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Health shift under way A peek over the ‘cliff’s’ edge Providers prepare as Obamacare continues to unfold

All you need to know about the fiscal cliff, but were afraid to ask

By KEVIN P. CRAVER kcraver@shawmedia.com

Josh Peckler – jpeckler@shawmedia.com

Art Wiederin talks about how the new Affordable Care Act will impact the way he uses healthcare in the United States.

By EMILY K. COLEMAN ecoleman@shawmedia.com

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rt Wiederin spends his days sitting in the lobby of Fox Point Independent and Assisted Living in McHenry, talking to other residents, teasing staff, and watching various health professionals come and go.

At 82, Wiederin has a lot of experience with the health care system, but he hasn’t noticed any changes over the past few years as the different provi-

“I’m going to say right up front that I don’t understand it all. My whole feeling is that health care needs, from top to bottom, needs revamping.

I think the system is in bad shape.”

Art Wiederin sions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act – the federal health care reform that is sometimes fondly, and more often disparagingly, referred to as Obamacare – began to

take effect.

“I’m going to say right up front that I don’t understand it all,” Wiederin said. “My whole feeling is that health care needs, from top to bottom,

needs revamping. I think the system is in bad shape.”

The 2010 law has three goals, said Ellen First, a senior consultant with Health Dimensions Group, which is a health care consulting firm working with Hearthstone Communities in Woodstock.

They are, she said, to improve the population’s overall health, to encourage services to be provided in a efficient and cost-effective way, and

See SHIFT, page A10

With the Nov. 6 election yesterday’s news, the political story now dominating the headlines is the Dec. 31 deadline to avoid driving over the fiscal cliff.

So just what is the fiscal cliff, and what will happen to us if we go over it?

The short answer to the first question is that the fiscal cliff is a combination of federal budget cuts and tax increases that are set to automatically take effect Jan. 1 unless President Barack Obama and House Republicans can reach a compromise.

As for the second question – if we drive off the cliff – imagine the economic recovery is the car, and the American people are Thelma and Louise.

The following is a list of questions about the fiscal cliff

Voice your opinion Do you think a “fiscal cliff” deal will be reached by Jan. 1? Vote online at NWHerald. com.

Inside Democrats push for jobless benefits in “fiscal cliff” deal. PAGE A4

See EDGE, page A9

Judge orders Quinn administration to honor contract raises State must pay what it can now, and pay rest once state has funds

By JOHN O’CONNOR The Associated Press SPRINGFIELD – Gov. Pat Quinn’s administration must pay $60 million in wage increases promised last year to state workers – eventually – a Cook County judge has ruled.

Circuit Judge Richard Billik Jr. decreed in an order made public Friday that regardless of whether the state budget has enough money, Quinn can’t renege on contractual pay hikes negotiated with the American Federation of State, County and Mu-

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nicipal Employees.

The state must pay what it can now, and cough up the rest of it when funds become available – at 7 percent interest, Billik said.

A s p o k e s - Gov. Pat m a n s a i d a Quinn Quinn administration appeal is likely. It would continue a tussle between the Democratic gov-

ernor and the state’s most powerful labor force. It has spilled over into contentious contract talks, bitter feelings over Quinn’s plans to close state facilities to save money and a massive lobbying effort against his desire to cut costs associated with retirement benefits.

Quinn refused to pay about 40,000 AFSCME employees raises beginning in July 2011 under a contract negotiated by his predecessor. He argued

the Legislature hadn’t appropriated money to pay the increases, worth about $75 million. As money became available last year, he released it, so some state agency workers received their raises.

About 30,000 employees continue to take home lighterthan-expected paychecks.

“As the governor has said repeatedly, the state cannot pay money it does not have the appropriation authority to spend,” Quinn budget spokes-

See RAISES, page A9

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man Abdon Pallasch said. He said Quinn’s staff would consider an appeal after seeing Billik’s written order.

Billik ordered the administration in August to hold back $42 million in money not yet earmarked for other bills in case he ultimately sided with the union. Of that, $18 million was from general revenue originally destined for personnel salaries.

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Why are taxpayers last to know?

Would you agree to pay for a service without fully understanding what exactly you were buying?

Say, for example, that you wanted to change from cable TV to satellite. You called up a satellite provider and told them you were thinking about switching.

They told you they would install your satellite and have your service activated in a couple of weeks. But they wouldn’t tell you what it was going to cost, or what channels you were going to receive, until it was up and running.

Would you hang up and never call that provider again?

Unfortunately, taxpayers in Carpentersville-based School District 300 can’t just hang up on the district.

They’re going to be paying for a new teachers’ contract, the details of which they won’t know until the ink already is dry.

After a one-day teachers’ strike last week, LEAD 300 and the district’s negotiating team agreed to terms on a new three-year deal. Taxpayers were told the terms of the district’s final offer before the strike – details that included hiring 60 additional teachers to reduce class sizes and salary increases of 3 percent, 2 percent and 3 percent over the three years. But they aren’t being told details of the tentative agreement and won’t be until after it’s ratified by both the union and the school board, likely by Dec. 18.

The new teacher hires and 8 percent in raises were going to cost the district – i.e., taxpayers – an additional $15.5 million over three years and lead to a deficit-spending situation. How much more – we all know it is not going to be less – is the negotiated deal going to cost?

Taxpayers are significant stakeholders in the school district, too. They should know the details of the contract before both the teachers and the school board vote on it.

They are paying for the contract.

They should know now what they will be paying for and have an opportunity to voice their opinion before any votes are cast.

But in our upside-down world that is Illinois bureaucracy, those with so much at stake are the last to know.

VIEWS Dan McCaleb That’s not right. The school district should release the contract terms immediately.

• • • Words matter: We reported last week that significant enrollment declines at Crystal Lake-based School District 47 has the school board considering closing a school or two at some point in the future. At the same time, the Crystal Lake Public Library has for years wanted more space, and earlier this year pitched a $28 million expansion project at its current location at 126 Paddock St. near downtown Crystal Lake.

Taxpayers are reluctant to pay for such an expensive expansion, so the library will consider all other options.

An initial story that we published online and in print on Thursday said that the school district would consider “offering” a school to the library if the school board decided that closing one or more schools was necessary.

Sloppiness on the part of Northwest Herald editors, including me, led to a follow-up story and editorial on Friday that changed “offer” to “donate.”

Donating a school never was part of the discussion at Wednesday’s special school board meeting, District 47 officials emphasized with me on Friday.

These discussions are extremely preliminary. If District 47 decides that closing a school is necessary, all of the details of any potential transfer of a school to the library needs to be worked out.

Essentially, selling a school property would be considered.

My apologies for any confusion we created over our imprecise use of words in covering this story.

• • • More on D-47: Though all this is in the early stages and might end up going nowhere, I fully support these two separate governing bodies working together for the greater public good.

My two children attend District 47 schools – one is at South Elementary and one is at Lundahl Middle School.

I’d be disappointed if either school was closed. But I also understand the economics of it, and want District 47 to be fiscally responsible. If declining enrollment necessitates closing a school, so be it.

Sometimes I think children adapt much better and more quickly to change than adults do. I’m certain our kids’ education won’t suffer if a District 47 school were to close for appropriate reasons.

If that’s the case and the decision can help out the library (and taxpayers), all the better.

• • • Hyperlocal, from afar: The Chicago Tribune announced last week that it was resuming its relationship with Journatic, the pseudo-reporting service that uses cheap labor in places such as the Philippines to scrape local websites for listings and other news content.

The Tribune was embarrassed several months ago when it was revealed that some of the Journatic content it published on its TribLocal websites and in its weekly TribLocal print editions included plagiarized stories and stories with fake bylines using “Americansounding” names. This after the Chicago-based media company fired more than a dozen locally based reporters to contract with Journatic.

After the revelation, the Tribune temporarily stopped using Journatic content. Now it’s back, though on a more limited basis.

Residents interested in local news and information will have to make their own decisions on where to get that content.

Good luck getting someone from Journatic on the phone, though, if you have a question about something in TribLocal.

If you have a question about anything in the Northwest Herald, well, our reporters and editors work here and live here. We’re easily accessible.

As a matter of fact, my contact information begins now ...

• Dan McCaleb is senior editor of the Northwest Herald. He can be reached at 815-526-4603, or by email at dmccaleb@ shawmedia.com. Follow him on Twitter at @NWHEditor.

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Anger at radio station over royal hoax

8NEWS SHOWS ABC’s “This Week” – Sens.

Tom Coburn, R-Okla., and Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich.; Reps. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, and Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz.

NBC’s “Meet the Press” – Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif.

CBS’ “Face the Nation” – Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles, leaders of President Barack Obama’s now-defunct deficit commission; Mayor Cory Booker of Newark, N.J. CNN’s “State of the Union” – Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund; Reps. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., and Tom Cole, R-Okla.

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Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Bob Corker, R-Tenn.; Michael Oren, Israel’s ambassador to the U.S.

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By SYLVIA HUI The Associated Press LONDON – It started out as a joke, but ended in tragedy.

The sudden death of a nurse who unwittingly accepted a prank call to a London hospital about Prince William’s pregnant wife Kate has shocked Britain and Australia, and sparked an angry backlash Saturday from some who argue the DJs who carried out the hoax should be held responsible.

At first, the call by two irreverent Australian DJs posing as royals was picked up by news outlets around the world as an amusing anecdote about the royal pregnancy. Some complained about the invasion of privacy, the hospital was embarrassed, and the radio presenters sheepishly apologized.

But the prank took a dark twist Friday with the death of nurse Jacintha Saldanha, a 46-year-old mother of two, three days after she took the hoax call. Police have not yet

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King Edward VII’s Hospital, where the former Kate Middleton was being treated for acute morning sickness this week, wrote a stronglyworded letter to the 2DayFM radio station’s parent com-

pany Southern Cross Austereo, condemning the “truly appalling” hoax and urging it to take steps to ensure such an incident would never happen again.

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The hospital did not comment when asked whether it believed the prank call had directly caused Saldanha’s death, only saying that the protest letter spoke for itself.

DJs Mel Grieg and Michael Christian, who apologized for the prank on Tuesday, took down their Twitter accounts after they were bombarded by thousands of abusive comments. Rhys Holleran, CEO of Southern Cross Austereo, said the pair have been offered counseling and were taken off the air indefinitely.

No one could have foreseen the tragic consequences of the prank, he stressed.

“I spoke to both presenters early this morning and it’s fair to say they’re completely shattered,” Holleran told reporters on Saturday.

“These people aren’t machines, they’re human beings,” he said. “We’re all affected by this.”

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South Sudanese teens at center of recruiting controversy

By CARLA K. JOHNSON The Associated Press BATAVIA – Four young men from war-ravaged South Sudan tower above their teachers and fellow students on the pastoral grounds of a century-old school in suburban Chicago.

Eighteen months after arriving – and just as they are beginning to feel at home – these athletes find themselves at center court in a controversy over high school sports recruiting as officials unravel exactly how they came to tiny Mooseheart High School.

The Illinois High School Association board will consider Monday whether the three basketball players and one cross-country runner are ineligible to compete for the Red Ramblers, after the coach of a rival school’s basketball team raised questions.

The administrators at Mooseheart, a small, privately funded school 35 miles west of Chicago, say they accepted the students as part of a long tradition of helping troubled and poor youth. But the executive director of IHSA, which governs the state’s interscholastic sports, determined that the school broke a prohibition on high school recruiting when it accepted the teenagers from A-HOPE, an Indiana-based foundation that paid for the athletes to come to the United States and whose founder has drawn NCAA scrutiny.

Mooseheart appealed the preliminary ruling, and a judge allowed 6-foot-7-inch Mangisto Deng, 6-feet-8-inch Makur Puou, and 7-footer Akim Nyang to play at least one more game Wednesday – a 58-51 loss to Hinckley-Big Rock, the school that raised questions. It dropped the Red

Ramblers to a 3-3 record.

But the four athletes – all juniors – worry about the IHSA’s final decision, and what it will mean for their dreams of attending college on sports scholarships, earning degrees and returning to help Sudan.

In an interview with The Associated Press on Friday at one of the school’s homelike residence halls, they said sport is their ticket to that future.

“We don’t have family here. Nobody’s going to pay for our college,” said Deng, who wore an Indiana University sweatshirt and jeans.

“That’s why we’re working hard in the sport so we can go to college and pay for our scholarships.”

Mooseheart’s executive director Scott Hart said the student-athletes at the Class 1A have garnered interest from a few mid-major colleges, such

Friday to spend the rest of his life in prison after his initial life sentence was tossed on a procedural glitch.

A federal judge rejected former Gallatin County Sheriff Raymond Martin’s plea for mercy and sentenced him to more two life terms in a drug-trafficking case where Martin allegedly plotted to have witnesses killed.

Before he was sentenced, Martin asked for a chance at freedom.

Martin’s original sentence, imposed two years ago, was identical – two life terms plus ten years. But it was thrown out in August by the Chicago-based 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals over how sentencing guidelines were applied.

Martin – a Democrat who had been re-elected sheriff four times – was convicted in 2010, after witnesses testified that he was on duty when he supplied a drug dealer with marijuana stolen from

a department evidence locker.

After he was jailed, he allegedly plotted to have two potential witnesses assaulted or possibly killed, though neither was harmed because the would-be hitmen got cold feet and told authorities.

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Hultgren’s district includes parts of McHenry County and the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia.

The Winfield Republican said in a statement Friday the reach of national laboratories can be seen in all sectors of the economy.

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Democrats push for jobless benefits in ‘fiscal cliff ’ deal

By SAM HANANEL The Associated Press WASHINGTON – Hovering in the background of the “fiscal cliff” debate is the prospect of 2 million people losing their unemployment benefits four days after Christmas.

“This is the real cliff,” said Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I. He’s been leading the effort to include another extension of benefits for the long-term unemployed in any deal to avert looming tax increases and massive spending cuts in January.

“Many of these people are struggling to pay mortgages, to provide education for their children,” Reed said this past week as President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, rejected each other’s opening offers for a deficit deal.

Emergency jobless benefits for about 2.1 million people out of work more than six months will cease Dec. 29, and 1 million more will lose them over the next three months if Congress doesn’t extend the assistance again.

Since the collapse of the economy in 2008, the government has poured $520 billion – an amount equal to about half its annual deficit in recent years – into unemployment benefit extensions.

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“The White House has made it clear that it wants an extension,” said Michigan Rep. Sander Levin, the top Democrat on the House Ways and Means Committee.

Republicans have been relatively quiet on the issue lately.

They demanded and won savings elsewhere to offset the cost of this year’s extension, requiring the government to sell some

of its broadcasting airwaves and making newly hired federal workers contribute more toward their pensions.

Boehner did not include jobless benefits in his counteroffer response this past week to Obama’s call for $1.6 trillion in new taxes over the next decade, including raising the top marginal rates for the highest-paid 2 percent.

Long-term unemployment remains a persistent problem. About 5 million people have been out of work for six months or more, according to the Bureau of labor Statistics.

That’s about 40 percent of all unemployed workers.

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Several lawmakers wrote the department after the new rules went into effect in September saying kids aren’t getting enough to eat.

School administrators also complained, saying set maximums on grains and meats are too limiting as they try to plan daily meals.

“This flexibility is being provided to allow more time for the development of products that fit within the new standards while granting schools additional weekly menu planning options to help ensure that children receive a wholesome, nutritious meal every day of the week,” Vilsack said in a letter to Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D.

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DOHA, Qatar – Seeking to control global warming, nearly 200 countries agreed Saturday to extend the Kyoto Protocol, a treaty that limits the greenhouse gas output of some rich countries, but will only cover about 15 percent of global emissions.

The United States is not a signatory to the treaty.

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Oily foods are eaten to commemorate the oil miracle, hence the ubiquitous fried doughnuts and potato pancakes, known as latkes.

In Israel, children play with four-sided spinning tops, or dreidels, decorated with the letters that form the acronym “A great miracle happened here.” Outside of Israel, the saying is “A great miracle happened there.” Israeli students get time off from school for the holiday, when families gather each night to light the candles, eat and exchange gifts.

Hanukkah – which means dedication – is one of the most popular holidays in Israel,

and has a high rate of observance.

In Ohio, the first public candle lighting on Saturday was by Holocaust survivor Abe Weinrib, who turns 100 next week. Weinrib, who lit the first candle on a 13-foot public menorah at Easton Town Center in Columbus, said his biggest triumph was surviving the Holocaust, the Nazi campaign to eliminate Jews in Europe.

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JERUSALEM – Jews around the world ushered in the eight-day Hanukkah festival Saturday evening, lighting the first candles of ceremonial lamps that symbolize triumph over oppression.

In Israel, families gathered after sundown for the lighting, eating traditional snacks of potato pancakes and doughnuts and exchanging gifts.

Local officials lit candles set up in public places, while families displayed the ninecandle lamps, called menorahs, in their windows or in special windproof glass boxes outside.

Hanukkah, also known as the festival of lights, commemorates the Jewish uprising in the second century B.C. against the Greek-Syrian kingdom, which had tried to impose its culture on Jews and adorn the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem with statues of Greek gods.

The holiday lasts eight days because, according to tradition, when the Jews rededicated the Temple in Jerusalem, a single vial of oil, enough for one day, burned miraculously for eight.

For many Jewish people, the holiday symbolizes the triumph of good over evil.

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The package of decisions also included vague promises of financing to help poor countries cope with climate change, and an affirmation of a previous decision to adopt a new global climate pact by 2015.

Though expectations were low for the two-week conference in Doha, many developing countries rejected the deal as insufficient to put the world on track to fight the rising temperatures that are shifting weather patterns, melting glaciers and raising sea levels.

Some Pacific island nations see this as a threat to their existence.

“This is not where we wanted to be at the end of the meeting, I assure you,” said Nauru Foreign Minister Kieren Keke, who leads an alliance of small island states.

The two-decade-old U.N. climate talks have so far failed in their goal of reducing the carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions that a vast majority of scientists say are warming the planet.

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By HAMZA HENDAWI and SARAH EL DEEB The Associated Press CAIRO – Egypt’s powerful military, sidelined last summer by the newly elected Islamist president, edged back Saturday into a political fray boiling over with tensions between secular forces and a government determined to pass a constitution enshrining a central role for religion.

A military statement warning of “disastrous” consequences should the standoff continue was widely interpreted as pushing President Mohammed Morsi to compromise and meet the opposition halfway over a draft constitution and the near-absolute powers he gave himself.

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Egyptian presidential guards rest Saturday as protesters opposed to Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi gather outside the palace in Cairo. doxical and tacit support, at least initially, of some pro-democracy activists mortified by the authoritarian bent and Islamist ambitions of the freely elected Muslim Brotherhood-backed government.

Egypt’s military, which had been the nation’s de facto ruler since army officers seized power in a 1952 coup, remains the country’s most powerful institution.

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file since Morsi ordered the retirement of its top two officers in August and canceled a constitutional declaration that gave it legislative powers when parliament’s lawmaking chamber was dissolved by a court ruling.

The carefully worded statement appeared designed in part to show the military’s growing impatience with the deepening political crisis pitting Morsi and his Islamist supporters against secular and liberal forces, including minority Christians.

It said dialogue was the “best and only” way to overcome the nation’s deepening conflict. “Anything other than that [dialogue] will force us into a dark tunnel with disastrous consequences; something that we won’t allow,” it warned. “Failing to reach a consensus,” is in the interest of neither side, it added.

8WORLD BRIEFS Syrian rebels get new leadership in bid to unite

BEIRUT – Rebel commanders from across Syria have joined forces under a united command they hope will increase coordination between diverse fighting groups and streamline the pathway for arms essential to their struggle against President Bashar Assad.

While many of the brigades involved in the fighting are decidedly Islamist in outlook and some have boasted about executing captured soldiers, two of the most extreme groups fighting in Syria were not invited to the rebel meeting in Turkey or included in the new council – a move that could encourage Western support.

Disorganization has bedeviled Syria’s rebel movement since its birth late last year, when some protesters gave up on peaceful means to bring

down Assad’s regime and took up arms, forming the base of what became the Free Syrian Army.

Karzai: Afghan spy chief bomber from Pakistan

KABUL, Afghanistan – Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Saturday that the recent assassination attempt on the country’s intelligence chief was planned in Pakistan, but vowed it would not stop him from seeking Islamabad’s help in coaxing militants to the negotiating table.

The attack, carried out by a suicide bomber posing as a peace messenger, severely wounded Asadullah Khalid, dealing a setback to fragile efforts to reconcile with the Taliban and find a political resolution to the war in Afghanistan, now in its 12th year.

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automatic cuts were put in place as an incentive for the supercommittee to reach an agreement. But the supercommittee failed.

Continued from page A1 and its potential impact.

What is the fiscal cliff?

So what does this mean to me?

The fiscal cliff, a term coined by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, is a combination of $500 billion in tax increases and spending cuts over the next 10 years starting in 2013.

The tax increases come because of the scheduled expiration of the Bush-era tax cuts and the payroll tax cut enacted in 2010 under Obama, totaling about $400 billion, as well as a number of smaller tax cuts for people and businesses.

The cliff includes $100 billion in automatic federal budget cuts, such as a 9 percent cut in the defense budget, and a reduction of Medicare payments to doctors.

Where did these automatic cuts come from?

It means taxes will go up for everyone without a deal.

The nonpartisan Tax Policy Center estimates that the average middle-class taxpayer will pay $2,000 more a year.

Taxpayers in the bottom 20 percent would pay about $400 more, while people in the top 1 percent would pay $121,000 more, according to estimates.

Wealthy Americans would see the preferential rate on capital gains rise from 15 percent to 20 percent, and the number of Americans subject to the alternative minimum tax would skyrocket from 4 million now to more than 30 million.

What does it mean for the economy?

The cuts, called sequestration, came from the fierce battle between President Obama and the GOP House majority over raising the debt ceiling, which sets the maximum amount the federal government can borrow.

An agreement was made to allow the debt ceiling to be increased, preventing a default on the U.S. government’s payments, while a bipartisan congressional “supercommittee” hammered out a budget deal to help address the deficit. The

A lot.

The Congressional Budget Office projects that going over the fiscal cliff could plunge the economy back into recession, with a contraction in the first half of 2013 and a stabilization in the second half.

The CBO estimates that annual economic growth in following years would be limited to half of 1 percent.

Earlier this year, the CBO also projected that the unemployment rate would again rise above 9 percent.

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Would all of this happen right away if the deadline comes and goes?

No, but the CBO estimates the damage will start after a few weeks if the spending cuts and tax increases stay in place.

For example, private companies whose government contracts run afoul of budget cuts would start laying off workers.

As for households, their discretionary spending would likely start falling off in earnest come April, when people do their taxes and see how much more they’re paying.

Both sides can’t compromise? What a surprise. What is it this time?

The biggest sticking point is the Bush tax cuts. President Obama, who already has extended them once, wants to allow them to expire for the wealthiest taxpayers in the top two tax brackets.

Republicans, led by House Speaker John Boehner, say that they will not allow that to happen.

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Who gets the blame if we drive over the cliff?

Polls suggest the Republicans would take the brunt of it. A post-election poll by the Washington Post and the Pew Research Center concluded that 53 percent of respondents would blame the GOP, compared with 29 percent blaming Obama.

A CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll later in November had 45 percent blaming Republicans compared to 34 percent for President Obama.

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In a statement, AFSCME tempered its satisfaction by acknowledging the ruling was not an “unconditional victory.”

That’s because Billik affirmed his decision last July that Quinn isn’t required to pay money that hadn’t been appropriated. Billik asked an arbitrator, whose earlier nonbinding decision favored the union, to revisit the case with an eye toward the state’s ability to pay. But the arbitrator refused, putting the issue back in the judge’s lap.

Billik’s verbal order issued Friday included a kind of IOU: Pay what’s available now, and reimburse the rest when it’s available, plus 7 percent interest.

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In the four-year contract that expired June 30, AFSCME members were due a 4 percent increase in July 2011. But earlier, the union agreed to delay 2 percent of that until January of this year because of the state’s budget problems. The contract called for another 1.25 percent increase Jan. 1, but Quinn has withheld the entire 5.25 percent.

Negotiations over a new contract have stalled, so the pact’s terms remain in effect even though the administration took the mostly symbolic step of canceling it late last month. Officials argued that the union had not budged on its position while the state had moved from demanding wage cuts to a wage freeze.

AFSCME spokesman Anders Lindall said Friday the union has offered to freeze wages for the first year of a proposed three-year deal, but continues to oppose “unaffordable” cost proposals by the administration related to health insurance.

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But even professionals such as First still are trying to figure out how this all will work, especially because provisions such as state insurance exchanges haven’t been created yet.

Insurance exchanges are designed to make the insurance market more competitive and transparent, according to a federal website dedicated to the law and health care more generally.

States don’t have to have their exchanges up and running until 2014, and some states, Illinois included, plan on partnering with the federal government for their first year.

Illinois’ General Assembly hasn’t yet passed legislation setting up a financing mechanism or a governing board, said Mike Claffey, a spokesman for the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services.

Several departments have been laying the groundwork, though, for more than two years, and the General Assembly created a 12-member legislative study committee to look at the issue.

But in the meantime, before the exchange is up and running and the best known and most controversial provision – a requirement that most people buy insurance or pay a penalty – kicks in, other portions of the law gradually are taking effect.

Hospitals, doctors and third-party providers have been preparing.

Hearthstone Communities has seen its focus shift from only long-term residential facilities to include more rehab or transitional services, said its chief financial officer, Ric Olson.

It’s a trend that started before the implementation of the Affordable Care Act but has been accelerated because of it, First said. Hearthstone also has had to focus on reducing the number of people readmitted to the hospital, Olson said.

Under a provision that went into effect Oct. 1, Medicare payments are linked to hospital performance in an effort to encourage them to improve quality of care. A similar provision for doctors will go into effect in 2015.

“Research has shown that where our health care breaks down is in those transitions of care, transitions from the hospital to the post-acute provider, transitions from the post-acute provider to home care,” First said. “There’s been a lot of work, specifically in the last five to 10 years, in creating better lines of communication at those transitions of care.”

Hospitals, such as those in Centegra Health System, also are putting more of an emphasis on these transition times and keeping people healthier in general, said Susan Milford, Centegra’s senior vice

Two provisions of the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, went into effect in October: • A program that ties Medicare payments to hospital performance.

Hospitals are required to track and report measures connected to heart attacks, heart failure, pneumonia, surgical care, infections contracted in the hospital and patients’ perception of care.

• Regulations that encourage hospitals to standardize billing and adopt electronic medical records.

What’s coming Some of the law’s biggest provisions have yet to implemented, but 2013 is a relatively light year in terms of changes. The three parts that go into effect at the beginning of the year are: • New federal funding to Medicaid programs that cover preventive services at little or no cost.

• Requirements that states pay doctors 100 percent of Medicare payment rates in 2013 and 2014 for primary care services. The increase will be paid for with federal funds.

• The creation of a pilot program to encourage “bundling.” Under the proposed system, doctors, hospitals and other providers will be paid a flat rate for episode of care instead of for each individual test or visit. president of strategy and development.

This year, Centegra implemented its WellBridge program, through which doctors can prescribe exercise to their patients.

Long before the law went into effect, Centegra opened two HealthBridge Fitness centers, one in Crystal Lake about 15 years ago and another in Huntley in 2008. Besides exercise programs, the centers also offer nutrition guidance.

The new program ties those centers with doctors’ recommendations, Milford said.

“The whole idea is that you are returning these patients to a healthier and better quality of life,” she said.

Like other health care providers, Centegra, guided by a new vice president of clinical effectiveness, is still researching the portions of the Affordable Care Act to come, including bundled payments for a type of care.

Under the bundled payments system, there would be, for example, one care path and price for a knee replacement instead of someone being charged for each particular test and visit.

In May, a new electronic medical records system was implemented to allow the different Centegra clinics and facilities to exchange records, Milford said.

“I think for all it is, it’s a good direction for health care to be going because it’s putting the patient at the center, just trying to keep them healthy and well, and when they do get sick, it’s delineated, evidence-based, quality way where we’re incentivized on outcome,” she said.

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Opinion

John Rung Publisher

Dan McCaleb Senior Editor

Sunday, December 9, 2012 • Page A11 • Northwest Herald • NWHerald.com 8OUR VIEW

Leading from the middle It’s mid-December and we still have no meaningful pension reform package proposed by leadership in Springfield. Since House Speaker Mike Madigan, and to a lesser extent Gov. Pat Quinn, are in charge, that could be a blessing in disguise.

It’s also a disgrace, as the pension deficit grows each day. Now it’s somewhere in the neighborhood of $94 billion. The deficit growth would make a Powerball jackpot winner blush while Quinn and Democratic leaders fiddle.

Last week, it took a group of about two dozen rank-and-file members of the General Assembly to get some kind of proposal on the table to deal with the crippling financial crisis. While there may be flaws in the proposal, at least they aren’t sitting idly by, waiting for legislative leadership to guide them.

While Democrats have super-majorities in both state houses, not all Democrats have the same constituents. Not all problems in the suburbs are equal in rural counties or in Chicago.

Many downstate representatives and suburban GOP legislators have similar issues with pension reform proposals that rely heavily on shifting the pension burden from the state to local school districts that suburban GOP legislators have.

Besides shifting the burden to local taxing bodies, last week’s proposal brings up needed reforms, such as reducing the cost of living adjustments for retirees, raising retirement ages, and requiring greater employee contributions to the pension systems.

McHenry County lawmakers say the burden shift is a deal killer, but we can’t afford to be so dismissive now. Perhaps a gradual shift is something that would satisfy the varied interests.

There also are concerns about whether cutting COLA increases would survive court challenges since the state Constitution contains language that pension benefits “shall not be diminished or impaired.”

While it’s responsible for legislators to be certain that they aren’t approving bad laws, some drastic measures need to be taken. Short of doing nothing, it might be worth a court challenge to write a better law. Voters might even be willing to change the Constitution.

All ideas should be on the table. What about taxing pension benefits? Taxpayers paid for the salaries all along, why is it so unreasonable that pension recipients pay taxes on their benefits like anyone else?

No one is going to like every part of a package that gets the state out of a $94 billion hole – neither taxpayers nor pension recipients.

But if the General Assembly can figure out a way to cram an unpopular 67 percent income tax increase down our throats during a lame duck session, surely it can pass pension reform.

8SKETCH VIEW

8IT’S YOUR WRITE Cellphone dependency

To the Editor: Obsessive Cellphone Dependency, or OCD ... what is with everyone enslaving themselves to their cellphone? Seems folks have allowed the cellphone to be their master, allowing even a possible wrong number to stop what they are pursuing to answer.

Recall the Pavlov Dog experiment, every time the bell rang ...

We have become so afraid/incapable of personal conversation that there are colleges that offer courses on personal communication (i.e. talking face to face to one another).

That is scary.

I once witnessed a family of five sitting in a restaurant, each on their respective cellphone and not talking to one another! Is this our brave new world?

Albert Einstein was right when he declared, “I fear the day that

technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.” Was Einstein prescient?

Frank Musial McHenry

Pulling together

To the Editor: I was pleased to see our town recognized for the development of the new Harvard Food Pantry and Senior Center. It certainly was a community pulling together to fulfill a need.

Father Paul White of St. Joseph Catholic Church recognized the need of space and that the money spent on high rent, utilities and maintenance could be put to better use. Working with the city, the new building was dedicated in October 2011.

Father Paul has moved on now as the new pastor of Church Of The

How to sound off We welcome original letters on public issues.

Letters must include the author’s full name, home address and day and evening telephone numbers.

We limit letters to 250 words and one published letter every 30 days. All letters are subject to

Holy Apostles Parish in McHenry.

We wish him well; we miss him.

We know he probably has some great ideas for his new parish.

Tom Boltz Harvard

Congrats, Kiwanis

To the Editor: As a former resident of Crystal Lake and former member of both the original Kiwanis Club of Crystal Lake and the new Kiwanis Club, I

editing for length and clarity at the sole discretion of the editor.

Submit letters by: • E-mail: letters@nwherald.com • Mail: Northwest Herald “It’s Your Write” Box 250 Crystal Lake, IL 60039-0250

would like to extend my congratulations to the club for its efforts in the Santa Run held last weekend.

It’s another example of all of the good that Kiwanis and other organizations do in our communities. If you are a member of such an organization, thank you. If not, please consider joining in both the fun and the work done for the community.

Diane Horning Alton

Making a case for targeted killings in the war on terror ‘Gosh!’ says Roosevelt on death of Yamamoto – The New York Times, May 22, 1943 WASHINGTON – President Franklin Roosevelt was truly astonished when told by a reporter that Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto, architect of the Pearl Harbor attack, had been shot down by U.S. planes over a Pacific island after Americans decrypted Yamamoto’s flight plans.

FDR had encouraged this “targeted killing” – destroying a particular person of military importance – a phrase that has become familiar since Israel began doing this in 2000 in combating the second Palestinian intifada.

But was the downing of Yamamoto’s plane an “assassination”? If British commandos had succeeded in the plan to kill German Gen. Erwin Rommel in Libya in 1941, would that have been an assassination?

If President Ronald Reagan’s 1986 attack on military and intelligence targets in Libya, including one that Moammar Gaddafi sometimes used as a residence, had killed him, would that have been an assassina-

tion? What about the November 2001 CIA drone attack on a Kabul meeting of high-level al-Qaida leaders that missed Osama bin Laden but killed his military chief? An old executive order and a new technology give these questions urgent pertinence.

Executive Order 12333, issued

by Reagan in 1981, extended one promulgated by Gerald Ford in 1976 – in response to revelations about CIA attempts to assassinate Fidel Castro – and affirmed by Jimmy Carter. Order 12333 says: “No person employed by or acting on behalf of the United States Government shall engage in, or conspire to engage in, assassination.” What, then, of the Navy SEALs who killed bin Laden? The new technology is the armed drone, which can loiter over the suspected location of an important enemy person and, in conjunction with satellite imagery, deliver precision-guided munitions in a matter of minutes.

Fortunately, John Yoo of the Berkeley School of Law has written a lucid guide to the legal and moral calculus of combating terrorism by

Views George Will targeting significant enemy individuals.

In “Assassination or Targeted Killings After 9/11” (New York Law School Law Review, 2011/12) Yoo correctly notes that “precise attacks against individuals” have many precedents and “further the goals of the laws of war by eliminating the enemy and reducing harm to innocent civilians.” And he clarifies the compelling logic of using drones for targeted killings – attacking a specific person rather than a military unit or asset – in today’s “undefined war with a limitless battlefield.”

To be proper, any use of military force should be necessary, as discriminating as is practical, and proportional to the threat.

Waging war, says Yoo, is unlike administering criminal justice in one decisive particular. The criminal justice system is retrospective: it acts after a crime. A

nation attacked, as America was on 9/11, goes to war to prevent future injuries, which inevitably involves probabilities and guesses.

Today’s war is additionally complicated by the fact that, as Yoo says, America’s enemy “resembles a network, not a nation.” Its commanders and fighters do not wear uniforms; they hide among civilian populations and are not parts of a transparent command and control apparatus. Drones enable the U.S. military – which, regarding drones, includes the CIA; an important distinction has been blurred – to wield a technology especially potent against al-Qaida’s organization and tactics. All its leaders are, effectively, military, not civilian. Killing them serves the military purposes of demoralizing the enemy, preventing planning, sowing confusion and draining the reservoir of experience.

Most U.S. wars have been fought with military mass sustained by economic might. But as Yoo says, today’s war is against a diffuse enemy that has no territory to invade and no massed forces to crush. So

8SPEAK OUT

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“If you have a sickness that it will help, then I would say yes, because it would help their pain.”

“I don’t think it should be legal. ...

Once it’s legalized just medically, it will eventually lead up to legalizing all [uses].”

“I do. I think it’s far more safe than pharmaceutical drugs that are out now.”

Hillary Johnson Algonquin

Jake Kovac McHenry

Ashleigh Oranger Marengo

8THE FIRST AMENDMENT

Northwest Herald asked this same question on its Facebook page. At right are a couple of the responses.

the war cannot be won by producing more tanks, army divisions or naval forces.

The United States can win only by destroying al-Qaida’s “ability to function – by selectively killing or capturing its key members.”

After the terrorist bombings of two U.S. embassies in East Africa in 1998, the Bill Clinton administration launched cruise missiles against suspected terrorist camps in Afghanistan, hoping bin Laden was there. If the missiles had killed him, would this have been improper?

In March 2003, in the hours before the invasion of Iraq, the George W. Bush administration, thinking it knew where Saddam Hussein was, launched a cruise missile strike against one of his compounds.

Was it wrong to try to economize violence by decapitating his regime?

Would it have been morally preferable to attempt this by targeting, with heavy bombing, not a person but his neighborhood?

Surely not.

• George Will’s email address is georgewill@washpost.com.

“All for medicinal use ... only concern would be some doctors could trump up any excuse for its use while others might be very reluctant to prescribe it. Better yet to just legalize it and tax it.”

Robert Potter “No, it’s dangerous.”

Amanda Buhr

“I say just do it. I will tell you I’d rather smoke a joint over drinking any day.”

Nathan Woodall

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8COMMUNITY NEWS

calling for end to challenge Grafton Township Supervisor Linda Moore is calling for an end to a legal challenge to the candidacy of one of her 2013 primary opponents.

In a news release emailed Saturday, Moore said Huntley Village Trustee and former Grafton Administrator Pam Fender has a right to be on the February primary ballot.

“Mr. [Marty] Waitzman, I am asking you to have your supporters withdraw their objections to Ms. Fender’s rightful place on the ballot,” Moore said in the release.

Waitzman also is running for Grafton supervisor.

“It should be the voters, not attorneys that decide who should be the next supervisor,” Moore said.

A hearing is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Monday at the Huntley Park District Building.

Moore and Fender have been political enemies ever since the Grafton Township Board appointed Fender administrator and tried to strip Moore of many of her powers.

After a legal challenge, a judge sided with Moore and Fender was dismissed as administrator.

CL bar solves parking hurdle Rt. 14 business gets zoning panel nod after agreeing to lease spaces

By CHELSEA McDOUGALL mcdougall@shawmedia.com CRYSTAL LAKE – The Planning and Zoning Commission said a lack of parking along Route 14 should not stop the development of an upscale bar.

Adam Harjung wants to open a wine and cheese bar in the storefront

of the Jaster Building at 414 W. Virginia St. He also plans to take over Chez Pierre’s Creperie, which would be renamed Sweet Melissa’s. He got approval, by 8-1, for a special-use permit for the bar. Commissioner David Goss rejected the permit.

Harjung initially had asked the commission to reduce the number of required parking spaces from eight to

zero. However, he worked out a deal with nearby businesses to lease parking. Harjung secured nine spots in the Vogue Cleaners lot after the dry cleaning business closes at 5 p.m., and an additional five spots from a nearby medical supply company.

