffered a season-ending 26-24, 25-20, 25-14 setback in Cincinnati.

But the defeat couldn’t erase all that SXU accomplished prior to that. It finished over .500 (8-6) in conference play for the first time since the program’s 2010 inception, and the Cougars' 12 victories in 27 matches represented their highest overall win total to date.

Sophomore outside hitter Sean Barry and senior middle blocker Sam Kull were the standouts versus Lourdes as they combined for 24 kills. Barry put down 13 of those. Other principal figures for SXU were sophomore setter Moises Lopez (34 assists), sophomore right-side hitter Craig Rosner (four block assists), freshman middle blocker Bradley Gadek (four block assists) and sophomore libero Dominic Villa (five digs).

Before falling in the semis the Cougars staged a rally on Friday, fighting back from a 2-0 deficit in sets to shock fifth-seeded Siena Heights (Mich.)

University. SXU prevailed by scores of 19-25, 2527, 25-19, 27-25, 15-8.

Kull, who was named to the six-man All-Great Lakes first team, set a school record with 14 total blocks, two of which were solo efforts. He augmented that number with 12 kills and four service aces. Kull finished the match owning team records for most kills (310), aces (55) and solo blocks (26) by an individual in a single season.

The Cougars also set a team standard for block assists in a match Friday with 32.

Playing a pivotal role too was Barry, who finished with career bests of 16 kills and five block assists. Barry was one of three SXU players chosen for the GLC All-Academic contingent.

Joining him were sophomores Dan O’Keefe and Anthony Huang, the former of whom aided SXU’s defense against Siena Heights with a career-best 13 digs.

Also chipping in to the victory were Rosner (career-high 11 kills), Villa (14 digs) and Lopez (match-high 43 assists). *** Kull’s 10 aces eclipsed a Cougars single-match record and his 18 points made him the school’s career leader in that category with 1,020, and SXU used that offense to defeat Trinity International University in the regular-season finale.

In addition to his points and aces, Kull registered six kills and four block assists. Sophomore Justin Parra distributed 25 assists, Barry finished with six kills and Villa had seven digs.

WOMEN’S TRACK

Solid distance runs by sophomore Courtney Correa and senior Ali Proffitt were two of the big bright spots for the Cougars in their opening meet of the outdoor season, last weekend’s Washington University Invitational in St. Louis, Mo. Correa posted a personal-best time of 19 minutes, 47.68 seconds in the 5,000-meter run while Proffitt competed in the 10,000 for the first time in her career and clocked a 38:46.41.

“This was a fantastic way for both Courtney and Ali to open up their outdoor seasons,” SXU coach Lisa Ebel said. “Ali ran an incredibly smart and even race, especially for her first time competing in the event. I’m really looking forward to many more great races by this pair as the season continues.”

The Cougars will take part in Benedictine University’s Eagle Invitational on Saturday, April 11, in Lisle. The meet begins at 10 a.m.

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A school-record and NAIA provisional-qualifying time of 14:51.75 in the 5,000 for senior Brian Corcoran highlighted the Cougars' appearance at the Washington University Invitational. This was the first time in Corcoran’s standout collegiate career that he has qualified for the NAIA Outdoor Track & Field National Championships.

In addition, several other SXU runners achieved personal-best times as the team used the meet as a way to get its distance runners tuned up for the new season. Some other notable performances were turned in by senior Kyle Counter, junior Victor Solis and sophomore Abel Hernandez.

Both Counter and Solis joined Corcoran in the 5,000 to post their personal-best times, the former doing so with a 15:48.31 effort. Solis bettered his own record by more than 30 seconds as he completed the run in 15:59.35. Hernandez had a solid start to his outdoor campaign by crossing the finish line in 31:58.11 in the 10,000.

SXU's men will also compete in Benedictine's Eagle Invitational.

later in the week — games could resume.

“On Friday I was talking to Todd Sipple from H-F about playing on Saturday,” Wujcik said. “I said, ‘I’m desperate to play, but it’s only going to be about 35 degrees outside.’ We don’t have a real big roster anyway, and I can just picture that we have a pitcher who can’t quite get loose and he hurts his shoulder or a guy running the bases doesn’t get loose and pulls a hamstring. “[The kids] are dying to play, but the [potential] detriments outweigh the positives.”

Richards was set to try again this week with four more contests on the docket, including a clash with Sandburg this past Tuesday. The Bulldogs play Mt. Carmel on Saturday. While Wujcik would love to make up all the lost ground as quickly as possible, he’ll refrain from doing so.

“You get a week like this [past one] and I have to resist the temptation to pile games on each other,” he said. “Not only does it tax your

A changed reaction Astros erase deficit, take down Harlan

By Ken Karrson Sports Editor

SOFTBALL

For the second time in the three weeks junior pitcher Nicole Nonnemacher has been named the Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference Softball Pitcher of the Week.

Nonnemacher went 3-0 overall during the Cougars’ 6-0 week and struck out at least 14 batters in each of her three starts, two of which were conference contests. In addition to this week’s award she earned the first honor of the 2015 season on March 11.

Nonnemacher began her latest award-winning week with an 18-strikeout, one-hit, no-walk effort in a 5-0 win against Trinity Christian College in Palos Heights. The 18 strikeouts were the sixth-highest total in NAIA history and fourth-best showing for a seven-inning contest. She followed that performance with a 14-strikeout night against CCAC foe Roosevelt University in Rosemont in an 8-7 victory before closing out the week with her second one-hitter in a 16-strikeout, two-walk 1-0 win over Siena Heights (Mich.) University.

Nonnemacher posted a nearly 5-to-1 strikeoutsto-walks ratio and surrendered just 10 hits over that three-game stretch.

BASEBALL

Despite racking up 17 hits and nine runs on the day the Cougars came up short in two CCAC clashes with Roosevelt Saturday at Boomers Stadium in Schaumburg. SXU (6-14, 4-8) managed just four hits in Game 1 in dropping a 1-0 verdict. The Cougars fell behind 8-1 in the nightcap and despite a much more potent offense suffered a 15-9 setback in nine innings.

SXU did get another solid start on the mound from freshman right-hander Tyler Hebel, who threw all six innings of the opener and scattered six hits.

He struck out three and walked four. The only run scored off him was delivered in the first inning on a sacrifice fly.

Cougars batters did not have an answer for Lakers sophomore left-hander Cameron Simak, who pitched his first shutout of the spring. No SXU player had more than one hit and the locals failed to take advantage of two-on situations in both the third and fourth stanzas.

Junior Jim Augle’s RBI groundout brought the Cougars within 2-1 of Roosevelt in the third inning of Game 2, but they did not tally again until after the Lakers had scored twice in the fourth and four times in the fifth. The latter rally was helped along by an SXU error.

The Cougars picked up steam later on but not enough to overtake Roosevelt. Stroking run-producing hits for SXU were Declan Dennehy (twoRBI double), Casey Papp (two-RBI double), Drey Devereaux and Erik Eggert.

Jeremy Dryier suffered the loss on the mound. *** Bouncing back in a big way with 15 hits for 17 runs in the late game, the Cougars salvaged a CCAC doubleheader split with Purdue-North Central last Thursday at Richard R. Ferrell Field. The 17-2 victory followed a 5-3 loss in Game 1.

Augle went 4-for-9 on the day with four RBI and four runs while Bryan Polak was 3-for-8 with four RBI and two runs. Polak’s sacrifice fly got the scoring started for SXU in the first inning of the opener.

Eggert (double) and junior Ryan Pellack (single) had RBI in the fifth that wiped out a 3-1 Cougars deficit, but the Panthers answered with a deuce in their next at-bat and SXU was retired in order in its last plate appearance.

Hard-luck hurler Dan Wetzel got tagged with his fourth consecutive loss despite limiting PNC to four hits over six innings, fanning four and walking just one.

Polak and Dennehy got things rolling in the second contest with back-to-back RBI hits in the first frame. Four innings later the Cougars erupted for nine runs to seize command of the proceedings as Augle (bases-clearing triple) and Dennehy (two-run double) led the charge.

After the Panthers got on the board, SXU finished them off with six more runs in the seventh. Half of them were provided by freshman Jake Wimmer’s double to left-center.

Freshman Matt McKenzie earned the victory after pitching five innings on a yield of seven hits.

pitching staff, but it gives you no chance to work on things.”

Richards was on spring break last week but spent most of its time indoors. Practices lasted no more than two hours by design and Wujcik pinpointed a specific area to focus on in each session, although he did allow his guys to play whiffle ball on Friday.

“Once we start playing games [as scheduled], our practices are limited, so it’s best to reinforce stuff now,” Wujcik said.

That’s especially true when working with a roster that is rather light on varsity experience. The Bulldogs certainly didn’t look like novices versus Rich Central, though, which fell to a 9-0 defeat after being held without a hit by Richards hurler Nick Mejia through 5 2/3 innings.

Mejia’s pitch count had gotten pretty high by the sixth, which created a dilemma: While conscious of not overextending Mejia the first time out, Wujcik didn't want to deprive the junior of a chance to continue his

no-hitter — the Olympians made the decision for him by breaking up the no-no during that plate appearance.

Still, Mejia finished with a onehitter and Chris Zeschke was solid in a stanza of relief. Batting was an across-the-board deal for the ‘Dogs, with no one having a breakthrough performance but several lending a hand as the team collected a dozen hits.

“Bigger than that was the defense made no errors,” Wujcik said. “It’s early in the season and there was not very much time spent outside, so I was real happy with the way we played.”

Rich Central’s glove work wasn’t quite so gleaming, and Richards was able to capitalize on a few miscues as well as some walks to complement its hitting efforts.

Also negatively affected by last week's inclement conditions were Marist and Oak Lawn, neither of which played any games. The RedHawks had three on tap for this week before embarking on a spring trip to South Carolina while the Spartans were set for four.

The scenario was a familiar one. Shepard’s reaction to it, however, was definitely different.

Just as had happened the year before in a meeting between the teams at the Ray Kroc Center in Chicago, Harlan held a lead over the Astros. In 2014 Shepard was unable to overcome it, in part because of the two-hour limit imposed on games played at that facility.

But even with a full complement of seven innings available to them instead of just the five that got played, the Astros’ ability to forge a comeback would have been somewhat doubtful. It was a relatively young roster on which coach Frank DiFoggio could call and dealing deftly with adversity was a large order that early in the season.

Flash forward to last Thursday in Palos Heights, where the Falcons combined a few hits, a stolen base and a couple of Shepard miscues to grab a 3-1 lead in the third. When the Astros botched a bases-loaded, one-out opportunity in its half of the fourth, recent history could have easily repeated itself.

Ah, but this is not the same Shepard. The Astros finally struck back in the fifth, using a pair of two-out infield singles to stir the pot. The second of those, hit by Bobby Peterka, had a Harlan error attached to the back end of it and allowed the go-ahead run to cross the plate.

From there Shepard hung on for a 4-3 victory that gave it a 2-0 start to the season.

