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asketball season is in full swing, and I’ve seen a lot of young players watching and cheering on local varsity teams.

At a recent Kaneland girls game, the grade-school age players were holding signs for their favorite varsity players. It was nice to see the support from the young players, and we’ll probably see them running up and down the court on the varsity team in a few years.

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STC police had 5 internal investigations in ’12

By ASHLEY RHODEBECK

arhodebeck@shawmedia.com ST. CHARLES – The St. Charles Police Department conducted five internal affairs investigations in 2012, the department announced Thursday as part of accreditation requirements.

SpokesmanPaulMcCurtain said internal investigations can be initiated by complaints

from citizens or department employees. Although the original complainant receives a letter explaining the findings of the investigation, the general public is limited to vague information, he said.

He said the department investigates all complaints against the agency and its employees and compiles annual statistical summaries to comply with standards set

by CALEA, the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement.

In 2012, McCurtain said, three investigations were sustained, and one was not. The last internal investigation, which began in December, is pending.

The department’s internal affairs complaint/commendation pamphlet provides stepby-step instructions on how to

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CONTACT US Downers Grove resident Phyllis Kmetz, 71, was volunteering at the Northern Illinois Food Bank in Geneva when she answered nine questions for the Kane County Chronicle’s Brenda Schory.

Where did you grow up? Oregon, Ill. Who would play you in the movie of your life?

Rue McClanahan First job? At a Ben Franklin store, a five-and-dime As a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up? I always wanted to be a flight attendant, but my father said no. I became a secretary and receptionist.

A book you’d recommend? “Cinderella,” both the movie and the book.

Favorite charity? Northern Illinois Food Bank and Public Action to Deliver Shelter – DuPage PADS Hobbies? Reading, movies and eating out Favorite local restaurant? Sergio’s Cantina in Geneva What is an interesting factoid about yourself?

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Safety-seat inspections in Elburn

WHAT: The Elburn & Countryside Fire Protection District is urging parents and caregivers to make sure their child safety seats are properly installed. The district will have certified technicians available to provide free, hands-on child safety-seat inspections.

WHEN: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday WHERE: 9 S. First St., Elburn COST: Free INFO: For information, call 630-365-6855. For information on child-passenger safety, visit www.buckleupillinois.org.

Habitat restoration workday in Sugar Grove

WHAT: A habitat restoration workday will take place at Bliss Woods Forest Preserve.

Those interested should bring gloves and dress for the weather with sturdy shoes. All are welcome, but children under 13 must be accompanied by an adult. Refreshments will be provided. A variety of tasks will be on the agenda, including brush control.

WHEN: 9 a.m. to noon Jan. 26

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WHERE: Bliss Woods Forest Preserve, which is on Bliss Road, northeast of Route 47. Meet in the main parking lot.

INFO: Call Mary Ochsenschlager at 630-4664922 or email at maryoxie@sbcglobal.net, or contact Robb Cleave at the Kane Forest Preserve Office at 630-232-5980.

Kickoff party for Bridge Walk

WHERE: LivingWell’s new headquarters located at 442 Williamsburg Ave., Geneva (corner of Williamsburg and Route 38) INFO: For information about the kickoff breakfast or to RSVP, email lhansen@livingwellcrc. org or call 630-262-1111. For information about LivingWell Cancer Resource Center, visit www. livingwellcrc.org.

WHAT: LivingWell Cancer Resource Center’s Bridge Walk kickoff party and pancake breakfast is set. The free event is for area residents interested in participating in the center’s eighth annual 5K Bridge Walk. The morning event will feature inspirational speakers and information about LivingWell’s Bridge Walk, including registration information, sponsorship and volunteer opportunities, team building hints, fundraising tips and more. More than 2,500 walkers are expected to participate in the Bridge Walk, which will take place along the Fox River on May 18, with the objective of raising $275,000. All proceeds go to fund the more than 60 programs and services offered free through the LivingWell Cancer Resource Center, a community-based, not-for-profit facility.

WHEN: 9 a.m. Jan. 26

‘Twilight Zone’ at St. Charles North

WHAT: “The Twilight Zone” will be presented at St. Charles North High School. The play includes four original episodes from the first two seasons of the TV show.

WHEN: 7:30 p.m. Jan. 31 and Feb. 1 and 2, and 2 p.m. Feb. 2 WHERE: St. Charles North Auditorium at 255 Red Gate Road, St. Charles COST: The cost is $5 for students, $7 for adults and $3 for senior citizens.

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Unity of Fox Valley shares thoughts on spirituality, higher level of consciousness

By ERIC SCHELKOPF

eschelkopf@shawmedia.com BATAVIA – Although she had been attending a church for several years, Geneva resident Sharon Mays said she was filling spiritually empty inside.

“My husband and I were going through the motions,” Mays said. “We did what we were told.”

Mays said that emptiness was filled when she started attending Unity of Fox Valley in Batavia 2½ years ago. Mays knows there are many questions about Unity because it does not adhere to mainstream Christian beliefs.

“We believe in a higher level of consciousness,” she said.

“We believe whatever you put out in the universe comes back to you.”

The Unity movement was founded by Charles and Myrtle Fillmore in 1889 as a healing ministry based on the power of prayer and the prayer of one’s thoughts to create one’s own reality.

“We’re more spiritual rather than religious,” said the Rev. Jan Little, minister at Unity of Fox Valley. “We don’t have a lot of ritual here. It’s about a personal connection with a higher power.”

That’s not to say she has harsh feelings toward any religion.

“We believe that all paths are a path to God,” Little said.

“The Catholic Church has done an amazing job of educating generations of young people.”

Unity’s beliefs stray from traditional Christian beliefs.

While it uses the Bible as a spiritual resource, Unity does not subscribe to the notion that Jesus was the son of God. “Unity believes we are all the begotten sons of God,” Little said. “We are a religion of Jesus, not about Jesus. Jesus was a master teacher. He was a prophet.”

Mays said Jesus “is not our savior in the conventional sense. He is our wayshower.”

Nor does Unity believe in heaven and hell as geographic places or the concept of a devil.

Little said there is no reference to the devil in Hebrew Scrip-

tures.

“You make bad decisions, and you have bad outcomes,” Little said. “There’s no ‘devil made you do it.’ ” Other churches have beliefs that differ from Unity’s, such as Holy Cross Catholic Church in Batavia.

“The Catholic Church is 100 percent in favor of unity,” said the Rev. Keith Romke of Holy Cross Catholic Church. “Christ himself prayed that we might be one, just as he and the Father are one.”

At the same time, Romke said “we cannot simply come to compromise on what we believe for the sake of unity. We need to spend time trying to understand and to follow the specific truth of what it is that Christ taught.”

Romke refuted Unity’s belief that Jesus isn’t the son of God. “Jesus is the son of God and has been since the beginning of time,” he said.

Quoting Scriptures, Romke said, “The Father then sent His son to redeem us from our sins so that through baptism God’s life might come to dwell in us so that we might become adopted sons and daughters of God.” The Rev. David Newhouse, senior pastor at Batavia United Methodist Church, said his church has “tried to be very open to people’s questions of theological thought.”

“We want people to ask questions,” he said.

Newhouse noted no one “knows quite what heaven and hell is.”

“The qualities of heaven are to be in communion with God, and the qualities of hell are separation from God,” he said.

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On the Net For information, visit www.foxvalleyunity.org.

Calvary Episcopal Church in Batavia said he didn’t know a lot about Unity of Fox Valley’s beliefs.

“They seem to fill a need in a lot of people’s lives for spirituality,” he said. “I know in the past they’ve done a lot of work on healing of people, particularly those who are struggling with various addictions.”

Kathleen Fee, 50, of Batavia has been coming to Unity of Fox Valley for almost a year.

She said she is a recovering alcoholic.

“This church has given me the courage to start my own business,” Fee said.

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Sharon Mays of Geneva takes time for silent reflection Thursday at the beginning of a “12 Powers of Man” class at Unity of Fox Valley spiritual center in Batavia. TOP: Maria Cosentino leads a discussion Thursday while (from left) Karen Rodeghier, Alana Ziegenmeyer and Sharon Mays look on. er woman, Mary MacDonald, sells products designed to empower woman.

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“It is about being able to see that power of God in each one of us,” Orchard said.

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Geneva girl raises funds for hearing-impaired How to donate

By NICOLE WESKERNA

nweskerna@shawmedia.com GENEVA – In an effort to get student-athletes to “hear the cheers,” Geneva sixthgrader Eliza Peters is leading a fundraising effort to buy costly hearing aids for students with hearing impairments.

Eliza partnered with espnW and ESPN Radio’s Sarah Spain to raise money for hearing aids and related audiology services for people in the Chicago area, with 10 percent of the donated funds staying in Kane County.

Eliza, 12, is considered legally deaf. Her family found out that she was hearing impaired when she was 5. After two unsuccessful surgeries, she was fitted with bilateral hearing aids. Her mother, Amber Peters, said even the least expensive hearing aids start at $2,500 an ear.

“We want to raise as much money as we can, but we want to get the word out that insurance doesn’t cover hearing aids,” she said.

Within the first 36 hours of fundraising, Eliza already had

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Eliza Peters, a sixth-grader from Geneva, has partnered with espnW and ESPN Radio’s Sarah Spain to raise money to purchase hearing aids for students through a fundraiser called Hear the Cheers. surpassed her goal of $5,000.

She’s already raised about $6,000, and her new goal is $10,000 before the fundraiser

8LOCAL BRIEFS Prices for sending letters, postcards to increase Starting Jan. 27, it will cost a penny more – 46 cents – to mail a single-piece, one-ounce first-class letter to any location in the United States. Forever stamps are good for mailing a one-ounce letter anytime in the future regardless of changes.

Also, the cost to mail postcards will go up one cent, to 33 cents.

Strohschein Law Group to host workshop in STC

ST. CHARLES – Joan Hopley, the elder care coordinator for Strohschein Law Group, will host a free workshop from 9 to 10:30 a.m. Feb. 16 at Strohschein Law Group, 2455 Dean St., Suite G, in St. Charles.

Those who are hands-on caregivers, or those who are overseeing care, can attend for this practical presentation about the role of the caregiver, identifying needs, and getting

the tools you need to offer the best care for their loved ones.

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ends at midnight Jan. 26.

Spain said she was inspired to do the fundraiser by her co-worker, Julie Foudy – a

two-time Olympic medalist and women’s World Cup soccer player – who started the “Choose to Matter” campaign, which is a call to mothers and daughters to make a difference.

Spain said because she doesn’t have a daughter or a younger sister, she chose to partner with Eliza to do a fundraiser. The two had met about a year ago when Eliza’s dad, John Peters, wrote to Spain and told her Eliza always has been interested in a career in sports broadcasting. Spain gave the family a tour of the radio station, and they stayed connected.

Spain said Eliza’s experience with hearing impairment inspired their fundraiser.

“The thing I had no idea about was that most insurance companies don’t cover hearing

aids,” Spain said. “That’s a real burden on a lot of families.”

Eliza, a Geneva Middle School North student, said Hear the Cheers is the first fundraising project she has worked on.

She said the experience has been “awesome” so far, especially after she successfully helped raise $4,000 soon after the fundraiser kicked off.

“I wasn’t expecting $4,000 in the first day,” she said. “I was like, ‘Holy moly!’ ” Spain and Eliza have partnered with the Chicago Hearing Society to buy hearing aids and help families with audiology services.

Each time someone donates $10 online, the donor’s name gets entered in a raffle to win sports merchandise items from teams such as Chicago Blackhawks to the 1999 women’s World Cup winning team.

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ELGIN – The Elgin Elks Lodge, Illinois Elks Children’s Care Program and Sherman Hospital will sponsor a free Orthopedic Diagnostic Clinic for children ages 21 and younger without health insurance from 2 to 5 p.m. Feb. 3 at Sherman Hospital, 1425 N. Randall Road, Elgin.

The clinic is especially for children who complain of frequent leg, knee, hip, shoulder, elbow, back or wrist pain, or children with diagnosed or suspected back curvature.

Appointments for the clinic may be made by calling the Elks Program at 800-272-0074 from 1 to 4 p.m. Mondays through Fridays.

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arhodebeck@shawmedia.com ST. CHARLES – When Pride of the Fox decided to relinquish control and sponsorship of RiverFest, another organization stepped up to helm the annual June event and requested financial support from the city.

But by the time City Administrator Brian Townsend approached aldermen about the request, Pride of the Fox’s executive director had expressed interest to again organize the festival.

“From the city’s position, I don’t think we have a position one way or the other,” Townsend told the Government Operations Committee.

The city needs to know how much money to allocate to the event, he said, noting

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Townsend said the proposal from the other candidate treated the extra funds more as an annual partnership.

RiverFest began in 1982 with one venue and six vendors. Last year, the threeday festival boasted more than 200 vendors and nine venues, including Lincoln Park, North Third Street, Pottawatomie Park, the riverwalk, the municipal center and First Street. It has featured live music, dragon boat races and, among other activities, a carnival.

Alderman Cliff Carrignan questioned the size of the festival and suggested scaling it down, with perhaps more of a St. Charles focus.

“I thought this was one of the more challenging festivals,” he said.

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AURORA – Illinois Rep. LaShawn Ford will be the featured speaker at the general meeting of Northern Illinois Jobs with Justice. Ford will share information about the “second chance” legislation that he has proposed in the General Assembly. The event will be from 2 to 4:45 p.m. Jan. 26 at New Jerusalem Baptist Church, 773775 Austin Ave., Aurora.

staff is working on the 201314 budget.

Aldermen are expected to hear proposals from both groups Tuesday.

In a letter dated Jan. 2, St. Charles Festival Committee Chairman Tom Anderson said the organization profitably ran RiverFest for 20 years and transferred management – and $30,000 – to Pride of the Fox after the 2009 festival.

The festival committee is asking the city for its annual budget allocation of $18,000 to support the festival along with a one-time support grant of $15,000. The grant would make up a shortfall between funds given to Pride of the Fox in 2009 and the funds expected to be returned to the St. Charles Festival Committee, Anderson wrote.

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• Friday, January 18, 2013

ST. CHARLES – The St. Charles City Council is expected to soon change the way the city will ensure its affordable housing stock is above the state’s 10 percent minimum requirement.

Aldermen in committee this week unanimously recommended approval of a measure that would create a sliding scale adjusting the number of required affordable housing units in new residential developments based on the percentage of the city’s affordable housing stock.

Under the sliding scale, developers would be required to build more affordable units when the city’s existing stock is low and would be required to build fewer units when the stock is high.

