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Some on County Board concerned By STEPHANIE HICKMAN shickman@shawmedia.com SYCAMORE – DeKalb County will separate the positions of deputy county administrator and finance director formerly held by current county administrator Gary Hanson. Hanson suggested in January that his former role as deputy county administrator and finance director be divided into two separate positions. After some discussion during the board’s Executive Committee meeting last week, the motion was carried unanimously to present the resolution to the full board Wednesday. But some board members expressed concerns. “This issue comes before the board with many questions still remaining,” said Anthony Cvek, R-Sycamore. Cvek said he didn’t want to decouple the two positions without working out the details first. He said the responsibilities of the deputy county administrator still were unclear. Ultimately, the board voted to approve the finance director position and table the deputy county administrator position, sending it back to the Executive Committee for discussion. Hanson, who was promoted to county administrator in 2012, said the salary of the deputy county administrator is still being worked out, but the finance director would earn $85,000 to $100,000 a year. But he said splitting the positions would be more cost effective, saving the county somewhere between $15,000 and $20,000. The search for a finance director has begun, which Tracy Jones, R-Kirkland, said should’ve been brought to the board beforehand. “In essence, we are voting to approve something that has already happened,” he said. Jones said advertising for the finance director position alone implied that the county had already made the decision to separate the two positions. But Hanson said if they were to keep the positions as one, they would have to advertise differently, which would delay the process. “My concern is to get the finance director hired,” he said. Julia Fullerton, R-DeKalb, supported Hanson. “There’s no question in my mind that these two positions need to be separate,” she said. “We’ve grown immensely as a county.”
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and JEFF ENGELHARDT jengelhardt@shawmedia.com DeKALB – Ousted Northern Illinois University Police Chief Donald Grady doesn’t believe evidence mishandled in a rape case was the only reason he was fired from his job. In a Feb. 3 letter to NIU acting director of Public Safety Bill Nicklas, Grady said NIU officials treated him and Lt. Kartik Ramakrishnan differently than the white defendants in the coffee fund case. Grady is black, and Ramakrishnan is of Asian descent. Grady pointed out that six of the eight employees charged with felonies in connection with that investigation are back at work. “Despite the fact that many of them have been indicted by a grand jury, most have been allowed to return to their posts,” Grady wrote. “Not a single one of these employees has been subjected to the all-out effort to sever their relationship with the University that has been
ABOVE: Northern Illinois University Police Chief Donald Grady (second from left) answers questions the day after the Feb. 14, 2008, campus shootings during a news conference at Altgeld Hall on the campus in DeKalb. With Grady are (from left) Executive Vice President of Finance and Chief of Operations Eddie Williams, NIU President John Peters, then-NIU Board of Trustees Chairwoman Cherilyn Murer and Assistant Vice President for Public Affairs Melanie Magara. LEFT: Grady told university officials Feb. 3 he believed race was a factor in his punishment.
directed at me.” Grady, 59, has been the NIU police chief for more than 11 years. He earned a salary of $205,987 at the time he was fired. Nicklas said race was not a factor in any decision and the letter of termination contained all the reasons for the firing. Rather, Grady’s actions caused him and the NIU police to lose credibility, Nicklas said. “It is not surprising Mr. Grady or his legal counsel would want to distract the observer from the facts,” Nicklas said. “But the facts were stated clearly in the letter of dismissal and the university stands by that letter.”
2 INVESTIGATIONS INTO NIU EMPLOYEES At issue are two separate investigations into university employees, both conducted by NIU police under Grady. Criminal charges are pending against eight employees and one former employee after Grady began investigating the “coffee fund,” an
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Ex-Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. fights tears, pleads guilty By FREDERIC J. FROMMER and PETE YOST The Associated Press WASHINGTON – Former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., holding back tears, entered a guilty plea Wednesday in federal court to criminal charges that he engaged in a scheme to spend $750,000 in campaign funds on personal items. He faces 46 to 57 months in prison, and a fine of $10,000 to $100,000, under a plea deal
with prosecutors. A few hours later, his wife, Sandra Jackson, pleaded guilty to filing false joint federal income tax returns that knowingly understated the income the couple received. She faces one to two years in prison and a fine of $3,000 to $40,000. In a 17-page prosecution document, Jackson’s wife admitted that from mid-2006 through mid-October of last year, she failed to report
$600,000 in income that she and her husband earned from 2005 to 2011. Before entering the plea to a conspiracy charge, Jesse Jackson told U.S. District Judge Robert L. Wilkins, “I’ve never been more clear in my life” in his decision to plead guilty. Later, when Wilkins asked if Jackson committed the acts outlined in court papers, the former congressman replied, “I did these things.” He added
later, “Sir, for years I lived in my campaign,” and used money from the campaign for personal use. Jackson dabbed his face with tissues, and at one point a court employee brought some tissues to Jackson’s lawyer, who gave them to the ex-congressman. Jackson told the judge he was waiving his right to trial. “In perfect candor, your honor, I have no interest in wasting the taxpayers’ time
or money,” he said. U.S. Attorney Ronald Machen called the guilty plea “so tragic because it represents such wasted potential” and that Jackson used his campaign as “his own personal piggybank.” He said that Jackson could have been the voice of a new generation. Machen credited Jackson for coming in early and telling the truth. “But today is his day of reckoning,” the prosecutor said.
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8 DAILY PLANNER Today Open Closet: 5 to 7 p.m. at 300 E. Taylor St., DeKalb. Clothes and shoes for men, women and children. 815-758-1388. Courage, Attitude, Resources & Encouragement support Group (CARE): 6 to 7:30 p.m. at Kishwaukee Health Care, 2727 Sycamore Road, DeKalb. CARE is for patients with cancer or other serious illness and for family members. www. kishhospital.org. Keep It Simple AA(C): 6 p.m. at DeKalb Area Alano Club, 312 E. Taylor St., DeKalb. 800-452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com. La Leche League of DeKalb County: 6 p.m. at the Goodwill Industries store’s Community Room, 1037 S. Annie Glidden Road, DeKalb. All breast-feeding moms can share encouragement and support. Call Dawn at 815-517-1067; www.lllusa.org/IL/WebDeKalbIL. html. One Day Café AA(C): 6 p.m. at Waterman United Methodist Church, 210 W. Garfield St. 800452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub. com. Weight Watchers: 6 p.m. weighin, 6:30 p.m. meeting Weight Watchers Store, 2583 Sycamore Road (near Aldi), DeKalb. DeKalb County Democratic Party: 6:30 p.m. social time and meeting at 7 p.m. at Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 158 N. Fourth St., DeKalb. For information, email Mark Pietrowski Jr. at markpietrowski@gmail.com; call 815-762-2054; visit www.dekalbcountydemocrats.org. DeKalb County Marines Corps League, officers, detachment and auxiliary: 7 p.m. at Sycamore Veterans Home, 121 S. California St. For information, contact Peter May at sneakypete2@hotmail.com or 815-761-7732, or call 815-756-6625. www.dekalbcountymarines.com. Homework Help Nights: 6:30 to 8 p.m. at Neighbors’ House, Fifth and Pine streets, DeKalb. Free help for DeKalb fourth- to 12th-graders. neighborshouse@tbc.net or 815787-0600. DeKalb County Amateur Radio Emergency Service: 7 p.m. on 146.73 megahertz. For information, call Bill Itter (N9EWA) at 815-8952020. Mothers and More Program Night: 7 p.m. at Ben Gordon Center Community Room, 12 Health Services Drive, DeKalb. All mothers are invited. To RSVP, email mothersandmoredekalbcounty@gmail. com or visit www.mothersandmore.org/chapters/DekalbCounty. Sandwich Steppers AA(C): 7 p.m. at Fox Valley Community Center, 1406 Suydam Road. 800452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub. com. Free Fit Club: 7:30 to 9 p.m. at Sycamore Community Center, 138 Fair St., Sycamore. Featuring rotating cardio or yoga programs from various Beachbody workouts like P90X, Insanity, Turbo Fire, Body Gospel, Turbo Jam, Hip Hop Abs, Rev Abs and many others. Call 815-901-4474 or 815-566-3580 for more information. A Friend Of Bill’s AA(C): 8 p.m. at Trinity Lutheran Church, 33930 N. State St., Genoa. 800-452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com. Any Lengths AA(C): 8 p.m. at Federated Church, 612 W. State St., Sycamore. 800-452-7990; www. dekalbalanoclub.com. Closed Discussion AA: 8 p.m. at DeKalb Area Alano Club, 312 E. Taylor St., DeKalb. 800-452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com. Friday Sexaholics AnonymousDeKalb: 6:30 to 7:30 a.m. Fridays at Christ Community Church, 1600 E. Lincoln Highway, DeKalb. This 12-step recovery program is for Internet addiction. Contact: 815508-0280. SA.org. Weight Watchers: 8:30 a.m. weigh-in, 9 a.m. meeting Weight Watchers Store, 2583 Sycamore Road (near Aldi), DeKalb. Pass It On AA(C): 9:30 a.m. at DeKalb Area Alano Club, 312 E. Taylor St., DeKalb. 800-452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com. Story time: 10 a.m. at Barnes & Noble, 2439 Sycamore Road, DeKalb. Free readings are open to the public. Narcotics Anonymous: Noon at 512 Normal Road in DeKalb. www. rragsna.org; 815-964-5959. There is a Solution Too AA: 12:05 p.m. at DeKalb Area Alano Club, 312 E. Taylor St., DeKalb. 800-452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com. ACBL Duplicate Bridge: 12:30 p.m. at Wildwood North Recreation Center, 1 Birch St., Sandwich. 815498-4405.
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Engineers’ work taken for granted A tip from a reader alerted me to the fact that this week is National Engineers Week, as deemed by the National Engineers Week Foundation. That means now is a time to recognize how important engineering is to our communities. The foundation’s website characterizes engineering as a “stealth profession,” because engineering plays an often-unnoticed role in so many things. Engineers are very much behindthe-scenes workers whose goal is to create things that work effectively and without incident. Engineers create things we use daily but likely don’t think about until something goes wrong. From roads and buildings to tiny mechanical parts and even complex chemicals, many elements of our lives are improved by effective engineering. Growing up with a dad who is an engineer, I often struggled to grasp his role in developing roads, sidewalks and parking lots. He doesn’t lay concrete or stripe pavement, but I now know his plans are crucial to an effectively executed project. I’m learning more, too, in my master’s degree program, about how integral engineering is to our communities. I see every day the way civil engineers, electrical engineers and others contribute to productive societies. It makes me appreciate even more the important job engineers do. The reader who tipped me off to this week of recognition, Don Brewer of Sycamore, also encouraged me to
CAMPUS VIEW Lauren Stott pay special recognition to women in engineering. As we work hard to establish equality in traditionally male-dominated fields, it is important to recognize the efforts of women and encourage diversity. The Northern Illinois University chapter of the Society of Women Engineers is one organization that promotes women in the field. Although jobs in the math, science, technology and engineering are traditionally held primarily by males, organizations such as SWE are working to balance the roles and bring more opportunities to women. Diversity is important in all fields because different people bring different perspectives that elevate the quality of work being done. Whether it’s different genders, difference races or different levels of experience, the possibility of positive contribution from diverse sources is greater than we can even imagine. Engineering is just one example of an area where diversity can bring positive effects. So this week, thank engineers of all backgrounds for the positive work they bring to society. Without them, our lives would be much different. ••• I wrote a recent column about a possible Sycamore water rate hike
and a creative way (using less water) residents could combat the hike if it is approved. After that column was published, I received an email from a Sycamore resident who lives near Sycamore Middle School. She said she uses water from a well at her property, but that city sewer service costs are $120 billed every two months. The reader noted that because the fee is assessed at a flat rate, less usage isn’t an option to lower costs. It is important to recognize that some fees are unavoidable, and sometimes an attempt to assess fair rates still leave some residents feeling as if they aren’t getting a very good deal because of a diversity of needs (in this case, city water users versus well users). Fairness and equity are major hurdles that even the most progressive governments struggle to administer, and unintended or unforeseen consequences often arise out of policy decisions. One of the best ways to address equity issues is to bring them up to local decision-makers, especially if there are other, more fair options that haven’t been considered. The only way the government can effectively represent its constituents is if it is aware of their opinions, so make sure the government is aware of yours.
• Lauren Stott is a Maple Park native and a graduate student at Northern Illinois University in the master of public administration program. She can be reached at lauren_stott@yahoo. com.
Water checked after body found in hotel tank By TAMI ABDOLLAH The Associated Press LOS ANGELES – British tourist Michael Baugh and his wife said water had only dribbled out of the taps at the downtown Cecil Hotel for days. On Tuesday, after showering, brushing their teeth and drinking some of the tap water, they headed down to the lobby and found out why. The body of a Canadian woman had been discovered at the bottom of one of four cisterns on the roof of the historic hotel near Skid Row. The tanks provide water for hotel taps and would have been used by guests for washing and drinking. “The moment we found out, we felt a bit sick to the stomach, quite literally, especially having drank the water, we’re not well mentally,” Michael Baugh, 27, said. Los Angeles County Department of Public Health officials issued a do-not-drink order Tuesday while its lab analyzes the water, said Terrance Powell, a director coordinating the department’s response. The disclosure contradicts a previous police statement that the water had been deemed safe. Results of the testing were expected by today. Powell said the water was also used
for cooking in the hotel; a coffee shop in the hotel would remain closed and has been instructed to sanitize its food equipment before reopening. “Our biggest concern is going to be fecal contamination because of the body in the water,” Powell said. He said the likelihood of contamination is “minimal” given the large amount of water the body was found in, but the department is being extra cautious. Powell said the hotel hired a water treatment specialist after the department required it to do so to disinfect its plumbing lines. A call to the hotel was not returned. The remains of Elisa Lam, 21, were found by a maintenance worker at the 600-room hotel that charges $65 a night after guests complained about the low water pressure. Police detectives were working to determine if her death was the result of foul play or an accident. LAPD Sgt. Rudy Lopez called it suspicious and said a coroner’s investigation will determine Lam’s cause of death. Before she died, hotel surveillance footage showed Lam inside an elevator pushing buttons and sticking her head out the doors, looking in both directions. She was later found in the water tank.
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plan it intends to propose to federal regulators to temporarily fix problems with the WASHINGTON – The Obama administra- 787 Dreamliner’s batteries that have kept tion announced new efforts Wednesday to the planes on the ground for more than a fight the growing theft of American trade month, a congressional official told The Associated Press on Wednesday. secrets, a broad but relatively restrained Boeing Commercial Airplanes CEO Ray response to a rapidly emerging global Conner is expected to present the plan to problem that was brought into sharp Michael Huerta, head of the Federal Aviafocus this week by fresh evidence linking tion Administration, in a meeting Friday, cyberstealing to China’s military. the official said. The official spoke on the Mentioning China but not specifically condition of anonymity because he wasn’t targeting that country, Attorney General authorized to speak publicly. Eric Holder announced the plan, which Boeing Co. spokesman Marc Birtel said includes a new diplomatic push to disthe company doesn’t talk in advance courage intellectual property theft abroad about meetings with federal officials. along with better coordination at home to help U.S. companies protect themselves.
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the country’s Islamist leaders, indirectly criticizing their policies and issuing thinly veiled threats that it might seize power again. The tension is raising the specter of another military intervention much like the one in 2011, when generals replaced longtime authoritarian leader Hosni Mubarak after they sided with anti-regime protesters in their 18-day popular uprising. The strains come at a time when many Egyptians are despairing of an imminent end to the crippling political impasse between President Mohammed Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood group on one side, and the mostly secular and liberal opposition on the other. The tug of war between the two camps is being waged against a grim backdrop of spreading unrest, rising crime and a worsening economy.
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Peace Program lets farmer make two donations activist to speak at NIU By DAVID THOMAS
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By STEPHANIE HICKMAN shickman@shawmedia.com DeKALB – Kathy Kelly’s effort to promote peace has been to some of the most dangerous places in the world. In November, she visited the Gaza Strip three days after a cease-fire ended eight days of fighting between the Palestinians and Israelis, which killed more than 160 people. Kelly went to visit with families who had lost loved ones. “It was a very tragic set of circumstances faced by each family,” she said. Kelly will speak about her experience in Gaza at 7:15 p.m. today in the Illinois Room Kathy Kelly of the Holmes Student Center at Northern Illinois University. She also will talk with guests about her overall campaign for peace. “It’s important to bring the message into university communities and listen to feedback from the university communities,” she said. Dan Kenney, co-coordinator of the DeKalb Interfaith Network, which is co-sponsoring the event with the NIU Department of Philosophy, said Kelly’s presentation is a great opportunity for the public to learn more about how war affects people living in these tumultuous areas. “She gets a firsthand view of what it’s like to be a person living under those conditions in those circumstances,” he said. Originally from Chicago, Kelly said she was inspired to work for peace after feeling troubled as a student and a teacher who kept hearing about problems related to poverty and violence. She chose to move to a poverty-stricken neighborhood in Chicago and soon became enlightened about becoming an activist. “A number of things became very, very clear,” she said. Today, Kelly is the co-coordinator of Voices of Creative Nonviolence, a group that campaigns to end U.S. economic and military warfare. Her efforts have brought her to some of the most wartorn areas in the world, such as Iraq, Afghanistan and most recently the Gaza Strip, where many civilian lives were lost during military attacks. “Hearing what had happened is such a nightmare of an experience,” Kelly said. Kenney said anyone who attends Kelly’s presentation will be able to get a glimpse into the world of those affected by war. “She brings a really good perspective of things,” he said. He said he hopes Kelly’s insights will bring about a greater effort for peace in the world. “Anytime we have the opportunity to hear about how conflicts are effecting the everyday lives of people, it helps us to work for diplomacy and peace in every way we can,” he said.