“Last year we lose this game — and we did when things got bizarre,”

DiFoggio said. “The difference [this time] was they’ve been through it and they didn’t panic. We got into a dogfight, but we scrapped and they stayed poker-faced pretty much through every inning.”

That was important because the Astros had every reason to grow frustrated. While having 11 hits and a total of 18 baserunners was a good thing, stranding bunches of them certainly wasn’t in Shepard’s best interests.

“The entire game we had runners on — every inning we left [at least] two baserunners [aboard],” DiFoggio said. “It was one of those games where it was just not going our way and it was not looking good. [But] I couldn’t be upset with them because our outs with guys on base were hit hard.”

The Falcons were up to the fielding task much of the day, but they faltered in the fifth. Adam Gregory’s laser was mishandled, and that error was followed by a walk and dropped throw to second after a strikeout.

Kenny Gorski then stroked a single to narrow the gap to 3-2.

A flyout came next, but then Travis Pruim beat out an infield hit and Peterka tied the score with his. An error by Harlan’s second baseman made Peterka’s single more damaging by letting in an additional run.

“They imploded,” DiFoggio said of the Falcons, “but part of it was we hit some really hard balls.”

Rob Marinec’s single provided the Astros’ initial RBI in the first inning, coming on the heels of a hit batsman and Falcons mistake.

Rick Mundo earned the pitching win with 1 2/3 frames of middle relief. The son of Shepard’s former girls’ basketball coach quieted some Harlan rumblings in the fourth by getting two outs — the last of them on a called third strike — and pre-

vented the visitors from extending their lead.

“Ricky Mundo saved the game for us, no doubt about it,” said DiFoggio, who had started sophomore Jack Carmody. Carmody did not allow any hits the first time through the Falcons’ order, but he was victimized in the third inning.

“He looked very uncomfortable out there,” DiFoggio said. “I don’t know if it was [because of] the cold, but it seemed like he couldn’t grip his pitches other than his fastball.

So he basically was throwing one [kind of] pitch.”

Brett Smith picked up a save after ducking trouble in the sixth.

He wrapped two walks around a hit batsman after the first two outs had been recorded and then speared a line drive to hold Harlan at bay. Smith ended the game with a flourish by fanning the side on nine pitches in the seventh.

All was not ideal for the Astros, however. They lost Kevin Carmody to a shattered thumb on a ball that had initially glanced off his shoulder.

DiFoggio was hoping for a return sometime around the middle of May. “He was in a lot of pain and I knew right away it was bad,” DiFoggio said. “That’s a huge loss because realistically we have two bangers in the lineup and Kevin is one of them. He’s going to hit his doubles and triples and put a few over the fence.

“We’re not going to replace Kevin. I believe it would be unfair of me to tell anyone to do that. We’ll have to get creative and become more of a speed team and play small ball.”

Among Shepard’s four scheduled contests this week were a Tuesday matchup with Stagg and confrontations with former SICA East mates Bloom Township and Thornwood today and Saturday, respectively.

Eagles haven’t crash landed Despite roster upheaval, Sandburg starts off strong

By Ken Karrson Sports Editor

Take away three radar gun-popping pitchers, a starting shortstop and the speediest player from a baseball team’s roster and what do you have?

In Sandburg’s case business as usual.

No one connected with the 2015 Eagles is about to call them the most talented bunch of springtime athletes to have ever represented the Orland Park school. Even in an assembly-line type of program there’s the occasional dip in personnel quality.

But as Sandburg proved in its first two contests surviving the graduation of hurlers Matthias Dietz, Sean Leland and Bryan Pall, plus the loss of Alec Martinez (torn ACL) and Jim Landgraf (broken wrist) might not be impossible. Certainly there appears to be reason for hope in the aftermath of a 10-0 rout of Lemont on Saturday and 7-3 come-from-behind victory over Oak Lawn this past Monday.

“We’re not going to be the best team in the area, but we’re not going to be the worst either,” Eagles assistant coach Chuck Peters said. “We’ve got tough kids and we’re going to battle. There’s a lot of energy and no egos — everybody’s pulling for each other.”

While Peters will never admit to Sandburg being better off without its terrific mound trio of 2014, there is one area he believes might be improved because of their absence. It was put on display versus the Indians.

“I was very surprised we hit the way we did against Lemont,” Peters said.

Winning pitcher Jimmy Roche did his part with the stick as he went 2-for-4 with a double and three RBI. On the hill he struck out five and scattered three hits over four innings.

“We don’t have three guys throwing 90 miles an

hour, but Roche has a good slider and changeup, good control and a herky-jerky motion [that can cause problems for hitters],” Peters said.

Also contributing on the offensive side were Sean McShane (2-for-3, two RBI) and Danny Dziakowicz (one hit, two RBI). Clutch hitting was an ingredient sometimes missing from the Eagles’ 2014 brew and Peters attributed that shortcoming to the presence of Dietz, Leland and Pall.

“At times there was a lack of urgency at the plate because they figured we didn’t need to do much with those guys on the mound,” Peters said. “Even with that kind of pitching somehow, some way, we still end up losing eight or nine games — in three of them we didn’t give up an earned run. We lost a bare minimum of four or five games we had no business losing.”

Sandburg was losing early against Oak Lawn, but to the rescue came Brandon Domia, who socked a momentum-shifting two-run homer. Domia is the first freshman up with the Eagles varsity since Todd Mensik two decades ago.

“That kid is kind of special to me,” Peters said of Domia, who also lofted a sacrifice fly to drive in a run. “I’ve been working with him and I hope he becomes the kind of player I think he can be.”

Dziakowicz had a hit and couple RBI for Sandburg, which also received good work from Marco Babic in relief. Babic silenced the Spartans after their initial flurry, holding them to three hits and whiffing five while getting credit for pitching seven full innings.

Despite the showings by Babic and Roche Peters doesn’t believe the mound staff will be able to carry quite so heavy a load this spring, meaning the Eagles are “going to have to score some runs.”

“Basbeall’s a funny sport — we can’t seem to put together that year where we have everything going for us,” he said. “But I think we’re getting there.”

Although there’s no denying the rough patches, Peters admits, "No one’s going to feel sorry for us." In his opinion, however, there’s also no need to do so.

“We’re having a lot of fun coaching these guys,” Peters said.

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SPORTS WRAP

Chargers off to hot start

By Anthony Nasella

As Stagg kicked off its 2015 boys' volleyball season, Chargers coach Tim Kaczmarek was wondering how a group of seniors that didn’t play much in 2014 and a core of juniors who had succeeded on the sophomore level would fare in their first week together.

After Stagg went 6-1 and finished first in the Bronze Division at last weekend’s Marist Invitational, Kaczmarek has gotten some positive answers.

The Chargers started the week with a 25-18, 25-16 victory over Richards on Tuesday and followed that up with a 17-25, 2516, 25-23 win over St. Rita on Thursday. At Marist on Friday Stagg logged an impressive 2523, 22-25, 15-12 triumph over Waubonsie Valley in "D"-pool play before dropping a hardfought match later that night to Eisenhower by a 26-24, 25-23 score.

The setback was temporary, though, as the Chargers rebounded on Saturday to take down Niles North, Reavis and Notre Dame in succession to capture the Bronze Division title.

“We had a good start this [past] week,” said Kaczmarek, who is back as the team’s coach after taking four years off.

“These kids are very talented.

My four seniors have very little varsity experience and the juniors I have are new to varsity, [but] I knew the talent was there.

Will they have success is the question.

“So far we’ve done well. The kids logged some wins against the good quality teams we were matched up with. We bounced back nicely from the tiebreaker loss to Eisenhower on Friday and played some very good volleyball on Saturday.”

In the win over St. Rita junior setter Patrick Roach compiled 18 assists, five kills and seven digs, senior Mike Neputy racked up a match-high 11 kills and senior Sean James added 18 digs for Stagg. Roach added two aces and sparked a 7-0 lead in Game

2 from the service line.

“I knew coming back to the program that we had some great kids,” Kazmarek said. “I teach in the junior high, so I knew some of these kids while coaching over there.”

Stagg's other two seniors, setter Nicholas Davelis and middle hitter Christian Mireles, have also made an impact in the early going.

“Christian is our go-to guy in the middle,” Kazmarek said.

“He also had a good weekend.”

What Kaczmarek likes most about his athletes is their attitude.

“They’re a hungry group of kids who have all confidence in the world,” he said. “They really don’t fear anybody, which is good. I hope that continues.

"I didn’t know at first how they would react to the Eisenhower loss. To their credit they came out and showed what they were capable of on Saturday.” *** Sandburg took second place at Saturday’s Bison Battle Tournament at Buffalo Grove, losing to Glenbard East 25-20, 25-20 for the title.

During the morning and afternoon the Eagles played a breakneck stretch of four matches in the Blue Pool to advance to the championship. They had a 2527, 25-19, 15-6 win over Buffalo Grove and a 25-11, 25-16 victory over Grant. They also had a 25-17, 25-13 decision over Lake Zurich and 25-15, 25-22 triumph over Glenbrook North, the latter of which sent Sandburg on to the final match. *** Shepard went 2-3 to start its season and reached the Silver Division quarterfinals at the Marist Invitational last weekend.

The Astros began with a 2520, 25-10 victory over Marian Catholic on Tuesday as Chad Longfield led the team with five kills and an ace. Mike Schaade paced the Astros with seven kills and six blocks on Wednesday in a tough 28-26, 25-19 loss to Benet Academy.

Shepard opened play at Marist

TRINITY SPORTS REPORT

Women win track opener

By Amy Strong The great outdoors obviously appealed to Trinity Christian College’s female track athletes because they did great in their outdoor debut.

The Trolls wasted no time establishing themselves as they paced the field at Saturday’s Knox College Outdoor Open in Galesburg. Trinity was first among 14 teams and wound up 19 points ahead of the runner-up school after amassing a total of 127.

There were three event victories for the Trolls, including the 100-meter high hurdles that Emily Dykstra navigated in a winning time of 16.26 seconds. She was one of three Trinity athletes to score in that race as Liz Roth and Nicki Jager also did so with respective fourth- and sixthplace finishes.

Multiple points were collected as well off the 5,000-run, which Anna Bos captured in 18:09.08. Two spots behind her was teammate Ashley Jourdan (18:15.41) and in the No. 4 position was Jessica Disselkoen (18:33.41). Leah Van Tol did her part too by taking seventh.

More of the same occurred in the triple jump, where the Trolls claimed the 3-4-5 slots with Dykstra (33 feet, 8 3/4 inches), Erin Wessels (33-7¼) and Katie Moran (33-4¾), and in the javelin. The latter event featured Olivia Schipper (82-10) placing third, Brianna DeKryger sixth and Molly Toepper eighth.

Delivering Trinity’s other win was the 1,600-relay foursome of Celina Wanta, Brooke Hamilton, Dykstra and Courtney Kalous, who ran a combined 4:16.50. Kalous was third in the 400-dash (59.96) and Hamilton occupied that same position in the 400-hurdles (1:12.62).

The Trolls men couldn’t duplicate the women’s performance, but they did take fifth in a 13-team field while triumphing in a pair of races.