The new policy wouldn’t require affordable units when the city’s affordable housing stock is 25 percent or more, and the affordable housing rules would be reinstated if the city’s inventory falls below 15 percent.

Other changes include creating a new way for developers to ask for deviations from the requirements. Current policy channels such requests through the PUD process,

which pertains to physical deviations of a site plan, city planner Matt O’Rourke said.

“It just didn’t make sense to keep it there,” he said.

Developers instead would submit an alternative affordable housing plan, which should detail the developer’s plans to create affordable housing opportunities in St. Charles. Options include seeking alternative funding sources and purchasing offsite units.

“There has to be at least some effort to provide alternative housing opportunities in St. Charles,” O’Rourke said.

City leaders will evaluate requests on criteria such as financial hardship, site limitations and site conditions.

The City Council is expected to approve the policy changes Tuesday, O’Rourke said.

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8OBITUARIES Born: July 19, 1916; in Chicago Died: Jan. 15, 2013; in Wheaton

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LiLLiAN C. SMitH

Born: Feb. 2, 1918; in Longview Died: Jan. 17, 2013; in Aurora AURORA – Lillian C. Smith, 94, passed away Jan. 17, 2013, in Aurora. She was born Feb. 2, 1918, in Longview to the late Oscar T. and Isabelle Rowen.

She graduated from Freeport High School in 1936. She later married Edward J. Smith who was in the military, living at many Army bases around the country and in Puerto Rico. Lillian and Ed settled in St. Cloud, Fla., until his death in 1967, when she and her two children moved to Mooseheart and became residents of The Child City. She was active in the Women of the Moose at Mooseheart.

Lillian was a house parent at many of the elementary residence halls and eventually became the Mooseheart High School Dean of Girls. She lived and worked at Mooseheart until her retirement.

She lived at the Constitution House in Aurora for more than 25 years and was their longest resident until moving to Sunnymere in spring 2012.

She was a lifelong member of Saint David’s Episcopal Church in Aurora.

Lillian is survived by a son, David (Jan) Smith of St. Charles; daughter, Kathy (Tony) Driessen of Mesa, Ariz.; eight grandchildren, Stacy (Brian) Hansen of Fishers, Ind.,

8FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS

Ruth Marie Colborn: A visitation will be from 2 until 5 p.m.

Sunday, Jan. 20, at Moss Family Funeral Home, 209 S. Batavia Ave. (Route 31), 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.

Nancy M. Fischer: A visitation will be from 5 until 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 18, at Moss-Norris Funeral Home, 100 S. Third St. (three blocks west of the river, one block south of Route 64) in St. Charles. A funeral service will

be at 10 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 19, at Moss-Norris Funeral Home.

Interment will follow in Oak Hill Cemetery in Geneva.

Joan Ann Leidig: Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 19, at First Baptist Church of Geneva, 2300 South St. in Geneva.

Robert Alan Ludvigsen: 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 5 p.m.

Margaret “Marge” Roesler: A visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 18, at Moss Family Funeral Home, 209 S. Batavia Ave. in Batavia. Funeral services will begin with prayers from the funeral home at 9:30

Nicole Driessen of Washington, D.C., Sam (Kathleen) Driessen of Cortland, Matthew Smith of Elburn, Gail (Ian) Rodgers of Oswego, Kevin Smith of Aurora, Ellen Smith of St. Charles and Timothy Smith of St, Charles; and seven greatgrandchildren.

Along with her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Edward J. Smith; two brothers, Melvin and Arthur; and a sister, Mae. The family also would like to thank the caring nurses and doctors at Rush-Copley Hospital and Seasons Hospice for their support during this time.

A visitation will be from noon until time of service 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 20, at Healy Chapel, 332 W. Downer Place, Aurora, IL 60506.

Interment will be at Camp Butler National Cemetery in Springfield, next to her husband, Edward.

In lieu of flowers, contributions may be directed to a charity of the donor’s choice.

For information, call 630-8979291 or visit www.healychapel.com to sign the online guest book.

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JANE ‘SuDiE’ SPuRGiN Born: May 7, 1948; in Aurora Died: Jan. 16, 2013; in Aurora

NORTH AURORA – Jane “Sudie” Spurgin, 64, of North Aurora passed away Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013, at Rush-Copley Medical Center. She was born May 7, 1948, in Aurora, the daughter of the late Anthony

and Betty Lou (Origer) Rehor.

Jane graduated from West Chicago High School in 1966. She was employed at Jim Henry in St. Charles for many years before retiring.

She then worked the photo booth at the Sycamore Speedway for 15 years. She loved gardening, crossword puzzles, crocheting, crime shows, but most of all, her good family life with her grandchildren.

Jane is survived by her husband, Roger Spurgin of North Aurora; her three daughters, Ronda Lane, Tina Brezenski and Holly (Nick) Janicki; her son, Michael (Wing) Spurgin; her five grandchildren, LJ Beatty, Caylee Lane, Talia Brezenski, Delilah Brezenski and Gloria Brezenski; her sister, Cheryl Ewer of Wisconsin; her brother, Jim Rehor of California; her first husband, Ronald Kveck; several loving nieces and nephews; and her loving four-legged child, Marmie.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her sister, Carol Lynn Rehor.

Funeral services will be at 1 p.m.

Saturday, Jan. 19, at Fourth Street United Methodist Church (Fourth Street and Marion Avenue), Aurora.

A visitation will be Saturday at the church from 11 a.m. until the service. Interment will be private.

Arrangements were made by The Healy Chapel, 332 W. Downer Place in Aurora.

For information, call 630-8979291 or visit www.healychapel.com to sign the online guest book.

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8POLICE REPORTS a.m. before proceeding to Annunciation Catholic Church, 1820 Church Road in Aurora to celebrate funeral Mass at 10 a.m. with the Rev. Patrick Gillmeyer officiating. Interment will follow in Marywood Cemetery in Aurora.

Grace Vege: Memorial visitation will be from 2 to 4 p.m.

Saturday, Jan. 19, at Yurs Funeral Home, 405 E. Main St. in St. Charles followed by a memorial service at 4 p.m.

Richard W. Wissing: The visitation is Friday from 10:30 a.m. until the service at 11:30 a.m. at Faith Lutheran Church, 1745 Kaneville Road, Geneva, IL 60134. Interment will be in Oak Hill Cemetery.

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BATAVIA – Helen E. Penton, 96, of Batavia, passed away Jan. 15, 2013, at the DuPage Convalescent Center in Wheaton. She was born July 19, 1916, in Chicago, the daughter of Christ and Frieda (nee Heimel) Unrath. She was united in marriage to Hubert Penton.

Helen was a special person, truly appreciated by all who knew her for her wonderful sense of humor, her giving nature, her eternal optimism, her faith, her enthusiasm and zest for life. She loved people, animals, Bible class and church, and being active at work and at play. In her many years of working at the Western Electric cafeteria in West Chicago, she made many friends and added up food trays in her head faster and more accurately than anyone before or since.

She allowed her three kids, when children, to have an amazing array of animals, including, but not limited to, dogs, cats, chickens, guinea pigs, hamsters, lizards, snakes, injured squirrels, wild birds, frogs, horses and more. She always was active, rising early in the morning and going to bed late at night, leaving the rest of us yearning to keep pace. She loved to dance, sing, fish, cook, eat, discuss and challenge.

She was kind and would give to others even when she didn’t really have the capacity to give. She lived her life with simplicity and authenticity, and in the final days, when many of us would have given

up, she continued to find the small things to be happy about … grace until the end. Those who knew her well will never forget her, will always be grateful for all we learned from her, and will miss her terribly each and every day.

She is survived by her children, Stephen Penton of Batavia, Phillip (Shirley) Penton of Joliet and Kim (Earl Houseman) Penton of Pontiac, Mich.; grandchildren, Lisa (Bill) Magnuson, Shawn North, David Penton, Phillip (Ashley) Penton Jr., Elizabeth (Michael) Chong, Andrea Penton and Michelle Penton; seven great-grandchildren; two stepgreat-grandchildren; a sister, Lois Dietmeyer; and numerous nieces and nephews.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Hubert; and a brother, Al (Virginia) Unrath.

A visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Monday, Jan. 21, at the Moss Family Funeral Home, 209 S. Batavia Ave. in Batavia.

Funeral services will be at 11 a.m.

Tuesday, Jan. 22, at Immanuel Lutheran Church, 950 Hart Road in Batavia, where she will lie in state from 10 a.m. until the service. The Rev. Ronald Weidler will officiate.

Interment will follow at Chapel Hill Gardens West in Oakbrook Terrace.

Contributions in Helen’s memory may be directed to alz.org, an organization she had contributed to for many years.

For information, contact Moss Family Funeral Home at 630-8797900 or visit www.mossfuneral. com.

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HELEN E. PENtON

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GENEVA

Man recounts meeting MLK Jr.

By NICOLE WESKERNA

nweskerna@shawmedia.com GENEVA – When Loy Williams met Martin Luther King Jr. in the fall of 1964, he remembered a man who was short in stature and softspoken. Although King was relatively quiet, “what he said carried a lot of power,” Williams said.

“To this day, he’s the most charismatic person I’ve ever met,” he said.

On Monday, the United States will recognize Martin Luther King Jr. Day. King was born in January 1929, and he was assassinated in 1968.

Williams, a Geneva resident, met King while pursuing his master’s degree at the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.

Williams was part of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which was headed by King. While in school, Williams and his wife, Linda, had been active in registering people to vote, particularly in the black community in the Dallas area.

King was in the Dallas area to give a speech at SMU when he met with five student leaders, including Williams, who

“I think the more we know about each other, the better we understand each other – and, really, the richer society is, in general. I think the struggle for civil rights is a struggle that will never be finished because of the way human nature is. We need to make sure we treat everyone with the same respect.”

Loy Williams Geneva resident

was chair of the school’s Social Action Committee.

Williams said when he met King, he noticed what seemed like a “quiet sadness” from King. He said it wasn’t until a few years later that he realized King had been receiving daily death threats at that point in his life.

“In retrospect, it makes a lot of sense, that sadness,” he said.

Williams said in 1965, he received a telegram from King asking him to gather everyone he knows and head to Montgomery, Ala., where he and Linda Williams joined a civil rights march. As they marched, Williams remembers the crowd of about 25,000 people singing the words, “We

shall overcome.”

Williams said he and his wife felt it was important to support the civil rights movement, although it wasn’t always easy. Williams said his father was a segregationist from South Carolina.

“He was not supportive of what [King] was doing,” he said.

Williams said his mother, however, was supportive in her own ways. Back then, African-Americans were not allowed to ride in the front seat of a car with a white person. Williams said when his mother was asked to drive a black woman to a bus stop, his mother insisted that the woman sit in the front seat.

Williams said the United

States has come a long way since segregation was the norm.

“As Linda and I traveled on boat through the South, we found that many political offices in the South are held by black citizens,” he said.

“And there are no ‘white only’ signs in public places. You see blacks and whites working together in white-collar and blue-collar jobs, treating each other with respect.”

But he said there’s still work to do.

“Blacks still don’t have equal status as whites,” he said.

He said the civil rights movement still exists today, but in a form different from the 1960s marches. He continues to reach out to a local Islamic congregation in Batavia and also to the Latino community in Geneva.

“I think the more we know about each other, the better we understand each other – and, really, the richer society is, in general,” Williams said.

“I think the struggle for civil rights is a struggle that will never be finished because of the way human nature is. We need to make sure we treat everyone with the same respect.”

8LOCAL BRIEFS ‘Tweak Your Life’ to help people balance lives

GENEVA – “Tweak Your Life,” a two-day seminar on living a balanced, fulfilled and joyful life, will be from 2 to 8 p.m. Jan. 26 and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Jan. 27 at Geneva Place, 27 N. Bennett St., Geneva.

The seminar is designed to help participants recognize self-limiting beliefs. Presenter Debbie Leoni of Geneva and founder of Holistic Healing Systems will help participants learn about setting clear and measurable goals and how to become refreshed and stay motivated.

For registration and cost, see www.holistichealingsystems. com/tweak-your-life.

Teen job fair to cover interviews, resumes

ST. CHARLES – A teen job fair is set for those ages 15 and older from 6 to 8 p.m. Feb. 14 at Pottawatomie Community Center, 8 North Ave., St. Charles. It is an opportunity to learn basic resume guidelines, practice approaching employers, acting professional and being interviewed. The fee is $20 for residents and $30 for nonresidents. Advance registration is required. For information, visit www.stcparks.org.

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OPINIONS LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Let’s defend traditional marriage

To the Editor: Lawmakers cannot operate in a spiritual vacuum. Our country and Constitution were based on a very firmly defined set of Judeo-Christian precepts that were meant to direct our legislative decisions. It’s imperative that Springfield members turn to their spiritual roots as part of their decision-making process. If they do so, I think they will find that the definition of marriage is not negotiable.

Marriage is between a man and a woman. Let’s encourage Springfield to stand up for traditional marriage.

Ron Ballantyne South Elgin

WRITING TO US

The Kane County Chronicle welcomes original letters on public issues. Letters must include the author’s full name, home address and day and evening telephone numbers. We limit letters to 400 words. All letters are subject to editing for length and clarity at the sole discretion of the editor. Letters can be emailed to letters@kcchronicle.com, faxed to 630-444-1641 and mailed to Letters, Kane County Chronicle, 333 N. Randall Road, Suite 2, St. Charles IL 60174.

Reading fiction an important part of education If you’re irked that Mill Creek Elementary School parent Colin McGroarty disrupted the school because of what he believed to be an anomalous Pledge of Allegiance, learning about the government’s Common Core State Standards will have your rant making his sound puritanical.

Ostensibly, the Common Core State Standards program ensures that public school curriculums cover appropriate material (no psychic dinosaur theories) germane to each grade level, K-12. Hell-O? Department heads and academic deans already do that.

Aside from redundancy, the methods under the Common Core State Standards program exceed their stated purpose.

Educators, cajoled to conform to CCSS-recommended curriculums and texts, also are coerced to present material measurable by statewide exams, which are expected to

VIEWS Rick Holinger be ready by 2014.

This may work for math, but English courses constantly debate content relevancy and the one-size-fits-all directive impeding teachers’ talents and discouraging creative projects and creative writing.

Moreover, the CCSS close reading strategy shuns children’s opinions, experiences or connections with a text.

Rebecca Hanna, a St. Charles elementary school teacher, laments this “slavish fidelity to text, no relating of background knowledge so dear to little kids.”

Most appalling, CCSS prescribes literature like medicine. The script ordered for high school junior and senior curriculums – a reported

J. Tom Shaw, publisher Kathy Gresey

30 percent fiction – reeks of malpractice, as short stories and novels involve readers the way few factual texts can.