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MALTA – Roger Nelson had a rare opportunity: He had the ability to give $2,500 to any two local organizations that he felt were worthy of the money. The local farmer then selected the Malta Township Public Library and the Malta Fire Department. “There can’t be two finer organizations,” Nelson said. “You try to think what charitable organizations or worthy
sary because it is an all-volunteer department. “You got to have them,” If you were given $2,500 to gift Nelson said. “And they have to to a local charity, which would you have all of the equipment they choose? Vote online at Dailycan to serve the community.” Chronicle.com. The two organizations received money as a part of organizations are part of the Monsanto Fund’s America’s community. And we have a Farmers Grow Communities nice library here ... their job is program. The program awards to serve the youth of the town $2,500 to local nonprofit organi... you have to support the li- zations that farmers like Nelson select. brary.” Usually, winners can only Nelson said the support for the fire department is neces- pick one organization. But the
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program doubles the award amount for counties that have been declared disaster areas because of drought by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Together with his brother Jim, Nelson raises corn, soybeans and hogs on a farm located southwest of Malta. Nelson said he first heard about the program by mail from Monsanto. He said the online nomination process was fairly easy. Malta Fire Chief Jeff Byerhof said most of the money be used on a four-gas monitor,
which reads the levels of oxygen, carbon monoxide, and other gases in a given area. He said the rest will be spent on updating equipment. Peggy Wogen, director of the Malta library, said she was very excited to hear about the donation. She said the money will be spent on shelving for the library’s magazines and “read-alongs” – books with headphones that children wear when reading. The voice narrates the story, and the child reads along.
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DeKALB – A woman woke up about 7:20 a.m. Wednesday to a fire in her basement that caused about $70,000 in damages at 1626 Carlisle Lane, DeKalb Deputy Fire Chief Greg Hoyle said. Firefighters arrived at the scene to find smoke billowing out of the front door of the ranch house, which is west of First Street and north of West Hillcrest Drive, Hoyle said. The flames were contained to the laundry room, but smoke damage was spread throughout the home. Fire investigators determined the fire started near the electrical service panel in the basement near the laundry room. The homeowner reported hearing two loud booms in the basement before discovering the fire, Hoyle said. No injuries were reported.
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Ill. pension plan calls for permanent tax hike By REGINA GARCIA CANO The Associated Press SPRINGFIELD – A twoyear-old temporary Illinois income tax increase should become permanent to pay an increasing state portion of employee pension costs through 2019, a top House Democrat said Wednesday. Deputy Majority Leader Lou Lang’s proposal to shrink a $96 billion deficit in five state retirement systems also would increase the retirement age to 67 and increase employee contributions by 3
percentage points. The Skokie Democrat called his entry into the yearslong struggle to find a pension solution an idea that would meet with a judge’s constitutional approval, compared to others that tinker with postretirement cost-of-living increases. “This is a plan that’s constitutional, that’s fundable,” Lang said at a state Capitol news conference. Lang did not address the common claim that the state’s annual obligation to long-term retiree programs – more than
8POLICE REPORTS Editor’s note: Information in Police Reports is obtained from the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office and city police departments. Individuals listed in Police Reports who have been charged with a crime have not been proven guilty in court.
DeKalb city Darvis S. Yates, 25, of the 200 block of East 12th Street in Chicago Heights, was charged Tuesday, Feb. 19, with aggravated battery, two counts of domestic battery and interfering with the reporting of domestic violence. Adrian I. Lopez, 21, of the 500
$7 billion in the budget year that begins in July – already eats up the 67 percent incometax increase Gov. Pat Quinn pushed into law in 2011 to reduce the state budget deficit. The evidence is in the $9 billion in overdue bills Illinois owes for goods and services, which has barely budged in that time. “Including the income tax increase as part of the solution, to me, is already being part of the solution,” said Rep. Elaine Nekritz, a Northbrook Democrat who has been the focal point at a House solu-
tion. “It’s actually how we’re making the pension payments right now.” Lang said he had given House Speaker Michael Madigan an outline of the measure. Madigan spokesman Steve Brown later said Lang’s legislation is among those the Chicago Democrat is considering in seeking a solution. Plans by Nekritz, Democratic Senate President John Cullerton of Chicago, and Gov. Pat Quinn all have included other cost-saving measures, including increased worker contributions, less-generous
benefits, and a shift of some teacher-pension costs to local school districts. The idea is that because of decades of the state skimping on what it is supposed to pay, reform has to include measures to reduce the state’s cost going forward. A payment of $7 billion is roughly one-quarter of what the state raises annually in general tax revenue. “We have to deal with it on a comprehensive basis so it’s not just about revenue. It’s a lot more than that,” Democrat Quinn said Wednesday when asked about Lang’s proposed
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DeKalb County Jykara A. Boose, 22, of the 900 block of Crane Drive in DeKalb, was arrested Tuesday, Feb. 19, on a warrant for theft and charged with unlawful use of weapons.
Ill. acquires 547 acres of park land for $2.8M
recreation land in Vermilion County and a portion of the Hackmatack National Wildlife Refuge in Lake County. Quinn says the addition of the land will encourage children to get outside and enjoy nature. Department of Natural Resources Director Marc Miller says additional recreational land also boosts spending on tourism.
SPRINGFIELD – Illinois officials have purchased 547 acres of wildlife land, including a huge tract in one of the nation’s most popular places to hunt deer and the first portion of a new refuge northwest of Chicago. Gov. Pat Quinn announced the acquisitions Wednesday. The $2.8 million purchase uses money set aside for the Democrat’s Illinois Jobs Now capital construction program. It will eventually open hunting grounds in Pike County, a state forest in Ogle County,
Obama may weigh in on gay marriage case WASHINGTON – The Obama administration is quietly considering urging the Supreme Court to overturn California’s
ban on gay marriage, a step that would mark a political victory for advocates of samesex unions and a deepening commitment by President Barack Obama to rights for gay couples. Obama raised expectations among opponents of the Proposition 8 ban when he declared in last month’s inaugural address that gays and lesbians must be “treated like anyone else under the law.” The administration has until Feb. 28 to intervene in the case by filing a “friend of the court” brief.
– Wire reports
8OBITUARIES MARY MARGARET (DIEDRICH) CARPENTER Born: May 26, 1918, in DeKalb, Ill. Died: Feb. 19, 2013, in DeKalb DeKALB – Mary Margaret (Diedrich) Carpenter, 94, of DeKalb, Ill., passed away Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013, at Kishwaukee Community Hospital, DeKalb. Born May 26, 1918, in DeKalb, the daughter of Fred and Clara (Driscoll) Diedrich, Mary married Oliver Arthur “Ollie” Carpenter on April 18, 1942, at St. Mary Catholic Church, DeKalb. In her early 20s, Mary took on a six-month temporary assignment at IDEAL Industries. This turned into a 40-year career in its trust and accounting departments. Mary loved her work experience and often spoke fondly of her co-workers and the company. She met Ollie at a dance at the Sycamore Armory. Over the next year, they formed a strong love and friendship that was the basis for a 68-year marriage. Ollie was the
“front man” in their relationship, but behind the scenes Mary was the organized and strong partner who kept things on track. For many years, Mary and Ollie made their home on Delcy Drive in DeKalb, where lifetime friendships were made as they and their neighbors, all young couples, painted, planted, and raised families. In 2002, they moved to Oak Crest, where Mary again made a warm and comfortable home for them. Mary’s interests were gardening, needlepoint, traveling and dancing. She was a parishioner at St. Mary Catholic Church in DeKalb her entire life and served in many volunteer capacities for the parish. Her faith was very important to her and she lived the tenets of the church. She also was a member of the Catholic Daughters of America, the Kishwaukee Community Hospital Auxiliary and the Oak Crest Red Hat Society. She is survived by her brothers, Loras and John (Donna); many nieces, nephews and extended family, as well as too many friends to count. She was preceded in death by her husband, Ollie, in 2011; broth-
ers, Robert and Arthur; sister, Eileen; and numerous sisters- and brothers-in-law, nieces and nephews. The funeral Mass will be celebrated at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 23, at St. Mary Catholic Church, 321 Pine Street, DeKalb, with the Rev. Kenneth Anderson celebrating. Burial will follow in St. Mary Catholic Cemetery, DeKalb. Friends may call from 3 to 7 p.m. Friday, Feb 22, at Anderson Funeral Home, DeKalb. There will be a Catholic Daughters service at 3 p.m. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Mary M. Carpenter Memorial Fund, sent in care of Anderson Funeral Home, P.O. Box 605, 2011 S. Fourth St., DeKalb, IL 60115. To sign the online guest book, visit www.legacy.com/dailychronicle.
ISABEL S. CASH Born: May 20, 1918, in Joliet, Ill. Died: Feb. 19, 2013, in DeKalb, Ill. DeKALB – Isabel S. Cash, 94, of DeKalb, Ill., passed away in the early morning hours Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013, at her home at Oak
Crest DeKalb Area Retirement Center, DeKalb, after a brief illness. She was born May 20, 1918, in Joliet, to Richard and Mary Stoops. Isabel had a beloved older sister, Mary Margaret, and brother, Marshall. The family later moved to Jacksonville, where she graduated from Jacksonville High School in 1936 and MacMurray College in 1940. She then obtained a master’s degree in educational counseling at Columbia in New York City. She began her career as a freshman English teacher in 1941, at Glenbard High School in Glen Ellyn. In 1943, she joined Northern Illinois Teachers College (Northern Illinois University). She advanced into the role of assistant dean of women, which she held until 1953. She remembered her years at NIU fondly. In 1952, Isabel married Francis Cash, who was a World War II veteran and local attorney. They resided in DeKalb and had two children: Mary Cash (Lewis) and John Cash. Isabel was a member of the First
Congregational Church for 63 years. She was devoted to her grandchildren, Mark Haigh, David Haigh (Tania), Michael Haigh, Kimberly Cash, Daniel Cash, and Jeffrey Cash. She recently became a proud greatgrandmother to Vivian Maria Haigh. An avid reader, she loved traveling and visiting family. Known for her kindness and positive attitude, she will be sorely missed by her loving family. Funeral service will be at 10:30 a.m. Friday, Feb. 22, at First Congregational United Church of Christ with the Revs. Joseph Gastiger and Judy Harris officiating. Burial will follow in Fairview Park Cemetery, DeKalb. The visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 21, at Ronan-Moore-Finch Funeral Home, 310 Oak St., DeKalb. A memorial fund will be established for the Congregational Church and The Salvation Army. Arrangements were entrusted to Ronan-Moore-Finch Funeral Home. To send an online condolence, visit www.RonanMooreFinch.com; 815-758-3841. To sign the online guest book, visit www.legacy.com/dailychronicle.
income-tax extension. Quinn would not say whether he supports keeping the tax increase in place beyond its 2014 expiration. Lang, who also would shift teacher costs over several years, would offer taxpayers a $1 billion-a-year rebate beginning in 2020, the year a decadeold bond sale to raise pensionfund money is paid back. Since 2011, new employees must work until age 67 before retiring. Current employees generally may retire at 60 with full benefits after eight years of state work.
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makrishnan and other NIU police. Grady and Ramakrishnan were placed on paid leave Nov. 10, eight days after Stuckert found the evidence mishandling was intentional. Ramakrishnan remains on leave, but he has been notified of the university’s intention to fire him.
ONE TERMINATION, ONE RETIREMENT In his Feb. 3 letter, Grady compared his situation to that of Robert Albanese, who quit as associate vice president of the division of finance and facilities last summer amid allegations of misconduct. Albanese, Grady wrote, was not placed on administrative leave until university officials completed a two-and-a-halfmonth investigation. Albanese was also placed on leave with the agreement he would either resign or retire, according to the letter. “Is racial discrimination
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at play here?” Grady asked in his letter. “If not, would you please provide me with the bona fide occupational qualifier that allows for the disparity in treatment demonstrated in this circumstance?” On Feb. 1, Grady told Nicklas he was unaware of and didn’t participate in withholding evidence in the Rifkin case, but Nicklas didn’t believe him, according to Nicklas’ letter firing Grady. “While I do not find your denials to be credible, even if true, at a minimum, your fail-
ure to supervise departmental personnel in this important case represents sufficient cause for dismissal,” Nicklas wrote. Grady also should have recognized that allowing NIU police to investigate one of its own officers exposed the department to allegations of a conflict of interest, the letter states. “Your credibility and the credibility of the department has been compromised to the extent the University believes termination is appropriate,”
Nicklas wrote in the letter. “Put simply, your breach of contract has damaged irreparable the trust the must exist between the University and its Chief of Police.” But Grady’s attorney, Michael Fox, said Nicklas had no basis for his findings. “We asked [Nicklas] what evidence do you have that [Grady] knew? His answer was silence,” Fox said. “I think we’re entitled to something more than silence when you take the career of a man of chief Grady’s status away.”
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8OUR VIEW
8SKETCH VIEW
Time for NIU PD to move on
8VIEWS
Balanced budget amendment still bad idea Frustrated by the persistence of large deficits, and alarmed by the long-term gap between spending and revenue, congressional Republicans are promoting a constitutional amendment to require balanced budgets. The amendment has long been a popular idea. It is also a bad idea, which is why it’s a good thing it isn’t going to come close to being ratified. There are several competing versions. Some Republicans favor the “clean” amendment they supported in the 1980s and 1990s, which just requires balance. Others fear this would lead to tax increases. They want an amendment that requires balance and also caps spending at 18 percent of gross domestic product and requires a two-thirds vote of Congress to raise taxes. That’s the version that all Senate Republicans have agreed to co-sponsor. Some House Republicans have mused about yet a third version, which would require the government to balance its budgets over the course of an economic cycle rather than in any year. The senators’ amendment would make the federal government a smaller share of the economy than it has been since the 1950s. The chief economic argument against it is that it would make recessions worse. When recessions hit, they increase deficits: Revenue falls while spending on unemployment benefits (among other things) goes up. A strict balanced-budget rule would force spending cuts or tax increases at times of economic weakness. The Federal Reserve could theoretically offset these effects, but you’d want to be pretty confident before-
VIEWS Ramesh Ponnuru hand that it would do the right thing. The economic argument assumes the amendment would be enforced. It isn’t clear how it would be. If the government were projected to run a deficit, would the courts step in to cut spending or raise taxes? The senators’ amendment rules out judicial tax increases but leaves the door open for court-ordered cuts in defense spending or Social Security benefits. The result would be a major expansion of judicial power over American life, brought to us by the party that has rightly warned against the growth of that very power for decades. When pressed on the enforcement question, proponents sometimes say that a sense of shame will keep Congress from violating the amendment. (Really, that’s what they say.) The Senate Judiciary Committee made a similar point in a 1993 report on a proposed amendment: “In their campaigns for re-election, elected officials who flout their responsibilities under this amendment will find that the political process will provide the ultimate enforcement mechanism.” If shame and political pressure could solve our debt woes, they already would have. If the budget is unbalanced, any future congressman will be able to say that he supports a remedy: cutting this or that program or raising taxes. There’s nothing
in the amendment that would force congressmen to agree on just which solution to adopt, or to pass any of them. The polls may also be misleading Republicans about the political merits of a campaign for an amendment. Democrats will say the Senate Republicans’ version of the amendment would gut Social Security and Medicare (which would, after all, be one way to comply with it). Without any plan of their own to balance the budget right now, Republicans won’t be able to counter that attack. The other political risk for Republicans is the time they waste making the case for an ineffectual amendment is time they don’t spend persuading voters that they have any ideas that would help families balance their own budgets. And it would indeed be time wasted. All the Republicans and 22 of the Democrats in the Senate, plus all the Republicans and 56 of the Democrats in the House, would have to vote for the idea to send it to the states. Then three-quarters of the states, which have grown increasingly dependent on federal deficit spending to keep their own budgets in balance, would have to ratify it. The amendment isn’t going anywhere. The Republican Party has a lot of problems. A fight over the Balanced Budget Amendment would, at best, solve one it doesn’t have.
• Ramesh Ponnuru is a Bloomberg View columnist, a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a senior editor at National Review.
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Illinois can’t even pay to bury impoverished dead By SCOTT REEDER SPRINGFIELD – The service was hollow. The congregants sat before the cheap casket in worn, workingman clothes. The pastor saying the last words kept forgetting the dead man’s name. I’m sad to say, more than 20 years later even I, the reporter sitting in the back of the chapel, now struggle to remember the fellow’s name. His life alternated between jail cells and street corners. And at the service he was receiving more respect in death than he had in life. He was buried by the state. Anyone who is a regular reader of this column knows that I believe government should be limited in scope. But burying the penniless has been a governmental functional since Biblical times – long predating the modern welfare state. And even this basic government function is failing in Illinois. The state’s funeral and burial program was appropriated $9.58 million for the current fiscal year and yet funeral homes directors complain of waiting as long as a year for the state to pay them for their services. Increasingly, funeral homes and cemeteries are just saying no when asked to handle an indigent person’s funeral arrangements.