Producing the wins for Trinity were Alex Clark in the 1,500 (4:12.20) and Cody Velthuizen in the 3,000-steeplechase (10:09.21). The Trolls placed in seven different events.

Next up for both the men and women is the Chicagoland Championships hosted by the College of DuPage on April 10 and 11.

GOLF

Bad weather forced postponement of a tournament to be hosted

by Indiana Wesleyan University. The

by defeating Notre Dame 25-16, 25-21 but then got knocked off

by Lincoln-Way Central, which prevailed 25-19, 25-15. Providence Catholic completed the Astros' stay by doling out a 25-19, 25-14 loss.

BOYS' WATER POLO

Stagg went 5-1 last week and was runner-up at the Niles West Invitational over the weekend.

The Chargers beat Andrew (15-9 on Monday) and Lyons Township (15-14 on Wednesday) prior to the tournament, then opened play there with a 15-7 victory over Metea Valley. The winning continued on Saturday as Stagg took down De La Salle (12-8) and Von Steuben (16-7) before getting edge 12-11 by St. Rita in the championship encounter.

St. Rita and Lyons also provided competition for Sandburg last week with opposite results.

The Eagles were able to get the better of the Mustangs (8-7) on Tuesday but fell short against the Lions (12-4) two days later.

Bradley-Bourbonnais downed Shepard 11-2 last Tuesday.

GIRLS' WATER POLO

Sandburg captured a pair of matches last week as it defeat Mother McAuley 4-2 on Monday and Lyons 10-5 on Thursday.

Photo by Jeff Vorva

Richards’ Colton Stermer nails a kill during last Tuesday’s match against Stagg. The Bulldogs dropped a 25-18, 25-16 verdict to the Chargers.

GIRLS' SOCCER

Chicago Christian lost 4-0 to Westmont last Wednesday but came back to defeat Guerin 5-2 in its Metro Suburban Conference opener on Thursday. Emily Lemmenes provided two goals and three assists for the visiting Knights (1-2) against the Gators. *** Stagg (4-2) also went 1-1 last week, with the loss coming by a 1-0 versus Lincoln-Way North in the championship bracket of the Windy City Ram Classic on Wednesday. The Chargers beat Lincoln-Way West in a SouthWest Suburban Conference crossover on Thursday behind Allison Stefan’s goal.

Morgan Bartelment made nine saves and shut out the Mighty Macs over the final three quarters as the Eagles (6-0) earned a win at Brother Rice. Sandburg took the lead for good with back-to-back goals in a span of less than two minutes early in the third quarter. Sarah Dolitsky Before meeting Stagg Lincolnconverted a penalty shot before Mara O'Connor scored to put Way West blanked Shepard 4-0 in the championship bracket of the Eagles on top 3-2. the Ram Classic on Wednesday.

Plainfield North defeated Claire Lawlor also had a goal Sandburg 2-1 on Saturday. for the Eagles while Steffy Pappas stepped up in a big way defensively. Bartelment made a BADMINTON Sandburg defeated Lincolnhuge save on McAuley's Maggie Hennigan with 50 seconds left Way Central 9-6 on Thursday in the game and Caitlyn Olson while Stagg captured an 11-4 Photo by Jeff Vorva scored with 25 seconds to go win over Lincoln-Way North Stagg’s Michael Neputy goes up a bit too late to prevent Richards’ Jake that same day. to ice it for Sandburg.

Fleming from sending a shot over the net last Tuesday.

MORAINE ATHLETICS WRAP

Cyclones teams heat up in the cold

By Maura Vizza

Trolls will try again April 9 at Olivet Nazarene University.

BASEBALL

While weather also disrupted a number of baseball games around the Chicagoland area last week, the Trolls forged ahead and wound up pocketing four Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference wins to improve their league mark to a South Division-leading 8-2. Trinity is 15-11 overall.

The Trolls bounced Trinity International University by scores of 18-7 and 20-8 and also defeated Olivet Nazarene twice, although the Tigers were a much tougher out. That was especially true in the teams’ second encounter, which tilted Trinity Christian’s way 6-5 when it scored in the bottom of the ninth. The Trolls won the opener versus Olivet 8-2.

Trinity Christian knocked out 34 hits in its sweep of TIU. Fifteen of those came in Game 1, which the Trolls broke open with a six-run outburst in the fourth inning. Six hits and three Trojans errors contributed to the rally.

TIU staged an uprising of its own in the fifth, but Trinity Christian exploded for six more runs a bit later to stay in control. Kyle Belluomini (3-for-4, three RBI, three runs) and Josh Pieper (3-for-4, three RBI) spearheaded the onslaught as eight Trolls hit safely and eight drove in at least one teammate.

Brad Kopale bagged the pitching victory after throwing the first 4 2/3 innings.

Trinity Christian belted 19 hits in the nightcap but still trailed in the early going. A 5-0 deficit got expunged by an eight-run second stanza. TIU wasn’t done scoring, but the Trolls managed to either match or exceed their rival’s output.

Pieper continued swinging a hot bat by going 4-for-4 with seven RBI. See TRINITY, Page 5

Cold conditions didn't ice over a couple Moraine Valley College teams last week.

The men's tennis squad made its 2015 debut a hot one as it went unbeaten against Sauk Valley College on Saturday. Seven of the Cyclones' match victories came in straight sets. Included among those were decisions by Kevin Karczynaki at No. 1 singles (6-2, 6-0), Mike Broderick at second-singles (6-0, 6-2), Bryan Jimenez at No. 3 (6-1, 6-1) and Gregario Ilner at No. 4 (6-2, 6-2).

All four players also were part of doubles sweeps, Karczynski and Broderick accomplishing that as Moraine's top tandem. Along with their 6-3, 6-1 triumph, the Cyclones picked up doubles wins from the teams of Jimenez-Alec Mikes (6-0, 6-4) at No. 2 and Ilner-Casey Case (6-4, 6-3).

Case stepped in for Reigh Lamparas, who had injured his hand during his sixth-singles match. Despite that malady Lamparas man-

aged to prevail over his Sauk Valley foe in three sets (3-6, 6-4, 10-8). Also gaining a three-set singles triumph was Mikes (6-4, 6-7, 10-3) at No. 5.

SOFTBALL

On a roll too were the softball-playing Cyclones, who crushed Joliet Junior College 20-1 in one game and then edged it 11-10 in another.

Nearly every Moraine athlete contributed to the rout. Freshman Hannah Theilmann

did so as both a pitcher and hitter — in the latter capacity she went 4-for-5 with a double, RBI and three runs scored. Others stepping forward on the Cyclones' behalf were Molly Pohrebny (4-for-4, double, RBI), Carly Trinley (3-for-4 with a homer and triple, three RBI), Emily Powers (3-for3, two runs) and Nicole Roney (3-for-3, double, RBI, two runs).

Moraine's pitching wasn't as dominant in Game 2, but its offense continued to operate in high gear. Again Theilmann (3-for-5, two runs, RBI) and Trinley (3-for-4, triple, three runs, RBI) were headliners, this time with assistance from Dana Cummings (2-for-2, one run).

Mercedes Leon logged the pitching win and Theilmann earned a save. The Cyclones didn't take the lead until the sixth inning.

BASEBALL

The Cyclones dropped a twinbill to Kankakeee College last Thursday, 12-5 and 5-0.

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HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL ROSTERS BROTHER RICE No. Name 0 Jordan Rogers 1 Ryan King 2 Danny Paluch 3 Jake Ridgway 4 Jacob Petraitis 5 Adrian Gonzalez 6 AJ Alarcon 7 Michael Massey 8 Max Hughes 10 Dylan Rusniak 12 Gavin O’Neill 13 Andrew Dyke 14 Michael Schalasky 15 Colin Shea 18 Joseph Somers 23 Jack Nelligan 24 Jack Guzek 29 Ryan Gorman 34 Joe Preusser 44 Ryan Kutt 45 Jack Butler 46 Pat Smith 55 Matt Klutcharch 56 Tom Przekwas

HIGH SCHOOL SOFTBALL ROSTERS

Pos. -- INF OF/2B OF/C C 3B P SS 3B -- -- OF/C 1B/C/P 2B -- P P -- -- P/INF -- P -- P

Yr. Jr. So. Sr. So. Sr. Sr. Jr. Jr. Sr. Jr. Jr. Jr. Sr. Sr. Jr. Jr. So. Jr. Jr. So. Jr. Sr. Jr. Sr.

No. Name 1 Adrian Garcia 2 Ryan Willett 3 TJ Spyrnal 4 Jason Avery 5 Nick Kargol 6 Chris Zeschke 7 Tim Houlihan 8 Brendan Butler 9 Jake Moran 11 Noah Petrusevski 12 Angelo Smith 16 Tom Olson 17 Ryan Renken 19 Andrew Zemke 21 Noel Castro 23 Andrew Calderon 24 Mitch Crook 25 Brett Thomas 26 John Glusak 35 Nick Mejia 37 Nick Fritz 42 Matt Rockey

Pos. P OF/C P/OF 2B 2B/OF SS/P OF INF/P C INF/P P/OF 1B/P INF/P P/1B C/P/1B C/OF/P C/DH P/OF/1B OF/P 3B/P OF/P INF/P

Yr. Sr. Sr. Sr. Sr. Jr. Jr. Jr. So. So. So. So. So. Jr. Sr. Sr. So. Jr. Sr. Sr. Jr. Jr. So.

Pos. INF/P INF INF/P INF/OF INF 1B/P OF/P OF/P 3B/OF/P 1B/P 1B OF/P C/3B/OF SS/P 1B/P C/OF OF/P C/INF/P INF

Yr. Jr. Sr. Jr. Sr. Jr. Sr. Sr. Sr. So. Jr. Sr. Sr. So. Sr. Sr. Sr. Jr. Sr. Sr.

CHICAGO CHRISTIAN No. Name 5 Bob Schaaf 6 Pat McCarthy 7 Zach Frieling 8 Tyler Edgar 10 Tom Hassel 11 Christian Bolhuis 12 Brian Finger 13 Mike Melody 14 Jack DeVries 15 Joshua Hill 20 Trevor Wolterink 21 Adam Schoenle 23 Ron Clark 25 Jacob Bulthuis 32 Dan Vos

Pos. OF 2B SS UTL P P/RF C C 1B/OF OF P/3B P/3B LF LF P/1B

Yr. Jr. Sr. So. So. Jr. Sr. Jr. Jr. Sr. So. Jr. Jr. Sr. So. So.

