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The wait is over for ‘At Any Price’ Moviegoers will get opportunity to identify county locales in film By DAVID THOMAS
If you go Showtimes for “At Any Price” at Carmike Market Square Cinema in DeKalb for the coming week: n Today to Tuesday: 1:15 p.m., 4:15 p.m., 7:10 p.m., 9:45 p.m. n Wednesday: 12:15 p.m., 3:15 p.m., 6:10 p.m., 8:45 p.m. n Thursday: 1:15 p.m., 4:15 p.m., 7:10 p.m., 9:45 p.m.
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dthomas@shawmedia.com DeKALB – Every boy learns how to shave, but few can say they were taught by Dennis Quaid. The sons of Ann Oduber can make the claim. Aaron, 11, and Jacob, 12, portrayed younger versions of Quaid’s sons in the movie “At Any Price,” which was filmed in DeKalb in 2011. Zac Efron plays the older version of one of Quaid’s sons. Oduber, a Christian education coordinator at the First Lutheran Church in DeKalb, accompanied her boys during their two days of
Where do you prefer to watch movies? Let us know at daily-chronicle. com. filming. She described the whirlwind of activity that occurs on a movie set. “At one point, I was still tying one of their shoes on when the director said, ‘Real mom, please get out of the scene,’ ” Oduber said. Almost two years after the cast and crew came to DeKalb, the film “At Any Price” will be shown at
Carmike Market Square Cinema, 2160 Sycamore Road in DeKalb, starting today. The movie has seen limited release in the United States, with a couple of theaters in Chicago, New York and Los Angeles showing it. Oduber, who has seen the movie, described “At Any Price” as having an interesting story and as “an indie film that’s making a crossover into the mainstream.” “I can see now why Dennis Quaid is getting rave reviews for his role,” she said.
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Actors Zac Efron (left) and Dennis Quaid in a scene from the movie “At Any Price” that was filmed in October, 2011 on Kevin and Linda Herrmann’s farm hear Hinckley.
Senate OKs union-backed pension deal By SARA BURNETT The Associated Press
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Alex Scott, 14, and David Scott, 8, play parachute with their foster brother, who cannot be identified, in the front yard of their adopted family’s home May 3 in DeKalb. Roger and Marcia Scott have fostered more than 40 children since 1985. Of those children, the Scotts have adopted five.
Sheriff’s family has fostered more than 40 children, adopted 5 By STEPHANIE HICKMAN
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shickman@shawmedia.com Some people call Roger and Marcia Scott crazy. Others have called them extraordinary. They think of themselves simply as parents. Over the past 25 years, the Scotts have taken in more than 40 foster children, and their family continues to grow. “I thought I would do this for a few years, help out a few children, and then he would retire and we’d be off on our own,” Marcia Scott said. “But it just never happened that way.” DeKalb County Sheriff Roger Scott and Marcia’s family consists of five adopted children: Tom and Angie, both 22; Ebony, 19; Alex, 14; and David, 8. They currently are fostering a 5-year-old boy with special needs and a 16-month-old girl. The DeKalb couple also have three grown
DeKalb County foster care numbers (as of April 30) n 103 children placed in out-ofhome care n 64 children in foster care n 38 children living with relatives n 1 in institution or group home n 2,500 children legally free for adoption Source: State of Illinois
Marcia Scott plays with a foster child (left), who cannot be identified, and her adopted son, David Scott (right), 8, in their DeKalb home. biological children and nine grandchildren. Although the Scotts have gone the extra mile in helping children in need, there are many more who still need help. The Illinois Department
of Children and Family Services reported nearly 15,000 children in Illinois were placed in foster care, group homes or institutions last year, while about only 1,700 are adopted each year.
More than 100 of the children placed in foster care in Illinois live in DeKalb County. Eileen Liezert – the northern Illinois regional vice president of Children’s Home and Aid, a private agency that places children in foster homes – said the need for foster parents is on the rise as the agency receives an additional 50 to 75 children a year.
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SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois Senate voted Thursday to send a union-supported pension reform bill to the House, leaving lawmakers with two competing proposals for dealing with the nation’s worst state pension crisis just weeks before the Legislature is scheduled to adjourn. The Senate voted 40-16 Thursday to advance a measure sponsored by Senate President John Cullerton. The Chicago Democrat negotiated the plan with some of the state’s largest public-employee unions. Cullerton says it’s the only option for addressing the nearly $100 billion crisis that is constitutional, and the unions have agreed not to file a lawsuit if the measure is signed into law. But House Speaker Michael Madigan prefers a plan he sponsored and the House approved last week that he says could save three times more money than Cullerton’s proposal. Gov. Pat Quinn backs Madigan’s measure, as do Senate Republicans. But rather than take up Madigan’s proposal in the Senate, Democrats there opted to go with Cullerton’s union-friendly plan. The question now is whether one leader will succumb to the other’s approach or if another deal can be reached on a problem that lawmakers have failed to solve for years, even as states across the country took action on their own pension problems. Madigan predicted after Thursday’s vote that his bill – which unilaterally cuts retirement benefits – will ultimately be enacted. He said he hasn’t decided whether he would call Cullerton’s bill in his chamber. “I think the bill passed by the House is a good, solid bill, well-thought out, it has a broad base of support and it ought to be passed by the Senate,” the Chicago Democrat said. “And I think they will pass it.” Quinn, who has said fixing the problem is his top priority, told reporters Thursday that Madigan’s plan should get a vote in the Senate before the end of the month. “I think it’s important for them, members of the Senate, [to] take a look at everything,” the Chicago Democrat said. “But ultimately it’s important for (Madigan’s proposal) to get a vote.” But Ron Holmes, a spokesman for Cullerton, said it didn’t appear Madigan’s proposal had enough votes to pass the Senate. He noted four Republicans voted with Democrats on the union-supported bill Thursday, and that a bill similar to Madigan’s failed to get the 30 votes needed for approval when it was before the chamber earlier this year. “If there’s some sort of shift that says we can get to 30 votes [on Madigan’s bill], the Senate president will take that into account,” Holmes said. Cullerton’s plan would give workers and retirees a choice in retirement benefits. Current workers would choose among three different benefit packages, while retirees would choose between two.
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8 DAILY PLANNER Today Sexaholics Anonymous-DeKalb: 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: 815-508-0280. 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. Huge Sale at Kirkland Storage Solutions and U-Haul: 10 a.m to 3 p.m. today and Saturday at 901 W. Main St., (Route 72). 815-5223164. Story time: 10 a.m. at Barnes & Noble, 2439 Sycamore Road in 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. in Sandwich. 815-498-4405. Fish/shrimp dinners: 5 to 7 p.m. at Newman Catholic Student Center, 512 Normal Road in DeKalb. Served by Northern Illinois University Knights of Columbus Council 5572. Cost is $8 for fish or shrimp, $10 for fish and shrimp, $5 for grilled cheese or macaroni and cheese; all are full-course meals with side dishes. Peace vigil: 5 to 6 p.m. at Memorial Park at First Street and Lincoln Highway, DeKalb. DeKalb Interfaith Network for Peace and Justice Peace Circle follows at 6 p.m. 815-758-0796. Troop support rally: 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. at First Street and Lincoln Highway in DeKalb, across the street from Memorial Park. B.Y.O.B. Big Book – 12 & 12 Discussion AA(C): 6 p.m. at DeKalb Area Alano Club, 312 E. Taylor St., DeKalb, 800-452-7990; www. dekalbalanoclub.com. Big Book Discussion AA(C): 7 p.m. at Newman Catholic Student Center, 512 Normal Road, DeKalb, 800-452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com. Friday night activities and gallery hours: 7 to 9 p.m. at DeKalb Area Women’s Center, 1021 State St. All are welcome; programs vary each week. 815-758-1351. La Leche League of Sandwich: 7:15 to 9 p.m. at Valley West Community Hospital. For all interested women, especially before baby’s arrival. Babies also are welcome. For information, call Connie at 815-498-3431. Fox Valley AA(C): 7:30 p.m. at Salem Lutheran Church, 1022 N. Main St., Sandwich, 800-4527990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com. County Line Group Big Book AA(C): 8 p.m. at St. Mary’s Church, 121 N. Sycamore St., Maple Park, 800-452-7990; www. dekalbalanoclub.com. One Day At A Time AA(C): 8 p.m. at DeKalb Area Alano Club, 312 E. Taylor St., DeKalb, 800-4527990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com. There is a Solution AA(C): 8 p.m. at Kingston Friendship Center, 120 Main St. 800-452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com. Day PAA(C): 9 p.m. at DeKalb Area Alano Club, 312 E. Taylor St., DeKalb, 800-452-7990; www. dekalbalanoclub.com. Saturday Monthly community breakfast: 7 to 11 a.m. at Kingston Friendship Center, 120 S. Main St. Donation is $7 for all-you-can-eat eggs cooked to order, pancakes, waffles, biscuits and gravy, corned beef hash, bacon and sausage, fruit cups, English muffins and drink. Contact: Kingston Friendship Center at 815-784-3921. Weight Watchers: 7:15 a.m. weigh-in, 7:45 a.m. and 9 a.m. meetings Weight Watchers Store, 2583 Sycamore Road (near Aldi), DeKalb. Overeaters Anonymous Walkand-Talk meeting: 8 to 9 a.m. at the Northern Illinois University Lagoon, meeting at the NIU Lincoln Highway parking lot. www.oa.org; Contact: Marilyn at 815-751-4822. NICE Food and Clothing Center: 8:30 to 11 a.m. Saturdays, by appointment other days, at 346 S. County Line Road in Lee. This nondenominational food pantry serves the southwest part of DeKalb County and the southeast area of Lee County. 815-824-2228.
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The grid is living off you It would cost about only $4.80 to $6 extra next year (less than two lattes) for most consumers; in exchange, we’ll get a smart(er) power grid. Sweet. That’s what ComEd wants you to think in its request to up your electricity bill (well, not the latte part; that was me). Rate increases would affect consumers regardless of which company supplies their electricity because ComEd delivers it. My gripe: We should have had a flexible, reliable, “smart” power grid years ago. In late April, ComEd submitted a progress report to the Illinois Commerce Commission regarding the first year of the smart grid program. The report lists the installation of nearly 500 “distribution automation” devices. In a news release, ComEd said distribution automation devices reroute power around potential problem areas, “often with no noticeable interruption in service.” ComEd says the devices resulted in 82,000 fewer customer power interruptions last year. During the severe storms that hit the Chicago area in mid-April, distribution automation devices prevented 20,000 service interruptions. The devices, which are also known as smart switches, are a big part of smart grid technology, and ComEd’s goal is to deploy a smart grid system and install smart meters in 4 million homes and businesses over the next few years. ComEd provides service to
THE FINE LINE Jason Akst about 3.8 million customers throughout northern Illinois, about 70 percent of the state’s population, according to corporate data. And boy, do we need a better, smarter grid, because people are paying more and getting less with a grid that is becoming increasingly frail. An Associated Press analysis in March (based on its own data and data from Ventyx, a software and data services firm that works with electric utilities, and the utility consulting firm PA Consulting Group), revealed some shocking trends about our nation’s power grid: • U.S. electric customers are paying about 42 percent more to build and maintain local power grids than in 2002. At the same time, blackouts are taking 20 percent longer to fix. • In 2011 (the most recent year for which annual data are available), the average customer was without power for 112 minutes, compared with 97 minutes in 2002, a 15 percent increase since 2002 and the highest level in 10 years. • Between 2002 and 2011, the amount spent by the average power customer has risen 42 percent, to $232 from $163. The worst part: This data do NOT include blackouts after major storms.
This is everyday stuff. Why do we pay more for service that’s not improving very much or very fast to companies with plenty of cash? Exelon, ComEd’s parent company, posted revenue of $602 million in the first quarter of 2013. Considering that regulators let energy companies pass on equipment upgrade costs to consumers, the lack of faster, more profound improvement is a mystery. Or maybe not. As Rich Sedano, a former Vermont regulator, said in the AP analysis, “From the utility’s perspective, the safest thing they can do to get their money is to do what they’ve always done.” Maybe that’s why Gov. Pat Quinn on Sunday stamped his veto of the rate hike so enthusiastically. That good deed is unlikely to go unpunished, as legislators will probably override the veto. It could be so much better. A 2011 study by the Electric Power Research Institute says a modern smart grid would cost as much as $470 billion over 20 years, but the investment would pay upward of $2 trillion in benefits during that same time. Also, renewable/ sustainable energy (wind, solar, etc.) would be much more easily integrated into the grid.
• Jason Akst teaches journalism and public relations at Northern Illinois University. You can reach him at jasondakst@gmail.com.
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King, Messiah: New baby names suggest high hopes By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER The Associated Press WASHINGTON – Talk about high expectations for a newborn: King and Messiah are among the fastest-rising baby names for American boys. They’re just a little behind Major, the boy’s name that jumped the most spots on the Social Security Administration’s annual list of popular baby names. Jacob is the most popular for boys – again – and Sophia is the top name for girls, according to the list released Thursday. It was Jacob’s 14th straight year at the top. Next were Mason, Ethan, Noah and William. Liam cracked the top 10 for the first time, coming in at No. 6. Daniel slipped out of the top 10 for the first time since 1998, to No. 11. It was Sophia’s second year in a row at the top for girls. Next were Emma, Isabella, Olivia and Ava. But what about those rising boys’ names? Typically, says Laura Wattenberg,
author of “The Baby Name Wizard” and founder of Babynamewizard.com, “You don’t get a lot of Messiahs. You can have a lot more Majors.” “I have no doubt Major’s rising popularity as a boy’s name is in tribute to the brave members of the U.S. military, and maybe we’ll see more boys named General in the future,” said acting Social Security Commissioner Carolyn W. Colvin. Wattenberg said Americans have long given their children “aggrandizing names.” She noted that Noble and General were on the list of popular boys’ names for much of the 20th century, although neither ever cracked the top 100. “We’ve pretty much run out of presidential names, all the Jeffersons and Jacksons and Madisons, so we’re moving on to the aristocracy, I guess, or to the military.” Jennifer Moss, author of “The One-ina-Million Baby Name Book” and founder of Babynames.com, says she discourages parents from giving children “expectation names, like Justice and Chastity.”
“We feel that it kind of puts an undue pressure on the child when you use those kinds of grandiose or purity names,” Moss said. Chastity was in the top 1,000 for more than two decades before dropping off the list in 1994. Justice was on the list in 1880 but then fell off for more than 100 years. The name reappeared in 1992 and was No. 518 last year. Jacob’s popularity endures because the name has much of what parents look for in a boy’s name, Moss said. “It’s easy to pronounce, and it’s easy to spell. It’s a solid manly name,” she said. “It’s a biblical name, and biblical names are always in style.” On the girls’ side, Sophia first cracked the top 100 in 1997. Isabella dropped off the list from 1949 to 1990. The Social Security Administration’s website provides lists of the top 1,000 baby names for each year, dating to 1880. The top baby names that year were John and Mary. John is now No. 28 and Mary has fallen to No. 123 – the lowest for both names.
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8DID YOU WIN? Illinois Lottery Thursday Pick 3-Midday: 1-8-0 Pick 3-Evening: 8-6-3 Pick 4-Midday: 0-3-4-7 Pick 4-Evening: 5-4-8-2 Lucky Day Lotto: 3-15-23-24-30 Lotto jackpot: $2.6 million
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Several area locations were used as film spots for movie • AT ANY PRICE Continued from page A1 The movie was filmed at several locations in the area, including the First Lutheran Church in DeKalb, Sycamore Speedway and The Junction restaurant in DeKalb. Doug Dashner, a retired executive director of the DeKalb County Farm Bureau, was one of the people who helped director Ramin Bahrani find locations that matched his vision. “When we explained what was going on, he can then visualize what reality really was,” Dashner said. Dashner said he hasn’t seen the movie yet, but added he’ll probably watch it a few times to guess the locations of the scenes. Brien Prenevost is ex-
pecting his close-up in the film. His band, The Truesdells, is featured playing one of its own songs in a dance scene where all of the main characters are present. “We can only hope there will be a little buzz on the name Truesdells,” Prenevost said. “The band’s basically defunct at this point. We always look for opportunity, and all of the players are still available.” Debbie Armstrong, executive director of the DeKalb County Convention and Visitors Bureau, said the movie’s DeKalb release coincides with National Tourism Week. She described it as being the perfect example of how tourism can bring economPhoto provided by Derek Gibbs ic prosperity and pride to Zac Efron poses with fans outside of the United Church of Christ in July in Shabbona. Efron along with Dennis a region. Quaid were filming writer/director Ramin Bahrani’s movie “At Any Price.”
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Is program worth DeKalb may contact Sycamore about pool losing money? Ellwood residents want DeKalb to convert neighborhood homes By DAVID THOMAS dthomas@shawmedia.com DeKALB – The city soon could buy multifamily houses to convert them into single-family homes in the Ellwood Historic Neighborhood, which is northwest of downtown DeKalb. DeKalb aldermen will consider Monday whether the city’s tax increment financing dollars should be used to reduce the density in this neighborhood. City Manager Mark Biernacki said this is a policy question for the aldermen to decide, especially because this program would be operated at a loss. The value of these properties drop once they’ve been converted, city documents state. “On each individual instance ... is that loss, if you will, worth the overall public improvement of the area,” Biernacki said. Officials believe the city will lose $45,000 per house conversion. They are estimating buying a house at $150,000 and renovating it at $75,000, then reselling it at $180,000. Bier-
nacki said the program would be voluntary. The subdivision covers the area from Locust Street to the Kishwaukee River, and from First Street to John Street, within the city’s 5th Ward. Within the past few years, residents have formed a group dedicated to restoring the neighborhood. “Of all our neighborhoods, the people in this neighborhood have been the most active and organized,” Biernacki said. The Ellwood Historic Neighborhood Group approached the city with this plan. The neighborhood association has long sought to reduce the number of people who live in the neighborhood, Biernacki said. “Too much density has too much traffic, too many cars parked on lawns,” Biernacki said. “The thinking is: If you reduce density in certain areas, the blight sometimes goes with it.” Biernacki said the neighborhood group has identified one potential property owner who could participate in this program.
Students’ education grows at plant sale By STEPHANIE HICKMAN shickman@shawmedia.com SYCAMORE – Sam Sauber has spent his study halls in a greenhouse this week. The Sycamore High School sophomore has been watering and organizing plants in preparation for his horticulture class’s annual plant sale. Classmates consider Sauber an expert; he points to the various plants and identifies them without hesitation. Sycamore High School’s horticulture and Future Farmers of America programs are holding a plant sale this weekend to raise money for next year’s plants. The students have planted and cared for the plants in the greenhouse since late February. But the students’ agriculture instructor and FFA adviser, Kara Poynter, said the sale really is not about the money. “We’re not looking to make a huge profit,” she said. “It’s more of a learning experience for the kids.” Junior Justin Bolander said he’s learned quite a bit. “We’re actually identifying plants now,” he said. “We know what it looks like without looking at the tag.” Bolander is part of a handful of students who will spend the weekend selling the plants. A few Sycamore residents wandered through the greenhouse shopping for various plants Thursday, including
If you go Sycamore High School plant sale: n Today: 3:10 to 4:30 p.m. n Saturday and Sunday: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. n Monday through Thursday: 3:10 to 4:30 p.m. n May 18: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Nancy Miller, who has been a longtime supporter of the sale. “I don’t do much gardening anymore, but I do like my flowers,” she said. “I usually start here before I branch out to other places.” Miller said her family has three generations of FFA members, and she’s been coming to support the Sycamore sale for about 35 years. Another Sycamore resident, Ed Sebright, said he and his wife attended for the first time this year because they had heard good things about the plants. Sebright said they’ve had trouble with the leaves on their tomato plants drying out when they’ve bought them from larger stores. “We’re trying the kids’ plants now,” he said. “I’d rather give my money to them.” Junior Autumn Salis, who plans to study agriculture education in college, said she has learned lessons she will carry with her in the future. “Before this class, I didn’t know a lot about fertilizing,” she said. “It gave me experience.”
previous park board was moving too fast with the pool. Nyquist also expressed support for discussing the issue with Sycamore again. “If it is not feasible, I’d like to rule it out immediately so we can move forward a lot more quickly,” he said. Commissioner Phil Young, who was selected as board president Thursday, said he knows the Sycamore Park District also is exploring the idea of a new pool. He said it’s worth discussing, even with all of the challenges present in building and operating a jointly-run pool. The board’s reluctance to move forward with pool plans can be seen in their payments to PHN Archi-
resented the district in similar negotiations two years ago for a jointly-run pool somewhere along Peace Road. But even if both districts passed referendums to fund the project, DeKalb taxpayers would pick up 70 percent of the bill, Teboda said. “I don’t like the idea of the 70 percent falling on DeKalb taxpayers,” Teboda said. For months, DeKalb park commissioners have been debating the merits of replacing Hopkins Pool, which is nearing the end of its 40-year lifespan. The new commissioners who were sworn in Thursday night – Faivre, Don Irving and Keith Nyquist – campaigned on the idea the
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DeKALB – DeKalb park commissioners want to reach out to their Sycamore counterparts about the possibility of building a pool together. No date was set for the meeting, but Cindy Capek, executive director of the park district, asked for the commissioners’ schedules up to June 1. The idea was spearheaded by Per Faivre, who was sworn in at Thursday night’s meeting. “We won’t know if it works or not unless we meet with them,” Faivre said. However, fellow park Commissioner Mike Teboda tried to throw cold water on the idea. He said he rep-
tects, which drafted the schematics for replacing Hopkins Pool. In April, the board voted to pay the firm 90 percent of what was owed to it. They agreed to table the payment again Thursday. Capek said the contract with PHN Architects is for services rendered. The pool plan drafted by PHN Architects would have a size of 1,100 bather loads. The current pool has about 1,400 bather loads. To pay for the pool, the district would borrow $5 million and repay it without raising taxes. The district has tried to build a completely new pool in the past, but it has never been able to pass a referendum on the issue.
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8NATION BRIEFS Feds in NYC: Hackers stole $45M in ATM card breach
Ohio man’s ex-relatives describe abusive behavior
NEW YORK – A worldwide gang of criminals stole a total of $45 million in a matter of hours by hacking their way into a database of prepaid debit cards and then draining cash machines around the globe, federal prosecutors said Thursday – and outmoded U.S. card technology may be partly to blame. Seven people are under arrest in the U.S. in connection with the case, which prosecutors said involved thousands of thefts from ATMs using bogus magnetic swipe cards carrying information from Middle Eastern banks. The fraudsters moved with astounding speed to loot financial institutions around the world, working in cells including one in New York, Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch said.
CLEVELAND – Former relatives of a man accused of holding three women captive for a decade in his Cleveland home say he terrorized the mother of his children, beating her and locking her indoors. Elida Caraballo is the sister of Grimilda Figueroa, who left Ariel Castro years ago and died last year. She spoke to The Associated Press on Thursday as did Monica Stephens, a daughter-in-law of Figueroa now living in Florida. Caraballo says Castro shoved Figueroa into a cardboard box and ordered her to stay there. Caraballo also says Castro startled her sister by jumping in front of her with a mannequin as she climbed stairs and she fell and injured her head. – Wire report
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8POLICE REPORTS Note to readers: Information in Police Reports is obtained from the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office and city police departments. Individuals listed who have been charged with a crime have not been proven guilty in court.
