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Mill Creek apartment plan OK’d By JONATHAN BILYK

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GENEVA – Kane County has cleared the way for a developer to build apartments near Mill Creek. Tuesday, the County Board unanimously approved a zoning change that would allow Geneva-based development company ShoDeen to build an apartment complex on a pocket of land along Keslinger Road in LaFox. Under the approval, ShoDeen will be allowed to build 268 apartments in 13 buildings in the planned Vistas of Mill Creek development. Before work can begin

on those apartments, however, the county is requiring ShoDeen to build 123 more apartments in Mill Creek’s Village Center area. That requirement came in response to concerns raised by a large group of Mill Creek residents who criticized ShoDeen’s proposal when it was first presented. ShoDeen had promoted its Vistas plan since August 2011, when the company altered its earlier plans for the land along Keslinger Road. In 2005, the County Board had approved ShoDeen’s plans to build a shopping center, office park and 70 apartments on the 25 acres, east of Richardson Elec-

tronics. But in the years since, the land development market changed, and ShoDeen altered its plans, believing the apartment complex proposal would better fit economic realities. ShoDeen has said the project also will draw tenants willing to pay to rent the “luxury apartments” proposed for the development because it is about a mile from the LaFox Metra station. Mill Creek homeowners objected to the proposal initially, saying ShoDeen’s initial plan for 290 apartments was wrong for the area. An October 2012 meeting drew 160 objectors.

In response to concerns, ShoDeen and county officials altered the plan further, reducing the number of apartments proposed for the Vistas site and requiring ShoDeen to further complete its apartment development in the Village Center before building new apartments at the Vistas site. County Board member Drew Frasz, R-Elburn, who represents much of Mill Creek, noted that the number of residents objecting to the plan has dwindled at subsequent meetings. No Mill Creek residents attended any of the meetings at which ShoDeen’s Vistas plan had been discussed.

St. Charles police warn of utility scam By ASHLEY RHODEBECK

arhodebeck@shawmedia.com ST. CHARLES – Businesses that receive a call threatening that their electricity will be shut off because of an unpaid bill should not rush to payment because it might be a scam, the St. Charles Police Department said Tuesday. “If they’re suspicious in any manner, they should call police,” spokesman Paul McCurtain said. A sub and pizza restaurant in the 2700 block of East Main Street lost $489.86 after getting such a call Monday, McCur-

tain said. The caller reportedly identified himself as ComEd employee Steve Johnson and said the business’ electricity would be shut off at 12:15 p.m. if its unpaid bill wasn’t paid immediately. The victim reportedly was instructed to buy a Green Dot Money Pak card for the nearly $490 bill. Before he did, he got a call from another supposed ComEd employee who said he was en route to turn off the power, McCurtain said. The victim then bought a Green Dot Money Park card – which has a $500 limit – at a nearby pharmacy, McCurtain

said. When the first caller called back, the victim gave him the Green Dot Money Pak card number, McCurtain said. The caller reportedly said he would cancel the shut-off order to the business. Soon afterward, the victim suspected the incident might have been a scam because the business’ electric service is provided by the city, and he verified the account was current, police said. Police are not aware of similar calls to other businesses, but they wanted to publicize this incident to prevent oth-

ers from falling victim, McCurtain said. He said the city would not give an electric customer that short of notice of a disconnect. “The city would never do that,” he said. He also reminds electric customers that their service provider is St. Charles if they are within the city limits. If an account is in disconnect status, no utility payments are taken over the phone, online or through Money Pak cards, police said. Investigation into the incident is ongoing.

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Blackberry Township assessor offers workshop

WHAT: Blackberry Township Assessor Uwe Rotter is offering a workshop. At these meetings, taxpayers will be provided with information on the property tax cycle, how assessments are being developed and how to appeal your assessment to a board of review. Taxpayers will have the opportunity to address specific questions concerning property and discuss any other property tax-related concerns. WHEN: 7 p.m. Jan. 24 WHERE: Blackberry Township, 43W390 Main Street Road, Elburn INFO: Contact Blackberry Township Assessor Uwe Rotter at 630-365-6580 for information. The entire workshop schedule for 2013 is available at www.blackberrytwp. com/assessor.htm.

Open house for Elburn comprehensive plan

WHAT: An open house on the village of Elburn’s comprehensive planning process is set. Attendees will have the opportunity to

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review key recommendations of the draft plan and offer insight and recommendations for consideration. All in the Elburn community are encouraged to attend and participate. WHEN: 5 to 7 p.m. Jan. 24 WHERE: Elburn Lions Club, 500 S. Filmore St., Elburn INFO: Visit www.elburn.il.us.

Sugar Grove Park District sets seminar

WHAT: The Sugar Grove Park District is offering a seminar on probate and probate avoidance. The seminar introduces participants to the legal subject of probate and other legal matters after a person dies. The seminar will explain the probate court process, when that court process is necessary, and what can be done to avoid that expensive and lengthy process. The presenters are Sugar Grove attorney Bill Durrenberger and Sugar Grove financial planner Mark Durrenberger. WHEN: 7 p.m. Jan. 29 WHERE: Sugar Grove Township Building INFO: Anyone interested in attending the

seminar should call the park district at 630-466-7436, go to the park district’s website at www.sgparks.org, or visit the park district’s offices at 61 Main St.

Farmers market at Heritage Prairie Farm

WHAT: Heritage Prairie Farm will have a farmers market. This indoor winter market has expanded to include two heated spaces to make room for more than a dozen local vendors. The market features a variety of products, including vegetables and greens grown on the farm, local eggs and dairy, cheeses and meats and fresh baked goods, along with many hand made items sold by local artisans. WHEN: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. every Saturday during the winter WHERE: 2N308 Brundige Road, Elburn INFO: Visit www.heritageprairiefarm.com. Vendors interested in participating in the market can email Katie Drum at katie@heritageprairiefarm. com.

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be when you grew up? A physical therapist Did you become that? I do massage therapy. What is a book or movie that you would recommend? The best one recently I read was “The Help.” Do you have a favorite charity? Local charities, anything local Do you have any hobbies? Quilting, reading books, cooking Do you speak another language? I speak a little French, German and Spanish. What is your favorite local restaurant? Paisano’s Pizza and Grill, because we own it. What is an interesting factoid about yourself? I hiked down the Grand Canyon, slept overnight down there and hiked back up.

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Rescued thoroughbred horse runs race Want to help?

By BRENDA SCHORY

bschory@shawmedia.com Magna Fortuna, a nearly 3-year-old gelding, ran his first race Dec. 26 at Hawthorne Racecourse, coming in ninth in a field of 12. His 16 owners include Cynthia Cherry-Schif of St. Charles, who said she never dreamt she would be part-owner of a racehorse, let alone one of such a grand lineage. “I volunteer at the Illinois Equine Humane Center,” Cherry-Schif said. “I was involved with horses 20 years ago [and now] that my son is in college, I said I just want to be with horses. I don’t care if I have to shovel … and carry water buckets. I just want to be around them ... My husband said, ‘Don’t you come home with a horse.’ ” But when a rescued thoroughbred named Lulu had a colt, Cherry-Schif was all in. “The minute I saw that fuzzy little chocolate colt, I knew my life was never going to be the same,” Cherry-Schif said. “And that was before we ever knew where he came from. I just knew how lucky he was to be alive.” ••• Horse rescuer Gail Vacca regularly goes to what is known as a “kill auction,” where unwanted horses are sold to bidders who will deliver them to Canada or Mexico to be slaughtered. Vacca, president of the Illinois Equine Humane Center based in Big Rock, went to such an auction in 2009 to see if any thoroughbred horses were being put up for auction. “It was in June 2009 when I went to Shipshewana, Ind., for this livestock auction,” Vacca said. “We were doing a humane investigation to see if anybody from the track was still sending horses there against the policy. We were trying to catch somebody in the act.” Vacca zeroed in on a mare that was obviously a thoroughbred. “Thoroughbreds have distinctive traits apart from other horses. She was standing in a pen with 40 other horses already sold to slaughter,” Vacca said. “The way she was standing was indicative of a horse

The Illinois Equine Humane Center, based in Big Rock, is seeking to relocate but stay in Kane County. The horse rescue group is losing its horse pasture because the land was sold and will be farmed starting in spring. The group needs a barn with 20 stalls and at least 15 acres. Contact Gail Vacca at 815-761-4937 or email info@ilehc.org for details. Information is available online at www.ilehc.org.

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Gail Vacca, president and founder of the Illinois Equine Humane Center, walks with Silver Option, a thoroughbred she calls “Lulu” who she saved from slaughter. Lulu’s foal, Magna Fortuna, was sired by one of Kentucky’s great stallions. with rear foot trouble.” She tracked down the buyer and asked him to check under the horse’s lip because thoroughbreds are marked with an identifying tattoo. The buyer said he checked and there was none, but Vacca did not believe him. When he was not around, she went to check herself. “I knew he was lying,” Vacca said. “There were all these horses in there, kicking and it was absolute chaos and sure enough, she was tattooed on the upper lip. So I was determined to get her bought.” The man did not want to sell the mare, but by the end of the auction, under Vacca’s persistence, he sold her for $300. “He probably paid $25 for her, she was so crippled,” Vacca said. She brought the mare, whom she named Lulu, to the

rescue group’s quarantine facility to keep her separate from healthy horses until they could make sure she did not have anything contagious. “We had her feet X-rayed, and she had several different hoof ailments,” Vacca said. “We had our horse-shoer come out and do some corrective shoeing and medications. Then we got her back to the center a month later.” Vacca said she looked at Lulu and saw her belly was getting large. “The vet palpated her, and she had a foal in there,” she said. “So then we had to manage her lameness so she could carry the colt to term because painkillers could hurt the baby.” Vacca said the tattoo on Lulu’s lip was not clear, so they could not find the thoroughbred’s pedigree in a registry.

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Lulu gave birth April 15, 2010. “It was a gorgeous colt,” Vacca said. “I knew the minute he hit the ground, he was all thoroughbred. If we had put her down, her baby would have been put down, too. I started renewing my effort to find out who she was. We needed to find out her pedigree.” They named Lulu’s baby Taxi for tax day. ••• Vacca found a consignment slip from her purchase of Lulu and found the seller on Facebook. She put out a question: Did he know who the mare was and what horse was sire to the colt she just had? Within a day, Vacca got a call from a trainer and smalltime thoroughbred breeder, the Facebook man’s boss. He had owned Lulu and could not believe she was pregnant because two vets had told him she had lost the foal. “The guy says to me, ‘Do you have any idea who that mare is?’ And I said, ‘That’s what I’m trying to find out,’ ” Vacca said. Her Lulu turned out to be a well-bred mare named Silver Option. Taxi’s sire was a legendary stallion named Magna Graduate that had just been put out to stud at Darby Dan Farm in Kentucky. Magna Graduate earned $2.5 million his racing career and now was earning $5,000 a stud. Magna Graduate colts were

selling for $25,000. While Vacca still was reeling from the news of Lulu’s and Taxi’s true identities, the former owner hit her with another stunner: He wanted to buy Silver Option and her foal. “He said, ‘Name your price,’ ” Vacca said. “I told him, ‘Listen, there is not enough money on this planet for you to buy that horse back.’ And then I hung up on him.” ••• After getting Taxi’s pedigree settled and giving him the thoroughbred name of Magna Fortuna, Vacca said she and her board thought that would make him more adoptable. And then they thought again. “I would like to be able to have Taxi in a career in racing,” Vacca said to her board. So they set up a partnership called Rescue Me Racing, divided among 16 owners for Magna Fortuna, including Vacca and Cherry-Schif. But as horse advocates, this horse will not be doped or made to run when it shouldn’t. “You can still make money at racing by treating horses the way they should be treated,” Cherry-Schif said. “There is a group of race people who never drug their horses and they increased their wins by 50 percent. None of us cares if he has a huge racing career or if he does not win. If he is not competitive, our job is done.”

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Campton Hills Waubonsee is your college denies Kiva, 4-2 By ASHLEY RHODEBECK

arhodebeck@shawmedia.com CAMPTON HILLS – Residents sighed in relief and erupted into celebratory cheers and applause Tuesday when the Campton Hills Village Board denied annexation for an alcohol and substance abuse facility proposed for the former Glenwood School. Each of the six trustees spoke before the vote, some at great length. They said they took Kiva Recovery’s request seriously and went back and forth on their decision. “I flipped more times than former governors in their graves,” trustee Jim Kopec said. He and trustee John Strauss supported Kiva Recovery’s request. They said financial reasons, the village’s ability to dictate terms in an annexation agreement and – among other factors – research they did on other treatment facilities contributed to their decision. Both acknowledged that residents feared Kiva’s clients will be dangerous and cause crime. “The facts don’t coincide with the enormity of the fear,” Strauss said. Their support was outweighed by nays from trustees Laura Andersen, Susan George, Al Lenkaitis and Mike Millette. “I feel very confident in my decision tonight,” George told the crowd at Wasco Elementary School. Andersen said she arrived at her conclusion with a clear mind. She told residents they have to stick together as a community. “Otherwise, why do we need a village?” she said. Patrick Griffin, an attorney representing Kiva, said his client was treated fairly and appreciated the process the village provided. Opponents were aggressive in mounting a campaign against Kiva. They circulated anti-Kiva

literature at meetings, created www.stopkivarehab.com and left fliers on car windshields. Some even hired attorneys to take on the issue. Before the vote, Steven Elrod, Kiva’s zoning counsel, said his clients went to great lengths to address concerns. “We have worked tirelessly to accommodate every legitimate concern raised, whether we agree with them or not,” Elrod said. While the vote wasn’t what they had hoped, he said, his clients appreciated the comments and will take them to heart as they move forward. He did not indicate what their next step will be. County Board member Barb Wojnicki said Kiva has not approached the county. Kiva could ask the county for a special use permit, a process that would involve discussions at four boards or committees and could take at least four months, she said.

