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GLINIEWICZ TOPS LIST

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1. Fox Lake Police Lt. Joseph Gliniewicz. 2. Melodie Gliniewicz (center), widow of Joseph Gliniewicz, attends her husband’s funeral Sept. 7 at Antioch Community High School. 3. Joseph Gliniewicz’s casket is wheeled into a hearse. 4. Custom Haircuts employees Cindy Gardanier (front) and Becky Claussen hang blue ribbon on their building Sept. 3 to honor Gliniewicz. 5. Lake County Sheriff’s Detective Chris Covelli (left) and Lake County Major Crimes Task Force Cmdr. George Filenko arrive Sept. 3 to brief the media on the Gliniewicz investigation. 6. Fox Lake Village Administrator Anne Marrin on Nov. 19 looks through boxes full of military surplus items Gliniewicz bought for the Fox Lake Police Explorer Post 300 program he oversaw.

By KEVIN P. CRAVER [email protected]

FOX LAKE – In two months, the story of a fallen hero disintegrated into the story of a crooked cop who fooled his community and the nation.

Fox Lake Police Lt. Joseph “G.I. Joe” Gliniewicz’s attempt to perpetrate one of the strangest hoaxes in local history by making his suicide look like he was slain in the line of duty is the Northwest Herald’s top local news story of the year, as voted by the newspaper staff.

Gliniewicz, 52, was found shot to death Sept. 1 near an abandoned concrete plant after ra-dioing in that he was chasing three suspicious

men, two white and one black. Law enforce-ment swarmed the area in a desperate and un-successful search for the killers.

Gliniewicz was given a hero’s funeral at his alma mater of Antioch High School, where thousands of mourners and police officers from all over the country came to pay their respects.

The investigation stretched into weeks and then months with no apparent progress in find-ing suspects. Talk that Gliniewicz might not have been a hero after all began to spread.

Investigators confirmed those rumors, and

much worse, on the morning of Nov. 4.Records and deleted texts from Gliniewicz

revealed he had been skimming thousands of dollars from the Fox Lake Police Explorer Post 300 youth program he led, and that he, in fact, committed a “cleverly staged” suicide out of fear of getting caught. The money, investigators revealed, was spent on things such as mortgage payments, personal loans, gym memberships, travel and visits to adult websites.

Investigators also said Gliniewicz, before his death, attempted to “put a hit” on new Village Administrator Anne Marrin, whom he feared would discover his years of embezzling.

n SPORTS: Marian Central Hurricanes captured Class 3A high school volleyball championship. PAGE C1

n BUSINESS: Woodstock manufacturer Silgan Plastics to exit McHenry County. PAGE D1

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By ALLISON GOODRICH [email protected]

CRYSTAL LAKE – As a precau-tion, Crystal Lake-based Community High School District 155 made plans to administer the ACT to juniors in the spring – this school year – at its own cost.

Illinois has given high school juniors the opportunity to take the ACT for free since the early 2000s, but this year the College Board, pro-vider of the SAT, was the successful

bidder for the state-contracted col-lege entrance exam.

The procurement is not final be-cause the ACT has filed a protest, Illinois State Board of Education spokeswoman Amanda Simhouser wrote in an email Dec. 18.

But regardless of how the process unfolds, funding statewide testing remains an overarching issue as long as the state’s now six-month budget impasse continues.

“Our district has made plans to administer the ACT this year,” said

District 155 director of curriculum and assessment Scott Kubelka. “We made plans with ACT in the event that ISBE was not going to support the funding of the exam.”

In McHenry Coun-ty, District 155 isn’t the only one that made this call early on.

Juniors in Huntley Community School District 158 and Woodstock Com-munity School District 200 also will

be taking the ACT regardless of the state’s plan, officials said.

“The state kicked it around so long, but we felt like our kids were in need,” District 200 Superintendent Mike Moan said. “So we decided we’re going to give the ACT one day at both high schools like we have the last 12 to 15 years.”

Carl Vallianatos, McHenry High School District 156 director of curric-ulum and instruction, said funding the ACT internally isn’t likely for his district, but ACT prep has con-

tinued with 11th-graders this year.Kubelka said the cost to admin-

ister the exam – an exam educators say is crucial to any college appli-cation process – is $56.50 a student, including the writing portion.

According to state records, the bid from the College Board totaled about $14.3 million.

If the procurement is finalized, the contract would span three years, meaning if school districts wanted

As Illinois shifts to SAT, area schools opting for ACTSee GLINIEWICZ, page A9

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D-47 principal to receive awardBy ALLISON GOODRICH

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CRYSTAL LAKE – A Crystal Lake School District 47 principal has earned re-gionwide recognition, being named the Kishwaukee Re-

gion’s Middle School Princi-pal of the Year, t h e d i s t r i c t r e c e n t l y a n -nounced.

N a m e d b y t h e I l l i n o i s Principals As-

sociation, Jeff Prickett leads Richard Bernotas Middle School and has been with the district for a year and a half, according to a district news release.

The award means Prickett met a number of criteria, such as demonstrating a positive impact on education and ad-vocacy for children, ensuring the school climate is positive and reflects high staff and student morale, taking risks to improve student learning,

among several others, the re-lease said.

“We’re excited for Jeff and understand why he’d be nom-inated and ultimately select-ed as the region’s candidate,” Superintendent Kathy Hinz said. “In the year and a half he’s been with District 47, Jeff

has been instrumental in find-ing unique opportunities to engage students and families in the middle school process.”

District officials describe Prickett as passionate and someone who believes in dis-cipline alternatives as well as student leadership.

Before District 47, Prickett served as principal at Round Lake Middle School and W.J. Murphy Elementary in Round Lake. Prior to that, he spent two years as dean of students/assistant principal at Park-land Middle School.