DeKalb city Bridget M. Dunlop, 24, of the 2100 block of Eves Circle West in DeKalb, was arrested Sunday, May 5, on a failure-to-appear warrant for driving with a suspended license. Matthew T. Lulek, 22, of the 1700 block of Pheasant Run Place in Geneva, was charged Wednesday, May 8, with driving under the influence. Joseph A. Ybarra, 26, of the 500 block of North 14th Street in DeKalb, was arrested Wednesday, May 8, on a failure-to-appear warrant for possession of drug paraphernalia.
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Police: Drunk inmate broke jail window By JILLIAN DUCHNOWSKI jduchnowski@shawmedia.com SYCAMORE – A 20-yearold homeless man accused of kicking out a jail door window when he was too drunk to be placed with other inmates has offered to fix the window himself. During a court hearing Thursday morning, Dylan J. Blackstone told DeKalb County Presiding Judge Robbin Stuckert that he knows basic construction, so he can fix the glass window he alleged-
ly broke while being held at the DeKalb County Jail about 1:30 a.m. He also told her that the two new charges he faces – underage drinking and possession of drug paraphernalia – are baseless. “I have not drank or smoked marijuana in four days,” Blackstone said in court. The purpose of the hearing was simply to review the charges against Blackstone and to consider his bail. Stuckert kept his bail at $5,000, which would require
posting $500 to be released while the case is pending. He was charged with felony criminal damage to state-supported property for allegedly breaking the Dylan J. window in Blackstone the jail’s visitation room. It’s the most serious charge he faces, and it’s typically punishable with probation or up to three years in prison.
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Stuckert also ordered Blackstone to complete an alcohol evaluation and asked him to observe the county’s drug court program Friday. Blackstone is serving court supervision, a form of nonreporting probation, for a drunken driving case and has three other pending underage drinking cases, Prosecutor Phil Montgomery said. In one of the pending cases, Blackstone is accused of drunkenly stumbling across Buena Vista Golf Course in DeKalb at 2 p.m. April 16,
acting strangely enough that a resident who lives along the golf course called police. Blackstone was carrying a knife, but never threatened anyone with it, police said. Blackstone, who has given police addresses in Sandwich and DeKalb after prior arrests, said he has no place to stay and no one to call to ask for bail money, although he had submitted eight job applications in the past two days. “I’m kind of stuck on my own,” Blackstone said. “And that’s it.”
Bail reduced for wife, but husband’s is same By JILLIAN DUCHNOWSKI
DeKalb County
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Latrell C. Jones, 19, of the 900 block of Ridge Drive in DeKalb, was charged Monday, May 6, with felony theft, unlawful possession of another person’s credit card and violation of bond. Alicia Seifrid, 20, of the 33000 block of North State Street in Genoa, was charged Wednesday, May 8, with criminal damage to property. Dacia L. J. Iverson, 19, of the 500 block of South Sixth Street in DeKalb, was charged Thursday, May 9, with underage drinking, disobeying a stop sign and zero tolerance driving under the influence. Hannah E. Pumfrey, 20, of the 1000 block of Michael Street in Sycamore, was charged Thursday, May 9, with underage drinking. Enkhbat Viktor, 50, of the 4800 block of Linden Road in Rockford, was charged Thursday, May 9, with driving under the influence of alcohol.
NIU police Deshante J. Dunning, 19, of Chicago, was arrested Wednesday, May 8, on a warrant for theft.
8OBITUARIES MARY LUCILLE ‘MARY LU’ WAGLEY Died: May 8, 2013, in Anamosa, Iowa SYCAMORE – Mary Lucille “Mary Lu” Wagley, 91, of Anamosa, Iowa, and formerly of Belvidere, died Wednesday, May 8, 2013, at her home in Anamosa. Arrangements are pending at Butala Funeral Home and Crematory in Sycamore. For information, visit www.ButalaFuneralHomes.com or call 815-895-2833. Visit www.legacy.com/daily-chronicle.
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A police officer photographs one of several vehicles involved in an accident Thursday on DeKalb Avenue near Oakland Drive. A driver was taken to Kishwaukee Community Hospital with minor injuries after a five-vehicle accident diverted northbound traffic on Route 23. Heather Vierig of Sycamore was driving south on DeKalb Avenue near Oakland Drive about 4:45 p.m. when she rear-ended a car that shifted into her lane to go around a turning vehicle, DeKalb police Cmdr. John Petragallo said. The car she hit was pushed into oncoming traffic and struck by two northbound vehicles, Petragallo said. It came to rest in the middle of DeKalb Avenue. The driver of the car that was struck three times was taken to the hospital, and Vierig was ticketed for failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident, Petragallo said.
SYCAMORE – A judge reduced bail for a Sandwich woman accused of cocaine possession Thursday, but declined to do the same for her husband. Prosecutors said they had recently received information about Carla S. Cook, 43, of the 200 block of Boulevard Street in Sandwich, that made them support reducing her bail from $75,000 to $20,000, which would require posting $2,000 for release while the case is pending. Prosecutors did not detail that information in court Thursday, but Cook has no criminal history. Cook and her husband, David L. Cook, 53, of the same address, were charged Tuesday with possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver and possession of a controlled substance. They allegedly had five grams or
David L. Cook
Carla S. Cook
less of cocaine when police searched their home. David Cook asked Presiding Judge Robbin Stuckert to halve his bail. He said he had $5,000 he could post, could return to work at a Plano business and had lived in that house for 26 years. David Cook has multiple prior felony convictions, though, and is facing other felony drug charges for an incident that occurred Aug. 22. Stuckert left his bail at $100,000, which would require posting $10,000 to be released while the case is pending. He is next due in court May 23, while his wife is next due in court June 10.
U.S. home building is surging, but workers are missing By ALEX VEIGA The Associated Press The resurgent U.S. housing market has sent builders calling again for Richard Vap, who owns a drywall installation company. Vap would love to help – if he could hire enough qualified people. “There is a shortage of manpower,” says Vap, owner of South Valley Drywall in Littleton, Colo. “We’re probably only hiring about 75 or 80 percent of what we actually need.” U.S. builders and the subcontractors they depend on are struggling to hire fast enough to meet rising demand for new homes. Builders would be starting work on more homes – and contributing more to the economy – if they could fill
more job openings. In the meantime, workers in the right locations with the right skills are commanding higher pay. The shortage of labor ranges across occupations – from construction superintendents and purchasing agents to painters, cabinetmakers and drywall installers. The National Association of Home Builders says its members have complained of too few framers, roofers, plumbers and carpenters. The shortage is most acute in areas where demand for new homes has recovered fastest, notably in Arizona, California, Texas, Colorado and Florida. The problem results largely from an exodus of workers from the industry after the
housing bubble burst. Experienced construction workers lost jobs. And many found new work – in commercial building or in booming and sometimes higher-paying industries such as mining and natural gas drilling – and aren’t eager to come back. Hispanic immigrants, largely from Mexico, who had filled jobs during the boom were among those who left the industry and, in some cases, the United States. Dave Erickson, president of Greyhawk Homes in Columbus, Ga., lost an employee who took a job this year in Texas. The former employee is now installing fiber-optic cable and earning 30 percent more than he did as a construction supervisor.
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Richard Vap, owner of South Valley Drywall, poses for a photo at a home construction site with one of his crews working in the background April 24 in Lakewood, Colo. The resurgent U.S. housing market has sent builders calling again for Vap, but Vap says he is having trouble hiring enough qualified people.
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Marcia was inspired to become a foster parent around the time Roger became sheriff in 1985. She was watching an Oprah special on the need for foster parents and thought she would be up to the challenge. She persuaded her husband, and they eventually became licensed foster parents. After taking in several children over the years, the Scotts went from foster parents to a family. “Never in my wildest dreams did I ever think
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that.” Ebony Scott said every morning in the house with so many people can be hectic, but that’s why they have established a routine. But she’s grateful for the life she has built with her family. “You can be raised by a really loving family like we were, or it could be the opposite way,” she said. “It just depends.” Even after fostering children for 25 years, Roger said the job can still be difficult. “Recognize that it’s not
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8LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Corrections officers perform Although their work goes unnoticed, they are performing their critical and difficult job To the Editor: This week is designated as National Corrections Week. It is a time to recognize those people who are responsible for the security of jails and prisons for their work ensuring public safety. We would like to honor and thank the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office deputies who work in the Corrections Division. These men and women not only maintain security and efficiency in all jail-related responsibilities but also provide security at the DeKalb County Courthouse. Corrections work is difficult and demanding. Corrections officers deal with individuals who either are awaiting trial or have been sentenced to serve time for a crime. The deputies make decisions and exercise judgment, often in the face of adversity. These decisions not only are critical to public safety but also the safety of the inmates.
Was drug bust worth the effort, resources?
by high school students that it is easier for them to get marijuana, duties 24 hours a day, 365 days a controlled substance, than it To the Editor: a year and are a significant part is to get alcohol and tobacco, I found your editorial about of the criminal justice system in despite the fact alcohol and the busted crack cocaine drug DeKalb County. tobacco are widely available to ring to be both intriguing and We believe the importance of naïve. It was intriguing because adults. correctional officers, both in the it touched on how the economics Drug dealers don’t ask for IDs, county jail as well as the state and of the illegal drug trade “virtually while places that sell cigarettes federal prisons, is best illustrated guarantees” that the bust is not and alcohol do ask because there in the following quote from an going to have any lasting effect are legal repercussions that editorial in Corrections Technology on reducing the availability of motivate them to do so. and Management: the drug in the community. Also, couldn’t law enforcement “A correctional facility is a place Why applaud an effort that resources be better spent than where a debt is paid off and freedoesn’t have the lasting impact on an investigation that lasts dom is gone. Corrections is a vital that it is supposed to have? months? Personally, I’d rather link in the cycle of criminal justice. Perhaps the Daily Chronicle spend that law enforcement The job corrections officers do rep- editorial board could revisit the money setting up roadblocks resents the backbone of the laws lessons learned from alcohol pro- to catch drunken drivers every of our land. Police are often called hibition to find the best solution weekend to seriously keep our the thin blue line; but corrections for keeping dangerous substanc- community safe, rather than professionals are the ground that es out of the hands of teenagers spend that money arresting line is drawn upon, and it is solid is by legalizing and regulating 13 people who will quickly be ground.” the substances. replaced by 13 new drug dealers. While alcohol and tobacco Sheriff Roger Scott and are dangerous yet legal, it is Dan Linn Jail Commander Lt. Joyce Klein commonly reported in surveys DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office Sycamore
Cleveland ordeal dredges up trauma for others, too As I write this, not even 48 hours have passed since three young women escaped a decadelong nightmare of captivity in a house in Cleveland. In this short time, speculation about them and their ordeal has reached stratospheric heights. Stories parse their 10-year-ago pasts. Headlines declare that “their nightmare is over” and that their escape is “a miracle.” Worse, dark assumptions masquerading as questions are creeping into commentary and social media: Why didn’t they run ... try to escape ... bang on windows ... scream for help years ago? Stop. For the sake of Gina DeJesus, Amanda Berry and Michelle Knight: Stop. For the millions of female survivors of sexual assault in this country: Stop. Please. The day after the women’s rescue, the Cleveland Rape Crisis Center sent out a news release titled “Compassion for Survivors”: “Cleveland Rape Crisis Center expresses deep empathy and compassion for Gina DeJesus, Amanda Berry, Michelle Knight and their families. As the harrowing facts of this high-profile story unfold, we are aware the nature of this crime will likely have great impact on all rape survivors, their supporters, and the whole community. “Healing from the wounds inflicted by sexual violence is a lifelong journey. Cleveland Rape Crisis Center is a compassionate resource for those who have experienced this kind of trauma. ... We stand ready to support those survivors who will reach out for help, some for the very first time, as they are impacted by the stories of Gina, Amanda and Michelle.” There is so much we do not yet know
VIEWS Connie Schultz about the women’s kidnapping and their daily lives in captivity. What we do know, without a single detail, is that it will take years, maybe decades, for them to recover. There are others who know that firsthand. “I got sad when I saw some of the news coverage,” Meg O’Bryan told me Wednesday. She is the president and CEO of the Cleveland Rape Crisis Center. “Twice yesterday reporters asked me, ‘What is the one thing these women need to heal?’ ” Wrong question, she said. “This is a lifelong journey for these women – and a different one for each of them. I don’t see any miracle here. Their nightmare is not over, just as it isn’t for millions of other survivors.” I asked O’Bryan what happens when survivors of sexual assault hear about stories like the one unfolding in Cleveland, which is my hometown. “Think about your own reaction,” she said. “And then think about being a survivor of sexual abuse. Think about how it feels to hear this news if you, too, sustained years of abuse. Think about how it feels if the abuse was in your own family. Think about how you might feel if you were surrounded by neighbors who knew you but never knew about your abuse. For many of these women, they hear this news and the trauma comes back.” For survivors, the gruesome news in Cleveland could spark their first episode of post-traumatic stress, O’Bryan said. “If there’s any good to come of this, it’s that some survivors will seek help and tell
their stories for the first time.” O’Bryan was a member of the independent commission that investigated police conduct and policies after 11 women’s bodies were found buried in the Cleveland home of convicted murderer Anthony Sowell in 2009. The commission made a long list of recommended changes. Still, like many of us here, she heard Monday’s news and had the same question bubble up. “It was like ‘Groundhog Day,’ ” she said. “Again we’re asking, ‘How could this have happened and nobody knew?’ ” This time, she’s confident that Cleveland police care to find the answers. She’s just as certain that we have a long way to go – as a country and a culture – when it comes to prioritizing the prevention of violence against women. “We still marginalize this issue,” she said. “Just like with the Sowell murders, we need time to process what has happened. We need time to figure out the best way to respond.” In the meantime, I implore fellow journalists to rein in the reckless speculations, which serve only to harm the very women we presume to champion. Only three women can tell the full story of Gina DeJesus, Amanda Berry and Michelle Knight. So far, they have been publicly silent. Let us celebrate that they are in control of their lives and their narratives. Let us also be patient. Let us do no further harm.
• Connie Schultz is a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and an essayist for Parade magazine. She is the author of two books, including “...and His Lovely Wife,” which chronicled the successful race of her husband, Sherrod Brown, for the U.S. Senate.
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Being “green” is in. A little more than a year into a ban that prohibits electronics from going into landfills, many Illinois residents are embracing a law aimed at protecting the environment. As of January 2012, old electronics such as TVs and computers must be recycled. The law applies to residents and electronics manufacturers. Close to 39 million pounds of electronics were recycled in the first year of the ban, according to the state. For the record The Illinois Environmental Although it might not Protection Agency said electronics manufacturers have be as easy as setting a recycled 50 percent more TV on the curb, recycling electronic waste since the such items helps the ban started. environment. Electronic That’s not to say more ed- devices contain metals ucation isn’t needed. For ex- such as cadmium, lead and ample, Mike Buss, customer silver, and putting those in service supervisor for MDC landfills could contaminate Environmental Services, re- groundwater. cently said trash collectors still regularly come across old TVs or computers on the curb. When residents call to ask why an item wasn’t picked up, Buss informs them of how to properly dispose of it. Although it might not be as easy as setting a TV on the curb, recycling such items helps the environment. Electronic devices contain metals such as cadmium, lead and silver, and putting those in landfills could contaminate groundwater. In DeKalb County, the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, DeKalb County Health Department and local municipalities have partnered to provide opportunities for residents to recycle electronics – almost all of them on Saturdays. The first Saturday of each month, electronics are collected for recycling in DeKalb at city parking lot No. 3 at Grove and South Fourth streets, from 9 to 11 a.m. They also are collected the same day in Genoa at the east parking lot at City Hall, 333 E. First St., from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. The third Saturday, there is a collection at the Public Works building in Sycamore, 475 N. Cross St., from 9 to 11 a.m. Call 815-748-2408 for details on other collection points and times. The state also keeps a list of places to recycle electronics, available at www.epa.state.il.us/land/electronic-waste-recycling. While it may be inconvenient to lug your old TV to a recycling event, the payoff of a healthier environment is worth it. We encourage people to continue taking part in electronics recycling.
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Immigration reform likely to be a ‘shot in the arm’ Former Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., now leader of the Heritage Foundation, knows that the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office is likely to judge that immigration reform – including eventual citizenship for millions of undocumented immigrants – will be a shot in the arm for the U.S. economy. After all, the CBO has done so with previous such legislation. That explains why DeMint, a bitter opponent of legalization, has launched a pre-emptive attack on the CBO – “puppets of the Congress,” he called the office the other day – and why Heritage has issued a study slamming amnesty for unauthorized immigrants as a drain on taxpayers. The Heritage paper, chock-full of assumptions that most economists dispute, is a blatant attempt to twist the immigration debate. It concludes that newly legalized immigrants would cost $6.3 trillion more in benefits over their lifetime than they would pay in taxes. (That’s $5.3 trillion more than they would cost without legalization, the think tank said.) The study updates a similar one by Heritage in 2007, which pegged the fiscal cost of amnesty at that time at a mere $2.6 trillion. There’s no question that granting the full range of government benefits to illegal immigrants – even if they become eligible for citizenship 13 or 15 years from now – will impose long-range fiscal costs. However, most economists say the costs of illegal immigration would be far outweighed by the benefits of legalization for overall economic activity, growth, business startups and labor market efficiency. That’s not news for the construction industry in Arizona, where hostile state laws have driven away thousands of illegal immigrants and builders have scrambled to find scarce workers. It’s not news on farms from coast to coast, where more than half the labor force lacks documents and growers worry that their crops will go unpicked without a system to legalize unauthorized migrant workers. Moreover, by ignoring the effects of legalization on the overall economy, Heritage failed to take into account the effects on federal revenue as workers emerge from the shadows to start businesses, travel without fear of arrest and deportation, earn higher wages and contribute to job creation. – Washington Post
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7-DAY FORECAST
A cold front will linger in the area today keeping a few showers around early in the day. Otherwise, clouds will remain throughout the day along with cooler air. In fact, lows will dip into the 30s. A cold front will swing through Saturday with only a few sprinkles. Sunny and much colder on Mother’s Day, but it will warm up nicely for most of next week.
TODAY
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SUNDAY
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A few showers early and much colder
Partly sunny and remaining cool
Mostly sunny, breezy and chilly
Mostly sunny and warmer
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55
64
79
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73
42
37
37
48
61
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52
Winds: N/NE 10-20 mph
Winds: W/NW 10-20 mph
Winds: NW 15-25 mph
Winds: W/SW 5-15 mph
Winds: SW 15-25 mph
Winds: SW 5-15 mph
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REGIONAL CITIES
REGIONAL WEATHER
DeKalb through 4 p.m. yesterday
Temperature High ............................................................. 69° Low .............................................................. 55° Normal high ............................................. 68° Normal low ............................................... 46° Record high .............................. 86° in 1979 Record low ................................ 27° in 1966
Precipitation 24 hours through 4 p.m. yest. ......... 0.05” Month to date ....................................... 0.54” Normal month to date ....................... 1.20” Year to date ......................................... 14.61” Normal year to date ............................ 9.76”
Sunrise today ................................ 5:40 a.m. Sunset tonight ............................. 8:03 p.m. Moonrise today ............................ 6:04 a.m. Moonset today ............................ 8:54 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow ........................ 5:39 a.m. Sunset tomorrow ........................ 8:04 p.m. Moonrise tomorrow ................... 6:46 a.m. Moonset tomorrow ................... 9:46 p.m.
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Janesville 60/40
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Lake Geneva 59/37
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The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index number, the greater the need for eye and skin protection. 0-2 Low; 3-5 Moderate; 6-7 High; 8-10 Very High; 11+ Extreme.
AIR QUALITY TODAY
Rockford 62/43
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Dixon 60/43
Joliet 60/41
La Salle 64/45 Streator 64/44
Source: National Allergy Bureau
Evanston 56/44 Chicago 56/42
Aurora 60/40
POLLEN INDEX
Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
Waukegan 54/38
Arlington Heights 56/42
DeKalb 60/42
Main ofender ................................................... N.A.
Hammond 58/44 Gary 59/41 Kankakee 64/42
Peoria 68/46
Pontiac 64/44
Watseka 64/44
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NATIONAL WEATHER
City Aurora Belleville Beloit Belvidere Champaign Elgin Joliet Kankakee Mendota Michigan City Moline Morris Naperville Ottawa Princeton Quincy Racine Rochelle Rockford Springield Sterling Wheaton Waukegan Woodstock Yorkville
Hi 60 70 61 60 68 60 60 64 62 59 62 60 60 60 60 68 54 60 62 68 60 60 54 60 60
Today Lo W 40 c 51 c 41 pc 42 c 46 c 39 c 41 c 42 c 44 c 42 c 44 pc 43 c 41 c 44 c 44 c 47 c 39 c 41 c 43 c 47 c 44 pc 41 c 38 c 40 c 41 c
Tomorrow Hi Lo W 65 35 pc 68 41 pc 58 35 pc 62 35 pc 68 38 pc 62 34 pc 61 36 pc 64 37 pc 64 37 pc 64 39 pc 66 35 pc 64 37 pc 63 35 pc 64 37 pc 64 37 pc 66 37 pc 58 37 pc 63 34 pc 62 35 pc 68 38 pc 62 35 pc 63 37 pc 56 35 pc 60 36 pc 65 35 pc
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WEATHER HISTORY On May 10, 1889, tornadoes hit several eastern Pennsylvania communities, including Reading, Pottsville, Shamokin and Philadelphia.
