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CHRONICLEMONDAY, JANUARY 27, 2014 | KCCHRONICLE.COM

STATE ON DECKST. CHARLES EASTWRESTLING CAPTURES SIX INDIVIDUAL TITLES. PAGE 4

Mary Beth Nolan for Shaw Media

St. Charles East’s Jose Flores (left) and Batavia’s Connor McKeehan wrestle Saturday at the Upstate Eight Conference meet at Elgin High School.

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U of I extension office offering grandparents workshopST. CHARLES – The University of Illinois Extension and Home and

Community Education will be offering the workshop “Grandparents

Have an Important Role in a Child’s Life” from 1:30 to 3 p.m. Feb. 4 at

535 S. Randall Road, St. Charles. Advance registration is required. This

program discusses the important roles of a grandparent and strategies

to enhance the relationship between grandparents and the grandchild,

as well as the parents. This lesson will be presented statewide via the

Web by a family life extension educator. The lesson is provided free

of charge, but advance registration is required by Friday. To register,

email the attendee’s name to [email protected] or call 630-584-

6166. If a special accommodation is needed to attend this program,

please notify at registration. All are welcome to attend this program.

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Students showing off their skills at ‘Disaster Blaster’By CHARLES [email protected]

BATAVIA – About 75 stu-

dents and their parents gath-

ered at Fermilab on Saturday

to show off miniature ver-

sions of some epic events.

The students , ages 6

through 9, formed 15 teams

to participate in the second

annual Batavia Junior First

Lego League Open House. For

the 2013-14 theme of “Disaster

Blaster,” teams explored nat-

ural disasters and used Legos

and motorized parts to display

the effects that a disaster can

have on communities.

The natural disaster theme

resonated further with the

students when one of their

weekly meetings was can-

celed in October because of

inclement weather, said Dee

Karabowicz, open house orga-

nizer and operator of the first-

through third-grade divisions

of Fox Valley Robotics.

“I think disasters really

thrill people – learning about

them is very interesting,”

Karabowicz said. “This top-

ic … is a real-world topic for

them.”

Each team was allowed

one disaster to focus on and

whether team members want-

ed to portray it before, during

or after its presence in a com-

munity. Most students, such

as Nathan Kilmer, 9, chose to

portray a natural disaster in

the act.

Kilmer, a third-grader at

Heartland Elementary School

in Geneva, explained for his

Mass Destruction team how

they used one motor to move

a tornado made of black Legos

toward a house and another

motor to move the house off

its foundation to represent the

tornado’s force.

Kilmer liked this year’s

theme better than last year be-

cause he said it involved more

mechanics.

“I like how we always work

together and always make

something that’s pretty good,”

Kilmer said.

His team’s model, poster

board and presentation were

the result of about 32 hours of

teamwork on Sundays from

September 2013 to this month.

The Masters of Disasters team

worked a similar schedule to

complete their volcano.

The Masters team used

bright red Legos pieces to rep-

resent the melted liquid rock

known as magma. Then mag-

ma is called lava when it rises

to the surface, said Hannah

Kraus, 8, a second-grader at

Munhall Elementary School

in St. Charles.

While some of her team-

mates were undecided about

another year in junior robot-

ics, Kraus plans to continue

participating.

“I’m into Legos and build-

ing stuff,” Hannah said. “We

have a whole Lego table that

we use at home.”

The students will contin-

ue to show off their creations

through February at a few

more open houses, Karabo-

wicz said.

Photos by Charles Menchaca – [email protected]

LEFT: Second-grader Rishya Khosla (left), 7, and fourth-grader NethraSenthilkumar, 9, examine a Lego model depicting a flood Saturday atthe Batavia Junior First Lego League Open House at Fermilab.

ABOVE: Third-grader Nathan Kilmer, 9, (left) explains his team’s tor-nado model Saturday at the second annual Batavia Junior First LegoLeague Open House.

BATAVIA

Extremely cold weather cancels schoolBy AL LAGATTOLLA

[email protected]

School is off for today at allpublic schools, and at Kane-land School District 302, dis-trict officials suggested thatfamilies should make child-care plans for Tuesday, aswell.

The Kaneland district wasthe first in the area to call offschool because of the extreme-ly cold weather that is fore-cast for today and Tuesday.Geneva School District 304

also has called off school fortoday. Batavia School District101 also will have no school ontoday, the district announcedon its website. It said no de-cision had been made yet forTuesday.