Welcome to Waubonsee Community College’s new monthly column in the Kane County Chronicle. Each month, a member of our faculty, staff or student body will author a column highlighting the work of the college and its affect on our community. Since the 1960s, Waubonsee has provided life-changing educational opportunities for local residents. Our graduates are in successful careers in all types of industries, many taking leadership positions in their chosen professions. Waubonsee alumni are our first responders, our health care professionals, our business executives and our social service leaders. Many hold elected positions throughout the Fox Valley. Students and alumni tell us that Waubonsee’s faculty and staff help them achieve more than they thought possible. While Waubonsee’s values and emphasis on student success have their roots in the college’s founding, this is an exceptionally exciting time at the college. Echoing state and national goals, Waubonsee

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has devoted itself to helping more of our students earn a degree or certificate, which are valuable credentials in the workplace. We’re seeing the results with record numbers of graduates in recent years. Rapidly evolving technology continues to be integrated throughout the college’s curriculum, especially in our science, technology, engineering and mathematics – or STEM – programs. Waubonsee is the recipient of a National Science Foundation grant to fund scholarships for students interested in STEM programs. Many other grants help fund new programs that benefit local students. Waubonsee’s Brighter Futures initiative is another way the college is working to make lives better for area residents. Started in 2009 as a response to the recession, this initiative has included job and resource fairs, partnerships with social

service agencies and the launch of a special scholarship for those who lost their jobs because of the economic downturn. Brighter Futures also helps by packaging other career-oriented services that the college has always offered to students and the community. We’re committed to continuing this effort for as long as it is needed. In 2013, look for three job fairs throughout Waubonsee’s service area and the availability of $500 Brighter Futures scholarships for unemployed area residents. Learn more by visiting www.waubonsee.edu/brighterfutures. Becauase Waubonsee is your community college, I encourage you to share ideas on how we can collaborate to make an even greater difference locally. Please share your ideas with me at collaborate@waubonsee.edu.

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Expanded weekend, Monday hours begin at Sugar Grove Public Library By AL LAGATTOLLA

alagattolla@shawmedia.com SUGAR GROVE – Although it was quiet, the Sugar Grove Public Library was alive on the first Sunday of the year. Books were spread out on tables, and a few clusters of patrons savored the opportunity to do something that hadn’t previously been possible: The library has, in the past, closed at 1 p.m. Saturdays and was closed Sundays and Mondays. The ability to meet the availability needs of village residents has long been a complaint at the library. Expanded hours were launched this month, and although the turnout for the first Sunday wasn’t huge, those who were there said they were focused and productive. Sugar Grove resident Suzanne Pepping said she enjoyed the chance to get work done on a weekend. As a teacher, she said it’s valuable to have weekend access to the library’s children’s section, and the computers there are quicker than what she has at home. Resident Kathy Linneman said there have been many Sundays where she wanted to patron the library. “That’s a long stretch to go when you want to come in and get a new book, or bring the kids in for something,” Linneman said. “... It’s nice that most days you can come.” Director Carol Dolin arrived last summer as the library emerged from a period in which the previous director – Beverly Holmes Hughes – had been dismissed, and the Friends of the Library group disbanded. There were other issues too, including the closure of the library’s cafe, although resident Perry Clark said he intends to reopen it this year. Pat Graceffa, who was president of the Friends of the Library, filed to run for the library board, but her petition was not certified. Her name will not appear on the ballot, but she intends to register as a write-in candidate. The change in operation hours is because of an online survey the library conduct-

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Edwinna Johnson of Sugar Grove browses the aisles at the Sugar Grove Library. The library has expanded its days of operation to include Sunday and Monday. ed last year. The old hours of 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesdays through Thursdays, and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, have been changed to 2 to 6 p.m. Sundays, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays. The library is closed Fridays. Dolin said the hour changes were possible by cutting services and stretching staff. She said the strong indication was that weekend hours were needed — something that didn’t surprise her because in every library she has known, “they move more people through on a Sunday in four hours than they do on a Tuesday in 12.” That the first Sunday was quiet might be an indication the news hasn’t spread, she said. “It may take a while to catch on,” Dolin said. “Sundays may not work in this community. We don’t know until we try it. And if it doesn’t work, if it’s not something that is attractive to this community, we’ll evaluate it in June … from the standpoint of, ‘Can we really afford to do this?’ and, ‘Is this working?’ ” To accomplish it, she said staff would be stretched thin. A

serious illness would hit hard, and more funds would be needed to operate the library. An attempt for a referendum would be necessary, she said.

Voters have rejected 10 consecutive referendum attempts. In the last try in 2010, there were more than twice as many no votes to yes votes.

Dolin said a referendum wouldn’t be attempted until there is an indication of what the public wants – and how much voters are willing to spend. “One of the things that I said when I was hired was let’s find out what we can do with the budget we have first, talk to the public, find out what it they want from us – and why the referendum has failed in the past – and then maybe take a different approach,” she said. Sugar Grove resident Michael Anson, who was in the first Sunday of the year, spoke of the referendum possibility. Anson has been involved in the library, starting a book and movie club where members read a book, watch a movie based on the book and discuss the book and the movie. He said expanding the hours was vital to the library’s cause. “If the library ever wants to pass a referendum, it needs to be open more hours to serve its community,” he said, adding libraries are important to a town.

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Hutter (Edward); and was an exuberant and fun-loving uncle to many. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 17, at Yurs Funeral Home of St. Charles, with the Rev. Tyler M. Benbow officiating. Burial will be in Resurrection Cemetery, Geneva. A visitation will be from 3 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 16, at the funeral home. To leave an online condolence or remembrance to the family, visit the funeral home’s obituary page at www.yursfuneralhomes.com. For information, call Yurs Funeral Home of St. Charles at 630-584-0060. Please sign the guest book at www.legacy.com/kcchronicle.

Maria (Jason) Berg, Jacob Ludvigsen, Sarah (Carlos) LudvigsenCastaneda, Bryan Ludvigsen and Lilly Berrend, all of Batavia; eight grandchildren; two brothers, Ronald (Betty) Ludvigsen and Rodney (Beth) Ludvigsen; and a sister, Ruth (Bryce) Zacharias. He was preceded in death by his father, Raymond. A visitation will be from 2 to 5 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 19, at Moss Family Funeral Home, 209 S. Batavia Ave., Batavia. A funeral service will follow the visitation at 5 p.m. For information, call Moss Family Funeral Home at 630-879-7900 or visit www.mossfuneral.com. Please sign the guest book at www.legacy.com/kcchronicle.

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GENEVA – Jay A. Kemper, 54, of Geneva, died Jan. 12, 2013. He was the beloved husband of Bernadette Kemper (Fitzsimmons); devoted father of Jay A. Kemper II (Leslie) and Caitlyn M. Kemper; brother of Kris Kemper (Kim) and Julie Kemper Benbow (Brad); beloved son-in-law of Bernadette Fitzsimmons; brother-inlaw to Br. Charles Fitzsimmons CFC, Christopher Fitzsimmons (Sonia), Mark Fitzsimmons (Carla), Harry J. Fitzimmons III (Andrea), Mary Fitzsimmons Szelenbaum (John), Julie Fitzsimmons and Susan Fitzsimmons

born: Aug. 5, 1945; in Chicago Died: Jan. 14, 2013; in Batavia Township

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BATAVIA TOWNSHIP – Robert Alan Ludvigsen, 67, of Batavia Township and formerly of Geneva, passed away Monday, Jan. 14, 2013, at his home. He was born Aug. 5, 1945, in Chicago, the son of Raymond and Gertrude (nee Makila) Ludvigsen. Bob was employed by Strathmore Printing in Geneva for more then 20 years. He was an avid outdoorsman who enjoyed hunting, fishing and camping. Bob was a member of the Will County Sportsman Club. He is survived by his wife, Jodie Ludvigsen; six children, Cora (Lloyd Hiraoka) Ludvigsen of St. Charles,

GENEVA – Richard W. Wissing, 87, went to be with the Lord on Monday, Jan. 14, 2013, at Central DuPage Hospital surrounded by his family. Richard was born Oct. 27, 1925, at Swedish American Hospital in Chicago, the only child of the late Sam and Clara (nee Foss) Wissing. Dick attended Lutheran Grade School in Lombard, High School at Glenbard in Glen Ellyn, and immediately after high school graduation in 1943, he entered the U.S. Navy. He was honorably discharged April 18, 1946.

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He then worked as an electrotyper at R.R. Donnelley Co. in Chicago and then in a printing company in St. Charles. He owned an A & W Restaurant for a time. He then became a realtor for Fox Real Estate in West Chicago. Being a realtor was the job he loved the most and at which he was highly successful. He was an excellent salesman. He worshiped at Faith Lutheran Church on Kaneville Road in Geneva. Dick is survived by his wife of fifty years, Norma (nee Stahl); his three children, Phyl Holt, Mark (Vivian) and Rick (Sandy); four grandchildren, Rachael, Niki, Dan and Mike; six great-grandchildren; one aunt; and several cousins. He was preceded in death by his parents and son-in-law, Stephen Holt. A visitation will be from 3 to 8 p.m. Thursday at WilliamsWoodward Funeral Home, 820 Pine St. in West Chicago (Route 59 & Pine Street). The visitation will continue Friday from 10:30 a.m. until the service 11:30 a.m. at Faith Lutheran Church, 1745 Kaneville Road, Geneva. Interment will be in Oak Hill Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Association for Individual Development, 309 West New Indian Trail Court, Aurora, IL 60506-2494 or Faith Lutheran Church. For funeral information, call 630-231-1300 or visit www. williams-woodward.com. Please sign the guest book at www.legacy.com/kcchronicle.

Court watch training set for domestic battery trials by bRENDA SChORy

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SUGAR GROVE – Fox Valley Court Watch will host a free training event from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Jan. 30 at the Sugar Grove Public Library, 125 S. Municipal Drive, Sugar Grove. James Kintz of St. Charles, who helped organize those in the Fox Valley Court Watch program in 2010, said the group choose the location to make it easier for potential volunteers in southern Kane County and Kendall County to get involved. Those in the Fox Valley Court Watch program pro-

vide an impartial assessment of the effectiveness of the way domestic violence cases are handled in court, thereby promoting victim safety and abuser accountability, according to the group’s mission statement. People in the program go to court to observe misdemeanor and felony domestic battery cases and report to the chief judge, state’s attorney and public defender’s offices about what they see, identifying strengths and weaknesses in the judicial system, Kintz said. “We have about 20 to 25 people who volunteer, but people come and go,” Kintz said.

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BATAVIA – Ruth Marie Colborn, 86, of Batavia, passed away peacefully Jan. 13, 2013, at her home. She was born Dec. 4, 1926, in Batavia, the daughter of Ted and Mary (nee Reif) Weirich. She was united in marriage to Louie Colborn on June 10, 1950. She lived at her home on McKee Street for more than 50 years. She and Louie built the house together, but Ruth made it into a home. Their door was always open for family and friends. In her earlier years, you could find her busy milking cows, slopping pigs and feeding chickens on their farm. In her later years, if she wasn’t busy tending to her flowers and vegetable garden, you could find her at a garage sale with her sister, Butz. She was much-loved and will be missed by all. Hopefully they have Hershey Kisses in Heaven. She is survived by her two daughters, Donna Mae (Daniel) Campbell and Mary Maher; nine grandchildren, Marci (nee Campbell) Ramsey, Benjamen Campbell, Jay Maher, Kristen (nee Maher) Winslow, Casey Bridges, Bill Colborn, Karie Colborn, Kate Colborn and T.J. Colborn; 12 greatgrandchildren; two great-greatgrandchildren; her sister, Bernice (Frank) Monteleone; and her brother, Clarence (Jacqueline) Weirich. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Louie Colborn; her son, Ted Colborn; her sisters, Catherine Gough and Gen

Tintinger; and her brothers, Ray and Bill Weirich. A visitation will be from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 20, at Moss Family Funeral Home, 209 S. Batavia Ave. (Route 31) in Batavia. Funeral services will begin with prayers from the funeral home at 10 a.m. Monday, Jan. 21, before proceeding to Holy Cross Catholic Church, 2300 W. Main St. in Batavia, to celebrate the funeral Mass at 10:30 a.m. Interment will follow in Resurrection Cemetery in Geneva. For information, call Moss Family Funeral Home at 630-879-7900 or visit www.mossfuneral.com. Please sign the guest book at www.legacy.com/kcchronicle.

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nweskerna@shawmedia.com ST. CHARLES – A Rockford man who was accused of committing a lewd act at a Riverside school has a record in St. Charles for committing a similar sex offense. Lawrence E. Adamczyk, 49, of the 1600 block of Oregon Street in Rockford, was charged Saturday, accused of masturbating in the bleachers during a boys swim meet at Riverside High School. Police Lawrence E. responded to a Adamczyk call at the school at 9:45 a.m. of a suspicious man walking the halls. Adamczyk told police that he was “feeding from the energy of the school” and was aroused by boys in their swimwear who were at the swim meet, according to police reports. When police approached Adamczyk while he was sitting in the bleachers during the meet, reports say he initially told police that he had children who were competing. When asked to name his children, Adamczyk paused and refused to answer. Reports stated Adamczyk took a train from Chicago to Riverside with the original intent of going to Brookfield Zoo to look for boys to have oral sex with. However, when Adamczyk walked by the high school, he told police he “received a brainwave message from Hol-

lywood recording artist Justin Bieber telling him to go to the school to see the kids.” Adamczyk told police that he communicates with Bieber and “people from the other side.” He had served 17 months at Lawrence Correctional Center in Sumner from a previous conviction, according to police. When he was arrested, he was on electronic monitoring and had been paroled in December to a halfway house in Chicago for a July 2011 arrest in St. Charles, when he was arrested for aggravated battery in a public place after exposing himself while at Xsport, a fitness studio on Randall Road. Court records state that Adamczyk approached three people and touched them inappropriately while at the fitness center. Two were men older than 18 and one was a male younger than 18. Court records state Adamczyk entered a guilty plea to three counts of battery and one count of public indecency, and was sentenced to three years in the Illinois Department of Corrections. Court documents also state that Adamczyk has mental issues and “needs to receive counseling and therapy while in the IDOC or he will continue this behavior when released.” His parole status has been revoked since his latest arrest on Saturday. He was being held without bond Monday on disorderly conduct and criminal trespass charges.