May 17 May 24 May 31
Kenosha 54/36
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Warm Front
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Hi 82 70 84 74 67 87 85 56
Today Lo W 64 pc 59 pc 62 t 59 pc 49 t 67 s 65 pc 42 c
Tomorrow Hi Lo W 80 59 t 70 56 t 76 54 t 70 54 sh 62 41 c 85 65 pc 80 57 t 63 40 pc
Ice
City Cincinnati Dallas Denver Houston Indianapolis Kansas City Las Vegas Los Angeles
Hi 74 79 66 84 66 66 88 75
Today Lo W 53 t 60 t 43 t 66 t 48 t 49 pc 72 s 58 pc
Tomorrow Hi Lo W 68 40 pc 78 55 pc 70 47 pc 78 61 r 68 39 pc 68 42 pc 94 72 s 80 60 pc
City Louisville Miami Minneapolis New Orleans New York City Philadelphia Seattle Wash., DC
Hi 76 87 66 81 78 82 82 83
Today Lo W 56 t 74 s 42 s 68 pc 61 t 64 t 54 s 66 t
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Sycamore grad and former Northern Illinois tight end Jason Schepler to participate in the 49ers’ rookie minicamp this weekend. PAGE B3
SECTION B Friday, May 10, 2013 Daily Chronicle
Sports editor Ross Jacobson • rjacobson@shawmedia.com
8MORNING KICKOFF
CLASS 3A DEKALB REGIONAL
Barbs taking a step up By ANTHONY ZILIS sports@daily-chronicle.com
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Walter Payton’s mother dies after long illness JACKSON, Miss. – Alyne S. Payton, the mother of late NFL Hall of Fame running back Walter Payton, has died in Jackson, Miss. She was 87. Family members said she died in the hospital Monday after a long illness. Officials with WestWalter Payton haven Memorial Funeral Home say services are scheduled for today at Black’s Chapel Missionary Baptist Church in Jackson. Burial will be Saturday in Resthaven Cemetery in Columbia. Alyne Payton’s husband Edward died of an aneurysm in 1978. Walter Payton, who played college football for Jackson State and starred with the Chicago Bears, died of liver disease in 1999. Alyne Payton was a former member of the board for the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum. Survivors include a son, Eddie, also a football standout at Jackson State; and a daughter, Pam. – Wire report
8WHAT TO WATCH NBA playoffs Miami at Bulls, 7 p.m., today, ESPN The Bulls will try to bounce back from a 37-point loss when they host the Heat in Game 3 of the conference semifinals. Also on TV... NBA playoffs San Antonio at Golden State, Game 3, 9:30 p.m., ESPN NHL playoffs N.Y. Rangers at Washington, Game 5, 6:30 p.m., NBCSN Anaheim at Detroit, Game 6, 7 p.m., CNBC St. Louis at Los Angeles, Game 6, 9 p.m., NBCSN Pro baseball Cubs at Washington, 6:05 p.m., WGN L.A. Angels at White Sox, 7:10 p.m., CSN Golf PGA Tour, The Players Championship, second round, noon, TGC Auto racing Formula One, Spanish Grand Prix practice, 7 a.m., NBCSN NASCAR, Nationwide Series, pole qualifying for Help a Hero 200, 2:30 p.m., ESPN2 NASCAR, Nationwide Series, Help a Hero 200, 6:30 p.m., ESPN2 Boxing Junior welterweights, Manuel Perez (19-8-1) vs. Vernon Paris (27-1-0), 9 p.m., ESPN2
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When DeKalb girls soccer coach Phil Rouse found out his team was moved up to Class 3A this season, he knew the Barbs’ regional would be difficult, but he thought they would play north suburban and Rockford-area teams, like they usually do. He didn’t expect them to play against schools from the western suburbs, one of the state’s soccer hotbeds. Despite winning the Northern Illinois Big 12 East and losing only one match all
(title) out of this, that’s something really, really to hang your hat on and nobody can Saturday’s quarterfinal (17) Elgin vs. (13) DeKalb, 11 a.m. say, ‘You were the biggest school,’ ” Rouse said. “AnyWednesday’s semifinals thing that you can get in 3A, (1) St. Charles North vs. Elyou’re going to earn.” gin-DeKalb winner, 4:30 p.m. The Barbs will kick off (8) Schaumburg vs. (9) West their regional Saturday Chicago, 6:30 p.m. against Elgin in the Class 3A May 18 championship DeKalb Regional quarterfinal Semifinal winners, 11 a.m. for the right to play top-seed• Winner advances to the ed St. Charles North, last Hoffman Estates Sectional year’s Class 3A runner-up. The quarterfinal will serve as a play-in match, because most Monica Maschak – mmaschak@shawmedia.com season, the Barbs are the No. teams receive a bye into the DeKalb’s Rachel Butler tries to keep the ball away from Kaneland’s Mi13 seed in their 17-team sec- semifinal. chelle Ortiz during a match April 24 in DeKalb. The match ended in a tional. See SOCCER, page B3 “If we can get a regional scoreless tie.
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CLASS 3A BELVIDERE NORTH SECTIONAL
Brown, Schrader win sectional titles Barbs take 5th with 39 points
Draper at ease against the best Junior 1st Barb to play in state tourney since ’07
By ROSS JACOBSON rjacobson@shawmedia.com BELVIDERE – Kelsey Schrader could sense her form breaking down in the last few laps of the 3,200-meter race in the Class 3A Belvidere North Sectional on Thursday. The DeKalb junior felt her hips giving her issues, a problem that also arose two weeks ago. But at that point in the race her form mattered little as Schrader was 50 meters clear of the rest of the field and cruised to a first-place finish, securing a berth at next week’s IHSA state meet in Charleston. “It’s kind of like I’m running pigeon-toed almost,” said Schrader, who finished 10th in the Class 3A cross country state race. “I just can’t speed up. That happened in the twomile towards the end.” Schrader went out quickly, completing the first mile in about 5:32. She ran without anyone pushing her for all eight laps before finishing in 11:24. As a sophomore, Schrader qualified for the state meet in the 3,200 and 1,600, but her hip injuries forced her to scratch out of the 1,600 on Thursday. “It’s kind of hard right now to look at it in a good way because I really wanted to run the mile,” said Schrader, who
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BADMINTON STATE TOURNAMENT
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DeKalb’s Kelsey Schrader outruns her competition in the 3,200-meter race in the Class 3A Belvidere North Sectional on Thursday in Belvidere. Schrader won with a time of 11 minutes, 24 seconds.
Tristan Draper wasn’t fazed when she took her first loss in the second round of the Naperville North Sectional badminton tournament. The DeKalb junior lost in a tough three-set match to Naperville North’s Kyleen Jan, the sectional’s No. 1 seed and eventual champion, and Draper was relegated to the consolation bracket, one loss away from falling short of the state tournament. “She really keeps her head during tournaments. She doesn’t get down,” DeKalb coach Duane Cowley said. “Obviously, she’s disappointed when she takes a loss, but I don’t see a letdown when she comes out.” Draper rallied to win her next three matches, advancing to the consolation finals and securing a spot in the state tournament, something she set as a goal at the beginning of the season. “It was kind of surreal. It didn’t really hit me at first,” Draper said. “I was really excited, but really nervous, too.” Draper finished fourth in the Naperville Sectional and starts play in the state tournament today at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston. She is scheduled to play Mt. Propsect’s Kiley Walsh, who won the Lake Forest Sectional, in the first round.
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GAME 3: HEAT AT BULLS, 7 P.M. TODAY, ESPN, AM-1000
Bulls will have to wait for Deng All-Star forward too weak, return tonight unlikely By JAY COHEN The Associated Press DEERFIELD – It started with the flu, and turned into a hospital stay. There were terrible headaches and weakness. Just walking was a chore. All at the worst time for Luol Deng and the Bulls. The All-Star forward made an appearance at the Bulls’ practice facility Thursday, but it was clear from his drawn ap-
pearance and measured tone that he might not be able to make it back in time to play in the Bulls’ rugged postseason series against the Miami Heat. Looking for reinforcements for their depleted roster, the Bulls are going to have to wait a while for Deng. “I don’t know. I want to play, but I don’t know what I can do,” he said. “I just, I haven’t done anything.” Deng joined his teammates for the film session covering Wednesday night’s 11578 drubbing by the Heat that evened the series heading into Game 3 at the United Center tonight. He also got on the court and took a few jumpers,
but that was all he could handle. “Still day to day. He’s feeling a little bit better,” coach Tom Thibodeau said. “We’ll see tomorrow.” While the Bulls were taking stock of their injuries – Kirk Hinrich had a second MRI on his injured left calf, and Derrick Rose was the “same,” according to Thibodeau – Miami was bracing for the first game of the series at the United Center. It’s the AP photo Heat’s first trip to Chicago Bulls guard Kirk Hinrich (from left), Derrick Rose, Nate Robinson, Richsince a 101-97 loss March 27 ard Hamilton and Jimmy Butler watch from the bench during the final snapped their 27-game winseconds of Game 2 of their NBA playoff series in the Eastern Conferning streak.
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ence semifinals against the Heat on Wednesday in Miami. The Heat won, 115-78.
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8UPCOMING PREPS SPORTS SCHEDULE TODAY Girls Badminton DeKalb at state tournament at Eastern Illinois University, TBA Baseball DeKalb at Sterling, 4:30 p.m. Burlington Central at Sycamore, 4:30 p.m. Amboy at Hinckley-Big Rock, 6 p.m. Softball Sycamore at Burlington Central, 4:30 p.m. Kaneland at Plainfield North, 4:30 p.m. Girls Soccer Indian Creek vs. Genoa-Kingston in Class A Genoa-Kingston Regional final, 4:30 p.m. Boys Track Sycamore, DeKalb, Kaneland at NI Big 12 Meet at Dixon, 3 p.m. Girls Track Hinckley-Big Rock, Indian Creek at Class A Seneca Sectional, 4 p.m. Genoa-Kingston, Sycamore, Kaneland at Class 2A Burlington Central Sectional, 4 p.m. Boys Tennis DeKalb at Conference meet, TBD
8SPORTS SHORTS Progar, Spann to work out in Jets’ rookie minicamp Former Northern Illinois defensive end Sean Progar and former Huskies running back Chad Spann will participate in this weekend’s New York Jets rookie minicamp in Florham Park, N.J., according to their agent. Progar, who wasn’t selected in April’s NFL draft, was a firstteam All-Mid-American Conference selection in 2012, finishing with 8.5 sacks. Spann, who ran for 1,388 yards and a nation-leading 22 touchdowns as a senior in 2010, was released by the Steelers last May. He also has spent time with the Colts and Buccanneers. After working out at NIU’s pro day in March, Spann told the Daily Chronicle he finally feels healthy. “Moved around and showed that I could still catch and run,” Spann said after his workout. “And I’m healthy.”
IHSA reschedules bass fishing state finals The IHSA announced that the postponed bass fishing state finals will be May 31 and June 1 at Carlyle Lake. The tournament originally had been set for May 3 and 4, but was postponed because of high water levels at Carlyle Lake. “We share in the frustration of the qualifying anglers who want to get out and fish,” IHSA associate executive director Kurt Gibson said. “However, we need to make sure that Carlyle Lake has the opportunity to properly lower its water levels before we conduct our state championship. “We are confident that, in looking at both the long range weather models and also speaking with the Corps of Engineers, water levels will have dropped sufficiently by the end of the month and enable us to host the state finals at one of our state’s premier fishing venues.” Indian Creek and Sycamore had boats qualify for the state finals.
NIU’s Carey to sing at Wrigley Field on Monday Nearly a month after his originally scheduled date, Northern Illinois football coach Rod Carey will make his Wrigley Field debut Monday when the Cubs play the Colorado Rockies. Carey will throw out the ceremonial first pitch and sing “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” during the seventh-inning stretch.
NIU softball advances in MAC tournament The Northern Illinois softball team advanced in the Mid-American Conference tournament, beating top-seeded Ball State, 3-1. The fourth-seeded Huskies, unbeaten in tourney play, advance to play No. 3 Central Michigan at 4 p.m. today in Akron, Ohio. Shelby Miller went 2 for 4 with an RBI for the Huskies (26-29), while Bryanna Phelan finished 2 for 4 with a run scored. – Staff reports
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Handzus enjoys playoff role Editor’s Note: Game 5 of the Western Conference playoff series between the Blackhawks and the Wild ended too late to be included in this edition. Log on to Daily-Chronicle.com for the story and Tom Musick’s commentary. By TOM MUSICK tmusick@shawmedia.com CHICAGO – At 36 years old, veteran center Michal Handzus still is able to improve his game. The past six weeks with the Blackhawks have proven that to be the case. “I think I’m playing better than I played before,” Handzus said Thursday before the Hawks hosted the Minnesota Wild in Game 5 of the Western Conference quarterfinals. “Obviously, I’m playing with very good players – well, right now, with great players on the second line.” Handzus hasn’t been too bad, himself. The Hawks took a low-risk gamble when they traded a fourth-round pick in the 2013 NHL draft to the San Jose Sharks in exchange for Handzus, a 14-season veteran who was known for his ability to win faceoffs. Handzus rewarded the Hawks with six points (1 G, 5 A) in 11 games after notching only two points (1 G, 1 A) in 28 games for the Sharks. In the playoffs, Handzus has anchored the Hawks’ second line between Patrick Kane and Patrick Sharp. He has two assists while averaging more than 17 minutes of ice time. “It’s been fun,” Handzus said. “It’s a great team.” Coming along: Pesky center Dave Bolland participated in
the Hawks’ morning skate and inched closer to returning from a lower-body injury that has kept him out of the playoffs. Bolland was “real close” to playing, Hawks coach Joel Quenneville said. Two years ago, Bolland returned in the middle of the Hawks’ opening series against the Vancouver Canucks to provide a much-needed spark. Yet the Hawks have not slumped without Bolland in the lineup this season, which is a credit to the team’s depth. “We missed him in that [Vancouver] series, and you could feel his contribution when he returned,” Quenneville said. “I
think this year he’s been out a little bit, too, so we had a chance to find out other options. … “But you know and appreciate his past experiences come playoff time. What he brings to your team, he can definitely help us.” In 49 career playoff games, Bolland has 37 points (14 G, 23 A) and 60 penalty minutes. Good guess: M i n n e s o t a Wild coach Mike Yeo flashed a sense of humor about his tenuous goaltending situation as he greeted reporters after the morning skate. “Can I wager a guess on what your first question is going to be?” Yeo asked.
A moment later, a Minnesota reporter asked which goaltender would start in net. “I was right,” Yeo said with a smile. Yeo’s answer was Josh Harding. He started despite injuring his left leg in Game 4, while Niklas Backstrom remained out because of a lower-body injury. Hawks bits: Goaltender Ray Emery participated in the Hawks’ morning skate but remained sidelined for Game 5 because of a lower-body injury. … Forward Daniel Carcillo was active for a second consecutive game after sitting out for the first three.
Parity abounds so far in semifinals By TIM REYNOLDS The Associated Press
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Knicks coach Mike Woodson gives Carmelo Anthony instruction in the second half of Game 2 of their Eastern Conference semifinals against the Pacers on Tuesday at Madison Square Garden in New York. The Knicks won, 105-79. hosting pivotal Game 3s when NBA playoff action resumes today and Saturday. “Pretty cool. The NBA’s loving it,” Heat forward LeBron James said. “When it comes to the playoffs, I always continue to say no matter how many
games you win or lose in the regular season, once you get to the playoffs, everybody’s record is 0-0. So I think it’s great. I think it’s great for our fans, I think it’s great for the competition that every series is tied 1-1.” After a first round with only
two sweeps – by Miami and San Antonio, the top seeds in the Eastern and Western Conferences – the tone for the second round was set pretty quickly around the league. Miami lost Game 1 at home to a wounded and weary team from Chicago. San Antonio needed a huge comeback to beat Golden State in Game 1 of their series, then saw the Warriors simply come back and take Game 2. The Knicks lost Game 1 to Indiana before evening up their matchup, and the Thunder are likely feeling lucky that they’re not in a 0-2 hole after Memphis had plenty of chances to take the opening game of their series. “When you get this deep into the playoffs, they’re all good teams, they’re all very good teams more than capable of winning at home or on the road,” Golden State coach Mark Jackson said. “So I’m not surprised at all. Good coaching, good playing, you make adjustments and win games. They’ve all been great games.”
History in Heat’s corner after Game 2 blowout victory • BULLS Continued from page B1 “We know that they call it the ‘Madhouse on Madison’ for a reason,” said Miami guard Dwyane Wade, a Chicago-area native. “The fans are very loud. At the end of the day, once that settles down, it’s the game of basketball and you have to execute your game plan. It’s going to be the little things that wins games for your team.” The Heat did everything right in Game 2, running away from the Bulls after a surprising 93-86 loss in the series opener Monday night. A 62-20 run was more than enough to wipe away the residue from Miami’s first playoff loss, and MVP LeBron James had only three points in the tidal wave – a scary statistic for the Bulls, and there’s more. The Game 2 blowout was the 41st time that an NBA team won a playoff game by 35 or more points. In the previous 40 occasions, the team on top of the blowout went on to win the series 36 times.
CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS (Best-of-7) Tuesday, May 7 New York 105, Indiana 79, series tied 1-1 Memphis 99, Oklahoma City 93, series tied 1-1 Wednesday, May 8 Miami 115, Bulls 78, series tied 1-1 Golden State 100, San Antonio 91, series tied 1-1 Today Miami at Bulls, 7 p.m. San Antonio at Golden State, 9:30 p.m. Saturday Oklahoma City at Memphis, 4 p.m. New York at Indiana, 7 p.m. Sunday San Antonio at Golden State, 2:30 p.m. Monday Miami at Bulls, 6 p.m. Oklahoma City at Memphis, 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 14 New York at Indiana, 6 p.m. Golden State at San Antonio, 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 15 Bulls at Miami, 6 p.m. Memphis at Oklahoma City, 8:30 p.m. Thursday Indiana at New York, 7 p.m. x-San Antonio at Golden State, TBA Friday, May 17 x-Miami at Bulls, TBA x-Oklahoma City at Memphis, TBA Saturday, May 18 x-New York at Indiana, TBA Sunday, May 19 x-Bulls at Miami, TBA x-Golden State at San Antonio, TBA x-Memphis at Oklahoma City, TBA Monday, May 20 x-Indiana at New York, 8 p.m. x – if necessary
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NBA PLAYOFFS
Parity has struck the NBA playoffs, where the conference semifinals are all fit to be tied. The four current series all are knotted at one game apiece – the first time that’s happened in the second round of the NBA playoffs since the league went to its current format more than a quarter-century ago. For favorites such as Miami, New York, San Antonio and Oklahoma City, home-court advantage has disappeared, and now it’s the underdogs who can control their own fates simply by taking care of business on their home floors. A wild weekend is ahead, without question. The Heat, Knicks, Spurs and Thunder are four of the league’s top five winningest road teams this season. That probably isn’t being received as great news for the Bulls, Indiana, Golden State and Memphis, the lower-seeded clubs that will be
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It’s a good sign for Miami, but James knows firsthand how it can turn around in a hurry. He was playing for Cleveland when the Cavaliers lost 108-72 to Washington in a 2008 playoff game and went on to win the series. “It’s just one game,” he said. “Even though you got dominated the game before and you didn’t do things right, it’s still one game. You don’t get two wins if you win by over 30 or over 40. You only get one game. They’re back in their home building, where they’re very good and we have to be ready for it.” It looks as if the Bulls will be without Deng, Hinrich and Rose once again. Thibodeau said the team was awaiting the results of the latest MRI for Hinrich, who hasn’t played since Game 4 of the Bulls’ firstround playoff series against Brooklyn on April 27. Rose hasn’t played all year, but no one has ruled out what would be an emotional return for the 2011 NBA MVP. Even with the depleted roster, the Bulls managed to win Game 7 on the road against
the Nets and then steal homecourt advantage against Miami. Bouncing back against the Heat could be a matter of just keeping their cool after they were whistled for six of the nine technical fouls during the emotional Game 2, leading to ejections for Joakim Noah and Taj Gibson. “We got to do better. We got to do a much better job of that,” Thibodeau said. “Can’t get sidetracked. We know how it will be called. We’re not going to get calls. We just got to be tough, mentally, physically, emotionally. We got to be a lot stronger.” Asked what he meant about not getting the calls, Thibodeau responded: “It’s just the way it is, you know. We didn’t allow that to impact us in Game 1 and I thought we allowed it to impact us in Game 2.” Deng watched Game 2 on TV, and said he thought the Bulls let it get away from them. He said the trip to the practice facility was his first time out of the house since a “scary” couple of days. Deng became sick during the Brooklyn series, missing
practice May 1 and Game 6 the next day. He felt so bad that he went to the hospital, where he had a spinal tap to rule out meningitis. “After that, I just didn’t respond well,” he said. “Started having severe headaches. Was struggling to walk. Started feeling really weak. Started throwing up. ... I couldn’t control my body really, and because of that I lost a lot of weight.” Doctors recommended a blood patch to help heal the damage from the spinal tap, and Deng had to stay in the hospital for more than a day until his white blood cell count came down enough to allow him to have the second procedure. He dropped about 15 pounds, but is feeling a little better now and said he’s proud of how the team has played without him. “Guys are going out there and just playing together,” he said. “Just seeing them do it together is really the main thing. ... Watching it, obviously, is a lot harder when you’re not out there, but just seeing your teammates play that hard and fighting together.”
NHL PLAYOFFS FIRST ROUND (Best-of-7) Tuesday Blackhawks 3, Minnesota 0, Blackhawks lead series 3-1 San Jose 4, Vancouver 3, Sharks win series 4-0 Wednesday Boston 4, Toronto 3 (OT), Bruins lead series 3-1 N.Y. Rangers 4, Washington 3, series tied 2-2 Los Angeles 3, St. Louis 2 (OT), Kings lead series 3-2 Anaheim 3, Detroit 2 (OT), Ducks lead series 3-2 Thursday Pittsburgh 4, N.Y. Islanders 0, Penguins lead series 3-2 Ottawa 6, Montreal 1, Senators win series 4-1 Minnesota at Blackhawks (n) Today Toronto at Boston, 6 p.m. NY Rangers at Washington, 6:30 p.m. Anaheim at Detroit, 7 p.m. St. Louis at Los Angeles, 9 pm. Saturday x-Blackhawks at Minnesota, 8:30 p.m. Pittsburgh at N.Y. Islanders, 6 p.m. Sunday x-Minnesota at Blackhawks, TBA x-Detroit at Anaheim, TBA x-Boston at Toronto, TBA x-NY Islanders at Pittsburgh, TBA Washington at N.Y. Rangers, TBA Monday x-NY Rangers at Washington, TBA x-Toronto at Boston, TBA x-Los Angeles at St. Louis, TBA x – if necessary
MLB AMERICAN LEAGUE Central Division W L Pct Detroit 19 13 .594 Kansas City 18 13 .581 Cleveland 18 14 .563 Minnesota 16 15 .516 White Sox 14 18 .438 East Division W L Pct New York 20 13 .606 Baltimore 21 14 .600 Boston 21 14 .600 Tampa Bay 16 18 .471 Toronto 13 23 .361 West Division W L Pct Texas 21 13 .618 Oakland 18 18 .500 Seattle 16 19 .457 Los Angeles 11 22 .333 Houston 10 24 .294
GB — ½ 1 2½ 5 GB — — — 4½ 8½ GB — 4 5½ 9½ 11
Thursday’s Results Cleveland 9, Oakland 2 N.Y. Yankees 3, Colorado 1 Washington 5, Detroit 4 Kansas City 6, Baltimore 2 Minnesota 5, Boston 3 Tampa Bay 5, Toronto 4, 10 innings L.A. Angels at Houston (n) Today’s Games L.A. Angels (Hanson 2-1) at White Sox (Axelrod 0-2), 7:10 p.m. Cleveland (Kluber 2-1) at Detroit (Scherzer 4-0), 6:08 p.m. San Diego (Volquez 3-3) at Tampa Bay (Cobb 4-2), 6:10 p.m. Toronto (R.Ortiz 0-0) at Boston (Lester 4-0), 6:10 p.m. Baltimore (Hammel 5-1) at Minnesota (Pelfrey 3-3), 7:10 p.m. N.Y. Yankees (P.Hughes 1-2) at Kansas City (W.Davis 2-2), 7:10 p.m. Texas (Ogando 3-2) at Houston (Keuchel 0-1), 7:10 p.m. Oakland (Straily 1-0) at Seattle (Iwakuma 3-1), 9:10 p.m.
NATIONAL LEAGUE Central Division W L Pct GB St. Louis 21 12 .636 — Cincinnati 19 16 .543 3 Pittsburgh 18 16 .529 3½ Milwaukee 15 17 .469 5½ Cubs 13 21 .382 8½ East Division W L Pct GB Atlanta 20 13 .606 — Washington 19 15 .559 1½ Philadelphia 16 19 .457 5 New York 14 17 .452 5 Miami 10 25 .286 11 West Division W L Pct GB San Francisco 20 14 .588 — Arizona 19 15 .559 1 Colorado 19 15 .559 1 San Diego 16 18 .471 4 Los Angeles 13 20 .394 6½ Thursday’s Results N.Y. Yankees 3, Colorado 1 Washington 5, Detroit 4 N.Y. Mets 3, Pittsburgh 2 Philadelphia at Arizona (n) Atlanta at San Francisco (n) Today’s Games Cubs (Samardzija 1-4) at Washington (Detwiler 1-3), 6:05 p.m. Milwaukee (Gallardo 3-1) at Cincinnati (Cingrani 2-0), 6:10 p.m. Pittsburgh (W.Rodriguez 2-2) at N.Y. Mets (Marcum 0-2), 6:10 p.m. San Diego (Volquez 3-3) at Tampa Bay (Cobb 4-2), 6:10 p.m. Colorado (Garland 3-2) at St. Louis (S. Miller 4-2), 7:15 p.m. Philadelphia (Cloyd 0-0) at Arizona (Kennedy 1-3), 8:40 p.m. Miami (Fernandez 1-2) at L.A. Dodgers (Magill 0-0), 9:10 p.m. Atlanta (Hudson 4-1) at San Francisco (M.Cain 1-2), 9:15 p.m.