In St. Charles School Dis-trict 303, it was noted thatschools would be closed be-cause of weather conditionsand that all after-school ac-tivities would be canceled.Schools in Central School Dis-trict 301 will be closed.

Rosary and Marmion high

schools will not have schooltoday.

Faith Christian School inGeneva is called off for today,as is Immanuel LutheranSchool in Batavia. Holy CrossCatholic School in Batavia isclosed today, and its messageindicated that Friday wouldnow be a full day of school.

The temperature was ex-pected to dip below zero lateSunday, with a low of 6 belowzero, according to the Nation-al Weather Service. It then isnot expected to go back above

zero until Wednesday.Today, a high of 4 below

zero is forecast, with windchills as low as 29 below zero.

The forecast low for tonightis 22 below zero, with windchills as low as 38 below zero.

Tuesday promises more ofthe same, with a high of 4 be-low zero and a low of 12 belowzero.

Kaneland officials sent outan email to parents and posteda notice on its website – www.kaneland.org – stating thatits schools, as well as the Fox

Valley Career Center, wouldbe closed today “because ofthe severe weather conditionspredicted for the morning andthroughout the day.”

The school board meetingset for today also was can-celed.

Regarding Tuesday, thedistrict said “families are ad-vised that it may be necessaryto make child-care plans forthat day, as well,” though a de-cision about whether schoolwould be open on Tuesdayisn’t expected until today.

Kaneland first in area to cancel school; St. Charles School District 303 cancels after-school activities

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Bingo fun at Lions Club party

By AL [email protected]

ELBURN – After hearing“N-42” called out during a bin-go session Sunday at the El-burn Lions Club, Sheila Vleckpressed her fingers down arow on her special plastic“Braille” game card. Whenshe reached the final numberon the row, she recognized itas 42 and placed a bingo chipon top.

Bingo in Elburn was oneof the final stops of a week-end-long festival called Ski forSight, in which participantsenjoyed a party in Sycamoreon Friday night, outdoor ac-tivities in Shabbona on Sat-urday, a banquet and dancingin DeKalb on Saturday night,and then a choice of bowlingin Sycamore or bingo in El-burn on Sunday. Elburn thenhosted a lunch to close theevent.

It was the 32nd year theevent had taken place. In El-burn, Chris Halsey, the firstvice district governor for El-burn’s region, called out num-bers for game after game asparticipants played on their

special cards, with help fromthe young members of the El-gin Leo and Junior Leo clubs.Vleck sat at a table near theback, helped by Junior Leomember Aubrey Broz, whodid everything from servingdrinks to pointing out num-bers to helping to take outVleck’s service dog, Rhea.

Vleck said she enjoyedplaying bingo at the eventeach year – something she hasdone for 15 years – but she saidshe could not see herself play-ing bingo on a regular basis.

“I couldn’t do this,” shesaid, smiling. “I couldn’t takethe pressure. I do this for fun.”

Some at the event showedemotion when they won. An-dre Williams, who won thefirst game, was clapping andcelebrating with Elburn LeoClub member Zach Strayve.Others enthusiastically shout-ed out “bingo” when theywon, and then collected asmall cash prize.

Marty Hutchings sat atVleck’s table. He said he par-ticipated in the cross countryskiing, and that some wenthiking on Saturday, as well.He said it was a good time, and

that he had been coming tothe event since 1995. CarolynnWerline, from the DeKalb Li-ons Evening Club, said shehas heard that Ski for Sightis the highlight of the year formany participants.

Werline said it was a goodweekend for the event, sincethere was plenty of snow.

“This is good weather,” shesaid. “There are weekendswhen we should have called it‘Hike for Sight.’ ”

Cheryl Lee, of the ElburnLions Club, said she has beenhelping to run the Elburnstage of Ski for Sight for aboutnine years. She praised theinvolvement of the youngermembers, saying it was “agood thing for them” to helpout.

Werline said people comefrom regions such as Chicagoand Rockford, helping the Li-ons Club fulfill its devotion tohelping visually impaired in-dividuals. She said that devo-tion comes from a 1925 speech,available at www.lionsclubs.org, in which Helen Keller ap-pealed to the Lions for help.

“Are you going to say no toHelen Keller?” Werline said.

Clubs throughout the region take part in Ski for Sight event

Al Lagattolla – [email protected]

Marty Hutchings (left) checks for a number Sunday as Elburn Junior Leos Club member Aubrey Broz at theElburn Lions Club.

