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Irongate plan faces many challenges Irongate, by the numbers 1,053: Single-family homes 458: Acres for the entire development 248: Townhouses 30 to 34: Acres dedicated to park district 23 to 24: Acres dedicated to the school district 19: Acres dedicated to senior housing Sources: ShoDeen Construction, DeKalb Park District

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Developer must balance wishes of 3 government bodies By DAVID THOMAS dthomas@shawmedia.com DeKALB – The Irongate housing development proposal has been a juggling act for ShoDeen Construction President Dave Patzelt. “It’s a difficult process,” Patzelt said, who has to cater his development to the requests of the DeKalb

City Council, DeKalb School District 428, and the DeKalb Park District. Ultimately, it’s the DeKalb aldermen who will decide the future of a new residential community with more than 1,000 new homes at the corner of Bethany Road and First Street, just north of DeKalb High School. Six aldermen need to vote “yes” on annexation, and the neighborhood cannot be built unless it’s annexed into DeKalb. One of the key issues in any annexation agreement are impact fees. The city’s development code contains an ordinance dictating

Hunt for ex-cop goes on amid Calif. snowstorm By GREG RISLING and TAMI ABDOLLAH The Associated Press

BIG BEAR LAKE, Calif. – All that was left were footprints leading away from Christopher Dorner’s burned-out pickup truck, and an enormous, snowcovered mountain where he could be hiding among the skiers, hundreds of cabins and dense woods. More than 100 officers, including SWAT teams, were driven in glass-enclosed snow machines and armored personnel carriers to hunt for the former Los Angeles police officer suspected of going on a deadly rampage to get back at those he blamed for ending his police career. With bloodhounds in tow, officers went door to door as snow fell, aware to the reality they could be walking into a trap set by the well-trained former Navy reservist who knows their tactics and strategies as well as they do. “The bad guy is out there, he has a certain time on you, and a distance. How do you close that?” asked T. Gregory Hall, a retired tactical supervisor for a special emergency response team for the Pennsylvania State Police. “The bottom line is, when he decides that he is going to make a stand, the operators are in great jeopardy,” Hall said. As authorities weathered heavy snow and freezing temperatures in the mountains, thousands of heavily armed police remained on the lookout throughout California, Nevada, Arizona and northern Mexico. Police said officers still were guarding more than 40 people mentioned as targets in a rant

they said Dorner posted on Facebook. He vowed to use “every bit of small arms training, demolition, ordinance and survival training I’ve been given” to bring “warfare” to the LAPD and its families. At noon, police and U.S. Marshals accompanied by computer forensics specialists served a search warrant on his mother’s house in the Orange County city of La Palma. Dorner’s mother and sister were there at the time, and a police spokesman said they were cooperating. The manhunt had Southern California residents on edge. Unconfirmed sightings were reported near Barstow, about 60 miles north of the mountain search, at Point Loma base near San Diego and in downtown Los Angeles. Some law enforcement officials speculated that he appeared to be everywhere and nowhere, and that he was trying to spread out their resources. For the time being, their focus was on the mountains 80 miles east of Los Angeles – a snowy wilderness, filled with deep canyons, thick forests and jagged peaks, that creates peril as much for Dorner as the officers hunting him. Bad weather grounded helicopters with heatsensing technology. After the discovery of his truck Thursday afternoon, SWAT teams in camouflage started scouring the mountains. As officers worked through the night, a storm blew in, possibly covering the trail of tracks that had led them away from his truck but offering the possibility of new trails to follow.

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Members on the California Highway Patrol search a truck Friday for Christopher Dorner, a former Los Angeles police officer accused of carrying out a killing spree because he felt he was unfairly fired from his job in Big Bear Lake, Calif.

how impact fees are paid to other units of government. Impact fees are payments developers make to a unit of government to cover the estimated cost of public infrastructure in a new neighborhood, such as roads and street lights. DeKalb’s ordinance allows the developer to pay the school and the park districts in both cash and land. City Manager Mark Biernacki said the complicated formula for calculating how much in impact fees is owed includes the number of units in the development and a set value of the land. Irongate is still in the planning stages, but the school district

is looking to acquire land from ShoDeen, while the park district is looking for land and cash. Patzelt said his current discussions with the school district would have them acquire 16 acres north of DHS, and another seven or eight acres within Irongate for a future elementary school. Cindy Capek, the park district’s executive director, said the district is entitled to 48 acres in Irongate. About 30 to 34 acres would become park space, with the park district receiving cash for the remaining acres.

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JOSEPH GLIDDEN’S LEGACY

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Marcia Wilson, executive director at the Joesph F. Glidden Homestead and Historical Center, gives a media tour of the homestead and welcome center Wednesday.

Glidden Homestead to celebrate inventor of barbed wire By STEPHANIE HICKMAN shickman@shawmedia.com DeKALB – The story behind Joseph F. Glidden’s life is one many people don’t know. But it’s a story those at the Joseph F. Glidden Homestead love to tell. Born Jan. 18, 1813, the “Father of Barbed Wire” moved from New England to DeKalb in 1842 with aspirations of becoming a farmer. He built a log cabin on the property that Burger King now occupies at 913 W. Lincoln Highway in DeKalb. In 1861, Glidden built the historic home that now sits at 921 W. Lincoln Highway. “The fact that this site has been preserved is just short of a miracle,” said Marcia Wilson, the homestead’s executive director. The Joseph F. Glidden Homestead will celebrate the life and accomplishments of one of DeKalb’s greatest innovators at its annual meeting at 7 p.m. Monday at the site’s Welcome Center, 921 W. Lincoln Highway in DeKalb. Glidden would be 200 years old if he were alive today. Glidden and his wife, Lucinda, only lived in the house, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, until the 1870s.

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A Glidden family tree is on display at the Joesph F. Glidden Homestead and Historical Center. From that time until 1998, many of Glidden’s relatives occupied and preserved the house. The last Glidden to live there was Joseph’s great-niece, Jessie. Behind the house sits the barn where Glidden manufactured his invention of barbed wire, which was

patented in 1874. Wilson said many farmers had issues keeping their livestock fenced in at that time. The only fencing options were unreliable wooden fences or stone fences that were unique to certain areas. “We don’t realize how important he was in the

farming industry at the time,” Wilson said. Before his death in 1906, Glidden had a hand in just about everything in town. He gave the right of way to the railroad system to come through town, he published the Daily Chronicle for eight years, and he donated the first 65 acres to Northern Illinois University’s now 756 acre campus. Wilson said Glidden was definitely one of the earliest developers of the city of DeKalb.“He just touches kind of every corner of the community,” she said. Glidden’s legacy continues in DeKalb today. Jessie Glidden’s niece, Sarah Glidden DeMink of Downers Grove, and nephew, Richard Glidden of St. Anne, are both members of the homestead’s board of directors. Wilson said the board plans to expand the homestead and open more of the home’s rooms to the public in the future. Grants from Northern Illinois Antiques Dealers Association and Chicago Suburban Antiques Dealers Association are helping them cover those expenses.

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8 DAILY PLANNER Today

Monthly community breakfast: 7 to 11 a.m. at Kingston Friendship Center, 120 S. Main St. Donation is $7 for all-youcan-eat eggs cooked to order, pancakes, waffles, biscuits and gravy, corned beef hash, bacon and sausage, fruit cups, English muffins and drink. Contact: Kingston Friendship Center at 815-784-3921. Weight Watchers: 7:15 a.m. weigh in, 7:45 a.m. and 9 a.m. meetings Weight Watchers Store, 2583 Sycamore Road (near Aldi), DeKalb. Overeaters Anonymous Walkand-Talk meeting: 8 to 9 a.m. at The Federated Church, 612 W. State St. in Sycamore. www. oa.org; Contact: Marilyn at 815751-4822. NICE Food and Clothing Center: 8:30 to 11 a.m. Saturdays, by appointment other days, at 346 S. County Line Road in Lee. This nondenominational food pantry serves the southwest part of DeKalb County and the southeast area of Lee County. 815-8242228. Curves Free Resolution Class: 9 a.m. at 325 E. State St., Sycamore. Come dressed to work out. Arrive 15 minutes before the start of class. It Is What It Is AA(C): 9 a.m. at St. Catherine’s Church, 340 S. Stott St., Genoa, 800-452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com. As Bill Sees It AA(C): 9:30 a.m. at DeKalb Area Alano Club, 312 E. Taylor St., DeKalb, 800-4527990; www.dekalbalanoclub. com. Learning to Live Al-Anon group: 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. at Newman Catholic Center annex, Normal Road in DeKalb; llc904@ hotmail.com. Narcotics Anonymous: 10 to 11 a.m. at United Church of Christ, 615 N. First St. in DeKalb; www.rragsna.org; 815-964-5959. Knights’ Saturday Burgers and More: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at DeKalb Knights of Columbus Club: 1336 E. Lincoln Highway. Open to the public. Burger buffet: Noon to 2 p.m. at Genoa Veterans Home, 311 S. Washington St. The public is invited for lunch. Lightning games: 1:30 p.m. at Genoa Veteran’s Club, 311 S. Washington St.; www.genoavetshome.us or contact Cindy at crmcorn65@yahoo.com or 815-751-1509. AA Speaker Open Meeting: 8 p.m. at DeKalb Area Alano Club, 312 E. Taylor St., DeKalb, 800-452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com. Any Lengths AA(C): 10 p.m. at Bargain Addict, 109 N. Seventh St., DeKalb. 800-452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com. Sunday Knights’ Sunday breakfast: 8 a.m. to noon at DeKalb Knights of Columbus Club: 1336 E. Lincoln Highway. Open to the public. 24 Hours a Day AA(C): 9:30 a.m. at DeKalb Area Alano Club, 312 E. Taylor St., DeKalb. 800452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com. Kishwaukee Valley Heritage Museum: 2 to 4 p.m. at 622 Park Ave. in Genoa. Call 815-784-5559 for appointments other days. Memories of DeKalb Ag: 2 to 4 p.m. at Nehring Gallery, Suite 204, 111 S. Second St., DeKalb. Free admission and open to all. www.dekalbalumni.org. Society for Creative Anachronism armored fighting practice: 4:30 p.m. behind Stevenson North at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb. For Middle Ages-Renaissance history re-enactors. Visit www.carraigban.org/ or call 815-739-5788 or 815-986-5403. Bread & Roses women’s chorus practice: 5:45 to 8 p.m. at Westminster Presbyterian Church, 830 N. Annie Glidden Road in DeKalb. For information, call Patty Rieman at 815-7584897 or visit www.breadandroseschorus.org. Steps And Traditions AA(C): 6 p.m. at Masonic Hall, Route 23, Genoa. 800-452-7990; www. dekalbalanoclub.com. No Longer Hopeless AA(C): 7:30 p.m. at DeKalb Area Alano Club, 312 E. Taylor, DeKalb. 800452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com. Any Lengths AA(C): 8 p.m. at Federated Church, 612 W. State St., Sycamore. 800-4527990; www.dekalbalanoclub. com.

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Local pianist’s perseverance

EDITOR’S NOTE Eric Olson Yao Lin left a conservatory in Odessa, Ukraine, where she had been studying piano in 2009 and traveled more than 5,000 miles to DeKalb. Lin, 25, whose friends around DeKalb call her Lina, was only a couple of months into her stay when she suffered an injury that threatened to rob her of her lifelong passion. On an icy day in December 2009, Lina was riding a bicycle when she hit some ice, fell and broke her left wrist. The father of her host family, Paul Meier, took her to the emergency room at Kishwaukee Community Hospital, where she met Dr. Robert Swartz, a hand surgeon with Sycamore-based Midwest Orthopaedic Institute, who operated on her wrist the next day. “I was really worried, and I cried a lot,” Lina said. “I remember I just asked Dr. Swartz if I could still play the piano.” Swartz told her the chances were good. He put a metal plate and seven screws in her wrist. “I was very lucky to have Dr. Swartz to have the surgery,” she said. For two months, her hand was in a cast. For the first time since she was 8 years old, Lina couldn’t play piano. It was like losing her best friend. Lina, who is also the keyboardist at the Evangelical Free Church of Sycamore-DeKalb, said she promised God that if she was able to play piano again, she would use her music to serve him and others. “After two months he took off my cast and I started to get physical therapy, “ she said. “My therapist told me that the best therapy will be practicing the piano, so I practiced very hard. “ It was difficult to play with the plate and screws in her wrist. But six months after the initial procedure, Swartz removed the metal, and Lina said her wrist was as good as new. Since then, she’s gone on to compete and finally to become one of four winners in the 2012 Concerto Competition at NIU in October. NIU professor of piano and chamber music Bill Goldenberg praised his student’s perseverance. “One thing is true, that she never gives up,” Goldenberg said. “She has entered the concerto competition, she tried before in previous years and didn’t win, but she kept trying and now she won.” Lina’s concerto contest victory means she will be one of the musicians performing at the NIU Philharmonic concert at 8 p.m. Wednesday at NIU’s Boutell Memorial Concert Hall, 550 Lucinda Ave., in DeKalb. Admission is free to the public. Lina will be performing a composition by Camille Saint-Saens under the direction of Lucia Matos. If you can’t make it to the concert hall, you can also watch online at niu.edu/music. Lina expects to complete her piano

