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By ROBERT BURNSThe Associated Press
WASHINGTON – Troubleinside the Air Force’s nuclearmissile force runs deeper andwider than officials have leton.
An unpublished study forthe Air Force, obtained byThe Associated Press, cites“burnout” among launch of-ficers with their fingers onthe triggers of 450 weaponsof mass destruction. Also, ev-idence of broader behavioralissues across the interconti-nental ballistic missile force,including sexual assaults anddomestic violence.
The study, provided to theAP in draft form, says thatcourt-martial rates in the nu-clear missile force in 2011 and2012 were more than twiceas high as in the overall AirForce. Administrative pun-ishments, such as written rep-rimands for rules violationsand other misbehavior, alsowere higher in those years.
These indicators add a newdimension to an emergingpicture of malaise and worseinside the ICBM force, an armof the Air Force with a proudheritage but an uncertain fu-ture.
Concerned about height-ened levels of misconduct,the Air Force directed RANDCorp., the federally fundedresearch house, to conducta three-month study of workconditions and attitudesamong the men and women in-side the ICBM force. It found atoxic mix of frustration andaggravation, heightened by asense of being unappreciated,overworked, micromanagedand at constant risk of failure.
Remote and rarely seen,the ICBM force gets little pub-lic attention. The AP, howev-er, this year has documenteda string of missteps that call
County BoardOKs $77.3MbudgetBy FELIX SARVER
SYCAMORE – DeKalb Coun-ty Board members approved a$77.3 million budget after severalmembers wanted to spend anothermonth giving the budget a closerexamination.
On Wednesday, board mem-bers voted on separate ordinanceson the tax levy and budget for fis-cal 2014, which begins next year. In
a 15-8 vote, board members passedthe budget, which has about $77.3million in overall expenses andan overall deficit of about $4 mil-lion. Riley Oncken, R-Sycamore,abstained during the vote.
They also approved a $20.9 mil-lion property tax levy in a 14-10vote, which will result in increaseof $8.72 in property tax bills for theaverage homeowner. The overallassessed value for property in thecounty is expected to decline by
almost 8 percent, which is aboutthe same percentage of declinethis year as in 2012. Because ofdeclining property values, the av-erage home assessed value in thecounty went from $200,000 in 2010to $160,000 this year.
Anthony Cvek, R-Sycamore,and Charles Foster, R-Shabbona,wanted to table the vote on theproperty tax levy and budget andstudy the budget further at an-other county finance committee
meeting. Cvek said the county isspending down its reserves by al-most $900,000 and board membersowed it to the taxpayers to findother ways to cut costs.
“We lose nothing,” he said. “Wehave till the end of the year to ap-prove a budget before Jan. 1… theonly people that lose by us movingforward with this today and forc-ing this through without giving itan honest look are the taxpayers.”
Several board members took
issue with the budget appeal pro-cess, such as Tracy Jones, R-Kirk-land. Jones said he wanted a clos-er look at the budget because hedidn’t fully understand all themoney that went into the budget.
“I’m willing to bet that tonightthere’s millions of dollars on thetable that a lot of people sittingright here are going to approvethem [and] don’t know anything
See BUDGET, page A6
Riley Oncken,R-Sycamore,
abstained
during the
vote.
Air Force’snuke troublesdeeply rooted
RANDsurveysummary
n Launch
officers and
more junior
members of
the missile
security
forces are
suffering
“burnout.”
Burnout is
defined as a
combination
of mental
and physical
exhaustion,
cynicism and
feelings of
ineffective-
ness.
n Among
the reasons
voiced for
feeling
stressed: too
little autono-
my, pressure
from frequent
inspections,
remote-
ness of the
bases and
unpredictable
schedules.
n Air Force
figures show
that in 2011-
12, the rate
of spousal
abuse and
courts-mar-
tial within the
missile force
were higher
than in the Air
Force overall.
The trendline,
however, is
improving
this year.
See TROUBLES, page A6
Key officers ‘burned out’
VOICE YOUR OPINION: Have you ever tried quitting smoking? Vote online at Daily-Chronicle.com.
PERFECT DAY TO QUIT
By ANDREA [email protected]
DeKALB – Whenever DeKalb
resident Jo Ann Robinson’s
granddaughter visits, Robinson
sprays the house and hides all
evidence of her smoking.
Robinson, 54, has been smoking
for more than 40 years. At age 35,
she had quintuple heart bypass
surgery. She has diabetes, heart
disease and nerve problems, and
she is currently recovering from
foot surgery.
“Half a pack of cigarettes [a day]
is a wish list to die,” she said. “It’s
terrible. This time I’ve got to quit.”
Today is the perfect day to do
it. Today is the American Cancer
Society’s annual Great American
Smokeout, when smokers quit for
one day to prove they can do it,
make a plan to quit or quit smok-
ing altogether.
Today is Ralph De Stefano’s
44th smoke-free day. The former
DeKalb resident, who now lives in
Chicago, quit by cutting his smok-
ing intake in half every day.
De Stefano, 42, was a pack-a-
day smoker.
“In the past, my former wife
wanted me to quit, my kids want-
ed me to quit ... everybody want-
ed me to quit,” he said. “I fully
believe you can never quit for
somebody else but for you.”
There are a few more reasons
smokers choose to quit: cost and
inconvenience. A pack of premi-
um-brand cigarettes in DeKalb
County costs about $7. Also, in
2008, smoking was banned in all
public indoor spaces and work-
places and within 15 feet their of
entrances.
The DeKalb County Health De-
partment named a few resources
smokers can go to for help.
The Illinois Department of
Public Health and the American
Lung Association offers a free and
confidential phone service called
the Illinois Tobacco Quitline at
866-784-8937 for anyone who needs
advice on how to quit. Mayo Clin-
ic trained respiratory therapists
and nurses will assist smokers
throughout the quitting process.
Qualifying DeKalb County resi-
dents may receive eight weeks of a
free nicotine replacement therapy
which will provide patches, gum
and lozenges at no cost, according
to a department news release.
“Sometimes therapy helps peo-
ple quit because it gradually takes
you off nicotine,” said Melissa
McAvoy, a health educator with
the county health department.
There also is a program online
at www.becomeanex.org, where
participants can set up a quit date
and track how many cigarettes
they have.
“It’s helpful for people to see
when they smoke and if it’s at a
stressful point in time,” McAvoy
said.
Robinson said there is a routine
for when she smokes. She smokes
first thing in the morning, has an-
other before she lets her dogs out
and smokes again after meals.
“It takes over your life,” she
said. “At the hospital, I was worried
GREAT AMERICAN SMOKEOUT
Today’s event aims
to help smokers quit
harmful habit
See SMOKEOUT, page A6
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MORNING READ Daily Chronicle / Daily-Chronicle.comPage A2 • Thursday, November 21, 2013
By DANICA KIRKAThe Associated Press
LONDON – He’s been turned downby planes, trains and even a cruiseship in his quest to return home – andhis family says it’s because he has beendeemed too fat to travel.
Now, Frenchman Kevin Chenais’long and fitful journey is coming to anend.
Chenais, who weighs 500 pounds,says he has been repeatedly refusedtransport over the past two weeks ashe sought to get home to France fromthe United States. P&O Ferries finallyoffered to take him in an ambulanceacross the English Channel on Wednes-day, the final hurdle keeping him fromhis home near the Swiss border.
“It’s terrible. It’s discrimination. Itwas very hard, tiring and a big waste ofmoney for my parents,” the 22-year-oldtold RTL radio Wednesday.
Slumped over in his mobility scoot-er, he said he was exhausted just be-fore being loaded into the ambulance.
Chenais’ mother was outraged bythe treatment her son allegedly re-ceived, saying he was discriminatedagainst because of his weight.
“It’s not the fault of my son to bebig. He has a genetic illness,” Christi-na Chenais said. “We are very happyto go home after this long, distressingand traumatic situation.”
The odyssey began when BritishAirways refused to honor his returnticket from the United States, where hespent months receiving medical carefor a hormone imbalance.
“When we talked about this prob-
lem with British Airways that Kevinwas too fat ... [they said] abandon anyintention of coming back to France,”Kevin’s father, Rene, told RTL Radio.“From the fact of his incapacity, hisobesity, he was not considered to bea normal being, but more like a prob-lem.”
BA acknowledges that it refused tolet Chenais board the plane, but saidconfidentiality rules prevent it fromsaying why. BA insisted that it doesnot discriminate against customers forany reason and that the airline pro-
vides the option of an extra seat to peo-ple who contact them with concernsabout seat width.
“We respect the privacy of thecustomer so cannot comment on anychanges in circumstance between ar-rival and departure dates,” the com-pany said in a statement. British Air-ways declined to say what the changesin circumstance had been.
Chenais said Carnival Cruises alsorejected his request for a cabin on atrans-Atlantic voyage. The companydeclined to comment.
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Today
Hinckley HEA:Morning unitof the Homemakers EducationAssociation. For meeting time andlocation, call Sandi at 815-286-7191.Safe Passage Domestic Vio-
lence support group: 815-756-5228; www.safepassagedv.org.Weekly Ladies’ Brunch: 8 a.m.
at Fox Valley Community Center,1406 Suydam Road, Sandwich.Cost is $4 for food, conversationand bottomless cups of coffee ortea.Back To Basics AA(C): 9:30
a.m. at DeKalb Area Alano Club,312 E. Taylor St., DeKalb. 800-452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com.Feed My Sheep Food Pantry:
10 a.m. to noon at BethlehemLutheran Church, 1915 N. First St.,DeKalb. All are welcome.Take Off Pounds Sensibly: 4:30
to 5:30 p.m. weigh-in and 5:30to 6:30 p.m. meeting, SycamoreUnited Methodist Church, 160Johnson Ave. Call Lydia at 815-895-4618.Open Closet: 5 to 7 p.m. at
300 E. Taylor St., DeKalb. Clothesand shoes for men, women andchildren. 815-758-1388.Courage, Attitude, Resources
& Encouragement SupportGroup – CARE: 6 to 7:30 p.m. atKishwaukee Health Care, 2727Sycamore Road, DeKalb. CAREis for patients with cancer orother serious illness and for familymembers. www.kishhospital.org.ESL and GED Classes: 6 to
8 p.m. at Esperanza en Unidad(Hope in Unity), 2225 GatewayDrive, Suite A. To register and forinformation, call George Gutierrezat 815-970-3265.Keep It Simple AA(C): 6 p.m.
at DeKalb Area Alano Club, 312 E.Taylor St., DeKalb. 800-452-7990;www.dekalbalanoclub.com.La Leche League of DeKalb
County: 6 p.m. at the GoodwillIndustries store CommunityRoom, 1037 S. Annie Glidden Road,DeKalb. All breast-feeding momscan share encouragement andsupport. Call Dawn at 815-517-1067. www.lllusa.org/IL/Web-DeKalbIL.html.One Day Café AA(C): 6 p.m.
at Waterman United MethodistChurch, 210 W. Garfield St. 800-452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com.Weight Watchers: 6 p.m.
weigh-in, 6:30 p.m. meetingWeight Watchers Store, 2583 Syc-amore Road (near Aldi), DeKalb.DeKalb County Democratic
Party: 6:30 p.m. social time andmeeting at 7 p.m. at UnitarianUniversalist Fellowship, 158 N. 4thSt., DeKalb. For information, emailMark at [email protected], call 815-762-2054 or visitwww.dekalbcountydemocrats.org.DeKalb County Amateur Radio
Emergency Service: 7 p.m. on146.73 megahertz. For informa-tion, call Bill Itter (N9EWA) at815-895-2020.DeKalb County Marines Corps
League, officers, detachmentand auxiliary: 7 p.m. at SycamoreVeterans Home, 121 S. CaliforniaSt. For information, contact PeterMay at [email protected] or 815-761-7732, or call 815-756-6625. www.dekalbcountyma-rines.com.Mothers and More Program
Night: 7 p.m. at Ben GordonCenter Community Room, 12Health Services Drive, DeKalb.All mothers are invited. To RSVP,email [email protected] or visit www.mothersandmore.org/chapters/DekalbCounty.Sandwich Steppers AA(C): 7
p.m. at Fox Valley Community Cen-ter, 1406 Suydam Road. 800-452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com.Free Fit Club: 7:30 to 9 p.m.
at Sycamore Community Center,138 Fair St., Sycamore. Forinformation, call 815-901-4474 or815-566-3580.A Friend Of Bill’s AA(C): 8 p.m.
at Trinity Lutheran Church, 33930N. State St., Genoa., 800-452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com.Any Lengths AA(C): 8 p.m. at
Federated Church, 612 W. StateSt., Sycamore. 800-452-7990;www.dekalbalanoclub.com.Closed Discussion AA: 8 p.m.
at DeKalb Area Alano Club, 312 E.Taylor St., DeKalb. 800-452-7990;www.dekalbalanoclub.com.
Friday
Sexaholics Anonymous-DeKalb: 6:30 to 7:30 a.m. Fridaysat Christ Community Church, 1600E. Lincoln Highway, DeKalb. This12-step recovery program is forInternet addiction. Call 815-508-0280. SA.org.
Too fat to fly? Strandedman to take ferry to France
8 TODAY’S TALKER
The ASSOCIATED PRESS
DALLAS – Help yourself to somenuts this holiday season: Regular nuteaters were less likely to die of canceror heart disease – in fact, they were lesslikely to die of any cause – during a 30-year Harvard study.
Nuts have long been called heart-healthy, and the study is the largestever done on whether eating them af-fects mortality.
Researchers tracked 119,000 men andwomen and found that those who atenuts roughly every day were 20 percentless likely to die during the study periodthan those who never ate nuts. Eatingnuts less often also appeared to lowerthe death risk, in direct proportion toconsumption.
The risk of dying of heart diseasedropped 29 percent and the risk of dy-ing of cancer fell 11 percent among thosewho had nuts seven or more times aweek compared with people who neverate them.
The benefits were seen from peanutsas well as from pistachios, almonds,walnuts and other tree nuts. The re-searchers did not look at how the nutswere prepared – oiled or salted, raw orroasted.
A bonus: Nut eaters stayed slimmer.“There’s a general perception that if
you eat more nuts you’re going to get fat.Our results show the opposite,” said Dr.
Ying Bao of Harvard-affiliated Brighamand Women’s Hospital in Boston.
She led the study, published in to-day’s New England Journal of Medi-cine. The National Institutes of Healthand the International Tree Nut CouncilNutrition Research & Education Foun-dation sponsored the study, but the nutgroup had no role in designing it or re-porting the results.
Researchers don’t know why nutsmay boost health. It could be that theirunsaturated fatty acids, minerals andother nutrients lower cholesterol andinflammation and reduce other prob-lems, as earlier studies seemed to show.
Observational studies like this onecan’t prove cause and effect, only sug-gest a connection. Research on diets isespecially tough, because it can be dif-ficult to single out the effects of any onefood.
People who eat more nuts may eatthem on salads, for example, and someof the benefit may come from the leafygreens, said Dr. Robert Eckel, a Univer-sity of Colorado cardiologist and formerpresident of the American Heart Asso-ciation.
Dr. Ralph Sacco, a University of Mi-ami neurologist who also is a formerheart association president, agreed.
“Sometimes when you eat nuts youeat less of something else like potatochips,” so the benefit may come fromavoiding an unhealthy food, Sacco said.
Eating nuts tied to lower risk of death
AP photo
Kevin Chenais sits in his mobility scooter Wednesday in front of an ambulance at St. Pan-cras in London. Eurostar says it refused travel on its trains to the Frenchman who wasearlier stranded in the United States because he was deemed too fat to fly. Chenais, whosuffers from a medical condition, will travel by ambulance and ferry back to France.
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How many nuts should youeat for your health?
Some advice on adding nuts to your diet:n HOWMUCH: The American Heart Associ-ation recommends four servings of unsaltednuts a week. A serving is a small handful – 1.5ounces of whole nuts – or 2 tablespoons innut butter form. For example, there are about23 almonds in a serving.nWHAT KIND: Peanuts or tree nutsincluding almonds, walnuts, cashews andpistachios. Eat them as a snack or add toother foods.nWATCH OUT: Nuts have a lot of nutrientsbut they also have a lot of calories. A servingof peanuts or almonds is about 240 calories.
AP file photo
A shopkeeper sells pistachios March 31 athis shop in Tehran, Iran. Regular nut eaterswere less likely to die of cancer or heartdisease, in fact, were less likely to die ofany cause during a 30-year Harvard study.
The ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON – Most young peoplesay they aren’t very offended about theslurs and mean-spirited videos mockingoverweight people or gays or blacks thatthey encounter on social networkingsites like Facebook and Twitter.
“You can’t let those things get toyou,” says 15-year-old Vito Calli, an im-migrant from Argentina whose onlinefriends tease him with jokes about His-panics.
In a notable shift, however, youngpeople are coming around to the ideathat it’s wrong to contribute to this uglyside of the Internet free-for-all, a poll re-leased Wednesday shows.
A bare majority, 52 percent, of peo-ple ages 14 to 24 now say it’s never OKto engage in discriminatory language,
even when it’s just amongfriends who don’t reallymean it. That’s up from 44percent in 2011.
A stronger majority –nearly 6 in 10 – say usingslurs is wrong, even if yousay you’re “just kidding.”Only about half were sodisapproving two years
ago.Meanwhile, the share of young people
who come across slurs online has heldsteady, according to the new poll fromThe Associated Press-NORC Center for
Public Affairs Research and MTV.More than half of young users of You-
Tube, Facebook and gaming communi-ties such as Xbox Live and Steam saidthey sometimes or often encounter bi-ased messages.
Teens and twentysomethings saythese slurs and taunting images they seeonline are mostly meant as jokes. Themajority say they aren’t very offend-ed when they see foul words online forwomen or gays – or even the N-word forAfrican-Americans.
“Sometimes I make a couple of jokesthat might be offensive to someone and Idon’t even realize it,” said Calli of Read-ing, Pa. “You forget there’s a person be-hind the computer with actual feelings.”
Who gets slammed?
n Those who are overweight(54 percent see them targetedsometimes or often)n Gay, lesbian or bisexual
people (50 percent)n African-Americans (46
percent)nWomen (44 percent)nMen who dress or carry
themselves in a feminine way(42 percent)n Immigrants (34 percent)n Latinos (32 percent)nMuslims (31 percent)nWomen who dress or carry
themselves in a masculine way(31 percent)n Transgender people (31
percent)
Poll: Young people say online slurs common, not OK
Vito Calli
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DeKALB – Motoristsin DeKalb ran into delaysgetting around town Tues-day evening because of astopped train.
The freight train, boundto Chicago from NorthPlatte, Neb., came to a stopblocking all crossings inDeKalb about 6:30 p.m., ac-cording to Mark Davis, di-rector of corporate relationsand media for Union Pacific.
“A knuckle in a couplingbroke, and the way it broke,the train ran back into it,”Davis explained.
A cutting torch had tobe brought in along withmachinery to separate the
train, fix the coupling andput it all back together.Because an air hose brokewhen the coupling broke,the train could not move,Davis said.
DeKalb police communi-ty relations officer Chad Mc-Nett said railroad officialswere in contact with city of-ficials all evening, so policeofficials notified local mediaand posted information onthe department’s Facebookpage.
Motorists were encour-aged to use Peace Road,Pearl Street and Annie Glid-den Road in DeKalb to avoidthe stopped train. About 50trains pass through DeKalbevery day, according to Da-vis.
Mechanical issuescaused DeKalbtrain stoppage
Police: DeKalb manbrought gun to fightDeKALB – The 24-year-old
DeKalb man accused of bringing
the gun another man used to
shoot at anoccupied vehiclelast week was injail Wednesday.Jerome V.
Fields, of the800 block ofPappas Drive
in DeKalb, wascharged with ag-gravated discharge of a firearm
and unlawful use of a weapon.Police said Fields drove 27-year-
old DeKalb resident Benjamin
Evans on Nov. 13 to JamesCourt Apartments on North First
Street and gave him a gun.
Police said Evans has admitted
that he fired two shots at a carcarrying people he was arguing
with, court records show.Evans is being held at the
DeKalb County Jail. His nextcourt date is Thursday.If convicted of the more seri-
ous charge, Fields will face up
to 15 years in prison. Bond was
set at $100,000.– Andrea Azzo
DeKalb park board hiresexecutive search firmDeKALB – The DeKalb Park
District could pay a Rosemontfirm up to $16,000 to find anew executive director.Park commissioners voted
Thursday to hire Hazard, Young,
Attea and Associates after
interviewing three firms, said
board President Phil Young.
Commissioners believe thatHYA provides the most ser-vices, Young said.
“They do a lot of vetting up-front. They interview intensely,”Young said. “We have no idea
how many people will apply.”He said the board will meet
with the firm to create a calen-dar for the process that he saidwould take about 10 weeks.
Former Executive Director Cin-dy Capek resigned in June.
– Debbie Behrends
Free megaphonesfor Spartans fansSYCAMORE – NB&T is giving
away free thundersticks andmegaphones to Sycamore High
School football fans traveling to
the Class 5A semifinal football
game Saturday.
Sycamore Spartans fans canpick up the items, while sup-plies last, in the lobbies of bothSycamore branch locationsat 230 W. State St. and 1425
Coltonville Road.– Daily Chronicle
JeromeV. Fields
8LOCAL BRIEFS
Court AppointedSpecial Advocate
(815) 895-2052for children
By DEBBIE [email protected]
DeKALB – Residents haveasked the DeKalb Park Districtboard for years to create a dogpark.
Now that park board mem-bers have approved creatingone, they say the amount of useit gets will determine wheth-er it becomes a permanentfixture. Park commissionersvoted unanimously in a meet-ing last week to establish anoff-leash dog park at one ofthe four baseball fields at KatzPark on Dresser Road, east ofDeKalb High School.
District staff were at thepark Wednesday markingfence lines. Board PresidentPhil Young said he hopes fenc-es can be installed before theground freezes.
Young said the park, whichwill be just north of the skatepark, is a temporary solution.
“If it’s successful, we willlook at a more permanent solu-tion,” Young said. “If it doesn’twork out, it will be easy to con-vert it back to a baseball dia-mond.”
John Tobias, who ownsthree dogs, said he was pleasedwith board’s decision. Thearea lacks places where dogs
can legally run without leash-es. The closest dog parks arein Campton Hills and three inRockford.
“There is no safe place in a30-mile radius where a dog canrun off the leash,” he said. “Ifpeople have small yards, theydon’t have a lot of options.
“When the board voted to
approve the park, the audienceapplauded. It was pretty cool.”
An initial proposal to cre-ate a dog park in 2010 includedconstruction of the park andparking lot at Katz Park, to thetune of about $200,000, Tobiassaid.
Young said the scaled-down, temporary solution was
suggested by the park district’sinterim Executive DirectorLisa Small.
“It won’t take much mon-ey or resources to make thechanges – about $2,500 in ma-terials including fencing andsignage,” Young said.”That’s asmall amount to invest. I thinkit will be a very good program.”
Rob Winner – [email protected]
Todd Bex (front) and Josh Clark of the DeKalb Park District on Wednesday begin taking measurements andmaking a layout for the temporary dog park located at Katz Park in DeKalb.
Users to determine dog park’s future
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LLOYD COLLIERBorn: April 30, 1924Died: Nov. 17, 2013, in Phoenix,Ariz.
PHOENIX, Ariz.– Lloyd Collier, 89,of Phoenix passedaway peacefullySunday, Nov. 17,2013, at his home.Funeral ar-
rangements are being made byWest-Murley Funeral Home, 18641Alberta St., Oneida, Tenn., withburial to follow in Marcum KiddCemetery.To send condolences and a full
eulogy, visit www.serenicare.com/arizona.To sign the online guest book,
visit www.legacy.com/daily-chron-icle.
DONALD R. DAVIS SR.Born: Sept. 5, 1935, inMatthew,Mo.Died: Nov. 19, 2013, in Ottawa, Ill.