EVERGREEN PARK No. Name Pos. Yr. 2 Brendan Walsh INF Sr. 3/10 Harold McClarin INF/OF Jr. 4 Sean Miller 2B Sr. 6 Ronnie O’Toole CF Sr. 7 Dan Smith 1B/P So. 9 JR Wazio P/1B Sr. 12 Will Doran P/RF Jr. 13 Mark Martin SS/P Sr. 14 Shane Miller OF Jr. 16 Pat Doran P Fr. 18/35 Mike Rizzo C/OF Sr. 20/3 Brian Pall P/OF Sr. 24 Joe Moran P Sr. 25/8 Matt Lyons DH/OF/P Jr. 26/54 Joe Piet C/DH Sr. 27 Carl Peterson 1B Jr. 28/52 Brennan Quick 3B/DH Sr. 29/84 Connor McKeever P Jr. 34 Jimmy Segura P/INF Jr. * Note: Players with two numbers have home jersey listed first

MARIST No. Name 1 Brandon Hanik 2 Tyler Haizel 3 Jack Snyder 4 Kyle Snyder 5 Brian Wood 6 Pat Meehan 7 Zach Sefcik 8 Joe Killeen 9 Ryan Kairis 10 Peter Bangs 11 Jake Powers 12 Tom Wade 13 Ryan Gausselin 15 Neal Stiegal 16 Eric Hansen 18 Marty Meyer 19 John Carmody 20 Mike Trbovic 22 Grant Kenny 23 Tommy Finwall 24 Ben Chaffee

Pos. INF/P INF/OF INF/P OF P/INF/OF INF/P INF/OF P P/OF OF INF/OF C INF/OF C P INF/P P/INF INF OF ONF/P Pos. 2B/OF P/1B/OF C INF/P P/OF 1B/OF OF INF/P 3B/OF SS P/1B/OF 2B/OF/P INF/P OF/P 1B/3B P/1B/OF OF P/OF

STAGG No. Name 1 Mitchell Spencer 3 Gary Kopca 5 Gus Martinez 7 Joe Van Nieuwenhuyse 9 Joe Zaremba 12 Mike Crosby 13 Nick Gerzon 14 Austin Greer 15 Nick Worst 16 Nate Miranda 17 Mike Bibbiano 20 Josh Nowak 21 Max Downs 22 Calogelo Martinez 23 Mike Kral 24 Kevin Burke 25 Ethan Glaza 27 Brett Stratinsky 29 Darren Booth 30 Dennis Egan 32 Jack Philgren

Pos. C/OF C/OF INF OF/P OF/INF INF/P P/INF INF/P INF/P INF/P OF/P INF/C/P OF/P OF/P P INF/P INF/P INF OF/P OF P

Yr. Sr. Jr. Sr. Jr. Sr. Jr. Sr. Sr. Jr. Jr. Sr. Jr. Sr. Jr. Jr. Sr. Sr. Jr. Sr. Jr.

ST. LAURENCE

OAK LAWN No. Name 1 Cole Psik 2 Matt Witkowski 4 John Roberts 7 Ivan Georgelos 8 Moe Mohammed 10 Jimmy Swiatek 11 Ryne Melnik 12 Justin Swatek 15 Joe Dodaro 17 Boo Quillin 19 Rodrigo Zavala 21 Yunis Halim 22 Billy Dunne 24 Patrick Slattery 25 Liam Blake 31 Chad Cwik 33 Bobby Beard 34 Ryan Quinn

SHEPARD No. Name 1 Ben Meyer 2 Ken Gorski 3 Logan Couture 4 Travis Pruim 6 Nick Bray 7 Adam Gregory 9 Brett Smith 11 Cole Jones 12 Jack Carberry 13 Connor Doolan 16 Collin McCarthy 17 Kyle Longfield 19 Rob Marinec 21 Eric Horbach 22 Zach Haxel 24 Bobby Peterka 27 Kevin Carmody 31 Rick Mundo 33 Mark Albrecht

Yr. Jr. Sr. Jr. Sr. Jr. Jr. Sr. Jr. Sr. Sr. Jr. Sr. Jr. Jr. Jr. So. Sr. Jr.

Name Pos. Kevin Aderman Jimmy Burnette Sean Burnette Vincent Capparelli Jack Cavanaugh Anthony Chimera Dan Cummings Zack Erdman Tommy Farrell Mike Finger Frank Greco Bret Hederman Jake Heeter Daniel Heiden Angel Ibarra Sean Koziol Rich Lamb Joe Madera Mike Munoz Collin Rafferty John Riordan Anthony Rios Anthony Robles Jack Sullivan Jake Tholl Nick Verta

Yr. OF OF/P OF OF INF/P OF/P INF P 1B/P OF/INF P/INF 1B P P P P 1B INF P P INF/OF/P C OF/P C C SS/P

Sr. So. Sr. Jr. Jr. Sr. Sr. Sr. So. Sr. Sr. Jr. Jr. Jr. Jr. Sr. Sr. Jr. Sr. Sr. Sr. Jr. Jr. Sr. Sr. Sr.

Knights

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Photo by Jeff Vorva

Chicago Christian senior Jack DeVries, seen here in a 2014 season contest, had several clutch hits for the Knights last week as they improved their record to 8-0.

Christian is off to the best start in school history.

a 5-2 win.

“They were probably better than us, but we played a real clean game with no errors,” Brauer said. “It boils down to toughness a little bit.

“It was a quality win, no doubt about it, but more than anything it continues to instill in our guys the attitude we’ve been preaching for seven years: show up every day expecting to win.”

The Knights didn’t let that success make them overconfident, however. On Saturday they were down in Jacksonville, Ill., for a jamboree and bagged two more triumphs: 11-6 over Rockford Christian and 14-0 over Reed-Custer. The second of those gave Christian eight straight wins to open the 2015 campaign, its best start ever to a season.

The Knights could match the longest winning streak in program history with another clean sweep this week.

Christian achieved its record of 12 in a row in 2005 under Brauer’s predecessor Sam Hamstra, whom Brauer credits with initially creating the proper environment for success.

Hamstra certainly would have been proud of the Knights’ efforts on Thursday, which included input from many.

Four pitchers took the mound, a move made by Brauer to ensure he’d have enough rested arms available for Saturday and also because it “was going to be cold so I couldn’t extend anybody

No. Name 0 Megan Gonzalez 1 Abbie Bulthuis 2 Hannah Dieck 3 Morgan Campbell 4 Tori Skala 5 Emily Vilendrer 7 Jordan Dryfhout 9 Sam Kubik 10 Ellen Vilendrer 11 Stephanie Kuiper 12 Madison Riemersma 13 Lauryn Lellos 14 Bethany Regnerus 15 Bre Vollan 22 Christa Janowiak

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MARIST Name Yr. Lizzie Annerino Jr. Kara Apato Fr. Paige Egan Jr. Hayley Franks Sr. Zariya Gonzalez Sr. Maggie Kehoe Fr. Jillian Kenny Sr. Emily Luzzo Jr. Amanda McIlhany Jr. Madison Naujokas Jr. Emily Reilly Jr. Alexis Rogers So. Vanessa Villasenor Jr. Brooke Wilson Sr.

MOTHER MCAULEY Name Alison Alberts Amy Balich Kara Bischoff Jennifer Crowley Katie Dine Morgan Fleming Kathleen Janiga Nicole Majewski Holly Marousek Molly Murphy Kelly O’Donnell Molly Rogers Emily Rux Maryssa Vela

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OAK LAWN Name Danielle Allen Hannah Featherstone Annabelle Fritz Dana Greene Kaleigh Hayes Kacie Heeter Adison Jones Ashley Labuda Hayden Landingham Marisa Loya Mia Loya Kara Melvin Maddie Pagliaro Natalia Rafacz

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QUEEN OF PEACE Name Amber Anderson Jessica Banialis Abigail Bennett Dana Bunting Lindsay Cudecki Caitlin Fitzgerald Emliy Janozik Daniella Jimenez Erin Jones Abie Maloy Kylie Maloy Katie O’ Leary Nicole Pratl Kayla Rybolt Kellie Tonaskovic

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Did they ever. Stagg’s five-run first inning was a hodgepodge as Rams mishaps were largely responsible for the rally, but a 10-run second featured several clutch hits for the Chargers, most notably two-RBI doubles from Calogelo Martinez and Brett Stratinsky.

Mike Bibbiano also doubled as part of the eruption while Dennis Egan (two RBI), Gary Kopca and Mitchell Spencer all had run-producing singles.

Spencer earned a second RBI by getting plunked with a pitch with the bags jammed.

Bibbiano, Kopca, Spencer, Egan,

too long.”

2014 Player of the Year Christian Bolhuis logged the victory by throwing the final 3 2/3 innings. The only trouble he encountered occurred in the seventh, but the Griffins left two runners stranded when Bolhuis rang up a strikeout.

The Knights generated just seven hits, but three of them accounted for four RBI. Zach Frieling’s two-run double and Dan Vos’ single were the key elements of the aforementioned third-inning surge while Tyler Edgar chased home a teammate with his second-inning hit. Ron Clark’s grounder also knocked in an early run.

When asked if this ranked as a marquee win for Christian, Brauer preferred to simply view it as something that could possibly pay dividends down the road.

“Playing some good teams and good games hopefully prepares us for conference [contests, which began this week],” Brauer said. “And hopefully it sets us up for a nice playoff run [in Class 2A].”

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Chicago Christian 14 Reed-Custer 0 Not until the fifth inning of Saturday’s first game did the Knights hold an advantage. They garnered it with a four-run outburst fueled by Trevor Wolterink’s two-run single and Tyler

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His hits included a three-run roundtripper and double. Joe McCaw had five RBI while Blake Kerzich, Zack Jones and Marty Mennenga all stroked three hits in support of winning pitcher Clay DeHaan. *** Olivet entered Saturday’s doubleheader with Trinity having received votes in the latest NAIA Coaches poll, but that didn’t faze the Trolls, who blanked the Tigers through the first six innings of Game 1. Trinity was well ahead by that time, thanks largely to a five-run surge in the third that was highlighted by Pieper’s bases-clearing two-bagger.

McCaw and Mark Munizzi also played key roles for the Trolls with three hits apiece. Kerzich doubled twice and drove in a pair of runs.

Nick Nauracy was the winning pitcher as he tossed a complete game with five strikeouts. He gave up just five hits.

Trinity spotted the Tigers leads on four occasions in the second game but pulled even at 1-all, 3-all and 5-all and then grabbed the win in the ninth on Jones’ RBI hit down the left-field line. Jones and Dylan Hatch both went 4-for-5 and the latter also knocked in a run.

Mennenga added a two-run single for the Trolls while Tanner Reklaitis logged the win in a relief appearance.

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The Trolls didn’t play as many games as their baseball counterparts, but they played just as well as they went 2-0. Trinity entered the current week 6-10 overall, 2-4 in the CCAC. Like the males the Trolls had a good time at TIU’s expense. The women laid 15-7 and 13-4 mercyrule defeats on the Trojans.

TIU held a 6-4 edge an inningand-a-half into Game 1, but Trinity Christian’s eight-run eruption in its second at-bat shifted things its way for keeps. Key hitters for the Trolls in the contest included Tori Grzincic and April Lynn, both of whom homered in the opening frame to get the locals off to a 4-0 start. Anna Phillips slugged a triple during that plate appearance.

Grzincic finished with four hits in all, including a double, and five RBI. Sarah Gillespie went 3-for-4 with two RBI and also collected the pitching victory after working 3 2/3 innings in the circle.

Christina Pacholik and Tori Stevenson had other RBI hits for Trinity Christian, which totaled 20 hits. Ten different players hit safely.