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NIU piano student Yao Lin, known as Lina around DeKalb, feared she would not be able to play piano again after she broke her left wrist in 2009. But after two surgeries and work in rehab, she has continued to play and was one of the winners of the NIU Concerto Competition in October. study in May. Although her parents are back in Beijing, she says she likes DeKalb and plans to stay awhile. “People here, they are very friendly,” she said. “Most of my friends, they are Christian so they are very nice, they are encouraging me. “I love being here.” ••• TV interest: There’s been a lot of interest in the people around our little corner of the world from national TV outlets lately. Within the past couple of weeks, I’ve spoken with representatives from CBS’s “48 hours” and CNN, both of whom are working on stories about Jack D. McCullough’s conviction in the 1957 killing of Maria Ridulph. The 48 Hours story has a tentative air date of March 1, I’ve been told. I also heard this week from a representative of MTV, which is planning a feature on the Quimby brothers for its documentary series “True Life.” All four of the Quimby brothers have been standouts on the Hiawatha High School football team. Robert Quimby graduated in 2000, Shane Quimby graduated in 2002, Jace Quimby graduated in 2010, and Dakotah Quimby is to graduate this year. We’ll pass on more info as we get it. ••• Introverts and extroverts: I picked up a book this week called “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Won’t Stop Talking” by Susan Cain. I’d first heard about the book at the DeKalb Leadership Academy, of which I am a class member this year. I’m an extroverted person, and I married my opposite. I thrive on socialization and interacting with people. Aside from a week or two in college, I have never lived alone. I grew up in a home with a TV in every room. They were usually on even if no one was watching. I’ve probably annoyed more than one of my introverted coworkers over the years. My wife is perfectly happy to be alone. She enjoys quiet, although living

with me she doesn’t get it very often. She’s not a recluse or anything, but interacting with others is not always her top priority. The basic premise of the book is that American society embraces characteristics of extroverts. We are told that successful people are bold, they take risks, they are comfortable in the spotlight. Introverted people often lack these traits. Introverts are more likely to listen and seek to understand what’s being said, rather than wait for their turn to talk. They are thinkers. Their conversations are generally about bigger issues rather than small talk. Introverts’ power isn’t as in your face, but it is real and needed in our society. As Cain points out in her book, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was clearly an extrovert, but it was the introverted Rosa Parks’ refusal to give up her seat on a bus in Birmingham, Ala. City bus that became a landmark event in the Civil Rights movement. I also know from experience that introverts can disarm you in an argument just by being who they are. I’ve started to see the personality differences in my daughters, too. The extrovert is always seeking to perform. She wants to interact with whoever is in the room when she walks into it. She’ll work on any group task with no problem, but has to be forced to sit at her desk and work alone. The introvert plays by herself for long stretches of time, even when there are other people around she could be playing with. She’s not anti-social, but it’s clear sometimes she likes to be alone. But even though the introvert is the younger one, she’s also the one asking the tough questions like: “Where do babies come from?” That’s when I try to get her to ponder something else.

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8 TODAY’S TALKER

Assisted suicide on legal agenda in several states By SUSAN HAIGH The Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. – A push for the legalization of physician-assisted suicide is under way in a half-dozen states where proponents say they see strong support for allowing doctors to prescribe mentally competent, dying individuals with the medications needed to end their own lives. The large number of baby boomers facing end-of-life issues themselves has made the issue more prominent in recent years. Groups such as Compassion & Choices, a national end-oflife advocacy organization, have been working to advance the cause. Advocates received a boost from last year’s ballot question in Massachusetts on whether to allow physicians to help the terminally ill die. Although the vote failed, it helped to spark a nation-

al discussion, said Mickey MacIntyre, chief program officer for Compassion & Choices. “The Massachusetts initiative lifted the consciousness of the nation and in particular the Northeast region to this issue that there are other alternatives patients and their families should have an opportunity to access,” MacIntyre said. Bills legalizing assisted suicide are being considered in Connecticut, Vermont, New Jersey, Kansas and Hawaii – and in Massachusetts, where proponents decided to resume their efforts after the public vote, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures, which tracks legislative trends. There are also bills related to the issue under consideration in New Hampshire, New York, Arizona and Montana. In Connecticut, which has banned the practice since 1969, a group of law-

makers said Tuesday that the legislature’s first public hearing on the subject would probably be held this month. At least two bills on the issue have so far been proposed in this year’s session of the Connecticut legislature. If the General Assembly votes to legalize the practice, it would be the first state legislature to do so. Oregon and Washington have passed right-to-die laws, but they did so through voter referendums. Montana’s Supreme Court has ruled that the practice of physicians helping terminally ill patients could be considered part of medical treatments. Thirty-four states prohibit assisted suicide outright. Seven others, including Massachusetts, banned it through legal precedent. Opponents claim the initiatives in Connecticut are being pushed only by outside groups like Compassion & Choices.

“There’s no grass-roots cry for assisted suicide in the state of Connecticut,” said Peter Wolfgang, executive director of the socially conservative Family Institute. “This is mostly an out-of-state organization that has targeted the state of Connecticut. They look at the Northeast and think this is low-hanging fruit: ‘We can conduct our social experiments here in the Northeastern United States.’ ” Cathy Ludlum, a disabled-rights activist from Manchester, Conn., who has spinal muscular atrophy, said she worries the issue of doctor-assisted suicide will not go away soon. “Until people are really educated about the issues, it’s going to keep coming up, even if it’s defeated this time,” she said, adding how she wants lawmakers to focus more on “giving people a good life than giving people a good death.”

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Cortland kindergarteners celebrate 100th school day Meyers. “So that’s why we do this.” The teachers were able to demonstrate the impact of the number by spearheading a collection of 100 items for various charities throughout the community. Kindergarten teacher Abby Aska said her class collected 112 supplies for TAILS Humane Society, while Meyers said her class collected 120 items for the local food pantries. Dylan Hodges, one of Meyers’ students, said he liked collecting the food because it would be going to a good cause. “It will go to 100 people who don’t have food,” he said. Aska said all the students enjoyed giving back to the community during their journey to 100 days of school. “I think they were more excited about just being able to help someone,” she said. The teachers also encouraged their students to participate in 100 random acts

By STEPHANIE HICKMAN shickman@shawmedia.com

CORTLAND – Balloons, video games and sports cars were just some of the things Cortland Elementary School kindergarten teacher Jessica Acovelli said her students wanted to buy with $100. Approximately 112 kindergartners at Cortland Elementary School at 370 E. Lexington Ave. in Cortland celebrated their 100th day of classes Friday with various games, crafts and snacks. “We’ve done a ton of counting,” said Deanna Meyers, who is one of four kindergarten teachers at the school. Some of the day’s events, such as eating snacks of 100 Cheerios, animal crackers and raisins, gave students the opportunity to practice their counting skills and learn about the volume of such a number. “They don’t really have a sense of what 100 is,” said

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Cortland Elementary kindergartners form one of the zeroes in 100 to celebrate the 100th day of school at Cortland Elementary Friday in Cortland. of kindness, which Aska said is tied into their social studies curriculum, which often focuses on community

service. One of the activities many members of Aska’s class were most thrilled

about was the afternoon ice cream party. The class has been participating in an ice cream theme while counting

the 100 days of school. “We’re so excited to have ice cream at school,” said kindergartener Ellie Ferguson. On the 20th day of school, Aska said she told the children there would be a special surprise on Day 100. They soon found out they would be having ice cream for their 100th day of accomplishments. “We have scooped our way to 100,” said Aska as she placed the 100th ice cream scoop card on the wall. After working on single and double digits for so long, the teachers said their kindergartners are ready to master the next step. Students will be counting higher than 100 every day for the rest of the school year, which will help them learn more about the value of numbers. After the 100th day of school, a better understanding of numbers among these kindergartners is something both the students and teachers can count on.

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inspired by Raven, a husky who was rescued in 2008 and is now a therapy dog, according to a news release. The shelter is linked to TAILS Humane Society in DeKalb for referrals and veterinary services and will work with other shelters

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8OBITUARIES DENNIS PAUL DURLER

Macular degeneration presentations planned Family Service Agency Senior Services will host four presentations on macular degeneration with personnel from Spex Expression. The first will be at 12:15 p.m. Monday at 115 S. Third St., Malta, according to a news release. The others will start at 12:15 p.m. Friday at 70 S. Llanos St., Cortland; 12:15 p.m. Feb. 22 at 400 E. Second St., Genoa; and 12:15 p.m. Feb. 25 at 330 Grove St., DeKalb. All the presentations are free and include a free lunch for those who make a reservation by 10 a.m. the day before the presentation. Call 815-758-1678.

DeKalb Wrestling Club has fundraiser on tap DeKALB – The DeKalb Wrestling Club will host its draw down fundraiser at 5 p.m. March 2. There will be free appetizers, two 50/50 raffles, a consolation drawing and a grand prize of $500, according to a news release. The event will be at Sullivan’s Tavern, 722 E. Lincoln Highway, DeKalb. Winners need not be present. All proceeds benefit all levels of DeKalb wrestling. Contact any board member for tickets, and call Arch Richoz at 815-751-7780 for information.

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Christian D. Crawford, 20, of the 900 block of Greenbrier Road in DeKalb, was arrested Thursday, Feb. 7, on a failure-to-appear warrant for reckless driving. Angelica M. Cortez, 19, of the 900 block of North 12th Street in DeKalb, was charged Thursday, Feb. 7, with criminal trespass to property. Dangelo K. Summerville of the 1100 block of South Laflin Street in Chicago, was charged Thursday, Feb. 7, with criminal trespass to property. Christopher S. Wilson, 21, of the 700 block of Fotis Drive in DeKalb, was arrested Friday, Feb. 8, with retail theft. Andy Cordova, 21, of the 800 block of Waterstone Way in Malta, was arrested Thursday, Feb. 7, on a warrant for failure to appear in court.

Born: Jan. 24, 1956, in Chicago, Ill. Died: Dec. 16, 2012, in DeKalb, Ill. Dennis Paul Durler, 55, of DeKalb, Ill., born Jan. 24, 1956, in Chicago, died Dec. 16, 2012, at DeKalb County Rehab & Nursing Center, in DeKalb. A memorial service will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 16, at Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of DeKalb, 158 N. Fourth St., DeKalb IL 60115. Visit www.legacy.com/dailychronicle.

HELEN HOAGLAND

Born: June 16, 1922, in Villa Park, Ill. Died: Feb. 7, 2013, in Geneva, Ill. SYCAMORE – Helen Hoagland, 90, of Sycamore, Ill., died Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013, at Geneva Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Geneva. Born June 16, 1922, in Villa Park, the daughter of George and Freida (Leubscher) Rincker, she married Delmar Hoagland on Sept. 12, 1969, in Louisville, Ky. Helen was a homemaker all her life. She graduated from Austin High School in Chicago. She was a member of The Sycamore Women’s Club. She enjoyed donating her time making many quilts for family members and others. She loved writing poetry and composed a book titled, “Butterflies.” She is survived by her son, Ray (Cheryl) Pulford of Elburn; five grandchildren; and 13 great-grandchildren. Also surviving her are four sisters and one brother. Helen was preceded in death by her parents; husband; one son, Robert Pulford; two grandchildren; and sisters, Blanche and Bertha. Funeral services will be at 6 p.m. Monday, Feb. 11, at Olson Funeral and Cremation Services Ltd., Quiram Sycamore Chapel, 1245 Somonauk St., Sycamore. A visitation will be held from 4 to 6 p.m. prior to the service at the funeral chapel.

Memorials can be made to DeKalb County Hospice. To share a memory or condolence, visit www.OlsonFH.com. To sign the online guest book, visit www.legacy.com/daily-chronicle.

BARBARA A. SWANSON Died: Feb. 7, 2013, in Genoa, Ill.

Barbara A. Swanson, 86, of Genoa, Ill., died Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013, at her home. Arrangements are pending at Slater-Butala Funeral Home in Genoa. For information, visit www.ButalaFuneralHomes.com or call 815-784-5191. Visit www.legacy.com/dailychronicle.

FLOYD R. ‘GATOR’ TUCKER

Died: Feb. 7, 2013, in Sandwich Floyd R. “Gator” Tucker, 73, of DeKalb, Ill., died Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013, at Willow Crest Nursing Pavilion, Sandwich. Arrangements are pending at Anderson Funeral Home, DeKalb. For information, visit www. AndersonFuneralHomeLtd.com or call 815-756-1022. Visit www.legacy.com/dailychronicle.