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BATAVIA – Aldermen on the Batavia City Council Community Development Committee on Tuesday said they want to continue with the city’s facade grant program and the downtown improvement grant program with some changes. Batavia Assistant City Administrator Jason Bajor told aldermen the programs are essential to the downtown’s vitality. He said the businesses

that have been helped by the programs “are creating reasons for people to come to the downtown.” Aldermen had voiced concerns about the programs. Bajor said he has had to tell applicants the programs are on “stand-by” until the City Council moves forward. Staff has recommended changes to the two programs. With the facade grant program, staff has recommended maintaining the 50/50 match provision between property/

business owner and the city and maintaining the minimum project budget of $1,000, but raising the maximum project budget amount from $10,000 to $20,000. Staff also has recommended that the 50/50 match provision to be maintained in the downtown improvement grant program, but has suggested reducing the minimum project budget from $2,500 to $1,000 and reduce the maximum project budget amount from $50,000 to $20,000.

Batavia mulls sale of city land By ERIC SCHELKOPF

eschelkopf@shawmedia.com BATAVIA – Aldermen are looking at selling six acres of city-owned land at the northeast corner of Wilson Street and Kirk Road. The property, which is zoned for commercial use, was deeded to the city in November 2010. “There had been development proposals on this land,

but due to various circumstances, the property owner instead elected to deed the property to the city,” Batavia Community Development Director Scott Buening said in a memo to aldermen. There was a deed restriction on the land that prohibited selling it before Nov. 30. But that restriction has lapsed, and city staff is recommending aldermen move ahead with selling the land.

“Staff feels that the highest and best use would be to sell the property and to get it back on the tax rolls as commercial property,” Buening said. The property generated about $30,000 in annual property tax revenues for all taxing bodies before it was filed as an exempt property, Buening said. He said the best scenario would be for the land to be redeveloped with a gas station.

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BATAVIA – The Batavia woman who bought a $7.25 million Lotto ticket at the 7-Eleven at 336 E. Wilson St. in Batavia is known as a regular customer. Illinois Lottery officials Tuesday announced that Ancelma Martinez was the winner in the Dec. 17 Lotto drawing. She matched all six numbers – 2-15-18-23-50-52. Martinez elected to receive her prize in a one-time

payment of $5,513,306, the release stated. “We’ve known her for years,” said Rick Niedfeldt, franchise owner of the store. “They’re a nice couple, her and her husband. We’re happy for them. I’m sure they can put the money to good use for their family.” Niedfeldt and his wife, Marlene, are Batavia residents and have owned the 7-Eleven store since it opened in 1987. This is the first time the store has sold a ticket with such a big prize, the

couple said. For selling the winning Quick Pick ticket, the store will receive 1 percent of the prize, or $72,500. Neither Martinez nor her family could be reached for comment. According to a news release from the Illinois Lottery, Martinez said she was at Lumes Pancake House in Batavia having breakfast with her husband when she checked out the winning lottery numbers in the Kane County Chronicle and found out she was a millionaire.

“I almost spilled my coffee everywhere,” Martinez said in the release. “I was very surprised. I still can’t believe I won.” Martinez and her husband have lived in Batavia for 33 years. They have five children and six grandchildren. Martinez has been playing one $2 Lotto ticket each week, “for many years,” according to the release. This was the second Batavia 7-Eleven to sell a multimillion-dollar winning Lotto ticket in 2012. In March 2012, a Batavia

resident came forward to claim a $3 million winning Lotto ticket that was sold at the 7-Eleven on Fabyan Parkway in Batavia. The man, who wished to remain anonymous, bought the ticket on St. Patrick’s Day. He opted for the lump sum payment of $2,127,660. The 7-Eleven store at 710 E. Fabyan Parkway received a bonus of $30,000 for selling the winner the lucky ticket. The Illinois Lotto drawings are Monday, Wednesday and Saturday nights.

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arhodebeck@shawmedia.com Fourteen-year-old Nicole DiSandro last year would practice “Gimme Gimme” from “Thoroughly Modern Millie” daily to prepare for her performance in the eighth-grade musical. Now a Kaneland High School freshman, Nicole still has reason to rehearse the ditty, although less frequently: She will perform it Saturday at the Nicole Illinois Associa- DiSandro tion of Agricultural Fairs Talent Contest in Springfield. “It’s really cool,” Nicole said of her participation in the state competition. “I feel good about it, and I’m excited for it.” Nicole, of Elburn, is representing Kane County along with 20-year-old Eric Luminais of Geneva. Nicole and Luminais were the junior and senior division first-place winners in the Kane County Fair Talent Contest last summer. Each will perform their winning acts Saturday. Nicole will sing “Gimme Gimme,”

and Luminais will perform an unconventional and complicated flute solo titled “Three Beats for Beatbox Flute, Beats 1 and 2.” “I’m always excited for any chance to perform,” Luminais said. “I’m kind of addicted.” The Illinois Association of Agricultural Fairs Talent Contest will have 39 acts competing in the senior division and 38 acts in the junior division. Ten acts will be recognized to win in each division, with the Eric top six receiving Luminais a trophy, monetary award and an invitation to perform at the 2013 Illinois State Fair. “I’m hoping that I’ll place, but I’m just really excited that I get the opportunity to be there,” Nicole said. Luminais hopes to at least place in the top three, he said. Luminais is a sophomore at Eastern Illinois University studying music performance on flute. He began playing the woodwind instrument in about fourth grade because he liked the sound of Irish Celtic music, he said. He added he later fell

in love with music in general and the instrument, but it’s difficult to say what he likes about the flute. “It’s always a tough question because there are so many things that I like,” he said. Nicole, who won last year’s Elburn Idol, said she loves singing and enjoys performing live. “It’s just raw,” she said. “If you mess up, you mess up, no going back.” Hermother,AnneDiSandro, said it’s great her daughter can get experience performing on stage through local events. “It’s just a great experience these kids can get through local fairs,” she said. Details about the 2013 Kane County Fair Talent Contest auditions will be available soon. Auditions typically are in June, and the fair is set for July 17 to 21. Last year, more than 38 acts auditioned and 19 finalists competed for prizes, contest coordinator Larry Rossi said in a news release. “The judges were highly impressed with the quality of talent in our community,” he said in the release. “We really look forward to next year’s contest based on the excitement we experienced this year.”

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To the Editor: Patrick McNulty, in his recent letter (Jan. 9, Kane County Chronicle), tells us, “According to a survey conducted by the Public Religion Research Institute, which was funded, in part, by the Ford Foundation and the Nathan Cummings Foundation, 54 percent of Catholics believe that gay and lesbian couples should be permitted to marry legally. If that is the case, Bishop Malloy’s letter represents the opinion of the majority of Catholic bishops but only a minority of Catholics.” Patrick, were the crowds (and I must assume that it was better than 54 percent of those present) who yelled, “Crucify Him; Crucify Him!” right in their opinion? Or is it possible for a majority vote, a consensus as it were, to be wrong? John Babush Big Rock

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seems to be arriving faster than we ever expected. Three issues in particular require scrutiny. First, we’ll need a new legal and regulatory framework. State and federal driving laws obviously weren’t written with this technology in mind. California, Florida and Nevada already have begun regulating them. And the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which is planning to study the issue, should be transparent with the public and the auto industry about any plans to update its rulebook, and when it intends to act. Next, policymakers will have to devise clear rules for determining liability. Should the driver be held responsible for his vehicle? The manufacturer? Perhaps a third party that designed an app for a car

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that malfunctioned? Resolving such questions will be incredibly messy. A smart first step would be to require event data recorders – “black boxes” that contain information about a car’s operation before a crash – in all autonomous cars, with adequate privacy safeguards. Congress also should consider the model offered by the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. Autonomous vehicles may in the future be judged an essential social good. But, as with vaccines, the potential for rare but extremely costly lawsuits could inhibit manufacturers from meeting demand. To ease such concerns, Congress could direct claims against autonomous-car manufacturers to a special federal court outside the normal tort system, and establish a fund to

compensate accident victims. Finally, officials at all levels must manage expectations and plan realistically. Autonomous cars won’t be perfect, and they will surely cause havoc in many cases. Their benefits also may be exaggerated in the public mind. In the best long-term case, a commute like the one described above – faster, safer, more productive – could become a reality. But not soon. Ceding our roads to computers will be a complicated and chaotic process. It will involve all kinds of strange moral considerations and trade-offs. It could transform our physical environment, our economy and quite possibly our entire way of life. The technology is unquestionably revolutionary. Just don’t expect it to be a joyride.

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County Board puts brakes on deputy chairman proposal By JONATHAN BILYK

jbilyk@shawmedia.com GENEVA – County Board Chairman Chris Lauzen received a split decision on his plan to change the structure of the County Board. Tuesday, the County Board approved a proposal from Lauzen to create two County Board committees and allow for co-chairmen to oversee certain committees. However, the County Board put the brakes on Lauzen’s proposal to create a deputy County Board chairman. L a u z e n had proposed amending county ordinance to create a deputy Chris Lauzen chairman to essentially act at the chairman’s request to marshal support for issues and positions supported by the County Board chairman. According to language presented to the board, the deputy chairman also would “take the place of the County Board chairman at official ceremonies” that Lauzen cannot attend. Language presented to the County Board on Tuesday would require the deputy chairman to be a member of the County Board, and limit the deputy chairman’s term of office to one year. The deputy chairman would not earn additional salary or benefits. While the idea had breezed through a County Board committee, it met with opposition from board members. County Board member Mark Davoust, R-St. Charles, criticized the proposal, say-

“I don’t think [having a deputy chairman is] that big of a deal.” Drew Frasz

County Board member ing the deputy chairman post would correspond to the legislative position of “whip,” which is awarded to a partisan within Congress or a state legislature to secure support for the positions of party leadership. “That sounds very Springfield-like to me,” Davoust said, alluding to Lauzen’s two decades as a state senator. Other board members sought to modify the proposal. Board member Christina Castro, D-Elgin, asked the board to require that the political party identity of the deputy chairman change from year to year. So, while the initial deputy chairman might be a Republican, when the post comes up from reappointment in 2014, the deputy chairman would need to be a Democrat. Others on the board, however, supported the proposal. County Board member Drew Frasz, R-Elburn, said the position was largely ceremonial, allowing “a county presence” at events Lauzen cannot attend for scheduling reasons. “I don’t think it’s that big of a deal,” Frasz said. Ultimately, the board opted to send the proposal back to the County Board Administration Committee for further discussion, with the intention of bringing the matter back to the full County Board in February.

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Frasz said eminent domain would be a last-resort option because such a process could take years, costing the county millions in federal funding. Frasz said pursuing eminent domain “pretty much blows the deal up.” Village Board members focused Monday on coming up with a percentage of multifamily units or mixeduse units, and at last week’s Village Board meeting, they appeared in agreement on a plan that wouldn’t allow the go-ahead for any new building plans until the previous phase would be nearly complete. Trustees Jerry Schmidt and Bill Grabarek represent the opposite ends of the discussion. Schmidt pushed board members to come up with a proposal for ShoDeen, saying he didn’t Jerry Schmidt see any reason they couldn’t do so before the meeting ended. “It’s time to move,” Schmidt said. “We need rooftops here.” Grabarek said that wouldn’t be done, but he said he was working toward a solution and was comfortable

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with parts of the plan. “We don’t want cancerous growth,” Grabarek said. “It’s like our motto, ‘Better, not just bigger.’ ” Trustees Ken Anderson and Ethan Hastert, who voted with Schmidt Bill Grabarek against tabling the issue last year, steered discussion toward coming up with a plan to bring back to ShoDeen. Anderson proposed a plan calling for the development to remain onethird single-family units, one-third mixed use and onethird multifamily. Trustees David Gualdoni

and Walter, who voted along with Grabarek to table the issue, guided those discussions. Village President Dave Anderson reminded trustees that, as a transit-oriented development, the plan is different than others that might come up in the village. Elburn resident Ron Rosecky urged board members to negotiate carefully with ShoDeen, saying he admired trustees’ diligence, “but you are dealing with someone who is a very smart and very crafty builder.” Rosecky was among several residents in attendance. The discussion is set to continue at Tuesday’s Village Board meeting.

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ELBURN – Two key Kane County officials were at Monday’s Committee of the Whole meeting in Elburn to push a message of urgency as Village Board members hammer out details for the proposed Elburn Station development. County Board member Drew Frasz, R-Elburn, said he left feeling as if the process was “headed in the right direction.” Frasz and Tom Rickert, the deputy director of the Drew Frasz Kane County Division of Transportation, listened as board members debated the issue for nearly two hours. Board members said they would work on a list to present to developer ShoDeen about issues, including the percentage of multifamily units that could be built, and details such as the amount of money ShoDeen would contribute toward a planned pedestrian bridge. Elburn Station is projected to bring about 2,200 homes into the village over 20 years in an area near the Metra station. And county offi-

cials are eager to get the goahead to begin construction of an extension of Anderson Road, including a bridge that would offer a crossing of the train tracks. That project would occur on land owned by ShoDeen. The Village Board was poised to vote on the station plan last year but tabled the discussion. County officials such as Frasz had been concerned that funding for the bridge could be lost if the process went on for an extended period but he left Monday’s meeting encouraged. “I think it’s great,” Frasz said after the meeting. “This is the way projects get done.” Frasz said county officials “would love to move forward” on the bridge project, which could begin this year if officials get the green light. Frasz and Rickert attended to answer questions for board members and drive home a few points. Rickert said with the bridge, Anderson Road would become a Class 2 truck route, but didn’t think it would become a heavily traveled road. Board member Jeff Walter brought up the possibility of using eminent domain powers to acquire the land, rather than working out details with ShoDeen.

