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County’s labor force grew by about 400 from Nov. to Dec. By DAVID THOMAS dthomas@shawmedia.com

DeKALB – DeKalb County’s streak of lower yearover-year unemployment continued in December. Although December’s unemployment rate of 7.7 percent rose from 7.3 percent in November, it still was better than the December 2011 rate of 8.4 percent. Norman Kelewitz, an analyst with the Illinois Department of Employment Security, said December was the 13th consecutive month of year-overyear declines in unemployment for the county. “The economy has been improving,” Kelewitz said. “The labor market has been getting better.” The county’s labor force grew by about 400 from November to December, increasing to 59,868. There were 4,582 unemployed county residents in December, the data showed. Norm Walzer, a senior research fellow at Northern Illinois University’s Center for Governmental Studies, said the growth in the labor force was a positive. He added that there could be a number of reasons why the unemployment rate increased

month-to-month. “Discouraged workers are coming back into the labor force and are now shown as unemployed figures,” Walzer said. “There might be cutbacks in businesses. We’d expect more employment in December because of the Christmas season.” Even though the weather has been temperate compared with past years, Kelewitz said certain job sectors – such as construction and retail – slow down in the winter after the Christmas season. “January [unemployment] will go up because of less construction, plus a decline in retail,” Kelewitz said. “It happens every year.” In terms of unemployment, DeKalb County has come a long way since the Great Recession from December 2007 to June 2009. In December 2009, DeKalb County’s unemployment rate was 10.7 percent, Kelewitz said. In December 2006, it was 3.8 percent. “There has been a vast improvement, but things were very bad,” Kelewitz said. “We’re coming down from a historically very high unemployment.”

Ill. politicians lead varied push for new gun laws By DON BABWIN The Associated Press

CHICAGO – U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin campaigned in his home state Friday for gun control legislation he co-sponsored in Washington this week, including an assault weapons ban. The Illinois Democrat, who was joined at a Chicago news conference by the city’s police superintendent, acknowledged that it will be difficult to get the legislation passed but said Dick Durbin he is optimistic nonetheless. He echoed a sentiment many others have expressed over the past month: that the slayings of 20 small children and six adults at a Connecticut elementary school was the “tipping point” that should persuade lawmakers to enact tougher gun laws. “What will it take to move Congress when it comes to sensible gun laws? It took Newtown, Connecticut.,” Durbin said. “Now the conversation is much more serious and the opportunities are dramatically better.” In addition to the assault weapons ban, Durbin has

proposed a bill that would crack down on so-called straw buyers, or people who buy guns on behalf of people who aren’t allowed to own them. Durbin is among several prominent Democrats following President Barack Obama’s lead in pushing for tougher gun laws. Obama has cited the gun violence in his hometown of Chicago as part of his push to tighten the nation’s gun laws. In Washington on Friday, Democratic Rep. Mike Quigley of Chicago reintroduced the Trafficking Reduction and Criminal Enforcement Act, which is designed to hinder the illegal gun market by improving gun tracking data. Illinois’ other U.S. senator, Republican Mark Kirk, is working with Democratic Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York and Joe Manchin of West Virginia on legislation targeting gun trafficking. “Proud to partner w/(at) Senator Kirk to introduce the Gun Trafficking Prevention Act next week — common sense bipartisan gun safety reform,” Gillibrand tweeted Thursday. Kirk’s office confirmed the senator’s involvement Friday.

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Skyler Hayward (left), 9, gets an autograph from Mr. Spartan before the girls basketball game Friday between DeKalb and Sycamore at the Convocation Center at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb.

‘Biggest game of year’ also marks end of Castle Challenge fundraiser By DAVID THOMAS dthomas@shawmedia.com

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Kayla Baum (left) and Melissa Sieglinger dance during halftime of the girls basketball game Friday between Sycamore and DeKalb.

DeKALB – For the students of DeKalb and Sycamore high schools, Friday was one of the biggest nights of the year. Fans of the Spartans and Barbs packed the Northern Illinois University Convocation Center to see their respective boys and girls basketball teams take each other on. “It’s the biggest game of the year,” said DeKalb senior Teague Walker. Like other students in the DeKalb section, Walker was completely decked out in white. She said it was to show solidarity with the DeKalb team, who was wearing white that game. For some of the Sycamore fans, the theme was chaos. Sycamore seniors Mark Barron and Colin Eggleson said they tried to get as many students as possible to wear the craziest thing they had in their possession. “We don’t want no dull outfits,” Eggleson said. “We’re not DeKalb ... We live for this night.” Eggleson wore a black shirt with blackand-yellow striped overalls. Barron wore a cow costume, complete with udders and a mask. Barron said it was the craziest thing he had in his closet. Not to be outdone, Eggleson added that he also had a gorilla costume with him.

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More online To view a photo gallery or video from the game, visit Daily-Chronicle.com. Kyle Bursaw – kbursaw@shawmedia.com

Sycamore fan Mark Barron, 17, cheers for the Spartans during the second half of the girls game. DeKalb defeated Sycamore, 36-18, Friday in their annual game at the Convocation Center.

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8 DAILY PLANNER Today 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 Walk-and-Talk meeting: 8 to 9 a.m. at The Federated Church, 612 W. State St. in Sycamore. www. oa.org; Contact: Marilyn at 815751-4822. NICE Food and Clothing Center: 8:30 to 11 a.m. Saturdays, by appointment other days, at 346 S. County Line Road in Lee. This nondenominational food pantry serves the southwest part of DeKalb County and the southeast area of Lee County. 815-824-2228. It Is What It Is AA(C): 9 a.m. at St. Catherine’s Church, 340 S. Stott St., Genoa, 800-452-7990; www. dekalbalanoclub.com. North Central Illinois Wild Rose Chapter of Women on Wheels: 9 a.m. at Elburn Town and Country Library, with breakfast at Papa G’s restaurant in Elburn. All women motorcycle riders are welcome. www.nciwildroses.com; Gigi Beaird at gbeaird@niu.edu or 815-766-1206. As Bill Sees It AA(C): 9:30 a.m. at DeKalb Area Alano Club, 312 E. Taylor St., DeKalb, 800-452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com. Learning to Live Al-Anon group: 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. at Newman Catholic Center annex, Normal Road in DeKalb; llc904@ hotmail.com. Narcotics Anonymous: 10 to 11 a.m. at United Church of Christ, 615 N. First St. in DeKalb; www. rragsna.org; 815-964-5959. Knights’ Saturday Burgers and More: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at DeKalb Knights of Columbus Club: 1336 E. Lincoln Highway. Open to the public. Burger buffet: Noon to 2 p.m. at Genoa Veterans Home, 311 S. Washington St. The public is invited for lunch. Group Hope: Noon to 1:30 p.m. at Immanuel Lutheran Church, 511 Russell Road in DeKalb. This free support and discussion meeting is for NIU students and DeKalb community residents. Community facilitators are sought to volunteer to help others. Contact Dr. Charles Smith, 815-3989628 or visit www.grouphope.org or www.dbsalliance.org. Lightning games: 1:30 p.m. at Genoa Veterans Club, 311 S. Washington St.; www.genoavetshome.us or contact Cindy at crmcorn65@yahoo.com or 815751-1509. AA Speaker Open Meeting: 8 p.m. at DeKalb Area Alano Club, 312 E. Taylor St., DeKalb, 800-4527990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com. Any Lengths AA(C): 10 p.m. at Bargain Addict, 109 N. Seventh St., DeKalb. 800-452-7990; www. dekalbalanoclub.com. Sunday Monthly Breakfast: 8 to 11 a.m. at the Sycamore Vet’s Club, 121 S. California St., Sycamore. Open to the public. Menu includes omelets, eggs to order, sausage, bacon, potatoes, pancakes, french toast, biscuits and gravy, toast, juice, coffee and milk. $7 for adults and $4 for children younger than 12. 24 Hours a Day AA(C): 9:30 a.m. at DeKalb Area Alano Club, 312 E. Taylor St., DeKalb. 800-452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com. Memories of DeKalb Ag: 2 to 4 p.m. at Nehring Gallery, Suite 204, 111 S. Second St., DeKalb. Free admission and open to all. www. dekalbalumni.org. Bread & Roses women’s chorus practice: 5:45 to 8 p.m. at Westminster Presbyterian Church, 830 N. Annie Glidden Road in DeKalb. For information, call Patty Rieman at 815-758-4897 or visit www.breadandroseschorus.org. Steps And Traditions AA(C): 6 p.m. at Masonic Hall, Route 23, Genoa. 800-452-7990; www. dekalbalanoclub.com. No Longer Hopeless AA(C): 7:30 p.m. at DeKalb Area Alano Club, 312 E. Taylor, DeKalb. 800-452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com. Any Lengths AA(C): 8 p.m. at Federated Church, 612 W. State St., Sycamore, 800-452-7990; www. dekalbalanoclub.com. Monday Big Book Study AA(C): 9:30 a.m. at 312 E. Taylor St., DeKalb. 800-4527990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com. Overeaters Anonymous: 10 a.m. at Senior Services Center, 330 Grove St. in DeKalb; 815-758-4718. Free blood pressure clinic: 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at Kishwaukee Community Hospital, 1 Kish Hospital Drive in DeKalb. www.kishhospital.org/programs; 815-748-8962.

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1. DeKalb library to ask city for $7.5M 2. Unions suffer decline in membership 3. DeKalb looking at new tree ordinances

1. One dead, several injured in crash outside Genoa 2. DeKalb looking at new tree ordinances 3. Akst: Sycamore on losing end of deal

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Should DeKalb require people who cut down a tree to plant another tree someplace within the city? Yes: 33 percent No: 67 percent Total votes: 254

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Keep kids out of smokers’ club Ask anyone you see shivering in an alley or sitting in a smoky car with a cigarette in their hand if they’d like to quit smoking and they’d probably tell you yes, and ask you for a blanket. Smokers have known their habit is no good for them since the Flintstones were smoking Winstons. But in 2013, there are few things worse than being a smoker. And yet, some people still want to join the club. Usually, they’re too young to understand what they’re signing up for. And it appears that if they try on a given day, underage people can succeed in buying cigarettes. This past week, the DeKalb Police had a 16-year-old informant try to buy cigarettes at 29 businesses. They do these checks three times a year. Six of the clerks sold smokes to the teenager, and the clerks were written tickets that could cost them as much as $500, police said. It wasn’t as good a compliance rate as last time, when only two businesses sold to a teen. The only really acceptable number is 100 percent compliance. Cigarettes have to be kept away from children, who probably don’t realize what they’re signing up for when they take those first puffs. I’ve been there. I come from a long line of nicotine fiends. As a child, family Christmas celebrations looked like Philip Morris sponsored a Norman Rockwell painting. One year in the mid-80s, I remember the smokeless ashtray was the “it” gift for the men in the family. Those smoking adults really set a bad example by never getting sick. Two grandparents smoked more than 50 years and lived into their 80s. It made me think that those Surgeon General’s warnings were for other people. Well, the one about not smoking while you’re pregnant really is for other people, but the others do apply to me. I sought cigarettes out myself as a teenager. It would be years before I really needed to shave in any meaningful way, and I wanted to look cool, sophisticated. You could always find a cigarette machine or a clerk who would wink and give you what you wanted, a restaurant where you could sit for hours and drink coffee and smoke. Cigarettes cost $2 a pack, unless they were selling them 2 for 1. Today, a decent pack of cigarettes costs $7 or more, you can’t smoke indoors anywhere this side of Las Vegas or Kentucky, and you can’t smoke in a lot of outdoor places, either. If you do light up in plain sight, you must suffer the silent scorn of the healthier-than-thou. Stick to it long enough and you become addicted to something that really does kill people prematurely, and those whom it does not kill often suffer with complications in their old age. Smokers today are addicted mem-

EDITOR’S NOTE Eric Olson bers of a marginalized, overtaxed underclass. Although that might have some appeal to a rebellious teenager, it gets old quick. I’ve stopped smoking. I’ve done it many, many times, actually, but this time I hope for good. Let’s hope the next police check shows 100 percent compliance. Keeping kids away from cigarettes is one of the best things a stranger can do for them. But the adults you see smoking – well, leave them be. Unless you have a blanket to offer. • • • Chambers can help: When people talk about businesses, the tendency is to think of (and sometimes to demonize) big, publicly traded firms like General Electric, Verizon, Johnson & Johnson, General Motors and the like. But it’s important to remember that for every big business, there are about 100 small ones. Viewed individually, they might seem insignificant. But put them together, and small businesses (those with less than 500 employees) account for half of the jobs in our country, according to the U.S. Small Business Administration. About 25 percent of American workers are employed by firms with 10 to 99 workers. In Sycamore, where the local Chamber of Commerce reached its goal of recruiting more than 500 members in 2012, small businesses are even more important. “It’s small businesses that make up the vast majority of our chamber,” chamber President Rob Wilkinson told a gathering of hundreds of people at the chamber’s annual meeting Thursday at St. Mary’s Activity Center in Sycamore. It’s those entrepreneurs who are chasing the American Dream by running their own small businesses that we’ve got to look out for. They’re the ones taking the risk and hoping for the reward. Those small businesses also are what give our communities their unique local character, as opposed to the dependable homogeneity of the national chains. Advocating for small business is one way the local chambers of commerce can make a difference. We need them looking out for the small business owners. It’s in all of our best interest. • • • New board: The chamber might have a lot of new members, but there’s more to be done. “We’re very excited to getting to that [500 member] milestone, but realize we have work to do,” Wilkinson said.

The people who will be helping with that work include Sycamore Chamber Board members Kevin Buick, Chris DeVlieger, James Tucker, Grant Goltz, Renee Ellingson, Jeff Keicher, Paul Barnaby, Gary Evans, Tom Kuschmann, and Rachel Bauer. The chamber’s executive committee includes Wilkinson as president, Scott Starkweather as vice president, Tim Beasley as past president, Karen Pletsch as treasurer, and Becky Metcalf. Good luck to the Sycamore Chamber and its members in 2013. • • • Roe v. Wade: This past week, America marked the 40th anniversary of the Roe vs. Wade decision that made legal abortion the law of the land. I’ve learned a couple of things in my years as a journalist, and one of them is I would rather floss a wildcat’s teeth than tell you what you should think about abortion. But I did read this week about a Pew Research poll that found only 62 percent of American adults – and only 44 percent of those under 30, the people to whom the ruling is most likely to apply – know the “Roe” case made abortion legal by striking down a Texas law that forbade the termination of pregnancy except to preserve the life of a mother. A few facts about the Roe case: • The Supreme Court held, 7-2, that the Fourteenth Amendment’s guarantee of citizen rights to privacy included medical procedures including abortion. The Fourteenth Amendment says states can’t “deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.” Most of the justices agreed that liberty included the right to a medical procedure such as abortion. • The court ruled that the decision to terminate pregnancy in the first trimester should be left only to a woman and her doctor. • The court also said that as a pregnancy progressed, states could regulate abortion in the interest of an unborn child, including prohibiting third-trimester abortions except as necessary to save a mother’s life. • The “Roe” in the case was Norma McCorvey. She brought the case after her third pregnancy, which she unsuccessfully tried to terminate both by falsely claiming she had been raped and by seeking out an illegal abortion. McCorvey has since converted to Christianity and become an antiabortion activist. Whether you feel that the law of our land is a travesty or a triumph, I think it’s important people know the facts of what they’re arguing about.

• Eric Olson is the editor of the Daily Chronicle. Reach him at 815756-4841, ext. 2257, or email eolson@ shawmedia.com.

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Round 2 for Sloppy Joe’s bar, a Havana original By PETER ORSI The Associated Press HAVANA – A half-century later, Jose Rafa Malem remembers the balmy breezes blowing through the bar’s arching porticos, the grain of the tall wood stools, the whiff of Pedro Domecq brandy on his father’s breath. And how could he forget the tangy ground-beef-and-tomato-sauce sandwiches synonymous with what was then one of Havana’s hippest hangouts, playfully dubbed Sloppy Joe’s? “I ate so many, I got tired of them,” said Rafa, a 59-year-old Havana native who grew up to become a bartender. Soon, Rafa will be able to relive those boyhood memories as the original Sloppy Joe’s reopens in Havana’s historic quarter, giving residents and tourists from all over the chance to belly up to the same bar that served thirsty celebrities such as Rock Hudson, Babe Ruth and Ernest Hemingway. It’s part of an ambitious revitalization project by the Havana City Historian’s Office, which since the 1990s has transformed block after block of crumbling ruins into rehabilitated buildings along vibrant cobblestone streets. The effort has helped finance Cuba’s socialist present by drawing tourists

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The exterior of the famous Sloppy Joe’s Bar stands opposite the reporters club in Havana, Cuba. fascinated by its pre-socialist past, from colonial palaces of the 18th century to celebrity hangouts of the 1950s. “For the people of this city, I think it’s very interesting and very important to rescue a place that has so much history and is so recognized around the world,” said Ernesto Iznaga, manager of the bornagain Joe’s, which will be run by stateowned tourism concern Habaguanex. “To restore it to how it was before.” Sloppy Joe’s was founded in 1918 by a Galician immigrant named Jose Abeal Otero who purchased a grocery store in Old Havana after years of tending bar in New Orleans and Miami. Legend has it the sobriquet comes from the place’s

grubbiness and Abeal’s American nickname, Joe. Rafa’s father was a close friend of longtime bartender Fabio Delgado and took his boy there on Sunday afternoons beginning in the late ‘50s. During the day, Rafa said, Joe’s was a mellow family joint where kids slurped ice cream and CocaCola while mom and dad chatted over more potent spirits. Employees made sandwiches to order behind the black mahogany bar, polished to a high shine and purportedly once the longest in Latin America at about 59 feet. After dark, the place filled up with Americans on vacation. Abeal’s affable personality and familiarity with English from his years in the States helped make Joe’s a favorite among tipsy Yanks as far back as the Prohibition era of 1920-1933, along with the nearby El Floridita bar, the reputed birthplace of the daiquiri cocktail, and La Bodeguita del Medio, home of the minty, rum-infused mojito. As much as any other place in Havana, Joe’s exemplified the island’s lure as a playground for Americans. “No Havana resident ever went to Sloppy Joe’s,” novelist Graham Greene wrote in his 1958 spy-farce “Our Man in Havana,” “because it was the rendezvous of tourists.”