PREPS & NIU FOOTBALL
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Spartans healthy in time for playoffs By STEVE NITZ
A closer look at the prep softball scene
SPOTLIGHT ON ... PAIGE KUEFLER Kaneland, sophomore , third baseman Kuefler had a two-run home run in the Knights’ 7-2 win over Morris on Tuesday.
WHAT TO WATCH FOR Class 1A regionals Tuesday through May 18 Hiawatha looks for a regional crown as the top seed at the Class 1A Durand Regional. Indian Creek is the fourth seed at the Ashton-Franklin Center Regional. DeKalb at Kaneland 4:30 p.m. Thursday This matchup could be pivotal in the race for the Northern Illinois Big 12 East title.
POWER RANKINGS 1. Kaneland (16-3, 8-1 N. Illinois Big 12 East) Knights win out, they’re conference champs. 2. DeKalb (18-4, 6-2 NI Big 12 East) Barbs still within reach of a league title. 3. Genoa-Kingston (15-5, 6-4 Big Northern East) Cogs having a good year, but have a tough draw in the Sycamore Regional. 4. Sycamore (9-14, 3-7 NI Big 12 East) Spartans’ record not flashy, but team should be able to compete in the postseason. 5. Hiawatha (9-8, 9-6 Little Ten Conference) Can the Hawks take home a regional title? 6. Indian Creek (5-13, 5-11 LTC) Timberwolves have a tough road to climb in the postseason.
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snitz@shawmedia.com Jill Carpenter’s Sycamore Spartans will have a chance to prove themselves against Marengo and Burlington Central, possible regional opponents, before the postseason begins. Unfortunately for the Spartans, that chance comes after the release of the postseason seeds. Sycamore ended up with the No. 4 seed at its own Class 3A regional, and will take on fifth-seeded Hampshire in the quarterfinal with a chance to play top-seeded Burlington Central. Genoa-Kingston is the third seed and will take on second-seeded Marengo in the semifinals. The Spartans also were scheduled to play the Cogs, but it was just another game that was lost to inclement weather at the beginning of the year. “The downer is, our games against Burlington and Genoa got either rain or colded-out or something in the beginning of the year,”
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Carpenter said. “So you don’t get a chance to necessarily prove yourself against your competition.” However, Carpenter said her Spartans are starting to come together at the right time. Sycamore finally is healthy, as Tuesday’s 4-3 loss to DeKalb was the first time all 14 players on the roster were available. “If we can stay healthy for this run, I anticipate us to be in every ball game we play and win more
DeKalb’s Hannah Walter takes a cut during the Barbs’ 4-3 victory against Sycamore on Tuesday on the Northern Illinois University campus. DeKalb and CaryGrove tied for the top spot in the Class 4A Jacobs Regional, but the Barbs lost a coin toss that decided the No. 1 seed.
than we lose,” Carpenter said. “I do think that our record is not necessarily indicative of our talent level.”
Barbs lose coin flip The voting for the No. 1 seed in the Class 4A Jacobs Regional couldn’t have been any closer. Both DeKalb and Cary-Grove tied for the top spot, so it was decided on a coin flip, with the Trojans getting the first seed.
The second-seeded Barbs will play third-seeded Huntley in the semifinals, while Cary-Grove gets the winner of the quarterfinal between No. 4 Crystal Lake South and No. 5 Jacobs. Heading into Thursday’s game against Yorkville, the Barbs still had a shot at a Northern Illinois Big 12 East crown. However, DeKalb coach Jeff Davis still is focused on the postseason, which is why he’s being careful with one of his pitchers, junior Katie Kowalski. Kowalski still is recovering from thoracic outlet syndrome, and Davis wants to keep her healthy. Both Kowalski and freshman Morgan Newport have had consistent time in the circle. The Barbs already have had three games this week, and take on Sterling this afternoon. “We’ve got a busy week,” Davis said. “They’re going to get their work in, and we’ve got to keep everybody healthy, and just get a little bit closer to the conference title and our regionals.”
Regionals carry more weight than league titles Last week on the Daily Chronicle Preps Twitter feed, @dc_preps, we posed this question: What would you rather accomplish – a regional championship or a conference championship? Why? We got some varied responses. I saw this question pop up, and it didn’t take too long for me to think of my answer. It’s simple, regional titles mean more. To me, there really isn’t even a debate. Nobody remembers whether a team wins a
VIEWS Steve Nitz conference title if it bows out in its first regional game. It’s all about the postseason and how far you go. I’d take a fifth-place finish in conference and a regional crown over a conference title any day. Last season, Kaneland’s baseball team won the Northern
Illinois Big 12 East, but lost to DeKalb in its first regional game. Do you think the Knights pushed the regional loss aside because they won the conference title? In the end, with a strong postseason, nobody’s going to remember what happened in conference play. Sycamore’s softball team didn’t win an NI Big 12 East title in 2011, but won a regional and made it all the way to a supersectional. I doubt those players were lamenting the fact they didn’t win
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a conference championship. Conference titles are nice. It says a lot about a team to get through an aggressive slate, especially in a league such as the NI Big 12 East when it comes to softball. However, when the season’s over, what really matters is who’s hoisting those plaques in the postseason.
• Steve Nitz is a staff writer for the Daily Chronicle. He can be reached at snitz@shawmedia.com.
NIU FOOTBALL
DeKalb girls soccer tops Sycamore Schepler invited By DAILY CHRONICLE STAFF sports@daily-chronicle.com The DeKalb girls soccer team earned a 1-0 victory over Sycamore on Thursday. Morgan Beaty had the lone goal of the match for the Barbs, with Alexis Hammond getting the assist. DeKalb improved to 13-1-2 and 9-0-1 in Northern Illinois Big 12 East play with the victory. It was goalkeeper Maddie Frye’s 12th shutout of the season. “Just a tremendous defensive effort,” Barbs coach Phil Rouse said. “Our defense kept a clean sheet all night. ... Our defense stayed stout and gave
us another shutout.”
was aggressive from the first inning on,” Cogs coach Anson BASEBALL Ellis said. Treadwell earns CG win for Knights fall: Morris beat G-K: Genoa-Kingston pitcher Kaneland, 12-4. Dan Miller Bobby Treadwell struck out went 2 for 4 with a run and an nine in a 10-2 complete-game RBI for the Knights, who are 10victory over North Boone. 14 and 7-8 in the NI Big 12 East. At the plate, Tommy Hansen went 2 for 4 with a double SOFTBALL and triple for the Cogs, Mike Schroeder hits two out in Kuhn went 3 for 3, and Ben loss: Sycamore’s Becca SchroRabe was 2 for 3 with a double. eder was 4 for 4 with two home Ben Graff finished 1 for 3 with runs in the Spartans’ 6-4 loss a double and three RBIs. to Kaneland (16-3, 8-1 NI Big G-K is 5-16 and 3-5 in the 12 East). Lyndsey CoddingBig Northern East. ton went 2 for 3 with a homer, “We played a very good while Jasmyne Taylor was 2 game defensively on a day for 4. where the weather wasn’t Abby Foulk took the loss very good, and our offense for Sycamore (9-14, 3-7), giv-
ing up two earned runs while striking out four. Cogs top North Boone: Genoa-Kingston pitcher Danielle Engel had eight strikeouts in a complete-game, 12-0 win over North Boone. Amy Clark was 2 for 3 with a triple for the Cogs (15-5, 6-4 BNC East), while Tori Hensley also went 2 for 3. “It was senior night. Always nice to win on senior night for the seniors,” G-K coach Mike Lauer said. “They’ve been a real good group. There’s seven of them, it’s tremendous to have that many kids in the program stay with it.”
Brown qualifies in 2 events • TRACK SECTIONAL Continued from page B1 finished 15th at state last year in the 3,200. “I think it will be nice because I’ll be able to focus mainly on the two-mile and I won’t be tired out from having to run prelims on Friday so I’ll be fresh.” Senior Jasmine Brown was the Barbs’ other state qualifier as she took first in the long jump (18 feet, 11.5 inches) and triple jump (39-3¼). Her mark in the long jump was a personal best. Brown also won the long jump at sectionals as a junior while taking second in the triple jump. She’ll enter next week’s state meet as one of the favorites in both events. “I’m pretty confident,” Brown said. “As long as I get two [personal records] in the long and triple, I’m good.” Freshman Brittney Patrick
finished fourth in the long jump at 16-9¼, just six inches shy of the state-qualifying mark. Her jump was six inches better than her previous personal best. “My goal is to be like Jasmine,” Patrick said. “It’s great to know that I’m getting to where she was her freshman year. I’m really proud of that.” As a team, DeKalb finished in fifth place with 39 points. Sophomore Kara Alvarez took sixth in the high jump with a mark of 4-9. Stephanie Milroy finished ninth in the discus with a mark of 107-5, and freshman Savannah Long was eighth in the 300 hurdles with a time of 50 seconds flat. DeKalb’s 4x100 relay of Alvarez, Brown, Alex Sommer and Patrick finished fifth in 51.70. The 4x200 relay of AlvaMonica Maschak – mmaschak@shawmedia.com rez, Sommer, Courtney Patrick and Diaja Robinson also Jasmine Brown competes in the triple jump Thursday at the Class 3A Belvidere North Sectional. Brown took first (39 feet, 3¼). took fifth in 1:51.46.
DeKalb hasn’t played any 3A competition this year • SOCCER Continued from page B1 The Barbs haven’t played any 3A competition this season, so Rouse is looking forward to the extra match against a team from a strong conference. “A lot of people might look at a play-in game, and say, ‘Oh, you have to play in a play-in game,’ “ Rouse said. “But for
us, that’s a chance to get into a rhythm against a 3A team. On our schedule this year, we didn’t have any opponents in 3A. This will be the first time seeing that kind of speed and talent, so for us, we welcome the opportunity.” If they are able to make it past Elgin, DeKalb will play a St. Charles North team that allowed onlyone goal in its first 13 matches.
“They’re a strong team. They’re a big, physical team. The key is, can we hang with them and force them to work really hard to earn whatever green space they gain?” Rouse said. “They’re used to a different level of speed than we are.” Another key for the Barbs is to heal after a hectic ending to the season. If the Barbs are healthy, Rouse said, they have a chance to
pull off something special. “The hardest part is finding consistency, and sometimes that comes from just having players at different positions due to injuries and things, and sometimes that just comes from not focusing properly in games,” Rouse said. “We just want to get healthy. We feel like when we’re healthy, we can play with just about anybody.”
to Niners camp By STEVE NITZ snitz@shawmedia.com Last season, both Northern Illinois football coaches Dave Doeren and Rod Carey raved about tight end Jason Schepler’s ability as a blocker. Throughout the 2012 campaign, which saw the Huskies make an Orange Bowl appearance, Doeren, who left for N.C. State the day Jason Schepler NIU’s BCS bid was announced, always referenced the Sycamore product’s blocking as a reason for the team’s success in the running game. This weekend, Schepler will get a chance to prove himself as a blocking tight end. He was invited to the San Francisco 49ers rookie minicamp, which takes place today thrown Sunday in Santa Clara, Calif. Schepler hopes to impress
the 49ers brass enough to sign a contract, or hook on with another team if he’s not picked up by the defending NFC champs. “I’m just going to try and give it my best and try to make the most of it,” Schepler told the Daily Chronicle. Schepler, who missed the 2011 season with a knee injury, caught three passes for 65 yards this past season. He led the team in pancake blocks with 64, and was honored as one of the Huskies’ offensive players of the week three seperate times. Prepared for the possibility of moving to the offensive line in the pros, Schepler put on weight leading up to the NFL Draft, and said he’ll be around 290 pounds during the minicamp. He feels tight end is his best position, and said the 49ers were looking for more of a heavier, blocking tight end. “That’s kind of the perfect fit for me I feel like, “ Schepler said. “Hopefully I get an opportunity.”
Coach Cowley: ‘I’m very confident in her ability • DRAPER Continued from page B1 Draper consistently has played against top competition all season, often elevating her game when competing against the state’s best. She was the only player to win a set against Jan in the sectional, taking the first set before falling in the final two. “She played some really talented girls – she took some tough losses but she always played competitively,” Cowley said. “I think that really helped her prepare for sectionals.”
Draper became the first DeKalb badminton player to qualify for state since Ika Lambogo in 2007. That same year Jackie Do and Jenny Stahl also qualified as a doubles team for the Barbs. Draper hasn’t set specific goals, but Cowley said he thinks winning a few matches isn’t out of the question for her in her first trip to the state tournament. “I’m very confident in her ability. She’s seen some of the best girls in state,” Cowley said. “There aren’t any tricks or surprises that she hasn’t seen.”
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PGA TOUR
Who’s humiliating whom in Singh lawsuit? Vijay Singh is suing the PGA Tour for exposing him to “public humiliation and ridicule” by investigating his use of deer-antler spray. Now that’s funny. Because Singh was doing such a bang-up job of humiliating himself. Rewind back to February and take another look at the Sports Illustrated article that kicked up a stir at the Super Bowl. It starred soon-to-beretired Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis and highlighted his purchases of the same spray that Singh used, from the same supplier, Sports With Alternatives to Steroids (SWATS), a twoman operation run out of the back of a gym in tiny Fultondale, Ala. Turns out that in addition to deer-antler spray, SWATS was marketing all kinds of crackpot cures and pseudo-performance-enhancers – underwear exposed to radio waves, holographic stickers, even negatively charged water – to a growing list of college and pro athletes with the hope of someday getting them to endorse the stuff. The catch is that none of it works. The deer-antler spray contains traces of the widely banned-from-competition substance
IGF-1 (insulin-like growth factor), but to be effective – like real insulin – IGF-1 has to be injected. As Singh’s own lawyers pointed out, he’d get as much IGF-1 into his system just by drinking a glass of milk. Nearly all of the rest of SWATS’ exotic offerings are based on the same kind of junk science. But Singh, unlike most of the marks that SWATS courted, was buying this mumbo-jumbo with Vijay Singh his own hard-earned cash. He even threw in a lukewarm endorsement at no cost. “In November, Singh paid (SWATS owner Mitch) Ross $9,000 for the spray, chips, beam ray and powder additive – making him one of the few athletes who is compensating SWATS,” SI reported. “He says he uses the spray banned by the PGA ‘every couple of hours ... every day,’ sleeps with the beam ray on and has put chips on his ankles, waist and shoulders. ‘I’m looking forward to some change in my body,’ Singh says. ‘It’s really hard to feel the
VIEWS Jim Litke difference if you’re only doing it for a couple of months.’ “ According to Singh’s lawsuit, after his confession, the PGA Tour tested a sample from the golfer and found small amounts of IGF-1. Next, commissioner Tim Finchem proposed suspending him for 90 days, redistributing his earnings from Pebble Beach and Riviera and, in any case, held back about $100,000 of Singh’s money while the tour investigated and considered his appeal. Finally, Finchem dropped the case April 30, after learning the World Anti-Doping Agency – whose code the PGA Tour follows – no longer banned deer-antler spray because it was ineffective. Never mind that a handful of prominent anti-doping scientists said as much within days of the SI story. Yet just as things were quieting down, Singh hired some expensive mouthpieces and filed suit Wednesday, a day before he teed off at The Players
Championship. It’s hard to say at the moment what is sadder: That the 50-year-old Fijian, who already has bankrolled millions and made it to the Hall of Fame, was desperate enough to take his caddie’s advice and turn to a quack business like SWATS in search of a miracle cure for his aches and pains; or that he actually believes humiliating himself further is going to do much for his reputation. He already is out $9,000, plus lawyer’s fees on this case, and all those over-the-top pronouncements – “There should never be an asterisk next to Vijay’s name,” attorney Jeffrey Rosenblum said – only serve to remind us what we didn’t like about Singh in the first place. He was banned on one Asian tour in 1985, after being accused of changing his scorecard during a tournament in Indonesia, and didn’t play anywhere for four years afterward. When Singh finally showed up on the PGA Tour in 1993, his unquestioned work ethic tamped down most of the whispers and winning took care of the rest. Now, beyond reminding us how desperate he was
and how easily he was duped, the lawsuit is sure to stir up a few of those earlier episodes. “If I was him, I’m not so sure I’d talk about it,” Finchem said at a news conference Tuesday, the day before the lawsuit was filed. “I’d kind of like for it to be gone.” That’s because the not-very-funny aspect in all this is that one claim in Singh’s lawsuit definitely has merit. It’s his call for more transparency in the tour’s drug-testing policy. In a rush to join the Olympic movement in time for the 2016 Games in Rio, Finchem has dodged legitimate questions about the tour’s testing regimen and its enforcement. Exactly why Singh decided to become a crusader for fair play is an interesting question. Perhaps it was just to squeeze a few more dollars out of the tour that made him rich once, but where Singh isn’t likely to win again – no matter how much deer-antler spray he squirts under his tongue.
• Jim Litke is a national sports columnist for The Associated Press. Write to him at jlitke@ap.org and follow him at Twitter.com/JimLitke.
MLB says umpires made ‘improper call’ against A’s By TOM WITHERS The Associated Press
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Tiger Woods hits from the seventh tee during the first round of The Players Championship on Thursday at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.
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Great debut for Castro Leader ties course record with a 63, owns largest margin after 1st round By DOUG FERGUSON The Associated Press PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. – Tiger Woods was nine shots out of the lead, not the best position at The Players Championship, especially because he had not even started his round. Perhaps the bigger surprise was the guy who posted the record-tying round Thursday. Roberto Castro had only played the TPC Sawgrass in a practice round. He made a debut he won’t soon forget. There was the 9-iron to a foot on the island-green 17th and a 4-iron to about the Roberto same tap-in range on Castro the 18th, the hardest hole on the course. He hit a 3-iron to 3 feet for eagle, and twice hit wedge so close he didn’t even have to read the putt. When his memorable day was over, Castro had a 9-under-par 63 and his name in the record book twice. He tied the course record held by Fred Couples and Greg Norman, and his three-shot lead was the largest margin after the opening round at The Players in 21 years. Welcome to Sawgrass. “I hit it close a lot,” said Castro, making it sound as easy as it looked. He led over Rory McIlroy, who broke par for the first time in his fourth appearance with five birdies after the turn and conservative play off the tee on the front nine for a bogey-free 66. Zach Johnson also had a 66 while playing in the pristine morning conditions. Woods had to work a little harder in the afternoon. Not only did he spot Castro nine shots, Woods never had broken 70 in the opening round in his 15 previous tries.
TPC glance PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. – A brief look at the first round of The Players Championship: Leading: Roberto Castro shot 9-under-par 63, tying the course record held by Greg Norman (1994) and Fred Couples (1992). Trailing: Rory McIlroy and Zach Johnson at 66. Tiger tales: Tiger Woods had a 67, the first time in 16 Players appearances that he broke 70 in the first round. The island: Twelve players hit tee shots into the water on the island-green 17th hole, which played 124 yards. William McGirt, Erik Compton and Colt Knost each hit two shots in the water. The margin: Castro’s three-shot lead tied the record for the opening round. Billy Ray Brown led by three shots in 1992. Shot of the day: Michael Thompson hit 3-iron from 233 yards for a hole-in-one on No. 8. It was only the sixth ace on the eighth hole and the first in 13 years. Noteworthy: McIlroy had never broken par at Sawgrass. He opened with a 66.
“It was a day that I felt I had to shoot something in the 60s,” Woods said. He ran off four straight birdies around the turn. He was on the cup of his first bogey-free round at The Players until his 8-iron from 200 yards went just over the green and he flubbed his chip. The bogey gave him a 67, a strong effort considering he knew he had a lot of ground to make up before hitting his first shot. “I’ve seen that a lot, but not at this golf course,” he said. Vijay Singh, playing one day after he sued the PGA Tour for its handling of his doping case, was largely ignored while playing in the group behind
Woods. One fan wore felt deer antlers in the bleachers behind the first tee – Singh’s case involved taking deer antler spray – but only a dozen or so people followed the 50-year-old Fijian on the back nine and it was a quiet day. At one point, Singh let out a hearty laugh walking off the tee with Robert Garrigus and J.J. Henry. His golf wasn’t the subject of the laughter. Singh hit into the water on the last hole and made bogey for a 74, leaving him in danger of missing the cut. So ended a first round filled with plenty of action – a record-tying score by a player hardly anyone knows, McIlroy breaking par for the first time at Sawgrass, 17 balls in the water around the island-green 17th and 33 rounds in the 60s. Padraig Harrington followed an eagle with a double bogey. Michael Thompson made a hole-in-one. But it all started with Castro, a 27-year-old who felt like he couldn’t miss. “I don’t think anyone has figured out what the secret is to this place,” Castro said. Woods, Webb Simpson and Ryan Palmer each had a 67, the lowest score from the afternoon. McIlroy also played in the morning, in the same group as Masters champion Adam Scott (69) and Steve Stricker (67). The 24-year-old from Northern Ireland had never made the cut or even broken par at The Players, but McIlroy figured it out on a gorgeous morning by dialing it back off the tee and letting his iron play take over. McIlroy never came seriously close to a bogey, and he didn’t hit driver once on the front nine. “When you hit the shots, it seems very simple,” McIlroy said. “I had a lot of good shots out there, lot of iron shots that were 12, 15 feet away from the pin and I got myself a lot of looks for birdies. I adopted maybe more of a conservative strategy off the tee this year. But once you put your ball in the fairway that means you can be more aggressive into the greens. So it sort of balances itself out.”
CLEVELAND – Major League Baseball said the umpires were wrong. The Athletics knew that all along. “We saw what we saw last night,” Oakland manager Bob Melvin said. One day after umpire Angel Hernandez and his crew failed to reverse an obvious game-tying home run by A’s infielder Adam Rosales in the ninth inning after a video review, MLB executive vice president Joe Torre said an “improper call” was made in Wednesday’s game between the Indians and Athletics. However, despite pointing out the critical error, Torre said the “judgment” call will stand. The Indians won, 4-3, and went on to sweep the four-game series with a 9-2 victory over the A’s on Thursday. Melvin, who had been in contact with MLB officials since shortly after Wednesday’s game, said he never thought the ruling would be overturned. “No, I didn’t think there was any chance at that,” he said, “because there’d been calls before that have been missed and nothing’s happened because of it.” Few, though, seemed as egregious as this error. The A’s already were down by six runs in the series finale when Torre’s statement was released. In it, the former Yankees manager made it clear the umpires had blown the call. “By rule, the decision to reverse a call by use of instant replay is at the sole discretion of the crew chief,” Torre said. “In the opinion of Angel Hernandez, who was last night’s crew chief, there was not clear and convincing evidence to overturn the decision on the field. It was a judgment call, and as such, it stands as final. “Home and away broadcast feeds are available for all uses of instant replay, and they were available to the crew last night. Given what we saw, we recognize that an improper call was made. Perfection is an impossible standard in any endeavor,
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Umpire Angel Hernandez ejects Athletics manager Bob Melvin for arguing a call in the ninth inning of a game against the Indians on Wednesday in Cleveland. Melvin argued a double by Adam Rosales was a home run but the umpires upheld the call after a video review. The Indians won, 4-3. but our goal is always to get the calls right. Earlier this morning, we began the process of speaking with the crew to thoroughly review all the circumstances surrounding last night’s decision.” Before MLB’s ruling, Melvin said he still believed he witnessed a home run and nothing will ever change his mind. The stunning decision not to reverse the call was the talk of the sports world with everyone seeming to agree the A’s had been wronged. Retired Atlanta third baseman Chipper Jones didn’t mince words with his take on the umpires’ blown call. “What good is instant replay if u don’t have umpires who interpret it correctly?” Jones wrote on Twitter. “Some course of action has to be taken w/ umps. Even worse than that, there were 2 other umpires looking at it with him. What the hell were they lookin at?? Musta been “get away day”! In New York, Mets manager Terry Collins said that human error is part of the game. “Once in a while we’re going to make a mistake. I will always defend that,” he said. “Pretty soon this game is going to be played by robots and we’ll all be watching it.”