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A late, spinning layup from Batavia’s Mike Rueffer lifts the Bulldogs over Elgin, 55-54, on Tuesday in Batavia. PAGE 21

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KANELAND 65, MORRIS 32

Knights adjust defense, then soar By KEVIN DRULEY

kdruley@shawmedia.com MAPLE PARK – A defensive adjustment at halftime Tuesday nightdelivered the appropriate payoff for the Kaneland girls basketball team. For the Knights, that also meant a boost to the offense. Initially struggling to defeat Northern Illinois Big 12 East foe Morris for a third time this season, Kaneland used a calm locker room message and a 1-3-1 zone to sprint to a 65-32 victory. “We started attacking more and getting confidence in our shot and confidence in each other,” Knights senior forward Brooke Harner said. “That’s what really set us off.” Kaneland (12-7, 4-3 NI Big 12 East) limited Morris to six points after halftime, all in the third quarter. Redskins guard Ashley Bojovic banked in a shot just after the final buzzer that did not count. Bojovic led Morris with 10 points, but like teammate Julie Jurasits (nine) did not score after intermission. Redskins coach Luke Windy couldn’t stress the Knights’ 1-3-1 and overall tenacity enough. “We knew it was coming,” Windy said. “I was surprised they didn’t use it earlier, because we really struggled the first two times we played with it. It was about execution; we dribbled with our heads down way too much, not seeing the open girls, not flashing hard enough. Their pressure really bothered us.” Morris (4-14, 0-6) built a 26-25 lead at the break largely against man-to-man looks from Kaneland. Capitalizing on occasional Kaneland overaggressiveness that led to more fouls than the Knights are accustomed, the Redskins alternated between attacking and attrition when they had the ball. Aiming to add to its halftime lead, Morris was whistled for traveling with two seconds remaining in the second quarter. The would-be final possession of the half started with almost 40 seconds of idle Redskins dribbling. Beginning with a 3

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Kaneland’s Emma Bradford goes up for a shot against Morris on Tuesday in Maple Park. Kaneland defeated Morris, 65-32. from senior guard Allyson O’Herron on their first possession, the Knights shot 7 for 17 in the third quarter. Finishing with 18 steals in the game – including five apiece from O’Herron and Emma Bradford – the Knights shifted from charging at the Redskins to reading their ballhandlers’ eyes. It ultimately added up to a

27-6 scoring edge in the third quarter and a balanced attack that included Harner (13 points), Bradford (nine) and Sarah Grams (eight). “Today in the first half, we were kind of just complacent with sticking with them and stuff, and I think in the second half we realized we’re a better than than [what] we were playing,” said O’Herron, who had a

game-high 21 points. That last part just about summed up coach Ernie Colombe’s concise halftime message. The Knights kept executing with their defense and getting to the free throw line, where they finished 19 for 27. Harner (13 points) led the way with a 7 for 7 effort.

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TODAY Girls basketball: CICS Ellison at Aurora Central Catholic, 6:30 p.m. ThURSDAY Wrestling: Marmion at Mount Carmel, 6:30 p.m. Boys swimming: Waubonsie Valley at St. Charles East, 4:30 p.m.; Metea Valley at St. Charles North, 5 p.m. FRIDAY Boys basketball: St. Charles North at St. Charles East, 7:15 p.m.; Marmion at Aurora Christian, 7:30 p.m.; Burlington Central at St. Edward, 7:30 p.m.; Wheaton Academy at St. Francis, 7:30 p.m. Girls basketball: St. Charles East at Geneva, 7:15 p.m.; Larkin at Batavia, 7:15 p.m.; Kaneland at Sycamore, 7 p.m.; St. Edward at Rosary, 7:30 p.m.; Aurora Central Cathollc at Montini, 6:30 p.m.; Genoa-Kingston at Burlington Central, 7:15 p.m.; Wheaton Academy at St. Francis, 6 p.m. Wrestling: Marmion vs. Buchanan (Clovis, Calif.), 6:30 p.m.; Upstate Eight Conference meet at Batavia, TBD

bOyS baSkeTball: baTavia 55, elgin 54

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Kaneland sprinted to a 14-2, first-quarter lead in its first meeting with Morris, a 56-27 road victory to open conference play Nov. 30. Three weeks later, the Knights encountered the Redskins at the Ottawa Tournament, winning, 3829. After beating their longtime regional rivals for a third time Tuesday, Kaneland turned its focus to a rematch with another familiar foe. When the Knights travel on Friday to Sycamore, they’ll be just more than a month removed from beating the Spartans

in overtime. That could be just the second leg of a potential case of trey-ja vu. Sycamore and Kaneland both are assigned to the 3A Burlington Central Regional along with another team the Knights defeated in OT, the regional host Rockets. O’Herron described the team’s approach to any rematch. As usual, it begins in a familiar place. “We go over the film of the last time that we played them and we switch up our defenses to complement whatever offense they run now,” O’Herron said. “We really focus on our defense a lot. Mostly, we just change up our defense.”

Maroons were unable to uncork a last shot. The win was the seventh in eight games for Batavia (9-8, 3-4 UEC River), which moved above .500 for the first time since starting the season 2-1 at the Windmill City Classic. Elgin hadn’t played since the calendar turned to 2013, but Williams – the Maroons’ lightningquick, 5-foot-9 guard – needed no time to rediscover his shooting stroke. He buried seven 3-pointers on the night, five in the first half, and bedeviled several different Bulldogs defenders who tried to shake Williams out of his zone. “We’re playing great defense on him, and then all the sudden he just hits a shot,” Strittmatter said. “There’s a sense of helplessness with that. But in the fourth quarter, we buckled down a little bit.” Williams had 27 points entering the fourth quarter, all from the floor, but managed only five points from the foul line in the fourth quarter. His flow likely was disrupted by picking up his fourth foul in the final minute of thethirdquarteronathree-point play by Rueffer that brought the Bulldogs within 43-36. Rueffer and the Bulldogs kept trying to drive it at Williams in the early stages of the fourth quarter in hopes of taking advantage of his foul-trouble

vulnerability. “It seems like that whole next 3 and a half minutes, we’re trying to get Mike in a 1-on-1 situation with him to get him his [fifth foul], and the next thing you know, we’re out of what we normally do, we’re out of synch,” Nazos said. “So it’s that fine line, do you keep going at it and keep grinding something there, or do you try to go back to what you’re doing? I guess there’s no concrete answer for it, but all I know is if he was out of the game it’d be a lot easier.” Elgin coach Mike Sitter allowed Williams to play through the foul trouble and was pleased that Williams showed the discipline to avoid picking up his fifth. The rest of the Maroons’ fourth quarter execution, though, was hard for the coach to stomach. “I think [Batavia] scored their last seven possessions in a row – if you can’t get a stop late defensively and if you can’t hit free throws, you don’t deserve to win games in conference,” Sitter said. “That’s what it comes down to. You can’t play well for three and a half quarters and expect to win. It’s got to be four, full quarters.” Rueffer scored all nine of his points in the second half after a frustrating start to the game that included an inabil-

ity to convert two early drives to the basket. Those mishaps seemed far from his mind in the final moments as he scored one of the biggest baskets of his Bulldogs career. “He’s always in control,” Nazos said of Rueffer. “He’s a point guard. He’s always got control of the game, control of the floor. He didn’t panic. He just stayed calm and cleared out a side, and made his move.” Strittmatter had a team-high 16 points to go with his 11 rebounds, while Coffey’s 12 points came on four 3-pointers, including one that drew the Bulldogs with 43-41 early in the fourth quarter. Luke Horton scored half of his eight points on a pair of crucial, inside baskets in the final quarter. But for all of Batavia’s clutch performances, there still was no forgetting the theatrics provided by Williams, who reminded Rueffer of a recent Upstate Eight Conference legend. “My sophomore year I guarded [former East Aurora Star Ryan Boatright, now at UConn], and that’s about to the extent of what he has with his ball-handling skills,” Rueffer said. “You never know where he’s going to go, and his first step is pretty much like Boatright’s, in my opinion. He just goes. Once he sees an alley, he goes, and he’s not turning back.”

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STC East girls bowling defeats North kane COUnTy CHROniCle WEST CHICAGO – The St. Charles East girls bowling team moved closer to an Upstate Eight Conference River Division title Tuesday, defeating St. Charles North, 2,857-2,817 in a home dual at Bowling Green. While North’s Bobby Jo Buhlman rolled the meet’s high game (265) and series (632), East countered with five 200-plus games. Erin Heuer led the way with a 236, and also turned in the team’s top series (616). East and North both entered the meet having earned all 20 possible conference

points to date. Teams can win up to five points at a meet, gaining one for winning a game and two for taking the overall series. The Saints won the first and last games as well as the series. The conference season is set to conclude at Thursday’s UEC Position Night at Elgin Lanes. All teams will roll three more games, with separate River and Valley champions to be determined after those results. Dana Brandt added a 218 game for the Saints, while Angela Solis had a 216. North’s Lynn Byers rolled a 213 in her second game.

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chelle, Morgan Wojciechowski (482 series) and Christie Crews (475) paced Kaneland in a narrow Northern Illinois Big 12 defeat. Ellissa Eckert had the Knights’ top game with a 168.

BOYS BASKETBALL Mooseheart 68, Luther North 41: At Mooseheart, Makur Puou scored a career high 35 points to go with 17 rebounds and four blocked shots as the Ramblers (9-4, 4-0 Northeastern Athletic) cruised. Ramblers coach Ron Ahrens said the 6-foot-10 Puou’s continued emergence has been driven by his teammates.

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BATAVIA – Elgin’s point guard put on a show. Batavia’s point guard won the basketball game. Bulldogs senior Mike Rueffer drove to the basket and converted a spinning layup with 8 seconds left Tuesday to give the Batavia boys basketball team a thrilling, 55-54 comeback win Mike Rueffer against Elgin. Maroons point guard Arie Williams lived up to his lofty billing with a sometimes breathtaking 32point outburst, but it was Williams’ counterpart who was smiling wide after the game. “He’s a little bit of an underrated point guard over there,” Batavia senior Zach Strittmatter, standing a few feet from Rueffer in the Bulldogs’ locker room, said of his fellow senior. “Few turnovers. He’s very good at getting to the basket. He caught the edge on [his man], and he just made a great shot.” Trailing by five points with a minute to go, Rueffer and Strittmatter supplied the caliber of veteran leadership required to make Elgin pay for its late struggles.

Rueffer made a 10-footer on the baseline to trim the Maroons’ lead to 54-51 with 58 seconds left to play. After Elgin’s Tanner Bednar missed two free throws, Rueffer attempted to tie the game with a 3-pointer, but the shot rimmed out. Strittmatter, though, seized oneofhisgame-high11rebounds in traffic, and his stick-back brought the Bulldogs within 5453 with 33 seconds to play. “They’re not all that big of a team, so I felt I could go get some boards just by going hard to the basket,” Strittmatter said. “Maybe get lucky, like that one I got a little bit lucky, ball comes right to me.” The Maroons (9-8, 1-6 Upstate Eight Conference River), were unable to put the ball in Williams’ hands at key moments down the stretch, then missed two more free throws, this time from forward Eric Sedlack, with 18 seconds left. Bulldogs coach Jim Nazos initially sought to run a play for sharpshooting guard Micah Coffey on the decisive possession to follow, but with Coffey well covered, the Bulldogs instead cleared out for Rueffer, who knifed into the lane for the night’s final bucket. Batavia batted the ball away from Elgin three times in the final eight seconds, twice by Rueffer off inbounds plays, as the

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Kaneland goalkeeper Jordan Ginther (middle) makes a save ahead of DeKalb’s Abby Hickey (7) and Alli Smith (9) during a game last spring. going the high school season during her sophomore year to focus on club soccer. She said she plans to be back in the Knights’ net for her senior year this spring. The Sugar Grove resident plays club soccer with the Naperville-based NSA Fireballs. One of her club teammates, midfielder Holly Gregory, is also a Boilermakers recruit. In addition to Purdue, Ginther also visited and gave consideration to Maryland and Central Michigan. Ginther intends to officially sign with Purdue during a ceremony Feb. 6. at Kaneland, and plans to major in kinesiology. Parillo called Ginther “a dynamite goalie and a dynamite student.” “If she’s not the best goalie in the area, I don’t really know who is,” Parillo said. “We’ve been trying to give her some great accolades, and it just hasn’t worked out the way we wanted to as far as being an all-state goalie and stuff like that. I just don’t think some of these bigger schools realize the talent that she is.” Parillo said Ginther’s senior season will be spent anchoring a young but

“really talented” Kaneland team this spring. “We may face some growing pains early on but I think we should be very competitive,” Parillo said. “Still searching for that

first regional championship. Hopefully we can get that this year – that’d be wonderful, a great way for the seniors to cap their [careers] and a great way for Jordan to cap her high

school career.”

• Jay Schwab is sports editor of the Kane County Chronicle. He can be reached at 630-845-5382 or jschwab@ shawmedia.com.

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perhaps the best-known public figure in the fight against cancer. The largest athletefounded charity has raised more than $470 million since 1997, according to its website. Before Monday’s interview, Armstrong stopped at the Livestrong Foundation and apologized to staff members for letting them down and putting the charity at risk, AP said, citing an unidentified person with knowledge of the session. Armstrong also said he would try to restore the charity’s reputation and urged the group to continue its mission to help cancer patients and their families, AP said. Armstrong was diagnosed in 1996 with stage three testicular cancer that spread to his lungs and brain. He returned to the Tour de France as a champion in 1999, winning the first of seven consecutive titles. “One of the unfortunate victims in all of this has been his foundation, which has done incredibly important work for years,” McCown said. “They didn’t deserve to be dragged into this. Very much collateral

damage, so I think it was absolutely the right thing to spend some private time with them and be honest with them.” In addition to stepping down from Livestrong, Armstrong was dropped by sponsors including Nike, Oakley, Anheuser-Busch InBev, Trek Bicycle Corp., and energy supplement makers FRS and Honey Stinger. Armstrong is now in talks to return a portion of the millions of taxpayer dollars received by his former U.S. Postal Service cycling team, CBS News said without citing a source. Justice Department officials have recommended the U.S. government join a federal whistle-blower lawsuit filed by Armstrong’s former teammate, Floyd Landis, in 2010, CBS News said. The lawsuit is aimed at getting sponsorship money back from Armstrong’s former team. Armstrong may testify against others involved in doping, CBS News said. Armstrong could also face a lawsuit from SCA Promotions, which said in October

