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ON THE COVERABOVE: Four young girls walk through the rain June 22 after wading through a flooded Elizabeth Street after a torna-do touched down in Coal City.

BELOW: Work on damaged homes along Elizabeth Street nears completion Monday in Coal City. See story page 3.

Photos by Eric Ginnard – [email protected]

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Joliet High School Dist. 204 offers job shadowing program

By FELIX [email protected]

JOLIET – A Joliet Central High School student Monday experienced what it was like to be the mayor of the city.

Student Dana York met Joliet Mayor Bob O’Dekirk to learn the ins and outs of city government and what it takes to be mayor.

O’Dekirk talked with York about fielding calls from the media, meeting with commu-nity groups and negotiating with other politicians on proj-ects.

“There’s no routine day as the mayor,” O’Dekirk said to York, who wants to be in-volved in local politics.

York chose to meet with O’Dekirk as part of the Jo-liet Township High School District 204 job shadowing program. The program is an outgrowth of the high school district’s career academy structure to better prepare students for college and ca-reer readiness.

“It’s an interesting expe-rience, definitely,” York said after traveling with O’Dekirk

from City Hall to the Will County Courthouse.

O’Dekirk took him to meet with Will County Chief Judge Richard Schoenstedt to dis-cuss courthouse issues and then for a walk around down-town Joliet to talk about eco-nomic development.

Job shadowing is a re-quirement for all District 204 students enrolled in English 2, according to the district’s website. Students must com-plete a minimum of four hours of job shadowing experience related to their chosen career field or career academy.

District officials partner with hundreds of local busi-nesses and organizations to help students find someone to shadow, said Carol Collins, district project director. Col-lins supervises the program.

“It’s a wonderful communi-ty, so we’re very fortunate to have all these doors open for us so we can provide these ex-periences for these students,” she said.

The program was high-lighted by the Pathways Resource Center at the Uni-versity of Illinois at Urba-

na-Champaign. One of the strengths of the program iden-tified by the center was that it connects students with some-one in their career field in the community.

“We do it so they have an experience, so they have a bet-ter foothold of what they want to be as they move forward to post-secondary experiences,” Collins said.

Katey Sheets, another Jo-liet Central student, was able to have her job shadowing experience at the University of Chicago Medicine Com-prehensive Cancer Center at Silver Cross Hospital in New Lenox.

She said she shadowed two nurses who were administer-ing medications and chemo-therapy.

The experience helped so-lidify her decision to be an oncology nurse, she said, and she was able to see how nurs-es created a relationship with patients.

“It was fun but also edu-cational,” Sheets said. “They tried to keep it an environ-ment where the patients feel comfortable.”

Police: Man had 166 phony credit/gift cards

NEW LENOX – Police said a man had more than 150 bogus credit cards and gift cards when he was arrested last week.

At 2:54 p.m. Friday, police were sent to National Tire and Battery, 2460 E. Lincoln Highway, where Kirpatrick J. Taylor, 22, was paying to have a tire repaired or replaced, according to New Le-nox Deputy Chief Robert Pawlisz.

“The store employees saw there was a problem with the credit card, so an investigator went over with our [portable] reader that scans whether the name and numbers on the card match the information,” Pawlisz said.

The card Taylor allegedly was using did not and he was arrested.

“He had 23 fraudulent cards on his person and 143 fraudulent cards in his vehicle,” Pawlisz

said. The cards included actual Visa gift cards and other gift cards that had been linked to other accounts, he said.

Taylor, of the 100 block of North Karlov Avenue in Chicago, was booked into the Will County jail on charges of fraud, burglary and participating in a continuing financial crimes enterprise.

Man robs Joliet candy store; takes cash, sweets

JOLIET – Police are looking for a man who robbed a Joliet candy store.

Joliet Police Chief Brian Benton said the holdup occurred at 8:26 p.m. Friday at Fannie May, 2322 Route 59, when a white man in his late 30s came into the store. He was 6 feet tall, weighed

about 200 pounds and wore a navy blue hooded sweatshirt, blue jeans and a black hat.

“One employee was cleaning behind the counter when he came in with the hood of his sweatshirt up. He grabbed a box of Pixies and approached the counter when another employee walked out of the back room,” Benton said. “He announced this was a robbery and put his hand into his pocket.”

The bandit made the two women empty the contents of the cash register into a bag and fled on foot, Benton said. No one was injured.

Benton said Monday there have been no similar robberies in the area recently.

Anyone with information is asked to call detectives at 815-724-3020 or anonymously call Crime Stoppers at 800-323-6734.

– Brian Stanley

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Kirpatrick J. Taylor

By HEIDI [email protected]

COAL CITY – It’s been six months since an EF3 tornado ravaged the village of Coal City, causing millions of dol-lars in damage.

Village Administrator Matt Fritz said the municipality and community are moving strongly forward with the re-building of their town.

“A lot of residents are bouncing back. We are seeing a lot of work in the building de-partment,” Fritz said.

He said that since June 22, the village has issued 227 per-mits and 61 certificates of dem-olition.

“You have to remember, we don’t require permits for sid-ing or roofs, so the number of homes that required work is much higher,” he said.

He also said the 61 certifi-cates don’t take into account the 15 homes that were demol-ished in the path of the torna-do.

Initially, the village start-ed the process to destroy 14 homes that showed no signs of work after the tornado, but will end up demolishing only three at a cost to the city. Fritz said the other homes have been addressed without the city having to step in and take legal action.

The work the village was responsible for came at a cost of $1.3 million. However, Fritz said, the actual cost is much higher.

The village refinanced $4.85 million in bonds while taking out an additional $3 million in bonds that ultimately will cost taxpayers $6.3 million in extra payments and interest to cover the needed work. Fritz said the reason the village took out the additional bonds is because state and federal governments did not approve help to the community.

“At the end of it, we are all doing really well,” Coal City Mayor Terry Halliday

said. “There is still help for those that need it, and we still have some cleanup to do, but we’ve come a long way in six months.”

The Coal City Fire Protec-tion District still has a long way to go, with an estimated 242 workdays until Station 2 is repaired to pre-tornado stan-

dards.A bid has been awarded

to Narvick Brothers General Contractors in Morris that es-timates the cost to rebuild the

structure and repair damage at $1.3 million.

Nick Doerfler, public infor-mation officer at the district, said work is scheduled to start in January.

“Just like the homes, there was a lot of damage inside in addition to structural dam-age,” Doerfler said.

Devan Gagliardo, program manager at the Community Foundation of Grundy County, said the Long Term Recovery Committee already has given out more than $350,000 in aid to those affected by the torna-do.

“We ended up with 525 families registered,” Gagliar-do said. “The vast majority of them have told us they are fine and no longer need our help.”

She said one example of the improvement is that one case manager group initially had 150 cases active and now is down to eight open and active cases.

She said the committee de-livered $208,000 in $400 checks in November, and an addition-al $11,200 in December.

The balance of the tornado fund will be issued based on need, verified through an ap-plication process as the recov-ery goes forward.

“We want to keep the fund open and keep case manage-ment open for at least another four to five months,” Gagliar-do said.

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The sun rises over Dennis Siebersma’s home June 23, the day after a tornado ripped through Coal City.

COAL CITY ON ROAD TO RECOVERY 6 MONTHS AFTER DEVASTATING TORNADO

Dennis Siebersma’s home is still under construction Monday, six months after a tornado ripped through Coal City.

“At the end of it, we are all doing really

well. There is still help for those that need it,

and we still have some cleanup to do, but we’ve come a long way in six

months.”

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Joliet council OKs budget, keeps fire station openBy BOB OKON

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JOLIET – The Joliet City Council approved its 2016 bud-get Monday, but not before removing one more controver-sial element from the spending plan.

The council opted not to close Fire Station No. 3 on Lar-away Road, a move designed to save $1.2 million in overtime costs. City officials said they still expect to reduce overtime costs, and the station could be closed later in the year if they can’t.

Keeping the station open follows the council’s earlier decisions to block a proposed 5 percent increase in the city property taxes and a proposed increase in the real estate transfer tax.

All three decisions in-creased the budgeted deficit for the General Fund, which is now at $6.8 million. The city will cover the deficit with re-serve funds.

In the end, the city’s $600,000 contribution to the Rialto Square Theatre, the most talk-ed about item in the $289 mil-lion budget, was not touched. However, it was the only mat-ter brought up during a public hearing on the budget that pre-ceded the vote.

Fire Station No. 3The council met in closed

session for more than a half-hour before voting on the bud-get.

Fire Chief Joseph Formhals was included in the session, making it apparent that the dis-cussion was about Fire Station No. 3.

Mayor Bob O’Dekirk said later that the closed session was justified because it in-volved discussion about union contracts. The city will look for concessions from firefighters on manning requirements that are driving up overtime costs.

O ’ D e k i r k c o m m e n d e d Councilman Terry Morris for advocating to keep Station No. 3, which is in Morris’ council district, open. But, he said, the $900,000 now in the fire depart-

ment overtime budget “is a hard number.”

“I would advise everyone

come to the table, so we can stick to that number,” O’Dekirk said, adding that the station

will be closed if overtime runs over budget again this year.

Formhals said he plans to

reduce overtime in the mean-time by replacing two trucks with a quint, which is a com-bination truck, at Station No. 9 and reducing manning require-ments there.

Rialto fundingThe council did not even dis-

cuss Rialto funding, although two members of the public did.

Jim Lynch of Shorewood, a Rialto volunteer for 15 years, urged the council to maintain Rialto funding at $600,000 “to allow it to continue.”

Tim Shanahan of Manhat-tan, a Rialto patron, said the theater’s economic impact is obvious by the crowds at down-town restaurants on show nights.

“When there is not a show at the Rialto, I can see the eco-nomic impact,” Shanahan said. “There’s no one down there.”

Councilman Larry Hug, who generated most of the Rialto controversy by urging the city to stop funding the theater, did not comment on the subject.

Hug, however, was one of only two council members to vote against the budget. The other was Jim McFarland.

Legal staffCouncilman Michael Turk

made a motion to keep city le-gal staff intact rather than go-ing to private law firms, but no one seconded the motion.

“I don’t feel outsourcing is going to be cost effective,” Turk said.

City Attorney Marty Shana-han said he has drawn up a 14-page list of rules for outsourc-ing that include requirements for firms doing business for the city and measures for review-ing their performance.

Lathan Goumas file photo – [email protected]

A crowd gathers outside at the Rialto Square Theater for a performance December 2014, in Joliet.

City closer to hiring inspector general and economic development director

By BOB [email protected]

JOLIET – The City Council on Monday au-thorized the City Manager Jim Hock to fill new positions with six-figure salaries in the 2016 budget.

Both positions are likely to be filled without an application process.

Hock already has said he plans to make Steve Jones, now the city’s special projects supervisor, as the new deputy city manager/economic development director, which pays $145,000 a year.

Mayor Bob O’Dekirk said he has identified the person he wants to be the city’s new assis-tant corporation counsel/inspector general, which pays $120,000 a year.

O’Dekirk said after the meeting Monday that he has not decided whether he will open the position up for applications but suggest-ed it could be a waste of time for potential job candidates.

“I think it would be a little disingenuous because someone is already targeted for the job, but I haven’t made up my mind,” he said.

O’Dekirk would not say whom he wants as inspector general. But sources have said he plans to hire Christopher Regis, a felony pros-ecutor in the Will County State’s Attorney’s Office. Regis, like O’Dekirk, is a former Joliet police officer who went on to become a lawyer.