Illinois-Iowa bridge offered for free to keep ‘historical significance Telegraph Herald SABULA, Iowa – Illinois transportation officials are planning to give away – for free – a half-mile-long steel truss bridge built in 1932 that spans the Mississippi River between Sabula, Iowa, and Savanna. But there are conditions for those who want to take on a slice of history. Before the Illinois Department of Transportation can demolish the bridge and build a replacement, it is required to offer the structure to anyone who promises to maintain it forever at its new location. The bridge must be kept “in its historical significance in perpetuity” at a location approved by the Illinois DOT, said Mark Nardini, an

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DeKalb leaders look for input on improving downtown By JILLIAN DUCHNOWSKI jduchnowski@shawmedia.com

DeKALB – How do you think downtown DeKalb should look in five years? City and business leaders are asking the public to share their visions as they update the 2007 Downtown Revitalization Plan, which led to several public improvements throughout DeKalb’s downtown. Consultants with SAA Design Group

can Restaurant, 212 E. Lincoln Highway, DeKalb, according to a news release. The DeKalb Area Chamber of Commerce will host a business networking event at the same location immediately after the workshop until 7 p.m. The workshop is hosted by the DeKalb Area Chamber of Commerce, Re:New DeKalb, and the city of DeKalb. The workshop will explore business development and support,

Inc. will use the information to update the planning document for the next 5 years. “We’re just updating that original plan to better reflect the current economic climate,” said Lindsey Engelsman, of Re:New DeKalb. Residents, business owners, Northern Illinois University community members and others are invited to an interactive workshop from 2 to 5 p.m. Tuesday at Eduardo’s Mexi-

continuing physical and aesthetic improvements to the corridors, public spaces, events, and strengthening connections between key community destinations and institutions, the release states. Even those who don’t visit downtown DeKalb are welcome, Engelsman said. “Why aren’t you coming down here? What are you looking for downtown?” she said. “Really anyone who is interest-

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If you go What: Workshop on DeKalb’s downtown revitalization plan When: 2 to 5 p.m. Tuesday Where: Eduardo’s Mexican Restaurant, 212 E. Lincoln Highway, DeKalb For more information: 815-748-7788

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• IRONGATE Continued from page A1

Speaking at a Jan. 29 special meeting on Irongate, D-428 Superintendent James Briscoe asked the council to consider lowering the impact fees for part of the Irongate community. Briscoe said the district needs property value growth more than impact fees. No agreement on impact fees was reached at that meeting, as some city leaders were unwilling to accept half the amount of impact fees as their portion is small compared to the school and park districts. As its president, Tom Matya said the school board has not made a formal recommendation on whether it wants lower impact fees or not. “We want to make sure we look at all financial implications for the district,” Matya said. Patzelt favors reducing the impact fees, as he said those costs are passed onto the potential home buyers. Another proposal discussed Jan. 29 was halving the impact fee rates only until ShoDeen builds 300 houses or seven years have elapsed. Meanwhile, Patzelt agreed that, in this case, property value growth is more important than impact fees. “If home sales are moving at a brisk pace and the market can pay those fees, I have no problem paying those fees,” Patzelt said. “But what does impact fees give them? ... Would you rather have fewer homes paying all the impact fees? Or would you rather have more homes paying less fees?” According to plans from November, Irongate will feature 1,053 single-family homes on lots ranging from 50 feet to 80 feet wide. “Due to the economic conditions, people are living different ways than they used to live,” Patzelt said. “The McMansions are gone.” The Irongate proposal also includes housing for senior citizens and 248 townhouses, although some aldermen want to reduce the number of townhouses to about 130, or about 10 percent of the total number of units in the development. Patzelt said he is reluctant to do so because the council’s wish is arbitrary. “They are literally pulling numbers out of the sky,” Patzelt said. City leaders also are concerned Irongate will become a rental community, similar to ones located around Northern Illinois University. Patzelt said it is not economically feasible for him to build rental houses. “I can’t make homes and have them rental,” Patzelt said. “People don’t pay enough [to rent in DeKalb].” Patzelt acknowledged some resistance to his development, but he argued that projects like Irongate create economic development.

ed in the vitality of downtown, we’re looking for them to come out Tuesday and provide their input.” Those who are unable to attend Tuesday should call Engelsman at 815-748-7788 to set up a one-on-one interview with consultants. “if you are unable to make it, we can put you in contact with those individuals,” Engelsman said. “And you can still let your voice be heard.”

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A customer looks over shotguns on display Jan. 26 at the annual New York State Arms Collectors Association Albany Gun Show at the Empire State Plaza Convention Center in Albany, N.Y. A bipartisan quartet of senators, including two National Rifle Association members and two with “F” ratings from the potent firearms lobby, are quietly trying to reach compromise on expanding the requirement for gun-sale background checks.

Senators seek gun-buy background checks pact Schumer of New York, a liberal; and moderate GOP Sen. Mark Kirk of Illinois. Background checks are required only for sales by the nation’s 55,000 federally licensed gun dealers, but not for private purchases like those at gun shows, online or in person. There are few indisputable, upto-date statistics on how many guns change hands without background checks, but a respected study using 1990s data estimated that 30 percent to 40 percent of gun transactions fit into that category. The senators’ talks have included discussions about how to encourage states to make more mental health data available to the federal system for checking gun buyers’ records, according to people who spoke anonymously because they were not authorized to describe the private negotiations. They are also considering potential exemptions to expanded background check requirements, including transactions involving relatives or people with licenses to carry concealed weapons People involved in the talks would share little about their substance. In one of the few public remarks about the talks by participants, Schumer said last week that the talks have been productive and said the package they were seeking “will not limit your ability to borrow your Uncle Willie’s hunting rifle or share a gun with your friend at a shooting range.”

By ALAN FRAM The Associated Press WASHINGTON – A cornerstone of President Barack Obama’s drive to check gun violence is gathering bipartisan steam as four senators, including two of the National Rifle Association’s congressional champions, privately seek compromise on requiring far more firearms purchasers to undergo background checks. The talks are being held even as Obama’s call to ban assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines, the two other major pillars of his plan, are hitting rough waters on Capitol Hill. An agreement among the four senators to expand background checks would add significant impetus to that high-profile proposal by getting the endorsement of a group that ranges from one of the Senate’s most liberal Democrats to one of its most conservative Republicans. “We’ll get something, I hope. I’m praying for it,” said Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., one of the participants. Manchin, a moderate Democrat, is an NRA member who aired a 2010 campaign ad in which he literally shot a hole through Democratic environmental legislation that he pledged to oppose. Also involved is Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., another NRA member with a strong conservative record but occasional maverick impulses; No. 3 Senate Democratic leader Charles

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8SKETCH VIEW

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8LETTERS TO THE EDITOR What to give up as Fat Tuesday approaches? To the Editor: The day before Lent begins is called Mardi Gras, which means Fat Tuesday in French. Some sources call it Shrove Tuesday or Shrive Tuesday, meaning “to confess.” According to my Internet source, Mardi Gras has been around for some time, having been observed long before Europeans came to America. During the six weeks of Lent, it is customary to give up a favorite food item or habit. It gives some of us a second chance for self-improvement if we failed to keep our New Year’s resolutions. Perhaps giving up smoking is a good idea, if only for six weeks. I worked for a man who tried, repeatedly and unsuccessfully, to stop smoking. His wife thought it was admirable of him to keep trying because at least for the week or ten days he was able to do so, he did not smoke and she felt that was a plus (as it was). If you have a habit of cursing fellow motorists who don’t jump the minute the light changes, maybe you could refrain from doing that and find after six weeks

it does not bother you as it once did. Partly personal, as Paul Harvey used to say, I have given up many things over the years because of an inability to carry on or because they just don’t appeal to me any longer. Denying oneself things one no longer craves is no sacrifice. About the only thing left for me to give up is my computer, where I can find answers to just about anything on the Internet. Plus being able to send and receive emails. Sorry. That is one thing I won’t give up. I hear that familiar “pling,” and I drop what I’m doing. But that is my choice. It is not like the insistent ringing of the telephone demanding my immediate attention. Remember those annoying phone calls during the recent political campaign? A message by email sits there until I choose to read it. And if I do not choose to read it, a tap of the delete key and it’s gone. Much more sensible. There are those who think fitted sheets and sliced bread are among the greatest inventions in the world. Not I. The ability to send and receive emails gets my

vote. I know – I’ll give up watching football. I knew I’d think of something.

the bus driver pull over and come to a stop. It is my understanding that Mr. Gack had no knowledge of the incident until many days Mil Misic later. Racist actions or words by DeKalb students are reprehensible and should indeed be punished, but Wrestling coach at DeKalb to say that Mr. Gack was negliHS should be reinstated gent is wrong. To the Editor: The negligence lies with Lance Gackowski is an outAthletic Director Bryon Houy for standing teacher, coach, parent, not ensuring the safety of all stuand friend. I had “Mr. Gack” as dents on board by having more a teacher when I was a student than one adult to supervise them. at DeKalb High School, and have Instead of using this unfortunate also known him outside of school situation as a prompt to review having been friends with his son athletic department policies, the for over 13 years. The incomplete new athletic director has chosen reporting in your recent article to use Mr. Gack as a scapegoat does both him and the situation a and dismiss him. disservice. Mr. Gack is a man of such high Being the only adult on a bus moral character and exudes such full of high school boys, in the kindness, warmth, and love for all dark, does not lend itself to hav- of his students and athletes that ing a good awareness of all the he would surely have stopped behavior occurring. this incident had he had knowlAs an educator, I can say that it edge of it. is often hard to catch everything I would urge the athletic directhat happens in a brightly lit tor to revise his decision of Mr. classroom with 25 students. Gack’s dismissal or risk losing a As a former DeKalb athlete, I truly great coach and role model can also say that coaches are not for many. usually permitted to get up and move through the bus to check Hannah Turk on students without first having DeKalb

Born and thriving out on the Bayou KRAEMER, La. – Roland Torres wants you to know a few things. He lives in a rural area where life is pretty straightforward. His family has been active on the bayou for five generations, witnessing a daily battle of survival of the fittest. The birds, animals and reptiles who inhabit the vast swamps of south-central Louisiana live only as long as their wits and luck hold out. They are on their own 24/7. So is Torres. A former game warden, Torres is of Spanish descent and still speaks the language of his Cajun ancestors: French. He makes a decent living giving tours of the bayou and asks for nothing from the powers that be. What he has, he earns. He does not understand why some Americans accept government assistance. In this very poor part of America, someone who works hard can still earn a decent living. Torres also has guns. And they came in handy immediately after Hurricane Katrina, when a horde of folks fled New Orleans about 70 miles away. Torres tells me how “the good, the bad and the ugly” flooded his zone, looking for

VIEWS Bill O’Reilly safety from the storm that just glanced his bayou. When some city thugs began to show menace, Torres calmly produced his arsenal. The danger quickly passed. For almost 70 years, Torres has lived on the bayou. He has never ventured out of Louisiana, yet he loves America. He cherishes the values his family handed down to him. He and his wife have been married for 51 years. They met in high school at age 16. Roland calls his wife an “angel.” They have three sons, two of whom work the bayou with Torres. They are entirely self-reliant. If he had to, Torres says, he could survive in the wilderness with a penknife, a spool of thread, some matches and a cache of dried rice. The rice is for luring the birds that he would trap with the thread and cook with the matches. He says he could live for years off the land, even explaining how to eat

sawgrass. “That can keep you alive if you know what you’re doing,” he assures me. Torres watches some of the news programs on cable TV. Almost every modest dwelling in the swampland has cable. He likes the conservative shows. He doesn’t quite understand the big social changes taking place. He protects his family with guns. Why should that bother anyone, he asks. I have no answer. To Torres, President Barack Obama is an enigma. He doesn’t understand “income redistribution.” Torres charges a fair price to show you his world, and you can take it or leave it. If you leave it, he’ll find other work. There’s always something a man can do to feed his family. Millions of Americans believe exactly what Roland Torres believes. But they are seldom heard. Not many live shots coming out of the bayou.

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Thumbs up: To Oaken Acres Wildlife Center leaders for planning ahead for “baby season.” The Sycamore area center fosters injured and wayward squirrels, raccoons and birds, among other critters, and leaders say their busiest time of the year is the spring. They are hosting their first Babies Gone Wild fundraiser from 6 to 9 p.m. March 2 at Blumen Gardens, 403 Edward St., Sycamore. Call 815-762-3532 for more information. We applaud the center for the painstaking work its members do, and wish them the best with their new litters of little ones. Thumbs up: To Postmaster General Patrick R. Donahoe for his plan to reduce first class mail delivery to five days, eliminating Saturday delivery. The Postal Service lost $15.9 billion in the past budget year. Action is needed to get costs under control. If the Postal Service were a private business, the hard choices and changes would have been made years ago. Unfortunately, the Postal Service has to submit to control by a dysfunctional Congress interested in serving special interest groups instead of acting in the best interests of citizens. There will be adjustments that need to be made, and for some the change will be inconvenient. The volume of mail delivery has dropped considerably as email, texting and other electronic communication sources have gained traction. It’s time to face reality and fix the Postal Service’s financial problems. Thumbs down: To DeKalb residents who continue to criticize the DeKalb Park Board over the vegetation along the Nature Trail. It undoubtedly is disappointing that ComEd contractors cleared the trees and brush from around the power lines late last year, but park board members and ComEd representatives, among others, have created a panel to discuss replanting those areas. One park commissioner said he had been called a liar and a ComEd lackey over the matter, and one person engaged Park Board President Joan Berkes Hanson for about 15 minutes during Thursday’s park board meeting. Public input on public issues is important, but the rhetoric on this issue is a little off-base. It’s time to support those working toward a solution. Thumbs up: To the DeKalb County Genealogical and Historical Society for compiling a new history book focusing on DeKalb County. “Acres of Change: A History of DeKalb County, Illinois 1963-2012” involved a dozen or so residents, including Daily Chronicle columnist Barry Schrader and former Daily Chronicle managing editor Kate Schott. It has 304 pages of photographs and information on local agriculture, religion, education and government. It is available for pre-order through March 15 for $34.99 by calling 888263-4702 or through www.mtpublishing.com. Checks also can be mailed to P.O. Box 295, Sycamore, IL 60178, or dropped off at 103 E. State St., Sycamore. Thumbs up: To iWatch, a smartphone application the DeKalb Police Department plans to launch this spring. The free app will allow people to report crimes or suspicious activity, in any one of more than 30 languages. It also allows police to ask specific questions from a tipster without knowing the person’s identity. Police can’t be all places at all times. Leads and information from the community are vital to promoting a safer DeKalb. Hopefully the convenience of the app, combined with its ability to break language barriers and protect anonymity, will help people feel more comfortable contacting police.