He will be honored Jan. 13 at the Kishwaukee Regional Award Dinner and will be considered by the association for the state Middle School Principal of the Year award.

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Carol Pringle of the Crystal Lake Chamber of Commerce grabs bags of food Nov. 26 to be sorted from a mountain totaling about 60,000 pounds of donated food for the Crystal Lake Food Pantry.

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“In the year and a half he’s been with District 47, Jeff has been instrumental in finding unique opportunities to engage students and families in the middle school process.”

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Illinois association names region’s Middle School Principal of the Year

to take advantage of the potentially new state-provided exam in the future, they will have to implement some changes in preparation, as the SAT’s design differs from that of the ACT’s.

“It’s going to involve staff development for our teachers and administrators to make sure they’re familiar with the test itself,” Kubelka said.

It also could change how districts look

at data because most trackable informa-tion going back more than a decade is based on ACT scores, local school officials said.

The procurement process for the SAT’s bid will remain open as the chief procurement officer’s office will look into the merits of the ACT’s protest, according to state officials.

But that, along with budgetary uncer-tainty, has left Kubelka feeling relieved knowing District 155 students will be pro-vided with an exam this spring.

“It was precautionary, but we’re glad we did what we did,” he said, later add-ing, “This is just one example of a way districts and schools are compromised by the state’s inability to resolve the bud-get.”

• TESTINGContinued from page A1

“It was precautionary, but we’re glad we did what we did.”

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Kubelka: Lack of funding for tests result of state budget mess

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HUNTLEY – Haligus Road will be closed between Faith’s Way and Evandale Road from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday because of traffic signal work at the Algonquin Road intersection, the village announced.

The entrance to Centegra from Haligus Road will remain open, but access will be from the north only. Algonquin Road will remain open, and detour signage will be posted.

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RINGWOOD – Families can search for animal tracks as part of January’s Lost Valley Nature Detective program.

January’s topic is animal tracks, with pretend tracks designed to teach about Glacial Park’s many animals and how they walk, part of rotating indoor displays and activities at the Lost Valley Visitor Center in Glacial Park, Route 31 and Harts Road, Ringwood.

Visitors can make their own animal track guide before heading outside to try to identify footprints on the trails.

A free exploration backpack filled with binoculars and field guides can help visitors on a scavenger hunt designed to ex-plore the wild spaces of Glacial Park. Visitors looking to check out items must leave a driver’s license and return the items 30 minutes before closing.

The activities are available any time the visitor center is open, which is from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. The center will be closed New Year’s Day.

February’s topic will be coyotes.

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WOODSTOCK – McHen-ry County birders are hop-ing for a snowier winter.

As snowy owls fly south from their typical Arctic home, McHenry County birders are watching open fields and barren areas to catch a glimpse of the elu-sive raptors.

There’s not much they can do but leave it up to chance, said Doug Crane, president of the McHenry County Audubon Society. But that won’t keep birders from trying, especially be-cause there have been doz-ens of sightings just north of the border in Wisconsin.

“It’s the rarity,” Crane said. “They’re all nice birds. It’s the unusual ones or the rarer ones, the ones that don’t belong, that it’s excit-ing to say you’ve seen.”

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City worker to retireBy HANNAH PROKOP

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WOODSTOCK – Wood-stock’s executive assistant to the city manager and mayor is retiring at the end of the year, after nearly 19 years on the job.

Cindy Smiley will continue her part-time role as city clerk, but no longer will be executive assistant to Mayor Brian Sag-er and City Manager Roscoe Stelford.

“I always have joked what-ever they don’t know what to give to somebody, I get,” Smiley said. “But that’s been great.”

In addition to doing stan-dard clerical work for Sager and Stelford, Smiley holds a number of other positions, in-cluding Freedom of Informa-tion Act officer, Open Meet-ings Act officer and special events coordinator.

One of the projects she’s worked on that she said she’s

most proud of is the creation of Sesquicentennial Park for the city’s 150th anniversary in 2002.

There was discussion of the grassy area south of East Church Street and in between North Benton and North Jef-ferson streets being turned into a parking lot, Smiley said, but when she brought the idea to then-City Manager Tim Clif-ton, they changed plans.

Smiley said the city still is selling commemorative bricks

for the park, and when she walks through it today, she’s reminded of the “heartwarm-ing” stories behind the bricks that already have been placed there.

Smiley has lived in Wood-stock since she moved for her husband’s job in 1996, and grew to love it the first year she was here, she said.

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Cindy Smiley poses for a photo Thursday outside Woodstock City Hall. Smiley is retiring as the executive assistant with the city of Woodstock after nearly 19 years. She will continue in her position as the city clerk.

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love their dedication to the city.”

She said organizations such as Christmas Clearing-house and other area non-profits show how residents see people in need and do something about it, some-thing she hopes to be more involved in.

Smiley said she plans to work with the Rescued Dog Resource Center, Mane in Heaven and Friends of the Old Courthouse once she re-tires, and spending more time with her three grandchildren.

Sager, who’s worked with Smiley since she started with

the city, said many people don’t realize that she’s the first one to respond to resi-dents’ questions or concerns.

“She has a huge responsi-bility, and Cindy has served this community and its resi-dents incredibly well,” Sager said.

The way she’s served res-idents is one of the things about her job that’s changed the most since she started, Smiley said.

During her first year in 1997, there was no Internet, email or voice mail, Smiley said. Now, technology ad-vances have impacted how she helps people, she said, because she can easily direct anyone who calls to the infor-

mation they need – one of the most satisfying parts of her job.

Smiley said she has helped people do everything from finding a document they’re looking for to helping them find a job.