Wrestling tackles politics to return to Olympics By JOSEPH WHITE The Associated Press WASHINGTON – Wrestling’s fight to get back into the Olympics is as much about politics as sports. It’s about saying the right things in public while lobbying behind-the-scenes for crucial votes. It’s about knowing how to schmooze with the right people. “This is all about international sport politics,” said former world champion Bill Scherr, chairman of the Committee to Preserve Olympic Wrestling. “And some of it very well-intentioned, very well-meaning. And sometimes they make mistakes – as in this case.” It was only appropriate, therefore, that the cause made its way to the nation’s capital Thursday, at the Ronald Reagan Building between the Capitol and White House, where Olympic champions Rulon Gardner
and Henry Cejudo joined Scherr and others to make their pitch at an event that celebrated the sport’s place on the world scene. “Everything’s politicized,” said Gardner, a 2000 gold medalist in Greco-Roman. “And wrestlers, we didn’t go a good enough job of going in and saying, ‘Thank you, IOC, we appreciate you letting us in the Olympics.’ ” The International Olympic Committee’s executive board gave wrestling the boot in February, starting with the 2020 Games, but the sport can work its way back in by beating out seven other sports vying for one available spot on the summer schedule. The other candidates are sport climbing, squash, wakeboarding, karate, wushu, roller sports and a combined baseball-softball bid. All will make their presentations before the 15-member IOC board at a meeting May 29 through 31 in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Faith
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Members of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in DeKalb lower baskets of lobsters into steaming tubs at last year’s annual Lobster Boil. Pictured (from left) are Rob Russell, Brian Prall, Dick Dowen and Rhys Prall. This year’s fundraiser will take place on May 18. Deadline to order lobsters is Monday.
Lobster Tale St. Paul fundraiser a 44-year tradition By FELIX SARVER
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What: St. Paul’s Episcopal Church’s Lobster Boil Where: 900 Normal Road, DeKalb When: May 18; 4 p.m. pickup for live lobsters, 5, 6 and 7 p.m. for cooked lobsters Cost: $18 for live lobsters, $20 for cooked lobsters To order: Visit www.stpaulsdekalb.org; deadline is Monday Information: 815-758-5210
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ot dogs and barbecue ribs won’t be the only foods sizzling for outdoor occasions this month. On May 18, members of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in DeKalb will serve lobsters for their annual Lobster Boil at the church on 900 Normal Road. The lobsters come straight from Massachusetts, and anyone interested has until Monday to make their order for lobsters, whether alive or cooked. The Lobster Boil tradition has existed within St. Paul’s for 44 years, said Rosemarie Ostberg, treasurer for St. Paul’s Episcopal Church Women. Edward Fitzgerald, who moved to DeKalb from Massachusetts, would boil lobsters for the General Electric staff in DeKalb, according to St.
Paul’s website. In 1969, Norma Fitzgerald and Mary Roberts organized the first Lobster Boil, according to St. Paul’s website. Ostberg said Fitzgerald chose to boil lobsters for his staff because they were commonly eaten in Massachusetts. However, lobsters were not a common dish served in restaurants in those days, she said.
“It’s a deluxe thing,” Ostberg said. Since then, St. Paul’s has contributed more than 50 percent of the profits from the Lobster Boil to local charities and agencies such as Safe Passage, Voluntary Action Center and Hope Haven. The leftover money goes to St. Paul’s church to fund various activities. “The fact that the money is going to local charities in DeKalb and agen-
cies impresses people a lot,” Ostberg said. In 2011, 10 local charities and agencies received nearly $500 each from St. Paul’s, according to St. Paul’s website. In 2010, nine local social services organizations were each given $525 from the 2009 Lobster Boil event. Lesly Wicks, executive director for Hope Haven, said Hope Haven has received donations from the Lobster Boil event for many years. The money helps fund programs that let homeless people stay at the shelter for a night. Wicks said the need for fundraising events such as the Lobster Boil are becoming more important as state funds for social services are being cut. “You get a wonderful lobster meal and you get to help the community,” Wicks said.
CHURCH BULLETIN
Page C2 • Friday, May 10, 2013 DEKALB Baptist Campus Ministry 449 Normal Road www.niu.edu/student_orgs/judson 815-756-2131 judson@niu.edu Pastors: Dwight and Rene Gorbold Bethlehem Lutheran (ELCA) 1915 N. First St. BethlehemDeKalb.org 815-758-3203 belcdekalb@comcast.net Pastors: Dan Wynard Worship schedule: 8:45 and 11 a.m. Sunday; 9:45 a.m. coffee and fellowship; 10 a.m. Sunday school; 10:10 a.m. adult Sunday forum Highlight of the week: This Sunday the Adult Sunday Forum continues its focus on “Amazing Stories of the Bible.” Blood Drive at 3 to 6 p.m. Monday. Donors can contact the church office. Walk-ins are welcome. The Thomas Merton study will continue at 7 p.m. Tuesday. Cathedral of Praise 1126 S. First St. www.dekalbcop.org 815-758-6557 ericwyzard@dekalbcop.org Pastor: Eric Wyzard Worship schedule: 10 a.m. Sunday; 7 p.m. Bible study Wednesday. Christ Community Church (DeKalb Campus) 1600 E. Lincoln Highway www.ccclife.org 815-787-6161 Worship schedule: 5 p.m. Saturday; 9 and 11 a.m. Sunday Church of Christ, Scientist 220 N. Third St. 815-787-3792 jocelyn.green2@frontier.com Pastors: King James Bible, “Science and Health With Key to the Scriptures” by Mary Baker Eddy The message: “Adam and Fallen Man” Worship schedule: 10 a.m. church and Sunday school services; 7:30 p.m. Wednesday testimony meetings Highlight of the week: The Christian Science Reading Room is open noon to 2 p.m. Tuesdays, 6:30 to 7:15 p.m. Wednesdays and 10 a.m. to noon Saturdays. The public is welcome to come in and browse. Community of Christ 1200 S. Malta Road www.chicagomissioncenter.org 815-756-1963 roger@hintzsche.com Pastor: Roger Hintzsche Worship schedule: 10:30 a.m. Sunday; 9:30 a.m. Sunday school Congregation Beth Shalom 820 Russell Road www.bethshalomdekalb.org 815-756-1010 info@bethshalomdekalb.org Rabbi: Maralee Gordon DeKalb Christian 1107 S. First St. www.forministry.com/USILCCACCDCC1 815-758-1833 tomndcc@aol.com Pastor: Tom J. Hughes Worship schedule: 10:30 a.m. Sunday; 9:15 a.m. Sunday school DeKalb Wesleyan 1115 S. Malta Road www.dekalbwesleyan.com 815-758-0673 Pastor: Dean Pierce Worship schedule: 10:30 a.m. Sunday Evangelical Free 150 Bethany Road 815-756-8729 efreesd@comcast.net www.efreesd.com Pastor: Martin Jones, lead pastor; Paul Rogers, worship pastor; Gary Lisle, youth pastor; Terry Gin, children’s ministry director Worship schedule: 8:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. Sunday, 9:45 a.m. Sunday school Fellowship Baptist 129 E. Locust St. www.fbcofdekalb.com 815-517-8111 Pastor: Kevin D. Spears Worship schedule: 11 a.m. Sunday; 10 a.m. Sunday school First Baptist 349 S. Third St. www.fbcdekalb.org 815-758-3973 churchinfo@fbcdekalb.org Pastor: Bob Edwards The message: “Peace with God and in Relationships,” with reading from Ephesians 2:11-22 Worship schedule: 8:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. Sunday; 9:45 a.m. Sunday school First Church of the Nazarene 1051 S. Fourth St. 815-758-1588 secretary@dekalbnaz.com Pastor: Todd Holden Worship schedule: 10:40 a.m. Sunday; 9:30 a.m. Sunday school Highlight of the week: Blessing Well Food and Clothing Pantry is open from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesdays.
First Congregational 615 N. First St. www.uccdekalb.org 815-758-0691 congdek1@gmail.com Pastors: Joe Gastiger, Judy Harris The message: “And it came out...” Worship schedule: 10 a.m. Sunday First Lutheran (ELCA) 324 N. Third St. www.firstlutherandekalb.org 815-758-0643 office@firstlutherandekalb.org Pastor: Janet Hunt Worship schedule: 9 a.m. Sunday; Cross Walk activities 10:20 a.m. Sunday; confirmation from 6 to 7:30 Wednesday Highlight of the week: Discussion will continue during the Coffee Hour on the “Hearts and Stars” visioning process. Naomi Circle will meet at 2 p.m. Thursday. First United Methodist 321 Oak St. www.firstumc.net 815-756-6301 office@firstumc.net Pastors: Senior Pastor Jonathan Hutchison, Associate Pastor Brian Gilbert The message: “Rising Up to Heaven,” with reading from Acts 1:1-11 Worship schedule: 9 a.m. Sunday traditional service; 11 a.m. Sunday contemporary SHINE service; 9 a.m. youth Sunday school and 9:15 a.m. Sunday school; 10:30 a.m. adult Sunday school; 8:45 a.m. Thursday Communion service Highlight of the week: United Methodist Men’s monthly breakfast is at 7:30 a.m. Saturday. All men are invited to join the UMM for food and fellowship. Foursquare Church 210 Grove St. 815-756-9521 Worship schedule: 10 a.m. Sunday Glad Tidings Assembly of God 2325 N. First St. 815-758-4919 Pastor: W. Michael Massey Worship schedule: 10 a.m. Sunday Highlight of the week: All ages family night is 6:30 p.m. Wednesdays Grace Free Lutheran 1121 S. First St. www.gracefreelutherandekalb.org 815-758-2531 Pastor: Michael Hodge Worship schedule: 10:30 a.m. Sunday; 9:30 a.m. Sunday school Harvest Bible Chapel 2215 Bethany Road www.harvestdekalb.org 815-756-9020 Pastor: Jason Draper Worship schedule: 10 a.m. Sunday Hillcrest Covenant 1515 N. First St. www.hillcovch.org 815-756-5508 hillcrestcov@comcast.net Pastor: Steve Larson, Associate Pastor Jennifer Zerby Worship schedule: 10:45 a.m. worship; 9:30 a.m. Sunday school Immanuel Lutheran 511 Russell Road www.immanueldekalb.org 815-756-6669, 815-756-6675 office@godwithusilc.org Pastors: Marty Marks, Ray Krueger Worship schedule: 8 a.m. Sunday traditional worship; 9:15 a.m. Sunday school and adult Bible study; 10:30 a.m. contemporary worship Highlight of the week: Voters’ meeting at 7 p.m. Wednesday in fellowship hall. The agenda will include the proposed budget. Graduation Celebration Sunday will be June 2. Inform the office of any active member who has or will receive a diploma or acknowledgement of educational recognition. Kishwaukee Bible Church 355 N. Cross St. (Cornerstone Christian Academy) www.kishwaukeebiblechurch.org 815-754-4566 Worship schedule: 9:30 a.m. Sunday New Hope Missionary Baptist 1201 Twombly Road www.newhopeofdekalb.org 815-756-7906 newhope@tbc.net Pastors: Leroy A. Mitchell, G. Joseph Mitchell Worship schedule: 7:30 a.m. and 10:45 a.m. Sunday Highlight of the week: Wednesday, Bible study is at 6:30 p.m. and Youth Ministry is at 6 p.m. Newman Catholic Student Center 512 Normal Road www.niunewman.org 815-787-7770 Pastor: Matthew McMorrow Worship schedule: 4:30 p.m. Saturday; 8 a.m. and 10:15 a.m. Sunday; 12:05 p.m. daily St. George Greek Orthodox 320 S. Second St. 815-758-5731 Pastor: John A. Artemas Worship schedule: 9 a.m. Sunday Orthos; 10 a.m. Sunday Divine Liturgy; 10:30 a.m. Sunday school
St. Mary Parish 321 Pine St. www.stmarydekalb.org 815-758-5432 frkenneth@stmarydekalb.org Pastor: Kenneth Anderson Worship schedule: 8 a.m., 4:30 p.m. Saturday; 8 a.m., 9:30 a.m., 11 a.m. Sunday; 7 a.m. Monday through Friday St. Paul’s Episcopal 900 Normal Road www.stpaulsdekalb.org 815-756-4888 parishoffice@stpaulsdekalb.org Rector: Stacy Walker-Frontjes Worship schedule: 8 a.m., 10:30 a.m. Sunday Seventh-day Adventist 300 E. Taylor St. 815-758-1388 Pastor: Leonardo Oliveira Worship schedule: 11 a.m. Saturday; Sabbath school 9:30 a.m. The Rock Christian Church 300 E. Taylor St. http://therockchristianchurch.com 815-758-3700 Pastor: Jerry Wright Worship schedule: 10 a.m. Sunday Highlight of the week: For a ride to this growing, Bible-believing, nondenominational church, call 815-758-3700 or 815-748-5611. Trinity Lutheran (LCMC) 303 S. Seventh St. 815-756-7374 www.trinitydekalb.com Pastor: Todd Peterson Worship schedule: 9:30 a.m. Sunday; contemporary worship on second and fourth Sunday each month Unitarian Universalist Fellowship 158 N. Fourth St. www.uufdekalb.org 815-756-7089 uufdchurchoffice@aol.com Pastor: Linda Slabon The message: “Flower Communion & Bridging Ceremony” Worship schedule: 10 a.m. Sunday Highlight of the week: UUFD Bi-annual Congregational Meeting on May 19. To sign up for UUFD Pathways to Membership classes, call or email the church office or contact Rev. Linda. United Pentecostal Church 1120 S. Seventh St. www.dekalbupc.com 815-901-0699 Pastor: Greg W. Davis and Maurice McDavid, assistant pastor Worship schedule: 10 a.m., 2 p.m. (Spanish) and 6 p.m. Sundays; 6 p.m. Saturday (Spanish) Victory Baptist 1930 Sycamore Road VBC-DeKalb.org 815-756-6212 Victorlane5@frontier.com Pastor: Ngum Eric Mangek Worship schedule: 10:45 a.m. Sunday; 9:30 a.m. Sunday school Vida Nueva/New Life 316 N. Sixth St. vndekalb@frontier.com 815-787-7711 Pastor: Rodrigo Azofeifa Worship schedule: 12:30 p.m. Domingo (Sunday) Vineyard Christian Fellowship Haish Gymnasium, 303 S. Ninth St. www.vineyarddekalb.org 815-748-8463 Pastor: Joe Holda Worship schedule: 10 a.m. Sunday Westminster Presbyterian 830 N. Annie Glidden Road www.westminsterpres.net 815-756-2905 westminsterpres@gmail.com Pastors: Blake Richter, Karen Kim The message: “Making a Point” Worship schedule: 10 a.m. Sunday; 9 a.m. Sunday school Highlight of the week: Adult Sunday School features the “Letter from Birmingham Jail.”
SYCAMORE Bethel Assembly of God 131 W. Elm St. www.bethelofsycamore.org 815-895-4740 Pastor: William Mills Worship schedule: 8 and 10:30 a.m. Sunday; 9:30 a.m. Sunday school Christian Senior Ministries P.O. Box 479 815-895-6784 Deacon: Charles Ridulph Worship schedule: This nondenominational outreach program serves seniors through Bible studies, personal visits and worship services: 11 a.m. Monday at Barb City Manor, DeKalb; 3:30 p.m. Mondays at Lincolnshire Place, Sycamore; 5 p.m. Tuesdays at Lincoln Manor, Rochelle; 9:30 a.m. Wednesdays at Pine Acres, DeKalb; 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Bethany Health Care, DeKalb; 3 p.m. Wednesdays at Heritage Woods, DeKalb; 9:30 a.m. Thursdays at Grand Victorian, Sycamore; 10:30 a.m. Thursdays at Bethany Health Care, DeKalb;
2 p.m. Thursdays at Oak Crest DeKalb Area Retirement Center, DeKalb; 3 p.m. Thursdays at DeKalb County Rehab & Nursing Center, DeKalb. Church of Christ 109 Swanson Road www.sycamorechurchofchrist.com 815-895-9148 sycamorecoc@comcast.net Evangelist: Phillip Vermillion Worship schedule: 10 a.m. Sunday Church of Christ (Edgebrook Lane) 2315 Edgebook Lane www.sycamorechurch.com 815-895-3320 info@sycamorechurch.com Preacher: Al Diestelkamp Worship schedule: 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. Sunday Federated Church 612 W. State St. www.sycamorefederatedchurch.org 815-895-2706 info@sycamorefederatedchurch.org Pastor: Dennis Johnson The message: “I’ve Crowbarred Mom into This” Worship Schedule: 10 a.m. Sunday with nursery child care; 10:15 a.m. Kids Club; 11 a.m. fellowship Highlight of the week: Love Offering goes to Safe Passage. Fellowship host is Board of Religious Education. FBC of Sycamore 530 W. State St. www.fbcnewsong.com 815-895-3116 fbcnewsong@gmail.com Worship schedule: 9 a.m. Sunday traditional service; 10:30 a.m. with signer for hearing impaired and 5 p.m. contemporary services Grace Life Church 425 W. State St. www.gracelifeinchrist.org 815-757-3570 Pastor: Stephen J. Moll Worship schedule: 10 a.m. Sunday Harvest Time Fellowship 203 S. Sacramento St. 815-899-2529 Pastor: Michael Schumaker Worship schedule: 9 a.m. Sunday; 7 p.m. Thursday prayer Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 675 Fox Ave. www.mormon.org 815-895-2277 jrbentley1208@gmail.com Bishop: John Bentley Worship schedule: 9 a.m. Sunday Sacrament meeting; 10:20 a.m. Sunday school; 11:10 a.m. Priesthood, Relief Society Mayfield Congregational 28405 Church Road www.mayfieldchurchucc.org 815-895-5548 mayfieldchurch@atcyber.net Interim Pastor: Martha Brunell Worship schedule: 10 a.m. Sunday North Avenue Missionary Baptist 301 North Ave. 815-895-4871 Worship schedule: 11 a.m. Sunday, 9:30 a.m. Sunday school St. John’s Lutheran (Missouri Synod) 26555 Brickville Road www.stjohnsycamore.org 815-895-4477 office@stjohnsycamore.org Pastors: Robert W. Weinhold, Marvin Metzger Worship schedule: 6 p.m. blended service Saturday; 8 and 10:30 a.m. service Sunday St. Mary’s Sycamore 322 Waterman St. www.stmarysycamore.com 815-895-3275 Churchofstmary@stmarysycamore.com Pastor: Paul M. Lipinski Worship schedule: 7:30 a.m. daily; 5 p.m. Saturday; 8 a.m. and 11 a.m. Sunday; and 7 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Holy Days St. Peter’s Episcopal 218 Somonauk St. www.sycamorestpeters.org 815-895-2227 office@sycamorestpeters.org Clergy: David Hedges Worship schedule: 7:30 and 10 a.m. Sunday Holy Eucharist; 8:45 a.m. Sunday school Salem Lutheran (ELCA) 1145 DeKalb Ave. www.SalemSycamore.org 815-895-9171 salem@salemlutheransycamore.org Interim Pastor: Robert C. Kinnear Ministry staff: Carla Vanatta The message: “Jesus prays for us.” Worship schedule: 5 p.m. Saturday; 8 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. Sunday; 9:15 a.m. Sunday School Highlight of the week: Help to stock the Salem Food Pantry with gifts of food and personal care products. SCRIP orders due Sunday. First Communion for children in third grade or older will be celebrated during the 10:30 a.m. service.
Daily Chronicle / daily-chronicle.com Sycamore Baptist Church 302 Somonauk Street www.sbcsycamore.org 815-895-2577 sycamorebap@yahoo.com Pastor: Dan Stovall Worship schedule: 10:30 a.m. Sunday; 9:30 a.m. Bible study Highlight of the week: A reception for mothers will be held following morning worship Sunday in honor of Mother’s Day. Sycamore United Methodist 160 Johnson Ave. www.sycamoreumc.org 815-895-9113 sumc@sycamoreumc.org Pastor: Bill Landis, Harlene Harden Worship schedule: 5 p.m. Saturday; 8:30 a.m. and 10 a.m. Sunday; 10 a.m. Sunday school
NEARBY Calvary Lutheran (LCMC) (Lee) 19 Perry Road, at County Line Road www.calluth.org 815-824-2825 calluthch1@aol.com Pastor: Craig Nelson Worship schedule: 10:30 a.m. Sunday; 9:15 a.m. Sunday school
Peace United Church of Christ (Genoa) 301 E. First St. 815-757-5917 PastorLauriAllen@gmail.com Pastor: Lauri Allen The message: “Walk With Me” Worship schedule: 10 a.m. Sunday St. Catherine (Genoa) 340 S. Stott St. www.st-catherine-genoa.org 815-784-2355 stcatpast@frontier.com Pastor: Donald M. Ahles The message: “The Ascension of the Lord” Worship schedule: 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. (Spanish) Saturday; 8 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. Sunday; 8:30 a.m. Monday to Thursday Highlight of the week: May Crowning follows 10:30 a.m. Mass Sunday. Knights of Columbus Rosary at 6:30 p.m. Monday - open to the public. Respect Life Movie, “The 13th Day,” at 7 p.m. May 31 in the Parish Hall.
Cortland United Methodist 45 W. Chestnut Ave. www.cortlandumc.com 815-756-9088 Pastor: Christina Vosteen Worship schedule: 9 a.m. Sunday
St. James (Lee) 221 W. Kirke Gate 815-824-2053 stjames@heartlandcable.com Pastor: Bonaventure Okoro Worship schedule: 5 p.m. Saturday; 9 a.m. Sunday; 9 a.m. Tuesday to Friday; with confession from 4:15 to 4:45 p.m. Saturday and 8:15 to 8:45 a.m. Sunday.