8 ANOTHER VIEW

Dysfunctional USPS needs chance to fix its problems Starting in August, the postman will no longer ring even once on Saturdays. Patrick R. Donahoe, postmaster general and chief executive of the U.S. Postal Service, says the move to five-day delivery – except for packages – will save the cash-strapped organization $2 billion per year. Praised by some reformers as long overdue yet condemned by unions and rural lawmakers as a legally questionable abandonment of “universal service,” USPS’ move is actually a blend of “common sense,” as Donahoe said, and desperation. Postal management has been begging Congress for years for statutory authority to end Saturday delivery, arguing that it’s one of several reforms without which USPS cannot survive the digital age. Despite years of aggressive cost-cutting, it recorded a $15.9 billion loss in fiscal 2012, defaulted on $11.1 billion in retiree health-benefit prefunding payments and temporarily maxed out its $15 billion line of credit with the Treasury. Still, Congress, in its wisdom, has not legislated five-day delivery, or any other structural change, so USPS acted unilaterally Wednesday, exploiting what it says is a loophole in existing law. The smart thing for Congress to do would be to let USPS’ action stand and take it as a cue to address the Postal Service’s chronic problems. USPS’ true dysfunction is rooted in a convoluted, unworkable governance structure. This supposedly independent, self-supporting entity answers to a presidentially appointed board, Congress, several unions and a regulatory commission – not to mention the demands of corporate mailers and the public. Reforming it, root and branch, is an important test for Congress. So far, lawmakers have shown that they can’t, or won’t, do the job. We hope that, by precipitating the issue of Saturday delivery, USPS management will finally snap them out of it. The Washington Post

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High pressure will build in quickly today and move to our east. This will allow winds to turn and come up from the southeast, warming temperatures in the mid-30s. There will be some morning fog, but nothing major for Saturday. Low pressure will move in from the southwest bringing wind and rain. Rainfall amounts will near 0.50 of an inch, but temperatures will be mild.

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Precipitation 24 hours through 4 p.m. yest. ......... 0.19” Month to date ....................................... 0.81” Normal month to date ....................... 0.34” Year to date ............................................ 3.54” Normal year to date ............................ 1.82”

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Lindsey Vonn’s horriic crash this week during the Alpine skiing world championships in Austria stems from fearlessness that makes her unique, writes columnist Sally Jenkins. PAGE B2

SECTION B Saturday, February 9, 2013 Daily Chronicle

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8MORNING KICKOFF

DEKALB 50, KANELAND 45

Barbs stop Knights By JARED BIRCHFIELD

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In letter, Sue Paterno defends late husband STATE COLLEGE, Pa. – Breaking more than a year of silence, Sue Paterno is defending her late husband as a “moral, disciplined” man who never twisted the truth to avoid bad publicity. The wife of the former Penn State coach is fighting back against the accusations against Joe Paterno that followed the Jerry Sandusky scandal. Her campaign started with a letter sent Friday to former Penn State players. She wrote that the family’s exhaustive response to former FBI director Louis Freeh’s report for the university on the Sandusky child sex abuse case officially will be released to the public at 9 a.m. Sunday on paterno.com. Freeh in July accused Joe Paterno and three university officials of covering up allegations against Sandusky, a retired defensive coordinator. Less than two weeks later, the NCAA levied unprecedented sanctions on the program that Joe Paterno built into one of the most well-known in college football. “When the Freeh report was released last July, I was as shocked as anyone by the findings and by Mr. Freeh’s extraordinary attack on Joe’s character and integrity. I did not recognize the man Mr. Freeh described,” Sue Paterno wrote. “I am here to tell you as definitively and forcefully as I know how that Mr. Freeh could not have been more wrong in his assessment of Joe.” The family directed its attorney, Washington lawyer Wick Sollers, to assemble experts to review Freeh’s findings and Joe Paterno’s actions, Sue Paterno wrote. She did not offer details on findings in the letter, “except to say that they unreservedly and forcefully confirm my beliefs about Joe’s conduct. “In addition, they present a passionate and persuasive critique of the Freeh report as a total disservice to the victims of Sandusky and the cause of preventing child sex offenses,” Sue Paterno wrote. Sue Paterno said neither Freeh’s report, nor the NCAA’s actions, should “close the book” on the scandal. – Wire report

8WHAT TO WATCH Men’s basketball Michigan at Wisconsin, 11 a.m., ESPN No. 3 Michigan (21-2 overall, 8-2 Big Ten) has a chance to regain the top ranking with a win at Wisconsin (16-7, 7-3) after losses this week by No. 1 Indiana and No. 2 Florida.

• The rest of the weekend TV sports schedule on Page B2.

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MAPLE PARK – The DeKalb boys basketball team’s 50-45 win over Kaneland on Friday night, their first victory since late December, did more than spoil the Knights’ senior night. The Barbs’ victory also prevented Kaneland from grabbing a slice of the Northern Illinois Big 12 East Conference crown. A Knights win would have guaranteed at least a tie for first place. “That’s the best four quarters of basketball we played all year,” DeKalb coach Dave Rohlman said. “We haven’t won since the 28th of December. We played some good stretches in that time but we just couldn’t get over the hump.” Kaneland’s inability to finish late in the game prevented it from pulling out

Check out video highlights and a photo gallery from Friday night’s boys basketball game between DeKalb and Kaneland at Daily-Chronicle.com/dcpreps.

a victory. A Dan Miller layup with less than a minute remaining cut DeKalb’s lead to 47-45. The Knights immediately fouled Andre Harris on the Barbs’ next possessions. Matt Limbrunner grabbed the rebound when Harris failed to connect on his free throw.

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DeKalb’s Andre Harris (22) celebrates the Barbs’ 50-45 victory over Kaneland on Friday night in Maple Park.

WRESTLING SECTIONAL PREVIEW

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Brothers Nick (left) and Alex Roach run sprints at the beginning of DeKalb wrestling practice Tuesday in DeKalb. Nick, a freshman, and Alex, a junior, support each other from mat side for nearly all matches. Because Nick (120 pounds) and Alex (220) are in vastly different weight classes, they never go head-to-head in the mat room.

No sibling rivalry here “They root for each other and seem pretty close,” DeKalb coach Mike Pater said. “Usually brothers are close in weight and are competitive because of it. Because they are so There’s no tension. different in weight and never There’s no debate from work out in the mat room practice that seeps into the together they are even closer. sanctity of a family meal. The They sat on the bus together wide gap in weight classes on the way home and talked also means their matches about their plans for the rest of seemingly never occur simul- the weekend after regionals.” taneously. The DNA relationship is alToday in the Class 3A most all that is similar about Barrington Sectional, the Nick and Alex on the mat. Roach brothers are two of five Both have distinctly differDeKalb wrestlers trying to ent styles. Nick used his well earn a trip to next week’s state roundedness and ability to be meet in Champaign. good from top, bottom or on

DeKalb’s Roach brothers allies moreso than competitive foes By JAMES NOKES sports@daily-chronicle.com Sibling rivalry is not a Roach family dynamic. DeKalb freshman Nick Roach and junior brother Alex Roach support each other from mat side for nearly all matches. Because Nick (120 pounds) and Alex (220) are in vastly different weight classes, they never go head-tohead in the mat room.

his feet to win his weight class at regionals. Versatility is a rarity for a wrestler who came up through the middle school ranks. Wrestlers hone in on their strength at an early age, and master what it takes to win, even if it means having a limited skill set. But Nick has avoided being one dimensional and that’s fun for Alex to watch. Alex also noted he might not share techniques with his brother, but does use a strategy that runs in the family. “I really enjoy watching my brother’s matches,” Alex said. “He’s an exciting wrestler. I think we get along

well during wrestling season because there’s no competition in the mat room between the two of us. The one way we are alike is we are aggressive. We can each wrestle in any position.” A sprained right MCL limited Alex at the beginning of the season, but he’s a firsttime sectional qualifier after a third-place finish in last week’s Huntley Regional. While Alex worked to establish his offense faster last week, Nick has gone thorough a season of adjusting to the challenges of prep wrestling.

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ILLINOIS

Illini eager to build on upset By DAVID MERCER The Associated Press CHAMPAIGN – In a confounding year of college basketball, there might be no more confounding team than Illinois. With first-year coach John Groce just getting started and the memory of the collapse that cost his predecessor his job still fresh, few expected much of the Illini. They surprised nearly everyone by going 12-0 and securing a top-10 ranking, then promptly fell apart by opening the Big Ten season 2-7. The low point was a loss to Northwestern. At home. The high would be Thursday’s 74-72 stunner over No. 1 Indiana. The out-of-theblue win came at a moment when the Illini (16-8, 3-7 Big Ten) were so low – they’d lost six of seven and watched both their shooting and their defense fail – that even a close loss would have provided Groce with a moral victory.

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“I turned to [assistant coach Dustin Ford] at about three minutes to go in the game and said, ‘You know, we played the game the right way,’ “ Groce said. “We played with great toughness, great togetherness. And I would have said that to them after the game regardless of how the score turned out.” AP photo But the win also creates an opportunity Illinois junior guard Joseph Bertrand celebrates after Illinois defeated No. 1-ranked for a team that looked like it was tumbling its way out of the NCAA tournament pic- Indiana, 74-72, on Thursday night at Assembly Hall in Champaign. In a weird season in which the top team seems to fall every week, the Illini might just have a ture.

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better set of big wins than anyone. They’ve beaten four teams in the current top 15: Indiana, No. 6 Gonzaga, No. 10 Ohio State and No. 14 Butler.

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8UPCOMING PREPS SPORTS SCHEDULE TODAY

Boys Basketball Kaneland at Wheaton Academy Shootout Indian Creek at North Boone, 7 p.m. Wrestling Genoa-Kingston at Oregon Sectional Kaneland, Sycamore at Rochelle Sectional DeKalb at Barrington Sectional Girls Basketball DeKalb at Geneseo, 1:30 p.m. Genoa-Kingston at Harvard, 2:30 p.m. Class 1A Hinckley-Big Rock Regional: Hinckley-Big Rock vs. Indian Creek, championship game, 6:30 p.m.

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NASCAR HALL OF FAME

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Wallace: Induction biggest day of career of the fourth Hall of Fame class, which included innovative mechanic and crew chief Leonard CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Rusty Wood, former seWallace touched on his early ries champions days trying to make it as a Buck Baker and professional race car driver, Herb Thomas the lessons he learned from and former car NASCAR’s pioneers and his re- owner Cotton lentless push to drive for Roger Owens. Wallace Penske in an energetic accep- and Wood are Rusty Wallace the only two livtance into the Hall of Fame. Then Wallace, winner of 55 ing members of this year’s class. “The thing I learned, and races and the 1989 championship, called Friday night’s in- I said it at the driver meeting duction “the biggest day of my in 2005 the day I retired and walked out, I said, ‘This is a driving career.” Wallace was the headliner privilege. This is a privilege

By JENNA FRYER

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to race in NASCAR. You don’t have to do it, we’re not making you do it. It’s a privilege to race in NASCAR, and it’s a blessing for me to be in this sport and do what I’ve done,’ ” Wallace said. “I just hope all the young drivers respect NASCAR as much as I respect it and go out there and say nice things about NASCAR and help build this sport.” Wallace has been a tireless ambassador for NASCAR, taking a hands-on role in promotion after winning his championship that continued into retirement. He’s an analyst for ESPN. “I feel so different, I feel so

happy. I feel like my career has finally got a period on the end,” Wallace said after the ceremony. “People are already acting different, they are acting kinder. They are calling me Mr. Wallace and treating me different.” Wood, who was inducted a year after his older brother, Glenn, thanked Ford Motor Co. The famed No. 21 Wood Brothers entry has a long association with the blue oval. “If it wasn’t for Ford Motor Co. and my brother, Glenn, I wouldn’t be up here,” said Wood, who also listed every racer who has driven the No. 21.

MONDAY

Girls Basketball Class 1A Oglesby (at Illinois Valley College) Sectional: HinckleyBig Rock/Indian Creek winner vs. Putnam County, semifinal, 6 p.m. Class 3A Woodstock Regional: Genoa-Kingston vs. RichmondBurton, quarterfinal, 7:30 p.m.

TUESDAY

Boys Basketball Polo at Indian Creek, 6:45 p.m. Plano at Hinckley-Big Rock, 7 p.m. Genoa-Kingston at RichmondBurton, 7 p.m. DeKalb at La Salle-Peru, 7 p.m. Kaneland at St. Charles North, 7:15 p.m. Girls Basketball Class 3A Burlington Central Regional: Sycamore vs. Hampshire, quarterfinal, 6 p.m. Class 3A Burlington Central Regional: Kaneland vs. Sandwich, quarterfinal, 7:30 p.m. Class 4A Belvidere North Regional: DeKalb vs. Huntley, semifinal, 7:30 p.m.

8SPORTS SHORT Super Bowl blackout was caused by electrical relay NEW ORLEANS – The company that supplied electricity to the Super Bowl said the blackout that halted the game was caused by a device it installed specially to prevent a power failure. But the utility stopped short of taking all the blame and said Friday that it was looking into whether the electrical relay at fault had a design flaw or a manufacturing defect. The relay had been installed as part of a project begun in 2011 to upgrade the electrical system serving the Superdome in anticipation of the championship game. – Wire report

8NIU MEN’S HOOPS

WHO Northern Illinois (5-16, 3-6 MidAmerican Conference) at Buffalo (8-15, 3-6 MAC)

WHEN Noon today, Alumni Arena, Buffalo, N.Y. RADIO AM-1360, 98.9-FM

LAST MEETING Buffalo defeated NIU, 74-59, on Jan. 28, 2012

SCOUTING THE BULLS Junior forward Javon McCrea leads the Bulls with an average of 17.2 points a game, good for second in the MAC. McCrea also averages 7.6 rebounds, which ranks fourth in the conference. Buffalo has two other players who average double-figure points – sophomore forward Will Regan (10.3) and junior guard Jarod Oldham (10.1).