Retired Glenbard West English teacher and Genevan Ellen Ljung writes, “What better way to explore the challenge of standing up for what’s right than discussing ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’?”

And introducing such heavy amounts of informational reading – as the plan does – could create issues.

Jamie Highfill, a 2011 Arkansas Teacher of the Year, told the Washington Post that “ ... there isn’t that human connection that you get with literature ... .

I’m seeing more behavior problems in my classroom than I’ve ever seen.’ ” Time columnist Joel Stein, hearing CCSS promotes “FedViews,” which is published by the Federal Reserve of San Fancisco, argues: “School isn’t merely training for work;

Editorial board

Al Lagattolla Jay Schwab

it’s training to communicate throughout our lives ... . No nonfiction writer can teach you how to use language like William Faulkner or James Joyce can.”

Who’s behind CCSS? Atlantic contributor Susan Ohanian fingers corporations, citing commentator Glen Ford, in that the goal of corporate education reform is to turn teaching into a service industry.

Indeed, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation helped fund Common Core and much of the PR campaign, Ohanian writes.

Not everyone collaborates.

Sir Ken Robinson proposes in “The Element” that, “The key ... is not to standardize education, but to personalize it, to build achievement on discovering the individual talents of each child, to put students in an environment where they want to learn ... .”

In “A Whole New Mind,” Daniel Pink emphasizes that

“artists, inventors, designers, storytellers, caregivers, consolers, big picture thinkers – will now reap society’s richest rewards ... . We are moving from ... a society built on the logical, linear computerlike capabilities of the Information Age to ... a society built on the inventive, empathic, big-picture capabilities of what’s rising in its place.”

“1984” and “Fahrenheit 451” prophecy imagination’s demise. Today’s students, however, won’t know these cautionary tales; they’re too insulated by reading about insulation.

Become informed. Leaving a word out of the Pledge of Allegiance is one thing, but leaving a student’s feelings out of learning is another.

• Rick Holinger has taught high school English and lived in the Fox Valley for nearly 35 years. Contact him at editorial@kcchronicle.com.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

First Amendment, U.S. Bill of Rights

GENEVA – On the first Friday of every month, Gibby’s Wine Den will host an art gallery opening and artists reception featuring a different local artist each month.

The program “Art by the Glass – A Creative Pairing,” includes a gallery opening and artists reception. The next event is set for 6 to 8 p.m. Feb. 1 at Gibby’s, 1772 S. Randall Road, Geneva.

For information, call 630-2026424 or visit www.gibbys-wine. com/programs.htm.

There will be craft beer tasting and live jazz with Alyssa and the Allgoods out of North Central College.

ST. CHARLES – Traffic signals at two intersections along Kirk Road are scheduled to be upgraded the week of Jan. 21.

Work is anticipated to start at the East Tyler Road intersection Tuesday. Work at the Ohio Avenue intersection is scheduled to start Jan. 25. Work will be done between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m.

Signals may be temporarily out of service and the intersections will be under four-way stop control.

Breakfast with the Easter Bunny set in Geneva

GENEVA – Breakfast with the Easter Bunny is set for 9 and 10 a.m. March 23 at the Stephen D. Persinger Recreation Center, 3507 Kaneville Road, Geneva.

The breakfast includes pancakes and pictures with the Easter Bunny. The cost for residents is $4 a person, and $6 for nonresidents.

Children 1 and younger are admitted free, but they must be registered. Advance registration is required. Early registration is recommended.

For information or to register, call 630-232-4542 or visit www.genevaparks.org.

– Kane County Chronicle

Write-in candidate files for City Council’s 7th Ward

By ERIC SCHELKOPF

eschelkopf@shawmedia.com BATAVIA – Steve Holland has filed to run as a write-in candidate in the April 9 consolidated election for the 7th Ward seat on the Batavia City Council.

Holland, who lives on Bird Lane, filed his paperwork Wednesday with City Clerk Heidi Wetzel. Last month, no one filed a nomination petition for the 7th Ward, where Alderman Dawn Tenuta is not running for re-election.

The Batavia City Council includes seven wards, with two people representing each ward. Candidates can file as write-in candidates until 4:30 p.m. on the 61st day before the election, which would be early February.

Tenuta, who was elected to the City Council in 2009, said she would not seek reelection for personal reasons.

Tenuta said she was most proud of getting the city’s strategic plan in place and moving forward with the downtown streetscape pro-

gram. North River Street was the first street to receive improvements last summer.

There will be several contested races in April for seats on the City Council. Fifth Ward Alderman Eldon Frydendall faces opposition from Steve Vasilion, and 4th Ward Alderman Jim Volk will face a challenge from Jamie Saam.

In addition, 6th Ward Alderman Robert Liva faces two challengers – newcomers Nick Cerone and Ron Rechenmacher.

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Traffic signals along Kirk Road to get upgrades

The Kane County Division of Transportation says motorists can expect long delays and are encouraged to find alternate routes of travel. If the weather is bad, upgrades could be delayed and will be done as soon as weather and road conditions allow.

Any questions can be directed to John Guddendorf, senior construction manager with the Kane County Division of Transportation at 630-8169671. For Kane County traffic advisories, visit www.col.kane. il.us/dot/trafficalerts.

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8LOCAL BRIEFS Hickory Knolls will discuss owls in ‘Who Knew’ series ST. CHARLES – Hickory Knolls Discovery Center has planned the February topic for its “Who Knew” series – Owl Be Seeing You, set for 10 to 11 a.m. Feb. 16.

The discovery center is at 3795 Campton Hills Road, St. Charles.

Each month, there will be a different nature topic. This program is for ages 10 and up.

Ages 10 to 14 must be accompanied by a paying adult.

The fee is $5 for residents and $7.50 for nonresidents. Advance registration is required.

For information, visit www. stcnature.org.

Park district offers senior volunteer opportunities

ST. CHARLES – The St. Charles Park District offers an opportunity for those ages 50 and older to volunteer at the Northern Illinois Food Bank in Geneva.

On the second Wednesday of each month, the group leaves from Pottawatomie Community Center, 8 North Ave., at 8:30 a.m. for a morning of service and returns at 12:30 p.m.

Depending on the work needed and the skills of each volunteer, programs and activities will vary. The next outing will be Feb. 13.

Participation is free, but advance registration is requested.

For information, call Meghan at 630-513-4324.

Beatles tribute group to perform at Kaneland HS

MAPLE PARK – The Cavern Beat, a Beatles tribute group, will perform at 7 p.m. Feb. 2 at the Kaneland High School Auditorium, 47W326 Keslinger Road, Maple Park.

Tickets are $10 for adults and $8 for students and senior citizens. Preschoolers are admitted free. There will be general seating.

For information, call 630-3655100, ext. 180, or visit www. kanelandartsfestival.org. The Cavern Beat will be joined by M&M Dance Company, as well as choir members from the Kaneland School District.

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‘Dear Abby’ columnist dies at 94

By MARK SCHOIFET Bloomberg News

Pauline Esther Phillips, who was known to millions of newspaper readers as the “Dear Abby” advice columnist Abigail Van Buren, has died.

She was 94.

She died Wednesday in Minneapolis after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease, according to a statement by Universal Uclick, syndicator of Dear Abby. Phillips lived in Minnetonka, Minn.

With her identical twin, Esther Pauline Lederer, who wrote under the Ann Landers pseudonym until her death in 2002, Phillips brought the newspaper advice-to-the-lovelorn column into the modern era. Like her sister, she replied to letters about serious social issues such as teen sex, divorce, alcoholism and AIDS, and answered them with a mix of candor, common sense and an occasional wisecrack.

Created by Phillips in 1956, the Dear Abby column appears in about 1,400 newspapers worldwide with a daily readership of more than 110 million people, according to Universal Press Syndicate, which merged with Uclick in 2009.

“I think my answers are just common sense in a capsule. And it took me about one hour and 53 years to write today’s column.”

Pauline Esther Phillips

on how she writes responses to ‘Dear Abby’ letters She wrote the column herself until 1987, when she was joined by her daughter, Jeanne Phillips. In 2002, as her health deteriorated, she retired, and Jeanne Phillips became the new Abigail Van Buren.

According to Richard Weiner, author of the book “Syndicated Columnists,” a theology professor in 1972 asked Phillips how she came up with her answers to letters and how long it took to write them.

“I think my answers are just common sense in a capsule,” she said. “And it took me about one hour and 53 years to write today’s column.”

Louis Cassels, a former United Press International religion editor who died in 1974, once called Phillips “the best moral theologian in America.”

The sisters maintained a sibling rivalry. In many cities, Ann Landers would appear in a morning newspaper and Dear Abby in the evening newspa-

per, or vice versa. Sometimes, they argued over who had the larger circulation.

In 1958, Life Magazine reported that Phillips had offered Dear Abby to Iowa’s Sioux City Journal at a reduced price, provided the paper wouldn’t run Ann Landers. After that, the twins didn’t speak to each other for five years. They reconciled in 1964.

“The feud was vastly exaggerated,” Lederer once said.

In her column of Feb. 18, 1972, Phillips printed a letter from an identical twin who said twins should dress alike, according to Weiner’s book.

Abby disagreed, saying that once twins are old enough to express themselves individually, they should be encouraged to do so.

“Twins who dress themselves identically,” Abby wrote, “are saying, look at us, we’re twins! (P.S. I asked my twin and she agrees with me.)”

Pauline Esther Friedman was born July 4, 1918, in Sioux City, Iowa, 17 minutes after her sister. She was the fourth daughter of Rebecca and Abraham Friedman, who came to the United States in 1908 from Vladivostok, Russia. Her parents called her “Popo” and her sister “Eppie.”

The two petite, black-haired sisters even were married together. On July 2, 1939, Pauline wed businessman Morton Phillips and Esther married Jules Lederer at a double ceremony at a Sioux City synagogue.

In 1956, Eppie Lederer began her career as Ann Landers at the Chicago Sun-Times.

She often phoned her sister for help in coming up with letter replies. Pauline proved so good at it that she wrote to the editors of the San Francisco Chronicle and told them she could write a better column than the one they had.

“They gave her a bunch of letters, thinking that they would never see her again,” her son, Edward, told ABC News. “She immediately took all of the letters to my dad’s nearby office and whipped out answers and had the answers back the same day. That knocked them off their feet.”

Republicans weigh debt limit increase

By ROSALIND S. HELDERMAN and ED O’KEEFE The Washington Post

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. – House Republicans are weighing a plan to raise the nation’s legal borrowing limit for a few months, a move that could shift debate over the debt ceiling into March, when Congress will face other major fiscal decisions, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., said Thursday.

But, speaking to reporters at the annual House Republicans retreat at Williamsburg’s storied Kingsmill Resort, Ryan said Republicans still are in intense discussions about how to approach raising the debt ceiling. He said House leaders were using closed-door sessions Thursday to educate their

members, many of them itching for a fight with President Barack Obama about the potential consequences of failing to raise the limit.

In a caucus that has been split over how to negotiate with the White House, Ryan said there was unity that the most important priority must be to use the coming fiscal debates to force a real reduction in debt and deficits.

“The worst thing for the economy is for this Congress and this administration to do nothing to get our debt and deficits under control,” Ryan said. “We think the worse thing for the economy is to move past these events that are occurring with no progress made on the debt and the deficit.”

He seemed open to an idea

advanced by a number of conservatives in case there is no agreement to raise the limit – he said he believes the White House would have the authority to prioritize spending in case the borrowing limit is not raised. Obama has insisted that if Congress does not raise the limit, the nation will default on its spending obligations and will be unable to issue Social Security checks and veterans benefits.

Many conservatives believe those consequences are overstated, and while large parts of government would shut down, tax receipts would provide enough funding to allow the government to meet obligations without borrowing new funds.

“It presents a cash flow problem, where you have ob-

ligations going out one day and revenues coming in one day and they’re kind of lumpy and they don’t always match each other,” Ryan said.

The Treasury Department has said it does not believe it has the authority to prioritize certain spending obligations over others, noting its computer systems are designed to pay bills as they come in.

Ryan said he disagrees with that analysis, but also would be happy to see Congress take action to provide Treasury with the necessary authority.

“We obviously believe the administration should prioritize such things,” he said.

“And people like me are fine with giving the administration crystal-clear authority on how to prioritize such things.”

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Batavia wrestler Mickey Watson warms up with his team during practice Thursday afternoon. “It feels weird,” Watson said. “Fourth year on varsity, it’s kind of all coming to an end.”

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St. Charles East manages two wins in boys swimming against undefeated Waubonsie Valley in an Upstate Eight Conference dual meet.

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Batavia wrestler Mickey Watson (center) takes a break during practice Thursday with teammates Charlie Smorczewski (left) and Joel Shump.

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Batavia wrestler prepares for final senior run

By Kevin DRUleY

kdruley@shawmedia.com BATAVIA – Mickey Watson followed two older brothers into Batavia wrestling. He’s aware of how both finished, and could live with duplicating either path.

The 195-pound senior still would pave his own way in one department if that happens. While both brothers wrestled more than 45 matches in their final high school seasons, Watson would have to join them as state placers to even push 30.

Back in the lineup for this weekend’s Upstate Eight Conference tournament at Batavia, Watson feels refreshed after missing nearly half the season. He’s eager to forget about a sprained MCL – and the flu that delayed his initial return last week – but would be quick to credit them should his season end on a podium in Champaign.

“If I was going to get injured and sick, this was probably the best time, because I got it at the start of the

UEC Tournament glance n Where: At Batavia n When: Today (5 p.m. start) and

Saturday (10 a.m. start)

season,” Watson said. “Got a few matches in, got sick, got hurt, but then got back at it.”

That’s the idea.

In 2009, Danny Watson lay writhing on his back after taking a shot to the groin midway through his final match. He rose to his feet moments later, exhaled, and closed a tight decision to place third in Class 3A at 171 pounds.

Two years later, Augie Watson was sixth at 160 pounds, as Danny watched as a sophomore.

Also a top football and club rugby player for the Bulldogs, Danny Watson senses the urgency that comes with the end of his Batavia career. He’s keeping his options open to compete in any of his three sports after high school, and realizes this weekend won’t make or break his bid if he

chooses collegiate wrestling.

Bulldogs coach Scott Bayer, a longtime assistant before taking control of the program this season, has seen the Watsons tangle more than most.

That’s part of what inspires such confidence in Mickey.

“He’s going to try to make a run here,” Bayer said. “He might not be 100 percent for this tournament, but with [two] weeks left until regionals, if he can get up to speed and 100 percent, he’s got a good shot of going downstate.”