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WHITEHALL, Pa. – Police in one Pittsburgh suburb have come up with a new twist on an old adage: Where there’s smoke ... there’s marijuana. WPXI-TV reported Friday that Whitehall police cited a man for marijuana possession after they responded to a smoke alarm at his home about 6:30 p.m. Jan 15. When police arrived, they didn’t find a fire – but they did smell marijuana and questioned the man. Police said he admitted smoking pot, and police then found a small amount of the drug and some related paraphernalia. Police didn’t arrest the man. He’s being mailed a court summons to respond to charges of marijuana possession and possession of drug paraphernalia. –Wire report

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Free tax help available through local agencies By DAVID THOMAS dthomas@shawmedia.com

DeKALB – A number of local agencies are teaming up again this year to help citizens prepare their taxes for free. Until April 13, residents can visit sites in DeKalb, Sycamore, Kirkland and Genoa to have certified volunteers prepare their taxes. “We’re saving this population huge amounts of money,” said Samuel Schmitz, president of Goodwill Northern Illinois. The organization is partnering with DeKalb County Community Services Department, AARP-Tax Aide, Kishwaukee United Way, and Northern Illinois University. Schmitz said the group completed nearly 1,500 tax forms last year, resulting in $1.6 million in state and federal tax returns as a part of the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program. Donna Moulton, executive director of the DeKalb County Community Services Department, recounted a story in which a woman paid $400 to have her taxes prepared by a professional and used the VITA program to doublecheck their work. It was all good, she said. “We could have helped her with it and she could have saved $400,” Moulton said. People who are looking to utilize these free services are

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Jackie DiNatale, coordinator of outreach and finance for Kishwaukee United Way, and Dave Leifhert, AARP county coordinator, take questions on this year’s Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) sites. Until April 13, residents that meet a certain income level can get free tax preparation help. advised to bring their Social Security card, a photo ID and any applicable tax forms. Income restrictions apply to Goodwill Northern Illinois’ tax preparation sites. Individuals must have earned less than $25,000, and families less than $50,000, in 2012. Schmitz added that residents with Internet access at home can file their taxes for free through their website, but it’s restricted to families and individuals with a total income of $57,000. He said it’s very similar to TurboTax and other tax preparation software. There are no income guidelines for AARP-Tax Aide, al-

though the program’s county coordinator, Dave Leifheit, said it is geared towards seniors and low-to-moderate income level individuals. The volunteers are trained and certified by the Internal Revenue Service, said Jackie DiNatale, coordinator of outreach and finance at Kishwaukee United Way. Among the volunteers are 20 students from Northern Illinois University. Brad Cripe, an assistant professor of accountancy at NIU, described it as an exciting learning opportunity for his students. “Many practicing accountants have their first clients and experience through a VITA site, as I did,” Cripe

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said. “The experience can be humbling, thrilling and even scary the first time. The service learning experience reinforces the concepts and theories I teach my students in the classroom.” Britta Anderson, financial programs manager for Goodwill Northern Illinois, added that almost all of the students are getting advanced certifications as volunteers – meaning they are trained to handle different kinds of tax forms. She added that last year, VITA sites had an accuracy rating of better than 90 percent in submitting forms that were filled out correctly. Residents who seek tax help can also get tips on how to invest their returns, Moulton said. “For a lot of our folks, to achieve self sufficiency, they need to develop some mechanism for having some savings,” Moulton said. “And some of the tax returns are folks can receive are a perfect entry for us to be able to talk about how that can benefit their family going forward.” Some of those options include savings bonds, savings accounts or planning out spending that money, she added. “When you’re living paycheck to paycheck, you don’t necessarily think about those kinds of things during the year,” Moulton said.

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If you go Goodwill Free Tax Help Locations, open Jan. 26 to April 13 Income guidelines apply. Single income less than $25,000 or family income less than $50,000 for 2012. Various mobile locations will be available throughout Northern Illinois. See www.goodwillni.org for dates and times. • Goodwill Store, Community Room 1037 S. Annie Glidden Road DeKalb, IL 60115 Tuesdays, 3 to 8 p.m. Saturdays, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. • Founders Memorial Library Student Lounge (Ground Floor) 217 Normal Road DeKalb, IL 60115 Wednesdays, 4 to 8 p.m. Federal and state taxes can be filed online for free at www. goodwillni.org. Only for individuals and families with an income under $57,000 for 2012. AARP Tax-Aide & DeKalb County Free Tax Preparation Sites • DeKalb County Community Outreach Building Blank Slate Room 2500 N. Annie Glidden Road DeKalb, IL 60115 815-758-3910 Thursdays, 9 a.m. to noon, 1 to 4 p.m. by appointment only

• DeKalb Public Library 309 Oak St. DeKalb, IL 60115 815-756-9568 Saturdays, 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. • DeKalb Senior Service Center 330 Grove St., Suite #3 DeKalb, IL 60115 815-758-4718 Tuesdays, 1 to 4 p.m by appointment only • Sycamore Methodist Church 160 Johnson Ave. Sycamore, IL 60178 815-757-1800 Wednesdays, noon to 4 p.m. • IDEAL Industries Product Training Room 1122 Park Ave. Sycamore, IL 60178 Saturdays, 9 a.m. to noon • Kirkland Municipal Building 511 W. Main St. Kirkland, IL 60147 815-522-3557 or 815-784-6040 Tuesdays, 1 to 4 p.m. by appointment only. • Genoa Resource Bank 310 S. Illinois Route 23 Genoa, IL 60135 815-784-8301 Fridays and Saturdays, 9 a.m. to noon The Voluntary Action Center’s bus service, TransVac, can arrange rides to these sites. Call 815-758-6641 Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. to make arrangements.

8local brief Music foundation offers scholarships

The Stateline Music Foundation is offering music scholarships for high school seniors in nine counties, including DeKalb.

Auditions will start at 9 a.m. March 16 in the Fine Arts Building of Highland Community College in Freeport, according to a news release. They are open to musicians in voice, strings, piano, woodwinds brasses,

percussion and organ. For information or applications, contact Kenneth Drake at 11481 N. Springfield Road, Baileyville, IL 61007, or at keosdrake@gmail.com. – Daily Chronicle

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IDES office in DeKalb to close By STEPHANIE HICKMAN shickman@shawmedia.com

DeKALB – Elaine Cozort wasn’t happy to learn the Illinois Department of Employment Security office in DeKalb plans to close its doors in March. Cozort is the Kishwaukee College Program Coordinator at the WorkNet Center, which shares space with the employment office in a building at 1701 East Lincoln Highway. The news of the IDES office closing came as quite a blow to many others at the center, as well. “It’s definitely hard,” she said. DeKalb’s employment office is one of many offices the state is closing because of approximately $7 million in federal funding cuts. Other offices set to close this spring include those in Centralia, East St. Louis, Galesburg, Jacksonville, Mattoon and Murphysboro, leaving a total of 190 employees without jobs. The

nearest employment offices to DeKalb County will now be in Ottawa and North Aurora. Cozort said the deparment of employment security and the WorkNet Center have developed a strong relationship over the years. However, Cozort said the center will continue to be a valuable resource for the unemployed by helping them with online job searches and resumes. The center also will keep working with businesses who are looking for employees. IDES Director Jay Rowell encourages those who currently utilize the IDES offices to seek the department’s online services as an alternative. For those without internet access at their homes, public libraries do have the service available for patrons. Other available resources include the IDES job matching website www.IllinoisJobLink. com and the Illinois WorkNet website at www.illinoisworknet.com.

8LOCAL BRIEF DeKalb man robs Check Into Cash

DeKALB – DeKalb police were investigating a robbery that occurred at Check Into Cash, 2350 Sycamore Road, late Friday morning. DeKalb police Lt. Jason Leverton said they received the call at 11:20 a.m. The suspect ran away from the store with an unconfirmed amount of cash, Leverton said. The store is in a shopping center just south of Barber Greene Road.

The suspect is a black man who was wearing a black hoodie, black sweatpants and white shoes at the time, Leverton said. He was described as being 5 feet 7 inches tall and weighing between 150 to 160 pounds. No one was injured in the robbery and no weapon was displayed, Leverton said. People with information about the robbery can call the DeKalb Police Department at 815-7488400. – David Thomas

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Communities share $105M herbicide settlement By DAVID PITT and JIM SUHR The Associated Press ST. LOUIS – More than 1,000 communities that have spent millions of dollars over many years filtering a common agricultural herbicide out of their drinking water are welcoming their shares of a $105 million settlement with the weed-killer’s maker. The varying payouts end more than nine years of wrangling in a class-action lawsuit over Syngenta’s atrazine, which widely was used for decades by corn farmers to kill grasses and broadleaf weeds. Research has shown runoff after rainstorms can wash the chemical into streams and rivers, where it can enter drinking water supplies. The lawsuit claimed atrazine exposure could lead to health problems such as low birth weights, birth defects and reproductive problems. The company has countered that no one ever has or ever could be exposed to enough atrazine in water to affect their health. Swiss-based Syngenta said it agreed to the settlement, ap-

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The Basel, Switzerland, headquarters and logo of the chemicalmaker Syngenta is seen in 2007. More than 1,000 U.S. communities and water districts that have spent millions of dollars over many years filtering atrazine, a common agricultural herbicide produced by Syngenta, out of their drinking water are welcoming their shares of a $105 million settlement with the company. proved in October by a federal judge in southern Illinois, “to end the business uncertainty” and avoid further legal costs. The company denied any liability or wrongdoing linked to the chemical, which it will continue to sell. The settlement money will go to community water systems that serve more than 37 million Americans, mostly in farming states. While some consider it “free money,” others said it’s

only a pittance compared with what they’ve spent dealing with atrazine. In Des Moines, Iowa, “this nearly $66,000 certainly doesn’t in our view represent a windfall by any means or does it even begin to represent the cost” of years of ridding drinking water of the chemical, said Bill Stowe, chief executive of the city’s water supplier. Community water systems from at least a half-dozen states

in DeKalb, was charged Thursday, Jan. 24, with disorderly conduct. Kaila T. Cannon, 21, of the 600 block of Glenhurst Court in Romeoville, was arrested Wednesday, Jan. 23, on a failure-to-appear warrant for domestic battery. Alexander D. Johnson, 22, of the 4200 block of West 175th Place in Country Club Hills, was arrested Wednesday, Jan. 23, on a failureto-appear warrant for trespassing, criminal trespass and obstruction of identification. David J. Plouffe, 25, of the

200 block of Augusta Avenue in DeKalb, was charged Thursday, Jan. 24, with disorderly conduct. Mary R. Docking, 26, of the 1500 block of Farmstead Lane in DeKalb, was charged Thursday, Jan. 24, with driving under the influence of alcohol. Curtis R. Rollins, 46, of the 4000 block of Peterson Court in Plano, was arrested Thursday, Jan. 24 on a failure-toappear warrant for aggravated DUI. Charles R. Jennings, 18, of the 900 block of Lewis Street in DeKalb, was charged Thurs-

– Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Kansas, Missouri and Ohio – sued Syngenta for reimbursement of the cost of dealing with atrazine. The amounts eligible water systems get depend on the levels and frequency of atrazine contamination they experienced, as well as the population each served. Plaintiffs’ attorneys in the case have said some 1,887 community water systems serving more than 52 million Americans were eligible to make a claim, though only 1,085 did. The payments range from $5,000 to a few million, with $3.1 million going to Columbus, Ohio, in what appears to be the biggest sum sent to a single city. Illinois received $15 million to be shared by 143 water districts. Some 73 Iowa cities and water suppliers will share $3.5 million, with an average payout of roughly $50,000. Paul Minehart, a spokesman for Syngenta’s North American operations, called the settlement “old news” and said in an emailed response to an Associated Press request for comment that “we have no more to add.”

8POLICE REPORTS Editor’s note: Information in Police Reports is obtained from the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office and city police departments. Individuals listed in Police Reports who have been charged with a crime have not been proven guilty in court.

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Sharecesa A.L. McClurkin, 23, of the 300 block of Pearl Street in DeKalb, was charged Thursday, Jan. 24, with theft. Floyd E. Wright, 41, of the 500 block of South 11th Street

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Ryan P. Hoare, 33, of the 1200 block of Penny Lane in DeKalb, was charged Friday, Jan. 25, with driving under the influence of alcohol and possession of cannabis and drug paraphernalia.

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8OBITUARIES

Dr. James D. Norris

Born: Nov. 2, 1930, in Richmond, Mo. Died: Jan. 16, 2013, in DeKalb, Ill. DeKALB – Dr. James Donald Norris, 82, passed away Jan. 16, 2013, at Oak Crest DeKalb Area Retirement Center with his family by his side. Born Nov. 2, 1930, in Richmond, Mo., to Floyd and Gladys Norris, Jim or Jimmy Don as he was called, grew up in Richmond and then attended Central Missouri University in Warrensburg, Mo. The Korean War interrupted his education, and he entered the Air Force where he served four years. He was accepted in the Air Force Cadet School but was forced to leave because of hearing loss. He spent the balance of his service working in intelligence, participating in the testing of the hydrogen bomb in the Marshall Islands. Immediately upon leaving the Air Force, Jim enrolled at the University of Missouri at Columbia, Mo., where he arrived at his first class still in military fatigues. He graduated with a bachelor of science in education in 1956, a master of arts in 1958 and a Ph.D. in history in 1962. During this time, he married his sweetheart, Nancy Hamilton, in 1957 who also was enrolled at the university. Jim was an assistant, then associate professor of history at Hiram College for four years and in 1965, was a visiting associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-

Madison. He then moved to the University of Missouri, St. Louis, becoming chairman of the history department in 1969. Jim served the University of Missouri system on the intercampus faculty council. In 1972, Jim was awarded a Federal Fulbright Senior Lectureship in Ghana, West Africa. He spent time on their limited television, answering questions about Watergate, teaching and lecturing. As a historian, Jim taught American history, but specialized in frontier and business history, the field in which he researched and published eight books during his career. In 1979, Jim, Nancy and their three children moved to DeKalb, to serve as dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. His distinguished service to Northern Illinois University and to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences from 1979 to 2000 included the creation of several new academic units such as the Department of Computer Science, the Women’s Studies program, the Division of Statistics and the Center for the Study of Family Violence and Sexual Assault. He championed new doctoral programs in biological, mathematical and geological sciences, always with an eye toward enhancing NIU’s reputation as a comprehensive teaching and research university. Dean Norris’ leadership ability and integrity led his colleagues to select him to serve as executive secretary of the University Council and then as president of the Faculty Senate. In 2011, he was a recipient of a Distinguished Faculty Award in Liberal Arts and Sciences. Above all else, Jim was a devoted faculty member. That perspec-

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tive guided all of his decisions, informed his leadership style and earned him the reputation as a fair, collegial and transparent administrator and colleague. All his life, Jim enjoyed the outdoors – boating and fishing on Leech Lake in Minnesota, hunting geese, pheasant and quail in Missouri and Illinois and being with his family at his cabin in Minnesota. He especially enjoyed hunting with his son, Jim; brother-in-law, Buford; and nephew, Scott, in Missouri. Upon retirement, Jim developed new friendships with which he hunted, fished and enjoyed various adventures: Phil Nye and sons, who did the heavy lifting on deer hunts, Charlie Larson, Bud Tyler, and Chuck Ballard. Jim is survived by his wife of 55 years, Nancy; son, James Hamilton Norris, wife, Irene and three children, Jimmy, Shannon and Jenny; daughter, Katie Geer, and children, Taylor Hopper and twins, Tessa and Hunter; daughter, Elizabeth Dailey, and son, David Smith; a sister, Joanne Gadt; Nancy’s brother and sister-in-law, Dr. Buford and Camille Hamilton and their children, Scott Hamilton, and Megan Hamilton. Jim was preceded in death by his parents; a brother, Earl Norris; sister-in-law, Peggy Norris, and niece, Jenny Riley; brother-in-law, James Gadt, and niece, Jo Ellen Hicks. The visitation will be from 9 to 11 a.m. Friday, Feb. 15, and a memorial service will be at 11 a.m. at Westminster Presbyterian Church, 830 Annie Glidden Road in DeKalb. Those wishing to honor his legacy can make donations in lieu of flowers to the NIU Foundation. Enclose a note advising the Foun-

dation that the gift is in memory of Dr. James D. Norris. Gifts can be sent to NIU Foundation, Altgeld Hall 134, DeKalb, IL 60115 ATTN: Teri Gensler. Arrangements were entrusted to Ronan-Moore-Finch Funeral Home, 310 Oak St., DeKalb, IL 60115. To send an online condolence, visit www.RonanMooreFinch.com or call 815-758-3841. To sign the online guest book, visit www.legacy.com/dailychronicle.

RICHARD K. REINGARDT

Born: July 27, 1933, in DeKalb, Ill. Died: Jan. 24, 2013, in DeKalb, Ill. DeKALB – Richard Keith Reingardt, 79, of DeKalb, Ill., died Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013, at home. Born July 27, 1933, in DeKalb, the son of Oscar William and Grace Ellen (Eberly) Reingardt, Richard was one of their 14 children. Richard spent most of his life in DeKalb County, attending kindergarten to sixth grade in DeKalb, seventh grade at a country school in Lee, eighth grade at a country school in Waterman and graduated from Waterman High School in 1951. A veteran of the U.S. Navy, he served from 1951 to 1955. Richard married Patricia Ruth Eastep of Williamsburg, Pa., in 1955. Richard and Pat lived in Washington, D.C., before moving back to Illinois in 1957. Richard worked five years for Essex Wire of Sycamore and at

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American women ‘militarily necessary’ in combat By CONNIE CASS The Associated Press

WASHINGTON – American women have served and died on the nation’s battlefields from the first. They were nurses and cooks, spies and couriers in the Revolutionary War. Some disguised themselves as men to fight for the Union or the Confederacy. Yet the U.S. military’s official acceptance of women in combat took more than two centuries. New roles for females have been doled out fitfully, whenever commanders have gotten in binds and realized they needed women’s help. “The main driver is that it’s been militarily necessary,” said retired Capt. Lory Manning, a 25-year Navy veteran who leads military studies for the Women’s Research & Education Institute. She points, for example, to creation of the Army Nurse Corps in response to the struggle against disease in the Spanish-American War. Some milestones on the way to this week’s lifting of the ban on women in ground combat jobs:

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8BRIEFs Secret hearings in case of Chandra Levy slaying

WASHINGTON – A judge is holding secret hearings in the case of the man convicted in the 2001 killing of Washington intern Chandra Levy. Neither prosecutors nor defense lawyers have revealed the purpose of the hearings, which have been taking place in Washington behind closed doors. Several media organizations, including The Associated Press, are petitioning to open the proceedings. The next hearing takes place on Feb. 7. Ingmar Guandique was convicted in 2010 of killing Levy, whose body was found in Washington’s Rock Creek Park. The case captured the nation’s attention because of Levy’s relationship with California congressman Gary Condit. Condit was initially the main suspect but police no longer believe he was involved. –Wire report

Chicago gets 1st 1-inch snowfall, breaking record The ASSOCIATED PRESS

CHICAGO – Chicago didn’t get much snow Friday, but it was record-breaking nonetheless. The 1.1 inches that settled on Windy City streets and sidewalks marked the latest first seasonal snowfall of at least an inch in the Midwest metropolis since at least 1884, when records were first kept, National Weather Service forecaster Matt Friedlein said. The previous record was set on Jan. 17, 1899. Friday also broke Chicago’s longest streak of consecutive days without an inch of snow. The city went 335 days, or about 11 months, without at least an inch, Friedlein said. For some people, Friday’s snow was significant for another reason: They finally got to work. “This is the first time we’ve had a blade down this year,” said Clara Mark, a dispatcher at Chicago Snow Removal Services, which plows parking lots at condominium complexes, strip malls and factories. “It’s been rough,” she said. “Last year was a bust, too. We only plowed three times.” But Mark said Friday’s snowfall also was bittersweet for drivers “crying for work.” Some clients don’t want their parking lots plowed until there’s two inches of snow.

