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House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio swears in members of the 113th Congress on Thursday on Capitol Hill in Washington. “At $16 trillion and rising, our national debt is draining free enterprise and weakening the ship of state,” the Ohio Republican said during the ceremony. By DAVID ESPO
The Associated Press WASHINGTON – A new Congress opened for business Thursday to confront long-festering national problems, deficits and immigration among them, in an intensely partisan and crisis-driven era of divided government. “The American dream is in peril,” said House Speaker John Boehner, re-elected to his post despite a mini-revolt in Republican ranks. Moments after grasping an oversized gavel that symbolizes his authority, Boehner implored the assembly of newcomers and
Sen. Mark Kirk (right), R-Ill., is hugged Thursday by Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., on Capitol Hill in Washington after he walked up the steps to the Senate. Kirk returned to the Senate after suffering a major stroke last year.
veterans in the 113th Congress to tackle the nation’s heavy burden of debt at long last. “We have to be willing – truly willing – to make this right.” Also on the two-year agenda is the first significant effort at an overhaul of the tax code in more than a quarter century. Republicans and Democrats alike say they want to chop at a thicket of existing tax breaks and use the resulting revenue to reduce rates. There were personal milestones aplenty as the winners of last fall’s races swore an oath of office as old as the republic.
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Manzullo reflects on last day in Congress By JEFF ENGELHARDT
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dthomas@shawmedia.com Don Manzullo’s last second representing Illinois’ 16th Congressional District was a second before noon Thursday. A second after noon, he had a new job. “I had a two-second break,” he
said. Manzullo, a 68-year-old former Republican congressman who has represented much of McHenry County for two decades, will draw upon his experience as the new president and CEO of the Korea Economic Institute of America. Manzullo described KEIA as a nonprofit policy institute that will “bring the countries together on
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WOODSTOCK – If Thursday’s approval of committee assignments was an indicator, the learning curve of the new McHenry County Board could be steep. Its 14-7 vote to accept committee assignments – the only action item on the agenda – survived a challenge alleging the assignments as presented violated the County Board’s own rules. The vote to approve then required two subsequent motions and votes because of confusion as to whether members actually approved committee assignments or a calling of the question to stop debate. Board members approved the committee structure hammered out last month by new Chairwoman Tina Hill, R-Woodstock, and the aptly named C o m m i t t e e o n more Committees she assembled. The Read a group, made up of complete list of the chairwoman the new County and one member Board commitfrom each of the tee members on County Board’s PAGE B3. six districts, is convened after every November election to adjust memberships in the 11 standing committees in which most of county government’s work gets done. The sheer number of new members – nine of the board’s 24 members are freshmen – prompted the committee to give the chairmanships of three committees to newcomers. That, in turn, prompted Diane Evertsen, R-Harvard, to point out Thursday that board rules state that chairmanships must go to members who have served on the committee for at least a year prior. “I would expect that we would abide by our own rules,” Evertsen said. However, the McHenry County State’s Attorney’s Office, after a brief recess, pointed out that the rule says the board shall do so “to the extent practical.” Given the number of new members, Civil
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Of course, when I see an ad for “20 acres of Texas Land FREE,” I’m going to check it out. What the heck? What’s the hook? You have to buy 40 to get 60 at 0 percent down and $168 a month. There’s an outline of Texas, filled with the print “own a piece of Texas.” I feel as though I should add an exclamation point. I’ve been to Texas once, and that was about 40 years ago when the Spanish Club at Central Lee High School made a weeklong trip to Mexico, one of the traveling highlights of my life. I distinctly remember landing in the Dallas-Fort Worth airport, where we transferred to a flight to Mexico City. But it is my belief that laying over in an airport does not count as actually being in the city, unless you catch a cab to visit a landmark. The hard truth is, I’ve never really been to Texas. And one airport looks like another, kind of like if you were kidnapped, a bag put over your head, and driven for some hours, only to be released in the office supplies section of Walmart, left to wander the store for an hour or two. You could be anywhere in America, and you wouldn’t know where. But these 20 acres of free Texas land are advertised regularly in the classified section of this newspaper, and I couldn’t help myself when I saw it for the first time. I had to call for
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VIEWS Dick Peterson more information. Instead of a Texan, I got a recording to leave my name and address and a packet of information would be sent to me. That’s key, getting an information package in the mail. I enjoy getting mail, especially if it is from practically a foreign country, which Texas would like to be. And within a week, the 9-inch-by-12-inch envelope arrived. Eleven wild horses – mustangs? – were pictured in full color on the front of the white envelope – running across brush with high hills in the background – under the stamped words “TEXAS LAND.” The Miami return address was kind of disappointing. The envelope contained two color brochures about the land, and a contract to buy 40 acres plus 20 free for $22,900, or about $380 an acre, with payments of $168 a month stretched over 17 years. See the land first? No need. This was the stark Texas highlands west and south of El Paso by about an hour, in the Sierra Blanca-Van HornDell City triangle, tucked between Mexico and New Mexico. Before seeing the ad, I had no inten-
tion of ever moving to Texas. Too hot. Too expansive. Too many guns. Too much death penalty. Too independent. Too many Bushes. But I haven’t stopped thinking about Sunset Ranches, which used to be a cattle ranch. It is 12 miles from Interstate 10, which follows the Rio Grande and the U.S.-Mexico border, and 10 miles off “paved” Highway 111, about 10 minutes from Sierra Blanca, population 533 and falling. The land consists of gently rolling hills with mesquite trees, some mountains and many colorful plants and native flowers, according to the brochure. According to the pictures and online video, it pretty much looks like a desert. Little things such as water and electricity are important. “You have water rights,” the brochure says. Which means you can drill a well, but water also can be trucked to you, which diminishes the idea of well water being tapped. I can’t imagine having my own water tower. And electricity isn’t actually available, unless you have a propane gas-powered generator. Or solar and wind power. Luckily, you can call 911 “if you’re under attack,’’ which was a video remark that is somewhat disconcerting. Attack from what? Aliens? It’s not that far from Roswell, N.M. Drug smugglers? Wild beasts? Varmints?
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And “you have to wear boots.” Rattlesnakes, of course, and I well remember the episode of “Bonanza” in which Little Joe got bit by a rattler and temporarily lost his vision but not his life. “Buyer will tour the property at his own risk,” the brochure says. Are we talking more than rattlers? The sun shines 300 days a year, a hundred more than here. The average temperature in July is about 95, 10 degrees hotter than here. And the altitude is about 4,500 feet, compared with 971 feet in Woodstock, or about threequarters of a mile higher than Woodstock. Ground level is two and a half times higher than the Willis Tower. Dizzying. The population of Hudspeth County is 3,423, compared with 309,000 in McHenry County. Twenty FREE acres? That’s hard to turn down sight unseen, pardner. It’s those details like water, electricity and attack that kind of take the edge off the natural inclination in me to stake a claim. I’ll wait for the ad for 20 FREE acres in the Northwoods.
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WASHINGTON – More than 200 adults have been arrested in an international investigation of child pornography, Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Thursday. The agency’s director, John Morton, said 123 child victims were identified during the investigation, which ended in early December. ICE and local authorities found 110 victims in 19 U.S. states, while the others were living in six countries elsewhere. Morton said there were some cases in Mexico.
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NEW YORK – A New York county clerk justified his refusal to release the names and addresses of handgun permit holders to a newspaper, saying it would help stalkers and thieves target potential victims. The Journal News, which serves New York City’s northern suburbs, published online maps last month with the names and addresses of pistol permit holders in Rockland and Westchester counties. When the paper requested the same information from Putnam, County Clerk Dennis Sant said Putnam needed more time. This week, he said the law gives him the prerogative to refuse to release public information if it endangers the public.
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LOS ANGELES – Scientists are abuzz about a coalcolored rock from Mars that landed in the Sahara desert: A yearlong analysis revealed it’s quite different from other Martian meteorites. Not only is it older than most, it also contains more water, tests showed. The baseball-size meteorite, estimated to be 2 billion years old, is strikingly similar to the volcanic rocks examined on the Martian surface by NASA rovers, which found water-bearing minerals.
Police: Teens drugged parents to use Web
ROCKLIN, Calif. – Two California teenagers were arrested after they gave one of the girls’ parents milkshakes spiked with prescription sleeping pills so she could use the Internet past her 10 p.m. curfew, police said. The shakes worked, but the parents became suspicious when they woke up groggy the next morning, Rocklin police Lt. Lon Milka told The Sacramento Bee. They got a drug kit from police to test themselves for tampering.
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Ill. gay marriage vote postponed the aSSOCIateD PReSS SPRINGFIELD – Hopes that Illinois could quickly become the 10th state to legalize gay marriage bogged down Thursday when the bill’s Democratic supporters backed off plans to hold a full Senate vote on it and went home after canceling a session scheduled for today. Same-sex marriage advocates entered the lame-duck session Wednesday with high expectations of passing a bill by the assembly’s Jan. 9 curtain. Backers were riding a wave of momentum from successes during the November elections as well as public encouragement from President Barack Obama. After two days of encountering snags in trying to move the measure, Sen. Heather Steans finally won approval in a Senate committee Thursday evening with an 8-5 vote, which was met with cheers by gay marriage supporters. But Democrats called off a full Senate vote after Steans said three backers – two Democrats and one Republican – weren’t present, demonstrating how delicate and contentious the issue remains even in a state dominated by Democrats. The measure’s sponsors downplayed the urgency to pass the measure in the lameduck session, suggesting the issue could win approval in the next Legislature, which convenes next week. Steans still insisted approval of gay
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Illinois Sen. Heather Steans, D-Chicago, a supporter for same-sex marriage, testifies thursday during a Senate executive committee hearing at the Illinois State Capitol. marriage in Illinois remained “a question of when, not if.” “As people vote,” Steans said, “they should be thinking about where we want to be in history on this.” Steans said she still might call a vote before the end of the session Wednesday. But Senate President John Cullerton – like Steans, a Chicago Democrat – said it might be a weeks before the bill gets a full Senate vote. His spokeswoman said “the bill needs work,” and even Steans suggested working with Republican opponents to get a bipartisan agreement. Expectations were high
for a productive end to the 97th General Assembly, with legislation not only on gay marriage but on assaultweapons restrictions and the Leviathan Illinois issue, a solution to the $96 billion hole in state retirement-benefit accounts. Gun curbs advanced, and Cullerton made an adjustment to a Senate-approved measure that addresses a small portion of the pension problem, which he’s advanced as a stepping stone to wholesale modification. A more comprehensive fix has been proposed in the House, which isn’t scheduled
New tax law packed with business breaks the aSSOCIateD PReSS WASHINGTON – Tucked into the “fiscal cliff” tax package approved by Congress are billions of dollars in tax breaks that should make the new year a lot happier for businesses of many stripes, including film producers, race track owners and the makers of electric motorcycles. In all, more than 50 temporary tax breaks were renewed through 2013, saving businesses and individuals about $76 billion. Congress routinely renews the tax package, attracting intense lobbying – and campaign donations – from businesses and trade groups that say the tax breaks help them prosper and create jobs. Businesses have grown used to many of the longstanding tax breaks, but they also have had to get used to the uncertainty of whether they will be renewed each year. This time around the tax breaks were allowed to expire at the end of 2011 as lawmakers
struggled to reach consensus on a wide range of tax issues. The package passed by Congress this week and signed by President Barack Obama renews the tax breaks retroactively, so taxpayers can claim them on both their 2012 and 2013 tax returns. The biggest, a tax credit for research and development, helps U.S. manufacturers compete against foreign competition, according to the National Association of Manufacturers. Another provision helps restaurants and retailers expand by allowing them to more quickly write off the costs, according to the National Restaurant Association. These provisions have widespread support in Congress; others are more obscure. For example, there is a tax credit for producing electricity from wind mills, a credit for buying electric motorcycles, and tax rebates to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands from a tax on rum imported into the United States.
Newtown kids start school the aSSOCIateD PReSS MONROE, Conn. – For her son’s first day of school since last month’s massacre at his Sandy Hook Elementary, Sarah Caron tried to make Thursday as normal as possible. She made his favorite pancakes, and she walked the secondgrader to the top of the driveway for the school bus. But it was harder than usual to say goodbye. “I hugged him a lot longer than normal, until he said, ‘Mommy, please,’ ” she said. “And then he got on the bus, and he was OK.” Her 7-year-old son, William, was among more than 400 students who escaped a gunman’s rampage that killed 20 first-graders and six educators at Sandy Hook on Dec. 14.
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On Thursday, the returning students settled in at their old, familiar desks but in a different school in a different town. Returning students, teachers and administrators were met by a large police presence outside their new school in the neighboring town of Monroe, where a middle school that had been shuttered for two years was overhauled and renamed after their old school. Several officers guarded the entrance and checked IDs of parents dropping off children. Monroe police Lt. Keith White said attendance was very good and the children were getting back to “business as usual.” “A lot of them were happy to see their friends they hadn’t seen in a while,” he said.
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to return to Springfield until Sunday – giving Gov. Pat Quinn reason to stay optimistic that his top priority will still get attention. The governor and his staff have been “meeting privately with individual leaders and their staffs for weeks to forge common ground on pension reform,” spokeswoman Brooke Anderson said. “Progress has been made.” Democrats hold a 35-24 majority in the Senate, but party members outside Chicago don’t always toe the line. Not all are on board with extending marriage rights to samesex couples.
WASHINGTON – Many home and business owners flooded out by superstorm Sandy could get insurance payouts soon through congressional action expected today on a $9.7 billion bill to replenish the National Flood Insurance Program. The Federal Emergency Management Agency, which runs the program, warned that it will run out of money next week if Congress doesn’t give it additional borrowing authority to pay out claims. Congress created the program in 1968 because few private insurers cover flood damage. Northeast lawmakers say the money is urgently needed for storm victims awaiting claim checks from the late October storm that was one of the worst to strike the Northeast, with the worst flooding occurring in Atlantic City, N.J., New York City and Long Island and along the Connecticut coastline. House Speaker John Boehner promised a House vote today after his decision earlier this week to delay an action on a broader Sandy relief package provoked outrage from Northeast Republicans. If the House approves the insurance proposal, the Senate plans to follow with a vote later today, a Senate aide said.
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8world brief damascus suburb hit by Syrian gov’t airstrikes
BEIRUT – Twin airstrikes by government jets on a large, rebel-held suburb of Damascus on Thursday sheered the sides off apartment towers and left residents digging through rubble for the dead and wounded. The bombing of Douma came
amid a wave of attacks on rebellious districts of the Syrian capital, part of the government’s efforts to keep rebel fighters out of President Bashar Assad’s seat of power. Late Thursday, a car bomb exploded at a gas station in the city, killing at least nine, activists said.
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Sens. Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin, Mazie Hirono of Hawaii and Deb Fischer of Nebraska were among the newcomers sworn in, raising the number of women in the Senate to a record 20. Tim Scott of South Carolina became the first black Republican in the Senate in more than three decades. On the first day of a new term, one veteran made a stirring comeback. Republican Sen. Mark Kirk of Illinois returned to the Capitol for the first time since suffering a stroke a year ago, walking slowly up the 45 steps to the Capitol with the use of a cane. “Good to see you, guys,” he said. Across the Capitol, child r en a n d g r an d ch i ld r en squirmed through opening formalities that ended with Boehner’s election as the most powerful Republican in a government where President Barack Obama will soon be sworn in to a second term and his fellow Democrats control the Senate. “At $16 trillion and rising, our national debt is draining free enterprise and weakening the ship of state,” said the Ohio Republican, whose struggles to control his members persisted to the final weekend of the 112th Congress when “fiscal cliff” legislation finally cleared. “The American dream is in peril so long as its namesake is weighed down by this anchor of debt. Break its
hold, and we will begin to set our economy free. Jobs will come home. Confidence will come back.” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said he, too, is ready for attempts to rein in federal spending, but laid down a few conditions. “Any future budget agreements must balance the need for thoughtful spending reductions with revenue from the wealthiest among us and closing wasteful tax loopholes,” he said. That was in keeping with Obama’s remarks after Congress had agreed on fiscal cliff legislation to raise taxes for the wealthy while keeping them level for the middle class. Boehner and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell have other ideas, both having said in recent days that the days of raising taxes are over. “Now is the time to get serious about spending,” McConnell said. “And if the past few weeks have taught us anything, that means the president needs to show up early this time.” People won’t “tolerate the kind of last-minute crises that we’ve seen again and again over the past four years as a result of this president’s chronic inactivity and refusal to lead on the pressing issues of the day.” While neither Boehner nor Reid mentioned immigration in their opening-day speeches, Obama is expected to highlight the issue in the first State of the Union address of his new term. Lawmakers are already working toward a compromise they hope can clear both houses.
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Taliban leader killed in Pakistan The ASSOCIATED PRESS ISLAMABAD – An American drone strike in Pakistan has killed a top Taliban commander who sent money and fighters to battle the U.S. in Afghanistan but had a truce with the Pakistani military, officials said Thursday. While the death of Maulvi Nazir was likely to be seen in Washington as affirmation of the necessity of the controversial U.S. drone program, it could cause more friction in already tense relations with Pakistan because Nazir did not focus on Pakistani targets. Nazir was killed when two missiles slammed into a house in a village in South Waziristan while he was meeting with supporters and fellow commanders. Eight other people were killed, according to five Pakistani security officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were
deadly drone strikes Drone strikes rose and fell in President Barack Obama’s first term. According to the Long War Journal, which tracks such attacks, there were 35 strikes in Pakistan during 2008, the last year President George W. Bush was in office. That number grew to 117 in 2010, then fell to 64 in 2011 and 46 last year. The program has killed a number of top militant commanders, including al-Qaida’s then-No. 2, Abu Yahya al-Libi, who died in a drone strike in June.
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not authorized to talk to the media. A U.S. official confirmed the death of Nazir, along with an unspecified number of “trusted deputies.” Nazir and those killed were “directly involved in planning and executing cross-border attacks on coalition forces in Afghanistan, as well as providing protection for al-Qaida fighters in South Waziristan,” said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to describe ca-
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Manzullo has served on the Asia subcommittee in the House’s Committee on Foreign Affairs since he took office in 1993. For the past two years, he was chairman. Manzullo said he always has had an “intense interest” in Asia, and that he was asked to lead the organization. The final vote Manzullo cast was “aye” on the controversial legislation that would avert the “fiscal cliff.” As he watched the debate with Judy Biggert, an Illinois congresswoman who also was voted out of office in 2012, Manzullo said he was surprised by the toxic tone of the debate. Manzullo described the run-up to his final vote as chaos. “It wasn’t even controlled chaos,” he said. “It was absolute, total chaos.” He described the current partisanship gripping Congress as a social and structural problem. Many members, he noted, do not bring their families to Washington. As a result, they become commuters and strangers to one another. “It’s an assembly of people who simply don’t know each other well enough to have a level of decency and disagree with each other while being decent,” Manzullo said. Manzullo defeated Democratic incumbent John Cox in the 1992 election, and held the seat representing a section of northern Illinois, including much of northern and western McHenry County, until Thursday. In 2011, Democratic state lawmakers redrew the state’s legislative districts, pitting a
number of Republican incumbents against each other. Manzullo ran against U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Manteno, in the Republican primary in March and lost. The new 16th District includes no part of McHenry County. Manzullo said he did not have words of advice for his successor, just rules of thumb to follow. “He knows he has to stay close to people and meet their needs,” Manzullo said. “That’s the definition of a representative. That’s something you always work at – the needs of people.” Manzullo listed his work with manufacturing companies and the House’s manufacturing caucus – of which he was a founder and co-chairman – as some of his legislative achievements. Manzullo said he helped pass legislation that gave manufacturers a 9 percent tax deduction on any item manufactured in the United States. “It’s my first love and where we spent most of our time,” Manzullo said of manufacturing. U.S. Rep. Randy Hultgren, who now represents all of McHenry County but Algonquin Township in the newly drawn 14th District, said he will miss working with Manzullo in Congress. Hultgren called Manzullo a great teacher and mentor during their time working together, and said he was always an “incredible advocate” for constituents in his district. In his new position at KEIA, Manzullo will continue to be an important resource, Hultgren said. “He will be a very important voice with all the opportunities that come with the growth in Asia,” he said.
sualties resulting from CIA counterterrorism actions. Earlier, Pentagon spokesman George Little described Nazir as “someone who has a great deal of blood on his hands.” At least four people were killed in a separate drone strike Thursday in the North Waziristan tribal region. America’s use of drones against militants in Pakistan has increased substantially under President Barack Obama, and the program killed a number of top mili-
tants in the past year. But the drone strikes infuriate many Pakistanis who see them as a violation of their country’s sovereignty. Many Pakistanis complain that innocent civilians have also been killed, something the U.S. rejects. A Pakistani official said while his government continues to object to the drone strikes, it does not object to removing Nazir from the battlefield, because despite his reported cooperation with the Pakistani government, he was suspected to have aided groups who attack Pakistani troops. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly. The official said a U.S.Pakistani working group seeking to craft a drone policy acceptable to Pakistan has made little progress, but that intelligence cooperation with the U.S. military and CIA had been improving.
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8BriefS Britain extradites suspect in NYC subway bomb plot
WASHINGTON – Police in Britain have extradited a terror suspect to the United States to face charges that he took part in an alleged al-Qaida plot to detonate explosives aboard the New York City subway system. British authorities handed over Abid Naseer, 26, to U.S. authorities Thursday. Prosecutors want him to stand trial in New York for his alleged role in a terror campaign that would have also struck targets in Britain and Norway. Federal prosecutors in Brook-
lyn have said they aim to prove that Naseer collected bomb ingredients, conducted reconnaissance and was in frequent contact with other al-Qaida operatives as part of a foiled New York plot and a second suspected plot to bomb a busy shopping area in the northern English city of Manchester.
Parents: No word on U.S. journalist captive in Syria
ROCHESTER, N.H. – From their New Hampshire home, the parents of a foreign journalist who has been missing in Syria since he was kidnapped more
than a month ago appealed to his captors for compassion and any information about their son’s health and welfare. James Foley, 39, was kidnapped in northwest Syria by gunmen on Nov. 22, his parents said Thursday. He was there contributing videos to Agence France-Press, which has vowed to help secure his release. His parents, John and Diane Foley, decided to hold a news conference to make a public plea to his captors because they haven’t received any information about their son in weeks.
– Wire reports
This County Board lineup includes most new members in past 20 years • COUNTY
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Division Chief Donna Kelly concluded a vote would be safe. “We believe this is a logical and practical interpretation of the rule,” Kelly said. The nine new members make up the largest freshman class in at least 20 years – all 24 seats were up for election in November because of redistricting after the decennial U.S. Census. Only one committee kept its current chairman under the new structure. Board members made no attempts to alter the proposed structure on the board floor. But two speakers during public comment questioned the decision to make freshman Joe Gottemoller, R-Crystal Lake, chairman of the Planning and Development Committee over board veteran Ersel Schuster, R-Woodstock. Mary Moltmann and Jane Collins told Hill that appointing Gottemoller, a zoning and development attorney, over Schuster, who has a record of promoting smart growth and groundwater preservation,
What it means The McHenry County Board voted Thursday, 14-7, to approve assignments and chairmanships for its committees. Voting “yes” were Michele Aavang, R-Woodstock; Sue Draffkorn, R-Wonder Lake; Joe Gottemoller, R-Crystal Lake; James Heisler, R-Crystal Lake; Donna Kurtz, R-Crystal Lake; Mary McCann, R-Woodstock; Mary McClellan, R-Holiday Hills; Anna May Miller, R-Cary; Robert Nowak, RCary; Sandra Fay Salgado, R-McHenry; Carolyn Schofield, R-Crystal Lake; Michael Walkup, R-Crystal Lake; Paula Yensen, D-Lake in the Hills; and Chairwoman Tina Hill, R-Woodstock. Voting “no” were Yvonne Barnes, R-Cary; Nick Chirikos, D-Algonquin; Diane Evertsen, R-Harvard; John Jung, R-Woodstock; Robert Martens Sr., R-Spring Grove; Ersel Schuster, R-Woodstock; and Mike Skala, R-Huntley. Board members John Hammerand, R-Wonder Lake; Ken Koehler, RCrystal Lake; and Nick Provenzano, R-McHenry, were absent. sends the wrong message. The committee is reviewing a first draft of a comprehensive overhaul of the county’s development ordinances. “Can you appreciate that this makes me go, ‘hmm’?” Moltmann, of Bull Valley, told board members. The other two freshmen who received chairmanships were Mary McClellan, R-Holiday Hills, who will head the Human Resources Committee, and Michele Aavang, RWoodstock, who will head the Natural and Environmental Resources Committee. For the
first time, one of the board’s two Democratic members will head a committee, with Paula Yensen, D-Lake in the Hills, taking the chairmanship of the Management Services Committee. Committees will return to a regular meeting schedule next week. All but one of the board’s standing committee meetings were canceled last month after the Dec. 3 seating of new members. Thursday’s vote also assigned board members as liaisons to about two dozen other boards, commissions and agencies.
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The next fiscal cliff
So a deal was reached this week that, experts say, temporarily spares the American economy from falling off the proverbial “fiscal cliff.” With the Jan. 1 deadline looming, Democrats and Republicans in both the Senate and House compromised on President Barack Obama’s campaign promise to raise taxes on the richest 2 percent of Americans. Instead, For the record the income-tax rate on the top 0.7 Congress must find long-term percent of Amerisolutions to the many fiscal iscans, individuals sues the U.S. faces so the next making more than fiscal cliff isn’t always right $400,000 annuaround the corner. ally or familes making more than $450,000, will increase. The deal made permanent the Bush-era tax cuts for the rest of us. (Most Americans, though, still will pay more in federal taxes this year because a 2011 reduction in payroll taxes related to Social Security has expired.) Saying either side won with this week’s compromise would be inaccurate. That’s because it did nothing to solve the country’s massive spending problem. It did nothing to relieve the nation’s more than $16 trillion in debt. And it certainly didn’t do anything to resolve our teetering Social Security and Medicare programs. And the worst of is it that the next “cliff” is just about two months away. That’s when a series of automatic, not-well-thought-out spending cuts go into effect. That’s also about the time that Congress will have to decide whether to raise, yet again, the nation’s borrowing limit. The last debt-ceiling battle led to a lowering of the U.S.’s bond rating. The fact is, Congress can’t continue to kick the “fiscal cliff” down the road. It must take a bipartisan approach to finding long-term solutions to our very real financial problems. These temporary “fixes” are taking as big of a toll on the economy as any fiscal cliff will. They create ongoing uncertainty for consumers, investors, small-business owners and the like – those same people who largely are responsible for driving the U.S. economy. The 113th Congress was sworn in Thursday. It can secure its legacy by working together to find reasonable solutions to our nation’s many fiscal issues.
8SKETCH VIEW
8IT’S YOUR WRITE Wonderful experience
To the Editor: My daughter and I recently volunteered in Crystal Lake and Cary for bell ringing for The Salvation Army on the weekend before Christmas. What a wonderful experience! I was amazed at the generosity and good cheer of the local McHenry County residents. I always have donated to The Salvation Army at this time of year, but had never “rang,” thinking I had waited too late to sign up. We volunteered for a Christmas Eve day stint earlier that morning, as there were still unfilled spots. We raised a lot of money, had a great time, and it was one of the highlights of our Christmas season. We will be back next year. Come out and join us to raise money for a great organization.
8ANOTHER VIEW
Patrick Phillips
State scholarships
Pure greed
The 50 states gave about $11 billion in financial aid to college students in the 2010-2011 school year. But the laboratories of democracy use very different approaches. That is sparking conflict that is likely to grow. As Jennifer Levitz and Scott Thurm of the Wall Street Journal reported recently, states such as California, New York and Michigan make financial need the primary component in financial aid decisions. But in 1993, Georgia launched the HOPE scholarship, which is based on academic merit regardless of need. Since then, 27 states have followed suit. Defenders of the merit approach say focusing on achievement encourages students to do so, and helps states keep some of their brightest graduates at home.
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To the Editor: I wish to thank the Northwest Herald for the local section in the paper on Dec. 19. It highlighted 350 people waiting over two hours in the food bank line to help their families over the holidays. Also on that front page, Crystal Lake schools wanted a $60 increase in taxes. Plus, District 155 wants another 8 percent and McHenry County College wants a 9.9 percent increase. Don’t forget McHenry County wanting a new mental health tax for just $60 extra. These are only four items on
the tax bills, which do not include separate levies for each of their pensions and the other taxing bodies. Whatever happened to fiscal restraint, and shouldn’t our elected school board members represent us? Most school’s administrators earn well over $100,000 annually, with District 155’s new superintendent making almost $250,00 a year. We should all help the local food banks, as many families desperately need help, no thanks to our greedy school districts. Linda S. Verdung Cary
Beyond misinformation
To the Editor: We have become a nation of sheep, and possibly our shepherds are sheep in disguise. This fiscal cliff and recent election are about the rich being asked to pay their fair share. What is a fair share? Who decides that? The news media, politicians or others? IRS records show the top 1 percent income earners pay 36 percent of the income tax collected. The top 25 percent contributed 87 percent. If the bottom quarter paid zero, that means the middle 50 percent paid 13 percent. A “leak” at a Mitt Romney fundraiser caused his ratings to plummet and contributed to his loss. He didn’t deny his statement, but he didn’t attempt to defend himself with facts and figures. Speaker John Boehner hasn’t openly argued
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this point with the president either. Over the past 30 years, America has transformed from the leading industrial nation to a nation of service. Business owners are in business to make a profit. They help, build and support communities with jobs and their money. Without profit, there is no reason to experience the risks. The government, including the president, doesn’t create jobs (except those paid for by the taxpayers). Private industry creates jobs. Like it or not, top income earners drive private industry. Reduce the incentive to be in business, you reduce the reasons to invest in American jobs. Of course, if you increase entitlements, you reduce the reasons to have a job. Wake up, Americans. Look beyond the misinformation we are being fed by the media. Ed Riess Cary
Unedited economic’s 101
To the Editor: I don’t understand all I know about this modern math. We on Social Security have had no increase for two years, and about
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a 1 percent increase each year for two years in our cost of living. Gas went from $1.89 to $4 a gallon until a couple of weeks ago. Food – I wish I had a newspaper advertisement from four years ago – is up substantially in four years. For real estate taxes, the inflation rate was 3 percent last year. The government says it doesn’t count food and fuel in the cost of living. Ninety percent of my budget is food and fuel. What do they count? Left-handed screwdrivers? What will happen to interest rates when people realize they are getting a negative return on their government IOU or government bonds? The cause of high real estate and other taxes is the “gotta-have people.” I gotta have 15 percent of the land in the McHenry County Conservation District off the tax roll and administrated by a large bureaucracy. An underpass for a bike crossing Route 14, two golf courses in the Cary Park District, etc. If you gotta have it, it has to be built and maintained for 70-plus years, thus the high tax. Walter Steffens Johnsburg
When conspiracies meet concussions, pundits will say anything
WASHINGTON – The new year began not with a cannonball off the fiscal cliff but with an outbreak of conspiratorial cynicism. This time it’s Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, whose fall and concussion, followed by a blood clot between her brain and skull, have prompted an embarrassment of theories. The gist: That woman will do anything to avoid testifying about Benghazi. Several commentators on the right opined via Twitter and TV, those most deadly hosts for the piranha of rumor and innuendo, that Clinton was faking her concussion to duck out on her appearance before congressional committees investigating the attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Libya that killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans. An independent report published last month placed substantial responsibility on the State Department. Not only was security at the Benghazi compound weak, relying heavily on local forces with conflicting loyalties, but requests for additional security apparently had
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been ignored or denied. The sentiment that Clinton might not wish to testify is not without reason. It is hard to imagine the agony of knowing that one’s lack of vigilance may have contributed to four deaths. But the attacks on Clinton during her illness, essentially attacks on her character, have been cruel and unfair. What must the world think of us? Clinton, who fainted as a result of dehydration brought on by a stomach virus, hit her head and suffered a concussion, after which a blood clot was discovered. She had to be hospitalized while bloodthinning medications were administered and monitored. Although her critics backed off once the clot was reported, initial responses ranged from “She’s faking” to demands for proof of her concussion. One writer demanded her medical records. John Bolton, former ambassador to the United Nations, called Clinton’s affliction a “diplomatic illness” to avoid testifying about Benghazi. Later he suggested that details were skimpy in an
VIEWS Kathleen Parker effort to protect her potential 2016 presidential run. “I think it’s the too-cute-by-half approach that’s reflected in the absence of transparency that’s going to end up damaging her and damaging her credibility,” he said on Fox News. Again, Clinton may well prefer to miss her day before the firing squad, but it is unlikely that medical doctors or a hospital would assist a secretary of state – or anyone – in concocting a fake affliction. Besides, you can’t have it every which way. Immediately after the Benghazi attacks, Clinton took full responsibility for the events and was accused by Republicans of falling on her sword to protect President Obama. Now that she’s temporarily indisposed and unable to elaborate on her admitted responsibility, those same critics insist she’s trying to
8THE FIRST AMENDMENT
avoid taking personal responsibility. The viciousness of the pundit class is disheartening and disgusting. And these days, everyone’s a pundit. Got an opinion? Why, step right up to the microphone. If you’re “good TV,” you too can be a “contributor.” Out in the hinterlands, where Americans consume “news” that suits their political proclivities, opinions are formed on the basis of what-he-said. Reputations and lives are ruined on the tines of pitchforks glimmering in the light of torchbearing mobs. And those are just the “news” shows. One doesn’t have to be a fan of Hillary Clinton, though a Bloomberg poll says that two-thirds of Americans are, to feel tainted by the relish with which she and many other have been attacked – unfairly and disproportionately. Susan Rice, who was Obama’s favorite to replace Clinton as secretary of state, comes to mind. But this isn’t a problem only for women or Democrats. The rush to character assassination seems to be
our only bipartisan imperative and is a blight on our political system. In this brooding age of superstition and portent, every misspoken word is a lie, every human error a hanging offense. This is not to suggest that we be naive or credulous, but that we seek some balance in our approach to discovery. At the moment, we seem to be ricocheting between hysteria and delusion. Eventually, Clinton will have to step forward and take her medicine. She is slated to appear before the House Foreign Affairs Committee in mid-January, though the date hasn’t been set. The nation clearly needs answers on what happened in Benghazi, and no doubt Clinton will provide them. This is not blind faith in a favored politician, but respect for a process that relies on accepted rules of order. We owe our representative to the world – which is to say, ourselves – at least this much.
• Kathleen Parker’s email address is kathleenparker@washpost. com.
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8COMMUNITY NEWS
Grease Fire HiTs NeW CHiNa iN FrG
FOX RIVER GROVE – A grease fire broke out at the New China restaurant on Route 14 about 4:45 p.m. Thursday, leaving at least $150,000 in damage. New China owner William Gee suffered a burn to his right hand when he tried to put the fire out. Jim Kreher, Fox River Grove Fire Department deputy chief, said the kitchen is entirely gutted, and there is smoke damage in the restaurant area. The fire was out by 5:10 p.m. “It sounds like an accidental kitchen fire we were lucky to get under control right away,” Kreher said. There were no customers in the business at the time of the fire and only eight employees, said restaurant manager Nicole St. John. Traffic on Route 14 in downtown Fox River Grove was rerouted while firefighters worked. Several departments responded to the scene or assisted with station coverage, Kreher said. Gee has been in business for 37 years and stood with his employees inside a storefront on Lincoln Avenue as firefighters worked. “We will rebuild,” Gee said.
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Owner snatches Max from jaws of coyote at North Barrington home By LaWereNCe sYNeTT lsynett@shawmedia.com
NORTH BARRINGTON – Max is one lucky pooch. The 8-year-old Yorkie survived a coyote attack Wednesday morning outside his North Barrington home. Max’s owner, Tami Williams, pried the dog from the animal’s grasp. “I had only heard of coyote attacks on TV, not at my back door,” Williams said. “It’s crazy that this would ever even happen, but thankfully he is OK.” Williams was following her normal routine Wednesday when she let Max out
through a back door leading to a stone patio. The backyard includes two acres that back up to a large pond. Within seconds, two coyotes ran up to Max, and one grabed him by the muzzle, Williams said. She said she “happened to be standing right there, started clapping, kicked it and grabbed him out of the coyote’s mouth.” “There was a lot of blood,” Williams said. “I wrapped him up and took him to animal emergency with puncture wounds to his mouth, which is being treated with antibiotics and painkillers.”
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How to deter coyotes, handle encounters
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Max, an 8-year-old Yorkie, is recovering from a coyote attack Wednesday morning outside his North Barrington home.
• Don’t feed any wild animals such as raccoons or deer because it encourages coyotes, as well. • Feed pets indoors. If pets are fed outside, clean up leftover food daily. • Keep cats indoors. • Keep your dog on a leash. • Secure garbage in areas where coyotes can’t access it; keep yards clean of refuse and brush. • Property owners should limit unintentional food sources, such as bird food, pet food, ripe fruit and trash. • Do not let pets out at night unless accompanied by a person. • If a coyote approaches you, do not run. Yell, stand up straight and wave your arms (the goal is to make yourself appear larger), or throw something at the coyote to scare it away.
Source: Department of Natural Resources and University of Illinois Extension
Mass destruction of weapons
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‘Top 10’ fugitive nabbed in Arkansas By saraH sUTsCHeK
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8LOCAL BEST BETS
1800s FLea CirCUs aT LiBrarY TODaY
McHENRY – “Professor Marvel’s Amazing Flea Circus” will be from 1 to 1:45 p.m. today at the McHenry Public Library, 809 N. Front St. During the late 1800s, flea circuses were all the rage across Europe and America. Crowds large and small flocked to see tiny fleas perform amazing feats of strength and derring-do. During this all-ages show, Professor Marvel will take attendees back to the days of the traveling medicine show and flea circus. Registration can be done in person, online at www.mchenrylibary.org or by phone at 815-385-0036.
MCCD TO TeaCH arT OF iCe FisHiNG
CARY – The McHenry County Conservation District will host a Frosty Fishing Fair from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at The Hollows Conservation Area at Lake Atwood, 3804 Route 14, Cary. Learn about ice fishing safety, equipment and techniques. Join experts for free instruction and watch demonstrations. Visit with vendors and representatives of local fishing clubs. Fish the afternoon away or play ice fishing games. Participants ages 16 and older need a fishing license. Warm up with hot food and beverages. Admission is free, and registration is not required. For information, call 815-479-5779 or visit www.mccdistrict.org.
8LOCAL DEATHS Viola I. Brown 88, Woodstock Florence L. Picton 96, Marengo Carol Marguerite riegel 81, Algonquin Frances R. Siwula 93, Spring Grove Paul C. Smith 80, Johnsburg William Pat Sonnenberg 70, formerly of Lake in the Hills OBiTUaries on pages B4-5
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Jim Horning (left) and Cameron Johnson on Thursday destroy some of the nearly 400 weapons seized by Woodstock police. The men work at the Behr Iron & Metal recycling plant in Rockford.
Guns seized in Woodstock are destroyed
Handguns by the scores and other weapons seized by the Woodstock Police Department sit in tubs and bins Thursday, waiting to be cut into pieces at the Behr Iron & Metal recyling plant in Rockford.
By JiM DaLLKe
jdallke@shawmedia.com ROCKFORD – Nearly 400 weapons seized by Woodstock police were destroyed Thursday at the Behr Iron & Metal recycling plant in Rockford. Handguns, knives and rifles – including an automatic rifle similar to an AK47 – were run through an alligator shear, which snapped and rendered the weapons useless. Machetes, samurai swords, a meat cleaver and a brass knuckle/knife combination also were destroyed. In total, there were 150 to 170 guns and an additional 200 knives, with a total value of about $75,000, a Behr employee said. “From a moral issue, getting these off the street is the right thing to do,” said Jim Barbagallo, senior account
a handgun is placed into what’s known as an alligator shear.
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Algonquin ‘moving along’ on manager By JOSEPH BUSTOS
jbustos@shawmedia.com ALGONQUIN – Village Board members continue to work to find a replacement for Bill Ganek, who plans to retire this year as village manager. Work on the search process by Village Board members has taken place for the past couple of months, Village President John Schmitt said. Voorhees Associates was hired for $12,000 to help conduct the search.
Ganek has been the village manager since 1992. No date has been set for when Ganek will leave, but he has said he will try to be flexible during the transition. Schmitt would not comment on specifics of the board’s discussions because they have taken place in closed session. “We’re looking for a ... good village manager to take Bill’s place, someone who can do as good a job as Bill has done and be here for the next 20 years,” Schmitt said.
About five people have been interviewed for the job, Schmitt said. “It’s moving along,. It hasn’t been finished yet, but it continues.” Although Schmitt would not comment on a salary range for the next village manager, an advertisement by Voorhees said the person would earn at least $150,000 depending on qualifications and experience. Ganek earns $200,000 a year. The advertisement said candidates should have a
strong background in municipal operations, financial management, capital project management and economic development. The village is looking for someone with a master’s degree in public administration, business administration or a related field, and at least 10 years of experience in an upper management position. Schmitt said the process is time-consuming, “and we’re not in any kind of a major hurry.”
WOODSTOCK – A woman listed on the McHenry County sheriff’s Top Ten Fugitive List has been apprehended in Arkansas. Sarah E. Frye, 32, also known as Sarah E. Weed, pleaded guilty in 2004 to retail theft and endangering the life or health of Sarah E. Frye a child. A c c o r d i n g also goes by to the criminal last name of complaint, the Weed child was not in a child-safety seat while Frye “eluded police in a pursuit.” Frye was given credit for 108 days served in jail, sentenced to two years of probation and ordered to complete a parenting class. In 2006, she was resentenced to an additional two years of probation and 110 days in jail. However, prosecutors filed a petition to revoke her probation after they said she did not attend treatment and tested positive for heroin on multiple occasions and cocaine once. On Oct. 16, 2007, the McHenry County Sheriff’s Office obtained an arrest warrant for Frye, but her whereabouts were unknown. Frye was added to the fugitive list in June. Last month, a member of the public provided a tip she had been living in Pocahontas, Ark. On Wednesday, Frye was taken into custody by the Pocahontas police and is incarcerated at the Randolph County (Ark.) Correctional Facility. She is awaiting extradition to McHenry County. Frye also was wanted on a felony theft arrest warrant from Winnebago County, a civil arrest warrant from Ogle County and a traffic arrest warrant from Rockford. No. 1 on the sheriff’s fugitive list is Roberto ValdezCalixto, 33, who is wanted on first-degree murder charges in the stabbing death of Cecilio Hernandez in February 2005. No. 2 is Orron K. Marshall, 23, who is charged with unlawful possession of a controlled substance and resisting a peace officer. His last known address was in Elgin. No. 3 is Cecil T. Barnes, 31, with a last known address in Lisle. He is charged with unlawful delivery and unlawful possession of cocaine. Tips can be reported to the Fugitive Apprehension Unit at 815-334-4704 or the sheriff’s office at 815-338-2144. Anonymous tips also can be made to CrimeStoppers at 800-762-7867. Information about the most wanted list is available at www.mchenrysheriff.org.
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JOHNSBURG: GROwtH
Tour of apartment complexes ‘homework’ for village decision By EMILY K. COLEMAN
ecoleman@shawmedia.com JOHNSBURG – One of Johnsburg’s committees is doing its homework. The Johnsburg Development and Governmental Affairs Committee will tour three apartment complexes Saturday morning as part of its research ahead of deciding whether to recommend a development application.