“When you really feel like you’re helping people and making a difference, that, I think, makes the job really special,” Smiley said.

On Jan. 4, Jane Howie will take over as the new executive assistant, Sager said. Howie was previously the adminis-trative assistant for the city’s Public Works Department, and has worked in the Fi-nance and Planning and Zon-ing departments, Sager said.

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spotted south of the tundra, some as far south as Florida and Bermuda.

Sara Denham, the Wildlife Resource Center manager for the McHenry County Conser-vation District, said she’s re-ceived two reports of snowy owls in the county. How-ever, Denham believes the two reports could have been generated by the same bird,

which died after being found in a field in the Harvard and Marengo area in November.

“We’re assuming it was hit by a car,” Denham said.

Crane said the last record his group has of a snowy owl in McHenry County was in April 2014. Birders search in fields where they can easily find mice and voles, Crane said.

Denham said the best thing for a resident to do in an encounter with a snowy owl is to leave the bird alone.

Based on reports from ebird.org, a website where birders log their finds, the closest report of a snowy owl this year came from rural DeKalb.

But Crane’s optimistic it’s a matter of time before a snowy owl is spotted in McHenry County based on more than 50 reports taken in Wisconsin.

“There’s a good chance,” Crane said, “we’re going to see them in McHenry County again.”

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OBITUARIES

DAVID DALE BLAYBorn: April 21, 1951Died: Dec. 11, 2015

David Dale Blay, age 64, of Al-gonquin passed away at his home, under the care of and surrounded by his family on Friday, December 11, 2015.

Dave was born in Elgin on April 21, 1951, and was the son of the late Eugene & Dawn Blay. Dave was a lifelong resident of the area, a 1969 graduate of Dundee Community High School and then earned an Associate’s Degree from Elgin Community College. His hobbies included camping, making stained glass lamps and his Chevy Corvette. Dave had a real talent for fixing things. He was truly a “Mr. Fix-It.” Most of all, Dave loved his family. He enjoyed traveling and spending time with his in-laws, nieces, and nephews. Over his life, Dave visited 49 states (except Maine) and Pensacola, FL held a special place in his heart.

Dave touched many people’s lives. He will be sorely missed, and his memory will be profoundly cherished.

Survivors include the love of his life and best friend; his wife of 40 years, Karen M.; their son, Brandon, whom he was deeply devoted to; and his brother, Dana (Marsha) Blay.

At Dave’s request, he will be cremated. A Memorial Visitation will be held on Saturday, January 2, 2016, from 2:00 to 4:00 P.M. with a time for remembrance at 3:00 P.M. in Miller Funeral Home, West Dundee.

To leave an on-line condolence, please visit www.millerfuneralho-medundee.com For info, please call 847-426-3436.

GEORGE M. BURKEBorn: June 1, 1920; in Woodstock, ILDied: Dec. 22, 2015; in Woodstock, IL

George M. Burke, age 95, of Woodstock, passed away Tuesday, De-cember 22, 2015, in Woodstock, surrounded by his

loving family. He was born on June 1, 1920,

in Woodstock, to George F. and Anna L. (McGuire) Burke. On May 22, 1946, he married Dolores E. Wagner in Volo.

A graduate of St. Mary High School, he was the last surviving

member of the class of 1938. He served with the United States Army Air Corps from 1941 to 1945 in the South Pacific. From 1950 until his retirement in 1994, he was an auto salesman with Hurley Motors, Woodstock.

He was a Charter Member of VFW Post 5040, and a member of the Knights of Columbus Council 776, where he served as Grand Knight. He also served as a District Deputy for the Knights of Colum-bus.

He was preceded in death by his parents, a brother, Richard; six sisters, Margaret O’Rourke, JoAnn Maas, Mary Miller, Alice Burke, Eileen Burke and Ruth Burke; a son, John Burke; a daughter, Joanne Verkin; a grandson, Timothy Burke; and a granddaughter, Brigid Verkin Buzzard.

Along with his beloved wife, Dolores, he is survived by his children, Patrick (Wendy) Burke, William (Joan) Burke, Mary (Henry) Sugden, Monica (Richard) Hess, and Richard (Leslie) Burke; his grandchildren, Daniel (Aimee) Burke, Shane (Sara) Burke, Joseph (Heather) Burke, Erin (Travis) Slepcevich, Katrina Burke, Henry Sugden, Elizabeth Sugden, Mary Frances Sugden, Garrett Hess, Allison Hess, Michael Burke, Mary Kate Burke, Eileen Burke and Anna Burke; his 10 great-grandchildren; his sister, Rosemary Rainwater, Mendota; and numerous nieces and nephews.

Visitation will be held Sunday, December 27, 2015, from 1:00

p.m. until 5:00 p.m. at Schnei-der-Leucht-Merwin & Cooney Funeral Home, 1211 N. Seminary Ave., Woodstock. The funeral Mass will be at 11:00 a.m. at St. Mary Catholic Church, 312 N. Tryon St., Woodstock, Illinois. Interment will be in Calvary Cemetery, Wood-stock.

For more information, call the funeral home at 815-338-1710 or visit us on the web at www.slmcfh.com.

JAMES R. CONNELLYBorn: Aug. 25, 1935; in Cortland, NYDied: Dec. 23, 2015; in Woodstock,

IL

James R. Connelly, age 80, of Wonder Lake, passed away peacefully Wednes-day, December 23,

2015, at JourneyCare in Woodstock, surrounded by his loving family.

A resident of Wonder Lake since 1964, Jim was the first of four children, born August 25, 1935, in Cortland, NY to Vincent and Elva (Parson) Connelly. He had a lifelong association with the Boy Scouts of America over 65 years. Jim began active service with the U. S. Army in 1953, and attained the rank of sergeant. Jim’s Army service includ-ed 18 months based in Korea, and totaled six active duty years and 11 reserve years.

