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Evergreen Park’s Giving Garden (above and below photos) could be moved from its current location at 93rd Street and Turner Avenue to a portion of a 50-acre lot on Western Avenue.

By Declan Harty For Regional Publishing

overhead. Houses lie upon each corner. Breaking the monotonous The corner of 93 rd Street tone of house after house after and Turner Avenue in Ever- house which line Turner Avgreen Park is not much differ- enue, is a garden that channels ent from other intersections in the village’s historical pastime the village. -- farming. There are cars parked on But it’s a little bit more spethe streets. A streetlight stands cial than that.

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The Giving Garden, now in its fourth year, has become a foundation of the intersection and the community. Consisting of 16 raised beds, which play home to various fruits and vegetables, the garden is run and operated primarily through Central Junior High School students and teachers. The school, located at 9400 S. Sawyer Ave. in Evergreen Park, is less than a half-mile from the garden. The produce that is grown at the Garden is then provided to local food pantries in the area for the needy and to assist in providing a healthier meal option. “It is twofold, seeing what you need to do and what you can do for yourself nutritionally and how important it is to be healthy, that is a whole big part,” said Kathleen Hatczel, assistant superintendent for Evergreen Park School District 124. “To be able to give back because you get so much, the sharing part, is why they named it the Giving (Continued on page 5)

Lower levels The World Cup is in full swing and folks are geeked up about the USA’s win. Who will win the entire tournament? Five Viewfinder guests make their predictions Page 6

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D218 bosses worried about fourth-grade reading levels of more than 130 students By Declan Harty For Regional Publishing Despite another successful year in the eyes of the school board, issues of reading levels still remain in District 218 high schools. More than 100 students in the district who participated in the Reading Plus programs at Richards, Shepard and Eisenhower High Schools were reading at a level of fourth grade or below, according to a Reading Plus report that was revealed at Monday night’s district board meeting at the Administration Center in Oak Lawn. The program, which has been used by the district in recent years, allows students to gain exposure to non-fiction novels and other pieces of literature at their appropriate grade level. According to the report, the data shows that while some students have progressed, there has been a dull in progress toward the appropriate grade reading level the students should be at. At Eisenhower high school, there were 59 students in the program at the beginning of the year with a reading level of fourth grade and below, however, in May there were 54 students. At Richards High School, the amount of students in the program with a reading level of fourth grade or below decreased

by seven from 42 to 35. At Shepard High School, the number decreased by eight over the school year from 57 to 49 students. While the program yielded some results, some board members expressed hesitations and fears about the results that are displayed and what is impacted the students in the classroom. “There is a boredom factor,” said board member Johnny Holmes. “You have to engage in the program…These kids have missed the foundation that others have gotten and that foundation is a family-like atmosphere.” In addition to the reading levels, the board discussed various factors such as semester course failures, which decreased at all three schools. The meeting, which drew approximately 30 spectators, was used as a review of the just-completed school year, while keeping an eye looking toward the future. In other news from the district: • The board mulled the concept of a neuropsychology clinic opening at the beginning of the fall term in the administration center. The project, which reached some hesitation from some board members would create a clinic for students of district 218 to get what is being called the latest and greatest in neuropsychology. Along with other school districts, the clinic would hire several interns who

are licensed school psychologists seeking licensure for neuropsychology who are willing to front the cost of their interns. The amount of interns would vary from year to year based on the amount of people seeking the licensure. Board President Marco Corsi expressed hesitation and fear of the unknowing information that had not been hammered out such as the costs of utilities, whether the other school districts are invested for the long haul and the financial burden. “You don’t know what these expenditures are,” he said. • Board members kicked around a revision to the weighted grade policy, which had four parts to it. The board approved the first part, which included the weight of honors and advanced placement courses. The board approved the motion to have AP and honors courses carry an additional 1.0 weight to the grade point average. The remaining three parts of the motion were tabled for a later date. Those proposed parts were an elimination of class ranks, dual credit being awarded for AP and honors level courses, and making core and foundation classes available toany student in need of modified curricula. • The board discussed various building and maintenance projects for the summer including lawn care at Eisenhower, mechanical repairs at the Delta Summit Learning Center, a new childcare classroom at Shepard and new lighting and roadwork at Richards.

Yelena Fedorchenko said she takes her daughter, Enila, (inset) to Memorial Park almost every day despite a recent incident in which someone inserted screws into the rocket slide to apparently injure children.

Screwy incident in OL doesn’t scare off some parents By Bob Rakow Staff Reporter Yelena Fedorchenko sat at a picnic table under a shelter at Oak Lawn’s Memorial Park Tuesday morning and watched her daughter, Enilia, walk to the rocket slide. She kept a close eye on the 2-year-old girl, but didn’t stop her from playing on the playground equipment despite a June 5 report that someone found screws fastened onto the some of the slides. The screws were driven into the bottoms of two of the five slides that make up the rocket slide. “I wasn’t that surprised,” said Fedorchenko, an Oak Lawn resident. “There’s always crazy stuff happening in the world.” Fedorchenko and her daugh-

ter visit the park, 10200 S. Major Ave., almost every day. She said she would inspect the slides if other children weren’t already playing on the equipment—an indication it was safe. Several other moms looked on Tuesday morning as their young children climb the rocket slide—a playground apparatus that is the centerpiece of the recently remodeled Memorial Park—but no one inspected the equipment or prohibited their children from spending time on the slides. Fedorchenko said her mother warned her to keep a close eye on the playground equipment, but she’s not too concerned. “Things happen all the time,” she said. “My husband keeps saying, ‘Why would someone (Continued on page 3)

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WHOIZIT? Worth’s Theresa Rebersky, a faithful player in the Reporter’s WHATIZIT? photo game, throws out the ceremonial first pitch before Saturday’s Kansas City Royals-White Sox game at U.S. Cellular Field. Rebersky represented The Private Bank and took to the mound and fired a throw to White Sox ace pitcher Chris Sale. It was a WHOIZIT? moment. Little did she know that she was throwing the ball to one of the top pitchers in baseball. “I told my husband George and [a friend] ‘Some guy named Chris caught the ball that I threw from the pitcher’s mound.’ The guys stared at me and said ‘Some Guy named Chris...are you kidding me?’ I had no clue he was the pitcher for the White Sox. He signed an official baseball for me and put his number 49 on the ball. He was a soft spoken very nice man.’’

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POLICE NEWS

Chicago Ridge Raul Ortiz, 27, of Oak Lawn, was charged with driving on a suspended license, no insurance and driving while using a cell phone June 9 following a stop at Southwest Highway and Ridgeland Avenue, police said. *** Michael A. Yakas, 58, of Chicago Ridge, was charged with driving on a suspended license and suspended registration June 10 after he was stopped at 103rd Street and Nashville Avenue, police said. *** Marissa Buentello, 21, and Natalia Kois, 20, both of Burbank, were charged with retail theft June 11 after reportedly stealing merchandise from Carson’s at Chicago Ridge Mall, police said. *** Guadalupe Mora, 49, of Hickory Hills, was charged with retail theft June 13 after reportedly stealing merchandise from Spencer’s Gifts at Chicago Ridge Mall, police said.

Evergreen Park Lawrence E. McCullom, 44, Chicago, was charged with disorderly conduct May 30 after allegedly yell-

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ing threats at another person in the 2500 block of 95th Street, police said. *** Thomas M. Jones, 22, Burbank, was charged with drunken driving, speeding, no insurance and driving without a valid license June 1 after a stop in the 3500 block of 102nd Street, police said. *** Allen L. McKinzie, 21, of Chicago, was charged with trespassing June 1 at Aldi, 2541 W. 95th St., after he allegedly refused to leave the store, police said. *** Alicia S. Warren, 25, Chicago, was charged with retail theft June 2 after reportedly stealing merchandise from Wal-Mart, 2500 W. 95th St., police said. *** Terrance T. Jackson, 21, Chicago, was charged with theft June 3 after allegedly stealing a bicycle from the front of Walgreens, 3545 W. 95th St., police said. *** Tony R. Nichols, 43, Oak Lawn, was charged with aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, no insurance, driving on a suspended license and illegal transportation of alcohol after a stop June 5 in the 2600 block of 87th Street, police said. *** Ismael Nieves, 39, Oak Forest,

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was charged with possession of marijuana June 5 following a stop at 97th Street and Western Avenue, police said. *** Jeffrey M. Rezzardi, 41, Crestwood, was charged June 5 with possession of a controlled substance and expired registration after he was stopped in the 9100 block of Kedzie Avenue, police said. *** Brian A. Wnek, 28, Oak Lawn, was charged with possession of a controlled substance and drug equipment, and his brother, Brad Wnek, 39, also of Oak Lawn, was charged with improper lane use and no insurance June 6 after a stop in the 8700 block of Central Park Avenue, police said. *** Terrance O. Eagins, 48, of Chicago, was charged with retail theft June 9 after reportedly stealing four packs of steaks from Wal-Mart, 2500 W. 95th St., police said. Submitted photo *** Joshua D. Johnson, 22, Palos Heights, was charged with possession of a controlled substance and The Oak Lawn Fire and Rescue Department has been awarded the American Heart Association’s drug equipment after a June 11 stop Silver Mission Lifeline Award. The award is given to pre-hospital providers who meet or exceed the in the 3900 block of 98th Street, standard for heart patient care. This is the inaugural year of this award, and only 200 awards were police said. given out nationally. With the advancements in cardiac monitoring devices, and prompt treatment by paramedics, the doctors are now able to visually see the patient’s electrocardiogram (12-lead EKG) while paramedics are in the field. The early transmission of this EKG allows the cardiac doctors and their team to meet the patient upon arriving to the Emergency Room, saving precious time. In order to receive Debra F. Aguinaga, 45, of Justhe award, those patients who are having a heart attack, must have their heart artery opened in less tice, was charged with possession than 90 minutes, so paramedics must act quickly. of a controlled substance June 12 Pictured from left are Assistant Chief Scott Boman, Firefighter/Paramedic Mike Curran, EMS after a stop in the 8600 block of Bureau Chief Gary Bettenhausen, Firefighter/Paramedic Jim Jaeger and Fire Chief George Sheets. 87th Street, police said. *** *** ing on a suspended license June dren and Family Services was Quentia D. Harmon, 25, of Chicago, was charged with driving Accacia M. Tayor, 18, and Des- 12 after a stop at 99th Street and contacted by police. *** on a suspended license June 12 tiny Jackson, 18, both of Chicago, Cicero Avenue, police said. *** Christian Zavala-Juarez, 20, following a stop in the 7600 block were charged with retail theft June 9 after allegedly stealing Jaime Tenorio, 29, of Chicago, of North Carolina, was charged of 95th Street, police said. merchandise from Target, 4120 was charged with drunken driving, with contributing the delin*** making an improper turn and no quency of a minor, possession Kevin J. Lyons, 19, of Justice, W. 95th St., police said. *** insurance after a June 12 stop at of marijuana and drug equipwas charged with trespassing June 13 after allegedly search- Jennifer L. King, 33, of Crest- 95th Street and Merrimac Avenue, ment June 11 after a stop in the 8800 block of 103rd Street, ing through storage lockers at an wood, was charged with possession police said. *** police said. apartment building in the 8700 of a controlled substance June 9 af*** block of 83rd Avenue, police said. ter she was arrested at Walgreens, Humberto Bahena, 31, of Chi4740 W. 95th St., police said. cago, was charged with drunken Angel Arellano, 19, and Ro*** *** driving June 12 after a stop in salie Suarez, 18 both of Chi Bartlomiej Rybka, 30, of Palos Hills, was charged with disorderly An Oak Lawn woman who the 5500 block of 95th Street, cago, were charged with illegal consumption of alcohol, Gabriconduct June 14 after a reported stopped June 11 to deposit a check police said. *** elle Soltys, 25, of Worth, was disturbance at Primetime, 7750 in an ATM machine in the 4200 block of 95th Street told police A plastic garbage can was set charged with possession of drug W. 95th St., police said. that man who was a passenger in on fire June 13 inside the skate equipment, contributing to the *** Michael J. Perelka, 45, of her car drove away in her vehicle, park at Worthbrook Park, 6330 delinquency of a minor and possession of marijuana, and Eric Hickory Hills, was charged with police said. She has been unable W. 89th Place. *** Kopinski, 23, of Palos Hills, was disorderly conduct June 15 after to contact him since. *** Henry C. Morf, 81, of Chicago, charged with contributing to the reportedly begging motorists for money in the 8700 block of Rob- Thaddeus A. Smith, 50, of Chi- was charged battery, disobeying delinquency of a minor and litcago, was charged with retail theft a police officer, fleeing, failure tering after a June 12 stop at erts Road, police said. June 11 after reportedly stealing to yield to an emergency vehicle 111th Street and O’Gorman, goods from Jewel-Osco, 9424 S. and no insurance June 13 after a police said. Pulaski Road, police said. stop at 94th Street and Massasoit *** *** Avenue, police said. Karol Klosowski, 25, of Justice, was charged with drunken A computer, mini refrigerator Krzysztof Maka, 31, of Oak driving June 15 after a stop at and a printer were reported stolen Lawn, was charged with disorderly 88th Avenue and 99th Street, between May 1 and 4 from the conduct June 12 after a reported police said. hallway of a physician’s building disturbance in the 10700 block of An unattended 18-month-child in the 5100 block of 95th Street. Georgia Lane, police said. Area police departments *** was found June 11 near 103rd Chicago Ridge *** 425-7831 Joel E. Golomb, 29, of Alsip, Precious T. Grayer, 28, of Alsip, Street and Kathy Court, accord- Evergreen Park 422-2142 was charged with drunken driv- was charged with drunken driving, ing to reports. Police found the Hickory Hills 598-4900 ing and speeding June 1 after a no insurance, failure to wear a child’s mother asleep at home Oak Lawn 499-7722 stop at 109th Street and Cicero seatbelt, improper lane use, illegal and unaware that the child was Palos Hills 598-2272 transportation of alcohol and driv- outside. The Department Chil- Worth 448-3979 Avenue, police said. *** Hand tools valued at $500 were reported stolen between June 8 and 11 from a garage in the 10000 block of Merrimac Avenue. *** A backpack containing an iPad and a tablet was reported stolen A woman was grabbed Sunday around, knocked the man to the June 9 from the Pizza Hut at night by an unknown man while ground and began screaming. He Target, 4120 W. 95th St. she was walking in the 10200 fled on foot northbound on Central block of Central Park Avenue in Park Avenue and may have headed Evergreen Park, police said. east on 102nd Street, police said. An Oak Lawn gas station was The incident occurred at She described the offender as 9:50 p.m. when the 24-year-old Hispanic, 18 to 20 years old, olive robbed June 11 at gunpoint, powoman stopped for a traffic light complexion with black spiky hair. lice said. at103rd Street and Central Park He was wearing a black zipper A clerk at the Speedway StaAvenue, police said. hoodie, white shirt, dark faded tion, 9800 S. Cicero Ave., called As she waited for the light to jeans and dark shoes. change, she said the man grabbed Anyone with any information 911 after the robbery and told Jack & Pat’s the back of her right leg and her concerning this incident or similar police that she was cleaning the right shoulder. She described his incidents is asked to contact the station when an African-Ameriapproach as “similar to a wrestling Evergreen Park Police Department can man wearing a black hoodie, move,” police said. at 708-422-2144. The woman said she turned —Bob Rakow (Continued on page 3)

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Palos Heights Police Department participants pound the pavement and run south on Harlem Avenue, near 123rd Street, early Wednesday last week. Seven Palos Heights PD officers ran the torch relay. The Palos contingent handed off the torch to another group of runners at a point just south of I-80 and La Grange Road in Mokena. Fundraising for the Torch Run continues. Orland Park police are planning a charity bike ride scheduled for Aug 23. For details, visit soill.org online and click on the “Torch Run” tab.

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Former EP couple hits home run with Challengers Field

IMPRESSIONS

In the heart of a Tinley Park neighborhood stands a new By baseball field Jeff Vorva in which there is a game or two going on just about every day involving special needs kids and adults. And it warms the hearts of hundreds of volunteers who made it happen including Denis and Lois Murphy. This couple is receiving a lot of credit from TP officials for the opening of Challengers Field, a $300,000 facility with artificial turf that has provided many hits, runs and smiles. The Murphys lived in Evergreen Park 28 years ago. Denis went to St. Bernedette and Evergreen Park High School. Lois attended Northwest Elementary School and Evergreen Park High School. Her maiden name is also Murphy and they still have friends and family in the Evergreen Park community. But they have really made a big mark in Tinley Park. One of their four sons, Kyle, is a special needs athlete who has neurofibromatosis, which is a seven-syllable word meaning the growth of tumors anywhere from the spinal cord to the brain. Kyle is 24, and his parents have

been a part of the Challengers League since 1994. The vision for the new field came about two years ago, Denis said. “We played on a dirt field and we were kind of handicapped because we only had the field for one night and we split it with three teams,” he said. “We wanted to expand and make it a safe surface. That’s how we started this project. “We can play seven days a week if we want.’’ Photos by Jeff Vorva The Challengers have 64 ath- Denis and Lois Murphy, right photo, are formerly of Evergreen Park but are making an impact in Tinley Park as they had a big hand letes in the organization and hope in creating Challengers Field to serve athletes with special needs. In the left photo are new helmets specially made for the facility. to expand it to more than 120 in the coming years. Athletes from Korwin said. “These players can some,” she said. “We were waitThe trouble is, a vast majority Park gets the top billing and Evergreen Park, Tinley Park, help you win a World Series. ing for this day to come and it’s of the section is about the town rightfully so, because this secOrland Park, Frankfort, Mokena, That is a Killer Korwin guar- everything and more than we itself and the businesses that are tion will be full of great stories Oak Forest and Steger play ball antee.’’ expected.’’ in it and not the event. People and photos that our people have there. Another guarantee is that who just look at the cover of put together over recent months The senior member of all the Challengers Field will make a lot A new celebration these sections might think it is along with some businesses bragplayers is Orland Park’s Brian of players, parents and friends We’re going to change a little just about the event itself and ging about what they bring to “Killer” Korwin, who has been happy for a long time. something that has made me may not even want to crack it town. with organization since it startLois was amazed at the out- scratch my head for a while. open if they are not interested Sure, there will be valuable ed 20 years ago. Korwin made a pouring of love from the hunWhen Regional Publishing puts in it or can’t attend it. information about the Day in speech via his computer during dreds who showed up for the out a special section on a given In changing up the ‘we’ve-al- the Park and six photos on the the grand opening of the field opening ceremonies, which in- community, it has gone out of its ways-done-it-like-that’ mentality, cover are from last year’s event. on May 18 and said the major cluded a parade, the Andrew way to make the cover of the sec- the Reporter is tossing a curveball. But the true stars of the secleague scouts would flock to the High School band, White Sox tion focus on a big event coming This week, the special section tion are the peeps and businesses field to scout future phenoms. mascot Southpaw, speeches and to town, such as we did for the for Evergreen Park will be called in your community, and we are “Good luck and just try to other activities. Hickory Hills’ Street Fair in last “A Celebration of Evergreen Park going to try to reflect that from keep track of all of this talent,” “It’s beyond words – it’s awe- week’s paper. and Day in the Park.” Evergreen now on.

EP’s Aparo earns ‘doctorate of clerking’ By Bob Rakow Staff Writer Cathy Aparo is in rare company. The Evergreen Park Village Clerk has become one of only 42 municipal clerks in Illinois to become a master clerk. Aparo, the village clerk for the past 13 years, was honored at Monday night’s village board meeting for achieving the status, which required several years of continuing education and service to the village. The designation was bestowed by the International Institute of Municipal Clerks, a nonprofit association that promotes continuing education and certification for clerks and provides networking solutions, services and benefits to its members. “I guess this would be your doctorate of clerking,” said Mayor James Sexton, who once served as village clerk. “She is a true gem,” said Chicago Ridge Mayor Chuck Tokar, who presented Aparo with her official designation. Tokar, also a master clerk, achieved the designation during his long tenure as Chicago Ridge clerk before being elected

Slides (Continued from page 1) want to do this to kids?’” Wendy Moss spent the morning at Memorial Park with other moms from the Pullman Christian Reformed Church. The group visits a different park every Tuesday morning, but last week’s news of vandalism didn’t deter them from spending time at Memorial Park. “It definitely worries me,” said Wendy Moss, a South Holland resident, as she watched her three children play on the rocket slide. Vellma Kellup, an Oak Lawn resident and church group mem-

In sports terms, Ken Karrson brought home a gold medal and a couple of bronze medals. The Reporter/Regional sports editor garnered three awards in Ken Karrson the Illinois Press Association contest as winners were announced Friday at its convention in Springfield. Karrson won first place in the Class B headline writing contest with the judges saying “This headline writer knows how to draw eyes to stories. Great job, very creative.’’ His collection from 2013 featured “More southern comfort” about Chicago Christian’s baseball

mayor in 2012. Evergreen Park Mayor James Sexton, who also includes village clerk on his resume, thanked Aparo for her 30 years of service to the village. “Clerks do all the work,” Sexton said. Aparo acknowledged Sexton for his ongoing support and his sage advice to get involved with the municipal clerk organization when she was first elected. “I’ll try to be the best clerk anybody can be,” Aparo said. Oak Lawn Village Clerk Jane Quinlan presented Aparo with a plaque from the village congratulating her on her distinction. “God knows she worked diligently, and she’s guided me,” said Quinlan, the Oak Lawn village clerk for the past nine years. Quinlan recalled an incident in her early days as clerk when she mistakenly took the local access channel off the air. She called Aparo, who arrived at the Oak Lawn Village Hall in minutes to help. The two clerks have become close over the years. Aparo has always been honest in advising her Oak Lawn counterpart, Quinlan said.

Quinlan said becoming a master clerk is no simple task and requires clerks to “go above and beyond” their normal duties. Hickory Hills City Clerk D’Lorah Catizone and Justice Village Clerk Kathleen Svoboda also attended Monday’s meeting to congratulate Aparo.

ber, was convinced that whoever damaged the slide was mimicking reports of similar activity elsewhere in Illinois and other parts of the country. “To me, it was like a copycat incident,” Kellup said. “It doesn’t take much.” Church member Kim Dykstra said the incident is a sign of the times. “When I was growing up, I never had to deal with that,” Dykstra said. In April, razor blades were duct taped to playground equipment at a park outside Philadelphia, but no one was injured. In Illinois, a toddler’s hands were sliced by razor blades glued to playground equipment in East

Moline. East Moline police said they found about a dozen razor blades glued to playground equipment at a local park. Photos of the razor blades of the 2-year-old’s bloody, cut hand went viral on Facebook and made national headlines. In Oak Lawn, police were called to Rocket Slide Park at about 11:30 p.m. after receiving a call about the screws, which were immediately removed by park district employees. Park district employees are inspecting playground equipment in Oak Lawn parks on a daily basis. The police department also is keeping an eye on the parks.