Developers hope to build an apartment complex that would qualify for low-income housing tax credits, something unusual for the village of Johnsburg, which currently has only one apartment complex. After meeting in the parking lot of Johnsburg Village Hall, 1515 Channel Beach Ave., at 9 a.m. for roll call, committee members and other attendees will tour three
complexes owned by the developer, Banner Apartments. They include: • Rosewood Apartments, 216 W. Forest Ave., Round Lake, about 9:30 a.m.; • Emerald Pointe Apartments, 695 Westmoreland Drive, Vernon Hills, about 10:30 a.m.; and • The Residences At Fountain Square, 3690 Casmir Pulaski Drive, Waukegan, about 11:30 a.m.
The proposed 72-unit apartment complex in Johnsburg would be consistent with other projects Banner has done, Chris Hooker, a senior development associate with Banner, told the village’s Development and Government Affairs Committee at its last meeting. Banner builds properties it wants to manage, Hooker said, adding that it will be a quality project.
Anjali Bhatt (left) and Anish Bhatt search for seashells with chopsticks during a luau thursday at Huntley Public Library, 11000 Ruth Road. the youngsters who attended also played musical chairs, among other island-themed activities.
fOx LAKE: ELECtION
Slate of candidates to meet residents is running at the top of the Common Sense Party slate against incumbent Village President Ed Bender. Bernice Konwent, Ron Stochl and Jeff Jensen are vying against three Focused on Fox Lake Party candidates and one independent
for the three openings on the Village Board. Niki Warden also is running on the slate for village clerk against incumbent Kimberly Mate. The event will run from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Hello Folks, 78 E. Grand
Ave. in Fox Lake. Admission is free and food is complimentary. Raffles will serve as a fundraiser for the campaign. Residents will likely have another chance to meet the candidates in early March, Schmit said.
McHENRY: SOCIAL LIvING
Volunteers sought to be senior companions NORtHwESt HERALD McHENRY – Many lonely, socially isolated seniors living in their own homes need positive social interaction, support and, most importantly, friendship. Area residents who would like to help the seniors in the community in this way are encouraged to volunteer with the Senior Companion Program at Senior Services Associates.
A few hours once a week engaging in activities with a senior that give them pleasure and purpose can help with loneliness, isolation, depression and self-esteem, according to a news release. Activities enjoyed include taking a walk, playing board or card games, going for a scenic drive, enjoying a meal together, sharing photos and the stories that go along with them, or simply enjoying a conversation that allows se-
8COMMUNITY CALENDAR today
• 1 to 1:45 p.m. – Professor Marvel’s Amazing flea Circus, McHenry Public Library District, 809 N. Front St., McHenry. All ages program. Information: 815-385-0036 or www.mchenryli-
Parks and Rec to offer fitness classes for free NORtHwESt HERALD
McHENRY – The McHenry Parks and Recreation Department is offering free fitness classes Monday through Jan. 12. Classes include fitness, yoga and aqua aerobics. The free week gives fitness lovers the opportunity to find a new workout for the new
8LOCAL BRIEFS
Mobile food pantry due at Crystal Lake church
Wine tasting to benefit Turning Point’s work
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CRYSTAL LAKE – St. Thomas the Apostle Church will host a mobile food pantry from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday. About 10,000 pounds of food, enough for 300 families, will be distributed through the Northern Illinois Food Bank truck to people in need. There are no eligibility requirements. The distribution will be at the church, 451 W. Terra Cotta Ave., Crystal Lake. Numbers will not be distributed until 9 a.m. Refreshments will be served and winter clothing also will be available. For information, call the church at 815-455-5400.
Luau at the library
FOX LAKE – The challenger to Fox Lake’s village president and his slate of candidates will be available for residents’ questions at a meet-and-greet Thursday. Trustee Donny Schmit
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brary.org. • 6:30 p.m. – Meditation 101, Yoga Seva, 407 E. Terra Cotta Ave., Crystal Lake. Class taught by Ann Waring. Cost: $18. Registration and information: 815-3550010. • 7 p.m. – Bingo, American Le-
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niors to open up and express themselves freely. Senior-friendly, conversational, positive and social men and women are encouraged to become senior companions. Volunteers gain the satisfaction of knowing they will be offering much-needed companionship each time they visit their senior. Volunteers also will make a friend – one with many years of knowledge and history be-
hind them. Volunteering can assist in bulking one’s résumé, as many employers see the value and character it takes to be a volunteer. Lastly, volunteers have the opportunity to relax, enjoy refreshing recreational activities, and relieve stress. For information on becoming a volunteer, call Jackie Smith, Senior Companion Program coordinator, at 815344-3555.
gion Post 1231, 1101 W. Algonquin Road, Lake in the Hills. Benefit for pediatric cancer. Progressive jackpots. Snacks available. Information: 847-658-2010 or www. lakeinthehillsbingo.com. • 8 p.m. – McHenry B&B Square Dance Club dance, Johnsburg
Community Club, 2315 W. Church St., Johnsburg. After glow dance. Casual wear. Angie Huckeby will call the rounds at 8 p.m. and Bob Asp will call the squares at 8:30 p.m. Cost: $5 members, $6 visitors. All dancers welcome. Information: 815-353-5346.
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McHENRY – Turning Point will be the beneficiary of a wine tasting held from 6 to 8 p.m. Jan. 24 at 31 North Banquets, 217 N. Front St. (Route 31) in McHenry. Attendees will enjoy a variety of wines to sample, as well as hot and cold hors d’ouevres. The event is hosted by the Turning Point Board of Directors. Turning Point, located in Woodstock, is McHenry
8POLICE REPORTS Crystal Lake
• Ronald Brandon Jozwick, 18, 158 W. Woodstock St., Apt. E, Crystal Lake, was charged Tuesday, Oct. 30. with theft. • Brett Michael Jurgens, 25, 331 Van Buren St., Crystal Lake, was charged Tuesday, Oct. 30, with burglary and criminal trespassing to a vehicle. • Rachael Ann Henry, 23, 1024 Plum Tree Drive, Crystal Lake, was charged Thursday, Nov. 1, with aggravated driving under the influence and driving on a revoked license. • Daryl Lucas McGehee, 22, 10428 Centennial Ave., Huntley, was charged Friday, Nov. 2, with retail theft. • Matthew O. Todisco, 32, 110 S. Virginia St., Apt. 2, Crystal Lake, was charged Wednesday, Nov. 3, with two counts of domestic battery. • Ramon Ramos-Macias, 25, 627 Virginia Road, Apt. 111, Crystal Lake, was charged Sunday, Nov. 4, with aggravated driving under the influence, driving under the influence, and driving on a revoked license.
year. These classes aim to help build muscles, strengthen the core and burn calories. With a variety of classes, participants can find the classes to meet their fitness needs. For information and class schedules. visit www. ci.mchenry.il.us or call the McHenry Parks and Recreation Department at 815-3632160.
County’s only comprehensive domestic violence service agency and shelter. Tickets cost $20 each and can be reserved by calling Turning Point at 815-338 8081.
Photographer to speak at River East Library
LAKEMOOR – Nationally acclaimed photographer Jerry Tomaselli will present a program at River East Library on Feb. 2. Tomaselli, photographer for Chicago American, Chicago Today, Chicago Sun-Times and the Chicago Tribune will present “Hat & Coat.” Tomaselli has photographed virtually everything from sports to disasters. His “Over the Top” photo of Walter Payton as he soared more than 12 feet over the Detroit Lions in 1984 during the Bears Super Bowl hangs in the National Football Hall of Fame. Tomaselli will share his pictures and stories from the streets of Chicago. Registration is required, and may be done in person at the library, 813 W. Route 120, or by phone at 815-385-6303.
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• John A. Rudd, 21, 1386 Bridgedale Road, Crystal Lake, was charged Wednesday, Nov. 7, with retail theft. • Brad R. Johnson, 26, 280 Park Blvd., Crystal Lake, was charged Saturday, Nov. 10, with driving under the influence, driving with a blood-alcohol content greater than 0.08 percent, driving on an expired license, speeding, and driving without a headlight. • Dominick George Vassos, 22, 7216 Millburn Court, Bull Valley, was charged Saturday, Nov. 10, with possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia, and driving on expired registration. • A 17-year-old juvenile was charged Friday, Nov. 16, with possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of marijuana. • Armando Gonzales, 31, address unknown, was charged Saturday, Nov. 17, with criminal trespassing and disorderly conduct. • Kyle Russell Haskin, 24, 4618 E. Upland Drive, Crystal Lake, was charged Saturday, Nov. 17, with driving under the influence of alcohol, improper lane use, and driving with a blood-alcohol content greater than 0.08 percent.
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McHENRY: SERVICE CHARGES CHANGING
McHenry likely to OK smaller water-rate hike By JANE HUH
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McHENRY – Water and sewer rates are poised to go up next month, but not as high as the 7 percent increases that were in place the past three fiscal years. The McHenry City Council is expected at its Monday meeting to approve an ordi-
nance increasing water rates by 1.6 percent, based on the annual rate of inflation. Under the proposal, the combined water and sewer bill for 6,500 gallons of water would go from $44.73 a month to $45.38. The increase would take effect Feb. 1. The rate adjustment is calculated using the U.S. Labor Department’s CPI for All Ur-
ban Consumers for ChicagoGary-Kenosha. The city had, with the exception of the past three years, adjusted rates based on the annual rate of inflation since 1997. A 2.7 percent increase kicked in last February. “Over the years, the increases have been greater than the [Consumer Price Index] to build up the water/
sewer fund,” City Administrator Derik Morefield said. “This year, we were able to catch up, stabilize [the fund]. Now we’re able to do the normal rate increase based on the normal CPI.” The Finance and Personnel Committee and city staff in 2008 recommended water and sewer service rates to go up 7 percent – rather than the
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McHENRY COUNTY: GOVERNMENT SHAKE-UP
County Board committee spots assigned
WOODSTOCK – The election of nine new McHenry County Board members forced an overhaul of its committee memberships. All but one of the 11 standing committees in which most of county government’s work gets done have new chairmen, and three of those chairmen are newly elected members. Each seven-member committee has at least one member from each of the County Board’s six districts. In the case of the five-member Liquor and License Committee, District 5 is in essence represented by Chairwoman Tina Hill, R-Woodstock, because the chairwoman also acts as county liquor commis-
sioner. Standing committees meet once or twice a month, not including special meetings. The Building Projects Committee meets on an as-needed basis. The following is a list of who is on which committee, and who was chosen to lead them.
• FINANCE AND AUDIT: Mary McCann, R-Woodstock (Chairwoman); Donna Kurtz, R-Crystal Lake (Vice Chairwoman); Yvonne Barnes, R-Cary; James Heisler, R-Crystal Lake; Nick Provenzano, R-McHenry; John Hammerand, R-Wonder Lake; and Michael Skala, R-Huntley • HUMAN RESOURCES: Mary McClellan, R-Holiday Hills (Chairwoman); Sue Draffkorn, R-Wonder Lake (Vice Chairwoman); Barnes; Carolyn Schofield, R-Crystal Lake; Sandra Fay Salgado, R-McHenry;
Paula Yensen, D-Lake in the Hills; Diane Evertsen, R-Harvard • LAW AND JUSTICE: Draffkorn (Chairwoman); McClellan (Vice Chairwoman); Barnes; Heisler; Joe Gottemoller, R-Crystal Lake; John Jung, R-Woodstock; Michele Aavang, R-Woodstock • LEGISLATIVE AND INTERGOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS: Jung (Chairman); Ken Koehler, R-Crystal Lake (Vice Chairman); Nick Chirikos, D-Algonquin; Schofield; Provenzano; Robert Martens Sr., R-Spring Grove; Ersel Schuster, R-Woodstock • LIQUOR AND LICENSE: Koehler (Chairman); Robert Nowak, R-Cary (Vice Chairman); Gottemoller; Draffkorn; Evertsen • MANAGEMENT SERVICES: Yensen (Chairwoman); Hammerand (Vice Chairman); Anna May Miller, R-Cary; Michael Walkup, R-Crystal Lake; Kurtz; Skala; Schuster
• NATURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES: Aavang (Chairwoman); Nowak (Vice Chairman); Chirikos; Schofield; Walkup; Martens; Jung • PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT: Gottemoller (Chairman); Schuster (Vice Chairwoman); Chirikos; Schofield; Draffkorn; Skala; Mary McCann, R-Woodstock • PUBLIC HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES: Kurtz (Chairwoman); Miller (Vice Chairwoman); Walkup; Salgado; Hammerand; Yensen; McCann • TRANSPORTATION: Miller (Chairwoman); Yensen (Vice Chairwoman); Chirikos; Koehler; Provenzano; Salgado; Evertsen • BUILDING PROJECTS: Provenzano (Chairman); Evertsen (Vice Chairwoman); Nowak; Heisler; McClellan; Martens; Jung.
McHENRY COUNTY: EdUCATION LEAdERSHIP
Quantity of area school board candidates uneven By EMILY K. COLEMAN
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Although 10 area school districts will have competitive races for their school boards, four don’t have enough candidates to fill the open seats, and five others have just enough. In its Sunday edition, the Northwest Herald ran a list of candidates for area school boards. The list was not complete in part because of district offices being closed over the holiday. Following is a complete list of all the candidates who have filed petitions for the April 9 election.
On the ballot
(i) indicates incumbents Listed in alphabetical order
Nippersink School District 2 Four openings Sharon Bianchini (i) Dawn Heaney Gary Kriz Pierre Langlois (i)
Fox River Grove School Dist. 3 Four openings Timothy Hatfield Michael Olencheck Stephen Pickering (i) Patrick Riley Patrick Wall
Johnsburg School District 12 Four openings Karen M. Baird (i) Gary S. Barla (i) Jason Blumenthal Linda Kvidera-Murphy Thomas Low (i) Michelle Martin (i) Thomas J. Oeffling
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rate of inflation – for the following three fiscal years to address the deficit and gener-
ate more funding for system maintenance and improvements. The water and sewer fund reportedly ran a $390,000 deficit in fiscal 2008-09 and a $107,900 deficit in 2009-10. By April 30, 2011, the fund’s operational revenues came to $827,000, said Carolyn Lynch, finance and accounting manager.
Clerk to take on supervisor in Feb. 26 primary
Wade Coll (left) and Kristopher Coll (right) do a mute grab on Wednesday as Cooper Slack (center) does a tindy grab off a jump at the Raging Buffalo Snowboard and Ski Park in Algonquin. The park offers equipment rentals as well as group and private snowboarding lessons.
By KEVIN P. CRAVER
What: McHenry City Council When: 7:30 p.m. Monday Where: McHenry Municipal Center, 333 Green St. in McHenry
ALGONqUIN TOWNSHIP: ELECTIONS
Cold-weather fun at ski park in Algonquin
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Four four-year terms Amanda Geyer Patrick Miller (i) Ted Pillow (i) Kim Qualls (i) Erik Sivertsen One two-year term John O’Neill (i) Riley School District 18 Four openings Tim Aubry (i) Anita Mitchell (i) Dawn Northcutt (i) Alden-Hebron School Dist. 19 Four openings Andy Madsen (i) Chris Olson (i) Sue Walters (i) Cary School District 26 Four openings Christopher Christensen Jennifer Crick Scott Epstein Josh Howell Chris Jenner (i) Julie Jette (i) Floyd Myers (i) Bruce Ritter Bradley Slavik Harrison School District 36 Three four-year terms Mellady S. Ahrens Jeremy Bersie Angela A. Hartfield Karen M. Maye Mark Nothdorf (i) One two-year term Michael Jackiw (i) Ronald J. Wenk Prairie Grove School Dist. 46 Four openings Laura Barker John Bowman Laura Domoto (i) Charlotte Kremer (i) Anna Olas
Margaret Ponga Rick Salvo
John Schleibinger (i) David Thomas (i)
Crystal Lake School District 47 Four openings Betsy Les Jeff Mason (i) Eileen Palsgrove Donna Ricci Rob Routzahn (i) Ruth Scifo (i)
Consolidated School Dist. 158 Four openings Donald Drzal (i) Michael Fleck Kimberly Skaja (i) Paul Troy (i)
Harvard School District 50 Four openings Diana Bird (i) Richard D. Crosby Samuel Finfrock Steve Garrels Rebecca Klein Dennis Reilly Richard F. Stoxen (i) Marengo Community High School District 154 Four openings Jerald W. Darlington, Jr. (i) Linda Dujmovich (i) Scott Fillmore Jodie Kanaly Todd Volkening (i) Community High School District 155 Four openings Gary Oberg (i) Dave Secrest (i) Ann Somers (i) Ted Wagner (i) McHenry High School District 156 Four openings Donald Cichoski Ronald Fischer Gary Kinshofer Richmond-Burton Community High School District 157 One two-year term No candidate Four four-year terms Michelle Graham (i)
Marengo-Union Elementary School District 165 One two-year term Thomas Dujmovich (i) Four four-year terms Megan Lopez Tony Villarreal (i) Gregory Wright (i) John Wyrostek (i) Woodstock School District 200 One two-year term David Shinherr (i) Four four-year terms Carl Gilmore Camille Goodwin (i) Katherine Lechner (i) Paul J. Meyer (i) Bill Nattress Michael Wellwerts Community Unit School District 300 Three openings David Alessio (i) Kathleen Burley Anne Miller (i)
CRYSTAL LAKE – In the Feb. 26 Algonquin Township supervisor primary election, Marc Munaretto, the current township clerk, will run against the incumbent of 10 years, Dianne Klemm. Munaretto is the former chairman of the McHenry County Board’s Finance and Audit Committee. There, he created a financial model that allowed the committee to measure the future impact of financial decisions. As supervisor, Munaretto said he would apply his county model to Algonquin Township’s finances. “I have a firm grasp of what the real dollar expenses are for the township,” Munaretto said. “I’d like to have an opportunity to apply the rigorous financial enterprise skills I have.” He believes that the methods and plans under Klemm’s direction are “adrift,” and that the current financial audit “lacks thoroughness” and needs a “clear and transparent audit policy.” Munaretto also believes the investment policy, which has not been updated as frequently as he would like, needs enhancement. Munaretto contends Klemm has raised taxes every year during her fouryear term, including a 2.65 percent increase in November. Klemm denies taxes have been raised in the past two years, except for a slight increase for the General Assistance program last year. She said she does not intend to raise taxes and has frozen the levy this year. Financially, maintenance is among her concerns because the township building becomes older and needs work. Other than that and her hope to consolidate a loan, she is not concerned about the township’s financial condition. She is focused on supporting the community with continued programs such as bingo and lunch for
Who is running? Supervisor: Dianne Klemm (i) Marc Munaretto Clerk: Linda Lance Chuck Lutzow Trustees: Dan Shea of Fox River Grove (i) Lowell Cutsforth of Fox River Grove (i) Russ Cardell of Algonquin (i) Neils Kruse of Cary Melissa Sanchez of Lake in the Hills Larry Emery of Crystal Lake Bil Bligh of Crystal Lake
seniors, “Singles Walking and Talking” and even line dancing. Since she began 10 years ago, she said she has made large strides toward improving township programming. “When I came here, the building was pretty empty. We had bingo; that was probably it,” Klemm said. “Now it’s full. That’s the way I would like to see it used.” Munaretto hopes to improve upon the foundation Klemm has established. Three programs he would like to implement include networking opportunities for the unemployed, which would allow them to use free computer resources; a program for Algonquin veterans, who he believes are not receiving the services and resources they need; and improved programs for seniors, such as enhanced health and wellness awareness. The programs will not cost the township or the Algonquin citizens any money. “Those are the high points that are driving me to run for supervisor,” he said. Munaretto also plans to lower taxes. “We can’t continue to [raise taxes],” he said. “We have to do better with less. I hope to do that if I’m elected.”
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SPRInG GROvE: FUndRAISER
Hatchery Park looks to improve By EMIlY K. COlEMAn
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SPRING GROVE – An electronic gate is next on the wish list for Hatchery Park. The village of Spring Grove park, which celebrated its grand opening in September, is managed by volunteers, which means the village relies on volunteers to open and close the gate each day. “For the most part, it’s working, but it’s not 100 percent viable,” Trustee and Parks and Recreation Chairman Bob McMahon said. Most of the proceeds from a fundraiser dinner are earmarked for the gate, which will cost $15,000, including the electric service, McMahon said. Tickets for the dinner are on sale through Monday. Twice before, the dinner has sold out. A fish boil fundraiser also is each fall to raise money for the park. The gate isn’t the only improvement volunteers want to see.
About the dinner The dinner, $70 a person, will start at 6 p.m. Jan. 14 at Paisano’s on Broadway, 5614 Broadway, Richmond. It will include an appetizer, salad, entree, dessert and one glass of beer or wine. Entrees are cedar plank salmon, New York strip steak, veal parmigiana or chicken vesuvio. Contact Spring Grove Village Hall about tickets at 815-675-2121 or srusher@springgrovevillage.com. They’d like to provide a gazebo for picnickers, a bridge to connect the park’s milelong trail with the village’s downtown and a separate building for bathrooms. The last, which would require hooking up to the sewer line, would be pricey, so officials are keeping an eye out for grants, McMahon said. “We’re trying to continue improving the site,” he said. “We envision this as a longterm project.”
The park was designed around the original hatchery building, which now houses the visitors center. In addition to the trail, there are docks and piers for catchand-release fishing. It once was the site of the largest fish hatchery in existence when it was developed in 1914 by the Illinois Department of Conservation, Village President Mark Eisenberg said during the park’s original ribbon-cutting ceremony. After the hatchery had been decommissioned by the state in 2004, state and local officials worked to get the property’s ownership turned over to the village. Restoration finally came after a lot of fundraising and a $300,000 matching grant. Because the building is about a hundred years old, maintenance is an issue, McMahon said. Something always is popping up. “It’s being used even more than we anticipated,” he said, adding that people always are out there walking their dogs or fishing.
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executive at Behr. “And recycling them, rather than landfilling them, is definitely the right thing to do. In a landfill, there isn’t a guarantee they aren’t coming back.” BehremployeesandWoodstock police emphasized the importance of destroying the weapons and keeping them out of the hands of criminals. “The last thing in the world I want is to have [these weapons] resold on the street,” Woodstock Det. Sgt. Jeff Parsons said. Each gun was inspected by two trained Behr employees and placed one by one into the shear. The shear snaps the weapons in half with 200 to 300 tons of pressure. Rifles and shotguns were cut twice – once at the stock and once at the barrel. The destroyed weapons will be shipped to a steel mill in South Beloit, where they will be shredded and turned into scrap metal. “In three to four weeks, this material will be riding around in a Dodge Dart,” Barbagallo said.
With the recent shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, the issue of gun control is on the forefront of Americans’ minds. Barbagallo said he was happy to play a role in destroying weapons that otherwise could end up in the wrong hands. “I think what took place in Newtown is still on everybody’s mind,” he said. “Fortunately, these weapons won’t be reused. That’s the positive note.” But Barbagallo made it clear that Thursday’s gun destruction was not a message for or against gun control. “It’s not about pro-gun or anti-gun,” he said. “It’s about anti-crime.” “I think the public … especially those who might be anti-gun … like to see this type of thing,” said Wade Bigall, vice president of marketing at Behr. “They like to know the guns that aren’t being used are being destroyed. The Connecticut events have opened up a huge debate on both sides. It’s certainly a complex issue. But I don’t think anybody on either side of the debate wants criminals to have guns.” Some of the weapons
seized by Woodstock police date to the 1970s and have cluttered evidence rooms. Parsons said the evidence room is being converted to an electronic inventory system, and he is in charge of getting rid of items that they are no longer required to keep by law. The Woodstock police received the weapons for a variety of reasons. Some were seized and required to remain in police custody by a court order. Others were handed over willingly by people looking to get rid of their weapons, Parsons said. Cameron Johnson, an Iraq War veteran, works at Behr and used his familiarity with firearms to inspect the weapons before they were destroyed. “I’m always interested in seeing the firearms that come across that I’ve never seen before,” he said. “Some of them I don’t even know how to clear at first.” Johnson said that by destroying the guns, he was doing his part to make the community safer. “You always want to make the community safer,” he said. “I’m really proud to take a part in that.”
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Max is expected to make a full recovery, which comes as happy news to those who know him from the Car Bath in Cary, where he can be found welcoming customers. “It’s crazy how popular he has become,” said Williams, owner of the business. “He is
cowering a lot right now, like he’s afraid of being attacked again. Hopefully, he’ll be back to normal soon.” The attack is similar to many reported in the Chicago area this past year and sightings, including near Wrigley Field. Coyotes have attacked canines in Wheaton, Warrenville, North Aurora and elsewhere. “[Coyotes] are here and not going away anytime
soon,” said Sara Denham, Wildlife Resource Center manager for the McHenry County Conservation District. “Residents need to be aware of that because you are putting your animals at risk by letting them roam free.” Keeping an eye on pets, especially smaller dogs, is highly recommended because they make easy targets for coyotes, Denham said.
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8OBITUARIES AndREw J. BAvEtz
Born: Aug. 25, 1921; in Caspian, Mich. died: Jan. 2, 2013; in McHenry McHENRY – Andrew J. Bavetz, 91, of McHenry, died Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013, with his family by his side. He was born Aug. 25, 1921, in Caspian, Mich., the son of Andrew and Mary (Adlechesch) Bavetz. Andrew was a veteran of World War II, having served in the United States Army. He was a carpenter by trade, a member of the Chicago Regional Council of Carpenters and a lifetime member of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America. He also was employed at Peko Tile and Carpet, Piper Plastics.
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He loved to sing and was a member of the Slovenian group Preseren and sang with a barbershop quartet. He is survived by brothers and sisters, Mary Bavetz, Julie Koffend, Tony Bavetz, Anne (Steve) Redensek, John (Barbara) Bavetz, Margie (Don) Smith, Frances Flicek and Dolores Wojtysiak; dear friend, Jan Alukonis; and many nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents and brothers, Edward and Frank Bavetz. The visitation will be from 9:30 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 5, until the service at 10:30 a.m. at Church of Holy Apostles, 5211 Bull Valley Road, McHenry. Interment will be in St. Mary Cemetery, McHenry. Arrangements were by Colonial Funeral Home, McHenry. For infor-
mation, call the funeral home at 815-385-0063 or www.colonialmchenry. com Sign the guest book at www. NWHerald.com/obits
vIOlA I. BROwn
died: Jan. 3, 2013; in Woodstock WOODSTOCK – Viola I. Brown, 88, of Woodstock, died Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013, at Hospice of Northeastern Illinois Inpatient Unit in Woodstock. Funeral arrangements are pending at Schneider-Leucht-Merwin & Cooney Funeral Home, 1211 N. Seminary Ave., Woodstock. For information, call the funeral home at 815-338-1710.
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8FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS Andrew J. Bavetz: The visitation will be from 9:30 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 5, until the service at 10:30 a.m. at Church of Holy Apostles, 5211 Bull Valley Road, McHenry. Interment will be in St. Mary Cemetery, McHenry. Arrangements were by Colonial Funeral Home, McHenry. For information, call the funeral home at 815-3850063. wesley E. Eaton: A memorial service will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 26, at Holy Cross Lutheran Church, Cary. Jose l. Espina, Jr.: The visitation will be from 3 to 9 p.m. Friday, Jan. 4, at DeFiore-Jorgensen Funeral Home, 10763 Dundee Road, Huntley. A funeral Mass will be celebrated at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 5, at St. Mary Catholic Church. Burial will be in St. Mary Cemetery. For information, call the funeral home at 847-515-8772. Richard Allen Graf: A memorial service will be Jan. 19 in Tennessee. Harold “woody” Curtis Grashel: The visitation will be from 11 a.m. to until the funeral service at 1 p.m. Friday, Jan. 4, at Saunders & McFarlin Funeral Home, 107 W. Sumner St., Harvard. Interment will be in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Harvard. For information, call the funeral home at 815-9435400. lisa Erickson Greenwood: A memorial service to celebrate Lisa’s life is scheduled for 10 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 5, at Hope Covenant Church, 451 Ackman Road, Crystal Lake. For information, call DuPage Cremations Ltd. and Memorial Chapel at 630-293-5200. Max M. liptrot: The visitation will be from 3 to 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 4, at the Schneider-Leucht-Merwin & Cooney Funeral Home, 1211 N. Seminary Ave. in Woodstock, followed by a private funeral service. For information, call the funeral home at 815-338-1710. Rosemary P. Malmen: The visitation will be from 9:30 a.m. until Mass is celebrated at 10:30 a.m. Friday, Jan. 4, at St. Mary Catho-
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lic Church, 10307 Dundee Road, Huntley. Entombment will be in St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery in River Grove. For information, call DeFiore-Jorgensen Funeral Home at 847-515-8772. william F. Otten Jr.: The visitation will be from 9 a.m. until the funeral Mass celebration at 10 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 5, at St. Margaret Mary Church, 111 S. Hubbard St., Algonquin. Interment will be in Northland Memorial Park, Rhinelander, Wis. For information, call Willow Funeral Home at 847-458-1700. Robert J. Pinnow: Friends will be received from noon until the service at 3 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 5, at St. Andrew Lutheran Church, 511 W. Rockton Road, Rockton. Interment will be at 11 a.m. Monday, Jan. 7, in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Harvard. For information, call Brian Mark Funeral Home, Beloit, Wis., at 608-3622000. Robert F. Rhodes: The visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 4, at Kisselburg-Wauconda Funeral Home, 235 N. Main St., Wauconda. Inurnment will be private. For information, call the funeral home at 847-526-2115. Carol Marguerite Riegel: The visitation will be from 3 to 8 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 6, at Querhammer & Flagg Funeral Home, 500 W. Terra Cotta Ave. (Route 176), Crystal Lake. The funeral service will be at 10 a.m. Monday, Jan. 7, at Harvest Bible Chapel Crystal Lake, 580 Tracy Trail, Crystal Lake. For information, call the funeral home at 815-459-1760. Grace viola (Schrack) Salava: A memorial service with a luncheon afterward will be Jan. 26 at Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, 25519 W. Route 134, Ingleside (Long Lake). Call the church at 847-546-2109 for the time. Inurnment will be private in Grant Township Cemetery, off Molidor Road in Ingleside. For information, call K.K. Hamsher Funeral Home at 847-587-2100. Steven don Santucci: The celebration of Steven’s life will be
from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 13, at Four Colonies Clubhouse, 680 Cress Creek Lane, Crystal Lake. Gladys B. Schmitt: The visitation will continue from 10:15 a.m. until prayers at 11 a.m. Friday, Jan. 4, at Justen Funeral Home & Crematory, 3700 W. Charles J. Miller Road, McHenry. The funeral Mass celebration will be at 11:30 a.m. Friday, Jan. 4, at St. Mary’s Church, 1401 N. Richmond Road, McHenry. Interment will be in McHenry County Memorial Park, Woodstock. For information, call the funeral home at 815-385-2400. Frances R. Siwula: The visitation will be from 3 to 9 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 6, at Davenport Family Funeral Home, 419 E. Terra Cotta Ave. (Route 176), Crystal Lake. Prayers will be at 9 a.m. Monday, Jan. 7, at the funeral home followed by a procession to St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, 2302 Church St., Johnsburg, for the 10 a.m. Mass of Christian Burial. After the Mass, the burial service will be in the chapel at Queen of Heaven Cemetery in Hillside. For information, call the funeral home at 815-459-3411. Paul C. Smith: The visitation will be from 4 to 6 p.m. Friday, Jan. 4, at Colonial Funeral Home, 591 Ridgeview Drive, McHenry, where services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 5. Interment will be in Woodland Cemetery. For information, call the funeral home at 815-385-0063 or www. colonialmchenry.com. Gosta “Gus” E. Snickars: The family will receive friends from 1 p.m. until the memorial service at 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 5, at the chapel of Windridge Memorial Park, 7014 S. Rawson Bridge Road, Cary. For information, call Windridge Funeral Home at 847639-2191. linda R. wrighton: A celebration of life will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 4, at Querhammer & Flagg Funeral Home, 500 W. Terra Cotta Ave., Crystal Lake. A service will be at 7 p.m. Cremation rites will be accorded.
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WALtER H. FAbER
born: Oct. 12, 1918; in Silver Lake, Wis. Died: Dec. 26, 2012; in Pleasant Prairie, Wis.
SILVER LAKE, Wis. – Walter H. Faber, 94, of Silver Lake, passed away Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012, at St. Catherine’s Medical Campus in Pleasant Prairie, Wis. He was born Oct. 12, 1918, in Silver Lake, the son of the late Jacob C. and Millie (Ganzlin) Faber. On Sept. 4, 1949, he married DeLores Anderson in California and resided in California from 1949 until returning to Silver Lake in 1970. Walt proudly served in the United States Army during World War II. Walt was a master craftsman of fine woodworking, and prior to his retirement worked as a carpenter in California and Illinois building custom homes. While living in California, Walt was an active member of the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church. He was a current member of the Christ Lutheran Church, Paddock Lake, Wis., where he constructed the wood furnishings for the chancel in the sanctuary. Walt loved spending time with his grandchildren and great-grandchildren. He enjoyed woodworking, fishing, boating, water skiing, gardening and traveling. Walt had a lifelong love for children. He was a foster parent for 26 newborns and coached Little League baseball for several years. Walt always enjoyed sharing his sense of humor and his homemade banana bread. Survivors include his wife of 63 years, DeLores; four children, Thomas (Lisa) of Woodstock, Diane (Troy) Roberts of Silver Lake, Gloria Wietrzak of Salem, Wis., and James (Kristina) of Marengo; 12 grandchildren, Troy, Angela, Jacob, Alison, Colin, Benjamin, Ryan, Brett, Camilea, Michael, James II and Kristi; 19 great-grandchildren, Jake, Emma, Kaitlyn, Annika, Andrew, Grace, Harper, Charlie, Walter, Adeline, William, Parker, Frankie, Chloe, Hannah, Kayla, James III, Sara and Nikole; two brothers, Sheldon (Katy) and Donald (Eileen), both of Silver Lake; two brothers-in-law, George Felleti of Silver Lake and Darrell Null of Texas; and many nieces, nephews and friends. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by a son-in-law, Frank Wietrzak; and 10 siblings, Reinald, LeRoy, Kenneth, Robert, Jacob, Lyle, Mildred Goehring, Shirley Klontz, Marge Null and Genevieve Felleti. Funeral services and interment will be private. Arrangements were entrusted to Strang Funeral Home of Antioch. In lieu of flowers, donations to Christ Lutheran Church, Paddock Lake, Wis., are appreciated in Walt’s memory. Please sign the online guest book at www. strangfh.com. Sign the guest book at www. NWHerald.com/obits
WILLIAm F. OttEN JR.
born: March 30, 1927; in Chicago Died: Dec. 30, 2012; in Lake in the Hills LAKE IN THE HILLS – William F. Otten Jr., 85, of Lake in the Hills, and formerly of Deerfield and Rhinelander, Wis., passed away peacefully at home Sunday, Dec. 30, 2012. He was born March 30, 1927, in Chicago, to William F. and Louise (Kasmirs) Otten Sr. A January 1945 graduate of Carl Schurz High School in Chicago, he served with the 441st Troop Carrier Group in Eschborn, Germany,
during World War II. He married the love of his life, Audrey Kwasigroch, on June 11, 1949, at Our Lady of Victory Catholic Church in Chicago, and settled down in Chicago and later Deerfield to raise four children together. Bill spent 37 years working as the customer technical laboratory supervisor for Interchemical Printing Inks, a chemical printing ink manufacturer, which ultimately became part of BASF. He and his wife, Audrey, retired in 1983 to a home that he designed on South Pine Lake, just outside of Rhinelander. An avid fisherman, gardener and woodworker, he also was a model-ship builder extraordinaire. Many of his completed models were donated to area churches and schools to be auctioned off at charity fundraisers. After the death of his wife, Audrey, on July 28, 1997, he moved back to the Chicago area. A gentle and private man blessed with a great sense of humor, he was always available to help when one of his family needed him. He enjoyed the ensuing years, becoming a familiar figure at his grandchildren’s school, musical and athletic events. He took great joy in being a part of their lives and encouraging them as they grew toward adulthood. Bill is survived by his four children, William F. Otten III of Madison, Wis., Mallory (Timothy) Pignatari of Algonquin, James S. (Joy) Otten of Crystal Lake and Robert D. (Peggy) Otten of Grayslake. He was the beloved grandfather of Christopher and Ariana Pignatari, Heather Lakemacher, Joshua Otten, Sarah (Noah) Marsh, Jeremy, Hannah and Rebekah Otten and Tyler, Carlye and Derek Otten. He also leaves a sister, Eileen (Leonard) Niemiec of Paradise Valley, Ariz.; two cousins, John (Joanne) Kasmirs of Poplar Grove and Kathleen (Richard) Stojak of Texas; and numerous nieces and nephews. In addition to his wife, he was preceded in death by his parents; and a sister-in-law, Marie (the late Harold) Sperling. The visitation will take place from 9 until the funeral Mass celebration at 10 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 5, at St. Margaret Mary Church, 111 S. Hubbard St., Algonquin. Interment will be in Northland Memorial Park, Rhinelander, Wis. For information, call Willow Funeral Home at 847-458-1700 or visit www.willowfh.com. Sign the guest book at www. NWHerald.com/obits
FLORENCE L. PICtON
born: May 17, 1916; in Itasca Died: Dec. 30, 2012; in Woodstock MARENGO – Florence L. Picton, 96, of Marengo passed away Sunday, Dec. 30, 2012, at Valley Hi Nursing Home in Woodstock. She was born May 17, 1916, in Itasca to William and Linda (Wischstadt) Liepitz. On July 20, 1935, she married Henry Picton in Bloomingdale. Florence was a devoted wife and mother, who enjoyed raising her children and spending time with her grandchildren. She is survived by her children, Thomas (Christine) Picton, Glen (Karla) Picton, Nancy Picton, Jane (James) Wacker and Ronald (Susan) Picton; daughter-in-law, Mary Picton; 12 grandchildren; 20 great-grandchildren; two greatgreat-grandchildren; and sister, Lorraine Heinrich. She was preceded in death by her husband, Henry, on June 20, 2000; sons, Robert and William; one grandchild; one greatgrandchild; parents; and brothers, George and Ralph Liepitz. Burial will be private. A memorial service will be planned at a later date. Memorials may be made to St. John’s United Church of Christ, 1784 Jefferson St., Union, IL
60180. Arrangements were entrusted to Marengo-Union Funeral Home. For information, call the funeral home at 815-568-8131. Online condolences may be made at www.marengo-unionfuneralhome.com. Sign the guest book at www. NWHerald.com/obits
CAROL mARGuERItE RIEGEL born: Nov. 4, 1931; in Chicago Died: Jan. 3, 2013; in Elgin
ALGONQUIN – Carol Marguerite Riegel, 81, of Algonquin, went home to be with her Lord on Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013. Carol passed peacefully at Sherman Hospital, Elgin, in the presence of her family. Carol was born Nov. 4, 1931, at Chicago Lying-In Hospital to Paul and Marguerite Engholm. She graduated from Fenger High School in 1949, then enrolled at Bethel College in Minnesota. Carol moved to Crystal Lake in 1957 when she married Robert S. Riegel on Oct. 5. While raising two children, Carol worked at South School and Lemstone Books. Carol also volunteered at a number of civic and church organizations, including Crystal Lake Evangelical Free Church – where she was a member and choir director for more than 20 years – Harvest Bible Chapel Crystal Lake and the Algonquin Public Library, where she was a member of The Friends of the Library. Carol is remembered as a loving wife, doting grandmother, avid reader, dedicated volunteer and, most importantly, a committed follower of Christ. Carol is survived by her husband of 55 years, Robert S. Riegel; two children, Bruce (Kathleen) R. Riegel and Linda (Richard) C. Grimm; and three grandchildren, Daniel (Lauren) R. Grimm, Nathan A. Grimm and Rachel J. Grimm. Her family will receive friends and relatives from 3 to 8 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 6, at Querhammer & Flagg Funeral Home, 500 W. Terra Cotta Ave. (Route 176), Crystal Lake. The funeral service will be at 10 a.m. on Monday, Jan. 7, at Harvest Bible Chapel Crystal Lake, 580 Tracy Trail, Crystal Lake, with the Rev. Greg Bradshaw officiating, followed by interment at Windridge Memorial Park. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made in Carol’s memory to Algonquin Public Library, The Friends of the Library Scholarship Fund or Harvest Bible Chapel Crystal Lake. Online condolences may be expressed at www.querhammerandflagg.com. For more information, please call the funeral home at 815-459-1760. Sign the guest book at www. NWHerald.com/obits
StEvEN DON SANtuCCI born: Feb. 18, 1948; in Chicago Died: Dec. 21, 2012; in Barrington CRYSTAL LAKE – Steven Don Santucci, 64, passed away Friday, Dec. 21, 2012, at Pepper Family Hospice Home & Center for Care in Barrington. He was born Feb. 18, 1948, in Chicago, son of the late Pat Santucci and Helen Jewett. On June 20, 1970, he was united in marriage to Deborah Marquette. Steve worked in the distribution/manufacturing industry for more than 15 years. He loved to play, coach and
watch sports, and was an avid Cubs fan. Steve’s life revolved around his family, who were all his main priority in life. His eight grandchildren always held a special place in his heart and nothing would light up his face more than being with them. His family and friends filled his life with endless joy and pleasure. He is survived by his loving wife of 42 years, Debbie Santucci; three children, Nicholas Santucci, Anthony (Jennifer) Santucci and Natalie (Todd) Caporaso; eight grandchildren, Makayla, Mason, Chase, Ellie, Ava, Dylan, Carter and Braden; and brother, William Jarchow. The celebration of Steven’s life will be from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 13, 2013, at Four Colonies Clubhouse, 680 Cress Creek Lane, Crystal Lake. Sign the guest book at www. NWHerald.com/obits
FRANCES R. SIWuLA
born: April 21, 1919; in Cedar Rapids, Iowa Died: Jan. 1, 2013; in Lake Geneva, Wis.
SPRING GROVE – Frances R. Siwula, 93, of Spring Grove, passed away Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013, in Lake Geneva, Wis. She was born April 21, 1919, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the daughter of the late Frank and Teresa Spallino. She was the oldest of three siblings. On June 6, 1942, she married Edward W. Siwula. She is survived by her children, Ron of St. Charles, James (Diana) of Sleepy Hollow and Deborah (Michael) Raczka of Spring Grove; grandchildren, Teresa (Jonathan) Bilyk, Ed Siwula, Steven Siwula and Thomas and Sarah Raczka; great-grandchild, Chaela Bilyk; and many nieces, nephews and friends. Frances was preceded in death by her husband, Edward; son, Edward; and sisters, Rose Spallino and Michelina LaMantia. Visitation will be from 3 to 9 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 6, at Davenport Family Funeral Home, 419 E. Terra Cotta Ave., (Route 176), Crystal Lake. Prayers will be at 9 a.m. Monday, Jan. 7, at the funeral home followed by a procession to St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, 2302 Church St., Johnsburg, for the 10 a.m. Mass of Christian Burial. After the Mass, the burial service will be in the chapel at Queen of Heaven Cemetery in Hillside. In lieu of flowers, donations in memory of Frances may be sent to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation at JDRF Illinois, 11 S. La Salle St., Ste 1800, Chicago IL 60603-1344. Condolences may be sent to her family at www.davenportfamily. com. For information, call the funeral home at 815-459-3411. Sign the guest book at www. NWHerald.com/obit
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born: Jan. 9, 1932; in McHenry Died: Jan. 2, 2013; in Johnsburg JOHNSBURG – Paul C. Smith, 80, of Johnsburg, passed away Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013, at his home. He was born Jan. 9, 1932, in McHenry to J. Josie Roy and Ester Lillian (Norlin) Smith. On Dec. 28, 1983, he married Joanne Zollner in Bradenton, Fla. Paul worked as a supervisor for Asplund Tree Service for 30 years. He was a motion picture projectionist for eight years for Plitt Theatres. He was a member of the Shriners and the Masons. Until his illness, he spent his winters in Sarasota, Fla. He was
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8PUBLIC ACCESS Saturday Johnsburg Development and Governmental Affairs Committee When: 9 a.m. Saturday Where: Committee members will meet in the parking lot at Johnsburg Village Hall, 1515 Channel Beach Ave. Tuesday District 12 school board When: 7 p.m. Tuesday Where: Johnsburg Junior High School North’s learning center, 2220 W. Church St., Johnsburg District 15 school board When: 7:30 p.m. Tuesday Where: Valley View Elementary School, 6515 W. Route 120, McHenry District 200 School Board When: 7 p.m. Tuesday Where: Clay Professional Development Center, 227 W. Judd St., Woodstock
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Harvard Fire Protection District Regular Trustee Meeting When: 6 p.m. Tuesday Where: Harvard Fire Protection District, 502 S. Eastman St.