Neighbors near the Jaster Building had objected to the development because of a lack of available park-

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ing in the area. Even with the leases, neighbors still worry about overcrowding.

John Valus, who owns an apartment building at nearby 234 Pomeroy Ave., said the Buena Vista Mexican restaurant often uses the Vogue lot.

See PARKING, page B4

Robotics challenge teaches real-life science skills

Marengo Library plans quilt raffle MARENGO – A raffle of a handmade quilt will take place Monday when the Friends of the Marengo-Union Public Library host a Friends’ Gathering.

All are welcome to attend.

The quilt, the handiwork of local quilting artists, will be on display at the library, 200 S. State St., Marengo, until it goes home with the winner.

Tickets are available at the library for $1 each or a book of six for $5.

The drawing will be during the gathering, set for 7 p.m. at the library.

Refreshments will be served.

For information, call the library at 815-568-8236 or visit www. muld.org.

– Northwest Herald

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Ray Zhao, 9 of Lake Zurich puts his hands up in excitement after his LEGO robot scored high marks going through a course during the First LEGO League’s Regional Tournament on Saturday at McHenry County College.

By CYNDI WYSS editorial@nwherald.com CRYSTAL LAKE – Members of the Ctrl Alt Del team huddled over a corner practice table in the McHenry County College gym.

Fine-tuning their robot were West Dundee residents Joshua Campbell, 11, and his brother Jacob Campbell, 13, along with Hampshire residents Reese and Reagan Richter, 9 and 11, respectively, and Patrick Stephen, 11, of South Elgin.

“We are trying to fix hitting the balls, putting the flowers with the cornstalks and the le-

More online To learn more about FIRST LEGO League, visit firstlegoleague.org. ver cooperation,” said Reese as Patrick pulled a LEGO-based, battery-powered, software-packing gizmo back to base.

The boys were among youngsters participating Saturday in a regional FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) LEGO League competition, for which this year’s theme was “Senior Solutions.”

8LOCAL BEST BET

8LOCAL DEATHS Margaret E. Breier 85, Johnsburg John Henry Michaels 83, Crystal Lake June M. Petros 89, Marengo James J. Rogan 67, Wonder Lake Betty J. Rygh 75, formerly of Harvard OBITUARIES on page B4-6

See ROBOTICS, page B4

Granting Christmas wishes

‘Princess and the Pirate’ in Huntley Marlowe Middle School students will perform an original comedy, “Princess and the Pirate,” a play loosely based on Mark Twain’s “Prince and The Pauper,” starting Friday.

The story follows the escapades of a young princess, who switches places with a young girl who disguised herself as a man to work for an acting company.

The play starts Friday at 7:30 p.m. at Huntley High School’s Performing Arts Center, with an encore presentation Saturday night.

A Sunday matinee performance is at 3 p.m.

Tickets are $5.

For information, call Janet Burkhalter at 847-659-4700.

Each team built a small robot, varying in size from a bit smaller than a football to not much larger than a brick – albeit a brick with appendages.

“We can only use three motors, four sensors and one brain,” explained Patrick.

“It’s fun,” chimed in Reese.

Tournament participants came from throughout the area, including Batavia, Aurora, Chicago and Arlington Heights. Each team consisted of two to 10 boys and girls ages 9 to 14.

By CHELSEA McDOUGALL cmcdougall@shawmedia.com HEBRON – It all started with TVs. On a visit to New Horizons, Transitional Living Service’s veterans home in Hebron, Marianne Ruiz noticed the antiquated TVs the veterans would gather around for football games or their favorite movies and programs.

So with her nonprofit organization Joe’s Wish, the McHenry resident and her small band of dedicated volunteers raised money for two top-of-theJosh Peckler – jpeckler@shawmedia.com line, 50-inch flat screen TVs. James Fox sits in amazement after he opened a present containing a Blu-ray player But with Christmas just around that was given to him by Joe’s Wish at Transitional Living Services on Saturday in He- the corner, Ruiz wanted to do more. bron. Joe’s Wish, a nonprofit organization that helps servicemen and women and their She asked New Horizon’s 21 veteran families, presented gifts to the residents at Transitional Living Services. residents to supply her with a holiday

State extends April filing period Candidates now have until Dec. 26

By LAWERENCE SYNETT lsynett@shawmedia.com The candidate filing period for the April local election has been extended.

Gov. Pat Quinn this month signed into law a bill that extends the amount of time candidates have to file their nominating papers with local offices. The new deadline for applications is 5 p.m. Dec. 26 instead of 5 p.m.

Dec. 24.

An early spring Election Day, combined with legal

requirements for candidates wanting their name on the ballot, would have meant government offices had to stay open Dec. 24, forcing overtime pay.

The change was due to the fact that many filing offices are closed during the Christmas holiday, said Katherine Schultz, McHenry County clerk. Officials tried unsuccessfully to push legislation through in the fall to change the filing deadline date.

“No one wanted to be open until 5 p.m. Christmas Eve,” Schultz said. “And so many were already closed on Dec. 24. This had to be done.”

The election date had to be

pushed to April 9 from April 2 because of a conflict with the Jewish holiday Passover, Schultz said. In turn, that altered the filing deadline.

State law requires that the period for political candidates to file nominating petitions begin 113 days before municipal elections and run for eight days.

Although not a state holiday, many city government, school districts, townships and park boards take Christmas Eve off.

“Not only was it going to be an inconvenience, but there was a cost factor also involved,” Schultz said.

Petition filing begins at 8 a.m. Dec. 17.

wish list, and Joe’s Wish volunteers went shopping.

Then on Saturday, Christmas came early for the veterans living at the TLS home when the gifts were given to more than grateful recipients.

“We’re here not because we feel sorry for them,” Ruiz said. “We’re here because we’re grateful for what they’ve done and the sacrifices they’ve made.”

Some of the vets wanted simple things, like electric razors, shirts, coats, or pots and pans, while others asked for more extravagant gifts – TVs, DVD players, even an electric violin. Each one got nearly everything on their list.

See CHRISTMAS, page B4

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2012 brings on many changes, here and far This has been a year of ups and downs – from the severe impact of the drought, upheaval caused by a controversial presidential election and the disappointing collapse of the Chicago Bulls.

I anticipated the Bulls would be a serious grand champion contender. This was true until Derrick Rose was sidelined with a serious injury. One bit of good news today: Rose had major medical care and is now working out in anticipation of joining the floundering Bulls in early 2013.

The drought and its impact on crop production is a development concern-

on the square Don Peasley ing 2013 farming plans. The cost to prepare and plant a crop moved higher because of unfavorable planting and harvesting conditions.

In McHenry County, a major change in county board leadership is affected by the addition of nine first-time members on the 24-member governing body. Tina Hill of Woodstock was elected chairman of the board, replacing Ken Koehler, who served as

chairman for eight years. Jim Heisler of Crystal Lake was elected vice chairman.

••• B & K Power Equipment of Marengo is holding its area food pantry drive. Donations will go to the Grafton Food Pantry, M.O.R.E. Center and the Hampshire-Burlington Food Pantry. B & K will make cash donations equal to 5 percent of parts department sales during the drive, which is 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday and Friday and 9 a.m. to noon Dec. 15. For information, call 815-923-4547.

••• Adult and Child Therapy

8LOCAL BRIEFS Good Shepherd talk to focus on preventing cancer

BARRINGTON – Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital will host the final event of its fall lecture series, “Minimize Your Cancer Risk with Simple Lifestyle Changes,” from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Dec. 18.

The guest speaker, Thomas Weyburn, a board-certified oncologist and member of Advocate Physician Partners, will discuss ways to reduce one’s risk by eating a healthy diet, maintaining a healthy weight and staying physically active.

“The prevention of cancer is not a simple concept, and there are many false claims about preventative measures,” Weyburn said in a news release. “The lecture will examine the proven prevention strategies and answer all of your cancer and risk-related questions.”

The event is free to attend and will be in the Prairie/Meadow rooms at Good Shepherd Hospital, 450 W. Route 22, Barrington.

A light meal will be provided.

To register, call 800-323-8622 and mention the class code 3C52 or go to www.advocatehealth. com/gshp and click “I need a class or support group” and type the

Services’ annual brunch Sunday featured recognition of volunteers.

Keith Hogan received Board Member of the Year award. Hogan is president of the ACTS board of directors. He served as president for two terms during many changes and challenges at ACTS. Kathi Etten was honored as Volunteer of the Year.

John Buckley, director of ACTS, said, “Volunteers are critical in our ability to fulfill our mission – to meet the needs of our friends and neighbors in the community.” Etten has been involved

in the golf outing since 2001, an important fundraising activity.

Dave Barber received the 20th annual Chester Gould award. Gould and his family became supporters of the Adult and Child Therapy Services soon after their move to McHenry County. Barber, an active board member, was a longtime head of United Way in McHenry County. As a board member, he has served on several committees.

Buckley recognized past recipients of the Chester Gould award, expressing appreciation for their years of service. Several recipients

were present, including Margaret Kistler, Bud Oughton and Phil Abraham, president of the McHenry County Independent Riders.

••• Don’t miss enjoying the 30 Christmas trees in the Opera House community room and library on display until Jan. 6. Each tree is decorated by a civic group or organization.

• Don Peasley has been an editor, columnist and historian in McHenry County since October 1947. He began his association with Shaw Publications in 1950. He can be reached at 815-338-1533.

Woodstock: Land Conservancy of McHenry County class code into the keyword box.

Book fairs to benefit Gavers Breast Center

WOODSTOCK – The Auxiliary of Centegra Hospital – Woodstock will host a two-day and a one-day book sale.

The New Books Are Fun Book Fair will run from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday and from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday in the lower level of Centegra Hospital – Woodstock, 3701 Doty Road.

The second fair will run from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday at Centegra Specialty Hospital, 527 W. South St. Product categories include children’s storybooks, cookbooks, general interest books, New York Times best-sellers, stationery and scrapbooking, music collections, gifts for all ages, early learning products and children’s educational products.

The fairs are presented by Centegra Hospital Woodstock Auxiliary to benefit the Gavers Breast Center in Crystal Lake.

For information about the Auxiliary of Centegra Hospital–

Woodstock, call Sally Welter at 815-338-3119.

Advocate Good Shepherd to host blood drive

BARRINGTON – Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital will host a blood drive sponsored by LifeSource from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Tuesday in the Prairie Room at Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital, 450 W. Route 22.

Those interested in donating must be 17 years of age or older, weigh at least 110 pounds, be in good physical health and may not have given blood within the past eight weeks.

To prepare for donations, donors should eat well, stay hydrated and bring an ID on the day of their blood donation. Proper identification is required to donate blood, and acceptable forms include LifeSource or military IDs, driver’s licenses or employee badges with picture and full name.

Appointments are recommended, but walk-ins are welcome.

To schedule an appointment, contact LifeSource at 877-5433768 or visit www.lifesource.org.

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Land Conservancy plans workdays at 3 separate sites NORTHWEST HERALD WOODSTOCK – The Land Conservancy of McHenry County has three volunteer events planned the week of Dec. 9.

Volunteers are needed to help cut and stack brush to help restore these natural gems: • Waichunas Conservation Area, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. today: This woodland near Island Lake was cleared of invasive brush a couple of years ago, but it’s time to go back and get all the resprouting brush and new growth. To get there from the intersection of River Road and Dowell Road north of Island Lake, turn onto Dowell and then right onto South Thomas Court.

Volunteers should park along South Thomas Court, and the group will walk in from there.

• Prairie Ridge Fen Conser-

vation Area, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Wednesday: This 9-acre wetland was protected in 1996 as part of the adjacent Prairie Ridge subdivision in Woodstock.

Interesting species found there include a grove of scarlet oaks and a small cluster of bog birch. The area is on the northeast corner of Route 14 and Dean Street in Woodstock. Volunteers should park along Wagner Lane.

• Dutch Creek Conservation Area, 9 a.m. to noon Saturday: More than 3,000 volunteer hours have been donated since 2008 to restore the oak groves and wetland areas along one of the highestquality streams in McHenry County.

More than 100 acres have been permanently preserved in this location by the village of Johnsburg, TLC and the McHenry County Conserva-

tion District. To get there from the intersection of Route 31 and Johnsburg Road, head east on Johnsburg Road, and take the second left onto Riverside Drive.

Follow Riverside back about one-half mile and look for other cars. Volunteers should park along the road.

No experience is necessary. Tools will be provided.

Volunteers should wear work shoes and clothes that they don’t mind getting dirty.

The Land Conservancy of McHenry County is a local nonprofit organization that works with landowners and communities to preserve and restore natural, scenic and agricultural land for the benefit of current and future generations. TLC is supported by members, donors and fundraising events.

For information, visit www.conservemc.org or call 815-337-9502.

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Council to 12 teams participate Saturday Army veteran gets gift have final vote on Dec. 18 • ROBOTICS

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Continued from page B1 “If Buena Vista loses their parking spaces and they have to park on the street, now we’re just changing cars,” he said. “We’re trading one set of cars for another.”

The building, at the corner of Pomeroy Avenue and Virginia Street, is in the center of a high-volume area with already limited parking. The city lost some parking spaces last year after a multimilliondollar improvement program was completed and put in new sidewalks and crosswalks.

Although a solution was found for Harjung’s parking problem, Harjung said it merely kicks the can farther down the road.

“I have to pay for those spots, and in my mind I don’t think that’s right, but I’ll do whatever it takes to make the city and neighbors happy,” he said. “... But there’s always going to be parking issues until city fixes it.”

City officials have said tax increment financing dollars could be used to add parking at a later date.

The special-use permit will be heard Dec. 18 by the City Council, which will have the final vote.

8OBITUARIES

The teams were tasked in mid-September with designing, building and programming a robot as well as researching a project based on helping senior citizens solve problems.

“I’ve been doing this competition for five years,” said Mike Gaynor, an engineer who lives in Crystal Lake and who coordinates the regional FLL event.

“From this competition, the top three scorers go on to the state competition.”

Gaynor said 12 teams participated Saturday. About 80 are expected at the state

competition next month in Arlington Heights.

“When you look at what the kids have to do, it’s a lot like engineering,” said Gaynor, 48. “They have to prioritize which tasks to solve first and have to come up with different designs every year, different programs every year, and they only have eight weeks.”

The competition included several facets, including presentations to a panel of judges. But the main event was the robotic challenge, in which each team made four, two-and-a-half-minute attempts at manipulating their robot to complete as many assigned tasks as possible.

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JOHNSBURG – Margaret E. Breier, 85, of Johnsburg, was called home to our Lord on Friday, Dec. 7, 2012, at her home.

She was born July 1, 1927, in Johnsburg to John and Emma (Tonyan) Freund.

Marge was a resident of Johnsburg.

Before she resided in Richmond for eight years, where she owned and operated the “Debbie Shop,” a children’s clothing store. Most of her working career centered on health care. She worked as a supervisor for the McHenry Medical Group and Centegra in the billing and insurance areas for 35-plus years.

A member of St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Johnsburg, she was also a member of St. Agatha Court 777 National Catholic Society of Foresters for 65 years.

The loves of Marge’s life were her grandchildren. Constant visiting and phone calls forever brought a smile to her face. An avid Cubs and Bears fan, she was always watching her favorite teams.

Survivors include two children, William (Patricia) Foley of Wonder Lake and Deborah (Timothy) Prostko of Louisville, Ky.; four grandchildren, Robert (Nicole) Prostko, Catherine Prostko, Willliam C. Foley and Marissa Foley; and two sisters, Rosemary Young and Mary Draper.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husbands, William C. Foley in 1955 and Robert G. Breier on Nov. 18, 1999; five brothers, Leo, Wilfred, Walter, Leonard and Eugene Freund; and a sister, Helen Thompson.

The visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m.

Thursday, Dec. 13, at Justen Funeral Home & Crematory, 3700 W. Charles J. Miller Road, McHenry, IL 60050. The visitation will resume Friday, Dec. 14, at the funeral home from 8:45 a.m. until prayers are said at 9:45 a.m., followed by procession to the 10:30 a.m. funeral Mass celebration at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, 2302 W. Church St., Johnsburg, IL 60051.

Interment will be in St. Joseph Cemetery, Richmond.

For information, call the funeral home at 815-385-2400, or visit www. justenfh.com, where friends may also send an online condolence message to the family.

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• CHRISTMAS

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“In reality, a lot of these guys wouldn’t have a Christmas,” said Jim Jablonski, who works at New Horizons as the Quartermaster.

Army veteran James Fox was visibly shaking and at a loss for words after he opened his new 32-inch flat screen TV and Blu-ray player.

“This is the best Christmas I’ve had in a long, long time,” he said. Fox then removed his glasses to wipe tears from his eyes. “The only thing better than this is seeing my two kids.”

Fox was homeless before he landed at New Horizons more than a year ago.

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“It’s real-world engineering on a level they can relate to,” said Patrick Stephen, also an engineer as well as a team coach and father of a competitor.

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• OBITUARIES

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James J. Rogan

Born: March 7, 1945; in Chicago Died: Dec. 7, 2012; in Wonder Lake WONDER LAKE – James J. Rogan, 67, of Wonder Lake, died Friday, Dec. 7, 2012, at his home.

He was born March 7, 1945, in Chicago to James and Josephine (Young) Rogan. On Jan. 15, 1993, he married Eleanor Leadman in McHenry.

Formerly of Hoffman Estates, Jim was a resident of Wonder Lake since 1998. A veteran of the U.S. Army, he retired on July 21, 1987, with the rank of Staff Sergeant. He also worked for the United States Postal Service for 17 years, and retired from the Palatine location.

He was a member of Christ the King Catholic Church in Wonder Lake, and also a lifetime member of the D.A.V. Jim enjoyed cooking, model railroads, and the outdoors and fishing. He was a Sox fan, and loved music in general, especially the guitar and banjo. A talented craftsman, he handcrafted three banjos, which will be treasured by his family.

Survivors include his loving wife, Eleanor; his mother, Josephine; children, Cheryl (Cory) Jones of Duluth, Ga., Denise Hodgson of Duluth, Ga., Jeanne Cermak of Wood Dale, Toni (Antonio) Garcia of Summit, Frank Cermak of Westchester, Tiffany (Edwin) Fiumetto of McHenry, Philip B. King of Cicero, Carrie Smith of Billings, Mont., and Martha Zuniga of Wonder Lake; 26 grandchildren and four greatgrandchildren; two brothers, Bob (Kae) Honeman and Edward (Mary) Honeman; and a sister, Rose (Frank) Petrelli.

He was preceded in death by his father, James Rogan; and a brother, Rusty Honeman.

The visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 11, at Justen Funeral Home & Crematory, 3700 W. Charles J. Miller Road, McHenry, IL 60050. The visitation will resume Wednesday, Dec. 12, from 8:15 a.m. until prayers are said at 9:15 a.m., then leaving the funeral home in procession for the 10 a.m. funeral Mass celebration at Christ the King

Catholic Church, 5006 E. Wonder Lake Road, Wonder Lake, IL 60097.

Interment will be at 2:15 p.m.

Wednesday in Ascension Cemetery, Libertyville.

For information, call the funeral home at 815-385-2400, or visit www. justenfh.com, where friends may leave an online condolence message for Jim’s family.

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Betty J. Rygh

Born: June 8, 1913; in Gilmer Died: Dec. 5, 2012

Born: March 1, 1937; in Harvard Died: Dec. 6, 2012; in Milwaukee MILWAUKEE – Betty J. Rygh, 75, of Genoa City, Wis., and formerly of Harvard, died Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012, at Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center in Milwaukee.

She was born March 1, 1937, in Harvard to Raymond and Ruth (Felgenhauer) Zimmerman.

Betty enjoyed playing Word Search and collecting Christmas items. Most of all she loved her grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Survivors include four daughters, Janet (Gary) Abraham of Harvard, Donna (Gary) Wood of Genoa City, Wis., Julie (Gary) Roeling of South Beloit and Beckie (Mike) Juris of Carthage, Mo.; 13 grandchildren; 19 greatgrandchildren; a brother, Edward (Rosemary) Zimmerman of Crystal Lake; a sister, Barbara (Marshall) Sergeant of Harvard; and many nieces and a nephew.

She was preceded in death by her parents; a daughter, Dawn Rygh; two sisters, Nancy Exner and Mary Owens; and two grandsons, Eric Berkholtz and Roger Benthin.

The visitation will be from noon to 1 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 12, at Saunders & McFarlin Funeral Home, 107 W. Sumner St., Harvard. The funeral service will follow at 1 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home. Interment will be in Dunham-Chemung Cemetery.

For information, call the funeral home at 815-943-5400. Sign the online guest book at saundersmcfarlin.net.

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Died: Dec. 8, 2012; in Huntley

HUNTLEY – Dorothy C. Taylor, of Huntley, passed away Saturday, Dec. 8, 2012, at home. Arrangements are pending with James A. O’Connor Funeral Home. For information, call 847-669-5111.

Clement M. Umbdenstock

JOHNSBURG – Clement M. Umbdenstock, 99, of Johnsburg and formerly of Lake Zurich, passed away Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012.

Clement was born on June 8, 1913, on the farm in Gilmer, the son of the late Edward J. and Mary A. (nee Small) Umbdenstock.

Clement grew up on the farm in Gilmer and during his junior year of high school he was proud to have raised the state champion hog. In 1937, Clement married Margaret Elizabeth Flossman at the old parsonage of St. Peter Church. He farmed in the Barrington area until 1944.

Clement and his wife then moved to Texas and bought a motel, where they lived and worked for the next three years.

He then returned to Illinois and became a truck driver with Lake Cook Farm Supply, living in Long Grove until the time of his retirement in 1979. Clement and Margaret then moved to Johnsburg, where they enjoyed being a part of the senior center and participated in many trips and activities sponsored by the senior center.

A hobby that Clement enjoyed was bowling. Some of Clement’s passions included being superintendent of the agriculture department at the Lake County Fair for many years and working in his garden that he was so proud of.

He was the loving husband of the late Margaret Elizabeth Umbdenstock; loving dad of Joanne M. (Elmer) Van Nevel, Judith (the late Richard) Heltsley

and the late Wayne Umbdenstock; dear father-in-law of Diane Umbdenstock; proud grandfather of eight; great-grandfather of 14; great-great-grandfather of many; fond brother of the late Harold Umbdenstock, Myrtle Wieskopf, Grace Grever, Mildred Thies, Lila Schotanus and Loretta Grever; and dear uncle and great-uncle of many.

The visitation for Clement M. Umbdenstock will be from 10 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 15, until the service at 11 a.m. at St. Peter United Church of Christ, 47 Church St., Lake Zurich.

Burial will follow in Lake Zurich Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorials would be appreciated for St. Peter United Church of Christ.

Arrangements were handled

by Ahlgrim Family Funeral Home, Lake Zurich. For information, call the funeral home at 847-5408871 or visit www.ahlgrimffs. com.

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Dorothy L. (Anderson) Heisler: The visitation will be from 3 to 8 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 9, at Querhammer & Flagg Funeral Home, 500 W. Terra Cotta Ave., Crystal Lake. The visitation will continue from 10 to 11 a.m. Monday, Dec. 10, at Bethany Lutheran Church, 76 W. Crystal Lake Ave., Crystal Lake. A funeral service will be at 11 a.m. Monday, Dec. 10, at Bethany Lutheran Church. Interment will follow in McHenry County Memorial Park. For information, call 815-459-1760.

David Wilbur Manke: The visitation will be from 1 to 5 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 9, at SchneiderLeucht-Merwin & Cooney Funeral Home, 121 N. Seminary Ave., Woodstock. The funeral will be 11 a.m. Monday, Dec. 10, at the funeral home. Burial will be in McHenry County Memorial Park. For information, call 815338-1710.

Lorett Petersen: Friends of the family may visit from noon to 2:30 p.m. Sunday Dec. 9, with a celebration of Lorett’s life com-

mencing at 2:30 p.m. at Strang Funeral Chapel & Crematorium, 410 E. Belvidere Road, Grayslake.

Interment will be private. For information, call 847-223-8122.

Georgia Mae Pilipuf: Memorial visitation will be from 1 to 5 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 9, with a memorial service at 4 p.m. at Willow Funeral Home, 1415 W. Algonquin Road, Algonquin. Cremation will be private. For information, call 847-458-1700.

Bernice M. Wagner (nee Obenauf): The visitation will be from 2 to 6 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 9, at Justen Funeral Home & Crematory, 3700 W. Charles J. Miller Road, McHenry. The visitation will resume Monday, Dec. 10, at the funeral home from 8:45 a.m. until prayers are said at 9:45 a.m., proceeding to the 10:30 a.m. funeral Mass celebration at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, 2302 W. Church St., Johnsburg. Interment will be in St. John the Baptist Cemetery, Johnsburg. For information, call 815-385-2400.

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NIU football: From obscurity to Orange Bowl

FIVE ON ONE

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TODAY’S TOPIC: Shut out

Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel beat out Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te’o for the Heisman Trophy on Saturday (story, page C8). No strictly defensive player has won the award. Five who came closest before Te’o: 1. Alex Karras, 2nd, 1957.

The Iowa tackle had to settle for winning the Outland Trophy as the nation’s top interior lineman 2. Hugh Green, 2nd, 1980.

A three-time consensus AllAmerican at Pittsburgh, Green starred at linebacker in the NFL for Tampa Bay. 3. Dick Butkus, 3rd, 1964 (above). The Illinois linebacker who went on to star for the Bears was so great the award for the nation’s top linebacker is named after him.

4. Chuck Bednarik, 3rd, 1948. The Pennsylvania linebacker also has an award named after him for the nation’s top defensive player.

5. Rich Glover, 3rd, 1972.

The middle guard for Nebraska won the Lombardi Award and Outland Trophy but not the Heisman.

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THEY WROTE IT From Bill Plaschke Los Angeles Times

Six weeks ago, Metta World Peace predicted the Lakers could win 73 games. Today, with a record of 9-11, they have only six more wins than they’ve had head coaches.

Six weeks ago, it was predicted the Lakers would win with smart, fundamental basketball.

Today, they are Kobe Bryant last in the league in turnovers, last in free-throw percentage, and 15th in points allowed.

Six weeks ago, Kobe Bryant agreed to pass the torch to Dwight Howard. Earlier this week, on the sidelines in New Orleans, they were publicly and angrily whacking each other with that torch.

Six weeks ago … like a lingering nightmare, the differences between then and now go on and on.

Everyone was once worried sick that Howard would not re-sign here during the summer.

Now, after struggling with his back injury and missing more free throws (114) than only three other players have made, it is perhaps Howard who should be worried.

Pau Gasol was once coming off a strong Olympic performance and headed for a nice twilight run with Bryant. Now he’s sitting glumly on the bench and on the trading block.

WHAT TO WATCH Pro football Bears at Vikings, noon, Fox The Bears have lost three of their past four entering today’s game at the noisy Metrodome.

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Northern Illinois linebacker Bobby Winkel holds a sign from one of the fans Nov. 30 at Ford Field in Detroit after NIU’s 44-37 victory over Kent State in the Mid-American Conference Championship game. The sign proved prophetic when the Huskies received an invitation to play Florida State in the Orange Bowl.

Against all odds

Huskies rise through ranks the hard way

By JEFF ARNOLD jarnold@shawmedia.com

D

eKALB – Alex Kube remembers the 3-mile bus ride between Huskie Stadium and the DeKalb Sports and Recreation Center lasted only about six minutes.

Like most of his Northern Illinois University teammates, Kube, a 2006 Cary-Grove graduate, grew up dreaming of playing big-time college football.

Most Bowl Championship Serieslevel programs prepare for bowls in elaborate indoor facilities.

But in 2010, as the Huskies readied themselves for the Humanitarian

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NIU’s Jordan Lynch (left) and fellow quarterback Chandler Harnish practice last year at the DeKalb Recreation Center in preparation for the GoDaddy.com Bowl.

Bowl, Kube was part of an NIU team that practiced in the rented space not large enough to allow a full team to practice at one time. It’s the same

facility they’ve used to practice for every bowl since 2004 and will use again this season when the weather forces them inside.

Kube, who graduated after the 2010 season, remembered arriving at the rec center with his defensive teammates and running through individual drills, practicing for a half hour as a full team and then riding back to campus, turning the field over to the Huskies’ offense.

Former placekicker Mike Salerno, Kube’s teammate, wasn’t able to attempt field goals longer than 30 yards without the ball striking the ceiling.

Instead, he tapered his preparations by focusing on technique drills or driving 90 minutes to kick on a full field at the Lake Barrington Fieldhouse.

“You had to make due with what you had,” Salerno said.

If it were 2013, that wouldn’t be a problem: NIU’s $9.5 million Chessick Center is set to be open by the fall.

But this year, as the Huskies prepare for their fifth bowl appearance in as many years, players are again making do with what they have.

See NIU, page C9

Boys basketball: CL Central 59, CL SOUTH 47

Tigers put away Gators in 1st half

By JOE STEVENSON joestevenson@shawmedia.com

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Fans watch the Minnesota Vikings play the San Francisco 49ers on Sept. 23 at the Metrodome in Minneapolis. The Vikings host the Bears today.

Bears at vikings, noon today, fox, AM-780, Fm-105.9

Bears brace for indoor din

By TOM MUSICK tmusick@shawmedia.com Bears fans might not want to hear what Leslie Frazier has to say.

For five seasons, Frazier played his home games at Soldier Field as a defensive back for the Bears. He started on the Bears’ Super Bowl championship team in 1985.

But when it comes to the best home-field advantage in the NFL, Frazier said, no other team matches the Minnesota Vikings. Frazier will coach his 35th game with the Vikings (6-6) today when they host Lovie Smith and the Bears (8-4).

“It gives me energy just thinking about what that noise factor will mean for our foot-

ball team on Sunday,” Frazier said.

Perhaps the Bears can derive energy from silencing a cavernous building.

The Bears will play indoors for the first time since their 2011 regular-season finale, when they beat the Vikings by three points at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. To prepare for the game, Smith had his team practice inside the Walter Payton Center at Halas Hall throughout the week.

Bears coaches blasted artificial crowd noise through speakers during practice. They tried to re-create the volume in the Metrodome, where the Vikings are 162-89 since they moved to the building in 1982.

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CRYSTAL LAKE – Crystal Lake Central’s second-quarter performance was as beautiful and efficient to watch as it was devastating to Crystal Lake South.

The Tigers turned up the heat on defense, limited South to 2 of 13 shooting and owned the boards while building a 13point halftime lead.

“We didn’t want them to come back,” Central guard Brad Knoeppel said. “We wanted to put them away right there.”

Central had the lead it needed at that point. The Gators could not cut the lead to single digits in the second half as the Tigers earned a 59-47 victory in a Fox Valley Conference crossover game Saturday at Central’s Fieldhouse.

The game culminated the District 155 rivals’ Hoops for Heroes Day, which started with the girls freshman teams Saturday morning. Players from both schools solicited pledges for free-throw shooting during the week, and the money raised will be given to military families.

Central (5-1) trailed 16-12 ear-

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ly in the second quarter when it went on a decisive 14-0 run. The Gators (2-4) did not score for 4:45, at which point the Tigers had a 26-16 lead.

“Our defense really gave our offense confidence,” Tigers coach Rich Czeslawski said.

“We got easier looks because of our defense.”

South coach Matt LePage also had to pull forward Max Meitzler and guard Nick Geske, his leading scorers, for about half the quarter after both picked up their second fouls.

“They got loose in transition and we had a couple key guys out for about 4 minutes,” LePage said. “It seemed like they made everything and we couldn’t make anything. It was the perfect storm for them.”

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Turner joins Woodstock’s elite club Woodstock’s boys basketball team had a comfortable lead against RichmondBurton, but Streaks coach Alex Baker was not going to pull leading scorer Jordan Turner.

The 6-foot-3 senior guard was too close to a career milestone. Turner started the fourth quarter with 22 points, which meant he needed only three more to reach 1,000 for his career. He got two more baskets to join an elite club with three former Streaks.

“It means a lot,” Turner said. “It’s really satisfying to get that after so much hard work, the endless camps and all the AAU games.”

Turner moved to No. 3 on Woodstock’s career list Saturday night when he scored 21 points to put him at 1,022

in Woodstock’s 65-27 win against Big Foot (Wis.). Dan Hill (1,791) is out of reach for Turner, but Turner should pass No. 2 Maury Leitzke (1,121) later this season. He passed No. 3 Tim Lind (1,003) Saturday.

“Jordan’s very deserving to be in that group,” Baker said. “He’s worked very hard, nothing has been given to him. He’s not just a talented player, but a good leader.

The younger see the work Jordan’s been able to do and learn from him. It’s exciting to have such a good kid and student and a fantastic person.”

Turner was called up to the varsity midway through his freshman season when forward Mike Sutter, the team’s leading scorer, suffered a torn

PREP ZONE Joe Stevenson labrum and missed the rest of the season. Turner played well in those 10 games and became the second-leading scorer, just behind Sutter, his sophomore year.

“After my sophomore year I saw that I could reach 1,000 even if I averaged 13.7 a game,” said Turner, whose average has jumped a few more points.

Turner also plays varsity baseball since his freshman year, but has chosen to pursue basketball at the next level. He has narrowed his college choices to NCAA Division III schools Augustana

and Hope, and also is considering the Air Force Academy.

“Baseball was more of a hobby for me, I’ve had more success in basketball, so that’s where I wanted to do things in college,” Turner said. “I may go to a prep school for a year then transition to Air Force for four years. They saw me play in AAU [with the Illinois Heat].

They may come see me in a game next month.”

Turner looks forward to the Streaks having more team success this season with 6-foot-7 Damian Stoneking in the middle and several other experienced players returning.

“It’s going to be great,” Turner said. “We started 1-3 and were a little arrogant, thinking with the success we

had in the summer and fall we’d just win. We’ve had a couple wins and we’re looking to take that momentum when we go to the Marengo Tournament [around Christmas].”

Baker said they will recognize Turner at the Streaks’ home game on Monday, Dec. 17 with Alden-Hebron since Thursday’s game was at Richmond.

C-G’s good sports: CaryGrove received word this week that it has again been recognized for its sportsmanship by the IHSA. The Trojans were honored with a Do What’s Right! IHSA Sportsmanship Award after their appearance in the IHSA Class 6A football state championship game.

C-G lost to Crete-Monee,

33-26, but its team and fans were lauded for their exuberance and conduct during the game. The IHSA Sportsmanship Award is given to those schools showing exemplary behavior on the field and by their fans in the stands at IHSA finals events.

C-G also received awards in 2009, the year the Trojans won the Class 4A state volleyball championship and the Class 6A state football championship. C-G will receive a banner to place in its gymnasium.

• Joe Stevenson is a senior sports writer for the Northwest Herald. He can be reached by email at joestevenson@shawmedia.com. You also can follow him on Twitter @nwh_JoePrepZone.

Boys basketball: Jacobs 55, Cary-Grove 48

Golden Eagles rally for first win

By JEFF ARNOLD jarnold@shawmedia.com CARY – When the Jacobs boys basketball team started the season with four straight losses, coach Jim Hinkle didn’t have to look far to figure out why.

Not enough rebounding. Not enough finding ways to get to the free-throw line.

But when the Golden Eagles did both in their Fox Valley Conference Valley Division opener Saturday night against Cary-Grove, the victory that had eluded Jacobs suddenly fell into place. A clutch shot when the Eagles needed it most certainly didn’t hurt.

Will Schwerdtmann’s 3-pointer with 2:05 remaining gave Jacobs a late lead, but four straight Blake Micel free throws in the final 16.5 seconds was what put the finishing touches on a 55-48 victory.

“We just hit the boards hard and we just stepped it up,” Schwerdtmann said. “That made the game.”

Jacobs (1-4, 1-0 FVC Valley) trailed throughout the first three quarters, helpless to do anything about C-G’s sharp shooting touch, especially in the first half. Despite cooling off, the Trojans (5-2, 0-1) still led 48-46 with 3 minutes to play, but

then failed to score as Jacobs made its final push.

Schwerdtman’s 3-pointer gave Jacobs a 49-48 lead before a Lake Ojo offensive rebound and putback and Micel’s four free throws made the difference.

The Golden Eagles’ closing stretch was in stark contrast to the first quarter when Hinkle pulled all five of his starters early on, sitting them most of the opening eight minutes. “[C-G] started out on fire, and we just needed a wake-up call,” said senior forward Nick Ledinsky, who led Jacobs with 16 points. “But we played well the rest of the way.”

The Trojans, meanwhile, weren’t able to sustain their start. Jacobs’ offensive and defensive rebounding edge allowed the Golden Eagles to push the tempo. That forced C-G – which was led by Jason Gregoire’s 17 points – out of their comfort zone.

And while Jacobs made the most of their 12 free throws – hitting eight – the Trojans faltered from the line, factoring into the disappointing loss.

“When you go 9 for 20, you’re not going to win any games,” C-G coach Ralph Schuetzle said.

“But you’ve got to give them credit – they came back, they made tough shots and we just kind of fizzled offensively.”

Knoeppel, Corban lead Tigers • TIGERS Continued from page C1 Knoeppel and Corban Murphy led the Tigers with 18 points each, and 6-foot-7 center Kyle Fleck, in his second game back since having surgery on both knees to help his patellar tendinitis, added 12 points with seven rebounds and three blocks.

“I was just happy to be playing and working myself in,” said Fleck, who came off the bench.

“It was good to be back on rivalry week. That was my goal.”

Czeslawski and Fleck talked after the surgery, and his comeback target date was Wednesday’s game against Prairie Ridge, which the Tigers won,

74-67.

D.J. Thomas, Murphy and Fleck hit 3-pointers in the second quarter as Central, down 11-8 after the first quarter, led 31-18 at halftime.

“I think Kyle’s only about 60 percent in shape and in movement, but it’s nice to have him back,” Czeslawski said.

The game was a homecoming of sorts for LePage, who spent the four previous years at Central as girls basketball coach. He still teaches some classes at Central, although he mainly teaches now at South.

“Our guys have so much respect for Matt, and they know him so well,” Czeslawski said. “I think they raised their game a little bit because of that.”

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Crystal Lake Central’s Paige Celestin-Dowell (15) and Crystal Lake South’s Lauren Del Vecchio fight for a loose ball during the second quarter Saturday in Crystal Lake. Crystal Lake South defeated the Tigers, 43-33.

crystal lake south 43, crystal lake central 33

Gators’ defense stymies Tigers

By MEGHAN MONTEMURRO mmontemurro@shawmedia.com CRYSTAL LAKE – Avoiding a letdown after a big win weighed on the minds of the Crystal Lake South girls basketball team.

Less than 24 hours after an emotional win and a physical game game against CaryGrove, the Gators came out a little sloppy and unfocused Saturday against rival Crystal Lake Central.

But South’s 2-3 zone defense caught the Tigers off guard, though they adjusted after a half, forcing Central to make costly miscues. The Gators’ defensive effort helped them take a nine-point lead into the half, and they never trailed in a 43-33 Fox Valley Conference crossover win.