NIU OUTLOOK Scoring woes showed up again for the Huskies in Wednesday’s 57-41 loss to Bowling Green, when the they scored only 15 points in the first half. Today’s game is NIU’s final contest against the MAC East. The Huskies are 2-3 against the division so far. NIU got freshman forward Sam Mader back Wednesday. He had missed the previous five contests because of an injury. – Steve Nitz, snitz@shawmedia.com

WOMEN’S SKIING

Crash stems from fearlessness By SALLY JENKINS The Washington Post For a true sense of what happened to Lindsey Vonn, go to the freeze frame. In real time her crash in the superG event at the Alpine skiing world championships in Schladming, Austria, was over in a millisecond – it looked like a fireball encased in ice, a blast of snow with a dim figure in the midst of flying white particles doing an unintentional cartwheel. It was followed by a blank pause on that white alp, and then a sound that at first might have been a lonely goatherd’s yodel-ey-ee-hoo, but turned out to be Vonn wailing over the destruction of her right knee. Now turn to the still photos – and this is where you really begin to understand the jeopardy of Vonn’s skiing style. They show what we couldn’t see clearly on video: the gasp-inducing steepness of the Schladming run, and what happened to her right leg when a patch of soft snow jerked at her ski as she landed a long jump. The ski buried and stopped dead. The rest of Vonn kept moving downhill at 50 to 60 mph. The result was torn ACL and MCL and a lateral fracture of the tibia. Vonn always has been a sleek, manipulative thriller who enjoys holding herself and her audience right on the carved edge of disaster. This time she crashed over that edge, and the result was the end of her season and, after undergoing surgery perhaps as early as this weekend in Vail, Colo., a year of rehabilitation with an uncertain prognosis that could keep her out of the Sochi Olympics next winter. Vonn and her U.S. teammates and associates predict she will be a fast healer – she is a workout fiend who spends seven hours at a time in the gym – but whether Vonn can recover in time for the Olympics will depend on more than just her knee. Her head has to recover, too. How do you regain your confidence after a crash like that? It helps if you’re not easily scared. Vonn has a built-in advantage: She literally appears

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U.S. skier Lindsey Vonn attends a news conference Sunday in Schladming, Austria. Vonn crashed during the super-G at the Alpine skiing world championships Tuesday, and was been taken by helicopter to a hospital from the world championships after injuring her right knee. to handle fear and anxiety better than other people. According to Outside Magazine, Vonn likes to show off by driving Vail Pass without braking. When the rest of us do something like that, we’re likely to suffer what “Emotional Intelligence” author Daniel Goleman terms “amygdala hijack,” a threat reaction in which an emotional-hormonal surge takes over our brain, bypassing the cortex where rationality and executive function reign. One of the things that can happen in an amygdala hijack is, you begin to scream. What has made Vonn our greatest American skier, and one of the greatest skiiers ever, is her ability to hijack herself right back, to override the stream of chemical messaging in her brain and stay relaxed on her skis even when she is taking risks. According to Outside, she continually terrified her junior coaches with the violence and severity of her crashes, only to pop back up because she had the ability to relax as she fell. This is what Vonn does. She always has directed the chassis that is her body down perilous slopes as fast as a car, only without the sheet metal, heedless of the fact that she has no more protection than a covering of windproof lycra.

In an interview for her sponsor Red Bull, she once said: “My favorite part of ski racing is the speed. ... The only thing I’m afraid of is failure. Skiing is a dangerous sport and I’m not in it to go slow. And if I fall, I just get back up and keep going.” It seems like Vonn is always banged up. There was her battering fall in a training run at the 2006 Turin Olympics that landed her in the hospital. She fought through a knee injury in 2007, a severe shin contusion and a broken finger at the Vancouver Games in 2010 and a concussion two years ago. In a statement shortly after she was hospitalized in Austria, she vowed to “work as hard as humanly possible” to be back in time for Sochi. What is the psychology that allows Vonn to keep crashing so hard and getting back up? The simple answer is that she throws herself down the mountain because – when it doesn’t hurt – she loves how it feels. Years ago on the eve of the Turin Games, when she still was a 21-year-old with most of her big race victories still ahead, I asked her about learning to manage physical responses under pressure. “It would be really interesting to take a blood test right in the starting gate,” she said enthu-

siastically. She obviously was interested in the biochemistry of stress, and her lack of tension as she chatted on the subject was striking. A day later she cartwheeled on a practice run and bruised herself so badly she was hospitalized, yet got out of bed to ski anyway. She failed to medal, but you could tell that she was a young woman seeking total mastery of herself. And she achieved it – to the tune of 59 World Cup wins, with her sights now set on the all-time women’s record of 62, held by Annemarie Moser-Proell of Austria. For those of us who are more easily hijacked by threat or anxiety, it’s hard to relate to Vonn. But if there is an insight we can gain from the way she skis, it’s that comfort and safety aren’t the only worthwhile states of being. Psychiatrists now know that anxiety can be good for us. When the heart beats faster and blood pressure rises and glucose surges in our bloodstream – when we’re challenged – it sharpens our senses and reactions. It teaches our body to perform better. Vonn has attained what Goleman would call high emotional intelligence. In a way, her quest for speed is an addiction to learning. “When we’re under stress, the brain secretes hormones like cortisol and adrenaline that in the best scenario mobilize us to handle a short-term emergency,” he writes. When we learn “selfregulation,” to recover from stress arousal, “attention becomes nimble and focused again, our mind flexible, and our bodies relaxed. And a state of relaxed alertness is optimal for performance.” All kinds of healthy byproducts come from meeting threat and challenge head-on. For example, heart and memory function improve. By dealing with it competently, we get a heightened sense of control and accomplishment. It’s literally stimulating. Of course, that doesn’t mean we all need to drive Vail Pass without the brakes. But it does make Vonn easier to understand, and to admire.

8WEEKEND TV SPORTS SCHEDULE TODAY’S LINEUP Men’s basketball Temple at Dayton, 10 a.m., ESPNU Florida St. at Wake Forest, 11 a.m., ESPN2 Mississippi at Missouri, noon, CBS Akron at Miami (Ohio), noon, ESPNU North Carolina at Miami, 1 p.m., ESPN Saint Joseph’s at Massachusetts, 1 p.m., ESPN2 Butler at George Washington, 1 p.m., CSN South Florida at Villanova, 2 p.m., ESPNU Kansas at Oklahoma, 3 p.m., ESPN Valparaiso vs. Cleveland St., 3 p.m., ESPN2 Detroit at Green Bay, 3 p.m., CSN Northwestern at Iowa, 3:30 p.m., BTN Texas A&M at Georgia, 4 p.m., ESPNU Pittsburgh at Cincinnati, 5 p.m., ESPN

Iowa St. at Kansas St., 5 p.m., ESPN2 Michigan St. at Purdue, 6 p.m., BTN Stanford vs. Arizona St., 6 p.m., ESPNU Missouri St. at Wichita St., 6:30 p.m., CSN LSU at Alabama, 7 p.m., ESPN2 Louisville at Notre Dame, 8 p.m., ESPN Penn St. at Nebraska, 8 p.m., ESPNU New Mexico at UNLV, 8 p.m., NBCSN Illinois St. at Creighton, 9 p.m., ESPN2 St. Mary’s (Calif.) vs. San Diego, 10 p.m., ESPNU Golf PGA Tour, Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, third round, noon, TGC; 2 p.m., CBS Rugby USA Sevens, pool play, teams TBA, 1:30 p.m., NBCSN, 3 p.m., NBC; 6 p.m. NBCSN Soccer Premier League, Newcastle at Tottenham, 6:30 a.m., ESPN2

Winter sports Lake Placid World Cup, women’s team relay luge, noon, NBCSN Biathlon World Championships, men’s sprint, 5 p.m., NBCSN (same-day tape) SUNDAY’S LINEUP Men’s hockey Los Angeles at Detroit, 11:30 a.m., NBC New Jersey at Pittsburgh, 6:30 p.m., NBCSN Blackhawks at Nashville, 7 p.m., CSN Pro basketball L.A. Clippers at New York, noon, ABC L.A. Lakers at Miami, 2:30 p.m., ABC San Antonio at Brooklyn, 7 p.m., ESPN Men’s basketball Indiana at Ohio St., noon, CBS St. John’s at Syracuse, 2 p.m., ESPN Illinois at Minnesota, 5 p.m., BTN

Golf PGA Tour, Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, final round, noon, TGC; 2 p.m., CBS Rugby USA Sevens, semifinals, teams TBD, 1 p.m., NBCSN; consolation games and championship, teams TBD, 3 p.m., NBC Women’s basketball Michigan at Purdue, 11 a.m., BTN Minnesota at Illinois, 1 p.m., BTN Michigan St. at Penn St., 1 p.m., ESPN2 Creighton at Illinois St., 2 p.m., CSN Ohio St. at Northwestern, 3 p.m., BTN Kentucky at Vanderbilt, 3 p.m., ESPN2 Butler at George Washington, 4 p.m. CSN (same-day tape) Winter sports Biatholon World Championships, men’s pursuit, 5 p.m., NBCSN (same-day tape) Prep basketball Chester (Pa.) at NeumannGoretti (Pa.), 5 p.m., ESPN2

EASTERN CONFERENCE Central Division W L Pct 31 20 .608 29 20 .592 25 23 .521 19 32 .373 16 34 .320 Atlantic Division W L Pct New York 32 16 .667 Brooklyn 29 21 .580 Boston 26 23 .531 Philadelphia 21 27 .438 Toronto 18 32 .360 Southeast Division W L Pct Miami 33 14 .702 Atlanta 27 22 .551 Washington 14 35 .286 Orlando 14 36 .280 Charlotte 11 38 .224 Indiana Bulls Milwaukee Detroit Cleveland

GB — 1 4½ 12 14½ GB — 4 6½ 11 15 GB — 7 20 20½ 23

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct San Antonio 39 12 .765 Memphis 31 18 .633 Houston 28 24 .538 Dallas 21 28 .429 New Orleans 17 33 .340 Northwest Division W L Pct Oklahoma City 38 12 .760 Denver 32 18 .640 Utah 28 22 .560 Portland 25 25 .500 Minnesota 18 29 .383 Pacific Division W L Pct L.A. Clippers 35 17 .673 Golden State 30 20 .600 L.A. Lakers 24 27 .471 Sacramento 17 33 .340 Phoenix 17 34 .333

GB — 7 11½ 17 21½ GB — 6 10 13 18½ GB — 4 10½ 17 17½

Friday’s Results L.A. Lakers 100, Charlotte 93 Toronto 100, Indiana 98, OT Washington 89, Brooklyn 74 New Orleans 111, Atlanta 100 Cleveland 119, Orlando 108 Detroit 119, San Antonio 109 Houston 118, Portland 103 Memphis 99, Golden State 93 New York 100, Minnesota 94 Oklahoma City 127, Phoenix 96 Miami 111, L.A. Clippers 89 Bulls at Utah (n) Saturday’s Games Denver at Cleveland, 6:30 p.m. Charlotte at Philadelphia, 7 p.m. Golden State at Dallas, 7:30 p.m. Detroit at Milwaukee, 7:30 p.m. Utah at Sacramento, 9 p.m. Sunday’s Games L.A. Clippers at New York, noon L.A. Lakers at Miami, 2:30 p.m. Minnesota at Memphis, 5 p.m. Denver at Boston, 5 p.m. New Orleans at Toronto, 5 p.m. Portland at Orlando, 5 p.m. Oklahoma City at Phoenix, 7 p.m. San Antonio at Brooklyn, 7 p.m. Houston at Sacramento, 8 p.m. Thursday’s Results Denver 128, Bulls 96 Boston 116, L.A. Lakers 95

NHL WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts Blackhawks 11 9 0 2 20 Nashville 10 5 2 3 13 St. Louis 10 6 4 0 12 Detroit 10 5 4 1 11 Columbus 11 3 6 2 8 Northwest Division GP W L OT Pts Vancouver 10 6 2 2 14 Edmonton 10 4 3 3 11 Minnesota 10 4 5 1 9 Calgary 8 3 3 2 8 Colorado 10 4 6 0 8 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts Anaheim 10 7 2 1 15 San Jose 10 7 2 1 15 Dallas 12 6 5 1 13 Phoenix 11 4 5 2 10 Los Angeles 9 3 4 2 8

