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YMCA upgrade gets OK
Parents find value in box tops
Expansion plan will double size of facility By JIM DALLKE
“The Sage YMCA will provide a great place to grow and serve as a destination for children and famlies.”
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Kati DeMuth and Amy Cole deliver boxes Thursday that hold Box Tops for Education cutouts brought in by students at Westfield Community School in Algonquin. The school has been encouraging students to bring in the box tops to help raise additional money for the school. TOP: DeMuth counts Box Tops for Education cutouts Thursday at Westfield Community School in Algonquin.
CRYSTAL LAKE – The Crystal Lake City Council approved plans to more than double the size of the Sage YMCA of Metro Chicago. The building expansion will include a competition pool, wellness area and a new children’s play area and childcare facilities. An additional 133 parking spaces also will be added to the facility for a total of 317 spaces. The building expansion, located at 701 Manor Road, will add 34,430 square feet for a total building area of more than 65,000 square feet. “The Sage YMCA is still in the process of going through building permitting approvals, as well as continuing to secure funding for the renovation,” Sherrie Medina, Sage
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Revitalized program raises big money for area schools By STEPHEN Di BENEDETTO sdibenedetto@shawmedia.com Amy Cole saw the value a box top off a empty cereal box can provide students and teachers at Westfield Community School in Algonquin when others had long overlooked it. The school finished last school year with only $97 raised from General Mills’
Box Tops for Education program, which rewards schools across the country with 10 cents for every box top collected. Cole, a member of the school’s PTA, saw an opportunity with the program to engage students and provide a financial boost to the school. She joined forces with fellow PTA member Kati
DeMuth, and together they devised a friendly, Olympicstyle competition among classrooms that has resulted into hundreds of box tops being collected at the school each month. “It’s only 10 cents apiece, so people think, ‘Why bother?’ ” Cole said. “But if you can get a couple hundred a
“People are having a hard time financially right now, and it’s hard to ask for money. All we are doing is asking them to cut the box tops and send it to school.” Amy Cole, member of Westfield Community School’s PTA
See BOX TOPS, page A9
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The Crystal Lake City Council approved plans to more than double the size of the Sage YMCA.
Illinois Senate gun-carry legislation will get overhaul By JOHN O’CONNOR
At a glance
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A copy of the proposed legislation indicates the plan would require an applicant to not only be free of a criminal record and pass a background check but also provide a “proper reason” for wanting to carry a gun and be “of good moral character.”
SPRINGFIELD – An Illinois state senator said Monday he will rework legislation allowing the carrying of concealed guns that emerged last week after concerns about extra levels of scrutiny for Chicago and Cook County, but he de-
fended the proposal against complaints that it was more restrictive than first touted. A copy of Sen. Kwame Raoul’s proposed legislation that was obtained by The Associated Press indicates the plan would require an applicant to not only be free of a criminal record and pass a background check, but provide a “proper
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reason” for wanting to carry a gun and be “of good moral character.” Those are hallmarks of laws in states such as New York, where police have wide latitude to deny applications. But Raoul said it was lifted from neighboring Indiana, whose concealed-carry law dates back decades.
The AP review of the Senate legislation came on the same day Attorney General Lisa Madigan asked the U.S. Supreme Court for more time to decide on whether to challenge the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals’ December decree that the state’s concealed carry ban was unconstitutional. The appeals court ordered
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A man who fired gunshots inside his Wonder Lake home surrendered to police Sunday night after a standoff, according to the Wonder Lake Police Department. Police were called to a home in the 5700 block of East Lake Shore Drive around 5 p.m. Sunday for a report of a disturbance, according to Wonder Lake Police. For more, see page B1.
Cary-Grove lacrosse coach Dylan Weber’s Trojans were trying to find some late goals to defeat Lake Zurich. No such goals came as the Trojans fell to the Bears, 6-3. The game totaled only nine goals, which is relatively low scoring. Only twice before Monday has C-G allowed fewer than seven goals. For more, see page C1.
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state lawmakers to enact a law by June 9 allowing concealed carry. Madigan has until May 23 to decide on an appeal but is seeking a 30-day extension. The issue has divided the state for years, as much along geographical lines as along political ones.
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