In Game 2 the Trolls smacked 11 hits, one of which was a threerun dinger by Natalie Cannizzo in the third inning that helped Trinity Christian assume a 6-0 advantage.

Nate Miranda and Josh Nowak all went 2-for-2 and either drove in a run, scored or did both. Nowak, who has already been stationed at four different positions, has filled a hole for Stagg in the leadoff spot.

“I think there are some guys that, as juniors, we saw some potential in them,” O’Neill said. “It took them a little while to figure some things out, but they put in a tremendous amount of time in the weight room and a lot of these guys are football players who have the right attitude about competing. [As far as] the competition for jobs, we haven’t had this much in a few years.”

There’s something else benefitting this year’s upperclassmen.

“Our team last year set the tone as

far as leadership and what it takes to be a good team,” O’Neill said. “Our seniors learned [success] takes more than baseball ability.”

Nick Gerzon, Stagg’s starter, was the winning pitcher. He and three relievers combined to strike out six, walk only two and limit the Rams to three hits. But despite that credible overall performance, O’Neill still tabs pitching as something of an unknown and says he and his staff have still not identified a clear-cut No. 1 guy.

Several pitchers were going to be needed this week as five games were on the schedule. Those affairs included a home date with Marist today and a visit to Lemont on Saturday.

The Indians were pummeled 10-0 by Sandburg in a meeting last week.

Edgar’s RBI double. Vos’ groundout also supplied a tally.

Edgar (double) and Wolterink had RBI hits as well during Christian’s three-run third. Other RBI producers were DeVries (double), Bolhuis (single) and Adam Schoenle (walk).

The Knights totaled eight hits and coaxed eight bases-on-balls and, true to frequent form, made the most of their chances.

“We preach quality at-bats to the kids — we do bunt and put balls on the ground to move runners,” said Brauer, whose team has executed 13 sacrifice plays so far and drawn 41 free passes.

“A lot of talented kids don’t want to do that, but our kids don’t come at it from that angle.

“It takes a little bit of checking your pride at the door, [but] it’s all about the team. Our kids are good, unselfish ballplayers [who] really buy into the team aspect and what we do.”

Wolterink, Bobby Schaaf and Schoenle shared the pitching duties, with the latter picking up his second victory of the young season. *** The Comets have traditionally fielded a solid baseball squad, so Brauer was caught off guard by their inability to issue much of a challenge to the Knights in Saturday’s second encounter.

“We were very surprised at the score and the outcome,” he said. “It really wasn’t a very good game.”

Since teams at the jamboree don’t play a set number of games — “Some

play two, some play three, some play four,” Brauer said — the Christian boss was unsure as to whether ReedCuster was facing a pitching shortage or saving arms for another contest. But there was no question as to the effect the Knights’ bats had on the Comets, particularly in the fourth stanza.

That’s when Christian broke the contest wide open with a 10-spot. Josh Hill’s bases-clearing double capped the huge uprising, but Vos (two-run single), Bolhuis (triple), Frieling, Schoenle and Pat McCarthy also delivered RBI hits.

Vos, DeVries and Jacob Bulthuis knocked in earlier runs with singles.

The Knights scored four times over the first three frames. Their 14 runs meant only three baserunners were stranded as Christian finished with 14 hits and three bases-on-balls.

“That’s not a bad stat to keep up,” said Brauer, whose team used a similarly high runners-to-runs ratio as a main ingredient in a 30-win season a couple years ago.

“I don’t care how our guys score — when we get them on, we want to get them in. In a playoff game, if you only have five guys get on base but they all score, you have a good chance to win.”

Brauer again used a three-man group on the mound and starter Vos improved to 3-0 after pitching the first three innings for the Knights, who was slated to play Walther Christian this past Monday and Tuesday in their first two games as a member of the Metro Suburban Conference.

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exhibitions in each contest, came against a group of Sooners starting pitchers that struck out 24 batters over 17 2/3 innings.

At the time of his outburst versus Oklahoma, Wood had gone 19-for-36 over a 10-game span and was batting .426 for the season. His average has dipped a bit since then, but it still stands at a healthy .368.

Through 21 games Wood had 28 hits, 14 RBI, 11 runs, 39 total bases, 10 walks, a .513 slugging percentage, .457 on-base percentage and .995 fielding percentage. One of Wood’s Purdue teammates is another St. Laurence grad, Mike Kornacker, this paper’s 2013 Player of the Year.

SUBHEAD: Mustangs win track invitational Seven event wins helped Evergreen Park amass 140 team points and cruise to a 38-point victory over runner-up Lemont at the latter’s boys’ track indoor invitational on Saturday.

Josh Carter was the Mustangs’ standout as he triumphed in two individual events and as a member of Evergreen’s 800-meter relay unit along with Kris Nichols, Charles Taylor and Sean Ryan. The foursome clocked a winning time of 1 minute, 35.92 seconds. Carter’s solo successes came in the 55-dash (6.80) and long jump (19 feet, 6 ½ inches).

Don Lewis was victorious in the 55-high hurdles (8.22), Matt Przeslicke set the pace in the 3,200 (10:18.82) and Joey Ryan captured the pole vault with a clearance of 12-6. The Mustangs’ final win was produced in the 1,600-relay by the quartet of Taylor, Sean Ryan, Michael Horton and Kameron Brown.

Evergreen will compete in its first outdoor meet April 7 at home.

OAK LAWN BOWLERS SAVOR GOOD SEASON

A first-ever sectional appearance attested to their ability on the lanes and almost 200 community-service hours spoke of their commitment to others. There was even a second straight South Suburban Conference Red Sportsmanship Award to celebrate.

All in all it was a good year for Oak Lawn’s female bowlers, one Spartans coach Kelly Rumel hated to see end.

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“I am very proud of this year’s Lady Spartan bowlers,” she said. “Every match they played demonstrated competitiveness as a team and a constant display of sportsmanship [that was] made so aparent in the camaraderie shared among themselves and opposing team members.

“The talent continues to grow, with this year’s team outperforming [those of] the past 13 years, and all signs point to another strong season next year. I warmly say goodbye to our seniors and look forward to next year.”

Shannon McGuire and Stephanie Gasca shared team MVP honors and led Oak Lawn to a third-place showing in both the SSC Red and regional meets. McGuire, who carried a 189 season average, was the individual conference champ and Gasca (175 average) placed ninth. Between them the girls rolled a total of 468 strikes and picked up 458 spares during the season.

As a team the Spartans averaged a 161 pin-fall per game.

McGuire will graduate this spring along with teammates Katie Murphy, Sarah Sievers and Kristyn Oliver.

However, that means Rumel will welcome back a dozen bowlers in the fall, a group headed up by Gasca.

Also scheduled to return are Jena Rayas, Jillian Sandrik, Shannon Mottl, Jonna Miranda, LeAnne Kommenich, Lena Rayas, Allison Hebel, Angel Barry, Rosemary Jepsen, Andrea Yukne and Carmencita McAuliff.

SHRINERS FOOTBALL GAME SET FOR JUNE 20

The Oak Lawn girls’ bowling team qualified for sectionals for the first time during the 2014-15 season.

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More information about scheduled events, along with rosters for both the East and West teams, can be found at www.ilshrinegame.com<http://www. ilshrinegame.com/>. Information can also be ontained by calling Eric Tjarks (217) 781-2400 or Matt Hawkins at (309) 665-0033.

SOUTH SIDE SHOOTERS HAVE PLAYER OPENING

The Illinois Football Coaches Association and Shriners of Illinois will co-host the 41st annual Illinois High School Shrine Game on June 20 at Tucci Stadium on the campus of Illinois Wesleyan University.

Eighty-eight of the state’s best high school football players will participate in the contest, which helps raise money for Shriners Hospital for Children, the official philanthropy of Shriners International. Last year’s event raised over $23,000 that went directly to providing medical care for children at Shriners Hospital.

Kickoff will be at 1 p.m., but the day’s festivities get underway at 9 a.m. with a Walk for LOVE event at the stadium. A postgame banquet will feature Alex Tanney, who competed in the 2006 game and now plays for the

The South Side Shooters 5th-grade basketball team needs one player to complete its spring roster.

Practices are held at Moraine Valley College and the Shooters compete in local tournaments. To schedule a tryout or for more information, contact Bill Finn at 508-0170 or coachfinn34@yahoo.com.

JUMP-SHOT SCHOOL COMING TO EVERGREEN

“In the Paint Basketball” will conduct a jump-shot school for players aged 8-14 on Saturday, April 11 and April 18 from 10:30-11:15 a.m. at the Evergreen Fitness Center, 2700 W. 91st St. For more information, call Mike Robinson at (773) 257-7525 or visit the website at www.itphoops.com.

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION (FANNIE MAE), A CORPORATION ORGANIZED AND EXISTING UNDER THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Plaintiff, -v.ANGELO GARCIA, TCF NATIONAL BANK, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants 14 CH 18474 10603 SOUTH 80TH COURT 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 March 10, 2015, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on April 16, 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 10603 SOUTH 80TH COURT, PALOS HILLS, IL 60465 Property Index No. 23-14-217-038-0000.

The real estate is improved with a two story, single family home; attached two 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.

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No pets. $780 per month Call 708-479-1704 For Sale IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON F/K/A THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS SUCCESSOR TO JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR C-BASS MORTGAGE LOAN ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-CB8 Plaintiff, -v.JAMES L. GOGGINS, ANGELIA F. GOGGINS, CAPITAL ONE BANK Defendants 09 CH 13148 12959 SOUTH MEADE AVENUE Palos Heights, IL 60463 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on November 12, 2014, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on April 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 12959 SOUTH MEADE AVENUE, Palos Heights, IL 60463 Property Index No. 24-32-119-016-0000.

The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

The judgment amount was $558,357.92.

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.

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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

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Plaintiff, -v.RICHARD POSTILLION, ANITA NAMBO A/K/A ANITA POSTILLION, RICHARD V. POSTILLION, AS TRUSTEE UNDER THE RICHARD V. POSTILLION REVOCABLE TRUST, AMENDED AND RESTATED OCTOBER 30, 2013, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, MB FINANCIAL BANK, N.A., CITY OF CHICAGO, UNKNOWN BENEFICIARIES OF THE RICHARD V. POSTILLION REVOCABLE TRUST, AMENDED AND RESTATED OCTOBER 30, 2013, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants 14 CH 017778 9712 S. 81ST COURT 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 February 25, 2015, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on April 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 9712 S. 81ST COURT, PALOS HILLS, IL 60465 Property Index No. 23-11-203-009. 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. 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 14-14-19836. 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. 14-14-19836 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 14 CH 017778 TJSC#: 35-4371 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 COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION WELLS FARGO BANK NA AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF BANC OF AMERICA ALTERNATIVE LOAN TRUST 2004-4; MORTGAGE P A S S THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 2004-4; P l a i n t i f f , v s .

UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OFJOSE J. N E V A R E Z ; YOLANDA A. NEVAREZ; BROOK HILLS H O M E O W N E R ' S ASSOCIATION; BROOK HILLS, PUD UNIT SIX HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION; CITIZENS C O M M U N I T Y BANK OF ILLINOIS; PRAIRIE TRAIL CREDIT U N I O N ; JOSE NEVAREZ, JR.; UNKNOWN HEIRS AND L E G A T E E S OF YOLANDA A. NEVAREZ, IF ANY; UNKNOWN O W N E R S AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 10 CH 33517 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Friday, April 17, 2015 at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real estate: P.I.N. 27-31-105-005-0000.

Commonly known as 11744 Cranna Court, Orland Park, IL 60467.

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: 10% down by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection For information call the Sales Clerk at Plaintiff's Attorney, The Wirbicki Law Group, 33 West Monroe Street, Chicago, Illinois 60603. (312) 360-9455 W 1 0 2 8 9 3 .

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A., AS TRUSTEE FOR WAMU MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-PR4 TRUST Plaintiff, -v.LORETA V. JUREVICIENE AKA LORETA JUREVICIENE, JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Defendants 12 CH 44774 8532 W. Loveland Palos Hills, IL 60465

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NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on January 26, 2015, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on April 28, 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:

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Commonly known as 8532 W. Loveland, Palos Hills, IL 60465 Property Index No. 23-14-110-044-0000.

The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

The judgment amount was $358,289.74.

Sale terms: 25% of the bid amount, 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, shall be paid in certified funds immediately by the highest and best bidder at the conclusion of the sale. The certified check must be made payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. 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, contact Plaintiff s attorney: HEAVNER, BEYERS & MIHLAR, LLC, 111 East Main Street, DECATUR, IL 62523, (217) 422-1719 If the sale is not confirmed for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the purchase price paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee s attorney.

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.

HEAVNER, BEYERS & MIHLAR, LLC 111 East Main Street DECATUR, IL 62523 (217) 422-1719 Attorney Code. 40387 Case Number: 12 CH 44774 TJSC#: 35-3789 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.

For Sale IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, I L L I N O I S COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION BANK OF AMERICA, NA; P l a i n t i f f , v s .

PAUL ALDWORTH; DEBORAH M. ALDWORTH AKA DEBORAH ALDWORTH; BROOK HILLS H O M E O W N E R S ASSOCIATION; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; D e f e n d a n t s , ) 11 CH 31016 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Wednesday, April 22, 2015 at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real estate: Commonly known as 11573 Brook Hill Drive, Orland Park, IL 60467.

P.I.N. 27-30-407-001-0000.

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: 10% down by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection For information call Sales Department at Plaintiff's Attorney, Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC, One East Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60601. (614) 220-5611.

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, I L L I N O I S COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS T R U S T E E , SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO BANK OF A M E R I C A , NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AS TRUSTEE AS S U C C E S S O R

BY MERGER TO LASALLE BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF BEAR STEARNS A S S E T BACKED SECURITIES I LLC, ASSET BACKEDCERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-EC1 Plaintiff, v s .

THERESA POSPISIL; DAVID POSPISIL Defendants, 13 CH 18345 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Monday, April 20, 2015 at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real estate: Commonly known as 8812 West 103rd Place, Palos Hills, Il 60465.

P.I.N. 23-15-202-008-0000.

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: 10% down by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection For information call Sales Department at Plaintiff's Attorney, Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC, One East Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60601. (614) 220-5611.

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For Sale IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, I L L I N O I S COUNTY DEPARTMENT, CHANCERY DIVISION NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC, P l a i n t i f f V .

LAUREN BLUETHNER; COUNTRY VIEW CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION; NOVASTAR MORTGAGE, INC.; BENEFICIAL FINANCIAL I INC., AS SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BENEFICIAL ILLINOIS, INC. D/B/A BENEFICIAL MORTGAGE CO. OF ILLINOIS; MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., AS NOMINEE FOR GUARANTEED RATE, INC.; NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC, D e f e n d a n t s 14 CH 14370 Property Address: 7335 WEST 157TH STREET UNIT 3D ORLAND PARK, IL 60462 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE C O N D O M I N I U M Shapiro Kreisman & Associates, LLC file # 14-072985 (It is advised that interested parties consult with their own attorneys before bidding at mortgage foreclosure s a l e s . ) PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered on December 16, 2014, Kallen Realty Services, Inc., as Selling Official will at 12:30 p.m. on May 6, 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 7335 West 157th Street, Unit 3D, Orland Park, IL 60462 Permanent Index No.: 2 7 - 1 3 - 4 0 8 - 0 4 1 - 1 0 1 2 The mortgaged real estate is improved with a dwelling.

The property will NOT be open for inspection. The purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay such of the condominium association's assessments and legal fees as are required by 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4).

The judgment amount was $141,483.40. 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 .

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 .

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PUBLISHER’S NOTICE All Real Estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Fair Housing Act which makes it illegal to advertise “any preference, limitation or discrimination.” Familial status includes children under the age of 18 living with parents or legal custodians, pregnant women and people securing custody of children under 18.

This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which is in violation of the law. Our readers are herby informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis.

To complain of discrimination call HUD toll-free at 1 (800) 669-9777.

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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 April 14, 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#: 35-3914 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 FV-I, INC. IN TRUST FOR MORGAN STANLEY MORTGAGE CAPITAL HOLDINGS LLC Plaintiff, -v.JAMES MCAULIFFE A/K/A JAMES C. MCAULIFFE, AGNIESZKA CYGAN A/K/A AGNIESZKA MCAULIFFE, CHICAGO TITLE LAND TRUST CO., AS TRUSTEE UTA DTD 2/17/10 KNOWN AS TRUST NO. 8002354487, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, JAMES D. SCHLENKER, M.D., S.C., UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS, UNKNOWN BENEFICIARIES OF CHICAGO TITLE LAND TRUST CO., AS TRUSTEE UTA DTD 2/17/10 KNOWN AS TRUST NO. 8002354487 Defendants 11 CH 39357 9014 STRATFORD LANE 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 January 20, 2015, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on April 21, 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 9014 STRATFORD LANE, PALOS HILLS, IL 60465 Property Index No. 23-10-411-002-0000. The real estate is improved with a two story, single family home with a two car attached 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. 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: 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 PA1124881. 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. PA1124881 Attorney Code. 91220 Case Number: 11 CH 39357 TJSC#: 35-1118 I648459

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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 April 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 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#: 35-4032 I649352

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, I L L I N O I S COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO NATIONAL CITY BANK, SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO MID AMERICA BANK, FSB Plaintiff, v s .

PIOTR GARUS; MARGARET GARUS A/K/A M A R G A R E T MARIA GARUS A/K/A MARGARET WICKOWSKI A / K / A MALGORZATA M. GARUS; WOODS EDGE H O M E O W N E R S ' ASSOCIATION; BMO HARRIS BANK, N.A. F/K/A HARRIS N.A.; Defendants, 13 CH 21512 NOTICE OF SALE PURSUANT TO JUDGMENT OF FORECLOSURE UNDER ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause on July 22, 2014, Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Tuesday, May 5, 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. 23-22-200-034-1082.

Commonly known as 9197 North Road, Unit F, Palos Hills, Il 60465.

The mortgaged real estate is improved with a condominium residence. The purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by subdivisions (g)(1) and (g)(4) of Section 9 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 1313137.

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. Plaintiff, -v.CYNTHIA A. SHLAUSTAS, NOTTINGHAM MANOR CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION, MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., CITIMORTGAGE, INC. Defendants 14 CH 5431 9832 NOTTINGHAM AVENUE UNIT 2 Chicago Ridge, IL 60415 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on February 2, 2015, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on May 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 9832 NOTTINGHAM AVENUE UNIT 2, Chicago Ridge, IL 60415 Property Index No. 24-07-112-047-1002.

The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

The judgment amount was $105,666.31.

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, or a 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 and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). In accordance with 735 ILCS 5/15-1507(c)(1)(h-1) and (h-2), 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(5), and 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1), you are hereby notified that the purchaser of the property, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and legal fees required by subsections (g)(1) and (g)(4) of section 9 and the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of section 18.5 of the Illinois Condominium Property Act. 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, contact the sales department, ANSELMO LINDBERG OLIVER LLC, 1771 W. Diehl Road, Suite 150, NAPERVILLE, IL 60563, (630) 4536960 For bidding instructions, visit www.fal-illinois. com.. Please refer to file number F14030284.

If the sale is not confirmed for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale may be entitled at most only to a return of the purchase price paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, the Mortgagee s attorney, or the court appointed selling officer.

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.

ANSELMO LINDBERG OLIVER LLC 1771 W. Diehl Road, Suite 150 NAPERVILLE, IL 60563 (630) 453-6960 E-Mail: foreclosurenotice@fal-illinois.com Attorney File No. F14030284 Attorney ARDC No. 3126232 Attorney Code. 26122 Case Number: 14 CH 5431 TJSC#: 35-2745 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 COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION WELLS FARGO BANK NA AS TRUSTEE FOR M E R R I L L LYNCH MORTGAGE INVESTORS TRUST; M O R T G A G E LOAN ASSET BACKED CERTIFICATES SERIES 2 0 0 6 H E 1 ; P l a i n t i f f , v s .

JOHN J. HOOKER; HEATHER A. MARLOWE AKA HEATHER A. HOOKER; FORD MOTOR CREDIT C O M P A N Y LLC; CAPITAL ONE BANK (USA) NA; ARROW FINANCIAL SERVICES, LLC; CADLEROCK JOINT VENTURE II, LP AN OHIO LIMITED PARTNERSHIP AS ASSIGNEE OF CADLEWAY PROPERTIES INC. A TEXAS CORPORATION, ASSIGNEE OF FIFTH T H I R D BANK (CHICAG0) A MICHIGAN BANKING C O R P O R A T I O N AS SUCCESSOR TO OLD KENT BANK; S O U T H M O O R COUNTRY CLUB HOMEOWNERS' ASSOCIATION; D e f e n d a n t s , 14 CH 19202 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Monday, May 4, 2015 at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real estate: Commonly known as 9430 Dunmurry Drive, Orland Park, IL 60462.

P.I.N. 23-34-307-010-0000.

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: 10% down by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection For information call Sales Department at Plaintiff's Attorney, Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC, One East Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60601. (614) 220-5611.

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For Sale IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. Plaintiff, -v.LINDA S GLOVER, PEDRO S CARABALLO AKA PEDRO SOTERO CARABALLO AKA PEDRO CARABALLO, STANDARD BANK AND TRUST COMPANY AS TRUSTEE UTA DTD 06/30/04 KNOWN AS TRUST NO. 18348 Defendants 12 CH 06082 9044 WEST 93RD 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 January 15, 2015, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on April 15, 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 9044 WEST 93RD STREET, HICKORY HILLS, IL 60457 Property Index No. 23-03-415-033-0000. The real estate is improved with a single family home with an attached 1 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 PA1201803. 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. PA1201803 Attorney Code. 91220 Case Number: 12 CH 06082 TJSC#: 35-883 I648345

For Sale IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO NATIONAL CITY BANK SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO MIDAMERICA BANK, FSB Plaintiff, -v.MARCIN SADOWSKI, THE RIVIERA IN PALOS IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION Defendants 12 CH 27017 8 COUR MICHELE 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 February 2, 2015, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on May 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 8 COUR MICHELE, PALOS HILLS, IL 60465 Property Index No. 23-23-111-009-0000. The real estate is improved with a seven unit condominium building; no garage-car ports. 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 PA1213547. 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. PA1213547 Attorney Code.