Traffic death in OL ruled an accident A Saturday night crash in Oak Lawn that resulted in the death of a 57-year old Oak Lawn man has been ruled an accident, police said. Noel Finnerty died at 10:51 p.m. at Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, less than one hour after he was struck while crossing Cicero Avenue near 95th Street, police said. The crash occurred at 10:12 p.m. when Finnerty was struck by a 2010 Toyota RAV4 driven by 29-year-old Tennessee man.

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The Toyota was traveling south on Cicero Avenue approximately 100 feet south of 95th when it hit the victim. Witnesses told police Finnerty was crossing east Cicero Avenue. Traffic on Cicero Avenue was reduced to three lanes for approximately two hours while the scene was investigated. No traffic citations have been issued. —Bob Rakow

trips to Jacksonville, “Forgettable Momence” about Chicago Christian’s football team’s loss to Momence, “Meteor slighting” about St. Laurence’s football loss to De La Salle, “Tigers get Adam-Bombed” about Stagg quarterback Adam Pilota’s big passing night against Joliet West and a “A Crum-my way to end’’ about St. Rita’s Julian Crum’s block of a Brother Rice field goal hurting the Crusaders’ chances to make the playoffs. Karrson’s Bartosh columns on athletes spitting, an athlete appearing on a Fruity Pebbles cereal box and manners at the Master’s Tournament won third place as did an in-depth feature on the Illinois High School Association new rules to prevent injuries during summer football sessions. Reporter editor Jeff Vorva took second place to Karrson

in headline writing. Headlines that appeared in the news section were “Disorder on the courts” about Oak Lawn’s basketball court controversy, “Doggone it’’ about the Richards Bulldogs’ state football championship loss, “High Tension” about an Oak Lawn resident’s displeasure with ComEd, “No Christmas Carol for Bury” about Oak Lawn trustee Carol Quinlan blasting Mayor Sandra Bury’s blog and “West Nile Nightmare” on Evergreen Park Mayor Jim Sexton’s fight with West Nile virus. The judges said “Great job writing headlines that make you want to read the story; particularly enjoyed ‘Doggone it.’ ’’ Vorva also took honorable mention for a photo series featuring the end of a Chicago Christian girls volleyball match.

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Robbery (Continued from page 2) ski mask and gloves, who was holding a small revolver, entered the store and demanded money. The clerk said the man had a deep, raspy voice. She walked around behind the counter, opened the register and put approximately $300 cash into a plastic gray Speedway bag and handed it to the offender, police said. He told her to sit in the back room and wait. She heard him leave the store but did not see what direction he headed. —Bob Rakow

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Our Neighborhood

It was a wild time at the MHR Carnival

Evergreen Park’s Fiona Duffner has a merry smile while riding on the merry-go-round at the MHR carnival.

Photos by Jeff Vorva

Hair is flying on the Himalaya ride at the MHR carnival.

Most Holy Redeemer was the site of its annual carnival, which featured rides, food, bingo and raffles to help the school.

Bill Zurella of Evergreen Park cooks up brats at the Most Holy Redeemer Carnival, which took place last Wednesday through Sunday in Evergreen Park.

Patrons get jostled at the Tornado ride at Most Holy Redeemer on Friday.

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By Mark Andrews

Compiled by Jeff Vorva

News and events from our archives.

Flip of a coin doesn’t cut it for Palos Hills council 50 years ago

From the June 18, 1964 edition The story: Palos Hills Alderman Leabert Powell was back on the city council after a 14-month absence as he won a special election. In April, 1963 Powell and Leroy Roloff were tied in the regular election and Roloff won a coin toss and thought he would be given the seat. But the council refused to seat him and there was a lot of bickering and unrest and threatened lawsuits until the special election. Powell won that one, 150-124. The quote: “Now we can get things done for the city. Powell did a good job before as alderman and will again,” — Palos Hills Alderman Edward Hail, hailing Powell’s abilities. Fun fact: The White Sox and Cubs are not known for being in first place at the same time in Major League Baseball, but in the Palos Little League, the Sox led the American League with an 8-1 mark and the Cubs led the National League with a 6-2 record.

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From the June 22, 1989 issue The story: A man escaped with an undetermined amount of cash after holding up the Bridgeview Bakery. Police said the man had a paper bag and claimed he had a weapon. The quote: “The guy was in and out very quickly. Nobody in the bank was even aware a robbery had occurred until after it was over.” — Oak Lawn Detective Jerry Vetter commenting on the robbery at the Standard Federal Savings Bank. Fun fact: Mitch “Wild Thing” Williams of the Chicago Cubs was the guest celebrity at the Oak Lawn Baseball Card Show.

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From the June 17, 2004 issue The story: Because of some comments made by Orland Park residents protesting the building of a mosque in their town, Hickory Hills Mayor Mike Howley invited Seema Iman to give a talk to the city council about Muslim culture. The quote: “[It’s] like living next to a roller-coaster,” — Oak Lawn resident Debbie Lovell who was angry about the noise and swearing at the Worthbrook Park skate park near her home. Fun fact: Evergreen Park Mayor Jim Sexton was scheduled to be on hand at the Aqua Pool Swim Party and there was speculation that he would try the high slide if his back cooperated.

June 19: ON THIS DATE in 1586, English colonists sailed for home from Roanoke Island, N.C., after failing to establish England’s first permanent settlement in America. In 1862, slavery was outlawed in U.S. territories. June 20: ON THIS DATE in 1837, Queen Victoria ascended the British throne following the death of her uncle, King William IV. She reigned for 63 years. June 21: ON THIS DATE in 1788, the U.S. Constitution went into effect as New Hampshire became the ninth state to ratify it. June 22: ON THIS DATE in 1972, President Nixon and his chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman, discussed a plan to use the CIA to obstruct the FBI’s Watergate investigation. (Revelation of the tape recording of this conversation later fueled the impeachment move against Nixon.) June 23: ON THIS DATE in 1860, the U.S. Secret Service was created. June 24: ON THIS DATE in 1322, all Jews were expelled from France. In 1977, the Internal Revenue Service revealed that President Jimmy Carter had paid no income taxes in 1976. June 25: ON THIS DATE in 1962, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that prescribed prayer in New York public schools was unconstitutional. Answer to last week’s question: This week in 1876, Lt. Col. George A. Custer led units of the U.S. Army’s 7th Cavalry into a disastrous ambush by Lakota, Cheyenne, Sioux and Arapaho warriors near the Little Bighorn River in Montana Territory. This week’s question: In 1946, what revolutionary women’s swimsuit design made its debut at a Paris fashion show? (Mark Andrews can be reached via e-mail at mlandrews@embarqmail.com.)

Thursday, June 19, 2014 The Reporter

Trash talk: Hickory Hills signs up with Waste Management for eight more years By Kelly White Correspondent â&#x20AC;&#x201A;â&#x20AC;&#x201A;Hickory Hills renewed its contract with Waste Management for eight more years. â&#x20AC;&#x201A;â&#x20AC;&#x201A;The city council voted unanimously on a tentatively approved contract extension with Waste Management last Thursday night, allowing for an eight-year extension. â&#x20AC;&#x201A;â&#x20AC;&#x201A;Residents will see a $5 decrease beginning with their next bill, when the current rate at $26.75 will drop to $21.75. â&#x20AC;&#x201A;â&#x20AC;&#x201A;â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is a big contract and a big savings for the city,â&#x20AC;? Alderman Brian Fonte said. Fonte has been working with a contractual agreement with Waste Management over the past month. â&#x20AC;&#x201A;â&#x20AC;&#x201A; Upon attorney review, Mayor Mike Howley reported the contract will go into effect immediately. â&#x20AC;&#x201A;â&#x20AC;&#x201A; The contract also includes a weekly recycling agreement instead of bi-weekly, set to begin in August. In October, 2013, Fonte and Alderman Thomas McAvoy, both third ward alderman, published and distributed a survey form to approximately 1,300 homes in the their ward. The questionnaire was designed to determine how many residents would like to change

the combination of refuse and recycling containers they had to some other desired combination. The majority of residents said they wanted weekly recycling. â&#x20AC;&#x201A;â&#x20AC;&#x201A;Prior to weekly recycling taking place, Waste Management will send out postcards to Hickory Hillsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; residents informing them of the change. WM officials also presented to the council the idea of creating community brochures for the city and its residents. The brochures would include all necessary Waste Management information and allow space for city services, including branch pickup. â&#x20AC;&#x201A;â&#x20AC;&#x201A; â&#x20AC;&#x153;We will be sure to handle all communication between us and your residents,â&#x20AC;? Waste Management representative Mike Morley said. â&#x20AC;&#x201A;â&#x20AC;&#x201A;The city will be receiving a $7,500 check in community support each year, beginning June, 2015, instead of continual recycling rebates. A 50/50 recycling rebate will take place when Hickoryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recycling amount exceeds $130 per ton. The city will then be entitled to half of the Waste Management rebate, Morley explained. â&#x20AC;&#x201A;â&#x20AC;&#x201A; â&#x20AC;&#x153;We get the most back from recycling from cardboard,â&#x20AC;? Morley said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Glass is actually

at a negative retail value and plastics are 50/50.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201A;â&#x20AC;&#x201A;Officials said the last time recycling in Hickory Hills exceeded $130 per ton was in 2008 and again in 2011. â&#x20AC;&#x201A;â&#x20AC;&#x201A; There is a higher contamination rate in recycling effecting the rebates with items being put into recycling containers that should not be, Morley said. Examples include traditional garbage, garden hoses, metal objects and yard waste. â&#x20AC;&#x201A;â&#x20AC;&#x201A; â&#x20AC;&#x153;When these items are hidden inside of recycling containers, it contaminates the items that are meant to be recycled,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We could include an additional 75-cent drop in rate to our residents this year, or wait until next year when the rate will be able to be dropped to 90 cents per household,â&#x20AC;? City Treasurer Dan Schramm said. â&#x20AC;&#x201A;â&#x20AC;&#x201A; The additional 75-cent drop in price would have taken residentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; monthly fee to $21 per household; however, the city decided it is best to wait at least another year into the contract when they will be able to lower residentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; rates even more.

Photo by Jeff Vorva

The Giving Garden in Evergreen Park could be in line to move to a bigger location.

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been discussed before, but a larger plot would mandate more community assistance in addition with her hopes to keep the current lot. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I would love to talk to the mayor about doing that in the near future, but we would have to have help,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Whether it is the scouts or church groups, I think we have enough interest. We have several master gardeners in Evergreen Park who would be interested, I think, in helping get started. It is just a matter of us sitting down and saying here is the land and what we need to do to plot it out and decide how we are going to get together. I would be very interested in helping get that off with the community.â&#x20AC;? The Giving Garden was initially proposed by a variety of group leaders at a meeting at Little Company of Mary Hospital, according to Hatczel. The idea for a community garden was initially much larger including the possibility of churches, schools, shops or anyone participating. But Hatczel said the difficulties of meeting with that many people took place and eventually she proposed that Central Junior High School, which will begin as a middle school in the fall of 2015, take control of the lot and care for the garden.

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Garden.â&#x20AC;? But now the lot that the garden â&#x20AC;&#x201A;â&#x20AC;&#x201A; â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have worked with Hicko- sits on may be a stepping-stone to ry Hills for many years and we a larger platform. Mayor Jim Sexton said he hopes look forward to serving them in to revitalize and revisit the comthe future,â&#x20AC;? Morley said. munityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s farming roots and to move the Giving Garden to portion of a 50-acre lot that lies near the new Menards on Western Avenue. The lot would also house farm animals such as retired race horses, Sexton said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have that 50 acres of a new park over there, and we have set aside a portion of that,â&#x20AC;? Sexton said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have the last piece of the park, but we want the kids to understand what the past was here in Evergreen Park, and again let them be able to produce produce and be able to help out the less fortunate.â&#x20AC;? Sexton said the village would be borrowing the idea for a farm area from the Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences located at 3857 W. 111th St. He said that the property would not be as large as the high schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s campus, but that they â&#x20AC;&#x153;hope for something else like that.â&#x20AC;? Hatczel said the expansion has

SXU and Morgan Park HS partner up â&#x20AC;&#x201A;â&#x20AC;&#x201A; Mayor Rahm Emanuel joined CPS CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett and Alderman Matt Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Shea to announce a long-term partnership between Saint Xavier University and Morgan Park High School. â&#x20AC;&#x201A;â&#x20AC;&#x201A;The high school, which is also transitioning to a wall-towall international Baccalaureate School in the 2014-2015 school year, will now be able to offer students access to a dual enrollment and credit program in which students earn college credit as well as teacher professional learning supports free of charge. â&#x20AC;&#x201A;â&#x20AC;&#x201A; â&#x20AC;&#x153;This partnership with Saint Xavier University will establish another pathway for students to gain early exposure to college and receive dual course credit,â&#x20AC;? said Mayor Emanuel. â&#x20AC;&#x153;With Chicago Public School students on track to graduate in record numbers, we will continue to increase educational opportunities that provide skills for a successful future. This program is an important step in our strategy to ensure all of Chicagoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s students graduate 100 percent college ready and 100 percent college bound.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201A;â&#x20AC;&#x201A;This partnership will focus on four goals: â&#x20AC;&#x201A;â&#x20AC;&#x201A; â&#x20AC;˘ Establish a dual enrollment and support program to ensure students can receive college credit free of charge. â&#x20AC;&#x201A;â&#x20AC;&#x201A;â&#x20AC;˘ Provide MPHS students with college transition and engagement services, including Saturday and summer enrichment options. â&#x20AC;&#x201A;â&#x20AC;&#x201A;â&#x20AC;˘ Increase access to professional development opportunities designed to support teachers in improving content and pedagogical content knowledge with a focus on the IB framework. â&#x20AC;&#x201A;â&#x20AC;&#x201A;â&#x20AC;˘ Create a pre-service program to create a pipeline of SXU students to return to MPHS as teachers. â&#x20AC;&#x201A;â&#x20AC;&#x201A; â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are excited to join Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Morgan Park High School as we launch an important and collaborative long-term partnership for Saint Xavier University â&#x20AC;&#x201D; preparing for a smooth transition into the college experience through the International Baccalaureate Partnership Program,â&#x20AC;? said Saint Xavier University President Christine M. Wiseman. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We understand that an edu-

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Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and SXU President Christine M. Wiseman pose after a meeting announcing SXUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s partnership with Morgan Park High School. cated workforce is necessary to build a healthy economy filled with students prepared for 21st century jobs and are happy to join Morgan Park High School in implementing that vision.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201A;â&#x20AC;&#x201A;Emanuel continues to call on local colleges and universities to serve as key partners in supporting Chicago students. In May 2012, Emanuel announced DePaul University and Loyola University Chicago would provide academic support, teacher training, and improved educational opportunities for Chicago Public School students at Lake View High School and Senn High School, respectively. Many of Chicagoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s other universities offer similar partnerships aimed at increasing student success. â&#x20AC;&#x201A;â&#x20AC;&#x201A;â&#x20AC;&#x153;Saint Xavier is investing significant resources at Mor-

gan Park High School,â&#x20AC;? said Alderman Matt Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Shea, 19th Ward. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Through this innovative partnership, Morgan Park students will have the opportunity earn college credit and gain invaluable experiences that will help prepare them for a college experience.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201A;â&#x20AC;&#x201A; IB schools have a track record of academic excellence. With its intensive writing focus, the IB programme provides a rigorous academic model while encouraging students to explore new ideas and cultures to have a high quality, well-rounded education. The programme also gives students the opportunity to earn an international diploma recognized by top universities around the world. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Submitted by St. Xavier University

For the first time in more than 100 years, Cook County will have a joint 4-H fair. Â On June 28, the Cook County 4-H Fair will be held at Toyota Park, located at 7000 S. Harlem Ave. in Bridgeview. Previous Fairs were divided between North suburban, South suburban, and Chicago metro Cook County. Many people think of 4-H as a rural activity, but nearly 60,000 youth, half of all 4-H members in Illinois, are located in Cook, DuPage, and Lake Counties. Nationwide, approximately 1 in 7 American adults is a 4-H alumnus. The 4-H program was founded in 1902 and is administered by the USDA. It provides programs in hundreds of project areas to youth from ages 8-18, and also has a program called Cloverbuds for children 5-7. Members are generally in 4-H clubs that meet in community, school, afterschool, church, or in the three active duty military installations in Illinois.Â Special Interest clubs are also available.Â Â The Cook County 4-H Fair will run from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m., and a variety of activities will be offered while the projects are judged.Â Fairgoers will also have the chance to see the more than 1,000 projects on display, all created by 4-H members from the various clubs. Purple ribbon winners in most categories will also have a

ertoire, from timeless ballads such as â&#x20AC;&#x153;Crazyâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;I Fall to Pieces,â&#x20AC;? to rockabilly rave-ups like â&#x20AC;&#x153;Seven Lonely Daysâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Stupid Cupid.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201A;â&#x20AC;&#x201A;Led by singer Natalie Jose, The Weepinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Willows have been playing the Chicago area since 2009, amassing a devoted local following.

Evergreen Park Recreation Department offers Square Dance Brush-Up lessons

â&#x20AC;&#x201A;â&#x20AC;&#x201A;Evergreen Park Recreation Department sponsors square dance lessons and workshops for experienced dancers, hosted by Swingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;n Sugar Squares Square Dance Club, from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Thursdays through Aug. 21 at the Evergreen Park Community Center, 3450 W. 97th St., Evergreen Park.

â&#x20AC;&#x201A;â&#x20AC;&#x201A; The fee is $5 per person. For more information, call Terry at 773-351-1948, or visit swinginsugarsquares.com. Classes will not be held July 3 or July 24. â&#x20AC;&#x201A;â&#x20AC;&#x201A;Beginner classes will start Sept. 11 at Evergreen Park Central Junior High School.

chance to go down to the Illinois State Fair, being held on August 8-17, and exhibit their projects in Springfield.

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Hatczel said with teachers Pat Coci and Sarah Murphy leading the effort, the lot began to prosper along with the schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s club that tends to the garden. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Giving Garden is for students and the teachers, they plot, they figure out what it is they need to put in there, and the cool part is, like I said, they are involved,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Some of the kids have never done that before. So the planting and watching it grow, harvesting it at the end and donating everything back because it is so critical through the summer. It is nice to bring it to the families that can never bring to the food pantry.â&#x20AC;? According to Sexton, the garden channels a reminiscing of Evergreen Parkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s farming days and when that was the main business in the area. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is kind of a throwback to the early 1900s, but besides that I think it is wonderful,â&#x20AC;? Sexton said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have a lot of good kids here in town who want to help the less fortunate, and this is their way to grow something and help the less fortunate that participate at our food pantries and get fresh vegetables and stay healthier. I think it is a great way to get the kids involved, they believe they make a difference and they do.â&#x20AC;?

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Lets complete the 9/11 project â&#x20AC;&#x201A;â&#x20AC;&#x201A;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s might be tough to believe, but Oak Lawnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 9/11 Memorial is the subject of some controversy. â&#x20AC;&#x201A;â&#x20AC;&#x201A;Then again, it seems nearly anything can become the subject of controversy in Oak Lawn. â&#x20AC;&#x201A;â&#x20AC;&#x201A;At last weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s village board meeting, Trustee Robert Streit voiced opposition to a plan to spend $34,000 of village funds to pay for concrete work that would put the finishing touches on the monument. â&#x20AC;&#x201A;â&#x20AC;&#x201A;Streit, a vocal critic of Mayor Sandra Bury, reminded everyone that a few years ago, when the Rotary Club proposed the monument, the group said it would pay for it with private donations. The organization raised a significant amount of money to pay the architect who designed the awe-inspiring monument and cover other costs. â&#x20AC;&#x201A;â&#x20AC;&#x201A;The Rotary Clubâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;of which Bury is a memberâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;also secured the voluntary services of numerous skilled laborers to perform other tasks to make the monument what it is today. The Oak Lawn Park District and myriad other clubs and organizations did their part to help complete the monument. â&#x20AC;&#x201A;â&#x20AC;&#x201A;The final step is some concrete work that the village will pay for with funds from the parking lot fund. The fund has a balance of about $300,000, according to Village Manager Larry Deetjen. Since the money is used for upkeep of land near the commuter lots, using it for the monument qualifies, village officials believe. â&#x20AC;&#x201A;â&#x20AC;&#x201A;We understand Streitâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s point. The Rotary Club initially said it wound fund the entire project. The group fell short and turned to village coffers for more than $30,000. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot of money and an open discussion about the expense prior to last week would have been a good idea, especially from a mayor and board allies who touted transparency when they ran for office. â&#x20AC;&#x201A;â&#x20AC;&#x201A;Could another $34,000 be raised to pay for the work? Almost certainly. How long that would take or how it would be accomplished is tough to know. But the board decided instead to use village money to pay for the work. A complete 9/11 monument is something of which every Oak Lawn resident can be proud. Its meaning is far too important to get bogged down in yet another village board dispute.