They operate businesses, after all. Their employees won’t wait a year to get paid. Their suppliers won’t wait a year to receive a check. But somehow the state seems to think it is just fine to make businesses wait. Of course it’s not just funeral homes and cemeteries that are getting this sort of shabby treatment from our government. It’s also doctors, dentists and pharmacists. Those are just a few of the professions where you’ll find individuals choosing not offer services to Medicaid patients because the state pays them a fraction of their actual costs and reimburses them months late to boot. More people may have Medicaid cards. But fewer people are choosing to treat those carrying them. Please keep in mind this is happening at a time when state revenues are at their peak. Never before in the state’s 195-year history has it taken in more money. And yet the Land of Lincoln is spiraling toward insolvency. Why? Our leaders have consistently made poor decisions. Problems with pensions have been kicked down the road for decades. We needed leadership; instead we got the same old politics. When circumstances called for belt tightening, our lawmakers chose to expand
government instead. The state now has $9 billion in unpaid bills. But earlier this month, the Illinois House voted to approve a host of questionable appropriations. “They voted to spend $115,000 for an Illinois Basketball Hall of Fame in Danville and $30,000 or $40,000 for bicycle racks and even more for a mining monument in southern Illinois – at time we can’t even pay our bills,” said state Rep. Tom Morrison, R-Palatine. “People think that isn’t much money – but it all adds up. And we shouldn’t be spending money on new programs like this, when we can’t even pay our bills.” Core functions of government – incarcerating criminals, educating children, maintaining roads – have suffered because of such political indecision. Government can’t be all things. “No” is a healthy word for lawmakers to learn because the more spending balloons in some areas, the less there is to spend in more important areas. After all, we live in a state that struggles just to bury its dead. Don’t we deserve better?
• Scott Reeder is a veteran statehouse reporter and the journalist in residence at the Illinois Policy Institute. He can be reached at sreeder@illinoispolicy.org.
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At last, Northern Illinois University’s police force can move on. The decision this week by Bill Nicklas, acting director of public safety at NIU, to remove Donald Grady as police chief has been a long time coming. More than three years ago – while Grady was on administrative leave after an incident with a student journalist – we said in this space that we had lost confidence in Grady’s ability to do his job to the standards the university and public deserve. Officials at NIU have come to the same conclusion at last, after Grady spent more than three months in another stint on paid leave, this time in connection with his department’s mishandling of evidence in its investigation of rape allegations against one of its own former officers, Andrew Rifkin. Grady’s response to the Feb. 14, 2008, shootings on the NIU campus was laudable. Since then, however, he virtually has been an invisible man. Not only was he rarely seen or heard from publicly, but the NIU police were criticized for failing to cooperate with other police departments in DeKalb and DeKalb County at a time when crime has become a key concern for residents. Residents and students deserve better. Grady finally was compelled to speak publicly Nov. 2 in DeKalb County Court, when he was called to testify about his department’s failure to turn over witness statements that would have helped Rifkin defend himself against the allegations. When asked if he had disciplined anyone for failing to turn over evidence in the case, Grady said he had not. “I did talk to them,” Grady said. “Some people think that might be as stern as a termination.” Others thought it was a sign of a police chief who was out of touch. Presiding Judge Robbin Stuckert called the NIU police’s failure to turn over the evidence a flagrant violation of required police procedure. Former State’s Attorney Clay Campbell called the NIU force “a rogue police department.” With Grady as chief, the NIU police would continue to suffer from credibility problems. Grady’s salary of $205,987 a year seems sky-high, especially when compared with, say, the City of DeKalb police chief’s salary of $117,000 a year. It is time for NIU to move on to someone who will be more effective as a leader and more affordable for taxpayers. We are pleased that NIU officials finally summoned the courage to take this step in the wake of the Rifkin case. It appears Grady is preparing to fight his dismissal. In this case, it is a fight worth having for the university’s sake.
8 ANOTHER VIEW
GOP should drop the filibuster against Hagel Chuck Hagel isn’t everyone’s idea of a great defense secretary. Fair enough, although it is peculiar that a Democratic president nominated a former Republican senator for defense secretary and Republican senators howl. But it’s now gone beyond howling. Republican senators are willfully breaching a barrier of conduct that will further wreck Congress’ ability to do the nation’s work and, incredibly, all but guarantee that Democrats will someday return the favor. It is a standard of conduct that is neither responsible nor conservative. Specifically, Republicans filibustered Hagel’s nomination last week, not simply rejecting a president’s choice for his cabinet – virtually unheard of on its own – but even denying the vote itself. Had Republicans discovered something new and troubling about Hagel that demanded this delay, that would be defensible. But such was not the case. Rather, Republicans were demanding more information about the only issue their minds can process these days: The September attack on the American diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya. They want to know exactly what President Obama was doing at that time, which is irrelevant to the current issue and of ongoing interest only to Republicans who are desperate for a way to gain traction against a resurgent Obama. This isn’t the way to do that. And it is gamesmanship. Consider: The problem at Benghazi flowed not from the Defense Department, but from the State Department. If Republicans were really looking for answers on Benghazi, they would have held up John Kerry’s nomination for state, not Hagel’s for Defense. They didn’t. That’s not the only issue behind Republican kookery on this nomination. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., is anxious about a potential tea party challenge in 2014. He is upending important Senate traditions for no better reason than to protect his flanks, demonstrating to the rabid portions of his constituency that he can be as foolish as any tea party congressman they can name. We hope other Republicans will think again before continuing down this path. Someday, there will be another Republican president and a Republican Senate considering important nominations. Today’s Republicans might want to give to Obama the kind of deference they would expect then. And if that doesn’t matter to them, they could try just thinking about the country, which needs a new secretary of defense. The Buffalo (N.Y.) News
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A storm system will spread clouds and eventually snow by late in the evening. A Winter Weather Advisory is in efect from 9:00 p.m. until 6:00 p.m. Friday. Total snowfall amounts will be between 3-5 inches. A few light snow showers will be around early Friday morning along with patchy freezing drizzle. Drier and cooler air will arrive by the start of the weekend.
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Sports
The Indian Creek boys basketball team suffered a double-overtime loss to Erie in a Class 1A Erie Regional semifinal. PAGE B2
SECTION B Thursday, February 21, 2013 Daily Chronicle
Sports editor Ross Jacobson • rjacobson@shawmedia.com
8MORNING KICKOFF
DEKALB FOOTBALL
Weckler ‘destined to go to DeKalb’ By ROSS JACOBSON rjacobson@shawmedia.com
NCAA sues over Pa. law to keep PSU fine in state HARRISBURG, Pa. – The NCAA wasted no time in challenging a new Pennsylvania law designed to keep the $60 million Penn State fine over the Jerry Sandusky scandal in the state, filing a federal challenge to the legislation hours after Gov. Tom Corbett signed it Wednesday. State and congressional lawmakers have objected to use of the NCAA fine to finance child abuse prevention efforts in other states. The complaint asks a federal judge to throw out the Pennsylvania Institution of Higher Education Monetary Penalty Endowment Act, saying it violates provisions of the U.S. Constitution. It also asks for an injunction to prevent the law from being enforced. Defendants in the lawsuit are Corbett and three state officials who would be involved in handling or monitoring the money: the auditor general, treasurer and chairman of the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency. – Wire report
On Tuesday night, Matt Weckler was approved by the DeKalb School District 428 board as the new football coach at DeKalb. Weckler coached six seasons at Belvidere, leading the Bucs to a 31-29 record and four playoff appearances in that span. Daily Chronicle sports editor Ross Jacobson talked with Weckler about his plans for the Barbs’ football program. Here’s an edited transcript:
Daily Chronicle: Why DeKalb? What had you excited about it and what drew you to
the job?
Weckler: When I moved out to Belvidere and got the job, the DeKalb job opened up a couple times when I was actually coaching here. That’s when I had little bit less experience than what I do now and I applied for Matt Weckler those jobs as well and it was unfortunate I didn’t get in for those jobs either. For me, it’s just a place that I’ve wanted to go to. It’s almost like I’ve been destined to go to DeKalb and be success-
ful. It just seems like a place that I wanted to be at. It’s a one-school town that I think really supports their athletics and their kids. DC: You’re coming into a situation with a relatively new school and new stadium. How exciting is it to come into a school with new facilities? Weckler: That was one of the additional factors that I looked at when I was applying for jobs. Belvidere is a good place to work and I’ve been very selective in figuring out schools I’d love to go to. The facilities at DeKalb have absolutely everything that I ever thought of having as a coach and as a P.E. teacher as well.
More online For all your prep sports coverage – stories, features, scores, photos, videos, blogs and more – log on to Daily-Chronicle.com/dcpreps. That was a big factor. DC: You move from the NIC-10 to the NI Big 12 and a lot of people think the NI Big 12 is one of the best conferences for its size in the state. What do you think of the move into a conference with teams like Kaneland, Morris
and Sycamore, which have had such consistent success? Weckler: I’ve made the playoffs four of the six years as a head coach and three of those years. ... I’ve lost to Kaneland twice and lost to Morris in the quarterfinals one year as well. I know how difficult that conference is. From top to bottom I respect all those programs and all the coaches that are in there. Competition is what we all want to coach for. Hopefully I can get [DeKalb] to that level of the Morrises and the Kanelands and the Sycamores and Rochelle as well.
See WECKLER, page B2
NORTHERN ILLINOIS MEN’S BASKETBALL
Waiting for an opportunity
8WHAT TO WATCH Pro basketball Miami at Bulls, 7 p.m., TNT The Bulls look for their second win to start the second half when they host the Heat at the United Center. The Bulls beat the Heat, 96-89, on Jan. 4 in the first meeting of the season. Also on TV... Men’s college basketball Cincinnati at Connecticut, 6 p.m., ESPN Georgia at Arkansas, 6 p.m., ESPN2 Drexel at Delaware, 6 p.m., NBCSN Penn St. at Illinois, 7 p.m., BTN Duke at Virginia Tech, 8 p.m., ESPN California at Oregon, 8 p.m., ESPN2 BYU at Saint Mary’s (Calif.), 10 p.m., ESPN2 Pro basketbal San Antonio at L.A. Clippers, 9:30 p.m., TNT Auto racing NASCAR, Nationwide Series, practice for DRIVE4COPD 300, at Daytona Beach, Fla., 9 a.m., ESPN2 NASCAR, Truck Series, practice for NextEra Energy Resources 250, at Daytona, Fla., 11 a.m., SPEED NASCAR, Sprint Cup, Budweiser Duel, at Daytona Beach, Fla., 1 p.m., SPEED NASCAR, Truck Series, final practice for NextEra Energy Resources 250, at Daytona Beach, Fla., 5 p.m., SPEED Golf LPGA Thailand, first round, at Chonburi, Thailand, 8 a.m., TGC (same-day tape) PGA Tour-WGC, Accenture Match Play Championship, second-round matches, at
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Northern Illinois University freshman guard J.J. Cravatta shoots during a drill at Tuesday’s practice on Victor E. Court inside the Convocation Center in DeKalb.
Freshman Cravatta making most of limited chances Up next
By STEVE NITZ snitz@shawmedia.com
Eastern Illinois at NIU, 3 p.m. Saturday, AM-1360
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eKALB – As Northern Illinois men’s basketball coach Mark Montgomery puts it, sometimes players just have to wait for an opportunity. One of six freshmen on Montgomery’s 2012-13 roster, J.J. Cravatta came to DeKalb as a preferred walk-on. For the first two months or so of the season, he bided his time near the end of NIU’s bench, waiting for that one opportunity, rarely getting on the scoreboard. He played 19 minutes in the Huskies’ blowout win over NAIA Judson University Nov. 18, and had a 16-minute effort
in a win over SIU-Edwardsville Dec. 5, but outside of those two games there wasn’t much playing time for Cravatta. In an 81-63 loss at Ohio Jan. 16, Cravatta got another opportunity, and took advantage of it, scoring a seasonhigh 10 points in 16 minutes. The good amount of playing time he received that evening came after a stretch of seven games when Cravatta averaged about 4.5 minutes. “First, he probably had a good week of practice. When he went into the game, he just played aggressive, he was getting loose balls, he got to the offensive glass,” Montgomery said of Cravatta’s showing at Ohio. “He did his job, he was ready to shoot the basketball
and that’s what he did.” Since then, the Streator native has been more of a fixture in the Huskies’ rotation, averaging close to 14.5 minutes a contest since the game in Athens, Ohio in mid-January. He tied his career high of 10 points in a loss on Feb. 2 to Toledo, though he’s still averaging just 2.8 points a game. Cravatta’s main strength is his shooting, something he certainly did a lot at Streator, getting the ball coming off screens and firing away. He averaged 26.9 points a game his senior season and led the Bulldogs to their first regional title in 43 seasons.
See CRAVATTA, page B2
IHSA CLASS 1A WESTMINSTER CHRISTIAN REGIONAL: HINCKLEY-BIG ROCK 44, HARVEST CHRISTIAN ACADEMY 33
Royals overcome Lions’ zone defense to advance By STEVE NITZ snitz@shawmedia.com ELGIN – Hinckley-Big Rock may not have earned any style points in Wednesday’s 44-33 win over Harvest Christian Academy. However, the Royals did what they needed to do to move on in postseason play and will face Mooseheart for the Class 1A Westminster Christian Regional title Friday at 7:30 p.m. The IHSA has moved Friday’s game from Westminster Christian to Judson University in Elgin. Top-seeded H-BR had trouble finding consistency early on, leading the fourth-seeded Lions by just seven points at halftime. The Royals (24-4) struggled to get into a rhythm
Scoreboard Tuesday’s Quarterfinals Mooseheart...................................... 74 Faith Lutheran..................................40 Westminster Christian....................61 Elgin Academy................................. 22 Wednesday’s Semifinals Hinckley-Big Rock ........................... 44 Harvest Christian Academy .......... 33 Mooseheart...................................... 45 Westminster Christian................... 30 Friday’s championship Hinckley-Big Rock vs. Mooseheart, 7:30 p.m. (game moved to Judson University)
against Harvest Christian’s (17-12) 3-2 zone defense. H-BR coach Bill Sambrookes said the Lions did a
good job of guarding the high post. “Because of that, they were able to stay in the low post a little bit more,” he said. “So we weren’t able to get the passes in. But we found out what we could do was dribble penetration. We got inside, drew some fouls and got some shots by drawing the defense in.” Lions coach Jeff Boldog thought a 3-2 zone was the best option against what he called a disciplined Royals offense. He thought his team could hold its own against the H-BR 3-point shooting and play defense under the hoop with post players like 6-foot-1 Zach Alston, 6-6 Dan Turpin and 6-2 Matt Borst.
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Hinckley-Big Rock’s Bernie Conley (5) is pressured by three Harvest Christian defenders before getting a pass off in the third quarter Thursday during an IHSA Class 1A Westminster Christian Regional semifinal. H-BR defeated Harvest Christian, 44-33.
SPORTS
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8UPCOMING PREPS SPORTS SCHEDULE FRIDAY Boys Basketball Kaneland at Rochelle, 7 p.m. DeKalb at Sycamore, 7 p.m. Boys Swimming State finals in Winnetka
SATURDAY Wrestling Team state finals in Bloomington Boys Swimming State finals in Winnetka
8SPORTS SHORTS Indian Creek boys basketball falls in 2OT Indian Creek’s boys basketball team lost to Erie, 72-69, in double overtime to end its season in the Class 1A Erie Regional semifinals. The Timberwolves led by six points, 48-42, heading into the fourth quarter, but couldn’t hold the lead. After both teams were tied at the end of regulation, four minutes of extra time did not settle the score. Erie was up, 69-68, with 20 seconds remaining in the second overtime and Indian Creek couldn’t close the deficit. Jaron Todd led Indian Creek with 19 points while Garrett Post had 16.
Cornerstone Christian to host basketball tourney Cornerstone Christian Academy is hosting its Annual “Nothing But Net” 3-on-3 basketball tournament open to all community teams March 23, starting at 9 a.m. The tournament will be at Cornerstone Christian Academy in Sycamore. The competition will be separated into the following divisions: boys 12 and 13, boys 14 to 18, men 19 and over, and girls 12 to 18. There will also be 3-point and freethrow shooting contests. The top two teams in each division will be awarded medals and prizes. Teams can register at www. cornerstonechristianacademy. com until March 19. Early registration by March 8 is $40 per team. After March 8, the cost to register will be $50. For more information on the event, game rules and registration, contact Julianna Ladas at 815-895-8522. All proceeds benefit Cornerstone Christian Academy Sports Boosters.