OTTAWA– Donald R.Davis Sr., 78, ofOttawa, Ill., for-merly of Robinson, died Tuesday,Nov. 19, 2013, at OSF St. ElizabethMedical Center in Ottawa.Born Sept. 5, 1935, in Matthew,
Mo., to Edgar and Nellie (McKin-ney) Davis, Donald married JuneAudrey Hammond on Sept. 18,1954, in Ottawa. He served in theU.S. Navy during the Korean War.He was employed as a correctionsofficer at Sheridan CorrectionalCenter, and then for two years inRobinson until his retirement.He is survived by one daughter,
Janice Elaine Davis of Ottawa; sixsons, Donald Ray Davis Jr. of NorthCarolina, Brian Scott (Joyce) Davisof Ottawa, Charles Philip (Mona)Davis of Spencer, Ind., Teri (Cathy)Davis of Ottawa, the Rev. Greg W.(Julie) Davis of DeKalb and AdrianKeith (Kristina) Davis of Ottawa; 20grandchildren; and 10 great-grand-children; sisters, Patricia Munari ofMarseilles and Imogene Arwoodof Georgia; and brothers, VernonWilson of Ottawa, Terry (Judy)Wilson of Ottawa, Daryl Wilsonof Dayton Township and Robert(Gayle) Wilson of Ottawa.He was preceded in death by
his wife on Oct. 5, 2008; parents;two sons, David LeRoy Davis andJack Allen Davis Sr.; and brothers,Eugene Davis, Edgar Lee Davis,Marvin Davis, Ronald Wilson andJohn Wilson.The funeral services will be at 11
a.m. Saturday, Nov. 23, at MuellerFuneral Home in Ottawa with Wil-bur Zeal officiating. Burial will bein Oakwood Memorial Park where
full military rites will be conducted.The visitation will be from 4 to 7p.m. Friday at the funeral home.Pallbearers will be Brian, Charles,Teri, Greg, Adrian, Joshua and JackDavis Jr.Memorials can be directed to the
family for a charity to be designat-ed later.Share remembrances and sign
the online guest book at www.MuellerFH.com.To sign the online guest book,
visit www.legacy.com/daily-chron-icle.
EILEEN MacMURDOBorn: Feb. 2, 1916, in Carlinville, Ill.Died: Nov. 19, 2013, in DeKalb, Ill.
DeKALB – Eileen MacMurdo, 97,of DeKalb, Ill., passed away peace-fully Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2013, atOak Crest DeKalb Area RetirementCenter, DeKalb, surrounded by herfamily.Born Feb. 2, 1916, in rural
Carlinville, the daughter of Fredand Halla (Trimble) Welton, Eileengrew up in the Carlinville area andgraduated from Carlinville HighSchool in 1934. She graduated fromBlackburn College in Carlinville in1936 with a degree in elementaryeducation. She began teaching inthe fall of 1936 at the Pleasant Hillone-room school outside Virden.In 1940, Eileen married Don Mac-
Murdo of Auburn. They settled inVirden and she continued teachinguntil the birth of their first son,Fred, in 1944. Eight years later, sheand Don had their second son, Jim.Eileen returned to teaching in 1960and continued in the Virden schoolsystem until she retired at the endof 1982. She continued to residein Virden until mid-2011, when sherelocated to Oak Crest.She is survived by her sons, Fred
(Judy) of La Jolla, Calif., and Jim(Sara) of DeKalb; granddaughters,Anna and Jenny; grandsons, Joshuaand Jeffrey; sister-in-law, FlorenceSample of Auburn; and numerousnieces and nephews.She was preceded in death by
her husband, Don; parents; andonly sister, Hazel.Private services will be Saturday,
Nov. 23, at Calvert & Ferry FuneralHome, Auburn, immediatelyfollowed by interment in AuburnCemetery.The family requests memorials
be made to Oak Crest or BlackburnCollege.For information, visit www.An-
dersonFuneralHomeLtd.com or callAnderson Funeral Home, DeKalb, at815-756-1022.To sign the online guest book,
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Note to readers: Informationin Police Reports is obtainedfrom the DeKalb County Sher-iff’s Office and city police de-partments. Individuals listed inPolice Reports who have beencharged with a crime have notbeen proven guilty in court.
DeKalb CountyVeronica N. Bestler, 23, of the
100 block of East Nissen Stigen,Lee, was charged Tuesday, Nov.19, with obstructing justice.
SycamoreMichael A. Hammond, 45, of
Cortland, was charged Saturday,Nov. 9, with disorderly conduct.Demetrius D. Williams, 32, of
DeKalb, was charged Saturday,
Nov. 16, with domestic battery.Damian P. Obando, 31, of Syca-
more, was arrested Friday, Nov.15, on a DeKalb County warrantfor battery. He also was chargedwith trespassing.
SandwichMichael D. Shepherd, 37, of
the 4700 block of East 2750thRoad, Sandwich, was arrestedThursday, Nov. 14, on a warrantfor mob action.Robert W. Hewitt, 36, of the
100 block of East Hall Street,Sandwich, was arrested Thurs-day, Nov. 14, on a warrant foraggravated battery.
PlanoPaige R. Turnbow, 18, of the
first block of East Hall Street,Sandwich, was charged Satur-day, Nov. 16, with retail theft.
Northern IllinoisUniversityRenee M. Thompson, 21,
of Naperville, was chargedSunday, Nov. 17, with domesticbattery.Daniel Ochoa, 21, of Chicago,
was charged Saturday, Nov.16, with domestic battery, un-lawful restraint and interferingwith reporting of domesticviolence.Takyra A. Hazelwood, 21, of
DeKalb, was arrested Tuesday,Nov. 19, on a warrant for failureto appear in court in a retailtheft case.
8POLICE REPORTS
By ANDREA [email protected]
SYCAMORE – A DeKalbCounty judge declined to re-duce the $1 million bond fora 45-year-old former teacheraccused of having and distrib-uting child pornography.
Jerome McCauley, of the300 block of Grant Street, Syc-amore, and hisdefense attor-ney, Jack Do-nahue, askedP r e s i d i n gJudge RobbinStuckert to re-duce McCau-ley’s bond to$150,000. Hismother could have posted the$15,000 necessary for his re-lease while the case is pend-ing.
McCauley was chargedOct. 28 for allegedly havingbetween 1,000 and 1,500 imag-
es and five to 10 videos of childpornography, some showing12-year-old girls, according tocourt records. He previouslyworked as a seventh-gradeteacher and volleyball coachat Wredling Middle Schoolin St. Charles School District303.
McCauley would havelived with his mother inBloomington if the bond hadbeen reduced, First AssistantState’s Attorney Duke Harrissaid. But Harris argued thatMcCauley presented a flightrisk because he doesn’t havea job or own real estate in thecommunity.
McCauley has no criminalhistory.
If convicted of the mostserious charge he faces, Mc-Cauley would be sentenced tobetween six and 30 years inprison. Probation is not anoption. His next court date isDec. 5.
JeromeMcCauley
Judge: No bondreduction inchild porn case
By SOPHIA TAREENThe Associated Press
CHICAGO – Illinois Gov.Pat Quinn signed legislationWednesday allowing same-sex weddings starting thissummer, making PresidentBarack Obama’s home statethe 16th overall – and largestin the nation’s heartland – tolegalize gay marriage.
The festivities at the Uni-versity of Illinois at Chicagofeatured a family-friendlycrowd, musical performancesand a stage lined with Amer-ican, Illinois and rainbowflags.
“We understand in ourstate that part of our unfin-ished business is to help oth-er states in the United Statesof America achieve marriageequality,” Quinn said beforehe signed the bill on a deskonce used by President Abra-ham Lincoln. He said part ofthat mission was to ensurethat “love is not relegated toa second class status to any
citizen in our country.”References to freedom,
equality, fairness and Lin-coln – the desk was wherehe penned his 1861 inaugu-ral address – were pepperedthroughout the event. In at-tendance were top elected of-ficials, including Illinois At-torney General Lisa Madiganand Chicago Mayor RahmEmanuel. Organizers esti-mated roughly 2,300 attended,including activists and mem-bers of the public.
“We’re here to celebrate,family, commitment, equali-ty, love, courage and commu-nity,” the law’s main sponsorstate Rep. Greg Harris, D-Chi-cago, told the crowd to enthu-siastic applause.
Comptroller Judy BaarTopinka, a Republican,praised the three House GOPmembers who voted in favorof the measure.
“History will show that wegot it right on this one,” shesaid before telling the crowd,“I am available to be a flowergirl, and I’ll even waive thefee.”
When the law takes effectJune 1, same-sex couples canbegin applying for marriage
licenses. And officials in CookCounty have even said the fa-cilities will be open for busi-ness that day even thoughit’s a Sunday. There’s a smallchance weddings could takeplace before then; Legisla-tion is pending that couldchange the effective date toimmediately. Lawmakers ar-en’t expected to come back toSpringfield until January’send. In the meantime, Illinoiscouples have already startedplanning.
Aimee Woolery from theChicago suburb of Berwyn,has been with her partner for15 years and attended the billsigning with the couple’s twochildren.
“For us, it’s the familypiece of it, they get some moresecurity,” Woolery said, ex-plaining that the couple de-cided against a civil unionwhen Illinois legalized them.“We were holding out formarriage in Illinois.”
Her 9-year-old daughter,Graysen, said she is excitedfor her moms to wed.
“I want him to be the ringbearer,” she said pointingto her little brother. “And Iwant to be the flower girl.”
AP photo
Gov. Pat Quinn acknowledges the applause Wednesday after signing the Religious Freedom and Mar-riage Fairness Act into law in Chicago, making Illinois the 16th state in the nation to embrace full mar-riage equality for same sex couples. The law takes effect June 1.
Quinn signs gay marriage billLaw goes intoeffect June 1
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United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon rides a bike made of bamboo during a meeting Wednesdaywith the Ghana Bamboo Bike initiative at the U.N. Climate Conference in Warsaw, Poland.
By KARL RITTERThe Associated Press
WARSAW, Poland – Richand poor nations are strug-gling with a yawning rift atthe U.N. climate talks as de-veloping countries look fornew ways to make developedcountries accept responsibil-ity for global warming – andpay for it.
With two days left, therewas commotion in the War-saw talks Wednesday afternegotiators for developing na-tions said they walked out ofa late-night meeting on com-pensation for the impact ofglobal warming.
“We do not see a clear com-mitment of developed partiesto reach an agreement,” saidRene Orellana, head of Boliv-ia’s delegation.
U.S. climate envoy ToddStern downplayed the dis-pute, saying American nego-
tiators who had attended themeeting were surprised tohear of a walk-out.
“The meeting ended witheveryone leaving,” Stern toldreporters.
Contrasting views onwhat’s been said and donein closed discussions is notunusual in the slow-movingU.N. effort to curb globalwarming, which has oftenbeen held back by mistrustbetween rich and poor coun-tries. The talks in Warsaw ona new global climate deal in2015 have been going on sinceNov. 11.
The question of who’s toblame for global warming iscentral for developing coun-tries, who say they should re-ceive financial support fromrich nations to make theireconomies greener, adapt toclimate shifts and cover thecosts of unavoidable damagecaused by warming tempera-
tures.Also, they say the fact that
rich nations, historicallyspeaking, have released thebiggest amounts of heat-trap-ping CO2 by burning fossilfuels for more than 200 yearsmeans they need to take thelead in reducing currentemissions.
In Warsaw, developingnations are coming up withfresh ways to make theirpoint. Brazil has proposedcreating a formula to calcu-late historical blame.
“They must know howmuch they are actually re-sponsible ... for the essentialproblem of climate change,”Brazilian negotiator RaphaelAzeredo said.
Developed nations blockedthat proposal, however, say-ing the world should look atcurrent and future emissionswhen dividing up the respon-sibility for global warming.
Turmoil at climate talksas blame game heats up
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK – New York-ers buying a health plan onthe state’s new insurance ex-change should read the fineprint if they’re interested ingetting care at some of thecity’s top hospitals.
Not all are participatingin the new plans created bythe Affordable Care Act.
As of this week, not oneof the plans for sale on NewYork’s health benefit ex-change would cover treat-ment at Memorial Sloan-Ket-tering Cancer Center, one ofthe world’s largest and mostrespected cancer hospitals.
That could mean thatthe 615,000 individuals and450,000 small business em-ployees expected to even-
tually get their insurancethrough the exchange wouldhave to go someplace else fortreatment, or pay the bill outof their own pockets.
Other premier city hospi-tals are in the networks ofjust a few of the new plans.
NYU Langone MedicalCenter has signed agree-ments with four of the 19 in-surers doing business on theexchange.
New York-PresbyterianHospital, which oversees thecity’s biggest hospital sys-tem, has signed agreementswith six insurers.
President Barack Obamapromised when the Afford-able Care Act was enactedthat people who liked theirdoctors could keep them, butthe reality of the law both in
New York and around thecountry is that the new, low-er-cost policies it is creatingsometimes have smaller pro-vider networks than Medi-care, Medicaid, or the planspeople typically get throughtheir employers.
Those narrower net -works are a result of insur-ers trying to control costsand hospitals being cautiousabout agreeing to take new,untested insurance prod-ucts.
A spokeswoman for NYULangone, Lisa Greiner, saidthe hospital was taking a“semiconservative” ap-proach to participation andworking only with insurerswith “strong records in re-solving enrollment and pay-ment issues.”
Some NYC hospitals nottaking new health plans
about them,” he said.Other board members such
as Frank O’Barski, D-DeKalb,and Mark Pietrowski, D-Cor-tland, said board membersshould pass the budget andfind ways to make cuts nextyear along with improvingthe budget appeal process.
County AdministratorGary Hanson encouraged theboard to pass it as well. Hesaid the arguments againstpassing the tax levy and bud-get were nothing new.
“I’ve been around forabout 30 budgets,” he said.“It is not unusual at all … [forpeople] to say they don’t likethe process and this is lastminute and you’re rushing itthrough.”
Since county officials put
the budget on public displayin September, there havebeen several changes madethrough the appeal process.
Peter Stefan, county fi-nance director, said theState’s Attorney’s Office re-quested a full-time secretaryposition. Because of budgetconstraints, two part-timesecretary positions were bud-geted instead, with a cost ofno more than $27,000 to coversalaries and expenses for So-cial Security and Medicare.
Several funds for county
services will see a decreasein funding from propertytax levies. Funds for SeniorServices, Public Health andVeteran’s Assistance willhave a combined reductionof $85,000. Stefan said thesefunds are capped at the maxi-mum tax rate and can receiveno more funding, while oth-er funds such as the MentalHealth Fund can receivemore.
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Gary Hanson, county administrator
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into question the managementof a force that demands strictobedience to procedures.
The AP was advised inMay of the confidential study,shortly after it was completed,by a person who said it shouldbe made public to improveunderstanding of discontentwithin the ICBM force. Afterrepeated inquiries, and short-ly after AP filed a Freedom ofInformation Act request for aPowerPoint outline, the AirForce provided it last Fridayand arranged for RAND offi-cials and two senior Air Forcegenerals to explain it.
Based on confidentialsmall-group discussions lastwinter with about 100 launchofficers, security forces, mis-sile maintenance workers and
others who work in the mis-
sile fields – plus responses to
confidential questionnaires –
RAND found low job satisfac-
tion and workers distressed
by staff shortages, equipment
flaws and what they felt were
stifling management tactics.
It also found what it termed
“burnout.”
Burnout in this context
means feeling exhausted, cyn-
ical and ineffective on the job,
according to Chaitra Hardi-
son, RAND’s senior behavior-
al scientist and lead author of
the study. She used a system
of measure that asks people to
rate on a scale of 1 to 7 – from
“never” to “always” – how of-
ten in their work they experi-
ence certain feelings, includ-
ing tiredness, hopelessness
and a sense of being trapped.
An average score of 4 or above
is judged to put the person in
the “burnout” range.
One service member said,
“We don’t care if things go
properly. We just don’t want
to get in trouble.” That person
and all others who participat-
ed in the study were granted
confidentiality by RAND in
order to speak freely.
The 13 launch officers who
volunteered for the study
scored an average of 4.4 on the
burnout scale, tied for highest
in the group. A group of 20 ju-
nior enlisted airmen assigned
to missile security forces also
scored 4.4.
This has always been con-
sidered hard duty, in part
because of the enormous re-
sponsibility of safely operat-
ing nuclear missiles, the most
destructive weapons ever in-
vented. In its Cold War hey-
day, an ICBM force twice as
big as today’s was designed
to deter the nuclear Arma-
geddon that at times seemed
all-too-possible amid a stand-
off with the former Soviet
Union and a relentless race to
build more bombs.
Today the nuclear threat is
no longer prominent among
America’s security challeng-
es. The arsenal has shrunk
– in size and stature. The Air
Force struggles to demon-
strate the relevance of its ag-
ing ICBMs in a world worried
more about terrorism and
cyberwar and accustomed to
21st century weapons such as
drones.
• TROUBLESContinued from page A1
about staying overnight. Ithought, ‘I can’t smoke. Whatam I going to do?’ It’s the firstthing that comes to mind.”
Martha Kieffer, a nurseeducator at KishwaukeeHospital, teaches the Timeto Quit Tobacco class, whichwill be offered from 6:30 to 8p.m. Tuesdays from Jan. 28 toFeb. 18 at the hospital, 1 KishHospital Drive, DeKalb, for$25. Those who attend all foursessions will receive a fullrefund.
Kieffer said group supportis important.
“I even had one personwho was very successful inquitting [who] said, ‘When Icame to class, I didn’t plan onquitting, but everybody elsedid, so I did too,’ “ she said.
According to the Centersfor Disease Control andPrevention, smoking harmsnearly every organ of thebody and can cause lung dis-eases, cancer, heart disease,infertility, stroke and bonedensity issues.
But the benefits of quit-ting can happen relativelyquickly.
According to the IllinoisDepartment of Public Health,a person’s blood pressure andpulse rate return to normalwithin 20 minutes of the lastcigarette. The carbon mon-oxide level in the blood andoxygen level return to normalwithin nine hours. After justone day without smoking, aperson’s chance of a heartattack decreases.
“Nothing can be that badthat you have to smoke,” Rob-inson said. “I wish I wouldhave thought about thatyears and years ago.
“I can’t change the past,but I can do something aboutmy future.”
Learn more
n The Illinois Tobacco Quitline
is available in more than 200
languages and for the deaf/hardof hearing. To contact them, call
866-784-8937.n For information, call DeKalb
County Health Department at 815-
758-6673 or Kishwaukee Hospital
at 815-756-1521; or visit www.
cancer.org, www.smokefree.gov or
www.quityes.org.
• SMOKEOUTContinued from page A1
Groupsupportimportant
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Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh talks to a reporter Wednes-day in his office at the Pentagon.
Service member: ‘We don’t care if things go properly. We just don’t want to get in trouble’
The ASSOCIATED PRESS
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Backwhen Yahoo was somethinghollered at a rodeo and no onecould conceive of Googlinganything, President RonaldReagan signed an execu-tive order that extended thepower of U.S. intelligenceagencies overseas, allowingbroader surveillance of non-U.S. suspects. At the time, noone imagined he was grant-ing authority to spy on whatbecame known as Silicon Val-ley.
But recent reports thatthe National Security Agen-cy secretly broke into com-munications on Yahoo andGoogle overseas have tech-nology companies, privacy
advocates and even nationalsecurity proponents callingfor a re-examination of Rea-gan’s order and other intelli-gence laws.
Experts suggest a legisla-tive update is long overdueto clear up what ElectronicFrontier Foundation legal di-rector Cindy Cohn calls “lotsof big gray areas.”
With the cooperation offoreign allies, the NSA is po-tentially gaining access toevery email sent or receivedabroad, or between peopleabroad, from Google and Ya-hoo’s email services, as wellas anything in Google Docs,Maps or Voice, according to aseries of articles in the Wash-ington Post. It’s impossibleto know how many of Goo-
gle and Yahoo’s collective 1.8billion accounts are affected,but in a single 30-day periodlast year, field collectors pro-cessed and warehoused morethan 180 million new records– ranging from “metadata,”which would indicate whosent or received emails andwhen, to content such as text,audio and video, the Post re-ported.
“Had the NSA done thesame warrantless tapping atGoogle’s Mountain View, Cal-ifornia, headquarters, there’sno doubt they would be vio-lating the law,” said Cohn,whose San Francisco-basednon-profit fights for digitalfreedoms. “They’re doing thisabroad because they wantthat fig leaf of legality.”
Reagan played role in NSA’shack of Google and Yahoo • BUDGET
Continued from page A1
Hanson lobbied for budget’s OK
If you’re a smoker who’s tired of people telling you
to quit, get used to it.
People are going to keep bugging you about your
habit, but you don’t have to listen. In fact, if you’re
not ready to quit, you shouldn’t bother.
You can keep shelling out $7 or more for every
pack of cigarettes you buy. You can continue to worry
whether you have cigarettes and a lighter or matches
every time you leave the house, or experience the mo-
ment of panic that comes when you realize you don’t
have one or the other.
You can keep excusing
yourself from work, from
your seat at the table or
from the party, so you can
go outside for a smoke.
Smoking is still allowed
in cars, at least. Just keep
making sure not to drop
your butt while you’re
driving so you don’t burn
another hole in the uphol-
stery, or in your pants. As
of Jan. 1, you’ll have to stop
flicking your butts out the
window, too – tossing cigarette butts will be consid-
ered littering then and you could be fined up to $1,500.
You’ll have to start using your car’s ashtray – if it
even came with one installed.
You can keep trying to hide the fact that you
smoke cigarettes from the children in your life, or if
you don’t bother with that, keep coming up with ways
to deflect their questions about your habit.
Even if you do choose to keep smoking, please
don’t expose children to secondhand smoke. They’re
not old enough to make their own decisions, and
secondhand smoke can harm their health. Having a
parent who smokes – and cigarettes in the home – can
also increase the chances that children will become
smokers.
Nicotine addiction can have a powerful grip on
people, and cigarettes are a legal product that is
readily available. Many smokers make several failed
attempts before they quit for good.
Today is the 38th annual Great American Smoke-
out, though. A day when people are supposed to try to
get through a whole day without cigarettes, or even
commit to quitting for good.
It’s certainly the healthy choice for your body. De-
spite all the inconveniences of smoking, in some ways
it’s the harder choice, too.
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The country is engaged in a fierce debate abouttwo educational reforms that bear directly on thefuture of its schoolchildren: first, teacher evaluationsystems that are taking hold just about everywhere,and, second, the Common Core learning standardsthat have been adopted by all but a few states and aresupposed to move the schools toward a more challeng-ing, writing-intensive curriculum.
Both reforms – or at least the principles behindthem – got a welcome boost from reading and mathscores released recently by the federal government.Although the nation as a whole still has a long way togo to match high-performing school systems abroad,states that have toughened their teacher evaluationsand standards have shown positive results.
Two examples are the District of Columbia andTennessee, among the first to install more ambitiousstandards and teacher evaluations. Tennessee jumpedfrom 46th in the country in fourth-grade math twoyears ago to 37th, and from 41st in the nation to 34thin eighth-grade reading.
The District of Columbia, though still performingbelow the national average, has also shown progress.The scores of its students improved significantly inboth math and English.
Moreover, according to Education Secretary ArneDuncan, the eight states that managed to get theCommon Core standards in place in time for the latestNational Assessment of Educational Progress examsthis year showed improvement from 2009 scores ineither reading or math.
Nationwide, the story is less encouraging. For ex-ample, on this year’s assessment, fourth-graders andeighth-graders, on average, showed only slight gainsfrom two years ago in math and reading scores.
Even worse, the results show that less than halfof the nation’s students are performing at a profi-cient level in either math or reading as judged by thefederal rating system, indicating that the country isnot moving swiftly enough toward its goal of prepar-ing students for work in a global economy. Equallyworrisome is the continuing gap between low-incomeand more-affluent students.
But the progress seen elsewhere – like Tennesseeand the District of Columbia – shows that improve-ment is possible if the states strengthen their resolveand apply solutions that have been shown to work.
The New York Times
Gathering to rememberchildren lostTo the Editor:This letter is an invitation to
those who have lost a child, nomatter what age, or under whatcircumstances, to unite withother families in the Compassion-ate Friends Worldwide CandleLighting.This year the Memorial Service
to honor the memories of our chil-dren will be held on Sunday , Dec.8, beginning at 6:15 pm at theHopkins Park first-floor meetingroom. A short program of musicand readings will be held prior tothe candle lighting.The lighting of the candles
unites friends and families aroundthe globe who honor the memoryof their child who is gone.We invite you to join us in this
service of remembrance. If youhave any questions, feel free tocall Sue Rankin at Hospice, 815-756-3000.
Donna I. BennettDeKalb
Benefit to help typhoonvictims in the PhilippinesTo the Editor:The Filipino-American Associa-
tion of Northern Illinois is holdinga fundraiser to assist with disas-ter relief efforts in response to thedevastation caused by TyphoonHaiyan which hit the centralPhilippines on Nov. 8.It is estimated that thousands of
lives were lost and 600,000 peo-ple are now homeless. This is anunprecedented calamity and theimmediate needs are for survival– food, medicine, and shelter. Weare all saddened by the hardshipsbeing experienced by the Filipinopeople and want to do all we canto help.Please join us from 6:30 to 8:30
p.m. Sunday for a simple Filipinomeal. This fundraising event willbe held at Oak Crest DeKalb AreaRetirement Center at 2944 Green-wood Acres Drive in DeKalb (enterthrough Door 18 on the east side).We are asking for your help with
a tax-deductible donation to theAmerican Red Cross that will beearmarked for Philippine Re-lief. Your generosity and prayerswill reach the people who aremost in need.If you are unable to attend our
fundraiser, please send yourcheck payable to the AmericanRed Cross (write on memo line:Philippine Relief) to the DeKalb
County Community Foundation,475 DeKalb Ave., Sycamore, IL60178.We are deeply grateful for your
generosity and concern. It is dif-ficult to imagine the devastationand suffering caused by TyphoonHaiyan and the process of re-building lives and homes will takeyears. The response of concernand caring from our communityhas been overwhelming and com-forting to the Filipino-Americancommunity. For more information,please email [email protected].