Upon leaving military service, he married Berdine V. Quall of Onalaska,

Wisconsin on June 27, 1964 in Deer-field, Illinois. Jim’s life was dedicated to public service. Prior to his military service, Jim served on the McGraw Fire Dept. in New York. Later, he was a member of the Great Lakes Navy Base Fire & Security Dept. and the Wonder Lake Fire Department, where he was a firefighter/EMT. He joined the McHenry County Sheriff’s Office in 1969 and served the com-munity 28 years of before retiring in 1997.

Jim was an active member of the Nativity Lutheran Church in Wonder Lake for over 35 years, where he also served on the church board. He volunteered countless hours helping to run and work in the Wonder Lake Food Pantry. He was nominated and awarded the Lamb Award, the highest honor bestowed on a church member by the National Lutheran Church and the Boy Scouts of Ameria for service to the church youth and community. He was also a member of the National Lutheran Association on Scouting.

A driving force behind the Wonder Lake Boy Scouts, Jim helped to found and lead Cub Scout packs, the Wonder Lake Boy Scout Troop 456, as well as Law Enforcement and Fire Explorer posts. He was a life member of the National Eagle Scout Association. Jim impacted hundreds of Wonder Lake youth through their involvement with scouting, and was proud to see his scouts grow up as firefighters, law enforcement offi-cials, teachers, community leaders, members of all branches of the U.S. armed services, state champion

athletes, as well as numerous Eagle Scouts from Wonder Lake.

Survivors include his wife of 51 years, Berdine; four children, Kelly Jo Connelly of Ft. Myers, FL, Timothy James Connelly of Ft. Myers, FL, Shawn Vincent (Anne) Connelly of Wonder Lake, and Colleen Anne (James) West of Ft. Worth, Texas; eight grandchildren, John Owens, Samantha (James) Brace, Danielle Schmider, Nicholas Connelly, Justin West, Jamie Schmider, Brittney Connelly, and Crystal Connelly; a great-grandchild, Camille Schmider; a brother, Gene (Carole) Connelly of McGraw, NY; and a sister, Sharon Morehouse of McGraw, NY.

He was preceded in death by his parents; a sister, Donna Rutan; and a brother-in-law, Donald Morehouse.

Visitation will be from 4:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. Monday, December 28, 2015, at Justen Funeral Home & Crematory, 3700 W. Charles J. Miller Road, McHenry, IL 60050. The funeral service will be at 1:00 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home. Burial will be on Wednesday in Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery, Elwood, IL.

His family suggests memorials in Jim’s honor to the Wonder Lake Troop 456, C/O of Boy Scouts of America, Blackhawk Area Council, P. O. Box 4085, Rockford, IL 61110.

For information, please call the fu-neral home at 815-385-2400 or visit www.justenfh.com, where friends may leaven an online condolence message for his family.

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OBITUARIES

EMERY A. CROSS JR.Born: Jan. 3, 1943; in Harvard, ILDied: Dec. 19, 2015; in Branson, MO

Emery Allen Cross Jr., age 72, of Kimberling City, Missouri, passed away Saturday, De-cember 19, 2015, in Branson, Missouri.

He was born January 3, 1943, in Harvard, Illinois. Emery was the son of Emery Sr. and Glenna Cross. He was joined in marriage to his loving wife Ida Mae on April 12, 1991.

Arrangements and cremation are under the direction of Cremations of the Ozarks.

Emery enjoyed fishing, wood-working, doing body work on cars and watching the Green Bay Packers. He loved his dog, Lucy. He was a member of the Moose Lodge #1329 in Woodstock, Illinois, and the Elks Lodge #2505 in Kimber-ling City. Most of all, Emery loved his family and will be missed by all who knew him.

He was preceded in death by his parents; a daughter, Sherri Cross; a brother, Richard A. Cross; and two brother-in-laws, Michael Streit and Donald Schultz.

Emery is survived by his wife, Ida Mae Cross of the home; two daugh-ters, Elizabeth Carroll of Sharon, Wisconsin, Amanda Fahrenbach and husband, Paul of North Fork, West Virginia; two step-daughters, Cynthia McGee and husband Jesse of Kentucky, Suzanne Huckabee and husband Jason of McHenry, Illinois; a step-son, Jonathon Dickson and wife, Lynn of Woodstock, Illinois; 11 grandchildren; six great-grandchil-dren; three sisters, Kathie Laudick and husband, Paul of Woodstock, Illinois, Delores Streit of Wonder Lake, Illinois, Peggy Joosten and husband, Dale of Woodstock, Illinois; a brother, Glenn Cross and wife, Sharon of Smithville, Tennes-see; as well as several nieces and nephews.

No services are planned at this time.

In lieu of flowers, memorial con-tributions in memory of Emery may be made to the American Cancer Society, www.cancer.org.

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DENISE ERICKSONBorn: Oct. 29, 1958Died: Dec. 21, 2015

Denise Erickson, 57, of Addison, IL passed away suddenly Monday, December 21, doing what she loved. A graduate of the Le

Cordon Bleu School of Culinary Arts in Chicago, Denise had been a found-ing employee of Baker and Nosh, an award-winning café and bakery in Chicago. It was there where she felt most at peace and it was there that she spent her final moments.

Denise, born in Springfield, MA on October 29, 1958, was preceded in death by her parents, Edward Warren Adams and Darlene Adams Oehler.

She is survived by her two children, Madalyn Ashley Erickson and Jeffrey Edward Erickson; three siblings, Douglas (Terri) Adams, Daniel Adams and Dawn (Dan) Fox; and several nephews.