The position is created in such a way that Hock would hire someone as assistant corpo-ration counsel, who would then be appointed by the mayor with the council’s approval to inspector general.

Jones’ current job is a temporary position. But Hock said he hired Jones with the intent to make him economic development director once the position was created.

Joliet now has a director of community and economic development, Jim Haller, whose work primarily involves supervision of the city’s planning and zoning staff. The new eco-nomic development director is seen as some-one who will recruit businesses to bring them into Joliet.

Hock cited Jones’ extensive experience in public administration, which includes previ-ous work as village manager in Oswego and Glen Ellyn, as qualifications for the job.

“When there is not a show at the Rialto, I can

see the economic impact. There’s no one down

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Illinois to switch to SAT; Morris, Plainfield schools make ACT plans

By ANNA SCHIER [email protected]

Illinois will stop giving the ACT college entrance exam and instead has contracted to administer high school ju-niors the rival SAT, according to state records, but some area districts are planning to con-tinue giving the long-admin-istered ACT – at least for now.

The company that offers the ACT has filed a protest with the state seeking to can-cel Illinois’ new contract with the College Board, which of-fers the SAT, the Chicago Tri-bune reported. The three-year contract is worth $14.3 mil-lion, state records show. Illi-nois has for 15 years given the ACT for free to 11th-graders.

For Morris Community High School District 101, the decision to have students take the ACT was made about nine months ago, according to Su-perintendent Pat Halloran. The district has approved a contract for $12,000 to $15,000

to give the exam, depending on how many students take it.

Halloran said the district has seen steady score im-provement since the ACT was introduced.

“Our results have been positive from our preparation efforts,” he said.

However, Halloran add-ed, he has been told the SAT better aligns with the widely implemented Common Core curriculum and said the dis-trict will need to assess mov-ing forward which test is right long-term. For now, he said, it’s too early to tell.

Plainfield School District 202 is investigating the cost of administering the ACT as well, spokesman Tom Hernan-dez said, although the school board has not yet discussed it.

There is no estimated price tag for the district to offer the exam at this point, but Her-nandez said the pay model could mean a nominal fee for parents or the district cover-ing the full cost.

Hernandez said the state’s switch to the SAT will have no effect on the district’s curric-ulum, which is aligned to the Common Core.

“We want to do whatever’s most beneficial for our stu-dents,” he said.

A new law took effect in Illinois this past summer re-quiring a college entrance exam be included in the state testing cycle. The state’s ACT contract ended by that time, and the state launched a com-petitive process for a new con-tract. State records show the SAT won with a proposal that was $1.37 million less than the ACT over three years.

Meanwhile, a state budget impasse means there is no budget for statewide college testing. That led to dozens of districts, including Morris District 101, signing up for ACT testing earlier this school year. The College Board also has been working with some Il-linois districts that would like to give the SAT this spring.

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PLAINFIELD – Citizens for a 21st Century Library – a com-mittee that aims to build sup-port for a new Plainfield Pub-lic Library – has announced its formation.

The committee was formed in response to the Plainfield Library District Board of Trustees’ vote Dec. 16 to place two referendum questions on the March primary ballot that would authorize funding for construction and operation of a 72,000-square-foot library on the current downtown site.

The first referendum ques-tion will ask voters for per-mission to issue a total bond amount of $39 million. The sec-ond asks to remove the tax cap for one year, raising the lim-iting rate and accounting for the funds to operate a larger library.

The committee’s mission is to inform and mobilize library district residents to vote yes on both referendum questions, according to a news release from the group.

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JOLIET – A week before the eighth annual Done with Drugs Foundation Christmas Party was to be held, organizer Iris Pinnick said donations were down and she wasn’t sure how to cover the cost of the event.

Iris – widow of founder Mi-chael Pinnick, an ex-drug ad-dict who began the foundation and Christmas party to give back to the community – said she needed a miracle to in-crease the $1,000 she received to $4,000 to treat 250 low-income children to a festive Christmas party.

Michael died July 4 from complications of lymphoma and lung cancer.

After sharing the plight, Iris said she received an addi-tional $4,300 in donations, five bicycles to raffle off instead of two, a flat-screen TV, stereos, winter clothing and food for the hot dog lunch, which was held Sunday at Sacred Heart Catho-lic Church in Joliet.

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“People were calling, ask-ing, ‘Can I meet you at work?’” Iris said. “They came to my house. People rang my bell, knocked on my door and left stuff on the porch. I was over-whelmed.”

Because of the donations, Iris increased attendance to 528 and added a turkey dinner with all the trimmings for the parents while the children en-joyed themselves. Each child received at least three gifts.

“We had double the kids, and they left with more gifts,” Iris said.

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community for reaching out for the kids. Emboldened by the response and the joy of “feeling Michael’s spirit in the whole room,” Iris already is planning for the August back-to-school fair that Done with Drugs also hosts.

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JOLIET – A co-defendant in a Joliet murder case won’t be home for Christmas, a judge ruled Monday.

Jermain K. Bennett, 42, had requested a one-week furlough from the Will Coun-ty Adult Detention Facility where he’s been held since August 2012. Special Prose-cutor Dave Neal told Judge Daniel Rozak that he did not oppose the request, but Rozak noted Bennett’s criminal his-tory before denying the mo-tion.

“He has a prior conviction of aggravated b a t t e r y t o a police officer. He has a prior conviction as a drug dealer and another for drugs,” Rozak s a i d w h i l e reading over

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Bennett initial ly was charged with murder but last year pleaded guilty to robbery in exchange for tes-tifying against Edwards at his upcoming murder trial. Edwards has been released on bond because needed DNA testing delayed his right to a speedy trial.

“When Mr. Bennett agreed to the plea deal, it was an-ticipated the Edwards case would’ve been resolved by this time. The reason for this delay is attributable to the state,” Neal said after Mon-day’s proceedings.

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POLICE REPORTS

Three teenage boys shot Saturday in JolietBy BRIAN STANLEY

[email protected]

JOLIET – Three teens were shot early Saturday outside a banquet hall in Joliet

Joliet Police Chief Brian Benton said the victims were leaving a party at 1:35 a.m.

attended by about 350 people at La Hacienda Banquet Hall, 24 Ohio St., when they heard shots.

A 17-year-old boy suffered a graze wound to his leg, a 15-year-old boy was struck in the left leg, and a 13-year-old boy was shot in the left shoul-

der, Benton said. None of the injuries was

considered life-threatening, officials said.

Benton said investiga-tors believe the shooting was gang-related but that no sus-pect information was avail-able Monday.

Note to readers: Information in Police Reports is obtained from local police departments and the Will County Sheriff’s Office. Individuals listed in Police Reports who have been charged with a crime have not been proven guilty in court.

• Jacob Burke, 21, of the 2000 block of Alpine Way in Plainfield, was arrested by Joliet police Friday on charges of burglary and marijuana possession.

• Frederick W. Harmon, 62, of the 12300 block of Algonquin Road in Palos Park, was arrested by state police Friday on a charge of aggra-vated driving under the influence of drugs.

• Jacob L. Kelly, 42, of the zero block of Hampton Street in Morris, was arrested by state police Friday on charges of aggravated driving under the influence of alcohol, driving without a license and driving without insurance.

• Christopher P. Taylor, 20, of the 24500 block of Shawnee Lane in Manhattan, was arrested by Mokena police Friday on charges of drug possession and marijuana possession.

• Shane T. Weber, 27, of Mohn-ton, Pennsylvania, was arrested by state police Friday on charges of delivery of marijuana, marijuana possession and possession of drug paraphernalia.

• Jermal D. Bradley, 23, of the 2500 block of Garden Street in Jo-liet, was arrested by Elwood police Saturday on charges of domestic battery and aggravated assault.

• Alfredo A. Najera, 23, of the 100 block of North Lancaster Drive in Bolingbrook, was arrested by state police Saturday on charges of obstructing justice and driving with a suspended license.

• Tyshun M. Anderson, 19, of the 300 block of North Broadway Street in Joliet, was arrested by Joliet police Sunday on charges of burglary and vandalism.

• Kimberly A. Gerber, 46, of the 8700 block of Kenton Avenue in

Hometown, was arrested by Joliet police Sunday on charges of aggra-vated driving under the influence and drug possession.

• Christopher C. Knight, 52, of the 100 block of Hobbs Avenue in Joliet, was arrested by Joliet police Sunday on a charge of aggravated domestic battery.

• Derek M. Mesik, 25, of the 300 block of East Washington Street

in Joliet, was arrested by sheriff’s police Sunday on charges of drug possession, possession of drug paraphernalia, vandalism and criminal trespassing.

• Max N. Teichman, 23, of the 13600 block of South Maple Avenue in Lemont, was arrested by state police Sunday on charges of aggravated battery, delivery of drugs and delivery of marijuana.




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OBITUARIES

RONALD L. GORNICK SR.Born: Feb. 3, 1949; in Joliet, ILDied: Dec. 18, 2015; in Green Bay, WI

Ronald L. Gornick Sr., age 66, a Green Bay resident, passed away, Dec. 18, 2015. He was born on Feb. 3, 1949, in

Joliet, Illinois to the late Joseph and Verna Mae (Allison) Gornick. Ronald graduated from Purdue University with a degree in electrical engineering. He used to be a children’s bowling coach, and enjoyed bowling, auto racing, and Chicago Cubs baseball.

He is survived by his two sons, Ronald, Jr. (and his wife, Steph-anie) and Robert; and grandchil-dren, Victoria, Hunter, Brandon, and Aiden.

Services were held in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Simply Cremation is assisting the family with arrange-ments. Visit www.simplycrema-tiongb.com to send a condolence to the family.

BERNADETTE L. METTILLE

Bernadette L. Mettille (nee Kozlicka), age 85, entered into eter-nal life on Sunday, Dec. 20, 2015.

Bernadette is survived by her children, William Benson and Steven (Jill) Benson; dear friend, Barbara Benson; and five grandchildren, Anna, Joe, Victoria, Mike and Brian.

Preceded in death by her be-loved husband, Eugene C. Mettille.

Donations in Bernadette’s name to the Cathedral of St. Raymond Nonnatus Seniors Club, 604 N. Raynor Ave, Joliet, IL 60435 would be greatly appreciated.

A Celebration of Bernadette’s life will begin on Wednesday, December 23, 2015, with a visitation from 9:30 a.m. until the time of funeral service at 11:30 a.m. at Tezak Funeral Home, 1211 Plainfield Rd, Joliet, IL 60435, Deacon Dan Mahoney officiating. Interment of cremated remains to follow at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery in Elwood. Per Bernadette’s wishes, cremation rites have been accorded.

Obituary and tribute wall for Bernadette L. Mettille at www.tezakfuneralhome.com or for

information, 815-722-0524. Arrangements entrusted to:

RAYMOND L. VOGEN

Raymond “Bill” Laverne Vogen, age 97, of Streator, IL passed away Sunday, Dec. 20, 2015, at Heritage Health Nursing Home in Streator, IL.

Arrangements by R.W. Patterson Funeral Homes, Ld. & Crematory, 815-458-2336, www.rwpatterson-funeralhomes.com

BETTY J. WALLER

Betty J. Waller, age 81, passed away peacefully on Friday, Dec. 18, 2015, at Joliet Area Community Hospice Home.