“I thought it was very important to come out strong and

“I thought it was very important to come out strong and make sure we didn’t let the win last night get to our heads and still play our game tonight.”

Carina Madoni Crystal Lake South senior guard make sure we didn’t let the win last night get to our heads and still play our game tonight,” senior guard Carina Madoni said.

“It’s really important to distribute the ball and get everyone involved in the game so we don’t have only one threat.”

Junior forward Sara Mickow again shouldered the scoring load for South (7-3), finishing with a game-high 19 points.

Mickow capitalized on her five offensive rebounds and converted at the free-throw line (7 for 8). It wasn’t a one-woman show, however. Madoni and forward Lauren Del Vecchio added seven points each, and guard Rachel Rasmussen knocked down a pair of threes.

“We really try to run an offense where anybody can get the ball and get the ball in any positions,” Gators coach Kyle McCaughn said. “Tonight we looked for it a little more from different positions.”

Turnovers troubled both teams. The Gators committed 27 turnovers, and the Tigers (6-3) had 20, which disrupted the offensive flow at times, particularly during the first half.

With limited offensive chances, Central was held to four points in the second quarter. It put the Tigers in a whole from which they couldn’t recover.

“We really need to start working on getting off to a good start and focus and settle ourselves down, and I think that’s what happened in the second half,” Mickow said.

Kelsey Schmitt and Shannon Ellman led Central with eight points each. South outscored Central by only one point in the second half.

“When we got the ball in the middle, we did good things with it,” Tigers coach Paul Lichtenheld said. “Some of the turnovers were again, transitioning to the new offense. We’ve added a couple things and we tried to focus on things we haven’t done much.”

Saturday’s game was part of a day-long Hoops for Heroes event to raise money for military families. Each player will shoot 50 free throws at practice Wednesday with donations being taken.

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Individual titles for Crystal Lake Central, McHenry, Prairie Ridge

By ROB SMITH rsmith@shawmedia.com MOUNT PROSPECT – Crystal Lake Central, McHenry and Prairie Ridge each won an individual championship Saturday at the Mudge-McMorrow Wrestling Invitational at Prospect.

Cam Pait won at 160 pounds for McHenry, which finished third with 188.5 points and placed 13 wrestlers in the top eight. Andrew Marsden won at 170 for the Tigers, who placed eighth with 97.5. Travis Piotrowski won at 106 for the Wolves, who were 13th with 57.5 points. Barrington

won the invitational with 208 points.

Pait defeated Loyola’s David Kennedy by a 19-6 major decision. Pait took an 8-0 lead after the first period on a takedown and two near falls.

“I knew if I went out and got a takedown I would break his spirit,” Pait said. “I feel like if I take him down I get in his head.”

Pait said he didn’t get caught up in looking a match ahead and scouting his next opponents. The only interest he had in his bracket was if it was presented to him as the champion.

“I didn’t look at my bracket board once,” Pait said. “If I

didn’t win it, I didn’t want to look at it.”

Warriors coach Will Gaddy said a big part of Pait’s success can be attributed to teammate Wade Lardy. “[Pait’s] been working with Wade in practice,” Travis Gaddy said.

Piotrowski “They push each other.

Central coach Justen Lehr said he has been working with Marsden on the mental aspects of wrestling. Marsden would need all those tips in his championship match

against Addison Trails’ Niko Rocha.

After two periods, Marsden held a 1-0 lead but gave up a reverse to Rocha to start the third period. Marsden got a reverse right back but gave up the escaped to tie the score at three to send the match to overtime.

In the one minute overtime, Marsden appeared to have a takedown to win the match that put Rocha on his back. The officials ruled that Marsden was out of bounds even though Rocha was clearly on the mat. Marsden slapped the mat as he got up, clearly upset with the call.

“That was a hard one,”

Marsden said. “Right when I threw him on his back I thought yeah, I’ve won.”

Marsden was able to regroup and came back with a takedown to win, 5-3. Thinking you’ve won and having it pulled out from under you is tough to take, he said.

“After you get everything off your mind, that just made me really upset,” Marsden said.

Lehr said he was happy Marsden did not let a call beat him. “[Marsden] showed a little mental toughness,” Lehr said. “That’s something we’ve bee working on, overcoming a call.”

Piotrowski won by major decision over McHenry’s Britches Sikula, 10-2, in the championship final. Sikula and Piotrowski trained together with the Junior Wolves club team but had never faced each other in competition.

Piotrowski was especially pleased that he had beaten a ranked wrester in Sikula, who is an honorable mention at 106

by Illinoismatmen.com.

“Since he’s ranked, it shows that I can do much better,” Piotrowski said.

Also for McHenry, Mike Sikula lost in the championship finals, 9-2, to Stillman Valley’s Jose Abitua.

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HOCKEY: PRAIRIE RIDGE 4, GLENBROOK SOUTH 2

PREP ROUNDUP

PR pulls away in 2nd period

Fox, Callanan lead R-B past Harvard

By JOE STEVENSON joestevenson@shawmedia.com CRYSTAL LAKE – There are few things more demoralizing to a hockey team than giving up a goal as a period is about to end.

“Anytime you get a goal at the end of the period it really builds you up and you take that momentum into the next period,” Prairie Ridge coach Rick Rewiako said. “That’s the golden rule, that you don’t give up a goal in the last minute of a period.”

The Wolves got their first goal from Carter Pierce with 2 seconds remaining in the first period, then carried that momentum for a three-goal second period on their way to a 4-2 victory over Glenbrook South in their Scholastic Hockey League game Saturday at the Crystal Ice House.

“We couldn’t score the last game when we played them,” said left wing Gavin Tarazi, who had two goals. “We felt like if we could get one we could keep scoring. Once we scored, everything was uphill for them.”

Kyle Pierce scored the second goal for Prairie Ridge (1911-2 overall, 6-7-2 SHL) only 2 minutes into the second period. Tarazi scored again midway through the second period and again in the final minute of the period.

“It was nice to see some production from our second and third lines, which each had a goal,” Rewiako said. “It’s nice to not solely rely on our first line for goals. It’s our goal now to get to .500 [in the SHL] by the break and we can do that if we beat St. Viator.”

The Wolves have won nine of their past 10 games. Rewiako felt like his team also played solid defense while keeping the Titans scoreless through two periods.

“We did a good job keeping them outside and staying out of [goalie] Alex [Hentz’s] way so he could see all the pucks,” said defenseman Pat Biewald, who assisted on both of Tarazi’s goals. “When we got possession, we were winning the blue line and getting the puck out of our zone.”

Hentz made 24 saves for the Wolves.

8SPORTS SHORTS Cincinnati hires Tuberville as coach

CINCINNATI – Texas Tech’s Tommy Tuberville was hired Saturday as Cincinnati’s next football coach, leaving the Big 12 for a school trying to move up to a better conference.

The agreement came one day after Butch Jones left to become Tennessee’s next football coach, ending a week of uncertainty for the Bearcats (9-3). Cincinnati has won a share of four of the last five Big East titles and will play in the Belk Bowl.

Tuberville went 20-17 in three seasons at Texas Tech, after coaching at Mississippi and Auburn.

Taggart leaves Western Kentucky for USF

TAMPA, Fla. – Willie Taggart is taking over as South Florida’s football coach after establishing himself as one of the nation’s top young prospects by turning around a losing program at Western Kentucky.

USF scheduled a news conference for Saturday afternoon to introduce the 36-year-old Tag-

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gart, who grew up in the Tampa Bay area before heading off to play and later coach at Western Kentucky. He replaces Skip Holtz, who was fired following the worst season in USF’s 16year history.

Taggart led Western Kentucky to a 7-5 record this season.

Faith Lutheran boys hoops claim first win of season NORTHWEST HERALD HARVARD – Richmond-Burton’s Andrea Fox and Alex Callanan had themselves a great game in helping push the Rockets’ girls basketball team over .500.

Fox scored 16 and Callanan added 15 in the Rockets’ 66-20 Big Northern Conference East Division victory over Harvard. Fox also grabbed a game-high 11 rebounds.

The Rockets (5-4 overall, 3-0 BNC East) made 27 shots from the floor.

Abby Linhart scored eight points for the Hornets (2-8, 0-3).

Fremd 61, Jacobs 27: At Fremd, Jacobs (0-8) faced a hot Fremd team that made 26 baskets while shooting 9 of 11 from the freethrow line in the nonconference game.

Victoria Tamburrino scored six points

for Jacobs.

BOYS BASKETBALL Faith Lutheran 38, St. Martin de Porres 35:

At Chicago, Ben Boyer scored 18 points for the Saints (1-6), and teammate Jake Larson added 11 en route to their first win on the season.

Boyer and Larson also added a 3-pointer apiece.

Woodstock 65, Big Foot (Wis.) 27: At Walworth, Wis., Jordan Turner scored 21 points and Damian Stoneking added 13 as the Blue Streaks (4-3) defeated the Chiefs in their nonconference game.

BOYS BOWLING Guilford Viking Invitational: At Don Cart-

er Lanes in Rockford, McHenry placed 15th with 5,867 pins, while Marengo (5,363) placed 22nd in the 26-team field.

Alex Gross finished with a team-high 1,153 pins over six games for Marengo.

Geoff McClaughry had a team-high 1,265 pins for McHenry.

GIRLS BOWLING Woodstock 2,002, Evanston 1,962: At

Classic Bowl in Morton Grove, Paige

Busch had a game-high 188 and bowled a 466 series for Woodstock in the win over Evanston. Josie Lindsey-Robbins bowled a 428 series with a high game of 156.

WRESTLING Woodstock Quad: At Woodstock, the

host Blue Streaks went 0-3, losing to Grant, Harvard and Zion-Benton.

The match against Zion-Benton was the closest of the three as the Blue Streaks lost by just 5 points. Alex Johnson (195 pounds), Nick Sundberg (145), Gabe Rodriguez (152) and Johnathon Michael (285) won for Woodstock against Z-B. Harvard won two of three, winning against Zion-Benton and Woodstock while falling to Grant.

Glenbard East Meet: At Glenbard East, Richmond-Burton went 0-3 but saw some good performances.

Cameron Kennedy won all three of his matches at 132 pounds, while brothers Garrett and Grant Sutton won all three of their matches on the afternoon at 120 and 152 pounds respectively.

• Patrick Mason contributed to this report.

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BEARS DEPTH CHART OFFENSE Position Wide Receiver Left Tackle Left Guard Center Right Guard Right Tackle Tight End Wide Receiver Quarterback Running Back Fullback Defense Position Left End Defensive Tackle Nose Tackle Right End Weak Outside LB Middle Linebacker Strong Outside LB Left Cornerback Right Cornerback Strong Safety Free Safety Special Teams Position Kicker Long Snapper Punt Returner Punter Holder Kick Returner

First Team Brandon Marshall J’Marcus Webb Edwin Williams Roberto Garza Gabe Carimi Jonathan Scott Kellen Davis Earl Bennett Jay Cutler Matt Forte Evan Rodriguez

Second Team Alshon Jeffery James Brown Chris Spencer Chris Spencer Chris Spencer James Brown Matt Spaeth Devin Hester Jason Campbell Michael Bush

Third Team Dane Sanzenbacher

First Team Corey Wootton Henry Melton Stephen Paea Julius Peppers Lance Briggs Blake Costanzo Nick Roach Kelvin Hayden Charles Tillman Major Wright Chris Conte

Second Team Third Team Israel Idonije Shea McClellin Stephen Paea Nate Collins Matt Toeaina Shea McClellin Cheta Ozougwu Geno Hayes Dom DeCicco J.T. Thomas Zack Bowman Sherrick McManis D.J. Moore Craig Steltz

Anthony Walters

Andre Gurode Andre Gurode Kyle Adams Eric Weems Josh McCown Armando Allen

First Team Second Team Third Team Robbie Gould Patrick Mannelly Earl Bennett Eric Weems Adam Podlesh Adam Podlesh Eric Weems

VIKINGS DEPTH CHART OFFENSE Position Left Tackle Right Tackle Tight End Quarterback Split End Right Guard Left Guard Center Flanker Running Back Fullback Defense Position Right End Weak Outside LB Left End Strong Outside LB Free Safety Left Cornerback Strong Safety Right Cornerback Left Tackle Middle LB Right Tackle Special Teams Position Kicker Long Snapper Punt Returner Punter Holder Kick Returner

First Team Second Team Matt Kalil Phil Loadholt Kyle Rudolph John Carlson Christian Ponder Joe Webb Jerome Simpson Michael Jenkins Brandon Fusco Geoff Schwartz Charlie Johnson Mark Asper John Sullivan Joe Berger Jarius Wright Stephen Burton Adrian Peterson Toby Gerhart Jerome Felton

Brown teamed with lineman for 3 years at Illinois

By SCHUYLER DIXON The Associated Press

IRVING, Texas – Police charged Dallas Cowboys defensive lineman Josh Brent with intoxication manslaughter Saturday after he flipped his car in a pre-dawn accident that killed teammate Jerry Brown.

Irving police spokesman John Argumaniz said the accident happened about 2:20 a.m. Saturday in the Dallas suburb, hours before Brent Jerry Brown was to be on a team flight to Cincinnati for the Cowboys’ game Sunday against the Bengals.

Argumaniz said the 25-year-old Brown – a practice-squad linebacker who also was Brent’s teammate for three seasons at the University of Illinois – was found unresponsive at the scene and pronounced

Rhett Ellison M. Bethel-Thompson Devin Aromashodu

Besides long-term hearing damage – say what? – the biggest threat from the noise figures to be costly false-start penalties. Among those challenged will be starting tackles J’Marcus Webb and Jonathan Scott, who will strain to hear Bears quarterback Jay Cutler as he barks play calls above the racket.

Cutler said he was confident in his linemen, who have allowed only two sacks in the past two games after giving up 34 sacks in the first 10 games.

“J-Webb has played there

Matt Asiata

First Team Second Team Third Team Blair Walsh Cullen Loeffler Marcus Sherels Jarius Wright Josh Robinson Chris Kluwe Chris Kluwe Marcus Sherels A.J. Jefferson Josh Robinson

VIKINGS

- Troy Kropog OL 6-6 308 3 Blair Walsh K 5-10 192 4 M. Bethel-Thompson QB 6-4 230 5 Chris Kluwe P 6-4 215 7 Christian Ponder QB 6-2 229 11 Stephen Burton WR 6-1 221 14 Joe Webb QB 6-4 220 17 Jarius Wright WR 5-10 180 19 Devin Aromashodu WR 6-2 201 21 Josh Robinson CB 5-10 199 22 Harrison Smith S 6-2 214 24 A.J. Jefferson CB 6-1 190 26 Antoine Winfield CB 5-9 180 27 Brandon Burton CB 5-11 190 28 Adrian Peterson RB 6-1 217 32 Toby Gerhart RB 6-0 231 33 Jamarca Sanford S 5-10 200 34 Andrew Sendejo S 6-1 225 35 Marcus Sherels CB 5-10 175 36 Robert Blanton S 6-1 200 40 Rhett Ellison TE 6-5 250 41 Mistral Raymond S 6-1 202 42 Jerome Felton FB 6-0 246 46 Cullen Loeffler LS 6-5 241 48 Matt Asiata RB 5-11 220 50 Erin Henderson LB 6-3 244 51 Larry Dean LB 6-0 226 52 Chad Greenway LB 6-2 242 54 Jasper Brinkley LB 6-1 252 55 Marvin Mitchell LB 6-3 249 57 Audie Cole LB 6-5 239 58 Tyrone McKenzie OLB 6-2 245 61 Joe Berger OL 6-5 315 63 Brandon Fusco OL 6-4 306 65 John Sullivan C 6-4 301 69 Jared Allen DE 6-6 270 71 Phil Loadholt T 6-8 343 74 Charlie Johnson OT 6-4 305 75 Matt Kalil OT 6-7 295 76 Geoff Schwartz G 6-6 331 79 Mark Asper OL 6-6 321 81 Jerome Simpson WR 6-2 190 82 Kyle Rudolph TE 6-6 259 83 Allen Reisner TE 6-3 248 84 Michael Jenkins WR 6-4 214 89 John Carlson TE 6-5 251 90 Fred Evans DT 6-4 305 91 D’Aundre Reed DE 6-4 261 93 Kevin Williams DT 6-5 311 96 Brian Robison DE 6-3 259 97 Everson Griffen DE 6-3 273 98 Letroy Guion DT 6-4 303 99 Christian Ballard DT 6-4 283

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Cowboys nose tackle Josh Brent is facing an intoxication manslaughter charge after a onevehicle accident that killed teammate Jerry Brown, a member of the practice squad. dead at a hospital.

Brown died a week after Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher fatally shot his girlfriend before killing himself in front of his coach and general

manager.

“We are deeply saddened by the news of this accident and the passing of Jerry Brown,” Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said in a statement. “At this time, our hearts and prayers and deepest sympathies are with the members of Jerry’s family and all of those who knew him and loved him.”

Officers conducted a field sobriety test on Brent and arrested him on suspicion of driving while intoxicated, Argumaniz said. The charge, a second-degree felony punishable by two to 20 years in prison, was upgraded after Brown was pronounced dead.

Argumaniz said Brent, who pleaded guilty to a drunken driving charge three years ago at Illinois, was being held without bond. Brent is named as Joshua Price-Brent in the police news release.

Argumaniz said Brent missed a 10 a.m.

Saturday booking session with a judge because he was intoxicated. He did not know if Brent had an attorney.

Brent was speeding when the vehicle hit a curb and flipped at least once, Argumaniz said. Police received 911 calls from motorists who saw the upside-down vehicle but they did not immediately have any eyewitnesses to the wreck, the police spokesman said.

Cutler confident linemen will handle noise • BEARS Continued from page C1

ROSTERS BEARS

Ex-Illini Brent charged in crash that killed teammate

Third Team

First Team Second Team Third Team Jared Allen Everson Griffen Erin Henderson Marvin Mitchell Brian Robison D’Aundre Reed Chad Greenway Larry Dean Harrison Smith Jamarca Sanford Andrew Sendejo Antoine Winfield Josh Robinson Brandon Burton Mistral Raymond Robert Blanton A.J. Jefferson Marcus Sherels Kevin Williams Christian Ballard Jasper Brinkley Audie Cole Tyrone McKenzie Letroy Guion Fred Evans

2 Jason Campbell QB 6-5 230 6 Jay Cutler QB 6-3 220 8 Adam Podlesh P 5-11 200 9 Robbie Gould K 6-0 185 12 Josh McCown QB 6-4 215 14 Eric Weems WR 5-9 195 15 Brandon Marshall WR 6-4 230 17 Alshon Jeffery WR 6-3 216 18 Dane Sanzenbacher WR 5-11 180 20 Craig Steltz S 6-1 210 21 Major Wright S 5-11 204 22 Matt Forte RB 6-2 218 23 Devin Hester WR 5-11 190 24 Kelvin Hayden CB 6-0 195 25 Armando Allen RB 5-8 199 26 Tim Jennings CB 5-8 185 27 Sherrick McManis CB 6-1 193 29 Michael Bush RB 6-1 245 30 D.J. Moore CB 5-9 180 33 Charles Tillman CB 6-2 198 37 Anthony Walters S 6-1 207 38 Zack Bowman CB 6-1 193 47 Chris Conte S 6-2 203 48 Evan Rodriguez FB 6-2 239 52 Blake Costanzo LB 6-1 235 53 Nick Roach LB 6-1 234 54 Brian Urlacher LB 6-4 258 55 Lance Briggs LB 6-1 244 57 DeCicco, Dom LB 6-4 230 58 Geno Hayes LB 6-1 226 63 Roberto Garza C/G 6-2 310 64 Andre Gurode G/C 6-4 318 65 Patrick Mannelly LS 6-5 265 67 Chris Spencer G/C 6-3 309 69 Henry Melton DT 6-3 295 70 Edwin Williams G/C 6-3 313 71 Israel Idonije DL 6-6 275 72 Gabe Carimi T 6-7 316 73 J’Marcus Webb T 6-7 333 75 Matt Toeaina DT 6-2 308 78 James Brown T 6-4 306 79 Jonathan Scott T 6-6 318 80 Earl Bennett WR 6-0 206 86 Kyl Adams TE 6-4 255 87 Kellen Davis TE 6-7 267 89 Matt Spaeth TE 6-7 260 90 Julius Peppers DE 6-7 287 92 Stephen Paea DT 6-1 300 93 Nate Collins DT 6-2 296 95 Cheta Ozougwu DE 6-2 255 97 J.T. Thomas LB 6-1 236 98 Corey Wootton DE 6-6 270 99 Shea McClellin DE 6-3 260

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8BEARS MATCHUPS Five things to track during today’s Bears game: 1. Keep away The Bears neutralized Jared Allen in late November with a steady dose of extra blockers, quick passes and roll-outs designed to go to the opposite side of the Pro Bowl defensive end. They will rely on a similar approach today against Allen, who has nine sacks this season.

2. Second target After missing six of the past seven games because of injuries, Bears rookie wide receiver Alshon Jeffery is expected to return to the field. Jeffery should relieve some of the defensive attention on Brandon Marshall, who caught 12 passes for 92 yards against the Vikings in Week 12.

3. Pinch hitters Nick Roach and Kelvin Hayden have earned plenty of playing time this season, but both will take on new roles this week in place of injured teammates Brian Urlacher and Tim Jennings. Roach will need to lead a defense that is 7-15 all-time without Urlacher.

4. All day The Bears are willing to give up some yards to Vikings running back Adrian Peterson, but they cannot allow momentumchanging plays that will electrify a partisan crowd. Although Peterson is terrific, he can be vulnerable to turnovers. He has three fumbles this season, including one against the Bears.

5. Stretch your legs More than a month has passed since Matt Forte’s most recent 100-yard game, and the Bears could use one from him today. Forte managed only 42 rushing yards on 14 carries in his first meeting of the season against the Vikings, and his longest run went for 6 yards.

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before,” Cutler said. “He’s used to it by now, and he’s able to perform in those conditions. J-Scott is new with me, so he’s going to have to listen to the snap count and get a good jump.

“But it is difficult to play there. [It’s] very loud, and you have the pressure of those ends because you know they’re coming. It’s about keeping it in third-and-manageable.

If you get in third-and-long, second-and-long, they know you’re passing, that’s where you get in bad situations.”

Bad situations for the Bears would equal good situations for Vikings defensive

end Jared Allen, who notched 3½ sacks against the Bears’ offensive line in the teams’ previous meeting at the Metrodome. The Bears blanked Allen for zero sacks Nov. 25 at Soldier Field, but coaches and players said he is much faster on the indoor surface.

Allen’s career statistics suggest the same. The fourtime Pro Bowl player has registered 66 sacks in 57 home games compared with 48 sacks in 50 road games.

“The speed will be different for us on the field turf than it is on grass,” Bears offensive coordinator Mike Tice said.

“It’s very important in the

pass rush [we] have to make sure we account for Jared Allen every time we throw the ball, and we will.”

It’s a message that Tice’s linemen hear loud and clear.

Besides, they play against some of the world’s most talented football players every week during the regular season. They can deal with some screaming fans.

“It’s all about preparation,” Scott said. “You have to prepare for the noise. You have to prepare for unique situations.

“That’s why we practice.

We’ll definitely be ready for it.”

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Bulls 93, Knicks 85

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Carlos Boozer (left) celebrates with other players on the bench during the closing moments of the Bulls’ 93-85 victory against the New York Knicks at the United Center.

CHICAGO – Leave it to Tom Thibodeau’s vaunted defense to crash the Knicks’ 3-point party.

Marco Belinelli and Luol Deng scored 22 points apiece as the Bulls beat the Knicks, 93-85, on Saturday night, snapping New York’s five-game winning streak.

Belinelli matched a career high by playing 45 minutes and sparked the Bulls at the outset with 15 points in the first quarter. Deng led the way at the end, getting 10 points in the fourth.

“I played a lot of minutes,” Belinelli said. “We played great on offense and defense. ... That’s the way we’ve got to play.”

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Tuesday, CSN/ESPN, AM-1000 Deng played 46:34 in the game, helping the Bulls (11-8) to their first three-game winning streak of the season.

“You just keep focusing in on getting a win,” Deng said.

“While the game is going on, you do not feel fatigue.”

Raymond Felton led the Knicks with 27 points, matching his season high set Thursday in a victory at Miami. How-

ever, Felton was just 9 for 30 from the field, exceeding his career high for field-goal attempts by six shots.

“They took the 3s away, took my 3s away off the screen-androll, then they attacked the big [men],” Felton said. “That’s why I took so many shots today. I normally don’t take that many shots.

“Probably haven’t taken 30 since high school.”

Tyson Chandler had 14 points and 18 rebounds for the Knicks, who shot a season-low 32.1 percent from the floor and tied a season high with 15 turnovers. It was also a season-low point total for New York (14-5).

“You have to give them credit. They played great defense

coming down the stretch run,” Knicks coach Mike Woodson said. “I thought they made the hustle plays that they needed to make in order to win the game, and we didn’t.”

New York, which averaged 13 makes and 33 attempts on 3s during its win streak, was held to 8 for 21 against the Bulls, who have allowed the fewest 3-pointers in the league.

Carlos Boozer had 12 points and 10 rebounds for the Bulls.

One night after putting up career highs of 30 points and 23 rebounds in a win at Detroit, the Bulls’ Joakim Noah just missed an odd triple-double, getting 10 points and 11 rebounds and committing a career-worst nine turnovers.

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Mayo, Mavericks spoil McHale’s return to Rockets’ bench The ASSOCIATED PRESS HOUSTON – O.J. Mayo scored 40 points, including 10 in the last three minutes, to lift the Dallas Mavericks to a 116-109 victory over the Rockets on Saturday night in coach Kevin McHale’s return to the Houston bench.

James Harden had 30 points at halftime, but the Mavericks slowed him down in the second half. He scored just nine points in the second half.

McHale rejoined the team Saturday after almost a month

away from the team, and two weeks after the death of his daughter.

Chris Kaman added 20 points for Dallas, and Vince Carter and Darren Collison had 12 apiece.

Heat 106, Hornets 90: At Miami, Dwyane Wade scored 26 points, LeBron James finished with 24 points and seven assists, and Miami snapped a two-game slide by topping New Orleans.

Chris Bosh scored 13, and Ray Allen and Shane Battier each added 11 for Miami,

which took control by outscoring the Hornets 33-10 over the final 11 minutes of the first half. New Orleans started the game 10 for 12 from the floor, then shot 9 for 31 over the rest of the half.

Hawks 93, Grizzlies 83: At Memphis, Tenn., Josh Smith had 24 points, Lou Williams scored 18 of his 21 in the second half, and Atlanta won for the ninth time in 10 games.

Al Horford had 19 points and grabbed 14 rebounds for Atlanta, while Jeff Teague finished with 13 points and six

assists.

Pistons 104, Cavaliers 97: At Cleveland, Brandon

end of a home-and-home with Philadelphia.

Paul Pierce finished with 13 points and Rajon Rondo dished out 11 assists and collected nine rebounds, one night after his first triple-double of the season. Rondo had just seven points.

Knight scored a career-high 30 points, and Detroit beat Cleveland for the second time in six days.

The Pistons, who won for the second time in 12 road games this season, took conSpurs 132, Bobcats 102: trol with run that began late family?

At Charlotte, N.C., Danny why nota treat the whole in the third quarter and car- Green scored 23 points and ried into the fourth period.

San Antonio set a franchise Celtics 92, 76ers 79: At Bos- record with 19 3-pointers to ton, Kevin Garnett scored hand Charlotte its seventh 19 points, Jeff Green added straight loss.

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Warriors 101, Wizards 97: At Washington, David Lee had 24 points and 17 rebounds, Klay Thompson added 23 points and Golden State beat Washington for its third straight road win.

Clippers 117, Suns 99: At Los Angeles, Jamal Crawford led a fourth-quarter rally with 13 of his 21 points, and Los Angeles won its fifth in a row while sending Phoenix to a seasonworst sixth straight loss.

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Smith had 19 points in the second half – including nine straight – and added 10 rebounds for the Bulldogs (7-2), who shot 48 percent en route to their fourth straight win overall and fourth straight against the Wildcats (7-3).

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No. 13 Illinois 85, No. 10 Gonzaga 74: At Spokane, Wash.,

Brandon Paul scored 35 points to lead No. 13 Illinois over No. 10 Gonzaga in a matchup of unbeaten teams.

Tracy Abrams added 14 points for Illinois (10-0) and new coach John Groce is off to the best debut for an Illinois coach in the team’s modern history.

No. 19 Michigan State 73, Loyola 61: At East Lansing, Mich.,

Gary Harris scored 14 of his career-high 20 points in the second half as the 19th-ranked Spartans beat Loyola. Harris shot 7 for 11 from the field, including 5 for 7 on 3-pointers.

Ben Averkamp had 25 points, including four 3s, and eight rebounds for the Ramblers (6-3). Devon Turk added 10 points.

Illinois-Chicago 64, Colorado State 55: At Chicago, Gary Talton scored 20 points, including a perfect 12 for 12 from the freethrow line, and added five rebounds and five assists to lead Illinois-Chicago to its seventh straight victory by defeating Colorado State.

UIC (8-1) trailed 46-45 with 5:45 remaining after Wes Eikmeier hit a free throw for Colorado State. Seconds later, Will Simonton made a lay-up to give the Rams a 47-46 lead and Colorado State went on a 17-9 run from that point on to seal the victory.

Toledo 67, E. Illinois 59: At Charleston, Rian Pierson had 22 points and nine rebounds to lead Toledo to a win over Eastern Illinois.

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Dominique Buckley scored 13 points for the Rockets (3-6).

Julius Brown and Matt Smith added 10 points for Toledo, which has played eight of its nine games on the road.

Western Illinois 55, SIUEdwardsville 38: At Macomb, Adam Link scored 14 points to help Western Illinois beat SIUEdwardsville, extending WIU’s winning streak to four games.

Link was 6 of 10 from the field. Don McAvoy III had 11 points, and Terell Parks had 11 points and nine rebounds for the Leathernecks (7-3).

Illinois State 85, Western Michigan 63: At Normal, Jackie

Carmichael scored 24 points and Illinois State rolled to an 85-63 victory over Western Michigan.

Illinois State (6-3) also benefited from 50.8 percent shooting from the floor (31 of 61) and a 39-8 scoring advantage off the bench.

No. 22 Notre Dame 84, Brown 57: At South Bend, Ind., fresh-

man Cameron Biedscheid had a career-high 17 points and No. 22 Notre Dame beat Brown.

Jack Cooley added 15 points and 12 rebounds for the Fighting Irish (8-1), who committed just three turnovers and finished with 22 assists. Scott Martin made four 3-pointers and finished with 14 points.

Eric Atkins had 10 points and 12 assists.

No. 1 Indiana 100, Central Connecticut St. 69: At Bloomington,

Ind., Christian Watford scored 21 points, Cody Zeller had 19 points and 19 rebounds, and No. 1 Indiana routed Central Connecticut State.

No. 3 Michigan 80, Arkansas 67: At Ann Arbor, Mich., Jor-

dan Morgan scored a seasonhigh 12 points and matched a season high with 10 rebounds to help No. 3 Michigan beat Arkansas.

No. 7 Ohio St. 89, Long Beach St. 55: At Columbus, Ohio, De-

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Penn State 78, Army 70: At State College, Pa., D.J. Newbill scored 19 points and Jermaine Marshall added 16 as Penn State survived a second-half surge by Army.

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By RALPH D. RUSSO The Associated Press NEW YORK – Johnny Football just got himself a way cooler nickname: Johnny Heisman.

Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel became the first freshman to win the Heisman Trophy, taking college football’s top individual prize Saturday night after a record-breaking debut.

Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te’o finished a distant second and Kansas State quarterback Collin Klein was third in the voting. In a unique Heisman race, with two nontraditional candidates, Manziel broke through the class barrier and kept Te’o from becoming the first purely defensive player to win the award.

Manziel drew 474 first-place votes and 2,029 points from the panel of media members and former winners. Northern Illinois junior quarterback Jordan Lynch finished seventh and had three first-place votes.

“I have been dreaming about this since I was a kid,” he said during his acceptance speech after hugging his mom, dad and kid sister.

Manziel seemed incredibly calm after his name was announced, hardly resembling the guy who dashes around the football field on Saturday.

Te’o had 321 first-place votes and 1,706 points and Klein received 60 firsts and 894 points.

Just a few days after turning 20, Manziel proved times have truly changed in college football, and that experience can be really overrated.

Voting for the 2012 Heisman Trophy, with first-, second- and third-place votes and total points (voting on 3-2-1 basis): Player Manziel, Texas A&M Te’o, Notre Dame Klein, Kansas St. Lee, USC Miller, Ohio St. Clowney, South Carolina Lynch, N. Illinois Austin, West Virginia Barner, Oregon Jones, Georgia

1st 474 321 60 19 3 4 3 6 1 1

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3rd 103 125 320 84 77 23 27 21 15 18

Total 2,029 1,706 894 207 144 61 52 47 42 41

For years, seniors dominated the award named after John Heisman, the pioneering Georgia Tech coach from the early 1900s. In the 1980s, juniors started becoming common winners. Tim Tebow became the first sophomore to win it in 2007, and two more won it in the next two seasons.

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Rest of conference will help NIU financially • NIU Continued from page C1 The Huskies (12-1) began practice Saturday for playing Florida State (11-2) in the Orange Bowl on Jan. 1. When weather gets bad, they will continue the tradition of paying the $125 an hour rental fee to practice at the Recreation Center, early or late enough to not interfere with youth soccer leagues.

HAVE-NOT HUSKIES

In college football, there are the haves and the have-nots.

The Huskies are the latter.

Athletic Director Jeff Compher oversees an athletic department with a $20 million budget – about a third of NIU’s Orange Bowl opponent, Florida State. The game costs a school upward of $4 million between guaranteed ticket sales, blocks of hotel rooms and other requirements.

In the past, Atlantic Coast Conference champion Virginia Tech twice lost money on Orange Bowl appearances.

In 2009, the department lost $2.2 million before watching another $1.6 million disappear in 2011.

NIU had to guarantee it could sell 17,500 tickets, costing as much as $250 apiece, costing NIU a total of $2.4 million.

For the 2012 GoDaddy.com Bowl, the Huskies sold just 738 tickets. “We had read the stories about Connecticut and other schools who took it on the chin financially,� Compher said. “We didn’t want to be in that position.�

The Mid-American Conference has guaranteed that NIU won’t lose money on the game.

League commissioner Jon Steinbrecher said the MAC will cover the costs of bowl-associated expenses while splitting the $8 million the league receives for the game. “You’re not going to read articles about a Mid-American Conference team in one of those bowls losing money like you have seen with other conferences,� Steinbrecher said.

Most BCS schools have large media contracts. The Huskies pay The Score (WSCR670 AM) to broadcast football and basketball games.

Most BCS schools plan on a hefty bowl-game payday. Not including the Orange Bowl berth, NIU made four straight bowl games and lost more than $63,000 combined from those, according to NIU financial records.

Most BCS schools can count on uninterrupted practice time. The Huskies used to be rushed off their field Thursday nights when DeKalb High School – which used to play home games at Huskie Stadium – needed the field for practice.

At NIU, that’s just a way of life. “We didn’t have some of the things other programs had,� Kube said. “But we made it work – we understand it wasn’t the nicest place to practice, but if we didn’t practice well, we weren’t going to win a bowl game. We worked hard – we didn’t make excuses. “We just had to get it done.�

That attitude is what helped propel the Huskies to the Orange Bowl, where they are a 131â „2-point underdog. Players are relishing the role as the outsider that won its way into a flawed BCS system.

Until recently, there was little reason to believe the BCS would pay attention to Northern Illinois’ 12-game winning streak and second consecutive MAC championship.

Those who follow Huskies football had learned not to get their hopes up. In 2003, led by NFL-bound star running back Michael Turner, the Huskies won 10 games. That included wins over Alabama, Maryland and Iowa State and a BCS ranking as high at No. 10. Yet there was no postseason bowl game appearance.

But nearly a decade later, that conversation has changed: Nine BCS-friendly scenarios – including losses by No. 1 Kansas State and No. 2 Oregon – turned in their favor, the Huskies beat Kent State, UCLA

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NIU’s Jordan Lynch practices Saturday at Huskie Stadium in DeKalb. lost to Stanford and Texas lost to Kansas.

That added up to the Huskies headed to the Orange Bowl. They are the first MAC school to compete in a BCS bowl game, sparking a national debate of how deserving NIU really is of such an honor.

ESPN college football analyst Kirk Herbstreit suggested the Huskies’ inclusion was part of everything that is wrong about college football.

The former Ohio State quarterback questioned how Northern Illinois – even at 12-1 - could be part of the BCS landscape when more high-profile programs like Louisiana State and Oklahoma were left out of the equation.

While Herbstreit – who was not made available by ESPN to be interviewed – quickly became the face of DeKalb’s disdain after the Dec. 2 announcement, he was not alone.

Rather than competing in powerhouse leagues like the SEC or Pac-12, MAC schools tended to face major programs only in guarantee games paying hundreds of thousands of dollars that help bolster meager operating budgets. “At some point, you have to decide how serious you want to take some of the comments, and in my mind, some of the stuff being discussed was so over the top, I figured it would really boomerang, and that’s what’s happened, “ Steinbrecher said. “We’ve got a team that

did everything it was supposed to do, and the rules haven’t changed for heaven’s sake, and the rules are the rules.�

BUILDING CREDIBILITY

The road to building a Huskie team that could get to the Orange Bowl started years ago.

Former Huskies coach Joe Novak said he took advantage of the underdog mentality NIU has always embraced when he started with the team in 1996. He set about leading an athletic department-wide effort to change the culture of a team that had posted winning records only six times in 33 years.

Former athletic director Jim Phillips – who is the top athletic administrator at Northwestern – had the Huskies play at major Big Ten locales such as Michigan and Ohio State, in front of a national TV audience.

Phillips brokered the radio deal with The Score, choosing to pay for football and radio broadcasts on a station that reached multiple states rather than a smaller regional area.

To be considered a major player in college athletics, Phillips understood the university had to think like one. “It’s about credibility, and you have to take advantage of every opportunity you have,�

Phillips said. “It’s tremendously difficult when you think about the (limited) resources and you think

about what you’re competing against. But that’s the fun of it – that’s the challenge – you hope for a better day and you hope for an opportunity that’s in front of Northern Illinois now.�

The potential of success became the pitch NIU coaches used to attract players to DeKalb and that Compher relied on to draw talent such as former coaches Jerry Kill, who now coaches Minnesota, and Dave Doeren, who was an assistant coach at Wisconsin when he took over the Huskies two years ago and will coach North Carolina State next year.

Despite the city’s rural surroundings, part of NIU’s appeal was tied to its proximity to Chicago. The greater metropolitan area is home to 180,000 of NIU’s 250,000 alumni and to a wealth of high school football talent.