A Chicagoland resident since 1964, Denise graduated from St. John Lu-theran Grade School in Elgin and was a 1976 graduate of Elgin High School. A dental technician by trade until the birth of her two children, Denise dis-covered her true calling and passion for cooking and attained a degree in Culinary Arts in 2011 graduating with the prestigious Executive Chef award. Shortly after graduation, she joined her favorite teacher and renowned Chef, Bill Millholland in his new venture and never looked back.

There were several constants in Denise’s life. Norman Barr Camp, a Christian Camp on the shores of Lake Geneva, WI, was always a second home in summertime, and brought her together with her children and her family whose cabin was next to hers. At work, she fine tuned her craft, and her cinnamon buns became her signature and sold out quickly each day. Never did she complain about the 3:30 a.m. wake ups or the long hours on her feet. She made the most of each day with a friendly spirit and a contagious

smile, even when faced with the curveballs life often threw her way. She was undaunted and courageous in the face of all adversity. That, and her unquestioning love for her family and friends, was her most endearing quality and her greatest gift to those she loved.

A memorial service is planned in her honor at 2:00 pm Saturday, January 2, 2016, with visitation beginning at 12:00 at Holy Cross Lutheran Church, 1702 Three Oaks Road, Cary, IL.

Arrangements are made through Kahle Moore Funeral Home, 403 Silver Lake Road, Cary, IL. Con-tact them at 847-639-3817 or Kahlemoore.com.

In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Norman B. Barr Camp.


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VERNIE M. FITCH

Vernie (Junior) Marshal Fitch, 72, of Harvard, passed away peacefully in his home on December 20,

surrounded by his children and a close friend.

Vern was a lifelong resident of McHenry County. He served in the Air Force, was a truck driver and sold firewood.

Vern is survived by his children, Mike (Tracey) Fitch, Pam (Umesh) Berry, Dave (Corry) Fitch, Nancy Fitch, and John (Mary) Fitch; grandchildren, Eric, Hannah, Jason, Katelyn, Adelle, Autumn, Madeline and Nicole; nieces, Rose and Vicky; nephew, Lenny; and his beloved cat, Miss Piggy.

He was preceded in death by parents, Vernie and Elizabeth (Fish-burn) Fitch; brother, Leonard; and half sister, Marie.

Memorials to Vern Fitch Memorial Fund (Castle Bank, 355 S. Division St., Harvard, IL, 60033) or National

Cancer Society in lieu of flowers.Celebration of life will be held on

December 30, from 4:00 to 7:00 at St. Paul Lutheran Church, 1601 Garfield Rd, Harvard. Private burial will be held.

STANLEY R. HOFFBorn: Feb. 19, 1923; in New York

City, NYDied: Dec. 23, 2015; in Elgin, IL

Stanley R. Hoff, 92, of Sun City, Huntley, passed away on Wednes-day, December

23, 2015, in Elgin following a short illness.

He was born February 19, 1923, in New York City, the son of John and Leah (Wolff) Hoff. He was raised in Springfield, Massachusetts. On July 21, 1943, he married Sara Shub in Springfield. He enlisted in the Unit-ed States Air Force and served in WWII, and years later was recalled for both the Korean Conflict and the Berlin Blockade. Stanley career was as an executive and an engineer in the technology field until retiring in

the late 1980s. Stan enjoyed skiing, tennis, and windsurfing, and when the couple moved to Huntley in 2004, his civic mindedness kept him active with volunteering and community service.

He is survived by his wife, Sara of Huntley; his daughter, Lynda (Alan) Mogilner of Huntley; his son, Ronald Hoff of Arlington, Texas; his grand-children, Geoffrey (Ellie) Mogilner, Rachael (Michael) Scherer and the late Jayson (Jamie) Mogilner; his great-grandchildren, Robert, Max, Matthew, Aaron, Abigail, Benja-min and Nathan; and his brother, Charles (Sheila) Hoff.

Visitation will be held on Sunday, December 27 from 12 noon until the time of the 1:00 p.m. funeral service at DeFiore-Jorgensen Funeral Home, 10763 Dundee Road, Huntley. Burial will be in McHenry County Jewish Cemetery, Woodstock.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Northwestern Brain Tumor Institute, Jayson Mogilner & Friends, Kick-It Fund, Attn: Holly Gibout, 251 E. Huron Street, Galter Pavilion, Suite 3-200, Chicago, Illinois 60611.

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BARBARA J. KNUTTERBorn: Feb. 7, 1943Died: Dec. 24, 2015

Barbara J. Knutter, 72, of Lake Geneva, WI, died Wednesday December 24, 2015, at Aurora Lakeland Medical Center.

Barbara Jane Knutter was born in Elgin, IL on February 7, 1943, the daughter of the late Lester and Marion (Slavin) Knutter. She graduated from Marion Central High School in 1961. She graduated from Racine and Kenosha Teachers College and then the University of Wisconsin, Whitewater. She taught for many years in the Beloit and Milwaukee area. She loved teaching the children. She was a member of St. Francis de Sales

Catholic Church in Lake Geneva and a member of the Racine Do-minicans. After retiring, Barb was a volunteer for the Walworth County Meals on Wheels.

She is survived by a sister, Patri-cia Hammer of Woodstock, IL; and many nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents; a brother, Karl Knutter and his wife, Joan; a brother-in-law, Daniel Hammer; and a niece, Kelly England.

Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Wednesday, December 30, 2015, at 11:00 a.m. at St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church; Father Jim Scheurman will officiate. Visitation will be Wednesday, in church, from 10:00 a.m. until time of services.