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Lance Armstrong said he cheated by using performanceenhancing drugs during his cycling career in an interview with Oprah Winfrey, the talkshow host said on “CBS This Morning.” The full 2 1/2-hour interview Monday with the 41-year-old American, who was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles last year after a U.S. anti-doping probe, will be televised Thursday on the Oprah Winfrey Network. The pair met at a hotel in the cyclist’s hometown of Austin, Texas, Winfrey said Tuesday on the CBS show. “He did not come clean in the manner that I expected,” Winfrey said. “It was surprising to me. We were mesmerized and riveted by some of his answers.” Armstrong’s admission follows 13 years of emphatic denials of doping. The cyclist was stripped of his record seven Tour de France titles and banned from competing for life in August by the U.S. AntiDoping Agency, which said it found proof he engaged in serial cheating through the use, administration and trafficking of performance-enhancing drugs and methods. “We need to question his real motives for doing this,” Ashley McCown, who specializes in crisis communications as president of Boston-based Solomon McCown & Co., said in a telephone interview. “If his motive was to tell the truth, why didn’t he do that a long time ago?” The Associated Press didn’t disclose specifics of Arm-

strong’s talk with Winfrey. OWN spokeswoman Chelsea Hettrick and Armstrong’s spokesman, Mark Fabiani, on Monday night declined in emails to comment on the AP report. USADA, the Colorado Springs, Colo.-based overseer of U.S. drug rules, said in a 202-page report in October detailing Armstrong’s cheating that his career was “fueled start to finish by doping.” The agency, using evidence from 11 former teammates, said Armstrong forced fellow riders to cheat or be fired from his team, and also transfused blood and used testosterone and erythropoietin. USADA spokeswoman Annie Skinner didn’t immediately return messages seeking comment about Armstrong’s interview. Armstrong’s ban from competitive cycling and the loss of his Tour de France titles came after he opted not to fight USADA’s allegations. Cycling’s governing body, the International Cycling Union, said it “would strongly urge” Armstrong to testify to an independent committee looking at the former rider’s relationship with the UCI leadership. The USADA report questioned how UCI handled issues related to Armstrong. Armstrong was also banned from competing in top-level triathlons, a sport he returned to after retiring from cycling in 2011. Armstrong competed as a professional triathlete at 18 before focusing on cycling, and last year sought to participate in the Ironman World Championship in Hawaii. After USADA’s report, Armstrong severed ties with Livestrong, which made him

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Nats, Rafael Soriano agree to terms By ADAM KILGORe

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Aurora Central Catholic • Senior • Boys Basketball Why Schuetz was selected: Schuetz led Aurora Central Catholic to wins last week against Joliet Catholic and Marmion, scoring 34 points in the Joliet Catholic win. Aurora Central Catholic senior boys basketball forward Phil Schuetz had a memorable night during the Chargers’ Jan. 8 win against Joliet Catholic, scoring a career high 34 points, including all 17 of ACC’s points in the second half of a 51-47 victory. Schuetz, the St. Charles Bank & Trust-Kane County Chronicle Athlete of the Week, talked to Chronicle sports editor Jay Schwab about his performance. The following is an edited transcript:

layups, so that helped a lot.

Did you think you’d ever score 34 points in a game? No, not really. Actually I didn’t even realize I had that many at the game until afterward, they told me.

What class are you most looking forward to this term? Team weights and team sports, which is just like a gym class. We’ll play a lot of different sports like basketball and volleyball. It should be fun.

What got into you? I don’t know. We got a lot of easy passes to me. My teammates were giving me some good passes so I had easier looks at the basket. I had a lot of

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I’ve heard you’re a pretty impressive dunker for 6-2. Does your athleticism surprise people sometimes? Yeah, I like to surprise people, I guess. Not many people think a 6-1 kid is going to dunk. Well, 6-3 I’m listed at, but they don’t expect one to go up and throw it down, but I love going up and surprising them and showing them.

Favorite sports movie that you’ve seen? Probably “Coach Carter.” I just love that movie. It was a great movie.

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WASHINGTON – The Nationals agreed to terms with closer Rafael Soriano, a person familiar with the situation said, a stunning, blockbuster addition to the back end of their bullpen. The sides reached a two-year, $28 million contract, which makes Soriano the highestpaid reliever in baseball during the 2013 season. The contract also includes a $14 million option for 2015 that will vest if Soriano finished 120 games combined over the 2013 and 2014 seasons. Owner Ted Lerner, one person familiar with the negotiations said, was heavily involved in bringing Soriano to Washington. Soriano is a client of high-profile agent Scott Boras, whom the Nationals have worked with to sign Bryce Harper, Jayson Werth and Stephen Strasburg, among others, to lucrative deals. The deal shows the desire the Nationals, especially 87-year-old owner Lerner, have to win a World Series now, one year after their wrenching loss to the St. Louis Cardinals

in the National League Division Series. The Nationals squandered a six-run lead after five innings and a tworun lead in the ninth inning of Game 5, and they added Soriano, 33, with the express intent of preventing another pivotal, late-game meltdown. The Yankees, Soriano’s team in 2012, gave him a one-year qualifying offer, which means the Nationals will forfeit their first-round pick – No. 31 overall – and the bonus pool money attached to the selection. Soriano’s addition bolsters the back of their bullpen, which already includes incumbent closer Drew Storen and 2011 all-star set-up man Tyler Clippard, who saved 32 games last year. It could also allow the Nationals to trade a reliever from their deep relief corps. Soriano will presumably enter the 2013 season as the clear-cut top choice at closer, but there will still be save chances for Storen. Manager Davey Johnson believes in using an “A” and “B” closer in order to keep his best relievers healthy over a 162-win season. As the odds-on favorites to win the World Series, the

Nationals should have ample save opportunities and plenty reason to keep their closer(s) fresh. Still, Storen and Clippard may have to adjust to lesser roles after dominating lateinning situations when healthy the past two seasons. Last season, Soriano replaced the injured Mariano Rivera and saved 42 games for the Yankees with a 2.26 ERA and 69 strikeouts in 67 2/3 innings. Soriano has appeared in nine playoff games for the Rays and Yankees, allowing four earned runs over 12 innings. For context on Soriano’s vesting option, only Jose Valverde (137) and Craig Kimbrel (120) reached 120 games finished over the 2011 and 2012 seasons. Once Soriano passes a physical and his signing becomes official, the Nationals’ opening day payroll should push close to $120 million, an increase of nearly $40 million over last year. A closer at $14 million a year is a luxury item for a contender, not a necessity. The Nationals, three years after losing 298 games over three seasons, have reached the point where they go for the luxury item.

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Stacey J. Miller had a craving for a homemade brownie. Just one. She didn’t want to have to make a pan of brownies, eat one, and throw the rest away. So she found a recipe on the Internet for something called a single-serve microwave mug cake. “It just hit the spot,” said the Boston book publicist about the brownie-like confection. In fact, she liked it so much, she developed a variety of mug cake recipes, each one ready in fewer than 10 minutes. She put the recipes into her own book, called “101 Recipes for Microwave Mug Cakes” (BPT Press). Mug cakes are simply made by cooking a small amount of homemade cake batter in a microwave-safe cup. They don’t require a lot of baking equipment, are cheaper than storebought pastries, don’t generate leftovers, come in many flavors and can be made in even a tiny kitchen. All that’s left to clean up is a spoon, a mug, a small bowl and a saucer. “Eat them when they’re warm,” said Miller. The texture may change if left in the cup for a while. She has one hard-and-fast rule when making the snack cakes: Fill the cup halfway or less. “If you make the batter and are tempted to fill the mug more than halfway, you’re making a mistake,” she

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said. “My microwave suffered so yours doesn’t have to.” The author recommends using a 16-ounce mug shaped like a cylinder. “I love the alternative of baking instead of going to doughnut shops,”

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TASTE BRIEFS Benefit dinner to take place in St. Charles

ST. CHARLES – A benefit dinner is scheduled for Back Bay Mission in Biloxi, Miss., at 6 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 9, at the Congregational UCC Church of St. Charles, 40W451 Fox Mill Blvd., St. Charles. The

dinner will be an old-fashioned Gulf Coast shrimp boil, featuring shrimp, cajun rice and beans, salad and garlic bread. The donation is $13 a guest, which includes free hotdogs for children. Back Bay is a mission of the United Church of Christ that works for social justice

and compassionate service to the poor and marginalized; the church sends crews there annually to help report homes and work in food kitchens. The public is invited to the dinner and can call the church office at 630-584-0929 or Bob at 630-513-1789 for reservations.

Chef plans class around Valentine’s Day dinner

ST. CHARLES – Chef Michael Zema has planned a class to help those who want to prepare a dinner on Valentine’s Day. The event will take place from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 9, at St. Charles

Episcopal Church, 994 N. Fifth Ave., St. Charles. There will be shrimp scampi, spinach au gratin, roasted potatoes and more. Seating is limited; to register, call 630-584-2596. The $30 fee supports the church’s mission and ministries.

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Balanced lunch on a balanced budget By WYNNE EVERETT

GateHouse News Service The start of a new year usually means we’re trying to do two tough things simultaneously: save money and eat better. One of the best ways to achieve both goals is to pack a healthy bag lunch for work each day. The trick is to plan ahead and shop wisely. Here are some tips from the Clemson University Cooperative Extension office for saving money, calories and time with nutritious and budgetfriendly lunches: • Invest in reusable containers. Buy some plastic tubs, sandwich bags and other containers for your lunch bag. Skip the disposable packaging to save money. • Plan dinners that will leave you with leftovers. You can plan ahead to pack these for lunch the next day. Some of your best bets are dishes that

are even better the second day, such as chili, soup or pasta dishes. • Work ahead on the weekend. Prepare a week’s worth of packed lunches at once. You can do this by cooking large batches of your favorite soup or stew, prepping large quantities of fresh vegetables for salads or snacks, or slicing large cuts of meat for sandwiches. • Be careful not to overspend. Only buy enough food and ingredients for

a reasonable amount of time. Buying in bulk can often save you money, but those savings disappear if you have to throw away food that spoils before you can eat it. • Stay away from single-serving packaging. These are great for portion control but usually much more expensive than the same amount of food in larger packaging. Buy fruits, vegetables, crackers, cookies and other snacks in regular quantities, then package them into single-serving containers yourself. • Your lunch should include roughly one-third of the calories you plan to consume each day. Count the calories as you’re preparing your meal to make sure you’re staying on track. Also, your lunch should be a balanced meal with items from the four food groups. Some suggestions: • Proteins: Load your lunch with lean meats such as turkey, ham or roast beef; heart-healthy fish such as

tuna; beans; eggs, such as a hardboiled egg on a salad; and peanut butter. • Grains: Breads, crackers and pasta are great for lunch. Be sure to choose whole-grain items to get the most fiber and nutrition. • Fruits and vegetables: This is another easy food group to get into your lunch. Raw fruits and vegetables are generally inexpensive, easy to prepare in advance and simple to pack. To keep yourself from getting bored, vary what you pack. Vegetable juice is also a good option. • Calcium: You might not want a glass of milk with lunch, but consider packing single-serving sized yogurt or cottage cheese. Cubes of cheese also work well. • Beverages: Don’t forget to count your beverage in your calorie total. You’d be surprised how a poor choice here can sink both your diet and your budget.

TASTE BRIEFS Spaghetti dinner to benefit school mission trip

BATAVIA – An all-you-can-eat spaghetti dinner is set to benefit the St. Peter Church high school mission trip. The dinner is set from 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 24, at the Knights of Columbus Hall (Riverview Banquets), 1117 N. Washington Ave., Batavia. Ticket prices are $10 for adults and children age 10 and older and $5 for children ages 3 to 9. Children ages 2 and under are free. Carryout dinners will be available. Customers can come in and assemble their own dinners or pull up at the front door and a teen will come out to take the order and deliver food to their car. Tickets can be purchased from 8:30 a.m. to noon or 1 to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday at the St. Peter Parish Center, 1891 Kaneville Road, Geneva, or by calling event coordinator Mary Kay Rogers at 630-232-9026.

Breakfast to include music performances

AURORA – The MarmionRosary Music Boosters group will host its annual International Pancake Breakfast from

8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 27, at Marmion Academy’s Lux Dining Hall, 1000 Butterfield Road, Aurora. Tickets for the breakfast will be available in advance or at the door for $7 for anyone 13 and older and $5 for children ages 3 to 12. Families with up to five members can purchase tickets for $25. The menu includes scrambled eggs, two meat selections, hash browns, beverages, and unlimited pancakes and toppings. The Marmion-Rosary Jazz Combo will perform at 9 a.m.; the Marmion Chorus will perform at 9:30 a.m.; Sarah Smith’s Suburban Suzuki Strings will perform at 10:15 a.m.; Jodi Taylor’s Holy Angels chorus will perform at 10:45 a.m.;

Larry Rossi and the Rockestras will perform at 11:15 a.m.; and the Marmion-Rosary Jazz Ensemble will perform at 11:45 a.m. All proceeds from the breakfast support the Marmion-Rosary Band program. For more information, visit marmion.org/pancake.

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MONTGOMERY – A pancake breakfast is scheduled to benefit the Montgomery-based Fox Valley Habitat for Humanity at 11 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 19, at Aurora Advent Christian Church, 905 N. Edgelawn Drive. The public is invited for all-you-can-eat pancakes, sausage, scrambled eggs, coffee and orange juice. Beth

Conover of Aurora will lead church volunteers who are serving the breakfast, which is sponsored by the church’s outreach committee. Admission is $5 for anyone 10 and older and $7 for older children and adults. Fox Valley Habitat for Humanity will dedicated its 50th project since 1989

at 3 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 26, in Aurora. The home will go to Batavia resident Renee Fortuny and her three children. She and about 100 volunteers have been rehabbing the home since September 2011. For information about the pancake breakfast, call 630896-1963.