Faith UMC (Genoa) 325 S. Stott St. www.genoafaithuc.com 815-784-5143 faithchurch@rocketmail.com Pastor: Daniel F. Diss Worship schedule: 9 a.m. Sunday; 9:30 a.m. Sunday school
St. John’s Lutheran (Creston) 126 E. South St. stjohns.worthyofpraise.org 815-384-3720 Pastor: Ronald Larson Worship schedule: 9:30 a.m. Sunday with fellowship following, 10:30 a.m. Sunday school
First Congregational UCC (Malta) 210 S. Sprague St. 815-825-2451 Pastor: Robert L. Vaughn The message: “Shepherdess of the Home” Worship schedule: 9:30 a.m. Sunday
St. Paul’s UCC (Hinckley) 324 W. McKinley Ave. 815-286-3391 stpaulshinckley@gmail.com Pastor: Kris Delmore Worship schedule: 9:30 a.m. Sunday
First Lutheran (NALC) (Kirkland) 510 W. South St. www.kirklandflc.org 815-522-3886 jo@kirklandflc.org Pastor: Carl L. M. Rasmussen Worship schedule: 5:30 p.m. Saturday; 9 a.m. Sunday; 9:15 a.m. children’s sermon First Lutheran (Lee) 240 W. Hardanger Gate www.flcinlee.com 815-824-2356 Interim Pastor: Chris Heller Worship schedule: 10:30 a.m. Sunday; 10 a.m. fellowship time First United Methodist (Hinckley) 801 N. Sycamore St. 815-286-7102 hinckleyumc@frontier.com Pastor: Laura Crites Worship schedule: 9:30 a.m. Sunday; 10:30 a.m. Sunday school First United Methodist (Kirkland) 300 W. South St. www.kirklandumc.org 815-522-3546 office@kirklandumc.org Pastor: Kyeong-Ah Woo Worship schedule: 10 a.m. Sunday; 9 a.m. Sunday school Hope Anglican Church (Elburn) Meeting at Community Congregational, 100 E. Shannon St. www.hopeanglican.org 630-802-4424 Pastor: David Kletzing Worship schedule: 5 p.m. Sunday Holy Communion, nursery Immanuel Lutheran (Hinckley) 12760 Lee Road www.immanuel-hinckley.org 815-286-3885 office@immanuel-hinckley.org Pastor: Christopher Navurskis Worship schedule: 10:15 a.m. Sunday; 8 a.m. small group Bible study; 9 a.m. adult Bible study; 9 a.m. Sunday school; 5 p.m. Saturday Kingston United Methodist 121 E. First St. 815-784-2010 Pastor: Jackie Wills Worship schedule: 11 a.m. Sunday; 9:30 a.m. youth group and Upper Room Bible study; 10:15 a.m. children’s Sunday school; 10:30 a.m. prayer circle; 6:30 p.m. Gospel of John Bible study Highlight of the week: Communion is served on the first and third Sundays. All are welcome to the table. Malta United Methodist 210 E. Sprague St. www.gbgm-umc.org/maltaumc 815-825-2118 maltaumc@aol.com Pastor: Judy Giese Worship schedule: 9 a.m. Sunday at Malta UMC; 11 a.m. Sunday at Northwest Malta UMC
Salem Evangelical Lutheran (Sandwich) 1022 N. Main St. 815-786-9308 Pastor: Wayne Derber Worship schedule: 8 a.m. Sunday traditional service; 10:30 a.m. contemporary service; 9:15 a.m. Sunday education hour for all ages Trinity Lutheran (Genoa) 33930 N. State Road www.tlcgenoa.org 815-784-2522 trinity@tlcgenoa.com Pastor: Senior Pastor Jeremy Heilman Worship schedule: 5:30 p.m. Saturday blended worship; 8 a.m. Sunday traditional worship; 10:30 a.m. Sunday contemporary worship. United Church of Christ (Shabbona) 104 E. Navaho Ave., Box 241 815-824-2359 office.shabbonachurch@gmail.com www.shabbonachurch.org Pastor: Jim Allen Worship schedule: 8 a.m. Sunday assisted living service; 9:30 a.m. Sunday; 10:30 a.m. Sunday school United Methodist (Waterman) 210 W. Garfield www.watermanumc.com 815-264-3991 watermanumc@gmail.com Pastor: Christina Vosteen Worship schedule: 10:30 a.m. Sunday; 9:30 a.m. Sunday school United Presbyterian (Somonauk) 14030 Chicago Road www.somonaukupchurch.com 815-786-2703 Worship schedule: 9:30 a.m. Sunday; 10:45 a.m. Christian education. Village Bible Church (Shabbona) Indian Creek Campus 209 N. Nokomis St. 815-824-2425 Pastor: Dave Haidle Worship schedule: 10 a.m. Sunday Waterman Bible Church 500 S. Birch St. 815-264-3908 www.watermanbible.org wbcheart@frontier.com Pastors: Pastor Craig Miller, Associate Pastor of Youth Mike Burkett Worship schedule: 10:30 a.m. Sunday; 9:30 a.m. Sunday school Waterman Presbyterian 250 N. Cedar St. www.watermanpres.com 815-264-3491 wpc_office@frontier.com Pastor: Roger Boekenhauer The message: “Jesus Prays for His Disciples” Worship schedule: 10:30 a.m. Sunday; 9:30 a.m. Sunday school Highlight of the week: Happy Mother’s Day.
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FAITH
Cheering for Life
Friday, May 10, 2013 • Page C3
Sycamore native releases first CD of Christian music us. They are just there to get out of their cell. But a lot of them are actually grateful that we’re there. It’s maybe half and half.
By CURTIS CLEGG cclegg@shawmedia.com
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We Care Pregnancy Clinic extends a big thank-you to everyone who participated in We Care’s Walk For Life on May 4. Attendees had lots of fun walking, enjoying the food and games, and receiving gifts and prizes. This year, participants raised more than $45,000, which is 26 percent of We Care’s annual budget. For more information about the clinic’s services or how to donate, call the clinic at 815-748-4242 or visit www. WeCarePregnancyClinic.org.
8BRIEFS Friendship Center plans rummage sale The Kingston Friendship Center, 120 S. Main St., Kingston, will hold a rummage sale May 16 through 18. Hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday and Friday and 9 a.m. to noon Saturday. A bag full of clothes will cost $3 on Saturday.
Annual plant sale starts today First Congregational United Church of Christ, 615 N. First St. in DeKalb, will hold its annual Flower and Plant Sale this weekend.
Hours for the sale are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. today and 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. Items for sale include hanging baskets, annuals, perennials, vegetables and more. All proceeds benefit area nonprofit agencies. For more information, call 815-758-0691 or visit www. uccdekalb.org.
‘What’s In Your Spiritual Closet?’ program set Trinity Lutheran Church in Genoa will host a program titled, “What’s In Your Spiritual Closet?” for girls in sixth grade and up and women of all ages. The program, sponsored by
Woven’s Womens’ Ministry, will be held from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. May 18 at the church at 33930 N. State Road. The guest speaker will be Sharla Fritz, author of “Devine Design” and “Bless These Lips.” Cost is $10 per person and includes breakfast. A drive will be held for new or slightly used baby blankets to be donated to Central Dupage Hospital’s NICU to Dress Their Beds. A donation of a blanket will reduce the cost of the program by $2. To RSVP, call Trinity Lutheran at 815-784-2522 by Monday. To learn more about the guest speaker, visit her website at www.sharlafritz.com.
VATICAN CITY – The Vatican denies there were any internal divisions over its crackdown on the largest umbrella group of U.S. nuns after a top Vatican official complained that the Holy See’s reform project had caused him “much pain.” The head of the Vatican’s office for religious orders, Cardinal Joao Braz de Aviz, was quoted over the weekend as saying his office wasn’t consulted or even advised by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith about its decision to overhaul the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, which represents 80 percent of American sisters. The Congregation last year placed the Leadership Conference under the authority of a U.S. bishop after determining that the sisters took positions that undermined Catholic teaching on the priesthood and homosexuality while promoting “radical feminist themes incompatible with the Catholic faith.” On Tuesday, the Vatican said Braz de Aviz’s words were misinterpreted. It said Braz de Aviz and the current prefect of the Congregation, Archbishop Gerhard Mueller, met Monday and reaffirmed their commitment to renewing religious life in the U.S. as well as to the Vatican’s reform plan for the Leadership Conference.
Israel’s AG backs court ruling favoring women’s prayer at holy site JERUSALEM – Israel’s attorney general says he will not appeal a court ruling permitting a liberal Jewish women’s group to pray freely at a Jerusalem holy site. An Israeli court instructed police last month to stop detaining women for performing religious rituals and wearing
SM: I understand this is your first CD. CH: Well, it’s my first fully finished CD.
The title of the CD is “Soul Searching.” Where did that name come from? Well, the first song is called “Soul Searching.” It seemed like a good fit for the album.
How many songs are on the CD? There are 11 songs, and it took me about three years to make.
8RELIGION BRIEFS Vatican denies internal divisions over crackdown on U.S. sisters
After three years in the recording studio, Sycamore native Charlie Haley has just released his first CD, “Soul Searching.” He learned most of what he knows about music in his hometown. “I went to Mr. G’s in Sycamore for years and years and he did (music) theory for me and I learned guitar from him,” Haley said. Christian music fills the 11 tracks of the CD. Haley became a Christian after a “rock bottom experience” while living in California and since then he has been drawn to Christian music. “I started out trying to be R&B, and kind of pop, but it just didn’t sound very good,” said Haley, who attends Christ Community Church in DeKalb. “It’s easy for me to write a song in any genre, but I started singing at church and that got me interested in doing Christian music. It was actually fun for me, and it sounded a lot more natural.” Haley will perform songs from his CD from 7 to 8 p.m. May 24 at Family Health Center in Sycamore, where his CDs are sold. His music also is available on iTunes and Amazon.com. Haley met with Shaw Media to discuss his music and his faith.
garb that Orthodox Judaism reserves for men. The “Women of the Wall” movement has been trying for decades to break Orthodox control on prayer at the Western Wall, one of Judaism’s holiest sites. Orthodox rabbis, who control Israeli religious institutions, argued the women break regulations forbidding religious ceremonies that go against “local custom.” The Justice Ministry said Tuesday that Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein would not appeal. In another victory for liberal Judaism, Israel’s prime minister has signaled he will support a new, mixed-gender prayer area at the site.
Feds investigate after Molotov cocktail thrown into Ogden church OGDEN, Utah – Federal officials are investigating after a Molotov cocktail was thrown through the window of a church in Ogden. The Deseret News reports the device was thrown into a meetinghouse of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints sometime Sunday night. Ogden Fire Department Deputy Chief Eric Bauman says the remains of the failed weapon were found Monday morning by a maintenance worker. Bauman says it caused about $1,000 in damage to the kitchen of the church. The FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are getting involved because the target was a church. The Ogden City Fire Marshal also is investigating.
Detroit pastor sentenced to probation in church kitchen scheme DETROIT – A Detroit pastor who doubled as a city building official has been sentenced to two years of probation in a scheme to have taxpayers pay
for kitchen equipment at his church. The Detroit News reports U.S. District Judge Nancy Edmunds on Monday spared 60-year-old Charlie Golden from prison, citing in part his “exemplary” record. He could have faced 10 to 16 months in prison. Golden must pay a $3,000 fine and perform community service. He apologized in court. The government says he told a city contractor to get someone to install an expensive exhaust and hood over a deep fryer at Perfecting Freedom Church. The FBI says Golden signed phony city invoices to ensure that the contractor would be paid by Detroit. Golden was the city’s assistant buildings superintendent.
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Does that include the songwriting, or did you already have some songs written? Some I had written before, like No. 6 (“Ain’t Ya Sampson No More”) I wrote about 12 years ago.
Do you ever write one song, and then that song inspires you to write another song? Actually, yes. No. 3 (“Time to Let Go”) and No. 2 (“A New Beginning”) actually started out as one song, and then I broke them up because it was too long, and I kind of changed the melody of one of them.
What is the songwriting process like for you? There are two kinds of songwriting. There’s the songs that just come when you are getting out of the shower and it hits you and you get the guitar and write it down really fast in five minutes. The best songs always write themselves. And sometimes you’ll get a
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Where else do you perform locally? I will be performing at Family Health Center. I have been going there for years and I let them hear my CD, and the owners were ecstatic about it, so they asked me to play there and they put my CDs for sale on the counter.
Charlie Haley melody in your head and you find a guitar and you kind of piece it together.
How long have you been writing songs? I have been writing songs since I was a kid.
What music has influenced you? I listen to everything from heavy metal to country, even opera sometimes. Right now I’m listening to Simon and Garfunkel, my favorite. Stevie Ray Vaughan is definitely my influence for guitar.
How many songs do you think you have written in your lifetime? Maybe 500.
Will some of those songs make it onto another CD? Yes. My cell phone has 500 songs on it, but most of them aren’t that good. You get your ideas at two in the morning and sometimes you listen to it later and it sounds terrible. But I save all of them because one little idea can make a song. There are times like No. 6 (“Ain’t Ya Sampson No More”) – I didn’t do anything with that for 12 years. Then I played it for the producer of the CD and he said, “It sounds amazing. Let’s do it.”
How many downloads to you hope or expect to sell versus hard copies of the CD? Well, I have 1,000 hard copies; well, 900 now. For downloads, I want to sell as many as I can, I guess. I essentially want to sell enough to be able to promote more, travel more, do more shows and make another record.
Do you hope to make music your full-time job? To travel and play? Oh yeah. Absolutely.
You mentioned that you perform at the Illinois Youth Correctional Facility. How did you get started doing that?
Have you thought about performing at bars or open mics, or is your music too Christian for those venues? If you listen to the CD, it’s not churchy. It’s definitely Christian music, but some songs you could play in a bar. … If people don’t like it, they can tell me. I don’t mind.
How would you describe your music if it’s not churchy? Is it more uplifting? Well, the title says a lot. It’s uplifting but it brings you through the low parts of your life. It helps you work those out.
Have you met people who have been inspired by the music? Yes a lot, actually. I was surprised. A grandmother I know and her grandchildren are listening to the same song – number eight (“I Wanna Believe”) in the car. One lady at work said she never misses Eric and Kathy (on the radio) in the morning, but for the past week she has been listening to my CD on her way to work. And these aren’t church people. I didn’t grow up going to church either. I just started gong to church in my 20s.
Do you write songs with the purpose of trying to comfort people? Certain songs, like number eight (“I Wanna Believe”), I just pictured a guy in his 40s or 50s who sits in a bar. He went to Sunday school as a kid and then quit going to church, and then he wanted to go back to church but a lot of times when you go to a (new) church, you feel unwelcome. It’s very awkward. I wanted to get to those people who feel like they’re not good enough (to go to a church).
Do you feel like this is your calling? Yes I do. I thought about maybe being a lawyer but this just won’t leave me alone.
Through my church. One of the pastors asked me to play there once a month but I had to go through a sixmonth background check.
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Newest Ford C-Max also comes with a plug By ANN M. JOB For The Associated Press Ford’s newest C-Max is the ultimate plug-in gasoline-electric hatchback for fuel- and environmentally conscious drivers yearning for something new. Introduced for 2013, the C-Max Energi is an electric plug-in, tall, five-seat car that has a four-cylinder, gasoline engine as a backup. A driver can typically travel for up to 21 miles on all-electric power before the gas engine seamlessly takes over. Or, the driver can push a button to select gas-engine propulsion only – say, if he or she is headed directly onto a freeway – and save the electric power stored in the onboard battery pack for later, in-city driving where lower speeds maximize the electric power range. These smart, selectable choices and fresh, attractive styling plus easy charging and an impressive, potential 620-mile range on one tank of fuel and one battery charge come in one well-equipped model – the 2013 C-Max Energi SEL. Also not to be missed: The federal government rating of 100 miles-per-gallon equivalent for the C-Max Energi tops the 98 mpg equivalent of the 2013 Chevrolet Volt as well as the 95 mpg equivalent of the plug-in hybrid version of the 2013 Toyota Prius. The only vehicles with higher mpg equivalent numbers are all-electric cars with much lower overall travel range, such as the 2013 Leaf with a 115 mpg equivalent rating and a travel range of up to 75 miles. Pricing for the C-Max Energi is in the middle of the pack. Starting manufacturer’s suggested retail price, including destination charge, is $34,140 and includes continuously variable transmission (CVT) that a driver operates like an automatic. This compares with the $39,995 starting retail price for a 2013 Volt and the $32,795 starting retail price for a 2013 Prius Plug-In Hybrid. Note the C-Max Energi comes standard with features that can be extra on competitors, such as leather-trimmed
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This undated image made available by Ford shows the 2013 Ford C-Max Energi. seats, dual-zone climate control, hands-free calling system, wireless Bluetooth audio for access to music on a smartphone, heated front seats and three years of free, personalized news, sports and business news. But while the Volt qualifies for a federal income tax credit of $7,500, the C-Max Energi’s tax credit is $3,751. This amount is not subtracted directly from the C-Max Energi’s purchase price. Rather, the tax credit goes on income tax forms of the purchaser to help reduce that year’s overall federal tax. It’s also worth noting there is a non-plug-in hybrid version of C-Max that has a starting MSRP, including destination charge, of $25,995, which is $8,145 lower in price than the Energi. No wonder, then, that so far in calendar 2013, the non-plug-in C-Max Hybrid is outselling the pricier C-Max Energi by a wide margin. Still, the test C-Max Energi was a car that delighted with its styling, comfortable interior, sprightly power – both electric and gas engine – and agile handling. Especially attractive: The styling lines on the sides, the good proportions of the body and the expressive front grille that give this fuel-sipper an upscale look. It also helped that the Energi comes standard with good-sized, 17-inch wheels. In comparison, the base Prius Plug-In rides on smaller, 15-
inch wheels. Inside, the C-Max Energi can feel spacious, thanks to its 5.3-foot-tall height. This provides a full 41 inches of front-seat headroom – roomy even for 6-footers. In the back seat, headroom is shaved just a bit, to 39.4 inches. Meantime, the Prius Plug-In stands less than 5 feet tall and has less headroom in front and back seats. The Prius is a couple inches longer, however, from bumper to bumper, and has a slightly longer wheelbase. So, frontseat legroom of 40.4 inches in the C-Max Energi is less than the 42.5 inches in the Prius Plug-In. But the Ford’s backseat legroom of 36.5 inches is a half inch greater than the back-seat legroom in the Prius. Perhaps the least competitive space is the Energi’s 19.2 cubic feet of cargo room behind the second-row seats, which is less than what’s in the Prius. It’s also 22 percent less than the cargo room in the non-plug-in version of C-Max Hybrid. The lost space is taken up in the Energi by a larger lithium ion battery pack. The test Energi impressed with fuel economy on the very first drive which was all-electric and thus, zero gasoline. And charging was easy. Even a regular electrical outlet in a circa 1970s garage charged this car up, albeit over a slow seven hours for a full charge. It was much faster, though, at a dedicated,
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House No. 2 4052 E. 2603 Rd, Sheridan, IL 60551 This house to be offered at 11:30am. Open House Dates for House #1 & House #2: Wednesday, May 15 5pm – 7pm For an Legal questions pertaining to the sale of real estate contact: Charles Marshall – Attorney for Estate 815-498-2332 Executrix: Mary Lou Tomlin, Sherldan, IL. The properties are being sold with new surveys. Terms for real estate are as follows The real estate is being offered AS IS condition day of sale. $10,000 down, non refundable. Make cashiers check payable to the Estate of Esther Larsen. Closing on or before June 14, 2013. For more info on homes or private open houses, call DeBolt Auction Service, Plano, IL 630-552-4247 Brian DeBolt, IL Lic 440.0000 595 Sheila DeBolt, IL Lic 440.0000 593 Look at website www.DeBoltAuctionService for more info.
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Choice of toys is cause for family’s concern Dear Abby: I am a longtime reader but a first-time writer. My problem has been bothering me for some time now. We have a grandson who is 4 and very much a “princess boy.” He likes girl toys and dresses and doesn’t like any of his boy toys. We’re at a loss about how to handle this. He’s an adorable little boy and we love him to pieces. His parents don’t accept this behavior, and I’m afraid it will affect him now and in the future. How would you handle this? We don’t say anything to his parents because they are pretty much in denial. – Worried Grandma Dear Worried: If he were my grandchild I’d talk with the parents. I, too, am concerned about how their attitude will affect the child in the future, because parents are supposed to love and accept chil-
DEAR ABBY Jeanne Phillips dren the way they are, and sexual orientation is inborn. Children who feel consistent disapproval grow up thinking they aren’t good enough and don’t measure up – which can be a self-fulfilling prophecy. I would “handle this” by making sure my grandson knew I loved, accepted and valued him just the way he is. If that means allowing him to play with the toys of his choice in my home, that’s what I’d do. And if he showed more interest in art, music and dance and less interest in sports, trucks, etc., I’d support that, too. I’m glad you asked this question. Your grandson may
or may not grow up to be gay or transgender, which is what I think your letter is really about. Regardless of what his orientation is, it’s very important that he knows he is valued for who he is. Dear Abby: I know this boy that I really love. He’s nice, smart and funny and I think about him all the time. He says he loves me back. Is this true love, or just a mutual crush? I know I’m only 13, but I think I’m in love. Is it ridiculous to think I have found true love in seventh grade? How can I tell whether it’s love or not? And what would you consider the usual age to find your perfect other half? – Confused in Love Dear Confused: No one can predict how old you will be when you meet someone who is your perfect other half. People’s interests and needs
evolve as they grow older, and what seems perfect today can seem less so when viewed through the lens of life experience. I would never label your feelings as “ridiculous,” but when you are in love, there is usually no doubt about it. Because you need to ask someone else if what you’re feeling is true love, then it probably isn’t. Dear Abby: I met a guy on an online dating site. It turns out I know him. He works at a store I shop in three times a week. He’s nice, funny and everything I’m looking for in a guy except he’s 25 and I’m 17. He knows how old I am and for a while he was fine with it. Now he thinks I’m a cop and I’m going to bust him for trying to have sex with me ‘cause I’m underage. He explained why he thinks that, and he
made sense. But I’m NOT a cop. I gave him information trying to prove I’m not. Abby, I really like him. How do I prove that I’m not a cop? How do I show him he can trust me? – Needs Advice in Oregon Dear Needs Advice: Undercover cops are older than 17. Because you say this man was “fine” with seeing you, but now is pulling away, it is possible that he is trying to let you down without hurting your feelings. You are not yet out of high school and this man is far ahead of you in life experience. Rather than try to talk him into having a sexual relationship with you, you would be much better off finding someone your own age.
• Write Dear Abby at www. DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.
Mouthwash isn’t needed if you brush daily Dear Dr. K: I brush and floss regularly. Do I need to use mouthwash too? Dear Reader: Judging from the ads, you need mouthwash to prevent plaque (the yellowish film of bacteria that attaches to your teeth and leads to cavities) and gingivitis (inflammation of the gums). But mouthwash actually plays a fairly minor role in the prevention of plaque and gum disease. Brushing and flossing are much more important. Cavities, gingivitis and bad breath are all caused by certain bacteria that live in every person’s mouth. You can’t eliminate them, but you can reduce their number and prevent the damage they can cause.
ASK DR. K Anthony L. Komaroff Mouthwash has a history that goes back thousands of years. People have used rinses made with everything from betel leaves to dill and myrrh dissolved in white wine. Listerine was first developed in the late 19th century as a surgical antiseptic. It was named after the British surgeon, Sir Joseph Lister, who pioneered the prevention and treatment of bacterial infections that occurred following surgery. These days, many mouthwashes are highly artificial concoctions that contain
sweeteners for taste and artificial colorings for a bright hue. Alcohol is often included as well. It’s true that mouthwash will make your breath smell better for a while. The question is whether that’s achieved by killing off odorproducing bacteria or merely masking the problem. More effective than mouthwash at masking the problem are breath mints. It’s easier to use them repeatedly during the day than to swish mouthwash repeatedly. The most effective way to reduce bad breath is to brush your tongue when you’re brushing your teeth. Most of the bacteria that cause bad breath reside in a small area near the back of the tongue.