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Army hired women as nurses, cooks and laundresses during the American Revolution. Women also were spies and saboteurs. They carried George Washington’s messages across enemy lines to his generals. Many “camp followers” went to war with their soldier husbands, sometimes bringing children along. Some stepped into the places of fallen men in battle. Other women disguised themselves as young men to join the fighting. A few hundred women secretly served as Civil War soldiers, historians estimate. There are records of some who were discovered only after they were wounded or killed. For her service as a Civil War surgeon, Dr. Mary E. Walker was awarded her era’s Medal of Honor. Harriet Tubman led a group of former slaves who spied on Confederate troops in the South and helped the Union Army free more slaves. A Virginia woman, Elizabeth Van Lew, ran one of the war’s most sophisticated spy rings for the Union. Clara Barton’s experiences tending battlefield wounded led her to found the American Red Cross.

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The world wars brought largescale proof that women could handle many of the military’s noncombat jobs. They were recruited to “Free a man to fight!” For the first time in World War I, women other than nurses were allowed to enlist in the Navy and Marines. They worked as telephone operators, accountants, draftsmen, clerks. Some went to Europe. Still, only about 35,000 women, the majority of them nurses, served among nearly 5 million U.S. men. They were promptly sent home after the armistice. They were the advance troops for the wave of women to come in the next world war, including the Navy’s WAVES and the Army’s WACS. There were even civilian pilots – the WASPS – who repositioned planes and towed gunners’ targets but were denied Air Force status.

Motion seeks dismissal of ‘NATO 3’ terror charges The ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO – Lawyers for three men accused of plotting to attack President Barack Obama’s campaign headquarters with Molotov cocktails during last year’s NATO summit in Chicago filed a motion Friday seeking the dismissal of terrorism charges in the case. In their filing, the defense team included a 25-page memorandum arguing that the definitions of terrorism in Illinois’ statute are so broad and ill-defined that they open the door to politically motivated charges. “Basically what we’re saying is those definitions are unconstitutionally vague,” said attorney Michael Deutsch, who represents one of the suspects. “... As a result of that they allow for the arbitrary and discriminatory enforcement

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Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has sent a proposal to the City Council that would increase jail time for anyone who fails to report their guns have been lost, stolen or sold, while Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle introduced an ordinance that calls for a $1,000 fine to anyone who doesn’t report the loss, transfer of theft of a firearm within 48 hours. Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy, who has placed greater emphasis in recent weeks on showing off the illegal firearms, including assault weapons, that his department has been seizing, said a federal law on straw buyers is needed because the state law is so weak. “The requirements to make a case for straw purchasing are so stringent that it’s almost irrelevant,” he said. You basically need an admission [of making a straw purchase] to make it happen.” After Durbin said the straw buyer bill would include a maximum 30-year prison sentence, McCarthy said that even though city residents are required to report the theft of a firearm, the maximum penalty is only six months in jail, “which is something a criminal laughs at.” McCarthy said there is no doubt that tougher gun laws translate into fewer guns on the street. He said then laws in New York City, where he was an officer for years and which is home to more than twice as many people as Chicago, are a big reason why police seize far more guns each year in Chicago than in any other city. “This year through Sunday we seized 450 firearms,” he said. “New York City seized 99 during that same time frame.”

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Sycamore seniors Abby Foulk (from left), Sarah Moudy and Hannah Knox try to distract one of the DeKalb players shooting free throws in the second quarter. DeKalb and Sycamore faced off in their annual game Friday at the Convocation Center in DeKalb. had 98 sponsors; it has increased to 105, Evans said. The highest number of sponsors the fundraiser had was 150 in 2008. Because of the rivalry and the Castle Challenge, Friday night’s game featured more of everything. Fans could get tickets to a 50-50 raffle that was expected to have a payout between $500 and $1,500, or get pictures with the

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different mascots and costumed individuals wandering around. This included the husband and wife team of Mike and Karen Colweck, who wore 60 pounds of Spartan weapons and armor to Friday night’s game. Through their company Strength & Honor, based in Elburn, the Colwecks travel to different schools and events and educate people on

what ancient warriors wore to battle. “We’re a museum that’s ready to come to you,” Mike “Astinos” Colweck said, adding that all of the gear is “battle ready.” Elementary schools also got in on the action. Lining some of the hallways were posters made by each of the schools, rooting for their respective high schools.

Opinions

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8OUR VIEW: Thumbs up, thumbs down

8SKETCH VIEW

Chamber hits lofty goal

Obama pumping up the liberalism

So now the president is a committed man of the left. No longer is he faking moderation or even trying to bring the nation “together.” Nope. As he made clear in his inauguration speech, Barack Obama is dedicating himself to achieving “social justice” no matter what the cost. And the cost is high. The annual federal deficit is more than $1 trillion, with the national debt approaching $17 trillion. Just last week, the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office warned once again that federal spending is “unsustainable.” That means if government spending is not curtailed and quickly, the U.S. dollar could collapse. But you would not know that by listening to the president’s address. He was decidedly upbeat when telling the nation that more needs to be done (code for spending) to ensure “equality.” That’s the big leftwing word these days: “equality.” But can we be real here for a moment? Does anyone, even those of you living in San Francisco, believe that an American who earns a Ph.D. in economics is going to be equal to the high school dropout in the marketplace? Anyone? Bueller?

VIEWS Bill O’Reilly So let’s drop the equality business, at least in the capitalist arena. The strong and smart prosper; the weak and lazy fail. But not in Obama world. Not there. The president sees his mandate as “providing” for those who can’t cut it. He is the biggest spender of all the presidents in the nation’s history by far. Obama is proud of his belief that government knows best. When he told the world that individuals are not totally responsible for their personal success, that government has a major role in it, many Americans were taken aback. But Obama sincerely believes that. Let me prove him wrong with a vivid comparison. In 1979, a man named Rupert Murdoch started a company that today employs 48,000 workers worldwide. The employees of News Corporation, of which I am one, pay taxes and support families. The company gives us an opportunity to succeed on our own without any

financial assistance from the government. In turn, we provide assets to the government. We don’t take from it. Some of our tax dollars go to pay the salaries and benefits of government workers. Since he was elected, Obama has increased the federal payroll by more than 130,000. Most of those folks work hard, but again, they are paid by private sector workers. So which scenario is better for America? The private sector situation, or the expanding government workforce? If you don’t know the answer to that question, you don’t want to know. Obama is a utopian at heart. He wants to improve the lives of the downtrodden, which is a good thing. But he doesn’t understand that damaging the free marketplace in pursuit of “social justice” will eventually harm those he wants to help. The nation’s crushing debt is a tsunami brewing offshore. Let’s hope Obama wises up before we all get swept away.

• Veteran TV news anchor Bill O’Reilly is host of the Fox News show “The O’Reilly Factor” and author of the book “Pinheads and Patriots: Where You Stand in the Age of Obama.”

8 ANOTHER VIEW

Keystone XL pipeline is coming back

President Obama rejected the Keystone XL oil pipeline this time last year, a result that Canada had every reason to be dismayed by, as did Americans whom the project would have employed. The issue is coming back, and the president has even less reason to nix the project than he did last time. After years of federal review, there was little question last year that construction of the pipeline, which would transport heavy, oil-like bitumen from Alberta to the Gulf of Mexico coast, should proceed. Thousands of miles of pipeline already crisscross this country. An environmental analysis had concluded that the risks of adding this new stretch were low. An economic review had found that Canada would get its bitumen to the

world market – if not via pipeline to the gulf, then very likely by ship to China. Supply would make it to demand, one way or another. Environmentalists nevertheless made Keystone XL a rallying issue. Among other things, they pointed to disquiet in Nebraska about the pipeline’s proposed route, objecting that it would traverse environmentally sensitive areas, such as the state’s Sand Hills. Under pressure from Nebraska’s government, wouldbe pipeline builder TransCanada began looking at altering the route. In the meantime, facing a congressionally mandated deadline, the Obama administration rejected TransCanada’s application, citing the Nebraska routing question. Obama left open the pos-

sibility of approving a fresh application that, conveniently, would come after the presidential election. The election is past, Trans Canada has reapplied with a new proposed route, and this week Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman (R) signed off on the plan, following an analysis from the state’s Department of Environmental Quality. The regulators found that the new route would avoid the Sand Hills and other areas of concern. Though there is always some risk of spill, they said, “impacts on aquifers from a release should be localized, and Keystone would be responsible for any cleanup.” TransCanada will have to buy at least $200 million in insurance to cover any cleanup costs. Unfortunately, when Obama rejected the Keystone

XL application last year, that also halted the federal regulatory process, and those cogs will take a while longer to start turning anew. The State Department, which has jurisdiction, has said it expects to have a decision in the first quarter of this year. Obama should ignore the activists who have bizarrely chosen to make Keystone XL a line-in-the-sand issue, when there are dozens more of far greater environmental import. He knows that the way to cut oil use is to reduce demand for the stuff, and he has begun to put that knowledge into practice, setting tough new fuel-efficiency standards for cars and trucks. That will actually make a difference, unlike blocking a pipeline here or there. The Washington Post

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Thumbs up: To the Sycamore Chamber of Commerce for meeting its 500-member goal. What is truly impressive about that feat is that it was accomplished with the addition of 100 new members last year. Not all of the new members are new businesses; some have been going it on their own for a while and decided to take advantage of the chamber’s opportunities for networking and publicity. But for a chamber in a city the size of Sycamore to add 100 new members in a stagnant business climate is an achievement worth applauding. Thumbs down: Once again to our state legislature and the governor for their inability to address the state’s public pension crisis. As a result, Standard & Poor’s rating services has lowered Illinois’ credit rating. The New York-based agency said Friday that the rating on the state’s general obligation bonds was downgraded to A- from A. The agency says the outlook is negative. Standard & Poor’s credit analysts say the downgrade reflects what the agency sees as the state’s “weakened pension-funded rations” and lack of action on reform measures to improve the state’s worst-in-the-nation pension crisis. Illinois has a $96 billion pension deficit. It appears our representatives in state government are content to see Illinois continue to dig an ever deeper financial hole for the citizens of Illinois. Thumbs up: To leaders in the 23rd Judicial Circuit for pressing forward with plans to allow news cameras in local courtrooms. DeKalb County is among the 28 counties statewide to join the Illinois Supreme Court’s pilot program on extended media coverage in county courthouses. Although some have reservations about allowing cameras in, courtrooms are public spaces, their proceedings are in public, and reporters should be allowed a reasonable way of documenting the proceedings with still and video photography. Judicial leaders have formed a committee to thoughtfully craft local rules within the state guidelines that offer protections for jurors, victims of sexual assault and police informants. We applaud their initiative and look forward to navigating these new processes together. Thumbs down: To the Indian Creek District 425 school board, whose members declined to answer questions about the contract extension they awarded to their superintendent. Rather than defend their decision themselves, the school board circulated a letter written by Justino Petrarca, a lawyer with the school district’s Chicago-based law firm. Petrarca can have whatever opinion he likes; he was not elected to make decisions for the school district. The school board members are the ones who voted to give Superintendent Pamela Rockwell a contract extension that includes 6 percent annual raises and a $15,000 retirement bonus. The school board decided to vote on the contract at 8 a.m. the day after Christmas. They are the ones who should be talking. Thumbs up: To the Sycamore Park District for planning some fun and interesting events to celebrate their 90th anniversary. Last weekend they held a Geocaching Treasure Hunt that sent participants across nine Sycamore parks. About 50 people took part in the search for items hidden by park district officials. The district will host a bicycle rally June 8 at the Sycamore Park Sports Complex and an ice cream social July 14 at Wetzel Park. They also are planning a fireworks show in the summer or fall. Sounds like a fun year ahead.

8 ANOTHER VIEW

College sports show misplaced priorities A new report that shows public NCAA Division I schools spend three to six times more on each of their athletes than on educating each of their students removes any doubt that their priorities are horribly reversed. The American Institutes of Research’s Delta Cost Project also found that such schools’ per-capita athletic spending rose at least twice as fast as their academic spending between 2005 and 2010, The New York Times reports. And the more big time the sports, the more backward the priorities were. The median 2010 spending by what’s known as Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) schools was $92,000 per athlete and less than $14,000 per full-time student. In the top-tier “power conferences” – Southeastern, Big 12, Pac-10, Atlantic Coast, Big Ten and Big East – that per-athlete spending exceeded $100,000, with athletics getting at least six times more per capita than academics. And if sports really were a “profit center” paying for other things – a common rationalization — student fees wouldn’t have accounted for 7.6 percent of athletic budgets at FBS schools, student fees and “institution and state support” for 70 percent at other Division I schools. An American Council on Education official says these backward priorities are unsustainable but persist because college presidents find far less support for reining in athletic spending than for perpetuating their “financial arms race.” What a bitter lesson this report teaches students and taxpayers – and what a need there is for remedial courses of action.

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WEATHER

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7-DAY FORECAST

TODAY

TOMORROW

MONDAY

TUESDAY

Mostly sunny and cold

Mostly cloudy with a wintry mix

A few showers and much warmer

Scattered showers and very mild

High pressure will build in to our north and west, resulting in plenty of sunshine. However, northwesterly winds will keep temperatures well below normal for this time of year. A warm up will begin Sunday as winds shift out of the southwest. A storm system will bring a wintry mix by Sunday afternoon before changing to rain Monday.

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WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

Partly sunny, Turning colder windy and much with a few flurries colder

Winds: NW 5-10 mph

Winds: S/SE 10-15 mph

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Winds: S/SW 5-15 mph

Winds: W/SW 5-15 mph

Winds: NW 15-25 mph

Winds: N 15-25 mph

24 hours through 4 p.m. yest. ......... 0.06” Month to date ....................................... 1.08” Normal month to date ....................... 1.23” Year to date ............................................ 1.08” Normal year to date ............................ 1.23”

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AIR QUALITY TODAY

Rockford 26/11

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Arlington Heights 26/13

DeKalb 22/17

Main offender ................................................... N.A.

Dixon 24/11

WEATHER TRIVIA™

What is graupel?

Joliet 26/12

La Salle 26/17

Streator 26/16

Peoria 28/19

Pontiac 26/16

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Waukegan 23/13 Evanston 26/16

Hammond 26/16 Gary 26/15 Kankakee 26/13

City Aurora Belleville Beloit Belvidere Champaign Elgin Joliet Kankakee Mendota Michigan City Moline Morris Naperville Ottawa Princeton Quincy Racine Rochelle Rockford Springfield Sterling Wheaton Waukegan Woodstock Yorkville

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WEATHER HISTORY

Record warmth spread along the East Coast on Jan. 26, 1950, with a high of 74 at Philadelphia. During the winter of 1949-1950, no measurable snow fell in Philadelphia.

Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.

Chicago 26/15

Aurora 26/10

A: Snowflakes that partially melt, then freeze as they descend.

Sunrise today ................................ 7:13 a.m. Sunset tonight ............................. 5:02 p.m. Moonrise today ........................... 4:59 p.m. Moonset today ............................. 6:31 a.m. Sunrise tomorrow ........................ 7:12 a.m. Sunset tomorrow ........................ 5:04 p.m. Moonrise tomorrow .................. 6:00 p.m. Moonset tomorrow .................... 7:04 a.m.

Kenosha 23/12

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Janesville 24/13 8 a.m. 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m. 6 p.m.

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REGIONAL WEATHER

Temperature

Precipitation

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DeKalb through 4 p.m. yesterday

High ............................................................. 28° Low .............................................................. 16° Normal high ............................................. 28° Normal low ............................................... 13° Record high .............................. 60° in 1967 Record low ............................... -15° in 2008

FRIDAY

Watseka 26/15

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Kishwaukee Belvidere Perryville DeKalb

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8MORNING KICKOFF

sycamore 55, Dekalb 32

Emphatic end to slide

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VIEWS Ross Jacobson

Rampage leaves, Johnson arrives at UFC in Chicago Shortly after Rampage Jackson (above) bids a bitter farewell to the UFC tonight, flyweight champion Demetrious Johnson and challenger John Dodson will introduce themselves to a national audience. The United Center will be a crossroads for several fighters getting together in the UFC’s latest show on Fox. Johnson’s first title defense against Dodson is the main event, but the 125-pounders realize they could be upstaged by bigger guys. Jackson is making what he says is his final UFC appearance against Brazil’s feared Glover Teixeira, while crowd-pleasing lightweight contenders Donald Cerrone and Anthony Pettis meet on the televised undercard. Johnson (16-2-1), better known as Mighty Mouse, believes the flyweights still will put on a show worth watching. “With the UFC giving us the spotlight as the headliner, it’s going to give me and John Dodson a chance to show the world what the flyweight division can do,” said Johnson, who beat Joseph Benavidez by split decision last fall to claim the UFC’s first flyweight belt. “If you want to be educated, this is the division to watch, because we bring everything – good conditioning, good speed, good footwork, everything.” Still, all eyes are likely to be on Jackson (32-9), who is fed up with the UFC after six years with mixed martial arts’ dominant promotion. The 34-year-old former light heavyweight champion still is among the UFC’s biggest stars, even after delaying his fighting career while shooting for Hollywood celebrity in the film version of “The A-Team.” The temperamental bruiser also threatened retirement three years ago, and he has sparred with UFC president Dana White repeatedly in recent years over money, matchups and sponsorships. After tangling with Teixeira (19-2), who hasn’t lost in 17 straight fights since March 2005, Jackson says he likely will move on to a smaller-time promotion, or even a boxing career. – Wire report

8WHAT TO WATCH Pro hockey Blackhawks at Columbus, 6 p.m., CSN

The undefeated Hawks look to start 4-0 on the road for the first time in 46 seasons and continue their dominance over the Blue Jackets.

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

8KEEP UP ONLINE Follow us on Facebook and Twitter Want the latest from the area’s prep sports scene? Follow our coverage on Facebook by searching for DC Preps or on Twitter at twitter.com/dc_preps. Follow our NIU athletics coverage on Facebook by searching for Huskie Wire or on Twitter at twitter.com/HuskieWire.