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Lawrence Wright’s “Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood and the Prison of Belief” is a colossus of documentation, with 42 pages of endnotes, plus quite a few on-the-page footnotes, often in spots where a subject or a lawyer has disagreed with something the author reports. No doubt Wright and his publishers want to be in a strong position if the Church of Scientology comes after them. When Paulette Cooper published “The Scandal of Scientology” in 1971, she was sued 19 times. That wasn’t all, as Wright recounts: “One day, when Cooper was out of town, her cousin, who was staying in her New York apartment, opened the door for a delivery from a florist. The deliveryman took a gun from the bouquet, put it to her temple and pulled the trigger. When the gun didn’t fire, he attempted to strangle her. Cooper’s cousin screamed and the assailant fled. “Cooper then moved to an apartment building with a doorman, but soon after that her 300 neighbors received letters saying that she was a prostitute with venereal disease who molested children.” It may be coincidence, but a 1977 FBI raid on Scientology offices uncovered a file devoted to “Operation Freakout,” whose goal was to get Cooper “incarcerated in a mental institution or jail,” Wright says. Scientology spokeswoman Karin Pouw responded in an email, calling the book “a rehash of tabloid allegations about Scientology going back many decades” and wrote that the factual allegations in the book, in particular the “salacious and false allega-

tions concerning violence,” were “disproven long ago.” The Church of Scientology was founded by L. Ron Hubbard (1911-86), a prolific pulp science fiction writer who in 1950 turned to self-help with “Dianetics” (18 million copies sold, according to the church). Religion was next. “That’s where the money is,” he’s reported to have said, though Wright doesn’t think his motives were entirely venal. Hubbard told his followers that some 75 million years ago the Earth became a prison for billions of disembodied spirits from a faraway galaxy. These “thetans” attach themselves to human beings and impede spiritual progress; the methods of Scientology can not only expel them but enhance physical powers

(like eyesight) amazingly. As doctrines go, it’s probably no wackier than believing that God walked on water, or that an angel bestowed golden plates of revelation on a prophet in upstate New York, or that (as Jared Diamond put it in his recent “The World Before Yesterday”) “a supernatural being gave a chunk of desert in the Middle East to the being’s favorite group of people, as their home forever.” Hubbard became increasingly paranoid, according to Wright. In 1967, he began leading his flock from a small fleet of ships, to evade the reach of governments. In 1973, he conceived Operation Snow White, under which “as many as 5,000 Scientologists were covertly placed in 136 government agencies world-

wide” to purge their files of incriminating documents and evidently, according to Wright, to collect potential blackmail material. Meanwhile, Hubbard developed an interest in punishment and imprisonment as a road to spiritual redemption, Wright says. He came up with some imaginative torments, such as ordering three miscreants to “race each other around the rough, splintery decks while pushing peanuts with their noses. ‘They all had raw, bleeding noses, leaving a trail of blood behind them,”’ a witness recalled. The punching bags don’t, of course, include the church’s two most famous boosters, John Travolta and Tom Cruise, both of whom Wright writes about extensively. Cruise creeps him out. The church, Wright reports, has been intimately involved in finding Cruise girlfriends, and at the end he charges him with some of the “moral responsibility” for the sect’s abuses. For a book so bursting with weirdness, “Going Clear” is meager on drama. It’s a little flat. Of course, florid writing would do Wright no favors in court if the church decided to sue him. But his fanaticism about facts diverts him from asking more interesting questions: Why did Hubbard’s followers swallow it? Were they stupid? Were they cowed? Or were they sad, empty products of a consumer society who found no answers in established faiths and needed something to believe in? The further I got into “Going Clear,” the more I wondered what use I could make of all these carefully documented facts about the Church of Scientology. I didn’t need them to make me wary of it. I was wary before I began.

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Woman in love with gay man must move on Experience is a great Dear Abby: “Myles” and I have known each other for five years, but have grown really close over the past three. We tell each other everything, and I have fallen in love with him. A few months ago, Myles sent me a text saying he needed to tell me a “secret.” He went on to say the guy he had told me was his brother, “Jeff,” is really his lover. Needless to say, that bombshell floored me. We have discussed it in person, and I have never told him how I feel. I visit them a couple of times a month and always go home feeling hurt. I don’t want to lose him as my friend, but it hurts seeing him and Jeff together. How do I resolve this? – Girl Left Behind in California Dear Left Behind: Start by being as honest with Myles as he was with you. Tell him that over the course of your friendship you fell in love with him – and that you wish you had known he was gay before you became so emotionally involved. If you want romance, you will have to look for it elsewhere. In order for you to find it, I can-

DEAR ABBY Jeanne Phillips not stress strongly enough that you will need to feel good about yourself. Stop torturing yourself by visiting the two lovebirds and take a break for a while. Dear Abby: For the past two years I’ve been seeing a man I’ll call Frank. Frank is still married but legally separated from his wife. They have one child who lives with his mom. Frank lives with me, and Frank’s wife lives with another man and has a second child by yet another guy. My problem is, Frank’s wife calls ME whenever she has a fight with her boyfriend. She confides in me like I’m her best friend. I have never talked to Frank about divorcing her, but I’m at my wit’s end over this whole circle. Sometimes I feel like I’m wasting my time with him. Please help me. – Getting Dizzy in East Boston Dear Getting Dizzy: You need to talk to Frank about his degree of

commitment to you. Two years is a long time to live with someone who’s married to someone else – let alone be trying to solve his wife’s love problems. Perhaps it’s time to distance yourself from both of them and figure out what you want to do for YOU. Dear Abby: My friend “Maggie” is getting a divorce. She has been living with my husband and me for four months. She pays onethird of our utility bill but pays no rent. My husband feels that since Maggie is living with us, she should pay something – even if it’s only $100 a month. Maggie is very upset over her messy divorce. Should I ask her for rent money? – Only Friend in Kentucky Dear Only Friend: It depends on Maggie’s financial circumstances. If she has the money, it’s certainly OK to ask. If she doesn’t have the resources – or a job – she should consider finding one so she’s not completely financially dependent on others. • Write Dear Abby at www. dearabby.com.

Child’s bedroom of stimuli may disrupt sleep Dear Doctor K: My 8-year-old has trouble falling asleep. Can you give me some practical suggestions that may help? Dear Reader: The pediatricians here at Harvard Medical School who specialize in sleep problems have given me this advice: To help your child (or anyone of any age, for that matter) fall asleep, you must remove the obstacles that may impede or disrupt his sleep. By doing so, you’ll make it much easier for your child to settle down and drift off into a restful slumber. Here are some suggestions that should help: • Stop your child’s caffeine intake at least eight hours prior to bedtime. Not a lot of 8-year-olds drink coffee or tea, but there’s plenty of caffeine in cola beverages or in chocolate, for example. • Reduce your child’s exposure to bright light for the two hours before bedtime. Dimmer light helps the brain prepare for sleep. • Keep your child’s bedroom dark, quiet and at a comfortable temperature. • If your son still uses a nightlight, choose one with a lowintensity bulb.

ASK DOCTOR K Anthony L. Komaroff • Reduce the intensity of your child’s reading lamp to 40 watts or less. • Some parents play classical music in the background, hoping it will lull a child to sleep. Bad idea. Music – particularly great music – is not “white noise.” The ingenious melodies and rhythms are compelling and call to you even when you’re asleep. Even generally soft music can have sudden loud moments. And if you play it, but let it stop when the piece ends, your child may notice the sudden absence of music and have trouble falling back to sleep without it. • Remove video games, media players, cellphones, computers and TVs from your child’s bedroom. Pretty obvious advice, I know, but you’d be surprised how often it’s not followed. • Position your child’s alarm clock so that it faces away from the bed. This can be helpful if your child stresses out each time

he sees that five more minutes have passed and he’s still awake. • Insist that your child do his homework at a desk (or better yet, outside the bedroom), not in bed. When homework is done in bed, the associated stress doesn’t go away just because the books are closed. Really, it’s the same advice I give adults with problems sleeping: Use the bed for sleeping, not for reading, watching TV or playing games. (If you regularly do these things in bed and think they help you fall asleep – and you don’t have trouble sleeping – please ignore my advice.) • Keep pets out of your child’s bedroom (and out of his bed!). A great e-book, short and inexpensive, about how to help your child fall asleep and stay asleep is “Successful Sleep Strategies for Kids” by Harvard Medical School’s Dr. Dennis Rosen. You can learn more about this book at my website, AskDoctorK.com.

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

teacher for ‘geeky’ teen Dr. Wallace: I empathize and relate to the young girl who sees her older sister as more attractive and more popular in high school. I am the middle sister of five girls. I was always the “geeky” one. My appearance was mocked by boys and girls. I was frequently told that I would never have a boyfriend and eventually shied away from most social interaction. I entered college believing that my only value was my intellectual abilities. That perception changed during my freshman year of college. In college, getting good grades and studying are much more valuable in a social setting. My willingness to help others in their studies also allowed me to find a great number of friends and acquaintances. I soon found myself balancing an active social life with my rigorous studies and succeeding in a way that many could not. In addition, I had a great surprise: I wasn’t as unattractive as the fellow students in my high school had led me to believe. Once I left the environment where everyone had a preconceived notion about me and who I was, people could see the beautiful, intelligent, caring young woman who had blossomed in college. I am now a successful professional woman who is happily married to her college sweetheart. My life is everything that I dreamed because I worked hard to achieve my goals. Please tell that young girl that beautiful women come in all shapes and sizes. She will only spend 5 percent of her 80 or

’TWEEN 12 & 20 Robert Wallace

more years of life in high school. Ask her to enjoy as much of it as she can and remind her that high school perceptions truly don’t last a lifetime. – Julie, Houston, Texas Dear Julie: Those who have “been there and done that” give excellent advice! Experience is a great teacher. Dr. Wallace: Recently, I came across your response to a young 17-year-old girl who was being encouraged by her boyfriend to become sexually active. You explained to her why she should say “no.” I was very proud of your response. Twenty years ago, I was in this young lady’s shoes. At the time, I felt I had no one to talk to and would do anything to gain attention and be popular. And it led to heartbreak after heartbreak. I thought having sex was the answer. And once the party was over, I found myself even more alone than ever. When I finally married the man I love, I found true happiness, real friends, acceptance and peace. I have often wondered if I had had someone to share your words when I was 17, if my life could have been spared “the road to disaster.” Thank you again for being a voice to our young people. – Nameless, Crown Point, Ind.

Dear Nameless:

Finding true love often eliminates a difficult past. You are living proof. • Write Dr. Wallace at rwallace@galesburg. net.

CROSSWORD

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BRIDGE by Phillip Alder

• Wednesday, January 16, 2013

CELEBRITY CIPHER

Voltaire said, “Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.” You have chances in bridge that are not void of sense if you have analyzed the available data. In this deal, though, it is knowledge of a void that gives you a chance to make a tough contract. South is in six spades. West leads the heart jack. How should declarer proceed? East opened three clubs to show a respectable seven-card suit and limited high-card values. True, because there is no weak two-bid in clubs, sometimes a player will open three clubs with a strong six-card suit. But in this instance, if West had had a club, he would have led it. North’s raise to five spades was aggressive, but without it, South would not have had a story with which to bore dinner companions for weeks. Declarer will initially think that if the diamond finesse works, he will take seven spades, two hearts, two diamonds and a diamond ruff in the dummy. But what chance has that finesse? It is surely zero. Assuming West’s lead is honest, East is marked with nine points in hearts and clubs. With the diamond king as well, he would have opened one club, not three. There is one winning line. South ruffs the first trick, draws two rounds of trumps ending on the board, and cashes the top hearts, discarding his diamond ace and queen! Then he ruffs a heart, removes West’s last trump, and leads his remaining diamond. West must let declarer into the dummy. South takes seven spades, four hearts and one diamond.

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Real Life Adventures The Argyle Sweater

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The Born Loser

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Upload your photos on My Photos – Kane County’s community photo post! Photos on My Photos are eligible to appear in print in Kane County Chronicle Classified. Go to KCChronicle.com/myphotos

Plastics

Bicycle - MOTOmed. Stationary computerized bike. Attaches to wheelchair. Asking $1000. Brand new! 847-997-7109

Custom Injection Molding Co. est. 1972 looking for:

Call 630-443-3607

Experienced Plastic Injection Molding SUPERVISOR for shifts 4pm-midnight and midnight-8am. -Min. 5 yrs. HANDS-ON exp. in Inj. Molding -Must be able to troubleshoot molding machines, electricity, hydraulics, electronics -Must be familiar with a wide variety of plastic resins -Must have good communication and people skills -Must be able to work weekends on occasion -Computer experience preferred, but will teach -Drug screen and Physical required. This secure position offers salary commensurate w/experience-ability. Benefits inc. a/c facility, FDA environment, paid vac. Medical plus life, AFLAC and Dental plan available. Send resume/qualifications to:

ELECTRONIC TECHNICIAN

810 Progressive Lane South Beloit, IL 61080

Driver

CARRIER ROUTES AVAILABLE IN KANE COUNTY Early morning delivery 5 days per week. No delivery on Sunday and Monday. Must sign a contract and have valid license and insurance.

Component level troubleshooting. Motor drive circuitry. Switching power supplies. Computer and standard test gear skills. Oscilloscopes and multimeters. Call Upstaging at: 815-899-9888

Wheelchair -Cardiac style - Rehab custom made,allows mobility. Full tilt. Gel Seat. Individual cones. Will take Best Offer. 847-997-7109

ELBURN

6HP, 2300 PSI, $165.00

Snap-On Torq Meter

FRI & SAT JAN 18 & 19 9AM - 4PM

Dryer. Maytag. Gas. White. Great condition. $325. 630-973-3528

Washer & Dryer. Maytag. Gas dryer. Older, but they work. White. $150/both. Call between 9am-5pm: 630-561-1905

MANUFACTURING

Entry level manufacturing position for a small metals co. Lyon Industries, South Elgin Call 847-841-7716

Buying? Selling? Renting? Hiring? To place an ad, call 877-264-2527

Cat lost 1/7/13 in The Knolls Subdivision of Batavia

Large black & white male with pink nose. Fully clawed, friendly. No collar. Answers to Jester.

$100 REWARD

630-800-0050 or 630-406-4485 Having a Birthday, Anniversary, Graduation or Event Coming Up? Share It With Everyone by Placing a HAPPY AD!

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LADDER

4ft commercial grade with multiple tool holder, $25. 630-232-1080

121K miles, leather seats. New tires, trailer hitch. All the bells and whistles for that year! Not much to look at but a great runner! $1000/obo. 815-385-5145 ~ 815-344-1188

2000 Dodge Durango 4WD, leather, clean, 4.7L, 106K miles, $3,300. 815-978-2389

2007 Nissan Sentra

Life Shaper Exercise Equipment for the upper and lower body complete with monitor for time, reps,etc. Excellent Condition $45.00 630-464-7049 after 3pm

$11,500.

815-757-0336

2007 Toyota Solara 60012 $10300 71k Pearl White Excellent condition8154798116

BOOKCASE Sauder, 3 shelf, new in box, $25. 1999 Dodge Dakota, 72k miles, 2WD, PS, PB, Good Condition, 630-897-3037 $3100 obo. 815-501-5683

PIE CABINET ~ CHARMING $200

630-584-1948

CAR, TRUCK, SUV,

MOST CASH WILL BEAT ANY QUOTE GIVEN!! $400 - $2000

★★ ★★ ★★★ ★★ ★★

1994 Chrysler Town & Country

LEAD COOK

Will BUY UR USED

NO TITLE...... NO PROBLEM 815-575-5153

Furniture, china cabinet, lots of wicker, home décor, misc household & MORE!

Quad, Inc.