Evelina Jose CichyFilipino-American Association of Northern
Illinois
DeKalb
Obama vs. GettysburgTo the Editor:Why did President Obama
snub Gettysburg and AbrahamLincoln’s historic speech?It’s really quite simple: words. I
believe words kept him hiding inWashington.They being, “A government of
the people, by the people and forthe people.”
David C. CouchSycamore
Ethics test a time-wasterTo the Editor:Every October, every employee
of the state of Illinois must takean online ethics test.These include Illinois State
Police officers, college faculty,Secretary of State workers, IllinoisDepartment of Transportationemployees, etc.This ethics test took effect
under then Gov. Rod Blagojevich’sleadership.So every October, thousands
of state government employeesspend 20-30 minutes of the timethe taxpayers of Illinois are payingthem to work to take the IllinoisEthics Test.Wouldn’t it be better for all new
employees to take the test, withestablished employees given abrochure to read on their owntime? This would permit thethousands of honest state em-ployees to actually do their jobsrather than spending taxpayers’money for them to sit in front of acomputer taking a test based on alame idea enacted by a governorwho is now in federal prison dueto his own lack of ethics.
Pam FarrisRochelle
Latest ‘Obamacare’ fix only makes it worseWhen he was trying to get Congress
to pass his health-care law, PresidentBarack Obama repeatedly promised thatpeople would be able to keep their insur-ance plans if they liked them. Now thatpromise is being proved false: Insurancecompanies are canceling plans across thecountry, often because they don’t complywith Obamacare’s regulations.
Both Republicans and Democrats inCongress have been rushing to pass legis-lation that would let people stay in theirinsurance policies – especially becausethe law threatens to fine them for notreplacing those policies, which is hard todo when the federal website where they’resupposed to find a replacement isn’tworking.
Last week, Obama announced he’sgoing to let insurance plans that don’tcomply with Obamacare’s regulationsskate by. In other words, he’s not going toenforce those regulations. The legal basisfor this decision is unclear.
Also unclear is whether the decisionwill help anyone. As the president said,state regulators still have to decide wheth-er to allow the old plans to continue, andinsurers have to decide whether to reissuethem.
If state regulators allow the plans to bereissued and insurers agree to go along,
one of the law’s chief problems will getworse. Experts on both sides of the debatehave long understood the program wasvulnerable to “adverse selection.” Itdepends on healthy people, many of themyoung, deciding to buy insurance. Theirpremiums will exceed their expected med-ical costs, and thus subsidize those in theinsurance pool with higher expected costs.
But the Affordable Care Act also reduc-es the incentive for healthy people to buyinsurance. It lets people who get sick buyinsurance on the same terms as healthypeople; they just have to wait for anopen-enrollment period. If the healthy optout, the pool will consist disproportionate-ly of the sick, and premiums will be high.That means those who don’t qualify forObamacare’s subsidies will be even lesslikely to buy insurance, and the subsidiesfor those who do will be larger.
The fines are supposed to give peoplea new incentive to sign up, but they’relower than the cost of buying insurance,and the Internal Revenue Service has fewmeans of enforcing them. So they seem un-
likely to solve the problem. The website’sdifficulties make that problem worse,because only the most motivated Internetsurfers have so far applied for insurance– which is to say, the sickest ones. Thepresident’s announcement, to the extentit affects the insurance market, will makethat problem worse yet. The more peoplewho stay in their current plans, the fewerwill sign up for the exchanges. And thepeople who will most want to keep theircurrent plans, one would think, are thehealthy ones.
Obama’s announcement should alsoput an end to the argument that the healthcare law would be working great if onlyRepublicans weren’t sabotaging it. Thatargument was always strange: If your planrequires that its main opponents go out oftheir way to make it work, even when theplan itself is unpopular, maybe your planneeds a rethink.
But it isn’t Republicans who are flout-ing the law anyway. It’s Obama, who hasjust announced on national television thathe is – once again – going to ignore itsprovisions.
• Ramesh Ponnuru is a BloombergView columnist, a visiting fellow at theAmerican Enterprise Institute and a se-nior editor at National Review.
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Nicotine addiction canhave a powerful grip onpeople, and cigarettesare a legal product thatis readily available. Manysmokers make severalfailed attempts before theyquit for good.
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semiinal as town cleans
up after tornado. PAGE B8
SECTION BThursday, November 21, 2013
Daily Chronicle
8MORNING KICKOFF
8WHAT TO WATCH
Rodriguez walks out ofown grievance hearingNEW YORK – Alex Rodriguez
walked out of his grievance
hearing Wednesday after
arbitrator Fredric Horowitz
refused to order baseball com-
missioner Bud Selig to testify.
Horowitz was in the midst
of the 11th day of hearings
on the grievance filed by the
players’ association to over-
turn the 211-game suspension
given to Rodriguez by Major
League Baseball last summer
for alleged violations of the
sport’s drug agreement and
labor contract.
“I’m done. I don’t have a
chance. You let the arbiter
decide whatever he decides,”
Rodriguez said during an
interview on WFAN radio. “My
position doesn’t change. I
didn’t do it.”
A person familiar with the
session said that after Horow-
itz made his ruling, the New
York Yankees third baseman
slammed a table, uttered a pro-
fanity at MLB chief operating
officer Rob Manfred and left.
The person spoke on the con-
dition of anonymity because
what takes place at the hearing
is supposed to be confidential.
“I am disgusted with this
abusive process, designed to
ensure that the player fails,”
Rodriguez said in a statement.
“I have sat through 10 days of
testimony by felons and liars,
sitting quietly through every
minute, trying to respect the
league and the process.
“This morning, after Bud
Selig refused to come in and
testify about his rationale for
the unprecedented and totally
baseless punishment he hit me
with, the arbitrator selected by
MLB and the players’ associ-
ation refused to order Selig
to come in and face me. The
absurdity and injustice just
became too much. I walked
out and will not participate
any further in this farce.”
– Wire report
Pro hockeyBlackhawks at Winnipeg,7 p.m., CSNAfter opening
a seven-game
road trip with
a lopsided
defeat, the Hawks will try to
bounce back by extending
their dominance over the Jets,
seeking a seventh consecu-
tive win over the Winnipeg
franchise and third this
season.More on Page B2.
Also on TV...Pro basketball
L.A. Clippers at Oklahoma City,
7 p.m., TNT
Bulls at Denver, 9:30 p.m.,TNT
Pro footballNew Orleans at Atlanta,
7 p.m., NFLN
Men’s basketballPuerto Rico Tip-Off, first
round, Long Beach St. vs.
Michigan, 4 p.m., ESPN2
2K Sports Classic, first
round Connecticut vs. Boston
College, 6 p.m., ESPN2
Wofford at Minnesota, 6 p.m.,
BTN
2K Sports Classic, first
round, Indiana vs. Washington,
8 p.m., ESPN2
College footballRutgers at Central Florida,
6:30 p.m., ESPN
Rice at Alabama-Birmingham,
6:30 p.m., FS1
GolfPGA Tour, World Cup,
second round, 8 p.m., TGC
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NO. 16 NORTHERN ILLINOIS 35, TOLEDO 17
HUSKIES 4-PEAT
Countdown to kickoff
IHSA state football
championships at NIU’s
Huskie Stadium in DeKalb
8DAYS
Fact of the Day: 8 – Number ofcurrent football classes, catego-
rized by school enrollment numbers
with a special multiplier for private
schools. The IHSA expanded from
six to eight classes in 2001.
Next
vs. Western Michigan,
6 p.m. Tuesday,
ESPN2, AM-1360,
AM-670, 98.9-FM
More online
For all your Northern Illinois Uni-
versity sports coverage – including
stories, features, scores, photos,
videos, blogs and more – log on to
HuskieWire.com.
RossJacobson
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Monica Maschak – [email protected]
DeKalb/Sycamore co-op swimmers Kylie Olson (from left), Bailey Flemming, Jensen Keckand Alexa Miller prepare for practice Tuesday at Huntley Middle School in DeKalb. The girlswill be competing in the 200-yard medley relay state finals Friday at New Trier High Schoolin Winnetka.
GIRLS SWIMMING & DIVING STATE FINALS
Sophomores team upfor trip to state finalsOlson, Flemming,Miller to make 1stappearance at state
By ROSS [email protected]
DeKALB – The few seconds be-tween touching the wall and seeingthe time felt like an eternity to BaileyFlemming.
The DeKalb/Sycamore co-opsophomore had finished the last legof the 200-yard medley relay in thirdplace Saturday in the St. CharlesEast Sectional, just missing out onthe last state qualifying spot givento the top two finishers. But if the re-lay’s time beat the Illinois’ automaticqualifying standards, the relay washeaded to the state meet Friday at
New Trier.“It was so nerve-racking, but then
I looked up at [my teammates] andthey were cheering so I knew we gotit,” Flemming said. “It was incredi-ble. It was a great feeling.”
The relay team of sophomoresFlemming, Jensen Keck, AlexaMiller and Kylie Olson clocked inat 1 minute, 50.12 seconds, a merefour-hundredths of a second ahead ofthe standard set at 1:50.16.
More online
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ries, features, scores, photos, videos and
more – log on to Daily-Chronicle.com/dcpreps.
See SWIMMING, page B7
NIUmaking newhome in Detroit
Lynch rushes for 3 TDsin MACWest clincher
TOLEDO – Goodbye, Tole-
do. Hello, Detroit.
At the Glass Bowl, the
unofficial birthplace of
MACtion in NIU’s 63-60 win
over Toledo two years ago,
a different form took place,
one that saw as many turn-
overs and missed field goals
as touchdowns.
Yet through it all, the end
result was the same once
again for Northern Illinois.
Another NIU midweek vic-
tory, another Mid-American
Conference West Division
championship, another
late-season trip to Detroit
officially on the schedule
after a 35-17 win over the
Rockets.
And the Huskies once
again will be heavy favor-
ites to win the title game no
matter who ends up being
their MAC East opponent in
two weeks.
NIU likes to consider
Chicago’s Soldier Field its
unofficial second home. But
judging by how often the
Huskies have finished the
MAC season in Detroit – now
each of the past four years –
they should bestow that title
upon Ford Field instead.
Call it Huskie Stadium
Farther East.
Overcoming a series of
injuries to its top wideouts
and an uncharacteristic trio
of missed field goals from
Mathew Sims, undoubtedly
the most clutch kicker in
school history, the Huskies
once again came up with the
plays they needed when it
mattered most.
By STEVE [email protected]
TOLEDO, Ohio – North-ern Illinois Unversity willhead to Detroit for the fourthconsecutive season.
With Wednesday’s 35-17win over Toledo at the GlassBowl, the Huskies clinchedthe Mid-American Confer-ence West Division for thefourth consecutive season.No matter what happensagainst Western Michigan onTuesday night, the two-timedefending MAC championHuskies will play for anotherfootball conference title Dec.6 at Ford Field.
NIU scored on its first pos-session of the game, whentailback James Spencer ranfor a 19-yard touchdown run.However, the Huskies failedto take a double-digit leadwhen Mathew Sims misseda 23-yard field goal attemptlater in the quarter.
The No. 16 Huskies (11-
0, 7-0 MAC) overcame threefirst-half missed field goalsby the normally reliableSims to come home with thevictory.
The Toledo (7-4, 5-2 MAC)offense shot itself in the footearly on, with turnovers ontwo of its first four posses-sions. On the Rockets’ firstplay from scrimmage, quar-terback Terrance Owensfumbled the ball, which wasrecovered by NIU defensiveend George Rainey. Later on,Owens was picked off by NIUsafety Jimmie Ward at theHuskies’ 22-yard line.
In the second quarter, theRockets commited their thirdturnover of the first halfwhen tailback Kareem Hunt,on third-and-goal from theNIU 2-yard line, took a snapout of the wildcat formationand threw a pass, which wasintercepted by Huskies line-backer Boomer Mays.
See JACOBSON, page B3 See HUSKIES, page B3
AP photo
Northern Illinois senior quarterback Jordan Lynch runs the ball against Toledo in the second quarter of Wednesday night’s game in Toledo, Ohio. The Huskies, ranked No. 16 in theBowl Championship Standings, defeated the Rockets, 35-17, to clinch their fourth straight Mid-American Conference West Division crown.
By JOE [email protected]
DENVER – The Bulls an-nounced Wednesday that shoot-ing guard Jimmy Butler stayedbehind in Chicago because ofturf toe on his right big toe.
He was listed as week-to-week, but coach Tom Thibo-deau didn’t want to start throw-ing timetablesaround.
“I don’t evenwant to specu-late,” said Thi-bodeau, whoseteam begins asix-game roadt r i p T h u r s -day against the Nuggets. “Hehas to get the swelling out first.’’
The best-case scenario wouldbe for Butler to be re-evaluat-ed next week after the gameagainst the Pistons and be readyfor the Nov. 30 game against theCavaliers, the last stop on theroad trip, but he likely won’tplay until at least a week or twointo December.
“It’s too bad,” backup bigman Taj Gibson said. “Jimmyhas been working really hard.But this happens with the styleof ball that we play. We all goall out every game, so guys getbanged up.”
It’s another setback for But-ler in a season of setbacks.
“That’s exactly what hap-pened,” Thibodeau said of theroller-coaster ride for Butler. “Hewas playing great at the start ofcamp, then got hurt [left knee]and missed a significant amountof time. He had a hard time find-ing his rhythm again. He has beenplaying really well of late. He hasput in an inordinate amount oftime working on his shooting,coming in every night. He hasreally shot the ball well the lastthree or four games. He knowswhat he has to do. He’ll be fine.”
Butler is averaging 11.2points and was averaging 12.3
over his past four games, in-cluding the 86-81 victory Mon-day against the Bobcats inwhich he left the game in thethird quarter with the injury,was looked at and went back inuntil Thibodeau felt the toe wastoo much of a hindrance.
“You have your medical teamback there,” Thibodeau said.“They’re telling you whether aguy can go or not. I have to trustthe trainer, trust the doctor andobviously trust Jimmy. He want-ed to give it a shot. They thoughthe could, so we did. That’s theway it worked out.”
Kirk Hinrich and MikeDunleavy are the leading can-didates to take over for Butler,but Thibodeau said he wasn’tsure which way he was leaning.
“There are a lot of things thatyou’re looking at,” Thibodeausaid. “You’re looking at match-ups, trying to keep units together.
“I want to see what worksbest for the team. We’ll get alook at it [Thursday] and havea better feel for where we are.”
Hinrich and Dunleavy didn’tseem concerned about whostarts or comes off the bench.
“It hurts,’’ Hinrich said. ‘‘It’sa big loss. Everybody has to stepup. My mind-set really isn’t go-ing to change.
“I’m willing to do whatever.”As was Dunleavy.“Obviously, there are min-
utes to fill with Jimmy out, andI think we can do that from a lotof different areas,’’ Dunleavysaid. “The good thing is there’sdepth on this team. We haveguys that can step in and hope-fully pick up the slack.
“The hope is Jimmy will beback sooner than later, but wegot to go with who we got.”
SPORTS Daily Chronicle / Daily-Chronicle.comPage B2 • Thursday, November 21, 2013
8PREP SCHEDULE
8SPORTS SHORTS
TODAY
Girls BasketballHinckley-Big Rock vs. Wheaton
Academy at Somonauk Tim HumesBreakout Tournament, 7 p.m.Sycamore at Burlington Central
tournament, TBAGenoa-Kingston at Harvard
tournament, TBAIndian Creek at IMSA Hoop
Happenings, TBAHiawatha at Elgin tournament,
TBABoys Bowling
Sycamore at Dixon, 4 p.m.
FRIDAY
Girls BasketballSycamore at Burlington Central
tournament, TBAGenoa-Kingston at Harvard
tournament, TBAIndian Creek at IMSA Hoop
Happenings, TBAHiawatha at Elgin tournament, TBA
Girls SwimmingDeKalb/Sycamore at state meet
at New Trier, TBA
SATURDAY
FootballSycamore at Montini in Class 5A
state semifinals, 1 p.m.Girls Swimming
DeKalb/Sycamore at state meetat New Trier, TBA
Girls BasketballSycamore at Burlington Central
tournament, TBAKaneland at Immaculate Conception
tournament, TBAGenoa-Kingston at Harvard
tournament, TBAIndian Creek at IMSA Hoop
Happenings, TBAHiawatha at Elgin tournament, TBA
Boys BowlingDeKalb at Plainfield North tourna-
ment, 9 a.m.Sycamore at Guilford tournament,
1 p.m.
H-BR girls basketball fallsto ACC in tournament playThe Hinckley-Big Rock girls
basketball team fell to AuroraCentral Catholic, 44-38, in theTim Humes Breakout tourna-ment Tuesday at Somonauk.Lauren Paver scored 17 points
and Karrigan Cowan added 11 forthe Royals (1-1).
White Sox claim Elmoreoff waivers from HoustonCHICAGO – The Chicago
White Sox claimed infielder JakeElmore off waivers from theHouston Astros and purchasedthe contracts of infielder CarlosSanchez and outfielder TrayceThompson from Triple-A Char-lotte.The Sox announced the moves
Wednesday.The 26-year-old Elmore batted
.242 in 52 games with Houstonlast season and appeared atall nine positions. He played20 games at shortstop, 12 atsecond base, nine in left field,two in center and one each atpitcher, catcher, first, third andright.He became the 14th player in
major league history to pitchand catch in the same game atTexas on Aug. 19.Sanchez spent the entire
season with Charlotte and hit.241. Thompson batted .229 forDouble-A Birmingham.
Cubs select Alcantara’s,Beeler’s contractsCHICAGO – The Cubs have
selected the contracts of in-fielder Arismendy Alcantara andright-handed pitcher Dallas Beel-er from Double-A Tennessee.Alcantara batted .271 with
15 home runs, 69 RBIs and 31stolen bases in 133 games forTennessee. Beeler was 4-2 witha 3.13 ERA in nine starts for theminor league club.
Dierdorf to retire frombroadcasting after seasonNEW YORK – With two artificial
knees, two artificial hips and abad back, the travel required byhis analyst job for CBS just be-came too much for Dan Dierdorf.The 64-year-old Hall of Famer
announced Wednesday he willretire after this season – his 43rdstraight involved with the NFL.
– From staff, wire reports
NATIONAL CONFERENCENorth
W L T Pct PF PADetroit 6 4 0 .600 265 253Bears 6 4 0 .600 282 267Green Bay 5 5 0 .500 258 239Minnesota 2 8 0 .200 240 320
EastW L T Pct PF PA
Philadelphia 6 5 0 .545 276 260Dallas 5 5 0 .500 274 258N.Y. Giants 4 6 0 .400 192 256Washington 3 7 0 .300 246 311
SouthW L T Pct PF PA
New Orleans 8 2 0 .800 288 183Carolina 7 3 0 .700 238 137Tampa Bay 2 8 0 .200 187 237Atlanta 2 8 0 .200 214 292
WestW L T Pct PF PA
Seattle 10 1 0 .909 306 179San Francisco 6 4 0 .600 247 178Arizona 6 4 0 .600 214 212St. Louis 4 6 0 .400 224 234
AMERICAN CONFERENCENorth
W L T Pct PF PACincinnati 7 4 0 .636 275 206Pittsburgh 4 6 0 .400 216 245Baltimore 4 6 0 .400 208 212Cleveland 4 6 0 .400 192 238
EastW L T Pct PF PA
New England 7 3 0 .700 256 199N.Y. Jets 5 5 0 .500 183 268Miami 5 5 0 .500 213 225Buffalo 4 7 0 .364 236 273
SouthW L T Pct PF PA
Indianapolis 7 3 0 .700 252 220Tennessee 4 6 0 .400 227 226Houston 2 8 0 .200 193 276Jacksonville 1 9 0 .100 129 318
WestW L T Pct PF PA
Denver 9 1 0 .900 398 255Kansas City 9 1 0 .900 232 138Oakland 4 6 0 .400 194 246San Diego 4 6 0 .400 228 222
Today GameNew Orleans at Atlanta, 7:25 p.m.
Sunday’s GamesBears at St. Louis, noonMinnesota at Green Bay, noonJacksonville at Houston, noonSan Diego at Kansas City, noonPittsburgh at Cleveland, noonTampa Bay at Detroit, noonN.Y. Jets at Baltimore, noonCarolina at Miami, noonTennessee at Oakland, 3:05 p.m.Indianapolis at Arizona, 3:05 p.m.Dallas at N.Y. Giants, 3:25 p.m.Denver at New England, 7:30 p.m.Open: Buffalo, Cincinnati, Philadelphia,
SeattleMonday’s Game
San Francisco at Washington, 7:40 p.m.Thursday, Nov. 28
Green Bay at Detroit, 11:30 a.m.Oakland at Dallas, 3:30 p.m.Pittsburgh at Baltimore, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, Dec. 1Bears at Minnesota, noonArizona at Philadelphia, noonJacksonville at Cleveland, noonMiami at N.Y. Jets, noonNew England at Houston, noonTampa Bay at Carolina, noonTennessee at Indianapolis, noonAtlanta at Buffalo, 3:05 p.m.St. Louis at San Francisco, 3:05 p.m.Cincinnati at San Diego, 3:35 p.m.Denver at Kansas City, 3:25 p.m.N.Y. Giants at Washington, 7:30 p.m.
Monday, Dec. 2New Orleans at Seattle, 7:40 p.m.
NHL
NFL
WESTERN CONFERENCECentral Division
GP W L OT Pts GF GA
Blackhawks 21 14 3 4 32 78 61
St. Louis 20 14 3 3 31 70 47
Minnesota 22 13 5 4 30 57 50
Colorado 19 14 5 0 28 59 41
Dallas 20 11 7 2 24 58 56
Winnipeg 23 10 10 3 23 61 66
Nashville 21 10 9 2 22 48 63
Pacific Division
GP W L OT Pts GF GA
Anaheim 23 15 6 2 32 72 59
San Jose 21 13 3 5 31 72 50
Phoenix 21 14 4 3 31 73 66
Los Angeles 21 14 6 1 29 58 46
Vancouver 22 11 8 3 25 56 58
Calgary 21 7 11 3 17 59 79
Edmonton 22 5 15 2 12 53 83
EASTERN CONFERENCEAtlantic Division
GP W L OT Pts GF GA
Boston 21 14 6 1 29 59 38
Tampa Bay 20 14 6 0 28 64 50
Toronto 21 13 7 1 27 62 49
Detroit 22 9 6 7 25 54 62
Montreal 22 11 9 2 24 58 47
Ottawa 21 8 9 4 20 60 67
Florida 21 5 12 4 14 46 70
Buffalo 23 5 17 1 11 42 72
Metropolitan Division
GP W L OT Pts GF GA
Pittsburgh 21 13 8 0 26 59 48
Washington 21 12 8 1 25 69 59
N.Y. Rangers 21 10 11 0 20 43 52
Carolina 21 8 9 4 20 40 59
New Jersey 20 7 8 5 19 42 49
N.Y. Islanders 22 8 11 3 19 63 73
Philadelphia 20 8 10 2 18 40 50
Columbus 20 7 10 3 17 52 57
Two points for a win, one point for OT loss
Wednesday’s Results
Florida 3, Vancouver 2, SO
St. Louis 4, Buffalo 1
Toronto 5, N.Y. Islanders 2
Philadelphia 5, Ottawa 2
Montreal 6, Minnesota 2
Nashville 2, Detroit 0
Boston 2, N.Y. Rangers 1
Colorado 5, Chicago 1
Edmonton 7, Columbus 0
Los Angeles 5, Tampa Bay 2
NBA
EASTERN CONFERENCECentral Division
W L Pct GBIndiana 9 1 .900 —Bulls 6 3 .667 2½Detroit 4 6 .400 5Cleveland 4 7 .364 5½Milwaukee 2 7 .222 6½
Atlantic DivisionW L Pct GB
Philadelphia 5 7 .417 —Toronto 4 7 .364 ½Boston 4 8 .333 1New York 3 7 .300 1Brooklyn 3 7 .300 1
Southeast DivisionW L Pct GB
Miami 8 3 .727 —Atlanta 6 5 .545 2Charlotte 5 6 .455 3Orlando 4 6 .400 3½
Washington 3 7 .300 4½
WESTERN CONFERENCESouthwest Division
W L Pct GBSan Antonio 9 1 .900 —Houston 8 4 .667 2Dallas 7 4 .636 2½Memphis 6 5 .545 3½New Orleans 4 6 .400 5
Northwest DivisionW L Pct GB
Portland 9 2 .818 —Oklahoma City 7 3 .700 1½Minnesota 7 5 .583 2½Denver 4 6 .400 4½Utah 1 11 .083 8½
Pacific DivisionW L Pct GB
Golden State 8 3 .727 —L.A. Clippers 7 4 .636 1Phoenix 5 4 .556 2L.A. Lakers 5 7 .417 3½Sacramento 2 7 .222 5
Wednesday’s ResultsMiami at Orlando, 6 p.m.Toronto at Philadelphia, 6 p.m.Washington at Cleveland, 6 p.m.Indiana at New York, 6 p.m.Brooklyn at Charlotte, 6 p.m.Detroit at Atlanta, 6:30 p.m.L.A. Clippers at Minnesota, 7 p.m.Portland at Milwaukee, 7 p.m.Utah at New Orleans, 7 p.m.Boston at San Antonio, 7:30 p.m.Sacramento at Phoenix, 8 p.m.Houston at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.Memphis at Golden State, 9:30 p.m.