ALGONQUIN – Gosta “Gus” E. Snickars, 85, passed away Saturday, Dec. 29, 2012, at his home in Algonquin. Gus was born Aug. 10, 1927, in Karpero Korsholm, Finland, to Werner and Olga (nee Almquist) Snickars. He married his wife, Inga, in 1949, and moved to Algonquin in 1954. Gus retired from Arnold Engineering in Marengo as a project engineer. He enjoyed spending time with family, carpentry and fishing whenever possible. He is survived by his son, Roger, of Algonquin; and grandson, John (Katie) Snickars of Cary. He was preceded in death by his parents and wife, Inga. The family will receive friends from 1 until the memorial service at 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 5, at the chapel of Windridge Memorial Park, 7014 S. Rawson Bridge Road, Cary. Memorial contributions may be given to the American Heart Association, 208 S. LaSalle St., Suite 1500, Chicago, IL 60604. For information, call Windridge Funeral Home at 847-639-2191 or visit www.WindridgeFuneralHome.com. Sign the guest book at www. NWHerald.com/obits
Johnsburg Planning and Zoning Commission When: 7 p.m. Tuesday Where: Village Hall, 1515 Channel Beach Ave.
born: Aug. 10,1927; in Karpero Korsholm, Finland Died: Dec. 29, 2012; in Algonquin
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Died: Dec. 30, 2012; in Woodstock WOODSTOCK – William Pat Sonnenberg, son of Irene Brown, died on Sunday, Dec. 30, 2012, of lung cancer at the age of 70 years young at Hospice of Northeastern Illinois Inpatient Unit of Woodstock. He was formerly of Lake in the Hills and California. He was the only son of Irene and was loved very much by his mother, wife, sister, children, grandchildren and other relatives and friends. Cremation will be private. There will be no visitation. Sign the guest book at www. NWHerald.com/obits
Johnsburg Community Affairs Committee When: 7 p.m. Tuesday Where: Village Hall, 1515 Channel Beach Ave. Nippersink Public Library District Board When: 7 p.m. Tuesday Where: Nippersink Public Library, 5418 Hill Road, Richmond Spring Grove Economic and Development Commission When: 6:30 p.m. Tuesday Where: Spring Grove Village Hall, 7401 Meyer Road Spring Grove Police Pension Board When: 8 a.m. Tuesday Where: Spring Grove Village Hall, 7401 Meyer Road Woodstock Parks & Recreation Commission When: 7 p.m. Tuesday Where: Council Chambers, City Hall, 121 W. Calhoun St. Thursday Huntley Village Board When: 7 p.m. Thursday Where: Huntley Village Hall, 10987 Main St. McHenry Township Board of Trustees When: 7 p.m. Thursday Where: Township Hall, 3703 N. Richmond Road Richmond Economic Development Commission When: 7 p.m. Thursday Where: Richmond Village Hall, 5600 Hunter Drive Jan. 14 Johnsburg Ordinance Committee When: 7 p.m. Jan. 14 Where: Village Hall, 1515 Channel Beach Ave.
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a lifelong McHenry area resident and will always be remembered as a devoted father and husband. Survivors include his wife; three children, Paul C. Smith Jr. of McHenry, James (Mary) Smith of Cary and Gwen Palmateer of Bradenton; grandchildren, Molly and Mark Smith, Erin Sturm, Wendy Marra and Christina Palmateer; five great-grandchildren; two brothers, Wayne (Maria) Smith of McHenry and Leo (Lois) Smith of Wisconsin. He was preceded in death by his parents; son, Mark Smith; and brother, Lon Smith. Visitation will be from 4 to 6 p.m. Friday, Jan. 4, at Colonial Funeral Home, 591 Ridgeview Drive, McHenry, where services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 5. Interment will be in Woodland Cemetery. If desired, memorials may be made to the charity of the donor’s choice. For information, call the funeral home at 815-385-0063 or www. colonialmchenry.com Sign the guest book at www. NWHerald.com/obits
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FIVE ON ONE
Streaks shut down Wolves’ top shooters By JOe STevenSOn
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TODAY’S TOPIC: His guys
The Bears received permisson to interview Colts offensive coordinator Bruce Arians (right, with head coach Chuck Pagano) for their head coaching vacancy (story, page C4). If they hire him, it could be good news for Jay Cutler. Five QBs Arians has worked with: 1. Peyton Manning. He turned out pretty good, didn’t he? 2. Ben Roethlisberger. Big Ben won two Super Bowls by age 26 under Arians’ guidance. 3. Andrew Luck. He’s off to a scintillating start in Indy. 4. Tim Couch. He got Cleveland into the playoffs in 2002 with Arians as offensive coordinator. 5. Chandler Harnish. Time will tell on the former Northern Illinois star.
WOODSTOCK – Woodstock’s defensive focus was centered on slowing down Prairie Ridge’s Michael Bradshaw and Steven Ticknor. Blue Streaks coach Alex Baker offered a mathematical equation on the board before the game: 5 (Bradshaw’s number) plus 23 (Ticknor’s) equals less than 20 (points). The Streaks pulled that off, along
with much more. By the end of the third quarter, Bradshaw and Ticknor had combined for nine points, Woodstock had a 26-point lead and the Wolves had more turnovers (20) than points (19). Woodstock’s 2-3 zone defense gave Prairie Ridge fits as the Streaks rolled to a 57-37 victory Thursday in a Fox Valley Conference crossover boys basketball game at James M. Shipley Memorial Gymnasium. “We had our hands on every pass,” Streaks guard Andy Burhrow said. “We
know we have to be quick and move as fast as we can [in the zone]. This is probably the best game we’ve had all season.” Woodstock (10-4) jumped ahead, 12-2, early and forced nine turnovers in the first quarter. The Wolves (3-10) trailed, 27-19, early in the third quarter, but the Streaks scored the last 18 points of that quarter for a 45-19 lead.
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McHenrY 42, CArY-grOve 19
Warriors dominate
From Tim Sullivan (Louisville) Courier-Journal
Pro basketball Bulls at Heat, 7 p.m., WCIU
The Bulls take on the Heat in Miami in the teams’ first meeting of the season. LeBron James reportedly sat out Thursday’s Heat practice because of a bruised right knee.
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WreSTLIng: CL CenTrAL 55 grAYSLAke CenTrAL 17
Seniors stand out for Tigers By BILL PeMSTeIn
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NEW ORLEANS – See you later, alligators. See you pounded. See you panicked. See you lose your poise, your pretense, your swagger and your mystique. See what happens when grounded Charlie reptiles give Strong chase to a flock of resolute birds. See the Louisville Cardinals football team soaring past the Florida Gators, 33-23. See it, and believe it. Perhaps Wednesday’s BCS Sugar Bowl score qualifies as an upset, what with the 14-point advantage the bookmakers had bestowed on the Gators. But the betting line looked more like a miscalculation by the time the Cardinals had gone all Crocodile Dundee on their opponents. It looked as if Charlie Strong’s young team was not only superior, but more seasoned; not only more precise, but more mature. Sugar is sweet, but this night must have tasted like ambrosia to a U of L fan base that has spent the past six weeks in a prolonged reverie. The victory capped a satisfying stretch that began with an offer of membership from the Atlantic Coast Conference, continued with a heroic performance by injured quarterback Teddy Bridgewater in a conference-clinching comeback at Rutgers, resumed with Strong’s gratifying rejection of a job offer from Tennessee and concluded with a thorough thumping of a Southeastern Conference power ranked No. 4 in the nation.
“We really focused on stopping (Michael) Bradshaw and (Steven) Ticknor – they are their shooters.”
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Cary-grove’s Matt Hughes waits for the referee’s signal to begin wrestling McHenry’s Cam Pait in Thursday’s dual at McHenry east. Pait won the match, 4-3, and McHenry won the dual, 42-19. Watch video highlights at McHenryCountySports.com.
McHenry makes statement in Valley showdown By rOB SMITH
rsmith@shawmedia.com McHENRY – McHenry put a stranglehold on the Fox Valley Conference Valley Division wrestling race Thursday with a 42-19 win against Cary-Grove. Warriors coach Will Gaddy said his team has had this match circled on the calendar since the beginning of the season. Both teams entered the match undefeated in the FVC Valley with 2-0 records. “They really wanted this,” Gaddy said. “They’ve been focused on this dual the whole season. Being ranked second behind No. 1 C-G in the McHenryCoun-
tySports.com Power Rankings also was a big motivator, Gaddy said. “We knew this was one of the top teams in the conference,” Gaddy said. “We just wanted to prove a point.” The Warriors jumped to an early lead and never let the Trojans gain any momentum. Mike Infelise started the dual with a pin for McHenry at 126 pounds, and Brad Ostdick won by decision at 132 to put the Warriors up, 9-0. Mike Underwood got C-G on the board with a major decision at 138, but the Warriors bounced back with two pins
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McHenry’s Britches Sikula twists the arm of his 106-pound Cary-grove opponent, John Cullen, on Thursday. Cullen won the match, 2-0.
CRYSTAL LAKE – Romeo McKnight, a promising freshman on the Crystal Lake Central wrestling team, heard his orders. “Coach told me to put my shoes on,’’ McKnight said. Well that’s no big deal. Except for the part that McKnight was being outweighed by 75 pounds. His opponent Thursday night was 274pounder Cam Hosimer of Grayslake Central. “I just knew I had to get a win,’’ McKnight said, “and to stay away from his grasp.” McKnight did that and more on senior night at Crystal Lake Central. He pinned Hosimer, and the Tigers used the power of the fall to register a 55-17 Fox Valley Conference Fox Division win. McKnight plays football and wrestles for the Tigers. He usually wrestles at 195 pounds, so this was something new. “It was a little scary,’’ he said. “But I like the one-onone in wrestling. It’s a competitive rough sport, and it helps you condition for other sports.” On a night when seniors were saluted at Central, the Tigers had a pin at 182 from senior Justin Ellman against Grayslake Central’s David Thiel. Fellow senior Max Enxing notched a 9-4 win over Grayslake Central’s Glenn Stearns. “Our seniors stepped up,’’ Tigers coach Justen Lohr said. “We only have six seniors. As a team, we are pretty good at pinning.” Another senior registering a pin for the Tigers was Joe Fiala, a four-year wrestler at the high school. He stopped Kurt Radke at 113. Another four-year senior, Brent Pfaff, registered a major decision at 170. He stopped the Rams’ Joe Slusser, 9-1.
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BCS CHAMPIOnSHIP gAMe: nO. 1 nOTre DAMe vS. nO. 2 ALABAMA, 7:30 P.M. MOnDAY, eSPn, AM-1000
Irish’s Farley takes long route to BCS title game By TIM reYnOLDS
The Associated Press
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Matthias Farley’s path to the BCS title game is far from conventional. He’ll start at safety for top-ranked Notre Dame on Monday night, when Matthias the Fighting Farley Irish take on No. 2 Alabama to decide this season’s college football national champion. That notion would have seemed impossible four years ago. It didn’t even look all that
Old school
The offenses for No. 1 Notre Dame and No. 2 Alabama aren’t flashy, but they have been effective enough to take both teams to the BCS Championship game. PAge C2 likely even four months ago. Yet here he is, a rookie in terms of playing defense, set to potentially take on a huge role in the BCS title game. “He’s a great player and he’s done a great job so far,” said Notre Dame safety Zeke Motta, who starts alongside Farley. “I wouldn’t expect anything less. His preparation and how he’s approached that transition, I think it’s
been great. He’s definitely accepted the challenge.” And that challenge was a daunting one. To fully understand why Farley’s role has been such a key for Notre Dame this season, the calendar would have to be flipped back four years to when he decided to give up soccer and play football – for the first time. He went from the pitch to the pigskin as a high school junior, wound up catching 74 passes for more than 1,500 yards and 22 touchdowns in his two seasons at that level, and was AP file photo part of Brian Kelly’s first full recruiting class with the notre Dame’s Matthias Farley intercepts a pass against Stanford on Oct. 13 in South Bend, Ind. Farley was a high school soccer player beFighting Irish.
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fore transitioning to football, first as a wide receiver and now a starting safety for no. 1 notre Dame.
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No-frills offenses propel Irish, Tide By PAUL NeWBeRRY The Associated Press
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Oregon’s De’Anthony Thomas returns the opening kickoff 94 yards for a touchdown Thursday against Kansas State in the Fiesta Bowl in Glendale, Ariz.
FieSTA BOWL: NO. 5 OReGON 35, NO. 7 KANSAS STATe 17
Off and running
Thomas, Oregon races past Kansas State By JOHN MARSHALL The Associated Press
GLENDALE, Ariz. – Oregon’s DeAnthony Thomas raced 94 yards for a touchdown on the opening kickoff. The fifth-ranked Ducks barely looked back after that. Triggered by Thomas’ attention-grabbing return, Oregon raced past No. 7 Kansas State, 35-17, on Thursday at the Fiesta Bowl in what may have been coach Chip Kelly’s final game with the Ducks. Teams that had that national title aspirations end on the same day, Oregon and Kansas State ended up in the desert for a marquee matchup billed as a battle of styles: The fast-flying Ducks vs. the execution-is-everything Wild-
cats. With Kelly reportedly talking to several NFL teams, Oregon (12-1) was too much for Kansas State and its Heisman Trophy finalist, Collin Klein. The Ducks tried to turn the game into a track meet, and it worked from the start. Thomas followed his before-everyone-sat-down kickoff return with a 23-yard touchdown catch, finishing with 195 total yards. Kenjon Barner ran for 143 yards on 31 carries and scored on a 24-yard touchdown pass from Marcus Mariota in the second quarter. Mariota later scored on a 2-yard run in the third quarter, capped by an obscure 1-point safety that went in the Ducks’ favor. Even Oregon’s defense
got into the act, intercepting Klein twice and holding him to 30 yards on 13 carries. Whether Kelly leaves Eugene or not, he had a good run, leading the Ducks to four straight trips to BCS bowls, the past two wins. Last year’s Fiesta Bowl was an offensive fiesta, with Oklahoma State outlasting Stanford 41-38 in overtime. The 2013 version was an upgrade: Nos. 4 and 5 in the BCS, two of the nation’s best offenses, dynamic players and superbly successful coaches on both sides. Oregon has become the standard for go-go-go football under Kelly, its fleet of Ducks making those shiny helmets and flashy uniforms blur across the grassy landscape.
cOTTON BOWL
Bowl reunites ex-Big 12 rivals By STePHeN HAWKiNS The Associated Press
ARLINGTON, Texas – Spencer Nealy and some of his Texas A&M teammates were discussing potential bowl games even before their first SEC season began. “We were like, how funny would it be if we made the Cotton Bowl,” Nealy said. “We were looking at SEC vs. Big 12 teams. That’s what we thought about, that situation.” Well, Texas A&M’s season of firsts – coach Kevin Sumlin’s first year, quarterback Johnny Manziel becoming the first freshman to win the Heisman Trophy and the SEC debut – will end with the 10thranked Aggies (10-2) playing a familiar Big 12 foe. In the only bowl matching the SEC against the Big 12, Texas A&M takes on 12th-ranked Oklahoma (10-2) in the Cotton Bowl tonight. Both teams have five-game winning streaks. “It’s a little more than a game,” Nealy said. “It’s almost like we had a great season but we have to win this one.” In their 16 Big 12 seasons, the only time the Aggies won more than nine games was when they were 11-3 their 1998 conference title season. They left the league with a winning record (7-6) last season only after a bowl win over Northwestern.
Cotton Bowl Texas A&M (10-2) vs. Oklahoma (10-2), 7:10 p.m. today, Fox Site: Cowboys Stadium, Arlington, Texas Line: Texas A&M by 3½ Series record: Oklahoma leads, 19-11 KeY MATcHUP Quarterbacks, young and old, of high-scoring offenses. Oklahoma senior Landry Jones is the steady record-setting veteran making his 50th career start (16,368 career yards passing and 122 TDs). The Sooners are averaging 40.2 points per game, less than Texas A&M’s 44.8 a game. Johnny Manziel, the Aggies’ exciting dual-threat player known as Johnny Football, is the first freshman to win the Heisman Trophy. He has an SEC-record 4,600 total yards while accounting for 43 TDs. Once in the SEC, which has six national titles in a row, Texas A&M lost its opener, 20-17, to Florida. The other loss was 24-19 to LSU before the current winning streak that includes the Aggies’ first road win against a No. 1 team – at SEC champion Alabama, which plays in the BCS title
game Monday night. “The first thing we did was we didn’t talk about it very much what happened in the past. It seemed to be what everyone wanted to talk about externally, but internally we just didn’t,” Sumlin said. “Any time you have to get over a hump or clear a hurdle, you have got to win a game in a certain fashion.” Sumlin pointed to a 30-27 win at Ole Miss the first Saturday in October, when the Aggies overcame six turnovers and were down 10 points with 61⁄2 minutes left. They lost to LSU two weeks later, but haven’t lost since. The Sooners seemed certain of a Bowl Championship Series game after clinching a share of their eighth Big 12 title, even though Kansas State had a tiebreaker giving the Wildcats the league’s automatic BCS slot. But Mid-American champion Northern Illinois then qualified as a BCS buster. “For sure, yes, we were disappointed. I was pretty upset about it,” Sooners senior quarterback Landry Jones said. “But fortunate enough for us, we got put into this game, which you can rank them right up with those BCS games. ... It’s a really good matchup, so when I heard that we were going to be in the Cotton Bowl, it kind of eased over the disappointment.”
NHL LOcKOUT
Labor fight continues; no full talks By iRA PODeLL
The Associated Press
NEW YORK – Any momentum gained from a long night of negotiations between the NHL and the players’ association seemed to have been lost Thursday when the sides remained mostly apart. A meeting that Commissioner Gary Bettman said would begin at 9 a.m. didn’t start until several hours later, and then ended quickly.
That one hour of talks centered on the reporting of hockey-related revenues by teams, and both sides signing off on the figures at the end of the fiscal year. The problem was resolved. An NHL spokesman announced shortly before 8 a.m. that federal mediator Scot Beckenbaugh was still working with the sides, but they would not get back to the bargaining table before today. The players’ association
didn’t immediately comment. The key issues that are still threatening the hockey season weren’t addressed early in the day, but a small group of players and other union staff returned to the NHL office shortly before 5 p.m., to hold another meeting regarding the contentious pension plan. That wrapped up about two hours later. Union head Donald Fehr didn’t take part in either of the two sessions Thursday.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – The BCS championship is going old school. In this era of wide-open, pass-happy offenses, college football’s ultimate prize will be decided Monday night by two throwback teams, No. 1 Notre Dame and No. 2 Alabama. The Fighting Irish (12-0) have run for nearly has many yards as they’ve managed through the air. The Crimson Tide (12-1) is coming off a dominant performance on the ground in the Southeastern Conference championship. “Alabama is that kind of team where you just know they’re going to run the football,” Notre Dame defensive end Kapron Lewis-Moore said Thursday. “The whole world knows they’re going to run the football. Just try to stop us – that’s their mentality. It’s really kind of cool to see. There’s not going to be any tricks or trick plays or anything like that.” The same could be said of the Irish, who are dominant on defense but a bit erratic when they drop back to throw. While coach Brian Kelly might technically operate out of a modern spread offense, he’s scaled back his desire to pile up the points and the passing yards like he did in his previous tenure at Cincinnati. Notre Dame has relied on a running backby-committee approach and quarterback Everett Golson to wear down opponents, averaging more than 202 yards
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Notre Dame’s Theo Riddick breaks the attempted tackle of Michigan’s Kenny Demens on Sept. 22 in South Bend, ind.
rushing a game. Theo Riddick has gained 880 yards and five touchdowns, Cierre Wood has 740 yards and four TDs, while George Atkinson III has chipped in with 361 yards, five TDs and a team-leading 7.1 yards a carry. Golson is also a threat to tuck the ball and run, gaining 305 yards and scoring five times. “Coach Kelly is known to sling the ball around, but this year we’ve kind of done both,” Lewis-Moore said. “We’ve run the ball very well with Theo, Cierre and George. We’re kind of like a three-headed monster.” If that’s the case, then Alabama is a two-headed beast. Junior Eddie Lacy and freshman T.J. Yeldon have both rushed for 1,000 yards and combined for a staggering 27 touchdowns, taking advantage of what is generally regarded as the best offensive line in the nation.
Farley switched from wide receiver to safety • FARLeY Continued from page C1 Once he got to Notre Dame, however, he just couldn’t get on the field as a receiver. So he switched to safety. And then starter Jamoris Slaughter was lost for the season with an Achilles injury. Farley was put in the lineup and never looked back. “He’s not afraid of anything, any challenge,” Kelly said. “If you ask him if he’s got a tape of Portuguese, he’ll learn Portuguese. You know
what I mean? There’s nothing that he looks at and says, ‘I can’t do this.’ He’s got so much pride and so much confidence in himself that any task that you ask him to do, he’s going to find a way.” Against Alabama, Farley will need to do just that. The Crimson Tide has thrown for 27 touchdowns this season and averages 38.5 points a game. Notre Dame’s scoring defense leads the nation, allowing only 10.3 points a game (a mere 0.4 points better than Alabama’s defense).
8SPORTS SHORTS AC Milan exhibition ends after racist chants
BUSTO ARSIZIO, Italy – AC Milan players walked off the field because of racist chants, abandoning an exhibition match in the first half with lower division club Pro Patria on Thursday. The match was interrupted and later ended because of chants directed at several black Milan players, despite appeals to stop from the public address announcer. After repeated chants directed his way, Ghana midfielder Kevin-Prince Boateng picked up the ball and kicked it at a section of the crowd in the 26th minute of the first half. Boateng took off his shirt and walked off the field with his Milan teammates. Urby Emanuelson, Sulley Muntari and M’Baye Niang also were targeted by the chants. The Italian soccer federation (FIGC) announced an inquiry, but said “no sanction or penalty can erase the disdain for an unjustifiable and intolerable episode.”
Pastrana to run full Nationwide schedule
CONCORD, N.C. – X Games star Travis Pastrana will drive the full NASCAR Nationwide Series schedule this year in Roush Fenway’s No. 60 Ford Mustang. Roush Fenway co-owner Jack Roush and Pastrana announced the move Thursday. Roush said the 11-time X Games gold medalist in motorcycle events is serious about making a full-time move to NASCAR and plans to drive in all 33 Nationwide races. He has made nine career Nationwide starts.
U.S. reaches world junior hockey final
UFA, Russia – Jake McCabe and John Gaudreau scored two goals each Thursday to lead the United States to the final of the world junior hockey championships with a 5-1 win over Canada. McCabe put his team ahead with a pair of identical goals, scoring through goalmouth scrambles in the first period. “It feels awesome, especially in such an emotional game against Canada,” McCabe said. “I’m so proud of my team. This was the best game of the tournament for us.” In Saturday’s final, the Americans will face defending champion Sweden. The Swedes beat Russia, 3-2, in a penalty shootout. – Wire reports
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Woodstock co-op boys swim to 2nd at Byron northwest herald BYRON – Liam DeWane had two second-place finishes for the Woodstock co-op boys swimming team, as Woodstock tied Byron for second place with 91 points in a triangular meet. DeKalb won the meet with 138 points. DeWane finished the 500yard freestyle in 5:23.63 and the 200 freestyle in 1:59.91. Morgan Hofmann added a second place in the 100 freestyle in 52.25, and Henry Gantner had a second-place finish in the 50 freestyle in 22.63. Adam Steinken placed second in the 100 breaststroke in
Michigan guard trey Burke drives against northwestern center alex olah during the first half thursday in evanston.
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no. 2 MiChigan 94, northwestern 66
Short-handed ’Cats fall hard By andrew seligMan The Associated Press
EVANSTON – No matter how many wins Michigan piles up, Trey Burke insisted one thing will not change. The Wolverines will keep seeing themselves as underdogs, even after nights like this. Burke scored 23 points, Tim Hardaway Jr. added 21 and No. 2 Michigan pounded Northwestern, 94-66, on Thursday to remain unbeaten. Off to their best start since they opened the 1985-86 season with 16 wins, the Wolverines (14-0) had no trouble in the Big Ten opener for both teams after breezing through the nonconference portion of their schedule. They built a 21-point halftime lead with Burke and Hardaway Jr. leading the way
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and were never challenged by Northwestern (9-5). “14-0 that’s a great start – and 1-0 in the Big Ten – but we’ve got to keep the attitude where guys are still doubting us,” Burke said. He’ll get no argument from his coach. “We’re always working that way, like we’re hunting all the time and we don’t ever want to lose that,” John Beilein said. “It’s not a negative to always be working.” Jared Swopshire and Kale
Abrahamson each scored 11 points for Northwestern, but the Wildcats gave up the most points they have allowed this season while being outclassed by one of the nation’s best teams. “Eventually, we’ve got to start doing things that the coaches get on us about,” guard Dave Sobolewski said. “We keep messing up the same things in the 1-3-1. We keep missing assignments. We keep falling asleep on defense. A lot of it will come down to heart and how bad we want it on defense mainly, too.” It was a sharp contrast from their two meetings last season, when Michigan needed overtime to win both games. Then again, the Wildcats were short-handed. Besides suspending guard
JerShon Cobb for the season for violating team policy, they also shut down one of their best players, Drew Crawford, for the remainder of the season last month because of a shoulder injury. Leading scorer Reggie Hearn sat out his second straight game because of a sprained ankle. Michigan shot 59.6 percent overall and made 13 of 22 3-point attempts with the two guards doing most of the damage. Burke shot 9 of 16 overall and hit 4 of 6 3-pointers. Hardaway was 6 of 8 from the field and 4 of 5 from long range, and the ankle injury that kept him out of the previous game didn’t seem to be an issue. “Just to see him back out there after his injury,” Burke said. “Back in action. Back in the groove. It was great.”
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MADISON, Wis. – Ryan Evans scored 13 points and grabbed nine rebounds as Wisconsin held off Penn State, 60-51, Thursday night in the Big Ten Conference opener for both teams. Penn State (8-5) trailed, 5049, with less than 3 minutes left. But the Badgers (10-4) finished the game on an 11-2 run, finally finding their shooting touch from the freethrow line. They hit just 9 of their first 20 from the line but converted 4 of 6 in the final minutes. Ben Brust and Jared Berggren also scored 13 points apiece for Wisconsin. Jermaine Marshall scored 19 points for Penn State, while D.J. Newbill added 12. Wisconsin led 29-18 at the break and was up 40-27 in the second half before Penn State used a pair of runs to get close. The first narrowed a 13-point game to 40-36. The second, after Wisconsin went back up 49-40, pulled Penn State within 50-49. But the Nittany Lions couldn’t get over the hump. After Berggren dunked and was fouled – missing the free throw – to put Wisconsin up, 56-51, Mike Bruesewitz hit four straight free throws sandwiched around an offbalance 3-point attempt by Penn State’s Nick Colella to ice the game. The Badgers finished 13 of 26 from the line, continuing a problem that has plagued them all season. Normally a strength for a Bo Ryancoached team, the Badgers came into the game shooting just less than 69 percent from the line. But Wisconsin made up for that deficiency by turning the ball over just four times,
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wisconsin’s Ben Brust (left) draws a charging foul against Penn state’s Jermaine Marshall in the first half thursday in Madison, wis. wisconsin won the Big ten opener for both teams, 60-51. compared to 15 turnovers by the Nittany Lions.
Morehead St. 68, SIU-Edwardsville 64: At Morehead,
Ky., Milton Chavis scored 16 points, and Chad Posthumus added nine points and a career-high 19 rebounds as Morehead State (7-8) held on to beat Southern IllinoisEdwardsville (4-7) in the Ohio Valley Conference opener for both teams.
E. Kentucky 65, E. Illinois 54: At Richmond, Ky., Mike
DiNunno and Tarius Johnson scored 13 points apiece, and Eastern Kentucky (11-3) pulled away from Eastern Illinois in the first half en route to a win in the Colonels’ Ohio Valley Conference opener. Eastern Kentucky led by as many as 20 as the Panthers (3-12, 0-2), who entered the
game last in the conference in scoring (56.3 points per game), could get no closer than 10.
UNLV 74, Chicago State 52:
At Las Vegas, Anthony Bennett had 22 points and 11 rebounds to lead UNLV to a over Chicago State. Bennett, a freshman who came in averaging 19.2 points per game, was one of four players to score in double figures for the Runnin’ Rebels (11-2) and has now led UNLV in scoring in 12 of their 14 games. Khem Birch added 13 points and 12 rebounds, Katin Reinhardt had 12 points and Carlos Lopez-Sosa chipped in 11.
TOP 25 No. 3 Arizona 92, Colorado 83 (OT): At Tucson, Ariz., Kevin
Parrom scored five of his 16 points in overtime after Arizona staged an improbable late rally in regulation and remained unbeaten. Colorado’s Sabatino Chen banked in a 3-pointer at the end of regulation but officials waved it off after reviewing the video, saying the ball was on his fingertips as the backboard lights went on to show time had expired. Arizona (13-0) outscored the Buffaloes 10-2 over the final 1:35 of regulation of the Pac-12 opener for both teams to force the overtime. The Buffaloes missed four of six free throws in that stretch. The Wildcats were down by 17 points in the first half and 16 with 12:40 to go in regulation. Askia Booker led Colorado (10-3) with 18 points. Arizona’s 13-0 start is the second-best in school history and best since the Wildcats won their first 16 in 1932-33.
No. 10 Gonzaga 78, Pepper-
dine 62: At Malibu, Calif., Elias Harris scored 18 points and Kelly Olynk had 16 to lead 10 Gonzaga in the West Coast Conference opener for both teams. Olynk scored 14 points in the second half as the Bulldogs (14-1, 1-0) won despite shooting a season-low 43.4 percent from the field. Reserve guard David Stockton added nine points and four steals and Kevin Pangos scored nine points. Pangos gave Gonzaga the lead for good at 38-36 on a 3-pointer and the Bulldogs pulled away to their 23rd consecutive win against Pepperdine, its longest streak against a conference opponent. Lorne Jackson led the Waves (8-6, 0-1) with 16 points and Jordan Baker had 15.
1:04.33 and added a third place in the 200 individual medley in 2:07.59 for Woodstock.
WRESTLING Grayslake North 47, Woodstock 23: At Grayslake, the
Blue Streaks got pins from Jacob Hodory (132) and Ryan Plourde (170), with Nick Sundberg (145) and Alan Hafer (160) each winning by major decision in the Fox Valley Conference Fox Division loss.
Richmond-Burton Triangular: At Richmond, Woodstock
North went 2-0, defeating Richmond-Burton, 59-15, and North Boone, 67-4. • Andrew Hansen contrib-
uted to this report.
Turner leads Streaks with 16 points in win • streaks Continued from page C1 “It’s everybody knowing their rotation and zones and where to be,” said Woodstock guard Brad Kaufmann, who hit three 3-pointers and scored 11 points. “We really focused on stopping Bradshaw and Ticknor – they are their shooters. We worked on that in practice today, on not letting them shoot the ball.” Ticknor led Prairie Ridge with 13 points, although six of those came in the fourth quarter. Bradshaw scored five points. Guard Jordan Turner scored 16 points to lead the Streaks. Damian Stoneking scored nine points, grabbed 10 rebounds and blocked four
shots. “We did a good job with our defensive rotations,” Baker said. “We’ve been running the zone for a while and they understand their responsibilities and do it well. We did a good job focusing on stopping Bradshaw and Ticknor.” Prairie Ridge had 24 turnovers for the game and shot 29.2 percent from the field. “We didn’t play very well, but that was mostly because of what [Woodstock] was doing,” Wolves coach Corky Card said. “They were doing a good job of putting the heat on and we didn’t handle it very well. Then, they got offense out of that. They were ready to play and took it to us.”
Reversal gives Sikula 6-4 decision at 120 • warriors Continued from page C1
and two decisions in the next four matches to go up, 27-4. Michael Gustafson (145) and Pat Roewer (170) recorded pins for McHenry. Ryan Grannemann went from nearly being pinned to earning a pin at 195 against the Trojans’ Greer Bozeman. After being put on his back to start the second period, Grannemann turned Bozeman and stuck the pin. “It was kind of nerve-racking, but I kept my balance,” Grannemann said. “It just kind of happened.” The pin gave the Warriors a 33-10 lead. Earning the six points versus giving up the pin points was a big 12-point shift in the match, Gaddy said. Luis Hernandez added a tiebreaker decision at 220, and Angel Hernandez won by decision at 285 to seal the win for McHenry. Angel Hernandez said he did not want to give up the lead his team had built. “We were really pumped,” Angel Hernandez said. “I felt like I just had to keep the momentum up.” McHenry’s Mike Sikula gave up two takedowns to Logan Hanselmann to go down, 4-1, early in the second period of
“Come the second period, I came back and pushed through it.” Mike Sikula
McHenry 120-pound wrestler
their 120-pound match. Sikula battled back to tie the score at 4-4 heading into the third. Starting down, Sikula got the reverse to earn a 6-4 decision. “[Hanselmann] just doubled me right away and my spirit broke down,” Sikula said. “Come the second period, I came back and pushed through it.” Heading into the dual, Sikula anticipated the match might rest on his shoulders, as 120 was the last weight to wrestle. Having his team put the match away ahead of him was a big advantage, he said. “The pressure was off, and it was really nice,” Sikula said. Also for C-G, Pat O’Malley (182) and Mike Cullen (113) earned pins. Trojans coach Ryan Ludwig said his team did not wrestle well, but he gave most of the credit to McHenry. “They’re a very good team,” Ludwig said of the Warriors. “They beat us up.”
Tigers take control after Miller’s pin at 195 pounds • tigers Continued from page C1 For the Rams, Jon Makey registered a pin at 138. Teammate Sid Carbone notched a technical fall at 145. “We are not at the point where we can beat CLC,’’ Rams coach Dan Catanzaro. “But there were some fun matches.” Also notching pins for the Tigers were Mike Peterson at 126 and Ian Zeitler at 120. Mike Zelasco also managed a
pin over the Rams’ Jourden Swopes at 160. “We did a nice job when we were on top,’’ Lohr said. The Tigers’ lead was only 19-17 when the Rams’ Connor Miller pinned senior Darwin Stone at 195. Then the Tigers took control. Connor Hines’ pin of Spencer Hirt at 220 helped the home team’s cause. In a back-and-forth match at 106, Cameron Pukas edged the Rams’ Ryan Mikes, 12-8. In the final match of the night, the Tigers’ Logan Lundelius pulled out a 3-1 win.
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Colts OC Arians will talk to Bears the aSSoCIatED PrESS
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the Green bay Packers expect to have all four of their top receivers – Greg Jennings (clockwise, from top left), Jordy Nelson, randall Cobb and James Jones – healthy for Saturday’s NFC wild-card playoff game against the Minnesota Vikings.
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‘Fab Four’ together at last
Injury-plagued receiving corps expects to be intact Saturday by NaNCY arMoUr The Associated Press
GREEN BAY, Wis. – Aaron Rodgers is putting up MVP-worthy numbers again, throwing for more touchdowns than anyone in the NFL and ranking near the top in completions and yards passing. Imagine if he’d had all of his favorite toys for the whole year. With Randall Cobb back from a sprained ankle and Jordy Nelson planning to play in Saturday night’s NFC wildcard game against Minnesota, the Green Bay Packers finally will have all four top receivers for the first time in, essentially, three months. “It makes us very dangerous,” Greg Jennings said Thursday. “It’s pretty obvious when we have all four guys healthy, the amount of big plays that we can accumulate goes up. Aaron has a lot more options.” There’s no question Rodgers is a special quarterback, one of the league’s finest, and he’d put up impressive numbers if he had only one or two guys to throw to. But he has four – count ‘em, four – receivers who could be No. 1s on many other teams. “I don’t think so,” Nelson said when asked if any other team is as loaded at receiver as the Packers. “I don’t think you
“Hopefully we can go out and perform well, make a lot of plays and play a few games together.” Jordy Nelson
Packers wide receiver can go four and five deep like we can.” Jennings had 1,000-yard seasons from 2008-10, and came up just short (949) last year despite missing three games. Nelson has a career average of 15.1 yards per catch, and joined Jennings in the 1,000-yard club last year. James Jones led the NFL with 14 TD catches this year, and matched a Packers record with two scores in three straight games. Cobb is the newest of the bunch, and all the second-year receiver has done is lead the team in catches (80) and yards receiving (954). Add in big tight end Jermichael Finley and you can see why defensive coordinators have nightmares about facing the Packers. “You can go to any one of them and get a big play, so it makes it more difficult for defenses to defend,” Green Bay offensive coordinator Tom Clements said. “If [opponents] only have one guy or two guys that they have to defend against, they can
structure their defenses and set it up in certain ways to take those guys away. But if you have four out there, and sometimes even five, it makes it more difficult. “So if it’s more difficult for them, it’s advantageous for us.” But injuries have kept the Packers (11-5) from making full use of that advantage. The Big Four have played less than three full games together this year, and you have to go all the way back to the Sept. 24 game in Seattle for when they were last all at full strength. (Yes, they were all available for the Dec. 2 game against the Vikings, but Nelson was gone after the second series with a hamstring injury.) Jennings was hurt in the season opener, and wound up missing eight of the first 11 games with a torn muscle in his abdomen. Nelson was out for four games with a hamstring injury. And Cobb, who’s also been Green Bay’s primary kick returner, was sidelined last week with a sprained ankle. Only Jones made it through the entire season unscathed. “It’s been a while,” Nelson agreed. “Hopefully we can go out and perform well, make a lot of plays and play a few games together. That’s what you want. You want to be at full strength going into the playoffs, and I think we’re as healthy as we can be.”
INDIANAPOLIS – The Indianapolis Colts want offensive coordinator Bruce Arians to stick around a little longer. They also understand he wants to become an NFL head coach. On Thursday, the Colts said Arians had been granted permission to speak with the Bears about their head coaching vacancy, though it’s unclear when the interview will take place because Indy (11-5) will face AFC North champion Baltimore (10-6) in a wild-card round game Sunday. The winner will go to either Denver or New England in the divisional round. The Bears might not be the only team interested. There has been speculation that the San Diego Chargers want Arians, too, though the Colts haven’t confirmed whether they received an interview request from the Chargers. And with five other jobs also open, Arians could be mentioned in those cities, too. “We do not want to lose Bruce Arians. He’s just, we know what he is and we know what he means to this organization and to this football team. So let me just say that first and foremost,” Colts coach Chuck Pagano said Monday. “But you guys have seen him work over the last 12 weeks and you know him as a person and as a coach and I would just tell him that you’re getting, or if you’re interested in a guy you’re getting a guy that’s a great leader, a great football coach, a great man, and if that happened you’d be getting a great football coach.” The Colts’ coordinators usually speak with reporters on Thursday, but Arians was not available because he was ill, a team spokesman said. Arians has been an NFL assistant for 20 years. His only head coaching experience came during a six-year stint at Temple where he was 27-39 in the 1980s. But this year, he moved to the top of the head coaching carousel after leading the Colts to a 9-3 record as the interim coach while Pagano battled leukemia. Arians, a prostate cancer survivor, tied the NFL record for most wins after a midseason coaching change and clinched a playoff spot with a 20-13 win at Kansas City. Pagano returned to
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his job the next day and later said Arians had his vote as the 2012 NFL Coach of the Year. For the 60-year-old Arians, this promises to be a different kind of offseason than last year when he was forced out as Pittsburgh’s offensive coordinator and appeared headed into retirement. Pagano, an old friend, then called and offered Arians the Colts job. Arians has a reputation for mentoring young quarterbacks. His list includes Peyton Manning, Tim Couch and Ben Roethlisberger. This year, under Arians’ guidance, Andrew Luck set NFL rookie records for yards passing (4,374) and attempts (627), broke Manning’s franchise record for completions (339), finished third on the NFL’s rookie list for TD passes (23) and set the franchise record for TDs rushing by a quarterback (five). Luck’s quarterback rating, 76.5, also was a franchise rookie record, breaking John Unitas’ previous mark (74.0). When Luck was asked Wednesday what he would say if a team asked about Arians, Luck laughed and jokingly said: “Terrible things. Terrible, terrible things.” The Bears and other teams know better. Bears general manager Phil Emery is looking to replace Lovie Smith, who was fired Monday. Emery appears to be seeking an offensiveminded coach who can help Jay Cutler and the Bears offense become more consistent after missing the playoffs five of the past six years. San Diego also fired its coach, Norv Turner, and general manager A.J. Smith on Monday and reportedly is interested in Tom Telesco, the Colts vice president of football operations.
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No more fear of wild-card round in NFL by barrY WIlNEr
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NFL teams have no fear of playing in the wild-card round. Recent history shows the playoff bye isn’t such a big deal anymore. In six of the past seven years, one of the Super Bowl participants didn’t get a bye to begin the postseason. And five of those teams wound up winning the NFL title. So Green Bay’s blowing the bye by losing to Minnesota on Sunday might not be such a setback. Same for Houston, which had an even bigger fall, fumbling away home-field advantage throughout the AFC playoffs as well as the week off, by losing three of its last four. Of course, Texans coach Gary Kubiak recognizes the week-to-week na-
ture of pro football, and how things can change quickly in seven days – and last for a month, right to a championship. “That’s life, and that’s part of football,” Kubiak said. “How’d you play last week? How have you played the last few weeks? What have you done lately? That’s our world. We understand that, and it hasn’t been good the last few weeks, so hopefully we get it better.” Nobody knows how to achieve that improvement more than the Packers. Two years ago, they barely squeezed into the Super Bowl chase, then raced to three road victories and, finally, a title win over Pittsburgh. “I’d have preferred a week off, to be honest with you,” Packers receiver Jordy Nelson said. “But we put ourselves in this situation through-
out the whole year. It’s not just this last game. “This last game had a lot riding on it for us, so ... we’re going to go play. Whatever it takes, we just have to win from here on out.” That begins Saturday night at Lambeau Field against Minnesota. Had the Packers beaten the Vikings on Sunday, they would be sitting at home this weekend watching the Bears play at San Francisco. Instead, they will trudge onto the tundra to face rushing king Adrian Peterson, who ran around, through and over them for 199 yards to get the Vikings into the playoffs. The Vikings had no chance for a bye; they never really were in the chase for the NFC North title. They’re just glad to be in the tournament, knowing that the Steelers,
Colts, Packers and Giants (twice) recently covered the lengthier route to the NFL championship. “The cool thing about the playoffs is that once you get in anything can happen,” defensive end Jared Allen said. “You see it happen all of the time, teams make runs and end up winning the Super Bowl.” Some teams already are on runs. Denver has won 11 straight to grab the top spot in the AFC. Washington takes a seven-game winning into Sunday’s home game against Seattle, winner of five in a row. As for the four teams sitting it out this weekend, there certainly are positives to some down time. Denver and Atlanta were last off on Oct. 21, San Francisco and New England on Nov. 4. That’s a long time without a break.