Novak has remained the program’s biggest fan, watching from afar as Kill and Doeren continued to build the Huskies into a perennial Top 40 program. During his 12-year tenure in DeKalb, Novak survived a 23-game losing streak and guided the team to its 10-win 2003 season. “I don’t think I ever thought about a BCS bowl game to be honest with you,� Novak said. “I thought that was a little bit out of reach. “There’s just so many factors that had to fall into place to get a (MAC team to a BCS bowl) and I just wasn’t sure how realistic that was to dream about. I knew we could get facilities, I knew we could win MAC championships, but I wasn’t sure about the possibilities of a BCS bowl berth.�

Now, that possibility is here.

BCS DREAM COMES TRUE

Two days after the Huskies’ MAC championship game win over Kent State, Jordan Lynch – NIU’s Chicago-born junior quarterback – watched as his Twitter feed exploded with Northern Illinois mentions.

But even when Sports Il-

lustrated reported the Huskies’ invitation to the Orange Bowl, Lynch waited.

About 7:40 p.m. local time Dec. 2, just 15 minutes after Compher announced his decision to hire Rod Carey as head coach – the BCS standings, with Northern Illinois slotted in the No. 15 spot, appeared on a large projection screen in a classroom inside the university’s Yordon Center.

As Compher watched players celebrate, he could finally exhale, having learned of the Huskies’ selection a few hours earlier from Steinbrecher. “I could hardly speak,�

Compher said. “It’s one of those moments you don’t forget because you feel kind of choked up because you know what it’s going to mean for everybody. But it really happened. It was almost too hard to believe.�

Lynch has thrown 353 passes this season. That night after hearing Herbstreit’s opinion regarding NIU’s berth, he picked up one of the more than 100 oranges in the room and fired the piece of fruit at the projection screen at the front of the room, squarely hitting his target.

NIU was the only place to recruit Lynch as a quarterback. Lynch grew up watching Northern Illinois play on TV and followed former Huskies running back Garrett Wolfe during his four years with the Bears.

Yet Lynch never traveled to DeKalb until invited to a oneday football camp. By day’s end, he was offered a scholarship. Three years later, he’s part of BCS history.

It’s a fitting chapter for a college football program that has found a home – at least this year – among college football’s elite despite its location and despite not operating at the same level as many of it’s bigger BCS brethren. “With all the cornfields – it’s pretty dead here,� Lynch said. “But our team is such a family and we have fun with that. And here, you’re always around your family.�

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FCS QUARTERFINALS: EASTERN WASHINGTON 51, ILLINOIS STATE 35

E. Washington ends Illinois St.’s season

By DAVE TRIMMER The Associated Press

AP photo

Navy’s Shawn Lynch (right) pulls in a pass as Army’s Josh Jackson chases during the first half Saturday in Philadelphia. Navy defeated Army, 17-13.

navy 17, army 13

Navy holds off Army

By DAN GELSTON The Associated Press PHILADELPHIA – Navy can hook an anchor to the Commander-in-Chief’s Trophy and bring it to Annapolis.

Keenan Reynolds extended Navy’s dominance against Army, scoring the winning touchdown late in the fourth quarter in a 17-13 victory in the 113th rivalry game Saturday.

Navy (8-4) beat Army for the 11th straight time and won the Commander-in-Chief’s Trophy awarded to the team with the best record in games among the three service academies.

Army and Navy each beat Air Force, putting the prestigious trophy up for grabs in the regular-season finale for the first time since 2005.

“It means everything,” Navy coach Ken Niumatalolo said. “That’s our No. 1 goal, to get the Commander-in-Chief’s Trophy. I’m just so happy for these guys.”

Army (2-10) hasn’t hoisted the CIC trophy since 1996.

The Black Knights came

close, but Navy recovered a late fumble, and Reynolds’ 8-yard rushing score made it 17-13.

In front of 69,607 fans and Vice President Joe Biden at Lincoln Financial Field, Navy caught a break when Army missed a late field-goal attempt.

Reynolds quickly found Brandon Turner down the sideline for a 49-yard gain.

Reynolds then escaped a rush and followed with the 8-yard touchdown run with 4:41 left in the game.

Unlike previous games over the last decade, the Black Knights were in this one until the final drive. Army had driven to the 14 when fullback Larry Dixon fumbled on a sloppy exchange. Navy recovered and the Midshipmen went wild and rushed the field.

The CIC trophy was coming back to the Naval Academy for a record 13th time after a twoyear stint at Air Force.

Before Navy started its 11game winning streak, the longest one in the series, started in 1890, was only five games

for either team.

The Midshipmen gathered at midfield and posed with the trophy while their classmates in the stands celebrated the win.

This one was the toughest victory yet during the streak.

Late in the third, Army’s James Kelly stripped the ball and linebacker Alex Meier recovered to give the Black Knights the ball at Navy’s 37.

Eric Osteen kicked a 21-yard field goal 10 plays later for a 13-10 lead.

Osteen, however, was wide left on a 37-yard attempt with 6:57 left in the game.

Navy made them pay on Reynolds’ score. The Midshipmen now lead the series 57-497 “It’s hard to do,” Niumatalolo said. “It’s hard to beat anybody in a rivalry game, but to do it that long just speaks volumes about the guys in the white jerseys.”

Navy not only won 11 straight, but pretty much dominated the Black Knights, winning games in 2007 and 2008 by a combined 74-3 score.

CHENEY, Wash. – Kyle Padron threw a school-record-tying six touchdown passes, including two to Brandon Kaufman on backto-back plays early in the third quarter, to lift secondseeded Eastern Washington to a 51-35 win over Illinois State in the quarterfinals of the Football Championship Subdivision playoffs Saturday evening.

With a 24-17 lead at the half, Padron dropped a perfect pass into Kaufman’s hands at the goal line. Ronnie Hamlin intercepted ISU quarterback Matt Brown on the next play, setting up Padron’s 17-yard strike to Kaufman in the back right corner of the end zone for a 38-17 lead at the 11:01 mark.

Padron completed 19

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Eastern Washington defensive back Jeff Minnerly (left) tries to tackle Illinois State receiver Lechein Neblett during the first half of an FCS quarterfinal Saturday at Roos Field in Cheney, Wash. of 33 passes for 358 yards.

Kaufman added a clutch 76yard catch-and-run early in the fourth quarter after the Redbirds (9-4) had scored 18 straight points to close with-

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The Eagles (11-2), the national champions two seasons ago, host Sam Houston State in a semifinal next weekend.

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Crystal Lake Central 59 Crystal Lake South 47

Prairie Ridge 4 Glenbrook South 2 Glenbrook South Prairie Ridge

CL South CL Central

Goalie saves: McMahon (GS) 23, Hentz (PR) 24.

3-point goals: CL South 4 (Geske 2, Rogers, Schiller), CL Central 3 (C. Murphy, Thomas, Fleck). Total fouls: CL South 21, CL Central 13. Fouled out: Bartusch, Schumaker.

Jacobs 55, Cary-Grove 48 Jacobs (55) Ojo 3 4-5 11, Ledinsky 8 0-2 16, Ross 1 0-0 2, Orange 2 0-0 6, Micel 2 4-4 8, Nerja 2 0-0 5, Schwerdtmann 3 0-0 7. Totals: 21 8-11 55.

Cary-Grove (48) Szydlo 3 0-0 9, Gregoire 6 3-3 17, Marunde 1 0-0 2, Motzel 3 0-3 6, Lee 1 3-8 5, Plazak 2 3-4 7, Splitt 1 0-0 2, Crowley 0 0-2 0. Totals: 17 9-20 48 Jacobs Cary-Grove

9 11 16 19 – 55 14 13 11 12 – 48

Three-point goals: Jacobs 6 (Lake, Orange 2, Nerja 2, Schwerdtmann), CaryGrove 5 (Szydlo 3, Gregoire 2). Total fouls: Jacobs 15, Cary-Grove 13.

Woodstock 65 Big Foot (Wis.) 27 WOODSTOCK (65) Ferguson 0 2-5 2, Meyer 0 2-4 2, Kaufmann 0 0-0 0, Benjamin 3 0-0 8, Layoff 0 0-0 0, Ammirati 1 0-0 3, Turner 8 4-5 21, Sutter 1 0-0 2, Kohley 2 0-0 5, McCoy 2 0-0 4, Scott 1 0-0 2, Stoneking 5 3-4 13, Kubiak 0 0-0 0. Totals 24 11-18 65.

BIG FOOT (27) Quick 1 2-2 4, N. Freytag 2 2-4 6, Halmo 0 0-0 0, Goulet-Daiymault 1 0-0 3, Kinerk 0 2-4 2, D. Freytag 0 0-2 0, Huerta 0 0-2 0, Pearce 1 0-2 2, Schauf 1 0-1 2, Colby 1 1-5 3, Wedig 1 3-5 5. Totals: 8 11-27 27.

Woodstock Big Foot

19 7 25 14 – 65 4 9 8 6 - 27

3-point goals: Woodstock 5 (Benjamin 2, Ammirati, Turner, Kohley), Big Foot 1 (Goulet-Daiymault).

GIRLS BASKETBALL Crystal Lake South 43 Crystal Lake Central 33 CL SOUTH (43) Cassiano 0 1-2 0 1, Madoni 3 0-0 7, Oros 0 0-0 0, Nolan 0 0-0 0, Ryan 0 0-0 0, Rasmussen 2 0-0 6, DeJesus 0 0-0 0, Gauger 0 0-0 0, Massie 0 0-0 0, Ellison 0 0-0 0, Mickow 6 7-8 19, Clark 0 0-0 0, Blakey 0 0-0 0, Del Vecchio 1 5-8 7, Fuchs 0 0-0 0, Fanter 0 3-4 3. Totals: 12 16-22 43.

CL CENTRAL (33) Youel 2 3-4 7, McGuire 0 0-0 0, Schmitt 3 0-0 8, Dalman 0 0-0 0, Ellman 3 2-3 8, Dowell-Celestin 2 2-2 6, McConnell 2 0-0 4, Bernero 0 0-0 0, Wozniak 0 0-0 0.

Totals: 12 7-9 33.

CL South CL Central

10 8 14 11 – 43 5 4 14 10 – 33

Three-point goals: CL South 3 (Rasmussen 2, Madoni), CL Central 2 (Schmitt 2). Total fouls: CL South 12, CL Central 14. Fouled out: Youel (CL Central).

Fremd 61, Jacobs 27 Fremd (61) La Barge 4-2-2-10, Biedo 2-1-1-5, Vilirians 1-1-2-3, McConnell 5-3-4-13, Wittel 4-0-0-8, Lortz 3-0-0-6, Lewis 1-0-0-2, Simios 1-2-2-4, Jeia 2-0-0-4, Lenahan 3-0-0-6. Totals: 26-9-11-61.

Jacobs (27) Von Vlierbergan 0-2-3-2, Grady 1-0-0-2, Tamburrino 2-2-2-6, Chapa 0-0-2-0, Berg 1-0-0-2, Barnee 5-1-2-13, Batroolai 1-0-02. Totals: 10-5-9-27.

Fremd Jacobs

15 22 13 11 - 61 8 5 6 8 - 27

Three-point goals: Fremd 0, Jacobs 2 (Barnee). Total fouls: Fremd 14, Jacobs 14.

Richmond-Burton 66 Harvard 20 Richmond-Burton (66) Callanan 5-2-2-15, Lytle 1-0-0-2, Koren 1-0-0-2, Kaeseberg 4-0-0-8, Koenig 1-2-34, Boettjer 3-0-0-6, Fox 8-0-0-16, Tasker 1-0-0-2. Totals: 27-5-6-66.

Harvard (20) Hernandez 1-0-0-2, Blazien 2-0-2-4, Powell 0-1-2-1, McCloud 1-2-2-4, Jacobs 0-1-3-1, Linhart 3-0-2-8. Totals: 7-4-11-20.

Richmond-Burton 9 10 28 19 - 66 Harvard 7 5 3 5 - 20 Three-point goals: Richmond-Burton 3 (Callanan 3), Harvard 2 (Linhart 2).

Total fouls: Richmond-Burton 10, Harvard 10.

0 3

2 – 2 0 – 4

First period PR–C. Pierce, 16:58 Second period PR–K. Pierce (Zordan), 1:59 PR–Tarazi (Biewald), 10:39 PR–Tarazi (Van Damme, Biewald), 16:17 Third period GS–Buckingham (Savino, Abbott), 1:16 GS–Bielanski (Savino), 4:56

GIRLS BOWLING Woodstock 2,002 Evanston 1,962 Woodstock: Kunke 93 93, LindseyRobbins 121-151-156 428, Stieg 120138-133 391, Busch 135-143-188 466, Zurawski 122 122, Butenschoen 89-133 222, Ciskowski 166-114 280. Totals: 558731-713 2,002.

Evanston: Aaron 134-135-150 419, Dortch 103-121-141 365, Patina 129-10898 335, Byrom 122-150-121 393, Dumas 148-138-164 450. Totals: 636-652-674 1,962.

BOYS BOWLING Viking invitational

at Don Carter Lanes in Rockford Team scores: 1. Guilford 6,427; 15.

McHenry 5,867; 22. Marengo 5,363.

Marengo: Alt 179-162-181-188-176190 1,076, Tengler 157-154-147 458, Termini 214-193-164-192-176-158 1,097, Jordan 217-190-173-181-164-170 1,095, Gross 226-201-146-215-181-184 1,153, Gaeta 184-137-163 484. Totals: 993-900848-913-844-865 5,363.

WRESTLING Woodstock Quadrangular

Grant 54, Woodstock 13 106: Cook (G) by fft.

113: by fft.

120: Parent (G) by fft.

126: Drabek (G) fall. Olivas 2:48 132: Cornato (G) dec. Hodony, 9-3 138: Bowen (G) dec. Zange, 16-12 145: Sandberg (WS) dec. Gloruez, 6-0 152: Wilson (G) fall. Wilson, :33 160: Hafer (WS) maj. dec. Cahn, 14-3 170: Ryan (WS) by fft.

182: Isidore (G) by fft.

195: Harrington (G) fall. Johnson, 3:41 220: Flores (G) by fft.

285: Gomez (G) fall. Michael, 1:33

Harvard 57, Woodstock 6 106: Luis (Har) by fft.

113: Struck (Har) by fft.

120: Pena (Har) by fft.

126: Peterson (Har) dec. Olivas, 4-1 132: Shelton (Har) fall. Hourdey, 1:57 138: Kramer (Har) dec. Zange, 7-2 145: Reilly (Har) dec. Sandberg 6-5 152: Rudd (Har) dec. Rodriguez, 6-3 160: Heck (Har) dec. Hafer, 9-8 170: Plourde (WS) fall. Wheeler, 3:02 182: Mejia (Har) by fft.

195: Martin (Har) dec. Johnson, 5-3 220: Anderson (Har) by fft.

285: Freimund (Har) fall. Michael, 1:24

Zion-Benton 35, Woodstock 30 106: Munoz (ZB) by. fft.

113: Carrillo (ZB) by fft.

120: fft.

126: Osoira (ZB) dec. Olivas, 5-2 132: Rios (ZB) tech. fall. Hodory, 17-1 138: Nien (ZB) fall. Zange, 5:30 145: Sundberg (WS) fall. Hooven, 6:44 152: Rodriguez (WS) by fft.

160: Perez (ZB) fall. Hafer, 1:58 170: W (ZB) dec. Sebert, 6-0 182: Nupen (ZB) dec. Plourde, 4-3 195: Johnson (WS) by fft.

220: fft.

285: Michael (WS) fall. Blair, 2:45

Harvard 42, Zion-Benton 29 106: Luis (Har) dec. Munoz, 1-0 113: Carrillo (ZB) tech. fall. Bielski, 17-0 120: Pena (Har) p. Ospina, 3:52 126: Peterson (Har) by fft.

132: Rics (ZB) by fft.

138: Shelton (Har) p. Devin, 1:25 145: Kramer (Har) dec. Hooven, 8-3 152: Rudd (Har) by fft.

160: Perez (ZB) dec. Heck, 6-3 170: Whitehead (ZB) p. Wheeler, 2:24 182: Nupen (ZB) dec. Martin, 8-4 195: Anderson (Har) by fft.

220: Blair (ZB) p. Espain, 3:19 285: Freimund (Har) by fft.

Grant 46, Harvard 13 106: Luis (Har) dec. Koch, 10-5 113: Datlovsky (G) maj. dec. Struck, 10-0 120: Pavent (G) maj. dec. Pena, 15-2 126: Drebek (G) maj. dec. Peterson, 11-2 132: Shelton (Har) maj. dec. Coranado, 13-2 138: Kouvelis (G) dec. Kramer, 3-1 145: Franella (G) tech. fall. Reilly 22-7 152: Vroman (G) tech. fall. Rudd, 16-0 160: Heck (Har) dec. Torres, 7-3 170: Wheeler (Har) dec. Khan, 5-0 182: Cashmore (G) p. Mejia, 1:20 195: Lalanda (G) p. Martin, 1:24 220: Haran (G) p. Anderson, 3:03 285: Haeffele (G) dec. Freimund, 5-1

betting odds Glantz-Culver Line NCAA Football Dec. 15 New Mexico Bowl At Albuquerque, N.M. FAVORITE TODAY O/U UNDERDOG Arizona 9½ (75½) Nevada Famous Idaho Potato Bowl At Boise, Idaho Utah St. 10 (58½) Toledo Dec. 20 Poinsettia Bowl BYU 2½ (49) at San Dgo St. Dec. 21 Beef ‘O’ Brady’s Bowl At St. Petersburg, Fla. UCF 7 (61½) Ball St. Dec. 22 New Orleans Bowl La.-Lafayette 6 (64) E. Carolina Las Vegas Bowl Boise St. 5½ (46) Washington Dec. 24 Hawaii Bowl At Honolulu Fresno St. 11½ (59½) SMU Dec. 26 Little Caesars Pizza Bowl At Detroit W. Kentucky 5½ (59) C. Michigan Dec. 27 Military Bowl At Washington San Jose St. 7½ (47) Bowling Green Belk Bowl At Charlotte, N.C. Cincinnati 7½ (59) Duke Holiday Bowl At San Diego UCLA 1 (79½) Baylor Dec. 28 Independence Bowl At Shreveport, La. La.-Monroe 7 (60) Ohio Russell Athletic Bowl At Orlando, Fla. Virginia Tech 2 (41½) Rutgers Meineke Car Care Bowl At Houston Texas Tech 13 (57) Minnesota Dec. 29 Armed Forces Bowl At Fort Worth, Texas Air Force 1 (61) Rice Fight Hunger Bowl At San Francisco Arizona St. OFF OFF Navy Pinstripe Bowl At New York West Virginia 4 (73½) Syracuse Alamo Bowl At San Antonio Oregon St. 2 (56½) Texas Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl At Tempe, Ariz.

TCU 2½ (41) Michigan St. Dec. 31 Music City Bowl At Nashville, Tenn.

Vanderbilt 6½ (51½) NC State Sun Bowl At El Paso, Texas Southern Cal 10 (64) Georgia Tech Liberty Bowl At Memphis, Tenn.

Tulsa Pk (51) Iowa St. Chick-fil-A Bowl At Atlanta LSU 4 (58½) Clemson Jan. 1 Heart of Dallas Bowl Oklahoma St. 16½ (70) Purdue Gator Bowl At Jacksonville, Fla. Mississippi St. 2 (51½) Northwstern

106: Nguyen (GBE) by fft.

113: Rodgers (GBE) fall. Herrera, 5:06 120: Sutton (RB) dec. Olson, 9-5 126: Drew (GBE) fall. Spicuzza, :36 132: Kennedy (RB) fall. Salvino, 1:24 138: Tomlinson (GBE) by fft.

145: Martin (GBE) by fft.

152: Sutton (RB) by fft.

160: Hlousek (GBE) by fft.

170: Lueck (GBE) by fft.

182: Chlebek (GBE) by fft.

195: Al-Ghoul (GBE) by fft.

220: Vincent (GBE) fall. 1:41 Battaglia, 1:41 285: Johnson (GBE) by fft.

Waubonsie Valley 36 Richmond-Burton 30 106: Hampton (WBV) by fft.

113: Herrera (RB) fall. Amor, 1:52 120: Sutton (RB) fall. Pugliese, 1:28 126: Spicuzza (RB) fall Keatiny, :33 132: Kennedy (RB) fall Grosh, 3:48 138: Beatty (WBV) by fft.

145: fft.

152: Sutton (RB) fall. Salinas, 2:44 160: Laws (WBV) by fft.

170: Marple (WBV) by fft.

182: fft.

195: fft.

220: Napolitano (WBV) fall. Battaglia, 2:28 285: Rodriguez (WBV) by fft.

Oswego East 54 Richmond-Burton 28 106: Kerr (OE) by fft.

113: Herrera (RB) by fft.

120: Sutton (RB) tech. fall. Scalitine, 2:35 126: Spicuzza (RB) by fft.

132: Kennedy (RB) fall Underwood, 3:20 138: Miller (OE) by fft.

145: Draksler (OE) by fft.

152: Sutton (RB) tech. fall. Chastain, 4:00 160: Wodsworth (OE) by fft.

170: Iannatone (OE) by fft.

182: Prinz (OE) by fft.

195: Moran (OE) by fft.

220: Chavez (OE) fall. Battaglia, 1:10 285: McMahon (OE) by fft.

NATIONAL CONFERENCE North W L T Pct PF PA 8 4 0 .667 296 259 8 4 0 .667 294 198 6 6 0 .500 262 272 4 8 0 .333 300 315 East

W L T Pct PF PA N.Y. Giants 7 5 0 .583 321 243 Washington 6 6 0 .500 312 301 Dallas 6 6 0 .500 280 295 Philadelphia 3 9 0 .250 217 320 South

W L T Pct PF PA y-Atlanta 11 1 0 .917 317 229 Tampa Bay 6 6 0 .500 333 285 New Orleans 5 7 0 .417 321 327 Carolina 3 9 0 .250 235 292 West

W L T Pct PF PA San Francisco 8 3 1 .708 289 171 Seattle 7 5 0 .583 242 202 St. Louis 5 6 1 .458 221 267 Arizona 4 8 0 .333 186 234 AMERICAN CONFERENCE East

W L T Pct PF PA y-New England 9 3 0 .750 430 260 N.Y. Jets 5 7 0 .417 228 296 Buffalo 5 7 0 .417 277 337 Miami 5 7 0 .417 227 249 South

W L T Pct PF PA x-Houston 11 1 0 .917 351 221 Indianapolis 8 4 0 .667 265 306 Tennessee 4 8 0 .333 248 359 Jacksonville 2 10 0 .167 206 342 North

W L T Pct PF PA Baltimore 9 3 0 .750 303 242 Pittsburgh 7 5 0 .583 254 230 Cincinnati 7 5 0 .583 302 260 Cleveland 4 8 0 .333 229 265 West

W L T Pct PF PA y-Denver 10 3 0 .769 375 257 San Diego 4 8 0 .333 258 257 Oakland 3 10 0 .231 248 402 Kansas City 2 10 0 .167 188 322 x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division Thursday’s Game Denver 26, Oakland 13 Today’s Games Bears at Minnesota, Noon Baltimore at Washington, Noon Kansas City at Cleveland, Noon San Diego at Pittsburgh, Noon Tennessee at Indianapolis, Noon N.Y. Jets at Jacksonville, Noon Atlanta at Carolina, Noon Philadelphia at Tampa Bay, Noon St. Louis at Buffalo, Noon Dallas at Cincinnati, Noon Miami at San Francisco, 3:05 p.m.

Arizona at Seattle, 3:25 p.m.

New Orleans at N.Y. Giants, 3:25 p.m.

Detroit at Green Bay, 7:20 p.m.

Monday’s Game Houston at New England, 7:30 p.m.

Mudge-McMorrow Invitational at Prospect

Team scores: 1. Barrington 208; 2.

Mount Carmel 194.5; 3. McHenry 188.5; 4. Stillman Valley 142; 5. Addison Trail 133.5; 6. Moline 115.5; 7. Prospect 106; 8. Crystal Lake Central 97.5; 9. York 92; 10. Round Lake 78.5; 11. Crete-Monee 64; 12. Fremd 63; 13. Prairie Ridge 57.5; 14. Loyola 57; 15. Fenwick 50.5; 16.

Glenbrook North 48; 17. Niles North 38; 18. St. Viator 11 Local results McHenry 106: B. Sikula (second) 113: Duh (fourth) 120: M. Sikula (second) 126: Infelise (third) 132: Ostdick (third) 138: Herber (third) 145: Lardy (fourth) 160: Pait (first) 170: Roewer (sixth) 182: Krauser (seventh) 195: Grannemann (eighth) 220: Wyckes (fifth) 285: Hernandez (sixth) Crystal Lake Central 126: Peterson (fourth) 132: L. Lundelius (fourth) 138: Parlberg (seventh) 145: Fugiel (third) 160: Enxing (seventh) 170: Marsden (first) Prairie Ridge 106: Piotrowski (first) 160: Popp (fifth) 195: Zegers (seventh) 220: Bos (seventh)

Schedule Monday

Boys basketball: Woodstock North at Wauconda, Alden-Hebron at Harvard, 7 p.m.

Boys bowling: Huntley at Streamwood, 4 p.m.; Woodstock at Marengo, Larkin at McHenry, 4:30 p.m.

Girls bowling: Elgin at Huntley, 4 p.m.; Woodstock at St. Edward, 4:30 p.m.

college Bowl Glance Saturday, Dec. 15 New Mexico Bowl Nevada (7-5) vs. Arizona (7-5), Noon (ESPN) Famous Idaho Potato Bowl Toledo (9-3) vs. Utah State (10-2), 3:30 p.m. (ESPN) Thursday, Dec. 20 Poinsettia Bowl San Diego State (9-3) vs. BYU (7-5), 7 p.m. (ESPN)

hockey AHL WESTERN CONFERENCE Midwest Division

GP W L OL SL Pts GF GA Rockford 24 13 10 0 1 27 79 72 Grand Rapids 21 12 7 1 1 26 70 60 Wolves 22 10 9 2 1 23 58 66 Milwaukee 21 9 9 2 1 21 58 65 Peoria 22 7 11 2 2 18 50 78 Saturday’s Games Wolves 2, Rockford 1 Albany 3, Bridgeport 1 Springfield 4, St. John’s 2 Adirondack 4, Syracuse 3, SO Providence 3, Worcester 2, SO Toronto 4, Rochester 3 Hamilton 3, Hershey 2 Manchester 9, Connecticut 2 Portland 4, Wilkes-Barre/Scranton 3, SO Norfolk 3, Binghamton 1 San Antonio 4, Oklahoma City 3 Texas 4, Peoria 1 Today’s Games Abbotsford at Toronto, 2 p.m.

Milwaukee at Charlotte, 2 p.m.

Syracuse at Bridgeport, 2 p.m.

Albany at Connecticut, 2 p.m.

Worcester at Manchester, 2 p.m.

Rockford at Grand Rapids, 3 p.m.

Adirondack at Providence, 3:05 p.m.

Oklahoma City at San Antonio, 4:30 p.m.

Peoria at Houston, 5:05 p.m.

Tuesday

Boys basketball: Marian Central at Crystal Lake Central, Marengo at Hampshire, Cary-Grove at Grayslake Central, Huntley at Fremd, Richmond-Burton at Wilmot, 7 p.m.

Girls basketball: Alden-Hebron at Marian Central, 6:30 p.m.; Buffalo Grove at Cary-Grove, CL South at Huntley, McHenry at Jacobs, Prairie Ridge at Dundee-Crown, Johnsburg at Grayslake North, Grayslake Central at Woodstock, Crystal Lake Central at Woodstock North, Valeo Academy at Faith Lutheran, 7 p.m.

Wrestling: Prairie Ridge at Marengo, Alden-Hebron at Mooseheart, 6 p.m.

Girls bowling: Marengo at Rockford Christian, 3:45 p.m.

Boys swimming: Huntley at St. Charles East, 4:30 p.m.; Cary-Grove at Hoffman Estates, 5 p.m.

Wednesday

Girls basketball: Burlington Central at Harvard, 7 p.m.

Wrestling: Marian Central at CL South, 6:30 p.m.

Boys bowling: Westminster Christian at Johnsburg, 4:30 p.m.

Girls bowling: McHenry at Huntley, Westminster Christian at Johnsburg, 4:30 p.m.

NFL Today FAVORITE TODAY O/U UNDERDOG Bears 3 (39) at Minnesota at Washington 2½ (47½) Baltimore at Cleveland 7 (38) Kansas City at Pittsburgh 8 (40) San Diego at Indianapolis 5½ (46½) Tennessee N.Y. Jets 3 (38½) at Jacksnvlle Atlanta 3½ (48) at Carolina at Tampa Bay 7½ (47½) Philadelphia at Buffalo 3 (42½) St. Louis at Cincinnati 3 (45½) Dallas at San Frncisco 10½ (39) Miami at N.Y. Giants 5 (53) New Orleans at Seattle 10 (35½) Arizona at Green Bay 6½ (49) Detroit Monday at New England 3½ (51) Houston NCAA Basketball FAVORITE LINE UNDERDOG at Creighton 10 Akron at Xavier 11 Kent St. at DePaul 11 Milwaukee at California 2½ UNLV at Washington St. 7 Fresno St. at Rider 5 Fairfield at Manhattan 8½ Siena Canisius 1½ at Marist at N. Dakota St.-x 15 North Dakota at Iowa St. 31 Nebraska-Omaha at Florida St. 20 Maine x-at Fargo Dome UNDERDOG Toronto Milwaukee Indiana Denver Orlando Utah

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First Period–1, Rockford, Beach 8 (LeBlanc, Pirri), 18:32.

Second Period–2, Chicago, Ebbett 3 (Connauton, Haydar), 4:53 pp.

Third Period–3, Chicago, Haydar 1 (Sweatt, Schroeder), 7:12.

Shots on goal–Chicago: 15-13-8--36; Rockford: 9-8-7--24. Power plays–Chicago 1-8; Rockford 0-3. Goalies—Chicago, Climie (23-24), Rockford, Hutton (34-36).

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W L Pct Bulls 11 8 .579 Milwaukee 9 9 .500 Indiana 10 10 .500 Detroit 7 15 .318 Cleveland 4 17 .190 Atlantic Division

W L Pct New York 14 5 .737 Brooklyn 11 7 .611 Philadelphia 11 9 .550 Boston 11 9 .550 Toronto 4 16 .200 Southeast Division

W L Pct Miami 13 5 .722 Atlanta 12 5 .706 Charlotte 7 12 .368 Orlando 7 12 .368 Washington 2 15 .118 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division

W L Pct San Antonio 17 4 .810 Memphis 14 4 .778 Dallas 10 10 .500 Houston 9 10 .474 New Orleans 5 14 .263 Northwest Division

W L Pct Oklahoma City 16 4 .800 Utah 11 10 .524 Denver 10 10 .500 Minnesota 9 9 .500 Portland 8 11 .421 Pacific Division

W L Pct L.A. Clippers 13 6 .684 Golden State 13 7 .650 L.A. Lakers 9 11 .450 Sacramento 6 12 .333 Phoenix 7 14 .333

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Saturday’s Games Bulls 93, New York 85 L.A. Clippers 117, Phoenix 99 San Antonio 132, Charlotte 102 Golden State 101, Washington 97 Boston 92, Philadelphia 79 Detroit 104, Cleveland 97 Miami 106, New Orleans 90 Dallas 116, Houston 109 Atlanta 93, Memphis 83 Sacramento at Portland, (n) Today’s Games Toronto at L.A. Clippers, 2:30 p.m.

Milwaukee at Brooklyn, 5 p.m.

Indiana at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m.

Denver at New York, 6:30 p.m.

Orlando at Phoenix, 7 p.m.

Utah at L.A. Lakers, 8:30 p.m.

Monday’s Games Golden State at Charlotte, 6 p.m.

Detroit at Philadelphia, 6 p.m.

Atlanta at Miami, 6:30 p.m.

San Antonio at Houston, 7 p.m.

Sacramento at Dallas, 7:30 p.m.

Toronto at Portland, 9 p.m.

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Women’s College

AP Top 25 Fared

AP Top 25 Fared

Saturday 1. Indiana (9-0) beat Central Connecticut State 100-69. Next: vs. Butler, Saturday.

2. Duke (9-0) beat Temple 90-67. Next: vs. Cornell, Wednesday, Dec. 19.

3. Michigan (9-0) beat Arkansas 80-67.

Next: vs. Binghamton, Tuesday.

4. Syracuse (8-0) beat Monmouth (N.J.) 108-56. Next: vs. Canisius, Saturday.

5. Louisville (8-1) beat UMKC 99-47.

Next: at Memphis, Saturday.

6. Florida (7-0) did not play. Next: at No. 8 Arizona, Saturday.

7. Ohio State (6-1) beat Long Beach State 89-55. Next: vs. Savannah State, Wednesday.

8. Arizona (7-0) beat Clemson 66-54.

Next: vs. No. 6 Florida, Saturday.

9. Kansas (7-1) beat Colorado 90-54.

Next: vs. Belmont, Saturday.

10. Gonzaga (9-1) lost to No. 13 Illinois 85-74. Next: vs. Kansas State, Saturday.

11. Cincinnati (9-0) beat MarylandEastern Shore 92-60. Next: at Marshall, Saturday.

12. Missouri (8-1) beat Tennessee State 68-38. Next: vs. South Carolina State, Monday, Dec. 17.

13. Illinois (10-0) beat No. 10 Gonzaga 85-74. Next: vs. Norfolk State, Tuesday.

14. Minnesota (9-1) at Southern Cal. Next: vs. North Dakota State, Tuesday.

15. Georgetown (7-1) beat Towson 4640. Next: vs. Longwood, Monday.

16. Creighton (8-1) did not play. Next: vs. Akron, Sunday.

17. San Diego State (7-1) did not play.

Next: vs. San Diego, Saturday.

18. New Mexico (10-0) beat Valparaiso 65-52. Next: vs. New Mexico State, Saturday.

19. Michigan State (8-2) beat Loyola of Chicago 73-61. Next: vs. Tuskegee, Saturday.

20. North Carolina (7-2) beat East Tennessee State 78-55. Next: vs. East Carolina, Saturday.

21. UNLV (6-1) did not play. Next: at California, Sunday.

22. Notre Dame (8-1) beat Brown 8457. Next: vs. Purdue, Saturday.

23. Oklahoma State (7-1) beat Missouri State 62-42. Next: vs. Central Arkansas, Sunday, Dec. 16.

24. Wichita State (9-0) beat Northern Colorado 80-54. Next: at Tennessee, Thursday.

25. N.C. State (6-2) beat Cleveland State 80-63. Next: vs. Norfolk State, Saturday.

Saturday 1. Stanford (8-0) did not play. Next: vs.

Pacific, Saturday.

2. UConn (8-0) did not play. Next: vs.

Oakland, Wednesday, Dec. 19.

3. Baylor (7-1) did not play. Next: vs.

Oral Roberts, Wednesday.

4. Duke (7-0) did not play. Next: at St. John’s, Sunday.

5. Notre Dame (6-1) beat Utah State 109-70. Next: vs. Alabama A&M, Wednesday, Dec. 19.

6. Georgia (10-0) did not play. Next: vs.

Lipscomb, Sunday, Dec. 16.

7. Kentucky (7-1) did not play. Next: vs.

Middle Tennessee, Sunday.

8. Louisville (9-1) beat Valparaiso 9640. Next: at Colorado, Friday.

9. Maryland (6-2) beat George Mason 90-40. Next: at Towson, Tuesday.

10. Penn State (6-2) did not play. Next: vs. Georgetown, Sunday.

11. California (7-1) did not play. Next: at Northwestern, Monday, Dec. 17.

12. Texas (6-1) lost to No. 17 UCLA 6242. Next: vs. Louisiana-Monroe, Tuesday.

13. Oklahoma (8-1) did not play. Next: vs. Vanderbilt, Sunday, Dec. 16.

14. Tennessee (6-1) did not play. Next: at No. 12 Texas, Sunday, Dec. 16.

15. Purdue (8-1) did not play. Next: at Tennessee-Martin, Sunday.

16. Oklahoma State (6-0) did not play.

Next: vs. Vermont, Sunday, Dec. 16.

17. Kansas (7-1) did not play. Next: vs.

Newman, Sunday.

17. UCLA (5-1) beat No. 12 Texas 62-42.

Next: vs. Saint Mary’s (Cal), Saturday.

19. Dayton (10-0) beat Michigan State 60-53. Next: at Akron, Tuesday, Dec. 18.

20. Ohio State (5-2) did not play. Next: vs. Lafayette, Sunday.

21. North Carolina (8-1) did not play. Next: vs. North Carolina Central, Wednesday.

22. Iowa State (5-1) did not play.Next: vs. Fairfield, Sunday.

23. Miami (7-1) beat Davidson 67-35.

Next: at Rutgers, Sunday, Dec. 16.

24. Florida State (7-1) lost to No. 25 Nebraska 78-77. Next: vs. Grambling State, Saturday.

25. Nebraska (7-3) beat No. 24 Florida State 78-77. Next: at South Florida, Sunday.

MIDWEST Cleveland St. 87, Miami (Ohio) 75 Dayton 60, Michigan St. 53 Green Bay 55, Marquette 46 Marshall 70, S. Illinois 66 Missouri 97, Ark.-Pine Bluff 59 N. Kentucky 69, Ball St. 67 Nebraska 78, Florida St. 77 Nebraska-Omaha 65, Loyola of Chicago 58 North Dakota 67, Drake 63, OT Notre Dame 109, Utah St. 70 S. Dakota St. 61, N. Iowa 49 SE Missouri 56, W. Illinois 47 SIU-Edwardsville 61, IPFW 54 Toledo 83, Milwaukee 59 W. Michigan 80, Chicago St. 38 Wright St. 73, Akron 71 EAST Albany (NY) 65, Canisius 43 American U. 57, George Washington 54 Binghamton 65, Buffalo 60 Boston U. 62, Marist 56, OT Colgate 67, St. Francis (Pa.) 62 Duquesne 70, Pittsburgh 61 Fairleigh Dickinson 55, St. Peter’s 50 Lehigh 72, Niagara 49 Manhattan 47, Oakland 43 Mount St. Mary’s 53, Navy 45 NJIT 55, Delaware St. 42 Quinnipiac 61, Holy Cross 49 Rhode Island 51, Maine 38 Stony Brook 58, Fordham 46 Syracuse 83, Loyola (Md.) 48 Villanova 55, Saint Joseph’s 51 West Virginia 67, St. Bonaventure 47 Yale 66, St. Francis (NY) 62, OT

Saturday’s Scores

Bulls 93, Knicks 85 NEW YORK (85) Brewer 0-5 0-0 0, Thomas 3-4 0-0 6, Chandler 4-8 6-9 14, Kidd 2-7 0-0 6, Felton 9-30 8-9 27, Smith 4-14 5-6 15, Wallace 2-6 0-0 6, Novak 1-4 4-4 7, Prigioni 0-3 0-0 0, White 2-3 0-0 4. Totals 27-84 23-28 85.