BEARS
NBA
Roach shows there is still good in sports Amy Henke’s voice cracked Wednesday as she spoke about her late husband, Sam. She wanted to share his story, although it makes her cry. “This is still hard to talk about,” she said. Nobody is supposed to be a widow at age 28. Nobody should have to worry about exorbitant medical bills while grieving the loss of a spouse. Nothing can bring back Sam Henke, who died last month at age 29 after a three-month battle with an unexplainable liver disease. But with the help of Bears linebacker Nick Roach, anyone with a computer can help Amy and her family while honoring Sam’s memory. Most of us know Roach as the Bears’ dependable and versatile six-year veteran linebacker. He registered 84 tackles and 1½ sacks in 16 games in 2012, which included a move from strong-side linebacker to middle linebacker after Brian Urlacher injured his hamstring. But as he took over for Urlacher, Roach was thinking about far more than football. His thoughts often drifted to the Henkes, his friends from Milwaukee Lutheran High School, years before he starred at Northwestern or reached the NFL as an undrafted free agent. Like so many others, Roach and his wife, Anna-Marie, were shocked to hear that Sam Henke was terribly sick. One
VIEWS Tom Musick day Henke was healthy, and the next day he was fighting for his life. “I thought about him a lot,” said Roach, who will become a free agent next month but hopes to remain with the Bears. “I prayed a lot with my wife about it. We were just hoping for the best-case scenario.” Instead came the worst. Three months is nothing. It’s a blink. It’s a speck. It’s a tiny particle of time. It was all Sam had before his body shut down. Sam died Jan. 2. He was a loving husband, son and brother. He coached kids soccer. He was a passionate sports fan who loved Manchester United and the Green Bay Packers. Shortly after Sam’s death, the Roaches attended his funeral along with about 900 others in a packed church in suburban Milwaukee. Roach was inspired by the difference that Sam made in so many lives, and he was determined to help Amy in whatever way possible. “Your heart breaks for her,” Roach said. “Amy is one of those people, she’s like the sweetest girl in the world. I don’t think that she’s had an enemy her whole life.” But Amy and the rest of Sam’s family needed lots of
help to cover soaring medical bills. Roach donated through a website, which gave him an idea. First, he reached out to Amy to make sure it was OK. “He said, ‘Amy, I want to do something,’ ” Amy said. “ ‘But I want to do a little more.’ ” Amy was grateful and quickly agreed to the plan. “I just kept saying thank you,” she said. Instead of calling out plays on defense, Roach started calling people he knew. He, his wife and a friend began brainstorming prizes that could generate donations from Bears fans. The group collected four tickets to next season’s BearsPackers game at Soldier Field to give away to a winner. They added four tickets to a Cubs game, which includes on-field access for pictures after the game. They gathered golf bags and sports gear and massage services and VIP passes to Shedd Aquarium and all kinds of items autographed by athletes such as Roach and Urlacher and Johnny Knox and Ernie Banks and Anthony Rizzo. Still, it wasn’t enough. Roach offered to host lunch for four people and to pick up the tab. He volunteered to participate in a 90-minute training session with someone at his gym. He even offered to provide a voice-over for a lucky winner’s voicemail message. An online donation of $10
Dixon, Streator to leave NI Big 12; Hubs to West Conference realignment continues to shake up the Northern Illinois Big 12 Conference. Both Dixon High School and Streator High School have announced they will be leaving the league after the 2013-14 school year, leaving the conference with 10 teams. Dixon will move the Big Northern Conference and Streator to the Interstate 8 Conference. At a board meeting Tuesday, Rochelle athletic director Kevin Crandall said the Hubs would most likely switch to the West Division, leaving each side with five teams. The East Division would be left with Kaneland, Sycamore, DeKalb, Morris and Yorkville while the West Division would consist of Rochelle, Ottawa, Geneseo, LaSalle-Peru and Sterling. Each division would need at least six teams in order to be eligible for an automatic qualifier in football to the IHSA state playoffs. – Staff reports
to any prize category enters someone into a drawing for that prize. Each additional entry is another $10, and those interested can donate from now until March 2. A link to the fundraiser is available at NickRoach53.com or facebook. com/nickroach53. In addition, Roach will send an autographed picture to everyone who donates. Roach’s goal is to raise $25,000 by March 2. His site started accepting donations Monday, and by Wednesday evening, he had raised more than $3,100. It’s a big project, especially for a quiet player who prefers to stay out of the public eye. Important causes prompt him to speak up and to use his platform. It’s easy to become jaded about athletes as one sordid story after another makes headlines. But athletes, like all people, are complicated. Some are good. Some are bad. Most are a little bit of both. Roach’s act offers hope for the good. “What Nick is doing, it’s an incredible gesture of compassion and support,” Henke said. “It really does leave me speechless. It brings tears to my eyes.” • Northwest Herald sports columnist Tom Musick can be reached at tmusick@shawmedia.com and on Twitter @tcmusick.
Guard originally a preferred walk-on • CRAVATTA Continued from page B1
Northern Illinois women’s basketball falls to Toledo The Northern Illinois women’s basketball team fell to 7-18 and 2-10 in the Mid-American Conference with a 72-40 loss at Toledo on Wednesday afternoon. Natecia Augusta led the Huskies with 12 points, and was the only NIU player in double figures. The Huskies shot just 27.7 percent from the field, while the Rockets shot 47.1 percent. “We couldn’t sustain the effort needed to compete with Toledo,” NIU coach Kathi Bennett said in a news release. “The last four minutes [of the first half] was what I was most disappointed in. Because of foul trouble we had to take some kids out and we couldn’t maintain our momentum.”
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Hinckley-Big Rock’s Mitch Ruh takes a shot in the first quarter during Thursday’s IHSA Class 1A Westminster Christian Regional semifinal in Elgin.
H-BR to face Mooseheart for regional title • ROYALS Continued from page B1 “I thought we did a pretty good job against their offense and got them flustered,” Boldog said. H-BR did end up with three fourth-quarter 3-pointers, two from Andrew Klambauer and another from Mitch Ruh. Bernie Conley hit a 3-pointer in the first, and led the Royals with 17 points. Michael Bayler, Zach Michels and Klambauer each added six. While H-BR may not have
had its way with the Lions on the offensive end, the Royals’ press made it tough for Harvest Christian to get anything going. “Luckily they had some trouble with our full-court press or it would have been much closer than it was,” Sambrookes said. The win sets up a matchup with the second-seeded Red Ramblers, who won, 4530, over host Westminster Christian in Wednesday’s second semifinal. H-BR defeated Mooseheart, 58-51, in Hinckley on Dec. 5.
H-BR’s players have heard about the potential regional final for a while now. The Royals’ main goal is just getting a regional title, no matter who the opponent is. “People everywhere are hyping it up to where it’s cool and all, but sometimes it just gets overwhelming, just like the first game we played them,” Conley said. “We go in with the same mindset every time. It’s not like we’re going in thinking something different. We’re just trying to go out there and play our hardest and win the game.”
Despite his dominance at the prep level, there wasn’t much Division I interest. Cravatta had the option to be a preferred walk-on at Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and said he talked to a couple other schools about walking on. He said NIU hadn’t seen him play until assistant Lou Dawkins watched him go against Ottawa late in 2011-12. “It was really kind of a late decision,” he said. “When I talked to my parents, I felt it was best. I wanted the opportunity to play Division I, try and prove myself.” Cravatta didn’t expect to have a scholarship his freshman year, and wasn’t seeing much playing time. However, his fortunes changed fairly quickly. In August, Montgomery called him into his office telling him he had earned a scholarship, which had opened up when Marquavese Ford left the program. Montgomery evaluated Cravatta throughout the summer workouts. “Dating back to the summer, he fit in with the guys well. He was working hard in our workouts in the summer,” Montgomery said. “We were lacking a true shooter, that always helps too.” Cravatta didn’t figure he’d be on scholarship, and wasn’t planning on getting too many minutes during the regular season. So far, he’s been trying to make the most of it, and hopes it will end up paying off in the future. “I figured my freshman year, hopefully just work hard through practice,” he said. “I really didn’t expect to get this many opportunities in the game. But I’ve been just trying to prove myself day in and day out.”
Weckler possibly will bring some coaches from Belvidere staff • WECKLER Continued from page B1 DC: You’ll have to fill assistant roles. Do you know what you want to do with those and what you’re planning to do? Weckler: There’s a possibility I’ll probably bring some people with me from the Belvidere staff. Also put some feelers out there already about people I’ve contacted about making a switch over to DeKalb. I also want to get some teachers in the building. I think that’s very important as a coaching staff. I always want to get some young guys in here that bring a lot of energy and some people we can groom to eventually move up. DC: What was your experience like working under Bryon Houy for the five years you had Houy as your athletic director
at Belvidere? Weckler: To be honest, for me to actually apply for the DeKalb job, that wasn’t a big influence on me at all. It’s very nice having him there and I work really well with Bryon. I know exactly what hes expecting of a coach and all the coaches in the building. There’s no gray area with Bryon. I think he runs a great athletic program as a whole, he promotes athletics, he promotes cooperation. That’s what I think he’s trying to build down here. DC: What have you run at Belvidere? What’s your offensive scheme and are you planning to bring that to DeKalb? Weckler: We are, we’re going to bring some of it. I’ve ran the triple-option, wishbone at Belvidere when I first started and then we’ve also run some pistol with some triple as well.
That’s kind of what we’re going to bring here. What we do with that is going to depend on the athletes that we have. I’d love to be able to run the ball and I think at the high school level it’s something you have to be able to do consistently in order to be good. I talked to the kids about [Tuesday] night a little bit after the school meeting for the kids who were there, be ready to be repetitioned to death. We’re not going to do a lot, but we’re going to do the little things and what we do we’re going to run them all the time. DC: What specifically have you seen on tape you’ve seen of DeKalb? Weckler: They have a lot of talent. To be honest, I think there have been years that we’ve made the playoffs here at Belvidere that I think DeKalb
actually had a lot more talent than what we did. I think it comes down to having the kids buy into your system and them actually putting the work in and doing the little things. DC: Overall, what do you think is the potential of this program? Weckler: Everybody I’ve talked to, because I did a lot of research before applying and taking this job, it’s such untapped talent. They have the potential. In talking to Bryon a little bit, everybody around I think is sick and tired of talking about potential. I guess my job coming in is to really utilize that potential and get kids to be successful. I think it’s a good core group of kids at DeKalb High School now that want to win. You talk to them, they want to do very well and compete for a conference playoff spot.
EASTERN CONFERENCE Central Division W L Pct Indiana 33 21 .611 Bulls 31 22 .585 Milwaukee 26 27 .491 Detroit 22 34 .393 Cleveland 17 37 .315 Atlantic Division W L Pct New York 32 19 .627 Brooklyn 33 22 .600 Boston 28 25 .528 Philadelphia 22 30 .423 Toronto 22 33 .400 Southeast Division W L Pct Miami 37 14 .725 Atlanta 29 23 .558 Washington 15 37 .288 Orlando 15 39 .278 Charlotte 13 41 .241
GB — 1½ 6½ 12 16 GB — 1 5 10½ 12 GB — 8½ 22½ 23½ 25½
WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct San Antonio 43 12 .782 Memphis 35 18 .660 Houston 30 26 .536 Dallas 24 29 .453 New Orleans 19 36 .345 Northwest Division W L Pct Oklahoma City 39 15 .722 Denver 34 21 .618 Utah 31 24 .564 Portland 25 29 .463 Minnesota 20 31 .392 Pacific Division W L Pct L.A. Clippers 39 17 .696 Golden State 30 23 .566 L.A. Lakers 25 29 .463 Sacramento 19 36 .345 Phoenix 18 36 .333
GB — 7 13½ 18 24 GB — 5½ 8½ 14 17½ GB — 7½ 13 19½ 20
Wednesday’s results Detroit 105, Charlotte 99 Memphis 88, Toronto 82 Indiana 125, New York 91 Houston 122, Oklahoma City 119 Minnesota 94, Philadelphia 87 Brooklyn 97, Milwaukee 94 Miami 103, Atlanta 90 Cleveland 105, New Orleans 100 Dallas 111, Orlando 96 Phoenix at Golden State (n) Boston at L.A. Lakers (n) Today’s Games Miami at Bulls, 6 p.m. San Antonio at L.A. Clippers, 9:30 p.m. Friday’s Games Bulls at Charlotte, 6 p.m. New York at Toronto, 6 p.m. Detroit at Indiana, 6 p.m. Denver at Washington, 6 p.m. Sacramento at Atlanta, 6:30 p.m. Houston at Brooklyn, 6:30 p.m. Orlando at Memphis, 7 p.m. Dallas at New Orleans, 7 p.m. Minnesota at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m. Boston at Phoenix, 8 p.m. San Antonio at Golden State, 9:30 p.m. Portland at L.A. Lakers, 9:30 p.m. Tuesday’s results Bulls 96, New Orleans 87 Charlotte 105, Orlando 92 Toronto 96, Washington 88 Brooklyn 113, Milwaukee 111, OT Memphis 105, Detroit 91 Denver 97, Boston 90 Utah 115, Golden State 101 Phoenix 102, Portland 98 San Antonio 108, Sacramento 102
Blazers’ Hickson apologizes for tweets PORTLAND, Ore. – Portland forward J.J. Hickson apologized for his Valentine’s Day tweets about when to cut off contact with a woman, saying he was just joking around. The Trail Blazers’ big man took to the social media site last week to post a series of tweets with the hashtag (hash) girlbye that he meant to be funny one-liners. But some of the stream drew criticism for being demeaning toward women. He also included a shoutout to strippers. Hickson apologized to those he offended. – Wire report
NHL WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts Blackhawks 16 13 0 3 29 Nashville 17 8 4 5 21 St. Louis 16 9 6 1 19 Detroit 16 7 6 3 17 Columbus 16 4 10 2 10 Northwest Division GP W L OT Pts Vancouver 15 8 3 4 20 Minnesota 15 7 6 2 16 Edmonton 15 6 6 3 15 Calgary 14 5 6 3 13 Colorado 14 6 7 1 13 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts Anaheim 15 12 2 1 25 San Jose 15 8 4 3 19 Phoenix 16 8 6 2 18 Dallas 16 8 7 1 17 Los Angeles 14 6 6 2 14
GF GA 55 34 39 38 53 50 43 48 36 51 GF GA 44 37 33 38 36 41 39 51 37 43 GF GA 53 39 39 34 44 41 41 43 33 37
EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA New Jersey 16 9 3 4 22 42 38 Pittsburgh 17 11 6 0 22 57 44 N.Y. Rangers 15 8 6 1 17 39 38 Philadelphia 18 8 9 1 17 51 54 N.Y. Islanders 16 6 9 1 13 46 57 Northeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Montreal 16 11 4 1 23 46 35 Boston 13 9 2 2 20 37 31 Ottawa 17 9 6 2 20 40 32 Toronto 17 10 7 0 20 48 40 Buffalo 17 6 10 1 13 47 56 Southeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Carolina 14 8 5 1 17 41 40 Tampa Bay 15 8 6 1 17 59 47 Winnipeg 15 6 8 1 13 37 47 Florida 15 4 7 4 12 35 56 Washington 15 5 9 1 11 41 51 Two points for a win, one point for OT loss. Wednesday’s results Philadelphia 6, Pittsburgh 5 St. Louis at Colorado (n) Los Angeles at Calgary (n) Today’s Games Buffalo at Toronto, 6 p.m. Florida at Philadelphia, 6 p.m. New Jersey at Washington, 6 p.m. Winnipeg at Carolina, 6 p.m. N.Y. Islanders at Montreal, 6:30 p.m. N.Y. Rangers at Ottawa, 6:30 p.m. Boston at Tampa Bay, 6:30 p.m. Columbus at Detroit, 6:30 p.m. Vancouver at Dallas, 7:30 p.m. Minnesota at Edmonton, 8:30 p.m. Friday’s Games San Jose at Blackhawks, 7:30 p.m. Florida at Pittsburgh, 6 p.m. Vancouver at Nashville, 7 p.m. Tuesday’s Results Blackhawks 4, Vancouver 3, SO Winnipeg 2, Buffalo 1 Montreal 3, N.Y. Rangers 1 Ottawa 3, N.Y. Islanders 1 Tampa Bay 4, Toronto 2 San Jose 2, St. Louis 1 Nashville 4, Detroit 3, OT Los Angeles 3, Edmonton 1
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NBA TRADE DEADLINE
OHIO 73, EASTERN MICH. 50
New CBA looms over trade discussions
Keely, Cooper lead Ohio over E. Michigan
By JON KRAWCZYNSKI The Associated Press Trade deadline week used to be the busiest of the NBA season, with team executives making deals at a frenzied pace as buyers tried to load up for a playoff run and sellers tried to unload onerous contracts to give them some flexibility for the next season. Something different appears to be taking place this time around. There’s been plenty of talk, but very little action so far with the deadline looming at 2 p.m. today. The big moves that were the hallmarks of trade deadlines past could still be coming. But if they don’t, it could be because teams across the league are bracing for a much harsher economic reality starting next season. The “Super Team” era could be over. The new collective bargaining agreement that was born out of last year’s lockout will impose much stiffer penalties for teams that exceed the salary cap. Teams started bracing for it ever since play resumed on Christmas Day in 2011, and the reckoning is just around the corner. Owners are keeping one eye on the court and the other on their wallets. “Every team is watching what it can do and how it can improve its team in connection with the much higher luxury tax,” Commissioner David Stern said just before the AllStar break. The new CBA may not be responsible just for slowing down the amount of activity around the trade deadline. The total number of players traded in the week leading up to the deadline was 45 in 2010 and 49 in 2011, according to STATS LLC. Last year, that number dipped to 27.
NFL Draft Order First Round - April 25 1. Kansas City Chiefs 2. Jacksonville Jaguars 3. Oakland Raiders 4. Philadelphia Eagles 5. Detroit Lions 6. Cleveland Browns 7. Arizona Cardinals 8. Buffalo Bills 9. New York Jets 10. Tennessee Titans 11. San Diego Chargers 12. Miami Dolphins 13. Tampa Bay Buccaneers 14. Carolina Panthers 15. New Orleans Saints 16. St. Louis Rams 17. Pittsburgh Steelers 18. Dallas Cowboys 19. New York Giants 20. Bears 21. Cincinnati Bengals 22. St. Louis Rams * 23. Minnesota Vikings 24. Indianapolis Colts 25. Seattle Seahawks 26. Green Bay Packers 27. Houston Texans 28. Denver Broncos 29. New England Patriots 30. Atlanta Falcons 31. San Francisco 49ers 32. Baltimore Ravens
* - Redskins’ first-round pick goes to Rams as part of Robert Griffin III trade.