Case closed? Seriously? Not for this family The release last week of the Worth Police Departmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s report on the death of Brittany Wawrzyniak indicates that the investigation is closed. But donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t tell Wawrzyniakâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s family that. For them, the report may have been an interesting read, but it left many questions unanswered, including, â&#x20AC;&#x153;how did Brittany die?â&#x20AC;? The family wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t rest until that question is answered, though it seems theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have to do the legwork themselves in order to find the answer. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not sure what their next step is, but theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re weighing their options. Additionally, the family wonders, why was Courtney Hyzy, who was in the SUV from which Brittany jumped or was pushed, was never interviewed by police. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a worthwhile question. The police report summarizes in great detail numerous interviews conducted with those who were at the Worth boat launch on Nov. 8â&#x20AC;&#x201D;the night Brittany diedâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but not Hyzy. That strikes me as odd. At the very least, Hyzy was a witness. Shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t she have been interviewed like everyone else gathered at the boat launch on that fateful night? Indeed, Hyzy was in the SUV from which Brittany jumped or was pushed. She was much closer to Wawrzyniak in the seconds before her death than anyone else at the boat launch. It seems she could lend something to the investigation. According to witnesses, Wawrzyniak allegedly conspired with her friend, Lily Arboleda, to lure Hyzy to the boat launch so that Arboleda could fight Hyzy. Arboleda, the report said, was seeking revenge

The B-Side by Bob Rakow for damage Hyzy supposedly had done to her car, the report said. This is not new information. The family revealed the scenario shortly after Brittanyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s death. Hyzy arrived at the boat launch in an SUV driven by her boyfriend, Eric Johnson, according to reports. Brittany got into the SUV under the ruse of buying the prescription drug Clonazepam from Johnson, the report says. This, too, is information reported on shortly after Brittanyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s death. Brittany apparently was counting the pills when Arboleda, who was hiding nearby, ran toward the vehicle, the report said. Arboleda was reaching for the door handle of the SUV when Johnson sped away. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unclear if she opened the door before Johnson drove away. When Johnson turned out of the parking lot onto 115th Street, Brittany either jumped or was pushed out of the vehicle, according to the report. There wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t enough clearcut information from eyewitnesses to help police determine if she was pushed or jumped. Witnesses could only offer details about how Brittany hit the ground; no one saw how the door opened or how she exited the SUV. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tough to imagine someone jumping out of a speeding SUV, but again, the report leaves open the possibility. Jumped or pushed. Horrible either way, but if Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m the family, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d sure want to know which, if for no other reason, than to gain

some closure. You see, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what the family does not have, and the report was little help. It contains a lot of information, but it does not answer the familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ultimate questions: who is responsible for Brittanyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s death, how and why did she die and will anyone be held responsible? Ask the family, and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll you the police failed because they did not at least pursue answers to those critical questions. Johnson ultimately was charged with conspiracy to deliver a controlled substance and is serving a 3 1/2 â&#x20AC;&#x201C;year prison sentence. Arboleda, of Chicago, has been charged with conspiracy to commit battery for her role in the incident. Brittanyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s family has maintained from the start that she did not do drugs. They were angry that some media reports portrayed her death as a drug deal gone bad. The familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s contention was bolstered when Wawrzyniakâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s toxicology report came back clean. The clean report doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t prove that Brittany didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t intend to use the pills she allegedly purchased from Johnson. Then again, she might have been buying them for someone else, or maybe she truly was setting up a fight. If she was, she went to great lengths to make the phony drug deal seem legitimate. Either way, she paid with her life. Additionally, Brittanyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s family is less-than-thrilled with information in the report culled during a February interview with a Palos Heights woman who knew Wawrzyniak. The family doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t understand why police interviewed her, as she was not a witness at the boat launch. They also canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t figure why

she voluntarily showed up at the police department three months after Wawrzyniakâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s death. Perhaps police were open to talking to anyone who could offer potential information about Brittany. I doubt itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s good policing to tell someone during a death investigation, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not interested. Go home.â&#x20AC;? The woman told police that Brittany â&#x20AC;&#x153;was a good person but she did have her faults.â&#x20AC;? the report said. She added that Wawrzyniak did drugs and ignored advice about the dangers of drugs and alcohol. Could be true, could be entirely bogus. The clean toxicology report would favor the family. The family has portrayed the woman as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;nutâ&#x20AC;? who Brittany was forbidden to associate with. They contend the woman is untrustworthy and what she told police was entirely false. But the woman did offer a suggestion to police that seemed to have merit. She said she had tracked Hyzy to her sisterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s residence in Evergreen Park and advised police to obtain a DNA sample from Hyzy and compare it to any DNA evidence found on Wawrzyniak. The report does not indicate that the suggestion was followed. So here we are, seven months after Brittany Wawrzyniakâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s death. I often wonder if a reporter sitting in my chair years from now will write the story about the big break in the case that solves the whole thing. Will someone who was at the boat launch reveal something that forces police to take another look? Will the familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s personal inquiry produce a valuable lead? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to know, but we not have heard the last of this case.

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In Tenn., mosque fight, religious freedom trumps Islamophobia By Charles C. Haynes After four years of protests, lawsuits, vandalism, arson, and a bomb threat, American Muslims in Murfreesboro, Tenn., can finally celebrate the power of religious freedom to triumph over hate and fear â&#x20AC;&#x201D; at least in the courts. Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court put an end to a lawsuit filed in 2010 challenging the permit issued by Rutherford County for construction of an Islamic Center near the city of Murfreesboro. By declining to hear the case, the High Court let stand a Tennessee Court of Appeals decision in favor of county officials. Opponents of the mosque â&#x20AC;&#x201D; convinced that Muslims are a threat to their community â&#x20AC;&#x201D; had tried various tactics to halt construction

of the Islamic Center. In a last-ditch legal maneuver, they filed suit, charging that the county had given inadequate public notice of a meeting to approve the site plan for the Center. Now the Supreme Court has put an end to the legal drama â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and the Islamic Center is in Murfreesboro to stay. A remaining lawsuit â&#x20AC;&#x201D; this one challenging the right of the Islamic Center to build a cemetery â&#x20AC;&#x201D; remains to be resolved. But supporters of the mosque are optimistic that the courts will soon dismiss this final legal challenge. Of course, history teaches that court victories donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t change minds and hearts overnight. Muslims in Murfreesboro have their new Islamic Center thanks to local officials doing the right thing,

but they still face prejudice from those convinced that Islam has no place in America. Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s heartening about this saga, however, is how local government officials stood up for religious freedom. Despite strong public opposition, members of the county planning commission voted to treat the building application of the Muslim community like applications from any other religious community. That took courage. At the height of the conflict, political candidates and antiMuslim activists worked hard to whip up opposition to the Islamic Center in Murfreesboro and beyond. Even televangelist Pat Robertson weighed in, suggesting that county officials may have fallen victim to Muslimsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x153;ability to bribe folksâ&#x20AC;? and warning of a future Muslim

takeover of the city council. But through it all, county officials stood firm. Moreover, many local religious groups rallied in support of the Muslim community. Students at Middle Tennessee State University helped form Middle Tennesseans for Religious Freedom, a grassroots effort to counter anti-mosque protests. And the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty â&#x20AC;&#x201D; one of the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most effective defenders of free exercise of religion for all â&#x20AC;&#x201D; provided legal support. Despite this good news out of Tennessee, Islamophobia remains a national problem thanks to a cottage industry of anti-Muslim groups working to conflate terrorism and Islam in the minds of the American people. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Anti-Sharia billsâ&#x20AC;? are pending in at least 10 state

legislatures â&#x20AC;&#x201D; all of them motivated by anti-Muslim bias and based on a distorted understanding of both Islamic and American law. (For an accurate understanding of Sharia in America, see â&#x20AC;&#x153;What is the truth about American Muslims?â&#x20AC;? at www. religiousfreedomcenter.org.) If past is prologue, however, Islamophobia in our country will fade as American Muslims become more visible in places like Murfreesboro. We have been down this road before. Not so very long ago, anti-Catholic hatred was at its height in Murfreesboro â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and across America. As described by Bob Smietana in the Tennessean, in 1929 angry residents of Murfreesboro marched to the courthouse trying to block the construction of the townâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first Catholic Church.

Today some 2,000 families are members of St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church in Murfreesboro. Religious freedom trumped anti-Catholicism 80 years ago â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and religious freedom, if we work at it, will trump Islamophobia today. We may have a distance to go, but we have come a long way. Consider that six of the current nine justices on the U.S. Supreme Court â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the very court that put an end to the fight to against the building of a mosque in Murfreesboro â&#x20AC;&#x201D; are Roman Catholics. Only in America. Charles C. Haynes is director of the Religious Freedom Center of the Newseum Institute, 555 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Washington, DC 20001. Web: religiousfreedomcenter.org Email: chaynes@newseum.org

Who do you think is going to win the World Cup? Asked at Oak Lawn Pavilion.

Photos by Emily Smas

George Ortega â&#x20AC;&#x153;Brazilâ&#x20AC;?

Laurie Ruiz â&#x20AC;&#x153;Brazilâ&#x20AC;?

Leonor Salaz â&#x20AC;&#x153;Argentinaâ&#x20AC;?

Omar Gomez â&#x20AC;&#x153;Spainâ&#x20AC;?

Kathy Muehlhausen â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mexicoâ&#x20AC;?

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Church Corner Palos Heights

24th Annual Strawberry Fest coming to Palos United Methodist Church Palos United Methodist Church, 12101 S. Harlem, Palos Heights, will be hosting it’s 24th annual Strawberry Fest from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday, June 22. The menu includes hamburgers, hotdogs, and strawberry shortcake. The fest will also include a bake sale, a craft and book sale, bounce house, face-painting, snow cones, popcorn, and cotton candy. Children can enjoy a small petting zoo and pony rides. Tickets are $8.50 for adult, and $4 for children.

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Sacred Heart Church, 8245 W. 111th St., Palos Hills, is hosting its third annual summer music series for the 2014 season. Musicians, under the guidance of James Grzadzinski, music director, will present five installments throughout the summer months, and everyone is invited to attend. Those attending may make a free will offering to benefit the Sacred Heart Music Department. For more information, call Grzadzinski at 974-3336, Ext. 245. The series will be presented on

these dates: • Sunday, July 20 at 4 p.m. in the church and the theme will be Musical Meditations on the Life of Blessed [soon to be Saint] Pope John Paul II in the Year of His Canonization. The musical program will be featuring the Sacred Heart Cantori and Organ under the direction of Grzadzinski. • Wednesday, Aug. 6 at 7 p.m. in the Church. There will be music for church and chamber featuring an ensemble of strings, woodwinds, brass, and keyboard. Musicians include Helen Blazie (violin), Stephen Moran (violin/viola), D. Liane Cochran-Stafira (cello), Angelica Nolan (trumpet), Christine Otrembiak (flute), and Josh Rodriguez (saxophone/clarinet).

Oak Lawn

What is old is new again at rummage sale Trinity Evangelical Covenant Church, 9230 S. Pulaski, Oak Lawn will host a rummage sale from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, June 20, and from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, June 21. For more information, call 422-5111. *** Oak Lawn Bible Church Vacation Bible School to explore the Three Ds

Oak Lawn Bible Church will be holding its annual Vacation Bible School from 9 a.m. to noon July 7 through July 11 at the church, 9435 S. 54th Ave., Oak Lawn. The program w is open to those children entering kindergarten through those entering fifth grade. This year’s program is “Agency D3 — Discover, Decide, Defend.” Children do not need to be members of the church to attend. The program is free. For more information, and to register, call 857-9800, or visit oaklawnbible.org. *** Vacation Bible School to plumb the ‘River of Life’ The “River of Life” is the theme of the Vacation Bible School to be held at Faith Lutheran Church, 9701 S. Melvina Ave., Oak Lawn. Vacation Bible School will be in session from 9:30 a.m. to noon through Friday, June 20. The event is free of charge and open to children ages 3 to 12. An opportunity to pre-register, and to meet and greet the staff will be held from 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday, but a parent or guardian can register participants any day of the week. For more information, visit faithoaklawn.org, or call 424-1059.

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Dan Lipinski, shown at a flag ceremony in Chicago on Saturday, is looking for worn American flags for proper disposal.

Lipinski seeks old flags Congressman Dan Lipinski (IL3) joined 11th Ward Alderman Jim Balcer, other veterans, and representatives from the Chicago Fire Department and the Chicago Police Department for the largest flag ceremony in the nation on Flag Day, Saturday. During the program in the Union Stockyards, 7,000 tattered and worn American flags were properly disposed of. “This enduring symbol of freedom is so much more than a piece of cloth,” said Lipinski. “Although burning a flag is

Benefits & Fundraisers Park Lawn To Host Grand Raffle Drawing

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A pair of milestones reached St. Patricia celebrated two 40-year milestones for Pastor Father Marc Pasciak and Deacon Norb Weitendorf. Friends, family, parishioners and honor guards offered congratulations to the two.

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Tickets are available for Park Lawn’s annual Grand Raffle Drawing. The Grand Raffle Drawing and reception will be held on Thursday, July 24 at Park Lawn School and Activity Center, 108 S. LaPorte Ave., Oak Lawn. Doors will open at 6 p.m., and the drawing begins at 7 p.m. Only 999 tickets will be sold at $100 each and this includes a buffet and drinks at the reception. Tickets can be purchased by visiting www.parklawn.com, or mailing the cost of the tickets to the Park Lawn School and Activity Center, or by calling 425-6867. There are a multitude of choices for the first prize winner, including $15,000 cash, or a 2014 Ford Focus, or a 2014 Ford Fiesta, or a 2014 HarleyDavidson FXDF Fat Bob, or a 2014 Keystone Passport 2810 — 31’ Travel Trailer. The second prize is $5,000, third prize is $3,000, fourth prize is $1,000, fifth prize is $500, sixth prize is $300 and the seventh through twentieth winners will take home $200 each. This year’s Grand Raffle Drawing is being sponsored by Terry’s Automotive Group of Peotone and Chicago HarleyDavidson of Glenview.

most commonly thought of as a form of protest, it is the only way to properly retire a worn flag. I thank Alderman Balcer and veterans groups across the district for providing area government organizations, businesses, and residents with a way to keep this symbol that many men and women have paid the ultimate price for from ending up in a landfill.” Congressman Lipinski’s offices in Orland Park, Oak Lawn, Chicago, and Lockport will accept worn American flags for proper

disposal. For more information, call 312-886-0481. If you’re looking for a replacement, his Washington, D.C. office can help constituents obtain an American flag that’s been flown over the U.S. Capitol. Contact the office toll-free at 866-822-5701 to find out more. If possible, his office can accommodate requests for flags that are flown at a specific date or time. If you’re a veteran, he will provide you with a flag for free. — Submitted by Congressman Dan Lipinski’s office

Death Notices Joyce L. Demblon Joyce L. Demblon, 76, formerly of Worth died on March 31 at home in Indio Cal. Services were held in Phoenix Ariz. in June 5. Ms. Demblon was survived by her children Janice (Jim) Corey and Cathy Cissna. She was born in San Diego. Rose Sorci Rose Sorci, née Vendetti, 90, of Worth, died Monday at Palos Hospital. Visitation is from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Palos-Gaidas Funeral Home, 11028 S. Southwest Highway in Palos Hills. The funeral is 10 a.m. at Our Lady of the Ridge Church. Interment is at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery. Ms. Sorci is survived by Anthony Louis (Rosie), Rita Marie (James B.) Planey, Donna Rose

Sorci and Gregory Peter. She was born in Chicago, worked in sales and was an artist, comedy writer and poet. Helen C. Thompson Helen C. Thompson, née Chrisos, 91, of Evergreen Park dies June 10. Services were private and arrangements were made by Kosary Funeral Home. Madeleine Ziska Madelaine Ziska, née Enderby, 83, of Palos Hills died June 10 at home. Memorial Mass was Saturday at Sacred Heart Church in Palos Hills. Ms. Ziska was survived by children James (Patricia) and Bill (Barbara) Ziska. She was born in Chicago and was a teacher at St. Albert the Great School in Burbank.

NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE In accordance with the Illinois Prevailing Wage Act, the Hickory Hills Park District ("Park District") has made a determination of the prevailing rates of wages to be paid laborers, mechanics and other workers employed in public for the Park District. The("Park Park In accordance with the Illinois Prevailing Wageworks Act, projects the Hickory Hills Park District District has determined that the prevailing rates of wagesrates are the wage rates forpaid Cooklaborers, County, District") has made a determination of the prevailing of wages to be as determined the workers Illinois Department Labor.works projects for the Park District. The Park mechanics and by other employed inofpublic District has determined that the prevailing rates of wages are the wage rates for Cook County, A copy of the by determination is availableoffor public inspection in the Park District's business as determined the Illinois Department Labor. office located at 8047 W. 91st Place, Hickory Hills IL 60457. Copies are also available upon request by the calling the Park District at (708) for 598-1233. A copy of determination is available public inspection in the Park District's business office located at 8047 W. 91st Place, Hickory Hills IL 60457. Copies are also available upon Dated: June 9, 2014 /s/Patrick Kosnick, Secretary request by calling the Park District at (708) 598-1233. Board of Park Commissioners HickoryKosnick, Hills ParkSecretary District Dated: June 9, 2014 /s/Patrick Board of Park Commissioners Hickory Hills Park District

LEGAL NOTICE Notice is Hereby Given that on 7-26-14, a sale will be held at Hydro-Flo Technologies, Inc., 3985 Commerce Drive, St. Charles, IL. 60174, to sell the following articles to enforce a lien existing under the laws of the State of Illinois unless such articles are redeemed within thirty days of the publication of this notice. Tervita Corporation 2012 Tarasport VIN# 1T9BA48B0C1204115 Lien Amount: $42,900.00

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SCHOOLS

Moraine Valley president’s list

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Finishing year at Legoland Third graders at St. Louis de Montfort in Oak Lawn completed their school year with a field trip to Legoland. Pictured from left to right are Cristian Viramontes, Dylan Chavez, Jonathan Manzella and Mallaki Monroy.

The Kid’s Doctor By Sue Hubbard, M.D. Don’t confuse roseola with measles Recently, I’ve seen several cases of roseola, and I don’t want this viral illness to be confused with measles.

Roseola, also called exanthem subitum, is a viral illness typically seen in children between the ages of 7-13 months. Ninety percent of cases occur in children under the age of 2 years. Roseola

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is most often caused by human herpes virus (HHV) type 6 (not the herpes that causes cold sores). Children with roseola develop a fairly high fever (up to 104 degrees) which lasts for 3-7 days. Other symptoms may include fussiness and decreased appetite. Some children may have mild upper respiratory symptoms, or swollen glands in their neck. For many children, once the fever is treated, they’re happy and playful. The high fever seen with roseola ends fairly abruptly, at which time a pinkish/red rash appears on the child’s chest, then spreads over the body. It’s at this time that parents worry that their child has measles. Roseola is typically easily distinguished from measles by history alone, as the rash of roseola develops once the fever has resolved and the child no longer appears ill. Children with measles are still sick when the rash appears, usually a day or two after their fever and symptoms have developed. The few children I’ve seen with measles looked very ill and uncomfortable. Young children with roseola are happy and playful once the rash appears. The rash may last anywhere from hours to days. Roseola, like most viral illnesses, is spread through respiratory droplets after an infected person coughs, sneezes, or talks. Another person then comes in contact with the droplets and within 5-15 days after exposure they become ill. With young children who share “all,” it’s easy to see why roseola is a quite common childhood illness. Roseola is seen year round, but can have peaks in spring and fall. It’s rarely seen in adults, so it’s thought that having roseola in childhood may provide some lasting immunity. The treatment for roseola is totally symptomatic: fever control to help the child feel more comfortable, fluids for hydration, and anything else that just helps your child feel better. Once a child is fever free and the rash has developed, they’re no longer contagious. Roseola that roseola and measles are totally distinct illnesses. You can prevent measles with the MMR vaccine. Roseola is just another one of those illnesses most children and parents must muddle through. (Dr. Sue Hubbard is an awardwinning pediatrician, medical editor and media host. “The Kid’s Doctor” TV feature can be seen on more than 90 stations across the U.S. Submit questions at http:// www.kidsdr.com. The Kid’s Doctor e-book, “Tattoos to Texting: Parenting Today’s Teen,” is now available from Amazon and other e-book vendors.)

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Moraine Valley Community College recently released its president’s list for the spring semester, which included a number of local residents. The following students from Chicago Ridge were honored, including: • Aysha M. Abdallah • Laretha C. Avant • Anna Bialy • Julianne Callan • Osama Halawa • Heba M. Hamden • Ayat A. Hasan • Khalid W. Hussein • Hoda H. Hussein • Laura N. Labeau • Manar M. Maali • Diana L. Maldonado • Bianca F. McManigal • Jeffery G. Michener • Eugeniusz S. Milon • John P. Mlinarcik • Jeremy J. Norton • Jeffrey A. O’Boyle • Nada S. Omer • Amanda L. Parker • Anna Patycka • Nelly Ramirez • Vincenzo Reyes • Jacob E. Robinson • Kyle R. Stang. A number of students from Evergreen Park were named to the Moraine Valley president’s list, including: • Samantha H. Aalders • Denise M. Allen • Rebecca M. Allpow • Eamon Almiladi • Thomas A. Andersen • Eric C. Andre • Mark Biszewski • Blake Bochnak • Colin T. Broderick • David P. Carrano • Carlie Casasanto • Candice Cunningham • Ariana M. Diaz • Cody J. Eliszewski • Christopher M. Fontaine • Pamela J. Gardner-Brown • Desiree L. Hajec • Robert N. Hettinger • Amber M. Hunter • Terence L. Jones • Edward J. Kennedy • Wing Y. Lam • Kathlyn E. Loconte • William D. Lukitsch • Xiao Tong Ma • Max B. Malave • Kevin T. McGinnis • Lauren M. McGuire • Thomas Minarik • Michael P. Neumann • Cassy Poirier • Jason E. Prazuch • Christine M. Putlak • Allison Quinn • Tanya S. Robinson • Alejandro A. Rocha • Timothy M. Sluis • Deanna C. Sroka • Ryan M. Sullivan • Daniel A. Tamayo • Tiffany E. Thomas • Tamla M. Thompson • Tsz K. Wong. Also included on the president’s list at Moraine Valley were these students from Hickory Hills: • Noor M. Abdulrahman • Ehab A. Abu Atherah • Dimitra E. Alexander • Mona Alsabah • Ruba K. Badareen • Cristian A. Barraza • Cody N. Benson • Harry Blake • Sheamus H. Brennan • Amanda Chrupczak • Qassam W. Diab • Alec A. Dineff • Jeremy J. Eckert • Mohammed E. El-Khatib • Mustafa H. Eleyan • Gary J. Ellison • Charlotte C. Gambla • Mosa B. Hammad • Erica M. Hammerschmidt • Aleksandra M. Herdzik • Tyler A. Kaminski • Kara R. Kentner • Izabela D. Kokoszka • Aleksandra M. Koziol • Cheuk Hon Lee • Nicole A. Maloney • Liliana Martinez • Joanna Marzotka-Kosinska • Edward L. Najera • Antoaneta Nikolova • Rachel Ochenkowski • Justyna A. Pajak • Emilija Petraityte • Gabrielle M. Poskus • Victoria Prijilevscaia • Jihad R. Ramadan • Jazmin M. Ramirez • Atiya Razi • Frank Sambucaro • Deena Shehayber • Rasa Sipeliene

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Ruta Survilaite Jennifer M. Targosz Hayley A. Tiffin Mateusz P. Topor Emily L. Wagner Marta Zawadzka.