Brushing them away with a toothbrush is more effective than rinsing with a mouthwash. On the other hand, some research has found that two antibacterial ingredients most commonly used in mouthwashes may reduce the levels of bacteria that produce bad breath. What’s more, other mouthwash ingredients (zinc and chlorine dioxide) may neutralize other smelly compounds. What about gum disease? There are about a dozen species of bacteria, found in plaque, that cause gum disease. They cause inflammation that can break down gum tissue and the bone that holds teeth in place. Brushing and flossing
are the best ways to remove plaque, but the antibacterial ingredients in some mouthwashes do have a modest effect. Look for mouthwashes that have the American Dental Association’s (ADA’s) “Seal of Acceptance” as a plaque fighter. Finally, most mouthwashes do not prevent cavities – nor do they claim to. Some newer mouthwashes contain fluoride, and some of them have the ADA’s blessing as proven cavity fighters. So it’s fine to use mouthwash, but brushing and flossing are still the mainstays in preventing cavities and gum disease.
• Visit www.AskDoctorK. com to read more.
Congratulations on your grade-point average Dr. Wallace: I will be graduating from high school in less than a month. I’m a very good student and have been accepted at Yale University. I will be attending Yale in September. But I feel very disappointed that I was not selected as the valedictorian of my graduating class. Ever since I entered high school, I have taken college prep classes. They include calculus, trigonometry, advanced chemistry, Spanish I, II and III, creative writing and the works of Shakespeare, just to name a few. I have received
’TWEEN 12 & 20 Robert Wallace all A’s except for one little C+ in geography. The boy who is our valedictorian received A’s in all of his high school classes. But he didn’t take difficult college prep courses. His courses were less strenuous. I will give him credit for getting all A’s. That was a wonderful feat, but in no way does it compare to what I have accomplished.
8ASTROGRAPH By BERNICE BEDE OSOL Newspaper Enterprise Association
TODAY – Financial trends will be developing in your favor in the year ahead. Take advantage of all that comes your way and make the most of every opportunity. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) – The way to acquire something you’ve been wanting will become apparent. It’s up to you, however, to focus your efforts on making it happen. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) – Mask your assertiveness with unselfish actions and lots of charm. If you make sure that others will also benefit from your aims, you’ll meet with success. CANCER (June 21-July 22) – If you don’t give up on your dreams and keep a realistic viewpoint, you make success much more probable. Keep pushing forward. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) – You will be presented with some intriguing opportunities via your social contacts. It pays to be the nice guy, sometimes. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) – There’s no need to try to duck tedious assignments, because the things that appear to be the most troublesome could, surprisingly, be the easiest to handle. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) – Closely observe the people you admire, because there’s a strong possibility that you could profit from mimicking their behavior. You’ll wisely use what you learn. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) – Something advantageous can come from an arrangement that is initiated by a close friend or family member. There’s room in the endeavor for your skill set. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) – Your pleasant and cheerful demeanor today could serve as a magnet attracting all kinds of companions of similar dispositions. Something that is both fun and interesting will come of it. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) – You have a special knack for handling jobs that require creativity. Use your artistic touch to transform what you consider to be unsightly. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) – There’s no need to be surprised if an appealing someone evinces an interest in you. This person has been waiting for the right time to make his or her feelings known. PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) – Make the concerns of a close someone your top priority. He or she needs help that only you can provide. ARIES (March 21-April 19) – As long as there is justification for it, be lavish in your praise. Expressing sincere approval will go far in securing the loyalty of those who work at your side.
My parents went to see the principal, who agreed that I took the more difficult classes but said the rule for our school states that the senior with the highest high school grade-point average would be the valedictorian. I feel like I was robbed of a very important honor. Do you agree? – Nameless, Philadelphia, Pa. Nameless: It won’t help now, but I agree that more difficult classes should have more impact when selecting a valedictorian. I’m in favor of a point system in which classes are “weighted” ac-
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cording to their difficulty. It would take a little time to evaluate every class the high school offers, but doing so would create a fairer method of establishing class rank. For example, an advanced calculus class would be worth 10 points for an A, eight points for a B and six points for a C. A general math class would have a maximum of six points for an A, four points for a B and two points for a C. Once the point system is in place, and all the parents and students have access to the weighted points given to each class, the selec-
tion of a valedictorian would be simplified. Even though you were not the class valedictorian, Yale University is well aware of your high school transcript and the challenging courses you took. And I’m sure your parents are very proud of you. Congratulations on a spectacular grade-point average. You are a gifted student and I’m positive your academic accomplishments are just beginning.
• Email Dr. Robert Wallace at rwallace@galesburg.net.
8CROSSWORD
BRIDGE Phillip Alder
Two chances are better than one Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was an architect who worked first in Germany, then in the United States. He said, “Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together.” One guesses that plans might have been drawn first. However, a bridge contract will have more chance of success if declarer has two ways to get home and is able to try them both – as in this deal. South is in six spades. West leads the club queen: four, eight (encouraging, showing the king), ace. What are declarer’s two primary chances to bring home 12 tricks? South has two potential losers: one diamond and one club. He starts with only 11 top tricks: seven spades, one heart, two diamonds and one club. A 12th winner can be established if either the diamond finesse is working or the hearts are dividing 4-3. Since the finesse, if it loses, would be instantly fatal (the defenders would cash a club trick), it should be tried second if it is needed. Declarer must play on hearts immediately. He cashes his heart ace, leads a middle spade to dummy’s 10 (happy to see both opponents follow suit), ruffs a heart high, plays a middle spade to dummy’s jack, and ruffs another heart high. When the suit breaks 4-3, South leads the spade three to dummy’s four, ruffs another heart, plays a diamond to the ace, and discards a diamond or a club on the heart jack. If hearts break 5-2 or 6-1, South would draw trumps and run trumps, planning to rely on the diamond finesse (but also having a red-suit show-up squeeze if East has the long hearts).
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COMPTON MULTI FAMILY
GENOA PLANT SALE
SAT, MAY 11 8AM - 4PM SUN, MAY 12 11AM - 3PM CONCRETE WORKER Immediate opening available for experienced concrete worker. Finishing/Flatwork a plus. position entails foundations to decorative stamping. Wage commiserate with experience. Must hold a valid drivers license. Email resume to randy@herrmannconcrete.com
415 WEST CHERRY ST. Wide Variety of Quality Clothing Infant - 3X, women's business attire, new home interiors, Coke collection, antiques,
Definitely Worth the Drive!
COMPTON TOWN WIDE
11967 Rt. 72 West of Genoa on Rt.72 Farm across from GK High School Perennials, Annuals, Flats, Baskets and Vegetables. Fern Bleeding Hearts, Coral Bells, Hibiscus, Clematis, Day Lilies, Ferns, Delphinium and Astilbes.
Kirkland
DRIVERS Due to our continued growth we are seeking company drivers and owner operators for the expansion of our local tank operation. Consistent, clean, year round work. Must have Class A CDL w/ Tank & Hazmat and clean MVR. We offer competitive wages based on experience and top of the line benefits. Apply online at: breckenridgetrucking.com or call 815-368-3080
SALES ASSOCIATE Full time sales person needed. Experience preferred. Apply in person at Carpetland USA, 1719 DeKalb Ave in Sycamore.
SAT, MAY 11 8AM - 4PM Balloons Mark The Sale! Bake Sale and Lunch Stand at the Methodist Church
DEKALB
1018 S. 2nd St. Thursday, Friday & Saturday 8am – 5pm
LARGE SALE
Social Services
SENIOR SERVICE CARE COORDINATOR BA/BS Social Service related field. IDOA certification preferred. Assess needs, create care plans, act as client advocate to assist DeKalb County seniors to remain safe & independent in the community. Excellent communication, time management and computer skills required. Auto required for home visits. Email cover letter & resume: tculotta@ecsdekalb.org
Clothing of all sizes, furniture, household items, garden tub, golf cart, riding mower, 1988 Bay Liner Boat, 2005 Chrysler 300, Chevy truck topper, Polaris Sled, hunting gear, Johnson Evenrude boat parts, pocket knives, lots of misc.
DeKalb 140 Augusta (near corner of First and Pine)
CUSTODIAN Must pass background check. 16-20 hrs./week. Must be flexible. Sycamore location. Send replies to Attn: Custodian, c/o Classified, PO Box 250, Crystal Lake, IL 60039-0250
Name your price on a variety of items including baby, children and adult clothing, toys, cribs, car seats, sofa in good condition, electronics, entertainment center, other furniture and household décor and more!! All the proceeds go to support churches in Eurasia.
Enter on So. Malta Rd. if graduation traffic is heavy
Friday 8-5, Saturday 8-2 Many new items, lots of misc. collector's plates, ladies golf clubs, old jelly cupboard, tall painted cupboard, men's and ladies clothing, books, snowblower, small table & chairs, (Computer hardware & software Sat only-across the street)
in Devonaire Farm Sub. If found, please call 815-901-1234
Thursday 12-7 Friday, 9-4 Saturday, 9-1
404 Madison St. Furniture, Lane Cedar Chest, 1970s China Cabinet, Kitchen Table & Chairs, Cookware, Hummels, Glassware, Dishes, Cook Books, Linens, Women's Clothing, Holiday Decorations, Vintage Misc, Tools, Lawn Mowers & Yard Ornaments.
DeKalb 8046 S. Malta Rd
A+E, AERO, A+F, HCO & GAP Boys/Girls infants-Jr's incl. slims & adults, big men's & women's plus sizes, shoes, baby items, books, toys, bikes, swing set, sports memorabilia, wood working, old doors, bird cage, furniture, vacuums, mini fridge, lots of misc. household, water softener, computers, cell phones, Ipod, DS & accessories, leather welding jacket, lawn equipment & riding mower
Check out the
in the back of today's Classified
!!!!!! Something for Everyone. Children's Items, Housewares, Tools, Garden, Furniture
Follow the signs & Balloons from Plank & Lindgren.
Sycamore
NORMAN ROCKWELL PRINTS Professionally framed, excellent condition. A dozen available. Reasonably priced. 847-515-8012
Boys Schwinn Mountain bike 24" $50. 815-786-4861 Sycamore
36" Front Entry Wooden Door with glass panels and hardware. $30 847-489-0254 Stamped concrete release. Partial buckets. Colina Tan, Cape Cod Grey, Deep Charcoal colors. $10 Each. 847-489-0254
Fri, May 10 8AM - 5PM Sat, May 11 8AM – 2PM
1462 Adrienne Circle MULTI FAMILY! Boys clothes 0-4T, toys, Zanzibar bedding set, furniture, paintings, housewares, & MORE!
Verizon HTC Rezound. Works great, excellent condition. $125 Sycamore 815-786-4861
1346 WINFIELD DR. Baby items, toys, furniture, scentsy, bikes, outdoor canopy antiques, sports memorabilia, clothing & LOTS MORE!!
Sycamore Thurs & Fri 9am-4pm Sat 9am-12noon Air conditioner 12,000BTU used 1 week, household, patio, camping items, and more!
SYCAMORE WILLOW NOOKS
INDOOR VINTAGE SALE SAT, May 18, 8-2 16038 Quigley Rd. Off of Airport Rd. TONS OF VINTAGE ITEMS!
SYCAMORE
647 & 655 Bush St
2 FAMILY GARAGE SALE
Th & Fr 8am – 4pm, Sat ?
1341 AXCEL LANE FRI 8-5, SAT 8-12
GE profile microwave (like new), Hotpoint stove, treadmill, furniture, girls & boys name brand clothing up to size 10 (Gap, Gymboree, Ralph Lauren, ect), scrapbook supplies, housewares, Pack N Play, lots of toys and books.
WIND FIELD MEADOWS
Boys & Girls clothes Size 4 to Adult Small, Complete Lego Sets, Polly Pockets, XBox Games, Toys, Movies, Sports Gear, Shoes, Cleats, Some Furniture, Spiderman Comic Books
Fri & Sat 5/10 & 5/11 8am-3pm
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Child Step 2 Up & Down Roller Coaster With Ride On Car "Coaster" & Long Track, Great For Indoors And Out, This One Has Only Been Used Indoors, Great Clean Shape, $45, DeKalb, 815-739-1953. Step 2 Child Ride In 2-Seater Wagon With Door That Opens And Latches Shut, $35, DeKalb. 815-739-1953. Step 2 Child Ride On Van For 2, Car Has Door That Opens, Steerig Wheel, Key That Turns & Clicks, A Trunk That Folds Down & Another Child Can Sit There Or Use As Storage, $35, DeKalb, 815-739-1953.
Amana full size electric dryer. 3 or 4 wire connection, lightly used for 6 mos. Great condition. $200.00 Call aftr 3pm or weekends. 815-656-1733 Dryer. Maytag. Gas. White. Great condition. $299. 630-973-3528 Reconditioned & Guaranteed Appliances: Washers, dryers, stoves, refrigerators, & dishwashers. Assured Appliance 847-293-0047 Washing machine, Tappen, white, works well, $50 or best offer. 815758-4373 Breaking News available 24/7 at Daily-Chronicle.com
Will BUY UR USED CAR, TRUCK, SUV,
WILL BEAT ANY QUOTE GIVEN!! $400 - $2000 “don't wait.... call 2day”!!
Collezione Europa Armoire $600 or best offer. Contact John 779-777-0252
Old Envelopes
REDUCED
Malta: 2BR, 2BA, 2 car gar., large eat in kitch, W/D, no pets, $600/ month+sec. dep. utils. NOT incl., 815-751-7415 Call Evenings
2 Apts. and Antique Store with inventory, Genoa, IL $115,000 847-836-1164
815-758-4004
Clean and quiet. Basement, laundry, 1 car garage, no pets. $550/mo + sec. 847-809-6828
washed legs, 44x42 with 12” butterfly leaf, 4 chairs, $75. 815-748-4198
CANNA BULBS - Bag full of Canna Bulbs. Tropical, tall bulbs that flower all summer with deep red flowers. Love sun, water & partial shade, 815-883-1728. $5-10 a bag Lawn Mowers (2) Craftsman 6.75HP, 22 in self-propelled, rear bag mower and 4.75HP side dis-charge. Both Very Good Cond. 6.75HP is $125, 4.75HP is $75. 630-552-8829 4pm-9pm MOWER - 22” Yard machine high wheel push mower runs great $85. Craftsman 32cc 2 cycle gas weed eater $50. Sycamore 815-786-4861
Craftsman 14.4 Volt Cordless Drill/Flashlight Combo, Includes Case. Asking $25 obo. Call/Text 815-252-6514 Step Ladder – 6ft Warner Fiber Glass Type A1- 300lb Duty – Certified – Non Conductive – Exc. Cond. $65 Sycamore. 815-991-5149
DECK STAIN $25 815-479-1000
FIRE HOSE - approx. 20 feet $20. 847-489-0254 LOUNGE CHAIR - ALMOST NEW antigravity lounge chair, blue fabric with padded headrest, adjustable. $45 or best offer. Call Bill at 815-756-5888 Norwood Floor Loom – Solid Cherry Wood – Weaving Width 40” - 4 Harness – 6 Treadle – Comes w/2 Extra Reeds $550 815-901-1329 SUITCASE - Black hard case suitcase with locking combination with directions. $10. 847-489-0254 WALL HEATER - Ventless natural gas wall heater. Great for garage. 18,000 BTU. $30. 847-489-0254 WORK GLOVES – 360 pr., New, White, Adult Size, Washable, $125.00 for all, will seperate. Sycamore. 815-991-5149
2000 Dodge Intrepid
Silver, good condition. $2,300. Call 630-400-9003 2002 Chevy Malibu, 4 dr., 100K mi., P/S, P/B, A/C. $2,500 815-756-1246
CAGE/KENNEL - Large dog cage / kennel. 32" high x 28" wide x 42" deep. Black. $15. 847-489-0254
SNOW BLOWER - MTD yardmachine snowblower, 5.5 horsepower, 22" clearance, compact 2 stage. $130. 847-489-0254 Find the job you want at:
DEKALB 1 BEDROOM
Aluminum V Haul 1986 9.9 Johnson, boat motor & trailer, very good condition $1500 815-751-3064
1997 Hitchhiker fifth-wheel with one slide out, queen bed, and separate shower/toilet. $6000 obo. Call 815-970-7456
Available Immediatley! Close to NIU, Free heat & water, quiet lifestyle. Varsity Square Apts. 815-756-9554 www.glencoproperties.com Rochelle: 15 minutes from DeKalb Studio SPECIALS Starting at $395 ONE MONTH FREE WITH AD Recently updated! Affordable heat. Walk to shops! (815) 562-6425 www.whiteoakapartments.net BIG APARTMENTS, LESS MONEY! Rochelle: 15 minutes from DeKalb 1 BR & 2BR Starting at $530 Recently updated! Affordable heat. Walk to shops! (815) 562-6425 www.whiteoakapartments.net Now accepting Visa, M/C, Discover
Shabbona ~ 2BR Duplex Nice yard. Appls + washer & dryer, a/c, garage. $675/mo+utils & sec. Avail Mid-June. 815-508-1636
SXT,108K miles, good condition, $6000 815-517-1350
2007 HONDA CIVIC LX $12,500. 26K original miles, white with lt. tan interior, a/c, power windows, doors, cruise, etc. Call Steve 815-901-2258 for more info. LIKE NEW
2003 Chevy Tahoe Z71 package Low miles, 1 owner $19,500 815-751-2256
2008 Mitsubishi Outlander SUV 6 cylinder, 4WD, silver with black cloth interior. CD changer, remote keyless entry, fog lights and third row seating, 48,000 miles. Excellent Condition!
Somonauk Downstairs Lrg 2BR 2004 Class A 30' Four Winds RV. Perfect condition, Ford gas engine, 17K miles, 1 slide out, AC, 4 leveling jacks, 5.5 generator sleeps 6, patio awning Queen bed Must sell, asking 38K. 815-382-5521
YAMAHA SCOOTER 2008 Like new 49cc Yamaha Zuma scooter, only 120 miles. Owner must sell, excellent condition, helmet included. Call 815-757-3292 days, evenings 815-756-9851
Hillcrest Place Apts. 220 E. Hillcrest. 815-758-0600
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Newly remodeled, near NIU. Parking/heat/water incl, W/D, C/A. 815-238-0118
Will beat anyone's price by $300. Will pay extra for Honda, Toyota & Nissan
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DeKalb. 3BR, 2BA, walk in closets, open area dining/kitchen/living rm. 1369 SF. 1 car gar. Southmoore Estates. $58,000. 815-756-3330
DEKALB LARGE 2BR 2 bath, stove, fridge, D/W, W/D hook-up, a/c, security entrance. Quit building, no dogs. 815-758-0079
PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 23RD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF DEKALB SYCAMORE, ILLINOIS TCF NATIONAL BANK; Plaintiff, vs. JOHN C. CASSIMATIS; LINDA CASSIMATIS; THE AMERICAN NATIONAL BANK OF DEKALB COUNTY, AS TRUSTEE UNDER TRUST AGREEMENT NO. 3103 DATED 10-12010; ALMBURG AUCTIONEERING AND APPRAISAL, INC. DBA ALMBURG AUCTIONEERING, INC.; ALEXANDER LUMBER CO.; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS; SHERRY L. CARLSON, INDIVIDUALLY AND BY VIRTUE OF AN Y POSSIBLE INTEREST SHE MAY HAVE AS BENEFICIARY OF TRUST NO. 3103; JEFF MAY; Defendants, 11 CH 578 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause on March 13, 2013, Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Wednesday, June 19, 2013, at the hour of 9:00 a.m. in the office of Public Safety Building, 150 North Main, Sycamore, Illinois 60178, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described mortgaged real estate: Commonly known as 8967 Base Line Road, Kingston, IL 60145. P.I.N. 02-33-300-005. The improvement on the property consists of a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 10% down by certi-
Sycamore: 1711 DeKalb Ave. Large 2 BR, 1.5BA. W/D in apt, D/W, C/A, microwave, stove, frig, disposal, balcony doors, security system. $790/mo. 815-756-2637 Sycamore: 1711 DeKalb Ave. Large 1 BR. W/D in apt, D/W, C/A, microwave, stove, frig, disposal, balcony doors, security system. $690/mo. 815-756-2637
SYCAMORE 2BR DUPLEX Updated, washer/dryer, large yard, garage. $760/mo + security. 630-479-4577
Sycamore 3 Bedroom, 2 Bath Near downtown/schools, W/D. Full bsmt, garage, no dogs/smkg. $960 + utilities. 630-450-5372
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1990 & Newer
Stone Prairie
DEKALB 1BR & 2BR
Waterman – 3 Bed, 2 Bath 2+ car garage, upgrades, move-in ready. Asking $135,000 815-264-7927
I BUY CARS, TRUCKS, VANS & SUVs
Garage, heat, water, electric furn. $1000/mo + $1000 security. No pets/smoking. 618-925-6481
815-758-1100 or 815-895-8600 Available now, variety of locations. Appliances, clean and quiet. 815-758-6580 DEKALB ADULT, QUIET, REFINED Building. 2 Bedroom Apt with homey environment. Car port. For mature living. Excellent Location! No pets/smoking. Agent Owned. 815-758-6712
$14,500
1999 S-10 Ex. Cab A/C, cruise, 5-spd., 62k miles. Runs great. Looks great. $5400 New Tires 815-751-4349 Sycamore, IL
DeKalb Quiet Lifestyle 1BR, $540 Spacious 1BR, $665
DeKalb - Large Quiet 2BR
Call Dan 847-812-4016
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DEKALB ~ TILTON PARK Beautiful home! Totally remodeled! 3BD, 1 BA, plus FR, 2 car garage, backs to Hopkins Park. $850/month. Avail June 1. No smoking. Call 630-675-4485
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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 23RD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF DEKALB SYCAMORE, ILLINOIS TCF NATIONAL BANK; Plaintiff, vs. JOHN C. CASSIMATIS; LINDA CASSIMATIS; THE AMERICAN NATIONAL BANK OF DEKALB COUNTY, AS TRUSTEE UNDER TRUST AGREEMENT NO. 3103 DATED 10-12010; ALMBURG AUCTIONEERING AND APPRAISAL, INC. DBA ALMBURG AUCTIONEERING, INC.; ALEXANDER LUMBER CO.; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS; SHERRY L. CARLSON, INDIVIDUALLY AND BY VIRTUE OF AN Y POSSIBLE INTEREST SHE MAY HAVE AS BENEFICIARY OF TRUST NO. 3103; JEFF MAY; Defendants, 11 CH 578 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause on March 13, 2013, Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Wednesday, June 19, 2013, at the hour of 9:00 a.m. in the office of Public Safety Building, 150 North Main, Sycamore, Illinois 60178, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described mortgaged real estate: THAT PART OF THE SOUTHWEST 1/4 OF SECTION 33, TOWNSHIP 42 NORTH, RANGE 4, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: COMMENCING AT THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF SAID QUARTER SECTION; THENCE NORTH 90 DEGREES WEST, ALONG THE SOUTH LINE OF SAID QUARTER SECTION; 290.0 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING; THENCE NORTH 0 DEGREES WEST, 820.0 FEET; THENCE NORTH 90 DEGREES WEST, 365.0 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 0 DEGREES WEST 420.0 FEET; THENCE NORTH 90 DEGREES EAST, 185.0 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 0 DEGREES WEST, 400.0 FEET TO THE SOUTH LINE OF SAID QUARTER SECTION; THENCE NORTH 90 DEGREES EAST, ALONG SAID SOUTH LINE, 180.0 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING, IN DEKALB COUNTY, ILLINOIS. Commonly known as 8967 Base Line Road, Kingston, IL 60145. P.I.N. 02-33-300-005.