Watson’s most recent bout came on Dec. 20, an 8-7 decision victory against St. Charles East’s Keegan Furmanski. He was attempting to return from his first knee troubles from earlier that month, but aggravated something and was held out of competition as a precaution.

Everything was trending toward a return for the Batavia tournament last weekend, but Watson got sick with the flu and stayed home.

He was back in the mat room Monday, thinking little of the lull. Even his healthy

teammates couldn’t blame him.

“Each competition is an opportunity to get better, and it’s a competition you want to win,” Batavia senior 160-pounder Jon Wagner said.

“But, you know, we recognize the fact that the big show is in February with regionals and sectionals and state. We want our best performance to be then and not right now.”

Batavia still aspires to turn some heads this weekend. Senior Joel Shump is 31-0 at 126, while Charlie Smorczewski (138) and Connor McKeehan (220) are coming off runnerup finishes in last weekend’s tournament.

For Watson, the countdown to a hopeful downstate berth begins this weekend. He may only have 14 bouts under his belt this season, but there’s plenty of muscle memory from three earlier years on varsity, plus no shortage of inspiration from his brothers.

“You’ve got to do [the work], got to do what’s best,” Watson said. “Then hope you keep better and keep going.”

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TODAY 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 Catholic 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

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GENEVA – With no coat covering his Cubs polo and long-sleeve undershirt, Cougars general manager Curtis Haug darted in and out of the morning chill to tackle one last bit of housekeeping Thursday.

The Cougars’ new baseball relatives were minutes away from Fifth Third Bank Ballpark when Haug retrieved a piece of wind-blown litter outside the lobby.

As expected, Cubs manager Dale Sveum joined several players and employees on a Cubs Caravan trip to the North Siders’ new Low-A affiliate moments later. The group left after about 30 minutes, completing a spotless visit that was among the first since the teams’ two-year player development contract was announced in September.

“We typically keep it nice and tidy here, but we definitely wanted to welcome them and be at our best when they arrived,” Haug said. “It’s great they included us.”

A contingent including second baseman Darwin Barney, outfielder Tony Campana and radio broadcaster Keith Moreland visited the ballpark, getting a breather after a calisthenic-filled morning at Fox Chase Elementary School in Oswego.

The Cubs group addressed students about fitness and healthy eating at a morning assembly in what Campana called “a pretty crazy atmosphere.”

Handshakes were more prevalent than hollering in Geneva.

Cubs officials presented their new Midwest League affiliate with a home, pinstriped jersey with “COUGARS” on the back nameplate, above a number 13. The gift figured prominently in a group photo situated at the foot of the stairs leading to the upper suite level.

While it took the Cougars and Cubs 22 seasons to connect, brass from both sides have trumpeted the partnership for the past four months. Opening Day at Fifth Third Bank Ballpark is April 4. A “Meet the

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Cubs players and coaches, including Dale Sveum (center) pose for a group photo Thursday with Cougars front office staff during the Cubs On The Move 2013 Caravan Tour at Fifth Third Bank Ballpark in geneva.

Cubs” hot stove event for fans is scheduled for Feb. 1.

Haug said the organization – traditionally a top MWL draw even when it was aligned with Baltimore, Florida, Oakland and Kansas City – has “never had a buzz like this before.”

It reflects in the single-game and season ticket sales Haug says have increased by “a large percentage” compared to 2012, and even has trickled up to the big leagues.

Cubs reliever Michael Bowden, who pitched at Fifth Third as part of Waubonsie Valley’s 2005 state tournament team, grew up attending Cougars games, usually watching from the outfield berm.

“It’s incredible to have an affiliate just over an hour away from the big league club,” he said. “For families out here that don’t want to drive into the city, they get to see players that will eventually be on the Cubs in the future, and I think that’s really neat. They come here, it’s very affordable and they get to see young talent and good baseball for an affiliate that is Chicago.”

They won’t see the familiar colors of the Cubs, however, other than in scorecards, programs and other stadium handouts. Haug said the Cougars will keep their usual black, green and gold uniform scheme, quashing rumors

about a potential change.

Still, the Cougars are performing much more than trash detail to accommodate the Cubs, working to revamp video capability and connections at the ballpark in a nod to the organization’s emphasis on that aspect of analysis.

A suite is reserved for Cubs president of baseball operations Theo Epstein and other upper management.

Addressing the Cougars front office before leaving with the rest of the caravan, Moreland indicated the route from Fifth Third to Wrigley would

be a well-navigated one. Now all that’s left is the wait for spring.

“In the past – and no disrespect to Oakland or Kansas City or any of our other affiliates – but there weren’t a lot of those fans in the area,” Haug said. “Here, you’ve got all these Cubs fans, and these are all new fans, because they’re going to come out and see the future Cubs.”

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Here, you’ve got all these Cubs fans, and these are all new fans, because they’re going to come out and see the future Cubs.”

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‘Improving’ Saints fall to surging Warriors

By JARED BIRCHFIELD

editorial@kcchronicle.com ST. CHARLES – The Waubonsie Valley boys swimming team continued its domination of the Upstate Eight Conference by defeating St. Charles East, 111-75, Thursday night.

The Warriors, who have only faced UEC opponents this season, are undefeated.

“We faced a better team,” said East assistant boys coach Kent Pearson. “We are swimming solidly and we are looking forward to when we get a chance to rest to see what we can really do. We have had several meets over the last couple of weeks.”

Saints head coach Joe Cabel left the meet to attend Future Saints Night at the school.

“We have a very deep team this year and that’s a real nice asset for us,” said Waubonsie coach Nick Arens of his team’s 6-0-1 start. “We know that they are a good team that we will have to face a few times so we really enjoy their competition.”

The Saints only won two of the 11 swimming events.

Will Shanel earned both first-place finishes for the

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St. Charles East swimmer will Shanel swims the 100-yard butterfly during the Saints’ dual meet Thursday against waubonsie valley.

Saints by winning the 100yard butterfly (55.44 seconds) and the 500 freestyle (4:58.66).

“I thought we were going in with a stronger chance,” Shanel said. “I know we have all been working hard and we have all put in the effort.”

The Saints finished second

8SPORTS SHORT St. Francis stadium, athletic project under way

WHEATON – St. Francis officials plan to recognize a $1 million gift to the “Bring it All Back Home” campaign at 7 tonight before the boys basketball team faces Wheaton Academy at the Spyglass Center.

Ron Kuhn and and Theresa Franklin Kuhn, Class of 1965 and 1967, respectively, donated the funds for the purpose of upgrading the school’s athletic complex and for constructing Kuhn Memorial Stadium.

The campaign is so-named because several Spartans athletics and dance teams leave campus to practice or play home games.

The capital improvement entails a two-phase system, with the

first phase the completion of the stadium. The stadium will include synthetic turf, an all-weather track and new bleachers that are expected to increase capacity to nearly 1,200.

The budget for the first phase is $3.6 million.

The second phase, budgeted at a cost of $1.4 million, will include a “gateway building” to house a new locker room, concessions, restrooms, ticket office and storage. The second floor will offer a practice area for the wrestling and dance teams.

The school’s goal is to have all monies raised by April and to break ground in late May.

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in eight of the events. In three, East swimmers were edged out by particularly narrow margins.

Alec Carnell’s time of 1:49.19 in the 200 freestyle was 63 hundredths of a second behind winner Adam Stacklin of the Warriors. Stacklin, with a time of 48.55, also edged Car-

nell out in the 100 freestyle by .43.

Waubonsie finished the 400 freestyle relay with a time of 3:20.62 to the Saints’ time of 3:21.50.

“They had some strong swims in the 500,” Arens said.

“In the 400 freestyle, it was real nice to see them come

down to the end. We like opportunities like that to push our guys.”

Max Schmitt won the diving competition for East with a score of 205.35.

“We are improving little by little,” said Pearson. “We are looking forward to better times coming up.”

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Burlington CentrAl CHArity stripers

What happened: After missing its lone free throw attempt of regulation, Central converted 10 of 11 foul shots Tuesday to key a 42-32, double-overtime victory at Rockford Christian. Samantha Pryor hit the game’s last four free throws as BC moved to 7-0 in the Big Northern East.

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Sidney Santos isn’t skittish. Geneva’s junior point guard missed her first two seasons with separate ACL injuries, but she didn’t panic after getting tangled up and falling awkwardly during the team’s Jan. 11 win at Batavia.

Retreating to the bench, Santos emerged moments later with a grin and a twisted ankle.

She finished with 16 points and nine boards.

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Whether St. Charles East still enjoys the look from the top in the UEC River. The league-leading Saints visit Geneva tonight before hosting Streamwood on Tuesday, and how they fare against both fellow contenders should play a big factor in the rest of the conference race.

The Saints won their first games against both teams. After splitting with three of the six other conference schools last season, they’re looking for more sweeps.

saints cling to ueC river lead

St. Charles East took St. Charles North’s best counterpunches during Saturday’s 59-55 road win, keeping its hold on the Upstate Eight Conference River Division lead by getting to the foul line and converting down the stretch.

The Saints swished 22 of 31 free throws (70.9 percent), led by a 12 for 14 effort from Amanda Hilton.

“It got pretty wild at the end, but then we kind of all knew that we just had to come together,” East senior forward Laney Deckrow said. “Calm down.”

That was easier said than done with North’s Alex Silverman finding her touch from long range. Silverman’s deep 3-pointer with 17 seconds left brought the North Stars to within 5855. Hilton split a pair of free throws 10 seconds later to seal the victory.

While the loss left the North Stars at 2-6 in the conference – five games behind the Saints – North felt like the game wasn’t a lost cause.

“We just came out with a lot more heart and a lot more energy,” Silverman said. “We wanted it this time, really bad.”

East won the first crosstown meeting by 15 points, and will brace for another key rematch when it visits Geneva tonight. Plenty about the Saints and Vikings has changed since East beat Geneva in overtime, 81-66, last month.

The Saints’ Paige Jordan, who matched Carly Pottle with 25 points in the first Geneva game, has left the team.

The Vikings, meanwhile, have adapted their post-heavy roster to fill out a more conventional lineup.

Geneva (5-2 UEC River) and East both will be wellrested entering the game, going at least six days week between contests. Second-place Streamwood (6-1 UEC River), idle since winning at North on Jan. 11, is slated to visit struggling Elgin on Saturday afternoon.

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Kaneland’s Sarah Grams tries to keep a ball from going out of bounds Tuesday during the Knights’ game against Morris in Maple Park.

Knights on attack

Kaneland limited Morris to six points in Tuesday’s second half, making quick work of a one-point deficit at intermission to roll, 65-32.

The Knights’ 1-3-1 zone after halftime flustered the Redskins and then some, as Kaneland finished with 18 steals and created most of its offense off fast breaks.

“We’ve been talking about trying to get some easy baskets and some points off of our defense, which has been missing a little bit,” Knights coach Ernie Colombe said. “We weren’t doing that in stretches, and [Tuesday] we did that.”

Kaneland, 4-3 in the Northern Illinois Big 12 East Division, swept Morris and will look to mirror that feat against host Sycamore tonight.

“We definitely want to keep improving our season and keep attacking and keep playing to what we’re capable of playing,” Knights senior forward

Brooke Harner said.

Fundraisers afoot

Tonight’s Burlington Central/GenoaKingston game at Central will include a fundraiser for the victims of the Dec. 14 school shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.

Sophomores Jackie Collins and Alison Colby led the organization.

Players will be selling T-shirts ($15) and green ribbons ($1) as part of the effort. In addition, baked goods will be on sale for $1 to $2.

Tonight’s Geneva/East game will be a “Pretty in Pink” awareness night, with proceeds to be donated to Cadence Breast Health Center at Delnor Community Hospital.

Raffle prizes will be part of the fundraiser. For information, contact Lindsey Huettemann at linzmu2106@ yahoo.com.

– Kevin Druley, kdruley@shawmedia.com

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The girls basketball season sure has been grand, and even before the events of Thursday in B-Town.

We’ve had upstarts and slumped starts, but now is about the time of year where the answers come to the fore.

Several teams are vying for conference

titles, including surging St. Francis in the SCC Gold.

Hard to believe the regular season is winding down, but there’s plenty to keep fans occupied as it does.

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What she did: Hilton led the Saints in scoring during weekend victories at Larkin (13 points) and St. Charles North (26), helping East improve to 7-1 in the Upstate Eight Conference River Division and keep the league lead.

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Trestman carries more than confidence

LAKE FOREST – When Marc Trestman arrived to his first interview at Halas Hall for the Bears’ head coaching vacancy, he brought more than a résumé and a list of references.

Trestman carried a personalized calendar filled with notations.

It started in mid-January with his first few plans as the Bears’ coach. It ended Feb. 2, 2014.

Ring a bell?

That’s the date of Super Bowl XLVIII in East Rutherford, N.J. “Yeah,” Trestman said

VIEWS Tom Musick with a smile several hours after he was introduced as the 14th head coach in franchise history. “Up until the parade.”

No word on whether Trestman outlined the best places to buy confetti.

For almost an hour Thursday, Trestman stood behind a lectern in a crowded auditorium and shared his philosophy on quality

offenses, successful quarterbacks, personnel decisions and leadership in general. He spoke about how excited he was to work with Jay Cutler and how grateful he was to the Bears for giving him his first chance as an NFL head coach.

But all that you really need to know about Trestman lies in the pages of his 13-month calendar.

Bears chairman George McCaskey flipped quickly through the months, but not because he was disinterested in the details. He couldn’t wait to see how Trestman’s

plan culminated.

“I went right to the end,” McCaskey said, “where he talks about, ‘After the parade, I’m going to give my staff two weeks off.’ And then he said, ‘The day after we get back, we will begin planning for the next season.’

“I was very impressed with that.”

McCaskey wasn’t alone.

Bears general manager Phil Emery marveled at the thoroughness of Trestman’s planning. The 13-month calendar caught him off guard at first, and when he shared it with his wife, she had a

similar reaction.

“She goes, ‘What’s with this 13-month calendar?’ ” Emery said. “I go, ‘He might be a little bit smarter than the rest of us. He’s already got the road map all the way going to that day in February.”

With Trestman in charge, the Bears are going deep.

Who knows? Maybe they’ll march all the way to a parade.

• Tom Musick covers Chicago professional sports for Shaw Media. Write to him at tmusick@shawmedia.com.

LOCAL SPORTS ROUNDUP

Fruendt goes over 1,000 career points as Bulldogs beat Larkin KANE COUNTY CHRONICLE BATAVIA – Batavia junior girls basketball player Liza Fruendt surpassed 1,000 career points in Thursday’s 80-29 romp against Lar kin.

Fruendt entered the game needing six points to reach 1,000.