Thursday’s GamesBulls at Denver, 9:30 p.m.L.A. Clippers at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m.
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BLACKHAWKS
Points pile up for SharpAfter slow start,veteran goes onscoring spree
By MARK [email protected]
WINNIPEG, Manitoba – Pat-rick Sharp was always count-ing. Goals, assists, plus-mi-nus – he knew every stat as ithappened, seeing his numbersrising and falling in real time.When the scoresheets werepassed around after the game,Sharp didn’t need to pore overthe numbers. He already knewthem.
This is how young players,new to the league and trying tomake a name for themselves,evaluate themselves. Sharp – agoal-scorer by trade – was nodifferent.
“Early in my career, I wasa player that definitely lookedat numbers a lot, and based myplay on individual numbers,”said Sharp, about a month shyof his 32nd birthday. “NowI know that’s not always thecase. You go into a game know-ing what you want to accom-plish, and those numbers willtake care of themselves downthe road.”
That veteran perspective iswhy Sharp wasn’t smashingsticks when he was sitting onjust one goal and four assiststhrough the first 11 games ofthe season. And that same vet-eran perspective is why thered-hot Sharp isn’t patting him-self on the back and booking aFebruary flight to Sochi afterposting six goals and nine as-sists in the 11 games since.
The law of averages sug-gested Sharp – nearly a point-a-game player over the past fewseasons – would get his stats.But more importantly to Sharp,the way he was playing made itjust as inevitable.
“It’s funny, those first 10games or so, I felt like I hadmore chances offensively than
I did the last 10 games,” Sharp
said before Tuesday’s dismal
5-1 defeat at Colorado. “And
the point production isn’t even
close. At the end of the day,
it doesn’t really matter. I’m
a player on a good team and
we’re competitive every night.
That’s the best thing you can
ask for.”
Of course, there’s a clear
line of demarcation in Sharp’s
production this season – Oct.
28 in Minnesota, the day Joel
Quenneville bumped him up
to the top line with Jonathan
Toews and Marian Hossa. That
was exactly 11 games ago. Be-
fore that, Sharp was skating
on a line with Michal Handzus
and Patrick Kane. And while
Handzus is a savvy playmaker
and responsible defender, he
simply didn’t have the speed
to keep up with his wingers.
Toews does.
The results have been
eye-popping.
“He’s playing with guys
[with whom] the production’s
probably a little higher than
when he started,” Quenne-
ville said. “That [second] line
earlier on, they were probably
getting the chances, but may-
be not the quality. … Certainly
scorers, they love to score, and
they feed off it when you get
rolling like that.”
Sharp’s torrid play of late
certainly boosts his chances
of making the Canadian Olym-
pic squad in Sochi, a lifelong
dream of his. While he might
not be counting the numbers
anymore, surely Team Cana-
da’s player evaluators notice
when a guy hands out four as-
sists in one game, like Sharp
did at Dallas, or scores twice
against a very good San Jose
team, like Sharp did on Sun-
day.
Sharp said the speculation
(and the eventual disappoint-
ment of being left out) didn’t af-
fect his play in 2010, and that it
won’t this year, either, even as
the final roster decisions loom
next month.
Again, that temperament
comes with age, with experi-
ence.
“I’m only thinking about the
Blackhawks, and doing every-
thing I can for Joel, because
Joel has really given me an
opportunity to play more and
play a bigger role,” Sharp said.
“I’m excited about that, and I
want to reward him.
“You hear about it and you
read articles, but I’m 31 years
old now, I’m going to be 32 pret-
ty soon. It’s not going to affect
the way I’m playing on the ice
for the Hawks.”
Note: The Hawks were
off Wednesday, and there was
no official update on the low-
er-body injuries of Marian Hos-
sa and Bryan Bickell. Howev-
er, the Hawks recalled Jeremy
Morin from Rockford, meaning
Bickell’s likely to miss Thurs-
day’s game at Winnipeg.
AP photo
Blackhawks left wing Patrick Sharp scores a goal past San Jose Sharks goalie Antti Niemi on a penalty shotduring the third period of Sunday’s game at the United Center.
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BULLS
Butler likely outuntil December
Jimmy Butler
AP file photo
Former Bulls player Dennis Rodmanwaves during a news conferenceto promote a Japanese cable network’s coverage of the upcomingNBA season Oct. 25 in Tokyo.
Rodman seeking peacebetween U.S. N. Korea
By DAN GELSTONThe Associated Press
Dennis Rodman wants to
belly up to the bar with some
friends and order a shot of
peace talks.
He believed his latest pro-
posal is just the tonic needed
to ease tension between the
United States and North Ko-
rea.
“Everyone knows Presi-
dent Barack] Obama drinks
beer,” Rodman said. “But you
know what? I’m pretty sure
he does have a cocktail here
or there. I’d love to see him
with a ... shot in his hand,
toasting to Kim Jong [Un] and
me.
“That would be awesome.”
A Rodman-branded vodka
is set to debut this week, just
the latest business venture
he’s had a fling with, stretch-
ing from wrestling to author-
ing a children’s book to even,
yes, unofficial basketball am-
bassador to North Korea. He
can count Kim as a fan of the
vodka – the duo drank from
two cases Rodman brought
over for his recent visit in
September, where they talked
hoops and planned an exhibi-
tion game in January.
Dennis Rodman. NBA
champion. Hall of Famer. Re-
ality TV star. Peace broker?
“Just think, it’s up to Den-
nis Rodman to break ground
with North Korea,” he said.
“I’m the only one in the
world who will go talk to this
guy and try and find some
common ground with these
people. I’m hoping that gap
between America and North
Korea can close. Those guys
love a lot about America.
They love it. That’s why I go
over there.
“People don’t believe
that.”
Rodman, who once wore a
wedding dress to a book sign-
ing, said all his work should
have earned him a Nobel
Peace Prize.
“People put that label on
me like it’s my responsibili-
ty to save the world,” he said.
“If it happens to come to that,
then yes, I guess I’m all for it.
Let’s just all get together and
keep everything cool, man.”
Rodman, known as much
for his piercings, tattoos
and bad behavior as he was
for basketball, was the high-
est-profile American to meet
Kim since Kim inherited pow-
er from father Kim Jong Il in
2011. He traveled to the secre-
tive state for the first time in
February with the Harlem
Globetrotters for an HBO se-
ries produced by New York-
based VICE TV.
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Youel’ssister tojoin team
By JOE [email protected]
Crystal Lake Central’s Evelyn Youel
considered NCAA Division I Illinois State
and D-II Winona State, but eventually fol-
lowed a family tradition.
The five Youel children are tight and
enjoy being teammates. Ben and Gabe
wrestled and played tennis at D-III North
Central, and now Evelyn will join her sis-
ter Nelle playing tennis at Northern Illi-
nois.
Evelyn Youel committed to the Hus-
kies last week and signed
her NCAA national letter
of intent with the Hus-
kies on Tuesday. Youel
will receive an academic
scholarship that covers
most of her costs for the
first year. After that, her
schooling will be covered
between athletic and academic scholar-
ships.
“We all get along well,” Evelyn said of
her siblings. “We’re really close, it’s going
to be exciting.”
Nelle Youel, a junior, has been one
of the Huskies’ top players through her
career. She will play with Evelyn next
season, then have another year of school
covered by her scholarship, which Evelyn
said Nelle may use and be a student assis-
tant coach.
“That definitely had a lot to do with it,”
Evelyn said. “It’s a strong program headed
in the right direction. I can play with my
sister and be close to home.”
Evelyn Youel plans on majoring in sec-
ondary education and teaching and coach-
ing in high school after college.
Like her siblings, Evelyn competes in
multiple sports and is one of Central’s top
basketball players. She knew that tennis
would be her sport in college.
“I thought about playing basketball at a
smaller school, but my dad [Curt] always
says you can have more success in individ-
ual sports,” Evelyn said. “Tennis is better
for me.”
Evelyn Youel
Lynch’s 3rd TD caps99-yard scoring drive
However, Toledo took a 10-7
lead into halftime on a 45-yard
touchdown pass from Owens
to wideout Alonzo Russell,
who was wide open down the
right sideline.
NIU rallied for a 14-10 lead
on its first possession of the
third quarter with a 12-yard
touchdown run by Jordan
Lynch, who ran for three
touchdowns on the night, all
in the second half. But the
Rockets answered on a 36-yard
touchdown pass from Owens
to Bernard Reedy.
On the next possession,NIU took advantage of Toledokicker Jeremiah Detmer’s out-of-bounds kickoff and drove 60yards for a score, capped off bya 31-yard touchdown run byLynch as the Huskies enteredthe fourth with a 21-17 advan-tage.
Lynch did it again to startthe fourth, leading his offenseon a 99-yard drive after a Tole-do punt. The drive was cappedoff by his third rushing touch-down of the game, as Lynchscored from a yard out.
NIU ended the scoringwith a 1-yard run by Spencer,his second touchdown of thegame.
Jordan Lynch engineered a master-
ful 15-play, 99-yard drive in the fourth
quarter to grab an 11-point lead after
Toledo had punted from the NIU 35-
yard line.
Apparently Toledo coach Matt
Campbell didn’t learn from last year’s
loss to NIU when Lynch drove NIU
the same 99 yards on only nine plays
to take the lead for good in the third
quarter.
Just little bits of history repeating.
How dominant has NIU been in the
second half of games this season? The
Huskies have outscored opponents,
234-92, after halftime after Wednes-
day’s second-half rally against Toledo.
The BCS hopes for NIU remain
alive for another week and it’s doubt-
ful Western Michigan coach P.J. Fleck
will be the one to end the Huskies’ per-
fect season Tuesday. Eastern Illinois’
Dino Babers seemingly had the best
chance in Week 3.
Although many experts believe the
potential BCS non-AQ bid is Fresno
State’s to lose, NIU didn’t control its
own BCS destiny entering last year’s
stretch run either. The Huskies need-
ed several teams in front of them to
lose to rise into the top 16 of the final
standings.
With some favorable results, it
happened. And with some more good
fortune, it could happen again.
But it all starts with NIU victories.
Sometimes teams have to create their
own luck, and NIU continues to put
itself in a position to do just that.
• Ross Jacobson is the sportseditor of the Daily Chronicle.He can be reached via email [email protected] or followhim on Twitter @RossJacobson.
• HUSKIES
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• JACOBSON
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With wins, NIU creates its own luck
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NFL PREVIEW PRESENTED BYPOWER RANKINGS
How all 32 NFL teams stack up heading into Week 12, according to Hub Arkush:
AP photo
1. Seattle SeahawksWith a week off, getting
healthy, they are clearly theteam to beat.
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2. New Orleans SaintsOffensive and defensive
balance elevates them to thisspot.
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3. Denver BroncosIf they knock off New Eng-
land, they take a big step up.
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4. Kansas City ChiefsThey never even breathed
on Peyton Manning. Off weekor step up in class?
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5. Carolina PanthersOn a roll and can play with
anyone right now.
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6. New England PatriotsWhen was the last time Bill
Belichick lost two in a row?
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7. Indianapolis ColtsNeed to play better than
Titans and Rams games.
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8. San Francisco 49ersFlag and fine on Ahmad
Brooks a farce, but ColinKaepernick has to get a lotbetter.
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9. Cincinnati BengalsAndy Dalton’s eight picks in
past 3 games cause for realconcern.
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10. Detroit LionsSteelers proved this defense
still has a long way to go.
H. Rick Bamman – [email protected]
11. BearsShowed a ton of heart and
discipline – after the storm –against Ravens.
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12. Arizona CardinalsNot there offensively but
“D” will keep them in everygame.
13. Green Bay Packers
Can Aaron Rodgers get back before it’s too late?
14. Philadelphia Eagles
They’re the beasts of the NFC (L)East.
15. New York Jets
So this is an even week ... look out Ravens.
16. Miami Dolphins
Behind the spectacle this defense can still really play.
17. Dallas Cowboys
With DeMarcus Ware and Miles Austin back, as healthy as
they’re going to be coming off the bye.
18. New York Giants
Four straight wins and they’re right back in the (L)East race.
19. Pittsburgh Steelers
Big Ben playing at his peak but secondary leaking badly.
20. Baltimore Ravens
First and goal at the Bears’ 5 for the game and they couldn’t get
it done.
21. Cleveland Browns
Getting closer but the intangibles are still missing.
22. St. Louis Rams
Finally unleashed all that speed vs. Colts, a blip or a beginning?
23. San Diego Chargers
Lack of playmakers is catching up with them now.
24. Tennessee Titans
It’s hard to understand what the plan is here?
25. Oakland Raiders
Considering the talent, Dennis Allen has done a heck of a job.
26. Buffalo Bills
Considering the injuries, Doug Marrone has done a nice job too.
27. Washington Redskins
So Darrell Green and Santana Moss want to know what RG III
has done for them lately?
28. Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Can a late surge save Greg Schiano?
29. Atlanta Falcons
From No. 1 NFC seed to No. 2 flop in just 10 months.
30. Houston Texans
From No. 3 AFC seed to No. 1 flop in just 10 months.
31. Minnesota Vikings
Are either Christian Ponder or Josh Freeman the QB of the
future?
32. Jacksonville Jaguars
Taking baby steps but roster needs complete overhaul.
Breakout performanceno guarantee of success
Week 11 featured a num-ber of surprise breakout per-formers. Some, like RashadJennings and Michael Floyd,already were owned in manyfantasy leagues. Althoughthese unlikely stars weremost often fantasy bench-warmers, owners wise (orlucky) enough to start themreceived a huge boost inWeek 11.
Other breakout perform-ers came from nowhere.These players, such as BobbyRainey, most likely reside inwaiver land, and are sure tobe hot pick-ups this week.
As we have learned overthe years, one breakoutperformance does not ensurefuture productivity. Let’sreview the unlikely fantasystars from Week 11, and tryto separate the one-weekwonders from those worthyof a spot on your roster.
Rashad Jennings, RB, Oak-land
Week 11 performance: 22carries, 150 yards, one touch-down
Jennings is owned inless than half (44 percent)of ESPN leagues. Veteranfantasy players are familiarwith Jennings – he has hadmultiple opportunities to fillin for current teammate Dar-ren McFadden and previous-ly for Maurice Jones-Drew.Until recently, he never hadfailed to disappoint. In thepast three weeks, however,he has averaged more than18 points. In the next twoweeks, Jennings has favor-able matchups at homeversus Tennessee and atDallas. In Weeks 14 and 15,things get tougher (at Jetsand versus Kansas City).
Verdict: McFadden’s re-turn is not certain. Jenningsis a decent stopgap for thenext two weeks.
Bobby Rainey, RB, TampaBay
Week 11 performance: 30carries, 163 yards, two touch-downs
Rainey, who was waivedearlier in the year by Cleve-land, is owned in just 2.2percent of ESPN leagues.The general consensus wasthat he would split time withBrian Leonard. In the pasttwo weeks, Rainey has as-serted himself, and is clearlythe more effective of the twobacks.
Verdict: Rainey likelywill be the guy in Tampa therest of the way. However,the Bucs’ schedule is brutal.Owners expecting a repeat ofweek 11 will be disappointed.
Michael Floyd, WR, ArizonaWeek 11 performance: six
receptions, 193 yards, onetouchdown
Until Week 11, Floyd wasaveraging about six fantasypoints a game. I was actu-ally surprised to learn thathe is owned in 63.3 percentof ESPN leagues. Those 63percent must have knownsomething, because Floydwent off for 27 points inWeek 11. The Cardinals havea favorable schedule the nextfour weeks, but face the Se-ahawks and 49ers in Weeks16 and 17.
Verdict: Definitely worth aroster spot, Floyd is a decentNo. 3 wide receiver or flex
option the rest of the way.Matt McGloin, QB, OaklandWeek 11 performance: 197
yards passing, three touch-downs
If you are looking for abackup quarterback, here’sone thing we know aboutMcGloin: He’s available(owned in 0.2 percent ofESPN leagues). According tothe scuttlebutt, McGloin willbe given every opportunityto keep the starting job forthe rest of the year.
Verdict: Perhaps McGloincatches on and developsinto a solid pro. He has nofantasy value this season,however.
Garrett Graham, TE,Houston
Week 11 performance:Seven receptions, 136 yards,one touchdown
For those in need of atight end, Graham is ownedin about 20 percent of ESPNleagues. He erupted inWeek 11, scoring his firsttouchdown since Week 5.Owen Daniels could returnto the Texans this year, but,given the season Houston ishaving, it would make moresense to let him sit out therest of the year.
Verdict: Graham wouldbe a nice play in Week 12against the Jags. His valueafter this week is negligible.
Carson Palmer, QB, ArizonaWeek 11 performance: 419
yards passing, three touch-downs.
Palmer was terrible fromWeeks 3 through 5, but hehas scored double digits ineach game since Week 6. InWeek 11, he broke loose for26. Of course, those pointswere scored against Jack-sonville. Palmer is availablein more than 90 percent ofESPN leagues.
Verdict: Although he won’tface Jacksonville everyweek, Palmer is a capablefantasy backup and spotstarter.
On to Week 12 …The Bills, Eagles, Se-
ahawks and Bengals have abye. The Saints travel to theFalcons on Thursday night.
MATCHUPS TO EXPLOITSaints at Falcons, 7:25 p.m.
ThursdayClearly, this is a bet-
ter matchup for the Saintsthan it is for the Falcons.Atlanta’s defense ranks No.29 in points allowed and No.25 in total yards. In otherwords, they are really bad.Only two teams have yieldedmore rushing yards. DrewBrees and Jimmy Grahamare must-starts every week.Marques Colston has aver-aged 94 yards receiving overthe last two weeks and is asolid start. In the backfield,Darren Sproles is hit ormiss, but we expect a hit thisweek. You’re rolling the diceif you start Pierre Thomas
or Mark Ingram. Averaging11.3 fantasy points over thelast four weeks, Thomas isthe better play. Ingram hada great game in week 10, buthas been otherwise unpro-ductive. Garrett Hartley is acouple of misses away fromthe unemployment line, buthe is an OK start this week,as is the Saints’ D.
Atlanta actually playedNew Orleans tough in theopening week of the sea-son. Of course, that wasbefore the train derailed.The Saints defense is No. 3against the pass, but an aver-age No. 17 against the run. Ifyou avoided my advice lastweek and still have StevenJackson on your team, youcould consider him as a low-end option this week. Butunless you are in a jam, it’sbest to avoid the Falcons.
Bucs at Lions, noon SundayThis is seemingly a much
better matchup for Detroit,but the Bucs have playedthree solid games in a rowand have a higher-rateddefense than the 6-4 Lions.Both teams are top 10 againstthe run, but the Lions’defense is No. 29 against thepass. If your regular quar-terback is Russell Wilson,Andy Dalton or Nick Foles,consider Mike Glennon asa one-week starter. He hasaveraged 13.3 fantasy pointsover the past three games.Vincent Jackson is a solidplay.
For Detroit, Matthew Staf-ford and Calvin Johnson areobvious starts every week.Reggie Bush is a solid play.Even if Joique Bell playsthrough his ankle injury,he is an iffy start. Althoughthe Lions are more likelyto score through the air,Megatron is their only viablefantasy receiver. In largerleagues, Kris Durham andBrandon Pettigrew are low-end flex options.
MATCHUPS TO AVOIDJets at Ravens, noon SundayAt this point, the only
viable option on the up-and-down Jets is running backChris Ivory. This is a belowaverage matchup for him.The Ravens yield only 103yards rushing per game.
Because the Bears are sobad against the run, it’s hardto take Ray Rice’s perfor-mance too seriously. Even ifit did signify a bounce back,the Jets are No. 1 againstthe run. They are far moreporous against the pass(No. 23), making this an OKmatchup for Torrey Smith.It’s slim pickings afterSmith.
Chargers at Chiefs, noonSunday
It’s possible that the Kan-sas City defense is a bit over-rated, especially against therun. Their 4.7 yards per rushallowed is among the NFL’sworst. However, the Chiefsare playing at home and willlikely be pretty motivatedafter last week’s loss. Weanticipate a rough ride forthe San Diego offense.
The Chargers have a mid-level rush defense. JamaalCharles is, of course, a muststart. The Chiefs defense andRyan Succop are solid starts.
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Kicker Robbie Gould (center) was one of several current and former Bears players to help Tuesday in Coal City after a tornado hit the town.
Bears well aware of RamsWR AustinBy KEVIN FISHBAIN
LAKE FOREST – Rams rookie wide re-ceiver Tavon Austin hasn’t exploded ontothe scene like some expected, but his lastouting caught everyone’s attention, includ-ing the Bears.
He had two catches in the 38-8 win overthe Colts – a 57-yard touchdown catch andan 81-yard score. He also returned a punt 98yards for a touchdown.
“I think week in and week out, defensivebacks don’t go up against smaller staturereceivers that can really run. [Austin] canget in and out of breaks,” Rams coach JeffFisher said. “We say all the time he’s a betteryoung man than he is a football player, andhe’s a real good football player. We’re happyto have him.”
The Bears need to limit giving up bigplays, and containing Austin is part of that.
“Just flat-out explosion,” special-teams
coordinator Joe DeCamillis said Wednesdayabout Austin. “He’s picking it up. He’s gotconfidence going right now. … He’s explo-sive. It’s going to be a real test for us.”
DeCamillis and coach Marc Trestmanboth pointed out that the Bears have some-one they can use to practice for Austin inDevin Hester, another difference-makingspecial teamer, but Austin can beat you intwo phases.
“Our emphasis today was certainly oncovering, how to kick to him. Just flip it overand imagine it was Devin,” Trestman said.“Those are the things we are going throughin our preparation for Tavon. … Certainlyfield position will be a big factor in how wekick to him and making sure he’s not a dif-ference-maker in the game.”
Big back: The Bears’ run defense getsbruising rookie back Zac Stacy this week. A5-8, 224-pounder, Stacy emerged as the Rams’top back, rushing for 134 yards against Seat-tle and 127 against Tennessee. “What they’ve
been able to do in the run game – comingdownhill, getting some big lanes, havingsome big gains lately, and that’s why they’vebeen successful in there,” Corey Woottonsaid.
Injured Frey: Nickel corner Isaiah Freymissed practice Wednesday with a fracturein his hand. Trestman is optimistic, though,that Frey will be fine to play with a cast onthe injury Sunday. As far as an extra corner,Hester was seen with the defensive backsduring the portion of practice open to themedia, something both Trestman and MelTucker downplayed. “We try to keep Devinas busy as we can throughout the course ofpractice,” Trestman said with a laugh. “Butyou never know. You never know.”
McClellin returns: Defensive end SheaMcClellin was a full participant in prac-tice after missing the past two weeks witha hamstring injury. Long snapper PatrickMannelly also returned in full and is expect-ed back Sunday.
Bears help tornado victimsFor Bears fans, there are times to cheer
your team for what you hope they will be,and there are times to admire them for whothey are.
Washington is located about 150 milessouthwest of Soldier Field and, as we allknow by now, the town was devastated lastSunday when a tornado roared through itjust a couple hours before the Bears took thefield against the Baltimore Ravens.
Revealed in the storms’ wake were atleast six dead, 37 injured and over 1,000homes damaged or destroyed. Washington,a small town of about 16,000 was among thehardest hit, and it did not go unnoticed bythe Bears players or organization.
Fresh off his overtime, game-winningfield goal to beat the Ravens, Bears kickerRobbie Gould was hard at work organizinga fundraiser for Monday night to benefit theWashington area and on his Tuesday day offGould and teammates Blake Costanzo andSherrick McManus, and retired teammatesAnthony Adams, Rashied Davis and TomZbikowski boarded a bus and made a roundtrip to Coal City, also hit by a tornado, tosee firsthand how and what they could doto help.
The Bears also discovered that beyondall the devastation, the residents of Wash-ington were actually clinging to a footballteam of their own for hope and sanctuary.The day before the tornado, the WashingtonHigh School football team scored a statequarterfinal victory, putting them into the
semifinals for the first time since 1985.Does that year ring a bell with Bears’
fans? But, after the storm, the team’s bestseason in 28 years and the first 12-0 recordin school history were nearly forgotten.