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Coach Gary kubiak’s Houston texans were on pace to have home-field advantage throughout the aFC playoffs before losing three of their last four games of the regular season.
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Reid, Chiefs near deal to be coach; Cardinals to interview Haley the aSSoCIatED PrESS
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Andy Reid was in negotiations with the Kansas City Chiefs to become their next coach, a person familiar with the situation told The Associated Press on Thursday. The two sides were working out details and Reid canceled plans to interview for other openings, according to the person who spoke to the AP on the condition of anonymity because they were not
authorized to discuss the negotiations. The Philadelphia Eagles fired Reid after 14 seasons on Monday, the same day the Chiefs parted ways with coach Romeo Crennel after the worst season in franchise history. The Chiefs have a connection with Reid through team president Mark Donovan, who spent six years as the Eagles’ senior vice president of business operations. Chiefs chairman Clark Hunt was joined
by Donovan and several members of his inner circle while interviewing Reid for nearly nine hours on Wednesday in Philadelphia. The negotiations had progressed to the point that Reid canceled plans to interview for the opening in Arizona.
Cardinals to interview Haley:
At Tempe, Ariz., with Andy Reid no longer in the picture, the Arizona Cardinals have received permission to interview Pittsburgh offensive coordinator Todd Haley for their
head coaching job, according to a person with knowledge of the situation. The person asked not to be identified because the situation has not been made public. Haley, former head coach of the Kansas City Chiefs, was offensive coordinator for Arizona in the Cardinals’ Super Bowl run in the 2008 season and has a good relationship with Cardinals President Michael Bidwill. Bidwill had identified Reid
as a candidate earlier this week but the longtime Philadelphia coach, fired by the Eagles on Monday, was close to finalizing a deal to coach the Chiefs and called off all other interviews. The other known candidates for the Arizona job are Cardinals defensive coordinator Ray Horton and Denver Broncos offensive coordinator Mike McCoy.
Teams interested in Kelly:
At Cleveland, now that Chip Kelly has finished coaching
Oregon in the Fiesta Bowl, the Browns are waiting to court him. They aren’t be alone. The Philadelphia Eagles and Buffalo Bills also are interested in signing Kelly, the Ducks coach and offensive mastermind whose breakneck, stop-us-if-you-can system is already being copied in the pro game. There could be others courting the 49-yearold Kelly, but the Browns, Eagles and Bills seem to be the leaders to land him.
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Stricker plans to scale back by DoUG fErGUsoN
KAPALUA, Hawaii – At the end of another long year, and only a month away from the start of another season, Steve Stricker quietly posed a question that sounded out of place for a guy with more than $25 million in PGA Tour earnings over the past six years. “What if I went to Kapalua to defend and didn’t play steve again the rest of the stricker year?” When he arrived on the shores of Maui for the season-opening Tournament of Champions, he had reached a compromise. Stricker, who turns 46 next month, is going into semi-retirement. When he leaves Kapalua, he won’t return again until the Match Play Championship at the end of February. He’ll play the majors and World Golf Championships that are held in America, maybe a few other tournaments to get ready for the majors, and the John Deere Classic, which has become his hometown event ever since the Greater Milwaukee Open went away. “I’ve proved to myself I could come back,” said Stricker, once mired in a slump so severe he was voted PGA Tour comeback player – two years in a row. “I had a great run the last six years. I think it’s just the travel, the time away. When I get home, I’m not there. I’m focused on where I go next. When I do something, I’m in it. I’ve had enough of being totally focused on golf and my life. And I wanted to not have it be about me anymore.” Stricker is wired differently from most. He gets as much plea-
PGA ToUr hyundai Tournament of champions site: Kapalua, Hawaii. schedule: Today-Monday. course: Kapalua Resort, The Plantation Course (7,411 yards, par 73). Purse: $5.7 million. Winner’s share: $1.12 million. TV: Golf Channel (today, 4:30-9 p.m., 9:30 p.m.-2 a.m.; Saturday, 2:30-7 a.m., 8 a.m.-4 p.m., 4:30-9 p.m., 9:30 p.m.-2 a.m.; Sunday, 2:30-7 a.m., 9:30 a.m.-2 p.m., 5-9 p.m., 9:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m.; Monday, 2-6 a.m., 10 a.m.-2 p.m., 3-7 p.m., 8 p.m.-midnight; Tuesday, 1-5 a.m.) and NBC (Sunday, 2-5 p.m.). last year: Steve Stricker won the season-opening event for his 12th PGA Tour title, shooting 6863-69-69. Scotland’s Martin Laird was second, three strokes back. – The Associated Press sure taking his kids to school in Wisconsin as winning golf tournaments. He would rather spend his fall in a deer stand with a bow than on the practice green with his putter. He has been thinking about cutting back for the past few years, only the decision was never easy. Not when he was as high as No. 2 in the world, a regular on U.S. teams in the Presidents Cup and Ryder Cup. Even with some winter stubble after nine holes of practice on the Plantation Course at Kapalua, he looked fresh and ready to go. “I’m excited about the year because I finally made this decision to scale back,” he said. “You know
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PRAIRIE RIDGE (37) Perhats 0 0-0 0, Bradshaw 2 0-0 5, Ticknor 4 5-5 13, Peterson 1 0-1 2, Behning 3 0-0 6, Gilbert 2 1-1 5, Berg 0 0-0 0, DeLaege 1 1-2 3, Tucker 0 0-0 0, Witt 0 0-0 0, Meikel 0 1-2 1, Saini 0 0-0 0, Ayers 0 0-0 0. Totals: 14 8-11 37. WOODSTOCK (57) Kaufmann 3 2-2 11, Turner 6 3-4 16, Buhrow 3 0-0 8, McCoy 0 0-0 0, Stoneking 3 3-5 9, Sutter 1 0-1 2, Benjamin 2 1-2 5, Kubiak 2 2-2 6, Kohley 0 0-0 0, Ferguson 0 0-0 0, Ammirati 0 0-1 0, Scott 0 0-0 0, Chonos 0 0-0 0 , Layoff 0 0-0 0, Meyer 0 0-0 0. Totals: 20 11-16 57.
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Three-point goals: Prairie Ridge 1 (Bradshaw), Woodstock 6 (Kaufmann 3, Buhrow 2, Turner). Total fouls: Prairie Ridge 16, Woodstock 15.
WRESTling mchENrY 42, cArY-GroVE 19 106: J. Cullen (CG) dec. B. Sikula, 2-0 113: M. Cullen (CG) p. Duh, 1:00 120: M. Sikula (McH) dec. Hanselman, 6-4 126: Infelise (McH) p. Medina, 4:35 132: Ostdick (McH) dec. Smrt, 4-2 138: Underwood (CG) maj. Dec. Herber, 15-3 145: Gustafson (McH) p. Patchett, 1:07 152: Lardy (McH) dec. Glueck, 2-1 160: Pait (McH) dec. Hughes, 4-3 170: Roewer (McH) p. Kersten, 1:03 182: O’Malley (CG) p. Britt, 4:42 195: Grannemann (McH) p. Bozeman, 2:35 220: L. Hernandez (McH) dec. Huff, 5-4 (TB) 285: A. Hernandez (McH) dec. Dermont, 8-4
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106: Pritchett (GN) by forfeit 113: Powers (W) ded. Sanchez, 6-2 120: Wright (GN) p. Olivas, 2:57 126: Deathridge (GN) p. Kruse, 1:38 132: Hodory (W) p. Olhosen, 1:46 138: Cloe (GN) dec. Zange by tech. fall, 16-1 145: Sundberg (W) maj. dec. McCaulley, 13-1 152: Juron (GN) dec. Rodriguez, 7-4 160: Hafer (W) maj. dec. Sawyer, 11-2 170: Plourde (W) p. Merki, 1:31 182: Pearce (GN) dec. Johnson, 7-1 195: Hurman (GN) by forfeit 220: Suchowski (GN) by forfeit 285: Lopez (GN) p. Michael, 1:54
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200 medley relay: 1. DeKalb 1:43.30, 2. Byron 1:43.90, 3. Woodstock 1:47.40, 4. DeKalb 1:51.21, 5. Woodstock 2:08.27, 6. Byron 2:11.62 200 yard freestyle: 1. Dubrick (D) 1:54.51, 2. DeWane (W) 1:59.91, 3. Schultz (D) 2:00.20, 4. Sible (B) 2:06.55, 5.
me. I’ve been this way since Day One. I’ve never played a lot. I enjoy my time at home, and I’ve tossed around this idea with my family the last couple of years. Finally making a decision to scale back has lifted a little bit of a burden from me. I’m just as excited to play this week as I’ve ever been.” Stricker won the Tournament of Champions a year ago for his 12th career win, although that turned out to be the highlight of his year. In one of the more peculiar trends, he became the third straight player to win the PGA Tour’s opener and not win again the rest of the year. He faces a 30-man field of PGA Tour winners that is missing some of the top stars, no longer unusual in this global landscape of golf with Europeans competing deep into November and some international players, such as Ernie Els, starting next week in South Africa. Among those absent from Kapalua are Rory McIlroy, Tiger Woods, Luke Donald and Justin Rose, the top four players in the world ranking. Stricker won’t see many of them until he gets to Arizona for the Match Play Championship. At least he’s not walking away entirely. Over the past few weeks, he looked at the schedule and didn’t feel he could miss the big events, particularly the majors. He hasn’t set a number of events he wants to play, but it will be somewhere around 10. What to do with all that free time? It won’t be limited to a car pool or a deer stand. Stricker is forming a foundation with a new sponsor, American Family Insurance, with the goal of helping adolescents. The seed money comes from the charity donation he received for winning the Payne Stewart Award and playing on the Ryder Cup team.
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Tempin (W) 2:14.52, 6. Pitcock (B) 2:23.58 200 IM: 1. Helander (B) 2:00.53, 2. Schultz (D) 2:07.59, 3. Steinken (W) 2:09.15, 4. Carlson (D) 2:10.51, 5. Price (W) 2:38.11, 6. Heitter (B) 2:39.33 50 freestyle: 1. Halsmer (B) 21.79, 2. Gantner (W) 22.63, 3. Page (D) 24.39, 4. Lindsey (D) 24.73, 5. Hodapp (B) 26.12, 6. Jagman (W) 26.35 100 butterfly: 1. Hein (D) 52.18, 2. Helander (B) 52.38, 3. Powers (D) 56.81, 4. Gantner (W) 1:03.92, 5. Sible (B) 1:04.07, 6. Tempin (W) 1:05.10 100 freestyle: 1. Halsmer (B) 48.41, 2. Hofmann (W) 52.25, 3. Bjork (D) 52.84, 4. Carlson (D) 54.22, 5. Jagman (W) 59.45, 6. Sible (B) 1:00.18 500 freestyle: 1. Dubrick (D) 4:52.92, 2. DeWane (W) 5:23.63, 3. Bockman (D) 5:25.27, 4. Nomm (W) 6:00.11, 5. Pitcock (B) 6:42.81, 6. Cunningham (B) 7:25.78 200 freestyle relay: 1. Woodstock 1:35.23, 2. DeKalb 1:37.04, 3. DeKalb 1:42.99, 4. Byron 1:46.37, 5. Woodstock 1:49.17, 6. Byron 1:56.65 100 backstroke: 1. Hein (D) 53.42, 2. Powers (D) 59.20, 3. Hofmann (W) 1:07.87, 4. Nomm (W) 1:09.33, 5. Heitter (B) 1:17.38, 6. Cunningham (B) 1:22.93 100 breaststroke: 1. Schultz (D) 1:03.16, 2. Steinken (W) 1:04.33, 3. Bjork (D) 1:04.48, 4. Hodapp (B) 1:11.83, 5. Sible (B) 1:15.44, 6. Jensen (W) 1:21.68 400 freestyle relay: 1. DeKalb 3:29.60, 2. Byron 3:36.03, 3. DeKalb 3:42.99, 4. Woodstock 4:01.57, 5. Woodstock 4:19.58, 6. Byron 4:40.64
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Boys basketball: Johnsburg at Lake Zurich at the Bradley Center in Milwaukee, 3:30 p.m.; Harvard at North Boone, Round Lake at Richmond-Burton, Berean Baptist at Faith Lutheran, 7 p.m.; AldenHebron at Harvest Christian, 7:30 p.m. Girls basketball: Alden-Hebron at Harvest Christian, 6 p.m.; Cary-Grove at McHenry, CL South at Prairie Ridge, Rockford Christian at Harvard, Woodstock at Grayslake North, Marengo at Burlington Central, Richmond-Burton at Genoa-Kingston, 7 p.m. Wrestling: Harvard at Princeton Tournament, 4:30 p.m.; Dundee-Crown at Huntley, 5 p.m.; Jacobs at Cary-Grove, 5:30 p.m.; Johnsburg at Grayslake Central, Woodstock North at Woodstock, 6:30 p.m.; McHenry at CL South, 7 p.m.
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Boys basketball: Woodstock at Johnsburg, Hampshire at Crystal Lake Central, 5 p.m.; Huntley at McHenry, Cary-Grove at Prairie Ridge, Woodstock North at Grayslake North, Rockford Christian at Marengo, 7 p.m. Girls basketball: Woodstock North at Woodstock, 1:30 p.m.; CL Central at Grayslake Central, Sycamore at Hampshire, 2:30 p.m.; Mundelein at CL South, Harvard at North Boone, 7 p.m. Wrestling: Harvard at Princeton Tournament, Richmond-Burton at Grayslake North, 9 a.m.; Alden-Hebron at Polo Invite; Woodstock at Wauconda Good Mark Tournament; Huntley, Woodstock North, Marengo, McHenry at Sycamore Invitational, 9 a.m.; CL Central at Waubonsie Valley Quad, 9 a.m.; Jacobs at Geneva Tournament, 9 a.m. Boys swimming: Woodstock Co-op at Vernon Hills Cougar College Events, 1 p.m.; Huntley at Auburn Invite, Noon; Cary-Grove at Elk Grove Invitational, noon; Dundee-Crown at Maine South Relays, 1:30 p.m. Cheerleading: Woodstock at Belvidere Cheer Classic, 9 a.m. Girls bowling: Marengo at Sycamore Invitational, 9 a.m.; McHenry, Jacobs, Huntley at Grant Invitational, 8 a.m.; Huntley at Lombard Tournament, 9:30 a.m. Gymnastics: Prairie Ridge at Lake Forest Invitational, 6 p.m.
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WESTERN CONFERENCE Midwest Division W L OL SL Pts GF GA Grand Rapids 18 10 1 1 38 92 80 Rockford 17 14 1 1 36 103 97 Milwaukee 16 13 2 1 35 85 90 Wolves 14 11 4 1 33 75 83 Peoria 14 14 2 2 32 77 99 North Division W L OL SL Pts GF GA Toronto 20 9 1 2 43 110 81 Abbotsford 16 9 3 4 39 75 68 Lake Erie 17 14 2 1 37 108 108 Rochester 16 12 2 1 35 105 99 Hamilton 11 18 1 2 25 69 105 South Division W L OL SL Pts GF GA Charlotte 18 11 2 3 41 102 93 Houston 17 10 2 3 39 99 91 Oklahoma City 17 11 1 3 38 107 95 Texas 16 11 3 2 37 81 86 San Antonio 13 17 0 4 30 86 101 EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L OL SL Pts GF GA Portland 19 11 1 1 40 96 95 Worcester 17 11 1 2 37 86 89 Providence 16 12 0 2 34 75 82 Manchester 14 15 2 2 32 88 88 St. John’s 15 18 0 1 31 82 99 East Division W L OL SL Pts GF GA Syracuse 20 7 2 3 45 115 88 Binghamton 19 7 1 2 41 96 73 Hershey 16 14 1 1 34 85 80 Wilkes-Barre 14 14 2 1 31 79 85 Norfolk 14 15 1 0 29 79 90 Northeast Division W L OL SL Pts GF GA Springfield 17 8 2 3 39 99 70 Bridgeport 17 12 1 2 37 101 99 Albany 11 11 1 6 29 69 77 Adirondack 13 16 1 1 28 77 92 Connecticut 13 17 2 0 28 89 107
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NOTE: Two points are awarded for a win, one point for an overtime or shootout loss. Thursday’s Games Milwaukee 4, Wolves 3 Lake Erie 2, Charlotte 1, OT Today’s Games Manchester at St. John’s, 5 p.m. Adirondack at Connecticut, 6 p.m. Oklahoma City at Grand Rapids, 6 p.m. Bridgeport at Springfield, 6 p.m. Portland at Providence, 6:05 p.m. Wilkes-Barre/Scranton at Binghamton, 6:05 p.m. Rockford at Hamilton, 6:30 p.m. Syracuse at Norfolk, 6:30 p.m. Charlotte at Lake Erie, 6:30 p.m. Texas at Houston, 7:05 p.m. Peoria at San Antonio, 7:30 p.m. Rochester at Abbotsford, 9 p.m.
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First Period-1, Chicago, Gordon 6 (Sterling), 11:28; 1, Milwaukee, Bartley 4 (Beck, Mueller). Penalties-None. Second Period-2, Milwaukee, Henderson 7 (Van Guilder, Latta), 3:54; 3, Chicago, Schroeder 9 (Tanev, Rodin), 7:17 pp; 4, Chicago, Haydar 5 (Ebbett), 19:51. Penalties-Milwaukee (bench minor – too many men), 5:48; Chicago (bench minor – too many men), 13:37. Third Period-5, Milwaukee, Van Guilder 7 (Henderson), 4:56; 6, Milwaukee, Watson 12 (Cehlin, Beck), 18:27. Penalties-Cehlin, Milwaukee (holding), 8:08; Ebbett, Chicago (tripping), 14:17. Shots on goal-Chicago: 13-7-12--32; Milwaukee: 6-13-9--28. Power playsChicago 1-2; Milwaukee 0-2. Goalies— Chicago, Climie (24-28), Milwaukee, Smith (29-32). A-3,009. Referees-Jean Hebert and Joe Sullivan. Linesmen-Alex Stagnone and Al Stensland.
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Participants will develop basic individual basketball skills and team concepts all while having fun in a no pressure environment. Practices are held directly after school in District 47 elementary school gymnasiums, and five officiated games will be scheduled during the season at various schools to give the player a chance to use his newly acquired skills in game situations. Parents are responsible for transportation to all away games. All teams will practice from 3:30-5 p.m. from Jan. 11 through Mar. 15 with fourth graders meeting Tuesdays and Thursdays and fifth and sixth graders practicing Wednesdays and Friday. Team shirts are included in the $80 fee, and sixth grade players may select to play at the grade school of their choice. This program will not meet on half days of school or when district 47 does not meet. Teams are being formed at Canterbury, Coventry, Husmann, North, South, West, Indian Prairie, Woodscreek and Glacier Ridge Schools. Call Joe
Davison at 815-459-0680 ext. 228 for more information. Register online at www.crystallakeparks. org. Registration deadline is today.
will be distributed at the 7-mile mark. Money raised from the race will go toward the Hillstriders scholarships awarded to five local high school runners this spring.
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The Hillstriders Running Club will take entries on-line starting at 6 a.m. on Dec. 31 for its March Madness Half Marathon race on March 17. The race starts and finishes at Cary-Grove High School. The entry fee is $40. Runners will receive a hoody commemorating the 35th running of the race and all runners who complete the race will receive finishing medals. For anyone who does not get in on Dec. 31, there will be 20 first come-first served VIP entries available on Jan. 12 at 10 a.m. Entries will be sold at The Running Depot in Crystal Lake for $125. The course is considered one of the most challenging half marathon courses in northern Illinois. Splits will be given at each of the odd-numbered mile markers. Water and PowerBar Performance drink will be provided at the 2 1/2-mile intervals and at the finish line. Power Bar Gels
The McHenry Parks and Recreation Department is currently accepting registration for its Co-Rec Volleyball League for ages 18 & over. Games are played at McHenry East Campus High School beginning Thursday, January 24. The cost is $280 per team. Call the McHenry Parks & Recreation Department at 815-363-2160 or check our website at http://www.ci.mchenry.il.us for more information.
gOlF sENIors lEAGUE The Chapel Hill Monday Morning Seniors Golf League is inviting men (ages 55 and older) to join its spring league for 2013. For more information, contact Bob Kelly at 847-220-8174.
Wild-card Playoffs Saturday Cincinnati at Houston, 3:30 p.m. (NBC) Minnesota at Green Bay, 7 p.m. (NBC) Sunday Indianapolis at Baltimore, Noon (CBS) Seattle at Washington, 3:30 p.m. (FOX) Divisional Playoffs Saturday, Jan. 12 Baltimore, Indianapolis or Cincinnati at Denver, 3:30 p.m. (CBS) Washington, Seattle or Green Bay at San Francisco, 7 p.m. (FOX) Sunday, Jan. 13 Washington, Seattle or Minnesota at Atlanta, Noon (FOX) Baltimore, Indianapolis or Houston at New England, 3:30 p.m. (CBS) Conference Championships Sunday, Jan. 20 AFC, TBA (CBS) NFC, TBA (FOX) Pro Bowl Sunday, Jan. 27 At Honolulu AFC vs. NFC, 6 p.m. (NBC) Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 3 At New Orleans AFC champion vs. NFC champion, 5 p.m. (CBS)
INjUrY rEPorT OUT - Definitely will not play DNP - Did not practice LIMITED - Limited participation in practice FULL - Full participation in practice MINNESOTA VIKINGS at GREEN BAY PACKERS — VIKINGS: DNP: LB Tyrone McKenzie (shoulder), RB Adrian Peterson (abdomen), CB Antoine Winfield (hand). LIMITED: QB Christian Ponder (right elbow), DE Brian Robison (shoulder), S Harrison Smith (knee). FULL: DE Jared Allen (shoulder), CB A.J. Jefferson (ankle), DE George Johnson (quadriceps), P Chris Kluwe (left knee), T Phil Loadholt (knee). PACKERS: OUT: DE Jerel Worthy (knee). DNP: WR Jarrett Boykin (ankle). LIMITED: WR Randall Cobb (ankle), TE Jermichael Finley (quadriceps), CB Davon House (hip), WR Jordy Nelson (knee), RB James Starks (knee). FULL: RB Alex Green (knee), S Charles Woodson (collarbone). CINCINNATI BENGALS at HOUSTON TEXANS — BENGALS: DNP: DE Wallace Gilberry (illness). LIMITED: CB Jason Allen (hamstring), S Chris Crocker (thigh), RB BenJarvus Green-Ellis (hamstring), S Taylor Mays (hamstring), CB Terence Newman (groin). FULL: LB Dan Skuta (thigh). TEXANS: DNP: G Antoine Caldwell (back), LB Tim Dobbins (ankle). LIMITED: CB Alan Ball (foot), NT Shaun Cody (back), TE Owen Daniels (chest, knee), T Derek Newton (knee), LB Brooks Reed (groin), DE Antonio Smith (ankle), G Wade Smith (knee). FULL: RB Tyler Clutts (abdomen), RB Justin Forsett (knee), S Shiloh Keo (ankle), WR DeVier Posey (foot), RB Ben Tate (foot), QB T.J. Yates (right elbow). INDIANAPOLIS COLTS at BALTIMORE RAVENS — COLTS: DNP: LB Pat Angerer (illness), LB Dwight Freeney (not injury related), DT Kellen Heard (illness), G Joe Reitz (concussion). LIMITED: RB Delone Carter (ankle), NT Antonio Johnson (ankle), T Winston Justice (shoulder), DE Cory Redding (quadriceps), C A.Q. Shipley (knee), S Tom Zbikowski (knee). FULL: LB Jerrell Freeman (thumb), QB Andrew Luck (knee), C Samson Satele (ankle), CB Teddy Williams (knee). RAVENS: LIMITED: RB Anthony Allen (head), TE Billy Bajema (head), WR Tandon Doss (ankle), CB Chris Johnson (thigh), RB Vonta Leach (knee, ankle), DE Pernell McPhee (thigh), DT Haloti Ngata (knee), RB Bernard Pierce (ankle), S Bernard Pollard (chest), G Jah Reid (toe), G Marshal Yanda (shoulder, knee). FULL: WR Anquan Boldin (shoulder), LB Dannell Ellerbe (ankle), DE Arthur Jones (thigh), LB Ray Lewis (triceps), LB Albert McClellan (shoulder, thigh), G Kelechi Osemele (knee), S Ed Reed (shoulder), CB Jimmy Smith (abdomen), WR Torrey Smith (knee), LB Terrell Suggs (biceps). SEATTLE SEAHAWKS at WASHINGTON REDSKINS — SEAHAWKS: No Data Reported REDSKINS: DNP: QB Kirk Cousins (illness), LB London Fletcher (ankle), CB Domonique Johnson (knee), G Kory Lichtensteiger (ankle). LIMITED: S DeJon Gomes (knee). FULL: LB Lorenzo Alexander (shoulder), DE Stephen Bowen (biceps), WR Pierre Garcon (foot), QB Robert Griffin III (knee), CB DeAngelo Hall (elbow), LB Ryan Kerrigan (ankle), C Will Montgomery (knee), WR Joshua Morgan (hand, foot), S Jordan Pugh (ankle), P Sav Rocca (right knee), S Madieu Williams (elbow).
COllEgE bowl GlANcE Thursday Fiesta Bowl At Glendale, Ariz. Oregon 35, Kansas St. 17 Today Cotton Bowl At Arlington, Texas Texas A&M (10-2) vs. Oklahoma (10-2), 7 p.m. (FOX)
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bASKETbAll nbA EASTERN CONFERENCE Central Division W L Pct 19 13 .594 17 13 .567 16 14 .533 12 22 .353 7 26 .212 Atlantic Division W L Pct New York 22 10 .688 Brooklyn 17 15 .531 Philadelphia 15 18 .455 Boston 14 17 .452 Toronto 12 20 .375 Southeast Division W L Pct Miami 22 8 .733 Atlanta 20 10 .667 Orlando 12 20 .375 Charlotte 8 23 .258 Washington 4 26 .133 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct San Antonio 26 9 .743 Memphis 20 9 .690 Houston 18 14 .563 Dallas 13 20 .394 New Orleans 7 25 .219 Northwest Division W L Pct Oklahoma City 24 7 .774 Denver 18 16 .529 Minnesota 15 14 .517 Portland 16 15 .516 Utah 16 17 .485 Pacific Division W L Pct L.A. Clippers 25 8 .758 Golden State 22 10 .688 L.A. Lakers 15 16 .484 Sacramento 12 20 .375 Phoenix 12 21 .364 Indiana Bulls Milwaukee Detroit Cleveland
GB — 1 2 8 12½ GB — 5 7½ 7½ 10 GB — 2 11 14½ 18 GB — 3 6½ 12 17½ GB — 7½ 8 8 9 GB — 2½ 9 12½ 13
Thursday’s Games New York 100, San Antonio 83 Minnesota 101, Denver 97 Today’s Games Bulls at Miami, 7 p.m. Cleveland at Charlotte, 6 p.m. Sacramento at Toronto, 6 p.m. Brooklyn at Washington, 6 p.m. Atlanta at Detroit, 6:30 p.m. Portland at Memphis, 7 p.m. Philadelphia at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m. Indiana at Boston, 7 p.m. Houston at Milwaukee, 7:30 p.m. Utah at Phoenix, 8 p.m. L.A. Lakers at L.A. Clippers, 9:30 p.m. Saturday’s Games Boston at Atlanta, 6 p.m. Milwaukee at Indiana, 6 p.m. New York at Orlando, 6 p.m. Houston at Cleveland, 6:30 p.m. Sacramento at Brooklyn, 6:30 p.m. Portland at Minnesota, 7 p.m. New Orleans at Dallas, 7:30 p.m. Philadelphia at San Antonio, 7:30 p.m. Utah at Denver, 8 p.m. Golden State at L.A. Clippers, 9:30 p.m.
NbA INDIVIDUAl lEADErs AVG 30.3 29.2 28.4 26.5 26.3 21.7 20.8 20.6 20.4 20.2 19.8 19.6 19.4 18.8 18.6 18.4 18.4 18.1 18.0 18.0 18.0 18.0 17.9 17.7 17.4 17.3 17.2 17.1 17.1 16.9 16.9 16.8 16.7 16.5 16.5 16.4 16.3 16.2 16.0 15.9 15.9 15.9 15.8 15.8 15.4 15.2 15.2 15.1 14.8 14.6
REBOUNDS PER GAME G OFF DEF TOT 25 138 223 361 29 134 224 358 31 115 254 369 32 98 276 374 32 97 257 354 30 120 205 325 32 104 232 336 29 102 198 300 33 135 200 335 31 134 180 314 32 67 249 316 33 56 267 323 29 70 207 277 30 64 221 285 34 89 214 303 33 64 224 288 33 120 166 286 33 68 215 283 30 40 217 257 31 83 179 262 29 68 175 243 28 65 168 233 29 70 169 239 31 85 168 253 26 96 116 212 32 115 140 255 32 69 184 253 32 87 165 252 31 20 224 244 27 46 165 211
AVG 14.4 12.3 11.9 11.7 11.1 10.8 10.5 10.3 10.2 10.1 9.9 9.8 9.6 9.5 8.9 8.7 8.7 8.6 8.6 8.5 8.4 8.3 8.2 8.2 8.2 8.0 7.9 7.9 7.9 7.8
ASSISTS PER GAME G AST 27 312 33 304 32 288 29 260 31 270 32 249 31 239 32 237 30 212 32 221 30 201 32 209 31 201 28 179 32 204 31 197 28 176 31 186 30 174 30 170 33 185 26 143 31 164 30 153 32 163
AVG 11.6 9.2 9.0 9.0 8.7 7.8 7.7 7.4 7.1 6.9 6.7 6.5 6.5 6.4 6.4 6.4 6.3 6.0 5.8 5.7 5.6 5.5 5.3 5.1 5.1
Rondo, BOS Paul, LAC Vasquez, NOR Holiday, PHL Westbrook, OKC Calderon, TOR Williams, Bro Parker, SAN James, MIA Lawson, DEN Teague, ATL Curry, GOL Dragic, PHX Conley, MEM Lin, HOU Lillard, POR Felton, NYK Walker, CHA Jennings, MIL Ellis, MIL A. Miller, DEN Hinrich, Bulls Harden, HOU Hill, IND Jack, GOL
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STEALS PER GAME G STL Paul, LAC 33 88 Conley, MEM 28 67 Westbrook, OKC 31 66 Jennings, MIL 30 63 Rondo, BOS 27 51 Walker, CHA 31 58 Kidd, NYK 27 50 Lin, HOU 32 59 T. Young, PHL 33 59 Harden, HOU 31 55 Allen, MEM 26 45 Ellis, MIL 30 50 Curry, GOL 32 52 James, MIA 30 48 Lawson, DEN 32 51 Kirilenko, MIN 24 38 World Peace, LAL 31 49 Chalmers, MIA 30 47 Teague, ATL 30 47 Dragic, PHX 31 48 Durant, OKC 31 48 Pierce, BOS 31 48 Bledsoe, LAC 33 51 Gay, MEM 28 43 Batum, POR 30 45 Griffin, LAC 33 49 George, IND 32 47 Bryant, LAL 31 45 Smith, ATL 28 40 Noah, Bulls 29 41
5.1 4.8 4.7 4.7 4.7 AVG 2.67 2.39 2.13 2.10 1.89 1.87 1.85 1.84 1.79 1.77 1.73 1.67 1.63 1.60 1.59 1.58 1.58 1.57 1.57 1.55 1.55 1.55 1.55 1.54 1.50 1.48 1.47 1.45 1.43 1.41
BLOCKED SHOTS PER GAME G BLK AVG 31 94 3.03 29 87 3.00 32 87 2.72 31 81 2.61 33 83 2.52 28 65 2.32 25 56 2.24 29 61 2.10 33 67 2.03 32 63 1.97 33 62 1.88 29 49 1.69 32 54 1.69 28 45 1.61 33 53 1.61 29 46 1.59 34 52 1.53 24 34 1.42 34 47 1.38 30 41 1.37 30 40 1.33 31 41 1.32 32 42 1.31 25 32 1.28 29 37 1.28 29 36 1.24 33 40 1.21 29 35 1.21 30 35 1.17 28 32 1.14
Ibaka, OKC Sanders, MIL Hibbert, IND Howard, LAL Duncan, SAN Smith, ATL Lopez, Bro Noah, Bulls McGee, DEN Lopez, NOR Gortat, PHX Gasol, MEM Koufos, DEN Favors, UTA Jordan, LAC Biyombo, CHA Drummond, DET Kirilenko, MIN Maxiell, DET Okafor, WAS Kidd-Gilchrist, CHA Durant, OKC Jefferson, UTA Stiemsma, MIN Bosh, MIA Udoh, MIL Hawes, PHL Aldridge, POR Batum, POR Valanciunas, TOR
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SCORING AVERAGE G FG FT PTS Bryant, LAL 31 323 227 939 Anthony, NYK 25 249 164 729 Durant, OKC 31 288 252 881 James, MIA 30 306 141 794 Harden, HOU 31 240 273 814 Westbrook, OKC 31 235 159 672 Aldridge, POR 29 244 115 603 Wade, MIA 26 203 122 536 Curry, GOL 32 226 102 652 Lee, GOL 32 269 108 646 Pierce, BOS 31 203 149 615 Ellis, MIL 30 218 126 588 Parker, SAN 32 244 116 620 Holiday, PHL 29 217 78 544 Mayo, DAL 33 218 99 613 Lillard, POR 31 199 103 571 DeRozan, TOR 32 221 130 589 Walker, CHA 31 206 111 560 Bosh, MIA 29 198 119 522 Jennings, MIL 30 201 82 540 Duncan, SAN 33 238 116 594 Gay, MEM 28 191 92 504 Anderson, NOR 32 211 48 572 Deng, Bulls 30 200 107 532 Griffin, LAC 33 231 110 574 Howard, LAL 31 187 160 535 West, IND 32 225 99 551 Johnson, Bro 32 206 71 548 Afflalo, ORL 32 206 91 547 George, IND 32 197 79 540 Smith, ATL 28 197 59 472 Jefferson, UTA 32 230 76 538 Randolph, MEM 29 198 86 483 Smith, NYK 31 190 83 512 Crawford, LAC 33 184 119 544 Williams, Bro 31 170 117 508 Paul, LAC 33 184 134 537 Batum, POR 30 160 92 485 Horford, ATL 29 207 51 465 Gallinari, DEN 32 167 119 510 Pekovic, MIN 26 165 84 414 Crawford, WAS 29 170 77 460 Felton, NYK 28 182 38 443 Thompson, GOL 32 183 52 506 Martin, OKC 30 140 115 462 Hill, IND 30 161 84 457 Monroe, DET 34 201 114 516 T. Young, PHL 33 222 54 498 Williams, ATL 30 149 90 443 Garnett, BOS 31 190 74 454
Varejao, CLE Randolph, MEM Howard, LAL Asik, HOU Lee, GOL Hickson, POR Vucevic, ORL Noah, Bulls Faried, DEN Chandler, NYK Jefferson, UTA Duncan, SAN Horford, ATL Boozer, Bulls Monroe, DET Griffin, LAC Thompson, CLE Gortat, PHX James, MIA Ibaka, OKC Sanders, MIL Smith, ATL Aldridge, POR Evans, Bro Pekovic, MIN Hibbert, IND West, IND Thompson, SAC Durant, OKC Mullens, CHA
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Thursday 1. Duke (13-0) did not play. Next: vs. Wake Forest, Saturday. 2. Michigan (14-0) beat Northwestern 94-66. Next: vs. Iowa, Sunday. 3. Arizona (13-0) beat Colorado 92-83, OT. Next: vs. Utah, Saturday. 4. Louisville (13-1) did not play. Next: at Seton Hall, Wednesday. 5. Indiana (13-1) did not play. Next: at Penn State, Monday. 6. Kansas (11-1) did not play. Next: vs. Temple, Sunday. 7. Syracuse (13-1) did not play. Next: at South Florida, Sunday. 8. Ohio State (11-2) did not play. Next: at No. 11 Illinois, Saturday. 9. Minnesota (13-1) did not play. Next: vs. Northwestern, Sunday. 10. Gonzaga (14-1) beat Pepperdine 7862. Next: at Santa Clara, Saturday. 11. Illinois (13-2) did not play. Next: vs. No. 8 Ohio State, Saturday. 12. Missouri (10-2) did not play. Next: vs. Bucknell, Saturday. 13. Florida (9-2) did not play. Next: at Yale, Sunday. 14. Cincinnati (13-1) did not play. Next: vs. St. John’s, Saturday. 15. Georgetown (10-1) did not play. Next: at Marquette, Saturday. 16. Creighton (13-1) did not play. Next: vs. Indiana State, Saturday. 17. Butler (11-2) did not play. Next: vs. New Orleans, Saturday. 18. Michigan State (11-3) did not play. Next: vs. Purdue, Saturday. 19. San Diego State (12-2) did not play. Next: at Fresno State, Wednesday. 20. New Mexico (13-2) did not play. Next: vs. UNLV, Wednesday. 21. Notre Dame (12-1) did not play. Next: vs. Seton Hall, Saturday. 22. Oklahoma State (10-2) did not play. Next: at No. 25 Kansas State, Saturday. 23. N.C. State (11-2) did not play. Next: at Boston College, Saturday. 24. Pittsburgh (12-2) did not play. Next: at Rutgers, Saturday. 25. Kansas State (11-2) did not play. Next: vs. No. 22 Oklahoma State, Saturday.
WOMEn’S COllEgE AP ToP 25 fArED Thursday 1. UConn (12-0) did not play. Next: vs. No. 5 Notre Dame, Saturday. 2. Baylor (11-1) did not play. Next: vs. No. 13 Oklahoma State, Sunday. 3. Duke (12-0) beat N.C. State 67-57. Next: at Boston College, Sunday. 4. Stanford (11-1) did not play. Next: at No. 20 Colorado, Today. 5. Notre Dame (11-1) did not play. Next: at No. 1 UConn, Saturday. 6. Kentucky (12-1) beat Florida 76-69. Next: at Alabama, Sunday. 7. California (10-1) did not play. Next: at Utah, Today. 8. Maryland (9-3) lost to No. 15 North Carolina 60-57. Next: vs. No. 19 Florida State, Sunday. 9. Penn State (11-2) beat Northwestern 73-69. Next: at Michigan State, Sunday. 10. Georgia (13-1) beat Missouri 77-46. Next: at No. 12 Tennessee, Sunday. 11. Louisville (12-2) did not play. Next: at DePaul, Saturday. 12. Tennessee (10-3) beat No. 18 South Carolina 73-53. Next: vs. No. 10 Georgia, Sunday. 13. Oklahoma State (10-1) did not play. Next: at No. 2 Baylor, Sunday. 14. Purdue (12-2) did not play. Next: at No. 25 Nebraska, Saturday. 15. North Carolina (14-1) beat No. 8 Maryland 60-57. Next: vs. Virginia Tech, Sunday. 16. UCLA (9-2) did not play. Next: at Oregon, Today. 17. Oklahoma (11-2) did not play. Next: at Texas, Saturday. 18. South Carolina (12-2) lost to No. 12 Tennessee 73-53. Next: at Mississippi State, Sunday. 19. Florida State (12-1) beat Georgia Tech 85-78. Next: at No. 8 Maryland, Sunday. 20. Colorado (11-0) did not play. Next: vs. No. 4 Stanford, Today. 21. Kansas (10-2) did not play. Next: at West Virginia, Saturday. 22. Dayton (12-1) did not play. Next: at Butler, Saturday, Jan. 12. 23. Arkansas (11-2) lost to Auburn 5047. Next: vs. No. 24 Texas A&M, Sunday. 24. Texas A&M (11-4) beat Alabama 9152. Next: at No. 23 Arkansas, Sunday. 25. Nebraska (11-3) did not play. Next: vs. No. 14 Purdue, Saturday.
glAnTz-CulvER linE NCAA Football Today Cotton Bowl At Arlington, Texas FAVORITE TODAY O/U UNDERDOG Texas A&M 3 (73) Oklahoma Saturday Compass Bowl At Birmingham, Ala. Mississippi 3½ (52½) Pittsburgh Sunday GoDaddy.com Bowl At Mobile, Ala. Arkansas St. 4 (61½) Kent St. Monday BCS National Championship At Miami Alabama 10 (41) Notre Dame NFL Playoffs Saturday FAVORITE TODAY O/U UNDERDOG at Houston 4½ (43½) Cincinnati at Green Bay 7½ (46) Minnesota Sunday at Baltimore 6½ (47) Indianapolis Seattle 3 (46) at Washington NCAA Basketball FAVORITE LINE UNDERDOG at Georgia 6½ G. Washington at Rhode Island 9½ Brown at Valparaiso 12 Cleveland St. at Tennessee 2 Memphis at Mississippi 21 Fordham at St. Peter’s 2 Manhattan Iona 9 at Siena at Loyola (Md.) 7½ Rider at Tulane 8 Wofford NBA FAVORITE LINE at Miami 10 at Toronto 6 Cleveland 1 Brooklyn 5½ Atlanta 3 at Boston 3 at Oklahoma City 10½ at Memphis 9½ at Milwaukee 2½ at Phoenix 3 at L.A. Clippers 4½
UNDERDOG Bulls Sacramento at Charlotte at Washington at Detroit Indiana Philadelphia Portland Houston Utah L.A. Lakers
TRAnSACTiOnS PROS BASEBALL American League CLEVELAND INDIANS — Agreed to terms with OF Nick Swisher on a four-year contract. KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Agreed to terms with RHP Blaine Boyer on a minor league contract. TEXAS RANGERS — Agreed to terms with RHP Jason Frasor on a one-year contract. Designated C Eli Whiteside for assignment. American Association AMARILLO SOX — Released C Patrick Arlis, C Tyler Goodro, OF Danny Gallinot, LHP Trent Lare, RHP Wes Littleton, OF Jake Luce, OF Derrick Pyles and INF Garrett Rau. Traded RHP Chad Povich to Laredo for future considerations. FARGO-MOORHEAD REDHAWKS — Traded OF/1B Marcos Rodriguez to Amarillo for OF Tim Alberts. BASKETBALL NBA Development League ERIE BAYHAWKS — Traded F Mychel Thompson and G Donald Sloan to Sioux Falls, who sent G Andrew Goudelock to Rio Grande Valley and a 2013 secondround draft pick to Erie. Rio Grande Valley sent F Mike Singletary to Erie. FOOTBALL National Football League CLEVELAND BROWNS— Signed DL Kendrick Adams, TE Dan Gronkowski and DB Kent Richardson to reserve/future contracts. NEW YORK JETS — Signed LS Travis Tripucka to a reserve/future contract. OAKLAND RAIDERS — Signed RB Jon Hoese, NT Johnny Jones and WR Isaiah Williams to reserve/future contracts. SEATTLE SEAHAWKS — Reinstated CB Brandon Browner from the suspended list. TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS — Signed S Sean Baker, LS Andrew DePaola, TE Drake Dunsmore, LB Joe Holland, TE Zach Miller, DE Ernest Owusu, T Mike Remmers, CB James Rogers, DB Nick Saenz and QB Adam Weber. WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Signed S Devin Holland to a reserve/future contract. Canadian Football League HAMILTON TIGER-CATS — Named Orlondo Steinauer defensive coordinator. SASKETCHEWAN ROUGHRIDERS — Announced the resignation of special teams coordinator Craig Dickenson. WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS — Signed PK Justin Palardy to a contract extension. Re-signed DB Johnny Sears. HOCKEY National Hockey League ST. LOUIS BLUES — Reassigned F Jay Barriball from Peoria (AHL) to Bloomington (CHL). American Hockey League HAMILTON BULLDOGS — Loaned D Brendon Nash to San Antonio. SAN ANTONIO RAMPAGE — Loaned D Jason DeSantis to Hamilton. SPRINGFIELD FALCONS — Signed LW Scott Howes to a professional tryout contract. Assigned LW Wade MacLeod to Evansville (ECHL). ECHL READING ROYALS — Signed G Drew MacIntyre. Western Hockey League EVERETT SILVERTIPS — Traded F Trent Lofthouse to Victoria for a 2014 Bantam Draft sixth-round pick. VICTORIA ROYALS — Traded G Jared Rathjen to Vancouver for a 2013 Bantam Draft eight-round pick.