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Miami Heat’s LeBron James is defended by Los Angeles Lakers’ Kobe Bryant during the first half of the NBA All-Star game Sunday in Houston. The new collective bargaining agreement could see an end to the “Super Team,” affecting James and the Heat. Not one player has been dealt yet this week. When owners and players agreed to a new deal that ended the most recent lockout, the players insisted on not having a hard salary cap – like in the NFL – that teams could not exceed under any circumstance. In the name of leveling the playing field for big and small-market teams, the owners responded by getting new restrictions
put in place to make it as painful as possible for teams who go over the cap to continue doing business that way for any length of time. Under the previous agreement, if a team exceeded the luxury tax level by $4 million, it paid an additional $4 million in tax penalties. If it went over by $14 million, it paid $14 million in penalties. Next season, because of various increases in penalties, that $4 mil-
lion will cost a team $6 million. And the team that goes over by $14 million will be hit with a $26.25 million bill. To make matters worse, any team that exceeds the cap “apron” – which is $4 million over the existing luxury tax level – is not allowed to bring in a player in a sign-andtrade deal. That team also will only be able to offer a three-year midlevel exception deal to a free agent rather than the four-year exception that teams under the apron can offer, putting them at a bargaining disadvantage on the open market. And to top it all off, any team that has exceeded the cap in three of the previous four seasons starting in 2014-15 will be subject to “repeater rates,” which increase the penalties even further. “Any well-managed team is going to think about the future consequences of their roster management,” Stern said. Many already have been, in markets big and small. The Oklahoma City Thunder traded star guard James Harden to Houston rather than make him the third max-money player on the team and the Memphis Grizzlies dumped leading scorer Rudy Gay and valuable reserve Marreese Speights in separate deals earlier this season to start getting their financial house in order. New Grizzlies owner Robert Pera disputed the notion that sending Gay to Toronto was a salary dump, but also pointed out that teams have to spend their money wisely. “Whether I’m worth a billion dollars or 10 billion dollars, I don’t think throwing money is the way to get a best result,” he said. “You look at the Lakers. They threw together all these stars and a huge payroll, and it’s not working out so far. You can’t be cheap, and I don’t think we are cheap.”
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Answers could have impact on draft stock By MICHAEL MAROT
The ASSOCIATED PRESS ATHENS, Ohio – Reggie Keely scored 20 points and D.J. Cooper turned in his fifth double-double of the season as Ohio downed Eastern Michigan, 73-50, in Mid-American Conference action Wednesday. Keely was 8-of-12 shooting, while Cooper had 16 points, 10 assists and five steals. Nick Kellogg added nine points and Ivo Baltic had eight points and nine rebounds for the Bobcats (20-6, 11-2), who have won 12 of their past 13. The win was Ohio’s 19th consecutive in home MAC games. The Bobcats had 23 assists, upping their team average, which was tops in the country at 18.7. Ohio hit its first seven shots and led 17-3. The Eagles (12-14, 5-7) were coming off their first road win of the season, 56-50 over Ball State. J.R. Sims paced Eastern Michigan with 12 points as the team shot 27.6 percent (16 of 58), including 29.4 percent (5 of 17) from 3-point range.
MAC Standings West Division Overall W L Western Michigan 16 9 Toledo 12 11 Eastern Michigan 12 14 Ball State 10 14 Northern Illinois 5 19 Central Michigan 9 16
Conf. W L 8 4 8 4 5 7 4 8 3 9 2 10
East Division Overall W L Akron 21 4 Ohio 20 6 Buffalo 11 15 Kent State 14 12 Bowling Green 10 15 Miami (Ohio) 8 16
Conf. W L 12 0 11 1 6 6 5 7 5 7 3 9
The Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS – Barkevious Mingo is ready for questions he will face this weekend in Indianapolis. Seemingly every NFL team at the annual scouting combine will ask about his relationship with former college teammate Tyrann Mathieu and whether he ever hung out with the troubled cornerback. The answers could make as much difference in Mingo living up to his projection as a first-round draft pick as his time in the 40-yard dash. So the LSU star has left nothing to chance, carving out time to prepare for the 15-minute interviews. Interview training has become an essential component for draft hopefuls. Most, if not all, of the 333 players expected to arrive in Indy for the combine have been instructed in how to answer coaches and general managers properly. This year, the questions run the gamut. Running back Marcus Lattimore is trying to prove he can return from a gruesome knee injury. Mathieu, a cornerback, and Da’Rick Rogers, a receiver, both were booted off the teams they intended to play for last fall after failing drug tests. Linebacker Alec Ogletree will have to answer for a series of problems that included a suspension for violating team rules early last season, and linebacker Manti Te’o will likely contend with the girlfriend hoax all over again. And those are just the big-name guys. Lee Gordon, a former television anchor, runs a training program for Athletes Performance, whose client
Today’s game New Orleans at Bowling Green, 6 p.m. Friday’s game North Dakota at Akron, 6 p.m. (ESPN2) Saturday’s games Eastern Illinois at Northern Illinois, 3 p.m. Missouri St. at Eastern Michigan, 11 a.m. Pacific at Western Michigan, noon (ESPN3) McNeese St. at Toledo, 1 p.m. Manhattan at Buffalo, 1 p.m. Miami (Ohio) at Southern Illinois, 2 p.m. Kent State at Loyola (Chicago), 2 p.m. Ball State at Southeast Missouri, 5:30 p.m. Central Michigan at Youngstown St., 6 p.m. Bowling Green at IPFW, 6 p.m. Ohio at Belmont, 9 p.m. (ESPN2) AP Photo
South Carolina running back Marcus Lattimore is trying to prove to NFL teams he can return from a gruesome knee injury.
“You can’t be fake or people will see right through it.” Lee Gordon Former television anchor who runs a training program for Athletes Performance
list includes Mingo and Lattimore. His advice: Be appealing, believable and accentuate the positive. “We tell them up front that coaching you on this is similar to tackling techniques and the things you do on the field, but you have to be yourself,” Gordon said. “You can’t be fake or people will see right through it. What we do is give them a chance to see the media and the (team) inter-
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Dramatic 1st Daytona 500 practice with new Gen-6 car By JENNA FRYER The Associated Press
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The new Chevrolet SS car is displayed at Daytona International Speedway on Saturday in Daytona Beach, Fla. Chevrolet might have pulled out of NASCAR had the sanctioning body not agreed to redesign race cars and make them more relevant to consumers. NASCAR President Mike Helton and Hendrick Motorsports owner Rick Hendrick said Saturday that they had talks with the American automaker that made it clear things needed to change to keep Chevrolet happy.
Redesigned cars receive rave reviews By MARK LONG The Associated Press DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – NASCAR’s Car of Tomorrow is a thing of the past. Designed primarily to improve driver safety after the death of Dale Earnhardt in the 2001 Daytona 500, the car has been kicked to the curb, left in the rearview mirror and turned into scrap metal. The redesigned replacements – at least so far – are a huge hit with drivers, owners, auto manufacturers and fans. The new cars, dubbed “Generation 6,” look considerably closer to the ones sold on showroom floors. It’s NASCAR’s way of putting the “stock” back in stock-car racing and possibly making the cars stars once again. “It matters because it’s the image we portray,” defending
Sprint Cup champion Brad Keselowski said. “I wear a fire suit with a helmet and a full seat around me. You can’t see me. What you are seeing is this car going around the race track and the sponsors and the car construction, styling, etc. So that is what you see as a fan or as an ambassador of the sport. Absolutely it matters.” Cars used to be as iconic as drivers in NASCAR. In the mid-1950s, race cars were virtually indistinguishable from production vehicles. Sure, they had some rudimentary safety equipment and numbers on the doors, but they often still had license plates and working headlights. Against other real production cars, the very first Chrysler 300 was dominant. That set the stage for the next five decades of racing. Fireball Roberts and his
No. 22 black and gold Pontiac Catalina were mainstays in Victory Lane in the early ’60s. Richard Petty’s blue Dodge Charger was a series staple. The Charger became so important to Petty that NASCAR extended the car’s eligibility through the 1977 season, an unprecedented move for the sanctioning body. And few have forgotten Bill Elliott’s sleek Ford Thunderbird or Earnhardt’s stylish Chevrolet Monte Carlo SS in the late 1980s. “People want that kind of connection with the car they’re driving,” NASCAR team owner Chip Ganassi said. NASCAR hasn’t had that in years. The CoT debuted in 2007 after extension research and development. The driver’s seat moved more toward the center
of the car, which was longer and wider. The result was a boxy car that was indistinguishable from make to make; NASCAR needed just one template to check every car during inspections. Maybe more troubling was that it was considerably less racy than its predecessor. Drivers hated it, fans ripped it and NASCAR officials dismissed the backlash while continuously pointing to the car’s safety record. “It was something that’s never happened in history, where manufacturers were basically treated like mushrooms – kept in the dark and under a pile a crap by the organizing bodies,” said Lee White, president and general manager of Toyota Racing Development. “Now it’s an opportunity for the manufacturers to become front and center.”
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – It took all of 15 minutes for NASCAR’s new Gen-6 race car to throw drivers a few curves of its own at the first practice for the Daytona 500. Ryan Newman lost control of his Chevrolet right in front of Carl Edwards and Mark Martin, and all three cars sustained damage. It’s the third time in a week that a wreck has collected Martin, who also suffered damaged cars in a crash started by Matt Kenseth last week and another triggered by Tony Stewart in Saturday night’s exhibition race. Newman had no idea what caused him to spin. “My car came around, I don’t know if it was the air off of Carl’s car or what,” he said. “Carl came over and said ‘Hey man.’ I said, ‘I don’t even know what to tell you yet.’ ” The accident happened as drivers are still adjusting to the new car, a process that has been bumpy so far. Dale Earnhardt Jr. triggered a multi-car accident in January testing, Kenseth started an accident last Friday and the wreck in the exhibition race cut the 19car field to 12. Edwards was just as vexed as Newman. “I was up close to Ryan and then all of a sudden his car just got a little loose and there was no space,” Edwards said. “I could have given him more space, but I don’t think either one of us really understands why his car got so loose. It was just all of a sudden and he was turned sideways. It’s really interesting and something I’m going to be careful of during the race.” Edwards said he believes the finicky cars could contribute to an entertaining seasonopening Daytona 500 on Sunday. “Race cars are supposed to be hard to drive, it’s supposed
to be on the edge, you are supposed to be sliding around,” Edwards said. “We as drivers, it is our responsibility to learn how to drive them. If this [warm] weather stays like this, and we can run cars sideways down the corner and give each other a little bit of room, it’s going to be an awesome 500.” Meanwhile, Earnhardt and defending Sprint Cup champion Brad Keselowski also had issues in the first practice session, which was paced by two-time Daytona 500 winner Michael Waltrip. Earnhardt blew an engine, and Keselowski had a fuel system problem that limited his track time. “Something went wrong with the fuel system in the car,” Keselowski said. “That’s not what you want when you’re in front of the pack because when your car slows down, they’ve got nowhere to go and it could cause a wreck. So we’re going to spend a little extra time to make sure we’ve got whatever it is figured out.” Earnhardt had to wait for an engine change, which will send him to the back of the field for today’s qualifying race. “I’m sure there is some logical explanation as to what happened, but, we’ll just put a new one in and start at the back of the qualifier and race up through there,” Earnhardt said. Waltrip was fastest in the first practice, turning a lap at 198.347 mph. Kasey Kahne led the less-eventful second practice – only 27 of 45 drivers practiced – with a lap at 197.737 mph. It was Danica Patrick who impressed in the second session. She was fourth on the speed chart, but her 10-lap average of 195.775 mph led all drivers. On Sunday, Patrick was fastest in qualifying and became the first woman to win a pole in NASCAR’s top Sprint Cup Series.
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hen the Academy Awards executives chose to extend the number of best picture nominations beyond five without doing the same with the best director, they created a situation. Traditionally, the best director directs the best film. So by pushing the number of nominated films beyond five, the academy created the assumption that the “real” best picture nominations were the ones tied to nominated director. This year, that assumption went up in flames. Who would have guessed that out of a field of nine, the “orphaned” best picture nominees would be “Django Unchained,” “Les Misérables,” “Zero Dark Thirty” or current front runner “Argo”? Who would have guessed that the sidelined directors would include critical darling Quentin Tarantino, recent winner Kathryn Bigelow and prodigal son Ben Affleck? Or that the directors invited to the party would include newcomer Benh Zeitlin or European veteran Michael Haneke? Who knows what caused all this chaos in the top two categories. Maybe the Oscar voters weren’t enamored with the films they were expected to nominate, like “Zero Dark Thirty.” Whatever the case, a split between best director and best picture now appears likely. The backlash against the Ben Affleck snub has been embarrassing for the academy. Don’t be surprised if next year the number of best picture nominations reverts back to five. Even though “Skyfall” didn’t get nominated for best picture (hey, it deserved it more than “Les Misérables”), this Bond fan is looking forward to seeing the phenomenally successful 007 movie pick up a few wins in the technical categories. If Adele doesn’t win for best original song, expect to find a TV set with a foot-sized hole in the screen sitting on my curb the next morning. Here are my predictions for the winners in the major categories, along with those I believe deserve to win:
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR This is often the toughest category to call, but never more than this year. Each of the five nominees already has an Oscar. Each of the performances galvanizes its film. I’m seeing it as a narrow three-way race between Philip Seymour Hoffman in “The Master,” Tommy Lee Jones in “Lincoln” and Robert De Niro in “Silver Linings Playbook.” My vote would go to De Niro, whose very human performance as a father who loves his son but struggles to deal with his mental illness is unlike anything he has done in decades. I doubt, though, this one performance means the academy is yet ready to forgive De Niro for all the garbage he has appeared in during the last 15 years. I predict Jones will win for playing a fiery abolitionist congressman, but De Niro and Hoffman will be fast at his heels.
Should win: De Niro Will win: Jones
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS If “Les Misérables” consisted of nothing more than Anne Hathaway singing “I Dreamed a Dream,” it would have been enough to guarantee her an Oscar victory (it also would have been a much better movie). Hathaway has this category sewn up, and she deserves to win it. I am happy to see Jacki Weaver nominated for playing Bradley Cooper’s mother in “Silver Linings Playbook.” She gave a wonderful performance as essential as any other to the movie’s success, but I feared it would be overlooked.
Should win: Hathaway Will win: Hathaway
BEST ACTOR Daniel Day-Lewis as the embodiment of Abraham Lincoln is an even more likely winner than Hathaway, but my vote would go to Denzel Wash-
ington as the alcoholic pilot in “Flight” (my choice for the year’s best film). Here was a performance so convincing it was chilling, and one that dared to challenge the audience’s feelings toward the protagonist right down to the last five minutes. However, Day-Lewis will win, and it is easy to understand why. From now on when people think of Abraham Lincoln, they may still picture a Matthew Brady photo, but they will hear Day-Lewis’ voice.
Should win: Washington Will win: Day-Lewis
BEST ACTRESS It frustrates me that the person who most deserves to win, Naomi Watts in “The Impossible,” stands the least chance. Sure, the other four actresses gave standout performances, but they didn’t have to stay in character while thousands of gallons of water were dumped on them. This is supposed to be a two-actress race, but a pair of wild cards must be addressed first. While it has happened only in the supporting actress category, the Oscars have a history of young actresses scoring upset wins (Tatum O’Neal in “Paper Moon,” Anna Paquin in “The Piano”). So don’t rule out a win by 9-yearold Quvenzhané Wallis of “Beasts of the Southern Wild.” The other wild card is more likely to take the statue, though, for the Oscars also have a history of French actresses scoring upsets (Juliette Binoche as best supporting actress for “The English Patient” and Marion Cotillard as best actress for “La Vie en Rose”). That puts 86-year-old Emmanuel Riva of “Amour” in a position to win if the front runners cancel each other out. Those front runners are Jessica Chastain as the CIA officer obsessed with finding Osama bin Laden in “Zero Dark Thirty” and Jennifer Lawrence as the loveably bipolar sex addict in “Silver Linings Playbook.” This is a tough call. If Oscar voters are in a serious mood, they will pick Chastain. But, as she joked in her Golden Globes acceptance speech, Lawrence has Harvey Weinstein in her corner, and you won’t get rich betting against Harvey Weinstein. I bet against him last year in the same category, and his candidate, Meryl Streep, won in the one year she didn’t deserve to. So I believe I will put my money on Katniss to win.
Should win: Watts Will win: Lawrence
BEST DIRECTOR Ben Affleck has been gathering best directing trophies from every acronym from BAFTA to the DGA. But he won’t be getting an Oscar Sunday night, because AMPAS didn’t nominate him. That leaves a category without a front runner. I think Steven Spielberg will win because he is Steven Spielberg, and also because “Lincoln” is one of his best films, if perhaps his least Spielbergian. Ang Lee might win for the stunning technical and artistic achievement that is “Life of Pi,” but “Pi” hasn’t been racking up victories elsewhere.
Should win: Spielberg Will win: Spielberg
BEST PICTURE When the Oscar nominations were announced, I thought “Lincoln” was the sure winner. After all, the snub of Ben Affleck supposedly put “Argo” out of the running. Then “Argo” started winning just about every other award out there, and at this point it looks
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unbeatable. I think the academy may have inadvertently caused the “Argo” surge by snubbing Affleck. Had Affleck been nominated, people wouldn’t be crusading to vindicate him with an “Argo” victory and “Lincoln” still might be the front runner. “Argo” also has benefitted from “Zero Dark Thirty’s” torture controversy. Overnight, “Argo” became the “nice” CIA movie. So “Argo” probably will win, though I wish it wouldn’t. Don’t get me wrong. I like “Argo” a lot, but I never saw it as best picture material. The story is supposed to be a true one, but the trumped-up suspense during the final 15 minutes is obviously invented (none of that stuff at the airport actually happened). Of the nine films nominated, “Lincoln” is the one most likely to become a classic.