Fortunately, the Bears and a number ofother Washington neighbors would havenone of that.
By Wednesday’s practice, the Bears hadrequested permission from WashingtonHigh School and had Washington HighSchool Panthers Football T-shirts madeup for the entire team and coaching staff.Coach Marc Trestman and rookie offensiveguard Kyle Long wore them proudly innews conferences for TV, print and radio,and spoke eloquently of their and theirteammates’ support for the high schoolteam.
The Panthers will be heavy underdogswhen they travel to Springfield on Saturdayto face top-seeded Sacred Heart-Griffin fora trip to the state championship in DeKalb.Illinois State University has donated itsfacilities for the Panthers to practice andprepare, and their opponents have openedtheir hearts as well. Sacred Heart-Griffinis set to pay for buses to take Panther fansfrom Washington to the game in Spring-
field to try and help Washington’s players,coaches, and fans forget their pain, even ifjust for a few hours.
Meanwhile, the Bears are focused ona lot more than football. Bears Care isconducting an online auction of game-worn and game-used equipment fromthe win over the Ravens and acceptingdonations online at www.chicagobears.com/tornadorelief. The Bears and BearsCare together will match all donations andauction proceeds up to $100,000 which willbe sent to the American Red Cross to ad-dress the most current critical needs of thefamilies who have been impacted by thetornadoes and storms.
This week’s opponent is pitching in tooand in addition to all the great Bears memo-rabilia in the auction, the St. Louis Ramshave donated a luxury suite for 16 people atthis week’s Bears vs. Rams game, includingfood and beverage. You and your friendsand family can have the Bears road trip of alifetime courtesy of the Rams and whateveryou bid for your tax deductible donation,the Bears will match dollar for dollar to helpthe folks in Washington.
The Bears could have done nothing andno one would have said a word. They choseto take a different path. Today is a day to bevery proud of your Chicago Bears.
• Hub Arkush covers the Bears for ShawMedia and HubArkush.com. Write to him [email protected].
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Peppers can lift ‘D’LAKE FOREST – Julius
Peppers looked at me as if Ihad three eyes.
Two eyes, now that wouldhave made sense. I was bornthat way.
Four eyes also would havebeen respectable, consideringmy spectacles.
But all I wanted to knowwas how Peppers felt physical-ly compared with how he feltat the beginning of the regularseason. Because – I didn’t tellhim this part – he seemed tobe playing much better lately,almost as if he had overcomean injury that, say, lingeredpast training camp and intoearly autumn.
“How do I feel?” Peppersasked, still in uniform afterWednesday’s practice.
Yes.“Not as fresh,” Peppers
said. “This is Game 11.”This was the part where I
wanted to stare back at Pep-pers as if he had three eyes.But I resisted, mostly becauseI hate hospitals and did notwish to be rushed to one.
In that spirit, let’s hopethese words do not find theirway into Peppers’ paws.
Because I think he’s lying.“I don’t think he’s lying,”
Bears linebacker James An-derson said.
Well, I think he’s lying.“The season takes a toll on
everybody, so everybody’s get-ting a little worn down,” Ander-son said. “But it’s the guys thatcan stay at the same speed oractually improve through theseason that really show up.”
Yes, exactly.And Peppers is starting to
really show up.Remember the first seven
weeks of the season? Pepperswas a once-upon-a-time defen-sive end. He was a Bennigan’s.He was a Borders. He was aBlockbuster.
Now, he’s a beast.Consider the evidence.
Heading into November, theeight-time Pro Bowl selectionhad one sack. One!
In the three games that havefollowed, Peppers had threesacks, 15 tackles, two passbreak-ups and two tackles for
losses. His latest performanceagainst the Baltimore Ravenswas by far his best of the seasonas he sacked Joe Flacco twiceand racked up a team-leading12 tackles. Twelve!
“It was unbelievable pro-duction from a defensive line-man,” said Corey Wootton,who should know because he,too, is a defensive lineman.“Twelve tackles, that’s like alinebacker number.”
This was not a lie.It turned out that Peppers
had predicted his big gameagainst the Ravens. The Bearsdefense was missing a coupleof its biggest stars in LanceBriggs and Charles Tillman,not to mention second-yeardefensive end Shea McClellin,and Peppers decided that itwas time to make a statement.
“He had it in his mind,”Wootton said. “We had beentalking all week. He said, ‘I’mgoing to take this game over.’And there was no doubt in mymind that he would.”
And he did.Opponents have taken no-
tice of Peppers’ production.“He’s so experienced and
so smart,” said Rams coachJeff Fisher, who will facePeppers this weekend. “He’lllull you to sleep, and then he’llgo make a big play.”
Perhaps this was by design.Was this Peppers’ strategy,
I wondered? To lull opponentsto sleep?
“My strategy during thegame?” Peppers said.
Again, with the three-eyething.
“I don’t know anythingabout that,” Peppers said.“I’m not sure how to respondto that. I didn’t hear what[Fisher] said, so, …”
He was lulling me to sleep.He’s back.
• Shaw Media sports colum-nist Tom Musick can be reachedat [email protected] on Twitter @tcmusick.
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As freshmen last year, thefour were new to high schoolswimming. Although they en-tered with a lot of notorietyfor their accomplishments atthe club level, the four neverhad felt the pressure of a sec-tional meet.
At last year’s sectional,the four still managed to seta school record in the medleyrelay at 1:52.05, but finisheda couple seconds off the auto-matic qualifying standard.
“I think last year, we final-ly realized that it was possiblefor us to achieve it,” Millersaid. “So then this year, wereally focused on what weneeded to do and we all talk-ed about how we were goingto achieve it and the goals weneeded to set in order to makeit.”
Another year of train-ing under co-op coach LeahEames saw all four continueto get faster. The team, onceagain, went undefeated indual meets and had an im-pressive showing at confer-ence.
But even with a full taper,they weren’t certain that a
state berth was going to hap-pen in the relay.
“We knew we could do it,but we knew it was going tobe close either way,” Millersaid. “We just had to try ourhardest and push ourselves,and we got it.”
Miller and Flemming bothnoted that qualifying for statein the medley relay, the firstevent of the sectional meet,helped relax them for therest of the day. Keck, who gota taste of the state meet lastyear after qualifying in the100 breaststroke, again quali-fied individually in the same
event. Olson also managed toget through to state in the 100backstroke.
The state meet will be anew experience for three ofthe four sophomores, butFlemming said having thefour of them there togetherwill make it easier to adapt toan environment that can beoverwhelming to those whohaven’t been there before.
“I’m really nervous, butI’m really excited,” Mill-er said. “I’m so happy to beswimming with these girlsand I can’t wait to swim withthem at this meet.”
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Bailey Flemming swims the freestyle during practice Tuesday at Huntley Middle School in DeKalb. Flem-ming and three others are going to state finals for the 200-yard medley relay.
Relay team undefeated in dual meets
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Kylie Olson swims the backstroke during a practice Tuesday at Hunt-ley Middle School in DeKalb.
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EAST LANSING, Mich. –Free tacos are back on themenu for Michigan Statebasketball fans this season.
For years, Taco Bell lo-cations in and around EastLansing gave out a freetaco to fans with a ticketstub from a game wherethe Spartans scored at least70 points. That led fans tochant “We want tacos” atthe team’s home court asthe team approached the70-point threshold.
Taco Bell ended the pro-motion this season, but fanswho apparently didn’t hearof the change have been lin-ing up at Taco Bell locationsafter games.
On Wednesday, Taco Bellannounced it was retainingthe giveaway at 10 of its arearestaurants through thisseason.
“Our local franchisee isgrateful for the passionateTaco Bell fans at MichiganState University and is ex-ploring exciting new part-nerships with MSU Athlet-ics,” Taco Bell Corp. saidin an email statement toThe Associated Press. “As athank you to fans, custom-ers with an MSU basketballgame ticket can still get afree taco at the locations be-low for the remainder of theseason when the team scoresat least 70 points.”
Michigan State associateathletic director Paul Scha-ger said the promotion hadbeen in place since 2004 andhas been very popular.
Fans gettheir freetacos
MICHIGAN STATE NO. 12 WISCONSIN
Big manmakes historyBy GENARO C. ARMAS
The Associated Press
MADISON, Wis. – The Wis-consin bio for Frank Kamin-sky describes the 7-footer as a“soft-shooting big man.”
Few Badgers backers ex-pected anything quite like the43-point outing he had Tues-day. Kaminsky now is theunlikely own-er of the sin-gle-game scor-ing record forthe 12th-rankedBadgers (4-0).
“I just wentout there, start-e d s h o o t i n gthe ball and itstarted going in,” Kaminskysaid after his outburst in the103-85 win over North Dakota.
Kaminsky was all smiles,though otherwise relative-ly subdued for someone whobroke the old mark of 42 previ-ously held by Ken Barnes (1965)and Michael Finley (1994).
His teammates were havingmore fun. Josh Gasser pattedhim on the head on the benchafter the junior was removedfrom the game, record secure,to a standing ovation. Sam Dek-ker and Traevon Jackson inter-rupted a postgame interviewwith good-natured teasing.
“Frank the Tank! Frank theTank!” shouted the studentsection in unison at one pointin the second half, paying hom-age to Will Ferrell’s characterin the movie “Old School.”
Kaminsky was doing a dif-ferent kind of streaking.
“He just keeps working.It’s not going to happen everynight, but his consistence ofbeing that post threat and alsobeing a stretch threat makeshim valuable on the offensiveend,” coach Bo Ryan said.
Kaminsky was an astounding16 for 19 from the field and made
all six of his 3s. Entering Tues-day, Kaminsky was averaging8.7 points on the young season,but only 3.2 points in his career.
A 31 percent career shoot-er from 3-point range at Wis-consin, Kaminsky also filledin at point guard at times as asenior in high school in Lisle.Kaminsky showed a glimpseof his potential after averaging15.6 points and shooting 54 per-cent during Wisconsin’s five-game exhibition tour of Cana-da in the offseason.
At the least, Kaminsky’soutburst gives opposing de-fenses something else to thinkabout besides sophomoreDekker – a 6-foot-7 matchupproblem at forward – and thesteady perimeter trio of BenBrust, Jackson and Gasser.
Just as notable Tuesdaynight was the NBA-like scoreof 103-85. It was the first timethat the Badgers had toppedthe 100-point mark since a 105-70 win over Eastern Illinois onDec. 28, 1995.
This doesn’t exactly jivewith Wisconsin’s methodicalreputation with the ball underRyan. But Kaminsky noted theBadgers’ efficiency – anothertrademark for a Ryan-coachedteam – after the team shot 59percent from the field (35 of 59).
Asked if the score symbolizeda change in playing style thisyear, Ryan said: “It depends onhow easy of looks you’re gettingandhowfastyou’regettingdownthe floor. We got open looks. Wegot scoring opportunities.”
“If those kinds of posses-sions present themselves, we’lltake the shots,” Ryan added.“We just can’t give up as muchon the other end.”
Until Tuesday, Kaminsky’scareer high was 19. He was areserve last year with Wis-consin set up front with Jar-ed Berggren, Ryan Evans andMike Bruesewitz.
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Tigers andRangers toswap Fielder, Kinsler
By NOAH TRISTERThe Associated Press
DETROIT – Prince Field-er was traded to the TexasRangers in a blockbuster dealWednesday night that sentsecond baseman Ian Kinsler tothe Detroit Tigers.
Detroit gave the Rang-ers $30 million as part of thetrade, according to a personwith knowledge of the deal.The person spoke on the condi-tion of anonymity because theamount of money exchangedwas not revealed when theteams announced the move.
Fielder had to consent tothe trade before it could becompleted. The big first base-man signed a $214 million,nine-year contract with theTigers before the 2012 seasonthat includes a limited no-trade provision.
Kinsler just finished thefirst season of a $75 million,five-year contract.
It’s the first headline-grab-bing move of baseball’s off-season, and it involves twoof the AL’s top teams. Detroithas won three consecutive ALCentral titles and reached theWorld Series in 2012, whileTexas won the AL pennant in2010 and 2011.
But neither team was aboutto stand pat. With stars suchas Fielder, Justin Verlander,Miguel Cabrera and AnibalSanchez in the fold, Detroit’spayroll had become one of thegame’s biggest. And althoughFielder hit 55 home runs overthe past two years for the Ti-gers, his numbers dipped thisseason and he struggled in theplayoffs when Detroit lost toBoston in the AL Champion-ship Series.
Fielder hit .279 with 25 hom-ers this year, his lowest homerun total over a full season.Kinsler batted .277 with 13homers. He was limited to 136games because of injuries tohis ribs and right side.
The trade could give Detroitmore financial flexibility, withCy Young Award winner MaxScherzer a year from free agen-cy.
Fielder, however, still isonly 29, and the Rangers areset to add a big bat to the mid-dle of their lineup while alsoresolving a logjam in the mid-dle of their infield. Jurick-son Profar, a highly touted20-year-old prospect, appearedto be blocked by Kinsler andshortstop Elvis Andrus. Now,Profar should have a chance toplay regularly.
The Tigers signed Fielder toa huge contract shortly beforespring training in 2012 – afterdesignated hitter Victor Marti-nez injured his knee. Martinezcame back in 2013. With Field-er gone, Cabrera might movefrom third base back to first.
Kinsler fills a need at sec-ond base for Detroit afterOmar Infante became a freeagent.
Fielder is due $168 millionthrough 2020, a salary of $24million a season. Under hisno-trade clause, he submits alist of 10 teams each year thathe can be traded to without hisapproval.
Texas was not on that listthis year, but Fielder agreed toaccept the trade and instructedagent Scott Boras to approvethe deal.
Kinsler is guaranteed $62million through 2017: $16 mil-lion in each of the next two sea-sons, $14 million in 2016, $11
million in 2017 and a $5 millionbuyout of a $10 million option.
It already has been an un-predictable offseason for theTigers. Manager Jim Leylandstepped down after the seasonand was replaced by Brad Aus-mus. Detroit could have comeback with a similar roster andprobably been favored to winthe division again, but nowmore changes seem possible.
If Cabrera moves back tofirst base, prospect Nick Cas-tellanos might replace him atthird. Previously, it appearedCastellanos would have to playthe outfield if both Cabreraand Fielder still were on theteam.
Andy Dirks still is availableto play left field, but that’s aspot the Tigers still could try toupgrade. They also have six ca-pable starting pitchers – DrewSmyly was used in the bullpenthis year – so that’s a surplusthat could come in handy in apossible trade.
Detroit’s bullpen likelywill undergo a makeover afterstruggling last season.
The Rangers lost sluggingoutfielder Nelson Cruz to alate-season suspension as aresult of MLB’s investigationin the Biogenesis case. He’snow a free agent, and if Texasloses him, Fielder should helpreplace his production.
AP file photo
The Detroit Tigers’ Prince Fielder runs off the field during Game 2 of theAL Championship Series against the Boston Red Sox on Oct. 13 in Bos-ton. The Tigers and Texas agreed to a blockbuster trade Wednesdaythat would send Fielder to the Rangers for second baseman Ian Kinsler,according to a person with knowledge of the deal.
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CLASS 5A SEMIFINAL: WASHINGTON (12-0) AT SACRED HEART-GRIFFIN, 1 P.M. SATURDAY
Football team prepares forsemifinal as town cleans upSome players’homes destroyedby tornado
By DAVID MERCERThe Associated Press
NORMAL – The home where
Colton Marshall and his family lived
is gone – one of 1,000 damaged or so
destroyed Sunday when a powerful
tornado plowed through his central
Illinois town of Washington.
But Tuesday in Illinois State
University’s Hancock Stadium,
Marshall, 18, and his teammates
from Washington High School
didn’t let the disruption from the
storm keep them from a routine
they’ve had for years. They put on
their helmets and pads, and started
preparing for a football game. This
one’s a big deal: a state semifinal
Saturday.
“Yeah, this is something our
town’s been looking forward to. So,
no matter what, we’re going to go
play,” Marshall said. “We used to
come here for team camps, so this is
normal.”
Marshall, the team’s quarter-
back, smiled a little. The irony of es-
caping to the community of Normal,
where Illinois State is located, was
not lost on the senior. What he and
his teammates left back home – 40
minutes to the west – is in no way
normal.
Sunday’s tornado cut a path from
one corner to the other in Washing-
ton, a town of about 16,000 about 140
miles southwest of Chicago. Author-
ities say they know of only one per-
son who died, something that sur-
prises almost anyone who’s seen the
destruction.
Less than 24 hours before the
storm, Marshall and the Panthers
beat Normal University, 41-7, to ad-
vance to the semifinal, putting them
a game away from a shot at the state
Class 5A championship. Washing-
ton is undefeated, a perfect 12-0 go-
ing into Saturday’s game at Sacred
Heart-Griffin in Springfield.
Under the circumstances, getting
a team of teenagers to focus on foot-
ball is a challenge. Members of the
team spent time Sunday and Mon-
day helping start the process of sal-
vaging valuables from homes. But
then, coach Darrell Crouch said, it
was good for the players to get back
to football.
“Us missing these next four days,
there’s going to be plenty of work for
the six months or a year of cleanup,”
he said. “Our town’s very much a
football town, so this will help our
town, too.”
First though, Crouch had to solve
logistical problems of getting a team
that lives in a disaster zone back on
the field.
About 10 of the players no longer
have homes to live in. Although the
football field in Washington is fine,
the high school – like the rest of the
town – has no safe water supply, and
the cars and trucks that would have
taken many Washington High fami-
lies and fans to the game are sitting
under the rubble of their owners’
homes.
After a text and a call from one
of Crouch’s old friends, Sacred
Heart-Griffin coach Ken Leonard,
solutions started to come together
with the help of Washington High’s
opponent.
Sacred-Heart Griffin has char-
tered six buses that will get Wash-
ington fans to the game. The
school’s parents also will help with
the Panthers’ pregame ritual – pro-
viding peanut butter and jelly sand-
wiches.
Another opponent also stepped
up to help. Normal University High
– the team the Panthers beat by 34
points before the tornado – bought
Washington players lunch Tuesday
and even offered to help with laun-
dry while the team practices at its
temporary facility at nearby Illinois
State University.
With those tasks handled,
Crouch turned to getting his team
ready.
And that’s fine for players. Even
with coaches being tough on them
at practice, they were loose. They
finished with a handful of field goal
tries, the kicker surrounded by a
rowdy circle of teammates.
“Money!” one shouted as the last
kick went up and appeared to be
headed between the uprights, only to
clank off the crossbar to a collection
of groans.
Marshall, after patiently doing a
round of interviews with reporters,
was the last player off the field.
Sunday morning, when the tor-
nado hit, he was at work at a hard-
ware store. He hid in the back break
room as the tornado passed within a
few hundred feet. Across the park-
ing lot, an auto supply store was de-
stroyed.
Now Marshall’s family is scat-
tered. He’s living with a friend while
his sister and parents are with an-
other family.
He doesn’t know much about
what’s ahead, except that Saturday
afternoon he’ll play football.
“I love getting my mind off of it,”
Marshall said, choking up, looking
away. “It’s been a while – feels like
forever – since we’ve been on a foot-
ball field.”
Class 5A state semifinals
SaturdaySycamore (12-0) at Montini (12-0), 1 p.m.Washington (12-0) at Sacred Heart-Grif-
fin (12-0), 1 p.m.
AP photo
Washington High School football coach Darrell Crouch talks with his team duringpractice Wednesday at Illinois State University’s Hancock Stadium in Normal. Theteam has a state semifinal playoff game Saturday, but its hometown is just diggingout from a powerful tornado that destroyed a number of players’ homes. Practicehad to be moved, in part, because the high school has no drinkable water service.
TENNESSEE
By ADRIAN SAINZ andLUCAS L. JOHNSON IIThe Associated Press
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – A botchedattempt to fire up a Tennessee highschool football team has forced outthe coach and his three assistants –two of whom are accused of vandal-izing their own field house, and thethird, who authorities said brokeinto a rival school to steal the oppo-nent’s playbook.
Marion County Schools Super-intendent Mark Griffith confirmedWednesday that coach Mac McCur-ry resigned during a meeting withGriffith and the school principal. Mc-Curry also resigned from his job as aphysical education teacher.
“Mr. McCurry felt it was in hisbest interest to separate himself fromthe situation and he resigned,” saidGriffith, who added that McCurrymight have faced firing if he had notresigned.
“This is truly a shocking and trag-ic event ... very troubling,” Griffithsaid.
On Nov. 1, administrators arrivedto see the Marion County field housedefaced before its District 2-A cham-pionship game against South Pitts-burg, which ended up winning, 35-17.Officials said vulgarities were paint-ed on side doors and the backside ofthe field house in South Pittsburg’scolors, orange and black. Officials es-timated the damage totaled severalthousand dollars.
Assistant coach Michael Schmittwas arrested last week on a chargeof vandalism of $1,000 to $10,000, andassistant Joe D. Gudger was arrest-ed Tuesday on the same charge, ac-cording to the Marion County CircuitCourt clerk’s office. Gudger also hasbeen charged with unlawful posses-sion of alcohol on school grounds.
The Associated Press was unableto immediately find phone numbersfor Gudger or Schmitt. The AP couldnot determine if they have lawyers.
Coachesquits amidscandal
A&EFeatures editor Inger Koch • [email protected]
SECTION CThursday, November 21, 2013
Daily Chronicle
By DEBBIE [email protected]
For the second year in a row, Sycamore’s State Theatre isshowing free holiday movies as a gift to the community.
“We’ve always done movies for nonprofits, but lastyear we had just installed our new projection system. Wethought that would be a good way to showcase it,” said Da-ryl Hopper, who owns the historic theater with her family.
“It’s nice to be able to do something for free when everyone issaving money for Christmas. Every-one really liked it,” Hopper said.
“Last year, we showed our favor-ites, and after the holiday, we askedon our Facebook page which moviespeople would like to see. We’re show-ing the top six,” Hopper said.
“Well, ‘Love, Actually’ was in thetop six, but it’s rated R,” she added.
Of the six being shown, “It’s a Won-derful Life” and “White Christmas”were produced in 1946 and 1954, re-spectively, before the Motion PictureAssociation of American institutedthe film rating system in 1968.
Each film will be shown at 11 a.m.,with the exception of one not on thelist – “The Polar Express” will startat 4 p.m. Friday, Dec. 6, during downtown Sycamore’s Walk withSanta. Hopper said Santa will start his walk down State Street infront of the theater at 6 p.m.
Hopper explained that she can’t start one of the free films afternoon, because the film companies, essentially rent the theater.No film, other than the one the company has rented the theater toscreen, can start between noon and midnight.
Hopper said the theater was pretty full for last year’s free show-ings. “I was surprised, but we were the busiest for ‘White Christ-mas.’”
As each theater fills, the staff can open another until all threeare full, Hopper explained.
“We get a hard drive from the movie company and it goes intoour computer. As one theater fills, we will open another.”
Hopper said each movie costs between $250 and $350 to rent.“The more people I have here, hopefully the more concessions I willsell to pay for the movie rental.”
MOVIE MAGIC
Sycamore theatershowing free
holiday favorites
By JAKE COYLEAP Film Writer
A considerable upgrade overthe first “Hunger Games” movie,“Catching Fire” comes across morelike a remake than a sequel.
In the adaptation of the secondinstallation in Suzanne Collins’young adult trilogy, there’s certain-ly plenty that has changed. Rebel-lion against the totalitarian ruleof President Snow (Donald Suther-land) in the 12 districts of Panum isgrowing. Katniss Everdeen (Jen-nifer Lawrence) is now a belovedhero with the weight of celebrity onher shoulders. And Philip SeymourHoffman, bless him, has found hisway into the proceedings.
Yet the general plot – a journeyfrom Katniss’ poor hometown ofDistrict 12 to a climactic game ofhuman hunting in “the arena,” withhigh-speed train rides and trainingsessions in between – is identical tothe first “Hunger Games.”
More has shuffled behind thecamera, and “The Hunger Games:
Catching Fire” is much the betterfor it. Francis Lawrence (“I AmLegend”) has taken over directingfrom Gary Ross, whose poor han-dling of the first film didn’t stop it
from becoming a sensation. Law-rence has given the film (the budgetwas nearly doubled) a more settledenvironment heavy on greys and amore appropriately grave emotional
atmosphere. These are kids beingforced to kill other kids, the fran-chise seems to have realized.
“Catching Fire” opens with Kat-niss back in District 12, haunted bythe experiences of her first HungerGames. There, too, is her flame Gale(Liam Hemsworth), who’s slavingaway in the mines. (Hemsworth,a nonentity in both films, makesabout as convincing a miner as BenStiller’s Zoolander did.)
But Katniss’ success in the Hun-ger Games was partly due to herfor-publicity-sake romance with herco-winner Peeta (Josh Hutcherson,who seems about half the height ofthe screen-dominating Lawrence).President Snow, aware of the put-on, insists they keep up the charadeto help pacify the uprising.