CHICAGO (93) Deng 9-20 4-4 22, Boozer 5-11 2-2 12, Noah 3-7 4-4 10, Hinrich 1-3 0-0 3, Belinelli 8-15 2-2 22, Gibson 1-3 0-0 2, Robinson 4-15 4-4 14, Butler 3-3 2-2 8, Mohammed 0-0 0-0 0, Teague 0-1 0-0 0.

Totals 34-78 18-18 93.

New York Chicago

Saturday’s Scores

23 18 24 20 — 85 26 17 24 26 — 93

3-Point Goals–New York 8-23 (Kidd 2-4, Wallace 2-4, Smith 2-8, Felton 1-3, Novak 1-3, Brewer 0-1), Chicago 7-13 (Belinelli 4-6, Robinson 2-4, Hinrich 1-2, Deng 0-1). Fouled Out–None.

Rebounds–New York 52 (Chandler 18), Chicago 54 (Noah 11). Assists–New York 14 (Felton 5), Chicago 18 (Robinson 8).

Total Fouls–New York 17, Chicago 20.

Technicals–Gibson 2. Ejected— Gibson.

A–21,852 (20,917).

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MIDWEST Ball St. 62, South Dakota 51 Bowling Green 57, Samford 42 Butler 74, Northwestern 65 Chicago St. 67, Alabama St. 54 Cincinnati 92, Md.-Eastern Shore 60 Dayton 83, Miami (Ohio) 61 Detroit 102, Rochester (Mich.) 67 Drake 74, IPFW 64 E. Michigan 47, Purdue 44 Ill.-Chicago 64, Colorado St. 55 Illinois St. 85, W. Michigan 63 Indiana 100, CCSU 69 Kansas 90, Colorado 54 Marquette 60, Wisconsin 50 Michigan 80, Arkansas 67 Michigan State 73, Loyola of Chicago Missouri 68, Tennessee St. 38 Murray St. 82, Evansville 70 Notre Dame 84, Brown 57 Ohio 78, Oakland 61 Ohio St. 89, Long Beach St. 55 Toledo 67, E. Illinois 59 W. Illinois 55, SIU-Edwardsville 38 Wichita St. 80, N. Colorado 54 Wright St. 92, VMI 59 Youngstown St. 71, Hiram 44

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Pros BASEBALL American League SEATTLE MARINERS — Agreed to terms with OF Jason Bay on a one-year contract.

FOOTBALL National Football League CINCINNATI BENGALS — Activated C Kyle Cook from injured reserve. Waived WR Armon Binns.

GREEN BAY PACKERS — Released DT Johnny Jones.

KANSAS CITY CHIEFS — Released OL Hayworth Hicks.

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Oregon 8½ (75½) Kansas St. Jan. 4 Cotton Bowl At Arlington, Texas Texas A&M 4½ (72) Oklahoma Jan. 5 Compass Bowl At Birmingham, Ala. Mississippi 3½ (52) Pittsburgh Jan. 6 GoDaddy.com Bowl At Mobile, Ala. Arkansas St. 4 (61) Kent St. Jan. 7 BCS National Championship At Miami Alabama 9½ (41½) Notre Dame Off Key Navy played Dec. 8

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Business editor: Chris Cashman • ccashman@shawmedia.com DAVE SAYS Dave Ramsey

Should he sell his car to pay debt?

Dear Dave,

I make about $70,000 a year, and I have $9,000 in student loan debt.

I also have a car that would bring enough to allow me to pay off the student loans. Do you think I should sell?

Dear Dave,

– Dave

Nice name! Seriously, there are two questions I ask when it comes to selling a car to pay off debt. One, is the value of your car and other vehicles – including motorcycles, boats and such – more than half of your yearly income? If so, then you have way too much money wrapped up in things that are going down in value. So, unless you’re talking about a super-expensive car, I’d say the answer on this one is no.

The second question is this: Can you become debt-free, except for your home, in 18–24 months without selling the car? If the answer is yes, then I wouldn’t sell the car. There’s no reason to sell your car in this scenario, unless you just really hate the thing or need different transportation.

In this case, it sounds like your car is a reasonable percentage of your income. I’d hold on to it and just save like crazy to kill off this student loan debt. With your income, it shouldn’t take more than a year. Good luck, Dave!

Dear Dave,

– Dave

I have $1,000 in credit card debt, a $12,000 car loan and I owe my parents $20,000. The loan from my parents is causing stress because all I can afford to give them is $200 a month. They don’t need the money, but they’d like to see it paid off soon.

What can I do?

Dear Jacob,

– Jacob

If you’re not already living on a written, monthly budget, that should be the first step. You say your parents don’t need the money, right? So, they’re not living on bread and water without your payments. I think the biggest thing causing them stress is the fear that you’re being irresponsible and living without a plan.

Make out a simple, realistic budget, and sit down with them to explain what you’re doing and how you plan to address things. Start a debt snowball, and begin knocking out your debts smallest to largest.

By the time you pay off the credit cards and the car, you’ll be able to give them lots more than $200 a month.

Just ask mom and dad to stick with you a while longer. I think it will make them feel better to see that you’re serious about getting your finances in order!

– Dave

• Dave Ramsey is America’s trusted voice on money and business. Follow Dave on Twitter at @ DaveRamsey and on the web at daveramsey.com.

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Books of Southwind owners Eric and Hollie Lindgren stand in their newly opened used book store in Algonquin.

Paperback passion Algonquin used book store a new chapter for couple

By STEPHEN Di BENEDETTO sdibenedetto@shawmedia.com ALGONQUIN – Hollie and Eric Lindgren are hoping nostalgia in an era of tablets and e-readers can turn their recently opened used bookstore into a popular commodity for residents around Algonquin.

The couple believes their passion for a classic paperback can rub off in area starved for a physical and affordable bookstore, since grander retailers like the Algonquin Borders closed in 2011.

“People keep telling me that books are becoming obsolete, that Kindles are taking over,” Hollie Lindgren said. “But I still believe that there are a lot of people who still want to hold a book.”

Consumers are increasingly turning to the Amazon Kindle or Barnes and Noble’s Nook for their reading pleasure, even accessing ebooks from cell phones and tablets.

For the first nine months of 2012, U.S. bookstore sales were down 1.6 percent to $11.64 billion from 2011, federal statistics show.

But the downward trend hasn’t deterred Hollie and Eric Lindgren, who share a love for reading.

The former Kane County Board member and her husband opened Books of Southwind, 4069 W. Algonquin Road, in early November.

Located near District 158’s Square Barn Road Campus, the store offers more than 35,000 used books, from romance to mystery to biog-

Books of Southwind Where: 4069 W. Algonquin Road, Algonquin Hours: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday Information: Call 847-802-4601, or visit www.booksofsouthwind.com

raphies.

Borrowing the name from their Huntley subdivision, Books of Southwind offers used books at reasonable prices, Eric Lindgren said. Aside from the classics, used books typically carry a maximum $4 price tag.

The store also offers children’s books for 50 cents. Movies and books on tape also are available.

If customers open an account at Books of Southwind, they’ll receive a 25 percent discount on used books.

The couple’s passion for reading has motivated them to make their mark in the local book retail business. They formerly owned and operated Forever Books in McHenry for the last four years before closing in late September to prepare for the move to Algonquin.

Looking for a more manageable space, the couple has turned a 1,300-square-foot building into orderly shelves, plainly laying out hardcovers, paperbacks, fiction and non-fiction stories.

As with any new business, the

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Hollie Lindgren stacks books at Books of Southwind in Algonquin.

Lindgrens are still trying to find their footing in the new location.

The two were transporting shelves and boxed books for the past few months to prepare for their November opening.

That hasn’t given them much time to get the Books of Southwind name out to the general public. But

the two are planning to advertise with local media, Dex or the Yellow Pages and possibly host book signings that feature local authors.

“You don’t see a lot of used bookstores,” Hollie Lindgren said. “This was the business I thought people would be really looking for – used books.”

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Hiring guidelines for business owners Successful hiring and retaining of top-notch employees is often the key factor distinguishing a thriving business from a failing business.

Employment represents one of the most important investments of time, training and resources many businesses face. However, as most people know, the hiring process is a highly regulated area of the law. In today’s environment, business owners can ill afford to hire the wrong people or face hiring-related litigation. This article provides general hiring guidelines for business owners who are in a non-union setting.

As a first step, employers should take the time to carefully create an accurate and complete job description which is tailored to the specific nature of the job. The investment of time and effort up front will allow employers to determine pre-screen applicants to determine who should receive a “no thank you” letter, who should receive an informational telephone interview, and who should make the short list and receive an immediate interview. The key to cre-

ating an effective job description is to list in a specific fashion the skills, knowledge and experience required for the four to eight most important job functions. The most effective job descriptions contain three elements: the education and experience threshold required for the position; the technical skills necessary to do the work; and the traits and habits required to succeed long-term.

When employers receive applications, whether by traditional methods or through on-line sources, they must comply with the recordkeeping requirements of such laws as the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, Americans with Disabilities Act and Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which (among other things) require employers to retain employment applications for one year. This requirement represents a significant burden for firms which receive hundreds or even thousands of applications each year, often from multiple sources. Employers should control the hiring process and discourage employees from posting

BUSINESS LAW Chad Mihevc openings or receiving applications from individual sources such as Facebook. Finally, employers should shut down ads immediately after the position is filled in order to cut off the timeline for legal record-keeping requirements.

Employers should carefully formulate the questions they ask applicants in the pre-screening and personal interview process. Questions should focus on past performance and the requirements listed for the job opening. Pre-formulated and follow-up questions should relate to the skills and knowledge required for the job and should not delve into the areas of lifestyle or personal habits.

Every question should be designed toward eliciting information that will demonstrate the applicant’s ability to successfully perform the job.

Employers should avoid interview

questions that will not demonstrate the applicant’s qualifications and ability to do the job.

From a legal standpoint, employers should not ask questions in the areas of protected classifications, which can lead to discriminatory hiring claims. Interviewers should not ask questions related to an applicant’s (1) age except to verify a minimum age requirement; (2) race, including asking particular questions only to members of a certain race or color; (3) sex, including questions which only apply to males or females (for example, do not ask “Do you plan on having children?”); (4) sexual orientation; (5) marital status; (6) disability; (7) religion, including mention of the employer’s own religious beliefs or customs; (8) union affiliation; (9) worker’s compensation filings; (10) military service or status; (11) membership in organizations which may reveal the applicant’s protected status; or (12) national origin or place of birth, although you can ask for proof that the applicant is eligible to work in

the United States.

Interviewers should avoid informal conversation during the interview. Even seemingly innocent questions and informal small talk can stray into dangerous legal waters. For example, a question such as “My sister attended that school also, what year did you graduate?” may disclose information in a protected classification (age, in this case), which can lead to claims for discriminatory failure to hire. As much as possible, interviewers should stick to the script in order to obtain the information that is central to the goal of hiring people who have the education, experience, knowledge, skills and personal traits which will help the business succeed over the long term.

• Chad Mihevc is a partner with the law firm of Flores & Mihevc LLC based in Deerfield and McHenry, and can be reached at chad@ floresmihevc.com. Flores & Mihevc focuses on business law, commercial real estate and banking law.

8FACES & PLACES Driver of the Year honors at Advantage Moving Peeter Gill of Elgin has been named a Driver of the Year by Wheaton World Wide Moving/ Bekins Van Lines.

Gill drives for Advantage Moving & Storage Inc. in Algonquin, and has more than 12 years of experience in household goods, and has been qualified with Wheaton since 2005.

The Driver of the Year awards were given to individuals who earned a Driver of the Month award from September 2011 through August 2012 and who consistently provide superior service to Wheaton/Bekins’ customers.

Wheaton Van Lines Inc. is one of the world’s most highly regarded providers of transportation services. Wheaton Van Lines now owns two household goods relocation brands, Wheaton World Wide Moving and Bekins Van Lines. The van line is now the fourth largest household goods carrier, headquartered in Indianapolis.

B&W Control named to Business 500 list CRYSTAL LAKE – B&W Control Systems Integration has been named to the Ingram Micro Small and Midsize Business 500 list. Unveiled at the Ingram Micro 2012 “Turn the Tables” Fall SMB Invitational in Rancho Mirage, Calif., the inaugural list celebrates the top 500 fastestgrowing Ingram Micro U.S. channel partners focused on small and midsize businesses.

Ranked at No. 22, BWCSI grew its business with Ingram Micro by more than 685 percent between June 2009 and June 2012. Ingram Micro is the only global broad-based IT distributor, serving more than 145 countries on six continents with the world’s most comprehensive portfolio of IT products and services.

BWCSI, a fully-owned sub-

sidiary of Baxter & Woodman Inc., was formed in 1999 to help government agencies make effective use of technology.

Water/wastewater energy efficiency automation projects, as well as information technology consulting and implementation solutions, are among BWCSI’s specialized services.

Baxter & Woodman is an employee-owned Engineering News-Record Top 500 Design Firm, which provides planning, design, construction and technology services for water, wastewater, stormwater and transportation facilities.

Municipalities, counties and state agencies are served from nine regional offices in northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin.

Senior electrical engineer earns LEED designation CRYSTAL LAKE – Baxter & Woodman Inc. Consulting Engineers has announce that Gary S. Wall, manager of the firm’s Electrical Design Department, has earned his LEED Professional Credential from the U.S. Green Building Certification Institute. A LEED Professional Credential provides employers, policymakers and other stakeholders with assurances of an individual’s level of competence and is the mark of the most qualified, educated and influential green building professionals in the marketplace.

Wall of Carpentersville is a licensed professional engineer in multiple states including Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin which is the hub of municipal clients for the long-standing civil engineering firm. He brings to the firm 25 years of expertise in the government, health care, and transportation public sector providing electrical design on multimillion-dollar projects for Metra, CTA, Children’s Memorial Hospital and the renovation of the Dirksen Federal Building.

He is also a Chicago Registered Energy Professional.

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David Wasmund, owner of Harbor Freight Tools at 6324 Northwest Hwy., Crystal Lake, celebrates the opening of the business with other chamber members and friends.

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A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held recently at Carnicería Y Frutería La Frontera, 7 N. Ayer St., Harvard. Included in the picture are Jesus Tolentino, Ernesto Olmedo, Juan Marchan, Adriana Miranda, J. Gabriel Hernandez and Judy Hernandez.

8TIME CAPSULE

Bosshard Mill provided for area farmers’ needs

Photo provided by the McHenry County Historical Society

The H.H. Bosshard Mill on Jefferson Street in Woodstock was one of the largest grinding businesses in the area in the 1900’s. The business handled flour, grain, hay, straw, oats and corn. It also offered proprietary livestock remedies.

Herman Henry Bosshard purchased the business formerly owned

by Caskey and Burger.

Bosshard employed E.E. McBroom as his assistant.

McBroom, having recently been a farmer himself, was well-acquainted with farmers’ needs.

The high quality of their product was a point of pride. “No chances are taken with goods purchased here,” states a 1909 ad. Their selection of goods available will result “in satisfaction to our customers and profit to us.”

Son Edwin Bosshard was later associated with his father in the business. Edwin was one of the organizers of the gala homecoming celebration in June 1919 to welcome back World War I soldiers returning to Woodstock.

BUSINESS Chamber honors Skyridge Club Apartments

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Skyridge Club Apartments, 1395 Skyridge Drive, Crystal Lake, was recognized for 25 years of continuous membership with the Crystal Lake Chamber of Commerce. Pictured (from left) are Jeff Sims of AAA Chicago Motor Club, Amy Landsberg of Sky Ridge Club Apartments, chamber President Gary Reece, Laura Camp of Sky Ridge Club Apartments, and Gail Young of AAA Chicago Motor Club.

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Bull Valley $799,000 Expansive handcrafted custom pine & stone log 4 br, 2.5 ba home.

Built on gently sloping 3-acre lot, Catch glimpse of “cabin in the woods” meets the Ritz! Vaulted ceils.

Chaz Walters 773-868-3080

Crystal Lake $699,900 Custom 4 br, 2.5 ba home on the Fox River. Build your dream home on a heavily wooded 1.65 acre lot w/123 ft of waterfront. Base price includes lot and standard specs.

Samantha Kalamaras 847-858-7725

Fox River Grove $575,000 Fabulous 5 br, 3 ba home. Barrington schools. 9 foot ceilings, 2-story family room w/fireplace, 1st floor study, 1st floor br w/full bath. 3 car side loaded garage.

Sherl Wheeler 847-370-3808

Algonquin $475,000 Magnificent traditional custom 4 br, 4.5 ba home w/abundance of upgrades & amenities. 2 story foyer, dual custom staircases, 10 ft ceilings with 8 ft arched doorways.

Caren Miller 847-465-3662

Crystal Lake $374,900 Gorgeous custom 4 br, 2.5 ba home Hardwood flrs, 2-story foyer.

Full basement w 9 ft ceiling. Close to trains, lakes, shopping. Huge yard & deck. Master luxury ba.

Amy Diamond 847-222-8741

Algonquin $339,900 Gorgeous 4 br, 2+2 ba 2-story w/hdwd flrs & cer baths. Gour island kit w/cherry cabs. Fully finished bsmt w/ba, wet bar, French drs to ofc/5th br/exercise rm. Pond loc.

Arlene Friedli 847-222-8638

Algonquin $319,900 4 br, 2.5 ba home in Creekside Glens on lrg lot! w/tree-line bkyd.

2-sty expanded fam rm, open kit, huge full walk-out bsmt, large frml liv & din, 1st-flr den/ofc & more.

Dorthy Pastorelli 847-682-8694

Lake in the Hills $324,900 Boulder Ridge Est 4 br, 3.5 ba home w/circular drive. Vaul ceil w/ bridge staircase, lofted den, cust kit & grand fireplace. Frml liv & din.

1st-flr master. 3-car garage.

Alana Golubic 773-710-6938

Cary $310,000 Charming 4 br, 3 ba home w/open flr plan & vaul ceil. Oak hdwd flrs 1st flr, den & 2-story fam rm w/fplc. full Full bsmt w/9 ft ceil & plumbed ba. .5 acre lot. Conv loc.

Donna Veller 847-826-1530

Crystal Lake $295,000 4 br, 2.5 ba home w/wrap-around front porch, lrg foyer, island kit w/42” cabs & eating area. 2-story fam rm w/stone fireplace & back stairs to 2nd level. Vaulted master.

Joan Burny 847-277-2705

Algonquin $294,000 Spacious 4 br, 3.5 ba home w/nice-size kit open to fam rm, sep din & liv rm, fin bsmt w/5th br & full bath, fenced yard, brick patio. Appl & security system! Conv loc.

Gina Jordanov 847-809-2656

Cary $285,000 Open 4-5 br, 4 ba home w/1st-flr ofc. Fab kit w/mpl cabs, ss appl & granite counters. Mahogany flrs, crwn mldg & fam rm w/gas fplc.

Fin bsmt. Deck w/tree-lined view.

Joan Burny 847-277-2705

Algonquin $279,900 Beautifully maintained 4 br, 2.5 ba Colonial. Fabulous location!

Family room with inlay bur-bur and hardwood floor, gas/wood burn fireplace. 3-tier deck. 5 yr roof, furn.

Arlene Friedli 847-222-8638

Algonquin $239,900 3 br, 3.5 ba home w/2-story foyer. Newer hdwd flrs in kit & fam rm.

Remod maple kit w/newer appl. Vaul master w/walk-in closet & ba.

Dual staircase. Fplc. Fin bamt. Deck.

Michael Pisto 630-253-3084

Huntley $114,900 Sunny & neut 2 br, 2 ba end-unit TH w/private ent, open flr plan, new carpet, kit w/42” mpl cabs, master w/walk-in closet & ba. Lrg fam/din rm & newer w/d. 2-car att gar.

Audrey George 847-222-8697

Huntley $113,900 Spacious 2 br, 2 ba ranch villa w/bright open floor plan! Breakfast bar, sep eating area, generous kit cabs & counters. 2-car extra deep gar, 9’ ceilings, patio & more.

Samantha Schroeder 847-301-3100

Cary $109,900 2 br, 2.5 ba unit w/bright open flr plan w/newer carpet & hdwd flrs.

Eat-in kit w/sliders to balc. Main-flr lndry & .5 bath. 2 master vaul master brs w/baths. Fin bsmt.

Steve Cohen 847-222-8686

Lakemoor $39,900 Newer home w/dbl lot on the golf course. Built-in cabs, desk area & built-in dressers in master. 2nd lot has a pad for an RV/boat. Shed.

Algonquin $175,000 3 br, 2 ba newly rehabbed home. Refin hdwd & Corian counters.

New paint/carpet, light fixt & more. Bsmt w/br/den/ofc. Newer furn & a/c. Wooded lot. Fox River boat launch.

Edie Glenn 630-587-4614

Marengo $1,299,000 4 br, 5.5 ba home + 10 acres w/3-story great rm, dream kit, mstr suite w/spiral staircase to priv turret overlooking pond & 10,000 sq ft heated ban w/8 horse stalls.

Elke Roberts 630-530-2500 Crystal Lake $819,900 Brand new subdivision-The Woods of Stone Ridge. 4 br, 3.5 ba beaut new construction or lots for sale. 2 wooded lots on the river available for sale or builder has plans.

Terry Herriges 847-533-7976 Mortgage 888-424-5490

Title 847-824-8290

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Crystal Lake $449,900 5 br, 4 ba showplace home w/rosewood flrs. Newer granite & ss kit.

All baths maxxed, master w/tray ceil & lux whrlpl ba. Guest br w/ full ba & walk-in. Fin LL & much more.

Herb Grunst 847-525-1112

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Fox River Grove $325,000 Outstanding 2 br, 3 ba riverfront home w/Barrington schools! It boasts 3 large dens, updated w/newly finished walk-out lower level.

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Algonquin $249,900 3 br, 2.5 ba home w/hdwd flrs, fab island kit w/cherry cabs & granite cntrs. See-thru fplc, skylights, 6-panel drs, bay window, vaul ceil, full bsmt, whrlpl mstr ba.

Sandee Abern and Clint Wolf 847-465-3667

Algonquin $220,000 Stunning 2 br, 2.5 ba unit w/pond loc. Hardwood floors, eat-in kitchen, sep breakfast area. Beaut din rm. Prof landscaped w/mature trees, sprinkler sys, Deck w/views.

Arlene Friedli 847-222-8638

Crystal Lake $325,000 One-of-a-kind 3 br, 2.5 ba contemporary ranch on nearly 1.5 wooded acres. Very private, yet close to town. Many recent updates. Living rm w/fplc, din rm w/bar.

3 decks.

Laura Balistreri 847-277-2707

McHenry $225,000 4 br, 3.5 ba Colonial w/2-sty foyer, eat-in kit w/wood flrs. Prof landscaped. Liv rm w/fplc. 1st flr laundry. Fin bsmt w/9’ ceil, ofc & ba. 2.5-car garage. Walk to park.

Harry Gold 847-945-7100

Cary $129,990 Cozy 3 br, 2 ba country cottage on the hill. Private wooded retreat. Great flr plan.

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BUSINESS

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Wake up your watchdog If Bowser, your big, tough watchdog, was asleep in his doghouse as prowlers raided and trashed your house, you might consider kicking him out the door. Bowser’s job was simple: bark his head off and scare the pants off the intruders. He might have even taken a chunk off the thieves’ bottoms as they ran away.

His failure to protect you and your possessions would leave a lasting impression.

The damage done transcends the loss of physical objects. Objects can be replaced, mostly, but the feelings of having been violated and having lost security endure.

Now, replace inept Bowser with another watchdog,

local finance Amy Barrett the Securities and Exchange Commission. Better known as the SEC, this federal organization has been given the power to monitor the thieves in the investment industry.

How good is the SEC at protecting us? On the whole, the SEC has done an extraordinary job at stopping the bad guys. For the most part, we can rest assured that our money will still be there when we wake up.

Unfortunately, due to funding cuts at the SEC and the cleverness of the thieves,

we have a responsibility to wake up our own watchdogs: ourselves. Although you might not like the idea of having to police your investments, you cannot ignore potential risks, merely hoping for the best. A wiser approach is to take a few simple steps.

First step, make sure your financial investment manager, whether it be a broker/ dealer, a registered investment adviser or other financial entity, is supervised by a government agency such as the SEC or state regulators.

Verify that the manager is in good standing with the agency.

Second step, you should also investigate whether the

individual with whom you work has ever received a fine, penalty, or other mark against his record. If so, kick him out the door like Bowser. Let me repeat, check out the individual giving you investment advice.

If you think that you are victim of fraud, contact the regulators to report a violation, and find a person who is trusted and respected to help provide protection for you.

of Cary Grove meets at Century 21/Sketchbook 20 Northwest Hwy., Cary. Call Ryan Fain of The Mailroom, 815-353-8600.

790 S. Eastwood Drive, Woodstock. Information: Richard Toepper, 815-338-9900.

• 7 a.m.: McHenry County LeTip, Panera Bread, 6000 Northwest Highway, Crystal Lake. Information: Donna Nilsson, 815-206-5600; dnilsson@ amfam.com.

• 8 a.m.: Cary Grove Referral Network, Cary Bank & Trust, 60 E. Main St., Cary. Information: Shirley Rochford, 847-341-4104.

• 8 a.m.: Lighthouse Business Networking, St. Barnabas Lutheran Church, 8901 Cary-Algonquin Road, Cary.

Information: Richard Sansone, 847-516-0433.

• Amy L. Barrett is a financial adviser and founder of Barrett Wealth Connection LLC based in Spring Grove. Send comments to abarrett@bwconnect.co.

8CALENDAR Tuesday, Dec. 11

• 7 a.m.: LeTip of Algonquiin/ Lake in the Hills, Colonial Café, 2555 W. Bunker Hill Road, Algonquin. Information: Mark Sessa, 847-409-6383; www.letip.com.

• 7:30 a.m.: Crystal Lake Business Network, Algonquin Bank & Trust, 4049 West Algonquin Road, Algonquin.

Information: Laura Sinnaeve, 847-204-4899.

• 7:30 a.m.: Crystal Lake chamber’s Referral Exchange Network, Exemplar Financial Network, 413 E. Terra Cotta Ave., Crystal Lake. Information: Kevin Bruning, 815-455-3000.

• 7:30 a.m.: Crystal Lake chamber’s Business 2 Business Network, Benedict’s La Strata, 40 N. Williams St., Crystal Lake.

Information: Mike Daniele, 815356-2126.

Wednesday, Dec. 12

• 7 to 8:30 a.m.: Woodstock LeTip, Vaughan’s Restaurant, 790 S. Eastwood Drive, Woodstock. Information: Richard

Toepper, 815-338-9900.

• 7 a.m.: McHenry County LeTip, Panera Bread, 6000 Northwest Highway, Crystal Lake. Information: Donna Nilsson, 815-206-5600; dnilsson@ amfam.com.

• 8 a.m.: Cary Grove Referral Network, Cary Bank & Trust, 60 E. Main St., Cary. Information: Shirley Rochford, 847-3414104.

• 8 a.m.: Lighthouse Business Networking, St. Barnabas Lutheran Church, 8901 Cary-Algonquin Road, Cary.

Information: Richard Sansone, 847-516-0433; Steve Randahl, 847-769-6285.

• Noon to 1 p.m.: Algonquin/ Lake in the Hills chamber ALG/ LITH Association of Professional, a non-compete networking group, meets at chamber office.

• 5 to 7 p.m.: Cary Grove chamber Holiday Party, 445 Park Ave., Cary.

Thursday, Dec. 13

• 7:45 a.m.: Power Partners

Tuesday, Dec. 18

• 7 a.m.: LeTip of Algonquiin/ Lake in the Hills, Colonial Café, 2555 W. Bunker Hill Road, Algonquin. Information: Mark Sessa, 847-409-6383; www.letip.com.

• 7:30 a.m.: Crystal Lake Business Network, Algonquin Bank & Trust, 4049 West Algonquin Road, Algonquin.

Information: Laura Sinnaeve, 847-204-4899.

• 7:30 a.m.: Crystal Lake chamber’s Referral Exchange Network, Exemplar Financial Network, 413 E. Terra Cotta Ave., Crystal Lake. Information: Kevin Bruning, 815-455-3000.

• 7:30 a.m.: Crystal Lake chamber’s Business 2 Business Network, Benedict’s La Strata, 40 N. Williams St., Crystal Lake.

Wednesday, Dec. 19

• 7 to 8:30 a.m.: Woodstock LeTip, Vaughan’s Restaurant,

Thursday, Dec. 20

• 7:30-9 a.m.: Women In Business meets at 31 North Banquet Center, 217 N Front St,, McHenry. Topic: Drumming for Health with the Rev. Phyllis Mueller, founder/owner of Parkson Ltd. Information: Visit www. wimlonline.org or call Jennifer Dallas at 847-842-152.

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8MARKET WEEK IN REVIEW

Apple holds back S&P, Nasdaq; Dow ends higher The Associated Press NEW YORK – Apple spoiled the stock market’s party on Friday.

Stocks shot higher in the early morning, after the government reported that the U.S. added jobs in November. But Apple, which has been flailing in recent weeks as investors wonder how long its momentum can continue, dragged down the indexes that it’s part of.

The Dow Jones industrial average, which doesn’t include Apple, rose. The Standard & Poor’s 500 and Nasdaq, which do, were less impressive. The S&P rose by a smaller amount, and the Nasdaq fell.

The headline numbers from the jobs report sent the market higher in early trading.

The Labor Department said the U.S. added 146,000 jobs last month, more than economists had expected. The unemployment rate fell to 7.7 percent from 7.9 percent, the lowest in nearly four years.

The overall report, however, painted a more restrained view of the economy.

“If you delve into that report a little more, there are some disturbing issues,” said Brian Lund, who is based in Los Angeles as executive vice president and co-founder of the online brokerage Ditto Trade.

Among them: The unemployment rate fell largely because discouraged unemployed workers stopped looking for work, which meant they were no longer counted among the unemployed. Also, the Labor Department revised previously released jobs numbers downward, saying that employers added 49,000 fewer jobs in October and September than initially estimated.

Lund also wasn’t so sure about the government’s statement that Hurricane Sandy

“did not substantively impact” the unemployment numbers.

He expected Sandy’s detrimental effects to show up in jobs reports over the next couple of months, as businesses figure out their post-storm plans.

“If you have Sandy, you don’t automatically lose your job,” Lund said. “Businesses take time to say, ‘Oh, what’s going on, can we go forward, do we need to cut people to survive? It’s not until later that they start laying off.”

Nicholas Colas, chief market strategist for ConvergEx in New York, was similarly unimpressed by the jobs numbers. In a note to clients, he said U.S. unemployment seems to be more consistent with “an ongoing recession than expansion.”

In the recession of the early 1990s and its aftermath, the highest rate of unemployment was 7.8 percent. In the recession of the early 2000s and its aftermath, the unemployment rate never got above 6.3 percent.

This time has been harsher.

In late 2009, shortly after the recession officially ended, the unemployment rate peaked at 10 percent. For two years after that, it stayed above 9 percent.

At the end of the day, the Dow was up 81.09 points to 13,155.13. The S&P 500, where Apple’s weight is 4 percent, was up but by a smaller proportion, rising 4.13 to 1,418.07.

The Nasdaq composite index, where Apple accounts for a hefty 12 percent, fell 11.23 to 2,978.04.

Apple fell $13.99 to $533.25, or 2.6 percent. That’s part of a longer trend: Apple’s stock has plunged nearly 24 percent since the iPhone 5 went on sale Sept. 21. Investors are wondering how long the company can keep the momentum going with its popular iPhone and iPad devices.

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2012 brings on many changes, here and far This has been a year of ups and downs – from the severe impact of the drought, upheaval caused by a controversial presidential election and the disappointing collapse of the Chicago Bulls.

I anticipated the Bulls would be a serious grand champion contender. This was true until Derrick Rose was sidelined with a serious injury. One bit of good news today: Rose had major medical care and is now working out in anticipation of joining the floundering Bulls in early 2013.

The drought and its impact on crop production is a development concern-

on the square Don Peasley ing 2013 farming plans. The cost to prepare and plant a crop moved higher because of unfavorable planting and harvesting conditions.

In McHenry County, a major change in county board leadership is affected by the addition of nine first-time members on the 24-member governing body. Tina Hill of Woodstock was elected chairwoman of the board, replacing Ken Koehler, who served

as chairman for eight years.

Jim Heisler of Crystal Lake was elected vice chairman.

••• B & K Power Equipment of Marengo is holding its area food pantry drive. Donations will go to the Grafton Food Pantry, M.O.R.E. Center and the Hampshire-Burlington Food Pantry. B & K will make cash donations equal to 5 percent of parts department sales during the drive, which is 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday and Friday and 9 a.m. to noon Sautrday. For information, call 815-923-4547.

••• Adult and Child Therapy

8LOCAL BRIEFS Filing hours set for Grafton nominating petitions

HUNTLEY – Grafton Township has scheduled candidate filing dates for township offices for the April 9 Consolidated Election.

Nominating petitions should be filed with the township clerk at the Grafton Township Office, 10109 Vine St., Huntley.

Nominating petitions are available for the Grafton Township elected offices of supervisor, assessor, clerk, highway commissioner, and four trustee spots.

Petitions may be filed from 8 to 10 a.m. Dec. 17; from 11 a.m. to noon Dec. 18; from 11 a.m. to noon Dec. 19; from 10 to 11 a.m.

Dec. 20; from 9 to 10 a.m. Dec.

Services’ annual brunch Sunday featured recognition of volunteers.

Keith Hogan received Board Member of the Year award. Hogan is president of the ACTS board of directors. He served as president for two terms during many changes and challenges at ACTS. Kathi Etten was honored as Volunteer of the Year.

John Buckley, director of ACTS, said, “Volunteers are critical in our ability to fulfill our mission – to meet the needs of our friends and neighbors in the community.” Etten has been involved

in the golf outing since 2001, an important fundraising activity.

Dave Barber received the 20th annual Chester Gould award. Gould and his family became supporters of the Adult and Child Therapy Services soon after their move to McHenry County. Barber, an active board member, was a longtime head of United Way in McHenry County. As a board member, he has served on several committees.

Buckley recognized past recipients of the Chester Gould award, expressing appreciation for their years of service. Several recipients

were present, including Margaret Kistler, Bud Oughton and Phil Abraham, president of the McHenry County Independent Riders.

••• Don’t miss enjoying the 30 Christmas trees in the Opera House community room and library on display until Jan. 6. Each tree is decorated by a civic group or organization.

• Don Peasley has been an editor, columnist and historian in McHenry County since October 1947. He began his association with Shaw Publications in 1950. He can be reached at 815-338-1533.

Woodstock: Land Conservancy of McHenry County 21; and from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Dec. 26. The office will be closed Dec. 24 and 25.

The last day to file an objection to nominating petitions for the Consolidated Election is Jan. 4, 2013. The Clerk’s Office will be open from 2 to 4 p.m.

For information, call the Clerk’s Office at 847-531-3649.

D-158 program to offer CPR, first aid training

HUNTLEY – Next month, with the assistance of Lt. Bill Kresal of the Huntley Fire Department, the District 158 Parent Tot Program will offer free CPR, automated external defibrillator, first aid training and certification over the course of two evening sessions.

Adult/child/infant CPR and AED training will be from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Jan. 14, and first aid training will be Jan. 15. Classes will be in the Parent Tot Room at Chesak Elementary School, 10910 Reed Road, Lake in the Hills.

Classes are limited to the first 25 people who reserve a spot.

Attendees do not need to be enrolled in the Parent Tot Program but must live within the District 158 boundaries.

To receive certification in First Aid, one must first be certified in CPR. To register for the classes, email Parent Tot coordinator Carla Elam at celam@district158.org.

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Land Conservancy plans workdays at 3 separate sites NORTHWEST HERALD WOODSTOCK – The Land Conservancy of McHenry County has three volunteer events planned the week of Dec. 9.

Volunteers are needed to help cut and stack brush to help restore these natural gems: • Waichunas Conservation Area, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. today: This woodland near Island Lake was cleared of invasive brush a couple of years ago, but it’s time to go back and get all the resprouting brush and new growth. To get there from the intersection of River Road and Dowell Road north of Island Lake, turn onto Dowell and then right onto South Thomas Court.

Volunteers should park along South Thomas Court, and the group will walk in from there.

• Prairie Ridge Fen Conser-

vation Area, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Wednesday: This 9-acre wetland was protected in 1996 as part of the adjacent Prairie Ridge subdivision in Woodstock.

Interesting species found there include a grove of scarlet oaks and a small cluster of bog birch. The area is on the northeast corner of Route 14 and Dean Street in Woodstock. Volunteers should park along Wagner Lane.

• Dutch Creek Conservation Area, 9 a.m. to noon Saturday: More than 3,000 volunteer hours have been donated since 2008 to restore the oak groves and wetland areas along one of the highestquality streams in McHenry County.

More than 100 acres have been permanently preserved in this location by the village of Johnsburg, TLC and the McHenry County Conservation District. To get there

from the intersection of Route 31 and Johnsburg Road, head east on Johnsburg Road, and take the second left onto Riverside Drive.

Follow Riverside back about one-half mile and look for other cars. Volunteers should park along the road.

No experience is necessary. Tools will be provided.

Volunteers should wear work shoes and clothes that they don’t mind getting dirty.

The Land Conservancy of McHenry County is a local nonprofit organization that works with landowners and communities to preserve and restore natural, scenic and agricultural land for the benefit of current and future generations. TLC is supported by members, donors and fundraising events.

For information, visit www.conservemc.org or call 815-337-9502.

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Health shift under way A peek over the ‘cliff’s’ edge Providers prepare as Obamacare continues to unfold

All you need to know about the fiscal cliff, but were afraid to ask

By KEVIN P. CRAVER kcraver@shawmedia.com

Josh Peckler – jpeckler@shawmedia.com

Art Wiederin talks about how the new Affordable Care Act will impact the way he uses healthcare in the United States.

By EMILY K. COLEMAN ecoleman@shawmedia.com

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rt Wiederin spends his days sitting in the lobby of Fox Point Independent and Assisted Living in McHenry, talking to other residents, teasing staff, and watching various health professionals come and go.

At 82, Wiederin has a lot of experience with the health care system, but he hasn’t noticed any changes over the past few years as the different provi-

“I’m going to say right up front that I don’t understand it all. My whole feeling is that health care needs, from top to bottom, needs revamping.

I think the system is in bad shape.”

Art Wiederin sions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act – the federal health care reform that is sometimes fondly, and more often disparagingly, referred to as Obamacare – began to

take effect.

“I’m going to say right up front that I don’t understand it all,” Wiederin said. “My whole feeling is that health care needs, from top to bottom,

needs revamping. I think the system is in bad shape.”