8LOCAL BRIEFS

U.S. citizenship programon tap in St. CharlesST. CHARLES – Literacy

Volunteers Fox Valley will hosta program on U.S. citizenshipfrom 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. and6 to 7 p.m. Tuesday at the St.Charles Public Library, 1 S.Sixth Ave., St. Charles. Mau-reen E. Kelly, an immigrationattorney, and Beatriz Rosa,who is Literacy Volunteers FoxValley’s student liaison andteaches citizenship classesfor World Relief in Aurora, willhost the event.Attendees will have an

opportunity to talk individuallywith the hosts before andafter their presentation on U.S.citizenship.The program is free and open

to anyone.For information, call Bea Rosa

at 630-584-2811.

Zonta Club offeringscholarshipsThe Zonta Club of St.

Charles-Geneva-Batavia offersa scholarship to enable girlswho complete the sixth gradein June 2014 to explore theworld of mathematics andscience and their importancein many career fields.The scholarship covers a

one-week session held in July2014. Math and Science Campwill be at a local university.Applicants must have

permanent family residencefor 12 months before theapplication deadline withinthe following school districts:

Batavia Public School District101, Burlington CommunitySchool District 301, KanelandCommunity School District302, St. Charles CommunityUnit School District 303, Ge-neva Community Unit SchoolDistrict 304 or Elgin SchoolDistrict Unit 46.This also includes private

school students within theboundaries of the aforemen-tioned public school districtsthat also meet the residencyrequirements.Applications for math camp

scholarships must be submit-ted no later than Saturday.Awards are made in May for

the July 2014 program.Applications are available

online at www.zontawest-sgb.org.Questions regarding the

camp can be directed to LauriePerry, Zonta Scholarship Com-mittee, at 630-402-0086 [email protected].

Church to hold usedbook sale SaturdayST. CHARLES – Baker Memo-

rial United Methodist Church,307 Cedar Ave., St. Charles,will hold a used book sale from9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday.Proceeds benefit the United

Methodist Committee on ReliefMidwest tornado relief effortsfollowing the tornadoes inWashington and the surround-ing areas.Contact the church at 630-

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PORTS

4 UPSTATE EIGHT CONFERENCE WRESTLING

Saints just ‘getting better and better’

By KEVIN [email protected]

ELGIN – Elgin High Schoolsold discounted mattresses inits foyer Saturday, a fundrais-er that tempted some wres-tlers competing for UpstateEight Conference titles inadjacent Chesbrough Field-house.

“Over the break, I was go-ing to go to the mattress andtake a little nap,” St. CharlesEast senior 138-pounder Isa-iah Vela said, “but …”

It was probably best Veladidn’t give in. After winningthe UEC team title behind sixindividual champions, theSaints aren’t nearly ready torest with next month’s stateseries on deck.

“Wrestling is kind of likea roller coaster; there’s highsand lows,” East 145-pounderJake Mende said. “At the endof the year, we’re always try-ing to peak, and I feel like thisis the first step in that. AndI feel like from now on, weshould be getting better andbetter, so that’s our goal.”

Anthony Rubino (113),Ryan Valesh (132), Keone De-rain (152) and Ramon Lopez(160) joined Mende and Velaatop their respective podiums.Lopez scored his title with afall, while the rest of his team-mates earned decisions.

Batavia (Connor McK-eehan, 220) and St. CharlesNorth (Kolbe O’Brien, 106)also produced champions.Batavia’s Noah Frazier wassecond at 195.

The Bulldogs finishedfourth out of 14 teams, butcollected their first accoladeearlier in the day when McK-eehan – who notched his firstcareer tournament win – wasnamed the event’s Ed Wash-ington Sportsmanship Awardwinner.

“That was really neat,you know. It’s another one ofthose things that just remindsme of why I do the sport,”McKeehan said. “It’s a gruel-ing sport, you know. You gothrough periods of time whereit’s like, ‘Why am I doing this?

Why am I here?’ Winning thataward and then finally win-ning a varsity tournament,those are two big remindersof, ‘This is why I wrestle. Thisis why I do this sport. This iswhy I stuck with it. This iswhy I’m still around.’ ”

O’Brien, 30-5 in his debutseason, continued a strongrun with a fall and two tightdecisions in his tournamentbouts.

“I’m confident with whatI’m doing,” he said. “Thenew coach [Ben Hummel] hashelped, and it’s competitive inpractice.”

Geneva’s top finisher wasrunner-up Mike Huck, whochallenged Mende for thethird time since last season’sconference meet but sufferedhis third loss in that span, a4-3 decision.