There’s an ironic satire of mod-ern celebrity somewhere in “Catch-ing Fire.” Katniss has becomefamous only to find it a trap. As herHunger Games coach Haymitch(Woody Harrelson) says, “You neverget off this train.”
Lawrence isn’t so different. “TheHunger Games,” along with hermore interesting work in “Winter’sBone” and “Silver Linings Play-book,” has made her an enormousstar. She is quite literally “the girlon fire,” as Katniss is nicknamed.
When she’s trotted out withPeeta on a victory tour of the 12districts to “feed the monster” – thatis, to distract the masses with their
Review: ‘Catching Fire’ an upgrade for franchise
AP photo
Jennifer Lawrence plays Katniss Everdeen and Josh Hutcherson plays Peeta Mellarkin “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.”
‘The Hunger Games:Catching Fire’
Starring: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutch-erson, Liam Hemsworth
Plot: Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellarkbecome targets of the Capitol after their
victory in the 74th Hunger Games sparks a
rebellion in the Districts of Panem.
Rating: PG-13 for intense sequencesof violence and action, some frightening
images, thematic elements, a suggestive
situation and language.
Running time: 2 hours, 26 minutes
See CATCHING FIRE, page C2
If you go
What: Free holiday moviesWhere: Sycamore State Theatre,
420 W. State St.
Schedule:Nov. 23-24 - “It’s a Wonderful Life”
Nov. 29-Dec. 1 - “White Christmas”
Dec. 6-8 - “Polar Express”
Dec. 14-15 - “Christmas Vacation”
Dec. 20-24 and 26 - “Elf”
Dec. 27-29 - “Home Alone”
All showings start at 11 a.m.
STAGE
NIU School of Theatre and Dance
dance concert: 7:30 p.m. Nov.21 through 23 2 p.m. Nov. 24,Huntley Middle School, 1515S. Fourth St., DeKalb. Ticket:$16, adults; $13, seniors; $8,students; $5, children. Informa-tion: 815-753-1600 or www.niu.edu/theatre.
PR Productions’ “Fiddler on the
Roof”: 7 p.m. Nov. 22 and 23, 2p.m. Nov. 23, Sandwich OperaHouse, 140 E. Railroad St.,Sandwich. www.wewantpr.comor 888-395-0797.
NIU School of Theatre and
Dance “In Progress”: 7 p.m.Nov. 21 through 24, HolmesStudent Center DiversionsLounge, NIU, DeKalb. Tickets:$5 at the door. Two-womanexperimental theater productionbased on their original poetry.https://www.facebook.com/events/411509202307809/.
Beth Fowler Dance Company’s
“The Nutcracker”: 7 p.m. Dec.6 and 7, 2 p.m. Dec. 8, EgyptianTheatre, 135 N. Second St.,DeKalb. Tickets: $15 to $27;discounts available before Dec.1. Tickets available www.egypti-antheatre.org or at the door.
IVT’s “Miracle on 34th Street”:
7 p.m. Dec. 6 and 7, 2 p.m. Dec.8, Sandwich Opera House, 140 E.Railroad St., Sandwich. Tickets:$12, adults; $10, students andseniors, at www.indianvalleythe-atre.com or at the box office onehour before each performance.
Stage Coach Players’ “A Christ-
mas Carol”: 7:30 p.m. Dec. 12 to14, 2 p.m. Dec. 14 and 15, StageCoach Theatre, 126 S. Fifth St.,DeKalb. www.stagecoachers.com.
ART
“Experiences in India,” art by
Danielle Dobies and Lynn
Hill: 7 to 9 p.m. Nov. 22 or by
appointment, DeKalb AreaWomen’s Center galleries, 1021State St., DeKalb. Free. Informa-tion: 815-758-1351 or [email protected].
Artwork by John Airo, Darick
Maasen and Dan Kwarcinski:
Nov. 23 through Nov. 30, TheBallroom Gallery & Studio, 1341/2 Lincoln Highway, DeKalb.Opening reception: 7 p.m. Nov.23 with acoustic performance byThe Blind Staggers.
“Midwest Roots”: Through Jan.6, The Art Box, 308 E. LincolnHighway, DeKalb. Group exhibi-tion of www.dekalbgallery.com artists. Gallery hours: 11a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday throughSaturday. Phone: 815-758-0313.Email: [email protected].
NIU School of Art Faculty Bien-
nial: Through Feb. 15, NIU ArtMuseum, Altgeld Hall, CollegeAvenue and Castle Drive, DeKalb.Opening reception: 4:30 to 6p.m. Nov. 21, Closing reception:4:30 to 6 p.m. Feb. 12. Galleryhours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdaythrough Friday, noon to 4 p.m.Saturday. Closed for the Thanks-giving holiday weekend and Dec.19 through Jan. 6 for winter re-cess. Information: www.niu.edu/artmuseum or 815-753-1936.
“Play: Stories, Mementos and
Fun”: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesdaysthrough Saturdays, SycamoreHistory Museum, 1730 N. MainSt., Sycamore. Exhibition ex-plores leisure moments and howwe remember them throughstories, objects and experiences.Admission: $5 a person, free formembers and children youngerthan 14. www.sycamorehistory.org. 815-895-5762.
DeKalb Area Agricultural Heri-
tage Association Exhibit Gal-
lery: 2 to 4 p.m. Wednesdaysand Sundays, Labor Day throughMemorial Day, or by appoint-ment, Nehring Gallery, 111 S.Second St., Suite 204, DeKalb.Free. [email protected]. 815-756-8737.
COMEDY
Comedian Brian Regan: 7:30 p.m.Feb. 6, Egyptian Theatre, 135N. Second St., DeKalb. Tickets:$39.75 at www.Livenation.com, www.egyptiantheatre.org,815-758-1225 or the EgyptianTheatre box office. www.Brian-Regan.com.
REGIONAL
Zanies Comedy Night Club – St.
Charles: Various dates at Pheas-ant Run Resort, 4050 E. Main St.Visit www.stcharles.zanies.comfor acts, prices and showtimes.630-584-6342.
EVENTS
“The Formula” movie premiere:
7:30 p.m. Nov. 22, Egyptian The-atre, 135 N. Second St., DeKalb.Part of the Backrow Studios’College Premiere Tour. Q-and-A session with the film’s starand director after the premiere.Tickets: $10 at www.egyptian-theatre.org or 815-758-1225.
Kishwaukee Valley Art League’s
Holiday Arts & Crafts Market:
9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Nov. 23, OldTrain Depot, 475 DeKalb Ave.,Sycamore. www.kval.us.
Northern Illinois University
Dance Marathon: 10 a.m. to 6p.m. Nov. 23, Campus Recre-ation Center, DeKalb. Eventbenefits Children’s MiracleNetwork. Registration fee: $20.To register, visit www.helpmak-emiracles.org/event/NIUDM andclick Register Now.
Free holiday movies: 11 a.m.,Sycamore State Street Theatre,420 W. State St., Sycamore.Bring a gift for Toys for Tots.Schedule:• Nov. 23-24: “It’s A Wonderful
Life”• Nov. 29-30, Dec. 1: “White
Christmas”• Dec. 6-8: “Polar Express”
• Dec. 14-15: “Christmas Vacation”
• Dec. 20-24, 26: “Elf”
• Dec. 27-29: “Home Alone”
“Rise of the Guardians”: 11 a.m.and 2 p.m. Nov. 29, EgyptianTheatre, 135 N. Second St.,DeKalb. Free movie sponsoredby DeKalb Evening Lions Club.www.egyptiantheatre.org.
Holiday Shopping Fair at
DAWC: 6 to 9 p.m. Dec. 6, 9a.m. to 4 p.m. Dec. 7, DeKalbArea Women’s Center, 1021State St., DeKalb. Admission:50 cents, includes door prizedrawing. Original art, handmadecrafts, home-based businesses,homemade chili, other treats,live music, gift-wrapping andseated-chair back massage. In-formation: 815-758-1351 [email protected].
Gurler Heritage Holiday Sing:
4 to 5:30 p.m. Dec. 8, GurlerHouse, 205 Pine St., DeKalb.Holiday storytelling, singing andSuzuki violinists. Free punch andcookies. Information: 815-758-4897.
ALPHA: Friends of Antiquity
Lecture Series: 7:30 p.m., JackArends Visual Arts Building,Room 102, NIU, DeKalb. Free.815-787-6478. Schedule:• March 6: “The Long Lost Tomb
of King Herod the Great atHerodium”• April 3: “When the Greeks
Ruled: Egypt After Alexander theGreat”
Jack Hanna’s “Into the Wild”
Live: 3 p.m. April 6, EgyptianTheatre, 135 N. Second St.,DeKalb. Tickets: $15 to $35.Friends of the Egyptian Theatremember pre-sale begins at 9a.m. Dec. 2. Tickets for generalpublic on sale at 11 a.m. Dec. 5.www.egyptiantheatre.org.
MUSIC
NIU Jazz Ensemble fall concert:
8 p.m. Nov. 21, Duke EllingtonBallroom, Holmes Student
Center, NIU, DeKalb. Information:815-753-1546.
DeKalb Festival Chorus’ “This
Shining Night”: 7 p.m. Nov. 23,First Lutheran Church, 324 N.Third St., DeKalb. Tickets: $12,adults; $8, students; $25, fam-ily. Tickets available at the door.Information: 815-517-0243.
Indian Valley Community Band
Holiday Concert: 2 p.m. Nov.24, Sandwich Opera House, 140E. Railroad St., Sandwich. Free.Nonperishable food items ormonetary donations acceptedfor the Franklin Mall ChristmasProject.
Bread & Roses “Songs of the
Seasons”: 3 p.m. Nov. 24, West-minster Presbyterian Church,830 N. Annie Glidden Road,DeKalb. Women’s chorus’ fallconcert. Free-will offering. www.breadandroseschorus.org.
Ashley Lewis and Legacy Christ-
mas Show: 8 p.m. Nov. 30,Sandwich Opera House, 140 E.Railroad St., Sandwich. Tickets:$15 to $25. 815-786-2555. www.sandwichoperahouse.org.
Sycamore High School Madrigals
Dinners: 6:30 p.m. Dec. 13 and14, St. Mary’s Memorial Hall,322 Waterman St., Sycamore.Doors open at 6 p.m. Tickets:$27, includes roast beef dinner.Limited number of show-onlyseats available at reduced rate.Reservations: 815-899-8160,ext. 2173, or www.syc427.organd click on “Online Box Office.”
Tickets on sale through Dec. 11.Kishwaukee Symphony Orches-
tra’s Holiday Pops Concert:
7 p.m. Dec. 13, Boutell Memo-rial Concert Hall, NIU MusicBuilding, 550 Lucinda Ave.,DeKalb. Tickets: $15, adults;$10, seniors and students; $5children younger than 12. www.kishorchestra.org.
CSA Sinfonia reunion concert: 3p.m. Dec. 22, Concert Hall, MusicBuilding, NIU, DeKalb. NorthernIllinois University CommunitySchool of the Arts celebrates its25th anniversary. Open to thepublic. Ticket prices to be an-nounced. www.csa.niu.edu.
That’s Amore: The Dean Martin
Story: 8 p.m. Jan. 11, SandwichOpera House, 140 E. Railroad St.,Sandwich. Tickets: $15 to $25.815-786-2555. www.sand-wichoperahouse.org.
Creole Stomp: 8 p.m. Jan. 25,Sandwich Opera House, 140 E.Railroad St., Sandwich. Tickets:$15 to $25. 815-786-2555. www.sandwichoperahouse.org.
Gaelic Storm: 7:30 pm. Feb. 15,Egyptian Theatre, 135 N. SecondSt., DeKalb. Tickets: $25 to $37at 815-758-1225, www.egypti-antheatre.org or the EgyptianTheatre box office.
Kishwaukee Symphony Or-
chestra’s ADM Young Art-
ists Concerto Competition
Winner Concert: 7:30 p.m. Feb.22, Boutell Memorial ConcertHall, NIU Music Building, 550Lucinda Ave., DeKalb. Tickets:$15, adults; $10, seniors and stu-dents; $5 children younger than12. www.kishorchestra.org.
William Yang: 7 p.m. March 8,Sandwich Opera House, 140 E.Railroad St., Sandwich. Tickets:
$15 to $25. 815-786-2555.
www.sandwichoperahouse.org.
Kishwaukee Symphony
Orchestra’s Spring Concert:
Shostakovich and Steel: 7:30
p.m. May 3, Boutell Memo-
rial Concert Hall, NIU Music
Building, 550 Lucinda Ave.,
DeKalb. Tickets: $15, adults;
$10, seniors and students; $5
children younger than 12. www.
kishorchestra.org.
ONGOING
Art Attack – School of Art in
Sycamore: 215 W. Elm St.
Classes for children and adults.
www.sycamoreartattack.org or
815-899-9440.
Northern Illinois University Com-
munity School of the Arts: NIU
Music Building, 400 Lucinda
Ave., DeKalb. Classes in music,
art and theater for children and
adults. www.csa.niu.edu or 815-
753-1450.
Bread & Roses women’s choral
group rehearsals: 5:45 to 8
p.m. Sundays, Westminster Pres-
byterian Church, Annie Glidden
Road, DeKalb. www.breadandro-
seschorus.org.
Indian Valley Community Band: 6
to 7:20 p.m. Mondays, Sandwich
Middle School Band Room. Area
musicians who enjoy playing for
pleasure are invited; there are no
auditions.
Open Mic: 8 p.m. Mondays, sign-in
at 7:30 p.m., The House Cafe,
263 E. Lincoln Highway, DeKalb.
Bands and singers perform for
12 minutes. 815-787-9547.
DeKalb Festival Chorus rehears-
als: 7:15 to 9:15 p.m. Mondays
during the school year, NIU
Music Building. www.dekal-
bfestivalchorus.org. Contact
conductor Seth Houston at
[email protected] or 303-
815-0648.
Kishwaukee Barbershop
Harmony Singers rehearsals:
7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Tuesdays, First
Congregational Church, 615 N.
First St., DeKalb. Open to men of
all ages. 815-895-5955 or 815-
899-8383.
Prairie Echoes Chorus rehearsal:
7:30 to 10 p.m. Tuesdays, St.
Paul’s Episcopal Church, 900
Normal Road, DeKalb. Singing,
food, friendship and fun.
Kishwaukee Concert Band
rehearsals: 7:30 to 9 p.m.
Wednesdays, band room at
Door 16 of Huntley Middle
School, 1515 S. Fourth St.,
DeKalb. All-volunteer band for
anyone age 18 or older who has
played a wind or percussion
instrument in the past. No audi-
tions needed. 815-899-4867 or
815-825-2350.
Thursday Blues Nights: 8 p.m.
first Thursday each month at
The House Cafe, 263 E. Lincoln
Highway, DeKalb.
“The Way” acoustic coffee
house: 6 to 8:30 p.m. first
Saturday each month, DeKalb
Christian Church, 1107 S. First
St. 815-758-1833 or tomndcc@
aol.com.
STAGE COMEDY
ONGOING
things to do this weekend
EVENTS
MUSIC
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ART
At the movies
There’s really only one movie worthtalking about this week, because every-
one and their mother are going to see it:“The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.” The
PG-13 movie again stars the wonderfulJennifer Lawrence.
Marking history
Friday is the 50th anniversary of the as-sassination of President John F. Kennedy.Many events are being held to mark theinfamous day, and many TV programs arescheduled as well. Check the newspaperfor various listings.
Who’s there
Saturday is another 50th anniversary,but once less solemn: the anniversaryof “Doctor Who.” The day is already
celebrated as Doctor Who Day, and thisyear there will be a special “Doctor Who”
episode on.
Game on
National Game and Puzzle Week beginsSunday. Take the time to celebrate byplaying some board games with yourfamily and friends, or by putting togethera puzzle with them. What’s your favoriteboard game?
And the winner is
The 41st American Music Awards areSunday! The live awards show is on ABC,and coverage begins at 7 p.m. Pitbull willhost the show. For more information,go to the official website, http://abc.go.com/shows/american-music-awards.
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By PETER DeBRUGEVariety
LOS ANGELES – In the 17 years since“Swingers,” Vince Vaughn has cultivatedthe comedic persona of an obnoxious and in-sensitive boor, so it may come as a surpriseto learn that “Delivery Man” reveals a softerside entirely. As David Wozniak, the world’smost fertile sperm donor, the star playssomeone who’s overwhelmed as opposedto merely overwhelming. It’s a welcomechange, though a significant marketingchallenge as well, considering DreamWorkshas almost no way of letting audiences knowthat “Delivery Man” is virtually nothinglike a Vince Vaughn movie, but rather aheartfelt celebration of the act of parent-hood presented under radically exaggeratedcircumstances.
Such sincerity comes easy for Canadian
writer-director Ken Scott, who’s already
told this story once before in the charming
French-language hit “Starbuck.” Now, work-
ing in Hollywood, he demonstrates the good
sense not to mess with success, engineering
what amounts to a scene-for-scene remake
of that earlier feel-good outing – with the
notable addition of Chris Pratt in his funni-
est supporting performance yet.Transplanted from Montreal to Manhattan
for the benefit of this new version, Woz-niak drives a deli-meat truck, but even thattask proves too much responsibility for hisstunted abilities. Vaughn’s character may notbe the sharpest blade in the family butchery,but he has a good soul, which comes throughthe instant he receives news that would sendany normal man into panic mode.
Nearly 20 years earlier, he donated dozensof times to a fertility clinic, which, throughan administrative fluke, used his sperm tofoster 533 children, 142 of whom are demand-ing to know the identity of their biologicalfather. More shocking for Wozniak is therevelation that his policewoman g.f. (CobieSmulders) is pregnant, though neither rev-elation is particularly easy to process for aman who grows marijuana in his apartmentand has more parking tickets than dollars tohis name.
Presented with a packet of informationabout his children, Wozniak draws one pageat random and decides to pay the kid a visit,eavesdropping on a professional basketballgame where his son scores the winning shot.For a split second, the film allows audiencesto think that perhaps this sub-average shlubcould be responsible for fathering 533 excep-tional offspring: a mix of athletes, stars and
world leaders.That’s the beauty of Scott’s script, which
supplies precisely the emotional upliftmoviegoers want, while still managing tosurprise at every turn. The circumstancesmay be contrived, but the characters feelrefreshingly genuine.
“Delivery Man” skips over all the diaperchanges and sleepless nights and gets to theessence of parenthood, when fathers mustlearn to put aside their preconceived expecta-tions and accept their children for who theyare. Life is well underway for most of themwhen Wozniak enters into the picture, andthe movie celebrates the diversity of pos-sibility, presenting him with offspring of allcolors and personalities.
The film’s biggest surprise comes at a
perfectly conceived moment set at a confer-
ence that steers what could have settled for
farce into far deeper territory. Where so
many laffers rush to dismiss raw emotion
with an ironic wink, Scott isn’t afraid to get
sentimental.It would be no stretch at all to interpret
“Delivery Man” as a pro-life movie, illustrat-ing as it does the miraculous range of indi-vidual personalities that can result from thesame set of paternal genes, each one specialin its own way. But Scott’s warm-hearted hu-manism extends further than family, as if toremind that we are all brothers and sisters,with more in common than could possiblyseparate us. Even if your soul can’t standthe thought of Vince Vaughn at the centerof a 143-person group hug, there’s no deny-ing this marks a turning point for the star.With Scott’s help, he has delivered a rare andspecial package indeed.
Review: ‘Delivery Man’ shows Vaughn’s soft sidetabloid romance – one can’t help but see “The
Hunger Games” as the same kind of diversion.It’s dystopia-lite: a bloody tale of oppressionwatered down for a PG-13 rating.
The act doesn’t work as Snow intended.
On the tour, we get glimpses of protesters,
emboldened by Katniss, swiftly snuffed out
by Storm Trooper-like guards. (Any actual
dying in “The Hunger Games” always happens
just off screen). With his plotting new adviser
(Hoffman, adding a dose of intrigue), Snow an-
nounces a twist: The next Hunger Games will
be fought between former Games winners. He
hopes these Hunger Games will reveal – in the
reality show broadcast of the event – Katniss
as a killer, not a symbol of populist hope.
The most pleasing moment in “Catching
Fire” comes when these other former Vic-
tors – a motley crew of veteran warriors – is
introduced. Among the bone-crushing murder
professionals is, of all people, Jeffrey Wright.
He proves a cunning brainiac.Back are Elizabeth Banks (as the Capi-
tol escort Effie), Lenny Kravitz (as Katniss’pyrotechnic stylist) and, easily the high pointof both movies, Stanley Tucci as the campybroadcast emcee Caesar. Among the new-comers, Sam Claflin, as the arrogant HungerGames veteran Finnick Odair, has a mischie-vous charm.
But “Catching Fire” is, to be sure, Law-rence’s show. The exaggerated world of “TheHunger Games,” with its cartoonish deca-dents, teenage Roman gladiators and theatricalallegory, would overwhelm most young actors.But Lawrence (convincingly tormented in thisfilm) has a calm sincerity and steely determin-ism that cuts through it all. Katniss’ rise ishers, too.
• CATCHING FIRE
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Vince Vaughn stars in “Delivery Man.”
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The 40th annual Sycamore HighSchool Madrigals Dinners will beheld Dec. 13 and 14 at St. Mary’s Me-morial Hall in Sycamore.
Madrigal singing, brought toEngland from Italy in the 16th cen-tury, was at first an informal type ofprivate entertainment at the castleand country homes of the landed gen-try. Frequently, the lords and ladiesperformed the music themselves asthey sat at dinner in the Great Hall.Naturally, during the 12 days of theChristmas season, there was muchentertaining and singing of Madri-gals.
The SHS Madrigal Troupe will re-enact this royal Renaissance banquet
as it transforms the church meetinghall into an English castle, completewith a royal court, troubadours,jester, beggars, jugglers, pages andinstrumentalists.
The $27 ticket price includes a fullroast beef dinner. Doors open at 6p.m. and the show starts at 6:30 p.m..A limited number of show-only seatswill be available at a reduced rate.
For reservations, call 815-899-8160, ext. 2173, or visit www.syc427.org and click on “OnlineBox Office.” Tickets will be on salethrough Dec. 11.
And don’t miss the full SycamoreHigh School Choir perform on Dec. 5at 7:30 p.m. in the school auditorium.
Northern Illinois Univer-sity’s Fall 2013 Dance Concertis all about love.
The NIU School of Theatreand Dance will present itsfirst dance production of the2013-2014 season this week-end. It features performancepieces that present the manysides of being in love.
In order to more fully ex-plore this complicated theme,faculty members Judy Chit-wood, Paula Frasz, AutumnEckman and Morgan Fog-arty have choreographed awide variety of dance styles,from classical to modern, toequally diverse music, whichincludes Frederic Chopin,Tony Bennett, The AndrewsSisters and even Gorillaz.
The classical piece of theshow, “Les Sylphides,” is ashort non-narrative ballet,originally choreographed in1909 by Michel Folkine. Re-staged by Chitwood, “LesSylphides” is an abstractessay of a young poet seek-ing inspiration under themoonlight.
“The ballet was quiterevolutionary for its time,”Chitwood said in a newsrelease. “Its choreography isdeceptively hard.”
A modern trio choreo-graphed by Frasz, “SeaSongs” tells a story of threewidows who are waiting fortheir husbands to returnfrom sea. It has been per-formed numerous times withFrasz’s professional compa-ny, Danzloop Chicago. Fraszhas described the work as
“sailors lost at sea and thewomen who mourn them.”
The concert also includespieces that are not so serious.
“‘Silly Love Songs’ showsthe trials and tribulationsof love and loss in a humor-ous light,” Frasz said in therelease.
Set to the music of TonyBennett, the seven-sectiondance piece takes the comicalposition that being shot byCupid’s arrow takes its toll.
Two of the faculty chore-ographers created new worksspecifically for the concert.
Eckman’s constructionis presented in multiplesections, choreographed toseveral different songs, andalso shows the humorousside of love. Set to the musicof The Andrews Sisters andThe Barry Sisters, “It’s Only
a Game” is about friendshipsand relationships straddlingthe thin line between loveand like.
Fogarty also choreo-graphed a new work “Pendu-lum.” She describes the pieceas one dancer’s movementserving as another’s cue tostart or stop moving.
The dance concert will beperformed at Huntley MiddleSchool, 1515 S. Fourth St. inDeKalb. Performances are at7:30 p.m. today through Sat-urday and 2 p.m. Sunday.
Tickets cost $16 for adults,$13 for seniors, $8 for stu-dents and $5 for children.For information, call 815-753-1600 or visit www.niu.edu/theatre.
This performance is notaffiliated with DeKalb SchoolDist. 428.
NIU dance concert dealswith the many sides of love
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The 40th annual Sycamore High School Madrigals Dinners will be held Dec. 13 and 14 at St. Mary’s Memorial Hall in Sycamore.