The 2010 law has three goals, said Ellen First, a senior consultant with Health Dimensions Group, which is a health care consulting firm working with Hearthstone Communities in Woodstock.

They are, she said, to improve the population’s overall health, to encourage services to be provided in a efficient and cost-effective way, and

See SHIFT, page A10

With the Nov. 6 election yesterday’s news, the political story now dominating the headlines is the Dec. 31 deadline to avoid driving over the fiscal cliff.

So just what is the fiscal cliff, and what will happen to us if we go over it?

The short answer to the first question is that the fiscal cliff is a combination of federal budget cuts and tax increases that are set to automatically take effect Jan. 1 unless President Barack Obama and House Republicans can reach a compromise.

As for the second question – if we drive off the cliff – imagine the economic recovery is the car, and the American people are Thelma and Louise.

The following is a list of questions about the fiscal cliff

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Judge orders Quinn administration to honor contract raises State must pay what it can now, and pay rest once state has funds

By JOHN O’CONNOR The Associated Press SPRINGFIELD – Gov. Pat Quinn’s administration must pay $60 million in wage increases promised last year to state workers – eventually – a Cook County judge has ruled.

Circuit Judge Richard Billik Jr. decreed in an order made public Friday that regardless of whether the state budget has enough money, Quinn can’t renege on contractual pay hikes negotiated with the American Federation of State, County and Mu-

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nicipal Employees.

The state must pay what it can now, and cough up the rest of it when funds become available – at 7 percent interest, Billik said.

A s p o k e s - Gov. Pat m a n s a i d a Quinn Quinn administration appeal is likely. It would continue a tussle between the Democratic gov-

ernor and the state’s most powerful labor force. It has spilled over into contentious contract talks, bitter feelings over Quinn’s plans to close state facilities to save money and a massive lobbying effort against his desire to cut costs associated with retirement benefits.

Quinn refused to pay about 40,000 AFSCME employees raises beginning in July 2011 under a contract negotiated by his predecessor. He argued

the Legislature hadn’t appropriated money to pay the increases, worth about $75 million. As money became available last year, he released it, so some state agency workers received their raises.

About 30,000 employees continue to take home lighterthan-expected paychecks.

“As the governor has said repeatedly, the state cannot pay money it does not have the appropriation authority to spend,” Quinn budget spokes-

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man Abdon Pallasch said. He said Quinn’s staff would consider an appeal after seeing Billik’s written order.

Billik ordered the administration in August to hold back $42 million in money not yet earmarked for other bills in case he ultimately sided with the union. Of that, $18 million was from general revenue originally destined for personnel salaries.

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By CHELSEA McDOUGALL cmcdougall@shawmedia.com CRYSTAL LAKE – McHenry County College taxpayers can expect to pay more to the institution next year under its proposed levy.

The college is seeking the maximum it can under the tax cap, or 3 percent. However, to ensure it can capture all new growth, the college Board of Trustees will request 9.9 percent more than the $27 million property owners paid in taxes

this year.

College officials, however, are not expecting to receive the full 9.9 percent increase.

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Financial Officer Bob Tenuta said.

The college is requesting $29.7 million in residential taxes next year, but Tenuta expects to collect $27.8 million.

The levy projections mean

that the owner of a $250,000 property whose assessed value remains the same would pay the college only $1.30 more on the 2013 tax bill.

However, home values have been dropping since 2008 and driving up property taxes.

Some municipalities are bracing for a 10 percent decline in values next year. If that’s the case, that same homeowner can expect to pay almost $30 more next year.

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Study: Active groups lead to active children

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By JOSEPH BUSTOS jbustos@shawmedia.com During the Confetti dance class at the McHenry Municipal Center, where students learn the basic steps of tap dance and ballet, 4-year-old Kylie holds a bar as she and other youngsters tap their toes three times and then kick.

“Kick as high as you can,” instructor Nicole Goy said to the youngsters. “Point your toe. Keep going.”

Having Kylie in the class is one way her mother, Tina Stevens, makes sure that her daughter has an activity that helps her socialize and be physically active.

“Sitting inside doing nothing doesn’t make them grow,” Stevens said. “Playing video games doesn’t expand their mind.

“It expands them socially when they’re around other kids. It’s better to be active, period.”

Being around others who are active is a key to making sure that a youngster stays active.

According to a recent Vanderbilt University study, children who spend more time with active friends tend to be more active themselves.

In the study, 80 children,

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LANSING, Mich. – For generations, Michigan was the ultimate labor stronghold – a state built by factory workers for whom a high school diploma and a union card were the ticket to a middle-class life.

Yet it took only hours for Republicans to tear down a key part of that tradition, the requirement that all employees in a union workplace pay dues.

The swift action was the result of a decisive governor who teamed up with a supermajority of GOP allies in the statehouse to win a prize long sought by conservatives.

It also provided a window into how state governments might work in an era when they are increasingly run by a single party.

Gov. Rick Snyder, a venture capitalist and corporate executive before his successful run for governor in 2010, didn’t bother with political niceties this week after dropping his previous objection to dealing with the right-towork issue.

He announced his support Thursday at a news conference.

Within hours, the House and Senate had introduced and approved bills prohibiting what are known as “closed shops,” where workers are required to join a union or pay fees that are equivalent to union dues as a condition of employment.

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Economy adds 146,000 jobs The pace of U.S. hiring remained steady in November despite disruptions from superstorm Sandy and employers’ concerns about impending tax increases from the year-end “fiscal cliff.”

Companies added 146,000 jobs, and the unemployment rate fell to 7.7 percent – the lowest in nearly four years – from 7.9 percent in October. For more, see page E1.

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Never dance near a picture window I love music, but I didn’t always.

Back in the day in grade school, we had music class once a week … not enough to help me love music, but just enough to make me hate it.

Class usually consisted of the girls singing and the boys listening as their collective eyes rolled. I must admit that I liked “I’ve Been Working on the Railroad,” but I got really confused with the part when someone named Dinah was blowing her horn and then suddenly she’s in the kitchen with a banjo player. And what does “fee, fie, fiddly-i-o” mean, anyway?

Nevertheless, despite Dinah, a darling named Clementine, and an old lady who ate flies, I actually did grow up appreciating music. The first record I ever got was Ray Charles’ “Hit the Road Jack.” I played it over and over until my dad told me that if I didn’t stop playing it then I would have to hit the road. I couldn’t play it no more, no more, no more, no more.

As a teenager, my music appreciation blossomed into a passion.

I bought an old, used guitar, but

just humor me Michael Penkava quickly discovered that a left-hander with a right-handed guitar was like Michael without a boat to row ashore.

But with a little string rearrangement and some practice, I was singing Polly Wolly Doodle all the day.

I went through various musical phases as the years went by. For a while, I was Bob Dylan, but the times were a-changin’, so then I became Simon without a Garfunkel, but still was feelin’ groovy. One day when morning had broken, I found myself playing like Cat Stevens, but by sundown I was Gordon Lightfoot, followed

by Don McLean under a starry, starry night.

As the years passed by, I picked and grinned my way through a multitude of other musical chapters, from Chapin to Croce, to Donovan to Denver, to Guthrie to Goodman. But from

pretty much the ’80s onward, I tuned out current popular music. Grunge was too grungy, Heavy Metal was too heavy, New Wave was too wavy, and Techno was too technical. I did get into Indian Pop music for a while, with a fascination for Bollywood dancing, but I got tired of hearing my wife telling me not to dance near the picture window where the neighbors could see me, so I lost interest.

After that, I just recycled myself through my favorite oldies … until recently. One evening I was surfing through my Netflix choices under the “Rock and Pop Concerts” section.

I thought I had clicked on Jackson Brown, but up popped someone named Taylor Swift. I was really tired and running on empty, so I just sat there and started watching her concert. And guess what? I got hooked.

I turned up the volume of the TV. My head started bobbing and my toes started tapping. Before I knew it, I had listened to the whole concert. I even found myself going upstairs to my office, grabbing my vintage 1968

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So maybe I’m not too old to get into a new genre of music. Sure, like my wife says, it’s just another phase, like the Bollywood dancing. But it was George Carlin who quoted some anonymous smart person who once said, “Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.”

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By HENRY C. JACKSON The Associated Press WASHINGTON – Debate over the “fiscal cliff” has money pouring into television, print, radio and online ads, picking up where the wall-to-wall election campaign left off.

As Republicans and the White House joust over a way around big year-end tax increases and spending cuts, outside groups on both sides are weighing in with major ad campaigns aimed at politicians and voters alike.

The latest is Crossroads GPS, the Karl Rove-backed conservative group last seen dropping more than $80 million on ads assailing President Barack Obama in his re-election campaign.

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nounced Wednesday, has attributes familiar to viewers acquainted with the political attack-ad genre. It features dreary, dread-inducing music, foreboding narration and grainy footage.

All that’s changed is its aim.

Instead of denying Obama reelection, the intent is to defeat his policy.

“So far, a huge tax increase is his solution,” a narrator says, before imploring viewers to personally call the president.

If anything, Crossroads is slow to enter the fiscal cliff fray.

Within days of Obama’s Nov. 6 victory over Republican Mitt Romney, outside groups were keying up ad campaigns designed to shape the fiscal debate.

The range of participants – from business interests op-

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This still image from video released by the Business Roundtable shows their online video on the “fiscal cliff.” posing higher tax rates on the wealthy to unions that want to raise them and advocates for the elderly opposed to cutting benefits – reflects the messy tangle of issues that Congress and the White House are deal-

ing with.

In general, the ads are less sharp-edged than the most caustic 2012 election spots. In many cases, the intent is to bring pressure to bear on the whole of Congress, not just a

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DNR: 99,000 deer taken during Ill. firearm season

SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois Department of Natural Resources says hunters harvested more than 99,000 deer during this year’s firearm season.

The preliminary total of 99,324 deer is about 2,500 more than last year.

Illinois’ firearm season was held Nov. 16-18 and Nov. 29Dec. 2. Program Manager Paul Shelton said hunters likely benefited from the split season this year because the weather in the two periods was different.

U of Illinois gets $4M for veterans center

URBANA – The University of Illinois is getting $4 million in state funds to build a new center for disabled veterans.

The Wounded Warrior Center will provide 24-hour support to help severely injured veterans prepare to live independently and pursue their educational and career goals. It will offer housing for up to 12 veterans in addition to counseling, rehabilitative and academic services.

Gov. Pat Quinn announced the grant Thursday. Quinn said men and women who sacrifice years of their lives to serve their country deserve support when they return.

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deal, the narrator says.

Labor unions that traditionally support Democrats are producing more explicitly political advertising. Three of them – The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, the Service Employees International Union and the National Education Association – joined to buy TV and radio ads targeting specific lawmakers in both parties in Colorado, Missouri, Virginia, Alaska and Pennsylvania.

The ads ask voters to call their senators and congressman and push for a deal that protects the “middle class.”

Other ads hammer home the stakes of the debate, something all of the groups that have invested money in “cliff” ads seem to agree on.

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8STATE BRIEFS CHICAGO – The company that makes the gold-plated Oscar statues will lay off almost 100 employees in the process of being bought out. But some workers could be rehired, it said, and the one-of-a-kind awards will still be produced on Chicago’s north side.

R.S. Owens & Co. Inc. said in a notice this week to the Illinois Department of Commerce that it will lay off 95 of its roughly 250 workers on Dec. 17, the day it will be taken over by St. Regis Crystal. St. Regis has been an Owens competitor with home offices in Canada and Indianapolis.

particular member or group of members. But combined, the ads reflect the high stakes involved and intense competition to shape the outcome.

AARP, the 37-million-member group that lobbies for the elderly, is running ads nationally that home in on two key aspects of the debate: potential changes to Medicare and Social Security. They lambaste Washington politicians as a whole for even talking about Medicare and Social Security changes “behind closed doors.”

In one of the TV ads, a narrator speaks as images of seniors hugging grandchildren, mulling drug choices at a pharmacy and looking forlornly at the camera flash across the screen.

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A chandelier made of revolvers, spurs and cowhide shades is seen Friday inside one of the homes owned by former Dixon comptroller Rita Crundwell during a tour provided by the U.S. Marshals Service for prospective property buyers and the media. Crundwell pleaded guilty last month to embezzling $53 million from the small city to fund a lavish lifestyle that included a nationally known horse-breeding operation.

Homes of ex-Ill. official who stole $53M on show while serving as comptroller in the city that was Ronald Reagan’s boyhood home. The 59-year-old pleaded guilty last month and will be sentenced Feb. 14. She was allowed to remain free until then and still faces 60 separate state felony charges for theft in Lee County. She has pleaded not guilty to those charges.

The spoils of Crundwell’s looting are on the auction block, being sold for pennies on the dollar by the U.S. Marshals Service. Authorities gave what could be the last public glimpse of Crundwell’s largesse Friday as they took prospective property buyers and the media on a tour of her former Dixon holdings.

“This is not the way a lot of people live around here,” said Jason Wojdylo, a chief inspector with the Marshals Service’s asset forfeiture division. “It was a lavish lifestyle ... [and] while the city of Dixon was closing its [public] pools because it couldn’t afford to operate them, the defendant built a pool complete with sauna ... money was not spared.”

By TAMMY WEBBER The Associated Press DIXON – Rita Crundwell spared no expense when she built and furnished her sprawling home with custom touches like a chandelier made of old revolvers and spurs, an in-ground pool and a baby grand piano in the woodbeamed living room.

Her massive master bedroom – with a fireplace and seating area furnished with top-of-the-line leather and cowhide couches, a 62-inch TV and a loft office – is almost as large as some of the more modest homes in this northern Illinois farming town.

She built a second custom home south of town that she never lived in but rented to relatives. She paid for a topnotch horse-breeding and training facility where she ran a nationally renowned quarter horse operation.

And she did it all, Crundwell has admitted, by stealing $53 million from the people of Dixon, embezzling the money over two decades

An online auction of personal property ends on Saturday, and includes everything from custom furniture to fur coats to appliances. Authorities already have raised $7.4 million by selling her horses, vehicles and a custom motor home. Her jewelry, valued at about a half-million dollars, will be auctioned sometime next year.

The Marshals Service also is selling the two Dixon homes and ranch, 80 acres of farmland and a house in Englewood, Fla. During Friday’s open house, prospective buyers and the media toured the Illinois homes, where items were catalogued and described with white tags. Wojdylo stood by to answer any questions. A few locals showed up, though neither they nor Crundwell’s neighbors wanted to comment.

The main house was a tribute to everything western, with rustic wood furniture, mirrors with bull horns, cowhide rugs and even westernthemed knick-knacks.

WASHINGTON – Growing fear that civil war in Syria could unleash the world’s first use of chemical weapons in nearly three decades is based on two grim scenarios – neither considered likely but both carrying risks of civilian massacre and a major escalation of violence.

The first is that President Bashar Assad, in a last-ditch effort to save his regime, would order chemical attacks – either as a limited demonstration to the rebels of his willingness to use the internationally banned weapons, or in a Bashar l a r g e - s c a l e Assad offensive designed to turn the tide of a conflict that already has killed an estimated 40,000.

The second is that some portion of Assad’s arsenal could be moved to Iran or Lebanon or fall into the hands of foreign fighters with ties to terrorist groups who are helping Syrian rebels.

What kinds of chemicals are in question? What weapons?

News confirmed by The Associated Press this week that an unknown number of weapons in Syria were recently loaded with the nerve agent sarin brought the West’s fears into sharp relief.

Syria has never confirmed that it even has chemical weapons. But it is believed to possess substantial stockpiles of mustard gas and a range of nerve agents, including sarin, a highly toxic substance that can suffocate its victims by paralyzing muscles around their lungs.

James Quinlivan, a Rand Corp. analyst who studies the elimination of weapons of mass destruction, said Syria is thought to have

hundreds of tons of chemical weapons material, including not only sarin and mustard gas but possibly also the nerve agent VX, which, like sarin, kills by attacking the central nervous system.

Iraq’s Saddam Hussein used sarin and mustard gas on Kurds in northern Iraq in a 1987-88 campaign that killed thousands. That was the last time state-controlled chemical weapons were used; a Japanese doomsday cult unleashed sarin in the Tokyo subway system in 1995, killing 13.

The precise dimensions of Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal are not known, in part because it has never been subjected to outside inspection.

Experts say it is a formidable collection, but the weapons date back almost 40 years – when Assad’s father, President Hafez Assad, began accumulating them – and have not been modernized.

“Frankly, you’d stand as much chance of committing a self-inflicted wound as of actually killing opponents,” said Aram Nerguizian, a Mideast security expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

“These systems are not going to achieve the end state that the regime wants, which is regime survival.”

For example, the arsenal apparently does not include weapons that combine or mix chemical ingredients after a shell or missile is fired; instead the mixing must be done manually prior to launching the weapon, Nerguizian said.

U.S. officials have warned Assad there would be unspecified “consequences” if he used his chemical weapons or lost control of them.

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The U.S. and its allies might also launch a pre-emptive military operation to secure the weapons before they could be used.

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Egypt delays voting on constitution The ASSOCIATED PRESS CAIRO – Egypt postponed early voting on a contentious draft constitution, and aides to President Mohammed Morsi floated the possibility of canceling the whole referendum in the first signs Friday that the Islamic leader is finally yielding to days of protests and deadly street clashes.

Tens of thousands marched on the presidential palace after pushing past barbed wire fences installed by the army and calling for Morsi to step down. Thousands also camped out in Tahrir Square, birthplace of the uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak in 2011.

A spokesman for Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood urged the group’s supporters to practice “self-restraint” after hundreds gathered in front of a mosque near the presidential palace. He appealed for them not to march to the palace and to avoid confrontation.

The announcement by the election committee head Ismail Hamdi to delay early voting on the charter came as a surprise, and it was difficult to predict whether it will lead to a breakthrough in the political crisis.

The president’s aides said the move would ease some pressure and would provide

AP photo

Supporters of Muslim Brotherhood and Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi (pictured at right) chant slogans Friday during the funeral of three victims who were killed during Wednesday’s clashes outside Al-Azhar mosque, the highest Islamic Sunni institution. room for negotiations with the opposition.

But Morsi’s opponents have rejected talks, saying he must first cancel the referendum and meet other demands.

Late Friday, an opposition umbrella group called for an open-ended sit-in in front of the presidential palace.

The crisis began Nov. 22, when Morsi issued a decree that gave him absolute powers and immunity from judicial oversight. It deepened when he called for a Dec. 15 national referendum on the draft constitution hurriedly produced by the Islamist-led constitu-

ent assembly. The draft was infused with articles that liberals fear would pave the way for Islamizing Egypt.

Legal Affairs Minister Mohammed Mahsoub said the administration was weighing several proposals – including calling off the referendum and returning it to the constituent assembly for changes. Another possibility was disbanding the constituent assembly and forming a new one, either by direct vote or an agreement among the political forces.

“We have a big chance tomorrow,” Mahsoub told the Qatari-based Al-Jazeera net-

work, referring to what he said was a meeting between Morsi and political forces.

“There are no deadlines or referendums outside the country. Tomorrow or day after, we might reach a good agreement.”

Vice President Mahmoud Mekki also told the broadcaster that he had contacted leading democracy advocate Mohamed ElBaradei to join Morsi in a dialogue. ElBaradei leads the newly formed National Salvation Front, a group of liberals and youths who opposed Morsi’s decrees and led the protests in Cairo.

In a televised speech, ElBaradei made clear the opposition’s demands: cancellation of the declaration that Morsi used to give himself immunity from judicial oversight and postponement of the referendum.

“The people are angry because they feel their rights have been raped,” ElBaradei said on the ONTV network. “If he takes these decisions, he will be opening the door for dialogue. I hope he is listening.”

The opposition National Salvation Front rejected talks with Morsi, urging an ongoing sit-in at the palace and warned of assaults on the protesters and more violence.

Board likely to adopt levy at meeting after hearing • MCC

Continued from page A1 At a meeting last month, the college’s Board of Trustees was split, 4-3, on whether to seek a 9.9 percent increase.

Trustees Cynthia Kisser, Carol Larson, Linda Liddell and Mary Miller voted in favor of the increase, while Trustees

Dennis Adams, Ronald Parrish and Barbara Walters rejected it.

Adams said he was in favor of the 3 percent increase given that the college’s expenses are continuing to rise, but he called the nearly 10 percent request “absurdly high.”

He preferred to look at other revenue streams, such

as a tuition increase.

“I don’t believe [a property tax increase is] the right place to start the budget process,” he said. “We need to examine expenses, examine tuition, and then look to the taxpayers.”

A majority, or about 60 percent, of the college’s operating funds come from property taxes, with an addition-

al 30 percent from tuition, 5 percent from the state and the rest from miscellaneous income streams.

Because the college’s request is more than 5 percent of last year’s extension, a public hearing is required and set for 6 p.m. Dec 20.

The board likely will adopt the levy at the regular meeting that follows the hearing.

Top Republicans insist measure won’t weaken unions • UNION

Continued from page A1 No topic is touchier for organized labor, which contends such laws enable workers to enjoy benefits won by unions without supporting the costs of organizing and negotiating.

Labor leaders say the ultimate intent is to deprive them of money and bargaining power.

“Whether proponents call this ‘right-to-work’ or ‘freedom-to-work,’ it’s really just ‘freedom to freeload,’ ” said Steve Cook, president of the Michigan Education Association.

Snyder and the Legislature’s top Republicans – House Speaker Jase Bolger and Majority Leader Randy Richardville – steadfastly insisted the measures were not intended to weaken unions but to make them more accountable to members.

“I support the unions in many regards. I support their right to organize,” Snyder said. “I continue to be an advocate for collective bargaining in Michigan. ... This is to give people the ability to choose and decide who they associate with.”

Union leaders and hundreds of rank-and-file activists swarmed the state Capitol grounds and hallways Thurs-

day, chanting and hurling catcalls from the galleries as lawmakers rushed the bills through.

“The tea party takeover of the Michigan GOP is officially complete,” state Democratic Chairman Mark Brewer said.

Emboldened Republicans shrugged off the bitter taunts and pushed onward. Democrats were able to slow debate momentarily with lengthy speeches and parliamentary maneuvers, but ultimately had no ammunition left.

They couldn’t resort to lastditch measures such as fleeing the state – as fellow Democrats did in Wisconsin and Indiana to stall anti-union bills – because under Michigan rules only simple majorities are needed to conduct business.

Such displays of raw power may become more common around the nation as increasing numbers of legislatures are dominated by a single party. By January, half of all state legislatures will have veto-proof majorities, up from 13 only four years ago. All but three states – Iowa, Kentucky and New Hampshire – have one-party control of their legislatures, the highest mark since 1928.

Republicans lost five House seats in last month’s election, which likely spurred them to press ahead with right-to-

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While the right-to-work measure drew most of the attention, the governor and his allies also forged ahead on other contentious fronts. Voters in November overturned one of Snyder’s biggest accomplishments – a law empowering him to appoint emergency managers for financially distressed cities and school boards.

Instead of retreating, the

Republicans unveiled a retooled version Wednesday and rammed it through a House committee the next day, brushing aside complaints they were moving too fast. The measure awaits a floor vote.

And they aren’t finished.

Other bills on supercharged subjects – from abortion to charter schools to concealed weapons – are on the agenda as Republicans conclude a two-year session dominated by ideological conservatives, many of whom were elected during the 2010 tea party tidal wave.

Said Lansing political analyst David Waymire: “This is old-style political hardball.”

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Researchers: Children don’t choose peers on activity levels • ACTIVE

Continued from page A1 ages 5 to 12, were observed for 12 weeks during their after-care programs, where children could interact with different peers during the day. Children’s activity levels and with whom they spent time were monitored.

“We found that children in this age group are six times more likely to adjust to their friends’ activity level than not,” Sabina Gessell, a research assistant professor at Vanderbilt, said in a news release. “In fact, a network of four to five immediate friends has a significant influence on any individual child regardless of their usual activity level.”

Researchers said more active groups tended to bring a child’s activity level up, while groups that were more sedentary brought an individual child’s activity levels down.

Researchers also found that children chose their peers based on gender and age, rather than those who had the same activity levels.

“The average activity level of the group of friends is what influences an individual child,” Gessell said.

“Children are constantly adjusting their activity levels to match their peer group.”

Chris Leathers, owner of Your World Fitness in Spring Grove, said the first key in making sure children stay active is for parents to stay active themselves.

“I’m a big believer in ‘practice what you preach,’ ” Leathers said.

Leathers, who works with youth teams, agreed with the study that children being around other active children is beneficial and

“If we can introduce kids to the benefits of being active and living healthy, then by the time they get to be adults and they don’t have gym class, working out will be an opportunity and fun habit, rather than a chore” Chris Leathers Owner of Your World Fitness in Spring Grove

encouraged them to join sports teams.

“If we can introduce kids to the benefits of being active and living healthy, then by the time they get to be adults and they don’t have gym class, working out will be an opportunity and fun habit, rather than a chore,” Leathers said.

He said that as obesity becomes more of a problem in the country, people need to develop fitness and active living habits in their children.

Leathers said peer pressure can be used for good.

When Leathers trains groups of youngsters, he will give rewards such as T-shirts to youngsters who show the most effort.

“The other kids say, ‘I guess I’m going to work hard, too,’ ” Leathers said.

Anne Fritz has enrolled her two children, Nataleen, 6, and Harrison, 8, into activities and likes to encourage them to play outside with other kids.

“I feel it’s an old-school thing,” Fritz said. “When I was a kid, we’d go outside and figure out what to do.”

NOTICE OF PROPOSED PROPERTY TAX LEVY FOR THE CITY OF CRYSTAL LAKE I. A public hearing to approve a proposed property tax levy for the City of Crystal Lake (including the Crystal Lake Public Library) for 2012 will be held on December 18, 2012 at 7:30 p.m., at the Crystal Lake Municipal Complex, 100 West Woodstock Street, Crystal Lake, Illinois 60014.

Any person desiring to appear at the public hearing and present testimony to the taxing district may contact Mark Nannini, Director of Finance, at the City of Crystal Lake, 100 West Woodstock Street, Crystal Lake, Illinois 60014, (815) 4592020.

II. The corporate and special purpose property taxes extended for 2011 services were $14,407,692.

The proposed corporate and special purpose property taxes to be levied for 2012 are $14,783,056. This represents a 2.61% increase over the previous year.

III. The property taxes extended for debt service and public building commission leases for 2011 were zero.

The estimated property taxes to be levied for debt service and public building commission leases for 2012 is zero.

IV. The total property taxes extended for 2011 were $14,407,692.

The estimated total property taxes to be levied for 2012 are $14,783,056. This represents a 2.61% increase over the previous year.

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Opinion

John Rung Publisher

Dan McCaleb Senior Editor

Saturday, December 8, 2012 • Page A7 • Northwest Herald • NWHerald.com 8OUR VIEW

Be ready for winter

Don’t be fooled by the recent spate of unseasonably warm weather.

The Illinois Emergency Management Agency and National Weather Service want you to become prepared for winter storms.

Sounds like excellent advice to us.

Some people may point to last winter’s mild weather as a reason to pay little heed to the season.

Let us point to For the record the winter before last as a huge reaYes, it’s been a relatively mild son to get ready early December. But winter now. weather is coming eventually.

December 2010 was rough. The region received more than 4 inches of snow on Dec. 4, blizzard-like conditions on Dec. 12, and another 4 inches on Dec. 20. Later that winter, a blizzard ripped through the county in February 2011, dumping more than 20 inches of snow on the region and shutting down entire communities.

Statistics show that Illinois is hit by an average of five severe winter storms a year.

Slippery winter roads in Illinois account for 50 traffic fatalities a year. Extreme cold kills about eight Illinoisans a year.

The point is that nasty, dangerous weather could again descend on McHenry County any time now. Preparedness is better than being caught unawares.

Officials with the Emergency Management Agency, Weather Service and American Red Cross have again developed a winter storm preparedness guide. It is available online at www.

Ready.Illinois.gov; people may also get a copy by calling 217-785-9925.

The guide provides tips for staying safe at home, in the car, at work and at school in the event of severe winter weather.

Of particular interest are the emergency supply kits that the guide recommends people put together for their vehicles and homes.

Those could end up being life savers.

People lulled into a false sense of security by last year’s mild winter might wonder what all the fuss is about.

Jonathon Monken, IEMA director, will have none of that. “Dangerous winter weather, like extreme cold, heavy snow and ice, is just around the corner,” Monken stated in a news release. That corner is dead ahead.

8ANOTHER VIEW

Immigration reform If you’re thinking Congress took a step toward cooperation on immigration policy with a recent action on the STEM Jobs Act, don’t believe it.

The action came in the Republican-controlled House, with the GOP apparently eager to show it has softened positions on immigration policy in the wake of rejection of the party at the polls by Hispanics.

By a 245-139 vote, the House approved the STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) Jobs Act that would make green cards accessible to foreign students graduating with advanced science and math degrees from U.S. universities. But as much pro-business and pro-family sense as the changes make, they represent little more than symbols by Republicans who have made a name for themselves, rightly or wrongly, as anti-immigrant.

The Times and Democrat, Orangeburg, S.C.

8SKETCH VIEW

8IT’S YOUR WRITE My responsibility

To the Editor: I recently wrote a letter regarding the proposed tax increase in McHenry County to pay for services for the disabled.

I was blasted by many as being unfeeling, uncaring and cruel. What I didn’t share was that I, too, have a child with disabilities.

My child has endured two spinal cord surgeries due to tethered cord syndrome, and six orthopedic surgeries to attempt to correct cavo varus foot deformities. His father did not provide insurance for him, even though he was court-ordered to do so.

I worked full time, making only $30,000 a year, and had to provide insurance for my child, as my employer did not! I made “too much money” for him to be covered by Illinois’ All Kids program entirely, and as a result have residual medical expenses I am still paying off, even 10 years later. He continues to have issues related to his medical problems, so the medical bills will be ongoing for the rest of his life.

For those who were so quick to throw out how I should be ashamed of myself, and that I don’t get it, I do!

I have been a single mom with no family in the area, and have cared for him and continue to do so, with no assistance from anyone else.

However, I still don’t feel it’s fair that my taxes are going to increase to pay for programs for the disabled or mentally challenged. It

was and still is my responsibility to do what I need to do for my son.

Lisa Loyd Crystal Lake

Build strong children

To the Editor: Frederick Douglas said, “It is easier to build strong children than repair broken men.” Then why do Americans spend on average $10,500 a year to educate a child and $47,000 a year to keep a man in prison.

If we were truly the greatest country on Earth, we would spend $47,000 a year educating a child so he/she doesn’t end up in prison.

Teachers are made out to be bad people demanding more money.

They are accused of working only nine months a year.

People think teachers work short hours, 7 a.m. to 3 p.m., for example. However, teachers more often than not go to school early and stay late. They have to take work home. The average teacher makes only $40,000 per year. They also have to buy supplies for their classrooms.

When was the last time a professional football player was criticized for only working seven months a year? Do they have to buy their own uniforms? I don’t think so. And the average professional football player in the NFL makes nearly $2 million. Are they responsible for the future of this country?

The United States never will be the greatest nation on Earth unless we start respecting teachers for

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our ComEd personnel, out on the streets facing snow, heat, storms, accidents and construction issues.

Thank you, ComEd. A lot of us are happy with your service.

Chris Davis Crystal Lake

Carl H. Woerner McHenry

Happy with ComEd

To the Editor: This year has been an unusual weather-related 2012. No snow, very hot summer, local and faraway storms, and an unseasonably warm fall.

The unsung heroes are the men and women out on the streets, and ComEd personnel should be thanked for their dedicated service.

I was a volunteer firefighter for 25 years and personally witnessed what the men and women on the streets and in their bucket hoists do, working with wires, transformers and trees in very trying weather conditions. When the crews are called out by our police and fire departments, they are on the scene ASAP doing what has to be done. Their job can be very dangerous.

Our police and fire departments do a great job, but so do

Replace striking teachers

To the Editor: Isn’t the real question whether District 300 teachers are overworked and underpaid?

My son went to Jacobs three years ago. His history teacher announced his retirement. By the end of the month, District 300 had over 2,200 applicants.

Later that year, I was at one of my son’s Jacob’s team tennis matches.

I started a conversation with another parent. She said she was a substitute English teacher who was trying to go full time, but it didn’t look good because the only full-time District 300 opening already had 900 applicants.

Why not do what Caterpillar did and replace striking teachers?

Tom Schreiner West Dundee

Feds’ low-interest rates are playing role in fiscal cliff fiasco Judging by the latest signs, President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans appear to be at an impasse over taxes and spending, and the country might indeed be headed over the “fiscal cliff.” Next year’s economic sluggishness and partisan recriminations could make today’s look like a picnic.

The two parties and their allied pundits blame each other; each side has its points. But while everyone’s pointing fingers, let me at least wave in the direction of the Federal Reserve and its chairman, Ben S. Bernanke. There’s a case to be made that Bernanke’s low interest-rate policies are part of the problem, too.

How so? Doesn’t the Fed make monetary policy according to its legal mandate – to fight unemployment while maintaining price stability? Hasn’t Bernanke repeatedly urged Congress to adopt a sustainable long-term fiscal strategy?

And if all that’s true, as it is, what could the politically independent central bank’s pursuit of its mission possibly have to do with Congress’ handling of its tax-and-

Editorial Board: John Rung, Dan McCaleb, Kevin Lyons, Stacia Hahn, Jon Styf, Kate Schott

spend business?

The answer is: nothing directly or intentionally, but everything indirectly and unintentionally.

With the U.S. economy still reeling from the Great Recession, the Fed has been trying to stimulate economic growth by holding down interest rates, and it has pledged to keep doing so through mid-2015.

It does this in large part by buying up government debt. Partly as a result, the United States was able to issue $4 trillion in new debt from 2009 through 2011, while keeping net interest costs at or below 1.5 percent of gross domestic product.

It’s perfectly consistent with the Fed’s mandate. And it sounds like a great deal for the government, too. According to more than a few economists, pundits and politicians, Congress should seize the opportunity to borrow and spend on growth-enhancing investments such as infrastructure.

However, in a properly functioning economy, rising government borrowing costs can play a useful role: Specifically, they are the mar-

VIEWS Charles Lane ket’s way of warning government that its debts are unsustainable.

Muffle that signal, as the Fed’s policy is doing now, and politicians are less able to guess right about how much time they really have to fix fiscal policy and to feel less pressure to do so.

According to the 2012 annual report of the global “central bank for central banks,” the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), “near zero policy [interest] rates, combined with abundant and nearly unconditional liquidity support, weaken incentives for ... fiscal authorities to limit their borrowing requirements.”

In short, the Fed isn’t making it harder for Congress and the president to do their job. It’s making it easier for them not to do their job.

The Fed alone is not responsible for today’s low rates. To some

8THE FIRST AMENDMENT

extent, they reflect investors’ flight to safe government bonds due to the lack of high-yielding alternatives in the sluggish private markets.

Also, the central banks of China and Japan are doing their part by holding $1.1 trillion of Treasury debt each to offset their cumulative trade surpluses with us.

Bernanke has specifically and firmly denied responsibility for the politicians’ fiscal dithering. In an Oct. 1 speech, he rejected the notion that the Fed should use monetary policy “to try to influence the political debate on the budget.”

“Suppose, notwithstanding our legal mandate, the Federal Reserve were to raise interest rates for the purpose of making it more expensive for government to borrow,” the chairman said. “Such an action would substantially increase the deficit” – both by raising borrowing costs and by weakening the economic growth upon which government depends for revenue.

Bernanke was correct. But he also was pummeling a straw man.

No one is saying that he is enabling

the fiscal impasse on purpose – at least I’m not. Nor is anyone suggesting that he should reverse course on interest rates for the express purpose of disciplining the politicians.

The real point, as the BIS put it, is that “central banks are being cornered into prolonging monetary stimulus as governments drag their feet and adjustment is delayed.”

Bernanke can’t raise rates without blowing up the economic recovery. The recovery, in turn, buys time for Congress and the White House to address fiscal issues under benign conditions. Yet without the spur of higher rates, politicians are more likely to waste that time – and, consequently, blow up the recovery.

It’s anyone’s guess how much longer this game can go on before markets finally do deliver an interest rate shock so powerful that even the Fed can’t counteract it. But I am pretty sure that whenever that shock comes, it will be sooner than we’d like.

• Charles Lane is a member of The Washington Post’s Editorial Board.

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8COMMUNITY NEWS

fire damages fox lake home FOX LAKE – A fire Friday left a single-family house uninhabitable, the fire department said.

Firefighters were called to 28 S. Maple Ave. about 11 a.m. and found the first floor of the twostory house on fire with heavy smoke showing, Battalion Chief Ed Lescher said.

It took about an hour-anda-half to bring the fire under control, Lescher said.

The cause of the fire is under investigation, but it is not believed to be suspicious, Lescher said.

Firefighters were on the scene until about 2 p.m.

There was extensive damage that extended into the second floor of the 1,800- to 2,000square-foot house, Lescher said.

He did not have an estimated value of the damage.

Crews from Round Lake and Lake Villa assisted at the scene.

Crews from Antioch, Wauconda and Grayslake helped staff the Fox Lake station during the fire.

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New home for Dorr Township Officials will make switch to roomier town hall facility Monday

By SHAWN SHINNEMAN sshinneman@shawmedia.com WOODSTOCK – Dorr Township officials will move into their new 10,800-square-foot town hall Monday.

This week, boxes and papers are strewn around the 1,600square-foot facility that the

township has called home for 35 years. Its fate is sealed – changing hands to the lone bidder once paperwork is finalized this month.

The township’s new building, 1039 Lake Ave., Woodstock, is undergoing final touches this week after construction crews gutted and rebuilt the facility to accom-

modate its multiple uses.

The new town hall has a boardroom, community room and meeting space for needsbased assistance programs. It also will house the Woodstock Food Pantry, which now resides in a cramped space at 226 Washington St. Township Supervisor Bob

Pierce said it will take time to make the switch, and he’s asking for patience from the community. The phone line will switch over Monday, but there could be a delay at some point, he said.

“We’ll be able to do some things, but until the computers

Teens’ pet portraits aid rescue Boxer Rebound volunteer Sandy Jacobsen walks with Sammy on Friday at the Ringwood facility. The dog rescue will benefit from a $1,000 check from a group of art students at McHenry High School West Campus. The students raised money for the nonprofit by drawing pet portraits.

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holiday rail today in union UNION – The Happy Holiday Railway will run from noon to 6 p.m. today and Sunday, as well as Dec. 15 and 16, at the Illinois Railway Museum, 7000 Olson Road, east of Union.

Attendees will embark on a magical train ride on their way to visit with Santa Claus. Mrs. Claus’ cookies and hot chocolate will be served. Tickets cost $12 a person. For information, call 815-923-4000 or 800-BIG-RAIL or visit www.irm.org.