In lieu of other expressions of sympathy memorials are requested in Barb’s name to: Aurora at Home Hospice, 103 N. Dodge St. Burling-ton, WI 53105 or Kindred Hearts of Elkhorn, Elkhorn, WI 53121.

Derrick Funeral Home and Cre-mation Services is assisting with arrangements.

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STUART LEVIN

Stuart Levin, 75, beloved husband of the late Carol; loving father of Michael (Tracy) Reif, Marcy

Reif (Chris Ferg) and Scott Reif (Sheila Taylor); cherished Gramps of Nicholas, Gabrielle, Geoffrey, Kathleen and Riley Reif, Wesley Ward and the late Brandon Ward; adored great grandfather of Emmalee, Ryker and Allyson; devoted son of the late Bernice and William Levin; dear brother of Roberta (Dr. Gary) Morris and Kerry Levin; treasured uncle, cousin and friend of many.

Chapel service Tuesday, December 29, at 12:15 PM at Shalom Memorial Funeral Home, 1700 W. Rand Road, Arlington Heights. Interment Shalom Memorial Park.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the American Cancer Society and the American Lung Association.

For information, tributes and con-dolences, 847-255-3520 or www.shalom2.com.

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LOCAL BRIEF

Icy roads, power outages possible Monday

Winter weather may bring ice-covered roads and winds with gusts as high as 45 mph Monday, the National Weather

Service warned in a winter weather watch issued Satur-day afternoon.

McHenry County could see rain Sunday as temperatures remain in the mid- to high 30s

before perhaps falling to a low of 29 degrees Sunday night, forecasts said.

There is a slight chance of snow, freezing rain and sleet after 3 a.m. Monday, but the

chances of wet weather climb as the morning continues.

The amount of snow, sleet or ice to hit the county Monday morning through the after-noon could reach “significant”

levels, the winter weather watch said. The main impact could be ice accumulation up to a quarter of an inch, as well as eastern winds of 25 to 35 mph with gusts up to 45 mph

possible.That weather could result in

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Mario Casciaro’s conviction in Carrick death overturned

Mario Casciaro became a free man after an appeals court threw out his 2013 conviction

for the murder of Johnsburg teenager Brian Carrick.

A McHenry County court convicted Casciaro, 32, of first-degree murder by intimidation in Carrick’s disappearance and sentenced him to 26 years in prison. Carrick, 17, was last seen just before Christmas 2002 at the Johnsburg grocery store where he worked, which had been owned by Casciaro’s parents.

The 2nd District Appellate Court overturned the conviction in September after ruling evidence was so lacking that the state failed to prove Casciaro’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.

Prosecutors argued Casciaro ordered fellow grocery store employee Shane Lamb to intimidate Carrick into paying a drug debt, but that the intimidation went too far.

Lamb, who testified against Casciaro, later recanted the entire story in a signed affidavit and on a national news program. He is serving a 20-year sentence on unre-lated weapons charges.

Casciaro wants to attend law school and then run for state office to help put safeguards into the law against wrongful convictions.

Carrick’s body has not been found.

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McHenry County Sheriff’s Deputy Dwight Maness, who was recovering after being shot on duty during a well-being check in October 2014 in Holiday Hills, died Sept. 14 from a cardiopulmonary arrest from a blood clot in his lungs.

Deputy Dwight Maness dies, shooter sentenced to 135 years

McHenry County Sheriff’s Deputy Dwight Maness, who was

recovering from being shot in the line of duty in 2014, suffered cardiopulmonary arrest from a blood clot in his lungs during rehabilitation therapy and died Sept. 14 at age 47.

Maness underwent 15 surgeries and was eager to rejoin the police force.

“I have the determination. I will put in the hard work. I will walk again,” Maness had said.

Maness and fellow Deputy Khalia Sat-kiewicz were wounded after responding in the early morning hours of Oct. 16, 2014, to the Holiday Hills home of Scott B. Peters, who fired more than a dozen rounds at responding officers.

A court earlier this year found Peters, now 54, guilty of 15 felony counts and sentenced him to 135 years in prison.

Prosecutors, after consulting with Maness’ widow, decided against pursuing murder charges after Maness’ death.

Satkiewicz returned to duty in October.

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The owners of two properties and the city of Crystal Lake prevailed in their lawsuit over the height and placement of the new bleachers at Crystal Lake South High School.

The Illinois Supreme Court ruled Sept. 24 that the Community High School District 155 Board

needed to go through Crystal Lake’s planning and zoning pro-cess before erecting the bleachers. The school board took the case to the Supreme Court after the circuit and appellate courts

both sided with the plaintiffs.Plaintiffs sued in August 2013 even before the new bleachers

were finished. The bleachers, they argued, were far too high and too close

to neighboring homes, creating a noise and visual nuisance and violating the city’s zoning rules.

Plaintiffs have agreed to a compromise – a court-ordered demolition has been stayed until mid-March while the school board goes through the zoning process.

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McHenry High School District 156 teachers go on strike

About 2,600 students were out of school for seven days in October when McHenry High School District 156’s teachers went on strike.

The main sticking points for the school board and the McHenry Community High School Educators’ Association were teacher com-pensation, especially the salary schedule structure, and contribu-

tions to insurance.Union members ratified a new three-year contract that maintains their cur-

rent salary schedule for two years, but does not include a base salary increase. Teachers on that schedule instead will receive an average 3.6 percent step increase per year for two years. The third year grants teachers a raise equal to a half-step, or about 1.8 percent.

The football team had to forfeit its Oct. 9 homecoming game against Dundee-Crown, and the homecoming dance was postponed one week. Students also missed the boys and girls golf postseason, and the marching band had to forgo its last major competition of the season.

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McHenry High School District 156 teachers walk the picket line Oct. 1 in front of the East Campus in McHenry.

