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Mental health search reopened Committee takes step to fill 5th recent vacancy on board By KEVIN P. CRAVER kcraver@shawmedia.com The McHenry County Mental Health Board is extending its search for a new executive director after one of the two finalists for the job dropped out. And when new finalists are chosen, a familiar face known
Suspect’s tale may not get to court
for speaking his mind might be one of the Mental Health Board members who makes the final choice. The County Board’s Public Health and Human Services Committee voted Wednesday morning, 4-3, to recommend filling a vacant Mental Health Board seat with former McHen-
ry County College Trustee Scott Summers. The recommendation came the morning after a Tuesday evening Mental Health Board meeting in which it was announced that one of the two finalists for the open top job took another offer. Reopening the search with
the same firm hired last year to find a replacement will be less expensive, committee member Paula Yensen, D-Lake in the Hills, said Wednesday morning. Yensen holds the County Board’s voting seat on the nine-member Mental Health Board.
See SEARCH, page A7
What it means The County Board Public Health and Human Services Committee on Wednesday morning voted, 4-3, to recommend appointing former McHenry County College Trustee Scott Summers to fill a vacant Mental Health Board seat. Voting “yes” to appoint Summers were Chairwoman Donna Kurtz, R-Crystal Lake, and members John Hammerand, R-Wonder Lake; Sandra Fay Salgado, R-McHenry; and Michael Walkup, R-Crystal Lake. Members Paula Yensen, D-Lake in the Hills; Mary McCann, R-Woodstock; and Anna May Miller, R-Cary, voted “no.”
TELEMARKETING TROUBLES
Curbing unwanted sales pitches
The ASSOCIATED PRESS BOSTON – The surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings acknowledged to the FBI his role in the attacks but did so before he was advised of his constitutional rights to keep quiet and seek a lawyer, officials said Wednesday. It is unclear whether those statements would be admissible in a criminal trial and, if not, whether prosecutors even need them to win a conviction. Officials said physical evidence, including a 9 mm Dzhokhar handgun and Tsarnaev pieces of a remote-control device commonly used in toys, was recovered from the scene. The suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, told authorities that his older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, only recently recruited him to be part of the attack, two U.S. officials said. The CIA, however, named Tamerlan to a terrorist database 18 months ago, officials said Wednesday, an acknowledgment that will undoubtedly prompt congressional inquiry about whether investigators took warnings from Russian intelligence seriously enough.
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Despite being part of the national Do Not Call Registry, residents are still prime targets for telemarketers. The registry is free to consumers and doesn’t require repeat enrollment. However, under federal and state law, some businesses and organizations still can call numbers on the registry.
Consumers aim to hinder solicitors with Do Not Call Registry “I’ve been told to change my phone number or to just not answer when it’s not a number I recognize. Those options are unacceptable. It’s my phone, and I should be able to answer it when I want.” Robert Van Ness Jr. of Algonquin
By LAWERENCE SYNETT
Register your number
lsynett@shawmedia.com
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obert Van Ness Jr. keeps a running tab of the calls he has received over the years from telemarketers, and it’s about 30 pages long and continues to grow. There have been calls offering lower interest rates on home mortgages, state-of-the-art home security systems and even cheap duct cleaning. The 59-year-old Algonquin man doesn’t want the calls, let alone like them, and even though he has entered his phone number into the Do Not Call Registry, calls still make their way through. “I feel like I have no power in
To join the Do Not Call Registry, verify your registration or file a complaint, visit www.donotcall.gov or call 888-382-1222.
stopping these calls,” said Van Ness, who has had the same phone number for more than 35 years. “It’s so irritating. I’m on the list, and these people still seem to get away with it.” Van Ness documents each call and uses his list as fodder when he lodges complaints with local politicians, the Illinois Attorney General’s Office or the Federal Trade Commission.
See SUSPECT, page A7
LOCALLY SPEAKING
ALGONQUIN
SUBDIVISION PROPOSED FOR VILLAGE A developer has proposed to build a 25-home subdivision close to North River Road in Algonquin. The development would be on 26 acres of land and the houses would sell for $700,000. The project would take three to five years to complete. The village still needs to approve the subdivision. For more, see page B1.
Virginia Peschke and Bill Daley Lathan Goumas – lgoumas@shawmedia.com
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McHENRY: Bill Daley visits county, says he is ‘seriously looking’ at running for governor. Local&Region, B1 Vol. 28, Issue 115
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“I’ve been told to change my phone number or to just not answer when it’s not a number I recognize,” Van Ness said. “Those options are unacceptable. It’s my phone, and I should be able to answer it when I want.” The Do Not Call Registry is a national database where residents tired of robocalls from telemarketers can enter their home and mobile phone numbers. Once registered, companies are restricted from making solicitation calls. Managed by the FTC, the registry is enforced by the FTC, Federal Communications Commission and state law enforcement agencies.
See REGISTRY, page A7