Rivalry flipped upside down

For Sycamore’s David Compher, the short distance from Northern Illinois’ Huskie Stadium to the Convocation Center might as well have been miles upon miles. While the Spartans have controlled the DeKalb-Sycamore rivalry on the gridiron, the Barbs had been equally as dominant on the hard court, winning the past 11 matchups over the past five years. Nobody on Sycamore’s roster had beaten the Barbs in hoops. Not Compher. Not junior co-captain Devin Mottet. Not second-year coach Andrew Stacy. But the script that had become so familiar in this basketball rivalry was flipped Friday night, and Sycamore did it with an emphatic 55-32 win. “You don’t want to say this is the biggest game of the year, but it is,” Compher said. “To Kyle Bursaw – kbursaw@shawmedia.com win this and not only for our Sycamore’s Logan Wright tries to block DeKalb’s Andre Harris’s shot but is called for a foul in the second quarter of the Spartans’ 55-32 victory community, and for our team, Friday night at the NIU Convocation Center in DeKalb. this means so much to us. To do this as a senior, it’s incredible.” This game played out eerily similar to Sycamore’s 19-point football win over the Barbs. The Spartans jumped out to a double-digit lead in the first quarter and were never challenged. DeKalb had trouble By ANTHONY ZILIS executing offensively and were sports@daily-chronicle.com held without a field goal for the first 10 minutes of the game. DeKALB – Sycamore didn’t just Online exclusive By the time Kyle Buzzard break the streak, it demolished it. hit a three-pointer to put After losing to DeKalb 11 consecSycamore up, 49-19, equalCheck out the highlights from utive times, the Spartans beat the ing the Spartans’ offensive Friday night’s DeKalb-Sycamore Barbs, 55-32, on Friday at the Northoutput from the September boys basketball game at Dailyern Illinois University Convocation football game, the only drama Chronicle.com/dcpreps. Center. that remained was when the “That left a bad taste in our mouths inevitable “just like football” that we lost this game 11 times in a chant would come from the row,” junior Devin Mottet said shortly three with 2:20 remaining in the first, Sycamore student section. It after handing off the trophy passed to making the score 12-1. happened with three minutes the winner each year. “It’s a big deal. left in the fourth quarter. DeKalb (4-18, 2-4 NI Big 12 East) This is just so much better than los- didn’t hit a field goal until 5:17 reFor Compher, who beat ing.” DeKalb in football all three maining in the second quarter when Right out of the gates, it was clear sophomore Rudy Lopez knocked down occasions he played on the that it was Sycamore’s game to lose. varsity team, Friday’s victory a jumper from the corner. The Barbs Four Sycamore (10-7, 3-2 Northern turned the ball over eight times in the represented one of the final athIllinois Big 12 East) players scored as first half against Sycamore’s frenetic letic accomplishments to cross Rob Winner – rwinner@shawmedia.com off his high-school bucket list. the Spartans opened up the game with defense. Sycamore’s Scott Nelson (left) looks to get past a 9-0 run. Nick Feuerbach became the See BOYS BASKETBALL, page B4 See JACOBSON, page B4 DeKalb defender Jake Smith during the first quarter. fifth Spartan to score when he hit a

Spartans rout Barbs to end 11-game series losing streak

DeKALB 36, sycamore 18

Torres paces Barbs in victory DeKalb wins 3rd straight in series at Convo Center

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inside to players such as Johnson and Courtney Bemis (four points) after watching his team score only Check out the high- 23 points in a victory over East lights from Friday’s Moline United on Tuesday. The DeKalb-Sycamore girls Barbs had 12 points in the paint in basketball game at the first half. Daily-Chronicle.com. Torres mentioned how the By STEVE NITZ Barbs were patient on offense, snitz@shawmedia.com making the most of their opportu“The past few years it’s been nities against Sycamore (9-10, 2-6 DeKALB – Rachel Torres still close. This year I didn’t want it to NI Big 12 East). remembers playing against Syca“We’ve been working on our be that close again,” Torres said. more at the Northern Illinois Uni“I wanted us to show that we were zone offense a lot,” Torres said. versity Convocation Center as a the better team, and I think we “We weren’t really knocking freshman. did.” down the shots we wanted, so I Torres’ DeKalb team lost to the Torres led the offensive attack think when we did get the shots Spartans that night in January for DeKalb (20-3, 8-0 Northern Il- we wanted, we found a way to atof 2010, blowing a 15-point lead in linois Big 12 East), finishing with tack the zone and get it inside.” the process. a team-high 11 points. Madelyne DeKalb got all it needed ofThe past two seasons, howev- Johnson added seven points for fensively, thanks to its typically er, the Barbs have had the upper the Barbs, and Brittney Patrick tough, hard-nosed defense. As hand when the two schools got to- – playing her first game in two Davenport puts it, all DeKalb Kyle Bursaw – kbursaw@shawmedia.com gether at the Convo, and Torres weeks after sitting out with a knee did was “do what we do” on ofDeKalb’s Madelyne Johnson goes up for a shot in the first went out a winner Friday night, injury – had six. fense. quarter of the Barbs’ 36-18 victory over Sycamore on Friday with her Barbs getting a 36-18 vicBarbs coach Chris Davenport See GIRLS BASKETBALL, page B4 night at the NIU Convocation Center in DeKalb. tory over Sycamore. wanted to see his team get the ball

SPORTS

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8UPCOMING PREPS SPORTS SCHEDULE TODAY

Boys Basketball Sterling at Kaneland, 5:30 p.m. Sycamore at Ottawa, 6 p.m. Girls Basketball Sterling at Kaneland, 4 p.m. Sycamore at Ottawa, 4:30 p.m. Girls Bowling DeKalb and Sycamore at Dixon Girls Bowling Invite (Plum Hollow), 9 a.m. Boys Bowling State finals

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BULLS 103, WARRIORS 87

NFL

Hinrich registers season high in win Next at Washington, 6 p.m. today, WGN, AM-1000

tory over the Golden State Warriors on Friday. Nate Robinson added 22 CHICAGO – Kirk Hinrich scored a season-high points off the bench in the 25 points, hitting six of Bulls’ third straight vicseven three-pointers in the tory. David Lee, the WarChicago Bulls’ 103-87 vic-

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riors’ All-Star selection, scored 23 points. Stephen Curry added 21 for Golden State, which shot 34.6 percent from the field to snap a three-game winning streak.

SOXFEsT

Konerko’s future up in the air

Monday

Boys Basketball Little 10 Tournament at Somonauk Girls Basketball Pecatonica at Indian Creek, 6:45 p.m.

Tuesday

Boys Basketball Byron at Genoa-Kingston, 7 p.m. IMSA at Sycamore, 7 p.m. Little 10 Tournament at Somonauk Girls Basketball St. Edward at Hinckley-Big Rock, 7 p.m. Genoa-Kingston at RichmondBurton, 7 p.m. Streator at DeKalb, 7 p.m. Christian Life Center at Hiawatha, 7:15 p.m.

8SPORTS SHORTS Dr. Phil to interview alleged girlfriend hoaxer

NEW YORK – Dr. Phil McGraw has booked the first on-camera interview with the man who allegedly concocted the girlfriend hoax that ensnared Notre Dame football star Manti Te’o. A “Dr. Phil Show” spokesperson confirmed Friday the interview with Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, the man accused of creating an online persona of a nonexistent woman who Te’o said he fell for without ever meeting face-toface.

Notre Dame president defends handling of Te’o

SOUTH BEND, Ind. – Top administrators at Notre Dame decided within hours of hearing about the Manti Te’o dead girlfriend hoax that it did not involve a crime and within two days had concluded there was no NCAA violation, according to a letter sent by the university president to board of trustee members Friday. The Rev. John Jenkins told trustees that despite “the unrelenting scrutiny of hundreds of journalists and countless others – and repeated attempts by some to create a different impression – no facts relating to the hoax have been at odds with what Manti told us” on Dec. 27-28.

Penn State says Sandusky settlements appear close HARRISBURG, Pa. – Penn State’s negotiator for civil claims involving former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky said Friday the school has been in talks with 28 people and settlement discussions with some claimants could soon produce results. The number of claimants is 18 more than were involved in Sandusky’s criminal case this summer, when eight young men testified they were assaulted by Sandusky. Prosecutors were not able to identify two victims.

Armstrong to help ‘clean up cycling’

AUSTIN, Texas – An attorney for Lance Armstrong told the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency the cyclist will cooperate with efforts to “clean up cycling,” although it’s the sport’s governing body and world anti-doping officials who should take the lead. In letters sent this week between attorneys for Armstrong and USADA, and obtained by The Associated Press, USADA attorney William Bock requested Armstrong testify under oath by Feb. 6, but the cyclist’s attorney, Tim Herman, responds that Armstrong cannot accommodate that schedule. – Wire reports

Jimmy Butler had 16 points and a career-high 12 rebounds starting in place of All-Star Luol Deng, who missed his fourth consecutive game due to a right hamstring injury.

By MEGHAN MONTEMURRO mmontemurro@shawmedia.com CHICAGO – It’s a question White Sox first baseman Paul Konerko will have to answer throughout the season. Will he be back with the Sox after his contract expires this year? At this point, even Konerko is unsure about his future on the AP photo South Side, but the emotions he White Sox first baseman Paul Konerko is introduced during SoxFest on Friday at the Palmer House Hilton will experience in what could be in Chicago. his 15th and final year with the Sox are very familiar. “I was prepared two years ago that this could be the last time I play,” Konerko said Friday during SoxFest at the Palmer House Hilton. “I’ve kind of gone through the whole exercise of the preparaBy MEGHAN MONTEMURRO tion for that, so it’s just a matter “We are still actively looking for somemmontemurro@shawmedia.com of kind of rekindling that. thing that provides us with an upgrade, “You know at some point your CHICAGO – Take a good career is going to end. I don’t but we are not going to make the move look at the White Sox’s rosknow right now.” ter. for a left-handed bat simply because it’s Sox general manager Rick Although the Sox didn’t Hahn plans to keep any negotiaa left-handed bat.” make many offseason moves tions between the organization or overhaul the team, their and Konerko quiet in keeping Rick Hahn 40-man roster is set after ofwith what they’ve done during Sox general manager ficially signing right-handed past negotiations in the past. reliever Matt Lindstrom to “The one thing I don’t worry a one-year, $2.8 million conabout with Paulie is that we’re tract which includes a club isn’t willing to sign just any ruled out bringing in a vetnot going to understand or know option for 2014. General man- left-handed bat. eran catcher to push Flowers what the other is thinking,” Hahn ager Rick Hahn and the Sox’s “We are still actively look- and wants to avoid making said. “There’s too long of a history front office are prepared to ing for something that pro- any rash decisions based on there and he means too much to enter spring training – and vides us with an upgrade, but 50-60 Cactus League at-bats. this organization and we’ve been potentially the regular sea- we are not going to make the It won’t be easy for fans able to do too many deals despite son – with the team they’ve move for a left-handed bat sim- to forget Pierzynski’s contripeople thinking we wouldn’t be assembled. ply because it’s a left-handed butions on the baseball diaable to. We’re not really going to “The more of them that are bat,” Hahn said. “Historically mond, and Hahn is aware of let any cynicism about our ability available allow us to shorten our right-handed hitters, es- fans’ sensitivity regarding to do another one get in the way.” up the game as well,” Hahn pecially [Paul Konerko] and Pierzynski’s departure and Konerko has watched as two of said Friday during SoxFest [Alex Rios], and prior to last the lack of big name, offseathe longest tenured Sox – pitcher at the Palmer House Hilton. season, Alexei [Ramirez], had son acquisitions. Mark Buehrle and catcher A.J. “[Lindstrom] has a history of hit right-handed pitching fair“Ultimately it’s on us to do Pierzynski – both left the orgaclosing, which is nice. He is ly well.” what we feel like is the best nization the past two offseasons called upon to that role, and The Sox need outfielder in terms of maximizing wins and the last player from the he obviously fits that profile Dayan Viciedo to hit better over a longer period of time Sox’s 2005 World Series team unof what we are looking for in against right-handed pitch- then responding emotionderstands he could be next. He terms of a nice power arm ers. ally or with sentimentality,” doesn’t want that to weigh on his with some sink. He keeps the He hit only .225 last sea- Hahn said. “It’s something we mind during the season. ball on the ground and in the son against righties and if are aware of but it’s not some“My thing is just have a solid seapark. It turned out to be a nice he doesn’t improve, Hahn thing that drives decision son and do my job,” Konerko said. fit for us.” expects left-handed hitters making as much as what we “That’s all it boils down to. I signed Ideally, the Sox would Jordan Danks or Dewayne feel will maximize our wins.” a contract to do a job and I want to add another left-handed bat Wise to step in and get the job make sure I do what I signed up – which has been a goal the done. • Meghan Montemurro covfor. That has nothing to do with the entire offseason – to what After the departure of fan ers the White Sox and Cubs other distractions of ‘what are you projects as a righty dominat- favorite, catcher A.J. Pierzyn- for Shaw Media. Write to her going to do.’ If I spend time thinked lineup. But with limited ski, Tyler Flowers faces the at mmontemurro@shawmeing and talking about that stuff I’m quality options remaining on most pressure to perform well dia.com. Follow her on Twitnot doing what I’m supposed to be the free agent market, Hahn during spring training. Hahn ter @M_Montemurro. doing for this team.”

Sox say roster is set

8WEEKEND TV SPORTS SCHEDULE Today’s lineup Pro basketball Bulls at Washington, 6 p.m., WGN Men’s basketball Syracuse at Villanova, 10 a.m., ESPNU Louisville at Georgetown, 11 a.m., ESPN Ohio St. at Penn St., 11 a.m., ESPN2 Maryland at Duke, noon, CBS West Virginia at Oklahoma St., noon, ESPNU Minnesota at Wisconsin, 1 p.m., BTN Alabama at Tennessee, 1 p.m., ESPN2 Cleveland St. at Youngstown St., 1 p.m., CSN Dartmouth at Harvard, 1 p.m., NBCSN Northwestern at Nebraska, 2 p.m., ESPNU Oklahoma at Kansas, 3 p.m., ESPN Western Kentucky at Middle Tennessee, 3 p.m., ESPN2 Detroit at Loyola (Chicago), 3 p.m., CSN New Mexico at San Diego St., 3 p.m., NBCSN Vanderbilt at Missouri, 4 p.m., ESPNU Temple at Butler, 5 p.m., ESPN2 North Carolina at N.C. State, 6 p.m., ESPN

USC at Arizona, 6 p.m., ESPNU Florida at Mississippi St., 7 p.m., ESPN2 BYU at Portland, 9:30 p.m., ESPNU College football Senior Bowl, 3 p.m., NFLN Golf PGA Tour, Farmers Insurance Open, third round, noon, TGC; 2 p.m., CBS Mixed martial arts UFC, featherweights, Erik Koch (13-1-0) vs. Ricardo Lamas (12-20); lightweights, Anthony Pettis (13-2-0) vs. Donald Cerrone (19-4-0), light heavyweights, Rampage Jackson (32-9-0) vs. Glove Teixeira (19-2-0); champion Demetrious Johnson (16-2-1) vs. John Dodson (15-5-0), for flyweight title, 7 p.m., FOX Extreme sports X Games, 1 p.m., ESPN; 3 p.m., ABC; 8 p.m., ESPN Figure skating U.S. Championships, 2 p.m., NBC Wrestling Iowa at Minnesota, 3 p.m. Men’s hockey Penn St. at Michigan St., 5:10 p.m., BTN Women’s swimming Indiana at Purdue, 11 a.m., BTN

Prep basketball Whitney Young at Simeon, 8 p.m., ESPNU Boxing Junior middleweights, Jermell Charlo (10-0-0) vs. Harry Joe Yorgey (25-1-1); welterweights, Selcuk Aydin (23-1-0) vs. Jesus Soto-Karass (26-8-3); champion Luca Matthysse (32-2-0) vs. Mike Dallas Jr. (19-2-1), for WBC interim junior welterweight title, 9 p.m., SHOW Cycling Tour Down Under, Stage 5, McLaren Vale to Old Willunga Hill, Australia, 12:30 p.m., NBCSN Sunday’s lineup Pro hockey Detroit at Blackhawks, 6 p.m., CSN Minnesota at St. Louis, 7 p.m., NBCSN Pro basketball Miami at Boston, noon, ABC Oklahoma City at L.A. Lakers, 2:30 p.m., ABC Atlanta at New York, 5:30 p.m., ESPN Men’s basketball Michigan St. at Indiana, noon, CBS Iowa at Purdue, 2:30 p.m., BTN Florida St. at Miami (Fla.), 4:30 p.m., ESPNU

Michigan at Illinois, 5 p.m., BTN Creighton at Southern Illinois, 7 p.m., ESPNU Pro football Pro Bowl, 6 p.m., NBC Tennis Australian Open, men’s championship, 2 a.m., ESPN Golf PGA Tour, Farmers Insurance Open, final round, noon, TGC; 2 p.m., CBS Extreme sports X Games, 1 and 8 p.m., ESPN Figure skating U.S. Championships, 2 p.m., NBC Women’s basketball Penn St. at Ohio St., noon, BTN St. John’s at Louisville, 12:30 p.m., ESPNU North Carolina at Miami, 1 p.m., ESPN2 Missouri at Texas A&M, 2:30 p.m., ESPNU Purdue at Michigan St., 3 p.m., ESPN2 Bowling PBA, league play, Round 1, 11 a.m., ESPN Cycling Tour Down Under, final stage, at Adelaide, Australia, 11:30 a.m., NBCSN Women’s gymnastics LSU at Alabama, 11 a.m., ESPNU

postseason Pro Bowl Sunday At Honolulu AFC vs. NFC, 6 p.m., NBC Super Bowl Feb. 3 At New Orleans Baltimore vs. San Francisco, 5 p.m., CBS

NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE

Central Division W L Pct Bulls 26 16 .619 Indiana 26 17 .605 Milwaukee 22 19 .537 Detroit 16 27 .372 Cleveland 12 32 .273 Atlantic Division W L Pct New York 26 14 .650 Brooklyn 26 17 .605 Boston 20 23 .465 Philadelphia 17 25 .405 Toronto 16 27 .372 Southeast Division W L Pct Miami 28 12 .700 Atlanta 25 18 .581 Orlando 14 28 .333 Washington 10 31 .244 Charlotte 10 32 .238

GB — ½ 3½ 10½ 15 GB — 1½ 7½ 10 11½ GB — 4½ 15 18½ 19

WESTERN CONFERENCE

Southwest Division W L Pct San Antonio 35 11 .761 Memphis 28 14 .667 Houston 23 22 .511 Dallas 18 25 .419 New Orleans 14 29 .326 Northwest Division W L Pct Oklahoma City 33 10 .767 Denver 26 18 .591 Utah 23 19 .548 Portland 21 21 .500 Minnesota 17 23 .425 Pacific Division W L Pct L.A. Clippers 32 12 .727 Golden State 26 16 .619 L.A. Lakers 17 25 .405 Sacramento 16 27 .372 Phoenix 15 28 .349

GB — 5 11½ 15½ 19½ GB — 7½ 9½ 11½ 14½ GB — 5 14 15½ 16½

Friday’s Results Bulls 103, Golden State 87 Washington 114, Minnesota 101 Atlanta 123, Boston 111 (2OT) Cleveland 113, Milwaukee 108 Miami 110, Detroit 88 San Antonio 113, Dallas 107 Memphis 101, Brooklyn 77 Houston 100, New Orleans 82 Okahoma City at Sacramento (n) Utah at L.A. Lakers (n) Today’s Games Bulls at Washington, 6 p.m. New York at Philadelphia, 6 p.m. Cleveland at Toronto, 6 p.m. Minnesota at Charlotte, 6:30 p.m. Brooklyn at Houston, 7 p.m. Phoenix at San Antonio, 7:30 p.m. Golden State at Milwaukee, 7:30 p.m. Sacramento at Denver, 8 p.m. Indiana at Utah, 8:30 p.m. L.A. Clippers at Portland, 9 p.m. Sunday’s Games Miami at Boston, noon Oklahoma City at L.A. Lakers, 2:30 p.m. New Orleans at Memphis, 5 p.m. Detroit at Orlando, 5 p.m. Atlanta at New York, 5:30 p.m. Phoenix at Dallas, 6:30 p.m. Portland at L.A. Clippers, 8:30 p.m.