She is survived by her children, Jan (Bill) Eaton, Steve (Adrienne) Waller, Dawn (Jim) Glenn, Beth (Larry) Bravato, Daniel (Mary) Waller and Jon (Paula) Waller; 10 grandchildren, 7 great grandchil-dren; her sisters, Nancy (Jerald) Olson and Bev Young; and numer-ous nieces and nephews.

Preceded in death by her parents, Theodore and mable Engebretson; her husband, Merle (2015); two brothers, Lloyd and Bert; and her sister, Patricia Ritter.

Betty was a home maker most of her life, she enjoyed her cooking, needle point, crossword puzzles and going to the boats to gamble. She will be remembered as a lov-ing mother, grandmother, sister, aunt and friend to many.

A private Mass of Christian Burial was held on Wednesday, December 23, 2015, at Our Lady of Angels.

Memorials in Betty’s name to Joliet Area Community Hospice would be most appreciated.

Forsythe Gould Funeral Home entrusted with arrangements.

815-478-3321, www.forsythe-gouldfh.com

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Tony-winning actress and TV soap star Patricia Elliott dies

Longtime civil rights activist Sutton dies at 90

The ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK – Patricia El-liott, who won a Tony Award on her Broadway musical debut, went on to star op-posite David Bowie in “The Elephant Man” and spent 23 years aboard the TV soap op-era “One Life to Live,” has died. She was 77.

Elliott died of cancer Sun-day at her home in Manhat-tan, according to her niece, Sally Fay.

Elliott, who was born in Gunnison, Colorado, made her Broadway debut as Countess Charlotte Malcolm in the original production of

Stephen Sondheim’s “A Lit-tle Night Music” and won the Tony for best featured actress in 1973.

She also was nominated for a Tony in 1977 in the orig-inal production of “The Shad-ow Box.” Her other Broad-way credits include “A Doll’s House,” ‘’A Month of Sun-days” and “Hedda Gabler.” For “The Elephant Man,” she replaced Carole Shelley as Mrs. Kendal, and her John Merricks included Philip An-glim and Bowie.

Elliott also played Renee Divine Buchanan on the ABC daytime drama “One Life to Live” from 1988 to 2011. In ad-

dition, she was on the “CBS Radio Mystery Theater” se-ries from 1974 through 1982.

She graduated from the University of Colorado in 1960 and worked at the Cleve-land Play House, the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis and Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., among others.

Elliott starred in “Hay Fever” at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles and played Regina Giddens in “The Little Foxes” at the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia. She had guest roles on such TV shows as “Kojak,” ‘’St. Elsewhere” and “Hill Street Blues.”


ATLANTA – Ozell Sutton, a longtime civil rights activist who was associated with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., has died, his daughter said Sunday. He was 90.

Alta Sutton told The Asso-ciated Press that her father died Saturday at Saint Joseph Hospital in Atlanta. She said the family had celebrated his birthday nearly a week ago.

She said her father “went peacefully.”

“He was a wonderful hus-band and father,” she said. “They don’t make daddies like him. He was a gem, a rare pearl. He was such a tremen-dous force. He lived a great life.”

Ozell Sutton marched for equal rights alongside King in Selma, Alabama, in 1965 and was present at the Memphis hotel where King was assassi-nated in 1968.

In 2012, Ozell Sutton earned a Congressional Gold Medal as one of the first Af-

rican-Americans to serve in the U.S. Marine Corps. He was also director of the U.S. Jus-tice Department’s Communi-ty Relations Service in Atlan-ta until he retired in 2003.

Ozell Sutton also served as the general president of the national service fraternity Alpha Phi Alpha. He worked for worked for Gov. Winthrop Rockefeller and as the direc-tor of the Governor’s Council on Human Resources. He was a journalist for the Arkansas Democrat Gazette.



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1 Medical marijuana edibles debut in state, come with risks

CHICAGO – Edible medical marijuana made its Illinois debut Saturday, ending a wait for patients who prefer eating to inhaling. To some, canna-bis-infused foods seem milder than smoke or vapor, but the products carry their own risks.

It takes longer to feel the effects when marijuana is eaten, so it’s easy to eat too much with unpleasant – or even dangerous – results.

“As exciting as bringing edibles to market is, we want to make sure that every patient takes small portions, and wait at least an hour before taking more, until you understand and get comfortable with consuming medical cannabis in its edible forms,” said Ross Morreale, owner of Ataraxia, an Illinois company with marijuana chocolates hitting the market.

Under the state’s pilot program, edible products must be manufactured by licensed cultivation centers, the same businesses growing cannabis in locked indoor facilities. Ataraxia shipped marijuana chocolates to two dispensaries, which will start selling them Saturday, Morreale said.

The square-inch chocolates contain 10 milligrams of THC, marijuana’s leading active ingredient, and come in three flavors: milk chocolate, dark chocolate and white choco-late-raspberry. They’ll be priced at $7 to $9 per square.

2 Sandra Bland’s family criticizes grand jury process

CHICAGO – The family of a black woman who died in a Texas jail last summer said they have no faith in a grand jury con-

sidering criminal indictments.Sandra Bland’s mother and

sisters spoke Monday at a news conference in Chicago, four days after a judge set a 2017 trial date for their wrongful death lawsuit.

Bland’s mother, Geneva Reed-Veal, said she wants to see all the evidence and is frustrated by delays.

Attorney Larry Rogers ac-knowledged that grand juries usually meet in secret, but he said the process “screams of a cover-up” of events after Bland’s arrest. He hasn’t been able to examine a Texas Rang-ers report because it’s grand jury evidence.

A medical examiner ruled that Bland hanged herself at the Waller County jail. Bland’s family disputes the finding.

3 Texas man charged in wife’s 1973 death in Illinois hospital

ROLLING MEADOWS – A Houston-area man charged last week with killing his 19-year-old wife more than 40 years ago in suburban Chicago is being held without bond while he is hospitalized in Illinois.

Donnie Rudd, 73, didn’t appear in court Monday because he is being treated at a suburban Chicago hospital for a bacterial skin infection, defense attorney Tim Grace said. A new bond hearing was set for Thursday.

Rudd, a former lawyer who was disbarred for dishonesty in 1994, was arrested last week at his apartment in Sugar Land, Texas, on charges he killed Noreen Kumeta Rudd.

Noreen Rudd was reported killed in a car accident in 1973 in Barrington Township, less than a month after they were married.

Police responding to the scene found Donnie Rudd cradling his wife’s head inside the vehicle, prosecutor Maria McCarthy said. Authorities now believe Donnie Rudd killed her by hitting her on the head and staged the accident to cover up her murder.

McCarthy said Donnie Rudd told authorities a vehicle had pulled into his lane and he swerved to avoid an accident. He said Noreen Rudd was thrown from the car after it left the roadway and must have

hit her head on a rock that was found nearby, smeared with blood, McCarthy said.

No autopsy was conducted, but a coroner’s inquest deter-mined she died as a result of the crash.

Noreen Rudd’s body was exhumed in 2013 and an autopsy conducted. McCarthy said authorities determined her injuries were consistent with multiple blows to the head, and inconsistent with being thrown from a vehicle.

Three years ago, police in Arlington Heights started rein-vestigating a separate death of a woman who was shot in the head in 1991. They questioned Donnie Rudd as part of that case, authorities said Monday.

They said they questioned Don-nie Rudd about Noreen Rudd’s death during those conversa-tions, and that inconsistencies in his statements led them to have the remains exhumed.

4 Indoor water park still closed after health, safety woes

ROCKFORD – An indoor water park in northern Illinois is still

closed months after a health department found health and safety violations.

The Rockford Register Star said the Winnebago County Health Department closed CoCo Key at the Clock Tower Resort in August. The health depart-ment found pools with too little chlorine, a lack of certified pool operators and other problems.

Steve Hsu, president of Tex-as-based Beltway Hospitality, which manages the hotel and waterpark, told the newspaper the company is addressing the health and safety violations but that a malfunctioning tempera-ture control system will cost $200,000 and take four months to replace.

The newspaper said the water park won’t be able to reopen without city and health depart-ment approval. Fines assessed total $250,000.

5 Landowners fight Grain Belt Express power line approval

PITTSFIELD – The Illinois Farm Bureau and a group of landown-ers are challenging the state’s approval of a 780-mile electrici-ty transmission line.

The Illinois Commerce Com-mission gave regulatory approv-al in November to the Grain Belt Express, a high-voltage electric transmission line that would stretch from Kansas to Indiana and provide wind power.

The Herald-Whig said the Illinois agriculture group and other project opponents have filed a request with the state to reconsider its decision.

Blake Roderick, of the Pike County Farm Bureau, told the newspaper that Texas-based Clean Line Energy Partners did not meet state requirements for an expedited review of the project. The company is seeking its own clarification of the com-merce commission order.

The Grain Belt Express has won approval in Kansas and Indiana. Missouri regulators have blocked the effort.

– Wire reports

STATEILLINOISROUNDUP

News from across the state

AP file photo

Joseph Pierro (left) and Lenny Ganshirt are shown Sept. 15 at the Ataraxia medical marijuana cultivation center in Albion. They are using their culinary degrees as Ataraxia’s extraction chefs to create recipes for cannabis edibles that the company will distribute to dispensaries. Edible medical marijuana made its Illi-nois debut Saturday, ending a wait for patients who prefer eating to inhaling.

More online For longer versions of these stories and more news from across the state of Illinois, visit TheHerald-News.com.

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The holiday season is upon us!Why not spend it right here in

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Six U.S. troops killed near Bagram; Taliban surges

KABUL, Afghanistan – A suicide attacker rammed an explosives-laden motorcycle into a joint NATO-Afghan patrol Monday, killing six American troops in the deadliest attack on international forces since August. Two U.S. troops and an Afghan were wounded.

The attack happened as Tali-ban fighters overran a strategic district in southern Helmand province, the scene of some of the deadliest fighting between the Taliban and international combat forces prior to the 2014 withdrawal, adding weight to Pentagon predictions that the insurgency is gaining strength.

The soldiers were targeted as they moved through a village near Bagram Airfield, the largest U.S. military facility in Afghani-stan, NATO and Afghan officials said. The Taliban claimed responsibility.

A U.S. official confirmed that six American troops were killed and two wounded. An Afghan was also wounded.

FDA eases restrictions on gay men’s blood donations

WASHINGTON – Federal health officials are lifting the nation’s 32-year-old lifetime ban on blood donations from gay and

bisexual men, but major restric-tions will continue to limit who can donate.

The Food and Drug Adminis-tration announced Monday it will replace the blanket ban with a new policy barring donations from men who have had sex with a man in the previous year. While the one-year-ban has been criticized by activists, it matches policies in other countries, includ-ing Australia, Japan and the U.K.

Gay rights activists said the new policy is a “step in the right direction,” but falls short.

“It continues to stigmatize gay and bisexual men,” said David Stacy, of the Human Rights Campaign, the largest U.S. gay rights group.

Obama: Trump exploiting fears in campaign

HONOLULU – President Barack Obama, in a broadside against the leading Republican presiden-tial candidate, said billionaire

Donald Trump is “exploiting” the fears that working-class men in particular have about the econo-my and stagnant wages.

In a year-end interview with NPR News, Obama said demo-graphic changes combined with the “economic stresses” people have been feeling because of the financial crisis, technology and globalization have made life harder for those who rely on a steady paycheck.

“Particularly blue-collar men have had a lot of trouble in this new economy, where they are no longer getting the same bargain that they got when they were going to a factory and able to support their families on a single paycheck,” Obama said in the radio interview released Monday. “You combine those things and it means that there is going to be potential anger, frus-tration, fear. Some of it justified but just misdirected.”