Students from Oak Lawn named to the Moraine Valley Community College president’s list include: • Alaa M. Abdelrasoul • Thaer Abdelrazeq • Entessar Abdulla • Hedayeh A Abed • Tania Adame • Miranda D. Akers • Stephanie A. Alberts • Ali H. Amra • Lukas Andriulis • Daniel Arguello • Luciano Astacio-Chagala • Matthew A. Baldwin • Sahar Barakat • Katarzyna L. Bernaciak • Christopher M. Brennan • Lisa M. Brewer • Michael I. Broderick • Tracy D. Burns • Yvita A. Bustos • Brian J. Cameron • George P. Capetanos • Kathlyn Cardenas • Ruben Cardoza • Marisa M. Chesna • Kaylee E. Coffey • Joel R. Cordova • John M. Curran • Sammar Dahman • Gina M. Dangelo • Egle Dauksaite • Amanda K. Demas • Karen Devlin • Diem T. Doan • Andrew Dudczyk • Divina G. Enriquez • Erica J. Erdakos • Lawrence M. Espinoza • Kassandra N. Fabara • Saphe A. Falaneh • Brianna N. Finnerty • Fedai A. Fouz • Karin R. Fox • Saja Q. Froukh • Keith Garner • Annette K. Gil • Aileen T. Gorman • Kimberley M. Goss • Keunho Ha • Jessica E. Halal • Ardit Hasanaj • Sheraz M. Hasanieh • Steven W. Henry • Madeline R. Heredia • Rosalie E. Hincks • Bt B. Houlihan • Walter M. Janz • Emmanuel A. Joseph • Nina M. Kadich • Islam Kadri • Amanda Kampic • Justin T. Kapelinski • Matthew V. Kelly • John P. Kendryna • Kenneth D. Kiebles • Yedam Kim • Timothy R. Kinney • Thomas W. Kinney • Slawomir S. Klus • Eliana Laspina • Nicholas S. Lazzara • Sejong Lee • Tatyana Liakh • Santos I. Lopez • Hanna M. Mackowiak • Kelly Mager • Ayaa I. Mahmoud • Abby A. Malvestuto • Fabian Martinez • Chana Matthews • Stacy L. Mayer • Zachary A. McHugh • Patrick J. Metke • Andrew S. Meyer • Abby Miller • Denis P. Mitchell • Oscar D. Moran • Matthew J. Mulqueen • Josh Murabito • Madelene A. Neary • Taylor F. Newton • Nhi H. Nguyen • Matthew R. O’Donnell • Eduardo Ortega • Christian E. Ortiz • Daniel J. O’Shea • Samantha H. Palacios • Jodette K. Palacios • Katlyn E. Paolisso • Dario I. Paraga • Tori E. Pesek • Stephanie Pfister • Matthew Phares • David L. Phillips • David V. Piech • Maher T. Qandil • Michael A. Rabadi • Amisha Rana • Anna T. Ricchiuto • Matthew J. Richardson • Jason A. Richardson • Brent A. Rigik • Luis F. Rubio • Nene H. Sanankoua • Maria D. Santana • Emma J. Scigalski • Kaitlyn C. Seldal • Bilal Shabbir • Ruba Shaikh • Carolyn M. Shotas • Lauren E. Sipple • Mohamed Sobhy • Dan G. Sofil • Jonathan D. Solus • Barry Soraghan • James A. Steele • Farah Sukkari • Rola S. Sweis • Peter Szeliga • Kareem S. Taha • Luke M. Thompson • Lynn M. Tibbs • Nicco C. Torres • Shareen A. Toubeh

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Muhammad A. Toubeh Sandra M. Unger Sung H. Woo Moeka Yamamoto.

Students from Palos Hills named to the Moraine Valley Community College president’s list include: • Mai Ahmed • Abdallah Alawneh • Ruba M. Alkhatib • Reema Assil • Kholoud Awad • Romziath A. Bakary • Makar V. Baranov • Jacquelyn I. Bean • Paulina J. Bosek • Abraham E. Braje • Allyson K. Buczyna • Michael Bukas • Matthew J. Bum • Yu Cao • Caileen Casey • Padraig J. Conway • Stephanie M. Dagenais • Shereen S. Daik • Oriane C. Dalmeida • Aminderjit S. Dhanoa • Kinga P. Drag • Lauren M. Ehrlicher • Steven N. Eichstaedt • Mateusz K. Fafrowicz • Shawn T. Finnigan • James Frederick • Marilyn P. Gellert • Kayla M. Glogowski • Cynthia C. Gongora • Thomas E. Goral • Jillian Guajardo • Lawrence P. Haack • A Reum Han • Emma N. Healy • Reem E. Hnaihen • Iris Hui Ting I Hou • Lama R. Hourani • Yousef M. Ihmoud • John W. Janas • Andrew J. Jender • Meagan E. Jones • Domagoja H. Jukic • Ayub A. Julany • Choongwhan Jung • Joon Goo Kang • Andrea R. Kasper • Karren Khoury • Veronica C. Kim • Iseul Kim • Alex Kirchof • Amy Konjevich • Andy J. Kukuc • Monika Kupiec • Kristina Lapienyte • Yoojin Lee • Jieun Deborah Lee • Michael Mackowiak • Brian A. Mahoney • Sylwia Maka • Egle Matuliauskaite • Michael C. Michalak • Taku Mizusawa • Malak M. Mohammad • Essam M. Mohammad • Salam Mohammed • Janet Ormsby • Magdalena M. Pajak • Dominic J. Paolella • Alexander V. Pendleton • Angelika A. Rol • Brittany M. Runyan • Maram M. Salamah • Alexis R. Salem • Marco R. Severini • Nadine Shatat • Beshar A. Shriam • Marzena J. Skwarko • Barbara Staszel • Wiktor Stawera • Amanda Sullivan • Jakub J. Swiatek • Samuel K. To • Magdalena M. Ulanecka • Xiaowei Wang • Taylor M. Wegner • Katherine L. Wojcik • Bokyoung Won • Yuma Yamamoto • Ryan Zanta • Roy I. Zentz. Also, from Worth: • Rita E. Aguiah • Moin H. Ajmal • Omar H. Altaher • Sarah J. Boylan • Stephanie H. Buczek • Jessica L. Buis • Ana M. Buralli • Nicholas Dearth • Elaine M. Duggan • Nicholas S. Ebert • Julie Fitzner • Adriel A. Gallegos • Elizabeth Haack • Jacob D. Heinrich • Robert J. Hernandez • Inyong Jung • Jalal H. Karaziwan • Alyce Kerkstra • Dong Hee Kim • Hee Keoung Ko • Sandra N. Koch • Alexis L. Kozicki • Emiliano V. Mendoza • Antonio J. Morales • Bricelda G. Morales • Francine R. Ostrowski • Mitchell Pearl • Torin K. Pena • Kamila A. Rafacz • Raquel L. Rodriguez • Deaya Z. Saleh • Allaa Salman • Lorissa Sernus • Hozbar A. Shaikh • Jessica Stoit • Monika A SuchmielBoblak • Tanya E. Torres • Kyle L. Wlazlo.

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SCHOOLS

St. Laurence Leadership Program still going strong workshop from the Leadership Development Center at Bradley University. Eventually the program expanded and all these experiences were then offered to all St. Laurence students. Later an elective leadership course was added to the curriculum, Leadership Week became part of the school calendar and St. Laurence became involved in other opportunities such as the Northern Illinois Leadership Seminar and the ACTION leadership workshop. In 2006, the Christian Brothers turned over their former residence to the school, which was converted and remodeled into the Leadership Center providing an outstanding facility to house the expanded leadership program. St. Laurence also began training both grammar schools and high schools in leadership skills, sharing the knowledge and skills that it had developed among its own students. Jeff Clemens ’00 recently joined St. Laurence as the new director of leadership. Mark Scott has been the director of leadership since the program’s inception, shaping the program to become part of the school. Scott’s leadership in this position has paved the way and left a legacy for Clemens, who said he looks forward to building on this tradition. “I want our students to leave St. Laurence with the essence of what leadership comes down to: speaking up, standing up or acting upon something in which you believe,” said Clemens. Submitted photo — Submitted by St. Laurence Jeff Clemens and Mark Scott work on training and preparing for High School the new school year. St. Laurence High School’s Leadership Program began in 2001 at the urging of then-St. Laurence board member, business leader and alumnus Tim O’Malley. O’Malley had observed that businesses were in need of good leaders and that many universities were developing leadership training courses to meet this need. He felt that St. Laurence was in an excellent position to

put itself ahead of the curve and initiate a leadership program that would give St. Laurence students a distinct advantage over other high school students by providing them the skills, confidence and knowledge of effective leaders. The program started with twenty-five students designated as leader and scholars who received weekly training, team building at Irons Oaks Adventure Center, and a special leadership

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Orland Park Area Chamber of Commerce awarded scholarships at a ceremony held at the chamber’s office. From left, Scholarship Committee Chairman Paul Novak, Waddell & Reed; recipients Nathan McCatty, Anna Schieber, Tara Enright and Chamber President Rob Wehmeier.

Marist student snags scholarship The Orland Park Area Chamber of Commerce awarded three scholarships to high school students — including Anna Schieber from Marist — at a ceremony held in the chamber’s office earlier this month. Every year, the chamber awards three $1,000 scholarships to the children of current Chamber members. The 2014 recipients were Tara

Enright a graduate of Lincoln Way North High School, Nathan McCatty a graduate of Carl Sandburg High School and Schieber. “All of the applicants had impressive resumes,” said Scholarship Committee Chairman Paul Novak. “Every year I am amazed at how much these kids accomplish during their time in high school. Many of them hold down

part-time jobs in addition to excelling in their studies, activities and community service.” The scholarships were awarded based on community service, school performance, activity involvement and employment during the school year. — Submitted by Orland Park Chamber of Commerce

Local students pick up scholarships from Marquette Bank foundation Marquette Bank, a locallyowned neighborhood bank, continued its 48-year tradition of awarding $2,500 scholarships to 54 graduating seniors from neighborhood high schools in Chicago and the southwest suburbs. A total of $135,000 was awarded to local students. The scholarships were funded by the Marquette Bank Education Foundation and were awarded to students recommended by their guidance counselors and principals. Students were selected based on financial need, scholastic achievement and a record of volunteer service in their respective communities. “Our scholarship program is intended to help deserving students who have dedicated themselves to volunteering and performing service projects within the community while achieving academic success,” George

Moncada, President and CEO of Marquette Bank, said. “We are thrilled that we are able to help these students achieve their future goals and wish each one of our scholarship recipients the best of luck with furthering their education.” Since 1967, over $2.7 million in scholarships has been awarded to over 1,400 high school seniors from Chicagoland neighborhoods. The scholarship can be used for any post-secondary education program, including: four-year universities, community colleges and vocational training schools. Listed are the 2014 Marquette Bank Education Foundation Scholarship recipients and students from area high schools from the Reporter area and their college choices. • Reem Motan of Alsip; Shepard High School; Moraine Valley

Community College • Tara Alfano of Blue Island; Marist High School; University of Arizona • Chloe Kasper of Chicago Ridge; Richards High School; Illinois State University • Megan Garcia of Evergreen Park; Evergreen Park High School; St. Francis University • Jamilyn Hiskes of Midlothian; Chicago Christian High School; Loyola University — Chicago • Brian Kobiernicki of Oak Lawn; Brother Rice High School; University of Illinois — Champaign • Kamila Zaremba of Oak Lawn; Oak Lawn Community High School; DePaul University • Kathryn Gabel of Palos Park; Stagg High School; University of Iowa — Submitted by Marquette Bank

Bulletin Board Fenger High School

To request an information nations for its Hall of Honor. packet, or for more informa- The Hall of Honor was estabtion, call the college’s Corporate, lished in 2013 and recognizes Community and Continuing individuals who exemplify lives Education area at 974-5735, of Mercy, as evidenced by their or visit morainevalley.edu/ccce. contributions to the community Students will re-establish a or the world. solid medical-surgical founda- Nominations will close tomorSubmitted photo tion. The course also addresses row, Friday, at 11:59 p.m. Any basic nursing care concepts, alumnae, supporter or friend to principles throughout the life McAuley and Saint Xavier AcadMoraine Valley span biologically and psycho- emy during its 166 year history For some it is the culmination of 10 years at St. Patricia. Many of this graduating class started at Nursing refresher course socially, and concepts relevant are eligible. Nomination forms the preschool level and continued on through to the eigth grade. available at Moraine Valley to current registered nursing and additional information can The eighth graders celebrated a graduation Mass May 28. They received a heartfelt farewell from Practicing nurse profession- practice. be found online at mothermcaunew principal Tom Clausing who told them that they would always be special to him as his first year als who wish to broaden their ley.org. Forms also are available at St. Pats. healthcare knowledge, or nurses Proof of immunizations and at the Alumnae Office. For more who are returning to a health- required documentation are information, call 773-881-6565. care setting after a prolonged due two weeks before the first Honorees will be announced absence can avail themselves of class. Attendance at every class at Mother McAuley’s second ana refresher course at Moraine is mandatory, or the student will nual All-Class Reunion, which be dropped without a refund. Valley Community College. will be held at the school Oct. 25. The 10-week RN refresher course includes an online com- Mother McAuley For more information about the A total of 766 students have than 2,500 undergraduate and were enrolled in a minimum ponent, theory classes and clini- Mother McAuley now acceptAll-Class Reunion, or to purchase been named to the dean’s list students for attaining high of 12 hours, with no grade lower cal work at Little Company of ing nominations for its Hall tickets, visit mothermcauley.org. at Carthage College in Kenosha, grade point averages during than a C. Mary Hospital, 2800 W. 95th of Honor To become involved with the planWis. for academic excellence the spring semester. Full-time *** St., Evergreen Park. The fee is The Mother McAuley/Saint ning for the All-Class Reunion, during the spring semester. undergraduates who earned $1,599. The next course begins Xavier Academy Alumnae As- visit the website, or email alumDean’s list honors are accorded grade points of 3.90 to 4.0 Catherine Smith, of Oak in September. sociation now is accepting nomi- nae@mothermcauley.org. Carthage students who achieve (4.0 equals straight A) are Lawn, was awarded the Outa 3.5 grade-point average while given the highest honors des- standing Major in Music Educarrying at least 14 credit hours ignation. High honor citations cation award during Honors during a semester. go to those with grade point Day at North Central College Local students honored in- averages from 3.75 to 3.89, and in Naperville. clude Samantha Craig of Oak honor recognition is accorded to A senior, Smith is majoring Lawn and Maggie O’Toole of those with grade point averages in music education at North Evergreen Park. from 3.50 to 3.74. Students who Central College and is a member *** received honors include Kelly of the Concert Choir, Women’s Clare Kennedy of Palos M. 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Saying goodbye to the class of 2014

The Fenger High School Class of 1964 is having its 50th reunion Saturday, August 2, at the Tinley Park Convention Center. For more information, contact Susan Rheinheimer at susan_ sings@att.net, or email Fengerreunion1964@gmail.com.

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Sertoma breaks ground for housing in Homewood Sertoma Centre, Inc. broke ground on June 11 for Kimball Court Apartments, a permanent supportive housing development in Homewood. Gus van den Brink, executive director of Sertoma Centre, Inc., and Board President, Bob Straz, joined officials from the Illinois Housing Development Authority, Housing Authority of Cook County and the Village of Homewood to celebrate the next steps in bringing this development to fruition. The Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) Development Program was created to increase housing opportunities for individuals with disabilities. The program supports the state’s efforts to remove obstacles to safe and affordable housing to improve the quality of life for individuals with disabilities. “Permanent Supportive Housing combines apartment-style housing with personal care and

other health and wellness services to allow the resident to live independently while emphasizing their personal choice, dignity, privacy and individuality,” said van den Brink. “We are thrilled to be able to offer this option for individuals in the south suburbs. This day would not have been possible without our partners.” This 16-unit development was financed in part by the Illinois Housing Development Authority, Cook County HOME program, Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Development, the Housing Authority of Cook County and Illinois Department of Human Services Division of Mental Health. Supportive housing helps people live stable, successful lives through a combination of affordable, permanent housing and supportive services, appropriate to the needs and preferences of the residents.

“Governor Pat Quinn believes that all individuals with disabilities deserve the opportunity to live independently,” Illinois Housing Development Authority (IHDA) Executive Director Mary R. Kenney said. “Governor Quinn is the first leader in Illinois history to dedicate state capital funds - $50 million in total - to create affordable housing, of which $3 million has been committed to finance the construction of Kimball Court.” The apartment complex includes one and two bedroom units as well as studio apartments. In addition to the apartments, the three-story building contains a community room, fitness area, laundry facility and reading room. Construction is expected to be complete by summer of 2015. —Submitted by Sertoma Centre Inc.

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Groundbreaking at Sertoma Centre’s Supportive Housing Project in Homewood took place recently. Pictured left to right: Palos Heights Mayor Bob Straz, Gus van den Brink, Richard Monocchio, Representative Al Riley, Lindsay Huth, John Fallon, Mary Kenney and Mayor of the Village of Homewood, Richard Hofeld.

Focus on Seniors

Park Clips Chicago Ridge

The Chicago Ridge Park District has several locations. One is the Frontier Fieldhouse, 9807 S. Sayre Ave. For more information on programs at this location, or to register, call 4233959. Another location is the Freedom Activity Center, 6252 W. Birmingham St. For more information on programs at this location, call 708-636-4900. *** Immediately: Boys and girls ages 3 1/2 to 6 years-old are invited to join in the non-competitive six week T-ball program. Children will learn the basic T-ball skills, including hitting, fielding and team work. Children will have three weeks of practice followed by three weeks of games. The class from 6 to 7 p.m. Tuesdays from June 24 through July 29. The fee is $45 for residents, and $55 for nonresidents. Registration is at the Freedom Activity Center. *** Wednesdays through June 25: The second session of Vinyasa “Flow” Yoga, a form of yoga that focuses on flowing from pose to pose and linking the movement with the breath, will be held from 6 to 7 p.m. in the Freedom Activity Center. The cost is $40 for residents and $50 for non-residents. The class is being taught by Kelly McKimson-Rhodes, a certified yoga teacher trained at Yoga Alliance Registered Yoga School in Chicago. This energizing type of yoga builds endurance, strength, and flexibility, all while calming the mind. The Class is set to upbeat music and ends with peaceful relaxation. All levels welcome. A third session is scheduled for July 9 through Aug. 13. *** Thursdays through June 26: The Chicago Ridge Park District invites residents and nonresidents to enjoy the benefits of yoga, connecting the breath to movements. Julie Chappetto, a 200 CYT Ayurveda Yoga teacher, will lead the class from 7 to 8 p.m. at the Freedom Activity Center. The cost is $40 for residents and $50 for non-residents. Yoga can also build strength while releasing muscles and stress. Hatha style poses will be designed around the chakras, energy centers of the body. Class will begin with short mediation and end in savasana. Participants are asked to bring their yoga mats and yoga blocks if needed. All levels are welcome. For more information and registration, call the Freedom Activity Center. Another session is slated for July 10 through Aug. 21. *** June 20: Chicago Ridge Park District’s Western Open Miniature Golf Tournament deadline comes a week before the actual tournament. Residents are invited to compete against the top professional miniature golfers in the world Friday, June 27 and Saturday, June 28 at Ball Fore Miniature Golf Course, 6701 W. 107th St. The entry fee is $100 and includes ten rounds of miniature golf, official polo shirt and lunch and breakfast. The top five finishers will get paid, with first place being awarded $1,500. Registration is now available online, or at Frontier Park Fieldhouse. *** June 21: A trip to Long Grove’s Strawberry Festival, the granddaddy of all Long Grove’s signature festivals, is being planned by the Chicago Ridge Park District. Participants can enjoy the ships, food, vendors and local restaurants in this historic district. The trip is set for Saturday, June 21.

The bus leaves the Freedom Activity Center at 10 a.m. and will return around 6 p.m. The fee is $10 for residents and $15 for non-residents. The fee does not include admission into the festival. *** June 24 and June 26: The Chicago Ridge Park District is hosting third sessions of Tuesday and Thursday Zumba classes. Zumba is a Latin inspired dance fitness program. The dance rhythms include: meringue, salsa, reggaeton and more. Zumba classes are being held Tuesdays, June 24 through Aug. 5 and Thursdays, June 26 through Aug. 7. All classes will run from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Freedom Activity Center. The cost is $40 for residents and $50 for non-residents. Registration and more information are available at the Center. *** Summer: The Chicago Ridge Park District is looking for seasonal supervisory help this spring and summer. The supervisor position would be available from April through September, and would entail supervising a splash pad, miniature golf course and batting cage facility. Applicants must be available days, nights and weekends. Applications are available at the Frontier Fieldhouse, or the Freedom Activity Center. *** Ongoing: The Chicago Ridge Park District is taking team registration for 4th through 8th grade boys basketball and girls volleyball leagues. For registration information, please call 708423-3959 or visit our website www.chicagoridgeparks.com. *** *** Ongoing: Chicago Ridge Park District is offering Park and Pad Time for 3 to 5 year olds at the Lily Pad, 6246 Birmingham St. If it rains, class will be held inside the Freedom Activity Center. The class is being held from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays from July 15 through Aug. 7. The fee is $70 for residents, and $80 for non-residents. *** *** Vinyasa “Flow” Yoga: Vinyasa yoga focuses on flowing from pose to pose and linking the movement with the breath. This energizing type of yoga builds endurance, strength, and flexibility, all while calming the mind. Class is set to fun, upbeat music and ends with peaceful relaxation. All levels welcome! Instructor Info: Kelly McKimson-Rhodes is a certified yoga teacher trained at a Yoga Alliance Registered Yoga School in Chicago. Day: Wednesday Session 3: July 9 — August 13 Time: 6:00 -7:00 p.m. Fee: $40 Residents, $50 NonResidents Location: Freedom Activity Center Zumba Class Zumba is a Latin inspired dance fitness program designed to feel like a aprty. It’s a program that the fit athlete and the shy, uncoordinated beginner can enjoy. The dance rhythms include: meringue, salsa, reggaeton and much more. Come join the party! Day: Tuesday Session 3: June 24 — August 5 Day: Thursday Session 3: June 26 — August 7 Time: 6:30 -7:30pm Fee: $40 Residents, $50 NonResidents Location: Freedom Activity Center DISCOUNT SPECIAL: ANY TWO YOGA or ZUMBA CLASSES $65 RESIDENTS, $85 NON-

RESIDENTS

*** Note: The Chicago Ridge Park District is offering a discount special of any two yoga classes for $65 for residents and $85 for non-residents.