NHL WESTERN CONFERENCE

Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Blackhawks 4 4 0 0 8 17 10 St. Louis 4 3 1 0 6 15 6 Detroit 4 2 2 0 4 10 14 Nashville 4 1 1 2 4 8 11 Columbus 4 1 2 1 3 7 15 Northwest Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Colorado 3 2 1 0 4 9 5 Edmonton 3 2 1 0 4 8 9 Minnesota 4 2 2 0 4 9 10 Vancouver 3 1 1 1 3 8 12 Calgary 3 0 2 1 1 7 12 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA San Jose 3 3 0 0 6 15 7 Dallas 4 2 1 1 5 8 8 Anaheim 2 2 0 0 4 12 7 Phoenix 4 1 3 0 2 15 16 Los Angeles 3 0 2 1 1 4 10

EASTERN CONFERENCE

Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA New Jersey 3 3 0 0 6 8 3 N.Y. Islanders 4 2 2 0 4 14 13 Pittsburgh 4 2 2 0 4 13 13 N.Y. Rangers 4 1 3 0 2 9 14 Philadelphia 4 1 3 0 2 5 12 Northeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Boston 4 3 0 1 7 12 8 Ottawa 4 3 1 0 6 15 8 Buffalo 4 2 2 0 4 11 12 Montreal 3 2 1 0 4 9 4 Toronto 4 2 2 0 4 12 12 Southeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Tampa Bay 4 3 1 0 6 19 12 Winnipeg 4 2 1 1 5 10 10 Carolina 4 2 2 0 4 11 13 Florida 4 1 3 0 2 7 12 Washington 4 0 3 1 1 8 17 Two points for a win, one point for OT loss Friday’s Results Boston 4, N.Y. Islanders 2 Carolina 3, Buffalo 1 New Jersey 3, Washington 2 (OT) Tampa Bay 6, Ottawa 4 Detroit 5, Minnesota 3 Winnipeg 4, Pittsburgh 2 Vancouver at Anaheim (n) Today’s Games Colorado at San Jose, 3 p.m. Blackhawks at Columbus, 6 p.m. Toronto at N.Y. Rangers, 6 p.m. Philadelphia at Florida, 6:30 p.m. St. Louis at Dallas, 7 p.m. Los Angeles at Phoenix, 7 p.m. Edmonton at Calgary, 9 p.m. Nashville at Anaheim, 9:30 p.m. Sunday’s Games Buffalo at Washington, 2 p.m. Pittsburgh at Ottawa, 4 p.m. New Jersey at Montreal, 5 p.m. Philadelphia at Tampa Bay, 5 p.m. Detroit at Blackhawks, 6 p.m. Minnesota at St. Louis, 7 p.m. N.Y. Islanders at Winnipeg, 7 p.m. Vancouver at San Jose, 7 p.m.

men’s basketball TOP 25 SCHEDULE Today’s Games No. 1 Duke vs. Maryland, noon No. 3 Kansas vs. Oklahoma, 3 p.m. No. 3 Syracuse at Villanova, 10 a.m. No. 5 Louisville at Georgetown, 11 a.m. No. 6 Arizona vs. Southern Cal, 6 p.m. No. 8 Florida at Mississippi St., 7 p.m. No. 9 Butler vs. Temple, 5 p.m. No. 10 Gonzaga vs. San Francisco, 7 p.m. No. 11 Kansas St. at Iowa St., 12:45 p.m. No. 12 Minnesota at Wisconsin, 1 p.m. No. 14 Ohio St. at Penn St., 11 a.m. No. 15 New Mexico at San Diego St., 3 p.m. No. 16 Oregon vs. Washington, 6 p.m. No. 18 N.C. State vs. North Carolina, 6 p.m. No. 19 VCU vs. La Salle, 7 p.m. No. 20 Wichita St. vs. Bradley, 7:05 p.m. No. 22 Missouri vs. Vanderbilt, 4 p.m. No. 23 Mississippi at Auburn, 7 p.m. No. 24 Notre Dame at S. Florida, 11 a.m. Sunday’s Games No. 2 Michigan at Illinois, 5 p.m. No. 7 Indiana vs. No. 13 Michigan St., noon No. 17 Creighton at S. Illinois, 7 p.m.

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Too much of a good thing? Random Northern Illinois thoughts on a cold, winter day: Thought No. 1: Who needs this new-fangled, fancy BCS football playoff in 2014? Earlier this month, sports columnist Dave Ruthenberg of the News & Eagle (Enid, Okla.,) figured out the 2012 national champion without polls, computers, politics and – even better – fallible humans. Ruthenberg’s winner? The 2-10 Eastern Michigan Eagles. No kidding. It might be the oldest media trick in the book (Bud Nangle showed us this one decades ago). Logic city. If P, then Q. Ruthenberg’s own stream of BCS consciousness: Eastern Michigan beat Western Michigan, which beat Connecticut, which beat Syracuse, which beat Louisville, which beat Florida, which beat Texas A&M, which beat Alabama. Go EMU. I can hear Kirk Herbstreit griping now. Thought No. 2: This is no wild assumption. At 6-foot-1, 220 pounds, NIU quarterback Jordan Lynch is a physical specimen and then some. Lynch’s 688 plays last season, the school-record 4,953 yards total offense, plus 44 touchdowns (19 rushing and 25 passing), all attest to that fact. His extraordinary numbers make you wonder: Did Lynch play prep football at Mount Carmel or Smallville? As Howard Fletcher successfully rode the “Blitz-T” shotgun in the mid-1960s and Jerry Pettibone perfected his vision of the triple-option “Spread” during 1987-90, Dave Doeren and Rod Carey found the ideal Huskie offense for multipurpose quarterbacks such as Chandler Harnish and Lynch the past two years with the uptempo, no-huddle, “Pistol.” Or, not to be overly critical, is it? I’m just a fan, but think about it. Can there be too much of a good thing? Peruse the list of NIU’s top all-time single-season rushers. Tailback Michael Turner (338 attempts in 2002) heads that group. Tailback LeShon Johnson (327 carries in 1993) follows. Turner (310 in 2003). Tailback Garrett Wolfe (309 in 2006). Lynch (294 in 2012). Fullback Mark Kellar (291 in 1973). Smack in the middle of four of the greatest rushers in NCAA history, there’s a quarterback, an All-American one at that. Not even the celebrated Stacey “Wishbone Wizard” Robinson carried the ball that much (223 attempts in 1989 and 193 in 1990). Couldn’t someone at tailback take some heat off Lynch? Nobody’s asking for LeShon or “The Burner.” How about 700 yards at TB? Ironically, in a program re-

VIEWS Mike Korcek nown for 1,000-yard tailbacks in the past two decades, NIU has struggled with production at that spot in recent seasons. Proof? According to the final offensive statistics for the past decade, an unprecedented 18 different players carried the ball last season, 15 in 2011, 11 in 2010 and 2009, 12 in 2008, 11 in 2007, nine in 2006 (Wolfe’s senior year), 10 in 2005, 11 in 2004, and 11 in 2003 (Turner’s senior year). Looking for something? What was that TV program? “In Search of...?” Or what’s the cliché? Necessity is the mother of invention? So I understand the “Jet” sweeps, the play-calling imagination, etc. When the debate arises in the media and among bloggers about the best all-time NIU football team (1983, 1989, 2003, and 2012 are my “finalists”), my brain goes into old-school mode and screams “balance.” As phenomenal as Lynch was in 2012, one player making up 75.3 percent of your total offense spells trouble, particularly in a high-profile mid-major situation or in the ultimate FBS arena, the Orange Bowl. Think what you like, but the 2003 Huskies with an underrated Josh Haldi at quarterback (2,544 yards passing), Turner at tailback (1,648 yards rushing), and P. J. Fleck (77 catches for 1,028 yards) at receiver gave the opposition (Maryland, Alabama, Iowa State and a much tougher MidAmerican Conference schedule) much more to think about on defense, in my opinion. Coach Carey, can we find a viable tailback? The 2013 version of Lynch Lite would be more effective (and healthier). Thought No. 3: Memo to writer Thomas Wolfe. Wrong again, literary breath. You can return home. Just ask NIU men’s basketball Hall of Famer T.J. Lux. In his second season as boys basketball coach at his Merrillville, Ind., High School alma mater, Lux has led his Class 4A Pirates to an 11-1 overall record, 9-0 in the Duneland Athletic Conference, and is ranked No. 9 in the Indiana Basketball Coaches Association state poll and No. 13 in the current Sagarin ratings this week. The 6-9, 230-pound Lux, a three-time CoSIDA Academic All-America pick, still ranks No. 1 in career Huskie scoring (1,996 points) and rebounding (1,110 boards). After his NIU playing career (1995-2000), Lux played pro ball in Germany and France before returning home. “No matter where I went, I knew I would always re-

turn to Merrillville,” Lux told the Northwest Indiana Times upon getting the MHS head coaching position. In 2011-12, Lux’s Pirates finished 16-8. Thought No. 4: It seems every time I mention the two words “Lee Corso” in this column, everyone’s blood pressure spikes to record levels. Remember, Corso had a pro football “out clause” in his NIU contract and left for a guaranteed $450,000 and the USFL. Look, I’ll pull a Mantl Te’o here: What would you do? That said, the recent discussion of Joe Novak’s former Huskie staff in 2001 reminded me about this particular group. Say what you want, Corso knows a lot of people in the game and put together an impressive NIU braintrust in 1984. Here’s his full-time staff: Offensive coordinator Bill Lynch (head coach at Butler, Ball State, and Indiana), defensive coordinator Ted Huber (interim NIU head coach and Ball State head man), wide receivers coach John Boyd (unknown), up-andcoming offensive guard-center coach Lawrence Cooley (Cincinnati aide before his death in an auto accident), offensive tackle-tight end coach Dave Magazu (32 years in coaching, last 10 in the NFL), running backs coach Frank Verducci (32 years in coaching, eight in the NFL), interior linebackers coach Bob Chmiel (recruiting coordinator at Notre Dame and Michigan, plus current TV analyst), defensive line coach Ted Daisher (35 years in coaching, six in the NFL), and secondary coach Mike Sabock (NIU’s longest tenured FBS assistant). What was missing then that resulted in a 4-6-1 season after the California Bowl year? The intensity, dedication and drive of one Bill Mallory. Thought No. 5: Heartiest congratulations to former NIU sports information student Tim Sassone, who will be inducted into The Northern Star Alumni Hall of Fame on March 2. Sassone, nominated for the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award in 2007, has covered the Blackhawks for the Daily Herald since 1988 and might rate as the best NHL beat writer in the market. He is a regular contributor to The Hockey News. Before the Daily Herald, Sassone worked at Pro Football Weekly. Always love to see our successful NIU grads.

• Mike Korcek is a former Northern Illinois University sports information director. His historical perspective on NIU athletics appears periodically in the Daily Chronicle.

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NIU (4-13, 2-3 MaC West) at Eastern Michigan (9-10, 2-3 MAC West) Game time: 1 p.m. today Where: EMU Convocation Center, Ypsilanti, Mich. Radio: AM-1360, 98.9-FM Last meeting: NIU defeated Eastern Michigan, 55-52, in the first round of the 2012 MAC tournament Scouting the Eagles: Eastern Michigan’s record is sub-.500, but the Eagles do play well at home, as all nine of EMU’s wins have came in Ypsilanti. Like the Huskies, the Eagles have trouble putting the ball in the basket.

NIU outlook: The Huskies couldn’t have gotten any lower More online than a 71-34 home loss to Western Michigan on Jan. 19, but NIU For all your NIU sports coverage rebounded nicely with a 74-61 victory at Central Michigan on – including stories, features, scores, photos, videos, blogs and Wednesday. The Huskies are 2-1 more – log on to HuskieWire.com. on the road in conference play. Sophomore wing Abdel Nader had another strong showing at CMU, scoring a season-high 23 EMU averages only 57.7 points points. He leads the Huskies with a game, good for 11th in the MAC. NIU is 12th at 57.6 ppg. The an average of 13.9 points a game. – Steve Nitz, Eagles do give up a league-low snitz@shawmedia.com. 61.2 points a contest.

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Friday’s action in 67th place, Adam Price led the Cogs with 20 and will not move on to to- points, while Mason Lucca had day’s action. Bonnell had a 17 and Tommy Lucca added 14. “[Price]’s just been a load Sycamore junior Kyle Bon- high game of 232. all year,” G-K coach Corey nell had a round of 1,219 in Jenkins said. “He’s averaging the first round of the IHSA BOYS BASKETBALL Cogs get win: Genoa-Kings- 18 points, 11 rebounds a game bowling state tournament in O’Fallon. Bonnell finished ton beat North Boone, 72-48. right now.”

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PREP WRESTLING: BATAVIA 47, KANELAND 30

Knights’ early lead not enough By DENNIS D. JACOBS sports@daily-chronicle.com

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Members of the Sycamore boys basketball team celebrate their 55-32 victory over DeKalb with their fans Friday night at the NIU Convocation Center in DeKalb.

Rohlman: We panicked • boys basketball Continued from page B1

“We got flustered and we got panicked and we tried to do things that aren’t our job,” DeKalb coach Dave Rohlman said. Behind seven points from Devin Mottet, the Spartans led, 21-10, at the half. DeKalb guard Pat Aves hit a three to cut the Spartans’ lead to 10 with 4:26 remaining in the third quarter, but that was the closest the Barbs would come. David Compher went on an 8-0 run of his own late in the third to give Sycamore a 35-15 lead with 2:30 left in the third quarter, and the Spartans would go on to lead by 30 midway through the fourth. Scott Nelson led the Spartans with 16 points in the win.

“I thought they beat us in every facet of the game, all night long,” Rohlman said. “Everything that we’ve been talking about for the first 21 games, with our turnovers and our lack of poise occurred tonight.” Sycamore, meanwhile, hopes to use this game as they head into the final stretch of the conference season. “Our defense was amazing. Holding a varsity team to 32 points, that’s just amazing. It was just a great defensive effort all around,” Mottet said. “We just broke an 11-game losing streak. “We have a lot of season left, and this is a big game, obviously, we had a huge atmosphere, our fans were great. It was a big confidence boost saying we won this trophy and we want one more at regionals.”

Memorable night for Compher • JACOBSON

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“This was definitely on my list,” Compher said. “I’ll never forget this. I’ll never forget tonight.” In a 30-second span, Compher scored eight consecutive points, hitting a 3, sprinting the floor for a three-point play in transition, and then forcing a steal and a getting layup on the other end to make it a 20-point Spartan lead. Compher doesn’t know where he’ll be going to college yet, but he says NIU is a possibility. If he ends up on

the DeKalb campus, Compher now will be able to look at both stadiums with fond memories. But when asked which victory during his senior year meant more, he couldn’t decide. “I can’t say. They’re both pretty sweet,” Compher said. “Tonight’s definitely pretty sweet considering it’s been 11 straight for them. This is pretty nice.”

• Ross Jacobson is the sports editor of the Daily Chronicle. He can be reached via e-mail at rjacobson@shawmedia.com and follow him Twitter @RossJacobson.

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Sycamore’s Bailey Gilbert (left) and DeKalb’s Courtney Patrick vie for the ball in the second quarter of Friday night’s game at the NIU Convocation Center in DeKalb. The Barbs won, 36-18.

Gilbert’s 8 points lead Spartans • GIRLS BASKETBALL Continued from page B1

“We try to smother people to make them work for whatever they get,” he said. “I’m very happy with the way my kids played.” The outcome didn’t go Sycamore’s way, but Spartans coach Brett Goff’s team featured a starting lineup of two freshmen, two sophomores and a junior going up against a team ranked No. 9 in the latest Associated Press Class 4A girls basketball poll.

Bailey Gilbert led Sycamore in scoring with eight points, with Lauren Goff adding four. Sycamore’s second-year coach told his team before the game that very few girls basketball teams get to play in a college arena in front of a big crowd. He called the experience “invaluable” for his young team, and mentioned how it could help come postseason time. “It’s a great experience,” he said. “Hopefully the girls realize that.”

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BATAVIA – The Batavia wrestling team spotted Kaneland 10 points Friday night, then reeled off the next 36 en route to a 47-30 victory. The key victories for the Bulldogs during their scoring spree came at 220 pounds and heavyweight, with Batavia coach Scott Bayer electing to have Mickey Watson and Connor McKeehan each bump up a weight class to take on much heavier foes. Watson, normally a 195-pounder, claimed a 4-0 decision over Nick Sharp at 220, while in the most entertaining bout of the night, McKeehan moved up from 220 to heavyweight and edged Zach Theis, 7-6. McKeehan trailed the match 6-2, but scored a reversal and three-point near fall in the waning moments of the second period to go in front. “He’s a big guy,” McKeehan said, “and I guess I got his

hips moving just enough that I was able to pop my head out and bing-bada-boom, I got myself some points.” Theis started the third period on top, but was unable to turn McKeehan to get the points he needed to pull out the match. “The original plan was to have Connor sit this one out,” Bayer said. “Our heavyweight got hurt during the warmups, and so it forced my hand to bump Connor up to 285 to wrestle their 280-pound heavyweight. I’m real proud of his effort taking that on. It worked out well. The original plan was to just have Watson and our heavyweight [Mitchell] Kruz, wrestle.” Bayer said Kruz tweaked a shoulder muscle, but should be ready to go for next week’s regional. Kaneland coach Monty Jahns said he wasn’t surprised to see Watson move up a class, a move made easier because the Knights had to forfeit at 182 and 195 pounds.