COllEgE CHARLESTON SOUTHERN — Announced the resignation of football coach Jay Mills. LYNCHBURG — Named Nasim Moadab men’s and women’s interim tennis coach MICHIGAN STATE — Announced RB Le’Veon Bell will enter the NFL draft. SHENANDOAH — Named Scott Yoder football coach.
bASEbAll Mlb CAlEnDAR Jan. 9 — Hall of Fame voting announced. Jan. 9-10 — Owners meeting, Paradise Valley, Ariz. Jan. 15 — Salary arbitration filing. Jan. 18 — Salary arbitration figures exchanged. Feb. 1-21 — Salary arbitration hearings, Phoenix. Feb. 12 — Mandatory reporting date for players participating in the World Baseball Classic in Asia. Mandatory reporting date for all other pitchers and catchers participating in the WBC. Voluntary reporting date for pitchers and catchers not participating in the WBC. Feb. 15 — Mandatory reporting date for WBC players not participating in Asia. Voluntary reporting date for position players not participating in the WBC.
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Mom using restaurant table to change baby takes the cake
Dear Abby: My wife and I run a restaurant in a small town. Recently, my wife came home on my day off and told me that during the lunch hour, one of our servers had come into the kitchen and announced they’d need extra sanitizer on table 29 because a mother was changing her baby on it! What has happened in our society that people don’t understand that this is unsanitary and rude? Had I been there, I don’t know that I could have kept a civil tongue, and I feel like people today regard my disgust as unreasonable. Is there something I’m missing here? – Cafe Crazy Dear “Crazy”: I don’t know
who you have been talking to, but your disgust is NOT “unreasonable.” What that mother was missing was common sense and courtesy for those around her. I agree changing a baby on a restaurant table was out of the ballpark – particularly if a changing table was available in the women’s restroom of your café. (I’m assuming there is one, but if there isn’t, the situation should be immediately rectified.) Dear Abby: My husband, “Gene,” and I were married for five years until our divorce six months ago. We still live together and are dating each other. We had so many
DEAR ABBY Jeanne Phillips issues, I felt there needed to be a fresh start, including filing for divorce and living apart. Now that we have started over, moved away from our hometown and gotten rid of several “friends,” our issues are gone and we’re financially stable. In fact, our relationship is better than ever. Since things are now worked out, I’d like us to get remarried. I told him before our divorce I hoped we could resolve things and marry again. Now he’s not sure, because he says if we got divorced again, he couldn’t bear the hurt. He says he still doesn’t understand why our “fresh start” included a divorce. Abby, we love each other. We want to be together forever and have children. I don’t want to be dating my exhusband indefinitely. Do you have advice for us? – Going
Nowhere In Washington
Dear Going Nowhere: I sure do. In the interest of solidifying your fresh start, you and Gene should sign up for some premarital counseling. If you do, you may be able to help him understand why you felt the way you did. With
counseling, you can sure that your problems are fully resolved, and it may reassure him that this time there won’t be another divorce. If you are thinking about a religious ceremony, the officiant may even require it. Dear Abby: My sister and mother went to a movie recently. My sister became concerned her husband and kids were locked out of the house, so she quickly took out her phone and texted her husband. It took less than 30 seconds. A minute later a large man came down the stairs of the theater, got right in her face and began berating her – telling her she was rude for pulling out her phone. It was so upsetting she and Mom got up and left. I understand she should have stepped out of the theater to text. However, the man caused more of a scene than her texting did. What makes people think it is OK to treat people badly? – Holly In
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Dear Holly: The same thing that made your sister think it was OK to use her cellphone in a darkened theater. She’s lucky all she got was a lecture because these days many people have short fuses. • Write Dear Abby at www. dearabby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.
Beta-blockers are effective treatment for essential tremor
Dear Dr. K: I’ve been diagnosed with essential tremor. Can this condition improve, or will it only get worse from here? Dear Reader: This condition definitely can improve with treatment. If you’ve been diagnosed with this disorder, I assume you have shaking movements of your hands, limbs, head or voice that you can’t control. If you’re like most people with this condition, it may come and go for reasons of its own. Essential tremor is a permanent condition. Without treatment, the degree of tremor typically worsens with age. It also can expand from one part of the body to other parts over time. There are many different neurological conditions that can cause tremor. Fortunately, essential tremor is one of the least serious and most easily treated. The neurological condition that most of my patients worry about when they develop essential tremor is Parkinson’s disease. But Parkinson’s is very different from essential tremor: It is a serious disease that affects a person’s ability to move. The tremors of Parkinson’s disease are more noticeable at rest. In contrast, essential tremor is most noticeable when your body is in action. Most important, having es-
ASK DR. K Dr. Anthony Komaroff sential tremor does not mean you will get Parkinson’s disease – there’s no connection. Essential tremor often begins in the dominant hand – usually the right hand, since most people are right-handers. You may have trouble with things such as writing, typing or pouring a beverage. Essential tremor also can affect your head and cause your speech to tremble. The actress Katherine Hepburn developed essential tremor of her head and speech in her later years. Despite that, she gave some of her greatest performances in those years. Remember her in “On Golden Pond”? I can’t forget. Beta-blockers, particularly propranolol (Inderal), are the most effective treatments for essential tremor. Betablockers usually improve the tremor so it does not interfere with normal activities. In some people, the tremor disappears completely. If you stop taking the medication, the tremor will return. Other drugs that may help include: • The anti-seizure drug primidone (Myidone, Mysoline). • The anti-anxiety medi-
cine lorazepam (Ativan). • Gabapentin (Neurontin), a drug used primarily to treat chronic pain. • For severe tremors that don’t respond to other therapies, doctors may use injections of botulinum toxin (Botox). Many people find drinking small amounts of alcohol temporarily relieves tremor. That’s small amounts: It’s wise for men to avoid drinking more than two drinks a day, and women one drink a day. Stress, caffeine and certain medicines may make the tremor worse. If that’s the case for you, learn ways to reduce your stress and cut down on caffeinated beverages such as coffee, tea and soft drinks. Some medications, including stimulants and antidepressants, also may affect your tremor. Ask your doctor if you are taking any medications that could be worsening your tremor. Essential tremor is something many of my patients have learned to live with after treatment has lessened the symptoms. It’s one of the infirmities of growing older.
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I have never killed anyone, I don’t think I’ve been unworthy, I’ve paid [$190 million] in taxes over 45 years. I will neither complain nor brag, but I refuse to be called ‘pathetic’.” Actor Gerard Depardieu after French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault called him “pathetic” for his criticism over a proposed tax increase. Depardieu responded by applying for Russian citizenship.
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Several of the horses used on HBO’s canceled series “Luck” were drugged, underweight and sick during production, an animal rights worker who oversaw conditions on the show alleges in a lawsuit. Barbara Casey’s suit filed Monday says she was wrongfully fired from her post at the American Humane Association after complaining about the conditions horses faced on the show, which was canceled after a series of high-profile animal deaths. The suit claims four horses died during the show’s production, not three as previously reported. Horses were “often drugged to perform,” and “underweight and sick horses unsuited for work were routinely used” by producers, her lawsuit alleges.
Depardieu in tax fight
Spoilers plague ‘Downton’ fans There are many delicious reasons to watch the returning “Downton Abbey” and an exasperating one to skip it: The cover’s been blown on major plot twists. In what may be outsized revenge for the American Revolution – or payback for years of exporting lousy U.S. TV and fast food – the Brits are sharing “Downton Abbey” with us, but only after first airing each season. A little gimmick called the Internet makes it impossible to keep story developments from spreading like germ warfare. As with sports fans who must avoid all media and big-mouthed friends to keep game scores a surprise, “Downton Abbey” addicts are forced to shun rude news reports and blogs about what happens to character A, B or C (no spoilers here, promise). Heedlessly type in “Downton Abbey season three” online and you risk stumbling into the startling truth that ... well, never mind. If you know, you have our sympathy. If you don’t, live in blessed ignorance and careful isolation from Sunday’s debut until the Feb. 17 season finale. Rebecca Eaton, executive producer of PBS’ “Masterpiece” showcase that’s home to “Downton,” contends it’s premature to assess the impact here of the U.K. airing that wrapped Christmas Day. But what’s to be done if the season endgame is stuck in your brain? As a famous Brit said in more dire circumstances, never surrender! Go along for the ride that the beautifully produced soap opera-cum-fairy tale offers, admiring the foreshadowing of events to come.
The Kremlin has cast Gerard Depardieu in one of the most surprising roles of his life – as a new Russian citizen. The announcement was made Thursday that President Vladimir Putin approved Depardieu’s application for citizenship.
Taxes appear to be at the heart of the matter. Depardieu has waged a battle against a proposed super tax on millionaires in his native country. French President Francois Hollande plans to raise the tax on earned income above $1.3 million to 75 percent from the current 41 percent, while Russia has a flat 13-percent tax rate.
Norris back at NPR
NPR says Michele Norris is returning to the network in a new role after a leave of absence from the afternoon news show “All Things Considered.” Norris stepped down from the show in October 2011 when her husband took a senior role in President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign. NPR says Norris will return to the network as a host and special correspondent. She will focus in part on fostering conversations about race with “The Race Card Project,” which she has developed while on sabbatical.
Rare King book to be sold
A signed copy of a rare Stephen King book is up for auction at a Maine bookstore, with proceeds going to a nearby homeless shelter’s emergency home heating fund. The copy of “The Regulators,” written by horror writer and Maine native King under the pen name Richard Bachman, was donated by a customer of Scottie’s Bookhouse in Hancock.
Elvis musical too racy
A parent who was “All Shook Up” about Elvis Presley songs in a highschool drama prompted educators to cancel the production, deeming it too sexually suggestive. Presley warbles over a sweetheart whose “lips are like a volcano that’s hot” in his 1957 song. “I’m proud to say she’s my buttercup. I’m in love. I’m all shook up.” Presley’s song lyrics and a scene suggesting cross-dressing were deemed offensive by school administrators in a Salt Lake City suburb.
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Actress Barbara Rush (“Peyton Place”) is 86. Actress Dyan Cannon is 76. Country singer Kathy Forester of the Forester Sisters is 58. Guitarist Bernard Sumner of New Order (and Joy Division) is 57. Actress Ann Magnuson (“Anything But Love”) is 57. Country singer Patty Loveless is 56. Singer Men & Women’s Hiking Michael Stipe of R.E.M. is 53. Actor New Balance 989 Dave Foley (“NewsRadio,” “Kids in the Hall”) is 50. Actress Dot Jones is 49. Actress Julia Ormond is 48. Country singer Deana Carter is 47. Harmonica player Benjamin Darvill of Crash Test Dummies is 46. Actor Jeremy Licht is 42. Actress Jill Marie Jones (“Girlfriends”) is 38. Singer Spencher Chamberlain of Underoath is 30.
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“Your Shape: Fitness Evolved 2013”
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t’s that time of the year when the line for an elliptical machine at your local gym stretches a bit longer thanks to freshly motivated folks who’ve resolved to start 2013 by shedding pounds and shaping up. Why wait to work out – or even leave your living room – when you can get your heart rate up at home with these recently released fitness games? – The Associated Press • “Nike+ Kinect Training” (Microsoft, for Xbox 360, $49.99) is probably the closest you can get to a personal trainer coming over to your place without added expense or intimidation. Brought to you by the swooshy shoemaker, “Nike+ Kinect Training” is essentially a four-week exercise program centered on three goals: get lean, get strong or get toned. The camera-based Kinect system does an impressive job detecting motion in personalized cardio drills. The graphics and interface are slick, and the virtual trainers are actually helpful, though their repetitive prerecorded motivation will eventually become as tiresome as that grunting meathead at your gym’s free weights. HHH½ • “your Shape: Fitness Evolved 2013” (Ubisoft, for Wii U, $49.99) is the only fitness title out for the Wii U since Nintendo has yet to unleash a “Wii Fit” for the new console. While this edition of “Your Shape” smartly utilizes the GamePad for navigation, it unfortunately requires a Wiimote to track movements, and there are no Wii Balance Board features. The Zen-heavy routines in “Your Shape” feel less intense but more diverse than the “Nike+ Kinect” workouts, and the game awards currency for exercising, which can be used to buy stuff like new songs and virtual gear. It’s clever inspiration. However, holding a remote while working out feels like a big lunge backward for the genre. HHH • “Dance Central 3” (Microsoft, for Xbox 360, $49.99) isn’t technically a fitness title – and that’s exactly why it just might be the best one out there. The third iteration of the popular Kinect choreography series features a
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revamped fitness mode that can stealthily track calories burned as players shake what their mama gave ‘em to hit songs. The new fitness feature also allows wannabe Ushers to set weekly goals and program playlists of varying styles and lengths. (I preferred getting funky with the “cardio groove” list.) “Dance Central” isn’t as comprehensive as “Nike+ Kinect Training” or “Your Shape,” but it’s a fun diversion when those games’ virtual trainers boil your blood. HHHH • “Zumba Fitness Core” (Majesco, for Xbox 360 and Wii, $49.99) is the latest entry in the cha-cha-sweat empire’s
interactive catalog, combining several different dance styles into ab-busting workout classes set in ridiculously silly locales, like next to a waterfall or aboard a yacht. The Kinect version isn’t as polished as “Dance Central,” although it’s more extreme. You’ll feel the burn to the game’s wild soundtrack. Unlike the expected hip-hopand-pop flavor of “Dance Central,” the kooky tunes in “Zumba Fitness Core” range from Latin cheesiness (Enrique Iglesias’ “Bailamos”) to refreshingly eclectic (Grace Potter and The Nocturnals’ “Paris”). It’s a must-buy for fans of the gyrating franchise who own a Kinect. HHH
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Pan-Arab Al-Jazeera buys Current TV from Gore By RYAN NAKASHIMA The Associated Press
With its purchase of left-leaning Current TV, the Pan-Arab news channel Al-Jazeera has fulfilled a long-held quest to reach tens of millions of U.S. homes. But its new audience immediately got a little smaller. The nation’s secondlargest TV operator, Time Warner Cable Inc., dropped Current after the deal was confirmed Wednesday, a sign that the channel will have an uphill climb to expand its reach. “Our agreement with Current has been terminated and we will no longer be carrying the service. We are removing the service as quickly as possible,” the company said in a statement. Still, the acquisition of Current, the news network cofounded by former Vice President Al Gore, boosts Al-Jazeera’s reach in the U.S. beyond a few large U.S. metropolitan areas including New York and Washington nearly ninefold to about 40 million homes. Gore confirmed the sale Wednesday, saying in a statement that Al-Jazeera shares Current TV’s mission “to give voice to those who are not typically heard; to speak truth to power; to provide independent and diverse points of view; and to tell the stories that no one else is telling.” Al-Jazeera, owned by the government of Qatar, plans to gradually transform Current into a network called AlJazeera America by adding five to 10 new U.S. bureaus beyond the five it has now and hiring more journalists. More than half of the content will be U.S. news and the network will have its headquarters in New York, spokesman Stan Collender said. Collender said there are no rules against foreign ownership of a cable chan-
nel — unlike the strict rules limiting foreign ownership of free-to-air TV stations. He said the move is based on demand, adding that 40 percent of viewing traffic on Al-Jazeera English’s website is from the U.S. “This is a pure business decision based on recognized demand,” Collender said. “When people watch AlJazeera, they tend to like it a great deal.” Previous to Al-Jazeera’s purchase, Current TV was in 60 million homes. It is carried by Comcast Corp., which owned less than a 10 percent stake in Current TV, as well as DirecTV. Neither company announced plans to drop the channel. In 2010, Al-Jazeera English’s managing director, Tony Burman, blamed a “very aggressive hostility” from the Bush administration for reluctance among cable and satellite companies to show the network. Even so, Al-Jazeera has garnered respect for its ability to build a serious news product in a short time. In a statement announcing the deal, it touted numerous U.S. journalism awards it received in 2012, including the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award Grand Prize and the Scripps Howard Award for Television/Cable In-Depth Reporting. But there may be a culture clash at the network. Dave Marash, a former “Nightline” reporter who worked for AlJazeera in Washington, said he left the network in 2008 in part because he sensed an anti-American bias there. Al-Jazeera English went on the air in November 2006. It moved quickly to establish a strong presence on the Internet, launching web streaming services and embracing new social media services such as Twitter in part to compensate for its lack of a presence on U.S. airwaves.
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In this Jan. 13, 2012, file photo, former Vice President Al Gore, Current TV Chairman and Co-Founder, participates in the Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour in Pasadena , Calif. Al-Jazeera, the Pan-Arab news channel that has struggled to win space on American cable television, has acquired Current TV, Gore confirmed. The English news network has a different news staff and a separate budget from the Arabic network, which launched in 1996. They and the company’s growing stable of other Al-Jazeera branded channels are overseen by Sheik Ahmed bin Jassim Al Thani, a member of Qatar’s royal family. Sheik Ahmed took over last year following the abrupt resignation of the company’s longtime Palestinian head, Wadah Khanfar, who was widely credited with helping build Al-Jazeera into an influential global brand. In
his departure note to staff, he said he was leaving behind “a mature organization” that “will continue to maintain its trailblazing path.” Both the English and the Arabic channels actively covered the protests, violence and political upheaval that have become known as the Arab Spring. Current, meanwhile, began as a groundbreaking effort to promote usergenerated content. But it has settled into a more conventional format of political talk television with a liberal bent. Gore worked on-air as an ana-
work, Fox News Channel. Current hired former CNN Washington bureau chief David Bohrman in 2011 to be its president. Bohrman pushed the network to innovate technologically, with election night coverage that emphasized a conversation over social media. Current TV, founded in 2005 by former vice president Gore and Joel Hyatt, is expected to post $114 million in revenue in 2013, according to research firm SNL Kagan. The firm pegged the network’s cash flow at nearly $24 million a year.
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‘Promised Land’ doesn’t dig very deep “Promised Land”
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STARRING: Matt Damon, Frances McDormand, John Krasinski PLOT: A salesman for a natural gas company experiences life-changing events after arriving in a small town, where his corporation wants to tap into the available resources. RATED: R for language RuNNING TImE: 1 hour, 46 minutes By CHRISTY LEMIRE The Associated Press
“Promised Land” offers an experience that’s alternately amusing and frustrating, full of impassioned earnestness as well as saggy sections. Director Gus Van Sant has the challenging task of taking the divisive, high-tech practice of fracking and trying to make it not just human but cinematic. Working from a script by co-stars Matt Damon and John Krasinski, based on a story by Dave Eggers, he succeeds in fits and starts. The impoverished small town that’s the tale’s setting, a place in need of the kind of economic rejuvenation that extracting natural gas could provide, is full of folksy folks whose interactions with the main characters don’t always ring true. “Promised Land” has its heart on its sleeve and its pro-environment message is quite clear, but it’s in the looser and more ambiguous places that the film actually works. Damon, collaborating with Van Sant for the third time as both screenwriter and actor (following “Gerry” and the Oscar-winning “Good Will Hunting”), stars as Steve Butler, a salesman traveling the country on behalf of a bland behemoth of an energy corporation. Having grown up on an Iowa farm himself and seen how an economic downturn can devastate a small town, Steve is a likable everyman who seems genuinely invested in what he’s selling. But he’s also a pragmatist, as evidenced by the playfully cynical give-and-take he enjoys with his partner, Sue, played by a dry, sharp Frances McDormand. Famous for his efficiency in persuading rural residents to sell their land for the drilling rights, Steve runs into an unprecedented challenge when he and Sue arrive in the depressed dairy farming community of McKinley in western Pennsylvania. Outspoken old-timer Frank (Hal Holbrook), the high school science teacher, and flashy, charismatic environmental crusader Dustin (Krasinski) dare to question the company’s
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Matt Damon in “Promised Land.” methods in increasingly vocal ways. But even as Steve struggles to close the deal, he finds himself growing entrenched in the daily rhythms of this idyllically charming little nook of the heartland. Rosemarie DeWitt co-stars as a winsome grade school teacher with dismayingly half-baked romantic connections to both Steve and Dustin; essentially, it’s as if she’s waiting around the local watering hole on karaoke night, hoping that some cute, exciting outsider will waltz in and woo her. The actress, and the character, deserve better. Similarly, Sue enjoys a brief flirtation with the sarcastic convenience store owner (Titus Welliver) whose character
is underdeveloped and yet so briefly intriguing, you’d like to know more about him. All of this feels half-heartedly wedgedin. Steve and Dustin obviously function as two sides of the same coin, but their confrontations don’t crackle the way they should because everyone involved is just so darn nice. But there is an appealing gray area suggested in Damon’s character. For a while, we’re not quite sure whether he’s a true believer or an opportunistic climber – that is, until some major and implausible plot twists make his stance forcefully, indisputably clear.
mass. natives Damon, Krasinski team for ‘Promised’ By ED SYMKUS
GateHouse News Service In Hollywood circles, it’s always been Matt and Ben, as in Damon and Affleck, as in the guys who grabbed the Oscar for writing “Good Will Hunting.” But if “Promised Land,” the film about both sides of the controversial issue of fracking for natural gas that opens today, is a sign, Hollywood may soon be referring to Matt and John, as in Cambridge, Mass., boy Damon and Newton, Mass., boy Krasinski, who wrote the script together, and costar in the film. Damon plays a company agent who’s trying to get struggling farmers to lease out their land to drillers. Krasinski plays an activist who’s trying to convince the same farmers the practice is dangerous. At a recent interview session in Los Angeles, the actor-writers seemed relieved and a little surprised that, due to certain circumstances, the film actually got made. “I had never written an original script,” Krasinski said. “So about two years ago, I started thinking about what I wanted to write about, and the thing I came to was American identity. We’d all made so much noise about the people who were being elected, but I think a lot of times we forgot to tell the story of the people who were being affected by all this stuff. So when the idea of natural gas drilling came into the story, it was a perfect backdrop. It’s like high-stakes poker. There’s so much potentially to gain and so much potentially to lose, that these people are in an incredibly complicated situation. It’s sort of ignorant to say one side is wrong or the other side is wrong; somewhere in the middle is the truth, and you find it in these people.” Krasinski would eventually present the idea to Damon, who had already been thinking about working with him. “We befriended each other when I worked with Emily [Blunt, Krasinski’s wife] on ‘The Adjustment Bureau,’ ” Damon said. “My wife and I hit it off with them, so we started going out to dinner. John’s a great
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John Krasinski (from left), director Gus Van Sant and Matt Damon on the set of “Promised Land.” writer and producer, and the scope of his talent is vast and impressive. So I immediately started trying to find stuff we could do together. Then he suggested this, so we decided to take a crack at writing it.” Damon was attracted to the American identity idea, and knew the importance and relevance of the fracking issue. “It’s very polarizing,” he said. “Because people have to engage with the issue. It’s real and it’s here. We wanted to show the human cost of something like this.” Damon went so far as to agree to make “Promised Land” his directorial debut while he and Krasinski were still writing it. He has fond memories of the writing sessions, but the directing part didn’t happen. “John was doing ‘The Office’ and I was out here doing ‘We Bought a Zoo,’ and
he just started showing up at my house on weekends. He’d show up for breakfast, and we’d work all day Saturday and then end with dinner. It was hard, but writing a script isn’t something that’s totally focused. You’re taking little breaks all the time. One of my kids might run in and John would give him a horsey ride and then you might think, ‘Oh yeah, I know what this character will say here.’ ” “Yeah, I did a lot of horseback rides, and threw out my back,” Krasinski said, adding, “Matt and I worked really well together. We worked quickly, and had similar sensibilities. I think we have an innately positive outlook on life, so our idea of where we wanted this movie to go was always similar.” Then things went wrong, or at least got too busy. Damon had been working
without a break, and near the end of 2011, having been away from his family to act in “Elysium” for director Neill Blomkamp, he came home to finish promoting “We Bought a Zoo.” “It was Dec. 15, and my year was over. But I got home and looked at my calendar and realized if I was going to direct this movie and get it out this year, I had to go into pre-production on Jan. 2. And I just couldn’t leave my kids again.” He called Krasinski to tell him he wasn’t going to direct. That didn’t go well. Neither did the rest of his news. “Warner Brothers had given us the money for the film. They were backing it because of me,” he said. “But I knew the second I told them I wasn’t going to direct it, they would pull out, which they did. So I lost us a director and our money. But it
was the right decision. I told John I didn’t know what was gonna happen, but our script is good and there’ll be a great director who wants to do it.” “It was a rough phone call to get,” Krasinski recalled. “But I totally understood what he was doing. Well, I won’t lie, I didn’t understand at the time. It was really hard. I went downstairs and said to my wife, ‘What do I do now? How do I pick up the pieces?’ But it was incredible that less than 12 hours later, Gus Van Sant had signed on to direct.” All Damon and Krasinski can say about what led up to that was thank goodness for email. “The morning after I called John, I was leaving for Florida with my family, sitting on the plane feeling horrible,” said Damon, who decided to get a message to his old friend, Van Sant, who directed “Good Will Hunt-
ing.” Krasinski, too, was feeling bad. “Matt sent me an email saying he was writing to Gus, and I wrote back, ‘How dare you throw your connections at me? You can’t make this better!’ ” Krasinski said. “I emailed Gus and told him everything that happened,” Damon said. “He emailed me right back, saying, ‘I love your writing. I’d love to read it.’ So I forwarded the script to him.” The happy ending comes courtesy of Van Sant. “I almost said yes right away, but then I decided I should read the script first,” Van Sant said. “So I did, and the script was great. We were all off and running the next day.” “Promised Land” also co-stars Hal Holbrook, from Weymouth, Mass.
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With ‘Les Mis,’ a new kind of speech for Hooper By JAKE COYLE
The Associated Press
Tom Hooper, the director of intimate character studies like the Oscar-winning “The King’s Speech,” the HBO miniseries “John Adams” and the TV drama “Longford,” would not seem the sort of chap likely to make a sprawling adaptation of a beloved Broadway musical. “I’ve always had an epic filmmaker within me clamoring to get out,” explains the British director. That much becomes clear in Hooper’s new film, “Les Misérables.” From the musical based on Victor Hugo’s novel, the film is an enormous, star-studded affair overlaid on a French revolution canvas yet painted with a naturalistic brush. The film, which has been nominated for four Golden Globes, has returned Hooper to the thick of the Oscar race two years after the Academy Awards’ coronation of “The King’s Speech.” A few months after that film won best picture and best director for Hooper, he was onto “Les Mis,” spending the “capital,” he says, that he earned with “The King’s Speech.” “I just thought: How can I follow this?” Hooper said in a recent interview. “In the end, I thought the best thing to do was just get back to work and to get back on the horse. I felt that the longer I left it, I might get kind of self-conscious or it might become this big thing in my head.” His approach to “Les Misérables,” a sung-through musical without dialogue, was centered on filming all of the singing live, as opposed to lip-syncing it. While that’s been done piecemeal in films, few movies (most notably Peter Bogdanovich’s “At Long Last Love”) have applied it so completely. “Even the ones I most love like ‘Fiddler,’ ‘West Side Story,’ ‘Sound of Music,’ I noticed that I was having to re-forgive the film continuously for lip-syncing,” says Hooper. “I didn’t want people to watch ‘Les Misérables’ knowing in advance that I would be seeking for them to forgive me.” The live singing meant Hugh Jackman (the escaped criminal Jean Valjean)
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Tom Hooper is the director of “Les Misérables.” would be singing while standing in a river of mud; that long single takes would be necessary for some numbers to maintain tempo continuity; and that the actors would be performing with tiny earpieces piping in live piano accompaniment. But the choice also injected “Les Mis” with rawness and realism and gave its cast the ability to act in the moment. “If the singer is thinking about singing, the audience is going to think about the singing,” says Jackman. A Broadway vet, Jackman hopes Hooper has found a new way to “deliver the genre” of movie musicals, which have waned in popularity in recent years even as reality singing competitions have drawn big ratings on TV. Hooper has already developed a reputation as an actor’s director, having steered Colin Firth and
Geoffrey Rush (“The King’s Speech”) and Paul Giamatti and Laura Linney (“John Adams”) to acting honors. The performances in “Les Mis” – given room for spontaneity and framed in close-up – have been widely hailed, including those of Russell Crowe (the police chief Javert), Eddie Redmayne (the revolutionary Marius) and particularly Anne Hathaway, who as the tragic Fantine sings the show-stopping “I Dreamed a Dream” in one take. The film, Hathaway says, proves Hooper “isn’t a one-off” after “The King’s Speech.” Fittingly, it was a musical that started Hooper on the path to directing. As a 10- or 11-year-old boy, the London-born son of a businessman and an academic was introduced to theater by his school drama teacher,
former Royal Shakespeare Company actor Roger Mortimer. Hooper’s first taste of performing came as a gang member in “The Beggar’s Opera” and then a lovesick British officer in Gilbert and Sullivan’s “Patience” – vivid childhood memories, he says. But seeing that he was unable to land lead roles in a school of a few hundred, he instead turned to directing: “I was weirdly strategic as a kid,” he says. Hooper made his first 16mm film by age 13 and before he was 20, he had sold a professionally financed short to British television. After studying at Oxford University, he went into TV work with the BBC. As a fan of films by Francis Ford Coppola and Ingmar Bergman, Hooper seems surprised he’s turned out to be such a plucker of
heart strings. Audiences responded passionately to the personal triumph tale of “The King’s Speech,” a global $414.2 million hit cheered by those with speech impediments and many others. “I did want to stay in an emotional place in my filmmaking,” he says. “What attracted me about ‘Les Misérables’ was to possibly work in an even more emotional way.” “I do think it’s the greatest gift that cinema can bestow is when it can actually take something about the pain of being human and make you feel a little bit better about it.” Part of the strong effect of “Les Misérables” might be attributed to its timeliness. Hugo’s story of populist uprising in 1832 Paris resounds in an era of the Arab Spring, the Occupy protests and general frustration over
economic inequality. “We’re at a point where we regularly have images of revolution on our front page, on TV,” says Hooper. “’Les Misérables’ is the great anthem of dispossessed. The people’s song is to ‘hear the people sing, singing the song of angry men.’ It’s the great expression of collective anger against an unjust system.” Hooper finished working on the film only the night before it was first screened in late November. And while he felt the need to hurry on to the next thing after “The King’s Speech,” making “Les Misérables” – “an oil tanker of a picture,” he says – has left him wanting only to curl up in a corner and sleep. “It’s like I’ve gotten the difficult second album out,” says Hooper. “After the difficult second album, you can relax a little.”
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On screen now “Django Unchained” HH
Rated R for strong graphic violence throughout, a vicious fight, language and some nudity, 2 hours, 35 minutes
STARRING: Jamie Foxx, Christoph Walz, Leonardo DiCaprio PLOT: With the help of his mentor, a slave-turned-bounty hunter sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner. VERDICT: For his latest blood fest, Quentin Tarantino largely replays all of his other blood fests, specifically his last flick, “Inglourious Basterds.” In that 2009 tale of wickedly savage retribution, Allied Jewish soldiers get to rewrite World War II history by going on a killing spree of Nazis. In Tarantino’s new tale of wickedly savage retribution, a black man (Foxx) gets to rewrite Deep South history by becoming a bounty hunter on a killing spree of white slave owners and overseers just before the Civil War. Granted, there’s something gleefully satisfying in watching evil people get what they have coming. But the film is Tarantino at his most puerile and least inventive, the premise offering little more than cold, nasty revenge and barrels of squishing, squirting blood. The usual Tarantino genre mishmash – a dab of blaxploitation here, a dollop of Spaghetti Western there – is so familiar now that it’s tiresome, more so because the filmmaker continues to linger with chortling delight over every scene, letting conversations run on interminably and gunfights carry on to grotesque excess. Bodies bursting blood like exploding water balloons? Perversely fun the first five or six times, pretty dreary the 20th or 30th. Tarantino always gets good actors who deliver, though, and it’s the performances by Foxx, Leonardo DiCaprio, Christoph Waltz and Samuel L. Jackson that make the film intermittently entertaining amid moments when the characters are either talking one another to death or just plain killing each other. – David Germain, The
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“The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” HHH
PG-13 for frightening images and extended sequences of intense fantasy action and violence, 2 hours, 49 minutes
STARRING: Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen, Richard Armitage, Andy Serkis PLOT: The hobbit Bilbo Baggins (Freeman) joins Gandalf the wizard (McKellen) and a company of 13 dwarves in a quest to reclaim the dwarves’ homeland from an invading dragon. They encounter monstrous obstacles in the first leg of their journey. VERDICT: From the opening frames we are back in Peter Jackson’s Middle Earth, and it’s a comfortable place to be. So comfortable, it is easy to overlook many of the film’s flaws. The idea that Jackson would turn J.R.R. Tolkien’s slim children’s novel into a three-film epic is nuts, but the first of these films is entertaining enough, even when the padding shows in a narrative nearly three hours long. Bilbo’s encounter with Gollum (Andy Serkis) is a showstopper. Avoid seeing the 3-D version shown at 48 frames per second, because it makes an expensive movie look as cheap as a 1970s BBC production. – Jeffrey
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“The Guilt Trip” H½
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STARRING: Barbra Streisand, Seth Rogen, Kathy Najimy PLOT: As inventor Andy Brewster is about to embark on the road trip of a lifetime, a quick stop at his mom’s house turns into an unexpected cross-country voyage with her along for the ride. VERDICT: “Yentl” goes yenta in “The Guilt Trip,” a creakily old-fashioned comedy that forgot to pack the laughs along with the nudging and kvetching. Possibly the first American film in decades in which characters drive cross-country courtesy of process shots out the back window, this mother-son yakfest blows a gasket and all four tires before it even hits the road. With Seth Rogen in very subdued mode, his fans will smell this one a mile away; it might be a movie only their mothers – or die-hard Barbra Streisand fans –
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RATINGS HHHH - Excellent HHH - Recommended HH - Not recommended H - Awful could love. Rogen — who for some reason sports about a one-day’s grizzle of beard throughout — drastically underplays, probably realizing that, with Streisand emoting so broadly, it was the only way to go. For her part, some combination of cosmetic expertise, cinematic enhancement and natural endowment makes Streisand look more like she’s in her 50s than in her 70s, which is the actuality. Those who’ve always liked the singer-actress probably won’t mind her here; for the nonfan, this is not the film that will change your mind. – Todd McCarthy, The
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“Jack Reacher” HHH
Rated PG-13 for violence, language and some drug material, 2 hours, 10 minutes STARRING: Tom Cruise, Rosamund Pike, Richard Jenkins, Robert Duvall PLOT: A homicide investigator digs deeper into a case involving a trained military sniper who shot five random victims. VERDICT: The idea of watching a movie in which a sniper methodically manufactures his own bullets, practices weekly at a gun range, then waits quietly in an empty parking garage before shooting five people dead may not sound like the most appealing form of entertainment during these tragic days. Nevertheless, it’s important to assess “Jack Reacher” on its own terms, for what it is and what it isn’t. Besides being caught in some unfortunate timing, it’s also clever, well-crafted and darkly humorous, and it features one of those effortless bad-ass performances from Tom Cruise that remind us that he is indeed a movie star, first and foremost. OK, so maybe Cruise doesn’t exactly resemble the Reacher of British novelist Lee Child’s books: a 6-foot-5, 250-pound, blond behemoth. If you haven’t read them, you probably won’t care. Even if you have read them, Christopher McQuarrie’s film – the first he’s directed and written since 2000’s “The Way of the Gun” – moves so fluidly and with such confidence, it’ll suck you in from the start. Jack Reacher is a former military investigator who’s become a bit of a mythic figure since he’s gone off the grid. When the deadly shooting occurs at the film’s start, authorities believe they’ve quickly found their man: a sniper who’s ex-Army himself. He reveals nothing during his interrogation but manages to scribble the words “Get Jack Reacher” on a notepad before winding up in a coma. But when Reacher arrives and reluctantly agrees to help the defense attorney (Rosamund Pike) investigate, he finds the case isn’t nearly as simple as it seems.– Christy Lemire, The
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“Les Misérables” HH½
Rated PG-13 for suggestive and sexual material, violence and thematic elements, 2 hours, 37 minutes STARRING: Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfreid PLOT: Years after ex-prisoner Jean Valjean (Jackman) breaks his parole to become a virtuous man, fanatical policeman Javert (Crowe) continues to hunt him. While avoiding Javert, Valjean helps a dying prostitute (Hathaway) and, years later, her daughter (Seyfried). VERDICT: Director Tom Hooper’s in-
terpretation of the blockbuster stage show is a musical in close-up. With his actors singing their roles “live,” Hooper can push his camera’s right into their faces. This is riveting for the first hour, then becomes repetitive. Jackman, Crowe and Hathaway are electrifying. This film was made for fans of the stage show. Others who don’t know the story going in will be lucky if they know it going out. – Jeffrey Westhoff, Northwest
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“Lincoln” HHH
Rated PG-13 for an intense scene of war violence, some images of carnage and brief strong language, 2 hours, 30 minutes
STARRING: Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn, Joseph Gordon-Levitt PLOT: As the Civil War continues to rage, America’s president struggles with continuing carnage on the battlefield as he fights with many inside his own Cabinet on the decision to emancipate the slaves. VERDICT: For anyone who cringed just a little while watching the trailer for “Lincoln” and worried it might be a near-parody of a Steven Spielberg film, with its heartfelt proclamations, sentimental tones and inspiring John Williams score, fret not. The movie itself is actually a lot more reserved than that – more a wonky, nuts-andbolts lesson about the way political machinery operates than a sweeping historical epic that tries to encapsulate the entirety of the revered 16th president’s life. That was a smart move on the part of Spielberg and screenwriter Tony Kushner, a Pulitzer prize-winner for the play “Angels in America” who also wrote the script for Spielberg’s “Munich.” It’s talky and intimate but also surprisingly funny. – Christy Lemire, The Associ-
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“Parental Guidance” HH
Rated PG for some rude humor, 1 hour, 44 minutes
STARRING: Billy Crystal, Bette Midler, Marisa Tomei PLOT: Artie and Diane agree to look after their three grandkids when their type-A helicopter parents need to leave town for work. Problems arise when the kids’ 21st-century behaviors collide with Artie and Diane’s old-school methods. VERDICT: The schmaltz is piled on thick, and if the comedy were any broader it would require an Imax screen, but still there’s something touching about how hard Billy Crystal and Bette Midler hustle to peddle the threadbare material that makes “Parental Guidance” a perfectly tolerable, if uninspired, moviegoing experience. It would have been nice if director Andy Fickman (“Race to Witch Mountain”) and husband-andwife screenwriters Lisa Addario and Joe Syracuse (“Surf’s Up”) could have mined some fresher stuff from this frequently played ballgame, but at least when you’ve got Crystal calling the shots, you can still count on the occasional change-up. – Mi-
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“Playing for Keeps” H
PG-13 for some sexual situations, language and a brief intense image, 1 hour, 46 minutes STARRING: Gerard Butler, Jessica Biel, Dennis Quaid, Catherine Zeta-Jones PLOT: When a down-on-his luck former pro soccer star (Butler) agrees to coach his son’s youth team, the several randy moms on the bleachers (including Zeta-Jones and Uma Thurman) decide to make a play for him. This could ruin his chances of reconciling with his ex-wife (Biel). VERDICT: This comedy stinks of the 1990s, when stories about immature dads were in vogue and when Robbie Fox’s script was probably written. Director Gabriele Muccio attempts to combine that sort of heartwarming muck with a sex comedy awfully reminiscent of Warren Beatty’s “Shampoo.” Even if the two halves of the script weren’t incompatible, the overall soul-sucking phoniness is enough to ruin this awful excuse for a romantic comedy. Biel’s performance is the only genuine element in a wasteland of artificiality. – Jeffrey Westhoff, Northwest
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“Promised Land” HH
Rated R for language, 1 hour, 46 minutes
STARRING: Matt Damon, Frances McDormand, John Krasinski PLOT: A salesman for a natural gas company experiences life-changing events after arriving in a small town, where his corporation wants to tap into the available resources. VERDICT: An experience that’s alternately amusing and frustrating, full of impassioned earnestness and saggy sections. Director Gus Van Sant has the challenge of taking the topic of fracking and trying to make it cinematic. Working from a script by co-stars Matt Damon and John Krasinski, based on a story by Dave Eggers, he succeeds in fits and starts. The impoverished small town that’s the tale’s setting, a place in need of the kind of economic rejuvenation fracking could provide, is full of folksy folks whose interactions with the main characters don’t always ring true. “Promised Land” has its heart is on its sleeve and makes its pro-environment message quite clear, but it’s in the looser and more ambiguous places that the film actually works. Damon stars as Steve Butler, a salesman traveling the country on behalf of a bland behemoth of an energy corporation. Having grown up on an Iowa farm himself and seeing how an economic downturn can devastate a small town, Butler seems to be a true believer in what he’s selling. But he’s also a pragmatist, as evidenced by the playfully cynical give-and-take he enjoys with his partner, Sue (a sharp Frances McDormand). Famously for his efficiency in persuading rural residents to sell their land for the drilling rights, Steve runs into a major challenge when he and Sue arrive in depressed McKinley, Pa., where an outspoken old-timer (Hal Holbrook) and a flashy, charismatic environmental crusader (Krasinski) dare to question the company’s methods. – Christy Lemire, The As-
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“The Rise of the Guardians” HH½
Rated PG for thematic elements and some mildly scary action, 1 hour, 37 minutes. STARRING: Voices of Hugh Jackman, Alec Baldwin and Isla Fisher PLOT: When the evil spirit Pitch launches an assault on Earth, the Immortal Guardians team up to protect the innocence of children all around the world. VERDICT: A very odd assortment of mythical childhood figures, some of them afflicted with severe emotional insecurities and inferiority complexes, are thrown together as an unlikely set of action heroes in “The Rise of the Guardians,” an attractively designed but overly busy and derivative mishmash of kid-friendly elements. Based on the book series “Guardians of Childhood” by William Joyce, as well as on the author’s short film “The Man in the Moon,” the script by David Lindsay-Abaire (Robots, Rabbit Hole) plays fast and loose with these legendary fixtures of childhood, attaching to them all sorts of neuroses, feelings of inadequacy and the sense, or threat, of being ignored. Some might find this tack delightfully mischievous, but it’s just as easy to reject as ridiculous. – Todd McCarthy,
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“Skyfall” HHH½
Rated PG-13 for intense violent sequences throughout, some sexuality, language and smoking, 2 hours, 23 minutes STARRING: Daniel Craig, Javier Bardem, Judi Dench, Ralph Fiennes PLOT: When a mysterious villain (Bardem) with a vendetta against M
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“LES MISERAbLES” Friday, Jan. 4
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“LINCOLN”
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AMC Lake in the Hills 12 – 11:20 a.m., 2:40, 6:10, 9:30 p.m. (Dench) declares war on MI6, James Bond (Craig) remains loyal to his boss even as British politicians led by Fiennes call for her resignation. VERDICT: Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes (“American Beauty”) has been a James Bond fan since boyhood, and his love for the character shines through in the series’ 50th anniversary entry. Much of it is brilliant, but like many of Mendes’ films, it is vexingly uneven. Craig remains the rock-solid center in a story that delves deeper into Bond’s psyche than before. With Dench occupying much of this story, Bond has no time for a worthy leading lady, which marks two movies in a row where action has trumped sex. Bardem is a scary villain, but his performance could have used more restraint. At least Q is finally back, now played by waspish Ben Whishaw. Adele’s theme song is the best since Sheena Easton warbled “For Your Eyes Only.” Craig’s third outing as Bond is miles better than “Quantum of Solace,” but it’s no “Casino Royale.” – Jeffrey Westhoff,
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“This is 40” HH
Rated R for sexual content, crude humor, pervasive language and some drug material, 2 hours, 13 minutes
STARRING: Paul Rudd, Leslie Mann, Albert Brooks, Megan Fox PLOT: Rudd and Mann, reprising the supporting characters they played in “Knocked Up,” face new challenges to their marriage as they turn 40. VERDICT: Writer-director Judd Apatow invented a style of affably vulgar comedy that has served him and a company of fellow actors and filmmakers well for nearly eight years.