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Suspect in Vegas crash said she was stressed living in carBy SALLY HO and KEN RITTER

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LAS VEGAS – A homeless woman accused of slamming a car carrying her 3-year-old daughter into a crowd of pe-destrians on the Las Vegas Strip told authorities she was stressed out after being chased by security guards from park-ing lots where she had been trying to sleep before the crash, according to a police report ob-tained Monday.

Lakeisha N. Holloway, 24, resided in Oregon and had been

in Las Vegas for about a week in her 1996 Oldsmobile sedan, parking it at garages through-out the city, Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo said.

After her arrest, Holloway “described a stressful period today where she was trying to rest/sleep inside her vehicle with her daughter but kept get-ting run off by security of the properties she stopped at,” the police report states.

“She ended up on the Strip, ‘a place she did not want to be,’” the report quoted her as saying. “She would not explain

why she drove onto the side-walk but remembered a body bouncing off her windshield, breaking it.”

Investigators said Holloway had run out of money and she and her daughter had been liv-ing in the car. Police believe she was headed to Dallas to find her daughter’s father after they had a falling out.

Holloway is accused of in-tentionally mowing down peo-ple on a busy stretch of Las Ve-gas Boulevard, killing a woman from Arizona and injuring doz-ens of others on Sunday night.

After the crash, she parked at a casino a few blocks away, told a parking attendant that she had run down people and asked the valet to call 911, Lom-bardo said. Her daughter, who was in the backseat, was not hurt.

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ment on a potential motive and said they were struggling to piece together Holloway’s background.

She had changed her name to Paris Paradise Morton in October, according to Oregon court records.

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OPINIONThe Herald-News Editorial Board

Bob Wall, Denise Baran-Unland, Anna Schier and Kate Schott

Budget impasse may be worse since end of candidate filingsOne of the realities of

Illinois legislative politics is that our state’s system tends to discourage competition.

Byzantine ballot access laws, a highly partisan legis-lative district map-drawing process, heavily concentrated populations of partisan voters in Chicago (Democrats) and in the collar counties and Downstate (Republicans), along with often tireless work by incumbents and political parties at the state and local levels to “discourage” opposi-tion all combine to help tamp down the number of competi-tive races.

The net result is that Illinois has some of the fewest numbers of challenged state legislative races in the country – just 39 percent in 2014, which put us in the bottom fifth of the nation. By contrast, nearby Michigan saw a 100 percent challenge rate in the 2014 gen-eral election, and the rates in both California and Minnesota were above 90 percent.

That’s simply unheard of here.

The state’s 2014 rate may be higher next year. Gov. Bruce Rauner’s vast personal cash

reserves and his access to his many wealthy friends means the Republican Party can widen the playing field. The Democrats also are looking at doing the same thing, fielding candidates in districts that they have previously avoided (GOP Rep. Bill Mitchell, for instance, has a pretty decent general election opponent for the first time in a long while).

While that’s good for poli-tics, is it good for government?

It almost assuredly is a good thing in the long run. Far too many people think they own their districts. Competition is good.

But in the here and now, these campaigns are just one more headache to deal with in the ongoing governmental im-passe. Legislators who aren’t accustomed to challenges may not be all that willing to take the tough votes necessary if the leaders ever come to a deal.

Indeed, we could see a tail wagging the dog scenario. For instance, as a member of House Democratic leadership, Rep. John Bradley, D-Marion, has taken a ton of votes that his conservative Southern Illinois constituents probably

wouldn’t love, including a vote for the 2011 income tax hike.

But Bradley is now a Tier 1 target. And unless we see a massive political truce with pledges to not use tough votes against incumbents (as we did in the old days under Republi-can governors Jim Thompson, Jim Edgar and George Ryan), it’s probably safe to assume that Bradley and many, many others aren’t going to want to be a part of any tax hike solution.

The Illinois Republican Par-ty compounded the problem the other day by blasting Brad-ley and Rep. Brandon Phelps, D-Harrisburg, for standing with Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan (whom the Republicans now refer to as “#TaxHikeMike”) against taxpayers.

The Republican Party accuses Madigan – and, by extension, Bradley, Phelps and others – of publicly favoring a return to the 5 percent state

income tax. They conveniently “forget” that Rauner has said he will raise taxes once he gets his “Turnaround Agenda” passed.

And it’s not just the general election that’s complicating matters. Look at what hap-pened not long ago when conservative activist Dan Proft examined GOP Rep. David Har-ris’ nominating petitions to see if he could kick the Arlington Heights legislator off the ballot. Proft pointed out that Harris had “previously voiced support for tax increases.”

Harris, in turn, noted Raun-er’s support for hiking taxes to balance the budget, but the message was clear: Proft controls a big pot of campaign money and Republicans need to beware of crossing him.

The ILGOP’s “#TaxHike-Mike” assault even could play out in Madigan’s own legisla-tive district.

Madigan’s Democratic primary opponent, Jason Gon-zales, has a campaign message that appears specifically de-signed to attract money from wealthy people who are fed up with the speaker’s longtime dominance. Some Democrats

(and Republicans) are specu-lating that forces allied with Rauner could spend millions of dollars on that one race alone.

Blanketed network TV ads with a solid message can move voters, especially with that kind of money behind them.

Madigan is a notoriously cautious politician. So, wheth-er or not his enemies pull the trigger on a massive campaign assault, he’ll deploy enough foot soldiers to cover his dis-trict many times over.

Chicago and Cook County voters (and Madigan rep-resents both kinds) already are up in arms about property and sales tax increases, so we can also probably expect Madigan to be at least reluctant to raise taxes before the March 15 primary.

What I’m saying here is that if you think a solution to this impasse has looked next to impossible for the past several months, the situation may have gotten substantial-ly worse since the candidate filing period ended.

• Rich Miller also publishes Capitol Fax, a daily political newsletter, and CapitolFax.com.

Two approaches to terror guesstimates These are indeed scary times in which we

live – and no one wants to put lives on the line, especially the lives of children in the nation’s second largest school district.

No one wants to be wrong.And so it’s understandable in the wake

of the San Bernardino, California, terror attack that Los Angeles school officials and police last week acted out of an abundance of caution, closing down a system of 900 schools, serving 640,000 students.

New York City police and public officials received a similar threat and made a very different call, insisting the threat was “not credible.” New York Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said the NYPD began an imme-diate investigation with the Joint Terrorism Task Force and the FBI.

Then Bratton added, “The language in

the email would lead us to believe that this is not a jihadist initiative. That would be incredible to think that any jihadist would not spell Allah with a capital ‘A.’?”

Maybe a little too much information?And that’s the problem with both respons-

es – from what appears to be an overreaction in L.A. to the New York exercise in bravado. They both provide, however unwittingly, lessons for those with malicious intent on how to do it better the next time – and how to throw a major American city into chaos.

The ripple effect of such threats – lives disrupted, students missing a day of learning, lost productivity – are very real even if the threat is not. Last week was a cautionary tale from which all public officials can learn about living with fear while not giving in to it.

– The Boston Herald

RichMiller

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Contact Sports Editor Dick Goss at 815-280-4123 or at [email protected].

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Joliet Central’s Malik Fuller (15) drives to the basket Monday in front of Stagg’s Gus Komperda. Joliet Central lost, 56-54.

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Area teams prep for tough tournamentsBy CURT HERRON

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As the area’s wrestling teams make the transition from the first part of their sea-sons to the next, the transition features a series of tough com-petitions that should give us a better idea of just how good some of the top individuals are from this area.

One such test happened this past weekend when Minooka and Lemont took part in Hin-sdale Central’s 24-team Whit-latch invite, which has devel-oped into one of the state’s best events.

How tough was the com-petition for the two Indian squads? Neither finished in the top half of the field, and the best placer for the two squads was Lemont’s Egan Berta, who was fourth.

Things ratchet up quite a bit this week for four teams that are off to good starts so far this year. Bolingbrook, Plain-field East, Plainfield South and Providence will hit the road for Machesney Park on Tuesday and Wednesday to compete in the Al Dvorak In-vite at Harlem.

Perennial power Montini is back in the field, but last year’s champion Marmion instead will be competing in The Clash in Rochester, Min-nesota, which begins on New Year’s Day.

Mount Carmel has been on a roll thus far, and it again will be joined by Glenbard North in the Dvorak field. This area’s top two finishers at last year’s competition, Lincoln-Way Central and Lockport, also will not be competing at Harlem this week.

The Celtics and Cougars both have earned top-25 spots in Class 3A in Rob Sherrill’s GEI Apparel rankings on Illi-nois Matmen. A few area in-dividuals also are ranked, or should be, and they’ll hope for a strong showing at the Dvor-ak to make their case as state contenders.

After winning a state title a year ago, East’s Michael Mc-Gee doesn’t need to impress anyone, but he still is ranked just fifth in a loaded 120-pound weight class. On paper, McGee

looks like the one to beat at his weight this week.

McGee’s Bengals teammate Zach Krause is fourth-ranked at 138 and is behind top-ranked Will Lewan of Montini among Class 3A competitors, while Crystal Lake Central’s Lenny Petersen is second in Class 2A.

South’s best hopes like-ly will be Eric Johnson, who last year was state runner-up at 220 and this season is top-ranked at that weight, and Danny Saracco, who is ranked third at 195 and could run into Class 2A’s second-ranked Dru Worker of Mount Carmel.

East and South did not com-pete in the Dvorak a year ago. The Bengals went to Palatine’s Berman Classic while the Cou-

gars waited a week until going to Granite City, where they also will travel to next week.

Other area individuals ranked in the top 12 or honor-able mention at their weights who hope to make some noise at the Dvorak include Provi-dence’s Jacob Lindsay (106), Josh Ramos (120), Ben Emery (126) and Cole Smith (152), South’s Marc Fleenor (132) and Adrian Cervantes (170), East’s Anthony Zamora (106) and Bolingbrook’s Clarence Golden (152).

Early next week, Plainfield North and Plainfield South will go to the Granite City Invite; and Coal City, Reed-Custer, Seneca and Wilming-ton head to the St. Thomas

More duals meet; Joliet West, Lemont, Lincoln-Way East and Lincoln-Way West will be at Palatine’s Berman Classic; Plainfield Central is at the DeKalb duals meet and Lock-port travels to Pennsylvania for the Powerade Invite. Then to kick off 2016, Lincoln-Way Central heads to The Clash.

It wasn’t that many years ago that Providence used to be a regular among top-five plac-ing squads at the Dvorak. But after finishing 26th and 23rd the past two years, coach Keith Healy’s Celtics figure to move up in the final standings.

Despite having a young squad this season, Providence is ranked among the top 20 programs in 3A for the first

time in a while. One of the squad’s highlights this season was picking up Healy’s 500th dual meet win of his 24-year career as the program’s head coach. He’s joined an exclu-sive club of perhaps 10 others who’ve won that often in one program.

“I’ve been blessed,” Healy said. “I came into a great situ-ation when I started here and I was just a young buck then. I’ve seen some great kids come through here over the years and I’ve kept in contact with them. And I’ve had a lot of great coaches who’ve helped me out, and that’s really what it takes. We’ve had great fam-ilies, great kids and great coaches.”


Providence Catholic’s Dominic Ferraro (right) has control of Marist’s David Tishchina during a 220-pound match Thursday at Providence Catholic High School in New Lenox.

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JOLIET – There wasn’t much that separated the boys basketball teams from Joliet Central and Stagg when the squads met in Monday’s clash of first-place teams in the SouthWest Suburban Confer-ence Blue Division.