She finished Liza Fruendt with a gamehigh 25 as the Bulldogs remained in the Upstate Eight Conference River Division title hunt.

“It was definitely very special tonight,” Fruendt said. “I was actually a little nervous going into the game because I had so many people here that mean so much to me. But we got it done. It was a relief, but it also was a very special moment that I’ll remember for the rest of my life.”

Batavia (14-8, 5-3 UEC River) led, 48-5, at halftime. Hannah Frazier (13 points) and Sami Villarreal (10) joined Fruendt in double figures,

while Erin Bayram (nine) and Grace Andrews (eight) just missed.

Fruendt, a third-year varsity guard and Batavia basketball legacy, credited her family, teammates and coaches for helping her reach the feat. Before the game, she joked with Bayram, a close friend, about collaborating on the basket that put Fruendt at 1,000 points.

They got their wish when Bayram dished to Fruendt for a 3-pointer in the first quarter.

“We were like, ‘ Oh, hey, maybe we can do this,’ ” Fruendt said. “And then it was a post kick-out and it actually worked.”

“It was nice to just get back out here and get back up and down the floor, kind of end a stressful week with finals and everything,” Batavia coach Kevin Jensen said.

“And it’s a nice accomplishment for Liza after all the hard work she puts in. She’s basketball 365 days a year.”

BOYS SWIMMING St. Charles North 109, Metea Valley 77: At St. Charles, North

won the UEC dual behind top swims from its core of leaders.

The North Stars winners included Kyle Gannon (100- and 200-yard freestyle) and David Chokran (200 individual medley and 100 breaststroke).

GIRLS BOWLING Kaneland 2,611, IMSA 2,235:

At St. Paul’s Lanes in Aurora, Angela Charhut (464 series), Morgan Wojciechowski (463) and Christie Crews (441) led a balanced effort in Kaneland’s nonconference win.

VOLLEYBALL Pawlikowski named Stony Brook v’ball coach: At Stony

Brook, N.Y., former Batavia standout Coley Pawlikowski recenty was named women’s volleyball coach at Stony Brook.

Pawlikowski, the daughter of Geneva boys and girls coach K.C. Johnsen, was previously an assistant at Wisconsin and Northern Illinois – her college alma mater – among other stops.

She is a three-time recipient of the American Volleyball Coaches Association “Thirty Under 30” award.

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MILITARY NOTE

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It has been one of those frustrating weeks! Why me?

Things started out with an online purchase of a needed item. I got a confusing message about the shipping, so I went to the website for customer service. I could not find a telephone number or the usual “contact us” which leads to – one hopes – an onshore, helpful human being. So, I called the associated store in St. Charles and asked for customer service.

The responder couldn’t find the number either. So, I asked for a manager.

“I am the manager!” she asserted.

She finally yielded to ask someone else, an ordinary person, who showed her how to find the number. I called the secret number and was told that the delivery was delayed until Jan. 24. The order arrived yesterday.

Later, I went to my doctor’s office for a routine visit. The woman who arrived to take my blood pressure was sick as a dog – sneezing and coughing, and she had red eyes, etc. ... .

“Be gone,” was my response.

So much for “health” care.

Then I tried 411 for the phone number of my cousin’s nursing home. I spelled it three times, and

VIEWS Joan Arteberry then tried the so-called “supervisor” who literally said, “I give up”.

I did find the number online, called the place and got disconnected by an employee who was trying to put me on hold after I spelled my cousin’s name twice and tried every phonetic device I knew.

Yes, I did call back, and got through to a supervisor who, somehow predictably, had no clue. In the background I heard someone point out his room, which was in walking distance from the telephone.

Not to mention, the football playoffs featured a loss for every team I picked.

The good news came at our Class of ’56 monthly breakfast at the east side Colonial Cafe in St. Charles. I arrived late and only heard part of the conversation about Rollie Vander Hagen and how he had bought breakfast for everyone. It seemed perfectly plausible since Vander Hagen had socked away lots of money after

his short career as a country and western singer. Remember “The Belgian Cowboy”?

This is a good point to pause and acknowledge the fine experiences we continue to have at the Colonial Cafe on East Main Street in St. Charles.

The manager greets us with a smile – contrary to the cranky hostess at another of my recent stops – and the waitress is efficient and does her best to overlook our faltering memories and sometimes bawdy topics.

The food is good and the prices are reasonable – especially when we have to buy our own breakfast.

There is good news too, especially for those who appreciate the value of being a blood donor.

There will be a blood drive at 4 p.m. at Baker Memorial United Methodist Church, 307 Cedar Ave., St. Charles. Mark your calendar for Wednesday, Jan. 23.

Donors will receive a $10 Target certificate.

Let’s all have a better week.

A good beginning for me – my Badgers beat Indiana. I’m thinking about getting a lottery ticket.

• Joan Arteberry is a resident of St. Charles. Write her at joanarteberry38@gmail.com.

Andrew F. Mallers

Air Force Airman Andrew F. Mallers has graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas.

Mallers completed an eightweek program that included training in military discipline and studies, Air Force core values, physical fitness, and basic warfare principles and

skills.

Airmen who complete basic training earn four credits toward an associate in applied science degree through the Community College of the Air Force.

Mallers is the son of Barbara Mallers of North Aurora and Anthony Mallers of Marengo.

He is a 2009 graduate of Marengo High School.

Volunteers needed for school’s heart-healthy Valentine’s Day event KANE COUNTY CHRONICLE neighbors@kcchronicle.com

AURORA – West Aurora High School is in need of volunteers for its heart-healthy event, Young Hearts for Life, this Valentines Day. West Aurora High School teacher and Young Hearts for Life program operator Meghan Hill, is in need of 240 volunteers to help identify high school students who may be at risk for sudden cardiac arrest, she said in an email.

Volunteers for the event will help pro-

vide cardiac (EKG) screenings to 2,000 West High students over a two-day period – Feb. 14 and 15. Volunteers are needed to perform EKGs, register students, put stickers on students, type student information and assist the nursing staff.

A West Aurora High School physical education and health teacher – whose cousin had died suddenly from heart disease – led an effort with the Midwest Heart Foundation two years prior to test hundreds of students for heart abnormalities, states a news release. Eighteen students were found to have abnormalities and

were recommended for further testing.

Volunteers will work shifts of approximately four hours from either 6:50 to 11:30 a.m. or 11 a.m. to 3:10 p.m. Feb. 14 or Feb. 15.

There is a mandatory training night scheduled from 5:30 to 7 p.m. or 7 to 8:30 p.m. Feb. 13. Those who have volunteered in the past, need only come for a five-minute refresher at the beginning of one of the sessions. Volunteers do not need to have any experience.

To learn more about Hill’s Young Hearts for Life program and how to vol-

unteer, visit www.sd129.org/wellness/ young_hearts.asp.

Hill is also attempting to raise $2,000 to cover costs. She is taking donations through the A+ Foundation for West Aurora Schools at donate.aplusfoundation.org.

As an alternative, a $3 donation can pay for one child to receive a screening.

These donations can be made online at sd129.revtrak.net.

For more information, email Meghan Hill at mhill@sd129.org or call 630-301-6622.

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Fran Garbarski, formerly Fran Zonzo, and Don Garbarski were married Dec. 27, 1952. They first lived at 721 Roy Drive in Villa Park. Don Garbarski was a systems analyst at Sunbeam.

He retired Aug. 1, 1997.

The couple have two children; Provided photos NOW AND THEN – LEFT: Don and Fran Garbarski celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary at a surprise party a son, Joe (Gayle) Garbarski of St. Charles, and a daughter, Oct. 27 at Bloomingdale Golf Club in Bloomingdale. RIGHT: The couple was married Dec. 27, 1952.

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Welcome to the Kane County Chronicle Poetry Corner, where original poems by our readers will be featured in the Neighbors section every third Friday of the month. Readers are encouraged to email their own, original poems for consideration to neighbors@kcchronicle.com. Those who submit poems must include their full name, address and phone number in order for their submission to be confirmed. Submissions also will be accepted in person at our office, 333 N. Randall Road, St. Charles, or via regular mail with attention to the features editor.

‘Friendship’

By Gwenivere A. Killian, a Geneva resident Some friendships last a lifetime; While some – though fun – are brief.

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Some would-be friends bring grief.

Some “start off on the wrong foot” And, sadly, go awry.

Some – lacking vibrance – wither: Just peter out and die.

But, then there are friendships So fine and so good They give years of pleasure As true friendships should.

And, oh! the friendships cherished – The ones so dear and true – Are those that live within your heart;

St. Mark’s church to host community supper

ST. CHARLES – St. Mark’s Lutheran Church in St. Charles will launch a monthly free community supper event from 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 22, in the Fellowship Hall at 101 S. Sixth Ave., next door to the St Charles Public Library. The “4th Tuesdays Community Suppers” are

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Subaru promises traditional virtues in Legacy

Some things do not change for Subaru.

The product is popular. United States sales totaled 336,441 vehicles in 2012, an increase from 2011’s 266,989.

All-wheel-drive is standard for every Subaru wagon, sport utility and sedan.

Boxer (equally opposed pistons) engines are the norm for either the four or six pistons.

Transmissions for 2013 remain a six-speed manual, fivespeed automatic and continuously variable. Prices have stabilized and remain where they have been the past few years.

The 10 Legacy models range in price from $20,000 to $29,000. The Legacy models share the Subaru heritage and much of the same trim features.

A case in point is the recently tested 2013 top-of-the-line Legacy 3.6R Limited model, which came with an asking price of $28,895. It had a six-cylinder boxer engine and the company’s iconic AWD. The transmission was a fivespeed automatic with manualmode paddle shifters behind the steering wheel. A CVT with the same setup could be chosen with no price difference.

As a four-door, five-passenger midsize sedan, the Legacy is a solid choice for a family car.

It is neither spectacular nor is it humdrum. The 3.6-liter, 256-horsepower engine can get this 3,545-pound sedan from 0 to 60 miles per hour in 7.1 seconds, as tested by automotive media members. Factory times are closer to 7.5 seconds. This is not explosive energy, but it is respectable. On the minus side, the powerplant’s fuel usage does not measure up to competitors.

Running on regular 87-octane gasoline, the 3.6R limited should average 18 miles per gallon of gasoline in the city and 25 mpg in the country. Combined highway-city usage, according to Subaru marketers, averages 20 mpg. In all configurations, competitors can beat that aver-

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On the Subaru Legacy 3.6R Limited model, a 3.6-liter, 256-horsepower, boxer six-cylinder engine is mated to a five-speed automatic transmission. A continuously variable transmission is available as is a six-speed manual.

REVIEWS Jerry Kuyper age by two or three mpg. During the test week with two adults in mostly suburban and interstate driving, the average was 21.4 mpg. The test car was not driven hard and weather, such as a strong headwind, did not play a part in the usage.

A strut suspension in front and double wishbones in the rear maintained good balance in the car. The suspension includes gas shocks, coil springs and stabilizer bars. Insulation factors are superb as hardly any engine and road noise filtered into the cabin during the test week.

Wide (P225) all-terrain tires are mounted on five split-spoke 17-inch alloy wheels. Disc brakes measure 11.6 inches in front and 11.3 inches in the rear. In unofficial testing, the Limited model came to a stop from 60 mph in a distance of 131 feet.

A nimble car, the turning circle measures 36.8 feet. That is not turning on a dime, but

the Legacy makes tight turns.

In steering and turning ability, the Legacy easily outclassed a recently tested higher-priced European import sedan.

With fog lights, projector headlamp beams, dual chrome exhaust tips and silver metallic trim on doors, the Legacy is dressed to kill. Like competitive sedans in this midsize market, the exterior is svelte and clean with a slightly sloping, tapering hood and a raised rear deck.

A rear trunk lid, depending on gas struts to open and close, contributes to more usable storage space in the 14.7 cubic foot trunk.

A lot of goodies, starting with power windows (express up and down for driver), door locks, heated exterior mirrors, power and heated front bucket seats, leather trim (seats, shift knob, manual tilt and telescoping steering wheel) and keyless remote entry, are loaded into a Legacy Limited. The trim included a little (plastic) wood grain, especially noticeable above the lockable glove box and on door panels.

A hooded information

window centered at the top of the dashboard includes a clock, the outside temperature and the average mileage.

Niceties include intermittent wipers front and rear, dual lighted vanity mirrors on the visors, map lights, cruise control, air conditioning, rear defogger and tachometer. Front and rear floor mats are a $72 option.

A 440-watt harmon-kardon sound system with nine speakers and 4.3-inch LSD display serves AM-FM-satellite radio, MP3 system with playback, USB port and iPod. Redundant audio controls are mounted on the leather-wrapped and tilt steering wheel. Bluetooth is standard.

In the rear, which has good legroom for a midsize sedan at an official 37.8 inches, there is a pulldown armrest with cupholders, grab handles, coat hooks, climate control vents, molded beverage holders in the doors and a front seatback storage net. The split rear seats fold flat for access to the trunk when it comes to storage of longer items.

Safety features include airbags in front, sides in front and overhead for two rows, stability

control, electronic brakeforce distribution, brake assist, tire pressure monitoring system, daytime running lamps, child safety locks, child seat anchors/tethers and a four-wheel antilock braking system. Five headrests are adjustable and mechanically tuned for whiplash protection. The ABS prevents lock-up to help maintain driver control. EBD balances braking and brake assist senses a panic stop and electronically applies full braking force for a quicker stop.

By now, the car-buying public should know Subaru vehicles are AWD. Not front- or sometimes four-wheel-drive, but all-the-time all-wheel-drive.

Subaru calls the system symmetrical AWD. Symmetrical AWD means a vehicle with greater grip for each tire and, thus, better control on the road. One night during the test week, the Legacy was being driven on Interstate 94 in icy and windy conditions.

Tow trucks and emergency vehicles were everywhere. It was with a great deal of assurance that the Legacy with its highly touted AWD, if driven wisely, would not slip and slide on the highway and create its own crisis. It did not. Cruising at legal speeds, the Legacy cruised past many a highway misfortune that night.

With a mechanical center limited slip differential, the Subaru is designed for traction in the worst of winter’s ice and snow.

Ground clearance of 5.9 inches is standard on the Legacy and above the norm for sedans or hatchbacks. This is a plus in snowy climes. The car has a better chance of driving over rather than through snow.

Assembled in Indiana, the Legacy carries a three-year, 36,000-mile limited warranty with 24-hour roadside assistance and a five-year or 60,000-mile powertrain warranty.

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HOROSCOPE

By BerniCe BeDe OSOl

Newspaper Enterprise Association TODAY – Your chart indicates that in the year ahead you are likely to have some unusually strong ambitions. This could be due to some special knowledge you’ve acquired that you feel can take you places.