The Gurler HeritageAssociation’s annual HolidayStory-Telling and Sing-Along,featuring music performed bythe Suzuki violinists will beheld from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Dec. 8at the Gurler House, 205 PineSt. in DeKalb.
The decades-old traditionalevent is known for its cozyquarters decorated by theDeKalb Area Garden Club,delicious holiday cookiesand mulled cider provided bythe Gurler Heritage Associ-ation, a good old-fashionedholiday story, and live musicperformed by area Suzukiviolinists. Seating is limited,but there’s not a bad seat inthe house.
For more informationon the holiday program orabout the Gurler House, call815-758-4897; email [email protected]; or visit www.gurlerhouse.org.
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NIU Annuitants plantrip to New Orleans
Dec. 13 is the deadline forreservations for the NorthernIllinois University AnnuitantsAssociation trip to New Orleansfrom Feb. 23 to March 1. Thetrip is open to NIU Annuitantsand their friends.The group will enjoy a guided
tour of New Orleans, a visit to theNational World War II Museum, aRiverboat cruise on the Missis-sippi River, a tour of a LouisianaPlantation and free time in theFrench Quarter. Mardi Grasbegins Feb. 15 and ends March 4.The trip includes a daily conti-nental breakfast and four dinners.The motorcoach will leave
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Tickets on sale for‘Miracle on 34th Street’
Bring the whole family on aheartwarming holiday journeywith Indian Valley Theatre’spresentation of “Miracle on34th Street,” directed by DebbieMerkel of Sandwich.In this classic Christmas tale,
Doris Walker, Macy’s no-non-sense special events director,finds the actor hired to playSanta Claus intoxicated onlymoments before the start of thebig Thanksgiving Day parade.In a panic, Doris persuades a
nice old man standing nearbyto take his place. The kindlygentleman proves to be a sen-sation, and is quickly hired tobe Macy’s official store Santa.Much to her dismay, Walkersoon learns that her new hireclaims to be the real Santa.
Despite her refusal to believe,many people begin to noticethere is something very specialabout the old man, including heryoung daughter Susan.Performances of “Miracle on
34th Street” will be held at 7p.m. Dec. 6 and 7 and 2 p.m. Dec.8 at the Sandwich Opera House,140 E. Railroad St., Sandwich.Tickets cost $12 for adults and
$10 for students and seniors.Tickets are available online atwww.indianvalleytheatre.comor at the box office one hourbefore each performance.
Reserve a spot for‘Merry Wives of Windsor’
Limited space remains onthe Northern Illinois UniversityAnnuitants Association tripto the Chicago ShakespeareTheatre on Navy Pier to see thematinee of “The Merry Wives ofWindsor” on Dec. 12.The Chicago Shakespeare
Theater celebrates the holidayswith Sir John Falstaff, one ofShakespeare’s favorite clowns,rollicking through his misad-ventures in the play that is con-sidered one of the world’s firstsituation comedies. Merrimentensues as the shenanigans ofthe lovable rogue find him hardup for money and wooing thewives of Windsor’s gentlemenwith hilarious consequences.The group will depart from NIU
at 10 a.m. and enjoy free time atNavy Pier for lunch (on your own)and/or visit the Stained GlassMuseum at Navy Pier. Followingthe 1 p.m. show, the bus willreturn to DeKalb. Cost is $124.For reservations or infor-
mation, call Carder Travel at815-756-1547.
Jungle Jack headed back to the EgyptianJungle Jack Hanna will bring his
live show back to the Egyptian The-atre in DeKalb at 3 p.m. April 6.
Hanna’s “Into the Wild” TVseries debuted around the coun-try in 2007, winning an Emmy forOutstanding Children’s Series in itsfirst season. “Into the Wild” is un-scripted and action-packed as Jack
and his family explore the cornersof the globe and discover amazinganimals and cultures.
Hanna’s “Into the Wild” liveshow features many of his favoriteanimal friends, as well as fasci-nating and humorous stories andfootage from his adventures aroundthe world.
As first the director and now thedirector emeritus of the ColumbusZoo and Aquarium, and recognizedaround the country as America’sfavorite zookeeper, Hanna has madecountless television appearancessince 1983 on shows such as “GoodMorning America,” CNN’s “LarryKing Live,” “The Ellen DeGeneres
Show,” Fox News programs, and“The Late Show with David Letter-man.”
The show is sponsored byYvonne Johnson, KishHealth Sys-tem and Driv-Lok Inc.
Premium Reserved Seat ticketscost $35 for adults and $30 for chil-dren, students and seniors. Regular
Reserved Seat tickets cost $20 foradults and $15 for children, studentsand seniors.
Friends of the Egyptian Theatremember pre-sale begins at 9 a.m.Dec. 2. Tickets for the general publicgo on sale at 11 a.m. Dec. 5.
To purchase tickets, visit www.egyptiantheatre.org.
Ashley Lewis sets Christmas showDelight in the sounds of the sea-
son on Nov. 30 as dynamic acoustic
instruments, featuring Ashley
Lewis’ “Mandolin Magic” and
smooth vocals, create a captivating
country and bluegrass blend of
Christmas favorites, originals, and
songs from Lewis’ new CD.
Lewis has been recognized
around the world for her music.
She tours in the United States
and Canada, and has performed
internationally. She has been fea-
tured on the Chicago PBS program
“Arts Across Illinois,” and is a
seven-time recipient of Illinois
Arts Council awards for bluegrass
mandolin. She also has been recog-
nized by the council as an accred-
ited Illinois Arts Tour Musician,
preserving the heritage and art of
bluegrass mandolin.
Lewis graduated from Wau-
bonsee College with presidential
honors and a degree in music
performance. In 2007, she was
honored with the prestigious “Fab
40” Award from the college for her
musical contribution to society.
The Nov. 30 performance will
begin at 8 p.m. Tickets cost $25 for
adults, $20 for seniors age 65 and
older and $15 for students.
The box office is open from 8
a.m. to noon and 1 to 4:30 p.m. Mon-
day through Friday and one hour
before the show. Tickets can be re-
served with a credit card by phone
at 815-786-2555 during office hours
or in person at 140 E. Railroad St.
in Sandwich.
This presentation is supported
by the Illinois Arts Council, a state
agency.
“Fiddler on the Roof,”
the classic Broadway mu-
sical based on the stories
of Sholem Aleichem, with
book by Joseph Stein, music
by Jerry Bock and lyrics by
Sheldon Harnick, will show
for three final performances
this weekend at the Sandwich
Opera House.
The Opera House is locat-
ed at 140 E. Railroad St. in
Sandwich.
Final performances are at
7 p.m. Friday and 2 p.m. and
7 p.m. Saturday. There is no
performance on Sunday.
Tickets cost $15 for adults
and $12 for seniors and
students and are available
for purchase online at www.
wewantpr.com or by phone at
888-395-0797. Tickets will be
available at the door based on
availability.
“We had a great opening
weekend,” director Kris Pa-
goria said in a news release.
“Audiences raved about the
performance and many said
they would be returning this
weekend.”
For more information
about PR Productions, visit
www.wewantpr.com or find
PR Productions on Facebook.
Ashley Lewis
‘Fiddler’ presentsclosing weekend
Provided photo
The final performances of PR Productions’ “Fiddler on the Roof” will be
Friday and Saturday at the Sandwich Opera House.
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Dr. Wallace: You said in arecent column that once bothparties are over 18, age isn’tthat big of a deal. Well, it is abig deal. I was 20 when I mar-ried my husband, who was45. When I was 30 and in theprime of my life, he was 55and he decided to retire fromhis job. I wanted to go outand have a little enjoymentin the evening and he wantedto stay home, watch televi-sion and drink a few beers.
When I was a youngwoman at age 39, I turnedinto a full-time nurse for my64-year-old husband, who hadsuffered a stroke. I am now 49and still a nurse taking careof my bedridden husband.
Don’t get me wrong.I loved him when we got
married and I promised tolove him in sickness and inhealth. I kept that promise.But, would I marry someone25 years older than I if I hadto do it all over again? Noway! In fact, I wouldn’t mar-ry anybody more than fiveyears older than I. Marriageshould be a fun partnership,not a study in geriatric care.– Hazel, Batavia, Ill.
Hazel: Thanks for sharingyour life’s story. When thereis a large age gap betweenspouses, the likelihood of thekind of problem you describe
certainly increases, andyour words may make otheryoung women think twiceabout marrying someone agreat deal older.
However, while yourhusband’s health break-down is unfortunate, sucha calamity could happen inany marriage. That’s whythe “for better or for worse”part of the marriage vow hasmeaning.
Dr. Wallace: Some time ago,an 18-year-old high schoolgraduate wrote to you askingif he should take an offer froma credit card company andapply for a card. You warnedhim about the high interestrate on the unpaid monthlybalance and the importance ofpaying at least the minimum
monthly payment allowed bythe credit card company tokeep a good credit rating.
That’s all well and good,but you should also haveinformed him that if he onlymakes the minimum month-ly payment on a $2,000 bal-ance, it will take 18 years topay it off if he never chargesanything else during those18 years. Plus, he will haveto pay $2,615 in interest. Thatdoesn’t make your sugges-tion to get a credit card looktoo intelligent. – Bernard,West Palm Beach, Fla.
Bernard: Wow! You bringup a startling bit of infor-mation. I’m sure credit cardcompanies are not thrilledthat I printed your letter.
I still think that credit
cards can be useful economictools, if used prudently. Myanswer should have been:Yes, obtain the card, but useit wisely. Pay the balanceeach month, but if that is notpossible, at least make theminimum payment, and thenpay extra the next month tocatch up.
Then I would insert yourwarning that by making onlythe minimum payment eachmonth, a $2,000 debt wouldlinger for the equivalent of alifetime – another 18 years!And the interest you woundup paying would be consider-ably more than the debt itself.
There – now I feel better!
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Australian Bridge ispublished four times a yearin a large-page format. Aswith all of these magazines,it aims primarily at duplicateplayers, but has material forless-capable players.
This opening-lead quizcomes from Ron Klinger.Look at only the West hand.South opens one heart, youpass, and North responds fourdiamonds, showing four-plushearts, at least game-goingvalues, and at most one dia-mond. East surprises you byintervening with five dia-monds, but South rebids fivehearts, and everyone passes.What would you lead?
Klinger is a leading player,teacher and writer who hasa great eye for an instruc-tive deal. This one occurredduring an Australian trial.At the table, Barbara Tra-vis found the best lead: thediamond king. Her side wasgetting at most one diamondtrick. And it might have beenimportant for her to shiftthrough the dummy at tricktwo. Also, if partner knew noswitch would be helpful, shecould have overtaken with thediamond ace and tried a leadfrom her side of the table.
Here, East played thediamond three at trick one,a suit-preference signal forclubs. West led that suit attrick two, and declarer had tolose three tricks: one heart,one diamond and one club.
If West’s opening lead hadbeen a low diamond and Easthad shifted to a low club,South probably would haveput up her queen, based onEast’s five-diamond bid. Anddeclarer might well haveguessed spades also. It wasmuch better not to give Southa chance.
Details are at australian-bridge.com.
For better or for worse is part of marriage vow
Dear Abby: I love myhusband very much. Untilthe last few years there havenever been any problems inour 20-year marriage. I havedepression and epilepsy, andI am on five different medica-tions for them.
Sometimes when I havecome out of a seizure, I havefound that my clothes havebeen removed and my hus-band is “touching” me. Also,because the medication putsme into a deep sleep at night,I have half-awakened to himhaving sex with me. I am sogroggy I can’t respond. Is thisright? I feel like I have beenviolated, but I haven’t saidanything to him. This causesme to cringe most of the timewhen he touches me now.
I’d like to get back to a nor-mal love life, but I can’t get
over what he does to me whenI’m not fully aware. How do Itell him I know what he hasbeen doing without ruiningmy marriage? – Feeling Vio-lated in Rio Rancho, N.m.
Dear Feeling Violated: You feelviolated because what yourhusband is doing is calledspousal rape, and it’s a crim-inal offense. Having sex withsomeone who is so doped upshe (or he) can’t give consentis a sexual assault. Tell yourhusband you know what hehas been doing, how you feelabout it and that you wouldprefer that the two of youmake love while you are wide
awake and able to fully enjoyit. This should be discussedwith a marriage counselorand, if necessary, the police.
Dear Abby: I’m a marriedfather of two very youngchildren (2 and 6 months). Ihave excessive student loandebt that is making my lifeextremely tough, and be-tween that, day care and mymortgage, I’m on the brink ofbankruptcy.
My mother is extremelywealthy. She is very involvedwith my family and we bothdo things to help each otherout. I mow the grass in herlarge yard every week.
She sees me struggling,yet she makes no offer to helpfinancially. I am becomingresentful about it. If shehelped, it would not changeher lifestyle at all. My wife’s
family is the opposite. Herparents aren’t wealthy, butthey have done everythingwithin their power to helptheir children. I know how Iwill treat MY kids.
Am I wrong to feel resent-ment because my motherhas decided differently? Orshould I just “grow up”? –Frustrated in North Carolina
Dear Frustrated: If you havediscussed with your motherthat you are under extremefinancial pressure and shehas refused to help, then I cansee why you might feel someresentment. My questionis, HAVE you talked to herabout it? That would be the“grown-up” thing to do. Theworst she can say is no. If shedoes, what you will need todo is take a part-time job tohelp with the bills – even if it
means you mow your moth-er’s lawn less often.
Dear Abby: Next month willbe our 25th anniversary. Mywife and I are permanent-ly separated, but will notdivorce because she wouldlose health coverage undermy employer’s plan. How do Iacknowledge this “landmark”– or should I just ignore it,since it isn’t really a celebra-tory event? – Not Quite An Exin The South
Dear Not Quite An Ex: If youand your wife are on speak-ing terms, call her and saysomething nice. Or send her acard. If you’re not on friendlyterms, then diplomaticallyignore the landmark.
• Write Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.
Dear Dr. K: My toddler hasfrequent constipation, and Ihave been giving him milk ofmagnesia about once a week.Is there any risk with thisover-the-counter medicine?
Dear Reader: I’d suggestspeaking to your pediatricianor family physician beforecontinuing to give your sonmilk of magnesia.
Normally, children passstool at regular intervalswithout much effort or pain.Infants and toddlers typicallyhave several bowel move-ments a day. Most childrenage 2 or older have one everyday. My pediatrician col-leagues here at Harvard tellme they consider a child tobe constipated when bowelmovements happen less often
than expected, or when thestools are hard and difficultor painful to pass.
Still, even though mostchildren do not have con-stipation, it is a commonproblem. That’s particularlytrue for children between theages of 2 to 5. This is the pe-riod when toilet training anddevelopmental changes arehappening. Many toddlers eatlittle fiber and lots of foodsthat contribute to constipa-tion, such as dairy products,rice and bananas. Childrenalso often don’t drink enough
fluids. All these factors cancause constipation.
Toddlers also often waittoo long to go to the bathroom.They may be resisting toilettraining or just be too busyplaying. When a child with-holds stool, it becomes hardand dry, and this may causepain with the next bowelmovement. So the child beginsa cycle of withholding stool.
Before turning to medi-cation, try modifying yourchild’s diet and toilet habits:
• Give your son more fi-ber-rich foods, such as beans,broccoli, carrots, bran, wholegrains and fresh fruits.
• Minimize the dairy foodsyou feed him, such as yogurt,cheese and milk.
• Have your son drink
prune juice. It works for kidsas well as for adults.
• Encourage your toddlerto drink four to six glasses ofwater each day.
• Make sure he gets regularexercise.
• If your son is toi-let-trained, help him establishregular bowel movements bysitting him on the toilet for10 minutes at the same timeeach day, preferably aftermeals.
• If you think your son isacting out because he resentspotty training, try stopping itfor a few weeks.
These changes usuallyhelp. But if they don’t, askyour pediatrician or familyphysician if you should trystool softeners and laxatives
(like milk of magnesia). Thesetypes of medications are avail-able without a prescriptionand have minimal side effects.
You can also try a nonpre-scription glycerin supposito-ry. You insert this small lu-bricating pill into your son’srectum, making it easier forhim to push out a stool.
Sometimes a constipatedchild will develop an impac-tion: The bowel movementgets so dry and hard that itcan’t be squeezed out withouta little help. That can be afinger inserted with a little lu-bricant, gently pulling out thehard stool. But don’t try thisuntil you talk to your doctor.
• Visit www.AskDoctorK.com to read more.
PhillipAlder
BRIDGE
JeannePhillips
DEAR ABBY
RobertWallace
’TWEEN12 & 20
Anthony L.Komaroff
ASK DR. K
ADVICE & PUZZLES Thursday, November 21, 2013 • Page C5Daily Chronicle / Daily-Chronicle.com
By BERNICE BEDE OSOLNewspaper Enterprise Association
TODAY – Don’t be afraid to do things differently. Using your imag-ination and branching out in new directions will be rejuvenating
and give you a new lease on life. A change in your financial
situation looks positive, and investments will be interesting as
well as lucrative.SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) – Look over your assets and startmaking changes that will boost your cash flow. Using your talents
and skills in a unique fashion will lead to unusual prospects andpartnerships.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) – Keep your thoughts a secret.Dodging a sensitive situation will buy you time, allowing you to
make personal changes that open up more options should you
have to make an unexpected move.CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) – Share your emotions and discussmatters that concern your home reputation and future status.Much can be accomplished if you are open about where yourloyalty lies.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) – Cover every angle and concentrateon what will bring you the highest return. Don’t trust anyone
to take care of matters that concern you personally. Live in thepresent, not the past.
PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) – Make your move and don’t lookback. You’ve got what it takes to dazzle and deal with anyone who
comes along or challenges you. Romance will enrich your love life.
ARIES (March 21-April 19) – Don’t feel pressured to make a moveor help someone who doesn’t reciprocate. You may be a doer, butthat is no reason to let anyone take advantage of you.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20) – Personal improvements will boostyour ego and help you project a positive image that will attract
interest. An agreement you make will ensure that you can accom-plish your personal goals.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20) – Look at every angle of a situation andconsider all the possibilities that can develop. False hope or anunrealistic standpoint will lead to a big disappointment.
CANCER (June 21-July 22) – A true assessment regarding yourskills and abilities must be presented if you don’t want to fall shortwhen asked to perform. A change in your reputation or status is
apparent.LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) – You may be enticed by something or some-one unique, but problems will arise if you neglect your responsibil-ities or let down someone who is counting on you for support.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) – You’ll gain respect if you offer your help,suggestions and expertise. The impression you make on someone in
your life will strengthen your bond. Love is highlighted.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) – Not knowing which way to turn willleave you in an awkward position. Overreacting and making as-sumptions must not be allowed to result in you making a sudden
and costly move.
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Pickles Brian Crane Pearls Before Swine Stephan Pastis
For Better or For Worse Lynn Johnston Crankshaft Tom Batiuk & Chuck Hayes
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Frank & Ernest Bob Thaves Dilbert Scott Adams
Monty Jim Meddick Hi and Lois Brian & Greg Walker
Rose is Rose Pat Brady & Don Wimmer Arlo & Janis Jimmy Johnson
Soup to Nutz Rick Stromoski Big Nate Lincoln Pierce
Stone Soup Jan Eliot
Grizzwells Bill Schorr
The Family Circus Bill Keane The Argyle Sweater Scott Hilburn
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DeKalb For Sale!
Ranch Style 3 BR Home. Eat in Kitchen, Livingand Familiy Rooms. Huge Fenced-in Yard.
Priced to sell at $89,900
CALL Marilyn Yamber815-758-7368
Yamber Real Estate & Property Management
FOR SALE
EXCELLENT OPPORTUNITY FORA GROWING BUSINESS -
ENTREPRENEUR – INVESTOROver 22,000 sq. ft. -- 2 Phase Building – Loading
Docks & Parking. Sycamore
CALL NEDRA ERICSON, REALTOR815-739-9997
FOR SALE – GREAT PRICE
*
3 Bdrm plus NEWER Furnace, C/A, Siding, Roof,Windows, Electric, Plumbing, Appliances, Driveway,
Garage Door, Etc., Full Basement.All for $115,000
CALL NEDRA ERICSON, REALTOR815-739-9997
FOR SALE: COUNTRY LIVING
3-4BR, 2 Baths, Rehabbed Home on anEasy Care Country Lot. DeKalb Schools.
Great views!
CALL NEDRA ERICSON, REALTOR815-739-9997
EQUIPMENT AUCTIONSINCE WE HAVE SOLD THE FARM AND MOVING TO TOWN, WE WILL SELL
THE FOLLOWING TOOLS, TRACTORS AND FURNISHINGS AT AUCTION TO
THE HIGHEST BIDDER AT NO RESERVE, LOCATED AT 11119 PAYNE ROAD,
MARENGO, ILLINOIS. DIRECTION FROM GENOA, IL, 5 MILES NORTH OF RT.
72 ON RT. 23 TO POPLAR ROAD, TURN WEST 300FT, THEN NORTH 1 MILE
ON PAYNE ROAD TO FARM. WATCH FOR ALMBURG AUCTION SIGNS. FROM
MARENGO, IL GO SOUTH 6.5 MILES ON IL RT. 23 TO HARMONEY ROAD,
TURN WEST 1.5 MILES TO PAYNE, THEN SOUTH TO FARM.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30TH
STARTING AT 10:30 A.M.TRACTORS *SHOP TOOLS * MOWERS * FURNITURE
INTERNATIONAL A TRACTOR, RUNS GREAT, NICE PAINT, GOOD TIRES; EXTRA
HOODS, PARTS FOR A. FORD 9N WITH 5,000 LB LIFT FORK-LIFT. FORKS
ARE 48” 5”, HYD TILT, 9FT LIFT HEIGHT.. RUNS AND OPERATES LIKE NEW.
3- YAZOO FRONT DECK MOWERS, 2 WITH 5FT DECKS, 1 WITH 4FT DECK,
ALL 16H.P., ALL RUN & MOW GREAT! IF YOU NEED A EXTRA MOWER,
CHECK THESE OUT. FLAT BED TRAILER 5X6 W/ 30” SIDES, BALL HITCH.
TOOLS AND SHOP EQUIPMENT 8X16 HAY RACK; 5H.P. 220 AIR COMPRESSOR;
3H.P. AIR COMPRESSOR; BRANICK AIR BUMPER JACK; 10TON RAIL ROAD
JACKS; SEVERAL HYD BOTTLE JACKS; FLOOR JACKS, AIR BOTTLE JACK;
DRILL PRESS; CENTURY AC-DC WELDER; BUFFALO HORIZONTAL BAND
SAW; ALKOTA PRESSURE WASHER, COLD WATER ONLY; 2- USED 16.9-28
TRACTOR TIRES; 8.00-24 TRACTOR TIRES; 2” TRASH PUMP W/ GAS MOTOR;
40 GAL. POLY TANK; LAWSON 72 HOLE BOLT BIN LOADED; EZ GO ELECTRIC
GOLF CART, 3 WHEEL, W/ GOOD BATTERY’S AND CHARGER; CHOP SAW; 2
RACKS LOADED WITH SHOP AND HAND TOOLS, WRENCHES, SAWS, BARS,
CHAINS; MAC 3200 CHAIN SAW; LP GAS WALL HEATER; PIPE THREADER;
RADIATOR FOR A MASSEY TO-30 TRACTOR; 190K BTU KEROSENE HEATER;
COME-A-LONG; EXT. LADDERS; AIR HOSE; HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE GE GAS
STOVE, LIKE NEW; FRIGIDAIRE FRONT LOADING WASHER ONLY 6 YEARS
OLD; NICE DINING ROOM TABLE W/ 6 CHAIRS AND MATCHING BUFFET;
3- PIECE MATCHING LOVE SEAT, CHAIR AND SOFA; 6- HIGH BACK OFFICE
CHAIRS; ELECTOLUX VACUUM; FUTON BED; DRESSER; ALL SELLS TO THE
HIGHEST BIDDERS. LOADER TRACTOR AVAILABLE AUCTION DAY.
TERMS: CASH, CHECK, VISA/MC ON SALE DAY ONLY. NOT RESPONSIBLE
FOR ACCIDENTS INJURY OR THEFT.
STEVE & ANDREW ALMBURG AUCTIONEERS, MALTA, IL 815-825-2727.
GREAT PICTURES ON OUR WEB SITE ALONG WITH VIDEO’S @
WWW.ALMBURGAUCTIONS.COM
HERB & MARYLIN VEHRS, OWNER
All our auctions with pictures are advertised worldwide @ www.almburgauctions.com
AppraisalsReal EstateLiquidators
815-825-2727
Malta, IL
LEE COUNTY FARM
LAND AUCTION
AUCTIONEER:Joe Wegener, (815) 766-0756 IL Lic. #040000375
email: [email protected] Wegener, (815) 451-2820 IL Lic. #440.000267
email: [email protected]
110 ACRES (MOL),WILLOW CREEK TOWNSHIP, SECT 29,1042 STEWARD ROAD, PAW PAW, IL
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2013START 10:00 A.M.