While the 56-54 final score in favor of the Chargers seems to validate that point, the other side of the story is that the Steel-men came up a bit short only after staging a late rally to try to overcome a deficit that had grown to as much as 14 points early in the final quarter.

Stagg (7-1, 3-0) scored the fi-nal six points of the first half to grab a 31-25 advantage at the break, and then outscored the Steelmen (5-3, 2-1), 16-8, in the third quarter to build up a 47-33 lead heading into the final eight minutes.

“I think they outscored us 24-10 for a stretch,” Steelmen coach Jeff Corcoran said. “We outscored them in the first and fourth quarters, but the thing that rings in my head is our start of the second half. We had the ball and ran a good set and had a good look in the post and threw it away, and then we traded turnovers for three pos-sessions in a row.

“At this point, it comes down to knowing about time and situation and what you need to do and how to execute it along with what the other team is running and how to defend against that. We’ve been in this position before where we start-ed off the season hot and then we level off. Hopefully, we can do some damage at Rich South (Big Dipper Tournament).”

The Steelmen will likely have Jose Grubbs back during Rich South’s Big Dipper, which begins when Central plays King at 4 p.m. Saturday. The junior forward suffered a hand injury that might take some time to heal.

Central could have used his

energy during the third quar-ter when the Chargers began to build a comfortable lead, with Tom Kazanecki (17 points, sev-en rebounds) providing four layups and a free throw during that period.

John Contant (20 points, seven rebounds) hit two free throws early in the fourth quar-ter to give Stagg a 49-35 lead, but the Steelmen responded with an 8-0 run, thanks to two layups from Malik Fuller (19 points, 15 rebounds) and two free throws and a layup from Marcellus Hornsby (10 points, six rebounds) to close to within 49-43 with 4:52 left.

Josh Strama (13 points, six rebounds) seemed to provide some cushion when he hit a layup to make it 54-46, but Central got a 3-pointer from Jomarre McNair and a jumper from Hornsby to make it a 54-51 game with 13 seconds left. Contant hit two free throws with five seconds left to end the drama. The Steelmen also got 10 points from Taquan Sims.

While the late stages were more dramatic than Chargers coach John Daniels would have liked, he was pleased to see his team get a road win to stay per-fect in league play.

“Whenever we play them, it’s always close and always physical,” Daniels said. “I like the way that all of the kids like each other, and it’s a good ri-valry. I remember when I first got to Stagg, we beat somebody who was a big rival for every-one at our school and I said to myself, if Stagg’s going to be a good program that we have to have a rivalry with Joliet and since then, we’ve had some great games. I’m going to miss playing against these guys.

“Our league is really good this year, and I think this is the deepest that our confer-ence has been in a long time. Another good thing about our conference is that there aren’t many games where a team is not prepared. We have a lot of good coaches in our league.”

BOYS BASKETBALL: STAGG 56, JOLIET CENTRAL 54

Steelmen suffer first conference loss

ABOVE: Joliet Central’s Taquan Sims (22) shoots over the arms of Stagg’s Gus Komperda on Monday in Joliet.

LEFT: Joliet Central’s Ryan King (30) looks to drive around Stagg’s Josh Stra-ma on Monday in Joliet.


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AREA SCHEDULETUESDAY’S EVENTS

Boys BasketballGardner-South Wilmington at

Dwight, 7:30 p.m.Reed-Custer at Clifton Central,

7:30 p.m.Girls BasketballAndrew vs. Lincoln-Way

Central at Lincoln-Way East Medieval Classic, noon

Gardner-South Wilmington at Dwight, 6 p.m.

Joliet Central, Lemont, Plain-field Central, Plainfield East, Plainfield North at Oswego East Tourney, TBA

Joliet West vs. TF South at Bradley-Bourbonnais Tourney, 10 a.m.

Lincoln-Way West, Morris at

Ottawa Tourney, TBAMinooka vs. Reavis at Lin-

coln-Way East Medieval Classic, 4:30 p.m.

Plainfield South at Lincoln-Way East in Medieval Classic, 1:30 p.m.

Seneca at St. Bede Tourney, TBAWrestlingBolingbrook, Plainfield East,

Plainfield South, Providence at Harlem Dvorak invite, 9:30 a.m.

Bradley-Bourbonnais, Oak For-est at Lincoln-Way West, 10 a.m.

Glenbard South at Romeoville, 10 a.m.

Joliet Catholic in ESCC mega dual at Marist, 9 a.m.

Prairie Central at Coal City, 5:30 p.m.

Boys SwimmingLincoln-Way East, Lincoln-Way

West at Homewood-Flossmoor pentathalon, 10 a.m.

Women’s BowlingSt. Francis in Collegiate

Shootout at Las Vegas, TBAMen’s BowlingSt. Francis in Collegiate

Shootout at Las Vegas, TBA

AREA ROUNDUP COLLEGE BASKETBALL

USF bounces back with win over Mount Mercy

SUBMITTED REPORTS

JOLIET – In its final game before Christmas, the No. 2-ranked University of St. Francis men’s basketball team defeated Mount Mer-cy, 99-91, in nonconference home action Monday.

Coming off its first loss of the year two days ago, USF improved to 11-1 overall and won for the 18th time in its past 19 home games.

The Saints opened up an early 11-2 advantage – matching their largest edge of the first half – and led 41-34 at the intermission.

An 11-2 run early in the second half gave USF its big-gest lead of the night, 67-53, with 13 minutes to go.

Mount Mercy used a 9-3 run to cut the deficit to five points, 91-86, with less than a minute to play, but the Saints hit eight consecutive free throws in the game’s final 36 seconds to seal the victory.

Ilya Ilyayev posted game-highs with 26 points and 13 rebounds, while Edvi-nas Presniakovas tallied 24 points, including a 13-for-14 performance from the free-throw line.

USF, which entered the game as the sixth-most ac-curate free-throw shooting team in NAIA Division II, was 35 of 43 (81.4 percent) from the foul line.

Iain Morison came off the bench to contribute 12 points, six rebounds and three blocked shots.

Landus Anderson added 10 points and three steals.

GIRLS BASKETBALLLincoln-Way East 59, Lin-

coln-Way Central 20: Claire McMahon scored 13 points, while Sam Nair had 12 points for the Griffins in the Medieval Classic opener. The Knights (5-5) got eight points from Colleen Barrett and seven points from Grace Curran.

Plainfield South 59, Andrew 48: Jaianna Brooks led South with 22 points, while Antwa-netta Boswell added 18 points in the Medieval Classic.

Lincoln-Way West 54, Meta-mora 43: Courtney O’Donnell led the Warriors (11-1) with 18 points in the Ottawa Tour-nament win.

Joliet West 66, Eisenhow-er 33: The Tigers picked up their first win in three tries in the Bradley-Bourbon-nais Tournament as Sarah Gersch, Nicole Gal and Ra-ven Reed led the way.

Bradley-Bourbonnais 64, Peotone 54: The Blue Dev-ils (11-3) suffered their first defeat in the Bradley-Bour-bonnais Tournament despite getting 22 points and 10 re-bounds from Cora Graffeo and 12 points from Elizabeth Coffey.

Mother McAuley 66, Minoo-ka 50: Brooklynn Bachmann scored 18 points while Syd-ney Arlis added 12 points for the Indians (6-4) in the Medi-eval Classic.

Seneca 45, LaMoille-Ohio 41: Claudia Paulson led Sen-

eca (5-10) with 12 points and six rebounds.

COLLEGE BASKETBALLL e w i s t o h o n o r 1 9 8 0 ’ s

all-decade team: The Lewis University Athletics De-partment will introduce the All-Decades (1980s) men’s basketball team on Jan. 23 at halftime of the Flyers’ show-down against Bellarmine. The game starts at 3 p.m.

The men’s team includes Ben Billups, Cliff Evans, Walter Glass, Ron Lesiak, Ja-mie Martin, Charlie Niego, Joe Niego, Mark Niego, Tom Niego, Larry Tucker and Kevin Whittler.

This is the third year Lew-is has celebrated an All-De-cades Team, as they feted the Flyer standouts from the 1950s and 60s in 2014; and the 1970s team last year.

The All-Decades (1980s) women’s basketball team also will be honored Jan. 23 at halftime of Lewis’ contest with Bellarmine. The game starts at 1 p.m.

The women’s team in-cludes Susie Bosch, April Calvert, Krista Eshoo, Julie Fruendt, Candy Hummel, Mary Niego, Terry Niego, Donna Obradovitz, Chris To-scas and Rosemary Turner.

This is the second year Lewis has celebrated an All-Decades Team for the women’s basketball pro-gram, as they honored the Flyer standouts from the 1970s last year.


EVANSTON – Alex Olah scored 21 points, Tre Demps added 17, and Northwestern pulled away from Sacred Heart, 103-67, on Monday night for its eighth straight win.

Scottie Lindsey and Nathan Taphorn each added 11 points as the Wildcats (11-1) set a sea-son high for scoring by shoot-ing 61 percent (36 for 59) from the floor.

Olah became the 33rd player in Northwestern history to re-cord more than 1,000 points in his career. He entered with 996.

Cane Broome had a game-high 26 points and Quincy McKnight added 15 for Sacred Heart (1-9), which dropped its ninth straight after a sea-son-opening win over Quin-nipiac. The Pioneers shot 40 percent (22 of 55).

Northwestern suffered its lone loss to current-No. 7 North Carolina on Nov. 23. Coming off a 78-70 overtime win over cross-town rival DePaul on Saturday, the Wildcats took charge of this one late in the first half, then blew it open with a 23-5 run in the second.

Northwestern led, 48-32, at the half and trailed only once in the opening 20 minutes at 4-2.

Both teams went cold from floor during a scoring lull midway through the opening half, but Northwestern pulled out of it and went ahead. Sa-cred Heart had a dry spell of just over four minutes, while Northwestern got back on track and outscored the Pio-neers 16-2 in one run.

Northwestern ended up out-

shooting Sacred Heart 55.6 to 39.3 percent from the floor in the opening 20 minutes.

Olah was a force from un-derneath in the first half, con-necting for 15 points and pull-ing in four of his five rebounds.

Northwestern outscored Sa-cred Heart 55-35 in the final 20 minutes.

Demps picked up his shoot-ing in the second half and hit 4 of 8 3-pointers for the game. Lindsey and Taphorn also joined Northwestern’s 21 for 32 (65.6 percent) second-half shooting party as the Wildcats turned the game into a rout.

Notre Dame 87, Youngstown State 78: At South Bend, Indi-ana, Demetrius Jackson scored 17 points Monday night and No-tre Dame had to hold on late to beat Youngstown State.

Jackson bounced back from a season-low, nine-point effort on 4-for-17 shooting in an 80-73 loss to Indiana on Saturday by hitting 8 of 12 shots from the field to go with four rebounds and four assists.

V.J. Beachem scored 16 points for the Irish on 4-for-6 shooting from 3-point range. Zach Auguste also had 16 points and 10 rebounds, and Bonzie Colson added 14 points and nine boards.

Cameron Morse scored 22 points and Sidney Umude add-ed 15 points and 11 rebounds for Youngstown State (5-8) which has lost four of its past five.

Notre Dame (8-3) is off for the next eight days before a final nonconference game against Liberty on Dec. 29. The Irish open ACC play Jan. 2 at No. 8 Virginia.