Should win: “Lincoln” Will win: “Argo”
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things to do this weekend Organize your party Oscar parties are in vogue these days, and there are plenty of ways to hold them. You can have it be a costume party where people dress as their favorite movie characters, have movie-themed food and drink, and more. Celebrations. com has a good list of ideas if you need further suggestions: www.celebrations. com/oscarparty.
Movie night, part 1
You can start your movie weekend by heading to the theater to see something new. The big movies opening this week are “Snitch,” a PG-13 action movie starring Dwayne Johnson; and “Dark Skies,” a PG-13 horror flick.
Unchained,” “Les Misérables,” “Life of Pi,” “Lincoln,” “Silver Linings Playbook” and “Zero Dark Thirty.”
And the winner is ... Finally, don’t forget to watch the show! The broadcast is on ABC and begins at 7:30 p.m. If you want to watch pre-show coverage, just flip through the channels – more than a few will be covering the event. For more information on the nominees and more, go to the official website of the Academy Awards, www. oscar.go.com.
Hold a contest Movie night, part 2
You can arrange several guess-the-winners contests if you’re really into the Oscars: Put together one at work, one with your family and one with your friends, perhaps through Facebook. The prizes can be something simple, such as a DVD, movie theater pass, Netflix gift certificate or even an Oscar-shaped cookie.
If the theater movies don’t appeal to you, hold a movie night with your family and/or friends. You could watch some of this year’s Best Picture nominees, or check out past winners. This year’s Best Picture nominees are “Amour,” “Argo,” “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” “Django
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STAGE NIU School of Theatre and Dance’s “Not About Nightingales”: 7:30 p.m. Feb. 21 to 23 and Feb. 28 to March 2, 2 p.m. Feb. 24 and March 3, Stevens Building O’Connell Theatre, NIU, DeKalb. Tickets: $16, adults; $13, seniors; $8, students at www. niu.edu/theatre or 815-753-1600. Walk-up tickets can be purchased one hour before curtain times. Indian Valley Theatre’s “Postmortem” dinner theater: 7 p.m. Feb. 22 and 23, 1 p.m. Feb. 24., Fox Valley Older Adults Center, 1406 Suydam Road, Sandwich. Tickets: $26, includes meal catered by Alessandria’s of Sandwich. Reservations must be received by Feb. 15. Cash bar. www.indianvalleytheatre.com or 630-631-2323. The Spensers: Theatre of Illlusion: 8 p.m. Feb. 23, Sandwich Opera House, 140 E. Railroad St., Sandwich. Tickets: $25; $20, seniors 65 and older; $15, students. 815-786-2555. www. sandwichoperahouse.org. CCT’s “Honk”: 7 p.m. March 8, 9, 15 and 16, 2 p.m. March 10 and 17, O’Connell Theatre, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb. Tickets: $12, adults; $6, children. www.cctonstage.com. Stage Coach Players’ “Jesus Christ Superstar”: 7:30 p.m. March 14 to 16 and March 21 to 23, 2 p.m. March 17 and 24, Stage Coach Theatre, 126 S. Fifth St., DeKalb. www.stagecoachers. com. Beth Fowler Dance Company’s “A Storybook Ballet”: 7 p.m. March 15 and 16; 2 p.m. March 16 and 17, Egyptian Theatre, 135 N. Second St., DeKalb. Tickets: $15 to $25 in February; $17 to $27 after March 1.
Group discount for nonprofits available. Tickets available at www.egyptiantheatre.org, 815-758-1225 or at the door one hour before each performance. Stage Coach Players’ “The Robin Hood Capers”: 7:30 p.m. May 2 to 4 and May 9 to 11, 2 p.m. May 12, Stage Coach Theatre, 126 S. Fifth St., DeKalb. www. stagecoachers.com. Stage Coach Players’ “Shrek The Musical”: 7:30 p.m. June 13 to 15, 2 p.m. June 15 and 16, Stage Coach Theatre, 126 S. Fifth St., DeKalb. www.stagecoachers. com. Stage Coach Players’ “Red Herring”: 7:30 p.m. July 11 to 13 and July 18 to 20, 2 p.m. July 21, Stage Coach Theatre, 126 S. Fifth St., DeKalb. www.stagecoachers. com. Stage Coach Players’ “Company”: 7:30 p.m. Aug. 8 to 10 and Aug. 15 to 17, 2 p.m. Aug. 11 and 18, Stage Coach Theatre, 126 S. Fifth St., DeKalb. www. stagecoachers.com. Stage Coach Players’ “The Lion in Winter”: 7:30 p.m. Sept. 12 to 14 and Sept. 19 to 21, 2 p.m. Sept. 22, Stage Coach Theatre, 126 S. Fifth St., DeKalb. www. stagecoachers.com. Stage Coach Players’ “Rope”: 7:30 p.m. Oct. 10 to 12 and Oct. 17 to 19, 2 p.m. Oct. 20, Stage Coach Theatre, 126 S. Fifth St., DeKalb. www.stagecoachers. com. Stage Coach Players’ “Annie”: 7:30 p.m. Nov. 7 to 9 and Nov. 14 to 16, 2 p.m. Nov. 10 and 17, Stage Coach Theatre, 126 S. Fifth St., DeKalb. www.stagecoachers. com. ART ART Kishwaukee College Faculty Art Show: Through Feb. 21,
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Kishwaukee College Art Gallery, 21193 Malta Road, Malta. Gallery hours: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Friday; 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesday, Thursday. Free. 815825-2086, ext. 5610. “Vice + Virtue,” exhibition at NIU Art Museum: Through Feb. 23 in all four galleries of the NIU Art Museum. Exploring the dynamics of the “deadly sins” and “heavenly virtues” with juxtaposed interpretations from a vast array of visual artists. Gallery hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and noon to 4 p.m. Saturday. Recommended for mature audiences only. www.niu.edu/ artmuseum. “Rarely Seen Southeast Asia: Art, Artifact, Ephemera”: Through May 15, Northern Illinois University Anthropology Museum, Fay-Cooper Cole Hall, DeKalb. An exhibit of more than 150 rarely shown art pieces and artifacts from Southeast Asia. Information: 815-753-2520 or 815-753-1771. February Photo Show at DAWC: 7 to 9 p.m. Fridays in February, DeKalb Area Women’s Center Galleries, 1021 State St., DeKalb. Photographs by Tim O’Shaughnessy featured. Free and open to the public. Skateboard Inspired Art Show: 6 to 10 p.m. Feb. 28, Smalltown Skate Shop, 229 E. Lincoln Highway, DeKalb. More than 40 artists will participate. Free. “Play: Stories, Mementos and Fun”: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays, Sycamore History Museum, 1730 N. Main St., Sycamore. Exhibition explores leisure moments and how we remember them through stories, objects and experiences. Admission: $5 a person, free for members and children younger than 14. www.sycamorehistory.
org. 815-895-5762 History/memories of DeKalb Ag: 2 to 4 p.m. Wednesdays and Sundays or by appointment, Nehring Gallery, 111 S. Second St., Suite 204, DeKalb. Free. www.dekalbalumni.org, 815-757-5959, 815-757-0462 or 815-758-3635. AUDITIONS AUDITIONS Stage Coach Players auditions: 1 to 5 p.m. March 2 and 3, 7 to 9 p.m. March 4, Immanuel Lutheran Church, 511 Russell Road, DeKalb. Auditions for six spring and summer shows. Information: www.stagecoachers.com. COMEDY COMEDY Lewis Black - The Rant is Due: 8 p.m. March 2, Egyptian Theatre, 135 N. Second St., DeKalb. For mature audiences. Tickets: $39.75 to $49.75. www. egyptiantheatre.org or 815-7581225.
REGIONAL Zanies Comedy Night Club – St. Charles: Various dates at Pheasant Run Resort, 4050 E. Main St. Visit www.stcharles.zanies.com for acts, prices and showtimes. 630-584-6342. EVENTS EVENTS Top 10 Film Series: Egyptian Theatre, 135 N. Second St., DeKalb. Schedule: 6. “Gone with the Wind,” 6:30 p.m. Feb. 26; 5. “Singin’ in the Rain,” 6:30 p.m. March 5; 4. “Raging Bull,” 6:30 p.m. March 19; 3. “Casablanca,” 6:30 p.m. March 26; 2. “The Godfather,” 6:30 p.m. April 2; 1. “Citizen Kane,” 6:30 p.m. April 9. Tickets: $7, adults; $5, students and seniors. No cost for Feb. 12
Daily Chronicle / daily-chronicle.com show. Purchase advance tickets at www.egyptiantheatre.org. Swing Dancing in DeKalb: 7 to 11 p.m. March 5, The House Cafe, 263 E. Lincoln Highway. No partner needed; casual dress, leather-soled shoes recommended. $5 admission includes lesson. Food and beer/wine available for purchase. See www.BarbCitySwing.com for coming dates and look for the group on Facebook. ALPHA: Friends of Antiquity Lecture Series: 7:30 p.m., Jack Arends Visual Arts Building, Room 102, NIU, DeKalb. Free and open to the public. Series schedule: • March 7: “Tradition Transformed in Late Antiquity: The Shift From the Late Roman to a Byzantine Aesthetic,” Christina Nielsen, assistant curator for Late Antique, Early Christian and Byzantine Art, Art Institute of Chicago • April 18: “To Whom Do Antiquities Belong? The Legal and Illegal Trafficking of Antique Art Objects,” Professor Ralph Burin, Department of Art History, Harper College, Palatine MUSIC MUSIC Frontier Ruckus: 9 p.m. Feb. 22, Otto’s Niteclub & Underground, 118 E. Lincoln Highway, DeKalb. $10. 21 and older show. www. ottosdekalb.com. Kishwaukee Symphony Orchestra: 7:30 p.m. Feb. 23, Boutell Memorial Concert Hall, Northern Illinois University Music Building, DeKalb. High School junior Kelly Talim, the winner of the Arthur D. Montzka Young Artists Concerto Competition, will perform with the orchestra as a guest soloist on violin. Tickets: $15, adults; $10, students and seniors; $5 children younger than 12. 815-756-3728 or www. kishorchestra.org Transformation Through Rhythm: 7 p.m. Feb. 27, DeKalb High School Auditorium, 501 W. Dresser Road. Benefit concert features percussion ensembles from DeKalb School District and Northern Illinois University. Free; donations accepted. Proceeds benefit hospice groups. KSO Goes to the Movies!: 7:30 p.m. March 8, Boutell Memorial Concert Hall, Music Building, NIU, DeKalb. Benefit concert for Kishwaukee Symphony Orchestra. Tickets: $15, available at the door or in advance at Sycamore Antiques, Kar Free Flowers, Hillside Restaurant and LePrint Express. Patsy Cline and Buddy Holly Tribute: 8 p.m. March 9, Sandwich Opera House, 140 E. Railroad St., Sandwich. Tickets: $25; $20, seniors 65 and older; $15, students. 815-786-2555. www.sandwichoperahouse. org. Kishwaukee Concert Band’s “By Request”: 3 p.m. March 10, Boutell Memorial Concert Hall, Music Building, NIU, DeKalb. Free; donations appreciated. www.kishconcertband.org. Switchback: 8 p.m. March 17, Sandwich Opera House, 140 E.
Railroad St., Sandwich. Tickets: $25; $20, seniors 65 and older; $15, students. 815-786-2555. www.sandwichoperahouse. org. Doug Church: 8 p.m. April 6, Sandwich Opera House, 140 E. Railroad St., Sandwich. 815786-2555. www.sandwichoperahouse.org. Bob & the Beachcombers: 8 p.m. April 20, Sandwich Opera House, 140 E. Railroad St., Sandwich. Tickets: $25; $20, seniors 65 and older; $15, students. 815-786-2555. www. sandwichoperahouse.org. The Diamonds: 8 p.m. May 11, Sandwich Opera House, 140 E. Railroad St., Sandwich. Tickets: $25; $20, seniors 65 and older; $15, students. ONGOING ONGOING Art Attack – School of Art in Sycamore: 215 W. Elm St. Classes for children and adults. www.sycamoreartattack.org or 815-899-9440. Northern Illinois University Community School of the Arts: NIU Music Building, 400 Lucinda Ave., DeKalb. Classes in music, art and theater for children and adults. www.csa.niu.edu or 815753-1450. Bread & Roses women’s choral group rehearsals: 5:45 to 8 p.m. Sundays, Westminster Presbyterian Church, Annie Glidden Road, DeKalb. www. breadandroseschorus.org. Indian Valley Community Band: 6 to 7:20 p.m. Mondays, Sandwich Middle School Band Room. Area musicians who enjoy playing for pleasure are invited; there are no auditions. Open Mic: 8 p.m. Mondays, sign-in at 7:30 p.m., The House Cafe, 263 E. Lincoln Highway, DeKalb. Bands and singers perform for 12 minutes. 815-787-9547. Kishwaukee Barbershop Harmony Singers rehearsals: 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Tuesdays, First Congregational Church, 615 N. First St., DeKalb. Open to men of all ages. 815-895-5955 or 815899-8383. DeKalb Festival Chorus rehearsals: 7:15 to 9:15 p.m. Mondays, NIU Music Building. New singers invited. Call 630-453-8006 for an interview with conductor Jen Whiting. www.dekalbfestivalchorus.org. Greater Kishwaukee Area Concert Band Ninth Season rehearsals: 7:30 to 9 p.m. Wednesdays, band room at Door 16 of Huntley Middle School, 1515 S. Fourth St., DeKalb. Allvolunteer band for anyone age 18 or older who has played a wind or percussion instrument in the past. No auditions needed. 815-899-4867 or 815-825-2350. Thursday Blues Nights: 8 p.m. first Thursday each month at The House Cafe, 263 E. Lincoln Highway, DeKalb. “The Way” acoustic coffee house: 6 to 8:30 p.m. first Saturday each month, DeKalb Christian Church, 1107 S. First St. 815-758-1833 or tomndcc@ aol.com.
Seth MacFarlane putting all he’s got into the Oscars within those parameters. So you won’t be seeing any (penis) jokes. It’s still Disney, for Christ’s sake.
By SANDY COHEN AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES – Seth MacFarlane might be the hardest working man in show business. Right now he’s getting ready to host Sunday’s Academy Awards, where he’s also a nominee for the original song for his hit movie “Ted.” He’s producing and writing three animated TV shows, plus voicing many of their key characters. “I’m a little exhausted,” the 39-year-old confessed in a recent interview. The multitalented entertainer talked with The Associated Press about what makes a great Oscar show, juggling multiple jobs and who he thinks will host next year.
AP: What’s been the best part of the Oscar job so far? MacFarlane: I’ve enjoyed the writing process. It’s really a very different type of production than I’ve been involved with in the past and it’s such an extensive amount of time, and putting it together and having it feel like it has a shape and a consistency has really been a challenge.
How much is with your own writing team? My staff has been composed of primarily “Family Guy” writers, but there’ve been about maybe four folks that have been brought on from other places. But for the most part I’ve been allowed to assemble my own staff, and we’ve tried to find a balance of people that I’ve worked with for a lot of years and that know my rhythms and some new
Is a blend of Ricky Gervais and Billy Crystal the best example of what you’re going for?
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Seth MacFarlane discussed his preparations for the Oscar ceremony during interviews Feb. 12 at the Dolby Theatre. The 85th Annual Academy Awards will take place Sunday. people as well, a few of whom have worked on past Oscar ceremonies.
What are the elements of a great Oscar host? It’s part classy Master of Ceremonies and part Friars Club roaster.
How hard has it been to find that middle ground? It’s been a challenge but not an enormous challenge. We are, I hope, smart enough guys to be aware of what the tone is and to work
Certainly Billy Crystal, Johnny Carson and Bob Hope are the three that stand out as the paragons of class and effectiveness and comedic balance in the history of the Oscars. I’m going to go out there and certainly be mindful that that’s what works but also try and inject some of what I do into the mix and hopefully come out with something that is fresh and surprising and has an edge but doesn’t completely thumb its nose at the Oscars. Change happens incrementally... I think it’s safe to say what we’re doing is very self-aware of this challenge that everyone keeps asking about.
How long did you continue voicing the characters on your animated shows after taking on the Oscar job? That’s always the challenge. The shows don’t stop for this stuff. They still have to keep moving. And it is a vocal strain. “Family Guy” and “American Dad!” are very vocally taxing shows. There’s a lot of high-energy stuff, a lot of screaming, yelling. A lot of vocal contortions. So that becomes really the biggest challenge of all: How to get it all done and keep it all on schedule and not destroy my throat.
So you’ve essentially had two or three fulltime jobs. Who knows how this will go. Even if it goes
great, I just don’t think that I could do this again. It’s just too much with everything else that I have to do. I’m happy to be doing it and I will be thrilled to have done it, assuming I get out of there in one piece, but I really think this is a one-time thing for me.
Why? I just don’t like working 150 hours a week. I do like to have some sort of recharge time. I think it makes everything better. If you’re working around the clock, the work starts to suffer. And it hasn’t thus far, but I’m glad (the Oscars are) in a week and a half because I’m getting close to the point where I can’t do six jobs at the same time. And also, Craig and Neil have been pretty open about the fact that they really want to do this once. They want to put on the best Oscars that they possibly can and call it a day... And I have a feeling whoever produces next year will want to put their own stamp on it. Everybody sort of assumes that Tina (Fey) and Amy (Poehler) will do it next year, and I think that is very likely. So whoever comes in and produces next year I think will want to make their own mark. Even if I wanted to do it again, I think that is a factor. Craig and Neil, I am very much a product of their gamble – and I’m busting my ass to make sure they don’t regret it. But we are all sort of looking at this as a one-time thing.