“Being he’s a senior, I was counting on that,” Jahns said. “Those two matches, we could have definitely wrestled better, especially the heavyweight match.” The night got off to a good start for Kaneland with Dan Goress recording a pin at 145 pounds in only 42 seconds and Kagen Workman winning a 14-5 major decision at 152. But 160-pounder Jon Wagner got Batavia (14-12) on the board with a fall in 2:25, and Nick Offutt worked a bear hug into a pin 2:52 into the 170-pound match. McKeehan, a junior, said it was during Wagner’s match that he found out he would be wrestling at heavyweight. “It was great,” he said of the victory. “It felt really nice. Brought back some old memories of wrestling freshman heavyweight and getting squished.” Bayer said McKeehan was giving up 70 pounds in the match. “He kept good position.

We’ve worked on that with him all season,” Bayer said. “He fought the whole way and that’s hard to do when you’re giving up that much weight.” Michael Doranski added a pin at 106 to cap Batavia’s 36-point run before Stephen Gust scored a technical fall for Kaneland (13-13) at 113. The Knights also got a pin from David Barnhart at 126 pounds sandwiched between a couple Batavia forfeits. In the night’s final match, Kaneland senior Esai Ponce claimed a 4-1 decision over Charlie Smoreczewski at 138 pounds, sealing the victory with a reversal at the start of the third period. “I knew I could get an easy stand-up once I had his wrists,” Ponce said. “That’s usually my move, to grab the wrists and then come up. When I turned around, I didn’t think he would expect a quick shot, so I just went for it. I knew that would pretty much be the match if I could hold him down from that point.”

PGA TOUR: FARMERS INSURANCE OPEN

Woods atop the leaderboard By DOUG FERGUSON The Associated Press SAN DIEGO – Tiger Woods made it look easy on a dreary day at Torrey Pines and wound up in a place he hasn’t been in five years. He had the 36-hole lead by himself at one of his favorite PGA Tour stops. Woods didn’t miss a shot during a four-hole stretch around the turn on the North Course that included a 5-iron to 5 feet for eagle and a wedge that one-hopped off the pin to set up birdie. It carried him to a 7-under-par 65 on Friday and gave him a two-shot lead in the Farmers Insurance Open. “I feel good right now,”

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Tiger Woods watches his tee shot on the 15th hole of the north course at the Torrey Pines during the second round of the Farmers Insurance Open on Friday in San Diego. Woods said. “I’m leading the tournament.” Woods was at 11-under 133 and had a two-shot lead over Billy Horschel, with six other players two shots behind. Already a favorite with seven wins as a pro at Torrey Pines,

Woods had even more in his favor going into the weekend. He had a 74-0 edge in PGA Tour wins against the next seven players behind him. Horschel, who had to go back to Q-school to get his card last year, had a 69 on the

South Course to get into the final group. “It’s a good day and I’m excited about tomorrow – I get to play with Tiger,” Horschel said. “I found out when I tapped in for par. I realized he was leading and I was in second place. So yeah, looking forward to that.” Woods caught a break in the draw by playing the easier North – it’s about 600 yards shorter – on a day of light rain, a late breeze and soft conditions. But he kept the ball in play off the tee, and he only got in trouble once. That was on the par-4 eighth hole when he drove into a tough lie in the bunker, and it led to his only bogey.

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This 2012 photo, provided by Colorado State University, shows a golden retriever, Louie Mesinger, in his backyard during the summer in Boulder, Colo. The Golden Retriever Lifetime Study will be the largest and longest study of dogs ever conducted. For Louie and 2,999 other purebred golden retrievers who are chosen over the next two years, their lives, usually a 10-to-14-year life span, will be tracked for genetic, nutritional and environmental risks to help scientists and veterinarians find ways to prevent canine cancer.

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hen Jay Mesinger heard about a study seeking golden retrievers to help fight canine cancer, he immediately signed up 2-year-old Louie. He and his wife know firsthand the toll of canine cancer: Louie is their fourth golden retriever. The first three died of cancer. “They all had long lives but were taken by complications from one kind of cancer or another,” said the Boulder, Colo., businessman. For Louie and 2,999 other purebred goldens, it will be the study of a lifetime. Their lives – usually a 10-to-14-year span – will be tracked for genetic, nutritional and environmental risks to help scientists and veterinarians find ways to prevent canine cancer, widely considered the No. 1 cause of death in older dogs, said Dr. Rodney Page. The Golden Retriever Lifetime Study will be the largest and longest dog study ever conducted, said Page, the study’s principal investigator, a professor of veterinary oncology and the director of the Flint Animal Cancer Center at Colorado State University. The study will focus on three cancers that can be fatal to the dogs, including bone cancer, lymphoma (cancer of the lymph nodes) and a cancer in the blood vessels called hemangiosarcoma, Page said. He also expects the data to yield information about other dog diseases, like arthritis, hip dysplasia, hormonal and skin disorders and epilepsy, he said. The Morris Animal Foundation, a 64-year-old group based in Denver, is providing much of the $25 million needed for the study. The rest will be funded through online public donations that allow people to sponsor one of the 3,000 canine volunteers. The study is recruiting purebred golden retrievers under the age of 2 whose pedigree can be traced back at

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In this Dec. 17 photo provided by Colorado State University, Dr. Rodney L. Page, professor of oncology and director of the CSU Flint Animal Cancer Center, sits on a sofa with a golden retriever, Winston, in the lobby of the James L. Voss Veterinary Teaching Hospital at Colorado State University, in Fort Collins, Colo. Winston is a pet of a co-worker, and not part of the cancer study. The Golden Retriever Lifetime Study will be the largest and longest study of dogs ever conducted, said Page, the study’s principal investigator. least three generations. The breed was chosen because “they are very common. They are the fourth- or fifth-most common dog recognized by the American Kennel Club. They are wonderful companions for people and found in every walk of human endeavor,” Page said. Researchers were seeking young dogs because “knowing the history of their lives provides huge advantages,” Page said. Those involved in the study compared the work to the Framingham Heart Study, which has tracked a group of humans and their descendants from Framingham, Mass., since 1948. Dr. Nancy Bureau, Mesinger’s veterinarian at the Alpine Animal Hospital in Boulder, said that given the condensed lifespan of a dog, it might not take a decade to see results from the study.

“Before this group of volunteer dogs has left this world, hopefully we will have data to help even them,” she said. A pilot study of 50 dogs started in August 2012, and Page said preliminary results from that first group should be ready soon and reportable results could be possible in a year. Work on the study started about four years ago. After funding was approved, scientific and research teams were formed, the database was set up, a bio-lab found to store the samples and a questionnaire was written. The recruitment of volunteer dogs was expected to be done in two years, with most of it spent on verifying eligibility and participation. Page said it takes about four weeks to verify pedigree and health, and make sure a dog’s owner and

veterinarian will participate. So far, 200 dogs have accepted the invitation, and 600 others are on a waiting list. Bureau, who also has a golden retriever client on the waiting list, said it’s a privilege to be part of a groundbreaking study. Aside from researchers, participating veterinarians probably have the most work – they have to submit samples of blood, urine and hair during annual exams and report whenever they treat a volunteer dog for any reason. Study leaders will not intervene or recommend any treatment, Page said. “We will work with the vets working with the pets. We will catalog all the things that happen, the medical history, the diet, environment and exposures.” The vets hope the study eventually will benefit humans. Researchers will pay particular attention to early onset obesity in dogs to see how it is related to diabetes, Page said. Dog-years are a benefit to researching ailments found in both dogs and humans, because studying a dog for 10 years is akin to studying a human for 60 or 70 years, said Dr. Wayne Jensen, the Morris Animal Foundation’s chief scientific officer and executive director. “There are many examples where risk factors in dogs have also been found in people,” said Jensen. The study also will try to measure factors in a dog’s life, such as how fun and an owner’s love affect the animal’s health and longevity. That will be attempted through questions about the number of children or other pets in the owner’s family, the amount of time spent together – and the dog’s sleeping spot. Mesinger knows the answer to that one off the top of his head: “In bed, with my wife and I.”

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Family Time | Tips for parents to reduce stress, feel good

Tip of the week Few Americans are more timestrapped than parents. From the moment the alarm chimes, it can feel like a race to get through the day. From prepping for school or day care, to finalizing school projects and running to after-school activities, there’s hardly a moment to spare! And with career demands, the stress of being a busy parent can really set in and negatively affect the body in many ways. Luckily, some simple tips can help you reduce stress and feel your very best while being a good mom or dad to your family. Dr. Keri Marshall, a licensed naturopathic doctor who specializes in pediatrics, women’s medicine and chronic disease management, understands the high demands of modern parenting. She offers some important tips that all parents should

consider to help reduce stress and improve overall health and well-being. 1. Time management. “Time management is key for reducing stress and helping busy parents keep their sanity. The problem is that time management is a skill that must be learned, not something we’re born with,” says Marshall. “Staying organized can help you achieve all your goals.” Whether it’s a traditional calendar on the wall, making lists, or a new smartphone app, organize your week and share your schedule with all family members. Remember to manage priorities – you may have to push grocery shopping a day or two in order to make a child’s band concert or big game. “Also, be sure to schedule breaks throughout the day,” reminds Marshall. “Just five or 10 minutes here and there can give you the pause you need to stay calm and collected.” 2. Nourish your body. What you put into your body makes a huge difference in how you feel. Some foods can even help reduce stress and boost your immunity so you don’t wind up sick, something busy parents simply don’t have time for. “Being stressed causes the body’s cortisol levels to rise,” explains Marshall. “This stress hormone can cause

you to crave unhealthy foods, so resist temptation and eat foods that help calm the body and balance hormones and blood sugar. Foods high in vitamin C, like berries and other bright-colored fruit, are great for boosting the immune system and balancing cortisol levels.” 3. Prioritize sleep. “Physical stress can make it difficult to sleep. People stay up later trying to get things done, and then when they do go to bed, they have trouble turning their brain off at the end of the day,” says Marshall. Keep in mind, quality sleep each night can help keep your body healthy and increase your productivity levels at work and at home. By making sleep a priority, you’ll help ensure that you make the most of every hour in every day. While the National Sleep Foundation notes that the amount of sleep needed varies from person to person, generally seven to nine hours is considered optimal to maintain health. 4. Share the workload. You know the adage: It takes a village to raise a child? Well, today’s parents are busier than ever, and often they think they need to do it all themselves. Leaning on friends and relatives to help out when needed can dramatically reduce your stress. Plus, it can be a fun

change of pace for kids. “Don’t be afraid to ask for help,” says Marshall. “Raising children is one of life’s greatest adventures, but no one can do it all. There’s no shame in asking Grandma to run the kids to soccer or having a friend watch the kids for a few hours because you have a work deadline. Plus, it is great bonding time for your children and the loved ones in their life. – Brandpoint

Family movie night

“Gangster Squad” Rated: R Length: 113 minutes Synopsis: A secret crew of police officers led by two determined sergeants work together in an effort to take down the ruthless mob king Mickey Cohen, who runs the city. Violence/scary rating: 5 Sexual-content rating: 4 Profanity rating: 5 Drugs/alcohol rating: 4 Family Time rating: Definitely an R movie, mostly because of the violence. Older teens may be able to watch, but you make the call. (Ratings are judged on a five-point scale, with 5 being “bad for kids” and 1 being “fine for kids.”)

Book report “Captain Underpants and the Revolting Revenge of the Radioactive Robo-Boxers,” by Dav Pilkey Ages: 7 to 10 Pages: 192 Synopsis: When we last saw our heroes, George and Harold, they had been turned into evil zombie nerds doomed to roam a devastated, post-apocalyptic planet for all eternity. But why, you might ask, didn’t the amazing Captain Underpants save the boys from this frightening fate? Because Tippy Tinkletrousers and his time-traveling hijinks prevented George and Harold from creating Captain Underpants in the first place! Now, having changed the course of human history forever, they’ll have to figure out a way to CHANGE IT BACK. Could this be the end for Captain Underpants?! – Scholastic Inc.

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A study published in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology found that college students who watch reality TV beauty shows are twice as likely to get tans – indoors or outdoors – than those who don’t watch such shows.

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John and Linda Hopwood of Lee will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary on Jan. 26. They both grew up in the Shabbona-Lee area and were high school sweethearts. They were married Jan. 26, 1963, at Calvary Lutheran Church in Lee. They have four children, Suzanne (Brian) Walter of Lima, Ohio; Beth (John) Talkington of Fox River Grove; Chris (Liz) Hopwood of Peachtree City, Ga.; and Heidi (Jeremy) Bergman of Sycamore. They also have nine grandchildren, Justin, Rachel and Ben Walter; Drew, Ellie and Will Talkington; Hailey Hopwood and Jenna and Brody Bergman.

Lisa and Anthony Jensen of Sycamore announce the engagement of her daughter Emily Elizabeth Draper to Brian Kurt Yoakam. Emily is the daughter of Lisa (Anthony) Jensen of Sycamore and the late Kenneth Draper of Hopkins, Minn. She is the granddaughter of Beverly and Paul Skelly, the late James Bangs, Willard and Jonell Draper of Sycamore and Roberta Jensen of Oregon, Ill. Emily graduated from Sycamore High School in 2007 and earned a bachelor’s degree in sociology from the University of Colorado in June 2011. She resides in Santa Maria, Calif., and is employed at Cambria Winery in Santa Maria. Brian is the son of Paul and Laura Yoakam of Chesapeake, Va. He is the grandson of Janice Mounie of Virginia Beach, Va., and Ted and Dolores Yoakam of Arma, Kansas. Brian graduated from Hickory High School in 2003 and earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Virginia in 2007. He is a United States Air Force Captain stationed at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Brian proposed to Emily at the Pismo Beach, Calif., July 4 fireworks celebration with a hot air balloon ride scheduled the next morning. A 2013 wedding is planned.

We Care Pregnancy Clinic recently recognized volunteers and staff who have served more than five years. Pictured (from left) are Cindy Peterson, nine years, Sharon Olson, 11 years, Katie Mehne, 20 years, Vicki Halstead, five years, Pat Young, seven years, Sue Hildebrandt, six years, Nancy Mauch, 10 years, Mark Harbecke, five years. Not pictured are Bonnie Jones, seven years, Pam Ford, six years, and Kathy White, 15 years. To learn more about We Care’s services or how to volunteer, visit www.WeCarePregnancyClinic.org.

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50th anniversary Bob and Garnet Jordal of DeKalb will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary on Feb. 2. The couple are lifelong farmers of DeKalb. They have two children, Nicole (Dave) Bachert and Stacey Enslen, both of DeKalb. They also have three grandchildren, Mitch, 23, and Taylor, 19, Enslen and Lucas Bachert, 2. They will celebrate this milestone with a family dinner and a trip to Florida. Cards would be appreciated. Send them to Mr. and Mrs Robert Jordal, 14244 E. Gurler Road, DeKalb IL 60115.

Chad and Jessica (Shott) Megginson of Pawnee announce the birth of a son, Lance Carter Megginson, born Dec. 8, 2012, at St. John’s Hospital, Springfield. He weighed 7 pounds, 14 ounces, and was welcomed home by Lane Mitchell, 4, and Lydia Grace, 2. Grandparents are John and Diana Shott of Genoa and Mike and Sandy Megginson of Springfield. Great-grandparents are Dolly Bruder of Genoa, Richard and Betty Shott of Roscoe, Dwayne and Charlotte Colson of Springfield and Mary Megginson of Rockford.

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The Sycamore Township supervisor and trustees recently voted to provide Voluntary Action Center a grant of $500 to help replace its 20-year-old steamtable used for the Meals on Wheels program. The DeKalb County Community Foundation provided a grant to cover the remaining cost. The equipment will help ensure the quality and safety of the Meals on Wheels which are prepared at the Sycamore kitchen and delivered throughout DeKalb County. Pictured (from left) are Russ Josh, Sycamore Township trustee; Ron Mullen, Voluntary Action Center Volunteer Services coordinator and Barbara Young, township supervisor.

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Hooper Ryan and Tracy Hooper of Sycamore announce the birth of a son, Edison James Hooper, born Jan. 8, 2013, at Central DuPage Hospital, Winfield. He weighed 8 pounds, 4 ounces, and was welcomed by Eleanor, 2. Grandparents are Mark and Sandy Whitman of DeKalb and Barry and Martha Jane Hooper of Cortland. Great-grandparents are Lucille Whitman of DeKalb, Irma Knoll of DeKalb and Katherine Hortenstine of Lubbock, Texas.

——— To submit Milestones to the Daily Chronicle, email information to news@daily-chronicle.com, send information to 1586 Barber Greene Road, DeKalb, IL 60115, or stop in the office to fill out a form. Forms also are available online at www.daily-chronicle.com/forms.

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Sweet Adelines will hold a worldwide Singapalooza in February. Prairie Echoes Chorus of Sweet Adelines International invites all women who enjoy singing to their annual guest night from 7:30 to 10 p.m. Feb. 5 at St. Paul Episcopal Church, 900 Normal Road in DeKalb. The chorus sings a variety of music in four-part harmony a cappella style. Join them for singing, food, friendship and fun. The chorus is pictured here with director Donna Bates at Kishwaukee Community Hospital. For more information, call Jessica at 81576-5956 or Jill at 815-895-7916.

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Yao Ming transitions from basketball to wine

Yao Ming introduced the world to Chinese basketball players. A 7-foot-6-inch center, Yao was selected No. 1 overall by the Houston Rockets in the 2002 NBA Draft. Yao spent five years in the Chinese Basketball League before he became a five-time NBA All Star. He was a dominant center that opened doors for other Asian stars to bring their game to the US to compete against the best players in the world. Yao retired in 2011 and wanted to carry on another introduction. With his own wine label, Yao Family Wines, he aims to bring Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon to an emerging Chinese middle class and show American connoisseurs his skills extend beyond the 94 feet of a basketball court.

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The impetus for Yao Ming Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon may have started after the 2002 NBA Draft. Houston provided Yao with exposure to the country’s premiere steakhouses. Steak and Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon is a natural pairing, and a wine for which Yao developed a serious passion. “Yao is dedicated to small

ley Cabernet Sauvignon, 2009 ($170): There’s a huge nose

UNCORKED James Nokes craft production,” said Tom Hinde, president and director of winemaking at Yao Family Wines. “He understands sports was a springboard to his wine career. Yao has been great. He sits in on the meetings and on the blending process and helps drive the style of wine that is made.” Yao and Hinde patiently sought out the vineyards with fruit that represented the style of wine he favored. They set up long-term contracts and farm their own vineyards. It’s a time-consuming endeavor as the Yao Ming Family Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon ($625) spends 24 months in French oak barrels and the Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon ($170) spends 18 months. “It’s like preparing for the birth of a child,” Hinde said. “You paint the room. Buy the clothes. There’s a patience factor involved. It’s a lot less than a scotch maker’s plan. Winemaking takes a lot of patience so when the release finally arrives it’s a very exciting moment.”