91220 Case Number: 12 CH 27017 TJSC#: 35-1886 I649752

For Sale IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION GREEN TREE SERVICING LLC Plaintiff, -v.ROBERT ZAWACKI, FIRST MIDWEST BANK, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants 14 CH 008802 8710 W. 170TH PLACE 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 March 9, 2015, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on April 27, 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 8710 W. 170TH PLACE, ORLAND PARK, IL 60462 Property Index No. 27-26-112-015. 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 14-14-09448. 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. 14-14-09448 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 14 CH 008802 TJSC#: 35-4596 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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BROADEN YOUR HORIZONS This Week The Bridge Teen Center programs • Destress Yoga – 5 to 6 p.m. today (Thursday) and April 9, The Bridge Teen Center, 15555 S. 71st Court, Orland Park, will host a Yoga program to help students increase their flexibility, tone their muscles and feel relaxed.

• Breakfast and Pajama Night – 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. April 3, a “Breakfast and Pajama Night.” During the night, students will enjoy live music from Christal Luster and free pancakes from Babycakes.

All pajamas worn to The Bridge Teen Center must be appropriate.

• Behind the Scenes: Savers Thrift Store – 2 to 4 p.m. April 8, a program with Savers to give students a behind the scenes look at how they sort, clean, inventory and display items.

• Culinary: Easy Dinners – 4:30 to 6 p.m. April 8, a culinary program with Robert Morris University to teach students how to make easy dinners that their whole family will love.

• Pizza and Catch Phrase – 4 to 5 p.m. April 9, a fast-paced game of Catchphrase. After the game, students will get to enjoy some free pizza.

These free events are for teens in 7th through 12th grade. For more information call 532-0500.

Vibraphone luncheon Vibraphone music will be featured at a luncheon on Tuesday, April 7, from noon to 2 p.m., at The Center, 12700 Southwest Highway, Palos Park.

Vibraphonist Glenn Ellison and vocalist Vincent Difiore will entertain with music and educate us about this most interesting instrument. Ellison’s repertoire includes popular swing standards from Glenn Miller, Duke Ellington, Lionel Hampton, and Frank Sinatra.

The luncheon costs $18 per person and requires advance reservations. For more, call The Center at 361-3650.

Centering prayer discussion series Centering Prayer will be studied on Tuesday evenings beginning April 7, 6:30 p.m., and Thursday, April 9, 10 a.m., at The Center, 12700 Southwest Highway, Palos Park.

Led by Chris Hopkins, the series will use a DVD from Contemplative Outreach to explore and learn the ancient form of Christian meditation that is now called “centering prayer.”

The cost of participation in the seven-week series is $35, or $5 per week. Pre-registration is required.

Call 361-3650.

Upcoming Children and teen art classes New six-week sessions of Children’s Art Classes will begin at The Log Cabin Center for the Arts on Saturday, April 18, at 10 a.m., 11 a.m., and 1 p.m.

at the Log Cabin Art Center, a part of The Center at 12700 Southwest Highway in Palos Park. Teen Pottery classes begin Tuesday evening, April 14, from 6 to – 7:30 p.m. for six weeks.

Art instructor Heather Young teaches the children to use a variety of artistic media and techniques, including drawing, painting, papermaking, papiermâché, printmaking, pottery, and more. Children are divided into three grade-level groups: kindergarten1st grade meet from 10 to 11 a.m., followed by the 2nd and 3rd graders from11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., and the 4th-8th graders from 1 a.m. to 2 p.m. The natural areas of The Center’s farm and woods provide subject matter, inspiration and sometimes the raw materials for the classes. Heather Young also teaches the teen potters, who learn to hand build clay pieces and throw pots on the wheels.

The classes combine the worlds of art and nature, and are kept small to encourage individual selfexpression. Class fees of $55 for the K-1 class, $75 for two older children’s art classes, and $80 for teen pottery cover all supplies for each six-week session.

Registration is required. Call The Center at 3613650.

Stained glass, lapidary, pastels, silver and knitting New six-week classes of stained glass, pastels, silver, lapidary, and knitting begin April 9-17 at the Log Cabin Center for the Arts, 12700 Southwest Highway in Palos Park.

Stained Glass is taught by Harry Meneghini on Thursday nights, beginning April 9, at 6:30 p.m.

Beginning Monday morning, April 13, at 9 a.m., Larry Rothenberg teaches students to set polished rocks into sterling silver pendants in Lapidary class at, while Susan Flanagan teaches the fine art of Pastel Painting. On Monday afternoons and evenings, beginning April 13, Silver Jewelry is taught by Dan Snyder at 2 and 6:30 p.m., while Georgann Ring offers Knitting instruction on Monday evenings at 6:30 p.m. and Friday mornings at 9:30 a.m., beginning April 13 and 17.

Registration is required for all classes at the Log Cabin Center for the Arts. For more, call The Center at 361-3650 or visit www.thecenterpalos.org .

Mindfulness retreat A daylong mindfulness retreat will be hosted on Saturday, April 11, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., at The Center, 12700 Southwest Highway in Palos Park.

Mindfulness participants will be invited to sit, to walk, to listen, to share, to hear, and to see the abundant beauty and wonder of the spring woodlands.

The retreat will offer suggestions and encouragement as participants seek to be mindful of their thoughts, feelings, and surroundings in the present moment.

The cost per participant is $45, which includes lunch, leadership, and supplies. Participants are advised to wear clothing and shoes appropriate for the weather as the retreat will be held mostly out-ofdoors. Advance registration is required. For more, call The Center at 361-3650.

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: “INTERSTELLAR”: Director and co-writer Christopher Nolan (“Inception,” “The Dark Knight”) goes for spectacle in the galaxy with this lengthy sci-fi drama, which poses a lot of big questions as Matthew McConaughey plays a farmer recruited to draw on his aviation past in heading an expedition to ensure a future for mankind. The trek has very personal implications for him.

Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, John Lithgow and Nolan-film regular Michael Caine also appear, but the members of the picture’s technical team — who led the movie to an Oscar win for its visual effects — are as much stars as anyone else here. *** (Also on Blu-ray and On Demand) “WILD”: Gambling with her screen image paid off big for producer and star Reese Witherspoon — to the result of many recent award nominations — in re-creating the true, life-changing hike undertaken

by Cheryl Strayed, who decided to cope with a personal tragedy by charting more of a course for herself. That applied to her behavior and also to her grueling solo journey across the Pacific Crest Trail. Laura Dern also plays a pivotal role for director Jean-Marc Vallee, but the show surely belongs to Witherspoon.

DVD extras: theatrical trailer; eight “making-of” documentaries; audio commentary by Vallee, producer Bruna Papandrea and production executive David Greenbaum; photo gallery; message from Strayed. *** (R: AS, N, P) (Also on Blu-ray) “VEEP: THE COMPLETE THIRD SEASON”: As popular as she was as Elaine on “Seinfeld,” it’s clear that Julia Louis-Dreyfus has found another iconic television character in Selina Meyer, the hilariously candid vice president who brought the actress Emmy Awards for each of the HBO comedy’s first two seasons. In this third round, Selina launches a campaign to accede to the American presidency,

but complications abound, including one that involves “Saturday Night Live,” on which Louis-Dreyfus used to be a regular. Guest stars include Christopher Meloni (“Law & Order: Special Victims Unit”), Kathy Najimy and Diedrich Bader (“The Drew Carey Show”). Anna Chlumsky, Tony Hale and Reid Scott also star. *** (Not rated: AS, P) (Also on Blu-ray) “THE REWRITE”: Not seen much lately, Hugh Grant teams again with “Two Weeks Notice” and “Music and Lyrics” director Marc Lawrence for this pleasant comedy about a screenwriter whose career and life have hit lean times since his Oscar win years earlier.

He decides to teach a course at an upstate-New York college where things take an upswing for him, thanks especially to a single mom played by Marisa Tomei, an actual Oscar winner. J.K. Simmons — also an Academy Award recipient, for “Whiplash” recently — Allison Janney, Bella Heathcote and Chris Elliott also are featured. *** (Not rated: AS, P) (Also on On Demand) “SILICON VALLEY: SEASON 1”: Soon to launch its second season, this acclaimed HBO comedy series co-created by Mike Judge focuses on one of the things the title location is best-known for ... an Internet start-up company.

Thomas Middleditch plays a programmer at the heart of the firm’s efforts to establish itself, which are beset by numerous hurdles along the way, some of a personal nature because of the dealings between bigger players in the industry. T.J. Miller, Zach Woods, Martin Starr and Amanda Crew also are among the cast members. *** (Not rated: AS, P) (Also on Blu-ray) “ISLAND OF LEMURS: MADAGASCAR”: Despite the popularity of the title location in animated tales in recent years, this project — boasting the ever-distinctive voice of Morgan Freeman as narrator — is a live-action effort originally shown in the IMAX format. It profiles the crusade by Dr. Patricia C. Wright to ensure the preservation of the lemur, which has existed for more than a million years but is now threatened. The exotic scenery of Madagascar expectedly does much for the documentary. ***

(G) (Also on Blu-ray) COMING SOON: “MANHATTAN: SEASON ONE” (April 7): The WGN America series about the development of the atomic bomb includes Daniel Stern and Rachel Brosnahan in its ensemble cast. (Not rated: AS, P) “BIG EYES” (April 14): The truth about a painter’s (Christoph Waltz) artworks, involving his wife (Amy Adams), emerges in director Tim Burton’s fact-based tale. (PG13: AS, P) “THE BABADOOK” (April 14): A children’s book generates terror for a woman (Essie Davis) and her son (Noah Wiseman) in writerdirector Jennifer Kent’s thriller. (Not rated: AS, P, V) “CAKE” (April 21): Jennifer Aniston plays a woman newly involved with the widower (Sam Worthington) of a late member (Anna Kendrick) of her support group. (R: AS, P) “TAKEN 3” (April 21): Framed for murder, CIA veteran Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson) has to clear himself and protect his daughter (Maggie Grace) again. (PG-13: AS, P, V) “GOODFELLAS” (May 5): For its 25th anniversary, the true crime drama gets a newly re-mastered Bluray edition with new cast and director (Martin Scorsese) interviews. (R: AS, P, GV) FAMILY-VIEWING GUIDE KEY: AS, adult situations; N, nudity; P, profanity; V, violence; GV, particularly graphic violence.

It’s Hard to hate this dumb movie “Get Hard” might just be one of the dumbest, most sophomoric films to be released in 2015 and that might not be a bad thing.