Evergreen Park

The Evergreen Park Recreation Department is located at 3450 W. 97th St. For more information, or to register for a program, call 229-3373, or visit evergreenpark-ill.com. *** Ongoing: Registration is ongoing for summer programs. Park department hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, and 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Saturday. The program brochure is on the website where residents can click on recreation summer book. The Evergreen Park Recreation Department also is on Facebook at facebook.com/evergreenparkrecreation. The departments offers summer camps, exercise classes for children and adults, tumbling classes, sport camps, drawing classes, dance classes for all ages, free concerts in the park, movies in the park and more. Residents are invited to view the recreation book on line, and register for programs.

Oak Lawn

The Oak Lawn Park District administrative building is located at 9400 S. Kenton Ave. For more information, call 857-2225 between 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. *** The Oak Lawn Park District’s Stony Creek Clubhouse, 5850 W. 103rd St., is hosting special events during March. Reservations are suggested. For more information and reservations, call 857-2433. *** Immediately: The Oak Lawn Park District is offering a wide range of summer camps. Registration is ongoing for residents and non-residents. For more information about the camps, view the summer camp guide. *** Immediately: The Oak Lawn Park District is taking a customer service survey to find out how better to serve residents. For more information, call the park district’s administrative office, or visit olparks.com. Those taking the survey can be entered into a raffle for a chance to win one Community Theatre gift certificate good for two free admissions to one 2014 — 2015 production.

Double Nickel

The Double Nickel Plus Chorus meets at the Community Center, 3450 W. 97th St. in Evergreen Park, every Wednesday at 9:30 a.m. in Room 111. Newcomers are welcome. For more information call 422-8776.

Meals on Wheels

The Evergreen Park Office of Citizens’ Services offers a Meals on Wheels program for village residents 60 years and older who

are unable to prepare their own meals. Meals are delivered Monday through Friday. For more information call 422-8776.

ment includes musicians, singers, luncheons, movies, plays and bingo.

55 and Up

The Worth Senior Pinochle club is seeking new members. Membership is free. Visit the group at the Worth Park District Terrace Centre, 11500 Beloit Ave., every Monday and Wednesday from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Games begin at noon. Call 448-1181 for information.

Palos Hills residents 55 years and older meet from noon to 2 p.m. the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month at the Palos Hills Community Center, 8455 W. 103rd St. Tickets for events must be purchased one week in advance. Entertain-

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Library Notes Chicago Ridge

The Chicago Ridge Public Library is located at 10400 S. Oxford Ave. For more information, or to register, call 423-7753. *** June 19: The Chicago Ridge Public Library is hosting “All About Adopting A Pet” at 7 p.m. It’s a Pittie Rescue will educate patrons about why you should adopt a pet from an animal shelter, “kill” vs “no-kill” shelters, the benefits of spaying/neutering, and how animal shelters in the Chicago area are helping animals through their programs and services. Registration is required for this free program.

Evergreen Park

The Evergreen Park Public Library is located at 9400 S. Troy Ave. For more information, or to register for a program, call 422-8522. *** June 19: The Evergreen Park Public Library invites students in first grade and younger to discover where clay comes from and explore the possibilities of this natural material at 2 p.m. Children will learn to predict, observe, and create. Registration is required. *** June 19: Duct tape will be in use at 3 p.m. at the Evergreen Park Public Library when teens in grades six through 12 are invited to a duct tape craft program. They will learn how to make fun and useful projects from this versatile tape. Registration is required. *** June 19: Baby Bookworms are invited to the Evergreen Park Public Library through Aug. 1. Babies ages birth through 17 months, with a favorite adult, are invited to enjoy songs, action rhymes, and stories, during the program. Registration is required. *** Worth The Worth Park District is Ongoing: Evergreen Park Lilocated at the Terrace Centre, brary, 9400 S. Troy, is hosting a 11500 S. Beloit Ave. For more book drive and accepting donainformation, or to register for tions of used hardcover books, paperbacks, music CDs, videos, the programs, call 448-7080. The Winter/Spring Worth and DVDs. The library cannot Park District program guide has accept magazines, encyclopedias, arrived. Registration has begun. or textbooks, nor can a donation be picked up. pick up your dona*** Ongoing: Pickle Ball will be tion. Donors are asked to remove at the Terrace Centre, 11500 Be- the hard covers and recycle them loit Ave., from 6 to 8 p.m. every in the green and yellow bin in Tuesday. Pickle Ball is a cross the library parking lot. For more between tennis and ping-pong information call 422-8522. and involves strategies such as lobbing, drive shots and over- Green Hills The Green Hills Public Library head slams. Cost is $1. is located at 8611 W. 103rd St., *** Ongoing: Open gym bas- Palos Hills. For more information, ketball is offered at the Ter- or to register for a program, call race Centre, 11500 Beloit Ave., the information desk at 598-8446, Thursdays from 6 to 8 p.m. Cost Ext. 120. Registration may also be available online at greenhillsliis $1. brary.org. *** *** Ongoing: The Terrace Centre, 11500 Beloit Ave., has an June 19: Patrons age 5 and indoor playground featuring older are invited to paint their slides, a climbing wall, tree very own ceramic dog bank. Due house and more for children to high demand, the library is who can walk through 4 years offering this program on two old. Hours are 11 a.m. to 5 dates. Patrons are limited to p.m. Monday through Friday. registering for one session either Fee is $1 for residents, $2 for Thursday, June 19 from 6 to 7 non-residents. For more infor- p.m., or Friday, June 20 from 4 mation call 448-7080 or visit to 5 p.m. Registration is required, and limited to 30 per session. worthparkdistrict.org.

Registration is available online. *** June 23: Chef Kate Bradley, a vegetarian, will be offering a vegetarian cooking class from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the Green Hills Public Library. Bradley will walk patrons through easy-to-make recipes, such as vegan chocolate cake and Portobello pitas. Samples will be provided. Registration is required and limited to 60. Registration is available online. *** June 24: Representatives from the Animal Welfare League will be coming to the Green Hills Public Library from 6 to 7 p.m. to teach individuals all about the benefits and process of animal adoption. The Animal Welfare League spokesperson will bring along some of the animals up for adoption. All ages are welcome. *** June 26: Board games will be played during Teen Game Night from 6 to 8 p.m. Participants are invited to bring in their own games or play games provided by the Green Hills Public Library. Refreshments will be provided. *** June 25: Participants will find ways to keep heart happy and healthy with tips and tricks from the Cardiac Rehabilitation staff at Palos Community Hospital. The program will be held from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. *** June 30: All Green Hills Public Library patrons are invited to “PAWS for Crafts,” in the library’s activity room to make some fun and simple animal related crafts. All ages welcome and patrons can drop in any time between 2 and 4 p.m. *** Daily: The library offers daily sessions of story time for children 18 months–5 years of age. Parents can register online, or call the Youth Services Department at ext. 117 for more information.

Oak Lawn

The Oak Lawn Public library is located at 9427 S. Raymond Ave. The library’s regular hours are: Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and Sunday, 1 to 5 p.m. For more information, or to register for a program, call 422-4990. *** June 23: The library will host a program at 7 p.m. that discusses the discount programs being offered by ComEd, whose rates may increase up to 20 percent soon. Senior citizens and others on a limited budget may qualify for Energy Efficiency Loans. Those who are interested in saving money on utility bills and earning up to $1,000 in rebates by installing energy efficient appliances in your home can learn about air conditioning/furnace rebates that are available for up to $1,000, Home Energy Assessment Programs and “Cycling your AC” incentives by coming to the Oak Lawn Library. Patrons will also learn about saving energy and lowering electricity bills at the same time. For more information, call the library. *** Tuesdays: Teens and adults

are invited to Science Tuesdays at the Oak Lawn Public Library. For more information on the different topics, call the library. Two of the topics include: • The Oak Lawn Tornado of 1967 at 6 p.m. June 24 presented by local history coordinator Kevin Korst in an encore presentation; • Hubble Space Telescope: Pictures, Facts and History at 6 p.m. July 1. For more information, call the library, or visit their website. *** Great Safari Treasure Hunt (Ages 8-10) June 24: Children ages 8 to 10 can team up with a partner to find the animals hidden in and around the Oak Lawn Public Library from 2 to 4 p.m. Registration is required. *** June 25: The Anime Viewing Club will feature premium streaming for new fans and anime experts via Crunchyroll.com at the Oak Lawn Public Library from 7 to 8 p.m. *** June 26: Youngsters 10 to 14 can make ice cream, food animals and more at the Oak Lawn Public Library from 2 to 4 p.m. Registration is required. *** Traveling World of Reptiles will visit the Oak Lawn Public Library from 11 a.m. to noon. Patrons can get up close for a hands-on educational experience about reptiles and amphibians from around the world. Registration is not required and all ages welcome. *** Summer: “Reel Books” Summer Movie Series is being featured at Oak Lawn Public Library. Many of the best movies were first a book. Patrons can experience the link of literature to cinema at this weekly film series. Listed below are the movie selections for the month of June and early July. • Labor Day (2013, PG-13, 111 min): Today, Thursday at 2 p.m. Depressed single mom Adele and her son Henry offer a wounded, fearsome man a ride. As police search town for the escaped convict, the mother and son gradually learn his true story as their options become increasingly limited. Starring Kate Winslet and Josh Brolin. Drama. Based on a novel by Joyce Maynard. • The Blind Side (2009, PG13, 129 minutes): Sunday at 2 p.m. The story of Michael Oher, a homeless and traumatized boy who became an All American football player and first round NFL draft pick with the help of a caring woman and her family. Starring Sandra Bullock and Tim McGraw. Biography/Drama. Based on a book by Michael Lewis. • Catch Me If You Can (2002, PG-13, 141 minutes): Wednesday at 10 a.m. A true story about Frank Abagnale Jr., who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of dollars’ worth of checks as a Pan Am pilot, doctor and legal prosecutor. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks. Biography/Comedy. Based on a book by Frank Aba(Continued on page 12)

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TECHNO TALK By Adrienne Jeffries Theverge.com

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Summer projects

It’s summer and it’s time for some municipal and school projects. In the left photo, workers erect new overhead stoplights in Palos Heights on Friday at 123rd Street and Harlem Avenue while in the right photo, the main entrance of Stagg High School is torn up for improvements.

What can vacations teach you about investing? Summer is officially almost here — which means it’s officially vacation season. You may be looking forward to “getting away from it all,” but, as you know, vacations actually require a fair amount of planning. And it might surprise you to learn that some of the efforts required for successful vacations can impart some valuable lessons in other areas of your life — such as investing. Here are some vacation-related moves that you may want to transfer to the investment and financial arenas: • Secure your home. If you’re going on vacation for a week or so, you may need to take some steps to safeguard your home: stopping your mail and newspaper, putting on a timer to turn on lights, alerting your neighbors that you’ll be out of town, and so on. But while it’s important to secure your home today, you will also want to help ensure it will be there for your family in the future, should anything happen to you. That’s why you’ll want to maintain adequate

life and disability insurance. • Know your route. If you are driving to your vacation destination, you will want to plan your route beforehand, so that you can avoid time-consuming delays and detours. And to reach your financial goals, such as a comfortable retirement, you will also want to chart your course — by creating an investment strategy that is designed to help you work towards those goals based on your specific risk tolerance, investment preferences and time horizon. • Keep enough gas in the tank. As you set out on a road trip, you need

a full tank of gas in your car, and you’ll have to keep refueling along the way. And to “go the distance” in pursuing your financial goals, you will need to have sufficient “fuel” in the form of investments with reasonable growth potential. Without a reasonable amount of growth-oriented vehicles in your portfolio, you could lose ground to inflation and potentially fall short of your objectives — so, over time, you may need to “refuel” by reviewing your portfolio and rebalancing if necessary. • Protect yourself from getting burned. If your vacation plans include a stay at the beach, you’ll need to protect yourself and your family from the hot sun — so make sure you’re all using sunscreen. When you invest, you can also get “burned” if you are not careful — especially if you are inclined to chase after “hot” investments. By the time you hear about these so-called sizzlers, they may already be cooling off, and, even more importantly, they just might not be appropriate for your goals and risk

tolerance. Instead of becoming a “heat-seeking” investor, focus your efforts on building a diversified array of quality investments appropriate for your needs. If you only own one type of financial asset, and a downturn hits that asset class, your portfolio could take a big hit. But by diversifying your holdings, you can help reduce the effects of volatility. Keep in mind, though, that diversification, by itself, can’t guarantee profits or protect against loss. As we’ve seen, some of the same principles that apply to creating a vacation may also be applicable to your investing habits. So, put these principles to work to enjoy a pleasant vacation — and a potentially rewarding investment experience. Scott Johnson, CFP, is a financial advisor with Edward Jones, 8146 W. 111th St., Palos Hills, 974-1965. Edward Jones does not provide legal advice. This article was written by Edward Jones for use by your local Edward Jones financial advisor.

Beware these common summer scams Summer is a great time to take wired or transferred through a prethat long-overdue vacation or paid account; and/or pressure you make much-needed home repairs, to act quickly. but as the weather heats up, so • Be wary of high pressure doordo scams. The Better Business Bu- to-door sales tactics. Many legitireau is warning consumers about mate companies use door-to-door these popular summer scams. sales, and various city ordinances • Beware of summer concert regulate solicitors to protect resiticket scams. Before paying for dents from unscrupulous individuconcert tickets online, make sure als. However, consumers need to the seller is reputable. Oftentimes, watch for individuals who try to phony sellers will trick consumers work their way around the system into wiring money with no inten- to line their pockets. Many doortion of sending real tickets. Most to-door salesmen offer deals for concert venues now allow ticket everything from driveway paving holders to print tickets from per- to air conditioning repair to secusonal computers, which also gives rity systems. Before saying yes, get scammers the opportunity to sell all promises in writing, including the same ticket over and start and finish dates. Never sign withover TonytoDunst unsuspecting consumers. Be wary a contract that has an open-ended of sellers who: offer a sad tale as completion date or blank spaces to why they cannot use the tickets; • Keep your belongings safe only accept cash; want the money during your move. Summer is

Talkin Poker

By Bryan Devonshire

The World Series of Poker Circuit calling based on my position and recently made a stop in my home stack-to-pot ratio. Reraising should gambling town of Black Hawk, have a high success rate, since the Colorado. I was excited for this initial limper doesn’t have anything, event, as I love every main event the small blind can’t have anything up here, and the Circuit brings a good, and the likelihood of the butpleasant energy along with a lot of ton being light is high. with Tony Dunst familiar faces. The only problem here was that Unfortunately, many of those the player on the button was good, familiar faces were at my starting and he likely knew a bit about my table, and my quaint little moun- résumé. However, I thought that tain-town poker game was suddenly my diminished stack size and playing like a WSOP event in Las nearly four hours of not threeVegas. I had a poor spot at a tough betting him would overcome his table and was playing very tight. suspicions. There was a little more I was paying attention, although I than 2,000 in the pot, including my could have easily been perceived as big blind. with Tony Dunst I wanted my reraise to ignorant to table dynamics, since represent the top of my range, and I was also giving some attention I chose 2,800. I was risking 2,500 to an iPad. to win just over 2,000 preflop, so Late in the fourth hour, blinds I needed to be successful a little were 150-300 with an ante of 25. more than 50 percent of the time My stack had hovered in the 15,000- for this squeeze to be profitable. I 21,000 range all tournament. We’d liked my chances. started with 20,000, and I had been The limper folded. The raiser involved in zero substantial pots. I called pretty quickly, as did the had never re-raised before the flop. small blind. Oops. A weak opponent open-limped The flop was Kh 9h 4d. I bet 2,200 from the cutoff eight-handed. Next — small, I know, but it’s what I’d to act, a competent player who was bet with anything given my stack winning most of the pots raised size. I don’t think either of them to 750. He had been isolating this could have Q-Q or better, or A-K, chronic open-limper. The small but I could. I was concerned about blind called next. My turn in the nines and fours. big blind, and I was holding 4c 5d. The button called, and the small I had about 21,000 to start this blind folded. The turn was the 7c. hand and decided to reraise. I checked, giving up, basically, I think most people would call and the button bet 3,300. I talked in this spot — just 450 more to myself into believing that either he have a chance at a pot that figured had nines, or I could get him to fold to be at least 3,200. While I don’t by shoving. I shoved, and I was hate such a move, I do hate get- wrong again, as he called with Kd ting involved in a bloated pot out Qc. The river was a blank. of position with a hand that starts I thought he would fold that hand with the phrase “five high.” preflop, or at least 56 percent of I do like this hand for squeezing the time. Although I still like this though. If I get called, at least the spot, it didn’t work out for me, as hand does something after the flop, I lost the maximum. and if I get reraised, then I’m not (Bryan Devonshire is a profesgoing to regret having simply called, sional poker player from Las Vegas. because I think that folding preflop Known as “Devo”. Follow him on probably would be better than just Twitter:

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the peak time of year for changing residencies, and unlicensed movers and dishonest scammers are waiting to take advantage of the busy season. Always research the company and check out the mover’s BBB Business Review at bbb.org. Not all price quotes online or over the phone are legitimate (or binding), and crooks are not likely to send an estimator to your home in advance. Also remember that the lowest estimate can sometimes be an unrealistic, low-ball offer, which may cost you more in the end. • Don’t let a scam ruin your vacation. Fake travel agents and websites are known for touting too-good-to-be-true deals in the hopes of getting your money in return. Whether it’s a fake timeshare rental or a falsely promised

Disney vacation, don’t let a vacation scam take you for a ride. Make sure the offer is legitimate by checking bbb.org first. If there is no BBB Business Review on the company, dig deeper. Google the phone number or website to see if others report problems. • Beware of job scams that can turn a hot summer cold. Finding summer employment is a top priority for most college and high school students. Don’t let the seasonal job hunt turn into a huge waste of time and money. Always be wary of employers who require fees for training and background checks, or who tout “no experience needed.” BBB considers these red flags for employment scams. Find out more about scams and sign up for scam alerts at BBB Scam Stopper (bbb.org/scam).

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If you want to use the internet and you don’t want the National Security Agency to see what you’re doing, you would likely turn to Tor, a network that anonymizes web traffic by bouncing it between servers. The NSA has been working on ways to get around “the Tor problem” for years with limited success. “It should hardly be surprising that our intelligence agencies seek ways to counteract targets’ use of technologies to hide their communications,” the agency told BusinessWeek. The original funding for this thorn in the NSA’s side actually came from the U.S. Department of Defense; the Naval Research Laboratory originally funded the project to protect Navy employees abroad. The NSA says Tor is now used by “terrorists, cybercriminals, [and] human traffickers,” so you’d think the Pentagon might consider that investment a mistake. Not so. The military has been working on a new generation of even bigger and better anonymity tools to supplement and replace Tor. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency or DARPA, the Pentagon’s high-tech research lab, started working on anonymity roughly four years ago through the Safer Warfighter Communications program, a collection of tools designed to thwart blacklisting, redirection, and content filtering. The program covers several anonymity projects, including cutting-edge encryption and a project called Service-Oriented Netcoded Architecture for Tactical Anonymity (SONATA). Details on SONATA are thin, but one researcher familiar with the work referred to it as a next-generation competitor to Tor. Like Tor, SONATA will rely on a distributed network run by volunteers. Unlike Tor, SONATA traffic is “mixed” at each relay in the network by randomly multiplying traditional packets by a constant and adding them together, while also switching up secondary markers that would identify traffic. “Traffic flows like water, making it very difficult to block,” says Brian DeCleene of BAE Systems, who is working on SONATA. DARPA is also investing in Curveball, a “decoy routing” system developed by Raytheon BBN Technologies, that lets you pretend you’re surfing an unblocked website when you’re actually connecting to Facebook, the Pentagon, or some other sensitive site. Curveball uses a nifty trick that requires some cooperation from friendly internet providers. Those providers would install Curveball routers throughout their networks. Users with the Curveball client would then surf around randomly until they find a Curveball router. The router confirms with the client, then tunnels any subsequent traffic through the Curveball connection disguised as innocuous traffic. As the surfer moves around on Facebook, the Curveball connection pretends he or she is moving around on an unblocked site, say, Amazon. The fact that Curveball is embedded within a regular network makes it impractical for a government to block it without blocking lots of useful sites, impairing commerce or irritating citizens. Unlike Tor, Curveball doesn’t protect the user’s identity. However, it could be used to secretly get to Tor in countries where access to the network is restricted. So why is one branch of the military building tools that will one day be used to thwart another branch? Dan Kaufman, director of DARPA’s Innovation Information Office, which covers the Safer Warfighter Communications program, says

there isn’t any tension caused by DARPA working on tools that could one day be used to dodge the NSA. “[The program] started with a conversation I had with Special Forces,” Kaufman said. “While obviously there may be multiple uses… we built it for Special Forces. People are welcome to take the technology and do stuff, but that’s not why we built it.” Government surveillance and censorship is growing around the world. Countries like China, North Korea, and Iran exert obsessive control over what people can do online, while laws are getting stricter in places like Turkey and Kazakhstan. Internet censorship was one of the Thai military’s first moves after taking over their country’s government in May. US military forces don’t always carry their own communications gear. They often use chat rooms or whatever is publicly available even when stationed in hostile, internetfreedom-hating countries. “You’re in a place where you need to be able to communicate back,” Kaufman says. “And you need to make sure that that regime is not blocking you, and you need to make sure that you stay anonymous because you’re undercover.” The Defense Department says it has to invest in technology even if that technology could one day be used against it. “The best way to ensure national security in a fastchanging world is to maintain our technological superiority in critical technology areas,” a spokesperson for the Defense Department tells The Verge in a statement. “The department is continuously working to develop important scientific and technological domains and will not limit our research strictly out of concern that the results might someday fall into our adversaries’ hands.” The department also takes “the appropriate steps” to ensure technology does not enable the US’s enemies, the spokesperson says. Enabling anonymous communications may bolster national security in other ways. Tor no longer receives support from the Pentagon, but it’s now funded in part by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor or DRL, a division of the State Department that supports freedom of information around the world. DRL explicitly supports “anticensorship and secure communications technology” with the hope of spreading Western democratic values. Tor is also used by journalists, activists, and whistleblowers. Many believe US national security will benefit overall from the free flow of media, especially in countries that censor the news and circulate anti-American propaganda. Still, we may see a leaked NSA presentation in a few years: “the SONATA problem.”

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WHATIZIT?