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“PROMISED LAND” Friday, Jan. 4
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“THE RISE OF THE GUARDIANS” Friday, Jan. 4
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“WRECK–IT RALPH” Friday, Jan. 4
AMC Lake in the Hills 12 – 11:10 a.m. Classic Cinemas Carpentersville 12:00, 2:20, 4:40, 7:00 p.m. This time, Apatow’s worst instincts overpower his best. The frequently crude dialogue is no longer grounded in a sense of goofiness, and main characters are no longer likeable. Rudd is not given as much screen time as Mann, who is Apatow’s wife. Even Apatow’s good films are too long, but this one seriously lacks the discipline to edit. The occasional good scenes are separated by acres of pointless sequences and subplots.
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“Wreck-It Ralph” HHH
Rated PG for some rude humor and mild action and violence, 1 hour, 48 minutes STARRING: Voices of John C. Reilly, Sarah Silverman, Jack McBrayer, Jane Lynch PLOT: Wreck It-Ralph (Reilly), the villain of a 1980s arcade game, decides to become a hero, so he tries his luck in other video games. VERDICT: This kiddie version of “Tron” is the giddiest cartoon comedy in years. The more you know about video game history, the harder you will laugh. The richly funny script is filled with gaming in-jokes, but it is also surprisingly sweet once Ralph befriends Silverman’s character, a young girl prohibited from taking the wheel in a candy-themed racing game. The “backstage” world of video game characters is cleverly imagined, and many familiar digital faces appear. A ton of fun and worth every quarter. – Jeffrey Westhoff,
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The second Muntz Jet is about 90 percent restored. Still to come is covering the aluminum removable hardtop, rear seat fabrication and covering and installation of four like-new wheel covers.
Muntz Jet a future award-winning classic
A few years back, I stopped by Restorations Unlimited II in Cary to see how the complete rebuild process was going on the only existing 1911 Alpenia Flyer left in the world. Before I started to look at the Flyer, something else caught my eye, a vehicle that
ON CARS Fred Blumenthal had just come into the rear of the shop. There wasn’t much left of this once-stunning car.
A chassis, some front and back end sheet metal, four worn out tires, windshield and side window framing and lots of loose parts in various sized boxes. The car was covered in a light coat of dust; it obviously had been sitting in storage a long time. But I did recognize it as
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a Muntz Jet. Shop manager Ray Morey started to laugh and said, “You can tell that’s a Muntz, man you do know your cars.” While I take pride in recognizing a lot of off-thewall makes of cars, there was a reason I knew this latest addition to the shop’s
inventory of cars to be made like new. When I was kid, I had a summer job at a place called Hertzberg Binderies on the southeast corner of Belmont and Ravenswood Avenues in Chicago.
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Vehicle: Muntz Jet-1951 Vehicle type: Two door, four passenger sports/luxury convertible Color: Body – merlot; top – medium cream Engine: 1951 Cadillac OHV V8 by “Cotton” Werksman Engine size: 331 cubic inches Ignition: Heavy duty/dual coil Exhaust: Factory duals Transmission: 4 speed (GM) hydra-matic Rear axle ratio: 3:31:1 Chassis: Body on fully boxed perimeter style Front suspension: Independent upper and lower A-arms and coil springs Rear suspension: Liveaxle, longitudinal elliptic leaf springs Steering: Power Brakes: Heavy duty four wheel hydraulic Upholstery: Medium Cream colored leather Carpeting: Royal red/wool Wheelbase: 113 Inches Weight: 3,300 pounds
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A 2.5-liter, 170-horsepower, dual overhead cam four-cylinder engine is mated to a continuously variable transmission in the 2013 Nissan Rogue sport utility vehicle. Photo provided
Nissan finds right formula with Rogue REVIEWS Jerry Kuyper
Nissan’s Rogue inhabits that market known as compact sport utility vehicles. These vehicles are referred to as crossovers, too, since they are built on a car and not a truck platform. The midsize and large SUVs that brag about brawn and towing prowess usually are built on a truck platform. The Rogue does not stand out as superior, nor is it a slouch in this compact, fourdoor, five-passenger SUV market. It simply is a very good vehicle for what it is called upon to do and that is provide a comfortable ride for up to five people in two rows of seats and, when necessary, provide the storage space to carry cargo from here to there. Competitors include Ford Escape, Jeep Patriot, Chevrolet Equinox, Mitsubishi Outlander, Toyota RAV4, Honda CRS-V, Hyundai Tucson and Kia Sorento. Nissan’s Rogue, like its competitors, is at the lower price range of SUVs and that is due to engine size (four cylinders are standard) and trim elements, such as cloth, unheated and manual front seats instead of leather buckets that are power and heated. A 2013 Rogue arrived for a week of test driving and it was little different from predecessors. The 2.5-liter, 170-horsepower dual overhead cam engine is mated to a continuously variable transmission. Acceleration was good in the city and on interstates. During the week with two persons aboard and a minimum of cargo, an allwheel-drive SV model weighing 3,479 pounds averaged 23.6miles per gallon. Regular fuel can be pumped into the 15.9-gallon tank. Introduced in the fall of 2007 as a 2008 model, Nis-
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LEFT: Instrumentation, such as sound and climate system controls, are within easy reach of driver or front-seat passenger in the 2013 Nissan Rogue sport utility vehicle. ABOVE: Leg room will not delight taller folk in the rear seat, but anyone 6 feet tall or shorter should find comfort. san executives have had the good sense to keep the Rogue at four cylinders and 170 horsepower with the engine mated to a CVT. There have been critics in the automotive press calling for Nissan to put a V6 in the Rogue and up the horsepower to 200 or so. Nissan has ignored them and continued with what has become a popular powerplant. Fit and finish, ease of access into the vehicle, quality of ride, insulation from noise inside the cabin, layout of controls and instrumentation are top-notch. Rogue’s storage expands from 28.9 cubic feet behind the rear seat to almost 58 cubic feet when the split and fold rear seat is flattened. The SV comes with a cargo mat. Beneath the mat and the floor is a shallow wall-to-wall storage bin. The temporary spare tire shares storage space with the bin. At the four corners are P225 tires mounted on 17inch aluminum alloy wheels. Brakes are discs. Front and rear, leg room is generous. The rear seat is equipped with safety straps and anchors for three child seats. Contributing to the
Rogue’s popularity is the price, which ranges from $22,550 for an S model to $24,990 for a front-wheel-drive SV. AWD costs $1,060 which is why the tested SV carried a manufacturer’s suggested retail price of $26,050. Delivery is $825. Extras on the SV, as compared to the S model, included Bluetooth handsfree telephone connectivity, keyless entry with smart start, satellite radio, USB port for iPod, power driver’s seat, overhead roof rails with silver accents, polished stainless steel exhaust tip, body-colored power exterior mirrors, rear privacy glass, prewiring for tow hitch and a fold-down front passenger seat. With that seat and one or both of the rear seats folded, it is easy, for example, to carry a 9-foot ladder inside the cabin. Leather and heated front seats plus a leather-wrapped steering wheel, which are not available for the S model, are in an option package costing $3,900. That package also includes an upgrade sevenspeaker Bose sound system, navigation system with a five-inch touch screen, rear
and side view monitor, power sliding glass moonroof, xenon replacing halogen headlamps, 18-inch tires and wheels replacing the 17-inchers, automatic off/on headlights and more badging. The Rogue is built as a car with a unibody, but it has a raised suspension which increases ground clearance to seven inches. A front strut and rear multilink suspension system ensures this crossover will ride and feel like a car. During the test week, the Rogue held its own on sharp curves, but bumped a bit over rough railroad track crossings. It is dressed in a high beltline with ingenious use of window glass. Triangular fixed vent windows in the rear, for example, angle up with the curvature of the vehicle. Standard safety fare on all Rogues include traction and stability controls, an antilock braking system (discs front and rear), front airbags, side airbags in front plus overhead curtains for two rows, front seat belts with pretensioners and load limiters, and a tire pressure monitoring system.
A coat hook on back of the front passenger seat complements the two hooks above the rear doors. Grab handles, map lights in front, an overhead lamp for the rear, floor mats front, rear and in the cargo area, a large glove box, center armrest console, intermittent wipers and rear defroster are part of the standard fare. Limited warranty coverage is three years or 36,000 miles with 24-hour roadside assistance, and five years or 60,000 miles on the powertrain. For information, visit www.nissanusa.com. For buyers requiring more room and power, Nissan offers the midize Murano. Like the Rogue, it has four doors, can seat five passengers and is offered in front- or all-wheel-drive. Murano’s storage capacity expands from 31.6 to more than 82 cubic feet when the rear seats are flattened. The powertrain is a 3.5-liter, 265-horsepower V6 mated to a CVT. Towing capacity is 3,500 pounds. Murano models prior to 2013 have been tested with positive comfort and power results.
FAST FACTS Vehicle: SV all-wheel-drive model of 2013 Nissan Rogue Type: Four-door, five-passenger compact sport utility vehicle Price: $26,875 including $825 delivery Engine: 2.5-liter, 170-horsepower four-cylinder Transmission: Continuously variable Towing: 1,500 pounds Cargo: 28.9 cubic feet behind rear seat, 57.9 cubic feet rear seat down Wheelbase: 105.9 inches Length: 183.3 inches Width: 70.9 inches Height: 65.3 inches Leg room: 42.5 inches front, 35.3 inches rear Weight: 3,479 pounds Fuel: Regular Fuel tank: 15.9 gallons Mileage: 22 to 26 miles per gallon per Environmental Protection Agency Warranty: Three years or 36,000 miles with 24-hour roadside assistance and five years or 60,000 miles on the powertrain Assembly: Japan
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LEFT: Cargo space in the Nissan Rogue sport utility vehicle is 28.9 cubic feet behind the upright rear seats. When the seats are flattened, storage space expands to 57.9 cubic feet. RIGHT: A shallow storage bin is located under the carpeted rear floor. A deeper cavity under the floor holds the spare tire.
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Mercedes-Benz SL550 says wealth, not performance
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It’s a bright, clear day as I pull into the parking lot of an antiques shop in Upstate New York. I’m in a new 2013 Mercedes-Benz SL roadster. The owner is sunning himself, and he leans forward in his rocking chair as my convertible hardtop closes, a complicated origami operation. I can virtually hear the guy thinking: “I’ve got a live one here.” To him, I’m a walking dollar sign. I’ve arrived in a car which starts at $106,000 (and is $122,000 with options), so I can forget about haggling. That’s because the SL looks rich. You know the Janis Joplin song where she croons, “Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes- Benz?” She surely was thinking of the SL. No other Mercedes is as culturally iconic. Since their first appearance in the 1950s, the SL roadsters have been truly beautiful cars. This is the SL’s sixth generation. While it isn’t as gorgeous as the 1957 300SL or as suave as the later 350SL models, the new design feels thoroughly today. A piece of modern hotness. The SL550 inherits the new, flat nose found on the Mercedes SLS supercar. When the metal hardtop is up, the seams are artfully concealed and most people would be hardpressed to spot it as a convertible. You won’t overlook the SL, top up or down, so there is no compromise there. The front end and door sides are heavily adorned with automotive jewelry: Scoops and side strakes, character lines and LED running lights. Yet the hind three-quarters and trunk are curiously unshowy, with blunted lines and an almost monastic aesthetic. Some find this marriage of styles displeasing, but I like
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The Mercedes-Benz SL550 is $106,000 or $122,000 with options. it. All the tension is up front, with gradual relaxing as you travel toward the rear. In the sports car world, the SL has always been a bit of an anomaly. You own an SL to project a sense of well-being and being well off. Show up in a SL and you will look fabulous. You can get a tan while driving, after all. But as a true-blue sports car, it falls short. Don’t expect a supreme road carver — it would ruffle your coiffed hair. Yet take note of the specifications on the 2013 SL550 and it seems to have the engineering goods: a twin-turbo, 4.6-liter V-8 with 429 horsepower and an incredible 516 pound-feet of torque. And this time the roadster has an aluminum body, hood and doors, so it’s lighter than the outgoing model. On the freeway, it is a thing to behold, gamboling through slower traffic with verve. Plenty fast, plenty powerful. But to see how it fares on twisty back roads, I leave behind the antiques shop for miles of secluded blacktop. The car feels overly wide and still heavy on these narrow roads, too often wrongfooted on wriggling, off-camber turns. The stability and traction controls interfere, often and quickly, as if to cajole the driver. Come on, it’s a beautiful day. Let’s just slow down and enjoy ourselves, shall we? I’m disappointed. For that price, I want a bit more dual-
ity. More bite for my bank. On a later day, I get the chance to put the SL on a racetrack. The AMG version, the SL63 ($146,000) would be better suited, but I’m curious. Even if it isn’t meant for such sports-car madness, how will the SL550 do? I get two glorious laps. The SL zings through the track’s wide lanes like a silver arrow, at impressive speeds and turning very willingly. Far better than expected. On the third lap, the overworked tires overheat and lose traction. I’m sliding around the corners, drifting wildly. Stupid fun. On the fourth lap, though, it’s just stupid. I’m a bit out of control. I slow down and appreciate the car’s zillion amenities. The skyside window in the convertible roof, which goes opaque or clear at the press of a button. The heater in the back of the seat which blows warm air on your neck. I fiddle with the armada of safety features, which help keep you in your lane, will brake for you if you’re about to rear-end somebody and beep constantly until you turn the maddening things off. The leather on the seats is designed to stay comfortable even in direct sunlight. The stereo system is good enough to stir your soul. These are the bits which make the SL, unmistakably, a modern Mercedes-Benz. In a word, fabulous.
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Dash in 2008 Cadillac DTS goes blank
The dash in my 2008 Cadillac DTS goes completely blank. It’s an intermittent problem that is covered under the warranty. I have been in contact with my dealer and General Motors but they do not have an idea how to fix it. I’ve seen similar problems posted on the Internet, but there is no repair. How can I get this problem resolved? – R.A., Marengo
Problems such as this generally are due to a fault in the body control module or ground connections. More than likely the trouble in your car is because of a poor ground. As for your dealer or General Motors not knowing the cause or how to fix the trouble, they won’t know what to do until a technician performs diagnostic tests and probes the circuits. He or she must check the ground connections and connections at the control module. Once this is accomplished a technician will be able to decide what needs repair or replacement. While it’s possible a control module or even the instrument panel has a fault, all ground connections should be carefully examined before components are replaced.
I have a 2010 Dodge Avenger SXT with a non-functional cruise control. My car has 57,000 miles. When I turn on the switch the cruise control light turns on but it won’t set any desired speed. A mechanic checked for codes and tested the brake
a module for a lot less money than my shop. If I replace the bad module with a used part will I need to do anything else? – D.R., email
DR. GIZMO Phil Arendt light switch. There were no trouble codes and the brake light switch is working fine. He does not know what causes the trouble. Do you have any idea what is wrong? – T.C., email
Sure, there is a loose nut behind the steering wheel. All kidding aside a check of a professional web site found several issues regarding the cruise control switch. A few technicians explained symptoms that are identical to yours. In their quest to repair they discovered that the switch had partially come apart. One technician went so far to say that the switch was poorly designed and cheap. The fix was to replace it. Once your technician removes the air bag module he may find the same trouble.
I’m having trouble with the interior lights and other functions in my 2004 Nissan Armada. I took the vehicle to a repair shop where they determined that the body control module was damaged by a shorted wire. The technician wants to replace it but it’s expensive. I did not have it replaced. I was talking to a friend about the problem. He suggested that I get a module from a junk yard. I called two yards and both of them have
It’s iffy. Sometimes a used module works and sometimes not. If you are willing to take a chance, the worst that could happen is that it won’t work. Before you decide to give it a try ask your salvage yard if they will take the module back for a full refund if it does not work. It’s also possible a module will need reprogramming before functions of accessories such as the power door locks and windows return to normal operation. Reprogramming requires specialized equipment that you may find at a well-established independent repair shop or dealership.
There is a delay in the transmission in my 2004 Mitsubishi Galant GTS. When I shift into reverse or drive it may be 10 seconds before it engages. It feels as though it goes into neutral before it engages. Once it engages it shifts fine and I can drive all day without any trouble except when I have to shift between reverse and drive. My car has 98,000 miles on it. Does this mean the transmission needs an overhaul? – L.W., email
This condition may not require an overhaul. At least keep your fingers crossed it won’t. Often symptoms such as this are caused by exces-
sively worn valves. To access the solenoids and valves does not require major disassembly of the unit. Replacing worn valves in the valve body or replacing the entire valve body might be the cure.
The 3.0-liter engine in my 2005 Mazda Tribute misfires. I can feel it when accelerating while applying light pressure on the gas pedal. I went to three different repairs shops. One shop replaced the intake plenum gaskets. Another shop replaced the fuel pump and fuel filter. The last shop replaced the spark plugs and ignition coils. Each shop found computer codes 171, 300 and 304. After all of this work the trouble continues. Although it’s in great condition I’m about to junk it, but at this time I can’t afford a replacement. I bought the car three years ago. It has 138,000 miles. Can you help? – T.M., email The diagnostic codes indicate a lean fuel mixture problem, a random misfire and a misfire in cylinder four. Additionally, the symptoms are consistent with a lean fuel mixture. If a technician concentrates on determining the cause of a lean mixture the trouble will be resolved. A lean mixture occurs when there is too much air to fuel entering the cylinders. It appears two shops were addressing a cause for this condition by replacing the intake plenum gaskets,
fuel pump and fuel filter. Continued troubleshooting down this path will likely find a cure. A problem such as this might be caused by air leaks in the exhaust system near an oxygen sensor or even a small crack in a vacuum line.
The 5.3-liter engine in my 2008 Chevrolet Silverado with 88,000 miles is misfiring and the check engine light is on. I went to an auto parts store for a computer test. The partsman found a code for a misfire in one of the cylinders. I bought new spark plug wires and spark plugs because they have never been replaced. After I installed them, the misfire continues. I returned to the parts store and another test showed the same cylinder was misfiring. The partsman said the trouble might be the ignition coil or fuel injector. He suggested that I go to a repair shop to have the trouble diagnosed. I went to a repair shop where a mechanic did some tests on the coil and fuel injectors. He did not find any problems. Now he thinks the trouble is inside the engine. He did a compression test and says the cylinder has proper compression. I did not have any more work performed. The engine continues to misfire. What else could be wrong? – R.P., email The results of a compression test are suspicious. Be this as it may, the trouble may be caused by a problem in the valve system. There are a couple of
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options to determine valve troubles. If your favorite shop has a bore scope a technician might consider a visual examine of the valves through the spark plug opening of the afflicted cylinder to determine a fault. If your favorite shop does not have a bore scope your technician might consider removing the valve cover on the bank of the questionable cylinder. He will check the movement of the rocker arms for proper operation and inspect the valve springs and hardware for any problems. If everything appears normal he should consider removing the rocker arms and then pressurize the cylinder with compressed air to determine if air leaks past the valves into the intake plenum or exhaust system. If air leaks with the valves in the closed position there is a problem with either the intake or exhaust valve depending upon which system leaks air. If air leaks into the intake plenum the intake valve has trouble. If air leaks into the exhaust system, the exhaust valve has trouble. In either case the cylinder head needs removal to repair the cause.
• Phil Arendt is a columnist, consultant and A.S.E.certified master technician. Readers may send questions to Dr. Gizmo at P.O. Box 548, Cary, IL 60013 or drgizmo@ drgizmo.ws. Information is available on his website, http://drgizmo89.blogspot. com.
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With 80 percent of the restoration completed, the Muntz Jet carries the first series Kurtis sports car style front bumper. The later second series cars had a similar unit, but it had a lot more chrome.
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Muntz Jet was bought from Chicago junkyard for $60 in 1969 • MUNTZ
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Across from the Bindery on the northeast corner was a warehouse, and plastered in every window of that warehouse was a symbol known throughout the country at that time. It was caricature of man simply known as “Madman Muntz.” He wore a black Napoleon-style hat and red union suit long johns. The year would have been around 1960, and I was already a full-fledged car junkie. I make note of this because parked in front of that warehouse on Belmont Avenue was always parked a black with white top Muntz Jet. It was without a doubt the coolest car I had ever seen, and I’ve never forgotten what it looked like. Back in the late 1940s, the very famous Indy car builder Frank Kurtis wanted to get in on what everyone perceived would be a huge market for new car sales after World War II. He decided to design and built a two-seat sports car. It could be bought in either kit form or as a complete car from his Glendale, Calif., shop. The car was a beauty that looked like nothing on the road at the time. It featured the use of steel, aluminum and fiberglass. It was powered by a modified Flathead Ford V-8 engine. It received rave reviews from car magazines of the day. It also cost a fortune to build. The Kurtis
ABOVE: The trunk area carries a full size spare tire and is covered in rich Royal red wool carpeting. TOP RIGHT: The interior is pure class, with an engine-turned dash insert housing a full arrangement of gauges. MIDDLE: The 331-cubic-inch Caddy engine featured an Edelbrock “Log”-style intake manifold. Mounted on top of the intake were six two-barrel carburetors. BOTTOM: Located on the lower portion of each front fender, a chrome plated name plate says it all: Muntz Jet. operation was very small, and the cars were hand built. So while they were great cars, the average person could not afford them. After a few years, and with sales of only about 20 cars, Mr. Kurtis decided to sell his operation and devote his time to building Indy 500 and midget racers of the day. At the same time Kurtis was building his sports car, Elgin native and California transplant Carl “Madman” Muntz was selling radios and a brand new item, television, both his own design. And used cars. Lots and lots of used cars. Carl coined the phrase “TV,” and he was the original in-your-face, over the top radio and TV salesman. Anyone in the Los Angeles area at that time knew who was the “world’s largest car dealer.” It
If you saw this logo between the late 1940s to the late 1960s you knew who it was – the one and only “Mad Man Muntz.”
was “Madman Muntz.” Carl was mad like a fox. He came up with the original idea of selling cars seven days a week and 24 hours a day, which was legal at the time. He sold the first inexpensive television ($100) for the masses, and he was a brilliant businessman who knew a good deal when he saw one. One deal that really caught his eye was Frank Kurtis’s sports car operation, which Carl bought lot stock, and barrel for the cost of $200,000 dollars. Carl didn’t want to sell sports cars – too small a market. However, a hiperformance personal sports luxury car that did not exist at the time, he thought, would be just the ticket to make another pile of money. The first thing the Muntz organization did was rename the car, as Carl already had that picked out. The hottest thing in airplanes in the late 1940s and early 1950s was the new jet fighter, and since the “Madman” always did things in a big way, his new boulevard sports machine would be christened the “Muntz Jet.” He figured the name alone would sell a ton of cars. After taking a long look at his new car, he decided to increase the wheelbase by 13 inches from the original 100. This gave him enough room to increase the interior and install a rear seat, thus making the former two-seat sports car into a four-place automobile. Next, he had the Ford flathead engine removed and replaced with the new and powerful Cadillac overhead valve V-8 engine and HydraMatic (automatic) transmis-
sion. Instead of a cloth fabric top, he had his engineers design a removable (Carson style) hardtop. He had a center console with one of his famous car radios installed as well as the availability of a rear cocktail bar. This was years before the big three auto makers even thought about a four-place sports-styled car (the 1958 Ford Thunderbird), much less a center console and rounded aero bodies. These cars were top notch, fast (in the 110 to 120 mph range) and elegant. The first 28 cars built by Muntz are called the first series. These cars were built in Glendale California in late 1950 and early 1951. The operation then was relocated back to Evanston, and all cars manufactured there are called second series. In the end, 1954 to be exact, the same thing that plagued Kurtis plagued the “Madman” – build cost. While Muntz tried to streamline his operation into a true manufacturing style, the cars still were being built by hand. Muntz said at the time it cost him $5,000 to build each car. Since he had to charge $6,000 to make money, he only sold 198 vehicles. Carl’s cars cost way more than a top-of-the line Cadillac at the time. But don’t feel bad for “Madman” Muntz. Even though he had lost a small fortune, he pulled the pin on the jet and never looked back. He was selling more televisions then he could make. He then came up with the idea for the four-track tape player for automobiles (which was the forerunner of the 8-track system) and oh yeah, he also developed the original widescreen projection television.
For collector car types, the Muntz Jet is a highly prized vehicle. Its beauty, power, uniqueness and low build number are all the ingredients studious car collectors value. Such a person is Barrington resident and avid automobile enthusiast David Hans whose car is featured here. Out of the 198 cars built, it is estimated there are only 65 Muntz Jets left, which makes them one very rare car indeed. David found his Muntz in a south side of Chicago junkyard in 1969. He paid $60 for what was left of it. He intended to use it for a parts car, hoping to find another Jet in less trashed condition. Then a funny thing happened. When he got what was left of the car home, he started to clean off the years of filth. When he got to the serial number ID plate, he stopped. He saw that the build number was 102. Since all Muntz’s started with the number 100 this made this car the second Muntz Jet ever built. It was
instant status for the car. With the swipe of a cleaning rag, the car went from lowly parts car to revered future total restoration candidate. In our world of instant gratification, we see vintage collectible cars restored on TV (Carl Muntz’s abbreviation, thank you) in what seems like the wink of an eye. Well, in the real world of missing parts, lack of build prints and the ravages of time, the all-consuming art of restoring an automobile can take years. All of that does not matter. What does matter is the end result. This gorgeous 1951 Muntz Jet, the second one ever built, is now in the final stages of completion at RU II. The skilled craftsmen there have turned this once forgotten bone yard derelict into a future award-winning classic. I think if Carl Muntz was still alive and saw this car today he surely would want it back.
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Covidien creates products for syringe disposal By BRETT ROWLAND
browland@shawmedia.com CRYSTAL LAKE – Despite a dip in sales, Covidien’s Crystal Lake manfucaturing plant continues to churn out more than 200 different products used for the safe and secure disposal of syringes and other medical supplies. The Dublin-based company’s medical supplies segment had sales of $439 million in the fourth quarter of 2012, down 9 percent from $481 million in the fourth quarter of 2011. In fiscal 2012 the segment’s sales fell 2 percent to $1.74 billion from $1.78 billion in fiscal 2011, a result of lower sales of SharpSafety and OEM products, some of which are made at the company’s plant at 815 Tek Drive in Crystal Lake, according to corporate earning reports released in November. Medical supplies are just a part of Covidien. It also makes medical devices and pharmaceuticals. In 2012, the company had revenue of $11.9 billion. The 472,000-square-foot Crystal Lake plant makes products that are used for the disposal of “sharps” – such as intravenous needles, syringes and absorbent pads that come in contact with blood. The majority of the products are sold in the United States, though some are exported. The facility and its product line have been a staple in Crystal Lake for decades. Sage Products established the plant in 1991. Covidien acquired the sharps disposal business from Sage in 1999, said plant manager Rui Dos Santos, who took over operations here in January 2012. Production at the facility has remained flat, Dos Santos said in an recent interview with the Northwest Herald. “Volume continues to be very stable for the plant,” he said.
Containers for the disposal of used syringes are manufactured at the Covidien facility in Crystal Lake. Like other manufacturing companies, Covidien has struggled to fill some highly-skilled positions and is working to develop a pipeline for such sought-after employees. “Recruitment for certain technical, skilled positions continues to be a challenge,” Dos Santos said. “We do find them eventually, but it takes a little longer.” The challenges have prompted the company to look at developing skilled workers from within its own ranks through partnerships with community colleges and other apprenticeshiptype programs. Such efforts could pay off in the future. “I see great opportunities in the
plant for that,” Dos Santos said. Globally, Covidien invests more than 5 percent of sales into research and development. “[Research and development] spending for Covidien has more than doubled in the last four years to more than $623 million in 2012,” Dos Santos said. “Covidien has launched more than 100 new products in the last five years and sales of new products have tripled since 2007.” However, there are no research and development positions in the Crystal Lake plant, which has about 400 employees. Worldwide the company has 43,000 employees in 70 countries. Covidien continues to invest in the Crystal Lake plant. “Over the last few months we have made several infrastructural improvements to our facility,” Dos Santos said. “These improvements have focused on enhancing our manufacturing capabilities as well as supporting our asset replacement program.” The emphasis, he said, is on “continuous improvement,” a key characteristic of the entire company. “It’s all about making those small improvements day after day,” Dos Santos said, “to drive greater efficiencies, to be a more sustainable operation, and to have the necessary gains that we are seeking in terms of safety and environmental performance.” The latter includes collecting scrap materials to be reground and reused, among a host of other environmental efforts. Though Covidien maintains a lower profile than some of the county’s other large manufacturing companies, it remains an important part of the business community, said Gary Reece, president of the Crystal Lake Chamber of Commerce. “Covidien has been a good corporate citizen,” he said.
NEW YORK – A last-minute surge in spending may have saved Christmas for stores. Major retailers such as Costco and Nordstrom on Thursday reported betterthan-expected revenue in December. That comes as a relief for stores that can make up to 40 percent of their annual revenue during the winter holiday shopping period that runs from November through the end of December. Consumers had a lot to worry about this holiday, including cleanup after Superstorm Sandy and the possibility of the U.S. economy falling off the “fiscal cliff,” triggering a massive budget cuts and tax increases that would mean much less money in Americans’ pockets. But after spending cautiously during most of the season, they loosened their purse strings in the final shopping days. “I wouldn’t be doing cartwheels that it was particularly great or strong holiday season, but it could have been worse given the headwinds,” said Ken Perkins, president of RetailMetrics, a research firm. “The government and Mother Nature were not as cooperative as retailers would have liked. But it was definitely not as bad as feared.” Twenty retailers reported that revenue at stores open at least a year — a figure that indicates a retailers’ health — rose an average of 4.5 percent in December compared with the year-ago period, according to the International Council of Shopping Centers. That’s on the high end of the expected range of 4 percent to 4.5 percent. Only a small group of chain stores representing about 13 percent of the $2.4 trillion U.S. retail industry report monthly revenue. The list excludes Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world’s biggest retailer. But the data still offers a snap shot of consumer spending, which accounts for 70 percent of all economic activity. Overall, the combined November and December sales figure rose 2.7 percent, slightly shy of the 3 percent rise the ICSC had predicted. The numbers provide a brighter picture than midDecember sales reports, which painted the season as the worse since 2008. It winded up being a season of fits and starts, with healthy spending during certain periods followed by stretches of tepid growth.
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Auto sales cap remarkable year on high note The Associated Press DETROIT – Strong U.S. sales in December capped a remarkable year for the auto industry — especially Japanese brands — and 2013 should be even better. Sales of new cars and trucks are expected to total 14.5 million. That is 13 percent better than 2011 and the best performance in five years. In 2012, Americans had plenty of incentive to buy new cars and trucks. Unemployment eased. Home sales and prices rose. And the average age of a car topped 11 years in the U.S., a record that spurred people to trade in. Banks made that easier by offering low interest rates and greater access to loans, even for those with lousy credit. “The U.S. light vehicle sales market continues to be a bright spot in the tremulous global environment,” said Jeff Schuster, senior vice president of forecasting for LMC Automotive, a Detroit-area industry forecasting firm. Year-end deals on pickup trucks and the usual round of sparkling holiday ads helped December sales jump 10 percent to more than 1.3 million, auto pricing site TrueCar.com predicted. That would translate to an annual rate of more than 15.6 million, making December the strongest month of 2012.
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Honda Pilots are seen outside of a Honda car dealership in Des Plaines. Honda reported a 24 percent rise in sales from a year earlier. Toyota, which has recovered from an earthquake and tsunami in Japan that crimped its factories two years ago, said Thursday that sales jumped 27 percent for 2012. December sales were up 9 percent. Unlike 2011, the company had plenty of new cars on dealer lots for most of last year. Honda sales rose 24 percent for the year. Nissan and Infiniti sales were up nearly 10 percent as the Nissan brand topped 1 million in annual sales for the first time. Volkswagen led all major automakers with sales up a staggering 35 percent.
Chrysler, the smallest of the Detroit carmakers, had the best year among U.S. companies. Its sales jumped 21 percent for the year and 10 percent in December. Demand was led by the Jeep Grand Cherokee SUV, Ram pickup and Chrysler 300 luxury car. But full-year sales at Ford and General Motors lagged. GM’s rose only 3.7 percent for the year, while Ford edged up 5 percent. For December, GM sales rose 5 percent, while Ford was up 2 percent. GM executives said the company has the oldest model lineup in the industry, yet it still posted a sales increase and commanded high prices for its cars and trucks. The company plans to refurbish 70 percent of its North American models in the next 18 months and expects to boost sales this year. North American President Mark Reuss said the company won’t give away cars and trucks with discounts like it has in the past, especially when it’s in the midst of its biggest product update ever. “Give us 18 months and you’re going to see the whole portfolio turned,” said Reuss. Ford said that even though the fiscal cliff deal raised tax rates on individuals making more than $400,000 and couples making more than $450,000 a year, it doesn’t see a huge impact on auto sales.
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8IN BRIEF Hormel buying Skippy peanut butter for $700M
The Cary Grove Area Chamber of Commerce welcomes its new 2013 board of directors and officers. Our board members are passionate volunteers who strive not only to pour their heart and soul into their businesses, but also get involved in chamber and community events. Welcome to the new 2013 chamber officers: President Sandra Nies of BMO Harris Bank Cary and Fox River Grove, Vice President Dave Evans of Evans Carpet Cleaning Plus, Treasurer Dr. Nick Malooley of Malooley Sport & Family Chiropractic, Secretary Dr. Patrick McEneaney of CaryGrove Foot & Ankle Center, and Past President Chuck Barrett of Frisch & Barrett Insurance Agency. Welcome to our new board members: Phil Horn of State Farm – Phil Horn Agency, Sue Jensen of Periwinkle Florist, and John Pletz of ServiceMaster by Pletz. Continuing on the board in 2013 are Gene Brickhouse of True Value Manufacturing Co., Holly Kelps of Coldwell Banker Honig-Bell, Dave Miller of Lake Julian Contracting, Joe McVicker of Cary Bank & Trust, Neelie Kruse of Cary Travel Express, John Opatrny of Stone Hill Shopping Center, Sumish Parikh of Dunkin Donuts - Baskin Robbins, Lisa Raupp of
NEW YORK – Hormel Foods apparently has a hankering for a peanut butter and bacon sandwich. The company primarily known for Spam and other cured, smoked and deli meats said Thursday that it’s buying Skippy, the country’s No. 2 peanut butter brand, for about $700 million. Skippy, which was introduced in 1932 and is a staple in American pantries, is intended to increase Hormel’s presence in the center of the supermarket where nonperishable foods are sold. It also gives the Austin, Minn.-based company a stronger footing in international markets. Skippy is sold in about 30 countries and is the leading peanut butter brand in China, where Hormel has been trying to build up its Spam business for the past several years. Hormel, which also makes canned chili, sausages and pepperoni, currently gets the vast majority of its sales in the U.S., with only about 4 percent of revenue coming from abroad. Now the company is hoping that Skippy, its biggest-ever acquisition, will help it grow at home and overseas.
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Its chief economist, Ellen Hughes-Cromwick, said only 2 percent of new-vehicle buyers have income in that upper tax bracket, and they tend to purchase even if there is a change in their after-tax income. She said Ford is more concerned about an increase in the payroll tax, which is scheduled to bounce up to 6.2 percent this year from 4.2 percent in 2011 and 2012. That amounts to
30-year mortgage rate slips to 3.34 percent
WASHINGTON – Average U.S. rates on fixed mortgages moved closer to their record lows this week, a trend that has made home buying more affordable and helped sustain a housing recovery. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday that the average rate on the 30-year loan slipped to 3.34 percent from 3.35 percent last week. That’s near the 3.31 percent rate reached in November, the lowest on records dating to 1971. The average on the 15-year fixed mortgage ticked down to 2.64 percent from 2.65 percent last week. The record low is 2.63 percent.
Mary Kay Cosmetics, Richard Sansone of Edward Jones Investments, Penny Verest of LegalShield, and Tim Sterzik of Sage Products, Inc. *** Join us on Jan. 25 for our Annual Dinner and Silent Auction – “Meet Us In Chamberitaville” – at D’Andrea Banquets. Tickets are $45 per person and include a buffet. That evening we will introduce our 2013 board of directors and honor our volunteers and business sponsors. Come in casual tropical attire and join us for boat drinks!
*** The Cary and Fox River Grove business roundtables are held by the chamber each year to connect local business professionals and the public with village leaders for first-hand updates on current and future developments and the state of the local community. After the updates, the floor will be open for questions. Cary Mayor Tom Kierna will be the keynote speaker at the Cary Business Roundtable at noon Jan. 16 at the Cary Park District Community Center, 255 Briargate Road, Cary. The mayor will offer a “State of the Community Address” and discuss new business developments in the
*** Registration is in full swing for local business, governmental leaders and community groups and organizations interested in participating in the 2013 Cary Grove Community Showcase. The event will be from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Feb. 23 at Cary-Grove High School. The showcase puts
a $1,000 to $1,500 tax increase per household, she said. “We will look at that closely because it will crimp spending in the months ahead,” she said. December featured yearend deals on GM’s big pickup trucks; the company offered discounts of up to $9,000 to help clear growing inventory. The move worked. GM cut its full-size pickup supply by more than 20,000 in December to about 222,000. Overall, though, analysts said the industry eased up on
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the spotlight on local resources and attracts hundreds of community residents. Last year 2,300 people attended. Registration forms are available on the chamber’s website at www.carygrovechamber.com. Booths are more than two-thirds sold. The Community Showcase will again feature an Indoor Farmers Market with several vendors offering dairy products, meats, cheeses, pickles, specialty foods and baked goods. The market will be held in the high school cafeteria that day.
chAmBEr NEwS Suzanne Corr
promotions such as rebates and low-interest financing. Car and truck buyers paid an average of $31,228 per vehicle last month, up 1.8 percent from December 2011. The year’s sales of 14.5 million were far better than the bleak days three years ago when they fell to 10.4 million, a 30-year low as the economy tanked and GM and Chrysler went through bankruptcy protection. But sales still aren’t back to the recent peak of around 17 million in 2005.
Subaru recalls nearly 634,000 cars and SUVs The Associated Press
Tribecas and Foresters were sold before January 2012. The company says moisture can get into puddle lights beneath the doors and cause a short circuit that can melt plastic and cause fires. It says only 54,000 of the vehicles are equipped with the lights and will need to be repaired. But it will send letters to all owners asking them to take their cars to dealers if they have the lights.
DETROIT – Subaru is recalling nearly 634,000 cars and SUVs in the U.S. because lights beneath the doors can overheat and catch fire. The recall affects all Outback and Legacy cars from model years 2010 and 2011. Also included are Tribeca SUVs from 2006 through 2012 and Forester SUVs from 2009 through 2012. Subaru says the
– From wire services
Subaru said Thursday that there have been no crashes or fires because of the problem. The company found the problem after getting complaints about smoke coming from the lights on a small number of vehicles. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says on its website that Subaru will install an additional fuse at no cost to the owners.
community. The public is welcome to attend. To register, visit www. carygrovechamber.com. The cost is $15 and includes a box lunch. Fox River Grove Village President Bob Nunamaker will be the keynote speaker at the Fox River Grove Business Roundtable at noon Feb. 21 at Fox River Grove Village Hall, 305 Illinois St.. The cost is $15 and includes a box lunch. ***
Candidates are being sought for the annual Miss Cary and Miss Fox River Grove Business Scholarship Pageant May 18 at Cary-Grove High School. Miss Cary and Miss Fox River Grove title winners each receive $1,000 scholarships from the chamber and other prizes. Runners-up also receive scholarships. Application forms are available at the chamber office, 445 Park Ave., Cary, and Cary-Grove High School. Forms also are available online at www.carygrovechamber. com. The deadline to register is Feb. 11.
• Suzanne Corr is the executive director of the Cary Grove Area Chamber of Commerce.
Boeing delivered 601 planes last year The Associated Press Boeing Co. said on Thursday that it delivered 601 planes last year, putting it on track to beat European rival Airbus as the top plane maker for the year. Airbus has beaten Boeing in deliveries in recent years, but Boeing is now cranking out its new 787 and a revamped 747 after delays for both aircraft. Its delivery total was the most since 1999 — the height of an Internet-driven boom and a time when airlines were relatively flush with cash. The following decade brought two U.S. recessions and airline bankruptcies. Boeing also says it booked orders for 1,203 commercial jets — its second biggest order year in the company’s history. The big driver for 2012 orders was its plan to put new,
more fuel-efficient engines on its workhorse 737. The plane has been a strong seller, and Boeing booked orders for 1,124 last year. Boeing is still making the current version of the plane and aims to begin delivering the Max in 2017. The Max was a response to Airbus’ A320neo, for “new engine option,” which boosted Airbus orders in 2011. Airbus has not reported full-year orders and deliveries yet. Through November, it had booked orders for 585 planes and delivered 516. Boeing met its goal for deliveries of 787s and the new 747-8s. It had been aiming to deliver 70 to 85 of the planes. It ended up delivering 46 of the 787, and 31 of the 747, for a total of 77. Boeing now has orders for 4,373 planes that it hasn’t built yet — the most in its history.
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Robert Cooper, an English diplomat and strategist, said, “There is no dilemma compared with that of the deep-sea diver who hears the message from the ship above, ‘Come up at once. We are sinking.’ “ In this deal, declarer can put a defender on the horns of a dilemma. How should South play in four hearts after West leads the diamond eight, and East wins with his king, cashes the diamond ace, and plays a third round? North made a cue-bid raise, showing heart support and at least gameinvitational values. South’s jump to four hearts was a slight overbid, but he liked the idea of trying for a vulnerable game bonus. Declarer can see four losers: one spade, two diamonds and one club. True, the club finesse might work, but it is surely a low-percentage play, given East’s opening bid. However, because a discard is coming on dummy’s diamond jack, South can skewer East. He ruffs the third diamond high, draws trumps ending on the board, and calls for the spade two.
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AUTO BODY TECHNICIAN
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near Chapel Hill Golf Course on the Fox River. Older male dog, blind & deaf. About 20 lbs, no collar. If you have any information at all,
PLEASE CALL: 815-790-3370
WOMEN'S GLASSES - LOST Pair of women's glasses lost either by the Public House in Woodstock Square or by Party City or Bed Bath and Beyond on Shoppers Drive in Johnsburg. Clear plastic prescription lenses with gold temples. $50 reward. Call Paula at 224-500-6674
❤Ceremonies of the Heart❤ Rev Anne 847-431-4014 Weddings, Blessings, Memorials, Christenings
Live-in companion for active elderly lady in Florida. Must drive to doctor's appts, theater, ocean walks, pool, dining out, etc. Airfare, food, room, etc paid + salary. Refs req. 407-234-8993
Island Lake Luxury Apt. Spacious 2BR, 2BA, D/W, W/D, C/A. Approx 1000 sq ft. starting @ $875/mo. 847-526-9228
MARENGO 1 BEDROOM
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MARENGO 2 BEDROOM
1 bath, stove, refrig, attached 1 car garage, laundry hook-up. 815-568-6107 Marengo Large 1 & 2 BR some utilities included Broker Owner $650 & UP 815-347-1712
Part Time Must know QuickBooks. Real estate property management knowledge is required. Good people skills. Fax resume: 815-759-8992
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Experienced & Loving Caregivers Serving McHenry County Hourly & Live-In Assignments Visiting Angels of Crystal Lake VA175.ersp.biz/employment 815-479-0312
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LEGAL ASSISTANT
TEACHER ASSISTANT - Requires high school diploma, P/T, AM & PM. BUS AIDE - Harvard area. All positions bilingual preferred. Apply at: 100 N. Benton St, Woodstock.