HUNTLEY – “How I Survived the Holocaust,” an author presentation and book signing, will run from 10 to 11 a.m. today at the Huntley Area Public Library, 11000 Ruth Road, Huntley.

Huntley resident Maria Rybarcyk and her family were imprisoned in hard labor camps in Poland and Germany during World War II. She will share what sustained her and her family during those years.

Registration is required by calling 847-669-5386, ext. 21.

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To learn more For information about Boxer Rebound in Ringwood, visit www. boxerrebound. com.

By JANE HUH jhuh@shawmedia.com McHENRY – A nonprofit boxer dog rescue in Ringwood received an extra $1,000 for the holiday season thanks to a group of young artists.

At McHenry High School West Campus, the National Art Honor Society dedicated its latest service project to Boxer Rebound, a organization that finds homes for unwant-

McHenry West art students raise $1,000 for boxer shelter ed and abandoned boxer dogs.

They created 16 pet portraits for project donors, raising $1,000. The check was presented to Lisa Curry, a teacher at West Campus who volunteers at Boxer Rebound.

“I have two dogs, and one of

Speedy ‘Carol’ set in Algonquin “A Christmas Carol” in 40 Minutes will be at 7 p.m. Monday at the Algonquin Area Public Library, 2600 Harnish Drive.

Ed Dzialo of Rose Productions will present Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” in 40 minutes complete with costumes, music and sound effects.

8LOCAL DEATHS Diana Jill Christofalos 60, Wonder Lake Dorothy L. Heisler 94, Crystal Lake OBITUARIES on page B4

them is a rescue, so it’s really a nice way to give back to a group that works so hard to get pets into good homes,” said West Campus senior Morgan Folino, president of the student club.

“It’s a meaningful way to give

back to the community in a way [in which I get to use my talents]. It’s self-fulfilling.”

Michelle Zimmerman, West Campus art teacher, said the extracurricular club’s various service projects give students an opportunity to “realize the impact art can make for their community.”

The dog rescue, 4915 Ringwood Road in Ringwood, has been around

See BOXERS, page B4

140.6 miles, pain-free Woodstock woman overcame back issues en route to Ironman

sing along with ‘Messiah’ in CL CRYSTAL LAKE – “Sing-Along Messiah” will be presented at 4 p.m. Sunday at the Raue Center for the Arts, 26 N. Williams St., Crystal Lake.

It will be presented by Voices in Harmony and the McHenry County College Choir. Tickets cost $15 and $18. Tickets and information are available by calling 815-356-9212 or visiting www.rauecenter.org.

1,600 square feet: Size of township’s old town hall 10,800 square feet: Size of the new town hall

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By SHAWN SHINNEMAN sshinneman@shawmedia.com

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Sue Bartoszewski (left), nurse manager at Centegra Hospital – McHenry, looks over charts Thursday with nurses Mellyn Turner (center) and Diane Kielar. Bartoszewski suffered from severe back pain until she had a new procedure called sinergy cooled radiofrequency.

WOODSTOCK – The pain started in her back, moved to her hip, shot down her leg.

Sue Bartoszewski tried ignoring it. Admitting its presence was admitting the threat it posed toward stopping Bartoszewski short of her goal. In 2007, 80 pounds

CL, Cary companies help collect supplies for troops

By JIM DALLKE jdallke@shawmedia.com CARY – Numerous trucks go in and out of the Sage Products building in Cary every day, but on Friday only one had the faces of fallen McHenry County soldiers printed on the side.

Joe Alger, chief operating officer for JA Frate in Crystal Lake, is in charge of collecting donations for Operation Support Our Troops America, a program that delivers supplies to members of the armed forces serving

“I know what it’s like to get a care package from home.”

Joe Alger Chief operating officer for JA Frate and military veteran overseas. On Friday, he received a check for more than $1,200 and 100 cases of bath products for the troops.

Alger said the organization started collecting donations and supplies on Veter-

ans Day. By the end of the year, his group will have collected around $8,000 in monetary donations and two 53foot truckloads of supplies.

Alger, who has a son in the military and served two and a half years overseas himself, understands the importance of receiving items from home.

“I know what it’s like to get a care package from home,” he said. “It offsets the day-to-day struggles that you have.”

See TROOPS, page B4

overweight, she’d watched her son complete an Ironman triathlon.

An Ironman: 2.4 miles in the water, 112 miles on bike, then bring it home with 26.2 miles – a full marathon – on foot. Start at 7 a.m. Cross the finish line by midnight, and you’re an Ironman.

Bartoszewski, 55 at the time, knew instantly that she

wanted to be a part of this.

She started training – she remembers, at first, having to work up to a full-minute jog on the treadmill. She made it to a 5K, then a “sprint distance” triathlon – 0.47 miles swimming, 12 miles cycling and 3.1 miles running.

Then, the pain.

She ignored it until she couldn’t.

“It kept increasing in intensity,” said Bartoszewski, of Woodstock. “I couldn’t

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Fire causes $150K in damage to barn

Local man injured in Rt. 72 crash dies

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Woodstock firefighters investigate the cause of a fire Friday in a 20-foot by 30-foot pole barn at 10405 Aavang Road near Woodstock.

Woodstock fire department Lt. Scott Nieman said the fire caused an estimated $150,000 in damage to the barn and its contents, which included tools and a car.

After treatment, woman finished triathlon in 16 hours • IRONMAN

Continued from page B1 walk through Walmart with my grandson. I had to stop and sit. I thought, ‘Oh my gosh, I am not ready for this.’ ” At its worst, the pain in Bartoszewski’s back was so bad she couldn’t stand up long enough to cut a tomato. Walking around the house became a chore – she’d have to stop and sit halfway between the kitchen and her bedroom.

She started receiving treatment in 2009 from Dr. Terri Dallas-Prunskis, who co-founded the Illinois Pain Institute. In December of that year, an X-ray showed Bartoszewski has facet arthrosis, or degeneration of discs in her

back.

She also had pain originating from her sacroiliac (SI) joint, which connects the tailbone to the pelvis. Dallas injected the inflamed areas with a mix of local anesthetic and sometimes steroids and liquid anti-inflammatories.

It was enough to allow Bartoszewski to keep training. She worked her way up to a half marathon. She did an “Olympic distance” triathlon – 0.93 miles swimming, 25 miles by bike, 6.2 miles on foot. She ran a full marathon. She ran a half Ironman. But the pain never completely subsided.

“It’d come back fairly quickly,” she said. “And when it came back, it came back with a vengeance.”

In 2011, a representative

from a health care company approached the Centegra pain center about a new machine that performed a treatment called sinergy cooled radiofrequency (RF).

Bartoszewski, a clinical nurse manager at Centegra Hospital – McHenry who worked in the pain center at the time, asked Dallas about the treatment. She researched it and agreed it’d be a good fit.

Bartoszewski had undergone a standard RF treatment in her facets before, but in January 2012, she underwent the cooled RF treatment in her SI joint.

After about a week, Bartoszewski was pain free. Centegra – McHenry later bought the machine.

Dallas has been impressed

by the result. Approaching a year since the procedure, Bartoszewski still is without back or hip pain.

“What I’m looking for and what I’m excited about is to see the time period,” Dallas said. “It’s already been a year, and she’s doing well. It will be interesting to see how much longer she’ll get relief from this.”

Bartoszewski, now 60, became an Ironman in September, finishing the grueling race in just under 16 hours – good enough to earn her top honors in her age group, which included six other competitors.

Dallas remembers seeing her not long after. Bartoszewski’s muscles ached.

But her back felt fine.

GENEVA – A Johnsburg man critically injured in a two-vehicle collision Thursday on Route 72 has died, according to the Kane County Sheriff’s Office.

Members of the sheriff’s office were notified at 11 a.m.

Friday that Martin Baureis, 26, had died at Advocate Condell Medical Center in Libertyville, according to a news release.

Baureis was flown to the hospital Thursday morning after his vehicle struck a semitrailer on Route 72, authorities said. The collision happened around 10:15 a.m. near Route 72 and Big Timber Road, between Gilberts and Pingree Grove.

According to the initial investigation, Baureis’ Toyota was traveling west on Route 72

at a high rate of speed, crossed the center line and went into the oncoming lane of traffic.

Baureis was the only person in the car.

The driver of the semitrailer, Michael Fritz of McHenry, was heading east on Route 72 and approached a curve in the roadway. Fritz told authorities that he tried but was unable to avoid a crash as the Toyota swerved into his lane.

Fritz was not injured.

After the crash, the Toyota caught fire, and Baureis was “pinned in the vehicle,” according to police. Emergency responders kept the fire from reaching the car’s passenger compartment by using fire extinguishers.

Deputies have not determined whether texting, drugs or alcohol played a role in the crash.

The investigation is ongoing.

8local brief Shoppers can help fill Salvation Army truck CRYSTAL LAKE – For one day only, The Salvation Army will partner with more than 70 Walmart stores across the Chicago area, including those in McHenry County, to host a “Fill the Truck” toy drive that will provide new toys and coats to local children in need this Christmas.

The collection will run from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. today at participating Walmart stores.

The event is open to anyone who would like to donate new toys and coats to children who take part in Salvation Army programs year-round.

As they enter the store, shoppers will receive a list of

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The donations will be used to help children in need in McHenry County.

The local Salvation Army expects to serve more than 700 families with its Christmas assistance program, said Linda Hunter, the spokeswoman for the local unit.

The collection is expected to provide gifts to thousands of children.

Community members interested in volunteering for the event can call Hunter at 815-455-2769, ext. 16, or email linda_hunter@usc.salvationarmy.org.

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Lake in the Hills lights Christmas trees at fest Jacob Innis, 2, of Crystal Lake watches in awe Friday as Santa flips a switch to light up several Christmas trees during the Festival of Trees event at the Lake in the Hills Village Hall. The event included several decorated trees, where spectators could put donated nonperishable food under their favorite tree as a vote. All items collected were to be donated to the Lake in the Hills/ Algonquin Food Panty and the Grafton Township Food Pantry.

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CL company truck painted with area veterans’ portraits • TROOPS

Continued from page B1 Operation Support Our Troops America sends everything from “socks to Slim Jims,” Alger said, and he will be driving to the program’s headquarters in Lisle today to

deliver all the supplies.

The JA Frate truck has the faces of six fallen military members who were from McHenry County painted on the side. Alger said it serves as a memorial to the fallen soldiers and a way for people in the community to remember that sacrifice.

“I want everyone in McHenry County to know that we’ve had six soldiers, now seven soldiers, that have given their lives,” said Alger, who attended four of the soldiers’ funerals. “I want everyone in McHenry Country not to forget the sacrifices that were made for them person-

ally.”

Alex Hams, a senior quality engineer at Sage, said the company jumped at the opportunity to give back.

“We saw this as an excellent opportunity to give back and to show that we certainly haven’t forgotten [the troops],” Hams said.

8obituaries Diana Jill Christofalos

Born: April 20, 1952; in Lawrence, Mich.

Died: Dec. 6, 2012; in Barrington WONDER LAKE – Diana Jill Christofalos, 60, of Wonder Lake, passed away Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012, at the Pepper Family Hospice Home in Barrington.

Diana was born April 20, 1952, in Lawrence, Mich., the daughter of the late Harry and Hazel (nee Snellgrose) Newnum.

She was the beloved wife of the late Thomas Christofalos; the loving mother of Tony (Amanda), Tim (Becky), Eugene (Melissa) Christofalos, Niki (Bobby) Koustas, George (Nicole) and Tom (Lori) Christofalos; the cherished grandmother of Anastasia, Katarina, Sophia, Adrianana, Aaron, Thomas, Jacob, Hannah, Brett, Breanne and Nicholas Christofalos; and the dear sister of Jerry Newnum, Carol Morehouse and the late Peggy Walker and Wanda Melson.

The visitation will be from 10 a.m. until the service at noon Tuesday, Dec. 11, at Ahlgrim Family Funeral Home, 415 S. Buesching Road, Lake Zurich. Interment will follow in Evergreen Cemetery in Barrington.

For information, call the funeral home at 847-540-8871 or visit www.ahlgrimffs.com.

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Dorothy L. (Anderson) Heisler

Born: March 16, 1918 Died: Dec. 6, 2012; in Woodstock CRYSTAL LAKE – Dorothy L. (Anderson) Heisler, 94, of Crystal Lake, passed away peacefully Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012, at Hospice of Northeastern Illinois in Woodstock. She suffered a stroke Nov. 12.

Dorothy was born March 16, 1918, to Ella and Arthur Anderson.

She started out as a farm girl living on West Hillside Road, north of Crystal Lake and attending Ridgefield School, District 48. When the family farm was sold, the Anderson family moved into town to a house on the corner of Woodstock Street and Caroline Street, just a three-block walk to Crystal Lake Community High School. She loved to dance and so did Leonard, the love of her life. They were married May 19, 1940.

Dorothy was the last of the founding members of Bethany Lutheran Church. She was an avid golfer and bowler, and a big part of the family shoe business, Heisler’s Bootery. Anything to do to support her four boys and husband, she was right there.

Dorothy had a green thumb. One

could hardly see out all the back porch windows because of her morning glories. Many rooms in the house had startup plants growing, or somebody else’s plants recovering. Her hobby was collecting different small souvenir shoes from her travels and gifts from others in the family – totaling in the 100s.

The last several years of her life were busy at Heisler’s Bootery, holding court up front with the customers, reminiscing, reading her morning Crystal Lake Herald with coffee, and being a part of the daily activity. She will be greatly missed.

Dorothy is survived by sons Jim (Rebecca), John (Wilma), Jeff (Carol Ann) and Jack (Linda), all of Crystal Lake; grandchildren Jody, Jason, Johnny, Jill, Cindy (Kevin), Tracy (Charles), Courtney, Tim (Lindsay) and Brian; and great-grandchildren Kyle, Matt, Kaleigh, Charlie, Declan and Ryan.

She was preceded in death by her mother and father and three older siblings, Art, Alice and Howard.

She also was preceded in death by her husband of 60 years, Leonard J. Heisler, on Dec. 31, 2000; and a daughter-in-law, Carol Lee Heisler, on April 3, 2006.

Her family would like to thank all those who cared for her at home and at Centegra ICU, and the many staff at Hospice of Northeastern Illinois in Woodstock.

The visitation will be from 3 to 8 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 9, at Querhammer & Flagg Funeral Home, 500 W. Terra Cotta Ave., Crystal Lake. The visitation will continue from 10 to 11 a.m. Monday, Dec. 10, at Bethany Lutheran Church, 76 W. Crystal Lake Ave., Crystal Lake. A funeral service will be at 11 a.m. Monday, Dec. 10, at Bethany Lutheran Church.

Interment will follow in McHenry County Memorial Park.

Memorials may be made in Dorothy’s name to Bethany Lutheran Church, or Sheltered Village, 600 Borden St., Woodstock, IL 60098.

Online condolences may be expressed at www.querhammerandflagg.com. For information, call the funeral home at 815-459-1760.

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Sigrid C. Kynell

Born: Oct. 20, 1912; in Duluth, Minn.

Died: Dec. 4, 2012; in Walworth, Wis. WALWORTH, Wis. – Sigrid C. Kynell, 100, passed away Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012, at her home in Walworth.

She was born in Duluth, Minn., on Oct. 20, 1912, to Swedish immigrants Conrad and Alma Johnson.

As a young child, their family moved to Wright, Minn., where she was raised on the family farm.

She married Stanley G. Kynell on July 23, 1938. They lived primarily in Duluth and Fairmont, Minn., and

Sparta, Wis., before settling down in Walworth in the ’50s.

She and her husband, Stan, spent the majority of their working years in the retail business, having owned a women’s ready-to-wear store in Harvard, Stan’s and the V&S Variety Store on the Walworth Square. She also worked in the kitchen at Big Foot High School for more than a decade, making fresh baked cookies daily for the student cafeteria. She and Stan were longtime founding members of Faith Evangelical Lutheran Church in Walworth.

She was a wonderful seamstress, a fastidious homemaker and an excellent cook. Simple and practical, she cherished her family, was a woman of faith, a cherished mother, grandmother, aunt and dear friend to many.

She was preceded in death by an infant daughter, Moreta Joan; by her husband, Stanley, in 1992; by her beloved sons, Gordon and Michael, in 1994; and most recently by her daughter-in-law, Mary Kynell, in 2012.

Sigrid is survived by her three grandchildren, Karen (Muhannad) Tanbour of Chicago, Kevin (Angie) Kynell of Walworth and Kristen (Wesley) Jasinski of Glencoe, Ill. More than anything, Grandma Siggy cherished her five beloved greatgrandchildren, Maya and Michael Jasinski and Holly, Brody and Clay Kynell. She also leaves behind many nieces and nephews.

A memorial service will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 15, at Faith Evangelical Lutheran Church, with Pastor James Mehltretter officiating. At 2 p.m. there will be a private burial service in Walworth Memorial Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorials to Faith Evangelical Lutheran Church, 420 Read St., Walworth, WI 53184, or Aurora Visiting Nurse Association of Lake Geneva, in care of Aurora Health Care Foundation, 950 North 12th St., Suite A511, Milwaukee, WI 53233.

Toynton Walworth Funeral Home assisted the family. For information, call the funeral home at 262-2752171.

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Georgia Mae Pilipuf (Boerger) Born: Nov. 27, 1948; in Chicago Died: Dec. 3, 2012; in Algonquin SPRING GROVE – Georgia Mae Pilipuf (Boerger), 64, of Spring Grove, passed away Monday, Dec. 3, 2012, with her children by her side after an amazing battle with brain cancer since 2007.

Georgia Mae Pautsch was born Nov. 27, 1948, in Chicago.

She was a dedicated and loving mother who lived for her children.

She lovingly cared for her children and many other children as a professional day care provider in her home and as a nanny for most of her life. Even after finishing her degree, she returned to being a nanny because that is what she truly loved doing.

A single mother who always provided through thick and thin, she died her family’s hero. Her family is sure she is preparing for their arrival someday and now watches over them from heaven. She was loved and was an inspiration to them, and she lived and died beautifully.

She is survived by her children, Candice (Michael) Jenness, William (Mandi) Boerger, Thomas (Corinne) Pilipuf and Michael Pilipuf; her grandchildren, Lauren, Meghan, Susan, John, Kathryn, Jett, River and Annalyse; her parents, John Pautsch Sr. and Catherine (nee Spanos); her brothers, John Pautsch Jr. and Robert Pautsch; and her sister, Penelope (Timothy) Golonka.

She was preceded in death by her grandparents, George Spanos and Georgia Harris.

The memorial visitation will be from 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 9, with a memorial service at 4 p.m. at Willow Funeral Home, 1415 W. Algonquin Road, Algonquin. Cremation will be private.

For information, call the funeral home at 847-458-1700 or visit www.willowfh.com.

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Economy has hurt adoptions at rescue • BOXERS

Continued from page B1 since 1984. The program has grown in demand throughout the years as the breed gained popularity with the American Kennel Club, said Jeannette Everett, co-owner. “[The boxer breed] used to be ranked 24th, now they’re ranked [seventh],” she said.

“When a breed gets in the top 10, they’re going to be in trouble.

“So there’s a snowballing effect right now.”

The rescue is supported by volunteers and donations.

And Friday’s check from the West Campus students will “help immensely,” Everett said.

The rescue, which does not use foster homes, currently houses about 45 boxers.

“I’d much prefer having only 10 here,” Everett said.

But ever since the economy took a dive within the

past few years, adoptions steadily fell by half, going from 130 adoptions a year down to 60 to 70, she said.

The boxers don’t receive just food, shelter and medical care. Experienced dog trainers volunteer to teach the dogs obedience and socialization skills.

“It’s a real commitment,” Everett said. “We have the dogs vetted, and any problems, we have it treated before they leave.”

Even so, the rescue maintains specific adoption policies based on the dog breed’s nature, rarely placing the “highly energetic” dogs in apartments and other confined living spaces.

“We require fenced-in yards,” Everett said. “We can allow exceptions only for some of the older dogs and owners with a past history of owning boxers. But we’re not a revolving door. It’s about the proper connection between the owner and the dog.”

Old home sold for $183K • DORR

Continued from page B1 get hooked up and everything, [there] will be a delay,” Pierce said.

The food pantry will move in another week, Pierce said. The pantry has needed more space since the recession heightened needs in the area.

Dorr Township bought

the new building for $525,000 in March.

The original construction contract called for $850,000 in remodeling, but Pierce said the project is coming in below budget.

The old building was appraised at $180,000. The township board accepted the lone bid of $183,000. The buyer’s identity will not be made public until the sale is finalized.

8funeral arrangements Steven P. Bartolone: Prayers will be said at 9:20 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 8, at Colonial Funeral Home, 591 Ridgeview Drive, McHenry, proceeding to St. Mary’s Church, 1401 Richmond Road, McHenry, for a Mass celebration at 10 a.m. Interment will be in St. Mary’s Cemetery.

For information, call 815-3850063.

Georgia R. (nee Hopp) Biederman: The visitation will be from 11 a.m. until the funeral service at 1 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 8, at Colonial Funeral Home, 591 Ridgeview Drive, McHenry.

Interment is private for the family. For information, call 815385-0063.

Robert F. Denley: Memorial service will be at 1:30 p.m.

Saturday, Dec. 8, at St. Peter Evangelical Lutheran Church, 18N377 County Road 6, Gilligan Road, Gilberts.

Nicholas “Nick” Zachary Johnson: The funeral service will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 8, at Dunbar Funeral Home, Devine Street Chapel, Columbia, S.C. Evangeline “Vangie” C. Kempf: A service of remembrance will be from 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 8, at Willow Funeral Home, 1415 W. Algonquin Road, Algonquin.

Joanna B. Ladd (nee DeBeer): The memorial visitation will be

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Larry V. Norgard: The funeral service will be at 10 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 8, at St. John’s Lutheran Church, 9812 St. Albans St., Hebron. Interment will be in LinnHebron Cemetery in Hebron. For information, call 815-648-2054.

Richard “Dick” R. Penley: The service will be at 11 a.m.

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Amelia Stancil: The visitation will be from 1 to 7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 8, at Willow Funeral Home, 1415 W. Algonquin Road, Algonquin. The funeral will be at 6 p.m. Saturday at the funeral home. For information, call 847458-1700.

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Page B7 • Saturday, December 8, 2012

On screen now “Cloud Atlas” HHH Rated R for violence, language, some drug use and sexuality and nudity, 2 hours, 53 minutes STARRING: Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Jim Broadbent, Hugh Grant PLOT: Themes of captivity and freedom are explored in six interconnected stories that range in time from the 19th century to a post-apocalyptic future.

VERDICT: Chicago-born filmmakers Andy and Lana Wachowski (“The Matrix”) team up with German director Tom Tykwer (“Run Lola Run”) to create this weird and wild visual storytelling odyssey.

Hanks, Berry, Broadbent, Grant, Ben Wishaw, Susan Sarandon and others play multiple characters spread across the six tales, often under heavy makeup. The two best stories are those set in the future and directed by the Wachowskis. This epic doesn’t fulfill its lofty philosophical ambitions, but it remains entertaining for nearly three hours. That’s a remarkable feat in itself. – Jeffrey

Westhoff, Northwest Herald •••••••

“The Collection” Rated R for strong bloody violence, grisly images, language and brief nudity, 1 hour, 22 minutes STARRING: Josh Stewart, Emma Fitzpatrick, Christopher McDonald PLOT: A man who escapes from the vicious grips of the serial killer known as “The Collector” is blackmailed to rescue an innocent girl from the killer’s booby-trapped warehouse.

VERDICT: This film was not made available to critics before its release.

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“Flight” HHH Rated R for drug and alcohol abuse, language, sexuality/nudity and an intense action sequence, 2 hours, 15 minutes STARRING: Denzel Washington, John Goodman, Kelly Reilly, Don Cheadle PLOT: An airline pilot saves a flight from crashing, but an investigation into the malfunctions reveals something troubling.

VERDICT: If “Flight” weren’t so exceptionally crafted and acted, this tale of self-destruction and eventual redemption might feel like the sort of feel-good fare you’d see on the Lifetime Movie Network, or even a 12-step-program promotion.

Instead, director Robert Zemeckis’ first live-action film since 2000’s “Cast Away” is by turns thrilling, engrossing and even darkly funny, anchored by a tremendous performance from Denzel Washington.

This is one of those Washington roles, like his Oscar-winning work in “Training Day,” in which he exudes a potent mix of damage and bravado, control and danger, but he’s so incredibly charismatic even as he does bad deeds you can’t help but root for him. Here, Zemeckis and screenwriter John Gatins have given him a deeply flawed character, placed him in a complicated situation, and allowed him to put the best of what he can do on display.

– Christy Lemire, The Associated Press •••••••

“Killing Them Softly” HH Rated R for violence, sexual references, pervasive language and some drug use, 1 hour, 37 minutes STARRING: Brad Pitt, Richard Jenkins, Ray Liotta, James Gandolfini PLOT: After two dimwitted hoods rob a mob-sanctioned poker game, an out-of-town enforcer (Pitt) is called in to hunt them down and restore the local underworld economy.

VERDICT: Writer-director Andrew Dominik (“The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford”) begins with the Quentin Tarantino template of talkative, philosophical hit men and tries to expand it into a parable about America’s economic meltdown in the fall of 2008. The metaphors are too obvious (the

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RATINGS HHHH - Excellent HHH - Recommended HH - Not recommended H - Awful poker game represents Wall Street), and frequent cutaways to speeches from then-President George W. Bush and then-candidate Barack Obama push the political cynicism too hard. Pitt leads a strong cast, but if all the scenes of self-pitying dialogue were eliminated, the movie would be 30 minutes long. – Jeffrey

Westhoff, Northwest Herald •••••••

“Life of Pi” HHH½ Rated PG for emotional thematic content throughout, and some scary action sequences and peril, 2 hours, 6 minutes STARRING: Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Adil Hussain and Tabu PLOT: A young man who survives a disaster at sea is hurtled into an epic journey of adventure and discovery. While cast away, he forms an unexpected connection with another survivor ... a fearsome Bengal tiger.

VERDICT: If you’re going to see “Life of Pi,” you must see it in 3D. If you saw “Avatar” or “Hugo” in 2D, you saw flatter versions of those movies. But if you see “Life of Pi” in 2D, you will not be seeing “Life of Pi.” It would be like a comic book with words but no pictures. Ang Lee, in his best work since “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,” makes 3D integral to the storytelling in this miracle of a film. Lee employs fanciful imagery in the run-up to the ocean voyage, but “Life of Pi” comes to glorious life when the story shifts away from India.

The shipwreck sequence, which lasts about 10 minutes, is more wrenching than the whole of James Cameron’s “Titanic.” Lee’s imagination never ceases to seize upon new ways to depict the sea. This portion of the film becomes a museum gallery unto itself, with a series of paintings representing new aspects of the sea – its calm, its beauty, its ferocity, but above all, its limitlessness. Lee’s use of 3D photography enhances his portrait of the sea. It extends toward us as well as away from us. We see it from above the surface as well as from below. We look toward the nothingness on the horizon and feel Pi’s isolation. But after weaving a spell that leaves the audience awestruck for two hours, Lee and screenwriter David Magee (“Finding Neverland”) do about the worst thing they could possibly do to “Life of Pi.” They assault their ephemeral construct with a jackhammer of literalness when that dad-blasted writer spells out the story’s symbolism. This final scene doesn’t ruin “Life of Pi,” but it is a curious and terrible way to finish an outstanding film. It’s like watching an exquisite performance of “Swan Lake” end with a belly flop into the orchestra pit. – Jeffrey Westhoff,

Northwest Herald •••••••

“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 and 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, nutsand-bolts 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 Associated Press •••••••

“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 ZetaJones 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 Herald •••••••

“Red Dawn” H Rated PG-13 for sequences of intense war violence and action, and for language, 1 hour, 33 minutes STARRING: Chris Hemsworth, Isabel Lucas, Josh Hutcherson PLOT: A group of teenagers look to save their town from an invasion of North Korean soldiers.

VERDICT: The army invading the United States in “Red Dawn,” an ill-advised remake of the campy 1984 original, was changed in postproduction from Chinese to North Korean. With a few snips here, a few redubs there, the filmmakers re-edited and reshot, fearful of offending China and its increasingly important movie-going market. The ridiculous “Red Dawn” is the supreme example of Hollywood’s Cold War nostalgia, when the Russkies offered up an easy, de facto villain.

Today’s terrorism paranoia, apparently, is too complex and too faceless for some. Director Dan Bradley, a former stunt coordinator, can mount a decent shoot-out scene, but doesn’t stage the action well, leaving scenes looking set in the same few downtown blocks. Still, there’s no telling how Bradley had to alter his footage. (No one had it harder than actor Will Yun Lee, who, as the occupying commander, had to redo his lines in Korean.) In recent years, home invasion movies have been made frequently, only with aliens. The appeal, as one of the characters in “Red Dawn” says, is that defending one’s homeland makes “more sense” in a time filled with indirect military aims. But such fantasies – here played out by delusional teenage football players – are all the more dubious given that the U.S. was engaged in two

(real) wars at the time of filming. In “Red Dawn,” Afghanistan and Iraq go hardly mentioned, replaced by a game of toy soldiers with makebelieve foes. – Jake Coyle, The

Associated Press

“The Collection” Saturday, Dec. 8

AMC Lake in the Hills 12 – 11:40 a.m., 1:50, 4:30, 7:15, 9:30 p.m.

Classic Cinemas Carpentersville 1:45, 3:45, 5:45, 7:45, 9:45 p.m.

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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, The Hollywood Reporter •••••••

“flight”

Saturday, Dec. 8

AMC Lake in the Hills 12 – 1:00, 4:40, 8:00 p.m.

Regal Cinemas – 12:35, 4:15, 7:25, 10:35 p.m.

“Killing Them Softly”

Saturday, Dec. 8

AMC Lake in the Hills 12 – 11:45 a.m., 2:20, 4:50, 7:45, 10:20 p.m.

Classic Cinemas Carpentersville 12:35, 2:50, 5:05, 7:20, 9:35 p.m.

Regal Cinemas – 8:10, 10:45 p.m.

Saturday, Dec. 8

AMC Lake in the Hills 12 – 2D: 1:10, 4:10, 7:10 p.m.; 3D: 12:50, 3:50, 6:45, 9:45 p.m.

Classic Cinemas Carpentersville – 2D: 4:15 p.m.; 3D: 1:30, 7:00, 9:45 p.m.

Regal Cinemas – 2D: 3:55, 10:00 p.m.; 3D: 12:45, 6:55 p.m.

“LINCOLN”

Saturday, Dec. 8

AMC Lake in the Hills 12 – 1:00, 4:30, 8:00 p.m.

Classic Cinemas Carpentersville 12:35, 3:40, 6:45, 9:50 p.m.

Regal Cinemas – 12:00, 1:00, 3:30, 4:30, 7:00, 8:00, 10:30 p.m.

“PLAYING FOR KEEPS”

Rated R for language and some sexual content/nudity, 2 hours, 2 minutes

AMC Lake in the Hills 12 – 10:50 a.m., 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 p.m.

Classic Cinemas Carpentersville 12:20, 2:40, 5:00, 7:20, 9:40 p.m.

Regal Cinemas – 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10 p.m.

Lemire, The Associated Press •••••••

“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 (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

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AMC Lake in the Hills 12 – 2D: 11:30 a.m., 2:00, 4:40, 7:20 p.m.; 3D: 9:50 p.m.

Classic Cinemas Carpentersville 2D: 12:00, 2:10, 4:20, 6:30, 8:40 p.m.; 3D: 1:00, 3:10, 5:20, 7:30 p.m.

Classic Cinemas Woodstock – 4:30, 6:45, 9:00 p.m.

McHenry Downtown Theatre – 1:15, 3:30, 6:00, 8:30 p.m.

Regal Cinemas – 2D: 12:20, 3:10, 6:40, 9:20 p.m.; 3D: 12:50, 3:40 p.m.

“SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK” Saturday, Dec. 8

Regal Cinemas – 1:10, 4:10, 7:15, 10:15 p.m.

“LIFE OF PI”

“Silver Linings Playbook” HHH½

STARRING: Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, Jacki Weaver PLOT: After a stint in a mental institution, former teacher Pat Solitano moves back in with his parents and tries to reconcile with his ex-wife.

Things get more challenging when Pat meets Tiffany, a mysterious girl with problems of her own.

VERDICT: From mental illness and adultery to football obsession and competitive dance, “Silver Linings Playbook” follows a wily and winding path that consistently defies expectations. Director David O. Russell has pulled off a tricky feat here, finding just the right tone in crafting a romantic comedy whose sweethearts suffer from bipolar disorder and depression. On paper alone, it sounds cringe-inducing. But he never condescends to his characters; “Silver Linings Playbook” isn’t mawkish, nor is it wacky and crass in the opposite extreme. Russell has developed affectionately fleshed-out characters in a deeply steeped sense of place: working-class Philadelphia.

Cooper and Lawrence both give inspired performances that allow them to play against type as the unlikely couple at the center of this romance, and Robert De Niro does some of the best work in recent years. – Christy

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“Skyfall”

Saturday, Dec. 8

AMC Lake in the Hills 12 – 12:10, 3:20, 6:35, 9:50 p.m.

Classic Cinemas Carpentersville 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 p.m.

McHenry Downtown Theatre – 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 p.m.

Regal Cinemas – 12:30, 2:00, 4:00, 5:30, 7:30, 9:00, 10:50 p.m.

“The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2” Saturday, Dec. 8

AMC Lake in the Hills 12 – 11:10 a.m., 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 p.m.

Classic Cinemas Woodstock – 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 p.m.

Classic Cinemas Carpentersville 12:00, 1:30, 2:30, 4:00, 5:00, 6:30, 7:30, 9:00, 10:00 p.m.

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“Wreck–it ralph” Saturday, Dec. 8

Saturday, Dec. 8

AMC Lake in the Hills 12 – 11:20 a.m., 1:50, 4:15, 6:40, 9:10 p.m.

Classic Cinemas Carpentersville 1:10, 3:20, 5:30, 7:40, 9:50 p.m.

Regal Cinemas – 1:20, 4:05, 7:10, 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,

Northwest Herald •••••••

“The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2” HHH Rated PG-13 for sequences of violence including disturbing images, some sensuality and partial nudity, 1 hour, 55 minutes STARRING: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner PLOT: After the birth of Renesmee, the Cullens gather other vampire clans in order to protect the child from a false allegation that puts the family in front of the Volturi.

VERDICT: Finally – finally! – the “Twilight” franchise embraces its own innate absurdity with the gleefully over-the-top conclusion. This is by far the best film in the series. This does not necessarily mean it’s good.

But as it reaches its prolonged and wildly violent crescendo, it’s at least entertaining in a totally nutso way. Director Bill Condon (who also directed last year’s “Breaking Dawn – Part 1”) finally lets his freak flag fly. His final “Twilight” movie dares to have a little fun – it actually makes you laugh intentionally for once, teetering on self-parody as it does. – Christy

Lemire, The Associated Press

AMC Lake in the Hills 12 – 11:00 a.m., 1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 p.m.

Classic Cinemas Carpentersville 12:00, 2:20, 4:40, 7:00, 9:20 p.m.

Regal Cinemas – 12:55, 3:45, 6:30, 9:15 p.m.

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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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Calcium can be found in many foods Dear Dr. K: I need to get more calcium, and I’d like it to come from foods rather than supplements. I’m a vegan, so dairy products aren’t an option for me.

Dear Reader: When most people think of food sources of calcium, they think of milk and cheese. Vegans can’t eat food that comes from animals, so those sources of calcium aren’t available to you. But getting calcium from food sources is becoming easier for vegans. There are many vegan foods that are naturally rich in calcium, and more foods than ever are fortified with calcium, including some cereals and orange juices.

Current recommendations are that adults aim for between 1,000 and 1,200 milligrams (mg) of calcium a day. (The exact amount varies depending on your age and gender.) Many foods besides dairy products can help you

ASK DR. K Dr. Anthony Komaroff meet your daily requirements.

I’ve put a table on my website that shows how much calcium is found in common foods. For example, just a cup of fortified orange juice supplies about 300 mg of calcium.

And three-quarters of a cup of some fortified cereals, such as Whole Grain Total, offers 1,000 mg of calcium.

The plant kingdom also is calcium-rich. Spinach, dried beans and nuts are among the best sources. However, the calcium content can’t always be accepted at face value; some vegetables and grains contain substances that undermine calcium absorption. For example, the oxalic acid in spinach and rhubarb combines with the calcium in these plants so

that it isn’t readily absorbed.

Insoluble fiber, such as that in wheat bran, also reduces calcium absorption. But soluble fiber, such as that in fruit pectins, does not affect calcium absorption.

If you’re still struggling to get enough calcium, try making some smart substitutions.

For example, choose firm tofu (258 mg of calcium per 1/2 cup serving) over soft tofu (130 mg of calcium per 1/2 cup serving).

Your body has a hard time absorbing large amounts of calcium all at once, so don’t try to get most of your calcium in one meal. Instead, get it in doses of 500 mg or less, a few times throughout the day.

You can, of course, take calcium in the form of supplements. For most people, calcium carbonate is well absorbed and inexpensive; you should take the supplements with meals. If you take a medicine

to reduce stomach acid (like a proton pump inhibitor or an H2 blocker), it’s better to take calcium citrate, because it is better absorbed than calcium carbonate.

Finally, a note about calcium. There is strong evidence the combination of calcium (through dietary sources or supplements) combined with vitamin D can protect against the thinning of bones.

However, the evidence that calcium supplements without vitamin D can prevent bone fractures is not very strong.

Whether you’re a vegan or not, and regardless of your gender, if you’re over age 50, I’d recommend you talk with your doctor about a vitamin D supplement to go along with the calcium in your diet.

• Write to Dr. Komaroff at www.askdoctork.com or Ask Doctor K, 10 Shattuck St., Second Floor, Boston, MA 02115.

Eligible suitors can’t see past disability Dear Abby: I am a 41-yearold female working on my associate’s degree in paralegal studies. Most people I know tell me I’m attractive, and I do get some second looks from men, but there is one thing I think – although I’m not sure – that scares them away. I am disabled. I dress well, am an average weight for my height, independentminded, although not quite independent physically. I get around on crutches.

I live with my parents.

I enjoy and participate in physical activities. I don’t have a lot of friends, which is fine with me, but I do have a number of special ones. I try to make the best of my disability, and everyone I know, even strangers, tell me I do well and admire me for my courage and strength.

I should be happy with that, but sometimes it bothers me I haven’t found one man who can see past whatever it is that keeps them

DEAR ABBY Jeanne Phillips from liking me. I know a number of grumpy, unhappy, ungrateful women who abuse the men in their lives, and sometimes I can’t help but wonder at how “blind” their partners are.