The wizards of WHATIZIT? knew their food stuff when it came to last week’s photo of Mariano’s logo leaf. These stores are popping up all over. Willow Springs’ Harrison Debre was the first to gobble up our contest and spit it out with a correct guess. Others who were nutritionally fortified were Orland Park’s Val Artis and Lisa Keysboe, Palos Heights’ Janet Lombard, Worth’s Frank and Donna Hirsch, Mary Kurdziel, Theresa (see Page 1 of the Reporter) and George Rebersky, Chicago Ridge’s Dana Oswald, Oak Lawn’s Jim and Donna Perisin, Evergreen Park’s Henrietta Mysliwiec, Chicago’s Marge Klockowski, Tinley Park’s Jennifer Kibbon and the Friday Night Ladies Poker Club from Oak Lawn, Orland Park and Oak Forest. We owe one to Worth’s Gene Siroka, whose correct guess two weeks ago of parsley and sage was never recorded in the books. Now it’s official and he is a better man for it. We owe another to Hickory Hills’ Janice Mastro, whom last week we referred to as Jane, which the miserable Board of Directors found to be a Tarzan-like mistake. Heads rolled. And we owe one to Palos Hills’ Goldie Xirafakis, who was not recorded in the books due to technical difficulties. That was a shame because Goldie gave us sage wisdom about parsley and sage, saying: “These herbs are used for cooking and their medicinal properties, and had some meaning/roles in ancient times/traditions as alluded to in the song’s lyrics.” The clue for this week: Guess what’s in my head? Send those guesses to thereporter@comcast.net with WHATIZIT? in the subject line by Monday night. Don’t forget your name and hometown.

Library Notes (Continued from page 10) gnale, Jr. • No Country for Old Men (2007, R, 122 minutes): Monday, June 30 at 2 p.m. Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon a drug deal gone wrong and more than two million dollars in cash near the Rio Grande. Starring Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem and Josh Brolin. Crime/Drama. Based on a novel by Cormac McCarthy. • The Monuments Men (2014, PG-13, 118 minutes): Wednesday, July 2 at 2 and 6:30 p.m. An unlikely World War II platoon is tasked to rescue art masterpieces from Nazi thieves and return them to their owners. Starring George Clooney and Matt Damon. Action/Drama. Based on a book by Robert M. Edsel and Bret Witter. • Lone Survivor (2013, R, 121 minutes): Thursday, July 10 at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Marcus Luttrell and his team set out on a mission to capture or kill notorious Taliban leader Ahmad Shah, in late June 2005. Marcus and his team are left to fight for their lives in one of the most valiant efforts of modern warfare. Starring Mark Wahlberg and Taylor Kitsch. Action/Biography. Based on a book by Marcus Littrell and Patrick Robinson. All movie screening titles and dates are now listed on the library’s website, and in a program booklet available at the library. Month of June: Visit the Oak Lawn Public Library to work on experiments, videos and crafts from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Mondays during the month of June. Various weekly science, technology, engineering, art and math (STEAM) programs for high school students and adults will be offered. The topics will include electricity on Monday; weather on June 23 and simple machines on June 30. This series of programs is associated with the library’s teen and adult summer reading program “Spark a Reaction.” Ongoing: Patrons are asked to donate their “gently used” books, magazines, CDs and videos to the

Friends of the Oak Lawn Library Ongoing Book Sale at the library. Due to space limitations, the Friends will not accept Readers Digest Condensed Books, encyclopedias and older textbooks. The donation dropoff area is near the library’s Cook Avenue entrance. Interested parties may fill out a short form at the reception booth to receive a tax letter by mail that acknowledges their donation. The Friends Ongoing Book Sale provides an ever-changing variety of books, magazines and other forms of media at bargain prices. Hardcover books cost 50 cents each, paperbacks are 25 cents and magazines cost 10 cents each. Audio-visual items are priced as indicated. Funds collected from the book sale support library programming and purchases that are beyond their regular budget.

As I boarded our plane to Arizona on that miserable cold and rainy day last November, I was in a daze, wondering if we had made the right decision to leave Illinois. Too late to even consider it now. House is sold, furniture sold, and here we were on a flight to Arizona and a great adventure. I would miss my family and friends in Illinois, but we would soon be with our son, his wife and my most darling triplets. I cried, but not for long. I remembered the outrageous real estate taxes and the mess known as Illinois politics. Not really a bad move. The weather in Arizona was cool in November, but not uncomfortable. Arizona is considered a lush desert. They grow olives, citrus fruit, apricots, and even have farms, horses and cows. It was basically in the 60s all winter with some cold evenings, that required heat. From October to May 31, the weather is perfect. There are beautiful wild horses here that tend to gather by creeks. We heard the Department of Natural Resources is killing them. Love big government. Earlier this week it was 103, but not really as uncomfortable as 103 would be in Illinois. I wouldn’t go out for a walk, but

generally, most travel in air-con- came by to welcome us. It was ditioned vehicles and the stores really very nice. People do seem are air-conditioned. friendly. Must be the sunshine. I’m not as confident about Two weeks ago, we went to the Arizona DMV to obtain our new driver’s licenses. We were shocked at the DMV employee who examined our Illinois information and said, “What’s going on in Illinois?” She explained they were getting quite a few new residents from Illinois lately. Who would have guessed? Hope they weren’t politicians! July and August—I’ve been At any rate, we arrived in warned. In fact, sometimes it Arizona the day the weather can go to 120 during the mon- began to become very ugly in soon season coming up and in Illinois. The entire Illinois winlate summer--making me a little ter was miserable, according to nervous. But then, we had all of my family. that in Illinois, too, albeit, not Just before Christmas, we for as long a period. I asked found a nice little place. Trees several new friends why they and flowering bushes as well would even live here if it gets as the desert landscape. It was that hot. They explained they do certainly a downsize from our it for the eight to nine wonder- large home in Worth and would ful months of great weather. It’s pose a dilemma. We had taken worth it, they tell me. very little with us, yet, it still We will see. seemed difficult to downsize. I just heard our monsoon It was 400 feet smaller than (rain) season begins in mid-June our Illinois home, but located and it will bring rain and humidi- near everything we liked and ty. People don’t usually complain needed, yet, set back in a great because since we’ve been here, subdivision. it’s rained only twice. There is never a want for Meeting people has not been something to do. There’s a resmuch of a problem. People greet taurant in the middle of a local you wherever you are. Neighbors olive grove. They cook with the

MIXING IT UP FOR GOOD HEALTH By Dee Woods

olive oil they produce. On weekends, they have exceptional entertainment set up in the grove. Seems just like I would expect Hollywood to be. Then there’s Sedona, heaven on earth, the fragrance in the air is magnificent. An hour’s drive up to Payson, and Christopher Creek, reduces the heat about 25 degrees. Neat place to hang out. We went there on Father’s Day to picnic. It was gorgeous up there with all of the greenery and creeks. It took my breath away as I watched a soaring bald eagle. But on the way down as the sun was setting, my son directed me to the mountains on our left. It was astonishing. The mountains really were purple! Suddenly the song we sang for years, had even more meaning, “For purple mountain’s majesty,” came through loudly and clearly. I had a lump in my throat as we drove the rest of the way home knowing I had observed two of the most wonderful and beautiful symbols on earth. Symbols of America the Beautiful. . . . Dee Woods column runs every first and third week. She can be reached at deewoods@ comcast.net.

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Locals help Celts win state crown By Frank Gogola While baseball features individual duals within each game, a cohesive team is necessary to weather the ups and downs of a typical season. Orland Park natives Ben Salvador and Matt Diehl were not on Providence Catholic coach Mark Smith’s preseason list of projected starters, but both wound up helping the Celtics capture the Class 4A championship Saturday in Joliet. Salvador’s absence from that list was understandable: He hadn’t played baseball as a junior, choosing instead to focus his athletic energies on soccer. But when another Orland resident, outfielder Matt Payton, suffered an elbow injury in hockey and was forced to miss the 2014 baseball campaign, Salvador’s presence on the roster suddenly became more meaningful. “Ben stepped in from the first day and never looked back,” Smith said. “He was our catalyst offensively all season long from that

leadoff spot.” Salvador patrolled center field for the Celtics in all 42 games while batting first in the lineup and utilizing his speed when he got on base. He went 1-for-4 with one run scored and one RBI in the state semifinal game against Prairie Ridge on Friday and added another hit and RBI on Saturday versus fellow Chicago Catholic League Blue member St. Rita. That RBI in the finale gave Providence an insurance run in the sixth and enabled it to complete an unexpected run to the top of Class 4A with a 4-1 victory. “I will never forget this for the rest of my life,” Salvador said. “The team chemistry is what got us here. We’re brothers is basically all I’ve got to say — we’re brothers. “I just love this team. Everyone, up and down the lineup, they helped, even guys coming off the bench [and] making big plays. I’ll never forget it.” Diehl was one of those bench guys who got pressed into service. (Continued on page 2)

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Knights are already in midseason form By Ken Karrson

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Orland Park's Ben Salvador is all smiles after receiving his medal for helping Providence Catholic capture the Class 4A baseball championship on Saturday with a 4-1 win over fellow Chicago Catholic League Blue member St. Rita at Silver Cross Field in Joliet.

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Providence Catholic players, some of whom hail from Orland Park and Oak Lawn, celebrate the winning of a Class 4A title Saturday.

While the spring baseball campaign officially ended less than a week ago, Chicago Christian’s summer squad is already operating at midseason form. At least that was true five games into the schedule, as the Knights picked up wins in each. Included among the conquered foes were Walther Christian (9-1), Romeoville (10-0), Stagg (7-5), Andrew (8-5) and Illiana Christian (10-9). Since rain interrupted play for a couple days at a number of sites, Chicago Christian’s ability to see action that many times was in itself noteworthy. Even more surprising has been the manner in which the Knights have prevailed. “The offense has been very solid so far,” said coach Eric Brauer, whose squad’s biggest weakness in the spring was a somewhat meager attack. “We’re getting a lot of contributions from a lot of different guys. We’re playing pretty well and I’m pleased with it.” Christian is returning 12 players from its 17-man spring roster, so the varsity experience is an obvious plus. “We haven’t seen any real dominant pitching,” Brauer said. “You’re not going to see a lot of aces because they’re playing travel ball. That contributes [to our production] a little bit, too, but our seniors are really leading well with a good attitude.” One of those seniors-to-be, Christian Bolhuis, has been the ringleader thus far. His game-winning double in the bottom of the seventh last Friday against Illiana was part of a 9-for-18 start at the plate for Bolhuis, who is also 2-0 with a 0.00 earned-run average over six innings as a pitcher. Ron Clark and Adam Schoenle are two other springtime vets Brauer cited as reliable contributors in the early going. Brauer admitted that opportunities for newcomers might not be too plentiful, but one individual chipping in versus the Vikings was sophomore-to-be Josh Hill, who went 2-for-3. While beating their longtime rival was nice, the Knights’ victories over Stagg and Andrew gave Brauer greater satisfaction. “Those are games we have typically not won — it was only the second time we’ve beaten Stagg in the summer and the first time

we’ve beaten Andrew,” he said. “They have more bodies, [so] if we’re missing a couple guys, that makes a big difference.” Christian’s lineup was pretty much intact, but the Chargers’ wasn’t as coach Matt O’Neill went with a junior-heavy group. That didn’t diminish the Knights’ accomplishment in his eyes, though — O’Neill acknowledged “they threw some good arms at us.” Besides Bolhuis, Christian’s best pitchers to date have been Trevor Wolterink, Jack De Vries and Tom Hassel. Only the latter is a newcomer. “The biggest thing this summer is we’ve been focused on attitude — attitude about themselves, about the team, about what we’re trying to do,” Brauer said. “We’ve had good buy-in from the guys.” And that, Brauer says, is vital to the Knights’ well-being. “If we don’t show up and compete in the summer, we have no chance,” he said. “We are battling that [size differential].” Christian is annually the smallest school participating in the Illinois Baseball Coaches Association summer league, and for many years it sat out completely. That changed upon Brauer’s arrival in Palos Heights, and the Knights have steadily improved each season. “[The mindset years ago] was, ‘Let’s show up and see what happens,’” he said. “We don’t fight that battle anymore. And I have no doubt in my mind that winning games in the summer carries over into the [following] spring. “We’ve won 160 games the last six years in the spring. That speaks for itself in terms of how we go about things.” STAGG The Chargers were one of those teams negatively affected by last week’s wet weather, as the meeting with Christian was their lone outing. Unlike Brauer, O’Neill has some definite holes to plug heading into 2015. His three regular outfielders from this spring and three of his four infielders must be replaced. “We’ve got three guys at first base who can swing it a little bit,” O’Neill said. “We’ll have to move one of them to the outfield and another will probably DH. I think there’s some ability level [elsewhere], but it’s the same thing (Continued on page 2)

Sandburg settles for second best State title string stops at five

and competitive cheerleading. The softball program contributed to the streak by winning it Sandburg’s softball team was all in 2010. Badminton and boys' three innings away from keeping volleyball were also part of the the streak alive. title mix. After rallying, the Lady Eagles This latest surge brought to held a 3-2 lead over Warren four 18 the number of sports chaminnings into Saturday's Class 4A HIGH FIVE TITLES pionships Sandburg teams have championship contest in East PeoA LOOK AT SANDBURG’S collected in all. That's tops among ria. Sandburg couldn't maintain CHAMPIONSHIP RUN IN THE the 13 schools covered by this pathat advantage, however, and PREVIOUS FIVE YEARS per, as is the run of five straight suffered an 8-4 loss. years with at least one title. A second-place state finish was 2008-09: Making the achievement particstill better than most would have Competitive Cheerleading ularly noteworthy is that it's been predicted for a team that had lost 2009-10: Softball spread over eight programs. With 15 games during the regular seafour championships each, wrestling son, but when the Lady Eagles 2010-11: and boys' volleyball lead the way. couldn't reach the mountaintop Badminton, Boys' Volleyball Next in line is Mother McAuley an impressive school run was 2011-12: Wrestling, with 15 championships, all but one officially halted. Competitive cheerleading of which were earned in volley Softball was Sandburg's final 2012-13: Wrestling ball. Following the Mighty Macs, chance in the 2013-14 school in order, are Richards (seven), year to claim a state crown in athletics, something that had A total of seven championships Marist (five), Chicago Christian been accomplished at least once were garnered during that span, (five), Brother Rice (three), St. in each of the previous five years. including two apiece in wrestling Laurence (two), Oak Lawn (one) and Stagg (one). Shepard, Evergreen Park and Queen of Peace are still seeking their first state crown and Mt. Assisi closed its doors in early June without ever winning the top prize. Thirty of the 57 local titles have been claimed by boys' teams. Besides Sandburg's five consecutive championship years, the best runs were put together by McAuley and Christian. The Macs won three straight volleyball crowns from 1980-82, while the Lady Knights managed the same feat in girls' track between 1990 and 1992. Richards' titles have come in football (two), wrestling (two), boys' basketball, boys' volleyball and girls' volleyball. Marist reigned supreme twice in both boys' volleyball and wrestling and once in Photo by Jeff Vorva Sandburg won state titles in at least one sport for five straight baseball, while Christian's other years until the 2013-14 campaign, the best run ever by an area championships were gained in girls' volleyball and girls' basketball. school. By Jeff Vorva

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Sandburg's softball team, seen here in an earlier playoff game, finished second to Warren in Class 4A on Saturday.

Fairy-tale season ends against Warren By Frank Gogola The postseason's feel-good story lacked an appropriate ending. Being runner-up is certainly nothing of which to be ashamed, however, and that's where Sandburg landed after Warren defeated it 8-4 in the Class 4A softball final Saturday in East Peoria. The Lady Eagles were ahead 3-2 after four innings but were unable to hang onto the lead. What made Sandburg's playoff run so impressive was that it followed a somewhat average regular season, one in which the Lady Eagles lost 15 times. But after dropping a decision to Lockport on May 23, Sandburg found another gear and peeled off seven

straight victories to position itself opposite Warren. Pitcher Sarah Herold cited the Lady Eagles' 4-3 triumph over Barrington in 13 innings one day after the setback against Lockport as the key element in their revival. “Barrington, they’re a good team — everybody knows it,” Herold said after Sandburg's supersectional conquest of Naperville Central. “For us to just beat them, I think it really motivated us. “[It was] like, ‘Listen, guys, we can do this. Yeah, we lost to Lockport or [Lincoln-Way] East, but we beat Barrington.’” Herold, a postseason fixture for the Lady Eagles (24-16), battled uncharacteristic wildness early on versus Warren as she put two

batters aboard in the top of the second inning by hitting them with pitches. That set the table for a two-run double. Sandburg retaliated in the fourth, using Kristen Zarate's single, a Lady Blue Devils error and Cierra Adamus' squeeze to inch in front by one. The edge proved to be short-lived, though, as Warren struck for a deuce in the fifth, tacked on three more runs in the sixth and finished off its scoring with a seventh-inning homer. The Lady Eagles' only answer to all that noisemaking was Bri Soltis' sacrifice fly in the bottom of the seventh. Sandburg, which was seeking (Continued on page 2)

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Rodman decides to do the write thing Bartosh (Reprinted from Feb. 7, 2013) Hey, Dr. Seuss, guess what? You have company. Children’s books are an important component of the literary world. While they may seem trite to adults, we’re no longer looking at them through innocent eyes or with an untainted conscience. Of course, many of us would probably benefit from a rereading. Based on the public actions I witness from a fair amount of folks these days, long forgotten are basic niceties such as politeness, honesty, sharing and showing consideration for others. And if a barnyard animal or talking piece of machinery happens to be the one instructing us in print, the message is no less important. Maybe they’ll succeed where Dr. Phil has failed. There is a knack, though, to composing a book that is designed to attract a very young audience. Heavy-handedness won’t work, and the morality tale must be presented in a simple, yet effective manner. Oh, and all smart aleck-ness must be curbed. That last part is probably the toughest for most writers to follow. As a rule, we’re tempted to poke fun at things that seem silly, but unless they desire to influence the next generation of Lindsay Lohan clones, children’s-book authors will refrain from mining the cheap laugh. So, as you can see, only certain individuals are cut out to create kids’ books. We must be careful about who is granted access to little ones’ minds and allowed to influence them. The aforementioned Dr, Seuss was long ago given a thumbs-up, although the bizarre wordplay found in his books might lead one to believe his own mind was somewhere other than the real world — around Jupiter perhaps, or Haight-Ashbury, circa 1967. Nevertheless, kids have

been exposed to him for years without negative repercussions other than a strong desire to incorporate “gox,” “zans” and “wump” into their everyday speech. Speaking of exposure, that brings us to Dennis Rodman. Rodman, you say? We thought you were talking about children’s authors, though goodness knows why a sports columnist would be doing so. That’s exactly why — Dennis Rodman has joined that particular literary circle. His qualifications as an author certainly are open to debate, especially when the subject matter he covered in the epic “Bad As I Wanna Be” made adults blush. And childish antics shouldn’t be considered an adequate resume-filler for being a storyteller to tots, either. Those of us old enough to remember Rodman’s two greatest gifts — an ability to rebound a basketball and to self-promote — might find it difficult to fathom that he is most likely a nonentity to the younger generation. Remember, though, today’s youths tend to view history as something that occurred last November, so unless they stumbled upon some old NBA footage or “TMZ” happened to ridicule one of his cinematic efforts, Rodman rates as a nobody. But while he has receded into the background, Rodman never completely disappears. And his latest reappearance comes complete with a little thing called “Dennis The Wild Bull,” which surprisingly does not chronicle his days with Michael Jordan and Phil Jackson. No, “Dennis The Wild Bull” — which, in case you were already making purchase plans, is only available on Amazon.com via an unaffiliated seller — is about a lower-case-“B” bull who is taken away from his family and forced to live with other bulls in a rodeo. Dennis, like the human writer who shares his name, swims a bit upstream from the other creatures around him. While

some bulls may have one ring through their nose, Dennis has two, which is actually easy to overlook given the fact that he also has flowing red hair, a tattoo and red stubble under his chin. There is no evidence that Dennis the bull has a wedding gown or feather boas secretly stashed away for those special evenings spent on the farm. Interestingly, though, Dennis the author might have stumbled onto something decent. The point of the story is that Dennis the bull, despite his differences, winds up being accepted by those around him and everyone becomes friends. While Rodman and co-author Dustin Warburton obviously pattern the book’s character after Rodman, the tale’s payoff would work under any circumstances. So instead of just promoting tolerance toward an outlandish character, maybe “Dennis The Wild Bull” will get kids — and, just as importantly, their parents — to dig below the surface whenever they encounter anyone who doesn’t quite fit the standard definition of “normal.” That could mean someone confined to a wheelchair or having some sort of physical disfigurement, a person dealing with developmental issues, or simply an individual of different ethnicity or religious background. Accepting people like that and treating them as equals would seem an easy-to-enact behavior, but it’s proved too difficult a concept for a great number of people to grasp. So as amazed as I am to be admitting this, perhaps Dennis Rodman as children’s-book author isn’t as far-fetched an idea as I initially thought. I just hope that the new, insightful Dennis doesn’t get mixed up with the old, let-me-kick-a-courtside-photographer-in-the-groin Dennis because I fear the latter might become a bad influence. And the next thing you know, Rodman will be doing a book tour in the nude.

Community sports news Palos Heights to sponsor flag Tatra Foundation sponsoring Hickory Hills resident Fiona Hehir, will attend St. Norbert Colcamps football league lege. Her brother Patrick, a 2012 The Palos Heights Parks and The Tatra Foundation will sponRecreation Department is accepting registration for an NFL Flag Football League it will sponsor this fall. Coed teams are being formed for youngsters entering grades 3-8. Games will be played on Sundays from Sept. 7-Nov. 2 at Shepard and in-season practices will be conducted one day per week. The cost is $76 for residents, $96 for nonresidents, and the deadline to enter is Aug. 8 unless all spots are filled before that. All participants will receive a team jersey and participation award. Individuals can sign up at the recreation department, 6601 W. 127th St.

Baseball skills evaluations to take place at Oak Lawn H.S.

Oak Lawn High School will host a baseball-skills evaluation on Wednesday from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. The event will be presented by U.S. Baseball Academy and My Pro Day. The session is open to players aged 6-18, regardless of ability level. For more information, visit www.MyProDay.com

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sor a soccer camp for children aged 5-12 and ski-jumping school for ages 7-12 this summer. Hickory Hills will be one of two sites for the soccer camp. Ski jumping will be held at a facility specializing in that. The cost of the latter is $275, which includes two bus trips. For more information, call 7280464 or visit info@ultrafoundation.org.

Marist grad, is already a student there. Basketball player Halle Engel will continue her athletic and scholastic careers at Blackburn College in Carlinville, Ill., and cheerleader Kaila Case of Palos Heights will enroll at the University of Louisville.