Mende won, 2-0, when Eastdefeated Geneva in mid-De-cember as part of its secondconsecutive UEC River dualssweep.

“I thought Mende con-trolled the pace of the dualmeet, and I thought Huck con-trolled the pace of this meet,”Vikings coach Tom Chernichsaid. “A good match.”

At 160, Batavia’s JakeBirkhaug encountered aneven more immediate case ofdéjà vu, having just defeatedStreamwood’s Darell James –his opponent in the fifth-placematch – 1-0 last week.

Birkhaug scored a 6-0 deci-sion this time despite a tenderright shoulder he aggravatedFriday.

“My right arm doesn’thave the strength it usuallydoes,” Birkhaug said. “I was

able to bait him into shootinginstead of shooting myself, sothat was able to offset some ofthat.”

A little while later, McK-eehan escaped being pinnedto his own shoulders whenhe sprawled instinctually offhis back and on top of NeuquaValley’s D.J. Warkenthienlate in the bout.

McKeehan insisted hedidn’t know the score enter-ing the third period – it was6-4, Warkenthien – and sound-ed like he was of similar mindin assessing his path to a fallin 5:40.

“It’s one of those thingswhere I’m not really sure if Idid that as much as the wres-tling side of me just kind oftook over, and there it went,”McKeehan said. “I caught himin a funky place and I didn’t

even think I’d be able to keephim there, and then I endedup pinning him. I don’t know.That was just, ‘Wow.’ ”

Several East fans showedtheir own excitement over abanner day in which nearlyhalf the team captured one of14 conference titles.

Plenty of smiles and pic-tures went around, but theSaints still were telling them-selves they wanted the samescene in Champaign (individ-ual state tournament) and,ideally, Bloomington (dualteam state).

“We’re looking prettystrong as of today,” Vela said.“Hopefully, we come out ontop.”

After that, lying down willbe acceptable. The Saints willprobably want the nearestmattress, anyway.

St. Charles East captures six individual titles en route to team championship

Mary Beth Nolan for Shaw Media

St. Charles East 145-pound wrestler Jake Mende (top) was one of six individual Saints champions Saturday, helping the team to the UpstateEight Conference title in Elgin.

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TODAYGirls basketball: Newark at Wheaton Academy, 6 p.m.Girls bowling: Kaneland at Northern Illinois Big 12 Tournament at

Dixon’s Plum Hollow Lanes, 10 a.m.Girls gymnastics: U-46 Coop at St. Charles North, 5 p.m.

TUESDAYBoys basketball: Plainfield Central at Aurora Central Catholic, 7:30

p.m.; Glenbard South at St. Francis, 7:30 p.m.; Aurora Christian atWinnebago, 7:15 p.m.; Kaneland at St. Edward, 7:30 p.m.Girls basketball: Glenbard South at St. Charles North, 7:15 p.m.;

Burlington Central at Harvard, 7:15 p.m.; St. Francis at Niles North, TBD.

WEDNESDAYGirls basketball: Fenwick at Geneva, 7:15 p.m.Girls gymnastics: Geneva at Oswego, 6 p.m.

THURSDAYBoys basketball: Larkin at St. Charles East, 7:15 p.m.; St. Charles

North at Elgin, 7:15 p.m.Girls basketball: Aurora Central Catholic at Nazareth, 7:30 p.m.; Whea-

ton Academy at Westminster, 7 p.m.; Chicago Christian at Rosary, 7 p.m.Girls gymnastics: UEC Championships at Neuqua Valley, 6 p.m.

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TuesdayStory on the St. Charles North athletic department’s bid to

make major upgrades to the school’s weightroom.On Saturday, North will conduct a “Lift-a-thon” fundraiser, with

the goal being to raise funds to buy new equipment. Footballcoach Rob Pomazak and North’s boosters are among theringleaders of the project.

FridayCoverage of Thursday’s Upstate Eight Conference girls gym-

nastics meet.Geneva is having arguably its best season in school history,

having established new program scoring records on multipleoccasions.

SaturdayLog on to KCChronicle.com/preps for coverage of a pair of

marquee Upstate Eight Conference River boys basketball games.St. Charles East goes for the season sweep against visiting

Geneva while host St. Charles North tries to keep its conferencetitle hopes alive against first-place Larkin, which beat Northearlier this season in Elgin.

GIRLS BASKETBALL: GENEVA 63, ST. CHARLES EAST 56

Despite cut in hand, Seberger pours in 20 pointsBy DENNIS D. [email protected]

ST. CHARLES – It was go-ing to take more than a cutright hand to slow down Mor-gan Seberger on Saturdaynight.