I am not desperate. I like my alone time. But it’s a big, beautiful world out there, and I’d like to share it with someone. – At A Loss In Ohio Dear At A Loss: You need to widen your circle of acquaintances. Once you have completed your studies and have more time, make it your business to join local and state groups associated with your profession. While some people may be put off by your disability, not everyone will be. Many people with physical disabilities have romantic lives and good marriages to

partners who see past their disabilities and recognize all of the things they CAN do.

P.S. I know I have said this before, but you also should consider volunteering some of your time to a cause that interests you because it’s a great way to meet people.

Dear Abby: Last night I received a call from my 4-year-old granddaughter asking me for Santa Claus’ phone number. It seems she is very angry at her daddy for calling her a brat because she wouldn’t give him a hug. She wants to tattle on her daddy to Santa.

Her parents are not together. Her daddy’s involvement has been only within the last year. She seemed very upset about the incident, and I want to make sure “Santa” gives her a good answer. I asked her to write a letter instead of phoning Santa to give me time for an answer. Did I do the right thing? – Grandma

T., Pacific Grove, Calif.

Dear Grandma T.: Yes. Once your granddaughter has written the letter to Santa, you may find that she no longer dwells on what happened.

However, if she continues to look for a reply, “Santa’s” response should be that her daddy was hurt when she refused to give him a hug because daddies need love just as little girls do. But name-calling is wrong, no matter how old you are, and he shouldn’t have called her a brat, which is why he’ll be getting a lump of coal in his stocking at Christmas.

To My Jewish Readers: The eight days of Hanukkah begin at sundown. (I cannot believe how early it has fallen this year.) Happy Hanukkah, everyone. A joyous Festival of Lights to all of you.

• Write Dear Abby at www.dearabby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

NOTICE OF PROPOSED PROPERTY TAX INCREASE FOR McHENRY COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT 156 I. A public hearing to approve a proposed property tax levy increase for Community High School District Number 156, McHenry and Lake Counties, Illinois, for 2011 will be held on December 18th, 2012 at 7:30 P.M. at the Robert O. Swartzloff Center, 4716 W. Crystal Lake Road, McHenry, IL 60050.

Any person desiring to appear at the public hearing and present testimony to the taxing district may contact Dr. Gina Swinney, Superintendent McHenry High School District #156, 4716 W. Crystal Lake Road, McHenry, IL 815-385-7900.

II. The corporate and special purpose property taxes extended or abated for 2011 were $21,043,189.

The proposed corporate and special purpose property taxes to be levied for 2012 are $22,685,071. This represents a 8.00 percent increase over the previous year.

III. The property taxes extended for debt service and public building commission leases for 2011 were $3,720,867.

The estimated property taxes to be levied for debt service and public building commission leases for 2012 are $3,907,595. This represents a 5.00 percent change from the previous year.

IV. The total property taxes extended or abated for 2011 were $24,746,056.

V. The taxing district has estimated its equalized assessed valuation to secure new growth revenue and must adhere to the Property Tax Extension Limitation Law (PTELL or "tax cap" law).PTELL limits the increase over the prior year in the property tax extension of this taxing district to the lesser of 5% or the percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index (CPI), which is 3.0%.

The estimated total property taxes to be levied for 2012 are $26,592,666. This represents a 7.38 percent increase over the previous year.

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I read ‘50 Shades of Grey’ so I stay away from paddles.”

Whoopi Goldberg during a recent charity auction

Brady, Bundchen welcome second child

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worth TALKIN’ about

Saturday, December 8, 2012 • PlanitNorthwest.com/buzz

New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady and his supermodel wife, Gisele Bundchen, have announced the birth of their second child, a girl named Vivian Lake.

Bundchen announced the birth on her Facebook page, saying their daughter was born at home on Wednesday and is “healthy and full of life.”

“We feel so lucky to have been able to experience the miracle of birth once again and are forever grateful for the opportunity to be the parents of another little angel,” Bundchen wrote in her Facebook posting.

BUZZWORTHY

Keys raises $2.9M

Notorious B.I.G. autopsy released An attorney for the family of Notorious B.I.G. said Friday it’s ridiculous that Los Angeles police have not arrested anyone for the rapper’s 1997 killing, which has returned to the spotlight after coroner’s officials released a long-sealed autopsy report.

The report revealed that injuries cause by a single bullet killed the rapper, whose real name was Christopher Wallace, during a drive-by shooting in March 1997. Wallace was hit by four bullets after leaving a music industry event, but one that hit his heart, left lung and colon caused his death, the 23-page report states.

Perry Sanders Jr. said he was not given any notice that the report would be released, and he criticized police for not closing one of Los Angeles’ highest-profile unsolved murders, especially since he had been told that police had identified those responsible.

“I’ve been advised by the homicide detective that was in charge of the investigation and is no longer with the department that the crime has been solved for several years now,” Sanders told The Associated Press. “This was confirmed by at least one other person who is currently on the force, and it is ridiculous that an arrest has not been made for a crime that’s allegedly been solved for several years.”

A 2011 book by former Los Angeles police detective Greg Kading claimed both murders had been solved, although no arrests have been made and federal prosecutors in 2005 declined to file charges after a lengthy, bi-coastal investigation.

During the auction portion of Alicia Keys’ Black Ball Redux, one man was ready to jump his bid from $100,000 to $250,000 for a trip to South Africa – if Keys would join him and his friends.

“I’ll go for a little more,” Keys said Thursday night at the Apollo Theater, where her charity’s annual gala was Alicia Keys held.

The man – pharmaceutical billionaire Stewart Rahr – didn’t raise his bid, but he later pledged $1 million to Keep a Child Alive, helping the R&B singer raise more than $2.9 million.

Keys’ charity assists those affected by HIV/AIDS in Africa and India. Thursday’s event originally was planned for Nov. 1, but was canceled due to Superstorm Sandy.

“There are places in the world where Keep a Child Alive serves where they have a Hurricane Sandy every day,” Keys said in an interview on the red carpet. “They don’t have electricity, they don’t have heat ... and that made me more invigorated to make sure this Black Ball happened.”

Keys honored Oprah Winfrey at the event for the entrepreneur’s philanthropic efforts, including her school, The Oprah

More celeb news at PlanitNorthwest.com/buzz Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa, which launched in 2007.

“It’s a universal truth, Oprah makes change happen,” Keys said.

Winfrey said she was honored to receive an award from Keys, and that it confirms she’s “moving in the right direction.”

Video game sales still falling

U.S. retail sales of new video-game hardware, software and accessories fell 11 percent in November.

It was the 12th straight month of declining sales. But last month represented the smallest decrease so far this year, helped in part by the launch of Nintendo’s new console, the Wii U. Research firm NPD Group says sales slipped to $2.55 billion from $2.87 billion a year ago.

Sales of video games themselves, excluding PC titles, fell 11 percent to $1.43 billion. Sales of hardware, including the Wii U, fell 13 percent to $838.9 million. Sales of accessories fell 8 percent to $280.9 million.

The Wii U launched in the U.S. on Nov. 18 ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday and Black Friday sales day.

Despite the launch, Microsoft Corp. said its Xbox 360 remained the nation’s top-selling platform for the 23rd month in a row with 1.26 million units sold.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS Actor-producer-director Maximilian Schell is 82. Singer Jerry Butler is 73. Drummer Bobby Elliott of The Hollies is 71. Actor John Rubinstein (“Family,” “Crazy Like a Fox”) is 66. Singerkeyboardist Gregg Allman of the Allman Brothers is 65. Actress Kim Basinger is 59. Guitarist Warren Cuccurullo (Duran Duran, Missing Persons) is 56. Guitarist Phil Collen of Def Leppard is 55. Country singer Marty Raybon (The Raybon Brothers, Shenandoah) is 53. Guitarist Marty Friedman (Megadeth) is 50.

Actress Teri Hatcher is 48. Actor David Harewood (“Homeland”) is 47. Rapper Bushwick Bill of Geto Boys is 46. Singer Sinead O’Connor is 46. Actor Matthew Laborteaux (“Little House on the Prairie”) is 46. Guitarist Ryan Newell of Sister Hazel is 40. Actor Dominic Monaghan (“Lost,” “Lord of the Rings”) is 36. Actor Ian Somerhalder (“The Vampire Diaries,” “Lost,”) is 34. Singer Ingrid Michaelson is 33. Singer Chrisette Michele is 30. Singer Kate Voegele (“One Tree Hill”) is 26.

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Huntley 46, Jacobs 39

FIVE ON ONE

BEARS

Wootton expects to finish strong

Raiders sink Eagles AP photo

TODAY’S TOPIC: Better ideas

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell (above) said this week that the NFL will consider eliminating kickoffs to prevent injuries. Here are five other suggestions:

By TOM MUSICK tmusick@shawmedia.com

1. Use flags instead. By eliminating tackling, you’d eliminate most injuries.

2. Eliminate pass rush.

Instead, give the defense an extra player to stop them.

3. Ban Ndamukong Suh. Could apply to Jared Allen or Richie Incognito as well.

4. Eliminate contact in practice. Those practice collisions are just as dangerous as the in-game ones.

5. Use robots. That way all kinds of vicious hits could be legalized and no one gets hurt.

– sportsdesk@nwherald.com

THEY WROTE IT From Dave Hyde South Florida Sun Sentinel If the Heat don’t care about this regular season, do we have to keep pretending we do?

All day Thursday, they made the proper comments about working more, playing harder and how having Dwyane the New York Wade Knicks in town for a nationally televised game was just the tonic to make them care.

“Big game,” Dwyane Wade said.

“Games like this can be a springboard for the next couple of weeks,” LeBron James said.

Then the ball went up and it might as well have been Tuesday in Washington for the effort the Heat gave. Can they tell us when they care again? Or, more to the point, show everyone?

The Knicks blew out the Heat in Madison Square Garden last month by 20 points. That was embarrassing. This was worse: The Knicks came into AmericanAirlines Arena and won without Carmelo Anthony, 112-92.

“Let’s go New York!” Knicks fans chanted in the final minute.

So in the span of five days, New England fans took over Sun Life Stadium and Knicks fans took over AmericanAirlines Arena. You can’t make this stuff up. ... Nothing told you how little the Heat care on Thursday than when Knicks guard Ray Felton dribbled for a third-quarter layup through the Heat defense without anyone stepping in his way. Right this way. Table for two.

WHAT TO WATCH College basketball No. 13 Illinois at No. 10 Gonzaga, 9 p.m., ESPN2 The Illini travel to Spokane, Wash., to face Gonzaga in a matchup of 9-0 teams.

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Huntley’s Bryce Only sprints away from Jacobs’ Blake Micel (left) and Jon Berndt during the third quarter Friday in Algonquin. Huntley won the Fox Valley Conference Valley Division game, 46-39.

Huntley heats up in 2nd half

By JOE STEVENSON joestevenson@shawmedia.com ALGONQUIN – Huntley talked about one rather simple adjustment at halftime – making more shots.

The Red Raiders were satisfied with the shots they were finding against Jacobs’ 1-3-1 zone defense, but not with the 7 of 25 shooting.

Huntley hit 6 of 14 field goals in the second half, including three 3-pointers in the third quarter and held off Jacobs, 46-39, in their Fox Valley Conference Valley Division boys basketball opener Friday night at the Eagles’ Nest.

“We struggled putting the ball in the basket in the first half,” said forward Jake Wagner, who led the Raiders with 13 points. “We came out more aggressive and just had to knock down shots.”

It was a key victory on the road for the defending FVC Valley champions, who are playing without injured starters Amanze Egekeze and

Online Watch highlights of Friday’s boys basketball game between Huntley and Jacobs at McHenryCountySports.com.

Tommy Regan.

“We said to the guys, ‘You’re running the offense well, we just have to make shots,’ ” Huntley coach Marty Manning said. “I was really proud of our guys. It would have been easy to bury our heads and say, ‘Oh, no, not again.’ They were still aggressive and played good offensive basketball.”

The Raiders suffered through an abysmal offensive game in a 38-31 overtime loss to Carmel the previJosh Peckler – jpeckler@shawmedia.com ous Friday, but they were half-good Jacobs’ Ryan Billings goes up for a shot while trythis time around.

See RAIDERS, page C2

ing to avoid a block from Huntley’s Dan Janus during the second quarter Friday.

Girls Basketball: CL South 45, Cary-Grove 43

Aggressive Gators edge Trojans

By MEGHAN MONTEMURRO mmontemurro@shawmedia.com CRYSTAL LAKE – The Crystal Lake South girls basketball team was determined to answer Cary-Grove’s physical play on both ends of the court Friday.

The Gators refused to back down, aggressively attacking the boards and pounding the ball inside. That quickly led to foul trouble for the Trojans’ top scorers, Olivia Jakubicek and Josyln Nicholson, and South capitalized on their limited minutes. Trail-

“Every night you step on the floor with Cary, you know that they’re going to bring an intensity level that you can’t simulate.”

Kyle McCaughn CL South girls basketball coach ing by one with 2:18 remaining, the Gators scored six straight points and their defense shut down the Trojans as South pulled out a 45-43 Fox Valley

Conference Valley Division win.

The win is South’s first against Cary-Grove since 2009.

Neither team led by more than six points.

“Every night you step on the floor with Cary, you know that they’re going to bring an intensity level that you can’t simulate,” Gators coach Kyle McCaughn said. “You can’t do anything in practice to make it as physical and quick as it is when they’re out there. That’s just the way they play.”

See GATORS, page C2

LAKE FOREST – After enduring several injury-riddled seasons, Bears defensive end Corey Wootton finally is happy with his place in the NFL. Well, almost.

“As far as healthwise, yes,” Wootton said.

A healthy body is the foundation. Now, Wootton wants to build a productive career.

The Bears (8-4) will need Corey to revive their Wootton pass rush in order to spark a slumping defense, and Wootton figures to play a key role in that mission. He leapfrogged veteran teammate Israel Idonije to earn a starting spot three weeks ago, but since then the Bears have lost two of three games against young quarterbacks.

Like many of his teammates, Wootton has struggled during the skid.

In 104 snaps against San Francisco, Minnesota and Seattle, Wootton has produced little. He split a sack with Idonije for a 7-yard loss in the first half against the 49ers, but he has not registered a sack or a quarterback pressure in the past 10 quarters.

The drought has bothered Wootton, 25, who has faced an abundance of one-on-one blocking while opponents have focused extra attention on Pro Bowl defensive end Julius Peppers. Wootton earned a promotion after registering 3½ sacks by the season’s midpoint, and he expected to carry that success into the starting lineup.

“The past couple of weeks haven’t been up to what my standard has been,” Wootton said. “I’m looking to improve that.”

So, too, are his coaches.

Bears coach Lovie Smith and defensive coordinator Rod Marinelli long have admired Wootton’s impressive size (6-foot-6, 270 pounds) and determined work ethic. Wootton embraced a prominent role on special teams in each of his first three seasons, and he returned a blocked punt for a touchdown in Week 9 at Tennessee.

See BEARS, page C4

Up and down Bears defensive end Corey Wootton has set career highs in games played and sacks this season, but he is determined to improve after a recent quiet spell.

Season GP GS Tackles Sacks 2010 6 0 6 1.0 2011 7 0 7 0.0 2012 12 3 13 4.5 Total 25 3 26 5.5

Lynch builds Heisman credentials DeKALB – Jordan Lynch has had an outstanding season.

The Northern Illinois junior quarterback’s numbers are welldocumented, and his team has won as NIU took home another Mid-American Conference title and earned an Orange Bowl berth.

Though Lynch, who led the nation with 4,733 yards of total offense, was left out of tonight’s Heisman Trophy ceremony, his season certainly won’t be forgotten in DeKalb.

There are three finalists – Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel, Kansas State QB Collin Klein and Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te’o.

VIEWS Steve Nitz But, there shouldn’t be any drama tonight, assuming the Heisman voters have their heads straight.

Manziel has been the best player in college football, with his 3,419 passing yards and 24 touchdowns to go with 1,181 yards and 19 touchdowns on the ground.

Even when I was watching Lynch put up video game numbers this season, I still thought it was a long

shot for him to go to New York, even with the Heisman campaign the athletic department started for him midseason.

Let’s face it, it’s tough for any non-AQ player to win an award like this, or even get invited as a finalist.

So, it’s certainly not shocking to see Lynch left out of tonight’s festivities.

Here’s what came to my mind when all this talk started. Lynch probably wouldn’t get serious consideration now, but this will help his chances next year, when he could make a run.

See NITZ, page C4

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NIU quarterback Jordan Lynch takes off with the ball in the MAC Championship Game on Nov. 30 at Ford Field in Detroit.

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GIRLS BASKETBALL: Woodstock North 46, Johnsburg 36

Ahr helps Thunder hold off Skyhawks Senior scores 17 in FVC Fox win DAN HOWELL dhowell@shawmedia.com JOHNSBURG – Woodstock North’s Sami Ahr played limited minutes this week after turning her ankle during practice, but the Thunder needed a lot from her Friday.

The senior scored a game-high 17 points, including six straight for the Thunder in the fourth quarter to help

Woodstock North to a 46-36 Fox Valley Conference Fox Division win against Johnsburg.

“I’m feeling good. I have to have it taped, but I’m good,” Ahr said.

With the Thunder (5-5 overall, 1-1 FVC Fox) up 38-35 against a scrappy Skyhawks squad, Ahr connected on two free throws then beat the Johnsburg press for two easy scores to help build Woodstock North’s lead to 44-36.

Ahr was happy with her performance but was quick to point out the pluses from the entire team.

“It was the team,” Ahr said. “Everyone had energy. We came out great, and we came out with fire. We

had high intensity and it was great that everyone was fired up and ready to play.”

After losing to Grayslake North in the conference opener Tuesday, Woodstock North had to fight for its first FVC Fox win.

The teams ended the first quarter tied at 10. A costly Johnsburg foul as time expired in the first half allowed the Thunder to take a 23-21 lead.

Although the Skyhawks (2-7, 1-1) hung with the Thunder in the first half, Woodstock North asserted itself on the boards in the second half.

“In the battle of intensity, we lost,” Johnsburg coach Brad Frey said.

“They were rebounding machines and we were rebounding pretty well up until tonight.”

The Thunder took a 32-24 lead late in the third quarter before growing their advantage to 10 by the end of the game.

Kayla Toussaint led Johnsburg with 10 points, and Margaret Nusser added eight.

“I have really good shooters,” Grey said. “They just get a little anxious.

Patience is something we have another 20 games to work on.”

Emma Everly was hearing it from the Johnsburg crowd throughout the game. She hit a big 3 to start Wood-

stock North’s ascent in the fourth. She finished with 11 points.

“It was kind of humorous,” Everly said of the crowd urging her to shoot.

“It doesn’t get to me, and I’ve played here a couple years so I’m used to the crowds.”

According to Everly, Thunder coach Mike Lewis helped his team stay positive at halftime. Lewis was happy to go into Johnsburg and come out with a win.

“To win this you’ve got to win some road games,” Lewis said. “Those are the toughest ones to win. We lost our first road conference game. We had to come back and get this one.”

Girls basketball: Huntley 44, Prairie Ridge 28

Huntley solves Wolves’ defense

By PATRICK MASON pmason@shawmedia.com CRYSTAL LAKE – Huntley sisters Ali and Sam Andrews are no longer a secret, but they are a target of opposing teams’ game plans.

Prairie Ridge threw many different defensive looks at Huntley and forced Red Raiders coach Steve Raethz to make adjustments on the fly.

“We saw a lot of 2-3 zones, some triangle-and-two and some man,” Raethz said after his team’s 44-28 Fox Valley Conference Valley Division victory. “I have to give credit to my perimeter players. They really stepped up tonight when [Prairie Ridge] was keying on Ali. “[Prairie Ridge] did a good job of taking some things away tonight and did a good job of collapsing down on us, and our shooters really stepped up and made the shots when they needed to.”

Prairie Ridge came out energetic after an FVC Valley loss Tuesday to CaryGrove and wanted to play tough against arguably the best team in the conference in Huntley. The energy was there throughout the game, but plenty of missed shots plagued the Wolves.

The Wolves shot 9 of 48 from the floor and found themselves in a scoring drought that lasted 8:48 – almost the entire second quarter. But it was clear that the focus was on the defensive side of the ball.

Prairie Ridge wanted to key on standout freshman Ali Andrews, and it was successful. The Wolves kept her off the scoreboard until 6:29 remaining in the second quarter, when she scored on a layup after a quick spin move.

“You can’t ever shut down a kid with that much talent,” Wolves coach Rob Baker said of Ali Andrews. “We just tried to limit what they were able to do inside and our kids gave some serious effort tonight.

It’s still all about winning and losing but we played our tails off throughout the game and that is something to be proud of.”

The Red Raiders’ offense saw many types of defenses geared toward shutting down the inside scoring lanes, which force the guards to make shots.

“We are seeing a lot of zone this year,” said Huntley’s Haley Ream, a 6-foot guard who scored eight points. “Last year I can’t remember seeing zones. Maybe one game, but it was mostly man-to-man defenses.”

Raethz has been doing a lot of teaching during practice to help with the types of defenses his team will see. Ream said the Red Raiders will often practice against seven defenders to help get the offense used to swarming defenses.

They also have worked heavily on free throws, doing three drills each practice dealing with the shots.

Sam Andrews said the unique practices have worked out and they are making smarter passes and plays as a result.

That was apparent Friday when they turned the ball over just 14 times and were able to get to the free-throw line, where they had 23 attempts. The Red Raiders took advantage and sank 21.

“We look at them as easy points,” Sam Andrews said.

“It gets us all into a groove, and we realize that those are important to make because it definitely helps down the stretch.”

R-B girls drain FTs in 4th, top N. Boone POPLAR GROVE – It came down to free throws for the Richmond-Burton girls basketball team in its Big Northern Conference East Division game against North Boone on Friday.

The Rockets went 19 of 22 from the foul line in the fourth quarter to pull out a 62-54 win.

Sam Boettjer was 7 of 8, and Fox was 8 of 10 from the line in the fourth quarter for the Rockets (4-4 overall, 2-0 BNC East).

For the game, R-B attempted 46 free throws, making 30.

Andrea Fox scored 15 points and grabbed 21 rebounds, Boettjer scored 18 and had three steals, and Alex Callanan scored 17 with 11 rebounds.

Marian Central 53, Chicago Christian 41: At Woodstock,

Alissa Melchionna scored 15 points, including a 3-pointer, to lead the Hurricanes to a Suburban Christian Conference win.

Also for Marian (5-2, 2-1 SCC), Shannon Wuensch

Huntley seals victory with late free throws • RAIDERS Continued from page C1 Guard T.J. Adams got Huntley (4-1) started in the second half with a 3-pointer to tie the score at 24-24.

Blake Jacobs added another 3-pointer 30 seconds later, and Wagner hit one less than 2 minutes later.

“It works the other way too, which was what it was like in the first half,” Man-

scored 14.

BOYS BASKETBALL Marengo 54, North Boone 37:

At Marengo, Weston Shepard scored 11 points for the Indians in a BNC East win.

Also in double figures for Marengo, Adam Rogutich scored 10.

Genoa-Kingston 46, Harvard 27: At Genoa, Justin Nolan

scored nine points for the Hornets in a BNC East loss.

Grant 73, Prairie Ridge 72: At Fox Lake, Max Tucker scored 25 points for the Wolves in a nonconference loss.

Also for Prairie Ridge (2-4), Michael Bradshaw scored 22 and hit two three-pointers.

WRESTLING Huntley 59, Marian Central 16:

At Huntley, Zack Stenger had a 14-second pin at 113 pounds to lead the Red Raiders (8-0) to a nonconference win.

Nick Remke recorded a third-period pin for the Hurricanes.

• Rob Smith contributed to this report.

ning said. “As soon as one goes in, then another guy goes in. It’s not only individual, but it works for the team.”

Jacobs sophomore guard Chrishawn Orange hit a free throw early in the fourth quarter to cut Huntley’s lead to 34-32, but the Raiders hit 9 of 11 free throws in the fourth quarter to secure the victory.

“This gives us some mo-

mentum,” said Huntley forward Zach Gorney, who scored 10 points. “It’s a good win against a rival, that’s what we wanted. In the second half, we settled down and looked for layups and got some confidence and made more shots.”

Orange led Jacobs (0-4) with 16 points and hit three 3s. The Golden Eagles finished with 33.3 percent shooting from the field (17

of 51).

“This was our chance to sneak up on them [without Egekeze and Regan] and we didn’t take advantage,” Jacobs coach Jim Hinkle said.

“It’s about our inability to make shots. And that’s starting to bother me.”

Huntley senior guard Bryce Only added eight points and grabbed a gamehigh 11 rebounds and had four steals.

Foul trouble plagues Warriors clip D-C Trojans’ top 2 players girls BASketball: McHenry 38, Dundee-Crown 35

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Jacobs’ Will Schwerdtmann reacts Friday as referee Jim Bernardi calls him for a charging foul during the third quarter against Huntley in Algonquin. Huntley won, 46-39.

sportsdesk@nwherald.com McHENRY – Evidently McHenry’s pregame dance party tired the home team out for a half of basketball.

Friday night’s girls basketball game saw Dundee-Crown take a three-point halftime lead.

And then McHenry junior Sawyer Lay flipped a shot in to open the third quarter as the Warriors headed to a 38-35 Fox Valley Conference Valley Division win.

With 26 seconds left in the third quarter, McHenry’s Laura D’Angelo hit her second 3-pointer of the evening.

McHenry (4-5) went on a 14-2 run in the third quarter and dodged the Chargers’ late rally.

“At halftime, we had a talk that we needed to come out strong,’’ D’Angelo said. “At the beginning of the season, we had been playing like individuals. This was a good game to play together.”

D’Angelo’s first three buckets of the night fell in from 3-point range. Her two free throws with five seconds to play iced this game.

After a scoreless first half, Lay, listed as a guard on the McHenry roster, began to charge to the basket. She would finish with six points and seven rebounds.

Lay also gave credit to the

halftime meeting for the big third quarter rally.

“In the beginning of the game, we had too many turnovers,’’ Lay said. “We had a long talk and we showed up in the third quarter.”

Senior Brittany Avonts had five points in the third quarter and that included a three-point play. She led all scorers with 13 points.

“It was a good game,’’ said McHenry coach Scott Morris.

“We held them to two points in that quarter and we need to keep working on doing that.”

When D’Angelo landed her third 3-pointer of the evening, the Warriors’ lead was 35-23.

There were five minutes to play in regulation, and the game looked over.

And then the visitors managed to get to the free-throw line. D-C made eight straight free throws in the second half.

That 12-point lead shrank to just three on a rebound bucket from sophomore Lauren Lococo (six points, eight rebounds).

“We hit our free throws under pressure,’’ D-C coach Michelle Russell said. “We needed to come out with the same intensity in the second half that we did in the first half.”

The Chargers came out as the aggressor in the first half.

Jordan Bartelt’s 3-pointer gave D-C a 12-8 lead halfway through the second quarter.

• GATORS Continued from page C1 A 6-0 run early in the fourth quarter, spearheaded by Sara Mickow’s five straight points, quickly erased a 31-26 C-G lead.

The Trojans (5-4 overall, 1-1 FVC Valley) tried to overcome Nicholson and Jakubicek’s foul troubles.

Both picked up their second foul within six seconds of each other, just one minute into the second quarter.

Jakubicek was forced to sit nearly six minutes in the second half after picking up her fourth foul and eventually fouled out.

Junior guard Abby Glaysher picked up the scoring slack for C-G, finishing with 11 points, but the offense struggled to generate offense especially in the third quarter.

“We have a tendency to pick up too many fouls,” C-G coach Rod Saffert said. “I’m not going to say I’m totally pleased with the referring tonight. There were some miscues on their part too, but it was both ways.”

Although South struggled at the foul line (14 for 24), four Gators scored at least nine points, led by Mickow (13 points) and Chanel Fanter (11).

“We’d go on little runs

and then we’d fall off,” said Carly Nolan, who added 10 points. “It was back and forth momentum, but we’ve worked so hard and power through it. We knew they’d come back stronger in the second half.”

The Gators (6-3, 1-0) adopted the philosophy that anyone could beat them except Nicholson or Jakubicek. They executed their plan, utilizing a 2-3 zone defense.

Any time Jakubicek caught the basketball in the short corner, two Gators would converge leaving her few options. South’s strategy clearly frustrated Jakubicek, who was held to five points partly because of foul trouble. Her lone field goal came with 3:18 left in the fourth to pull the Trojans within one point, 39-38.

“We were trying to not let [Jakubicek] get it in the short corner at all and then when she did get it we were trying to force it more on her and block her out and focus on her when she had it,” said Mickow, who added 14 rebounds. “I feel like our defense really shut them down for a while and helped us in the long run with our offense. Defense giving us momentum and then us converting on the offensive end.”

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PR grad Kehoe, Penn St. reach NCAA soccer final Erin Kehoe’s first night at Penn State in the fall of 2011 didn’t quite resemble the State College, Pa., campus’ “Happy Valley” moniker.

“I was so scared when I first got here,” said Kehoe, a women’s soccer athlete who transferred from Loyola after the 2010 season.

“I didn’t know who anybody was. Girls were asking me to go out to dinner, and I just sat in my room.”

Erin Kehoe This fall, the Prairie Ridge graduate admits she now has nearly 30 “best friends” while helping the Lions (214-2) to their first national championship game in school history, a 4-1 loss Sunday to North Carolina.

“It’s one of the best decisions I’ve made in my life,” said Kehoe, a junior. “It was a pretty amazing year.

I can’t wait to go back there next year.”

Kehoe was a key reserve for PSU, subbing in at left outside back and left outside midfield, a position that

“got me into the attack more often.”

While playing nearly 36 minutes in 24 matches, Kehoe scored a goal and had two assists.

Penn State won its 15th consecutive Big Ten Conference title, a draw for Kehoe when she was seeking a transfer.

Kehoe’s career got off to a slow start last season, she said, when coaches asked her to make a bigger commitment to conditioning.

“They said, ‘If you don’t take this more seriously, this might not be the right fit for you,’” Kehoe said. “From that point, I got very serious and dedicated.”

Kehoe said she was among nearly a dozen teammates to stay on campus over the summer to train daily, including morning track workouts.

“Every minute I played this season, I think I earned it with the work I put in this summer,” she said.

Competing in the national semifinals and title match at the College Cup in San Diego was a “surreal” experience for Kehoe. As a youth player, she attended camps each year

ON CAMPUS Barry Bottino at the site of the College Cup. “I always thought the players were so old and so big,” she said. “It was amazing being there and being like those players that I looked up to.”

Her experience at Penn State has had plenty of benefits for Kehoe.

“It’s made me more disciplined in the classroom,” said Kehoe, a business major. “I’m definitely a stronger person.”

A-State speedster: Arkansas State women’s cross country athlete Kristina Aubert posted the best time of her career in the biggest meet of her first two college seasons.

Aubert, a Crystal Lake South grad, ran a career-best time of 20:56.3 at the 6-kilometer NCAA Division I national championship event last month in Louisville, Ky. A sophomore for the Red Wolves, Aubert finished 124th in a field of more than

College basketball

Memorial at SLU honors Majerus

By JIM SALTER The Associated Press ST. LOUIS – Kwamain Mitchell recalled the first time Rick Majerus visited his home, trying to recruit him to Saint Louis. Mitchell’s mother made a big meal and after a plate Mitchell was full.

Majerus wasn’t, took a look at Mitchell and said, “With that body you can eat three or four more plates.”

Hundreds of people turned out at Chaifetz Pavilion on the SLU campus Friday to honor the Billikens basketball coach who died Dec. 1 of heart failure at the age of 64. He was remembered fondly, with speakers describing him as funny but passionate, exacting but caring, and a coaching genius who got the best out of his players both on and off the court.

Large photographs near the front showed the rotund coach surrounded by young men a

foot taller, working the sidelines, seated on a stool patiently teaching attentive players.

Dozens of plays drawn up by Majerus, scribbled in marker on white paper, encircled the room, a practice gym where Majerus spent countless Rick Majerus hours passing on his basketball knowledge.

Interim coach Jim Crews, whose team is 5-3 this season, said Majerus has made a mark that has resonated through the sport.

“His fingerprint is all over college basketball,” Crews said. “Everywhere you go, there he is.”

Majerus demanded effort both in the classroom and on the court. Two of his SLU players, Brian Conklin and Kevin Lisch, were academic all-

Americans.

His success on the court was impressive, too – a 517-216 record in 25 seasons, just one of which had a losing record.

He had 15 20-win seasons and two 30-win seasons. He led Utah to the 1998 NCAA finals and took 12 teams to the NCAA tournament, winning at least one game in all but one of those appearances.

Milwaukee-born Majerus played on the freshman team at Marquette and got his coaching start as an assistant under Al McGuire in 1971. He was head coach at Marquette from 1983-86, Ball State from 1987-89, Utah from 1989-2004 and, after a few years working as an ESPN commentator, Saint Louis for the past five seasons.

His biggest success was at Utah: A 323-95 record with 10 conference championships in 13 seasons. Three of his Utah players were first-round NBA draft picks.

250 runners as the first ASU female runner to compete at nationals. After falling to the back of the field early in the race, Aubert moved up more than 100 spots by the race’s midway point, according to ASU coach Kyle Chandler.

This season, Aubert earned firstteam All-Sun Belt Conference and All-South Central Regions honors.

All-American Warhawk: Johnsburg grad Kelsey Nobilio, a sophomore libero at D-III Wisconsin-Whitewater, was chosen last month to the American Volleyball Coaches Association All-America Third Team.

Nobilio, who also earned firstteam All-Midwest Region and All-Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference honors, compiled a school-record 821 digs this fall, which is the fourth-highest total in conference history. In October, she posted a school-record 44 digs against Calvin College.

In two seasons, Nobilio has produced 20 or more digs in a match 28 times.

The Warhawks (26-12) ended

their season in the NCAA regional semifinals.

Augie honors: D-III Augustana College junior running back Eric Chandler was named the team’s Offensive Player of the Year on Tuesday.

Chandler, a Cary-Grove grad, led the team in rushing (718 yards) and rushing touchdowns (five). He also caught two touchdown passes while earning second-team All-College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin recognition.

Augie senior defensive back Rob Mago, will play for the Blue team Sunday in the National Bowl, a college all-star game for players from all NCAA divisions, and NAIA athletes, in Allentown, Pa. Over the past two seasons, Mago compiled 93 tackles.

• Barry Bottino writes a weekly column and a blog about local college athletes for the Northwest Herald.

Write to him at BarryOnCampus@ hotmail.com, check out his On Campus blog at McHenryCountySports. com and follow him @BarryOnCampus on Twitter.

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automatic cuts were put in place as an incentive for the supercommittee to reach an agreement. But the supercommittee failed.

Continued from page A1 and its potential impact.

What is the fiscal cliff?

So what does this mean to me?

The fiscal cliff, a term coined by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, is a combination of $500 billion in tax increases and spending cuts over the next 10 years starting in 2013.

The tax increases come because of the scheduled expiration of the Bush-era tax cuts and the payroll tax cut enacted in 2010 under Obama, totaling about $400 billion, as well as a number of smaller tax cuts for people and businesses.

The cliff includes $100 billion in automatic federal budget cuts, such as a 9 percent cut in the defense budget, and a reduction of Medicare payments to doctors.

Where did these automatic cuts come from?

It means taxes will go up for everyone without a deal.

The nonpartisan Tax Policy Center estimates that the average middle-class taxpayer will pay $2,000 more a year.

Taxpayers in the bottom 20 percent would pay about $400 more, while people in the top 1 percent would pay $121,000 more, according to estimates.

Wealthy Americans would see the preferential rate on capital gains rise from 15 percent to 20 percent, and the number of Americans subject to the alternative minimum tax would skyrocket from 4 million now to more than 30 million.

What does it mean for the economy?

The cuts, called sequestration, came from the fierce battle between President Obama and the GOP House majority over raising the debt ceiling, which sets the maximum amount the federal government can borrow.

An agreement was made to allow the debt ceiling to be increased, preventing a default on the U.S. government’s payments, while a bipartisan congressional “supercommittee” hammered out a budget deal to help address the deficit. The

A lot.

The Congressional Budget Office projects that going over the fiscal cliff could plunge the economy back into recession, with a contraction in the first half of 2013 and a stabilization in the second half.

The CBO estimates that annual economic growth in following years would be limited to half of 1 percent.

Earlier this year, the CBO also projected that the unemployment rate would again rise above 9 percent.

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The effects would likely be more pronounced in states with dire budget problems such as Illinois, but the National Conference of State Legislatures has aired concerns that the fiscal cliff comes at a time when many states are projected in 2013 to return to their pre-Great Recession revenue levels.

Would all of this happen right away if the deadline comes and goes?

No, but the CBO estimates the damage will start after a few weeks if the spending cuts and tax increases stay in place.

For example, private companies whose government contracts run afoul of budget cuts would start laying off workers.

As for households, their discretionary spending would likely start falling off in earnest come April, when people do their taxes and see how much more they’re paying.

Both sides can’t compromise? What a surprise. What is it this time?

The biggest sticking point is the Bush tax cuts. President Obama, who already has extended them once, wants to allow them to expire for the wealthiest taxpayers in the top two tax brackets.

Republicans, led by House Speaker John Boehner, say that they will not allow that to happen.

These folks can’t agree on

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When political leveraging and grandstanding is stripped away, the root of the problem is getting a grip on unsustainable spending.

Who gets the blame if we drive over the cliff?

Polls suggest the Republicans would take the brunt of it. A post-election poll by the Washington Post and the Pew Research Center concluded that 53 percent of respondents would blame the GOP, compared with 29 percent blaming Obama.

A CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll later in November had 45 percent blaming Republicans compared to 34 percent for President Obama.

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In a statement, AFSCME tempered its satisfaction by acknowledging the ruling was not an “unconditional victory.”

That’s because Billik affirmed his decision last July that Quinn isn’t required to pay money that hadn’t been appropriated. Billik asked an arbitrator, whose earlier nonbinding decision favored the union, to revisit the case with an eye toward the state’s ability to pay. But the arbitrator refused, putting the issue back in the judge’s lap.

Billik’s verbal order issued Friday included a kind of IOU: Pay what’s available now, and reimburse the rest when it’s available, plus 7 percent interest.

It has been an unlikely battle between a governor and organized labor usually friendly to Democrats.

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In the four-year contract that expired June 30, AFSCME members were due a 4 percent increase in July 2011. But earlier, the union agreed to delay 2 percent of that until January of this year because of the state’s budget problems. The contract called for another 1.25 percent increase Jan. 1, but Quinn has withheld the entire 5.25 percent.

Negotiations over a new contract have stalled, so the pact’s terms remain in effect even though the administration took the mostly symbolic step of canceling it late last month. Officials argued that the union had not budged on its position while the state had moved from demanding wage cuts to a wage freeze.

AFSCME spokesman Anders Lindall said Friday the union has offered to freeze wages for the first year of a proposed three-year deal, but continues to oppose “unaffordable” cost proposals by the administration related to health insurance.

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