Baseball. basketball camps to be held at Richards

Baseball and basketball camps Marist athletes signs letters of will be presented by Richards’ varsity coaches this summer. intent A baseball skills camp and girls’ Eight student-athletes who re- basketball camp both run June cently graduated from Marist have 23-26, and a second baseball camp made their college choices official will be presented in a pair of twoby signing letters of intent. day blocks: June 30 and July 1, Three members of the Red- and July 7 and 8. Hawks' lacrosse team will remain Registration fees and particiteammates when they enroll at pants’ ages vary. For more deSt. Ambrose University in the tails on any of the programs, call fall. Orland Park resident Connor 499-2550. Falls, Evergreen Park resident Sean Prendergast and Nelson Velez will attend the Davenport, Iowa, school. NAYS tournament coming to Male soccer players Charlie Bolingbrook in July Earner (Oak Lawn) and Bren- A National American Youth dan McHugh are both headed to Sports basketball tournament will the University of Dubuque and a be held July 23-27 at various sites member of the girls' soccer squad, in Bolingbrook.

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Sandburg's Alec Martinez reaches out to grab a rebound against Downers Grove North in the Stagg Summer Shootout. The Eagles split six games at the two-day event.

Celtics

(Continued from page 1) The junior replaced Phil Kunsa in right field after the latter was ejected in the first inning of the semifinal game following a collision at first base as he was running out a ground ball. Kunsa’s ejection drew an automatic one-game suspension, which he served in the championship contest. That meant Diehl was needed again on Saturday. “I knew I had huge shoes to fill with Kunsa gone,” Diehl said. “He was one of our best hitters. I just took it pitch by pitch and I just tried to fill in for him as best I could.” Despite appearing in only 16 games and taking 13 at-bats prior to Saturday, Diehl had his coach’s trust when he took the field. Diehl only recorded one hit in five atbats in the two state contests, but Smith termed Diehl’s leadoff single during a six-run sixth inning in Friday’s 8-7 semifinal victory over Prairie Ridge “a huge hit” and said it was “what started that whole sixth-inning rally.” “No one thought we could do this,” Diehl said. “We had one of the worst records coming into these playoffs, but we took games one at a time and just kept winning. It was an unbelievable journey. “It’s just incredible. It’s unreal [and] I can’t believe this actually happened. It’s great.” While Salvador and Diehl both hail from Orland, the decision to attend Providence was an easy one for each. “They have an incredible baseball program,” Diehl said. “It’s a great school. I just fit in great here. I love this school.” Salvador echoed a similar sentiment, saying his 22-minute commute from Orland to New Lenox was “not bad at all” and definitely worthwhile now that he helped the Celtics reach prep baseball’s promised land. “I came to Providence because my two brothers went here, and I

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Providence Catholic's Ben Salvador, an Orland Park resident, was the leadoff hitter in Saturday's Class 4A championship game versus St. Rita at Silver Cross Field. just know the community that it has,” Salvador said. “Everything we do, we do for the community. I’m just glad that we could bring home a state championship for the community of Providence.” Justin Davis (Orland Park) and Richard Yusa (Oak Lawn) played roles for the Celtics throughout the season, although neither saw tournament action. Davis had been Providence’s fifth starter on the hill but was not called on after Smith shortened his pitching rotation for the postseason. Yusa was the starting catcher, but like Payton he had to deal with an injury suffered while playing hockey. Yusa was playing both sports at the same time because the two seasons overlap. Sophomore Jimmy Jeffries, who substituted for

Yusa on hockey days, became the Celtics’ full-time backstop. “[Yusa] stepped to the side and said, ‘Jimmy’s playing better than I am. I understand it. I’ll be here if you need me,’” Smith said. “And that’s what a great team player he was.” On the St. Rita side, sophomore Mateo Zunica (Palos Park), senior Jake Drada (Orland Park) and junior Dylan Helstern (Oak Lawn) were local products who contributed to the Mustangs’ season. “What you saw in the Final Four tells you everything you need to know about the sport of baseball,” said Palos Park native and St. Rita coach Mike Zunica. “How many losses did we have and how many losses did the other teams have? What were [the Celtics] — a six seed? Who knows? It’s a cruel sport.”

clashed with the Lady Griffins for a third time this spring. The two SouthWest Suburban Confer(Continued from page 1) ence Blue members split a pair its second state championship in of regular-season meetings, with five years, outscored its opponents Lincoln-Way East capturing the 37-8 during the seven-game win- more recent encounter. ning streak. But Sandburg rode Herold's strong performance in the circle Sandburg 5 to postseason success. Herold, who Lincoln-Way East 1 had been victimized by the Lady The Lady Eagles saw a familiar Griffins the last time, stopped face in Friday's semifinal as they them on four hits while striking

out six and walking only one. Lincoln-Way East's lone marker was unearned. Herold also contributed three hits of her own to aid the Lady Eagles' offense. Other principal figures were Katie Krzus (3-for-4 with a homer and four RBI) and Karli McLaughlin (RBI single). Krzus' round-tripper, a two-run blow in the sixth, was her seventh of the year.

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of their own largesse — a sixrun TF South fourth stanza, for example, featured only two hits but opened with four straight free passes. However, Astros coach Frank DiFoggio adopted a straightforward take on things. “Now, the nervousness is gone,” he said. Jake Fredrick (RBI double) and Travis Pruim (two-run single) were trigger men at the plate for Shepard. Also doing well was pitcher Tyler Walters, who missed all of the spring campaign but threw two solid innings versus the Rebels. “It was a typical summer-league game — some things were good, some things were bad,” DiFoggio said. “I didn’t have a lot of guys there, but that’s something I’ll be dealing with all summer. Most of the guys I have [on the roster] are dual- and three-sport athletes or on travel teams.” And truth be known, DiFoggio doesn’t mind working with younger players in June and July. “I know everybody looks at summer differently, but I think it’s about getting new guys accustomed to playing on the varsity,” he said. “Summer’s about learning about guys, getting comfortable and growing confidence. This time of the year it’s about delayed gratification — you don’t worry about wins or losses or if you go 0-for-4.” Although Pruim, Brett Smith, Ken Gorski and Ricky Mundo were the only springtime veterans available to DiFoggio on Thursday, it will be a far different story next March. With 13 returnees, DiFoggio admitted there “aren’t going to be many question marks going into next year.” As has been the case for a decade, Shepard’s experienced players will be swinging wooden bats this summer. Pitching-wise, projected 2015 leaders Smith and Adam Gregory will see limited mound duty. EVERGREEN PARK With school still in session last week, the Mustangs have delayed the start of their summer season. And even when play does get underway, it won’t last long — Evergreen Park coach Mark Smyth plans to pull the plug around Independence Day. “We’re going to play 10 games, then be in the Lockport Tournament,” he said. “Most of the kids are on a travel team and the school year’s going so late as it is, let them have their summer a little bit.” Smyth feels that, despite the shortened schedule, the Mustangs will be able to accomplish what is necessary. “We’ve got to find a couple position guys,” he said. “That’s what summer’s come down to so you can hit the ground running in the spring.”

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(Continued from page 1) for us every summer: We try to fill the open spots.” What O’Neill may miss most about the program’s recent graduates isn’t measurable statistically. Rather, it was a group intangible: cohesiveness and the ability to play as a team. “I hope these seniors-to-be learned that from [the departed guys],” O’Neill said, “and I hope they play with some confidence. It never hurts when you step on the field that you feel you have a chance to win.” BROTHER RICE Multiple-game series are not typically the domain of high school baseball teams, but the Crusaders and Marian Catholic bucked that trend last week by squaring off three times. Only one of those affairs was originally scheduled. However, Brother Rice was searching for games after one against St. Laurence was halted prematurely by rain and another versus De La Salle was cancelled altogether due to the Meteors’ extended stay in the Class 3A state tournament. While the Crusaders triumphed just once, their two losses certainly didn’t rank as embarrassing. Rice dropped 2-0 and 2-1 verdicts. “That’s one thing we were really happy about — the pitching was there and we played good defense,” Crusaders coach John McCarthy said. “We had some [good] arms at the lower levels.” Sophomore-to-be Ryan Kutt continued to display the form he did as a contributing varsity freshman, while newcomers Jack Nelligan and Jack Duzek also gave Rice a lift on the mound. Two other new arrivals, Jake Ridgway and Zac Sefcik, stepped forward offensively in the Crusaders’ triumph over the Spartans, the former doing so with a couple of doubles. “There’s a lot of shuffling going on,” McCarthy said. “We want to give everybody some time and let them showcase their ability, and guys are trying to find out what their roles are and are [sometimes] pressing a little bit. When you press, it’s tough to play good baseball. “There’s a learning curve and we’ll take some lumps, but we’ve got to be patient.” One plus is that Rice’s freshman and sophomore squads both earned Chicago Catholic League Blue titles in 2014. “That shows they can do it under adversity,” McCarthy said of his younger players. “It helps [them] knowing we expect to succeed and that’s what we expect every year, but it’s a burden, too, because the guys haven’t done it [on varsity].

We need to get them confidence and give guys a lot of different opportunities, but we’re very excited.” The Crusaders’ matchup with St. Laurence was stopped after four innings last Tuesday. The Vikings were ahead 1-0 at that juncture, courtesy of Anthony Rios’ RBI groundout. Preceding that play were Tommy Farrell’s walk, a stolen base and balk. Like McCarthy, St. Laurence boss Pete Lotus’ biggest source of gratification was, understandably, pitching and defense. Junior Anthony Robles did not surrender a hit over four frames and fanned two. Robles’ emergence would be a welcome sight for the Vikings following the graduation of staff aces Mike Kornacker and Brad Wood, who spent a combined seven seasons on the varsity roster. “It is different [this summer] and there’s definitely going to be some new guys [in the rotation],” said Lotus, whose two most tested hurlers are Frank Greco and John Riordan. “I definitely think the past couple summers we had a much more definitive view on what kids could do. It was pretty much cut-and-dried that it was those guys who would play certain positions, and you realize [now] there’s some things you took for granted that we’d be able to do because we’d done it before. “There’s a lot more competition [this summer] and that’s a healthy thing. We’re getting back to [teaching] a lot of the very simple things and part of that is really fun.” While this isn’t the first time Lotus has had to do some rebuilding, he said the current situation is reminiscent of what he dealt with his first couple years on the job. “We had tough, scrappy kids that found ways to win,” Lotus said. St. Laurence’s rookies, while new to the varsity, aren’t strangers to success. The Vikings’ freshman and sophomore clubs both finished second, one game behind Catholic League Blue champion Brother Rice. “I don’t think there’s going to be much of a hiccup in how we play the game,” Lotus said. “We’ll really try and stress development. We’re in kind of a gray area, but I’m excited to see how it goes. “I want our guys to know we’re not necessarily up-and-comers — they have a certain level to uphold. I hope we take that next step forward.” SHEPARD Despite jumping out to a 5-0 lead last Thursday, the Astros were unable to close the deal against TF South. Instead, the Rebels rallied to pocket a 12-6 victory. Two younger Shepard pitchers got roughed up, largely because

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For Sale IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION BANK OF AMERICA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Plaintiff, -v.CYNTHIA A. RIDDLE AKA CYNTHIA RIDDLE, THE TOWNHOMES OF GEORGIN WOODS CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION Defendants 13 CH 24841 14416 South 90th Court 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 April 22, 2014, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on July 23, 2014, at The 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 14416 South 90th Court, Orland Park, IL 60462 Property Index No. 27-10-221001-1006. The real estate is improved with a residential condominium. The judgment amount was $171,710.09. Sale terms: 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. 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. Effective May 1st, 2014 you will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues. For information, contact Plaintiff’s attorney: HEAVNER, SCOTT, 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, SCOTT, BEYERS & MIHLAR, LLC 111 East Main Street DECATUR, IL 62523 (217) 422-1719 Attorney Code. 40387 Case Number: 13 CH 24841 TJSC#: 34-8249 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. I609007

For Sale IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, I L L I N O I S � COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON, AS TRUSTEE, F O R � CWMBS, INC., CHL MORTGAGE PASS THROUGH T R U S T � 2007-18, MORTGAGE PASS THROUGH C E R T I F I C A T E S � SERIES 2007-18; P l a i n t i f f , � v s . � MICHAEL P. CODY; KELLI L. CODY; STATE BANK O F � COUNTRYSIDE; UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF MICHAEL P. CODY, IF ANY; UNKNOWN HEIRS A N D � LEGATEES OF KELLI L. CODY, IF ANY; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS; D e f e n d a n t s , � 09 CH 9909 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause on September 20, 2010 Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Monday, July 7, 2014 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 e s t a t e : � P.I.N. 24-30-323-006-0000. Commonly known as 12555 South 69th Avenue, Palos Heights, IL 60463. 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 0 9 0 4 9 4 . � INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I610413

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For Sale IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION FIRSTMERIT BANK, N.A., AS SUCCESSOR-IN-INTEREST TO GEORGE WASHINGTON SAVINGS BANK Plaintiff, -v.MICHAEL McELREE, individually, ADELINE McELREE, individually, MICHAEL McELREE, as Trustee Under Trust Agreement Dated February 20, 2006 known as the Michael A. McElree Living Trust, ADELINE McELREE, as Trustee Under Trust Agreement Dated February 20, 2006 known as the Adeline McElree Living Trust, UNKNOWN BENEFICIARIES OF TRUST AGREEMENT DATED FEBRUARY 20, 2006 KNOWN AS THE MICHAEL A. McELREE LIVING TRUST, UNKNOWN BENEFICIARIES OF TRUST AGREEMENT DATED FEBRUARY 20, 2006 KNOWN AS THE ADELINE McELREE LIVING TRUST, HERITAGE CONDOMINIUM PHASE III ASSOCIATION, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants 10 CH 52686 8810 W. 140 STREET #1A 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 May 28, 2014, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on July 7, 2014, at The 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 8810 W. 140 STREET #1A, Orland Park, IL 60462 Property Index No. 27-03-400-044-1011. The real estate is improved with a condominium. The judgment amount was $177,816.45. Sale terms: 10% 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. Effective May 1st, 2014 you will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues. For information, contact Plaintiff’s attorney: HOWARD AND HOWARD ATTORNEYS, PLLC, 200 S. MICHIGAN AVE., SUITE 1100, Chicago, IL 60604, (312) 372-4000. 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. HOWARD AND HOWARD ATTORNEYS, PLLC 200 S. MICHIGAN AVE., SUITE 1100 Chicago, IL 60604 (312) 372-4000 Attorney Code. 46359 Case Number: 10 CH 52686 TJSC#: 34-9416 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. I611124

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION A.J. SMITH FEDERAL SAVINGS BANK Plaintiff, -v.WILLIAM GEORGE A/K/A GEORGE WILLIAM, LOVELY GEORGE, PNC BANK N.A. SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO NATIONAL CITY BANK, MISSION HILLS- ORLAND PARK, L.L.C., UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants 2012 CH 36289 17549 SAN BERNARDINO 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 April 22, 2014, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on July 23, 2014, at The 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 17549 SAN BERNARDINO DRIVE, Orland Park, IL 60467 Property Index No. 27-32-204-006-0000. The real estate is improved with a two story residence. The judgment amount was $474,479.27. 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. Effective May 1st, 2014 you will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues. For information, contact Plaintiff’s attorney: Kimberly A. Padjen, GOMBERG, SHARFMAN, GOLD & OSTLER, PC, 208 South LaSalle Street, Suite 1410, CHICAGO, IL 60604, (312) 332-6194. Please refer to file number 45149. 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. GOMBERG, SHARFMAN, GOLD & OSTLER, PC 208 South LaSalle Street, Suite 1410 CHICAGO, IL 60604 (312) 332-6194 Attorney File No. 45149 Attorney Code. 90334 Case Number: 2012 CH 36289 TJSC#: 34-7629 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. I610358

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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, N.A. SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO WACHOVIA MORTGAGE, FSB, SUCCESSOR IN I N T E R E S T � TO WORLD SAVINGS BANK, FSB Plaintiff, v s . � VALDAS KERULIS; MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., AS NOMINEE F O R � COUNTRYWIDE BANK, N.A.; Defendants, 11 CH 26548 PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause on April 16, 2014, Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Friday, July 18, 2014, 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. 23-14-106-007-0000. Commonly known as 8717 WEST VAIL DRIVE, PALOS HILLS, IL 60465. The mortgaged real estate is improved with a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 25% down by certified funds, balance within 24 hours, by certified funds. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the premises after confirmation of the sale. For information: Visit our website at http://service.atty-pierce.com. Between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. only. Pierce & Associates, Plaintiff's Attorneys, 1 North Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois 60602. Tel.No. (312) 476-5500. Refer to File Number 1115605. INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I611527

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION ONEWEST BANK, FSB (D/B/A FINANCIAL FREEDOM, A DIVISION OF ONEWEST BANK, FSB) Plaintiff, -v.THE PRIVATEBANK AND TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE U/T/A DATED 12/11/2006 A/K/A TRUST NO. 6975, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, UNKNOWN BENEFICIARIES OF THE PRIVATEBANK AND TRUST COMPANY U/T/A DATED 12/11/2006 A/K/A TRUST NO. 6975, 11323-27-31 ROBERTS ROAD MANAGEMENT CORPORATION, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS, WILLIAM P. BUTCHER, AS SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR ROSEMARY MARTINOTTI (DECEASED) Defendants 13 CH 022780 11327 S. ROBERTS ROAD UNIT F 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 April 15, 2014, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on July 17, 2014, at The 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 11327 S. ROBERTS ROAD UNIT F, PALOS HILLS, IL 60465 Property Index No. 23-24-100-132-1006. The real estate is improved with a residence. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. Where a sale of real estate is made to satisfy a lien prior to that of the United States, the United States shall have one year from the date of sale within which to redeem, except that with respect to a lien arising under the internal revenue laws the period shall be 120 days or the period allowable for redemption under State law, whichever is longer, and in any case in which, under the provisions of section 505 of the Housing Act of 1950, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1701k), and subsection (d) of section 3720 of title 38 of the United States Code, the right to redeem does not arise, there shall be no right of redemption. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. Effective May 1st, 2014 you will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues. For information, examine the court file or contact Plaintiff’s attorney: CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876. Please refer to file number 14-13-22142. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 Attorney File No. 14-13-22142 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 13 CH 022780 TJSC#: 34-6932 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. I608694

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC Plaintiff, -v.ADELE KEALY AKA ADELE T. KEALY, SALT CREEK CREDIT UNION, CATALINA VILLAS CONDOMINIUM II ASSOCIATION Defendants 12 CH 10923 15123 Heather Ct. 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 April 17, 2014, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on July 18, 2014, at The 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 15123 Heather Ct., Orland Park, IL 60462 Property Index No. 27-13-200027-1028. The real estate is improved with a residential condominium. The judgment amount was $212,882.72. Sale terms: 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. 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. Effective May 1st, 2014 you will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues. For information, contact Plaintiff’s attorney: HEAVNER, SCOTT, 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, SCOTT, BEYERS & MIHLAR, LLC 111 East Main Street DECATUR, IL 62523 (217) 422-1719 Attorney Code. 40387 Case Number: 12 CH 10923 TJSC#: 34-8098 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. I609219

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. Plaintiff, -v.UNKNOWN SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE OF THE MARGARET GORDON MAY LIVING TRUST DTD 09/05/97, UNKNOWN BENEFICIARIES OF THE MARGARET GORDON MAY LIVING TRUST DTD 09/05/97, ROBERT MAY AKA BOB MAY, ELIZABETH ARMSTRONG, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS, WILLIAM BUTCHER, SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE, HIDDEN VALLEY CONDOMINIUMS, UNIT THREE, ASSOCIATION Defendants 11 CH 15782 10845 SOUTH 84TH AVENUE UNIT 1B PALOS HILLS, IL 60465 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on April 1, 2014, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on July 2, 2014, at The 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 10845 SOUTH 84TH AVENUE UNIT 1B, PALOS HILLS, IL 60465 Property Index No. 23-14-400-091-1002, Property Index No. 2314-400-091-1017. The real estate is improved with a brick condominium; attached parking. 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. Effective May 1st, 2014 you will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues. 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 PA1104237. 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. PA1104237 Attorney Code. 91220 Case Number: 11 CH 15782 TJSC#: 34-5455 I609610

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13 CH 15056

NIJOLE PANKIENE, THE HILLS OF PALOS CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION, CITIBANK, N.A. SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO CITIBANK, FSB, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS

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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 April 30, 2014, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on July 31, 2014, at The 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 8937 Biloba Ct., Orland Park, IL 60462 Property Index No. 27-10-403-026-0000. The real estate is improved with a single family residence. The judgment amount was $280,185.46. Sale terms: 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. 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. Effective May 1st, 2014 you will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues. For information, contact Plaintiff’s attorney: HEAVNER, SCOTT, 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, SCOTT, BEYERS & MIHLAR, LLC 111 East Main Street DECATUR, IL 62523 (217) 422-1719 Attorney Code. 40387 Case Number: 13 CH 15056 TJSC#: 34-8245 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. I609010

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION OCWEN LOAN SERVICING, LLC Plaintiff, -v.ROBERT J. GRAH, JILL M. SOUTHCOMB, MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. Defendants 13 CH 016283 15640 PEACHTREE DRIVE 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 25, 2014, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 2:00 PM on July 2, 2014, at The 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 15640 PEACHTREE DRIVE, ORLAND PARK, IL 60462 Property Index No. 27-15-408-004. The real estate is improved with a single family residence. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. Effective May 1st, 2014 you will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues. 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 14-12-37536. 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. 14-12-37536 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 13 CH 016283 TJSC#: 34-5628 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. I609888

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9 CINNAMON CREEK DRIVE UNIT #3S 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 April 9, 2014, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 2:00 PM on July 16, 2014, 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 9 CINNAMON CREEK DRIVE UNIT #3S, PALOS HILLS, IL 60465 Property Index No. 23-10-200-015-1106; 1118; 1130. The real estate is improved with a condo/townhouse. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. Effective May 1st, 2014 you will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues. For information, examine the court file or contact Plaintiff’s attorney: CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876 Please refer to file number 14-11-02249. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 Attorney File No. 14-11-02249 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 11 CH 010984 TJSC#: 34-6993 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. I611879

For Sale IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, I L L I N O I S � COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION P l a i n t i f f , � v s . � JOSE CANDELAS A/K/A JOSE REFUGIO C A N D E L A S ; � ELSA CANDELAS A/K/A ELSA PATRICIA C A N D E L A S ; � BANK OF AMERICA, NA; CITY OF CHICAGO; D e f e n d a n t s , � 10 CH 36415 PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause on April 9, 2014, Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Friday, July 11, 2014, 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. 18-34-411-020-0000. Commonly known as 8607 SOUTH KEAN AVENUE, HICKORY HILLS, IL 60457. The mortgaged real estate is improved with a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 25% down by certified funds, balance within 24 hours, by certified funds. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the premises after confirmation of the sale. For information: Visit our website at http://service.atty-pierce.com. Between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. only. Pierce & Associates, Plaintiff's Attorneys, 1 North Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois 60602. Tel.No. (312) 476-5500. Refer to File Number 0920031. INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I610588

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Broaden Your Horizons This week Discovery Isle Discovery Isle will be held from 1 to 3 p.m. on Wednesdays now through Aug. 27 at the Isle a la Cache Museum, 501 E. Romeo Road, Romeoville. Each session will feature a different activity or demonstration focusing on plants, animals or history. Programs may be held indoors or outside on level paths or natural surfaces across uneven terrain. No registration is required for the free program. For more information, visit ReconnectWithNature.org.