The Geneva senior pouredin 20 points to lead the Vikingsto a 63-56 victory against St.Charles East in an UpstateEight Conference River Divi-sion girls basketball battle.

Seberger said she injuredher shooting hand early in thesecond quarter.

“It got a little cut and it keptbleeding,” she said. “First,they had like this weird littlebandage on it and at halftimeI got it wrapped up. I had to goshoot [before the start of thethird quarter] to make sure itfelt right.”

Geneva (15-5, 6-2 UEC Riv-er) needed Seberger’s hot handto stave off a determined effortby the Saints (10-13, 3-6), whobenefited from some pretty tor-rid shooting of their own fromthe likes of Kyra Washington(16 points) and Chloe John (10).

Washington, a 6-foot-1 ju-nior, buried a 3-pointer fromthe left side with three min-utes left in the first quarter togive East its largest lead of thenight, 14-6.

“Washington had a nicegame,” Geneva coach Sar-ah Meadows said. “They justwork hard. They’re just ascrappy team. I told the kids,‘This is a team that can out-work you if you let them.’ And

they showed that they could dothat.”

The Vikings responded tothe eight-point deficit with a9-0 run, capped by five straightpoints from Seberger on a stealand layup and a trey from rightof the key. Seberger connectedfrom 15 feet with six secondsleft in the quarter to put Gene-va ahead, 17-16.

The Vikings still were upby one at thehalf, 29-28, butW a s h i n g t o nsank a 3 fromthe top of thekey at the startof the thirdquarter to putthe Saints backin front.

Sidney San-tos scored from beyond the arca short time later to finally putGeneva in front to stay. San-tos, a 6-1 senior, scored all nineof her points in the second halfand the Vikings also got contri-butions inside from 6-2 fresh-man Grace Loberg (13 points,seven rebounds), 5-10 juniorJanie McCloughan (ninepoints, four rebounds) and6-0 junior Abby Novak (sevenpoints, seven rebounds).

“Kyra lit us up,“ Sebergersaid. “[But] then Sidney wouldhit a shot, I’d hit a shot, we’dhave Grace go up for a layup,Abby go for a layup. It was justexciting to finally get goinglate in the game.”

Loberg scored inside to givethe Vikings a 43-35 cushionmidway through the third, but

East refused to die. John hita 15-footer with four secondsleft in the quarter to pull theSaints within 48-46.

East coach Lori Drumtrasaid she was pleased with herteam’s effort, especially inthe absence of standout pointguard Amanda Hilton, recent-ly lost for the season with aknee injury.

“It’s taken us awhile to[learn to] play without Aman-da, but I think, especially Katie[Claussner] has really startedto take over that spot,” Drum-tra said. “And Kyra’s playingbetter. I mean, I don’t takethose two off the floor.”

Claussner, a speedy 5-5 ju-nior guard, slashed her way to13 points on the night.

Switching from a zone to aman-to-man defense, the Vi-kings did a better job contain-ing her in the second half. TheSaints, on the other hand, hadno answer for Seberger, whogot open against both zone andman looks. She scored fromthe right baseline at the startof the fourth quarter, thenknocked in a 3-pointer fromthe wing with under threeminutes to play to give Genevaits largest lead at 60-50.

Seberger said the Vikingsare looking to close out the reg-ular season in strong fashionwith an eye toward an extend-ed postseason run.

“We just want to keep work-ing together and get everyoneon the same page to help us getthrough February and maybeinto March,” she said.

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Kaneland finishes sixth at conference meetKANE COUNTY CHRONICLE

STERLING – Kaneland se-nior 285-pound wrestler JustinDiddell capped a solid weekwith a Northern Illinois Big 12championship Saturday.

Diddell, who committedto the Indiana State footballprogram earlier in the week,scored the Knights’ top finish

and earned falls in each of histhree matches, including awin in 3:21 against DeKalb’sAlex Roach in the title bout.

“Justin had an awesometournament,” Knights coachMonty Jahns said. “He’s mov-ing much better. He’s movinghis feet, he’s using his handsand he’s taking his opportuni-ties when he gets them.”

Kaneland finished sixthin the 12-team race, 2.5 pointsahead of host Sterling.

Austin Parks placed thirdat 160, Matthew Redman wasfourth at 126 and Adam Mishtook fifth at 113.

“It’s respectable for us,”Jahns said. “We ended upprobably where we thoughtwe’d be.”