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of black cherry and violets in this wine. It isn’t overly ripe or super extracted. A crisp acidity and notes of hot rock and anise nestle around a hint of cedar and firm tannins. It finishes very dry. “There was one premise and that was to make a balanced wine,” Hinde said. “We didn’t want to make a pushy wine or an over-extracted wine. We framed the tannins with the use of oak and good acidity. Those components worked together in harmony.”

Wine 101 The wait was finally over. Harvested in late October 2009, the wine spends 18 months in French oak barrels and is finally released. Winemakers and owners must be incredibly patient as their business model gradually unfolds. “Like the building of a jetliner, it takes years,” Hinde said. “But when the moment arrives everyone is excited.”

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8astrograph By BERNICE BEDE OSOL Newspaper Enterprise Association

TODAY – Even though you are likely to have the edge over your opposition in the year ahead, you’ll still have to earn every one of your victories. Chances are, they won’t be awarded without a hard-fought contest. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) – Don’t let a co-worker whose abilities are not up to your standards become empowered to dictate the collective course of action. Be firm and remain in control. PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) – If you are impelled to work on tasks that you find distasteful, there’s a chance your performance won’t be up to its usual high standard. If you can, set it aside until you’re in a better frame of mind. ARIES (March 21-April 19) – Even if you’re used to making all the rules, abide by the will of the majority. If you don’t, you could be attacked for defending an untenable position. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) – When it comes to career situations, keep your guard up and be ready to fight or change course. Opposition from several unexpected sources is extremely probable. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) – Do not discuss your ideas with others, especially with someone who is known to plagiarize. This person will be true to form. CANCER (June 21-July 22) – Be particularly careful about getting involved in a tricky financial arrangement. It could be a ploy to demand an even larger cash outlay from all participants in the near future. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) – Avoid teaming up with an individual who is known to be underhanded. You won’t be very comfortable watching this person operate. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) – Guard against a strong inclination to make things much harder on yourself than they need to be. A tendency to do so would definitely impede your progress. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) – Be extremely selective regarding any social invitations you might receive. There’s a strong chance you could get caught up in a group of people that you won’t like at all. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) – Both you and your special someone must be of the same mindset where an important issue is concerned. Discord could occur if one decides something without the consent of the other. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) – Generally, you love endeavors of a mental nature, but since your powers of concentration are not apt to be up to par currently, you should be careful. Small mistakes are likely. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) – Don’t open your wallet to someone who never makes good on debts. If you do, you’ll just be reinforcing this person’s bad habit.

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Reader annoyed by phone should talk, not walk Dear Abby: In today’s world, there are people who apparently cannot exist detached from their cellphones. In case you are wondering – yes, I do have one, but I use it only for emergencies, not idle banter. If I’m trying to hold a conversation with someone and he/she is playing with an electronic toy, I get up and walk away. It’s obvious to me that my company isn’t worth the person’s time, so neither is theirs. If I am in a restaurant and people start texting, I get up and go and leave the person with the bill. (Of course, I make sure I have eaten first.) In other words, I show them the same amount of courtesy they have shown me, which is none. What do you think of the statement I’m trying to make? – Over It in Paterson, N.J. Dear Over It: Has it occurred to you that the person may not realize why you walked away? You could communicate your message more effectively if you spoke up when your companion reached for the cellphone and SAID you’d prefer your visit not be interrupted because you feel it is rude. Dear Abby: About a year ago I caught my otherwise loving, loyal and well-providing husband checking online porn. I have trust issues that he knows about. I feel violated

DEAR ABBY Jeanne Phillips and hurt. He says, “Everyone does it.” I take great pain to maintain my appearance and my body. Although I’m almost 50, many consider me to be “hot.” He lies about a lot of little things, but he seems to love me. My question is, is that enough? Do all men REALLY fantasize constantly? Since I started menopause, I want him all the time. It is such a relief to know I can’t get pregnant again – it is a time of renewal for me. Then I caught him online. How would he feel if I were looking at younger men? Instead of a wonderful opportunity for us to discover our real selves again, I constantly wonder what he’s “really” thinking. Should I cut my losses or focus on the positive? This has hurt me so much I can barely stand it. – Betrayed in Florida Dear Betrayed: Porn is easily available, and many men look at it without it being a danger to their marriages. And yes, they do fantasize often. If you can, it might be helpful to encourage your husband to discuss with you his reason

for doing it. It may have nothing to do with you, and more to do with issues of his own. Before you let this ruin a perfectly good marriage, it might be helpful for you to talk with a therapist about your trust issues and what they stem from. The therapist may recommend joint counseling with your spouse, and you should consider that, too. You have a right to the kind of fulfilling marital relationship you desire, but it won’t happen unless there is honest, open communication and understanding between you and your husband. Dear Abby: My fiance’s friend “Art” and his wife, “Julie,” just had a baby. While Julie was pregnant she asked my fiance and me to be godparents. Although we could not attend her baby shower due to a previous commitment, we contributed several gifts as well as a quilt I had made. A few weeks later, Julie posted on her social networking site that she was thankful for her baby’s godparents and named an entirely different couple – not us. I am offended. If she had discussed her reason for the change with me, I would have understood. But there was no dialogue, and to this day I have never received so much as a thank-you for our shower presents.

I would like to distance myself from Julie, but without damaging the relationship between Art and my fiance, who thinks I am overreacting and should let it go. What are your thoughts? – Not A Godmother Dear Not A Godmother: Julie may have been upset that you and your fiance didn’t attend the baby shower, or she may have spoken too quickly when she asked you to be godparents and didn’t have the courage to say so. Whether you can let this go only you can decide, but I do think that before you make up your mind, you should have a chat with her and clear the air – if only because your fiance and her husband are such good friends. Dear Abby: My husband’s younger sister, “Cindy,” is mentally ill. She has caused tremendous problems in the family. She has been arrested too many times to remember and is now on five years’ probation for injury to a child. My in-laws continue making excuses for her and are the worst enablers I have ever known. My husband once urged his dad to put Cindy into a group home or program that will take care of her because his parents are getting up in years. They refuse because

it would mean they’d have to have Cindy officially committed, and they think there is still some magic doctor out there who will fix her. Can my husband do anything as a last effort before something happens to one of his parents, or she winds up in jail? – Sad in Texas Dear Sad: Your husband should try to convince his parents to get some family counseling. It might help them accept that their daughter needs more help than they are equipped to give her. An outside, objective person should weigh in so that Cindy can get the professional help she so obviously needs. If she is physically, psychologically or emotionally abusing her parents, Adult Protective Services can step in to be sure they are protected. When your in-laws pass away, if your sister-in-law becomes a danger to herself or those around her, a family member can request a commitment and psychological evaluation.

• Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Write Dear Abby at www.DearAbby. com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

Digestive process is a marvel of nature’s engineering Dear Dr. K: Can you describe how food makes its way through our body, from the mouth to the other end? Dear Reader: This question is fun to answer, because the gut is a marvel of nature’s engineering. It’s both a food processor and a garbage disposal. First, it works as a food processor, breaking down food and liquids into chemical components that the body can absorb as nutrients. Then, what’s left – the garbage – is expelled by an efficient disposal system. The food you eat is of no value to you unless it is broken up into microscopically small pieces, and those pieces get absorbed from the gut into the bloodstream. Those tiny

ASK DR. K Anthony L. Komaroff pieces become the building blocks for everything your body needs to function. The gastrointestinal (GI), or digestive, tract is a series of hollow organs. They’re linked to form a long tube that runs from mouth to anus. First comes the throat and esophagus, then the stomach, small intestine and colon. The walls of the tube contain muscles that perform different functions. (I’ve put an illustration of the GI tract on my website.) (1) Digestion begins in the mouth, where food is chewed

until it’s small enough to be swallowed. The teeth chop the food up into small pieces – but pieces you can see. Chemicals called enzymes in saliva begin to digest these pieces further. (2) Once food is swallowed, it enters the throat and then the esophagus. Food does not simply drop down the esophagus; it is pushed by contractions of the esophageal muscles. These muscles squeeze in a coordinated way to move food from the top to the bottom of the tube, always pushing it downward. At the bottom of the esophagus, where it meets the stomach, there is a muscular sphincter. When it’s working properly, this sphincter remains shut except when

you’re swallowing, to prevent stomach acid from irritating the esophagus. (3) Once the food moves into the stomach, muscles mix it into a soft mush. Saliva, hydrochloric acid and the enzyme pepsin help to further break down the food into a thick liquid called chyme. The stomach delivers chyme to the small intestine. (4) The main work of digestion takes place in the small intestine. That’s where the fats, starches and proteins in your food are turned into the tiniest pieces – fatty acids, simple sugars and amino acids. These nutrients are absorbed by the intestine’s thin lining and then transported in the blood to cells throughout

the body. (5) Finally, what’s left of the food arrives in the large intestine, the colon. The walls of this muscular tube soak up most of the remaining water. Bacteria in the colon feast on the little nutrition left in your food. What’s left is propelled further down the colon. It settles in the rectum, until you release it during a bowel movement. The garbage disposal has made room for the next shipment from the food processor!

• Dr. Komaroff is a physician and professor at Harvard Medical School. Visit www. AskDoctorK.com to send questions and get additional information.

8TODAY’S WEEKEND PUZZLE ACROSS

1 Small pansies 7 A moon of Jupiter 12 Did an office chore 17 Lump of jelly, say 21 For no profit (2 wds.) 22 Office copier 23 Muse of poetry 24 Dublin’s land 25 Cascade volcano 26 Train, e.g. (2 wds.) 28 Gossipy Barrett 29 Stockholm carrier 30 Thoroughly soak 32 Moon goddess 33 More nasty 35 Breezed through 37 Sieved pulp 38 Cornfield sight 39 Radiators’ needs 40 Stratum 42 British inc. 43 Tsp. and oz. 44 Thoroughly 45 Gets one’s goat 47 Feeling 48 Vicar’s residence 49 Lib. collection 52 Vapor 53 Kind of pool 54 Mansfield of film 55 Wisecrack 59 Surpassed 61 Be an omen 62 Old name for Xiamen 63 Cluster 64 Unit of capacitance 65 Turner of Hollywood 66 Optimist’s phrase (2 wds.) 67 Caterwauled 68 “Spare tire” 69 Picard’s foe 70 Muscle twinges 72 Prize marble 73 Nose-bag bit 74 Honor in style 75 Chinese warehouses 76 Ruby and garnet 77 Drink like a cat 80 Slowly vanishes

82 Make tapestries 83 End a relationship 84 First Amendment org. 85 Mystical knowledge 87 Kind of muffin 88 Construction toy 89 Grill 90 Mr. Goldfinger 91 Comply with 92 Indigo plants 94 Alpaca and guanaco 95 Eliminates 96 Dawns, in poetry 97 Swelter 98 Opposite of cheer 99 WNW opposite 100 Has much status 101 Concert proceeds 102 Big Dipper neighbor 104 Pygmalion’s statue 107 Not much, to Juan 108 Yes, in Kyoto 109 Most arias 113 Incoming train 114 Autobahn auto 115 Stephen King’s state 117 “I thought we — — deal!” 118 November meteor shower 119 Handel contemporary 120 Low beams 122 Not decaf 123 Extol 124 In a scientific manner 127 Letting up 129 Caesar’s bones 130 Get in touch 131 Cinema’s Sal — 132 Fold 133 PGA pegs 134 Wander 135 Dukes 136 With a hint of color

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1 Feudal tenant 2 Ulysses’ home 3 “Juno and the Paycock” playwright 4 — Lobos of music 5 — spumante 6 Philately item 7 Authorities 8 Ogled 9 Crawled out of bed 10 Hawser 11 Guns N’ Roses star 12 Thighbones 13 Golf clubs 14 Pumice source 15 Bastille Day season 16 Small rodent 17 President Ford

18 Big name in trains 19 Crabby 20 Shaggy animals 27 Delight 31 Tractor preceders 34 Dresden single 36 “The,” to Wolfgang 38 Hot coal 39 Pretty, in Perth 41 Unyielding 43 Aborigine of Japan 44 Man-made fiber 46 Young fellow 47 First-magnitude star 48 Half the parents 49 Great, in Variety 50 — Lumpur 51 Bard festival site 53 — -ho (avid) 54 Garage gadgets

55 Je ne sais — 56 Not invited again 57 Luge surface 58 Univ. degree 60 Apply makeup 61 Bern’s river 63 More than asks 65 Zillions 66 “Bus Stop” author 67 Execs 69 Some queens 70 Zen riddle 71 Packing doc. 72 “Dynamic” prefix 74 Acct. insurer 75 Track prelims 76 Chokes or jokes 78 Assumed name 79 Beat or throb 81 Sale disclaimer (2 wds.)

82 Nest builders 83 Volcano goddess 84 A Knute successor 85 Needlefish 86 Rapa — 87 Cleveland exurb 88 Be fond of 89 Alliances 91 Exit ramp sight 92 Ancient calculators 93 Its HQ is Brussels 94 Mauna — 96 Cape wavers 98 Pickle juice 100 Shankar the sitarist 101 Dressmaker’s insert 102 Shogun’s feudal lords

103 “— -la-la!” 104 Lubricate 105 Galvanize 106 Blair and Evans 107 Dazed 108 Gertrude’s son 110 Dogie catcher 111 Danish port 112 Gave in the middle 113 Ration 114 Betel nut source 115 Behaviors 116 On both feet 119 Barely open 120 Ovid’s 507 121 Graceful wrap 125 Place a wager 126 World banking org. 128 D.C. figure

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Sycamore Park District seeks a part-time Office Assistant to work in its main office for 12 to 15 hours a week. A high school diploma is required with an associate degree preferred, and a minimum of two years comparable work experience. Thorough knowledge in the use of WORD, EXCEL, ACCESS. Familiarity with Point-of-Sale systems. Strong math skills. Submit application inperson, only, to: Jackie Hienbuecher, Supt. Of Finance; 940 East State Street; Sycamore, Illinois 60178 no later than 4:30 PM Friday, February 8, 2013. EOE. Job Description and Application can be found at www.sycamoreparkdistrict.com

RESTORATIVE NURSE DeKalb County Rehab & Nursing Center has a full time position available for a Restorative Nurse. Individual is responsible for assessment, planning and implementation of restorative and safety programs for residents in skilled long-term care facility. Position requirements: RN licensure; long-term care or rehab experience; solid assessment skills; excellent interpersonal & supervisory skills; MDS experience a plus.

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DeKalb County Rehab & Nursing Center has part time positions available for RNs / LPNs on the: Day shift (6:45am-3:00pm) & Evening shift (2:45pm-11:00pm). Excellent benefits Retention bonus Uniform allowance Apply at:

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Full Time Assemblers Positions A local food manufacturer providing innovative food solutions since 1925 is hiring fulltime Assemblers for the 1st and 2nd shift. At The Suter Company you will have a work environment committed to safety, quality and continuous improvement with great benefits. We offer a competitive compensation package, including an exceptional attendance bonus. To apply attend our job fair at the Illinois Worknet Center on February 4, 2013 from 9:00am to 12:00pm located at: 1701 E. Lincoln Hwy. DeKalb, IL 60115

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The Blue Book Building and Construction Network, an EmployeeOwned enterprise, has an excellent opportunity for an experienced field Sales Account Manager interested in building long term business relationships within the commercial construction industry. Our current opening is in: West Chicagoland Area/Rockford, IL. As an Account Manager, you will: Learn and be highly knowledgeable in The Blue Book Building and Construction Network's cutting-edge work flow solutions for the Commercial construction industry. Convey your commitment to drive the industry forward by bringing exposure to our customers, bringing buyers and sellers together. Be forward thinking, looking out into the industry, understanding where the industry is headed, and helping our customers get there. Make a personal commitment to long term customer relationships with face-to-face meetings within your protected territory. From start to finish, learn about our superior business value prop and highly valued customers. This is your opportunity to help the architectural, manufacturing, and construction industry get connected, be more productive, and compete in a highly technology-driven economy. Secure appointments, create, and deliver customized presentations tailored to your customer's specific business growth goals. Work within a team environment which includes building internal relationships with Product Specialists to provide feedback, share best practices, and develop selling strategies. Contribute to product development by providing customer and prospect feedback on Blue Book Network products and services. Reach and exceed weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual sales goals through timely renewals, increased business and new account growth through service calls, one-on-one presentations, job site visits and industry-specific networking activities. Preferred Qualifications: Bachelors Degree and/or equivalent industry experience preferably in On-line Media Sales and/or the architectural/ product manufacturing/ construction industries Successful track record and proven experience within a B2B sales and marketing vertical Strong sales skills including prospecting, forecasting, presenting, and closing Strong proficiency with computer apps, Windows-based software and Microsoft applications. Experience with CRM software is a plus! Exceptional time and territory management skills Excellent verbal and written communication skills Ability to work independently and as part of a team Strong analytical skills Daily travel is required within a protected territory and to scheduled regional team meetings Benefits include: Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, companypaid life, with buy-up, Paid time off, 401-k with outstanding Company match, and our Employee Stock Ownership Plan.

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$99 1st Month's Rent BIG ROCK, 29 ACRE FARM House, barn & outbuildings on Jones Rd., 60541. Absolutely priced to sell, $395,000 Mike, 630-918-1795.