Woodstock Studio $585/mo+sec. Efficiency $550/mo + sec.1-BR $650/mo + sec, all 3 furn'd w/all utils incl. No Pets. 815-509-5876
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MARENGO ~ 2BR, 1BA
McHenry $199 Move-In Special Large 1BR, from $699. 2BR, 1.5BA from $799. Appl, carpet and laundry. 815-385-2181
McHenry -Large 1BR some utilities include $700 and up Broker Owned 815-347-1712
MCHENRY 2 BEDROOM
RECEPTIONIST
Full-time receptionist needed for busy law office in Woodstock. Must be fluent in Spanish / English. Please contact Marci at: 815-338-3838
REPAIR TECHNICIAN Industrial Ladder Maintenance Repair Traveling required. Mechanical ability. Call 815-923-2534
CAPRON/HARVARD 2BR, 1BA
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CRYSTAL LAKE 2BR
No smoking/pets. $795/$810 + sec. 815-893-0059 Crystal Lake: XL 2BR, dwntwn, Victorian House + formal DR, encl porch, $875+util., no dogs, Agent owned 815-814-3348
McHenry Next to Riverwalk
1 bedroom, heat and water incl. $675/mo, security deposit req. NO PETS. 815-382-6418
Fox River Grove 2BR Unit
Harvard. 2BR, 1BA. Close to downtown & schools. 1 car garage All appls incl W/D. Available 1/1. $850/mo+utils. 815-338-8176
With utilities, laundry, balcony. No dogs. Agent owned. 815-814-3348
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2 bath, full basement, 2 car garage, appliances, no pets/smkg. $975/mo + sec, available Jan 1st. 847-683-1963
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Wonder Lake 3BR, 1BA Lovely Lake view, lrg yrd, hrdwd flrs in BR. Lots of storage. $875/mo + sec + background chk. 815-814-2007
Wonder Lake/East Side
2 bedroom with garage. Pets OK, available immediately. 815-459-4144 ~ Lv Msg Wonder Lake: 2/3 BR, new paint & carpet, hardwood floors $790-$975/month Broker Owned 815-347-1712 Wonder Lake: Half a house for rent. 1 bed, large living room and kitchen, 1 bath, $550/mo plus utilities. 815-355-0746
Woodstock 2BR, 1.5 car gar. C/A, $900/mo., Sec. 8 OK, NO PETS, 815-351-4120
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HARVARD Large home, house privileges, close to train. $400/mo, includes utilities. Call 847-404-7930
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HEBRON: Very nice 1BR. New paint throughout, new LR rug. Hardwood floors. Full basement, W/D. Garage, asphalt drive. No pets or smoking. $750/mo+sec incl water & sewer. 815-690-5653 Johnsburg. Ranch on a fenced double lot with 3BR, 1BA on crawl space w/1.5 car attchd gar & shed. $1045/mo. Land Management Properties 815-678-4771 MARENGO 4BR, 1BA, 2000SF 5-7 acres, newly remodeled, totally private farmette.1000 sq ft wrap-around deck, heated garage. 2 story building,1300 sq ft heated. $1500/mo. 312-607-6406 MARENGO HOUSE FOR RENT nice 3 BR, garage, appliances, no pets. $975 mo. security dep. and proof of empl. req. 815-404-1158 Marengo, Newer 3BR, 2.5BR, 2 car gar., $1050/month Broker Owned 815-347-1712
McHenry 4BR, 2BA Ranch Woodstock Modern Loft Apts 1BR & 2BR ~ Historic Rogers Hall. $700-$825/mo. 815-482-4909
2.5 car attached gar, fenced yard, Parkland grade school, W. Campus H.S. New kitchen. Wood floors. 1/2 block from park. $1295/mo. 563-581-2844
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Cabo San Lucas Playa Grande Resort Suite Available. 2/23-3/1 815-385-5817
MCHENRY/RINGWOOD Office & Warehouse w/14'OH Doors.1800sf $750/mo. 3600sf $1650/mo Zoned I-1/B-3. 815-482-7084
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PUBLIC NOTICE
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF the 22nd Judicial Circuit, McHenry County, Illinois VCF Partners 18 LLC as assignee from RBS CITIZENS N.A. as successor to Greatbank, Counter/Cross-Plaintiff, v. FIFTH THIRD BANK f/k/a Fifth Third Bank (Chicago); GRAND RESERVE LLC; GREATBANK; CARPENTER CONTRACTORS OF AMERICA, INC.; HALLMARK MASONRY, INC.; TRISTATE CARPET 7 DECORATING, INC.; T. MANNING CONCRETE, INC.; CUSTOM ROOFING CONTRACTING, LTD; ASBACH & VANSELOW, INC.; FOX VALLEY EXTERIORS, INC.; Nonrecord Claimants UNKNOWN OWNERS, JEFFREY S. PELOCK; GRAND POINTE HOMES, INC.;GLEN EINEKE; CHRIS EINEKE; LENORE EINEKE; GENE EINEKE; AND CHAR EINEKE, Counter/Cross-Defendants. 08 CH 253 Pursuant to a Judgment made and entered by said Court in the above entitled cause, Keith Nygren, Sheriff of McHenry County, Illinois, will on January 31, 2013, at the hour of 10:00 a.m., at the McHenry County Courthouse, Room 262, 2200 N. Seminary Avenue, Woodstock, McHenry County, Illinois, sell at public auction the following described premises and real estate mentioned in said Judgment:
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HUNTLEY STUDIO
Shaw Media offers a competitive salary and comprehensive benefit package.
First floor, laundry on premise. Gas heat included, no pets. $625mo + sec. 847-669-3691
Interested candidates may send their resume to:
ISLAND LAKE 2 BEDROOM
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Crystal Lake/Burton Bridge
2 bedroom, 1 bath, W/D, A/C. Pets OK with deposit, $1150/mo + security. 815-459-4807
Harvard Great Rental! 3BR, 2BA 2 car garage, finished basement with fireplace, C/A, propane heat. W/D, $1100. 847-404-3665
As an account executive, your activities will include working with a variety of local clients across all business segments in the marketplace. You will introduce the exciting features and benefits of the newest advertising solutions in a competitive market, and determine programs designed to help your clients' business grow.
Shaw Media is a Drug Free Employer. Pre-employment background check and drug screen required. This posting may not include all duties of position. EOE.
Crystal Lake. 3BR deluxe ranch. Hardwood flrs, fenced yard. Extra parking. Near Canterbury School. $1365/mo. 815-354-5526
FOX LAKE ~ LARGE STUDIO
RECRUIT LOCAL!
To be considered for this position you should possess a bachelor's degree in business or related field, along with an established and successful work history. The successful candidate must possess and maintain a valid driver's license, proof of insurance, reliable transportation and acceptable motor vehicle record.
Wauconda. Newly decorated. Adult community. No pets. Units from $645-$795/mo+sec. 847-526-5000 Leave Message.
Boat dock and deck, 200 ft of waterfront, 1.5 acre, 2BA, C/A. $1395/mo. 708-296-4476
FOX LAKE ~ 2 BEDROOM
Near lake, all utilities incl except electric, $800/mo + sec. No pets. 847-393-6001
815-219-2823
Shaw Media has an excellent opportunity for a talented, professional and energetic person to join our multi-media advertising effort as a full-time sales professional. The Lake County division of Shaw Media features Lake County Journal, lakecountyjournal.com, Gurnee Life, Lake County Magazine, Great Lakes Bulletin, Shaw Video Works, as well as event and email marketing. If you are excited by new projects, have an interest in new media, and are looking to build your career, this might be the opportunity you have been looking for.
MCHENRY~ REMODELED 2BR Good Value! $875/mo + garage and yard. NO DOGS. Agent Owned. 815-814-3348
Crystal Lake 4BR On Fox River
Harvard 2+BR, 1.5BA. Fin Bsmnt, 2 Car Gar, New appls. Avail. 1/1. $825/mo + utils. 815-912-2799 blfiegel@hotmail.com
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WOODSTOCK 3 BEDROOM
1.5 Bath, A/C, Stove, Refrigerator, Garage, No Pets. Broker Owned. 847-683-7944 HURRY!!
1BR, 1BA, quiet, secure building. Ground flr, lndry, no pets. $715. Avail Jan 1st. 847-347-8808
Laundry on-site, no pets, Sect 8 OK, $690/mo + sec. 847-812-9830
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Woodstock 2/3BR $790-$975/month Broker Owned 815-347-1712
Crystal Lake Charming Vintage Coach House - Can be Artist Quarters. Large 2 Story Space! 1BR with den, great yard. $825 + all utilities. No dogs. Agent Owned 815-814-3348
Newly remodeled, c/a, $775 + util. Available now. 815-236-4051
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HUNTLEY - DUPLEX 3 BR 1 BA, attached garage, all appliances. Avail Feb 1. $1,110/mo. 727-726-8782
1BR, 2BA, $1100. Lrg 2BR, 2.5BA, Bsmt, $1250. Age Restrictions May Apply. Free Health Club Membership. Pet Friendly. 815-363-5919 or 815-363-0322
McHenry - Route 31 IRISH PRAIRIE APTS
HEAT INCLUDED. Near bike bath. $700/mo. Senior Discount, $50. 815-382-7667
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3.5BA, 2 car garage, finished basement, $1300/mo + security. 815-909-6343 Prairie Grove/Cobblestone Woods 3BR, 2.5BA TH. $1200-$1250 + utilities. Fireplace, 2 car attach gar. 815-378-6208
2 car gar, rural area, $1000/mo. 847-854-6740 ~ Aft 5PM
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Appliances, only Cable/TV furnished, no pets, $825 + sec.
ALGONQUIN 2BR, C/A, W/D
FOX LAKE 1 BR,
I am looking for anyone who has witnessed water on the floor by the ice machine in Woodstock Jewel. I'm also looking for the lady who saw me fall, June 2011, grabbed a wet floor sign by the checkout and put it out. Anyone with info regarding these water issues pls call me @ 815-575-1451. Thank You!
Marengo 2BR, 2BA TH
McHenry Patriot Estates
Quiet and clean building with storage, laundry and parking. $800/mo. 847-401-3242
MCHENRY QUIET BUILDING
MASSAGE THERAPIST Experienced with deep tissue massage. Flexible hours. FT/PT. Crystal Lake. 847-668-2001
Lakemoor. Large 2nd floor condo. $1400/mo+utils. 2BR, 2BA, 2 car garage. All appls, fireplace. 708-209-5240
MCHENRY 2BR + LOFT TH
HVAC Subcontractor Needed Please call 815-790-7886
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udgm PIN# 19-31-327-005; Common address: 840 Eineke Boulevard, Algonquin IL 60102. The Judgment amount was: $1,227,996.05 The property consists of a single family home Terms of Sale: This real estate is being sold in an "As Is Condition" for cash or certified funds and the successful bidder is required to deposit 10% of the bid amount at the time of the sale with the McHenry County Sheriff and the balance to be paid by noon the following Tuesday after the sale, except by arrangement and agreement of the present owner/occupant. For information regarding this real estate, interested parties may contact: Firm Info Norman L. Hafron 221 N. LaSalle Street, Suite 1763 Chicago, IL 60601 312-372-6058 This is an attempt to collect a debt pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. I496064 (Published in the Northwest Herald January 4, 11 and 18, 2013)
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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MCHENRY COUNTY WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, Plaintiff, Vs. Mark G. Benkert; et. al., Defendants, 09 CH 1341 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause on AUGUST 8, 2012 LENDER SALES OF ILLINOIS LLC will on FEBRUARY 11, 2013, at the hour of 10:30 A.M., or soon thereafter, at the front doors of the McHenry County Courthouse located at 2200 N. Seminary, Woodstock, IL 60098, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described property: The common address of said real estate is: 6809 Hillcrest Drive, Crystal Lake, IL 60012 PIN:14-29-326-017 Description of premises: RESIDENTIAL Sale Terms: 25% down by certified funds at the close of the auction: The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "as is" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser shall receive a Certificate of Sale, which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee's attorney." If the property is a condominium, the purchasers other than mortgagees will be required to pay any assessments and legal fees due under The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g) (4). If the property is located in a common interest community, purchasers other than mortgagees will be required to pay any assessment and legal fees due under the Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection. For information: Sales Clerk, Codilis and Associates, P.C., Plaintiff' Attorney, 15 W. 030 North Frontage Road, Suite 100, Burr Ridge, Illinois 60527 Attorney Number 0468002, (630) 794 - 5300, File No: 14-0921437, I495416 (Published in the Northwest Herald December 28, 2012; January 4 and 11, 2013)
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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MCHENRY COUNTY WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee for Soundview Home Loan Trust 2005-4, AssetBacked Certificates, Series 2005-4 Plaintiff, Vs. Dawn Drews-Zurick; et. al., Defendants, 09 CH 2156 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause on NOVEMBER 6, 2012 LENDER SALES OF ILLINOIS LLC will on FEBRUARY 11, 2013, at the hour of 10:30 A.M., or soon thereafter, at the front doors of the McHenry County Courthouse located at 2200 N. Seminary, Woodstock, IL 60098, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described property: The common address of said real estate is: 304 McHenry Avenue, Crystal Lake, IL 60014 PIN: 19-05-302-006 Description of premises: RESIDENTIAL Sale Terms: 25% down by certified funds at the close of the auction: The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "as
is" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser shall receive a Certificate of Sale, which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee's attorney." If the property is a condominium, the purchasers other than mortgagees will be required to pay any assessments and legal fees due under The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g) (4). If the property is located in a common interest community, purchasers other than mortgagees will be required to pay any assessment and legal fees due under the Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection. For information: Sales Clerk, Codilis and Associates, P.C., Plaintiff' Attorney, 15 W. 030 North Frontage Road, Suite 100, Burr Ridge, Illinois 60527, Attorney Number 0468002, (630) 794 5300, File No: 14-09-31937 I495409 (Published in the Northwest Herald December 28, 2012; January 4 and 11, 2013)
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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MCHENRY COUNTY WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS JPMC Specialty Mortgage LLC, Plaintiff, Vs. Unknown Heirs and Legatees of Charlotte L. Saez; et. al., Defendants, 10 CH 573 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause on NOVEMBER 8, 2012 LENDER SALES OF ILLINOIS LLC will on FEBRUARY 11, 2013, at the hour of 10:30 A.M., or soon thereafter, at the front doors of the McHenry County Courthouse located at 2200 N. Seminary, Woodstock, IL 60098, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described property: The common address of said real estate is: 512 Lauren Lane, Island Lake, IL 60042 PIN:15-20-127-003 Description of premises: RESIDENTIAL Sale Terms: 25% down by certified funds at the close of the auction: The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "as is" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser shall receive a Certificate of Sale, which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee's attorney." If the property is a condominium, the purchasers other than mortgagees will be required to pay any assessments and legal fees due under The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g) (4). If the property is located in a common interest community, purchasers other than mortgagees will be required to pay any assessment and legal fees due under the Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection. For information: Sales Clerk, Codilis and Associates, P.C., Plaintiff' Attorney, 15 W. 030 North Frontage Road, Suite 100, Burr Ridge, Illinois 60527, Attorney Number 0468002, (630) 794 5300, File No: 14-10-03123 I495411 (Published in the Northwest Herald December 28, 2012; January 4 and 11, 2013)
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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MCHENRY COUNTY WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS U.S. Bank, National Association, Plaintiff, Vs. Paul J. Borek; et. al., Defendants 11 CH 1315 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause on OCTOBER 4, 2012 LENDER SALES OF ILLINOIS LLC will on FEBRUARY 11, 2013, at the hour of 10:30 A.M., or soon thereafter, at the front doors of the McHenry County Courthouse located at 2200 N. Seminary, Woodstock, IL 60098, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described property: The common address of said real estate is: 785 White Pine Circle, Lake in the Hills, IL 60102 PIN:18-24-376-001 Description of premises: RESIDENTIAL Sale Terms: 25% down by certified funds at the close of the auction: The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real
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Page F4• Friday, January 4, 2013 prope y bj ge estate taxes, special assessments or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "as is" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser shall receive a Certificate of Sale, which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee's attorney." If the property is a condominium, the purchasers other than mortgagees will be required to pay any assessments and legal fees due under The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If the property is located in a common interest community, purchasers other than mortgagees will be required to pay any assessment and legal fees due under the Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection. For information: Sales Clerk, Codilis and Associates, P.C., Plaintiff' Attorney, 15 W. 030 North Frontage Road, Suite 100, Burr Ridge, Illinois 60527, Attorney Number 0468002, (630) 794 5300, File No: 14-11-12852 I495401 (Published in the Northwest Herald December 28, 2012; January 4 and 11, 2013)
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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE TWENTY- SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Plaintiff, -v.JOSEPH A. FIEDOROWICZ, BETHANY J. FIEDOROWICZ Defendant 11 CH 1501 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on July 2, 2012, an agent of The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 1:00 PM on January 30, 2013, at the NLT Title L.L.C, 390 Congress Parkway, Suite D, Crystal Lake, IL, 60014, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 609 PORTEN RD., McHenry, IL 60051 Property Index No. 15-29-330-
ope y 011. The real estate is improved with a single family residence. The judgment amount was $195,065.45. Sale terms: The bid amount, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, shall be paid in certified funds immediately by the highest and best bidder at the conclusion of the sale. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "AS IS" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 151701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information, contact Plaintiff's attorney: HEAVNER, SCOTT, BEYERS & MIHLAR, LLC, 111 East Main Street, DECATUR, IL 62523, (217) 422-1719. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Fl Chic IL 60606-
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24th Floor, Chicago, IL 606064650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff's attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. I497586 (Published in the Northwest Herald January 4, 11 and 18, 2013)
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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE TWENTY- SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS EVERBANK Plaintiff, -v.DONALD LOGSDON AKA DONALD F. LOGSDON AKA DONALD F. LOGSDON III, MICHELLE LOGSDON AKA MICHELLE A. LOGSDON, BMO HARRIS BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FKA HARRIS N.A. Defendants 11 CH 2719 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on April 23, 2012, an agent of The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 1:00 PM on February 4, 2013, at the NLT Title L.L.C, 390 Congress Parkway, Suite D, Crystal Lake, IL, 60014, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 1577 CANDLEWOOD DR., Crystal Lake, IL 60014 Property Index No. 19-18379-026. The real estate is improved with a single family residence. The judgment amount was $191,332.78. Sale terms: The bid amount, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, shall be paid in certified funds immediately by the highest and best bidder at the conclusion of the sale. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "AS IS"
condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information, contact Plaintiff's attorney: HEAVNER, SCOTT, BEYERS & MIHLAR, LLC, 111 East Main Street, DECATUR, IL 62523, (217) 422-1719. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. HEAVNER, SCOTT, BEYERS & MIHLAR, LLC 111 East Main Street DECATUR, IL 62523 (217) 422-1719 Case # 11 CH 2719 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff's attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. I493738 (Published in the Northwest Herald December 21, 28, 2012; January 4, 2013)
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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MCHENRY COUNTY WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS Wells Fargo Bank, NA, Plaintiff, Vs. Amy C. Loukota, et al., Defendants, 12 CH 1269 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause on OCTOBER 16, 2012 LENDER SALES OF ILLINOIS
LLC will on FEBRUARY 11, 2013, at the hour of 10:30 AM., or soon thereafter, at the front doors of the McHenry County Courthouse located at 2200 N. Seminary, Woodstock, IL 60098, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described property: The common address of said real estate is: 521 Windermere Way, Lake in the Hills, IL 60156 PIN: 18-26-103-011 Description of premises: RESIDENTIAL Sale Terms: 25% down by certified funds at the close of the auction: The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "as is" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser shall receive a Certificate of Sale, which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee's attorney." If the property is a condominium, the purchasers other than mortgagees will be required to pay any assessments and legal fees due under The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If the property is located in a common interest community, purchasers other than mortgagees will be required to pay any assessment and legal fees due under the Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection. For information: Sales Clerk, Codilis and Associates, P.C., Plaintiff' Attorney, 15 W. 030 North Frontage Road, Suite 100, Burr Ridge, Illinois 60527, Attorney Number 0468002, (630) 794 5300, File No: 14-12-15156 I495402 (Published in the Northwest Herald December 28, 2012; January 4 and 11, 2013)
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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MCHENRY COUNTY WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS Wells Fargo Bank, NA, Plaintiff, Vs. Matthew A. Kowalski; et. al., Defendants, No. 12 CH 363 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause on SEPTEMBER 10, 2012 LENDER SALES OF ILLINOIS LLC will on FEBRUARY 11, 2013, at the hour of 10:30 A.M., or soon thereafter, at the front doors of the McHenry County Courthouse located at 2200 N. Seminary, Woodstock, IL 60098, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described property: The common address of said real estate is: 2821 Hillsboro Lane, Lake In The Hills, IL 60156 PIN:18-23-126-008 Description of premises: RESIDENTIAL Sale Terms: 25% down by certified funds at the close of the auction: The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "as is" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser shall receive a Certificate of Sale, which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee's attorney." If the property is a condominium, the purchasers other than mortgagees will be required to pay any assessments and legal fees due under The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If the property is located in a common interest community, purchasers other than mortgagees will be required to pay any assessment and legal fees due under the Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). No refunds. Th ill NOT be
(g ). The property will NOT be open for inspection. For information: Sales Clerk, Codilis and Associates, P.C., Plaintiff' Attorney, 15 W. 030 North Frontage Road, Suite 100, Burr Ridge, Illinois 60527, Attorney Number 0468002, (630) 794 5300, File No: 14-12-04213, I495399 (Published in the Northwest Herald December 28, 2012; January 4 and 11, 2013)
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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MCHENRY COUNTY WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS GMAC Mortgage, LLC, Plaintiff, Vs. Larry J. Chase a/k/a Larry Chase; et. al., Defendants, 12 CH 803 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause on NOVEMBER 6, 2012 LENDER SALES OF ILLINOIS LLC will on FEBRUARY 11, 2013, at the hour of 10:30 A.M., or soon thereafter, at the front doors of the McHenry County Courthouse located at 2200 N. Seminary, Woodstock, IL 60098, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described property: The common address of said real estate is: 960 S Rawson Bridge Road, Cary, IL 60013 PIN: 20-08-301-001 Description of premises: RESIDENTIAL Sale Terms: 25% down by certified funds at the close of the auction: The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "as is" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser shall receive a Certificate of Sale, which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee's attorney."
gag gag ey If the property is a condominium, the purchasers other than mortgagees will be required to pay any assessments and legal fees due under The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g) (4). If the property is located in a common interest community, purchasers other than mortgagees will be required to pay any assessment and legal fees due under the Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection. For information: Sales Clerk, Codilis and Associates, P.C., Plaintiff' Attorney, 15 W. 030 North Frontage Road, Suite 100, Burr Ridge, Illinois 60527, Attorney Number 0468002, (630) 794 5300, File No: 14-11-31931 I495405 (Published in the Northwest Herald December 28, 2012; January 4 and 11, 2013)
PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22nd JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS
MCHENRY SAVINGS BANK, Plaintiff, vs.
MICHELLE BOOKOUT STEFFIEN, BOARD OF MANAGERS OF THE SW PROPERTY OWNERS ASSOCIATION, JOHN HUNTSHA, SUSAN HUNTSHA, UNKNOWN OWNERS & NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS, Defendants. Case No. 12 CH 826 NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S FORECLOSURE SALE
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment for Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above-captioned case, the Sheriff of McHenry County, Illinois, or his deputy, on Thursday, the 31st day of January, 2013, at the hour of 10:00 a.m., in the room assigned at the McHenry County Government Center, 2200 N. Seminary Ave., Woodstock, IL 60098, will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder, property known as: Permanent Index Number: 09-25426-018-0000.
This property is commonly known as 2406 Glenwood Lane, McHenry, Illinois 60050, and may be improved. This real estate is being sold in an "As Is Condition" for cash or its equivalent in accordance with the terms and provisions of said judgment through which the Plaintiff is owed at least $172,103.41. The successful bidder is required to deposit 10% of
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TODAY - Some kind of endeavor you originate or direct in the year ahead will have excellent chances for success. However, not only is it important that you work for a good cause, in addition, you need to be extremely selective of those who assist you. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Even if you don’t seek it, your very presence is likely to command attention. Thus, you need to be extra careful of your demeanor, because the impression you make will be lasting. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) -- To achieve an important objective, you need to proceed in a logical, methodical manner. If you shoot from the hip instead, the results are apt to be quite disappointing. PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) -- It behooves you to be as tactful and pleasant as possible with colleagues. Being too critical or aggressive could result in an incident that would have serious ramifications. ARIES (March 21-April 19) -- If you are required to handle a confidential matter for another, treat it with the respect you would wish if someone were doing the same for you. Remember, the buck stops with you on this one. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- It would be best to keep a disagreement with your mate to yourself. Once you allow outsiders to enter the picture, complications are likely to occur. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -- Since your powers of observation appear to be more acute than ever, don’t focus simply on others’ shortcomings while totally ignoring their good attributes. CANCER (June 21-July 22) -- Make sure to handle your resources as prudently as possible. Take care to avoid taking on any unnecessary long-term debt. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Guard against temptations to rehash an old, smoldering issue with another whose point of view differs considerably. Nothing will be gained except more strife. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Your frame of mind will affect how you handle pressure. Take care not to make everything you do more complicated than it needs to be. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) -- If you’ve been feeling financially squeezed, it might be smart to review your expenses to see if any can be eliminated or, at the very least, cut down. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -- You can easily get tunnel vision when immersed in a project, and it could be one of those times. Flow with the majority’s view instead of insisting on things being done your way. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) -- Premature disclosures about an important objective might be used against you. Be careful what you say to whom, and play it close to the vest.
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Page F6• Friday, January 4, 2013 qu posit the bid amount at the time of the sale with the McHenry County Sheriff, with the balance to be paid by noon of the Tuesday following the sale. For information regarding this real estate, including the possibility of inspection, interested parties may contact Stephen J. Butler, SmithAmundsen, LLC, 2460 Lake Shore Drive, Woodstock, Illinois 60098, Telephone (815) 3375014. Dated: 12-19-12 Keith Nygren Sheriff of McHenry County Stephen J. Butler SmithAmundsen, LLC Attorney for McHenry Savings Bank 2460 Lake Shore Drive Woodstock, IL 60098 (815) 337-5014 Telephone (815) 337-5015 Facsimile ARDC No. 6296006 (Published in the Northwest Herald December 21, 28, 2012; January 4, 2013)
y reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee's attorney." If the property is a condominium, the purchasers other than mortgagees will be required to pay any assessments and legal fees due under The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g) (4). If the property is located in a common interest community, purchasers other than mortgagees will be required to pay any assessment and legal fees due under the Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection. For information: Sales Clerk, Codilis and Associates, P.C., Plaintiff' Attorney, 15 W. 030 North Frontage Road, Suite 100, Burr Ridge, Illinois 60527 Attorney Number 0468002, (630) 794 - 5300, File No: 14-0921437, I495416 (Published in the Northwest Herald December 28, 2012; January 4 and 11, 2013)
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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF the 22nd Judicial Circuit, McHenry County, Illinois VCF Partners 18 LLC as assignee from RBS CITIZENS N.A. as successor to Greatbank, Counter/Cross-Plaintiff, v. FIFTH THIRD BANK f/k/a Fifth Third Bank (Chicago); GRAND RESERVE LLC; GREATBANK; CARPENTER CONTRACTORS OF AMERICA, INC.; HALLMARK MASONRY, INC.; TRISTATE CARPET 7 DECORATING, INC.; T. MANNING CONCRETE, INC.; CUSTOM ROOFING CONTRACTING, LTD; ASBACH & VANSELOW, INC.; FOX VALLEY EXTERIORS, INC.; Nonrecord Claimants UNKNOWN OWNERS, JEFFREY S. PELOCK; GRAND POINTE HOMES, INC.;GLEN EINEKE; CHRIS EINEKE; LENORE EINEKE; GENE EINEKE; AND CHAR EINEKE, Counter/Cross-Defendants. 08 CH 253 Pursuant to a Judgment made and entered by said Court in the above entitled cause, Keith Nygren, Sheriff of McHenry County, Illinois, will on January 31, 2013, at the hour of 10:00 a.m., at the McHenry County Courthouse, Room 262, 2200 N. Seminary Avenue, Woodstock, McHenry County, Illinois, sell at public auction the following described premises and real estate mentioned in said Judgment: LOT 9 IN GRAND RESERVE SUBDIVISION, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED JUNE 2, 2004 AS DOCUMENT NO. 2004R0049463 BEING A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE SOUTHWEST FRACTIONAL QUARTER OF SECTION 31, TOWNSHIP 43 NORTH, RANGE 8 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN AND CERTIFICATE OF CORRECTION RECORDED SEPTEMBER 6, 2004 AS DOCUMENT NO. 2004R080452, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS PIN# 19-31-327-005; Common address: 840 Eineke Boulevard, Algonquin IL 60102. The Judgment amount was: $1,227,996.05 The property consists of a single family home Terms of Sale: This real estate is being sold in an "As Is Condition" for cash or certified funds and the successful bidder is required to deposit 10% of the bid amount at the time of the sale with the McHenry County Sheriff and the balance to be paid by noon the following Tuesday after the sale, except by arrangement and agreement of the present owner/occupant. For information regarding this real estate, interested parties may contact: Firm Info Norman L. Hafron 221 N. LaSalle Street, Suite 1763 Chicago, IL 60601 312-372-6058 This is an attempt to collect a debt pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. I496064 (Published in the Northwest Herald January 4, 11 and 18, 2013)
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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MCHENRY COUNTY WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, Plaintiff, Vs. Mark G. Benkert; et. al., Defendants, 09 CH 1341 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause on AUGUST 8, 2012 LENDER SALES OF ILLINOIS LLC will on FEBRUARY 11, 2013, at the hour of 10:30 A.M., or soon thereafter, at the front doors of the McHenry County Courthouse located at 2200 N. Seminary, Woodstock, IL 60098, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described property: LOT 9 IN BLOCK 11 IN UPLAND ACRES SUBDIVISION, A SUBDIVISION OF LOTS 1, 2 AND PART OF LOT 3 IN TESSENDORF FARM PLAT AND BEING ALSO A PART OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 29, TOWNSHIP 44 NORTH, RANGE 8 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED FEBRUARY 14, 1956 AS DOCUMENT NO. 303798, IN BOOK 12 OF PLATS, PAGE 62 IN MCHENRY, ILLINOIS. The common address of said real estate is: 6809 Hillcrest Drive, Crystal Lake, IL 60012 PIN:14-29-326-017 Description of premises: RESIDENTIAL Sale Terms: 25% down by certified funds at the close of the auction: The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "as is" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser shall receive a Certificate of Sale, which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. If the sale is set aside for any
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MCHENRY COUNTY WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee for Soundview Home Loan Trust 2005-4, AssetBacked Certificates, Series 2005-4 Plaintiff, Vs. Dawn Drews-Zurick; et. al., Defendants, 09 CH 2156 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause on NOVEMBER 6, 2012 LENDER SALES OF ILLINOIS LLC will on FEBRUARY 11, 2013, at the hour of 10:30 A.M., or soon thereafter, at the front doors of the McHenry County Courthouse located at 2200 N. Seminary, Woodstock, IL 60098, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described property: LOT 1 IN WALTER BUEHLER'S SUBDIVISION OF LOTS 13 AND 14 IN BLOCK 10 OF PIERSON'S ADDITION TO CRYSTAL LAKE, A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE SOUTHWEST 1/4 OF SECTION 5, TOWNSHIP 43 NORTH, RANGE 8 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED JULY 29, 1946 AS DOCUMENT NO. 193701 IN BOOK 290 OF DEEDS, PAGE 91, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. The common address of said real estate is: 304 McHenry Avenue, Crystal Lake, IL 60014 PIN: 19-05-302-006 Description of premises: RESIDENTIAL Sale Terms: 25% down by certified funds at the close of the auction: The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "as is" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser shall receive a Certificate of Sale, which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse
against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee's attorney." If the property is a condominium, the purchasers other than mortgagees will be required to pay any assessments and legal fees due under The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g) (4). If the property is located in a common interest community, purchasers other than mortgagees will be required to pay any assessment and legal fees due under the Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection. For information: Sales Clerk, Codilis and Associates, P.C., Plaintiff' Attorney, 15 W. 030 North Frontage Road, Suite 100, Burr Ridge, Illinois 60527, Attorney Number 0468002, (630) 794 5300, File No: 14-09-31937 I495409 (Published in the Northwest Herald December 28, 2012; January 4 and 11, 2013)
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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MCHENRY COUNTY WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS JPMC Specialty Mortgage LLC, Plaintiff, Vs. Unknown Heirs and Legatees of Charlotte L. Saez; et. al., Defendants, 10 CH 573 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause on NOVEMBER 8, 2012 LENDER SALES OF ILLINOIS LLC will on FEBRUARY 11, 2013, at the hour of 10:30 A.M., or soon thereafter, at the front doors of the McHenry County Courthouse located at 2200 N. Seminary, Woodstock, IL 60098, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described property: PARCEL 1: LOT 2 IN BLOCK 65 IN NEWBURY VILLAGE UNIT ONE FOX RIVER SHORES PHASE SEVEN BEING A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE EAST 1/2 OF THE NORTHWEST 1/4 OF SECTION 20 AND PART OF THE WEST 1/2 OF THE NORTHEAST 1/4 OF SECTION 20, TOWNSHIP 22 NORTH, RANGE 9 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED JULY 30, 1991 AS DOCUMENT NUMBER 91R028617 IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS PARCEL 2: EASEMENT FOR INGRESS AND EGRESS APPURTENANT TO AND FOR THE BENEFIT OF PARCEL 1 SET FORTH IN DECLARATION OF COVENANTS, CONDITIONS, EASEMENTS, AND RESTRICTIONS FOR NEWBURY VILLAGE TOWNHOMES ASSOCIATION RECORDED JULY 30,1991 AS DOCUMENT 91R0086516, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. The common address of said real estate is: 512 Lauren Lane, Island Lake, IL 60042 PIN:15-20-127-003 Description of premises: RESIDENTIAL Sale Terms: 25% down by certified funds at the close of the auction: The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "as is" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser shall receive a Certificate of Sale, which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the real estate after confirmation
of the sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee's attorney." If the property is a condominium, the purchasers other than mortgagees will be required to pay any assessments and legal fees due under The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g) (4). If the property is located in a common interest community, purchasers other than mortgagees will be required to pay any assessment and legal fees due under the Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection. For information: Sales Clerk, Codilis and Associates, P.C., Plaintiff' Attorney, 15 W. 030 North Frontage Road, Suite 100, Burr Ridge, Illinois 60527, Attorney Number 0468002, (630) 794 5300, File No: 14-10-03123 I495411 (Published in the Northwest Herald December 28, 2012; January 4 and 11, 2013)
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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MCHENRY COUNTY WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS U.S. Bank, National Association, Plaintiff, Vs. Paul J. Borek; et. al., Defendants 11 CH 1315 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause on OCTOBER 4, 2012 LENDER SALES OF ILLINOIS LLC will on FEBRUARY 11, 2013, at the hour of 10:30 A.M., or soon thereafter, at the front doors of the McHenry County Courthouse located at 2200 N. Seminary, Woodstock, IL 60098, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described property: LOT 249 IN SPRING LAKE FARMS - UNIT 4, BEING A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 24, AND PART OF THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 24, TOWNSHIP 43 NORTH, RANGE 7 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED JUNE 5, 1992 AS DOCUMENT NUMBER 92R030926, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. The common address of said real estate is: 785 White Pine Circle, Lake in the Hills, IL 60102 PIN:18-24-376-001 Description of premises: RESIDENTIAL Sale Terms: 25% down by certified funds at the close of the auction: The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "as is" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser shall receive a Certificate of Sale, which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee's attorney." If the property is a condomini-
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prope y um, the purchasers other than mortgagees will be required to pay any assessments and legal fees due under The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If the property is located in a common interest community, purchasers other than mortgagees will be required to pay any assessment and legal fees due under the Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection. For information: Sales Clerk, Codilis and Associates, P.C., Plaintiff' Attorney, 15 W. 030 North Frontage Road, Suite 100, Burr Ridge, Illinois 60527, Attorney Number 0468002, (630) 794 5300, File No: 14-11-12852 I495401 (Published in the Northwest Herald December 28, 2012; January 4 and 11, 2013)
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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE TWENTY- SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Plaintiff, -v.JOSEPH A. FIEDOROWICZ, BETHANY J. FIEDOROWICZ Defendant 11 CH 1501 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on July 2, 2012, an agent of The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 1:00 PM on January 30, 2013, at the NLT Title L.L.C, 390 Congress Parkway, Suite D, Crystal Lake, IL, 60014, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Lot 2 in Collinwood Subdivision, being a Subdivision of part of the Southwest Fractional Quarter of Section 29, Township 44 North, Range 9 East of the Third Principal Meridian, according to the Plat thereof recorded November 19, 1969 as Document No. 517657, in McHenry County, Illinois. Commonly known as 609 PORTEN RD., McHenry, IL 60051 Property Index No. 15-29-330011. The real estate is improved with a single family residence. The judgment amount was $195,065.45. Sale terms: The bid amount, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, shall be paid in certified funds immediately by the highest and best bidder at the conclusion of the sale. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "AS IS" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the
pur foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 151701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information, contact Plaintiff's attorney: HEAVNER, SCOTT, BEYERS & MIHLAR, LLC, 111 East Main Street, DECATUR, IL 62523, (217) 422-1719. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 606064650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff's attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. I497586 (Published in the Northwest Herald January 4, 11 and 18, 2013)
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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE TWENTY- SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS EVERBANK Plaintiff, -v.DONALD LOGSDON AKA DONALD F. LOGSDON AKA DONALD F. LOGSDON III, MICHELLE LOGSDON AKA MICHELLE A. LOGSDON, BMO HARRIS BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FKA HARRIS N.A. Defendants 11 CH 2719 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on April 23, 2012, an agent of The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 1:00 PM on February 4, 2013, at the NLT Title L.L.C, 390 Congress Parkway, Suite D, Crystal Lake, IL, 60014, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Lot 330 in Crystal in the Park Unit Two, being a part of the Northeast Quarter of the Southwest Quarter and the Southeast Quarter of the Southwest Quarter of Section 18,Township 43 North, Range 8 East of the Third Principal Meridian, according to the Plat thereof recorded July 14, 1988 as Document No. 88R21344, in McHenry County, Illinois. Commonly known as 1577 CANDLEWOOD DR., Crystal Lake, IL 60014 Property Index No. 19-18379-026. The real estate is improved with a single family residence. The judgment amount was $191,332.78. Sale terms: The bid amount, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, shall be paid in certified funds immediately by the highest and best bidder at the conclusion of the sale. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any