Former coroner Marlene Lantz indictedThe discovery of the remains of an infant in the McHenry

County Coroner’s Office led to the indictment of retired coroner Marlene Lantz.

Lantz faces felony misconduct charges for allegedly failing to bury or properly dispose of two fetuses while she was county coroner. She held the office for 24 years before retiring in 2012.

The remains of the first baby boy were found in a sealed box in January in a cooler in the morgue by the staff of current Coroner Dr. Anne Majewski, who succeeded Lantz. Prosecutors allege a woman had miscarried in the bathroom of a Crystal Lake restaurant in March 1992, and that the boy had an estimat-ed gestational age of 7½to 8 months.

Lantz also faces a forgery charge for allegedly signing a death certificate five years later that states the baby was buried.

She has pleaded not guilty to all charges.Her attorney, Mark Gummerson, alleges that the charges are nothing more than political

payback stemming from her sour political relationship with State’s Attorney Lou Bianchi.

6State budget impasse drags on for six months

Local social service agencies long accustomed to late or short payments from a deadbeat state government are learning a new level of shortcoming as a state budget impasse has stretched on for six months.

While court rulings and consent decrees have meant much of state government is operating – about 90 percent of its bills are being paid via court order – social service agencies that help the state’s most needy people cannot get paid without a state budget in place.

The lack of payment is only part of the problem. A number of McHenry County agencies were told months ago not to expect any retroactive pay once a budget is passed. The state fiscal year runs from July 1 to June 30.

Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner and Democratic leaders who run the General Assembly have been at loggerheads ever since Rauner vetoed an unbalanced 2016 budget. Democratic leaders want cuts paired with tax increases, but Rauner will not entertain increasing reve-nue without lawmakers enacting significant political and pro-business reforms.

Lawmakers return to Springfield next month for the start of the spring 2016 legislative session.

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A growing number of McHenry County police departments this year acquired the heroin antidote naloxone to help fight the growing heroin epidemic in the suburbs.

Unfortunately, they’ve had to use it, too.Naloxone, also known by the brand name Narcan,

prevents fatal opioid overdoses by blocking the brain receptors opiates latch onto and helping the body to “remember” to breathe.

In May, Lake in the Hills police used it for the first time to stop a

22-year-old man from overdosing. Days later, the McHenry County Sheriff’s Office administered it for the first time to a 33-year-old man in Crystal Lake.

Lakemoor police used Narcan for the first time in August after someone was found overdosing in a portable toilet at Lakemoor Fest. Crystal Lake was the first police department in the county to start carrying the drug last year, followed by Algonquin police.

Paramedics and hospitals have been carrying naloxone for years, but officials have pushed for police also to carry the version of the drug that’s administered nasally.

9Marengo nuns lose site expansion bid

The McHenry County Board sided with neighbors and Coral Township when it rejected a proposal by an obscure French religious order to greatly expand operations at its rural compound.

Board members on a 20-3 vote in September shot down a request by the Fraternite of Notre Dame for a condition-al-use permit to add a boarding school, nursing home,

winery, brewery and gift shop to its 95 acres south of Marengo and Union in unincorporated Coral Township.

Neighbors who were angry when the County Board approved the order’s original 2005 permit were even more upset about the proposed expansion, and alleged the Fraternite has not been a good neighbor when it comes to construction and work hours. The property includes a chapel, con-vent, monastery and bakery.

More than 800 residents signed a petition opposing the proposed expansion, and Coral Township’s trustees opposed it as well.

Fraternite members lashed out during public comment after the vote, calling it “religious discrim-ination” and “hindering God’s work.” In December, they filed a federal lawsuit against McHenry County seeking to overturn the zoning ruling alleging religious discrimination.

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SEDOM Center closes its doors

Fifty years of helping local

special-needs students ended this year with the closing of the Special Education District of McHenry County’s education center.

More than 60 students attended school at SEDOM Center in Woodstock this year. Nine of them graduated at the school’s final ceremony at the end of May.

Years of declining en-rollment, as well as school districts opting to teach their special-needs students in-house, prompted SEDOM’s decision last September to shut the center down at the end of the school year. Overall enrollment in SEDOM programs steadily has decreased over the past decade – SEDOM had more than 600 students enrolled in its programs in 2003, compared to about 130 last year.

Students who attended SEDOM Center were dispersed to either their home-district schools or elsewhere, depending on their respective individual education program plans.

The lease for the building was taken over by the thera-peutic School of Expressive Arts and Learning, which also has facilities in Lombard and Romeoville.

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Gliniewicz’s personnel file, released after the in-vestigation concluded, revealed his work history was filled with misdeeds, such as sexual harassment, threatening co-workers and problem drinking. Re-cords also revealed police and village officials turned a blind eye to them and continued to promote him and increase his responsibilities.

One of those responsibilities was overseeing the department’s participation in a federal military sur-plus program that allowed Gliniewicz to improperly accumulate thousands of dollars in tactical military gear for the explorers program.

Besides the violated trust of the people of Fox Lake, the Gliniewicz scandal will haunt the village for some time.

Gliniewicz’s wife, Melodie, and son, D.J., are under investigation over whether they participated in mis-appropriating money from the explorer program. The post, which was one of the largest and most successful in the state, has been disbanded until further notice.

The village also faces a civil rights lawsuit filed by a man who alleges Gliniewicz racially profiled him, and that his race played a role in his being considered an early suspect. The plaintiff, who is black, alleges the village’s willingness to tolerate Gliniewicz’s mis-deeds resulted in his continued harassment.

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Robert W. Lewis, age 81, of Holiday Hills, passed away Thursday, December 24, 2015, at his residence, surrounded by his loving family.