Blown glass ornament workshop at McCord McCord Gallery & Cultural Center in Palos Park will present two workshops this Saturday, June 21, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 2:30 — 5:30 p.m., with instructors John Landin and Elektra Musich. In this workshop you will learn how to create a beautiful glass ornament by using glass tubes filled with your favorite colors. You will use a torch to heat them and blow them into one-of-a-kind wonders — an activity for friends and family. No glass experience is necessary to participate and all materials are included in the cost of the class, which is $75 or $65 for members of McCord. McCord Gallery & Cultural Center is located at 9602 W. Creek Road (129th and La Grange Road). Call 671-0648 or visit www.mccordgallery.org.

Day camp at Children's Farm Several new Farm Explorers day camp programs have been added to the summer schedule at the Children's Farm, 12700 Southwest Highway, Palos Park. Children in grades 2 through 6 may attend the five-day programs beginning June 23 and 30, July 7 and 28, and Aug. 4, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day. The new sessions were added to give more children an opportunity to participate, after the previously announced weeks of day camp filled to capaci-

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ty. The farm also continues to offer its traditional overnight camp for young people in grades 5 through 12, with one and two week sessions beginning June 29, July 13, July 20, and July 27. All of the camps, whether one week or two, overnight or daytime, are designed for children who love animals and nature. Camp are filled with fun and excitement as campers learn to ride horses, care for animals, hike in the woods and creeks, and make campfires. They enjoy campouts, hayrides, games, crafts and new friends. Call 361-3650 or email thechildrensfarm@sbcglobal.net for registration information.

The Center, 12700 Southwest Highway, Palos Park, will host its monthly Womantalk coffee hour and discussion on Tuesday, June 24, from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Ladies are invited to join the discussion of “Simple Abundance” and other readings by Sarah Ban Breathnach. There is no cost, but advance reservations are required. Ladies are invited to bring a picnic lunch if they would like to stay after the discussion. Call The Center at 361-3650.

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A family stepping stone art workshop will be offered at The Center on Wednesday, June 25, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. or from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. The workshop is held at the Children's Farm on the east side of 12700 Southwest Highway in Palos Park. Instructed by Heather Young, participants make a cement garden stepping stone, inlaid with prints of woodland leaves and pretty stones. Young says this is a fun and easy outdoor project. The class fee is $8 per person. Advance reservations are required. Call The Center at (708) 361-3650.

Spiritual Companionship is available each Tuesday at The Center, 12700 Southwest Highway in Palos Park. Spiritual Companion Kathy Fontaine guides a person in prayer, meditation, and dialogue. Fontaine has been trained at the Institute of Spiritual Companionship in Chicago and is known to the Palos community as a spiritual growth leader and former kindergarten teacher. According to Fontaine, spiritual companionship is “holy listening.” The cost of Fontaine’s one-on-one service is $20 per hour, which she donates to The Center’s camp scholarship fund. For further information about Summer solstice Spiritual Companionship appointlabyrinth walk ments, interested persons should A celebration of the summer call The Center at 361-3650. solstice will be held this Saturday, June 21, from 8 to 10:30 Collage workshop p.m., at The Center's labyrinth garden, 12700 Southwest High- April Schabes will offer a collage way, Palos Park. workshop on Wednesday, June 25, Pastoral Director Chris Hop- from 1 to 3:30 p.m., at the Log kins will lead the group in Cabin Center for the Arts, 12700 star-watching and a celebration Southwest Highway, Palos Park. of gratitude for summer's bounty Schabes is a local artist, who and long days of light, and then sees collage as an opportunity invite participants to walk the to “play in your own world of labyrinth which will be ringed artistic expression with a fun by candlelight. Participants are and easy art form.” Students asked to bring lawn chairs, bug will learn an easy technique of spray, and small snacks to share. paint-staining paper towels and The summer solstice celebra- embellishing them with rubber tion costs $10 and registration is stamp images, creating a beach required. The registration fees or a garden motif. will be contributed to a new in- The collage workshop costs formation kiosk in the labyrinth $18 plus a $5 materials fee. Adgarden. The evening is not vance registration is required. weather dependent, but the for- Call 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: “THE LEGO MOVIE”: With the popularity of the toy building blocks over several generations, it’s somewhat surprising this film didn’t happen before it did ... but there surely will be more chapters, given the box-office success and high entertainment factor of this immensely enjoyable animated feature. Chris Pratt voices a Lego figure mistakenly thought to be the only one capable of stopping a power-crazed executive (voice of Will Ferrell). Morgan Freeman, Liam Neeson, Elizabeth Banks and — as Batman — Will Arnett also are heard. DVD extras: “making-of ” documentaries; audio commentary by cast and crew; deleted scenes; outtakes. **** (PG: AS) (Also on Blu-ray and On Demand) “THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL”: Writer-director Wes Anderson’s comedy-drama offers many familiar faces, but the most valuable player is Ralph Fiennes, outstanding as the concierge of the title site. He’s eager to service the needs of every guest ... even if that means going beyond the normal bounds of duty where some of the female clientele are concerned, but that dedication eventually gets him into big trouble. Adrien Brody, Bill Murray, Jude Law, Willem Dafoe, Edward Norton, Owen Wilson, Tilda Swinton, Jeff Goldblum, Saoirse Ronan and Mathieu Amalric also are in the huge cast. DVD extras: theatrical trailer; five “making-of” documentaries; two promotional featurettes; stills gallery. *** (R: AS, P, V) “HOUSE OF CARDS: THE COMPLETE SECOND SEASON”: It doesn’t take long for the surprises to start coming in the sophomore round of the acclaimed Netflix drama series, as the scheming Francis

Underwood (Kevin Spacey) ascends to the U.S. vice presidency. His wife, Claire (Golden Globe Award winner Robin Wright, who also makes her directing debut in this season), uses her new power to advocate for legislation with personal relevance to her. Molly Parker joins the cast as a congresswoman who inherits Underwood’s former place as House majority whip; Jodie Foster also is among the episode directors. DVD extras: five “making-of” documentaries. *** (Not rated: AS, N, P, V) (Also on Blu-ray) “JOE”: Nicolas Cage is no stranger to action projects, but this drama is as much a character study. He plays the title character, an ex-convict who’s doing his best to go straight — but that becomes difficult when he befriends a youngster (Tye Sheridan, “Mud”) whose father is abusive. Joe then has to make a decision whether to do something about the situation in his own way. DVD extras: two “making-of” documentaries; audio commentary by co-star Brian Mays, director David Gordon Green and composer David Wingo; deleted scenes. *** (R: AS, P, V) (Also on Blu-ray and On Demand) “WALK OF SHAME”: The plot is paper-thin, but Elizabeth Banks’ natural charm helps this comedy as much as possible. She plays a local television newscaster who arrives in Los Angeles for a job interview that disappoints, then proceeds to have a one-night stand with a bartender (James Marsden). The next morning, she finds her car gone — along with her purse, phone and business attire — and with the prospect of another job, she embarks on a wild race through the city to make that appointment. A winning Banks is hampered by weak material; Oliver Hudson, Willie Garson and Kevin Nealon also appear. ** (R: AS, P) (Also on Blu-ray) “RED SHOE DIARIES: SEASON ONE”: Producer Zalman King (“9 1/2 Weeks,” “Wild Orchid”) brought his knack for sexually infused drama to series

television with this Showtime anthology. A pre-”X-Files” David Duchovny is the link between the stories as Jake, who seeks to understand why his girlfriend committed suicide by using a pseudonym and inviting women to forward diary entries about their own relationships. Ally Sheedy, Matt LeBlanc, Sheryl Lee (“Twin Peaks”) and Maryam d’Abo (“The Living Daylights”) are among the guest stars. *** (Not rated: AS, N, P) COMING SOON: “300: RISE OF AN EMPIRE” (June 24): A naval battle coincides with the ground war between the Greeks and the invading Persians; Sullivan Stapleton (“Strike Back”) and Eva Green star. (R: AS, N, P, GV) “WINTER’S TALE” (June 24): A couple’s (Colin Farrell, Jessica Brown Findlay) love transcends time and all sorts of perils. Russell Crowe and William Hurt also star. (PG13: AS, V) “BAD WORDS” (July 8): A man (Jason Bateman, who also makes his directing debut here) decides to compete against much younger rivals in a spelling bee. (R: AS, N, P) “UNDER THE SKIN” (July C 15): The body of a young woman (Scarlett Johansson) is overM taken by an alien that wreaks Y havoc on the male population of Scotland. (R: AS, N, P, V) CM “THE RETURN OF THE KING: DELUXE EDITION” MY (July 22): Before there were CY the Peter Jackson-directed “The Lord of the Rings” movies, there CMY was this animated feature from the Rankin-Bass studio, now Kremastered. (Not rated) “THE WALKING DEAD: THE COMPLETE FOURTH SEASON” (Aug. 26): More changes in the “game” await Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) and the other survivors of the zombies’ rampage. (Not rated: AS, P, GV) FAMILY-VIEWING GUIDE KEY: AS, adult situations; N, nudity; P, profanity; V, violence; GV, particularly graphic violence.

Surprisingly 22 jumps ahead of 21 for laughs When is a sequel ever as good as the original? In the case of “22 Jump Street,” it surpasses the previous “21 Jump Street.” With the newly released “22 Jump Street,” the rebooted franchise is alive and kicking. The films are based upon the late 80’s television series “21 Jump Street” that stared Johnny Depp. The movie is about cops Schmidt and Jenko going undercover in college trying to find out who the new drug supplier is. There is not much more you need to know than that. The film brings back all the main characters from the original including Schmidt and Jenko played by Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum respectively. It doesn’t just bring back the same people, it brings back the same plot. The only difference is that now they are in college instead of high school. They pretty much tell you that it’s the same plot line early on in the film and hammer that into your brain throughout. “22 Jump Street” does play off the fact that it is a sequel, but the film seems to make it work. There is a scene at the be-

Pinto’s Popcorn Picks by Tony Pinto ginning where Metro City Deputy Police Chief Hardy, played by Nick Offerman, gives them the new case and warns them about reboots stating “It’s always worse the second time around.” “22 Jump Street” is an exception to the rule. Lame and corny jokes like that are all around in the movie and it seems to work in this case. The humor in the film is surprisingly not too low-brow, which is an unforeseen occurrence. It’s sophisticated in its humor, but it still stays in touch with its demographic of young adults. One of the best scenes is actually during the credits which you should stay to watch as they lay out what might be the next sequels. Medical school, anyone? Or, how about culinary school? It does have some unfortunate jokes, including ones about Maya

Angelou and Tracy Morgan. The film’s two stars Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum work well together. Their onscreen relationship is what makes the movie worth watching. They act like an old married couple and it’s just hilarious to watch. That’s one of the main gags played throughout the movie that they are in a real relationship. They elevate this movie from so-so to good. Ice Cube is brought back as Captain Dickson and has a few scene-stealing roles throughout. We even get a cameo from Queen Latifah as Ice Cube’s wife. Directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, who directed the first one and also the hugely successful kids’ movie “The Lego Movie,” this duo proves it can direct anything from kids’ movies to adult comedies and do them well. At its heart, this is a buddy cop movie that is hilarious. What more can you ask for in a summer comedy? Nothing. If you’re looking for something enjoyable that’s not too serious, this is a great movie for you to see. Pinto’s Grade: A-

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Rolling Stone chooses ‘I Walk the Line’ as the greatest country song, ever! “I FIND it very, very easy to be true, I find myself alone when each day is through/Yes, I’ll admit that I’m a fool for you. Because you’re mine, I walk the line.” Lyrics from the great Johnny Cash-composed song, “I Walk the Line.” That song has been chosen by Rolling Stone magazine as No. 1 in the Top 25 Greatest Country Songs of All Time. And it is hypnotic in every way. Others included in the Top 10 — Patsy Cline’s “Crazy,” Hank Williams’ “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry,” Tammy Wynette’s “Stand By Your Man,” Ray Charles’ “You Don’t Know Me” and Dolly Parton’s “Jolene.” Loretta Lynn’s “Don’t Come Home A’ Drinking (With Lovin’ On Your Mind.)” is No. 19, but I feel with its strong feminist stance, it should be higher up. (Along with Loretta’s groundbreaking “The Pill.”) PEOPLE who stepped into a posh women’s shoe store on East 64th Street off Lexington Avenue found themselves buying something else last week. They were joining a book party for the blonde bombshell author, Barbara Taylor Bradford’s new one, “Cavendon Hall.” Barbara and her tycoon husband, Robert, found themselves signing books, ordering E versions and making nice. She is one of the most successful moneymakers in the world of international fiction. When you get a new tale from Barbara you are joining hundreds of thousands of readers in the BTB fan club. She has been translated into more languages than you and I even speak. Barbara is my co-chair for the Literacy Partners gala fundraiser, happening June 17 at Cipriani 42nd Street. No one ever had a SBee_5x5_ad.pdf 1 3/7/2014 better, more glamorous and generous pal. No wonder knowing

New Yorkers lined up to buy her new novel and in the bargain they are also raising money to help 2 million adults learn how to read and write and make themselves over into useful citizens. Donna Karan — hooray! In The New York Times recently, the famed American designer got a big write-up, as if she were a fashion beginner. At age 65, she looks about 30 and acts as if she is just starting out to become what she already became, an unending fashion force. The Times lists her in a success trio with Ralph and Calvin. Aimee Self says we failed to mention — when writing about actress Nancy Olson — that she was once wed to songwriter Alan Jay Lerner! So there. Hope I’m not going to have to list all his wives! Nancy Thomsen applauds our point about women screaming on the daily TV shows. She adds: “So I watch most of these programs with the sound off. Lately, I have basically stopped watching almost everything; the exception being the wonderful CBS Morning News with Charlie Rose, Gayle King and Norah O’Donnell. Their program is civilized, gentle, and informative, and always interesting. No screaming there.” MAGGIE VESSEY, the popular 800-meter runner, is also making strides in fashion. She is designing outfits fit for racing. She says her clothes are “out there.” (Tarzan, Peter Pan!) But they are still functional when it comes to the finish line. A LOVELY note from actor Hal Holbrook, about his late adored wife, Dixie Carter: “By some movement of fate today I was editing one of the final chapters of a memoir I have written, about the courageous fight Dixie put up against cancer ... and how dear it was that she spent more time worrying about and 12:41:02 PM encouraging other patients than she did herself. When I read what

you said, that Dixie was ‘quite spiritual and uplifting. She didn’t hit you over the head with it, but her faith was strong’ — it was a home run, Liz. That was Dixie.” It’s always nice to have a “scoop.” (Whatever such a thing is these days!) But something like Mr. Holbrook’s note is so much more appreciated and genuine. And something I like to share. IF YOU want to read a truly incisive article about the career of Tom Cruise and how the intrusions of the Internet and YouTube affected his image, find the May 28-June 3 issue of The Village Voice. Amy Nicholson hits paydirt, tracking how Tom (and his longtime press rep Pat Kingsley) kept Cruise below the radar, personally, even as his career soared. But when Kingsley, finally too hardpressed, left off working for Tom, it coincided with the rise of the Internet, and little things — such as Tom’s millisecond jump on Oprah’s couch, came to live in infamy. It’s all fascinating. And author Nicholson points out that no matter what the Internet gossips tell us, Tom Cruise is still a major draw who has never had an out-and-out flop. (His latest sci-fi action film, “Edge of Tomorrow” is receiving nice buzz, as is his co-star, the divine Emily Blunt.) END-THOUGHT: My various editors occasionally warn me about being “too political.” I am here merely to entertain, they say. Okay. Fine. I will simply peek over the political ledge and venture this — what would Republicans have said if President Obama had allowed captured soldier Bowe Bergdahl to die in captivity? I wrote recently on the “fake outrage” of Internet trolls. Well, that extends to politicians, too. (E-mail Liz Smith MES3838@aol.com.)

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Fire up the grill for a rib feast Firing up the grill this summer always brings out the creativity in many outdoor cooks. And, while standard fare like hamburgers and hot dogs are always welcome, I think many many want to showcase their grilling skills with something more ambitious. Which often leads to ribs. There’s something robustly primal about cooking, serving and eating ribs: the slab-like racks; the savory-sweet aromas; the act of cutting the cooked racks into individual pieces; the pleasures of gnawing the tender meat right off the bones. And there’s another advantage, too. In spite of what you might think, ribs are incredibly easy to cook, especially since they don’t require too much time on the grill. That fact may surprise you, since ribs do need generous cooking time to reach tenderness. However, I find that the best way to achieve tender results is o do most of the cooking in the oven at relatively low heat. Only when the ribs have been cooked to tenderness in this way do I then finish cooking them over a hot grill, which adds a wonderfully crusty surface that’s lightly glazed with the caramelized traces of the marinade you used to flavor the ribs. Try my recipe for ribs this summer, and you’ll see what I mean. Add a side of my simple coleslaw, and enjoy a classic meal any dad — and his family — would love. CHINOIS HONEY-MARNATED SPARE RIBS Serves 4 to 6 2 pounds baby back ribs, in one or two whole racks Freshly ground black pepper 1-1/2 cups rice wine vinegar 1/2 cup soy sauce 1/2 cup mushroom soy sauce, or additional regular soy sauce 3 tablespoons honey 1/2 cup minced garlic 1/4 cup minced fresh ginger 2 tablespoons finely chopped fresh cilantro leaves 2 scallions, minced 1 small jalapeno pepper, halved,

stemmed, seeded, deveined and minced Start preparing the ribs a day before you plan to cook them. With clean hands, rub both sides of the rib racks with the black pepper. Place the racks meaty side down in a roasting pan. In a mixing bowl, stir together the vinegar, soy sauces, honey, garlic, ginger, cilantro, scallions and jalapeno. When the honey has dissolved completely, pour the mixture over the ribs. Cover the pan with plastic wrap and refrigerate overnight to marinate the ribs. About 1-1/2 hours before you plan to serve the ribs, preheat the oven to 325 degrees F. Drain off and discard the marinade from the ribs. Put the roasting pan, uncovered, in the oven and roast the ribs for 45 minutes. While the ribs are roasting, heat up the fire in an outdoor grill; or, alternatively, preheat the broiler. Remove the ribs from the oven and transfer them to a platter to carry to the grill. Grill the rib racks directly over the heat until nicely browned and crispy, 2 to 3 minutes per side, turning them with grill tongs. Alternatively, broil the racks until nicely browned on both sides. Transfer the ribs to a clean cutting board. With a sharp knife, cut through the meat between the bones into individual ribs. Pile them on a platter and serve immediately, accompanied by coleslaw. WOLFGANG’S COLESLAW Serves 4 to 6 1 medium head green cabbage 1 medium organic carrot, trimmed and peeled 1 cup mayonnaise 1/4 cup red wine vinegar 2 tablespoons toasted caraway seeds Kosher salt Freshly ground black pepper Pinch sugar Make the coleslaw about 2 hours before you plan to serve it. With a large, sharp knife, cut

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Danger beckons. You may the cabbage vertically in half. Cut be reckless and overly fond of out the core from each half. Place risk-taking in the week ahead. each half cut side down on a cut- Your path to success could hit ting board and, with the knife, roadblocks unless you learn to cut crosswise into thin slices, follow through and carry projects separating the slices into shreds to completion. and putting them in a large non- TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Falling down is part of life. As a reactive mixing bowl. Using a box grater/shredder baby, you never learned to walk over another mixing bowl, shred without toppling over a few times. the carrot into long, thin strips. In the week ahead, don’t curse With a clean hand, pick up the bruises or skinned knees as you shredded carrot in handfuls and learn new skills. squeeze out excess liquid, trans- GEMINI (May 21-June 20): ferring each squeezed handful to You know the devil is in the details and aren’t bashful about startthe bowl with the cabbage. Add the mayonnaise, vinegar, ing a dialogue. You’re willing to caraway seeds, salt and pepper delve deeply into secrets and can to taste, and a pinch of sugar to work your way into someone’s the bowl. Toss well to combine good graces in the week ahead. the cabbage and carrot and thor- CANCER (June 21-July 22): oughly coat the strips with the You have a chance to rest on those dressing. Adjust the seasonings lovely laurels this week. There may be a controversy brewing at to taste, if necessary. Cover the bowl with plastic home or on the job, but you can opt wrap and refrigerate for 2 hours. out of it and enjoy some R and R. Stir the mixture before serving. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You’ll

never see a rainbow unless you endure a little rain. This week, you can look forward to enjoying some of the best life has to offer, even if you have to trudge through some of the worst to get there. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Get a grip. Hold on to that favorite coffee cup so it doesn’t break, and keep a tight grip on that credit card so you don’t accidently overspend on impulse items in the week ahead. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): When sparks fly, you may see a beautiful sight, or it can simply mean there’s friction in the air. In the upcoming week, don’t let the excitement of something new blind you to facts. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The hardest thing to do is to have the patience to wait for the right timing. In the week ahead, you might be tempted to make premature starts on work projects. Get your ducks in a row first. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21): You can have your

cake and eat it, too, as well as get some extra scoops of ice cream while you’re at it. This week, you may be energized by activities during your spare time and soothed by peace and tranquility at home. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The caterpillar thinks life is ending, while the butterfly thinks life is just starting. In the week ahead, remember that there’s more than one way to view great transformations in your life. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Your fascination with all things new age or new-fangled could get out of hand this week. You prefer the latest technology, but this could irritate other people if you force your ideas on them. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Awesome new friends and interests could lighten the load. Focus on participating in group activities during the week ahead. Guard against friction over someone’s impulsive spending habits.

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