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No. J11042 ORDER FOR PUBLICATION In this cause, it appearing to the Court from the allegations of the Petition for Temporary Custody, with Respondent, Charity Johnson, the mother of the child, F.G., a copy of which Petition may be obtained at the office of the Juvenile Court for Johnson County at 222 West Main Street, Mountain City, Tennessee; that the whereabouts of Charity Johnson are unknown and, therefore, the ordinary process of law cannot be served upon her. lt is, therefore, ordered that said Respondent, Charity Johnson enter her appearance herein on June 18, 2013 for hearing on that date and plead or answer to the Petition filed against them, or the same will be taken as confessed and will be set for hearing ex parte, and that a copy of this Order will be published for four (4) consecutive weeks in the Daily Chronicle, a newspaper published in DeKalb, Illnois. /s/William B. Hawkins Johnson County Juvenile Court Judge
Case No. 13 P 23 NOTICE OF PUBLICATION INDEPENDENT ADMINISTRATION PUBLICATION NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND CLAIMANTS 1. Notice is given of the death of Carol A. Shult, who died on November 24, 2012, a resident of DeKalb, Illinois. 2 The Representative for the estate is Ann Shult, whose address is 107 Berkshire Drive, DeKalb Illinois 60115. 3. The attorney for the estate is Kirsten Becker, 921 Lewis Street, DeKalb, IL 60115, whose telephone number is (815) 981-4814. 4. Claims against the estate may be filed on or before June 5, 2013. Claims against the estate may be filed with the Clerk of the Circuit Court, 133 W. State Street, Sycamore, IL 60178, of with the Representative, or both. Any claim not filed within that period is barred. Copies of a claim filed with the Clerk must be mailed or delivered to the Representative and to the attorney within 10 days after it has been filed. 5. The estate will be administered without court supervision, unless under Section 28-4 (755 ILCS 5/28-4) of the Probate Act an interested person terminates independent administration at any time by mailing or delivering a petition to terminate to the clerk of the court.
(Published in the Daily Chronicle, April 19, 26, May 3, 10, 2013.)
Village of Malta reserves the right to reject any or all Bids, waive the bidding requirements and/or informalities in bidding, or to accept the Bid or Bids, which best serve the interest of the owner.
g judge apor his/her petition requesting that his/her sons name be changed from JAMES ROY GURLEY IV to JAMES ROY CAPORALI pursuant to the statute in such case made and provided. Any persons interested in said request for change of name may appear at said time and place, if they so desire.
8. BID WITHDRAWAL No Bid shall be withdrawn for a period of 60 days after the bid opening date without permission of Village of Malta.
Stefania Caporali 422 Georjean Court Sycamore, Illinois 60178
(Published in the Daily Chronicle May 10, 2013)
(Published in the Daily Chronicle, April 26, May 3 & 10, 2013.)
PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE TWENTY-THIRD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DEKALB COUNTY, ILLINOIS IN THE MATTER OF THE PETITION OF: JAMES ROY GURLEY IV (minor) FOR CHANGE OF NAME PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that on JUNE 12, 2013, at 9:00 A.M., at the DeKalb County Courthouse, 133 West State Street, Sycamore, Illinois, 60178 in the courtroom occupied by the presiding judge, Stefania Caporali will file his/
PUBLIC NOTICE ASSUMED NAME PUBLICATION NOTICE Public Notice is hereby given that on April 24, 2013 a certificate was filed in the Office of the County Clerk of DeKalb County, Illinois, setting forth the names and post office addresses of all of the persons owning, conducting and transacting the business known as JUST 4 YOU TAXI located at 1709 WILLOW ST., SYCAMORE, IL 60178. Dated April 24, 2013
d Ap /s/ John Acardo DeKalb County Clerk & Recorder (Published in the Daily Chronicle, April 26, MAY 3, 10, 2013.)
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(Published in the Daily Chronicle, May 10, 17, 24, 2013.)
IN THE MATTER OF THE PETITION OF: JAYDA CHRISTINE ROUNDS FOR CHANGE OF NAME
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IN RE THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF CAROL A. SHULT Deceased
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE TWENTY-THIRD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DEKALB COUNTY, ILLINOIS
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The improvement on the property consists of a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance within 24 hours, by certified funds. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection. For information call Mr. David T. Cohen at Plaintiff's Attorney, David T. Cohen & Associates, LTD., 10729 West 159th Street, Orland Park, Illinois 60467-4531. (708) 460-7711. I531479 (Published in the Daily Chronicle, May 10, 17, 24, 2013.)
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PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that on June 17, 2013, at 9:00 A.M. at the DeKalb County Courthouse, 133 West State Street, Sycamore, Illinois, 60178 in the courtroom occupied by the presiding judge, BRITTANI FREELAND (MOTHER) will file her petition requesting that his/her names be changed from JAYDA CHRISTINE ROUNDS to JAYDA CHRISTINE FREELAND pursuant to the statute in such case made and provided. Any persons interested in said request for change of name may appear at said time and place, if they so desire. Brittani Freeland (mother) 1111 E. Railroad St. #24 Sandwich, IL 60548 (Published in the Daily Chronicle May 3, 10, 17, 2013)
PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE JUVENILE COURT FOR JOHNSON COUNTY AT MOUNTAIN CITY, TENNESSEE STATE OF TENNESSEE DEPARTMENT SERVICES
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PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO BIDDERS VILLAGE OF MALTA PRAIRIE SPRINGS POND COMPLETION
Village of Malta hereby gives notice that sealed bids will be received for the Prairie Springs Pond Completion. Pond completion will include topsoil strip, stockpile and respreads and earth excavation of approximately 169,500 C.Y. Spreading of the excavated materials and bank stabilization as directed in the plans. 1. TIME AND PLACE OF BID OPENING Sealed bids will be received until 10:00 a.m., local time, on June 7, 2013 at the Village of Malta office at 120 S. Third Street, Malta, IL 60150. At that time the bids will be publicly opened and read aloud. The bid results will be presented at the June 12th, 2013 Board meeting for final approval.
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Genoa $499,300 32730 Pleasant Hill Rd...On 18.49 acres on Kishwaukee River! 3br, 3 baths, 2 fpl (1 in 22x13 1st flr office). Pond, gazebo plus 20x30 outbldg. MLS 08302732
Sycamore $344,900 27578 Hunters Ln...On 1.3 acres, 2,600+ sq ft plus addtl 1,600 sq ft in fin bsmt! 3-4br, 3.5ba, hardwood flrs, 24x16 fam rm w/ fpl, screened porch w/hot tub, Incl warranty! MLS 08294777
Sycamore $110,000 412 Cottage Row St...Updated 3 bedroom home, wood laminate flr in 15x12 kitchen. Tandem 2 car garage. New furnace 2005. MLS 08316973
Sycamore $159,000 922 Somonauk St...New features incl windows, furnace, air & siding, updated roof! Hardwood flrs thruout, 3br, 26x13 liv rm, bsmt fam rm w/fpl. Handicap accessible. MLS 08331329
Sycamore $250,000 1475 Starfish Ln...In Hickory Terrace. 2,627 sq ft, 4br, 2 full & 2 half baths, 25x16 liv rm w/fpl, din rm, granite counters, bsmt rec rm, double deck w/pergola. MLS 08329343
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Adolph Miller Real Estate 710 E Lincoln Highway • DeKalb, IL
Homes • Rentals • Commercial • Leasing • Farms Investment Properties • 1031 Exchanges
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Waterbury West Lane Sycamore Starting at $135,000 Directions to Somerset Farm: Rt. 23 to Bethany E to Somerset Lane S Century 21 Elsner Realty, Linda Tillis, 815-751-3159
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1622 Fulton Ln Sycamore 6 4.5 RE/MAX Experience, Rorry Heide, 815-751-4171
$254,900
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$269,900
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Reston Ponds Sycamore 3-4 2-3 Starting $219,950 Coldwell Banker Honig-Bell, Keith & Jean Brunett, 630-209-6357
35221 Irene Rd. Kirkland 4 2 $234,900 Coldwell Banker Honig-Bell, Kathy Hammes, 815-761-1024
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112 PEARL STREET, DEKALB
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CALL TOM 815-508-1918 927 ARVLE CIRCLE, SYCAMORE
4921 S RICHARD RD., ROCHELLE
7498 MCGIRR RD., WATERMAN
Must See 5BD 4.5BA Mansion. 3+Car Garage w/Paver Circle Drive. 4800 Sq Ft of High-End Finishes. 13x16 Master Walk-in. Home Warranty.
3BD, 1BA, Just like new! Visit for additional info & photos, www.DeKalbCountyIllinoisHomes.com
$359,000 CALL ARCH, MNG.BROKER 815-751-7780 UPGRADES AND SPACE!
$119,900 CALL TOM 815-508-1918 Contact Our Team!
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CALL ARCH, MNG.BROKER 815-751-7780
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3BD 2BA with Fireplace & Upgrades. 2.5C Garage & 12x14 Deck w/Ramp All Bedrooms have Walk-In Closets, ADA Accessibility Features.
Mary Nelson, Broker 815-751-0846 Direct
$105,000 CALL KARYN 815-751-8272
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Adam Katz, Broker 815-757-5015 Direct
NEW ON MARKET!! $179,900
NEW ON MARKET!! $179,900
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814 S ELEVENTH ST., DEKALB
NEW ON MARKET!! $189,900
211 JAKE LN., HAMPSHIRE 5BD 3.5BA, Full Finished Walk-Out. Hardwood Floors, Newer Appliances. Home Warranty. $224,950 CALL TOM 815-508-1918
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• 3BR-2.5BA • Fully applianced kitchen ~ woodburning stove • Screened room with attached deck • Attached 2 car garage • Access to pool/clubhouse/tennis court
• 3BR-2BA Ranch –Mint! • Features “nest” smart technology • Fresh paint throughout • High-end appliances • Professional landscaping • MLS # 08333661
• Well maintained 3BR – 2.5BA w/ loft • Stunning SS kitchen w/ corian tops and tile backsplash • Elegant wainscoting in FR ~ Stone FP accents the living room • Master suite features FP, soakertub, dbl sinks • MLS # 08335608
Call Travis @ 815.762.8466
Call Travis @ 815.762.8466
Call Travis @815.762.8466
NEW ON MARKET!! $179,000
NEW ON MARKET!! $164,900
NEW ON MARKET!! $159,000
• Spacious 4BR-2.5BA • Features hw floors, new carpet & paint throughout, new appliances…too much to list. • Master suite w/WIC, whirlpool tub and separate shower • Fenced yard on cul-de-sac • Don’t miss this one! • MLS # 08335676
• Don’t miss this 3BR-3BA condo! • Fully appliance kitchen w/ new granite • Gas fireplace in Living room • Master bath w/heated floors and whirlpool tub • Finished lower level • MLS# 08280835
• Well maintained 2unit on XL corner lot • 4BR 1BA lower – 1BR 1BA upper • Full basement and 2 car garage • Separate entrances. Separate heating • MLS# 08298095
Call Travis @ 815.762.8466
Call Diana @ 815.762.0819
Call Travis @ 815.762.8466
NEW ON MARKET!! $157,500
JUST REDUCED!! $352,000
JUST REDUCED!! $149,000
• 4BR-2.5BA 2story on sizable lot • Fresh carpet and paint throughout • Master bath includes new standup shower • Screened porch overlooks fenced yard and mature trees • Home Warranty Available • MLS # 08320331
• Big and Beautiful 3000sf home • 5BR-3.5BA w/1st floor master suite • Brick patio, wrap around porch and 3 car garage • Backs to Forest Preserve
• 3BR-2BA raised ranch • Well maintained home w/beautiful landscape • Screened porch overlooks fenced yard • 2 car garage and fence
Call Nancy @ 815.739.1923
Call Cheri @ 815.677.3134
Call Diana @ 815.762.0819
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LARGE DEKALB DUPLEX
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$99,900 • 3 bedrooms, 1.5 baths • Filled with gleaming hardwood floors • All appliances stay • 1.5 detached garage Call Nedra Ericson: 815-739-9997
$89,000 • 3 bedroom unit/2 bedroom unit • Full basement • Newer roof, furnace, electrical CB • Over $15,000 gross rents • Great value at $89,000 Call Jerry Wahlstrom: 815-757-7867
UNIQUE HOME
RELAX AND ENJOY
$168,500 • 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths • Beautiful sunroom • Finished basement • Fenced yard • Close to schools, shopping, and I-88 Call Sharon Rhoades: 815-739-6251
$178,500 • 3 bedroom, 2.5 bath townhome • Over 2200 sq ft plus basement • Natural light and park-like view • Finished look-out basement with bath • Close to I-88 Call Sharon Rhoades: 815-739-6251
NATURE AT YOUR BACK DOOR
HILLCREST RANCH
$120,000 • 4 bedrooms, 1½ baths • Basement • Backs up to forest preserve • Garage with attached porch Call Sharon Rhoades: 815 739-6251 MIGHTY NICE HOUSE
$219,900 • Top of the line one-owner home • Open bright kitchen/great room flr plan • 9’ ceilings, hardwood floors • Master bath whirlpool w/separate shower • 3-car tandem garage Call Jerry Wahlstrom: 815-757-7867 GREAT TOWN HOME
$162,500 • On golf course • 3 bedrooms, 2½ baths • Many built-ins and upgrades • English basement • Convenient location - Close to NIU, I-88, and shopping Call Jerry Wahlstrom: 815 757-7867 COUNTRY FARMETTE
$130,000 – Very Well Maintained • 3 Bedrooms • Brick Fireplace in Living Room • Easy access to NIU
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Call Sharon Rhoades: 815 739-6251
$61,000 • Well-maintained Southmoor Estates Home • 3 Bedrooms, 2 Baths • Vaulted Ceilings with Skylights • 2-Car Garage Call Jerry Wahlstrom: 815 757-7867
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Call Harlan Scott: 815-739-5420
$91,500 • 2 bedrooms, 1.5 baths • Large rooms • First floor laundry • Enclosed front porch • Aluminum siding Call McCabe Realtors: 815 756-8505
(815) 895-2789
Call Sharon Rhoades: 815 739-6251
$179,000 • Krpan built quality 3 bedroom ranch • Newer roof, Pella windows, oak trim and doors • Large 3-season room, finished basement • Beautiful secluded fenced backyard Call Jerry Wahlstrom: 815-757-7867
$227,500 • 4 bedrooms, 3 baths • Finished look-out basement • Vaulted ceiling • All appliances included
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$109,500
• Home in excellent condition • 2-3 bedrooms (3rd currently office off master bedroom) • Basement with finished room and bath • New roof 2012 • Most windows updated (Andersen); electric and furnace upgraded
$144,500 • 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths • Large cathedral ceiling great room • Large kitchen with pantry • Full finished basement with rec room, office, and hobby room Call Jerry Wahlstrom: 815-757-7867
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1841 Charles Waite St., Sycamore • Custom Built Heron Creek Home • Hardwood Entire 1st Floor, Master Suite TOM • Full Finished Basement, 4th Bed, 815-751-4631 Full Bath & Family Room
$269,900
$184,900 • 3 bedrooms, 2½ baths • 2 fireplaces • Partially finished basement • 3-season porch • Great location Call Sharon Rhoades: 815 739-6251
1622 Fulton Ln., Sycamore • Larger Than It Looks, 6 Beds & 4.5 Baths • 2 Staircases, 3 Car Garage & Over 3600 SF RORRY • Full Finished Bst, Bed, Bath, FR, 815-751-4171 Kitchenette & More
$254,900
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• 3 Bed, 2 Full Baths, Newer Construction Ranch • 1800 SF, Southern Exposure, Master Suite • Fenced Corner Lot, Above Ground Pool!
$135,000 PATTY 815-757-1900
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• Must See Inside! Hardwood Floors • Original Woodwork, New Carpet • Freshly Painted, PATTY 815-757-1900 2 Car Detached Garage
$64,900
TONS OF UPGRADES
• 5 Acres, 4 Bed Ranch With Full Basement • Vaulted Great Room, Fireplace • Master Suite, Zoned Ag, TOM 815-751-4631 On A Knoll
$230,000
• .6 Acre Lot On Cul-De-Sac In Sycamore • Pond View, Wooded View • Adjacent To Sycamore Park & Golf Course
$59,900 DOROTHY 815-757-5217
$114,900
• Stunning Attached Duplex Move In! • 3 Bed, Sunny Kit, Granite, Tile, Island DOROTHY • Consider Selling Furnished 815-757-5217
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• 2 Bed 2 Bath End Unit In Sycamore • Full Finished Basement, 1st Flr Laundry JANA • New Front Deck, Fireplace, Vaulted 815-761-1665
$118,500
• 3 Bed 2 Bath Wonderful Victorian • Full Basement, Detached 2 Car Garage • Lovely Enclosed Front Porch & Swing
$111,900 KATHERINE 815-757-3515
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• 3 Bed Completely Remodeled Sycamore • Wood Laminate Floors, Newer Kitchen RORRY • Fenced Yard, 2 Car Attached Garage 815-751-4171
$117,500
$115,000 • 6.69 acres west of DeKalb and Sycamore • 4/5 Bedrooms • 30x55 Morton building • Barn • Sold AS IS Call Nedra Ericson: 815-739-9997
OPEN SAT 1-3
• Great price, Great buy, Great floor plan • 3+ bedrooms, 3 baths • Oversized garage • Yard with everything • Sycamore home filled with quality Call Nedra Ericson: 815-739-9997
Tom Skora Owner / Broker
29 Years Exp.
Patty Hamer 27 Years Exp.
• 3 Bed Charming Victorian • Original Hardwood Floors, Enclosed Back Porch • Full Basement, Newer Roof, Fenced Yard
Dorothy Hitzeroth 15 Years Exp.
$89,900 RORRY 815-751-4171
Katherine Gannon 14 Years Exp.
• 3 Bed +Loft Space, 2.5 Baths • Decks Off 1st & 2nd Levels • Granite, Finished Basement
Jana Whelan 19 Years Exp.
$209,500 KATHERINE 815-757-3515
Rorry Heide
Broker/Mngr.
12 Years Exp.
1430 DeKalb Ave. • Sycamore, IL Harlan Scott
Nedra Ericson
Sharon Rhoades
Jerry Wahlstrom
Harry Leffler
Chuck Lindhart Managing Broker
815-895-8900
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Lee Ann Foresman, who has been a Real Estate Broker in DeKalb County since 2010, recently joined American Realty in Sycamore, IL. In her real estate career, she has helped people throughout the area with purchasing and selling their homes. She also assists with rentals/leasing. As a former teacher, she not only takes steps to insure a smooth transaction, but she also focuses on making sure her clients are educated in all facets of the ever-changing real estate market. She prides herself in providing personalized service and making the real estate experience enjoyable. She is certified as a Short Sale and Foreclosure Resource, and is continually taking classes and attending seminars to further her knowledge in all areas of real estate. She has a special interest in color and design, and her experience therein makes her a valuable asset in marketing homes. Lee Ann, her husband Jeff and her 3 children live in Sycamore and enjoy staying active in the community, through volunteering with Boy Scouts, Pay-It-Forward House, their church and their children’s schools. They also enjoy taking advantage of the amenities the community offers. In her free time, Lee Ann enjoys traveling, reading, gardening, biking, and long boarding with her family. Lee Ann is a member of the National Association of Realtors, the Illinois Association of Realtors and the DeKalb Area Association of Realtors.
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$131,500 Wow! 3 Bedroom Townhouse in The Windings! White trim and doors throughout, very clean, and move-in ready! Kitchen boasts breakfast bar, canned lighting, oak cabinets and opens to patio with a pond view. Master Suite boasts WIC and ceramic tile in bath. Living Room features Fireplace with tile surround. Finished Walk-Out lower level with Fireplace too! You must see it to believe it!
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INVESTOR ALERT! Just under 3 acres w/mature trees, also zoned commercial, property on Route 64 just east of Route 251. This property includes 3 bedrooms, 1 bath ranch w/deck. Large kitchen with breakfast bar, lots of cabinet space, all appliances. Living room boasts brick WBFP w/open floor plan. The land features an old hotel foundation, which is perfect to build on! Backs up to an open field, easy access to I39.
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14741 IL Route 64, Rochelle
44W130 Seavey Road, Elburn
146 Devonshire Drive, DeKalb
$210,500
$214,900
$219,900
Big and Beautiful 4 Bedroom 2.5 Bath home on large lot! Super clean and move-in ready with fresh paint throughout. Open floor plan with ceramic tiled eat-in kitchen, double oven, pantry, and tiled backsplash. Family room boasts brick fireplace, built-in cabinets, and ceiling fan. 6 panel doors, HWF in foyer, partially finished basement with crawl and plenty of storage space! Prof. landscaped, concrete patio, WOW!!!
Upscale End-Unit Townhouse in Gardens of Rivermist is spacious and inviting! Crown molding and hardwood in kitchen will delight you. Living Room boasts vaulted ceilings w/skylights and a gorgeous, floor to ceiling Brick Fireplace. Entertain in the formal dining w/crown molding. Master Suite is complete with WIC, lots of storage, ceiling fan, and bathroom. Full, English basement is roughed-in for a bath. Wow!
What a gem! Nothing to do but move in to this meticulously maintained and beautifully decorated home. Gourmet kitchen features all appliances, pantry, ceramic tile and crown molding. Master Suite boasts French doors leading to Huge WIC w/vanity. Master bath has his/ her sinks, sep shower, ceramic tile. Laundry features utility sink, storage, and wainscoting. Enjoy all this and your private backyard patio! Wow!
541 Rees Street, Hinckley
564 Katherine Circle, DeKalb
2075 Patriot Drive, DeKalb
$224,900 MUST SEE!! This Devonshire home has 4 bedrooms with 2 1/2 baths, den, loft & gorgeous stone fireplace in the family room. Includes hardwood floors on the main floor; granite counter tops, 42” cherry cabinets, crown molding in the kitchen! Outside features a beautiful brick paver patio.
1460 Bristol Drive, Hampshire $159,900 Come take a look at what you’ve been wanting! 4 BR, 3.5 Baths with riverfront, breathtaking views and tons of space for entertaining! Neutral paint and inviting layout will not disappoint. Family room boasts WBFP, HWF, and sliding patio doors that lead to deck. Large backyard overlooks river and open fields. Professional landscaping surrounds this beautiful home. Come see your new home today!
241 Thornbrook Road, DeKalb
$314,999 Enjoy elegant living in this beautifully decorated home in Bridges of Rivermist! Entry foyer with HW floors and open staircase with built in bench seating leads to formal lvg & dining rooms. Gorgeous kitchen with 42” top hickory cabinets, granite counter tops, center island. Master bath with WI closet, dbl sinks, whirlpool tub and sep. shower. LL finished w/entertainment rm, bathroom, bedroom & wet bar.
3466 Owens Lane, DeKalb $269,900 Beautiful Country Estate on 3 acres w/ Horse/Pole barn, Fishing Pond and Guest House! This amazing 4 bedroom, 3 bath home boasts chef’s kitchen w/ island, amazing built-ins and tastefully decorated throughout! Great Room features fireplace w/ canned lighting and cathedral ceilings. Cozy up in the full walkout basement with 2nd fireplace! Enjoy the views on the wrap-around front porch. Come home to country living!
33668 Bucks Road, Kirkland
VACANT LOTS Lot 10 Napa Court, DeKalb $30,000 3-Townhome Lot available on Woodbridge Cts. A total of 15 pads available, can be purchased in a bundle.
Lot 3 Woodbridge Court, DeKalb $40,000 4-Townhome Lot available on Woodbridge Cts. A total of 15 pads available, can be purchased in a bundle.
3421 Napa Court, DeKalb $150,000 15 lots remaining.