any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "AS IS" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information, contact Plaintiff's attorney: HEAVNER, SCOTT, BEYERS & MIHLAR, LLC, 111 East Main Street, DECATUR, IL 62523, (217) 422-1719. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. HEAVNER, SCOTT, BEYERS & MIHLAR, LLC 111 East Main Street DECATUR, IL 62523 (217) 422-1719 Case # 11 CH 2719 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff's attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. I493738 (Published in the Northwest Herald December 21, 28, 2012; January 4, 2013)
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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MCHENRY COUNTY WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS Wells Fargo Bank, NA, Plaintiff, Vs. Amy C. Loukota, et al., Defendants, 12 CH 1269 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause on OCTOBER 16, 2012 LENDER SALES OF ILLINOIS LLC will on FEBRUARY 11, 2013, at the hour of 10:30 AM., or soon thereafter, at the front doors of the McHenry County Courthouse located at 2200 N. Seminary, Woodstock, IL 60098, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described property: LOT 20 IN SPRING LAKE FARM SOUTH UNIT 1, BEING A SUBDIVISION IN THE WEST 1/2 OF THE NORTHWEST 1/4 OF SECTION 26, TOWNSHIP 43 NORTH RANGE 7, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED SEPTEMBER 30, 1993, AS DOCUMENT NUMBER 93R058543, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. The common address of said real estate is: 521 Windermere Way, Lake in the Hills, IL 60156 PIN: 18-26-103-011 Description of premises: RESIDENTIAL Sale Terms: 25% down by certified funds at the close of the auction: The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by $3
pa by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "as is" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser shall receive a Certificate of Sale, which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee's attorney." If the property is a condominium, the purchasers other than mortgagees will be required to pay any assessments and legal fees due under The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If the property is located in a common interest community, purchasers other than mortgagees will be required to pay any assessment and legal fees due under the Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection. For information: Sales Clerk, Codilis and Associates, P.C., Plaintiff' Attorney, 15 W. 030 North Frontage Road, Suite 100, Burr Ridge, Illinois 60527, Attorney Number 0468002, (630) 794 5300, File No: 14-12-15156 I495402 (Published in the Northwest Herald December 28, 2012; January 4 and 11, 2013)
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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MCHENRY COUNTY WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS Associated Bank, NA, Plaintiff, vs. Beverly Meseck a/k/a Beverly J. Mescek, et al. 12 CH 2428. Notice to Heirs and Legatees. Notice is hereby given to you, the Unknown Heirs and Unknown Legatees of the decedent(s), Beverly Meseck a/k/a Beverly J. Mescek, that on December 14, 2012, an order was entered by the Court, naming William P. Butcher, 2044 Ridge Road, Homewood, Illinois 60430, Tel. No. (708) 799-0600, as the Special Representative of the above named decedent(s) under 735 ILCS 13-1209 (Death of a Party). The cause of action for the Foreclosure of a certain Mortgage upon the premises commonly known as: 344 A. Marengo Road, Harvard, IL 60033. I495369 (Published in the Northwest Herald January 4, 11 and 18, 2013)
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THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM YOU MAY BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE TWENTY-SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS FIRST MIDWEST BANK; Plaintiff, v. JOHN R. KOZICKI; TAMMIE L. KOZICKI a/k/a TAMMIE R. KOZICKI; UNKNOWN OWNERS; NONRECORD CLAIMANTS; UNKNOWN TENANTS AND OCCUPANTS; Defendants. 12 CH 2645 Lot 26 Giant Oak Road McHenry, IL 60051 NOTICE BY PUBLICATION The requisite affidavit for publication having been filed, notice is hereby given to the following: UNKNOWN OWNERS, NON-
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Northwest Herald / NWHerald.com RECORD CLAIMANTS AND UNKNOWN TENANTS AND OCCUPANTS, Generally. Notice is hereby given to Defendants in the aboveentitled suit that the above-named Plaintiff has filed its Complaint in said Court for Foreclosure pursuant to the mortgage foreclosure laws of the State of Illinois, of the lands and premises in the Complaint situated in McHenry County, State of Illinois: THE NORTH HALF OF LOT 26 IN ROBERT BARTLETT'S FIRST ADDITION TO GIANT OAK ESTATES, BEING A SUBDIVISION ON SECTIONS 35 AND 36, TOWNSHIP 46 NORTH, RANGE 7, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED JULY 21, 1965 AS DOCUMENT 446371, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. PIN: 03-36-176-006 Common Address: Lot 26 Giant Oak Road, McHenry, IL 60051 that summons was duly issued out of the said Court against you as provided by law, and that said suit is now pending. The said Complaint is for the foreclosure of the mortgage. NOW THEREFORE, unless you, the said above-named Defendants, file your appearance in the said suit in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of McHenry County, Illinois, on or before the February 4, 2013, default may be entered against you at any time after that day and Judgment entered in accordance with the prayer of said Complaint. Stephen G. Daday Klein, Daday, Aretos & O'Donoghue, LLC 2550 West Golf Road, Suite 250 Rolling Meadows, IL 60008 847-590-8700 Attorney No. 3127015 I479601 (Published in the Northwest Herald January 4, 11 and 18, 2013)
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STATE OF ILLINOIS COUNTY OF McHENRY IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT McHENRY COUNTY WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. PLAINTIFF VS MITCHELL MICULESCU A/K/A MITCHELL G. MIC; DEERPASS VILLAGE UNIT 1 HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS ; DEFENDANTS 12 CH 2663 829 VILLAGE CIRCLE MARENGO, IL 60152 NOTICE BY PUBLICATION NOTICE IS GIVEN YOU, MITCHELL MICULESCU A/K/A MITCHELL G. MICULESCU; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS ; defendants, that this case has been commenced in this Court against you and other defendants, asking for the foreclosure of a certain Mortgage conveying the premises described as follows, to wit: LOT 1 IN BLOCK 17 IN DEERPASS VILLAGE UNIT 1, BEING A RESUBDIVISION OF PARCELS "E" AND "H" IN DEERPASS UNIT ONE, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED MAY 27, 1997 AS DOCUMENT NO. 97R-024163, BEING A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE SOUTH HALF OF SECTION 25, TOWNSHIP 44 NORTH, RANGE 5 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. Commonly known as: 829 VILLAGE CIRCLE MARENGO, IL 60152 and which said Mortgage was made by, MITCHELL MICULESCU A/K/A MITCHELL G. MICULESCU; Mortgagor (s), to M.E.R.S., INC., AS NOMINEE FOR CTX MORTGAGE COMPANY, LLC. Mortgagee, and recorded in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of McHENRY County, Illinois, as Document No. 03R0057369; and for other relief. UNLESS YOU file your answer or otherwise file your appearance in this case in the Office of the Clerk of this County, Katherine M. Keefe Clerk of the Court 2200 North Seminary Woodstock, Illinois 60098 on or before February 4, 2013, A JUDGMENT OR DECREE BY DEFAULT MAY BE TAKEN AGAINST YOU FOR THE RELIEF ASKED IN THE COMPLAINT. PIERCE & ASSOCIATES Attorneys for Plaintiff Thirteenth Floor 1 North Dearborn Chicago, Illinois 60602 Tel. (312) 346-9088 Fax (312) 346-1557 PA 1221447 I489834 (Published in the Northwest Herald January 4, 11 and 18, 2013)
JUDGMENT MAY BE ENTERED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PRAYER OF SAID COMPLAINT. CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. Attorneys for Plaintiff 15W030 North Frontage Road, Suite 100 Burr Ridge, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 DuPage # 15170 Winnebago # 531 Our File No. 14-11-01915 NOTE: This law firm is deemed to be a debt collector. I494625 (Published in the Northwest Herald December 21, 28, 2012; January 4, 2013) LOOKING FOR A JOB? Find the job you want at:
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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT McHENRY COUNTY WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION PLAINTIFF VS KEVIN KNOLL A/K/A KEVIN J KNOLL; SUSANNA KNOLL A/K/A SUSANNA M KNOLL A/K/A SUSAN KNOLL; HIGHLAND SHORES PROPERTY OWNERS, INC.; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS ; DEFENDANTS 12 CH 2816 9103 PINE AVENUE WONDER LAKE, IL 60097 NOTICE BY PUBLICATION NOTICE IS GIVEN YOU, KEVIN KNOLL A/K/A KEVIN J KNOLL; SUSANNA KNOLL A/K/A SUSANNA M KNOLL A/K/A SUSAN KNOLL; HIGHLAND SHORES PROPERTY OWNERS, INC. C/O GEORGE FREEMAN; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS ; defendants, that this case has been commenced in this Court against you and other defendants, asking for the foreclosure of a certain Mortgage conveying the premises described as follows, to wit: LOT 8 IN BLOCK 6 IN HIGHLAND SHORES, WONDER LAKE, UNIT NO. 6, A SUBDIVISION OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 13, TOWNSHIP 45 NORTH, RANGE 7 EAST OF THE THIRD MERIDIAN, AND OF THE EAST 25 ACRES OF THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 14, TOWNSHIP 45 NORTH, RANGE 7 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, AND PART OF THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 13, TOWNSHIP 45 NORTH, RANGE 7 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED JUNE 11, 1953 AS DOCUMENT NO. 266428, IN BOOK 11 OF PLATS, PAGE 80, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. Commonly known as: 9103 PINE AVENUE WONDER LAKE, IL 60097 and which said Mortgage was made by, KEVIN KNOLL A/K/A KEVIN J KNOLL; Mortgagor (s), to M.E.R.S., INC. AS NOMINEE FOR CTX MORTGAGE COMPANY Mortgagee, and recorded in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of McHENRY County, Illinois, as Document No. 01R0080172; and for other relief. UNLESS YOU file your answer or otherwise file your appearance in this case in the Office of the Clerk of this County, Katherine M. Keefe Clerk of the Court 2200 North Seminary Woodstock, Illinois 60098 on or before February 4, 2013, A JUDGMENT OR DECREE BY DEFAULT MAY BE TAKEN AGAINST YOU FOR THE RELIEF ASKED IN THE COMPLAINT. PIERCE & ASSOCIATES Attorneys for Plaintiff Thirteenth Floor 1 North Dearborn Chicago, Illinois 60602
icago, Tel. (312) 346-9088 Fax (312) 346-1557 PA 1220011 I492838 (Published in the Northwest Herald January 4, 11 and 18, 2013)
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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT McHENRY COUNTY WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO NATIONAL CITY MORTGAGE, A DIVISION OF NATIONAL CITY BANK PLAINTIFF VS UNKNOWN SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE OF THE JOSEPH S SZUCS REVOCABLE LIVING TRUST DATED 8/25/09; PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO MIDAMERICA BANK, FSB; OLD OAK TERRACE HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.; UNKNOWN BENEFICIARIES OF THE JOSEPH S SZUCS REVOCABLE LIVING TRUST DATED 8/25/09; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS; DEFENDANTS 12 CH 2819 913 OLD OAK CIR ALGONQUIN, IL 60102 NOTICE BY PUBLICATION NOTICE IS GIVEN YOU, UNKNOWN SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE OF THE JOSEPH S SZUCS REVOCABLE LIVING TRUST DATED 8/25/09; UNKNOWN BENEFICIARIES OF THE JOSEPH S SZUCS REVOCABLE LIVING TRUST DATED 8/25/09; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS ; defendants, that this case has been commenced in this Court against you and other defendants, asking for the foreclosure of a certain Mortgage conveying the premises described as follows, to wit: LOT 32 IN OLD OAK TERRACE UNIT 1, BEING A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE EAST HALF OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 34, TOWNSHIP 43 NORTH, RANGE 8, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED OCTOBER 5, 1988 AS DOCUMENT NUMBER 88R032041 IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. Commonly known as: 913 OLD OAK CIR ALGONQUIN, IL 60102 and which said Mortgage was made by, JOSEPH SZUCS AKA JOSEPH S SZUCS DECEASED; Mortgagor (s), to NATIONAL CITY MORTGAGE A DIVISION OF NATIONAL CITY BANK Mortgagee, and recorded in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of McHENRY County, Illinois, as Document No. 09R0016455; and for other relief. UNLESS YOU file your answer or otherwise file your appearance in this case in the Office of the Clerk of this County, Katherine M. Keefe Clerk of the Court 2200 North Seminary Woodstock, Illinois 60098 on or before February 4, 2013, A JUDGMENT OR DECREE BY DEFAULT MAY BE TAKEN AGAINST YOU FOR THE RELIEF ASKED IN THE COMPLAINT. PIERCE & ASSOCIATES Attorneys for Plaintiff Thirteenth Floor 1 North Dearborn Chicago, Illinois 60602 Tel. (312) 346-9088 Fax (312) 346-1557 PA 1222114 I490870 (Published in the Northwest Herald January 4, 11 and 18, 2013)
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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MCHENRY COUNTY WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS Wells Fargo Bank, NA, Plaintiff, Vs. Matthew A. Kowalski; et. al., Defendants, No. 12 CH 363 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given
by gi that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause on SEPTEMBER 10, 2012 LENDER SALES OF ILLINOIS LLC will on FEBRUARY 11, 2013, at the hour of 10:30 A.M., or soon thereafter, at the front doors of the McHenry County Courthouse located at 2200 N. Seminary, Woodstock, IL 60098, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described property: LOT 455 IN CONCORD HILLS AT MEADOWBROOK UNIT 8, BEING A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE NORTHWEST 1/4 OF SECTION 23, TOWNSHIP 43 NORTH, RANGE 7, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED SEPTEMBER 22, 1995 AS DOCUMENT 95R40376, AND CERTIFICATE OF CORRECTION RECORDED APRIL 1, 1996 AS DOCUMENT 96R015397, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. The common address of said real estate is: 2821 Hillsboro Lane, Lake In The Hills, IL 60156 PIN:18-23-126-008 Description of premises: RESIDENTIAL Sale Terms: 25% down by certified funds at the close of the auction: The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "as is" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser shall receive a Certificate of Sale, which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee's attorney." If the property is a condominium, the purchasers other than mortgagees will be required to pay any assessments and legal fees due under The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If the property is located in a common interest community, purchasers other than mortgagees will be required to pay any assessment and legal fees due under the Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection. For information: Sales Clerk, Codilis and Associates, P.C., Plaintiff' Attorney, 15 W. 030 North Frontage Road, Suite 100, Burr Ridge, Illinois 60527, Attorney Number 0468002, (630) 794 5300, File No: 14-12-04213, I495399 (Published in the Northwest Herald December 28, 2012; January 4 and 11, 2013)
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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MCHENRY COUNTY WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS GMAC Mortgage, LLC, Plaintiff, Vs. Larry J. Chase a/k/a Larry Chase; et. al., Defendants, 12 CH 803 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause on NOVEMBER 6, 2012 LENDER SALES OF ILLINOIS LLC will on FEBRUARY 11, 2013, at the hour of 10:30 A.M., or soon thereafter, at the front doors of the McHenry County Courthouse located at 2200 N. Seminary, Woodstock, IL 60098, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following de-
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ng scribed property: LOT 6 IN LYONS RIDGE PHASE ONE, BEING A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 8, TOWNSHIP 43 NORTH, RANGE 9 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED MAY 18, 1992 AS DOCUMENT 0. 92R27025, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. The common address of said real estate is: 960 S Rawson Bridge Road, Cary, IL 60013 PIN: 20-08-301-001 Description of premises: RESIDENTIAL Sale Terms: 25% down by certified funds at the close of the auction: The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "as is" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser shall receive a Certificate of Sale, which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee's attorney." If the property is a condominium, the purchasers other than mortgagees will be required to pay any assessments and legal fees due under The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g) (4). If the property is located in a common interest community, purchasers other than mortgagees will be required to pay any assessment and legal fees due under the Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection. For information: Sales Clerk, Codilis and Associates, P.C., Plaintiff' Attorney, 15 W. 030 North Frontage Road, Suite 100, Burr Ridge, Illinois 60527, Attorney Number 0468002, (630) 794 5300, File No: 14-11-31931 I495405 (Published in the Northwest Herald December 28, 2012; January 4 and 11, 2013)
PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22nd JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS MCHENRY SAVINGS BANK, Plaintiff, vs. MICHELLE BOOKOUT STEFFIEN, BOARD OF MANAGERS OF THE SW PROPERTY OWNERS ASSOCIATION, JOHN HUNTSHA, SUSAN HUNTSHA, UNKNOWN OWNERS & NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS, Defendants. Case No. 12 CH 826 NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S FORECLOSURE SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment for Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above-captioned case, the Sheriff of McHenry, Illinois, or his deputy, on Thursday, the 31st day of January, 2013, at the hour of 10:00 a.m., in the room assigned at the McHenry County Courthouse, 2200 N. Seminary Ave., Woodstock, IL 60098, will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder, property legally described as fol-
prope y legally lows: LOT 4 IN BLOCK 12 IN EASTWOOD MANOR UNIT NO. 4, BEING A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 25, TOWNSHIP 45 NORTH, RANGE 8, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED OCTOBER 19, 1960 AS DOCUMENT NO. 376558, IN BOOK 14 OF PLATS, PAGE 63, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. Permanent Index Number 09-25-426-018-0000 This property is commonly known as 2406 Glenwood Lane, McHenry, Illinois 60050, and may contain improvements. This real estate is being sold in an "As Is Condition" for cash or its equivalent in accordance with the terms and provisions of said judgment through which the Plaintiff is owed at least $172,103.41. The successful bidder is required to deposit 10% of the bid amount at the time of the sale with the McHenry County Sheriff, with the balance to be paid by noon of the Tuesday following the sale. For information regarding this real estate, including the possibility of inspection, interested parties may contact Stephen J. Butler of SmithAmundsen, LLC, 2460 Lake Shore Drive, Woodstock, Illinois 60098, Telephone (815) 337-5014. Dated: 12-19-12 Keith Nygren McHenry County Sheriff Stephen J. Butler SmithAmundsen, LLC Attorney for McHenry Savings Bank 2460 Lake Shore Drive Woodstock, IL 60098 (815) 337-5014 Telephone (815) 337-5015 Facsimile ARDC No. 6296006 (Published in the Northwest Herald December 21, 28, 2012; January 4, 2013)
PUBLIC NOTICE STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT McHENRY COUNTY In the Matter of the Petition of Donna Marie Corda for Change of Name Case Number 12 MR 573 NOTICE OF PUBLICATION (ADULT) Public notice is hereby given that I have filed a Petition for Change of Name and scheduled a hearing on my Petition on February 8, 2013, at 9:00 a.m. in the Circuit Court of the Twenty-Second Judicial Circuit, McHenry County, Illinois, praying for the change of my name from Donna Marie Corda to that of Donna Marie De Paul pursuant to the Illinois Compiled Statutes on Change of Names. Dated at Woodstock, Illinois December 26, 2012. /s/ Donna Marie Corda Petitioner's Signature Donna Marie Corda 684 Greenbrier Lane Crystal Lake, IL 60014 (Published in the Northwest Herald December 28, 2012; January 4, 11, 2013)
PUBLIC NOTICE STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT McHENRY COUNTY In the Matter of the Petition of CARL K. RICE for Change of Name Case Number 12 MR 575 NOTICE OF PUBLICATION (ADULT)
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Public notice is hereby given that I have filed a Petition for Change of Name and scheduled a hearing on my Petition on February 22, 2013, at 9:00 a.m. in the Circuit Court of the Twenty-Second Judicial Circuit, McHenry County, Illinois, praying for the change of my name from CARL KEITH RICE to that of CARL KAY RICE pursuant to the Illinois Compiled Statutes on Change of Names. Dated at Woodstock, Illinois December 28, 2012. /s/ Carl K. Rice Petitioner's Signature Carl Rice Petitioner 2911 Raycraft Rd Woodstock, IL 60098 312-344-0983 (Published in the Northwest Herald January 4, 11 & 18, 2013)
PUBLIC NOTICE STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE TWENTY-SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT McHENRY COUNTY IN PROBATE
(Ill. mp Par. 5/28-4) any interested person terminates independent administration at any time by mailing or delivering a petition to terminate to the clerk.
Claims against the estate may be filed within six months from the date of first publication. Any claim not filed within six months from the date of first publication or claims not filed within three months from the date of mailing or delivery of Notice to Creditor, whichever is later, shall be barred. Claims may be filed in the office of the Clerk of Circuit Court at the McHenry County Government Center, 2200 North Seminary Avenue, Woodstock, Illinois 60098, or with the representative, or both. Copies of claims filed with the Clerk must be mailed or delivered to the representative and to his attorney within ten days after it has been filed. /s/ Katherine M. Keefe Clerk of the Circuit Court (Published in the Northwest Herald December 21, 28, 2012; January 4, 2013)
PUBLIC NOTICE STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE TWENTY-SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT McHENRY COUNTY IN PROBATE
In the Matter of the Estate of LYNN S HEARN, Deceased Case No. 12 PR 329 CLAIM NOTICE Notice is given of the death of LYNN S. HEARN OF FOX RIVER GROVE, IL Letters of office were issued on 12/20/2012 to Representative: ALBERT A ADAMS, 3515 WASHINGTON, MCHENRY, IL 60050 whose attorney is COWLIN, THOMAS L, 5447 W BULL VALLEY ROAD, McHENRY, IL 60050. Claims against the estate may be filed within six months from the date of first publication. Any claim not filed within six months from the date of first publication or claims not filed within three months from the date of mailing or delivery of Notice to Creditor, whichever is later, shall be barred. Claims may be filed in the office of the Clerk of Circuit Court at the McHenry County Government Center, 2200 North Seminary Avenue, Woodstock, Illinois 60098, or with the representative, or both. Copies of claims filed with the Clerk must be mailed or delivered to the representative and to his attorney within ten days after it has been filed. /s/ Katherine M. Keefe Clerk of the Circuit Court (Published in the Northwest Herald December 28, 2012; January 4, 11, 2013)
PUBLIC NOTICE STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE TWENTY-SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT McHENRY COUNTY IN PROBATE
In the Matter of the Estate of JOAN M STEENHAUSEN, Deceased Case No. 12 PR 339 CLAIM NOTICE
Notice is given of the death of JOAN M STEENHAUSEN of CRYSTAL LAKE, IL
Letters of office were issued on 11/30/2012 to Representative: SUSAN S ALLEN, 0S508 REBECCA LN, WINFIELD, IL 60190-1500, whose attorney is DONATELLI & COULES, 15 SALT CREEK LN, STE 312, HINSDALE, IL 60521-2964.
Claims against the estate may be filed within six months from the date of first publication. Any claim not filed within six months from the date of first publication or claims not filed within three months from the date of mailing or delivery of Notice to Creditor, whichever is later, shall be barred. Claims may be filed in the office of the Clerk of Circuit Court at the McHenry County Government Center, 2200 North Seminary Avenue, Woodstock, Illinois 60098, or with the representative, or both. Copies of claims filed with the Clerk must be mailed or delivered to the representative and to his attorney within ten days after it has been filed. /s/ Katherine M. Keefe Clerk of the Circuit Court (Published in the Northwest Herald December 21, 28, 2012; January 4, 2013)
In the Matter of the Estate of DEAN MALSACK, Deceased Case No. 12 PR 330 CLAIM NOTICE Notice is given of the death of DEAN MALSACK of HUNTLEY, IL Letters of office were issued on 11/21/2012 to Representative: KENNETH R JOHNSEN, 2828 N HARWOOD ST, STE 1700, DALLAS, TX 75201-1509 whose attorney is RINELLA, GERALD, 1410 E ROSITA DR, PALATINE, IL 60074-5604. The estate will be administered without supervision, unless under section 5/28-4 of the Probate Act (Ill. Compiled Stat. 1992, Ch. 755,
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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee for New Century Home Equity Loan Trust, Series 2005-C, Asset Backed PassThrough Certificates, PLAINTIFF Vs. Ines Simon Blanco a/k/a Ines S. Blanco; BMO Harris Bank National Association f/k/a Harris N.A.; Unknown Owners and Nonrecord Claimants, DEFENDANTS 12 CH 02810 NOTICE BY PUBLICATION NOTICE IS GIVEN TO YOU: Ines Simon Blanco a/k/a Ines S. Blanco, Unknown Owners and Nonrecord Claimants That this case has been commenced in this Court against you and other defendants, praying for the foreclosure of a certain Mortgage conveying the premises described as follows, to-wit: THE WEST HALF OF LOTS 7 AND 8 IN BLOCK 1 IN BROWN'S ADDITION TO HARVARD, A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 35, TOWNSHIP 46 NORTH, RANGE 5 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED NOVEMBER 29, 1887, IN BOOK 1 OF PLATS, PAGE 15, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. COMMONLY KNOWN AS: 109 W. Brown Street, Harvard, IL 60033 and which said Mortgage was made by: Ines Simon Blanco a/k/a Ines S. Blanco the Mortgagor(s), to Sovereign Bank, as Mortgagee, and recorded in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of McHenry County, Illinois, as Document No. 2005R0078786; and for other relief; that summons was duly issued out of said Court against you as provided by law and that the said suit is now pending. NOW, THEREFORE, UNLESS YOU file your answer or otherwise file your appearance in this case in the Office of the Clerk of this Court, Katherine M. Keefe, Clerk of the Circuit Court, 2200 N. Seminary, Woodstock, IL 60098 on or before January 21, 2013, A DEFAULT MAY BE ENTERED AGAINST YOU AT ANY TIME AFTER THAT DAY AND A
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Frost free, 4.5'Hx2'W, $75. 815-385-1396 WASHER Whirlpool Heavy Duty, direct drive, NO BELTS & DRYER Kenmoor Heavy Duty gas, v. good cond. NO RUST $75/each or $125/both 815-385-9327 or 815-953-9350
Washer/Dryer Pedestals
White wood, pedestals for frontload washers & dryers, 29”x29”x12”. $70/ea. 815-398-9648
Basketball Cards. '91-'92. 4800+ Wild Card. Incl Striped, Pippin, $99. 815-338-4829 Basketball Cards. Topps Factory Set. 92-93. Shaquille O'Neal RC Asking $20. 815-338-4829 Basketball Cards. UD. No Carolina. '10-'11. Incl MJ, '82 Nat Champs Patch. $50. 815-338-4829 Doll - Porcelain Doll World Galleries Collectibles. Pictures avail upon req. $15. 815-404-9765
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Price Pfifter Brass, Pforever finish for sink, 4” centers, brand new in box, $40. 847-380-0870
Insulating Blankets (80)
For covering concrete, 6'x25' $20/ea. 847-514-4989
Whirlpool Tub new $1950 66x42 Navy Blue $1200/OBO 815-653-4612
Filing Cabinets (1) 3 drawer $25/obo 815-701-1260
DRESSER - mixture of wood finishes, 3 drawers, 1 door, $95, picture on line. 815-477-8928 Football Cards. '91 Wild Card Draft 3000+ incl 30 Favre RC $120 815-338-4829 Football Cards. Mixed stars & rookies. '68 Gale Sayers $40, '98 P Manning RC $25. 815-338-4829
Greenwood Cemetery near Woodstock. 2 plots in scenic location. Grave #s 27 & 30. $400/ea. 815-455-3555 FLOWER PLANTER - Cute piggy, absolutely adorable handcrafted pig artistically painted onto metal, solid construction, quality made unique piece, excellent condition. $25. 815-477-9023
CAMERA - Canon A-1 complete set all in excellent condition! Includes Canon A-1 35mm film camera with a Canon FD 50mm 1:1.4 lens, Sunpak Auto 422 D multi position flash, shoulder strap, UV lens,camera bag & all manuals. $150. 815-363-8974 GATEWAY COMPUTER & HP PRINTER Gateway 510X/ P42.8/ 512MB/ 120GB/ DVD RW/ R/CDRW Rec/ XP Home 17 LCD Blk Flat Panel Display (17 Viewable) 2 piece Speaker Solution HP2410 All-In-One Photosmart Printer with Belkin 10FT USB Printer Cable Along with original cables and Restoration Cds $150. 847-669-1643 HP Deskjet Ink Cartridge #96 black. New. Expiration 6/2013. $25. 815-382-7278 JEWEL CASES - 50 Used full-size in good condition. Good for storing CD/DVD's. $10. 815-363-8559 Kindle with Leather Cover. Like new. In original box. $60. 847-409-6477
Jacket ~ Elvis TCB Fan Club Large, white satin, mint condition! Signed by Col Parker (appraised @ $2000), $400. 630-723-1245 or 630-207-0512
STEREO/TV ~ PHILLIPS
JAR - Glass w/ metal Lid. Outside red w/ ridges in glass. Top opening 5" diameter, Jar is 7 1/2" diameter & 7" high. $25. McHenry 815-236-1747
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Nordic Track Pro $100/OBO 815-568-6494 Vision Fitness T9200 Treadmill. Award-winning and universally acclaimed. Compare at $1,300 new. Yours for $395. 815-459-7669
Fireplace Set ~ Elk Antler $125
815-701-1260
Firewood Guaranteed Dry! Oak, Cherry & Walnut. Stacked & Delivered. $100 for 1 FC or $190 for 2 FC. 815-494-1054
Leather coat: fitted, hooded, waist length, medium, Marono $8/OBO 630-346-2476 MICROWAVE STAND - Walnut finish. In good condition. Has 4 compartments for storage underneath. $10 cash. You pick up. 815-245-9495
Mirrors (2) Teakwood $150 a piece or best offer. $175. 815-701-1260
Pedestal Table ~ 5' Round Old pine. Incl 3 chairs. $100/obo. 815-575-5924 Lv Msg QUEEN ANNE WING BACK CHAIR Beautiful fabric. Originally purchased for $800. Like new condition. $200. 815-540-4064
ROCKING CHAIR ~ WHITE
Beige Velour, NEW. Retails for $100 Asking $60. 630-624-8250
Like new, chair pad included, $50. 224-587-5091 SOFA, LOVESEAT, CHAIR matching set, beige, can send pictures (picture on-line). Will deliver in Crystal Lake area for full price offer, $220. 815-477-8928 TABLE & CHAIRS - great for a country cottage kitchen appeal. Perfect for that first apartment, college dorm room or your vintage space! Sturdy, well made, excellent condition. $195. 815 477-9023.
Bedroom Furniture - Kids
TABLE ~ OAK, CLAWFOOT
BARSTOOL - High end classic press back 24 in. oak swivel barstool, features an etched back with 8 baluster spindles connecting to the seat contained by 2 baluster rails on its sides. $75. 815-477-9023
Bed Chair with Light & Vibrator
Twin Bed with mattress & spring, 6 drawer dresser with mirrored hutch, 5 drawer dresser, 2 drawer nightstand & additional hutch, dark walnut, $250. 847-462-0565 AM BEDROOM SET - girls, solid pine, whitewash/light oak finish, heavy duty: armoire with shelves and drawers, nightstand, headboard / footboard, rails and slats, self standing dressing mirror; $350, can send pictures. 815-477-8928
Bedroom Set
Vintage 5 piece set, mahogany. $400 815-385-1157 BOOKCASES - 2 solid oak bookcases (70h x 30w x 12 1/2d) purchased at Cappacio Brothers Furniture Store & 1 contemporary glass top desk. Instant office! All 3 for $275/best offer! 815-459-7669 BOOKCASES - Set of 3, 30 W x 15 D x 77 H, classic style, well made, very sturdy, walnut finish, trim molding at top with arched design, bottom doors offer add'l enclosed storage. $250. 815-477-9023 BUFFET - Solid Oak, Buffet server 2 pieces, leaded glass doors, 56"L 18"W Like New cond. asking $125/obo. Call 815-321-3963 or 815-385-6501 CHAIR - Very comfortable chair with deep seat. Beautiful designer fabric. Looks brand new with extremely sturdy design. $200. 815-540-4064 CHINA CABINET - Walnut finish. Glass shelves, inside light. Very good condition. 75 1/2" tall, 46 1/4" wide, 16" deep. $275/obo cash. Picture in online ad. Must pick up. Crystal Lake, 815-245-9495 China Cabinet, Glass doors, $50 Church Pew, $50, Glass Table Set, 3 piece, $50, large roll-top desk, $50, small roll-top desk, $50. 815-788-1872 CORNER HUTCH - $95. 2 upper glass doors with unique swirls, middle part is a shelf, and lower section has 2 shutter style doors, cherry stain finish. Will deliver for full price offer. 815-477-8928 Light blue, beige. Clean, no stains, no tears. $75 847-829-4060 DESK - metal office. 3 drawers left side. 1 drawer & 1 file drawer right side with pencil drawer in center. In good condition. You must move. Bring a helper to load. Desk measures 30" deep x 60" wide x 29" tall. Picture in online ad. $25.00 Cash only and you must pick up. Crystal Lake. 815-245-9495 DESK - steel secretary style. In good condition. Beige in color. 2 drawers are file drawers. 31 1/2" deep, 28" tall, 59 1/2" wide. $30 cash only. Picture in online ad. Must pick up. Crystal Lake, 815-245-9495
Including 3 chairs, $99. 815-382-1292
TABLES ~ SOLID OAK
3 piece set, custom made, very good condition! $150 847-829-4060 TELEVISION / MEDIA CABINET Double doors with 2 generous drawers below. Duncan Phyfe style. $150. 815-540-4064
Tufted Chair
Floral Blue and Taupe, $60 815-385-1157 WICKET SET - 4 piece white wicker set, includes sofa, 2 chairs & coffee table. All in great condition and only used indoors. Includes cushions. Would be perfect in sun room or on porch. $100. 815-363-8559
BAR STOOLS - Quality, Set of 3 durable hardwood 2 bar height stools, plus 1 counter height stool, classic style, larger seating area. Excellent $95. 815-477-9023 Ceiling Light for LR, BR or Hall Stylish antique black metal frame & chain. Side light panels are transparent gold, $20. 815-455-3555 Ceiling Light for LR, BR or Hall Stylish antique black metal frame & chain. Side light panels transparent blue/green. $30. 815-455-3555 DISHES - Set of Tuscan Harvest Dishes. Used once or twice so like new. This print is discontinued. Includes 4 Dinner plates, 4 Salad plates & 4 mugs. Very sturdy earth ware. $15. 815-363-8559 ICE CRUSHER Portable Electric Use on counter for drinks or fancy food. Works good, $15. 815-455-3555 Pillsbury Dough Boy Kitchen Items. Cookie Jars, Gumball Machine, Etc. $2-$20. 847-409-6477 SUN ROOM CHAIRS - metal quality set of 4 chairs, solid construction, very comfortable, amble room, excellent cond. $85. 815-477-9023 TWIN BED WOOD HEADBOARD mattress, like new. Very good condition. $50. 815-455-7192 VINTAGE GLASS PEDESTAL CAKE STAND AND COVER - Large glass cake plate pedestal with a dome handle at the top and a lip along the inside of the cake plate. Imagine how cute to serve at your next tea party. Very good condition. $15. 815 477-9023
Automatic Welding Wire, 30 lb. copper spool, 1/16", AWS A5.l8 E70S 1B, heat: 661C275, made by Raco, USA. (new/old). $150. 847-487-1650
Wheelchair -Cardiac style - Rehab custom made,allows mobility. Full tilt. Gel Seat. Individual cones. Will take Best Offer. 847-997-7109
CERAMIC TILE Cobalt blue and hunter green. $15/box, 20 boxes total. 815-653-4612 Floor standing OttLite w/6 diameter optical grade magnifier. The shade easily rotates to direct light right where you need it and 3x optical grade magnifier features a flexible gooseneck arm for hands free viewing. Like new. Over $200 retail value. Asking $90. 847-669-1643 HOBBY BENCH 3'x8'x8”, maple, for basement or garage. $75. Call 9am-6pm 815-385-3797
Jogging Stroller
The Baby Jogger. Great shape! $40. 815-701-1172
KEROSENE HEATER
50,000 BTU, like new! $50. Marengo Area 847-712-0303 Luggage Set Top Brand and cond. American Tourister. Not canvas sides, 2 pieces 7x24”, 7x20”, $35. 815-455-3555 OLD RADIO, Zenith Trans. Oceanic, Shortwave. As Found. $100. 815-356-7879 PAINTING, RACEHORSES - large acrylic, artist-Ferrante, can send picture. $50. 815-477-8928
PUZZLES (3)
Ravensburger, 300 piece, $5. 630-624-8250 Salt Lamps, 2 4-6lbs, $25/each 1 7-10lbs $30, 1 basket lamp $40 Free lightbulb replacement 815-370-4165
$35
815-404-6083
TV - FREE LARGE SCREEN TV Toshiba 50" works fine NOT HD Large & heavy. 50”x43”x14”. Free, you haul. McHenry. 815-363-7285
Contemporary, 3 pieces. Excellent condition, $40. 815-899-1701 Dining Room Chairs (6). Oak. 2 with arms. Beige cushion seats. $150/all. 847-802-4949
DINING ROOM SET
Mission Style with 6 chairs in perfect condition, excellent finish, custom cushions, $150. 00. 815-341-7018 DINING ROOM TABLE - Walnut finish in excellent clean condition. Seats 6. Chairs included, 1 with arms. 40" wide, 77" long with 18" leaf installed. Sturdy set. Picture in online ad. Must pick up. $300/obo. Crystal Lake, 815-245-9495 Dining Room Table 5' L x 3' W Metal & Glass w/4 Chairs (+ cushions) All From Pier 1, Seats Up To 8 $350. 815-370-4165 DRESSER for ladies bedroom. Walnut finish, with 2 large mirrors. Has 3 center drawers & 3 drawers each side behind cabinet doors. Size is 19" deep, 72" wide, 29 1/2 tall (77" to top of mirrors). Picture in online ad. $225 cash, must pick up. Crystal Lake. 815-245-9495 DRESSER, LARGE, 9 DRAWERS medium oak finish, can send picture (picture on-line), $75. 815-477-8928 ENTERTAINMENT CENTER WE Smithe ent center w/ hutch $375 OBO. 847-515-8083 ESTATE CHAIR - Lovely cushioned estate chair in beautiful fabric. Includes large foot stool. Like new condition. $150. 815-540-4064 Girl's Twin Four Poster Bed Frame. Cream colored wood. $35. 847-409-6477 HIGH CHAIR - Antique Pine Child's. 39" high 17" wide with removable metal tray. Tray arm lifts. McHenry $125. 815-236-1747
With table, $40. 815-385-1157
Typewriter/Electric - IBM
HIGHBOY - Beautiful American Drew Philadelphia Highboy, total of 12 drawers. $200. 815-540-4064
WE'VE GOT IT!
Kitchen table & 4 Chairs
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48” round, glass top table, padded seat & back wrought iron frame, $75/obo. 847-952-9728
HEART GRAPEVINE WREATH Simplistic & lovely. $15. 815-477-9023 WICKER CHAIRS SET, Lime Green, sturdy construction, durable, classic, very cute shabby chic! $195. 815-477-9023
Battery Screw Driver. Dewalt. 12v. 2 batteries & charger. $30 847-658-4720 CIRCULAR SAW - Dewalt DW713 10" circular saw - never used, new in box. $200. 847-363-8903
Bicycle - MOTOmed. Stationary computerized bike. Attaches to wheelchair. Asking $1000. Brand new! 847-997-7109 Scooter Outdoor ~ Rascal Works great, $400 firm. Also handicapped lift plateform for Rascal Scooter, hitch mounted. $400. 815-653-4612 STANDER- Sit to Stand, pump up with shadow tray. $5,500 new asking $1000. 847-997-7109
Statue ~ Legend of Santa
1990, Ltd Edition, hand crafted. Waiting for Santa Sculpture. Still in box, $75. 815-575-0713
Snowblower: Lawn Boy 320E 3HP, runs good, $50 815-508-1114
HOT TUB - FREE, no pump. You Haul. 815-363-8559 Hot Tub Dynasty, 5 Person with cover. Needs minor work. $300. 630-643-4336
CONCEALED CARRY CLASS IL residents. Country Inn, Crystal Lk. Jan 27th or Mar 24th 9am-1:30pm. $80/pers Register@608-577-1917
Wrapping Paper Storage Totes
Dora The Explorer talking kitchen w/ play food. $45. 847-302-4511
$10 630-624-8250
Ice Shanty. Small. One man. $50 815-575-5924 Doll House ~ Newly Built Wrap around porch, 6 rooms. $100. 847-854-7980
Nintendo 64 Games
451 Keyboard ~ Casio CTK 61 key, portable, makes great sound, music making features. $60 847-380-0870
Acoustic Guitar
With pick up, great for Blues/Folk/ C/W custom hard case, very nice. $150/obo. 815-575-2458
Acoustic Guitar/Yamaha $100
815-404-6083
FLUTE
For a child, $10 630-624-8250 KEYBOARD - Full-Size Yamaha PSR 290 keyboard/synthesizer. Great for budding musician! $100. 815-363-8559 KEYBOARD, CASIO CT-510, w/ adapter. Unique feature is the 8 drum pads. $65. 815-477-8928
PIANO ~ SPINET
Kimball, with bench, very good condition! $300 815-678-4185
Adorable Puppies
All puppies come with * Health Warranty * Free Vet Visit * Free Training DVD * Financing Available
Petland
Many different games, $8/ea. 847-830-8704
Pillow Pet Dream Lites
2 for $40, Fluttery Butterfly and Snuggley Puppy. Brand new in box. 847-639-3237
RC Helicopters (2)
Fly indoors or out, includes radio and chargers, $125/obo. 815-245-0717 SLEEPING BAG - Disney Ariel Sleeping Bag NEW, never been used. $20. 815-477-9023
ANTIQUE & Modern Guns
Civil War Items, Military Souvenirs, Old Hunting & Fishing Items. 815-338-4731
Lionel & American Flyer Trains
815-353-7668 Winchester Pre '64 Rifles and Shot guns, Belgium Brownings and Old Colts. FFL license. 815-338-4731
ISLAND LAKE
6126 Northwest Hwy (Next to Jewel, Rt 14 & Main 815-455-5479
27614 N. Walnut Dr. Fri & Sat 9-4
House is packed with 50 years of treasures, antique furniture, collectibles, mid century modern décor. See list & pics at: www.AgapeEstateSales.com
ALLI 6 month old female Dilute Calico DSH I know what other people say about me... and I like it. They say I'm beautiful from every angle. Why not see for yourself? www.helpingpaws.net 815-338-4400 Complete starter fish tank all accessories included $70 815-404-9765
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3705 W. ELM SAT & SUN 8-5 Spaces Start As Low As $10 815-363-FLEA (3532)
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Eight (8) drawer tool cabin. New in boxes, $200 847-639-1101
100%, Welder 250 AMP AC/DC. Excellent condition! $3,500. 815-338-3474 Neumatic framing nailer, Bostitch w/ 10 cases of 8D sheating nails. $300/obo or possible trade 708-363-2004
SANTA SUIT ~ DELUXE
Includes belt, wig, beard and boot toppers, new, never used, $50. 815-575-0713
Air Matress – King. Coleman. Used once-pump and all. $35.00 815-206-3038 anytime.
Craftsman Chest On Chest
Generator/Welder, 1100 Watts
CHRISTMAS DISHES NIKKO, 28 plates, cups and saucers, $225. 847-854-7980
Steel Cabinet
NECKLACE - Cubic zirconia necklace never out of the box. 4.50 carat weight with sterling silver setting and 16 inch sterling silver chain. Original $300 price tag still attached. $150. 815-540-4064
CEDAR BRIDGE 6' Long x 3' wide, $400. 815-356-0329 or 815-378-9594
MISS KITTY 2 year old female Black DSH Sometimes I'm anxious about my future, but usually I'm excited about what's in store for me. Now is the perfect time to meet. www.helpingpaws.net 815-338-4400
TOILET ~ GERBER White, 1.6GPF. $20. 847-802-4949 VHS Movies ~ About 50 Movies from classic to martial arts to action. $25/obo, Woodstock. 630-815-9581 WATER PURIFICATION SYSTEM EdenPURE Aqua 2000, brand new still in box, sits on counter and hooks to kitchen faucet. Sells for $100, asking $50. 815-363-8974
21X36x27, 2 doors, lexan top. Very nice, $60. 815-459-7485
Desk ~ Wood
MINERALS- FOSSILS Meteorites, Gemstones, Amethyst, Roman Coins, Dinosaur Teeth, Birthstones, Quartz, Amber + more. $2 on up. 500+ specimens! East State Antique Mall: 5411 East State St., Rockford. 10am-7pm 7 days/week. AND a case at the Volo Antique Mall III - 7 days a week 10am-5pm
Hand Mirrors
2 brass, 1 plastic very old and nice 3/$50. 815-459-7485
Exercise weight machine Joe Wieder Smith Machine. $150. Todd 708-497-8639 anytime
COUCH ~ 3 CUSHION
Upright Freezer ~ Frigidaire
815-814-1964
A-1 AUTO
815-382-2455
Silver Fox Fur Ladies' Wrap.
Baseball Cards '12 Topps Stars & Inserts. 130+ cards. Book price $200/Asking $99. 815-338-4829
815-814-1224
$100.
PICTURE FRAMES - Large lot of photo picture frames in very good / like new condition size 8x10. $50. 815-363-8559 SATCHEL PURSE - Lg Vinyl Brown / Khaki W Cargo Pant Pockets. 18" W x 14" H. Black lining w/ pockets of same material. $35. McHenry 815-236-1747
Baseball Cards '08 Topps Heritage. 600+ cards. Book price $150. Asking $50. 815-338-4829
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Car Seat Britax Marathon
INFANT SWING and CARSEAT with 2 pods in excellent shape. $85. 815-900-1183 WINTER JACKET - Carters Girls 3-in1 - Size 5/6, super cute navy with colorful polka dots. Inner fleece jacket comes out for wear alone. We love these coats for just that reason! NEW, never worn. $25. 815-477-9023
$30/ea. 815-455-3555
Will pay extra for Honda, Toyota & Nissan
or
ANGEL DRESS UP PLAY - So sweet girls size medium 2-3T pure white guardian angel dress fully lined with faux fur on collar, sleeves and hemline, includes wings and headpiece. New with tags, never worn. $15. 815-477-9023
MINK WRAPS (3)
Mink Jacket. Ladies' Size Sm/Med. $50. 815-455-3555
$80
Tires (4) Monster Mudders, 44's fit rim 12x16.5 tire is 18.5x44. $400 815-356-0329 or 815-378-9594
TOOL BOX - Antique Refinished Pine 28-1/2" x 13" x 8-3/4" w/ 7 sectioned drawer & brass latch dowel carrying handle. $145. McHenry. 815-236-1747 Y2K Collectibles. Sealed product and rare publications. Price for teachers, $50/obo. Woodstock 630-815-9581
Crib Mattress. Like New. $10 847-409-6477 INFANT CARRIER - Graco, with cozy cover, all in excellent condition. $40. 815-363-8974
Women's Lambs skin leather jacket by Worthington size Medium. Great condition! $75. 815-363-8559
LIKE NEW! Only on vehicle for 2 mo, 5 lug, 16' aluminum. $350. 815-790-3518
Recently valued to $700-$1500. Asking $395/obo, Woodstock 630-815-9581 Steel Wheels (2) Matching Pairs Spoke wheels, 48”D, off of horse drawn farm implements, $140/pr. 815-701-2076 TELEPHONE DESK - Vintage telephone desk painted in a pretty red, quite charming! Comes with matching chair, could also be used as a desk, night stand or side table, excellent. $145. 815-477-9023
BOWFLEX ULTIMATE – Exercise machine. $2700 new, must sell. $350/obo. 815-307-2479
ERMA 2 year old female Boston/Beagle A bright smile goes a long way. Not only does it warm others, but it also makes me feel happy, bright and warm. SMILE everybody. www.helpingpaws.net 815-338-4400 Having a Birthday, Anniversary, Graduation or Event Coming Up? Share It With Everyone by Placing a HAPPY AD!
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