CAPriCOrn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) – To be on the safe side, it would be wise to avoid issues on which you and your special someone hold strong, opposing views. It won’t take much to light the other’s fuse.

AQUAriUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) – Harboring a negative attitude will have a strong effect on the results of everything you do. This will include even most assignments that you normally perform by rote.

PiSCeS (Feb. 20-March 20) – You are entitled to have some fun and enjoy yourself, as long as you don’t overindulge or spend too lavishly on your personal pleasures.

Both would carry heavy penalties.

ArieS (March 21-April 19) – Emphasizing only your interests without any concern for those of others will not only turn off everyone, it will lessen your hopes of getting what you want as well.

TAUrUS (April 20-May 20) – Guard against a tendency to make a snap judgment based on incomplete information. An incorrect conclusion will take you completely off track and only confuse you further.

GeMini (May 21-June 20) – It’s never a good day to lend to or borrow from a friend, so don’t start now. Discipline might be required in order to avoid doing so, but it behooves you to muster up the necessary strength.

CAnCer (June 21-July 22) – Our behavior is always being scrutinized by our peers, opponents and supporters. Don’t try to please them all – just watch your step and do as best you can. leO (July 23-Aug. 22) – Even if you believe your ideas and methods are better than those of others, they don’t want to hear it, so keep it to yourself. Instead, try to accept others’ points of view with an open mind.

VirGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) – It behooves you to be extremely cautious about how you use your money, especially if you’re considering a major investment. Make sure you have all the facts at your disposal. liBrA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) – This could be one of those days when you feel that everyone but you is out of step with the world. Unfortunately, the reverse is likely to be true, and it’s you who is not in sync with the majority.

SCOrPiO (Oct. 24-nov. 22) – The only way you’ll be able to lighten your share of the load is to acquire some assistance.

However, your chances of getting others to drop what they’re doing to help you are nil.

SAGiTTAriUS (nov. 23-Dec. 21) – You can be either great or completely horrible about managing your or anybody else’s resources. Be careful, because today it might be the latter.

JeFFreY WeSTHOFF’S GrADe: HH

Despite acting talent, ‘Broken City’ unremarkable “Broken City” is something that hasn’t been attempted in a while by a studio feature, a classic private eye story in the Raymond Chandler tradition.

One character even comments on the tale’s old-fashioned origins when he says, “Private eyes? Do private eyes still exist?”

Although the script is set in presentday New York City, director Allen Hughes and writer Brian Tucker don’t bring anything fresh or contemporary to the formula. They just take clichés and put them in modern dress.

When beleaguered private investigator Billy Taggart (Mark Wahlberg) skulks outside bedroom windows taking pictures for divorce cases, he uses a digital camera. Standard scene, new technology.

Billy works out of a run-down office, and most of his clients are past due on their bills. The only relief in his job is his pert and loyal assistant, Katy (Alona Tal). Like many private eyes, he used to be a cop.

“Broken City” opens by showing how Billy became an ex cop. He faces trial for murder after he is accused of gunning down a Puerto Rican kid who recently beat a rape and murder rap. When a judge throws out Billy’s case, Mayor Nicholas Hostetler (Russell Crowe) and the next police commissioner (Jeffrey Wright) privately congratulate Billy on his acquittal, then force him to resign.

The mayor softens the blow by saying he has a long memory.

Seven years later, Billy is called back into the mayor’s office. With election less than a week away, the mayor is locked in a tight race with a crusading city council member (Barry Pepper) who is named Jack Valliant, for crying out loud. But the mayor has another worry.

He believes his wife (Catherine ZetaJones) is cheating on him and wants Billy to discover her lover’s identity.

Billy tails the wife and is stunned to see her meeting clandestinely with Valliant’s campaign manager (Kyle Chandler).

Whenever Philip Marlowe and his brethren were hired by the rich and powerful, they were being set up. It doesn’t take Billy too long to realize that Mayor Hostetler has ulterior motives, and that they probably are related to

Photo by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation

Mark Wahlberg plays private investigator Billy Taggart in the film “Broken City.”

reVieWS Jeffrey Westhoff a complex, $4 billion real estate deal involving a public housing development.

This part of the story is reminiscent of Roman Polanski’s “Chinatown,” which was itself a throwback to hardboiled detective stories although now, nearly 40 years on, it seems like one of Raymond Chandler’s contemporaries wrote it.

“Broken City” is Allen Hughes’ first solo feature without his twin brother, Albert. Together they directed “Menace II Society” and “The Book of Eli.” Alone, Allen Hughes maintains a high degree of competence. “Broken City” is a great looking film (Ben Seresin did the cinematography) with a better cast than it deserves.

But the required twists and turns of the detective plot cannot avoid the many plot holes. The biggest is Billy himself. The shooting turned him into a celebrity. While perhaps the average New Yorker might have forgotten his face, a political insider like Kyle Chandler’s character would not, particularly when Billy doesn’t hide it when trailing suspects.

First-time scenarist Tucker’s writing is often clumsy. The fact that Billy is a recovering alcoholic is inserted into the screenplay late, only a few scenes before he falls off the wagon. The dialogue also can be laughably expository, as when

Billy’s girlfriend (Natalie Martinez) says, “It’s not every day that your girlfriend stars in an indie film.”

The girlfriend, who is also the rape victim’s sister, doesn’t warn Billy about her explicit sex scene in the indie film.

This weird subplot doesn’t add anything to the story but an extra 10 minutes.

The performances are strong.

Wahlberg plays what has become his standard, sullen role, but he is good at it.

As the corrupt mayor, Crowe is at his most dangerous when he is charming.

When the microphones and cameras are off, he reveals himself as a racist, misogynist homophobe from Queens.

In other words, an Archie Bunker who looks respectable in a three-piece suit.

After featuring in two of last year’s silliest films, “Rock of Ages” and “Playing for Keeps,” Zeta-Jones reminds the world that she is still a fine actress and someday might again find a worthy film. As Wahlberg’s spunky secretary, bright-faced Tal may have lucked into her breakthrough role. The Israeli-born actress has spent the last decade churning through television guest spots.

Complicated corruption, double crosses and hidden motives are part of a standard hard-boiled detective story.

But “Broken City” stuffs itself on these ingredients until the plot is more absurd than riveting. In the second half, Billy is trusted by people who should have no business trusting him.

Despite its talent, “Broken City” is an unremarkable film. Soon enough most everyone will forget about it. It’s not “Chinatown.”

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A.A. Milne (1882-1956), children’s author; Cary Grant (1904-1986), actor; Danny Kaye (1913-1987), entertainer; Kevin Costner (1955), actor; Mark Messier (1961), hockey player; Jason Segel (1980), actor.

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King of the whoppers doesn’t fool cousin My boyfriend can not control himself Dear Abby: My elderly uncle and aunt have a son-in-law who – to put it mildly – spins tall tales. “Tom” has been EVERYwhere, done EVERYthing and insists on telling anyone who will listen all about it. He speaks many languages fluently (until someone addresses him in one of them) and has had countless adventures in various countries, although he can’t locate them on a map.

My uncle and aunt have bought two cars for their financially unstable daughter and this phony. Both times, Tom insisted on maintaining them himself (another of his legendary skills).

Afterward, both cars required major repairs and eventually had to be scrapped.

After Tom’s stint as a highly decorated Navy SEAL, he morphed into a genius at creating computer software, when he

DEAR ABBY Jeanne Phillips

wasn’t touring with a famous bluegrass band – the name of which he can’t remember.

I am concerned that my uncle and aunt are so awed by this man that they might one day allow him to manage their finances (there is no topic Tom is not an expert on) or let him fix the brakes on their vehicle.

I think you know where I’m heading.

I have to bite my tongue to keep from saying, “Tom, Yokohama is a city, not a country.

And if you’re really best friends with Johnny Depp, why not invite him over so we can all meet him? Oh, and what you’re passing off as Farsi is Pig Latin.”

Is there a way to tactfully intervene before something awful happens without upsetting anyone? – The Queen of England Dear Royal Highness: Yes, if you do it privately, and say you are speaking up only because you are worried about their welfare. Then explain why you think Tom’s stories don’t hold water and point out that if he should volunteer any financial advice to them they should first run it past an unbiased nonfamily member such as their banker, lawyer, CPA or pastor before making any investments.

From your description, Tom appears to be a con man or compulsive liar. But whether your uncle and aunt choose to accept your input is up to them.

• Write Dear Abby at www. dearabby.com.

Acupuncture is promising remedy for chronic headache Dear Doctor K: I suffer from chronic tension headaches. Do you think acupuncture might help?

Dear Reader: Acupuncture is a form of complementary or alternative medicine, and many of my patients ask about it. It first gained recognition in the United States in 1971 when a well-known New York Times columnist, James Reston, developed appendicitis on a trip to China. His pain following surgery was treated not with conventional pain medicines but with acupuncture.

Reston reported that his pain had been completely relieved by acupuncture. His standing and credibility caused many people to take acupuncture seriously.

Acupuncture has long been used to treat headaches. But until recently, there hadn’t been strong evidence to support its use for headache pain. Two large scientific reviews have changed that. One review found that acupuncture may help people with episodic or chronic tension headaches. The other review found that acupuncture may prevent migraine headaches as well as – or better than – medications.

The tension headache review looked at 11 studies involving about 2,300 people. In two large studies included in the review, nearly half of people who received acupuncture in addition to their usual headache treatment

ASK DOCTOR K Anthony L. Komaroff said their headache days were cut by at least half. Only 16 percent of those who received typical headache treatment, but no acupuncture, reported the same level of headache relief.

The migraine review found evidence that getting regular acupuncture treatments in addition to typical migraine treatments (such as taking painkillers) cut the frequency of migraines. Also, when acupuncture was compared to taking a preventive drug, people who received acupuncture improved more and had fewer side effects than those taking medications.

According to traditional Chinese beliefs, acupuncture works by affecting the flow of energy, called “qi,” through pathways that run through the body. The practitioner inserts very fine needles at specific points along these pathways.

Acupuncture has many variations. It typically involves four to 10 needles that are left in place for 10 to 30 minutes. A course of treatment may include six to 12 sessions. Most people report that acupuncture needles cause little or no pain.

Acupuncture is among the

most promising of nontraditional headache therapies. The chief downsides are the cost and the time.

If you decide to try acupuncture, do your homework before choosing a practitioner, as licensing requirements vary from state to state. If possible, choose a therapist with a state license.

If you live in a state that doesn’t require licensing, seek out a practitioner who’s certified by the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine.

You may also want to get a referral from your doctor. (In any case, inform your doctor if you are going to try acupuncture.)

And make sure that all needles are disposable or are properly sterilized before use. I think acupuncture is worth a try. Even if it doesn’t provide complete relief, it may enable you to cut back on your pain medications.

Dear Readers: In my column of Dec. 19, I inadvertently spoke of achieving heart benefits by “lowering” HDL (“good”) cholesterol.

Of course, I meant by “raising” HDL cholesterol, as was clear in the rest of the column. I’m sorry for the lapse. – Doctor K

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

Dr. Wallace: Michael and I have been dating for more than six months, and they were the greatest six months of my life. He was a true gentleman and treated me with respect and dignity.

All that came crashing down last Friday night. After a movie, we parked in our favorite “dark” spot.

Usually when we go there, we talk, listen to music and hug and kiss, nothing more.

But last Friday, as soon as we parked, he was all over me like an octopus. I was shocked because he took me by surprise. After a ton of time went by, I finally fought him off and convinced him to take me home.

The next night, we went to a Los Angeles Lakers basketball game. We left before the game was over, and on the way home he stopped at our “dark” spot, and once again he was like a crazed wild animal. Again, it took a while to fight him off and get him to take me home. This time he ripped some of my clothing. I had to borrow his jacket so my parents wouldn’t see the damage to my clothes.

He called today and said that he couldn’t help himself because I turn him on so much that he can’t control himself. He said he was going to try very hard to behave himself and that he loved me very much. I don’t know if I should go out with Michael again. I want to if he is going to be civilized, but not if he is animalistic.

Please hurry with your advice! – Nameless, Anaheim, Calif.

Dear Nameless:

Michael has grossly

’TWEEN 12 & 20 Robert Wallace overstepped the rules of dating, not once, but twice, and that’s two times too many. Things have gone too far at this point to let him off with an apology and a meaningless promise to “try” to behave himself.

Believe me, he won’t. He’ll head for the dark spot every time, and the date will end with a wrestling match. I’d say it’s time to give a big, permanent NO to all this nonsense and stop going out with him.

Dr. Wallace: I’m 16 and live with my mom.

She is a good mom and loves me, but she is very strict. My mom has never been married. She had me when she was 17. Her parents wanted her to get an abortion, but she refused. Times have been tough for Mom and me, but we always managed to make out all right.

I am allowed to date, but I must be home at 10 p.m. I think this is an unreasonable time.

My date and I have to go to a 6 p.m. movie so we have time to get a snack afterwards. Do you know any other 16-year-old girl who has to be home at 10 p.m.? – Nameless, Lake Charles, La.

Dear Nameless:

Consider yourself fortunate. I receive many letters and emails from girls who can’t date until they’re 17, or even 18. In time, Mom will revise your curfew. Be patient.

• Write Dr. Wallace at rwallace@galesburg. net.

CROSSWORD

SUDOKU

BRIDGE by Phillip Alder

• Friday, January 18, 2013

CELEBRITY CIPHER

Benjamin Franklin said, “If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.”

At the bridge table, sometimes a double can increase an opponent’s troubles. In this deal, if East does not double North’s fivediamond Blackwood reply, West will lead the club queen against six spades. But if East doubles, West will start with the diamond four. What should South do in each case?

When North responded with a three-spade game-invitational limit raise, South launched Blackwood. This was a theoretical error because he had two immediate heart losers. If North had shown no aces, South would not have known what to do. South should have control-bid (cue-bid) four clubs, showing a first-round control there and expressing slam interest. Then, when North control-bid four hearts, South could have jumped straight to six spades.

After a club lead, South wins, draws trumps, and runs the heart jack. The finesse loses, but declarer has 12 tricks.

When West leads a diamond, though, South must be careful. There will be a tendency to assume that the heart finesse is winning, but that line leads to trouble. Declarer should play low from the board and capture East’s diamond queen with his ace, draw trumps, and play three rounds of clubs, ruffing the last in his hand. Then South casts adrift with his last diamond.

East wins, but is endplayed. If he shifts to a heart, it is into dummy’s ace-queen. Or if he leads a minor-suit card, declarer sluffs a heart and ruffs on the board.