Northwestern wins 8th straight

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NATIONAL CONFERENCENorth

W L T Pct PF PAx-Green Bay 10 4 0 .714 347 265Minnesota 9 5 0 .643 296 272Bears 5 9 0 .357 289 352Detroit 4 9 0 .308 267 336

East W L T Pct PF PAWashington 7 7 0 .500 316 332Philadelphia 6 8 0 .429 318 362N.Y. Giants 6 8 0 .429 373 358Dallas 4 10 0 .286 246 324

South W L T Pct PF PAy-Carolina 14 0 0 1.000 449 278Atlanta 7 7 0 .500 302 312Tampa Bay 6 8 0 .429 311 353New Orleans 5 8 0 .385 323 397

West W L T Pct PF PAx-Arizona 12 2 0 .857 445 269x-Seattle 9 5 0 .643 370 248St. Louis 6 8 0 .429 241 294San Francisco 4 10 0 .286 202 339

AMERICAN CONFERENCENorth

W L T Pct PF PAx-Cincinnati 11 3 0 .786 378 243Pittsburgh 9 5 0 .643 378 287Baltimore 4 10 0 .286 292 360Cleveland 3 11 0 .214 253 387

East W L T Pct PF PAy-New England 12 2 0 .857 435 269N.Y. Jets 9 5 0 .643 344 272Buffalo 6 8 0 .429 341 336Miami 5 9 0 .357 278 361

South W L T Pct PF PAHouston 7 7 0 .500 275 301Indianapolis 6 8 0 .429 285 372Jacksonville 5 9 0 .357 343 380Tennessee 3 11 0 .214 269 359

West W L T Pct PF PADenver 10 4 0 .714 308 259Kansas City 9 5 0 .643 365 257Oakland 6 8 0 .429 319 356San Diego 4 10 0 .286 280 348

x-clinched playoff spoty-clinched division

Saturday’s GameN.Y. Jets 19, Dallas 16

Sunday’s ResultsMinnesota 38, Bears 17Atlanta 23, Jacksonville 17Houston 16, Indianapolis 10Carolina 38, N.Y. Giants 35New England 33, Tennessee 16Washington 35, Buffalo 25Kansas City 34, Baltimore 14Seattle 30, Cleveland 13Green Bay 30, Oakland 20San Diego 30, Miami 14Cincinnati 24, San Francisco 14Pittsburgh 34, Denver 27Arizona 40, Philadelphia 17

Monday’s ResultDetroit at New Orleans (n)

Thursday, Dec. 24San Diego at Oakland, 7:25 p.m.

Saturday, Dec. 26Washington at Philadelphia, 7:25 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 27Bears at Tampa Bay, noonHouston at Tennessee, noonCleveland at Kansas City, noonNew England at N.Y. Jets, noonIndianapolis at Miami, noonSan Francisco at Detroit, noonDallas at Buffalo, noonCarolina at Atlanta, noonPittsburgh at Baltimore noonJacksonville at New Orleans, 3:05 p.m.St. Louis at Seattle, 3:25 p.m.Green Bay at Arizona, 3:25 p.m.N.Y. Giants at Minnesota, 7:30 p.m.

Monday, Dec. 28Cincinnati at Denver, 7:30 p.m.

NHLWESTERN CONFERENCE

Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GADallas 34 25 7 2 52 120 88Blackhawks 35 20 11 4 44 96 83St. Louis 35 20 11 4 44 90 85Minnesota 32 17 9 6 40 89 79Nashville 34 17 11 6 40 90 86Colorado 34 17 16 1 35 95 90Winnipeg 32 15 15 2 32 90 97

Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GALos Angeles 32 20 10 2 42 81 71San Jose 33 16 15 2 34 88 91Vancouver 35 12 14 9 33 89 102Arizona 32 15 15 2 32 87 102Calgary 33 15 16 2 32 87 112Edmonton 34 14 18 2 30 88 105Anaheim 32 12 15 5 29 60 82

EASTERN CONFERENCEAtlantic Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GAMontreal 35 20 12 3 43 104 87Boston 32 19 9 4 42 104 83Detroit 33 17 9 7 41 86 85Florida 34 18 12 4 40 93 80Ottawa 34 17 12 5 39 104 102Tampa Bay 34 17 14 3 37 86 80Buffalo 34 14 16 4 32 79 89Toronto 31 11 13 7 29 77 86

Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF GAWashington 33 25 6 2 52 105 71N.Y. Islanders 35 19 11 5 43 96 82N.Y. Rangers 35 19 12 4 42 101 91New Jersey 34 16 13 5 37 79 84Philadelphia 34 15 12 7 37 74 92Pittsburgh 33 16 14 3 35 76 84Carolina 34 13 16 5 31 80 101Columbus 36 13 20 3 29 88 112

NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Monday’s ResultsN.Y. Islanders 5, Anaheim 2Philadelphia 4, St. Louis 3Pittsburgh 5, Columbus 2 Washington 2, Carolina 1Nashville 5, Montreal 1 Dallas 6, Minnesota 3Toronto at Colorado (n) Winnipeg at Edmonton (n)

Tuesday’s GamesBlackhawks at Dallas, 7:30 p.m.St. Louis at Boston, 6 p.m. Anaheim at N.Y. Rangers, 6 p.m. New Jersey at Detroit, 6:30 p.m. Vancouver at Tampa Bay, 6:30 p.m. Ottawa at Florida, 6:30 p.m. Montreal at Minnesota, 7 p.m. Winnipeg at Calgary, 8 p.m.Toronto at Arizona, 8 p.m.San Jose at Los Angeles, 9:30 p.m.

NBAEASTERN CONFERENCE

Central Division W L Pct GBCleveland 18 7 .720 —Indiana 16 11 .593 3Bulls 15 11 .577 3½Detroit 16 12 .571 3½Milwaukee 11 18 .379 9

Atlantic Division W L Pct GBToronto 17 12 .586 —Boston 15 13 .536 1½New York 14 15 .483 3Brooklyn 8 20 .286 8½Philadelphia 1 28 .034 16

Southeast Division W L Pct GBMiami 16 10 .615 —Atlanta 18 12 .600 —Orlando 16 12 .571 1Charlotte 15 12 .556 1½Washington 12 14 .462 4

WESTERN CONFERENCESouthwest Division

W L Pct GBSan Antonio 24 5 .828 —Dallas 15 12 .556 8Memphis 15 14 .517 9Houston 15 14 .517 9New Orleans 8 19 .296 15

Northwest Division W L Pct GBOklahoma City 18 9 .667 —Utah 11 14 .440 6Denver 11 16 .407 7Minnesota 11 17 .393 7½Portland 11 19 .367 8½

Pacific Division W L Pct GBGolden State 26 1 .963 —L.A. Clippers 16 12 .571 10½Phoenix 12 17 .414 15Sacramento 11 17 .393 15½L.A. Lakers 4 23 .148 22

Monday’s ResultsBrooklyn 105, Bulls, 102Washington 113, Sacramento 99 Boston 113, Minnesota 99 Orlando 107, New York 99 Houston 102, Charlotte 95Atlanta 106, Portland 97San Antonio 106, Indiana 92Phoenix at Utah (n)Oklahoma City at L.A. Clippers (n)

Tuesday’s GamesMemphis at Philadelphia, 6 p.m.Dallas at Toronto, 6:30 p.m.Detroit at Miami, 6:30 p.m. L.A. Lakers at Denver, 8 p.m.

Pro hockeyMontreal at Minnesota, 7 p.m.,

NBCSNBlackhawks at Dallas,

7:30 p.m., CSNSan Jose at Los Angeles,

9:30 p.m., NBCSNCollege football

Famous Idaho Potato Bowl, Akron vs. Utah State, at Boise, Idaho, 2:30 p.m., ESPN

Boca Raton Bowl, Temple vs. Toledo, at Boca Raton, Fla., 6 p.m., ESPN

Pro basketballDallas at Toronto, 6:30 p.m., NBA

Men’s basketballDiamond Head Classic, Auburn vs.

New Mexico, at Honolulu, 1:30 p.m., ESPNU

Troy at Mississippi, 3 p.m., SECDiamond Head Classic, BYU vs.

Harvard, at Honolulu, 3:30 p.m., ESPNU

Miami at LaSalle, 4 p.m., CBSSNKennesaw State at Indiana,

5 p.m., BTNClemson at Georgia, 5 p.m., SEC

South Florida at Seton Hall, 5:30 p.m., FS2

Georgetown at Charlotte, 6 p.m., CBSSN

Iowa State at Cincinnati, 6 p.m., ESPN2

Michigan State vs. Oakland, at Auburn Hills, Mich., 6 p.m., ESPNU

Delaware at Villanova, 6 p.m., FS1Vanderbilt at Purdue, 7 p.m., BTNAmerican at LSU, 7 p.m., SECSouthern Utah at Butler,

7:30 p.m., FS2St. John’s vs. South Carolina, at

Uncasville, Conn., 8 p.m., CBSSNCalifornia at Virginia, 8 p.m., ESPN2Mercer at Ohio State, 8 p.m.,

ESPNUGeorge Washington at DePaul,

8 p.m., FS1Diamond Head Classic, Oklahoma

vs. Washington State, at Honolulu, 10 p.m., ESPNU

Kansas at San Diego State, 10 p.m., CBSSN

Diamond Head Classic, Northern Iowa vs. Hawaii, at Honolulu, mid-night, ESPNU

WHAT TO WATCH

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Bulls center Pau Gasol (16) screens out Brooklyn Nets guard Donald Sloan for a rebound during the first half Monday in Chicago.

NBA: NETS 105, BULLS 102

By JOHN JACKSON The Associated Press

CHICAGO – Brook Lopez had 21 points and 12 rebounds, Thaddeus Young added 16 points and 13 rebounds and the Brooklyn Nets beat the Bulls, 105-102, on Monday night to end a five-game losing streak.

Bulls center Joakim Noah left the game late in the third quarter with an apparent left shoulder injury.

Wayne Ellington had 13

points on 5-of-9 shooting off the bench for the Nets.

Jimmy Butler had 24 points, Pau Gasol added 20 points and the Bulls lost their third straight.

Butler said before the game that he didn’t regret his critical comments of first-year coach Fred Hoiberg two days earlier after a loss in New York. He was 11 for 20 from the field in this one.

Brooklyn had scored 100 points just once in the previ-

ous five losses. It had a 58-55 halftime lead thanks to 26 of 47 (55.3 percent) shooting in the first half.

Young led the way with 12 first-half points, while El-lington had 10 points (4-of-5 shooting) in 12 minutes off the bench.

Not much changed at the start of the second half. The Nets stayed hot and stretched the lead to 81-69 with 4½ left in the third quarter on a 3-pointer by Bojan Bogdanovic.

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JOLIET – While demonstrating how to make healthy black bean salsa to elementary school-aged children, chef Michael McGreal listed off the ingredi-ents – tomatoes, green peppers, black beans and onions – and received the same reaction to each one.

Ick.“The kids were looking at me

like, ‘I’m not going to eat that,’ ” said McGreal, chairman of the Joliet Junior College culinary arts department.

According to a JJC news release, McGreal spent Nov. 16 in Washington, D.C., for a “Chefs Move to Schools” leadership team meeting, a part of first lady Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move” healthy lifestyle initiative for school-children.

At the meeting, McGreal and other team members – who included repre-sentatives from various divisions of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Institute of Child Nutrition, the School Nutrition Association and a corporate chef from General Mills – recapped their past work and discussed what they should address in the future.

McGreal was the only post-second-ary educator on the team.