GF GA 39 25 23 21 33 30 28 29 23 36 GF GA 28 23 24 27 22 28 24 28 21 26 GF GA 33 26 34 21 26 28 31 33 20 28

EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Pittsburgh 11 8 3 0 16 39 26 New Jersey 10 6 1 3 15 27 22 N.Y. Rangers 10 5 5 0 10 24 26 N.Y. Islanders 10 4 5 1 9 30 34 Philadelphia 11 4 6 1 9 25 30 Northeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Boston 9 7 1 1 15 26 20 Ottawa 11 6 3 2 14 31 22 Montreal 10 6 3 1 13 31 24 Toronto 11 6 5 0 12 28 31 Buffalo 11 4 6 1 9 35 41 Southeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Tampa Bay 10 6 4 0 12 42 27 Carolina 9 5 4 0 10 25 26 Florida 10 4 5 1 9 25 35 Winnipeg 10 4 5 1 9 29 37 Washington 11 2 8 1 5 25 41 Two points for a win, one point for OT loss. Friday’s Result Dallas 3, Anaheim 1 Today’s Games Tampa Bay at Boston, noon Pittsburgh at New Jersey, noon Carolina at Philadelphia, noon Edmonton at Detroit, 1 p.m. Winnipeg at Ottawa, 1 p.m. Phoenix at San Jose, 3 p.m. Buffalo at N.Y. Islanders, 6 p.m. Florida at Washington, 6 p.m. Toronto at Montreal, 6 p.m. Anaheim at St. Louis, 7 p.m. Nashville at Minnesota, 7 p.m. Calgary at Vancouver, 9 p.m. Sunday’s Games Los Angeles at Detroit, 11:30 a.m. Edmonton at Columbus, 5 p.m. Boston at Buffalo, 6 p.m. Tampa Bay at N.Y. Rangers, 6:30 p.m. New Jersey at Pittsburgh, 6:30 p.m. Blackhawks at Nashville, 7 p.m. Thursday’s Results Blackhawks 6, Phoenix 2 Buffalo 5, Montreal 4 (SO) Florida 3, Philadelphia 2 (SO) New Jersey 4, Tampa Bay 2 N.Y. Rangers 4, N.Y. Islanders 1 Pittsburgh 5, Washington 2 Calgary 4, Columbus 3 (OT) Carolina 3, Ottawa 2 (OT) Toronto 3, Winnipeg 2 Detroit 5, St. Louis 1 Nashville 3, Los Angeles 0 Vancouver 4, Minnesota 1

MEN’S BASKETBALL TOP 25 SCHEDULE

Today’s Games No. 2 Florida vs. Mississippi St., 4 p.m. No. 3 Michigan at Wisconsin, 11 a.m. No. 5 Kansas at Oklahoma, 3 p.m. No. 6 Gonzaga vs. Loyola Marymount, 7 p.m. No. 8 Miami vs. North Carolina, 1 p.m. No. 11 Louisville at No. 25 Notre Dame, 8 p.m. No. 12 Michigan St. at Purdue, 6 p.m. No. 13 Kansas St. vs. Iowa St., 5 p.m. No. 14 Butler at George Washington, 1 p.m. No. 15 New Mexico at UNLV, 8 p.m. No. 16 Creighton vs. Illinois St., 9 p.m. No. 17 Cincinnati vs. No. 23 Pittsburgh, 5 p.m. No. 19 Oregon vs. Utah, 7 p.m. No. 20 Georgetown at Rutgers, 11 a.m. No. 21 Missouri vs. Mississippi, noon No. 22 Oklahoma St. at Texas, 12:45 p.m. No. 24 Marquette vs. DePaul, 1 p.m. Sunday’s Games No. 1 Indiana at No. 10 Ohio St., noon No. 4 Duke at Boston College, 5 p.m. No. 7 Arizona vs. California, 6 p.m. No. 9 Syracuse vs. St. John’s, 2 p.m. No. 18 Minnesota vs. Illinois, 5 p.m.

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ROUNDUP

Poor shooting plagues Knights in first half

Spartans defeat Yorkville

• BARBS-KNIGHTS

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The Sycamore boys basketball defeated Yorkville, 48-39, on Friday in Northern Illinois Big 12 East action. Devin Mottet led the Spartans with 13 points, Scott Nelson finished with 12 and Nick Feuerbach had 11. Sycamore is 16-9 overall, and 5-3 in NI Big 12 play. “I thought we had a gusty performance. We didn’t play particularly well, we had way too many turnovers,” Spartans coach Andrew Stacy said. “Despite that we found a way to win. Proud of our guys because they really stuck together when things weren’t going well at times. Found a way to get a big ‘W.’ ” Timberwolves fall: Paw Paw beat Indian Creek, 51-47, in Little Ten Conference play.

WRESTLING Cogs group falls into wrestlebacks: Genoa-Kingston wrestlers Christian Ordlock (113 pounds), Mikey Semmens (120), Danny Peters (138) and Joe Murray (145) all lost their first-round matches on the first day of the Class 1A Oregon Sectional. The four will compete in today’s wrestlebacks, and still have a shot at a state tournament bid.

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DeKalb’s Pat Aves loses the ball after being pressured by two Kaneland defenders in the second quarter Friday night Maple Park. DeKalb defeated Kaneland, 50-45.

Kaneland held the ball until the clocked ticked down to 13.1 seconds, but failed to score as the layup attempt rimmed out and DeKalb (5-19, 3-5 NI Big 12 East) grabbed the rebound. The Knights regained possession with 10.6 second go and trailing by three after Harris sank a free throw. The Barbs’ defense forced a Kaneland turnover to seal the victory. Poor shooting plagued Kaneland (13-8, 6-2) in the first half. The Knights held a 17-16 lead at the halftime despite going 4 for 21 from floor. Rohlman credited his defense for the victory, especially Pat Aves’ guarding of Drew David. The junior guard did not score for Kaneland. “You got to look at the way Pat Aves guarded Drew David. I thought he played phenomenal defense on him

Playoff basketball Local boys basketball playoff pairings announced by the IHSA on Friday:

CLASS 3A IMSA Regional No. 3 Kaneland vs. No. 6 IMSA, 7:30 p.m. Feb. 25 Burlington Central Regional No. 5 Genoa-Kingston vs. No. 4 Burlington Central, 7:30 p.m. Feb. 25 No. 2 Sycamore vs. No. 3 Rochelle, 7:30 p.m. Feb. 26 CLASS 4A Rockford East Regional No. 5 DeKalb vs. No. 4 Belvidere North, 7:30 p.m. Feb. 25

tonight,” Rohlman said. Miller led all scorers with 19 points. John Pruett tallied 16 for the Knights. Rudy Lopez scored 12 points for DeKalb. Jake Carpenter had 10 points while both Jake Smith and Harris had nine points.

Jump in level of competition a surprise to freshman • WRESTLING

Continued from page B1 “It was a surprise coming from middle school to high school,” Nick said. “Middle school was very easy. In high school there are a lot of challenges. Every kid is stronger, faster and better. Even the coaches and practices are harder.” Matt Macaras and Colin Adkins will look for their first trip to state, and senior Doug Johnson is in the hunt for his fourth straight state appearance. Johnson was a sectional champion as a freshman and a runner-up the past two seasons. The four sectional

champions are rewarded with a seed at state, and theoretically, an easier route to a state title. “Doug has to put himself in the best position possible for the state tournament,” Pater said. “Being a sectional champion puts you in the best position at state.”

CLASS 2A Sycamore senior Austin Culton has been on a yearlong roll. Culton’s last loss was in last year’s sectional, where he finished second. Since then, he’s added a state title to his résumé, signed with Northern Illinois and posted an undefeated season. Jake Davis and Kyle

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DeKalb freshman wrestler Nick Roach takes down teammate Howie Olsen during practice Tuesday in DeKalb. Akins, a pair of returning state qualifiers, will look to join Culton this year for an experience Sycamore coach Alex Nelson said is a semi-

nal moment in a wrestlers’ prep career. Sycamore has 10 wrestlers and Kaneland seven in the Class 2A Rochelle Sectional.

“He’s matured every year and figured things out,” Nelson said about Culton. “If you aren’t in it mentally at all times, you can kiss it goodbye. Austin knows that. He’s had a taste of what it’s like to be at the grand march. When those lights go down you get chills. “It’s a feeling that’s hard to describe as 13,000 fans scream and yell for you. That takes you to a new level. I know he’s focused and wants to get there again. There’s also guys so close to getting there they can taste it.”

CLASS 1A Genoa-Kingston has four wrestlers in the Class 1A Oregon Sectional.

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Holding top spot a slippery pursuit By JOHN MARSHALL The Associated Press

Indiana’s latest run as No. 1 didn’t last long, abruptly halted by a loss to unranked Illinois. Duke was bumped from the top spot twice in three weeks. Michigan and Louisville went one and done when their turns came. It’s not lonely at the top, it’s getting crowded. With the Hoosiers’ expected tumble in the next poll, that’ll be six straight weeks with a new No. 1, the second-longest streak since the first Associated Press poll in 1949. The way things have gone this season, coaches might start lobbying voters to not put their teams atop the ballot. “I do think there will be a revolving door or chairs that we will have a new No. 1 or new top fives moving forward because anyone can beat anyone,” Kansas coach Bill Self said Friday. “There is no dominant team, but there are a lot of really good ones.” Oddly enough, this season of jumbling started with stability at the top.

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Indiana coach Tom Crean questions an official’s call in the first half of Thursday night’s game against Illinois at Assembly Hall in Champaign. Indiana lost, 74-72. Indiana was the preseason No. 1 and held there for the first five weeks before a 5-foot-11 walk-on from Butler – named Alex, not David – knocked Goliath from the top spot with a floater in overtime.

Duke got the bump to No. 1 after that and stayed in place for four polls until N.C. State’s fans stormed the court after a Blue Devil dumping Jan. 12 in Raleigh. Since then, No. 1 teams have perched on a precarious pedestal. After Duke’s first loss, Louisville moved to No. 1. The Cardinals responded to prosperity with not just one loss, but three in a row and tumbled out of the top 10 within two weeks. The Blue Devils reclaimed the top spot in the Jan. 21 poll and promptly made Louisville’s lapse forgettable with a 90-63 crushing by Miami, the third-worst loss by a No. 1 ever. Next up, Michigan. The Wolverines actually managed to win a game as No. 1, beating Northwestern. The downward pull of parity punched Michigan in its next game, a road loss to Indiana that sent the Hoosiers back to the top. Indiana followed by getting caught up in the top-ranked turmoil in Champaign, inexplicably leaving Tyler Griffey open for an uncontested layup at the buzzer that sent hun-

dreds of Illini fans streaming onto the floor and the Hoosiers toward a likely tumble down the poll. “That’s a hard question. I’m not sure,” Indiana coach Tom Crean said of No. 1 teams struggling to stay on top. “We played at a high level most of the game.” The current string of No. 1 swapping is the longest since 1994, when Arkansas, North Carolina, Kansas, UCLA and Duke alternated at the top seven straight weeks – the longest streak since Saint Louis debuted as No. 1 in the initial AP poll. Top-ranked teams have lost six times this season overall, which isn’t quite as rare; No. 1s lost nine times in 2008-09 and at least six times in a season since 1996-97, according to STATS INC. But it isn’t just the teams at the top that are having trouble. Top 25 teams all over the country are getting knocked off by unranked opponents. According to STATS, Top 25 teams lost to unranked teams 36 times from Jan. 17 to Feb. 6 this season, most in at least 17 years.

Illini have defeated 4 teams currently ranked in the top 15 • ILLINI

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In a weird season in which the top team seems to fall every week – Indiana makes five straight, and six have lost so far this season – the Illini might just have a better set of big wins than anyone. They’ve beaten four teams in the current top 15: Indiana, No. 6 Gonzaga, No. 10 Ohio State and No. 14 Butler. “That’s a big step for their team,” Hoosiers coach Tom Crean said after watching his team lose for the second time this season as a No. 1. Now the question is, what do the Illini do with it? Illinois has another tough game Sunday at No. 18 Minnesota, the fifth game in a five-game stretch that included four ranked teams and rugged Wisconsin. Beyond that, Illinois’ remaining

Big Ten games include two on the road against ranked teams – Michigan and Ohio State – and five that on paper appear winnable: Purdue, at Northwestern, Penn State, Nebraska and at Iowa. Win all five and Illinois would have at least 21 victories in a season in which the Big Ten has been brutal. Play defense and shoot like they did against Indiana and the Illini could close strong. Groce, for the first time in weeks, praised his team’s defense. The Hoosiers had zero fast-break points, and Illinois cashed in 14 Indiana turnovers for 28 points. The Illini shooting was hit and miss, but they made 55.2 percent of their shots in the second half, and 13 of 15 free throws on the night. Two shooters who had been mostly absent the past few weeks, Brandon Paul and Tyler Griffey, both found their way back to the basket.

Griffey had the game-winner at the buzzer, but said after the game that he found his touch on a 3-pointer early in the second half. He literally hadn’t made a 3-point shot in more than a month. “When he made his first shot,” Crean said, “all of a sudden that basket looked like Lake Michigan for him.” And Paul, even after some bad misses early, found a little luck when he needed it. He sank two free throws to tie the score at 72 with 37 seconds to play. The first, though, banked in off the glass. “It left my hand and I was like, ‘Good Lord.’ ” Paul said. “But it went in. ... I think it was D.J. (Richardson) who told me, ‘You’ve been here before, these are the situations you love,’ and it kind of got me back. I had a lot of fun this game, and that’s one thing I don’t think I’ve been having as of recent.”

The Indiana win was clearly the peak of Groce’s up-and-down ride at Illinois, just an hour and a half or so from the Indiana town where he grew up a Hoosiers fan. In the middle of the orange-and-blue bedlam as hundreds of fans rushed onto the Assembly Hall court after the buzzer, Groce scooped up his young son, Conner, into his arms and celebrated. And then that moment was gone, nothing but a memory as Groce stepped back into the routine of postgame interviews. By Friday morning, Groce said, his players, if they want to make that big win pay off, needed to do the same. “It’s a great win, but in three days we play in Minneapolis against a really good Minnesota team,” Groce said late Thursday. “When we wake up tomorrow we’re not absorbed with one game, win or lose. We’ve said that the whole time.”