Sodexo / Waubonsee Community College is looking for a lead cook, full time, benefits, mostly daytime. Call Peter at 630-466-6655

needed for busy family law firm practicing in Kane and McHenry Counties. Preferred candidate will have a minimum of 2 years experience in family law. Immediate full time position with competitive salary. Please send resume including salary requirements to: Attn: Legal Secretary c/o Classified, PO Box 250 Crystal Lake, IL. 60039-0250

Torque Wrench, $100 815-477-0310 STEP LADDER Brand new, aluminum, 6 feet. $30. 630-897-3037

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Food Service

Legal Secretary

POWER WASHER

A-1 AUTO

2007 Ford F150 Super Cab, tonneau cover, step rail, bed liner, new Michelin tires, 88,500 mi., exc. cond. $12,000 630-365-6039

I BUY CARS, TRUCKS, VANS & SUVs 1990 & Newer

Will beat anyone's price by $300. Will pay extra for Honda, Toyota & Nissan

815-814-1964 or

815-814-1224

Recliner - Black leather. Electric. $250. ★★ ★★ ★★★ ★★ ★★ 630-513-0285 Recliner Lift Chair. Electric. Lt Blue. Buying? Selling? Excellent condition. $250 OBO. 815-825-2349 Renting? Hiring? 2005 CHEVROLET TAHOE LT Follow To place an ad, Leather, DVD, 3rd row seats and Kane County Chronicle call 877-264-2527 all the toys. 194k highway miles. on Twitter Excellent. $8850. 630-251-1511 Kane County Chronicle Classified @kcchronicle

p p The judgment amount was $243,364.83. Prospective purchasers are admonished to check the court file and title records to verify this information. Jonathan Kaman Fisher and Shapiro, LLC Attorneys for Plaintiff 2121 Waukegan Road, Suite 301 Bannockburn, IL 60015 Attorney No: 6307894 THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. PLEASE BE ADVISED THAT IF YOUR PERSONAL LIABILITY FOR THIS DEBT HAS BEEN EXTINGUISHED BY A DISCHARGE IN BANKRUPTCY OR BY AN ORDER GRANTING IN REM RELIEF FROM STAY, THIS NOTICE IS PROVIDED SOLELY TO FORECLOSE THE MORTGAGE REMAINING ON YOUR PROPERTY AND IS NOT AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT THE DISCHARGED PERSONAL OBLIGATION. I497276 (Published in the Kane County Chronicle, January 9, 16 & 23, 2013.)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SIXTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT KANE COUNTY, ILLINOIS FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION, AS RECEIVER FOR PLATINUM COMMUNITY, BANK, Plaintiff, -v.U.S. BANK NA, SUCCESSOR TO PARK NATIONAL BANK, SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE TO CARDUNAL SAVINGS BANK FSB AS TRUSTEE UNDER TRUST AGREEEMENT DATED MAY 11, 1999 KNOWN AS TRUST NUMBER 98-114, LAND-TEK MACHINE TOOL SALES, INC., AN ILLINOIS CORPORATION, MICHAEL A. LAND, PAMELA J. LAND, PRAIRIE LAKE INDUSTRIAL PARK ASSOCIATION, AN ILLINOIS NOT-FOR-PROFIT CORPORATION, PRAIRIE LAKE INDUSTRIAL CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION, AN ILLINOIS NOT-FORPROFIT CORPORATION, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS Defendant 11 CH 4124 NOTICE OF SHERIFF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on July 3, 2012, the Sheriff of Kane County will at 9:00 AM on February 21, 2013, at the Kane County Judicial Center, 37W777 Route 38, Room JC 100, Saint Charles, IL, 60175, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 165 PRAIRIE LAKE ROAD, SUITE H, East Dundee, IL 60118 Property Index No. 03-13-475-031-0000 The real estate is improved with a con-

p dominium. The judgment amount was $363,710.84. Sale terms: 10% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the auction; the balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds, is due within twentyfour (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "AS IS" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information, contact Plaintiff's attorney: CHUHAK & TECSON, P.C. , 30 S. WACKER DRIVE, STE. 2600, CHICAGO, IL 60606, (312) 444-9300. I500248

(Published in the Kane County Chronicle, January 16, 23 & 30, 2013.)

PUBLIC NOTICE "THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE" W12-2454 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 16TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT KANE COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT, CHANCERY DIVISION Bank of America, N.A.;

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VS. Anthony S. Borecky; Michelle Borecky; Timber Trails Unit 4 Condominium Association; Defendants. 12 CH 2508 NOTICE OF JUDICIAL SALE OF REAL ESTATE MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that pursuant to a judgment heretofore entered by the said court occurred in the above entitled cause, Patrick B. Perez, Sheriff of Kane, Illinois, will on February 21, 2013, at the hour of 09:00 AM at Kane County Judicial Center, 37W777 Route 38, St. Charles, IL 60175, Room JC 100, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, all and singular, the following described real estate in the said judgment mentioned, situated in the County of Kane, State of Illinois, or so much thereof as shall be sufficient to satisfy such judgment to wit: C/K/A: 338 Evergreen Circle, Gilberts, IL 60136 PIN: 02-25-455-055 The person to contact regarding information regarding this property is: Sales Dept., The Wirbicki Law Group, 33 W. Monroe St., Suite 1140, Chicago, IL 60603. Any questions regarding this sale should refer to file number W122454. The terms of the sale are Cash. 10% at time of sale, with the balance due within 24 hours. The property is improved by: Condo. The Property is not open for inspection prior to sale. The real estate, together with all buildings and improvements thereon, and tenements, hereditament and appurtenances thereunto belonging shall be sold under such terms. Russell C. Wirbicki (6186310) The Wirbicki Law Group LLC Attorney for Plaintiff 33 W. Monroe St., Suite 1140 Chicago, IL 60603 Phone: 312-360-9455 Fax: 312-572-7823 W12-2454 pleadings.il@wirbickilaw.com I499300 (Published in the Kane County Chronicle, January 16, 23 & 30, 2013.)

PUBLIC NOTICE "THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE" W12-3413 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 16TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT KANE COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT, CHANCERY DIVISION Bank of America, N.A.; Plaintiff, VS. Macel Campbell AKA Macel S. Campbell; Timber Trails Unit 7 Condominium Association; Baxter Credit Union; Defendants. 12 CH 2533 NOTICE OF JUDICIAL SALE OF REAL ESTATE MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that pursuant to a judgment heretofore entered by the said court occurred in the above entitled cause, Patrick B. Perez, Sheriff of Kane, Illinois, will on February 21, 2013, at the hour of 09:00 AM at Kane County Judicial Center, 37W777 Route 38, St. Charles, IL 60175, Room JC 100, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, all and singular, the following described real estate in the said judgment mentioned, situated in the County of Kane, State of Illinois, or so much thereof as shall be sufficient to satisfy such judgment to wit: C/K/A: 473 Telluride Drive,

Gilberts, IL 60136 PIN: 02-25-326-031 ST CHARLES - Nice Large The person to contact regarding 1 Bedroom + Den, 1 Bath and St. Charles information regarding this property Laundry. Near town & Library. is: Sales Dept., The Wirbicki Law Off/Ware Space No dogs. $850/mo. Group, 33 W. Monroe St., Suite 630-584-2094 / 630-584-7820 1,568sf - 19,000sf. 1140, Chicago, IL 60603. Any Docks/Drive-Ins questions regarding this sale St. Charles - Newly Renovated Aggressive Move-In Package should refer to file number W12Studio - $450 + utilities. 630-355-8094 3413. The terms of the sale are 1BR - $650 + utilities. www.mustangconstruction.com Cash. 10% at time of sale, with 630-841-0590 the balance due within 24 hours. The property is improved by: SFH. The Property is not open for inspection prior to sale. The real estate, together with all GENEVA, ELGIN, OFFICE / buildings and improvements thereWAREHOUSE, 1500 sf. on, and tenements, hereditament St. Charles 1330 W. Main St. 10x12 overhead door. and appurtenances thereunto be- 3rd floor, 1bedroom, recently For sale/lease, $1200/mo. longing shall be sold under such remodeled. Oak floors, cat OK. Dearborn, 630-894-1277 ext 11 terms. $815 includes heat, hot water Russell C. Wirbicki (6186310) & cooking gas. Broker Owned. The Wirbicki Law Group LLC 630-688-7124 Attorney for Plaintiff 33 W. Monroe St., Suite 1140 ST. CHARLES 1st MO FREE! Chicago, IL 60603 Lrg 1BR $769, Lrg 2BR from Phone: 312-360-9455 $829/mo. Incl heat, water, cookFax: 312-572-7823 ing gas, Appliances & laundry. W12-3413 630-584-1685 pleadings.il@wirbickilaw.com I499302 St. Charles Lower 2 Bedroom 1 Bath, LR, DR, Frplc, Kitchen. (Published in the Kane County 2.5 car garage. No pets/smoking. Chronicle, January 16, 23 & 30, $1100/mo + sec. 630-377-1488 2013.) Wake up with ST. CHARLES, 1 bedroom, 1 Kane County Chronicle bath, laundry, air, heat incl. No 5 days a week. pets + security deposit. $800/mo. 630-289-7484 For Home Delivery, call 800-589-9363 ST. CHARLES, 2 bedroom, 1 BIG ROCK, 29 ACRE FARM bath, laundry, air, heat incl. No House, barn & outbuildings PUBLIC NOTICE pets + security deposit. $875/mo. on Jones Rd., 60541. 630-289-7484 Absolutely priced to sell, $395,000 Mike, 630-918-1795. St. Charles/Campton Hills 1BR STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT JEFFERSON COUNTY 2500SF on horse farm. Lower level of main house, utils incl. No smkg/ PNC Bank, National Association 3232 Newark Drive, Miamisburg, pets, $1250/mo. 630-715-7101 OH 45342, Plaintiff, vs. DEKALB - 2200 SQ FT FOR LEASE SUMMONS Light Industrial/office space for lease Case No.10-CV-00943 in DeKalb. Easy access to I88. 14 Scott A. Ragan and Carolyn Ragan ft overhead door. $1,150/month. Foreclosure Of Mortgage: 30404 Contact Dan 815-754-6484 3BR, 1.5BA brick ranch. 101 N. Skole Gate 2 car attached heated garage. Judge William F. Hue 2/3 acre lot on quiet street. Lee, IL 60530 Close to lake with private beach William F. Hart II and Jane Doe rights and Crystal Lake Schools. Hart. 76 Arbor Avenue All appliances incl. C/A, base- Sugar Grove, IL 60554 board heat. Dogs negotiable. Defendants. $1350/mo. Avail 3/1. THE STATE OF WISCONSIN, 847-899-2933 To each person named above as a defendant: You are hereby notified that the St. Charles - Valley View Large 2 bedroom, 1 bath, no pets, plaintiff named above has filed a lawsuit or other legal action against $800 + electric. you. 630-841-0590 Within 40 days after January 2, ST. CHARLES 3BR MUST SEE! 2013, (which is the first day that On Horse Farm, hardwood floors, this Summons was published in the BATAVIA W/D, full bsmt, 2 car gar, no smkg/ newspaper) you must respond with 1 BR starting at $760 pets neg., $2600. 630-715-7101 a written demand for a copy of the 2 BR starting at $950 St. Charles Cozy 3 Bedroom Complaint. The demand must be 3 BR TH starting at $1255 sent or delivered to the Court, 1 bath, near grade school, all 630-879-8300 appls incl washer/dryer. Pets OK. which address is: Walworth County $1125/mo+sec. 847-340-1321 Courthouse, 1800 County Hwy NN, Elkhorn, WI 53121, and to BATAVIA, 1 bedroom upper of 2Bass & Moglowsky, S.C., plaintiff's flat, $725/mo. + electric & sec. attorneys, whose address is Bass & dep. Credit check req. Avail. now. Moglowsky, S.C., 501 West 630-806-0667 ask for Kim. Northshore Drive, Suite 300, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53217. You COUNTRYVIEW APARTMENTS may have an attorney help or rep1 & 2 bdrm apts available, resent you. $550 - $625. Clean, Quiet, If you do not demand a copy of country setting close to downBatavia Small Furnished BR the Complaint within 40 days, the town Genoa. New appliances, on Fox River. Satellite TV, carpet, on-site management and non-smoking. $100/wk + deposit. Court may grant judgment against maint. Call 815-784-4606. Bachelor house. 331-442-5961 you for the award of money or other legal action requested in the St. Charles 1 Mo Free Rent! Complaint, and you may lose your Elburn. 2BR. Shared bath & kit, $110-120/wk. right to object to anything that is or Garage. W/D hook up. W/D, incl utilities, Wi-Fi, no pets. may be incorrect in the Complaint. $800/mo+utils. Available 2/15. No smoking. 630-232-7535 A judgment may be enforced as 630-688-6623 provided by law. A judgment ST. CHARLES ~ MEN ONLY awarding money may become a Geneva ~ 115 Hamilton Free utils., incl cable & internet nd lien against any real estate you Cute 1BR, 2 flr, hardwood floors. (except phone). $120/week. No pets/smoking, C/A and heat 630-370-2823 or 630-377-2823 own now or in the future, and may also be enforced by garnishment or incl, $695/mo. 630-772-1975 of property. Send your Classified seizure GENEVA, EFFICIENCY APT. close to DATED: December 12, 2012. Advertising 24/7 to: P. O. Address: downtown, off-street parking, $650/mo. incl. utils. Avail. immeBASS & MOGLOWSKY, S.C. Email: classified@ diately. Call Gene, 630-232-4361. Attorneys for Plaintiff shawsuburban.com Bass & Moglowsky, S.C. SOUTH ELGIN LARGE 2BR Fax: 815-477-8898 Suite 300 S. E. Schools, A/C, gar. NO PETS. 501 West Northshore Drive or online at: $850 + utilities. 630-841-0590 Milwaukee, WI 53217 www.KCChronicle.com

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David M. Potteiger Telephone: (414) 228-6700 WI State Bar No. 1067009 (Published in the Kane County Chronicle January 2, 9, 16 2013.)