MorganSeberger

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7Celebrate big birthdaywithout using big bucks

Dear Abby: I’m a 14-year-old girl going on 15. I amhalf-Mexican. In the Mexicanculture, a girl’s 15th birth-day is the year in which shebecomes a woman. Most girlshave a “quinceanera” partyfor this birthday. But thesecelebrations cost a lot ofmoney – almost as much as awedding.

I have been debatingwhether or not I shouldhave one. My mom says shewould rather put the moneytoward my college fund. Iagree with her, but I also feellike I should acknowledgemy Mexican background asmuch as I do the Caucasianpart. I don’t want to pressuremy parents, but I also don’twant to be left out whenmy friends talk about theirquinceaneras. What do youthink? – Party Or Not InNorthern California

Dear Party Or Not: Aquinceanera may cost almostas much as a wedding, butthere are weddings for everybudget. We have all heard offamilies who have gone intodebt to finance a wedding,but I never advise readers togo into debt for somethinglike that.

If your primary reason forwanting a quinceanera is soyou won’t feel left out of theconversation when friendstalk about theirs, considera small celebration withsome of your girlfriends.That way your college fundwon’t be depleted, and you’llspend fewer years paying offstudent loans.

One of my friends,Fabiola, told me that somegodmothers (“madrinas”)help to defray the cost of aquinceanera.

There can be a godmotherfor the cake, another for thedress, etc. But she also toldme that although her motherinsisted she have a quincean-era, in thinking back aboutit, she wishes she’d had thatmoney for college. Thereare other ways to celebrateyour Mexican heritage thanspending a lot of money, soplease give this some seriousthought.

Dear Abby: I just learnedthat my unborn child is a

boy. Some people tell me thatit’s harder to raise a babyboy, but others tell me dif-ferently. I don’t know who tobelieve anymore. I am onlyfive months pregnant andalready feeling stressed. – 19And Confused

Dear 19 And Confused: Yourpregnancy and subsequentmotherhood will be 100percent easier if you stoplistening to people who relishputting negative thoughtsin the heads of others. If youwant RELIABLE informa-tion about raising your littleboy, the person to get it fromis your pediatrician.

Dear Abby: I saw yourChristmas column in whichyou included a note to allyour Christian readers, andfrankly I found it a littlerude. Not only Christianpeople celebrate Christmas;many of us celebrate it asa secular holiday, a time tocelebrate the love and joyin our lives and our family(both blood relatives and thepeople we make our family).

I don’t recall you wish-ing a Happy Hanukkah, aBlessed Ramadan or a HappyYule to your Jewish, Muslimand Pagan readers (althoughI may have missed it). I’mnot usually one to care aboutsuch things, but since peoplefrom all walks of life come toyou for advice, it would benice to see you reach out toall of your readers. – HappyPagan Chick In Denver

Dear Happy Pagan Chick:You must not be a regularreader if you miss all of myholiday greetings. It has longbeen my practice to offergood wishes to my readersduring the major holidays.

This includes greetingsto my Christian readersat Easter and Christmas,my Jewish readers at YomKippur and Hanukkah, andmy Muslim readers when thefast of Ramadan is broken.

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An unusual bid

for a rare situation

BRIDGE by Phillip Alder

Jim Rohn, an entrepreneurand a motivational speaker whodied in 2009, said, “If you arenot willing to risk the unusual,you will have to settle for theordinary.”

It is true that at the bridgetable, producing an unusual bidmight not be a good idea if it isgoing to flummox partner intomaking an error. But if you havediscussed the situation before,you can safely produce theunusual.

Look at today’s North hand.You deal and open three hearts.With the opponents retaining arespectful silence, your partnerresponds four diamonds. Assum-ing this is natural and forcing,what would you rebid?

What does four diamondspromise? Many teachers use theexpression “six and 16” – at leasta six-card suit and 16 high-cardpoints. Also, typically, responderis very short in opener’s suit,especially when that is a major.

How should opener react?With no support for responder’ssuit, he may rebid his own suitor three no-trump (if legal, ofcourse). With moderate support,like a low doubleton (or perhapshonor-doubleton with an unap-pealing hand), he raises respond-er’s suit. But with good support(any three cards, or honor-dou-bleton and an appealing hand),he shows a side-suit singleton (orvoid).

In this deal, North shouldrebid four spades. And that isjust what South wants to hear.He can now leap majestically tosix diamonds.

Note that even after a clublead and trump shift, the con-tract is laydown. South takes onespade, one heart, eight diamondsand two spade ruffs on the board.

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