Will you take vacation after this? What are you most looking forward to doing? I’ll get a little bit of time off. I’ll get a week or two off. And I’ll probably just do nothing. Even travel sounds exhausting.
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NIU to present Tennessee Williams play Presenting the fifth production of its seven show Mainstage Series, the Northern Illinois University School of Theatre and Dance will stage an early play by Tennessee Williams. “Not About Nightingales,” opens today in the Stevens Building O’Connell Theatre. Williams’ fourth play, “Not About Nightingales” is not as wellknown as many of his later plays, because it remained unpublished and unperformed until 1998.
Based on actual events, “Not About Nightingales” is a story about liberty, human rights, love and abuse of power and is based on what was described at the time as one of the worst prison horrors in American history. “This is a picture, an insight into prison life in the 1930s during the depression,” director Patricia Ridge said in a news release. “It’s an unlikely love story which thrives, despite the underlying quarrel.”
Brandon Greenhouse, who plays the role of Jim in the play, said “Not About Nightingales” is a cautionary tale about what happens when too much power is given to the wrong people. The prison warden brutalizes the inmates, both emotionally and physically. In revolt against the mistreatment, the inmates declare a hunger strike. As events worsen toward being out of control, a contrasting romance begins to develop
between one of the convicts leading the hunger strike and the warden’s secretary. “Through the play, we are able to see what prison costs in terms of relationships and human suffering and come to understand how the penal system corrupts,” Ridge said in the release. She said the play is for mature audiences only. “Not About Nightingales” stages today through Sunday and Feb. 28 through March 3 at 7:30 p.m.
Stage Coach to audition for 6 shows Stage Coach Players will hold auditions for its spring and summer 2013 season March 2, 3 and 4 at Immanuel Lutheran Church, 511 Russell Road in DeKalb. Auditions will be held from 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday and 7 to 9 p.m. Monday. Stage Coach Players is a nonprofit organization with a mission to foster an appreciation for theater and create opportunities for those who want to participate in theater. All aspiring performers, regardless of experience, are encouraged to consider auditioning for one or more productions. Additional information can be found at www. stagecoachers.com. Auditions will be held for the following shows: “The Robin Hood Capers,” by Fred Carmichael, directed by Anita Biletzky. The director seeks four women, ages 25 to 105, and six men, ages 30 to 105. Participants will be asked to read cold from the script. Four of the major roles are elderly characters; young actors will be asked to audition as old. Those who think they are old will be asked to audition as older. Performances will be May 2 through 12. “Shrek: The Musical,” music by Jeanine Tesori, book and lyrics by David LindsayAbaire. Based on the DreamWorks Animation film and the book by William Steig. Directed by Gloria Dennison, musical direction by Judy O’Connor. The director seeks large cast, ages 7 to 70-plus. The cast will consist of four men, two women and a large
Skate shop sets art show Smalltown Skate Shop in downtown DeKalb will host the sixth annual Skateboard Inspired Art Show from 6 to 10 p.m. Feb. 28. There will more than 40 artists participating, many of them locals including Sharpie artist Justin McAllister of DeKalb, and Corey Hagberg from Crush Entity of Rockford. Handmade jewelry created from recycled watches and broken skateboards by Chelsey Dever and Ariel Ries of DeKalb will be available for purchase. This is an all-ages free event to kick off the beginning of spring and celebrate art and skateboarding. Smalltown Skate Shop is located at 229 E. Lincoln Highway.
ensemble, with many featured roles. Participants will be asked to cold read from the script, sing at least 16 bars of a musical number and dance. Performances will be June 6 through 16. “The Red Herring,” by Michael Hollinger, directed by Bernie Schuneman. The director seeks one man and one woman in their 20 or 30s, one man and one woman in their 30s or 40s and one man and one woman older than 50. Participants will be expected to read from the script in groups and to read provided monologues. Performances will be July 11 through 21. “Company,” music and
lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by George Furth. Directed by Ryan Morton, musical direction by Nika Plattos. The director seeks eight women and six men in their 20s through 50s. Participants need to prepare 16 measures of song (Sondheim or similar would be preferred) and be ready to sing something from “Company.” A cold read from the script and a short dance audition will also be required. Performances will be Aug. 8 through 18. “The Lion in Winter,” by James Goldman, directed by David W. Booth. The director seeks four men ages 16 to 30-plus, one man in his
40s to 60s, one woman in her late teens to late 20s and one woman 50-plus. Participants will read semi-cold from monologues selected by the director, which may be from the script or may be representative of the characters. Participants will have time to rehearse before the audition. High school- and college-aged men are strongly encouraged to audition. Performances will be Sept. 12 through 22. “Rope,” by Patrick Hamilton, directed by G. Scott Morris. Details about audition requirements will be available the day of auditions. Performances will be Oct. 10 through 20.
weekdays and Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays in the Stevens Building O’Connell Theatre on the DeKalb campus. Tickets cost $16 for adults, $13 for seniors and $8 for students. Tickets can be purchased online at www. niu.edu/theatre, or at the O’Connell Theatre box office from noon to 5 p.m. weekdays by calling 815-7531600. Walk-up tickets also can be purchased one hour before curtain times.
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Man is slow to seal couple’s dates with a kiss Dear Abby: I’m a 43-year-old single mom with three young boys. I am also a veteran and getting ready to go back to school. I have been dating a gentleman for two months now, and we get along great. He’s three years older than I am and good with my kids and family. I like him a lot and we seem to have a LOT in common – more than most. I really want him to kiss me, but I don’t want to seem pushy. He’s a real gentleman. We have gone from hugs to holding hands while sitting on the couch watching television. I don’t mind taking things slow, but ... How do I find out if he wants to kiss me or not? Sometimes it seems like it, but then he seems afraid to.
DEAR ABBY Jeanne Phillips How do I let him know it’s OK? Sorry I seem like a teenager. – Confused in Idaho Dear Confused: This man isn’t taking things slow. Glaciers have been known to move faster. Two months is a very long time to wait for a first kiss. The next time you find yourself sitting on the couch and holding hands with him, you have my permission to turn to him and say, “I’d love it if you kissed me.” If that doesn’t do the trick, then face it – his feelings for you are only brotherly. Dear Abby: You have writ-
ten about children in grocery stores before. Would you please address the risk to children by allowing them to stand in grocery shopping carts? I see it all too often, and I don’t think the parents/ grandparents realize that if the child falls out and lands on his or her head, neck or back, the child could end up paralyzed or dead. The adult must be the rule setter and protect the child. But too often it’s the child setting the limits, and the results can be tragic. – Concerned Shopper in New York Dear Concerned Shopper: I’m glad to oblige. Many markets equip their shopping carts with seat belts to secure tiny passengers and avoid this problem. That way, any liability that might stem from
for the sake of YOUR mena child falling would lie dital – and financial – health. rectly where it belongs, with However, if she refuses, you the adult who should have may have to write off the loan been using common sense. Dear Abby: My oldest friend as tuition in the school of experience. Your mistake was owes me a lot of money. I loaned it to her when she was not getting the terms of the loan in writing. being evicted. She has now Dear Abby: I have two sons come into some money and is who will graduate from colgoing on a cruise. lege on the same day. My wife I asked her to repay me and I would like to attend before the trip. She said she “needs the cruise for her men- both ceremonies, but for obvital health.” I am shocked and ous reasons, we cannot. How do I resolve this dilemma? – very angry. When I lost my temper and told her off, she Father in Texas accused me of being “greedy Dear Father: Divide and conand money-obsessed.” quer. You attend one graduaAbby, I helped her when tion and your wife the other. she needed it! What should I To decide which one, you and do? – Furious in San Francisco the Mrs. should draw straws. Dear Furious: When your “friend” returns from her sea • Write Dear Abby at www. DearAbby.com or P.O. Box cruise, see if you can get her 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069. to agree to a repayment plan
Mild endometriosis unlikely to harm fertility Dear Dr. K: I have endometriosis. Could this affect my fertility? Dear Reader: Endometriosis can affect fertility – but not in every case. Let me explain. Endometrial tissue is the inner lining of the uterus. Normally, that’s the only place in the body where it grows. However, with endometriosis, the same type of tissue also grows where it shouldn’t – in places outside the uterus. It may grow in or on the ovaries or fallopian tubes, or in the pelvis or lower abdomen. Endometriosis doesn’t always cause symptoms. But when it does, it can result in severe pain and discomfort. Whether or not endometriosis affects your fertility depends on its severity and
ASK DR. K Anthony L. Komaroff location. It’s more likely to interfere with your fertility if endometrial tissue covers or grows into your ovaries, or if it blocks your fallopian tubes. There are many available treatment options. Even without treatment, most women with mild endometriosis eventually can become pregnant. For mild pelvic or abdominal pain, you can try a nonprescription pain medication – ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin), for example, or naproxen (Aleve). If this doesn’t help, your doctor may prescribe
a prescription-strength pain reliever. Stronger medications that contain a mild narcotic, such as codeine, are available, but they carry the risk of drug dependence and addiction. Other treatments relieve pain by controlling levels of female hormones that encourage inflammation within patches of endometriosis. This can worsen pain and discomfort. The treatments of this type include birth control pills (because of their effects on the levels of sex hormones, not because they prevent pregnancy). Other treatments of this type include medicines called gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonists (yes, it’s a mouthful), progestins and a medicine called danazol
(Danocrine). Surgery is another option if medicines fail. Some procedures may be done laparoscopically, through small incisions. Using specialized surgical instruments, the doctor destroys small areas of extra endometrial tissue growing outside the uterus. The doctor may burn the tissue away, trim it away, or use a laser to vaporize it. (I’ve put an illustration of surgical laparoscopy on my website.) Many women who have laparoscopic surgery to improve their fertility become pregnant. For more extensive endometriosis, you may need traditional abdominal surgery. This is done through a larger incision.
A last-resort treatment is a hysterectomy. This involves removing your uterus, ovaries and fallopian tubes – and any endometrial tissue that comes with them. It is performed only in women with severe disabling pain who no longer want to become pregnant. Fortunately, symptoms of endometriosis usually go away after menopause. I don’t think we know for sure that the treatments I mention above will improve fertility – your specific question. However, let me repeat that most women with mild endometriosis do not have problems with fertility.
• Visit www.AskDoctorK. com to read more.
Young people need privacy as much as adults Dr. Wallace: I’m 15 and have a pen pal (a girl) who lives in Scotland. I got her name from a teacher, and we have been writing for about six months. I enjoy writing to Daphne and receiving her letters. My problem is that my mother doesn’t have anything to do all day except watch soap operas and eat potato chips. That’s why she opens and reads the mail addressed to me, including the letters from my pen pal. I keep telling my mother that she shouldn’t be reading my mail without first asking for my permission. I’m
’TWEEN 12 & 20 Robert Wallace unhappy getting Daphne’s letters already opened and smothered with potato chip grease. When I complain, all I hear is that she is the boss and can read my mail any time she pleases. This might be true, but it doesn’t make it right. My mother isn’t checking up on me when she opens my letters; she is just plain nosy. Help! – Margo, Tacoma, Wash. Margo: Your mom is jeop-
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TODAY – Your potential for success will be substantially enhanced in the year ahead if you’re more assertive. Try not to settle for anything less than first place. PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) – Your best qualities will be extremely evident in various areas of your life, from business to social situations. When you get involved, big things begin to happen. ARIES (March 21-April 19) – Substantial accomplishments are possible, especially in developments where your compassionate instincts are aroused. You could go after some magnanimous goals, with good results. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) – Your ability to effectively deal with others could be your best asset. You’ll instinctively know how to bring out your colleagues’ best qualities and make them feel appreciated. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) – Focus your efforts and energies on matters that can help your career and/or add to your resources. It’s your current strong suit, where you can apply the best that’s in you. CANCER (June 21-July 22) – Instead of fretting about whether or not your ideas will work, put them to the test. If you should fail then try, try again. Remember, action begets action. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) – Something of true significance that has been subjected to many frustrating delays could break open for you through the work of a considerate ally. It was worth waiting for. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) – You’ll not be in the mood to get linked up with individuals who tend to drag their feet. Seek to associate with people who are as energetic and active as you are. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) – A determination to succeed is likely to be your greatest asset. Once this particular resource is tapped, your every objective will be realized. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) – Plans that require bold measures are destined to go much smoother for you today than they will tomorrow. Time is not your best ally in activities that require an aggressive approach. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) – Although you might need a push or a jump-start, you’ll be great once you get going. If you can team up with an eager beaver, that should do the trick. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) – Even though you are a strong independent thinker, your companions are likely to have a strong influence on your attitude. Their input will be constructive, not conflicting. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) – This should be an exceptional day in terms of selling something or persuading others. The possibility for gaining strong prospects is high.
ardizing the bond of trust without which family life is impossible. Unless there’s some breach in the trust, a parent should not open a child’s mail or otherwise engage in unwarranted snooping. Young people need privacy just as much as adults. It may be that there are issues in your mom’s life that she’s masking with her angry assertion that she’s the boss and can do what she wants. If your letter is accurate, it sounds to me like she needs to get a life; right now, she seems to be borrowing yours.
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Dr. Wallace: I’m 17 and a senior in high school. My boyfriend graduated last year and is now in the Navy, stationed in San Diego. In four weeks, he will be on a ship that will be at sea for more than three months. Matt wants me to come to San Diego for the weekend before he ships out. I live in San Bernardino, which is only about an hour’s drive from there, and I have my own car. I wouldn’t miss any school time, and I wouldn’t be spending much money because I would be staying at my aunt’s house. She lives about 15 minutes away from
where Matt is stationed. My parents are not so sure they want me to go, but they are leaving the decision up to me. My mom suggested that I write to you for your opinion. – Nameless, San Bernardino, Calif. Nameless: Because you will be staying with a relative, I’m in favor of having you visit Matt before he ships out. Knowing that you will be staying with an aunt should satisfy your parents that you will be well taken care of during your visit.
• Email Dr. Robert Wallace at rwallace@galesburg.net.
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Make things clear for your partner Leo Szilard, a HungarianAmerican scientist who conceived the nuclear chain reaction, the electron microscope, the linear accelerator and the cyclotron, said, “A scientist’s aim in a discussion with his colleagues is not to persuade, but to clarify.” There will be times when one defender will not be sure of the location of a critical card. Then he will usually have to rely on his partner’s realizing the predicament and clarifying the situation. In this example deal, how should the defenders card to defeat three no-trump after West leads the club seven? North, with a low doubleton, reasonably used Stayman to try to find a 4-4 spade fit. First, let’s look at the deal from declarer’s point of view. He has eight top tricks: two spades, three hearts, two diamonds and one club (the first trick). If diamonds are favorable, he has overtricks in his future. So he wins trick one, plays a diamond to dummy’s ace and calls for another diamond. What should East discard? Second, let’s go back to trick one. East must play the club jack, bottom of touching honors when playing third hand high. The snag is that West does not know who has the queen; it could be East or South. Third, East should apply the Rule of Eleven. Seven from 11 is four. So there are four clubs higher than the seven in the North, East and South hands combined. And East has seen all four. He must clarify the situation for his partner by discarding the club queen! Then, when West gets in with his diamond queen, he will cash four club tricks for down one.
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‘Top Gear’ co-host visits Volo Auto Museum If you go
By JAMI KUNZER jkunzer@shawmedia.com Adam Ferrara was bound to come back to the Volo Auto Museum. The first time he came, “We let him drive the Batmobile,” museum Owner Brian Grams said. “We showed him a good time.” Ferrara, the co-host of “Top Gear,” actor and stand-up comic will host a meet-and-greet from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and again from 2 to 4 p.m. at the museum, 27582 Volo Village Road. In town for six shows Feb. 21 to Feb. 24 at the Chicago Improv in Schaumburg, Ferrara agreed to stop by the museum. His appearance gives the museum the chance to show off its newly remodeled 4,000-square-foot exhibit hall, Grams said. The meet-and-greet comes with admission to the museum. Visitors will get a sneak-peak of the new exhibit hall, which has a grand opening planned for Father’s Day, Grams said. That event will include a
What: Meet-and-greet with Adam Ferrara, stand-up comic, actor and co-host of “Top Gear” When: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday Where: Volo Auto Museum, 27582 Volo Village Road, Volo Information: Ferrara also is performing six shows, Feb. 21-24, at the Chicago Improv in Chicago. Tickets cost $19 to $22. For more information and tickets, go to www.chicago.improv.com.