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Plastics Custom Injection Molding Co. est.

1972 looking for: 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 ELECTRONIC TECHNICIAN and people skills -Must be able to work weekends on Component level troubleshooting.

Motor drive circuitry. Switching occasion power supplies. Computer and -Computer experience preferred, but standard test gear skills. Oscillo- will teach -Drug screen and Physical rescopes and multimeters. Call quired.

Upstaging at: 815-899-9888 This secure position offers salary commensurate w/experience-ability. Benefits inc. a/c facility, FDA enLegal Secretary vironment, paid vac. Medical plus needed for busy family law firm life, AFLAC and Dental plan availpracticing in Kane and McHenry able.

Counties. Preferred candidate Send resume/qualifications to: will have a minimum of 2 years Quad, Inc. experience in family law. Im810 Progressive Lane mediate full time position with South Beloit, IL 61080 competitive salary.

Please send resume including salary requirements to: Attn: Legal Secretary c/o Classified, PO Box 250 Crystal Lake, IL. 60039-0250

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Entry level manufacturing position for a small metals co.

Lyon Industries, South Elgin Call 847-841-7716

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Washer & Dryer. Maytag.

Gas dryer. Older, but they work.

White. $150/both. Call between 9am-5pm: 630-561-1905

DEKALB SAT, JAN 19 9AM - 4PM LOST:BLACK & WHITE CAT Lost: Black and White cat in Saint Charles. He is on the smaller size and has a black MOUSTACHE. He is timid and probably will not go up to anyone. He was lost near Dean and Fifteenth Streets in Saint Charles.

Reward $50.

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Shipping/Order Processing

8am-5pm, M-F. Pulling, Processing, Shipping orders.

Some lifting required. $10-$11/hr. to start.

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Bicycle - Small

Spiderman with training wheels,very good cond. $15.

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Wheelchair -Cardiac style - Rehab custom made,allows mobility. Full tilt. Gel Seat. Individual cones.

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Baking Pans – Commercial – 18x26 Aluminum – Very Good Cond. $5. ea. 630-710-7651 Camera – Polaroid Instant Job Max $10. 630-710-7651

POWER WASHER 6HP, 2300 PSI, $165.00

WAGON WHEEL - 100 years old, nice decor for the garden. Asking $50. 847-346-4425, Scott

Printer/Fax – HP Office Jet 7100 Series All- in-One – All ConnectorsAll Tri Color Ink - $100 obo 847-742-0615 After 5pm

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

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41W021 RT. 38 Furniture, china cabinet, lots of wicker, home décor, misc household & MORE!

LAWN MOWER

Push mower (no motor), great exercise! $20 630-710-7651

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

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

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LA-Z-BOY electric reclining sofa & loveseat, oak kitchen table & chairs, entertainment center, rocker/recliner (All Brand New) dressers, beds, lamps, bookcases, slant front desk, Calphalon pots & pans, Hudson blankets, upright freezer, black refrigerator, area rugs, treadmill + other exercise equipment, Longaberger baskets, office furniture, Xmas décor, yard tools, 2004 Ford Taurus SES, Harper Magazine books from 1800 & MUCHMORE!!

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

1994 Chrysler Town & Country

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

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE 16TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT KANE COUNTY - GENEVA, ILLINOIS U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE TO BANK OF AMERICA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO LASALLE BANK, N.A. AS TRUSTEE FOR THE MLMI TRUST SERIES 2006-HE3 PLAINTIFF VS WAYNE A. GREGORY; CHRISTINE A. GREGORY; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS; DEFENDANTS 10 CH 161 756 NAVAJO DRIVE

CLASSIFIED

Kane County Chronicle / kcchronicle.com CARPENTERSVILLE, IL 60110 NOTICE OF SALE PURSUANT TO JUDGMENT OF FORECLOSURE UNDER ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE ACT ***THIS DOCUMENT IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT ON A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE*** PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered by said Court in the above entitled cause on April 9, 2010, KANE COUNTY SHERIFF in KANE County, Illinois, will on February 14, 2013, in Room JC 100, Kane County Judicial Center, 37W777 Route 38, St. Charles, IL 60175, at 9:00 AM, sell at public auction and sale to the highest bidder for cash, all and singular, the following described real estate mentioned in said Judgment, situated in the County of KANE, State of Illinois, or so much thereof as shall be sufficient to satisfy said Judgment: TAX NO. 03-12-127-013 COMMONLY KNOWN AS: 756 NAVAJO DRIVE CARPENTERSVILLE, IL 60110 Description of Improvements: FRAME SINGLE FAMILY WITH DETACHED 2 CAR VACANT The Judgment amount was $179,929.07. Sale Terms: This is an "AS IS" sale for "CASH". The successful bidder must deposit 25% down by certified funds; balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. NO REFUNDS. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments or special taxes levied against said real estate, water bills, etc., and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to plaintiff. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the bid amount, the purchaser shall receive a Certificate of Sale, which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale.

The property will NOT be open for inspection. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. The successful purchaser has the sole responsibility/expense of evicting any tenants or other individuals presently in possession of the subject premises. 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 YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DYAS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For Information: Visit our website at http:\\service.atty-pierce.com. Between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. only - Pierce & Associates, Plaintiff's Attorneys, 1 North Dearborn, Chicago, Illinois 60602. Tel. No. (312) 372-2060. Please refer to file #PA1000421 Plaintiff's attorney is not required to provide additional information other than that set forth in this notice of sale.

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UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF CARLTON BRANN, IF ANY; UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF BARBARA BRANN, IF ANY; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS ; DEFENDANTS 10 CH 2819 3039 FOXMOOR DRIVE MONTGOMERY, IL 60538 NOTICE OF SALE PURSUANT TO JUDGMENT OF FORECLOSURE UNDER ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE ACT ***THIS DOCUMENT IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT ON A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE*** PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered by said Court in the above entitled cause on September 14, 2012, KANE COUNTY SHERIFF in KANE County, Illinois, will on February 14, 2013, in Room JC 100, Kane County Judicial Center, 37W777 Route 38, St. Charles, IL 60175, at 9:00 AM, sell at public auction and sale to the highest bidder for cash, all and singular, the following described real estate mentioned in said Judgment, situated in the County of KANE, State of Illinois, or so much thereof as shall be sufficient to satisfy said Judgment: TAX NO. 14-35-308-003 COMMONLY KNOWN AS: 3039 FOXMOOR DRIVE MONTGOMERY, IL 60538 Description of Improvements: TWO STORY SINGLE FAMILY. THREE CAR ATTACHED GARAGE. The Judgment amount was $407,600.18. Sale Terms: This is an "AS IS" sale for "CASH".

The successful bidder must deposit 25% down by certified funds; balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. NO REFUNDS. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments or special taxes levied against said real estate, water bills, etc., and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to plaintiff. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the bid amount, the purchaser shall receive a Certificate of Sale, which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale.

The property will NOT be open for inspection. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. The successful purchaser has the sole responsibility/expense of evicting any tenants or other individuals presently in possession of the subject premises. 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 YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DYAS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For Information: Visit our website at http:\\service.atty-pierce.com. Between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m.

(Published in the Kane County only - Pierce & Associates, PlainChronicle, January 4, 11 & 18, tiff's Attorneys, 1 North Dearborn, 2013.)

Chicago, Illinois 60602. Tel. No. (312) 372-2060. Please refer to file #PA1007539 Plaintiff's attorPUBLIC NOTICE ney is not required to provide addiIN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE tional information other than that 16TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT KANE set forth in this notice of sale.

I495969 COUNTY - GENEVA, ILLINOIS BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME (Published in the Kane County LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUN- Chronicle, January 4, 11 & 18, TRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING 2013.)

LP Find. Buy. Sell.

PLAINTIFF All in one place... HERE! VS Everyday in BARBARA BRANN; CARLTON R. BRANN A/K/A CARLTON BRANN; Kane County Chronicle Classified

quire pr information other than that set forth in this notice of sale.

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE I496025 16TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT (Published in the Kane County KANE COUNTY Chronicle, January 4, 11 & 18, GENEVA, ILLINOIS 2013.)

NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC PLAINTIFF PUBLIC NOTICE VS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE TAMECA N. REED A/K/A TAMECA 16TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT REED; VILLAGE OF NORTH AUROKANE COUNTY RA; TANNER TRAILS HOMEOWNGENEVA, ILLINOIS ERS ASSOCIATION; UNKNOWN WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. OWNERS AND NON RECORD PLAINTIFF CLAIMANTS ; VS DEFENDANTS KENNETH F. WELTER; VICTORIA T. 12 CH 1881 WELTER; SUN CITY COMMUNITY 760 JORSTAD DRIVE ASSOCIATION OF HUNTLEY, INC; NORTH AURORA, IL 60542 UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON NOTICE OF SALE RECORD CLAIMANTS ; PURSUANT TO JUDGMENT OF DEFENDANTS FORECLOSURE UNDER ILLINOIS 12 CH 2175 MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE ACT 12872 APPLEWOOD DRIVE ***THIS DOCUMENT IS AN ATHUNTLEY, IL 60142 TEMPT TO COLLECT ON A DEBT. NOTICE OF SALE ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED PURSUANT TO JUDGMENT OF WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE*** PUBLIC NOTICE IS HERE- FORECLOSURE UNDER ILLINOIS

BY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judg- MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE ACT ment of Foreclosure and Sale en- ***THIS DOCUMENT IS AN ATtered by said Court in the above en- TEMPT TO COLLECT ON A DEBT. titled cause on September 12, ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED 2012, KANE COUNTY SHERIFF in WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURKANE County, Illinois, will on POSE*** PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREFebruary 14, 2013, in Room JC BY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judg100, Kane County Judicial Center, ment of Foreclosure and Sale en37W777 Route 38, St. Charles, IL tered by said Court in the above en60175, at 9:00 AM, sell at public titled cause on September 14, auction and sale to the highest bid- 2012, KANE COUNTY SHERIFF in der for cash, all and singular, the KANE County, Illinois, will on following described real estate February 14, 2013, in Room JC mentioned in said Judgment, situ- 100, Kane County Judicial Center, ated in the County of KANE, State 37W777 Route 38, St. Charles, IL of Illinois, or so much thereof as 60175, at 9:00 AM, sell at public shall be sufficient to satisfy said auction and sale to the highest bidder for cash, all and singular, the Judgment: TAX NO. 11-36-160-012 COM- following described real estate MONLY KNOWN AS: 760 JORSTAD mentioned in said Judgment, situDRIVE NORTH AURORA, IL 60542 ated in the County of KANE, State Description of Improvements: TWO of Illinois, or so much thereof as STORY SINGLE FAMILY HOME shall be sufficient to satisfy said WITH ATTACHED GARAGE The Judgment: Judgment amount was TAX NO. 02-05-476-003 COMMONLY KNOWN AS: 12872 AP$363,423.72.

Sale Terms: This is an "AS IS" PLEWOOD DRIVE HUNTLEY, IL sale for "CASH". The successful bid- 60142 Description of Improveder must deposit 25% down by ments: ONE STORY HOME WITH certified funds; balance, by certified ATTACHED GARAGE The Judgment funds, within 24 hours. NO RE- amount was $266,849.30. Sale FUNDS. The subject property is sub- Terms: This is an "AS IS" sale for ject to general real estate taxes, "CASH". The successful bidder must special assessments or special tax- deposit 25% down by certified es levied against said real estate, funds; balance, by certified funds, water bills, etc., and is offered for within 24 hours. NO REFUNDS. The sale without any representation as subject property is subject to generto quality or quantity of title and al real estate taxes, special assesswithout recourse to plaintiff. The ments or special taxes levied sale is further subject to confirma- against said real estate, water bills, tion by the court. Upon payment in etc., and is offered for sale without full of the bid amount, the purchas- any representation as to quality or er shall receive a Certificate of Sale, quantity of title and without rewhich will entitle the purchaser to a course to plaintiff. The sale is further Deed to the real estate after confir- subject to confirmation by the mation of the sale. The property will court.

NOT be open for inspection. Upon payment in full of the bid Prospective bidders are admon- amount, the purchaser shall receive ished to check the court file to verify a Certificate of Sale, which will entiall information. The successful pur- tle the purchaser to a Deed to the chaser has the sole real estate after confirmation of the responsibility/expense of evicting sale. The property will NOT be open any tenants or other individuals for inspection. Prospective bidders presently in possession of the sub- are admonished to check the court ject premises. If this property is a file to verify all information. condominium unit, the purchaser The successful purchaser has the of the unit at the foreclosure sale, sole responsibility/expense of evictother than a mortgagee shall pay ing any tenants or other individuals the assessments and the legal fees presently in possession of the subrequired by The Condominium ject premises. If this property is a Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g) condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, (1) and (g)(4).

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR other than a mortgagee shall pay (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE the assessments and the legal fees RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION required by The Condominium FOR 30 DYAS AFTER ENTRY OF AN Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g) ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN AC- (1) and (g)(4).

CORDANCE WITH SECTION 15- IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR 1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORT- (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION GAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For Information: Visit our website FOR 30 DYAS AFTER ENTRY OF AN at http:\\service.atty-pierce.com. ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACBetween 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. only - CORDANCE WITH SECTION 15Pierce & Associates, Plaintiff's Attor- 1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTneys, 1 North Dearborn, Chicago, GAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. Illinois 60602. Tel. No. (312) For Information: Visit our website http:\\service.atty-pierce.com.

372-2060. Please refer to file at #PA1203840 Plaintiff's attorney is Between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. only Pierce & Associates, Plaintiff's Attornot required to provide additional neys, 1 North Dearborn, Chicago,

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y icago, Illinois 60602. Tel. No. (312) 372-2060. Please refer to file #PA1211149 Plaintiff's attorney is not required to provide additional information other than that set forth in this notice of sale.

I496035 (Published in the Kane County Chronicle, January 4, 11 & 18, 2013.)

BIG ROCK, 29 ACRE FARM House, barn & outbuildings on Jones Rd., 60541.

Absolutely priced to sell, $395,000 Mike, 630-918-1795.

Friday, January 18, 2013 • Page 41

ST. CHARLES, 2 bedroom, 1

bath, laundry, air, heat incl. No pets + security deposit. $875/mo.

630-289-7484

St. Charles/Campton Hills 1BR

2500SF on horse farm. Lower level of main house, utils incl. No smkg/ pets, $1250/mo. 630-715-7101

Crystal Lake

3BR, 1.5BA brick ranch.

2 car attached heated garage.

2/3 acre lot on quiet street.

Close to lake with private beach rights and Crystal Lake Schools.