This is the first time, McGreal said, that the government has looked at nutritional guidelines for schools since the 1970s, and the reasons for doing so were much different.

“Back then, kids were too skinny to be drafted,” McGreal said, “So they said, ‘In order to get kids healthy, let’s give them free and reduced meals. Maybe their only chance to get the nutrients they need is at schools.’ ”

Today, McGreal said, many kids have diseases formerly associated with middle age, such as hypertension and diabetes. He attributes this partly to frequent consumption of soda, potato chips, candy bars and fast food.

“This is the first generation in a long time where the parents might out-live the kids,” McGreal said. “At least we came from the generation where we ate a lot of fruits and veggies and ran through the parks until the streetlights came on.”

This wasn’t McGreal’s first trip to the White House. In 2010, McGreal and Kyle Richardson – another JJC chef –

went to Washington, D.C., also as part of the “Chefs Move to Schools” pro-gram, which had just begun then.

The initiative matched chefs with interested schools in their communi-ties to educate students on good nutri-tion and to demonstrate techniques for healthy food preparation.

However, the downside in those early years was there was no unifica-tion and no listing on the White House website, so no one could measure the program’s effectiveness, McGreal said. Still, McGreal felt good results came

from those efforts, such as the Amer-ican Culinary Federation’s “Chef & Child” initiative.

Locally, the JJC culinary arts department used “Bring Your Kids to Work Day” to teach the children of the other JJC staff – about 60 kids – how to prepare whole grain vegetable pizza using low-fat cheese.

As it turned out, JJC was ahead of the game. The new USDA guidelines for school lunches, McGreal said, em-phasize whole grains instead of white flour – even for pizza crust and

tortillas – brown rice as opposed to white and dried legumes in place of lard-laden canned refried beans, as well as replacing extra sodium with herbs.

“This isn’t the old days where you took the box of spinach and threw it in the steamer so it tasted like seaweed,” McGreal said.

Part of McGreal’s role as a USDA food consultant is training school food service staff on meal preparation using the updated guidelines, along with pre-senting ideas to positively spin the new recipes so kids will want to eat them. In today’s global society, McGreal believes this is not impossible.

“Kids are curious,” McGreal said, “I think if we talk about different places in the world, like Thailand or India, and show pictures of how people dress and then make a nice dish using their grains and fruit, kids will be excited to try it.”

McGreal said he already has hosted training programs in California and Kansas and that one Joliet area school district has expressed interest in sched-uling one in spring 2016.

He understands change won’t be easy, especially in school kitchens with deep fryers instead of stoves or schools working with tiny budgets – $1 per student per meal in some cases, McGreal said.

“I couldn’t operate a restaurant on that,” he said.

He also hopes to include JJC culi-nary students in the demoing process, especially when demos occur at the students’ former schools. Another pos-sibility is starting a national contest in which kids would create and submit a healthy recipe, with the winning entry appearing in school lunches.

McGreal feels this would boost kid appeal. During the black bean salsa demo for the grade school kids, McGreal appointed an assistant chef, who tasted the salsa and liked it, which encouraged the other kids to try it, too.

It reminded McGreal of the old Life cereal commercial where two kids shunned the unfamiliar brand until picky eater Mikey wolfed it down. McGreal hopes creating healthy eating patterns in today’s kids will influence generations to come.

“This will make a healthier, happier society, I think,” McGreal said.

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Beyond chicken nuggets and friesJoliet Junior College chef helps bring healthy food to schools

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ber 22, 2015*27HEALTH CALENDAR

HEALTH BRIEFS

Ongoing• VA Community-Based Out-

patient Clinic – 7:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday; and 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Friday. Joliet CBOC, 1201 Eagle St., Joliet. For information, contact Pam Kostecki at 708-202-8387, ext. 73063, or [email protected].

• Free Blood Pressure Checks – 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Silver Cross Health Center, 12701 W. 143rd St., Homer Glen. Walk-ins welcome. For information, call 708-364 6337.

• NAMI – Offers information about mental illness conditions, symptoms and treatment at www.namiwillgrundy.org or through its HelpLine at 815-731-9103.

• Free Amplified Phones – 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, Will-Grundy Center for Inde-pendent Living, 2415 W. Jefferson St., Joliet. Bring latest telephone bill and ID card.

• Flu Clinic – Regular office hours through December, Braidwood Healthcare Center, 389 E. Main St., Braidwood; Channahon Healthcare Center, 25259 Reed St., Channahon; Dwight Healthcare Center, 101 S. Prairie Ave., Dwight; Gardner Healthcare Center, 409, N. Route 53, Gardner; Marseilles Healthcare Cen-ter, 580 Sycamore St., Marseilles; Mazon Healthcare Center, 522 Depot St., Mazon; Morris Healthcare Center, 1345 N. Edwards St., Morris; Morris Business & Technology Cen-ter, 1802 N. Division St., Suite 703, Morris (office of Dr. Peter Roumeli-otis); Morris Hospital & Healthcare Centers, 219 Bedford Road., Morris (office of Dr. Ian Best); Morris Hospital Yorkville Campus, 105

Saravanos Drive, Yorkville; Newark Healthcare Center, 5 N. Johnson St., Newark. For information, visit www.morrishospital.org/flu.

Dec. 22• Family Caregiver Support

Group – 11 a.m.; also Dec. 29, Eas-ter Seals – Joliet Region, 212 Barney Drive, Joliet. Contact Kathy Miller at 815-931-9693 or [email protected]

• Bipolar Disease Support Group – 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., Silver Cross Hos-pital’s Behavioral Health Services, 1900 Silver Cross Blvd., New Lenox. First time participants register at 1-888-660-HEAL (4325) or www.silvercross.org.

Dec. 23• Stroke Support Group – 4 to

5 p.m. at Silver Cross Hospital, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago Inpatient Unit Dining Room, 1900 Silver Cross Blvd., New Lenox. First-time participants register at 888-660-HEAL (4325) or www.silvercross.org.

• Obesity and Your Health: Is Weight Loss Surgery Right for You? – 5:45 p.m. BMI Surgery, Silver Cross Hospital Pavilion A, Suite 260, 1890 Silver Cross Blvd., New Lenox. Drs. Christopher Joyce and Brian Lahmann, gastric bypass surgeons, will offer a free informational session. Register at 888-660-4325 or www.silvercross.org.

• Brain Injury Support Group – 6 p.m., Easter Seals – Joliet Region, 212 Barney Drive, Joliet. Contact Kathy Miller at 815-931-9693 or [email protected].

More than $160K raised for Silver CrossThe HERALD–NEWS

NEW LENOX – More than 425 friends of Silver Cross Hos-pital attended the 87th Annual Childerguild Ball on Nov. 21 at the Odyssey Country Club and raised more than $160,000, which will be used to support women’s and children’s pro-grams and services at the Sil-ver Cross Hospital.

This year, Phyllis Ether-idge and Marcia Obman Gray co-chaired the ball. Their com-mittee included Robin Hartney and Lorraine Schiek.

This year’s Silver Cross Sehring Medal of Excellence was awarded to radiology and nuclear medicine physician Dr. Salvador Rinella, who has

served the healthcare commu-nity for more than 40 years.

Throughout his years at Silver Cross Hospital, Rinella has served as chief of staff and a member of the cancer and bylaws committees, the tumor board, and the audit and legal affairs, quality and cost effec-tiveness committees of the hos-pital’s board.

In addition, Rinella served three terms as chair of the de-partment of radiology and 8 years on the hospital’s board of directors. He was also involved in the planning and opening of the replacement hospital.

Silver Cross also honored Debra Condotti with the Sang-meister Medal of Excellence for 38 years of improving the quali-

ty of life for area residents.Condotti began her career

with Easter Seals Joliet Region as a case manager on the east side of Joliet. She was then named executive director of Easter Seals.

With her team of 25 employ-ees, Condotti raised funds for the organization, developed a grant writing program and worked with a volunteer board of directors. Several years lat-er, Condotti became President and CEO overseeing 168 em-ployees.

The Silver Cross Founda-tion is accepting nominations through Dec. 31 for the 2016 Silver Cross Medals of Excel-lence. For information, call 815-300-7105.

Morris Hospital nurse selected as Fire Starter of the Month

MORRIS – For the past 17 years, patients at the Dwight and Gardner Healthcare Centers of Morris Hospital have been able to count on receiving kindness, respect and a warm smile from nurse Daphne Wepprecht, a resident of rural Reddick.

Wepprecht received certification as a nurs-ing assistant before her senior year of high school. Within a week of starting a part-time job at a nursing home in Pontiac, she “fell in love with the residents” and knew she never wanted to do anything else but be a nurse.

After graduating from Mennonite

College of Nursing in Bloomington, Wepprecht was a medical/surgical nurse at St. Francis Hospital in Litchfield. When she and her husband moved back to this area, she worked for a few other area hospitals and Dwight Women’s Prison before seeing a job opening with Morris Hospital’s Dwight and Gardner Health-care Centers.

Liberty Junior High School holds ‘Blessing Bags’ donation drive

NEW LENOX – Liberty Junior High School’s Chapter of NJHS, along with the company Thirty-One, sponsored a “Blessing Bags” donation drive for the past several weeks.

With these donations, 35 families stay-ing at the Christ Hospital location of The Ronald McDonald House in Oak Lawn will

receive bags filled with comfort items, to ensure that their stay is more enjoyable and comforting.

Furthermore, with each bag purchased, Thirty-One donated an additional 31 cents a bag to help fill them with even more items.

Sleep Disorders Center receives accreditation

NEW LENOX – The Silver Cross Sleep Disorders Center in New Lenox has been awarded accreditation from the Ameri-can Academy of Sleep Medicine.

To receive accreditation for a five-year period, a sleep center must meet or ex-ceed all standards for professional health care as designated by the AASM.

The Silver Cross Sleep Disorders Center is in Pavilion A on the Silver Cross Hos-

pital campus I-355 and Route 6 in New Lenox.

Under the medical direction of Dr. M. Salah Lababidy, a board-certified pulmo-nologist, the center specializes in testing, diagnosis and treatment of a variety of sleep disorders including obstructive sleep apnea, sleep-related breathing and movement disorders, insomnia and narcolepsy.

For information or to schedule an initial consultation and sleep study, call 815-300-REST (7378). The consultation with a sleep specialist is required before scheduling a sleep study.

A free sleep disorders assessment is available at www.silvercross.org\our-services\sleep-disorders-center\sleep-assessment.

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Daphne Wepprecht

Students at Arbury Hills treated to a Brain Break assembly Students at Arbury Hills School in Mokena were treat-ed to a Brain Break assembly by GoNoodle.GoNoodle offers movement videos that deliver, reward and measure physical activity in the classroom. Fourth-grad-er Shae Eggert was chosen to help by wearing one of the “Champs” costumes. She is pictured with her brother, Colton Eggert, who is in sec-ond grade. For more informa-tion, visit www.gonoodle.com.

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CELEBRITY CIPHER

James Thurber, a wit best known for his cartoons and short stories, which were published primarily in “The New Yorker” magazine, said, “One (martini) is all right, two is too many, three is not enough.”

Does that apply to rounds of trumps in this deal?

South is in four hearts. The defenders begin with two rounds of diamonds. After ruffing, should declarer draw one, two or three rounds of trumps, given that they are splitting 3-2?

I agree with North’s raise to two hearts because it guarantees three-card support. Yes, the hand has 10 los-ers when the normal number is nine. If you use two-over-one game-force, you might respond one forcing no-trump, but when North rebids two hearts, South will assume his partner has only on a doubleton and will undervalue his hand.