PGA TOUR: PEBBLE BEACH NATIONAL PRO-AM

Snedeker in contention once again By DOUG FERGUSON The Associated Press

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. – Brandt Snedeker goes into the weekend at Pebble Beach with another chance to win, this time without golf’s biggest stars in his way. Snedeker played bogey-free at tough Spyglass Hill on Friday for a 4-under-par 68, giving him a share of the lead with Ted Potter Jr. in the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. Potter threeputted his final hole at Monterey Peninsula for a 67. Hunter Mahan was Brandt among those one shot Snedeker behind. With one more round before everyone has played all three courses in the rotation, the leaderboard was a big traffic jam. Three dozen players were within five shots of the lead. Snedeker, who was at 8-under 134, felt he was at an advantage because he goes to Pebble Beach for the final two rounds. And there’s one other edge for his psyche – Tiger Woods isn’t playing, and defending champion Phil Mickelson is six shots behind. Snedeker has played so well this year that he is leading the FedEx Cup standings without having won. He was runner-up the past two weeks – four shots behind Woods at Torrey Pines, and then four shots behind Mickelson in the Phoenix Open. “Keep running into guys who are or who are going to be in the Hall of Fame,” Snedeker said at the start of the week. Mickelson, going after a recordtying fifth win in the event, was easing his way into contention until he made three bogeys in a four-hole stretch along the ocean at Spyglass Hill for a 71.

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This publicity photo provided by SPM Communications shows a Clay Pot Valentine Love Bee from Michaels. Popular homemade gifts include candles and bath salts, personalized photo frames, artsy fashion scarves, and candy containers that say you’re extra sweet. “That’s the beauty of homemade gifts – they can be inexpensive, yet they show you care enough to put a lot of thought, creativity and effort into the gift,” says Jo Pearson, a creative expert with Michaels stores, a national arts and crafts store.

Still plenty of time to create, give heartfelt holiday crafts By AMY LORENTZEN The Associated Press

Don’t worry if you’ve yet to find something special for loved ones this Valentine’s Day. You can easily and inexpensively add extra heart to gifts by making them at home. Popular homemade gifts include aromatic candles and bath salts, personalized photo frames and customized scarves. Jo Pearson, an expert with the national arts and crafts supplier Michaels, says vintage lace and traditional red hearts are trends this year, and can easily be applied as stamps, stickers and appliques. “That’s the beauty of homemade gifts – they can be inexpensive, yet they show you care enough to put a lot of thought, creativity and effort into the gift,” says Pearson.

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Light up your holiday with beautifully shaped and scented candles. Many craft stores carry candle-making kits, some requiring only a few minutes of microwaving. You can choose the color of the wax and add scented oils to fit your Valentine’s preference. Try scents such as chocolate fudge, sugar cookie, ginger, sandalwood or rose. Silicone molds are available in many shapes and

sizes. Or, Pearson says, personalize a glass votive candle holder with scrapbooking embellishments such as beads, charms or other baubles – which come in just about any theme. Glue dots allow for no-mess application.

A lovely bath Making your own bath salts is easy. Use Epsom, kosher or sea salt, plus essential oils. Food coloring, dried herbs and flower petals can be added for more interest. Use three parts coarse salt to one part Epsom salt, and mix in a few drops of oil and a pinch of baking soda to soften the water. Allow the salt to dry on waxed paper, then pour it into apothecary jars or other attractive containers. Glass paints and adhesive silk screens can adorn the jars. Or wrap them in a square of vintage-looking lace, gathered atop and tied with ribbon for a fancier look.

Photo favorites What’s more personal than a special picture of you and your loved one? To adorn a frame, use scrapbooking stickers to incorporate your Valentine’s favorite interests. You can use a hot glue gun to adhere ribbon to the frame, or use a

stencil and paint to add extra interest. Photo books also are a memorable way to tell your story as a couple, highlight special vacations, or show off children, grandkids or pets. Create one online at sites such as Shutterfly.com and Snapfish.com. Many photo centers offer a selection of small albums that serve the same purpose and fit into a pocketbook or briefcase. A bonus for last-minute Valentine’s shoppers: They can usually have your prints ready in about an hour.

Sensational scarves Easy iron-on appliques, pins and colorful tassels are just a few ways to gussy up and personalize a storebought scarf. If you’re feeling adventurous but don’t sew, check out no-sew T-shirt scarf techniques online. For instance, there’s a simple T-shirt shag scarf at www.snapguide.com/guides/ repurpose-a-t-shirt-into-astylish-fringe-scarf . Cut a T-shirt off horizontally below the armpits so it becomes a tube, then cut vertical shag lines from the raw edge about one-third up the tube. After that, pull on each piece to separate and elongate, then wear it (shag down) or give it to a friend!

“Whether you’re looking to try a new project, hop on a trend, keep warm or just adding character to a simple look, the fashion scarf is a great place to start,” says Anna Olsen, a craft expert with Jo-Ann Fabrics and Crafts.

Wake up with love For an extra perk in the morning, you can flavor coffee beans for your Valentine. Buy roasted beans and then add a few teaspoons of food flavoring oil per pound. Or use spices such as vanilla beans or cinnamon to add depth to ground coffee. Offer up the java in a mason jar or a new mug, which can be personalized with glass or ceramic paints.

Wrapping up Whether your gift is storebought or handmade, make it even more appealing with a handcrafted card or wrapping paper. Simply stamp a plain piece of paper and add ribbon for homemade wrapping. You can use a kitchen sponge and cut to your desired shape for a do-it-yourself stamp. For a romantic flare, apply lots of lipstick and put your pout to paper. Then, create a colorful card or gift tag by using scrapbooking pages and embellishments.

TOP: This publicity photo provided by SPM Communications shows Valentine Frames from Michaels. ABOVE: This publicity photo provided by SPM Communications shows The Love Paper Maché Box from Michaels.

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FAMILY TIME | Five cost-cutting tips for pet owners

Tip of the Week These days, everyone is searching for ways to save money and stretch budgets. Consumer experts advise people to sniff out deeper discounts, saving opportunities and additional ways to cut costs. For pet owners, it can feel challenging to cut costs without compromising on care. Being

vigilant is key, according to pet expert Charlotte Reed. “Clip coupons, use store circulars and ask for discounts like family and friend’s rewards, and multiple pet or store loyalty programs,” says Reed. “Constantly challenge yourself to find ways to save money when it comes to pets.” To get started, Reed suggests using these five tips. Before you know it, you’ll be seeing savings on everything your four-legged friend needs. 1. Get a membership that offers discounts for pet owners. 2. Investigate discount pet medications. 3. Get discounts on pet necessities by searching online for your brands.

8MILESTONES

50th anniversary

Dean and Glenda (Kitner) Potter of Sandwich will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary with an open house given by their children and grandchildren from 2 to 4 p.m. Feb. 24, at the Federated Church, 403 N. Main St., Sandwich. They were married Feb. 22, 1963, at the Federated Church in Sandwich by the Rev. Albert Grady. Family and friends are cordially invited to come celebrate with them.

Genis-Campbell

Alan and Carol Genis of DeKalb announce the engagement of their daughter Laura Genis to Steven Campbell, son of James and Cheryl Campbell of Lockport. Laura is a 2003 graduate of DeKalb High School. She earned bachelors’ degrees in accountancy and finance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2007. She is employed as an investment specialist at Wells Fargo Private Bank in Davenport, Iowa. Steven is a 2003 graduate of Lockport Township High School. He earned a bachelor’s degree in agricultural engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2007. He is employed as a technical sales consultant for the Lincoln Electric Co. in Davenport, Iowa. The couple will be married in June at First Congregational United Church of Christ in DeKalb. A reception at Northern Illinois University’s Altgeld Hall will follow.

70th birthday

John Carlson of DeKalb will celebrate his 70th birthday with an open house from 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 10, at Elk’s Club on Annie Glidden Road in DeKalb. Please omit gifts.

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“Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters” Rated: R Length: 88 minutes Synopsis: In this modern take on the classic fairy tale, Hansel and Gretel are grown up and are bounty hunters who track and kill witches. Violence/scary rating: 4.5 Sexual-content rating: 4 Profanity rating: 3.5 Drugs/alcohol rating: 3 Family Time rating: 4. This might

“The Steele Wolf,” by Chanda Hahn Ages: Young adult Synopsis: After finally settling into her new life at the Citadel, Thalia is reunited with her father, who is disturbed at the changes within her. Risking banishment, Thalia must work to prove to her clan and herself that she is still capable of leading them. The problem is, her memories haven’t returned, and she cannot shake the feeling that she doesn’t belong. Thalia

8NEW ARRIVALS Deverell Brian and Kelly Deverell of DeKalb announce the birth of a daughter, Evelyn Violet Deverell, born Jan. 31, 2013, at Kishwaukee Community Hospital, DeKalb. She weighed 7 pounds, 5 ounces, and was welcomed home by Delaney, 2. Grandparents are Mark and Mary Beasanski of Plainfield, Bill Greene of Cadott, Wis., and Russ and Karen Deverell of Kingston. Great-grandparents are Janice Mercier of Colfax, Wis., Phyllis Balk of Westchester, Ron and Marsha Beasanski of Lockport, and Jackie Hucker of Dunnellon, Fla.

Davis Brian and Katie Davis of Sycamore announce the birth of a daughter, Haddie Georgette Davis, born Dec. 10, 2012, at Kishwaukee Community Hospital, DeKalb. She weighed 8 pounds, 5 ounces, and was welcomed home by Ellie, 5, and Sauyer, 2. Grandparents are Bonnie and Larry Carlson of Sycamore, and Sally and Bert Davis of Rock Falls.

Ebert Shaun and Jessica Ebert of Sycamore announce the birth of a daughter, Corinne Louise Ebert, born Jan. 10, 2013, at Kishwaukee Community Hospital, DeKalb. She weighed 7 pounds, 1 ounce, and was welcomed home by Calvin, 2. Grandparents are Louis and Joann Ebert of Rochelle, and Galen and Margaret Baldwin of Ellinwood, Kansas. Great-grandmother is Louise Gunn of Great Bend, Kansas.

Galvan Andrew and Amy Galvan of DeKalb announce the birth of a daughter, Natalie Helen Galvan, born Dec. 6, 2012, at Kishwaukee Community Hospital, DeKalb. She weighed 6 pounds, 1 ounce, and was welcomed by Brooke, 2. Grandparents are Guadalupe and Patricia Galvan of DeKalb, Kim Brandon of DeKalb, Forrest Brandon of Rochelle, and Bernard and Leann Jorda of Texas. Great-grandparents are Sandra Heine of West Dundee, Bob Farrell of Wauconda and Richard and Maryanne Brandon of Chicago.

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Kish College alum worked on float at Rose Parade Stacey Yuccas, a 2011 graduate of the horticulture program at Kishwaukee College, spent a few days this past December working on every floral designers’ dream: a float for the annual New Year’s Day Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, Calif. Yuccas, who now lives in California, was a member of the crew who constructed the float entry for the Dole Corp. The theme of the float was Dreaming of Paradise and was designed and built by Fiesta Parade Floats. Yuccas worked for Jim Hynd at Fiesta and under lead designer Philip Rice, a floral designer she has worked with before in Sacramento. The entry won the Sweepstakes Trophy for “Most Beautiful Entry in Parade with Outstanding Floral Presentation and Design.” “I worked on the Dole float with two lead floral designers and four other floral volunteers,” she said in a news release. “There is also a team who designs the

float and its mechanics and a decorator team who does all the gluing and adds the roses.” The floral team began working on the float on Dec. 27 and continued through Dec. 31. The Tournament of Roses Parade was held Jan. 1. She said her floral design team worked on the float more than 65 hours over the four days of float construction. Keeping the flowers fresh required additional steps. “Every rose had to be vialed,” Yuccas said in the release. “There are tons of Girl Scout volunteers who help vial the roses and put them on the float decks on the last night.” The Dole float was primarily tropical plants, including hundreds of orchids and anthuriums. “The flowers are either in oasis or water tubes,” she said. “The oasis is secured to the float structure and the water tubes are stabbed into the structure. The most

challenging part of the floral design is the mechanics – figuring out how to get the flowers where you want them. It’s hard because you have to deal with scaffolding, and, because the floats will be moving, everything needs to be extremely secure.” The team pays particular attention to one side of the float: the “camera side.” “It’s the side of the float the camera sees during the parade,” Yuccas said. “There is extra pressure to make sure that side is perfect for all of the viewers.” Yuccas and the rest of the team were present when the judging took place. It was an opportunity to see the finished float with the special effects and dancers on board. “It was incredible to see the way the finished float looked with all the flowers,” Yuccas said. “It was exciting for Fiesta to win the Sweepstakes trophy and for me personally, too. “Overall, it was a very exciting, exhausting and rewarding experience.”

Kids can join drum corps for free Marlyn Majorettes and Majors Drum Corps and Color Guard Flags will start rehearsals for the 2013 year at 7 p.m. March 11 at the Sycamore Middle School gym. This state and national champion corps has won more than 1,000 trophies, awards and honors for their performances through-

out the United States and Canada. They have marched at the Orange Bowl, the Indianapolis 500, Disney World, the Edison Festival of Lights, Notre Dame University, at Chicago Bulls, White Sox and Cubs games and other events. Free membership is open to girls and boys ages 10 to 21. Students develop skills

and talents in marching, baton twirling, percussion and color guard flag. No prior experience is necessary. Girls ages 6 to 21 are invited to enroll in a baton twirling class from 5:30 to 6:15 p.m. Mondays at the Marlyn Majorette Studio in Sycamore. Call 815-895-4166 for registration information.