Adam Ferrara celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Dusenberg, one of the world’s most expensive cars, with a collection of six Dusenbergs on display. Ferrara had visited the museum a few years back to film a television pilot for a show called “United States of Cars” that never was picked up. He and Grams became
friends, and Ferrara became a fan of the museum as well as the rare 1970 Ram Air IV GTO convertible he got to drive while there. “Any time I can spend a day at the Volo Auto Museum, I’m going to do it,” he said. He’ll sign autographs, pose for photographs and talk cars, or anything else. But, he said, “Don’t come for me. Come for the cars.” It was that pilot filmed in Volo that lead to Ferrara’s involvement with the History Channel and even-
tually “Top Gear.” He had been a fan of the original, popular BBC version of the show, when producers approached him about co-hosting an American version. Primarily about cars, the show is the world’s most widely watched factual television program, beginning in the BBC in 1977. “I was nervous about undertaking anything with the Top Gear show,” Ferrara said. “You don’t want to do anything to tarnish that image.” He knew from the get-go the American version couldn’t be an imitation of the British version. Producers, the same as those for the British version, told him to “just be who you are in the format of Top Gear.” “They gave us some cars to hang out with,” he said. “I’m like, ‘How do you not try this?’ “It’s been a great ride. I get to drive all these high-end cars and have all these adventures and fun.” The show is starting production of its fourth season. Ferrara also has played “Chief
Needles Nelson” on the FX series “Rescue Me” and appeared in other television series and films, including “Definitely Maybe,” and “Paul Blart: Mall Cop.” He said he’ll next appear April 14 on Showtime’s “Nurse Jackie.” Having created various comedy specials, including Comedy Central’s “Funny as Hell,” Ferrara is working on his latest special and looking to focus on his stand-up comedy routine. “I’m a confessions comic,” he said. “Basically I take my life and put it through a confession. I actually try and find humor in that. If I don’t then it’s not funny. It’s just annoying. You have to find laughter in your life.” He compares the audience to a chisel, while his jokes are blocks of stones. “They’re going to tell you what’s funny and what’s not funny,” he said. “You can bring an idea on stage and see the reaction of the audience and see where that laugh is taking you. It’s a collaborative kind of process to create a new special.”
NIU Art Museum schedules spring Get-on-the-Bus trips The Northern Illinois University Art Museum has announced its schedule of spring Get-on-the-Bus trips. Trips depart from the NIU School of Art parking lot at the northeast corner of Gilbert Drive and College Avenue unless otherwise specified. The schedule follows:
8 to 10 p.m. Bus leaves at 1 p.m. from the School of Art parking lot; it will return at 11:30 p.m. Cost: $30, members; $35, students and seniors; $40, all others. Price includes concert ticket and transportation, meal costs on own. Registration and payment deadline is Feb. 27.
March 2 - Chicago Arts Orchestra at St. Michael’s Church in Old Town
April 25 to 28 - Get-On-TheBus-Over-Nighter in Milwaukee and Racine
Visit the DePaul Art Museum’s current exhibition, stroll around Lincoln Park, and grab tapas at Café Ba Ba Reeba. In the evening, visit St. Mike’s for the Chicago Arts Orchestra concert: Rediscovered Treasures III. Many of these Spanish and Latin American compositions have not been heard in more than 200 years. Pre-concert talk at 7:30 p.m., concert runs
This excursion will include visits to top-notch museums and gardens, and will feature sites and tours that focus on an array of architectural styles, and both traditional and contemporary decorative arts. Sites include: The Mitchell Conservatory; Frank Lloyd Wright’s Johnson Wax Building; the Flemish-renaissance style Pabst Mansion; the Milwau-
kee Art Museum; the Lynden Sculpture Gardens and more. Early registration discounts available through Feb. 22; final registration due March 15. Limited group size. Visit www.niu.edu/artmuseum/bus/trips.shtml for more information or call Jo Burke at 815-753-1936 to register.
May 17 - Chicago Cultural Heritage Museums II Cultural tour around Chicago continues with the Indo American Center on Devon Avenue, Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art and The Ukrainian National Museum in the Ukrainian Village. Bus leaves the School of Art parking lot at 8:30 a.m. and returns at 6:30 p.m. Cost: $30, members; $35, students and seniors; $40, all others. Price includes museum entrance fees and
transportation, meal costs on own. Registration and payment deadline is May 15.
June 7 - Chicago Cultural Heritage Museums III In the third installment of the cultural heritage tours the group will visit the Swedish-American Museum in Andersonville before going to the Dank Haus in Lincoln Square. Bus leaves from the School of Art parking lot at 9 a.m. and return at 7:30 p.m. Cost: $25, members; $30, students and seniors; $35, all others. Price includes museum entrance and transportation, meal costs on own. Registration and payment deadline is June 5.
June 21 - Chicago Cultural Heritage Museums IV The tour around Chicago’s heritage museums will conclude with the Chinese-Amer-
ican Museum of Chicago and The Jane Addams Hull House Museum. While in the area, the group will explore Chinatown and Little Italy. Bus leaves from the School of Art parking lot at 8:30 a.m. and return at 6:30 p.m. Cost: $30, members; $35, students and seniors; $40, all others. Price includes museum entrance fees and transportation, meal
costs on own. Registration and payment is due June 7. To register for these trips, stop by the NIU Art Museum, first floor, west end of Altgeld Hall, call 815-753-1936, or send email to hgreen2@niu.edu or jburke2@niu.edu. More information about the museum and its programming can be found at www. niu.edu/artmuseum.
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PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 16TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DEKALB COUNTY, ILLINOIS OLD SECOND NATIONAL BANK, Plaintiff, vs. ARMANDO MALDONADO, NOELIA MALDONADO a/k/a NOELIA MALONADO, GUSTAVO SANTOS, UNKNOWN OWNERS, UNKNOWN TENANTS IN POSSESSION, and NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS. Defendants.
NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE PUBLIC NOTICE is given that pursuant to a judgment of foreclosure entered by this Court in the above-entitled action, the property described below, or so much of it as shall be sufficient to satisfy the judgment, shall be sold to the highest bidder. Further notice should be taken of the following:
PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 23D JUDICIAL DISTRICT DEKALB COUNTY, ILLINOIS CITIMORTGAGE, INC., Plaintiff, -v.JOEL K. FABER, et al Defendant 10 CH 573 NOTICE OF SHERIFF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on December 8, 2011, the Sheriff of DeKalb County will at 1:00 PM on March 14, 2013, at the DeKalb County Courthouse, at the DeKalb County Public Safety Building, 150 North Main Street, Sycamore, IL, 60178, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 125 S ELM ST, Waterman, IL 60556 Property Index No. 14-16-434002 The real estate is improved with a single family residence. The judgment amount was $119,523.56. Sale terms: 10% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the auction; the balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offe d fo le without
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4. The time, date and place of the sale are: March 14, 2013 at 1:00 p.m. at the DeKalb County Sheriff's Office, 150 N. Main Street, Sycamore, Illinois 60178. 5. The terms of the sale are: Purchaser shall pay ten (10%) percent down by certified check on the date of the sale, the balance in cash at the time of closing. Closing shall take place within thirty (30) days after the date of sale at Chicago Title Insurance Company, 2128 Midlands Ct., Sycamore, IL 60178. Purchaser shall be furnished with a commitment for title insurance in the full amount of purchase price subject to all easements, covenants and conditions of record; covenants, conditions and restrictions contained in the deed from David L. Martin and John W. Martin recorded November 18, 1909 as document 45210 in Book 114 of Deeds, Page 261, that no building shall be located closer than 30 feet to the street line; real estate taxes and penalties and interest thereon for the year 2011 and all subsequent years, and existing unrecorded leases and all right thereunder of the lessees and of any person or party claiming by, through or under the lessees. Rents of current tenants will be prorated to date of closing. Subject to the rights of tenants, the Property will be available for inspection prior to the date of sale at stated times on reasonable request. Property will be sold subject to all current leases. Copies of leases and title commitment are available for inspection at the offices of Smith & Meyer LLC, 1958 Aberdeen Ct., Sycamore, IL 60178; telephone (815)787-7033 and, facsimile (815)748-1020. All bids shall be payable at closing with interest thereon at the rate of Nine percent (9%) per annum from the date of sale to the date the purhas ic is paid in full. Po
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1. The name, address, and telephone number of the person to contact for information concerning the property is: SMITH & MEYER LLC, 1958 Aberdeen Ct., Suite 1, Sycamore, IL 60178, (815) 7877033.
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6. Title will be conveyed subject to all easements, covenants and conditions of record; rights of way for drainage tiles, ditches, feeders and laterals, if any covenants, conditions and restrictions contained in the deed from David L. Martin and John W. Martin recorded November 18, 1909 as document 45210 in Book 1 14 of Deeds, Page 261, that no building shall be located closer than 30 feet to the street line; real estate taxes and penalties and interest thereon for the year 2011 and all subsequent years, special assessments, if any,and existing unrecorded leases and all right thereunder of the lessees and of any person or party claiming by, through or under the lessees.
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3. A description of any improvements on the property is: Singlefamily residential dwelling.
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pur chase price is paid in full. Possession and a certificate of sale shall be delivered to the purchaser at closing. The sale will not be complete until payment in full is made and received and entry of an order confirming the sale.
(Published in the Daily Chronicle, February 14, 21 & 28, 2013.)
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aga and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "AS IS" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information, contact Plaintiff's attorney: HAUSELMAN, RAPPIN & OLSWANG, LTD. , 39 South LaSalle Street - Suite 1105, CHICAGO, IL 60603, (312) 3722020. Please refer to file number 10-2222-15376. I508941
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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 23D JUDICIAL DISTRICT DEKALB COUNTY, ILLINOIS CITIMORTGAGE, INC., Plaintiff, -v.JOEL K. FABER, et al Defendant 10 CH 573 NOTICE OF SHERIFF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on December 8, 2011, the Sheriff of DeKalb County will at 1:00 PM on March 14, 2013, at th DeKalb C Courthous
the DeKalb County Courthouse, at the DeKalb County Public Safety Building, 150 North Main Street, Sycamore, IL, 60178, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described real estate: THAT PART OF THE EAST 1/2 OF THE SOUTH EAST 1/4 OF SECTION 16, TOWNSHIP 38 NORTH, RANGE 4, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: COMMENCING AT A POINT IN THE CENTER OF THE HIGHWAY THAT IS 32 FEET, MORE OR LESS, WEST FROM THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF LOT 8 IN BLOCK 3 IN CONGDON'S ADDITION TO THE ORIGINAL VILLAGE OF WATERMAN; THENCE SOUTH IN THE CENTER OF THE HIGHWAY, 40 FEET; THENCE WEST PARALLEL WITH THE SOUTH LINE OF BLOCK 14 IN THE ORIGINAL VILLAGE OF WATERMAN, 132 FEET; THENCE NORTH 40 FEET PARALLEL TO THE WEST LINE OF THE HIGHWAY; THENCE EAST PARALLEL WITH THE SOUTH LINE OF BLOCK 14 AFORESAID TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING, IN DEKALB COUNTY, ILLINOIS Commonly known as 125 S ELM ST, Waterman, IL 60556 Property Index No. 14-16-434002 The real estate is improved with a single family residence. The judgment amount was $119,523.56. Sale terms: 10% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the auction; the balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "AS IS" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid,
pay the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information, contact Plaintiff's attorney: HAUSELMAN, RAPPIN & OLSWANG, LTD. , 39 South LaSalle Street - Suite 1105, CHICAGO, IL 60603, (312) 3722020. Please refer to file number 10-2222-15376. I508941 (Published in the Daily Chronicle, February 14, 21 & 28, 2013.)
PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 16TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DEKALB COUNTY, ILLINOIS
OLD SECOND NATIONAL BANK, Plaintiff, vs. ARMANDO MALDONADO, NOELIA MALDONADO a/k/a NOELIA MALONADO, GUSTAVO SANTOS, UNKNOWN OWNERS, UNKNOWN TENANTS IN POSSESSION, and NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS. Defendant OTICE OF PUBLIC HEARI G
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2. The common address and other description, if any, of the property is: 1052 S. 5TH Street, DeKalb, Illinois 60115. 3. A legal description of the property is: LOT 14 IN BLOCK 5 IN MARTIN BROS. AND GALT'S SUBDIVISION, A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF SECTION 26, TOWNSHIP 40 NORTH, RANGE 4 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED IN BOOK “C” OF PLATS, PAGE 49, ON APRIL 8, 1903, BEING IN DEKALB COUNTY, ILLINOIS. 4. A description of any improvements on the property is: Singlefamily residential dwelling. 5. The time, date and place of the sale are: March 14, 2013 at 1:00 p.m. at the DeKalb County Sheriff's Office, 150 N. Main Street, Sycamore, Illinois 60178. 6. The terms of the sale are: Purchaser shall pay ten (10%) percent down by certified check on the date of the sale, the balance in cash at the time of closing. Closing shall take place within thirty (30) days after the date of sale at Chicago Title Insurance Company, 2128 Midlands Ct., Sycamore, IL 60178. Purchaser shall be furnished with a commitment for title insurance in the full amount of purchase price subject to all easements, covenants and conditions of record; covenants, conditions and restrictions contained in the deed from David L. Martin and John W. Martin recorded November 18, 1909 as document 45210 in Book 114 of Deeds, Page 261, that no building shall be located closer than 30 feet to the street line; real estate taxes and penalties and interest thereon for the year 2011 and all subsequent years, and existing unrecorded leases and all right thereunder of the lessees and of any person or party claiming by, through or under the lessees. Rents of current tenants will be prorated to date of closing. Subject to the rights of tenants, the Property will be availtio io th da abl fo in
7. Title will be conveyed subject to all easements, covenants and conditions of record; rights of way for drainage tiles, ditches, feeders and laterals, if any covenants, conditions and restrictions contained in the deed from David L. Martin and John W. Martin recorded November 18, 1909 as document 45210 in Book 1 14 of Deeds, Page 261, that no building shall be located closer than 30 feet to the street line; real estate taxes and penalties and interest thereon for the year 2011 and all subsequent years, special assessments, if any,and existing unrecorded leases and all right thereunder of the lessees and of any person or party claiming by, through or under the lessees. Dated: February 21, 2013. SMITH & MEYER LLC By: /s/ Jeffrey A. Meyer Jeffrey A. Meyer, one of its attorneys Jeffrey A. Meyer SMITH & MEYER LLC Attorneys for Plaintiff 1958 Aberdeen Ct., Suite 1 Sycamore, IL 60178 (815)787-7033 - phone (815)748-1020 - fax IL Atty. No. 06293377 (Published in the Daily Chronicle, February 21, 28 & March 7, 2013.)
PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE TWENTY THIRD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT OF DEKALB COUNT, ILLINOIS BRIAN E. TUCKER and BRIANA K. TUCKER, Plaintiffs, and ALEXANDER B. DAVIS, A Minor, and ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN Defendants. NO. 13 AD 01 NOTICE OF ADOPTION IN THE MATTER for the adoption of Alexander Brian Davis, a male child, TO: All Whom It May Concern. Take notice that a Petition was filed in th Ci ui C of DeKalb
Attorney Registration No. 00331007 KLEIN, STODDARD, BUCK, & LEWIS, LLC 2045 Aberdeen Court, Suite A, Sycamore, IL 60178 Phone: 815-748-0380; Fax: 815-748-4030 jbuck@kleinstoddard.com dg 20130114 (Published in the Daily Chronicle February 7, 14 & 21, 2013.)
PUBLIC NOTICE Invitation to Comment on a Telecommunications Facility This notice is to serve as an opportunity for members of the public and permitting agencies to comment on a telecommunications site with regards to effects on historic properties within one-half of a mile of the site. All interested persons are invited to comment on any potential effect that may be caused to historic properties, if any such properties are or may be located at or near the site, from a collocation of antennas upon a building located at 900 Crane Drive in DeKalb, DeKalb County, Illinois (approx. 41-56-21.37N, 88-46-13.50W). Comments regarding historic properties may be submitted to the following contact as follows: Tracy L. Drunasky, Edge Consulting Engineers, Inc., 624 Water Street, Prairie du Sac, WI 53578, Phone: 608-644-1449, Email: tdrunasky@edgeconsult.com. This notification is being completed in accordance with FCC04-222 public participation requirements and in accordance with the regulations of the Federal Communications Commission, 47 C.F.R. Part 1, Appendices B and C. (Published in the Daily Chronicle, February 21, 2013.)
/s/ John Acardo DeKalb County Clerk & Recorder (Published in the Daily Chronicle, February 21, 28 & March 7, 2013.)
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1. The name, address, and telephone number of the person to contact for information concerning the property is: SMITH & MEYER LLC, 1958 Aberdeen Ct., Suite 1, Sycamore, IL 60178, (815) 7877033.
Dated February 15, 2013
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PUBLIC NOTICE is given that pursuant to a judgment of foreclosure entered by this Court in the above-entitled action, the property described below, or so much of it as shall be sufficient to satisfy the judgment, shall be sold to the highest bidder. Further notice should be taken of the following:
y y, nois, setting forth the names and post office addresses of all of the persons owning, conducting and transacting the business known as SYCAMORE YOGA located at 2010 E. State St., Sycamore, IL 60178.
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filed in the Circuit Court of DeKalb County, Illinois for the adoption of a male child named Alexander Brian Davis. Now therefore, unless you, All Whom It May Concern, file your Answer to the Petition in the action, or otherwise file your Appearance therein, in the said Circuit Court of DeKalb County, in the City of Sycamore, Illinois, on or before 12th day of March 2013, a default may be entered against you at any time after that day and a Judgment entered in accordance with the prayer of said Petition. Dated: January 22, 2013 /s/ Maureen A. Josh Circuit Clerk of DeKalb County Sycamore, Illinois
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ope y able for inspection prior to the date of sale at stated times on reasonable request. Property will be sold subject to all current leases. Copies of leases and title commitment are available for inspection at the offices of Smith & Meyer LLC, 1958 Aberdeen Ct., Sycamore, IL 60178; telephone (815)787-7033 and, facsimile (815)748-1020. All bids shall be payable at closing with interest thereon at the rate of Nine percent (9%) per annum from the date of sale to the date the purchase price is paid in full. Possession and a certificate of sale shall be delivered to the purchaser at closing. The sale will not be complete until payment in full is made and received and entry of an order confirming the sale.
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