South has 10 winners: three spades, five hearts and two clubs. But he must be careful while driving out the club ace and king.

Suppose declarer draws one round of trumps before attacking clubs. Then it might go: club to the king, club to the ace, club ruff by East for down one.

What if declarer draws all of the trumps, leaving himself with only one? Then the play goes: club to the king, diamond ruffed by South, club to the ace, cash two diamond tricks.

Two rounds of trumps are just right. Suppose East wins the first club and leads a diamond.

South ruffs and drives out the club ace, but if West tries a fourth diamond, declarer ruffs on the board, crosses to his hand with a spade, draws the last trump, and claims.

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Dear Dr. K: My wife saw something on the news about a man who died of sudden cardiac arrest while jogging. Now she doesn’t want me to exer-cise. I’d really love to get my running shoes back on. What can I tell her to ease her worries?

Dear Reader: I read your letter as I was cooling off after exercising. So your question is timely. Your wife’s concerns are under-standable, but probably misguided.

I spoke to my colleague Dr. Aaron L. Baggish, the associate director of the Cardiovascular Perfor-mance Program at Har-vard-affiliated Massachu-setts General Hospital. He confirmed what I thought I knew.

Sudden cardiac arrest is caused by a lethal type of irregular heart rhythm called ventricular fibrillation. The lethal rhythm causes the heart to stop pumping blood – it just sort of quivers. If that rhythm is not immediate-ly reversed – such as by a defibrillator machine – it results in death.

Sudden cardiac arrest can occur in a person with or without known heart disease. Probably the most common cause is athero-sclerosis of the arteries of the heart, which reduces the blood supply to some of the heart muscle.

The most important point to make is regular, moderate-intensity exer-cise is actually the best way to prevent sudden cardiac arrest. There is solid scientific evidence people who exercise regu-larly are less likely to de-velop cardiac arrest. Even people with heart disease who go through a care-fully supervised exercise program are less likely to have a cardiac arrest.

Here’s what can be confusing: In all people, a cardiac arrest is more likely to occur when the heart is working hard than when it’s not. So, suppose you exercise for 30 minutes each day. That

means you don’t exercise for the remaining 1,410 minutes in that day. Your risk of cardiac arrest per minute is greater while you exercise.

Nevertheless, a recent study found exercise-relat-ed heart deaths are quite rare; they account for just 5 percent of sudden cardiac arrest cases. In the study, researchers reviewed 1,247 cases of sudden cardiac arrest in middle-aged men and women over a period of 11 years. Of these, only 63 cases occurred during exercise. Most occurred in men, and most of these men were jogging, playing basketball or cycling.

In the majority of cases, the cardiac arrest didn’t come out of no-where. Two-thirds of the people who had cardiac arrest had known heart disease. And nearly one-third of them had experi-enced typical cardiovascu-lar symptoms during the week before the sudden cardiac arrest, including chest pain and breathless-ness.

This study offers two points of reassurance. First, exercise-related cardiac arrest is rare. The second important message is heart disease often gives warning signs. Heed this message. If you feel any chest pain during exercise, have difficulty breathing or even feel more drained than usual, stop and call a doctor for advice.

So if your doctor, who knows your medical condition, agrees, tell your wife regular exercise will reduce your risk of sudden death during your remaining years together.

• Write to Dr. Komaroff at www.askdoctork.com or Ask Doctor K, 10 Shat-tuck St., Second Floor, Boston, MA 02115.

Moderate exercise can help prevent sudden cardiac arrest

Anthony L. Komaroff

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38 “Treasure Island” author’s inits.

39 Suffix with legal

40 Vietnam War protest grp.

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43 Read electronically

44 *Engage in boisterous play

46 Cool, in jive talk

49 Keats collection

50 “And another thing …”

51 Mother of Ares and Hephaestus

52 “What’s ___ you?”

55 “Brandenburg Concertos” instruments

57 Any of the Baltic states, once: Abbr.

58 *Unauthorized detention

61 Sharpshooter’s skill

62 Classic toothpaste brand

63 With 60-Down, what the answer to each starred clue has

64 Subject of Boyle’s law

65 Barbershop quartet harmonizer

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4 Company advertised with the slogan “So easy a caveman can do it”

5 Cookie that outcompeted Hydrox

6 “It’s c-c-cold!”

7 Miami Beach’s Eden ___ resort

8 State whose flag has eight gold stars

9 Aloe ___

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25 Browser history listings

26 Org. for Cardinals and Ravens

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47 Cleared the blackboard

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51 Singer Lena

53 “___ Makes You Happy” (Sheryl Crow tune)

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56 Rainbow goddess

57 Droop

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14 Actor McKellen

15 Pacific greeting

16 Nerve cell conductors

17 One getting the boot?

18 Scorpion’s defense

19 ___ card

20 It’s striking!

23 Salinger heroine

24 Scream made while jumping, maybe

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30 Go (for)

32 Plains Indian

33 It’s unbelievable!

37 U.K. lawmakers

40 45-Down suburb

41 Half of a dance

42 When the credits roll

43 It’s breathtaking!

47 ___ cake (Chinese New Year delicacy)

48 Actor Sheridan

49 What helicopter parents do

53 Hilarious person

55 Math term usually followed by a subscript number

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62 Used as a plate

64 Ex of the Donald

65 Heel

66 Testing division, for short

67 Kitchen counter?

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69 Rwandan president Paul Kagame’s ethnicity

70 Sailor’s “Stop!”

71 Exasperated comment from a feminist

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3 Nazi cipher machine broken by the Allies

4 Joule/second

5 By themselves

6 Hart of “Chicago”

7 Call to mind

8 Was a ratfink

9 Dangerous gas

10 Former Obama adviser David

11 Assistant to the regional manager, for one

12 Young Darth Vader’s nickname

13 D.D.E.’s predecessor

21 Basil or bugbane

22 “You ___!”

26 Close-up magician’s prop

27 Listen to

29 Something read at a carnival

31 Covenant

34 Can’t stomach

35 When the Battle of Normandy started

36 A head

37 Yoga supplies

38 Measurer of college readiness, for short

39 Like criticism made in no uncertain terms

44 Dragsters

45 City served by the airport in 40-Across

46 Gorilla who was famously taught sign language

50 Paramount’s parent

51 Charles Schwab rival

52 Get visibly embarrassed

54 Pop star Lauper

56 2003 Golden Globe-winning film set in Afghanistan

57 They help make you you

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TODAY – Explore new territory and expand your interests, but don’t make impulsive changes based on what others do or say. Be your own guide and follow the path that makes you feel most comfortable. Choose your route in order to become a leader.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) – Business and personal relationships will develop through networking functions and social activities. Attend an industry party and explore the possibilities. Romance will enhance your life.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) – You’ll have some good ideas that, once developed, will help you bring in extra cash. Take action and discuss your plans with some-one you feel is a good sounding board.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) – Offer your help to a cause you believe in. Find out what you can do to assist older relatives during the taxing festive season. Some-one you love will give you something

special. ARIES (March 21-April 19) – Don’t go into

battle with someone who just wants the best for you. Self-discipline and personal changes that could improve your image, appearance or reputation will pay off.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) – The sky is the limit. If you aim high, you will finish what you start. Picking up odds and ends for the upcoming festivities will get you in the spirit of the season. Romance is encouraged.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) – Stay focused or you will misinterpret a situation or offer. Read between the lines and don’t leave anything to chance. If you want to make a change, do your research first.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) – Put your heart into making your home ready for the holiday season. Spending time with friends, family or children will brighten your day. Update your look in order to receive compliments.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) – Control your emotions and avoid getting into a spat. At work and at home, you are best off

keeping the peace. Make personal im-provements instead of trying to change others.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) – If you control whatever situation you find yourself in, you will be deemed a hero. Your insight-ful way of handling others will result in an unexpected surprise. Romance will improve your personal life.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) – Don’t run yourself ragged trying to take care of de-manding people who have little concern for your well-being. Focus on yourself, not those who take advantage of you.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) – Your imagination will lead you in a wonderful direction. Creative ideas will help you incorporate comfort and convenience into your living quarters. Someone you love will surprise you.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) – Bring about changes that will improve your life. Put an end to bad habits and unsavory influences. Choose your lot in life. Don’t let others determine where you’ll end up.

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Pearls Before Swine

Dear Abby: I have been a nurse for 35 years, and over time, I have noticed a decline in simple cour-tesy from people who visit friends or relatives in the hospital. Several things visi-tors should keep in mind:

1. If you don’t know what room the patient has been assigned, ask. Don’t wander in and out of rooms until you find the right one.

2. Be prepared to give the first and last names of the patient when asking for directions.

3. Abide by the visiting hours and the number of persons allowed into a patient’s room at one time. Remember, patients need dedicated time for treat-ments and procedures.

4. Do not bring small children to the hospital un-less they are visiting their parent or sibling. You need-lessly place them at risk by exposing them to infections.

5. Make sure any food you bring to the patient is allowed by the physician.

6. Never question the staff for information regard-ing the patient’s diagnosis or condition. It is against the law for a health care provider to divulge patient information to an unautho-rized individual. Ask the patient.

7. Get permission before plugging in your cellphone charger.

8. When taking the elevator, use public eleva-tors. And when the doors open, stand back and allow the occupants to safely step out before entering. – Pa-tient-Centered Nurse In California

Dear Nurse: If readers take to heart your suggestions in

the spirit they were given, everyone will benefit. That visitors would charge into hospital elevators, wander the halls, barge into pa-tients’ rooms and drag small children into sickrooms is an indication there has been not only a decline in courte-sy but also common sense.

Patients are in hospitals because they need intensive treatment and rest. Creating a party atmosphere in which the patient is expected to en-tertain numerous “guests” is physically and emotionally draining and a danger to the person’s health.

Dear Abby: My ex-hus-band, “Charles,” is dying, and we have decided to get remarried before he dies so he won’t be alone at the end. (And also so I can re-ceive his VA benefits when he’s gone.) Is this morally wrong?

I do take care of him, but not all the time because Charles likes living with his uncle and will remain there after we marry. I guess I just have a little guilt trip going on. – Guilt Trip In Texas

Dear Guilt Trip: Charles earned his benefits. I see nothing morally wrong with people providing for some-one they care for after their death. Unless Charles was coerced into his generosity, I can’t see why you should feel guilty.

• Write Dear Abby at www.dearabby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

Be courteous when visiting those who are hospitalized

Jeanne Phillips

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ANIMAL Monsters Inside Me (14) (CC) Monsters Inside Me (14) (CC) Monsters Inside Me (N) (14) Monsters Inside Me (14) (CC) Monsters Inside Me (14) (CC) Monsters Inside Me (14) (CC)

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OWN If Loving You Is Wrong (14) If Loving You Is Wrong (14) If Loving You Is Wrong (14) If Loving You Is Wrong ’ (14) (CC) If Loving You Is Wrong (14) Loving You

OXY Ghost (’90) ›››‡ Patrick Swayze. A murder victim returns to save his beloved fiancee. Sleeping With the Enemy (’91) ››‡ Julia Roberts. Snapped (PG) (CC)

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TNT Castle ’ (14-L,V) (CC) (DVS) Four Christmases (’08) ›› Vince Vaughn. (CC) (DVS) Four Christmases (’08) ›› Vince Vaughn. (CC) (DVS) CSI: NY ’ (14-L,V) (CC)

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