The film stars Will Ferrell as a snobby white investment banker and Kevin Hart as the guy who cleans his car. For both, this is one film that could be seen as a place holder as they wait for better opportunities to arrive. They are both far too funny to let this so-so plot fall flat on its face.

This is one film that is stereotypical by design and offensive by nature. If you’re looking for a film for everybody, look somewhere else. On the other hand, if you can take the blunt stereotypical humor, then this film might be right up your alley.

The film’s about James King (Ferrell), who is out of touch with anyone who’s not in the one percent. A lot of the movie pokes fun at the one percent, so if you’re part of that group you may not want to watch. After being sentenced to prison for a white-collar crime he may or may not have committed, King hires Darnell (Hart) who he mistakes as an ex-con to get him ready for prison. Even though the plot is flawed, the movie goes in all the obvious places you would expect.

This film is very hit or miss. When the jokes hit, this film is hilarious, but when the jokes fall flat they miss big time and it becomes cringeworthy. This film’s not great by any stretch of the imagination.

It’s not a film that’s intended to be great. Here director Ethan Cohen has a raunchy comedy that delivers some of the time, just not enough. The big running joke is about something inappropriate in nature that happens in prison that’s not

TONY PINTO getting repeated here. It was funny the first time it was brought up but not the hundred subsequent times.

Hart and Ferrell do a good job as lead men.

They make it enjoyable even when the film starts to lose its comedic edge. Ferrell makes King both lovable and hateable like he’s done other times before with characters like Ron Burgundy and Ricky Bobby. Even though we’ve seen Ferrell play this character before, he still does it well and it plays with a different tone when placed alongside Hart.

Also in this film we get Craig T. Nelson and Alison Brie as the villains. She’s from a TV show called “Community” (which this writer thinks you should all watch) and most of you all know who he is. They both play their stock villain roles well even if they only show up at the bookends of the film.

If you’re looking for something raunchy and offensive that is occasionally funny, this film is something to check out. On the other side of the fence, if you are easily offended, this probably is not a film for you. Fans of Hart or Ferrell this is one film you’ll want to check out.

—Tony Pinto’s grade: B-

WOLFGANG PUCK’S KITCHEN

Healthy French Toast and Fresh Berries for Easter Brunch Easter Sunday is one of the most popular times of year for entertaining with a lavish Sunday brunch.

It offers an opportunity to fill the table with all kinds of festive dishes, from savory egg recipes to a jumbo glazed ham to any number of rich, sweet baked goods and desserts.

I can just imagine how delighted people are when faced with that feast. But I know a good number of them may feel guilty as well.

Why? Because, although spring already arrived a couple of weeks ago and Easter itself has a solemn religious meaning, for many of us the holiday also symbolizes the season of Earth’s revival. Think of all those chocolate eggs and marshmallow chicks, not to mention the Easter bunny.

It’s a time when thoughts turn not only to the fresh, tender young produce beginning to fill the markets but also to the fact that fewer than three months remain to get into shape for summer swimsuits. Who can tuck into a robust Easter feast without feeling at least a little bit of worry that they might be straying from their hard-won healthy eating habits?

Fortunately, there is a way to enjoy your springtime brunch and feel virtuous about it, too. As I explain in my book, “Wolfgang Puck Makes It Healthy” (Grand Central Life & Style, $30), it’s all about making smart food choices and cooking your old favorites in ways that minimize their fat while maximizing their flavor and the health benefits they deliver. The perfect example in this case is my buttermilk French toast with fresh berry compote.

This recipe takes a classic brunch favorite, French toast, and transforms it into something undeniably good for you. I replace the usual white or eggenriched bread with whole-wheat bread that’s higher in fiber and lower in fat. Instead of using all whole eggs for the batter, I include just a couple of the yolks for their richness — no point in denying yourself completely, after all — and use extra fatfree egg whites; and, for the usual milk, I substitute low-fat buttermilk, which feels and tastes rich and

adds a pleasant touch of tanginess.

Then there’s the topping. You won’t find any melted butter or sugary syrup here. In their place, I make a quick compote of assorted fresh berries and orange juice/zest, lightly sweetened with honey.

The fruit’s jewel-like colors delight the eye just as much as their flavors and juiciness bring pleasure with every bite.

I can’t imagine anyone not thinking that this is one of the most fabulous brunch dishes imaginable.

Yet, they’ll also be astonished that one serving provides only 329 very satisfying calories, of which less than 16 percent come from fat.

That’s news that could make your happy Easter even happier!

BUTTERMILK FRENCH TOAST WITH FRESH BERRY COMPOTE Serves 4 FRENCH TOAST: • 2 large cage-free eggs, lightly beaten • 2 large cage-free egg whites • 2 cups (500 mL) buttermilk • 1 tablespoon honey • 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon • 1 teaspoon ground ginger • ¹/8 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg • ¼ teaspoon kosher salt • 8 slices good-quality whole-wheat bread, each about 1-inch (2.5 cm) thick, halved diagonally • Butter-flavored nonstick cooking spray

FRESH BERRY COMPOTE: • ¾ cup (185 mL) fresh organic blueberries • ¾ cup (185 mL) fresh organic raspberries • 3 tablespoons honey See KITCHEN, Page 10

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SPRING Arts, Crafts & Vendor Show Sponsored by: Band Boosters

Alan B. Shepard H.S. 13049 S. Ridgeland Ave. Palos Heights, IL Saturday, April 11, 2015 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

in the Gymnasium & Cafeteria Entrance in rear of building.

Concessions all day, free parking.

Over 100 crafters!

Admission: $2.00

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“FUNNY, COMPELLING…Brought down the house!”

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OMARR’S WEEKLY ASTROLOGICAL FORECAST ARIES (March 21-April 19): It’s sweet to be neat. Take pride in your possessions and let them shine. Get your shoes polished and spiff up your wardrobe, too. Material ambition will be in the air as the week unfolds.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): A passion for peace is your copilot. Sometimes it’s best to hand over the controls to someone else or delegate authority to achieve success. Have faith that others will honorably keep their end of a bargain in the week ahead.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The words with the most impact are often delivered in the quietest voice. You won’t need to whisper to get your way, but there’s no need to shout.

Make striking statements without sounding strident in the week to come.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Each moment gives you a chance to develop momentum.

As this week kicks off, you find you have the ability to make wise decisions about values, possessions and finances. Once you set your ideas into motion, they stay in motion.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): There’s no time

like the present. Come to an agreement, make crucial decisions, or put plans into motion as early in the week as possible. You could find that people aren’t as cooperative or easygoing as usual by the end of the week.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Let’s be practical. Leave intricate wheeling and dealing to the pros in the week ahead. Ignore brief enthusiasms and sudden brainstorms. Your best bet is to get in touch with relatives or ask for advice from trusted advisors.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Put business plans on the back burner. Your instincts about the way to make money or get ahead could be out of kilter. You’ll be better off spending time with family members or pursuing homebased hobbies in the week ahead.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Choose when to go fly a kite. Relationships will be buoyed up by the prevailing winds unless you allow them to be dragged down by ambition and materialism. Pay attention to which way the wind is blowing this week.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Do

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Opt for a lighter berry compote — made from raspberries and blueberries — rather than a heavy syrup.

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Continued from Page 9 • 1 tablespoon grated orange zest • 3 ounces (185 mL) fresh orange juice, from about 1 large orange

• Pinch of kosher salt FOR SERVING: • Confectioners’ sugar, for dusting (optional) • Fresh berries (optional) For the French toast, put the eggs, egg whites, buttermilk, honey, vanilla, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg and salt in a large, wide bowl

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it once, but do it right. Getting everything in apple pie order takes more time, but ensures you do things right the first time. Your willingness to be thorough may mean some people could consider you a slowpoke in the week ahead.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Take it in all in stride. Your career aspirations might conflict with the needs of family members or vice versa in the week to come. You shouldn’t feel that sacrificing one for the other is necessary to reach your primary goals.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Ask and you will receive. If you need to apply some elbow grease, don’t hesitate to ask someone to hand you the can. Ask for advice, request cooperation or achieve a happy compromise in the first half of the week.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The most important decisions are often delivered in the faintest whisper. Keep your ears on full alert as the week unfolds. You might learn of something that could have a decided impact on your future success. and whisk them together thoroughly. Submerge the bread slices in the egg mixture, turning them and making sure they become completely saturated.

Meanwhile, over medium heat, heat a heavy nonstick griddle, skillet, or a pair of skillets, large enough to hold all the French toast slices in a single layer without crowding.

When the griddle, skillet or skillets are hot, spray them evenly with nonstick cooking spray. Add the soaked bread pieces and cook until golden brown on both sides, 5 to 7 minutes total.

While the French toast is cooking, prepare the fresh berry compote: In a nonreactive saucepan, combine the blueberries, raspberries, honey, orange zest, orange juice and salt. Bring to a simmer over medium heat, stirring occasionally, and continue simmering just until the berries have given up some of their juices and have turned slightly syrupy, 3 to 4 minutes. Transfer to a serving bowl and keep warm.

To assemble the dish, arrange two slices of the French toast on each of four heated serving plates. Spoon some of the compote over each serving. If you like, spoon a little confectioners’ sugar into a small, fine-meshed sieve held over each plate and tap the sieve lightly to dust the French toast; then, garnish with fresh berries. Serve immediately, passing more fresh berry compote at the table.

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Children’s Farm summer camper JP Duda and his favorite white quarter horse, Jay.

The Children’s Farm holds signup for summer camp dates Children who love animals and nature are invited to sign up for summer camp at the Children’s Farm, 12700 Southwest Highway in Palos Park.

Children entering 4th through 7th grades in the fall will be attending the one-week and two-week overnight camps that will begin their 79th season on June 21.

Later summer sessions begin July 5, 19 and 26, and Aug 2 and 9. Each day is packed with fun for the 24 farm campers who learn to ride horses, care for animals, hike in the woods and creeks, and make campfires. Campers enjoy campouts, hayrides, games, crafts, and new friends.

“Farm Camp is an opportunity for kids to experience the healthy country atmosphere of life on a farm, yet be close to home,” says Camp Director Amy DiDominicis.

She encourages families to register as soon as possible, as some cabins are already filled.

A scholarship fund makes camp possible for children who need financial assistance. The farm also offers one-week day camp programs for children entering grades 2 through 7 in the fall, and twoweek overnight ranch and leadership camps for teens.

Call 361-3650 or visit http:// thecenterpalos.org/Camps.html for registration information.

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Umbrella art workshops will be hosted at the Log Cabin Center for the Arts on Friday, April 10, from 1 to 3 p.m. and from 6 to 8 p.m. The Log Cabin is lat 12700 Southwest Highway in Palos Park.

Instructor Lois Lauer will help each participant to create a colorful umbrella using permanent waterproof inks. Students may create their own designs, but Lauer has promised to provide suggestions for easy designs and templates for those who want more structure. Gerri Gates shows her umbrella on which she drew a spring iris.

The class fee is $14 plus a $15 materials fee, which includes an umbrella for each student and all other supplies.

Advance reservations are required. For more information, call The Center at 361-3650 or visit www.thecenterpalos.org.

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