All appliances incl. C/A, baseboard heat. Dogs negotiable. $1350/mo. Avail 3/1.

847-899-2933

St. Charles - Valley View

Large 2 bedroom, 1 bath, no pets, $800 + electric.

630-841-0590

ST. CHARLES 3BR MUST SEE!

BATAVIA

1 BR starting at $760 2 BR starting at $950 3 BR TH starting at $1255

630-879-8300

On Horse Farm, hardwood floors, W/D, full bsmt, 2 car gar, no smkg/ pets neg., $2600. 630-715-7101

St. Charles Cozy 3 Bedroom

1 bath, near grade school, all appls incl washer/dryer. Pets OK. $1125/mo+sec. 847-340-1321

BATAVIA, 1 bedroom upper of 2flat, $725/mo. + electric & sec. Batavia Small Furnished BR on Fox River. Satellite TV, dep. Credit check req. Avail. now. non-smoking. $100/wk + deposit.

630-806-0667 ask for Kim. Bachelor house. 331-442-5961 COUNTRYVIEW APARTMENTS 1 & 2 bdrm apts available, $550 - $625. Clean, Quiet, country setting close to downtown Genoa. New appliances, carpet, on-site management and St. Charles 1 Mo Free Rent! maint. Call 815-784-4606.

Shared bath & kit, $110-120/wk.

W/D, incl utilities, Wi-Fi, no pets.

Elburn. 2BR. No smoking. 630-232-7535 Garage. W/D hook up.

ST. CHARLES ~ MEN ONLY $800/mo+utils. Available 2/15.

Free utils., incl cable & internet 630-688-6623 (except phone). $120/week.

Geneva ~ 115 Hamilton 630-370-2823 or 630-377-2823 Cute 1BR, 2nd flr, hardwood floors.

No pets/smoking, C/A and heat incl, $695/mo. 630-772-1975 GENEVA, EFFICIENCY APT. close to downtown, off-street parking, $650/mo. incl. utils. Avail. immediately. Call Gene, 630-232-4361.

SOUTH ELGIN LARGE 2BR S. E. Schools, A/C, gar. NO PETS. $850 + utilities. 630-841-0590 ST CHARLES - Nice Large 1 Bedroom + Den, 1 Bath and Laundry. Near town & Library.

No dogs. $850/mo.

630-584-2094 / 630-584-7820

St. Charles - Newly Renovated Studio - $450 + utilities.

1BR - $650 + utilities.

630-841-0590

St. Charles 1330 W. Main St. 3rd floor, 1bedroom, recently remodeled. Oak floors, cat OK. $815 includes heat, hot water & cooking gas. Broker Owned.

630-688-7124

St. Charles. Large 2BR, 1BA Apt to share. Cable, Pool. $500/mo+utils.

630-549-0071

St. Charles Off/Ware Space

1,568sf - 19,000sf.

Docks/Drive-Ins Aggressive Move-In Package 630-355-8094

TION, AS SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE TO BANK OF AMERICA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO LASALLE BANK, N.A. AS TRUSTEE FOR THE MLMI TRUST SERIES 2006-HE3 PLAINTIFF VS WAYNE A. GREGORY; CHRISTINE A. GREGORY; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS; DEFENDANTS 10 CH 161 756 NAVAJO DRIVE CARPENTERSVILLE, IL 60110 NOTICE OF SALE PURSUANT TO JUDGMENT OF FORECLOSURE UNDER ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE ACT ***THIS DOCUMENT IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT ON A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE*** PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered by said Court in the above entitled cause on April 9, 2010, KANE COUNTY SHERIFF in KANE County, Illinois, will on February 14, 2013, in Room JC 100, Kane County Judicial Center, 37W777 Route 38, St. Charles, IL 60175, at 9:00 AM, sell at public auction and sale to the highest bidder for cash, all and singular, the following described real estate mentioned in said Judgment, situated in the County of KANE, State of Illinois, or so much thereof as shall be sufficient to satisfy said Judgment: LOT 63 IN BLOCK 25 OF THE SUBDIVISION OF OUT LOT "B" OF THE SUBDIVISION OF OUT LOT "A" OF GOLF VIEW HIGHLANDS ADDITION TO MEADOWDALE, UNIT NO. 5, BEING A SUBDIVISION OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER AND PART OF THE NORTH QUARTER OF SECTION 12, TOWNSHIP 42 NORTH, RANGE 8 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, IN THE VILLAGE OF CARPENTERSVILLE, KANE COUNTY, ILLINOIS. TAX NO. 03-12-127-013 COMMONLY KNOWN AS: 756 NAVAJO DRIVE CARPENTERSVILLE, IL 60110 Description of Improvements: FRAME SINGLE FAMILY WITH DETACHED 2 CAR VACANT The Judgment amount was $179,929.07. Sale Terms: This is an "AS IS" sale for "CASH". The successful bidder must deposit 25% down by certified funds; balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. NO REFUNDS. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments or special taxes levied against said real estate, water bills, etc., and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to plaintiff. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon

y p payment in full of the bid amount, the purchaser shall receive a Certificate of Sale, which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale.

The property will NOT be open for inspection. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. The successful purchaser has the sole responsibility/expense of evicting any tenants or other individuals presently in possession of the subject premises. 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 YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DYAS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For Information: Visit our website at http:\\service.atty-pierce.com. Between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. only - Pierce & Associates, Plaintiff's Attorneys, 1 North Dearborn, Chicago, Illinois 60602. Tel. No. (312) 372-2060. Please refer to file #PA1000421 Plaintiff's attorney is not required to provide additional information other than that set forth in this notice of sale.

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The successful bidder must deposit 25% down by certified funds; balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. NO REFUNDS. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments or special taxes levied against said real estate, water bills, etc., and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to plaintiff. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the bid amount, the purchaser shall receive a Certificate of Sale, which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale.

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y cessful purchaser has the sole responsibility/expense of evicting any tenants or other individuals presently in possession of the subject premises. 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 YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DYAS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For Information: Visit our website at http:\\service.atty-pierce.com. Between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. only - Pierce & Associates, Plaintiff's Attorneys, 1 North Dearborn, Chicago, Illinois 60602. Tel. No. (312) 372-2060. Please refer to file #PA1007539 Plaintiff's attorney is not required to provide additional information other than that set forth in this notice of sale.

I495969 (Published in the Kane County Chronicle, January 4, 11 & 18, 2013.)

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE 16TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT KANE COUNTY GENEVA, ILLINOIS NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC PLAINTIFF VS TAMECA N. REED A/K/A TAMECA REED; VILLAGE OF NORTH AURORA; TANNER TRAILS HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS ; DEFENDANTS 12 CH 1881 760 JORSTAD DRIVE NORTH AURORA, IL 60542 NOTICE OF SALE PURSUANT TO JUDGMENT OF FORECLOSURE UNDER ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE ACT ***THIS DOCUMENT IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT ON A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED

ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE*** PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered by said Court in the above entitled cause on September 12, 2012, KANE COUNTY SHERIFF in KANE County, Illinois, will on February 14, 2013, in Room JC 100, Kane County Judicial Center, 37W777 Route 38, St. Charles, IL 60175, at 9:00 AM, sell at public auction and sale to the highest bidder for cash, all and singular, the following described real estate mentioned in said Judgment, situated in the County of KANE, State of Illinois, or so much thereof as shall be sufficient to satisfy said Judgment: LOT 244 IN TANNER TRAILS UNIT 4, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF, RECORDED SEPTEMBER 22, 2004 AS DOCUMENT 2004K125478, IN THE VILLAGE OF NORTH AURORA, KANE COUNTY, ILLINOIS. TAX NO. 11-36-160-012 COMMONLY KNOWN AS: 760 JORSTAD DRIVE NORTH AURORA, IL 60542 Description of Improvements: TWO STORY SINGLE FAMILY HOME WITH ATTACHED GARAGE The Judgment amount was $363,423.72.

Sale Terms: This is an "AS IS" sale for "CASH". The successful bidder must deposit 25% down by certified funds; balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. NO REFUNDS. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments or special taxes levied against said real estate, water bills, etc., and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to plaintiff. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the bid amount, the purchaser shall receive a Certificate of Sale, which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection.

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IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DYAS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 151701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For Information: Visit our website at http:\\service.atty-pierce.com.

Between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. only Pierce & Associates, Plaintiff's Attorneys, 1 North Dearborn, Chicago, Illinois 60602. Tel. No. (312) 372-2060. Please refer to file #PA1203840 Plaintiff's attorney is not required to provide additional information other than that set forth in this notice of sale.

I496025 (Published in the Kane County Chronicle, January 4, 11 & 18, 2013.)

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE 16TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT KANE COUNTY GENEVA, ILLINOIS WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. PLAINTIFF VS KENNETH F. WELTER; VICTORIA T. WELTER; SUN CITY COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION OF HUNTLEY, INC; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS ; DEFENDANTS 12 CH 2175 12872 APPLEWOOD DRIVE HUNTLEY, IL 60142 NOTICE OF SALE PURSUANT TO JUDGMENT OF FORECLOSURE UNDER ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE ACT ***THIS DOCUMENT IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT ON A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PUR

WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE*** PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered by said Court in the above entitled cause on September 14, 2012, KANE COUNTY SHERIFF in KANE County, Illinois, will on February 14, 2013, in Room JC 100, Kane County Judicial Center, 37W777 Route 38, St. Charles, IL 60175, at 9:00 AM, sell at public auction and sale to the highest bidder for cash, all and singular, the following described real estate mentioned in said Judgment, situated in the County of KANE, State of Illinois, or so much thereof as shall be sufficient to satisfy said Judgment: LOT 118 IN SECOND AMENDED PLAT OF SUBDIVISION OF DEL WEBB'S SUN CITY-HUNTLEY, ILLINOIS NEIGHBORHOOD THREE, A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 5, TOWNSHIP 42 NORTH, RANGE 7 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, IN THE VILLAGE OF HUNTLEY, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED OCTOBER 2, 1998 IN PLAT ENVELOPE A192 B AND A193 A AND B AS DOCUMENT NO 98K089604, IN KANE COUNTY, ILLINOIS. TAX NO. 02-05-476-003 COMMONLY KNOWN AS: 12872 APPLEWOOD DRIVE HUNTLEY, IL 60142 Description of Improvements: ONE STORY HOME WITH ATTACHED GARAGE The Judgment amount was $266,849.30. Sale Terms: This is an "AS IS" sale for "CASH". The successful bidder must deposit 25% down by certified funds; balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. NO REFUNDS. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments or special taxes levied against said real estate, water bills, etc., and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to plaintiff. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

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The successful purchaser has the sole responsibility/expense of evicting any tenants or other individuals presently in possession of the subject premises. 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 YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DYAS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 151701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For Information: Visit our website at http:\\service.atty-pierce.com.

Between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. only Pierce & Associates, Plaintiff's Attorneys, 1 North Dearborn, Chicago, Illinois 60602. Tel. No. (312) 372-2060. Please refer to file #PA1211149 Plaintiff's attorney is not required to provide additional information other than that set forth in this notice of sale.

I496035 (Published in the Kane County Chronicle, January 4, 11 & 18, 2013.)

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gin, PUBLICATION NOTICE The requisite affidavit(s) having been duly filed herein, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN TO ALL DEFENDANTS IN THE ABOVE ENTITTLED ACTION, that said action has been commenced in said Court by the plaintiff(s), naming you as defendant (s) therein and praying and for other relief; that summons has been issued out of this Court against you as provided by law, and, that this action is still pending and undetermined in said Court.

NOW, THEREFORE, unless you file your answer or otherwise make your appearance in said action in this Court, by filing the same in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court on or before February 18, 2013, AN ORDER OF DEFAULT MAY BE ENTERED AGAINST YOU. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court on January 9, 2013. /s/Thomas M. Hartwell Clerk of the Circuit Court (SEAL)

HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION, UNKNOWN OWNERS, AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS, Defendants.

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NOTICE is hereby given to Defendants in the above-entitled action, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS, owners and parties in interest of the real estate described in the Complaint for Foreclosure and Other Relief filed in the above cause, pursuant to the provisions of the Illinois Compiled Statutes, Chapter 735, Act 5, Sections 2-206, 15-1218 and 151502, that there is now pending in the aforesaid Court a Complaint naming the aforesaid Defendants as parties therein and praying for foreclosure of a Mortgage described as follows: Mortgage dated May 18, 2006, and recorded with the Recorder of Deeds of Kane County, Illinois as Document No. 2006K055576 on May 23, 2006.

The premises sought to be foreclosed in Count I of Plaintiff¡Çs Complaint is legally described as follows: Lot 60 in Sunset Views, in the Village of Lily Lake, Kane County, Illinois, according to the Plat thereof recorded February 3, 2004 as Document 2004K016122

/s/ Alan S. Kaufman One of Plainttiff's Attorney's Alan S. Kaufman One of Plaintiff's Attorneys MANLEY DEAS KOCHALSKI LLC Attorneys for Plaintiff One East Wacker, Suite 1730 Chicago, IL 60601 PIN: 08-08-352-005 Telephone: 312-651-6700 Common Address: 43W775 Fax: 614-220-5613 North Sunset Views (Lot60), Lily Attorney. No.: 6289893 Lake, IL 60174

(Published in the Kane County Please take notice that unless IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE Chronicle, January 18, 25 & you file your answer or otherwise make your appearance in said acSIXTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT February 1, 2013.) tion in this Court by filing the same KANE COUNTY - GENEVA ILLINOIS in the office of the Clerk of the CirPUBLIC NOTICE cuit Court of Kane County, Illinois Fifth Third Mortgage Company, Plaintiff, IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE on or before February 11, 2013, vs.

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Alvino Navarrete; JPMorgan Chase KANE COUNTY, ILLINOIS IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I Bank, N.A.; Unknown Owners and have hereunto set my hand and afNon-Record Claimants; STATE BANK OF ILLINOIS, an Illifixed by seal of said Court this 10th Defendants. nois Bank Association day of January, 2013.

Plaintiff, Case No. 12 CH 4326 vs. /s/ Thomas M. Hartwell 269-71 Raymond Street, DAVID J. BARKOCY and DEANNA CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT L. BARKOCY, SUNSET VIEW Elgin, IL 60120

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Friday, January 18, 2013 • Page 43 y was filed in the office of the County Clerk of Kane County, Illinois, concerning the business known as UNITED DENTAL located at 2 Anderson Blvd, Geneva, IL 60134 which certificate sets forth the following changes in the operation thereof: That Kara A Armstrong has ceased doing business under the above named business and has no further connection with or financial interest in the above named business carried on under such an assumed name.

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