PUBLIC NOTICE 11-053212 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 16TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT KANE COUNTY, GENEVA, ILLINOIS JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION PLAINTIFF, -vsPATRICIA M. TAYLOR; STATE BANK OF GENEVA, AS TRUSTEE UNDER TRUST AGREEMENT DATED AUGUST 20, 1994 AND KNOWN AS TRUST NO. 781; FIFTH THIRD BANK F/K/A OLD KENT BANK; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS DEFENDANTS 11 CH 2184 NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE Public Notice is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment entered in the above entitled matter on August 10, 2012; Patrick Perez, Sheriff, 37W755 Il. Rt.38 Ste. A, St Charles, IL 60175, will on January 31, 2013 at 9:00 AM, at Kane County Judicial Center, 37W755 Route 38, St. Charles, Illinois 60175 Courtroom JC100, sell to the highest bidder for cash (ten percent (10%) at the time of sale and the balance within twentyfour (24) hours), the following described premises situated in Kane County, Illinois. Said sale shall be subject to general taxes, special assessments or special taxes levied against said real estate and any prior liens or 1st Mortgages. The subject property is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title or recourse to Plaintiff. Upon the sale being held and the purchaser tendering said bid in cash or certified funds, a receipt of Sale will be issued and/or a Certificate of Sale as required, which will entitle the purchaser to a deed upon confirmation of said sale by the Court. Said property is legally described as follows: PARCEL ONE: LOT 2 OF MCDOUGAL ASSESSMENT PLAT OF PART OF THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 12, TOWNSHIP 40 NORTH, RANGE 8 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, IN THE VILLAGE OF WAYNE, KANE COUNTY, ILLINOIS. PARCEL TWO: EASEMENT FOR DRIVEWAY PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF PARCEL ONE CREATED BY THAT CERTAIN INSTRUMENT MADE BY DUNHAMS, INC., A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS, AND OTHERS DATED JANUARY 18, 1938 AND RECORDED APRIL 13, 1938 IN BOOK 1080, PAGE 316 AS DOCUMENT 421421 OVER AND UPON THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED PREMISES: A STRIP OF LAND 16 FEET IN WIDTH, THE CENTER LINE OF WHICH IS DESCRIBED BY BEGINNING AT A POINT IN THE EAST AND WEST QUARTER SECTION LINE OF SECTION 12, TOWNSHIP 40 NORTH, RANGE 8 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, 9 FEET WEST OF THE CENTER OF SAID SECTION 12; THENCE SOUTH 00 DEGREES, 08 MINUTES, 00 SECONDS WEST PARALLEL WITH THE NORTH AND SOUTH QUARTER SECTION LINE 867.7 FEET AND ALSO A STRIP OF LAND 50 FEET IN WIDTH, THE CENTER LINE OF WHICH IS DESCRIBED BY BEGINNING AT A POINT IN THE NORTH AND SOUTH QUARTER SECTION LINE OF SECTION 12, TOWNSHIP 40 NORTH, RANGE 8 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, THAT IS 867.7 FEET SOUTH OF THE CENTER OF SAID SECTION 12;

Wednesday, January 16, 2013 â&#x20AC;˘ Page 33 THENCE SOUTH 00 DEGREES, 08 MINUTES, 00 SECONDS EAST ALONG THE QUARTER SECTION LINE 389.7 FEET; THENCE EASTERLY ON A CURVE TO THE RIGHT WHOSE TANGENT AT THE SAID QUARTER SECTION LINE, FORMS AN ANGLE OF 91 DEGREES, 32 MINUTES, 00 SECONDS TO THE LEFT WITH A PROLONGATION OF THE LAST DESCRIBED COURSE FOR A DISTANCE OF 395.9 FEET TO THE POINT OF TANGENCY OF SAID CURVE (SAID CURVE BEING A 03 DEGREES, 19 MINUTES, 00 SECONDS CURVE, HAVING A RADIUS OF 1,727.75 FEET); THENCE SOUTH 78 DEGREES, 29 MINUTES, 00 SECONDS EAST 200.00 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 77 DEGREES, 51 MINUTES, 00 SECONDS EAST 280.0 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 76 DEGREES, 01 MINUTES, 00 SECONDS EAST 343.50 FEET; THENCE NORTH 83 DEGREES, 43 MINUTES, 00 SECONDS EAST, 180.2 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 81 DEGREES, 26 MINUTES, 00 SECONDS EAST 245.7 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 66 DEGREES, 09 MINUTES, 00 SECONDS EAST 354.7 FEET TO THE CENTER LINE OF THE PUBLIC HIGHWAY KNOWN AS DUNHAM ROAD, IN THE VILLAGE OF WAYNE, KANE COUNTY, ILLINOIS. Commonly known as 33W596 Hub Road, Wayne, IL 60184 Permanent Index No.: 09-12100-011 Improvements: Residential Structure UNKNOWN Units UNKNOWN Bedrooms UNKNOWN Garage UNKNOWN Bathrooms UNKNOWN Other UNKNOWN The property will NOT be open for inspection prior to the sale. The judgment amount was $243,364.83. Prospective purchasers are admonished to check the court file and title records to verify this information. Jonathan Kaman Fisher and Shapiro, LLC Attorneys for Plaintiff 2121 Waukegan Road, Suite 301 Bannockburn, IL 60015 Attorney No: 6307894 THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. PLEASE BE ADVISED THAT IF YOUR PERSONAL LIABILITY FOR THIS DEBT HAS BEEN EXTINGUISHED BY A DISCHARGE IN BANKRUPTCY OR BY AN ORDER GRANTING IN REM RELIEF FROM STAY, THIS NOTICE IS PROVIDED SOLELY TO FORECLOSE THE MORTGAGE REMAINING ON YOUR PROPERTY AND IS NOT AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT THE DISCHARGED PERSONAL OBLIGATION. I497276 (Published in the Kane County Chronicle, January 9, 16 & 23, 2013.)

PROFIT CORPORATION, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS Defendant 11 CH 4124 NOTICE OF SHERIFF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on July 3, 2012, the Sheriff of Kane County will at 9:00 AM on February 21, 2013, at the Kane County Judicial Center, 37W777 Route 38, Room JC 100, Saint Charles, IL, 60175, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described real estate: UNIT H IN PRAIRIE LAKE INDUSTRIAL CONDOMINIUM, AS DELINEATED ON A PLAT OF SURVEY OF THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED TRACT OF LAND: LOT 29 IN PRAIRIE LAKE INDUSTRIAL PARK FOURTH RESUBDIVISION IN KANE COUNTY, ILLINOIS WHICH PLAT OF SURVEY IS ATTACHED AS EXHIBIT ''A'' TO THE DECLARATION OF CONDOMINIUM RECORDED OCTOBER 29, 2003 AS DOCUMENT NUMBER 2003K192440; TOGETHER WITH ITS UNDIVIDED PERCENTAGE INTEREST IN THE COMMON ELEMENTS. Commonly known as 165 PRAIRIE LAKE ROAD, SUITE H, East Dundee, IL 60118 Property Index No. 03-13-475-031-0000 The real estate is improved with a condominium. The judgment amount was $363,710.84. Sale terms: 10% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the auction; the balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds, is due within twentyfour (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "AS IS" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a morthall h

gagee shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information, contact Plaintiff's attorney: CHUHAK & TECSON, P.C. , 30 S. WACKER DRIVE, STE. 2600, CHICAGO, IL 60606, (312) 444-9300. I500248

(Published in the Kane County Chronicle, January 16, 23 & 30, 2013.)

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"THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE" W12-2454 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 16TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT KANE COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT, CHANCERY DIVISION Bank of America, N.A.; Plaintiff, VS. Anthony S. Borecky; Michelle Borecky; Timber Trails Unit 4 Condominium Association; Defendants. 12 CH 2508 NOTICE OF JUDICIAL SALE OF REAL ESTATE MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that pursuant to a judgment heretofore entered by the said court occurred in the above entitled cause, Patrick B. Perez, Sheriff of Kane, Illinois, will on February 21, 2013, at the hour of 09:00 AM at Kane County Judicial Center, 37W777 Route 38, St. Charles, IL 60175, Room JC 100, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, all and singular, the following described real estate in the said judgment mentioned, situated in the County of Kane, State of Illinois, or so much thereof as shall be sufficient to satisfy such judgment to wit: UNIT 593-2 IN TIMBER TRAILS FOUR (4) CONDOMINIUM, AS DELINEATED ON A SURVEY OF THE FOLLOWING PARCEL OF REAL ESTATE: PART OF CERTAIN LOTS IN TIMBER TRAILS UNIT 4, BEING A

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2003K33533, IN KANE COUNTY, ILLINOIS AND THEREAFTER REPLATTED AND RECORDED ON AUGUST 19, 2003 AS DOCUMENT NUMBER 2003K147659, IN KANE COUNTY, ILLINOIS. C/K/A: 473 Telluride Drive, Gilberts, IL 60136 PIN: 02-25-326-031 The person to contact regarding information regarding this property is: Sales Dept., The Wirbicki Law Group, 33 W. Monroe St., Suite 1140, Chicago, IL 60603. Any questions regarding this sale should refer to file number W123413. The terms of the sale are Cash. 10% at time of sale, with the balance due within 24 hours. The property is improved by: SFH. The Property is not open for inspection prior to sale. The real estate, together with all buildings and improvements thereon, and tenements, hereditament and appurtenances thereunto belonging shall be sold under such terms. Russell C. Wirbicki (6186310) The Wirbicki Law Group LLC Attorney for Plaintiff 33 W. Monroe St., Suite 1140 Chicago, IL 60603 Phone: 312-360-9455 Fax: 312-572-7823 W12-3413 pleadings.il@wirbickilaw.com I499302

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A ONE TIME Pre-Bid Meeting will be held on Wednesday, January 23, 2013, at 9 a.m. at Mill Creek (Published in the Kane County SSA Office, 39W250 Herrington Chronicle, January 16, 23 & 30, Blvd., Suite R-1, Geneva, IL 2013.) 60134.

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Proposals are due in the Kane County Purchasing Department by 2 p.m., February 1, 2013, when IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE SIXTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT they will be publicly opened. KANE COUNTY, ILLINOIS Christopher Rossman County Purchasing Director 13 MR 55 NOTICE OF PUBLICATION (Published in the Kane County (Published in the Kane County REGARDING NAME CHANGE Chronicle, January 16, 23 & 30, Chronicle, January 16, 2013.) 2013.) Public notice is hereby given that on April 1, 2013, in Courtroom No. 110, of the Kane County PUBLIC NOTICE Courthouse, 100 South Third, PUBLIC NOTICE "THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COL- Geneva, Illinois, at the hour of 9:30 ASSUMED NAME LECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMA- A.M. or as soon thereafter as this PUBLICATION NOTICE TION OBTAINED WILL BE USED matter may heard, a Petition will be heard in said Courtroom for the FOR THAT PURPOSE" change of name of JOHN PATRICK Public Notice is hereby given W12-3413 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CHERRY to JOHN PATRICK that on January 7, 2013 a certifi16TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT KANE MASTERS pursuant to 735 ILCS cate was filed in the office of the 5/21-101 et seq. County Clerk of Kane County, IlliCOUNTY, ILLINOIS nois, setting forth the names and COUNTY DEPARTMENT, Dated January 15, 2013 at St. addresses of all persons owning, CHANCERY DIVISION Charles, Illinois. conducting and transacting the Bank of America, N.A.; business known as INSPIRATIONS Plaintiff, /s/ John P. Cherry FROM THE HEART PHOTOGRAPHY VS. Petitioner located at 1933 Forrest Blvd., St. Macel Campbell AKA Macel S. Charles, IL 60174. Campbell; Timber Trails Unit 7 (Published in the Kane County Condominium Association; Baxter Chronicle, January 16, 23 & 30, Dated: January 7, 2013. Credit Union; 2013.) Defendants. /s/ John A. Cunningham 12 CH 2533 PUBLIC NOTICE Kane County Clerk NOTICE OF JUDICIAL SALE OF REAL ESTATE (Published in the Kane County LEGAL NOTICE MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE Chronicle, January 9, 16 & 23, CITY OF BATAVIA NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that 2013.) ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS pursuant to a judgment heretofore entered by the said court occurred PUBLIC NOTICE BID FOR in the above entitled cause, Patrick B. Perez, Sheriff of Kane, Illinois, MUNICIPAL ELECTRIC UTILITY ASSUMED NAME will on February 21, 2013, at the PUBLICATION NOTICE hour of 09:00 AM at Kane County The City of Batavia, Illinois does Judicial Center, 37W777 Route hereby invite sealed bids for: Public Notice is hereby given 38, St. Charles, IL 60175, Room JC 100, sell at public auction to BID: CHERRY PARK SUBSTATION that on January 11, 2013 a certificate was filed in the office of the SUBGRADE CONSTRUCTION the highest bidder for cash, all and County Clerk of Kane County, Illisingular, the following described real estate in the said judgment Bids will be received at the City of nois, setting forth the names and mentioned, situated in the County Batavia Public Works Building, addresses of all persons owning, of Kane, State of Illinois, or so 200 North Raddant Road, Batavia, conducting and transacting the much thereof as shall be sufficient Illinois 60510-2292, until 1:00 business known as JC GUNS locatto satisfy such judgment to wit: p.m., local time, (CST) on Tues- ed at 3860 Parsons Road, CarpenUNIT 638-1, IN TIMBER TRAILS day, January 29, 2013. Bids will tersville, IL 60110. UNIT SEVEN (7) CONDOMINIUM, be publicly opened and read aloud BEING A PART OF THE SOUTH- at 1:15 p.m. local time that same Dated: January 11, 2013. WEST QUARTER OF SECTION 25, day. TOWNSHIP 42 NORTH, RAGE 7 /s/ John A. Cunningham Kane County Clerk EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL Those desiring to bid may obtain MERIDIAN, IN KANE COUNTY, ILLI- copies of the specifications and NOIS, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT other bidding information between (Published in the Kane County THEREOF RECORDED FEBRUARY the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 3:30 Chronicle, January 16, 23 & 30, 26, 2003 AS DOCUMENT NUMBER p.m. Monday through Friday, at the 2013.)

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JUST REDUCED

OWNER FINANCING AVAILABLE. Fantastic retail location in the Campton Crossings center just west of St. Charles. 2 unit building features 1 1600 sq. ft. unit and 1 2000 sq. ft. unit. Great rental history and income producer. Good cap rate at current rental rates. Beautiful exterior building with good location that fronts on busy Route 64. High visibility location. REDUCED TO $859,900

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