8BRIEFS United Way seeks award nominees The Kishwaukee United Way is asking for help to recognize outstanding staff or volunteers from nonprofit agencies in the community by identifying one special volunteer or staff member for a Spirit of Caring Award. Volunteering and giving back to our community should not go unnoticed, said a recent news release. According to the release, this is a great opportunity to recognize and reward those who give so much to help the community. It is these thoughtful, committed citizens and organizations that continue to help change our world – one activity at a time. They truly exemplify the spirit of Living United. “The Spirit of Caring Award was designed to help honor those who spend countless hours in support of our mission: to improve lives by sharing community resources,” the release said. “The Kishwaukee United Way recognizes the efforts of volunteers and staff of organizations and we are taking this opportunity to honor them and their efforts.” The community can nominate a staff member or volunteer from an area nonprofit organization; the deadline is Feb. 25. Nomination forms can be found at www.kishwaukeeunitedway.org. For additional information, call Kishwaukee United Way at 815-756-7522.

Rotary plans trip to Perlman concert Violin virtuoso and polio survivor Itzhak Perlman will join the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in his only Chicago performance this season for a concert benefiting Rotary’s campaign to end polio worldwide. All proceeds will benefit the $200-Million Gates Foundation Challenge DeKalb Rotary Club invites any community member interested in attending this concert trip

to join them for the evening. DeKalb and Sycamore Rotarians will leave at 3:30 p.m. March 7 by motor coach for the 7:30 p.m. concert at Symphony Center, 22 S. Michigan Ave. According to a news release, there will be time for participants to have dinner on their own before the concert. For additional information and to reserve a ticket, call Michael Coghlan, DeKalb Rotary president, at 815-787-0800.

4-C helps families in need of child care Community Coordinated Child Care is a nonprofit social service agency that provides comprehensive services to families and child care providers. Services for families include child care referrals and information to help parents make informed child care choices. 4-C also administers the Illinois Department of Human Services Child Care Assistance Program for income eligible families and advocates on behalf of Illinois children and families. 4-C is open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday; call 815-758-8149 or visit the office at 155 N. Third St., Suite 300, DeKalb.

Send soldiers presents of thanks The public is invited to send soldiers overseas goodie boxes to thank them for their support. People can stop by Allergies, Aches & Pains Chiropractic & Acupuncture Center Ltd., 130 N. Fair St., lower level, Sycamore, for a preaddressed box that can be filled with snacks and other items; a list is provided. Monetary donations also can be left at the office to be used to fill other boxes and ship them. Those unable to fill a box or contribute can drop off a card to be sent to soldiers.

For more information, visit www.allergiesachesandpains.com or call 815-895-2059.

VNA Hospice seeking volunteers VNA of Fox Valley is seeking individuals who want to help others by becoming a hospice volunteer. Volunteers are needed to cover the entire VNA service area, particularly the far western territory including Sandwich, Yorkville, Sheridan and Somonauk. Training will be held at the VNA offices, 400 N. Highland Ave., Aurora. For training dates and more information, contact Linda Reiter at lreiter@vnafoxvalley.com or 630-482-8112.

FVOAS seeks special projector Presentations using an LCD projector are an essential part of the activities offered at Fox Valley Older Adult Services, which has many uses for these projector. Any area individuals, businesses or organizations that would be able to donate a projector would be helping to ensure that the presentations for seniors can continue. For more information, contact FVOAS at susan.thanepohn@ comcast.net or 815-786-9404. Established in 1972, Fox Valley Older Adult Services operates adult day care centers in Sandwich, DeKalb and Aurora and provide hot lunches and social and informational programs for seniors in DeKalb, LaSalle, Kendall and Kane counties.

Auxiliary plans wine tasting Valley West Community Hospitals Auxiliary is planning a winter wine tasting from 6 to 9 p.m. Feb. 19 at the Fox Valley Older Adults Services Center, 1406 Suydam Road, Sandwich.

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FASHION WEEK

Valvo’s moody gowns inspired by Edgar Allan Poe Garments in ivory, grape and merlot By JOCELYN NOVECK The Associated Press

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Fashion by the finalists of “The Project Runway” fashion competition series is modeled during Fashion Week, Friday in New York.

Uggs? Ugh. NY Fashion Week battles the winter elements By SAMANTHA CRITCHELL The Associated Press

NEW YORK – Mother Nature is clearly not a fashionista. A blizzard forced Michael Kors to arrive at New York Fashion Week’s “Project Runway” show on Friday in – gasp – Uggs. “I came in looking like Pam Anderson,” he joked backstage, where the offending boots had been traded for tasteful black leather. Marc Jacobs postponed his Monday night show until Thursday, citing delivery problems, but for the most part Fashion Week went on with the show. IMG Fashion said organizers remained in contact with city officials, including the mayor’s office,

about potential weather problems but had planned for an extra layer of tenting for the venue and more heat at Lincoln Center along with crews to help with snow and ice. Zac Posen said he would present his collection as usual on Sunday but he worried that out-of-town editors and retailers might not be able to make it. Other designers were considering Plan B – adding an Internet stream – to accommodate guests who couldn’t make live shows. Still, plenty of fashion fans wouldn’t let a little snow get in the way. Baltimore college student Carmen Green arrived in a red cocktail dress and black high-heel booties. “In this outfit, the blizzard did not deter me,” she said. She did allow that she had

only had to cross the street from her hotel and would change into combat boots for the train ride home. The celebrity stylist Phillip Bloch even offered a blizzard pro tip. “You either come in warm and comfortable clothes and boots or you come in neon – or sequins would be a good one — so they see you in the drift,” he said. The rivalry stayed on the catwalk when new judge, Zac Posen, met previous judge, Michael Kors. Kors, acting as a guest panelist, Posen, Heidi Klum and Nina Garcia were one big happy family when they took their seats to watch the collections of this season’s contestants. (Kors and Klum joked they’ve spent so much time

together over the years that they now look like brother and sister.) “I didn’t call Zac with any tips before he started. He knows what he’s doing,” Kors said in a preshow interview. “I knew I was leaving it in very capable hands.” Chiming in, Posen added: “I had 10 seasons to watch Michael, and I had been a guest judge with him. I’m sure I learned a few things.” The show is the godmother of fashion reality TV, now in its 11th season. It was time for a change, said Klum, who is an executive producer. The other new wrinkle this go-around is that the contestants have been working in teams – and they are not necessarily happy about it, Klum said.

NEW YORK – Carmen Marc Valvo’s tell-tale heart drew him to Edgar Allan Poe for inspiration. “I was thinking long, lean, moody and dark,” the designer said backstage after his show Friday for fall and winter. “Edgar Allan Poe. Creatures of the night. With a little rock ‘n’ roll, too.” The show featured some stunning gowns in ivory, grape and merlot, but most creations were in black, and Valvo said he was so taken with black this season that he almost did the entire collection in it. “It really makes you focus on the structure and the detailing, to make sure each dress is different,” he explained. The show opened with what seemed a perfect nod to the stormy weather: An embroidered trench with patent leather squares, all in black. But soon the glamour items hit the runway – cocktail dresses and flowing gowns heavy on lace, embroidery, brocade or leather cutouts. One big hit was a black embroidered gown with sheer long sleeves and bodice, and leather on the sides of the waist – creating what Valvo called “the illusion of a corset.” The same dress came in a short, sleeveless cocktail version. Other highlights: A long black wool gown with an alligator inset on top, plunging to a low V. And an ivory hal-

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A model walks the runway at the presentation of the Carmen Marc Valvo Fall 2013 fashion collection during Fashion Week, Thursday in New York.

ter brocade gown that had a deep split down the skirt, revealing a sparkly black tweed pant underneath. Actress Nichole Galicia, who appears in “Django Unchained,” especially loved a couple of gowns in flowing ivory – but was partial to the black lacy gowns, too. “I’m doing some mental shopping here,” quipped the actress, who wore Valvo to a recent event honoring “Django” director Quentin Tarantino. “I’m still looking for an Oscar dress.” Galicia was wearing a sleek-fitting Valvo dress and black heels, and looked positively summery considering the blustery climes. “I’m suffering for my art today – or actually for my fashion,” she noted.

Katie Holmes takes line crosstown J & D Door Sales Inc. “We’re not trying to be By SAMANTHA CRITCHELL The Associated Press

NEW YORK – Katie Holmes and her business partner and stylist Jeanne Yang joined the New York Fashion Week frenzy last season with a show at Lincoln Center, only to leave it behind this time around. It wasn’t all the people, or even the paparazzi, that drove them away. It was their own clothes. Their look, which they describe as one of careful artistry and potential heritage pieces that women will keep a lifetime, is a little too quiet for all the splash, they said. “We wanted to tell the full story behind the frivolity,” said Yang, adding: “It’s a quiet approach.” Holmes and Yang sat down at a hotel on the opposite side of Manhattan with a handful of fashion journalists on Thursday, the opening day of fashion week, to walk them personally

trendy... but we’re trying to make high-quality pieces you’ll wear over and over again.” Katie Holmes Fashion Designer

through 15 looks Holmes called their favorites. Katharine Hepburn’s practical-yet-chic look of the 1940s, Donna Karan’s use of the shoulders and back as erogenous zones, Halston’s glamorous sportswear and Chanel’s mastery of seaming and studs were all in their minds as they built the pieces and outfits. “We’re not trying to be trendy ... but we’re trying to make high-quality pieces you’ll wear over and over again,” Holmes said.

Holmes was wearing an Aline shirtdress in the blue-andblack plaid that was dominant in the collection, while Yang wore one of the slouchy blazers that has become a key piece for the label, founded in 2009. For fall, they’ll offer a peplum top with a suede waist band and maxi skirt in the same plaid. Holmes suggested that outfit for a dinner out. Swap the shirt for a tank top for brunch and a blouse to go to the theater. Yang said she hoped a customer would “feel smart” in a white cashmere-silk boucle sweaterdress with a strip of white silk at the hem. Holmes, meanwhile, was partial to the baggy suede caramel-colored pants that hit just above the ankle, worn with a bow-neck blouse in a deep shade of lipstick pink. The duo made a point of noting that 70 percent of production of Holmes & Yang happens in New York.

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Oak Crest Board President Tim Dunlop, right, welcomes new board members, from left, Karen Grush, Brian Scholle and Rev. Joe Gastiger. Not pictured: Dave Louis.

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Four new members were inducted into the Oak Crest Board of Trustees by board president Tim Dunlop. New members are Karen Grush, Brian Scholle, the Rev. Joseph Gastiger and Dave Louis. Grush has served others through various roles in public health, first in Champaign and then in DeKalb County. She recently retired from her role as administrator of the DeKalb County Health Department. Grush will serve on the finance and health care committees. Scholle is a State Farm Insurance agent whose leadership and participation in a variety of community pro-

grams, like Re:New DeKalb, Huskie Athletics, Kishwaukee Kiwanis, the Ben Gordon Foundation and the Barb City Manor Board, make him an excellent addition to the Oak Crest Board of Trustees. Scholle will sit on the finance and building committees. Gastiger is the pastor at the First Congregational United Church of Christ in DeKalb. He is a familiar face at Oak Crest, as he conducts worship services each month. Gastiger will serve on the community relations and health care committees and brings with him years of community experience through

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DeKalb Public Library is the winner of an AT&T Investing in Illinois Award and a contribution of $1,000 from the company. Pictured (from left) are Dee Coover, library director; Darcy Tatlock, tween coordinator; Jaci Kator, director of external affairs at AT&T Illinois; Steven Roman, teen librarian; and state Rep. Robert. Pritchard, R-Hinckley.

Funds bring ‘Star Wars Day’ to library DeKalb Public Library is the winner of an AT&T Investing in Illinois Award. The award provides contributions to organizations and programs that improve lives in their communities by advancing education, economic

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Ask a designer: Let winter inspire your rooms By MELISSA RAYWORTH The Associated Press

It’s cold out there. In much of the country, now’s the time when home serves as a cozy refuge from the ice and snow. We light our fireplaces and wish for springtime. But what if we took the opposite approach, using the inspiration of frosty winter colors and shimmering, icy textures to create rooms that look gorgeous year-round? A winter-inspired room can celebrate the beauty of this season, and also provide a cooling refuge perfect for the spring and summer ahead. “My clients usually think I’ve lost my mind when I suggest using winter as a source of inspiration for a cozy bedroom,” says designer Brian Patrick Flynn, founder of decordemon.com. But, he says, “when done right, a combination of layered whites, blue-grays and touches

of metallic can add a wintry look that’s chic, inviting, surprisingly warm and totally timeless.” Here, Flynn and two other interior designers – Betsy Burnham of Los Angeles’ Burnham Design and Kyle Schuneman of Live Well Designs – offer advice on using winter as a decorating inspiration.

Get reflective Start with the reflective sheen of ice as your main inspiration, says Flynn. “Use a plethora of reflective surfaces and metallic touches,” he says, including mirrored accent tables and nightstands, as well as mirrored lamps. Flynn and Schuneman both recommend metallic wallpaper. “One bedroom I designed in California was completely inspired by Candice Olsen’s birch bark wallpaper from York Wallcovering,” Flynn says. “The paper is made from white-toned

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