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MARK MARTIN #6 Valvoline Jacket w/ patches. Brand New. $50 obo. 815-260-9004

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Barbie, Bob Mackie Gold, ,$250. Millenium Princess, Benefit Ball Classique, $100 Ea. All excellent condition in box. 630-229-9323 Plano Comic books. Large assortment, collectible #1 editions, all excellent shape. $175 630-229-9323 Plano

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Models of Yesteryear, made in England in 1970, $150. 630-232-1080

Commode – Indoor – Very Durable – Will Hold 250-300lb. Person Stainless Steel w/White Seat & Lid 815-385-0992

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Men's Bike. Trek 7200 Series. Paid $550. MUST SELL: $270 224-523-2850

ICE SKATES, BOYS - used once. Like brand new. Size 7. $20 815-762-7584

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STROLLERS – Double stroller $20. Single stroller $15. Both in good condition. 815-762-7584

CATCHERS MITT Mike Piazza Catchers Mitt. Professional model. Great condition. $45. 847-515-8012 Huntley area

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Fire Fighter Gear – Old – Helmet, Coat & Boots – Worn Condition $50 obo 815-991-5149

BOWLING BALL 14 lb - Great for a beginner. $15. 815-762-7584

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Valley West Community Hospital, located in Sandwich, IL, is a progressive and growing hospital equipped with dedicated professionals who are committed to meeting the healthcare needs of the community we serve. We are currently recruiting for a:

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THESE 2 BUILDINGS WERE IN THE DAY TO DAY OPERATIONS OF THE DEKALB CLINIC, THE MAIN CLINIC LOCATED AT 217 FRANKLIN ST IS ZONED CENTRAL; BUSINESS DISTRICT AND HAS 36,150 SQ.FT. THE BUILDING HAS A BASEMENT AND FULLY FUNCTIONING UTILITY’S WITH CITY WATER, SEWER AND 3PH ELECTRIC. THE BUILDING IS FULLY COMPLIANT FOR THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITY’S ACT AND HAS 3 PARKING LOTS. THE SOUTH LOT HOLDS 32 CARS AND MEASURES 66X156. THE NORTH LOT HOLDS 27 CARS AND IS 66X165. THE EAST LOT HOLDS 20 CARS. THE BUILDING HAS BEEN MAINTAINED AND IS FULLY OPERATIONAL. CALL AUCTIONEERS FOR A DETAILED SHOWING AND INSPECTION OF THIS 36,000SQ.FT FACILITY. THE EAST CLINIC BUILDING IS LOCATED AT 302 GROVE ST. AND IS 14,285 SQ.FT. WITH A PARTIAL UNFINISHED BASEMENT. THE ROOF IS IN NEED OF SOME REPAIR AS SOME LEAKING IS OCCURRING. THE BUILDING IS FULLY FUNCTIONAL AND HAS BEEN MAINTAINED SINCE THE MOVE OUT THIS BUILDING HAS A LARGE 80+ CAR PARKING LOT. THE BUILDING IS ALSO IN THE CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT WITH FULL CITY WATER, SEWER AND 3PH ELECTRIC. CALL AUCTIONEERS FOR A DETAILED SHOWING AND INSPECTION OF THE BUILDING. DOWNTOWN PROPERTIES OF THIS SIZE AND WITH PARKING LOTS DON’T COME ALONG VERY OFTEN. NOW IS THE TIME TO INVEST IN REAL ESTATE! TALK TO YOUR LENDER TODAY, COME WITH A VISION TO SEE WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH A PROPERTY LIKE THIS AND BID YOUR PRICE AT AUCTION! TERMS FOR AUCTION: $10,000.00 DOWN ON AUCTION DAY. BALANCE DUE ON APRIL 15TH 2013. A 10% BUYERS PREMIUM WILL BE ADDED TO THE FINAL BID TO DETERMINE THE FINAL CONTRACT PRICE. AUCTIONEERS WILL GLADLY COOPERATE WITH OTHER REAL ESTATE OFFICES OR BROKERS IF YOU REGISTER ANY BIDDER BEFORE THE AUCTION OR ON AUCTION DAY. PROPERTY BEING OFFERED AS-IS, WITH OUT ANY CONTINGENCIES TO FINANCING, APPRAISAL OR ANY OTHER TYPE OF CONTINGENCIES. SELLERS WILL PAY FOR DEED PREPARATION AND TITLE COMMITMENT FOR SELLERS. TAXES ARE TO BE PRO-RATED TO CLOSING DATE. ANNOUNCEMENTS MADE AUCTION DAY TAKE PRECEDENCE OVER ALL OTHER.

DEKALB CLINIC CHARTERED, OWNER KEITH FOSTER, ATTORNEY

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DEKALB - 2BR, 1BA to 2BA APTS. Multiple Locations $650-$725 Pittsley Realty (815)756-7768 WWW.PITTSLEYREALTY.COM DEKALB - 3BR 1BA Apartment W/D Hook-up, Convenient location 1029 S. 4th St. $675/mo Call Pittsley Realty (815)756-7768 DeKalb - 3BR 3Ba Apartment W/D, Central A/C, Dishwasher AVAIL. NOW $975/mo Call Pittsley Realty 815-756-7768

DeKalb - Large Quiet 2BR

Newly remodeled, near NIU. Parking/heat/water incl, W/D, C/A. 815-238-0118

DEKALB 1 BEDROOM

Available on Locust St. $500/mo. 815-758-5000

DEKALB 1BR & 2BR

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

The Knolls

Stone Prairie

Hot new deluxe townhomes.

2BR, 2BA APT.

Washer & dryer, central air, fireplace, exercise center. Cat friendly. Private fishing. $760/mo.

2 & 3 Bedrooms. Garage, C/A, Basement. Pets?

Starting at $645

Laing Mgmt.

815-757-1907

815-758-1100 or 815-895-8600 Sublease1 bedroom apartment near NIU now & receive $600 CASH (1 mo FREE rent). Clean, quiet, gas, water, heat incl, $600/mo. 630 728-3828 SYCAMORE 2 BEDRM - Mature Lifestyle. Nice, Quiet & sunny. Off St parking, no smoking/dogs. On-site lndry. Kris 815-501-1872

DEKALB - Large 4 BR, 3BA 2 Story Duplex, Full basement, W/D, 2.5 Car Gar, 803 S. 2nd St. Call Pittsley Realty (815)756-7768

Sycamore ~ Electric Park

3BR, appls, finished bsmnt, garage. Water incl. $975/mo. 815-953-7646 or 815-932-3734 Sycamore. Updated. 2BR, hrdwood flrs. 1 car garage, bsmnt, laundry. No pets. Avail now. $850/mo+sec. 815-766-1513

DeKalb Large Studio

Crystal Lake

3BR, 1.5BA brick ranch.

2 car attached heated garage. 2/3 acre lot on quiet street. Close to lake with private beach rights and Crystal Lake Schools. All appliances incl. C/A, baseboard heat. Dogs negotiable. $1350/mo. Avail 3/1.

With balcony, laundry on site. Quiet Lifestyle. $485/mo. 815-758-0600

DEKALB NICE UPPER 3BR

Sycamore E. State St.

Screen porch, yard, bsmt, gar, W/D. $750 + util, water/garbage incl. 1st/last/sec. No pets/smkg. 815-766-0750 https://sites .google.com/site/wfprentals

Newly remodeled 2 Bedroom CALL FOR DETAILS 815-245-6098 ~ 815-923-2521

DeKalb Quiet Studio,1 & 2BR

Sycamore Meadows Apt.

Lease, deposit, ref. No pets.

815-739-5589 ~ 815-758-6439 DeKalb Upper 1BR w/Sm Office/BR D/W, washer/dryer avail, ceiling fans, claw foot tub, off St. parking. $575/mo. 815-756-2064

DEKALB ~ SPACIOUS MARKET APARTMENTS Starting @ $432,1BR $599, 2BR, $683, 3BR

Near the heart of NIU. Incl gas and forced air heat. Off street parking, lush grounds, on site laundry room. Outdoor pool, tennis and basketball courts, patios and balconies. Cats OK.

University Village Apts. 722 N. Annie Glidden Rd.

815-758-7859 DeKalb. 1BR + Office/BR, LR, DR, eat in kitchen, appls, C/A, hrdwd flrs, built-in bookshelves, 1 car gar, W/D, bsmnt, patio. NO PETS. $750/mo+utils. 331-575-2822

AVAILABLE NOW!

1705 Longwood Dr., Sycamore, Il. 60178 815-568-8691 We are Accepting Applications for a 1 Bedroom Apt. Washer/Dryer Coin Machines Security Building 24 Hr Maintenance Emerg # Close to Stores “62 years of age or older or handicapped/disabled regardless of age” Managed by P.P.M. L.L.C. of IL. “This institution is an Equal Opportunity Provider and Employer”

Free Month Rent in Waterman

Sycamore- Large quiet upper 1 bedroom apt. Heat furnished. Clean. No pets. $590 a month 815-973-8290 Sycamore. 249 Mason Ct. 2BR. Off street parking. W/D on site. Storage available. No pets. $600/mo+utils+sec dep. 630-373-4096 Sycamore. 321 S. Walnut St. 1BR. $575/mo, incl all utils. Patio. Pets OK w/$500 dep. No smoking on property. st 1 mo. rent+sec. On site laundry. 815-895-8901 Sycamore: Clean 2BR,1BA, full size washer/dryer, dishwasher, garbage disposal, next to park and school. $695/mo. You pay utilities. No dogs. 815-970-4640 Eric

Off-St prkg, appl, W/D, garbage, all util incl. no pets. $570/mo + sec. 815-761-1975

GENOA

Well maintained 2BR with central air, no pets + laundry facilities. $675/mo + dep. 815-600-4955

Genoa~Country View Apts

Now leasing 1 & 2 Bedroom All remodeled, new appl, carpet. Large Apts, Country Lifestyle. 815-784-4606 ~ 815-758-6580 Kirkland. 2-3BR. Newly remodeled. Available now. No smoking or pets. Refs req. 815-761-0374 Malta 2BR- Appliances furnished, air, laundry, some utilities included. No pets, $595/mo 815-751-0480

Malta Large Upper 3BR

Nice yard, back deck, hardwood floors, W/D. $675/mo + security. 815-761-2259 Breaking News available 24/7 at Daily-Chronicle.com

JOBS ANNOUNCEMENTS STUFF VEHICLES REAL ESTATE SERVICES

2900 DeKalb Ave. Laundry, non-smoking, all utilities except electrical, $675. 815-758-2911

Find !t here! PlanitDeKalbCounty.com

Updated 3 Bedroom, 1.5 Bath

DR, NEW kitchen, baths, hardwood floors, bsmt, 3 car garage, $1175. No pets/smoke. 815-762-4730

Waterman Small 1 Bedroom

Tenant pays Com Ed and share of water, 3 months rent + security dep, $525/mo. 815-757-5079

DeKalb - Furnished Room

Student or employed male $370. includes utilities . Need References. 815-758-7994

Call Adolph Miller RE for Office, Retail or Industrial space for your business. 815-756-7845 DeKalb/Sycamore Office/Showroom /Warehouse $5/sq ft. Xtras galore Adolph Miller RE 815-756-7845 Sycamore Near courthouse. Furnished, attractive, large office space. Great for professionals. $575/mo incl utilities, shared kitchenette & reception area. 815-739-6186

GENEVA, ELGIN, OFFICE / WAREHOUSE, 1500 sf. 10x12 overhead door. For sale/lease, $1200/mo. Dearborn, 630-894-1277 ext 11

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 23RD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DEKALB COUNTY SYCAMORE, ILLINOIS OneWest Bank, FSB (d/b/a Financial Freedom, a division of OneWest Bank, FSB) Plaintiff, vs. Sue Nelson; United States of America - Department of Housing and Urban Development; Unknown Heirs and Legatees of Robert G. Wright a/k/a Robert Wright; Unknown Owners and Nonrecord Claimants; Dick Kuhn as Special Representative for Robert G. Wright a/k/a Robert Wright a/k/a Bob Wright(deceased) Defendants. Case No. 12 CH 577 Notice to Heirs and Legatees. Notice is hereby given to you, the Unknown Heirs and Unknown Legatees of the decedent, Robert G. Wright a/k/a Robert Wright a/k/a Bob Wright, that on January 10, 2013, an order was entered by the Court, naming Richard W. Kuhn, 552 S. Washington Street, Suite 100, Naperville, Illinois 60540, Tel. No. (630) 420-8228, as the Special Representative of the above named decedent under 735 ILCS 13-1209 (Death of a Party). The cause of action for the Foreclosure of a certain Mortgage upon the premises commonly known as: 433 Home Street, Sycamore, IL 60178.

(Published in the Daily Chronicle, January 26, February 2 & 9, 2013.)

Bid specifications for the above may be obtained from the County Highway Department, 1826 Barber Greene Road, DeKalb, IL 60115 or by calling 815-756-9513.

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(Published in the Daily Chronicle, January 26, February 2 & 9, 2013.)

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PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO BIDDERS

Bids will be received by the DeKalb County Highway Department 1826 Barber Greene Road, DeKalb, Illinois 60115 until 10:00AM on February 7, 2013 and at that time will be publicly opened and read for the following:

The County is an equal opportunity employer and fully complies with the American Disabilities Act.

(a) Furnishing and spread on road 1584 tons of Aggregate Surface Course, Type B for Malta Road District to be spread on Willrett Road between Fairview Road and South Malta Road; (b) Furnishing and spread on road 6,000 ton of Aggregate Surface Course, Type B for Squaw Grove Road District spread on Bastian Road, Hage Road, Shabbona Grove Road and West Sandwich Road; with an additional 1,000 ton stockpiled at Township Garage; (c) Furnishing FOB certain maintenance materials for DeKalb County and 19 Road Districts as specified in 2013 General County Letting Material Proposal.

Nathan F. Schwartz, P.E. County Engineer

The County reserves the right to reject any and all bids and to waive any technicalities.

Nathan F. Schwartz, P.E. County Engineer

(Published in the Daily Chronicle, January 26, 2013.)

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Bid specifications for the above may be obtained from the County Highway Department, 1826 Barber Greene Road, DeKalb, IL 60115 or by calling 815-756-9513.

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LOOKING FOR A PRIME DOWNTOWN SYCAMORE BUSINESS BUILDING?

(Published in the Daily Chronicle, January 26, 2013.)

2 State St. Entrances, 2 Bathrooms, Parital Kitchen, Updated Mechanicals, Over 2000 sq. ft. CALL NEDRA ERICSON, REALTOR

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OPEN HOUSE – Sun. Jan. 27th, 1 to 3pm 213 Willis St., Rochelle, IL CALL NEDRA ERICSON, REALTOR

SYCAMORE 2 BR, 2 bath. 1 or 2 car gar, quartz granite cntrs, SS appl, FP. From $950-$1350. Non-Smoking. 1 MONTH FREE RENT! Call Sharon Sperling, Century 21 Elsner 815-793-3030

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815-739-9997

PRIME COUNTRY

real estate

Rochelle - 2 Bedroom

$500/mo + 1st mo & deposit req. Parking in back, you pay electric and gas. 779-368-0224

Available now. Clean, quiet remodeled, $425-550. 815-758-6580 ~ 815-901-3346

∂∂∂Dekalb Updated 3BR,∂∂∂ stove, fridge, dishwasher, a/c, new carpet, garage, large yard 815-758-0079

DeKalb - 2BR 2BA Townhomes W/D, Central A/C, Dishwasher AVAIL. NOW $800/mo Call Pittsley Realty 815-756-7768

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ROCHELLE 1 & 2BR

DEKALB 3 BR, New Dec., Fenced. Gar., $950. Lease. Ref. Betsy Smith 815-895-2488 Also: Office for Rent in Sycamore.

C/A, appliances, W/D, water softener, laundry room, deck overlooking creek. Move in cond! No smoking/pets, $750/mo + sec. 815-495-9266 Sycamore. 3BR, 1BA Ranch. 413 E. Lincoln. Fenced yard, garage. $1100/mo. 630-247-2655

with the American Disabilities Act.

CLEAN! $550/mo, stove, refrig, water. No pets, no smoking. 815-895-4756 or 815-562-3459

Sycamore Upstairs 2BR, 1BA

GENOA LARGE LOWER 1BR

DEKALB - 927 State St., Large 5BR 2BA W/D DW Fenced Yard, Pets OK, $1195/mo, 1st+Sec, 847-845-4021 DEKALB - Nice 4BR, 3BA House 2 Story, 2 Car Gar, W/D, Finished Basement, 1109 Sycamore Rd Call Pittsley Realty (815)756-7768

Quiet, Country Setting

The County is an equal opportuSaturday, January 26, 2013 • Page C7 nity employer and fully complies

Sycamore Quiet 1 Bedroom

DEKALB: 1Bdrm Apartment Across from Huntley Park, 505 S. 2nd St., $540/mo. Call Pittsley Realty 815-756-7768 Large, lower 2 bedroom. $625/mo + security deposit. 815-970-2533

847-899-2933

Kingston. 2BR, 1BA. Appls & garbage removal incl. $600/mo +sec dep. No pets. 815-975-4601

known Owners and Nonrecord Claimants; Dick Kuhn as Special Representative for Robert G. Wright a/k/a Robert Wright a/k/a Bob Wright(deceased) Defendants. Case No. 12 CH 577 Notice to Heirs and Legatees. Notice is hereby given to you, the Unknown Heirs and Unknown Legatees of the decedent, Robert G. Wright a/k/a Robert Wright a/k/a Bob Wright, that on January 10, 2013, an order was entered by the Court, naming Richard W. Kuhn, 552 S. Washington Street, Suite 100, Naperville, Illinois 60540, Tel. No. (630) 420-8228, as the Special Representative of the above named decedent under 735 ILCS 13-1209 (Death of a Party). The cause of action for the Foreclosure of a certain Mortgage upon the premises commonly known as: 433 Home Street, Sycamore, IL 60178.

Area Open Houses - January 25-31, 2013 Day/Time

Address

City

Bed Bath

Price

DeKalb

Day/Time

Address

City

Bed Bath

Price

Sycamore

Rochelle ~ Spacious 2BR TH New carpet, fresh paint, W/D hook-up. $595/mo,1 year lease. 815-751-4440

Daily

Somonauk 2BR Duplex

1 bath, all appliances, W/D. Great sunroom + deck, 1 car gar. No pets/smoking. $800/mo. 815-495-9625 Chronicle Classified

1032 S. 7th St. DeKalb Southmoor Estates, Ofﬁce Staff, 815-756-1299

From

$70s

Sun 12:30-2

709 S 4th St. DeKalb 3 2 $115,000 Coldwell Banker Honig-Bell, Diane Hammon, 815-739-6627

Sun

1-3

121 Elm DeKalb 3 2 $116,000 McCabe Realtors, Cheryl Countryman, 815 751-7793

Sun

1-3

1526 Sunrise Dr DeKalb 3 2 $124,900 Century 21 Elsner Realty, Sharon Sperling, 815-756-1691

Sun

1-3

1225 Green Court DeKalb 3 2.5 $189,500 McCabe Realtors, Sharon Rhoades, 815-739-6251

Sun Shabbona. Spacious 2BR. Quiet neighborhood. W/D hook-up. No smoking or dogs. $625/mo+sec dep. 847-738-2334

9-5

1-3

3287 Meadow Trail Dr W DeKalb 4 2.5 $207,900 Century 21 Elsner Realty, Dennis Maakestad, 815-756-1691

Sun 2:30-3:30 1047 S Cross St. Sycamore 2 1 $65,000 Coldwell Banker Honig-Bell, Diane Hammon, 815-739-6627 By Appt

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

By Appt.

Reston Ponds Sycamore 3-4 2-3 Starting $219,950 Coldwell Banker Honig-Bell, Keith & Jean Brunett, 630-209-6357

Other Areas Sun

1-3

213 Willis Rochelle 3 2 $134,000 McCabe Realtors, Nedra Ericson, 815-739-9997

Sun

1-3

29929 Corson Dr. Kingston 3 2 $164,500 Coldwell Banker Honig-Bell, Jack Connerton, 815-751-7383

Sun

12-2

112 E 2nd St Genoa 3-4 1.5 $164,900 Elm Street Realtors, Shari/Cheri, 815-954-1498/815-677-3134

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Coupon Code:

2470