SALE WILL BE HELD AT THE STEWARD FIRE BARN, STEWARD, ILSoils include Muscatune, LaRose, Saybrook, Catlin Elburn, Elpaso, andWyanet.Current lease has been terminated and approx $4000.00 of fertilizer hasbeen applied and paid for by the seller.To view land take Rt 30 west of the I-39 overpass to Steward Road. Southon Steward Road approx. 1 1/2 mile. Land is on the east side of StewardRoad and the south side of Snyder RoadTerms of Sale: $50,000.00 down day of sale with balance due on or beforeclosing January 16, 2014 at which time possession will be given alongwith all normal closing documents, title and deed. Successful bidder willsign a contract to purchase real estate day of sale. Property being sold“AS IS” and with no contingencies with regard to finance or any othertype of contingency. Seller will cooperate with 1031 exchange but will notextend the closing. Bidding will be on a per acre basis, times the num-ber of surveyed acres. Seller has the right to except or reject any bids onthe day of sale. Announcements made day of sale take precedence overany and all advertising or announcements. For more information contactthe auctioneers.
- OWNER -
ROBERT E MITTAN, STEWARD, ILATTORNEY FOR REAL ESTATERON KLEIN, 815-748-0380
KLEIN, STODDARD, BUCK & LEWIS, SYCAMORE, IL
! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
I BUYCARS,
TRUCKS,VANS &SUVs
1990 & Newer
Will beat anyone'sprice by
$300.
Will pay extra forHonda, Toyota & Nissan
815-814-1964or
815-814-1224
! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
We Pay The Best!For Junk Cars, Trucks and VansNo Title, No Problem. Same Day
Pick-Up. 630-817-3577
1980 Yamaha 650 MaxamExcellent condition + motorcycle
trailer, helmet, tools, $1000/both.815-757-5117
ALWAYS INVESTIGATE BEFOREINVESTING ANY MONEY
Contact theBetter Business Bureauwww.chicago.bbb.org
- or -Federal Trade Commission
www.ftc.gov
NEWSPAPER DELIVERYEarn up to $1000 A Month!
Looking for Contractors todeliver newspapers early
mornings 7 days per week.Routes now available in
DeKalb County.Please Call 815-526-4434
CAT – LOSTSouth DeKalb County Area
I'm lost, have you seen me? Iwas near Howison, McGirr andPerry, but could be anywhere.Large neutered male, mostly
white with brown Was wearinga red collar. If you see me,please call my people at
815-501-9724. $500 FORSAFE RETURN! We miss our big
boy.Thank you.
RECEPTIONISTneeded in two locations. Mustbe available mornings, after-noons, evenings and weekends.
Please apply in person at:H & R Block
Junction Center818 Lincoln Hwy., DeKalb-or
2600 DeKalb Ave., Sycamore
RECEPTIONISTSycamore Animal Hospital cur-rently has a FT Receptionist po-sition available. Experience re-quired. Must excel in customerservice and be proficient at multitasking. Experience in Veterinaryfield a plus.
For immediate considerationplease email your resume to:
Substitute Bus DriversHiawatha Community UnitSchool District #426 is currentlylooking for substitute bus driversfor the district. Starting hourlyrate is $12.00. Hiawatha CUSDwill train for the position andpay all associated costs for theposition.
If you wish to apply, pleasecomplete the on-line applicationat the DeKalb County RegionalOffice of Education at the follow-ing link:http://www.dekalbcounty.org/
ROE/jobopenings.html.
Questions may be directed to theDistrict Office at:
815/522-6676
Retail
SALES ASSOCIATENow accepting applications
for part time Sales Associate at:BATTERIES PLUS
1565 DeKalb Ave, Sycamore
Healthcare
Guiding Light Hospice is cur-rently hiring Registered Nurses,and Certified Nursing Assis-tants licensed in the state of Illi-nois. Preferred experience inHospice, or geriatrics, with thedesire to manage patients clini-cal cases and the desire to par-ticipate in providing the bestpossible quality of life for ourpatients. Must have reliabletransportation, current auto in-surance, and excellent commu-nication skills. Monday thru Fri-day day shift with an on call ro-tation for continuous care asneeded. We offer a generoussalary in return we are askingfor the commitment to join ateam of professional who lovewhat we do!
For more information please for-ward your resume to:
TAX PREPARERSneeded for upcoming season.
Open House -- Sat 11/2310am to 2pm
2022 Sycamore Rd, Ste ADeKalb. 815-919-9039
DEKALB
722 North 4th StreetGarage is off alley behind house.Between Short & Davy Streets.
Saturday 11/23, 9 am to 4 pm
Bundle up & come out for one moregarage sale this year. Vintage
furniture & lots of household goods.
DEKALBMAN-CAVE SALE
SUN, NOV 2411AM - 4PM
1152 S. Fourth St.
All Neon Beer Lights, $99All Vinyl Records, $5 or Less
All DVD's (3) for $5Tins, Mini Fridge, Tappers,Bar Stools, Coolers, Clocks,Mirrors, Lights, Wine Rack,
CD's & MORE!Coors, Miller, Budweiser, Old
Style, Pabst, Schmidt, Corona,Strohs, Grateful Dead, Beatles,Stones, Zappa, Floyd, Bowie,
Dylan, Zeppelin & MORE!!
SHABBONA
SAT, NOV 23 8-2
300 W. NAVAHOAntique Pew, 60's Sewing
Machine, Chevy Small BlockEngine Parts, Tools, Furniture,Antiques, Storage Unit & MORE!
Advertise here for asuccessful garage sale!Call 815-455-4800
SOFA 76” light gold sofa, veryclean, in good shape, FREE
815-895-7559
New Womans ClothingSizes 1X & 2X - $5 to $20815-508-5739 after 3pm
BAR CLAMPS - Old Carpenters BarClamps, Notched Wood Beam, Cast
Iron Stops, Approx 4'-5' long,$25 each, moving, Sycamore
815-762-0382
BIRD CAGE - Victorian style.30”square x 19” h with top peakat 7” h. 2 entrance ways in front.
$45. 847-515-8012
Framed Art - Autographed CartoonCell - Hanna/Barberra "CharactersOn Parade" Documented, MintCondition $450 OBO - Moving
Sycamore 815-762-0382
SCHOOL DESK ~ ANTIQUEWith drop down seat in front, $40.30's or 40's Wooden High Chair
$40 815-899-2145
NordicTrack Bike child Trailer, oldermodel but is in good working con-dition. Has third tire attachment foruse without bike. holds up to100pds. $25. Call 815-341-9580
POTTY CHAIR - Blue & White,Like New, Made By Summer. $15.
Sycamore. 815-895-5373.
Girl's Disney Princesses TwoWheel Bike, 12.5" Wheels,
$18, DeKalb, 815-739-1953
Radio Flyer Red Scoot About RideOn Kids Toddler Bike w/Bell & SeatThat Adjusts As Child Grows BestFor 1-2 Year Old, $18, DeKalb.
815-739-1953
TRICYCLE - Radio Flyer Child BikeRed & Blue In Color, $22,DeKalb, 815-739-1953
Precious Moments Dated 1987Club Figurine, "Love Is The Best Gift
Of All", Great Condition, No Box,$8, DeKalb. 815-739-1953
Precious Moments WeddingFigurine "The Lord Bless & Keep
You" E-3114, Great Condition, NoBox, $8, DeKalb. 815-739-1953
Nikon Camera - Cool Pix S3300Digital Camera, In ExcellentCondition, 2 year extended
warranty - $80 OBO815-508-0629 9a-8p
New Olympic Bench & Eco PlateWeights - $250. 815-758-0079
Beautiful Desk - Mahoganyinlays on top - Totally refinished;
42" wide, 8 drawers, brass handles$200. 815-825-2275
BOOKCASEBrown, Very good condition! $25
King size bed frame, $40.815-758-0915
DESK - 52" x 24" Steel Deskw/ small left side return, Includes:chair & lamp. Great shape, $95
Sycamore. 815-762-0382
DVD CABINET – Solid Oak DVDCabinet – 24”w x 36”h x 6”d. Ex-cellent Condition. 4 shelves, can fitover 200 DVDs. $60.
847-659-1852
FUTON – Mission Style, Full Size,Oak Finish, Beige/Green Fabric,
Includes 2 Pillows & 2 End Tables,Excellent Condition - $250 OBO,
Moving - 815-762-0382SYCAMORE
Kitchen/Dining Room SetRound table, 4 chairs, Light
vanish – Good Condition - $50.815-522-6607 9a-10p
Recliner Chair. Very Clean w/armcovers. Non smoking. Light Blue
& Grey color. $40847-515-8012
SWIVEL ROCKERS (2) – MatchingPatterned fabric. Excellent Condi-tion. $125 OBO for the pair. Sold
as set. 847-659-1852
Gun Cabinet – 10 gun, fruitwood,3 key – locked glass doors &drawer, lighted top & middleLike New - $375 Call 6-9pm
815-895-5441
BLENDER - Oster, White, 10 SpeedLike New. $18. Sycamore.
815-895-5373
BOWLS - New Set Of 3 - AppleDesign Ceramic Bowls, 1-Large,1-Medium, 1-Small & CeramicApple Design Matching Pitcher,
$20, Sycamore. 815-895-5373
Cake Plate & Server – NewBy Madison & Max,
Cardinal Bird Porcelain $8,Sycamore, 815-895-5373
Interior Wood Door - 36", goldensolid oak, six panel style, right sidehinges, Includes frame & privacylock set installed - Excellent cond.$65. Sycamore. 815-762-0382
SHELVING UNITS - 10 Metal Shelv-ing Units & Tool Stands - Light ToMedium Duty, most on casters - As-sorted Sizes Moving $10-$40Each. Sycamore. 815-762-0382
SINK - White Plastic Utility LaundrySink, double bowel, includes drain
& faucet hardware great shape $50.815-762-0382 Sycamore
STEP LADDERS - 5 wood stepladders, Type lll, 200 lb rating,
good condition, 4' to 6' high, $15each, Sycamore 815-762-0382
Stoneware Accessory Set – 5 PieceNew, Royal Seasons SnowmanPrint, Includes 2 Candlesticks,Napkin Holder, Gravy Bowl &
Saucer, $10, Sycamore,815-895-5373.
Stoneware Dinnerware Set, RoyalSeasons, New, 32 Pieces, Snow-man Print, 8 dinner plates, 8 saladplates, 8 soup bowls & 8 mugs,$25, Sycamore, 815-895-5373.
Stoneware Table Top Set, 6 piece,Royal Seasons Snowman Print,New, Includes Salt & Pepper
Shakers, Creamer, Sugar Bowl &Covered Butter Dish, $10,
Sycamore, 815-895-5373.
Wine Entertainment Set, Napa7-Piece New Hand Painted,Includes 4-12oz. Goblets,
9" Cheese Dome 2-pc. Set &Decanter, $20, Sycamore.
815-895-5373.
WORK GLOVES - 120 pair,New, White, Adult Size,
Washable, $40 for all, Sycamore.815-762-0382
Watch Rings, Ladies (6)New, Colored Glass Insert, Silver
Tone Case, Make Great Gifts!$7.50 each OBO. 815-762-0382
Lawn & Grass Vacuum – PullsBehind a Riding Mower $200 OBO
815-286-3502 8am-8pm
Conduit Bender 1/2",$20, Sycamore.815-895-5373
DRILL - Makita Drill w/ Battery,Charger & Case, $25,
Sycamore, 815-895-5373
DRILL - Milwaukee 4' Right AngleDrill, $190, Sycamore.
815-895-5373
WIRE RACK - Ideal 25 Spool HeavyDuty Wire Rack, $160, Sycamore.
815-895-5373
Recliner Lift ChairBrown cloth, electric, very good
condition, $300/obo.815-825-2349 or 815-757-0978
BACKPACKS - Heavy Duty NewAssorted Designs - Lifetime
Warranty - $15 - Sycamore.815-895-5373
BAG - New Fiskars Blue CanvasZippered Bag w/Handle & InsideCompartments for IndividualStorage. Great For Crafting,Scrapbooking or other - $15,Sycamore 815-895-5373
BIN - New Green or Red SmallCanvas Storage Organizational Bin
10" w x 7.5" h x 12.75" d, $5,Sycamore, 815-895-5373
BINS - Large Canvas StorageOrganizational Bins, New, Green or
Red, 14" x 17" x 10", $8,Sycamore, 815-895-5373.
CLEATS - NFL New Black & WhiteReebok FGT Cleats w/Anti-Friction
Lining, Size 10.5, $25. Sycamore.815-895-5373
CLEATS SHOES - Boy's Men'sNike Cleats Shoes. Size 5.5,$5, DeKalb, 815-739-1953
Furry Magic Scarfs - New, Black &Red, Interchangeable, 11 Ways ToWear It, Can Be A Hat, Gloves,Scarf, Etc., Great For Tailgating OrCooler Weather, $7. Sycamore,815-895-5373.
HANGERS - Huge Lot Of 250Metal Hangers From Dry Cleaners,
Organized In 10 Bundles Of25 Each, $10, DeKalb,
815-739-1953
HELMET - Child Bike Helmetw/Blue Strap, White In Color &
has picture of Kangaroo on front& says Kangaroo, $5, DeKalb.
815-739-1953
SHOES - Boy's Men's DiadoraCleats Shoes, Size 8, $5, DeKalb.
815-739-1953
SHOES - Boy's/Men's AdidasEveryday Shoes Size 7.5, $5,
DeKalb. 815-739-1953
SHOES - Boys/Men's AdidasCleats Shoes, Size 6, $5,DeKalb. 815-739-1953
SHOES - DRESS SHOES - Boy'sMen's Cherokee Black Casual Dress
Tie Shoes Size 6, $5, DeKalb815-739-1953
SNEAKERS - Men's Boy's SneauxBlack Sneakers Size 7 Everyday
Shoes, $5 DeKalb. 815-739-1953
UPRIGHT PIANOKohler & Campbell, matchingbench & many books. $375.
815-762-5880
CAGE - Dog Crate Kennel CageCollapsible w/ Removeable TrayFor Small Dog, $22, Sycamore,
815-895-5373
DACHSUND PUPPIES7 weeks old, all shots, all colors.
Ready now, $350/ea.815-218-2369
24" Holographic Train - New 330Light Yard Or Home Decoration
Indoor/Outdoor Use, $22,Sycamore, 815-895-5373.
Christmas Nativity Set – 12 pieces,39” tall – All illuminated Outdoor,
Used Once - $100 OBO815-757-5867 9a-9p
CHRISTMAS TREEBlue Spruce, 7.5 ft. Easy to
assemble with white lights, veryfull looking with remote control forlights. Excellent condition, $200.
630-934-4040
Christmas Village – Houses,People, Lit Trees & Lamps, SomeDept. 56, Lots More - $75 OBO
847-683-7558
LAMP - New Candle Shaped LampWith Gingerbread Decorated Lamp-shade Small Sensor, $8, Sycamore,815-895-5373.
LAMP - Small Sensor New CandleShaped Lamp With Bear ChristmasDecorated Lampshade, $8,Sycamore, 815-895-5373.
SLED - Little Tikes Baby Infant ChildRed Sled w/ Back Support &
Carrying / Pulling Rope, Like New,$20, DeKalb. 815-739-1953
WREATH - Lighted Wreath w/Mitten Decorations, $10,
Sycamore, 815-895-5373
Xmas Pathway Holographic Lights,New, Indoor/Outdoor Use, 5 Pack$10, Sycamore, 815-895-5373.
Fishing Reels & PolesSome Very Old, Very GoodCondition, Collector Type,
Various Prices. 815-895-8347
GOLF BAGS (2)With Clubs and Bag Boy Golf Cart.Approx 15 dozen golf balls, pairof Foot Joy golf shoes (men's size10.5). $150/all or will seperate.
815-761-6770
Child Vanity & Pink Chair - LittleTikes Vanity Has White Lift Up Lidw/ "Mirror" Underneath That Child
Can See Themselves In & Compart-ments Of Different Sizes For Storage.Can Be Used As A Desk Also. $22,
Sycamore. 815-895-5373
FIRE TRUCK CAR - Child Little TikesRed Fire Truck Ride In/On Car, Has
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PUBLIC NOTICE
STATE OF ILLINOISIN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE
TWENTY-THIRD JUDICIALCIRCUIT DEKALB COUNTY
WATERMAN STATE BANK,Plaintiff,
vs.WILLIAM F. CROSS, MARCY L.CROSS, SHABBONA HARDWARE,INC., ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OFREVENUE, UNKNOWN OWNERSand NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS,
Defendants.
IN CHANCERYCASE NO. 13 CH 412
NOTICE OF PENDENCY OF ACTION
NOTICE is hereby given to Un-known Owners and Non-RecordClaimants, of the Complaint forForeclosure filed in the above enti-tled case on the 8th day of Novem-ber, 2013, and that they arenamed Defendants in the aboveentitled case, pursuant to the provi-sions of 735 ILCS 5/2-206, 735ILCS 5/15-1218 and 735 ILCS5/15-1502, and that the above en-titled mortgage foreclosure which isnow pending in said Court and theday on or after which a defaultmay be entered against said Defen-dants is the 23rd day of December,2013, and that the following infor-mation applies to said foreclosureproceeding:
(i) The names of all Plaintiffs andthe case number are identifiedabove.
(ii) The Court in which said ac-tion was brought is identifiedabove.
(iii) The names of the title holdersof record are: William F. Cross andMarcy L. Cross
(iv) A legal description of the realestate sufficient to identify it withreasonable certainty is as follows:
LOT 11 IN BLOCK 15 IN THEVILLAGE OF SHABBONA, ACCORD-ING TO THE PLAT THEREOFRECORDED IN BOOK "A" OFPLATS, PAGE 69, SITUATED INDEKALB COUNTY, ILLINOIS.
(v) A common address or de-scription of the location of the realestate is as follows:
210 West Comanche, Shab-bona, DeKalb County, Illinois60550
(vi) An identification of the mort-gage sought to be foreclosed is asfollows:
Names of mortgagors: WilliamF. Cross and Marcy L. Cross
Name of mortgagee: Water-man State Bank
Date of mortgage: December27, 2007
Date of recording: January 9,2008
County where recorded:DeKalb County
Recording document identifica-tion: 2008000432
/s/ Timothy J. ConklinTimothy J. Conklin,
Attorney for the Plaintiff
The Foster & Buick Law Group, LLC2040 Aberdeen CourtSycamore, IL 60178Phone: (815) 758-6616
(Published in the Daily ChronicleNovember 14, 21 & 28, 2013.)
PUBLIC NOTICE
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THETWENTY THIRD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
DEKALB COUNTY, ILLINOIS
CASTLE BANK, N.A.Plaintiff,
vs.JEFFREY E. JOHNSON, T.L.I. IN-CORPORATED, PRIVATE EQUITYGROUP LLC, UNKNOWN OWNERSAND OWNERS AND NON-RECORDCLAIMANTS,
Defendants.
CASE NO. 13 CH 423PUBLICATION NOTICE
NOTICE OF PENDENCY OF ACTION
The requisite affidavit for publica-tion having been filed, notice is giv-en to you, UNKNOWN OWNERSAND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS,Defendants, in the above entitledsuit, that the said suit has beencommenced in the Twenty ThirdJudicial Circuit Court of DeKalbCounty, Illinois, by the Plaintiffagainst you and other Defendants,praying for the foreclosure of cer-tain Mortgage(s) recorded againstthe premises as follows to wit:
LOT 7 IN JOHNSON INDUSTRIALPARK, A SUBDIVISION OF PART OFTHE EAST 1/2 OF THE NORTHEAST1/4 OF SECTION 29, TOWNSHIP42 NORTH, RANGE 4 EAST OF THETHIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, AC-CORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOFRECORDED APRIL 7, 1999 INBOOK "Z" OF PLATS ON PAGE 426,AS DOCUMENT NO. 99006810, INTHE VILLAGE OF KINGSTON,DEKALB COUNTY, ILLINOIS.
PIN: 02-29-200-025
COMMONLY KNOWN AS: LOT7 JOHNSON INDUSTRIAL PARK,KINGSTON, IL 60145
and which said Mortgage wasexecuted by JEFFREY E. JOHNSONand recorded in the office of theRecorder of Deeds of DeKalb Coun-ty, Illinois, as Document No.2004003773. That summonswas duly issued out of the saidTwenty Third Judicial Circuit Courtagainst you as provided by law,and that the said suit is now pend-ing.
NOW, THEREFORE, UNLESS
YOU, Defendants, UNKNOWNOWNERS AND NONRECORDCLAIMANTS file your answer to thecomplaint in said suit or otherwisemake your appearance therein, inthe office of the Clerk of the TwentyThird Judicial Circuit Court, at 133West State Street, in the City ofSycamore, DeKalb County, Illinois,on or before the 31ST day of De-cember, 2013, default may be en-tered against you at any time afterthat day and a judgment entered inaccordance with the prayer of saidcomplaint.
Dated: November 19, 2013
/s/ Maureen A. JoshClerk of the Circuit Court
JEFFREY L. LEWIS #06257559Klein, Stoddard, Buck & Lewis, LLC2045 Aberdeen CourtSycamore, IL 60178(815) 748-0380mailto:[email protected]
(Published in the Daily Chronicle,November 21, 28 & December 5,2013.)
PUBLIC NOTICE
IN THE CIRCUIT COURTOF THE TWENTY-THIRD
JUDICIAL CIRCUITDEKALB COUNTY, ILLINOIS
IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OFMARY M. SOHAN,
Deceased.
NO. 13 P 138INDEPENDENT ADMINISTRATION
PUBLICATIONNOTICE TO INTERESTED PARTIES
1.Notice is given of the death ofMary M. Sohan, who died on Octo-ber 12, 2013, a resident of MaplePark, Illinois.
2.The Representatives for the es-tate and address are: Nancy Stan-ton, 17520 Barber Greene Road,Maple Park, IL 60151; NancyCalkins, 17520 Barber GreeneRoad, Maple Park, IL 60151
3.The Attorney for the estate andhis address is: James A. Stoddard,Klein, Stoddard, Buck & Lewis,LLC, 2045 Aberdeen Court, Suite A,Sycamore, IL 60178
4.Claims against the estate maybe filed within six months from thedate of first publication of this no-tice. Claims against the estate maybe filed with the Clerk of the CircuitCourt, 133 West State Street,Sycamore, Illinois 60178, or withthe Representative, or both. Anyclaim not filed within that period isbarred. Copies of a claim filed withthe Clerk must be mailed or deliv-ered to the Representative and tothe attorney within 10 days after ithas been filed.
5.On October 30, 2013, an Or-der Admitting the Will to Probateand appointing the representativeswas entered.
6.The estate will be administeredwithout Court supervision unless aninterested party terminates indepen-dent supervision administration byfiling a petition to terminate underSection 5/28-4 of the Probate Act(755 ILCS 5/28-4).
Dated: November 6, 2013
James A. Stoddard,Attorney for Estate
James A. StoddardKlein, Stoddard, Buck & Lewis, LLC2045 Aberdeen Court, Suite ASycamore, IL 60178(815) 748-0380
(Published in the Daily Chronicle,November 7, 14 & 21, 2013.)
PUBLIC NOTICE
IN THE CIRCUIT COURTOF THE TWENTY-THIRD
JUDICIAL CIRCUITDE KALB COUNTY, ILLINOIS
IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OFCHESTER R. WROBLEWSKI,
DECEASED.
CASE NO. 13 P 139CLAIM NOTICE
NOTICE IS GIVEN of the death ofChester R. Wroblewski of DeKalbCounty, Illinois. Letters of Office asAdministrator were issued to San-dra L. Wroblewski on October 30,2013, whose attorneys are KLEIN,STODDARD, BUCK & LEWIS, LLC,Attorneys at Law, 2045 AberdeenCourt, Sycamore, IL 60178.
Claims against the estate may befiled in the Office of the Clerk of theCircuit Court at the DeKalb CountyCourthouse, 133 West State Street,Sycamore, IL 60178, or with therepresentative, or both, within sixmonths from the date of issuance ofLetters of Office and any claim notfiled within that period is barred.Copies of a claim filed with theClerk must be mailed or deliveredto the representative and to the at-torney within ten days after it hasbeen filed.
DATED: November 5, 2013
/S/ Maureen JoshCIRCUIT CLERK OF DEKALB
COUNTY, SYCAMORE, ILLINOIS
Jeffrey L. LewisAttorney for the Estate ofChester R. WroblewskiKLEIN, STODDARD, BUCK &LEWIS, LLC2045 Aberdeen Court, Suite ASycamore, IL 60178(815) 748-0380
(Published in the Daily Chronicle,November 7, 14 & 21, 2013.)
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