He was born May 15, 1934, in Chicago, to the late Leon and Signe (Olsen) Lewis. On September 3, 1955, he married the love of his life, Marilyn Smith, in Chicago.

Robert graduated from Amund-sen High School in 1954. After obtaining his diploma, he went through a variety of jobs until he landed his career position at Skokie Valley Laundry Service as a truck driver. Robert loved his fam-ily dearly as he was always the life of the party with his wit and jokes. He often went by Mr. Wonderful and made sure to hit his favorite punch line “are you married or happy?” to strangers. Early in life he enjoyed judo, obtaining his brown belt. Later in life he would visit his favorite store daily, Meijer, to make his rounds walking and grocery shopping. Robert will be profoundly missed by all.

Robert is survived by his wife of 60 years, Marilyn; four children, Vicki (Arthur Benton) Wickman, Julie Anne Biccum, Aiden Lewis, Scott Lewis; nine grandchildren, Amber Perryman, Nick (Carly) Beaudin, Robyn (Mitch) Cypher, Aaron Biccum, Alec (Sarah) Biccum, Leah (David) Watson, Laura Lewis, Audrey Lewis, Achlee (Christopher) Rodarmel; five great-grandchildren, Jeremy, Audra, Stella, Blake, MacKenzie; two sisters, Patricia Grass, and Jean Schmidt.

Friends and neighbors may gath-er from 3:00 p.m. until 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, December 29, 2015, at Justen Funeral Home & Crematory, 3700 W. Charles J. Miller Road, McHenry, IL 60050. The funeral service will be at 7:30 p.m. at the funeral home.

For those wishing to send an expression of sympathy, his family suggests memorials to the family.

For information, please call the funeral home at 815-385-2400, or visit www.justenfh.com, where friends may leave an online condo-lence message for his family.

JOHN C. LOPEMAN

John C. Lopeman, age 88, of Genoa City, WI, passed away Thursday, Dec. 24, 2015, at Aurora Lakeland Medical Center in Elkhorn, WI.

Funeral arrangements are pending at Ehorn-Adams Funeral Home in Hebron.

DAVID L. MIRENIC JR.Born: April 17, 1965; in Charleston,

SCDied: Dec. 22, 2015; in Woodstock,

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David Lee Mirenic Jr., age 50, of Crystal Lake, was born April 17, 1965 in Charleston, South Carolina to David Lee Sr. and

Linda K. (nee Grantham) Mirenic. He passed away peacefully on Tuesday, December 22, 2015 in Woodstock.

David grew up as a “military brat,” moving to many different places throughout his childhood, which was something that he greatly appreciated later in life. His family settled in Crystal Lake in 1981, where he became a graduate of Crystal Lake South High School.

David was described as march-ing to the beat of his own drum. His loves included roller coasters, horror movies and video games.

He will be dearly missed by his parents; his sister, LeAnn (Scott) Osborne; his nephews, Kyle

Benson and Cameron Geisser; his best friend, Tom Clyne; and many aunts, uncles and cousins.

A celebration of David’s life will be held at a future date in Arizona.

For further information, please contact Davenport Family Funeral Home, 815-459-3411. Online con-dolences can be given at www.davenportfamily.com.

WILMA RAE OWENSBorn: Aug. 2, 1929Died: Dec. 23, 2015

Wilma Rae Owens, 86, of Wood-stock, died Wednesday, December 23, 2015, at Valley Hi Nursing Home in Woodstock, where she was loved and cared for the last 10 years of her life.

She was born in West Frankfort on August 2, 1929, to Henry and Dorothy (Bond) Dailey. She married Norman Dean Owens on January 27, 1945.

Wilma loved to sew. She taught sewing to anybody who asked. She sewed her daughter’s wedding dress and bridesmaids’ dresses and her granddaughter’s wedding dress. She was known as an expert entertainer and hosted many family and friends events in her home. She loved to line dance, garden and fish. She was active in her church and was a member of the Woodstock Moose Lodge. She was loved and will be missed.

She is survived by two daughters, Peggy (Jim Kaiser) Magee, and Linda Magee; three grandchildren, Jeremy (Teri) Magee, Tonya (Curt) Stamann, and Cindy Magee; eight great grandchildren, Emily, Joseph, and Marissa Gomez, Brody, and Shianne Stamann, Madi, Miki and Jack Magee; a great great grand-child, Lenard Wilson; and a brother Roland Dailey.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; also a sister, Pauline; and a brother, Steve.

The visitation will be Tuesday, December 29, 2015, from 10:00 am until the time of the funeral service at 11:00 am at the Schnei-der, Leucht, Merwin & Cooney Funeral Home 1211 N. Seminary Ave. Woodstock. Burial will be at Genoa Township Cemetery in Genoa, Illinois.

In lieu of flowers, memorials can be made to JourneyCare Hospice, 405 Lake Zurich Road, Barrington, Illinois 60010-3141.

For information contact the Schneider Leucht Merwin & Cooney Funeral Home, at 815-338-1710, or visit the web site at slmcfh.com.

JOHN PANELLABorn: Sept. 29, 1935; in Chicago, ILDied: Dec. 24, 2015; in Woodstock,

IL

John Panella, 80 of Sun City, Huntley, passed away on Thursday, December 24,

2015, at Journeycare in Woodstock following a lengthy illness.

He was born September 29, 1935, in Chicago, the son of John and Rose (Gallicchio) Panella. He enlisted in the United States Army and was stationed in Alaska. On November 24, 1962, he was united in marriage to Patricia E. Beamer. The couple made their home in Buffalo Grove and John worked as an IT consultant for Allstate Insur-ance until retiring in 1994. In 1999, the couple moved to Sun City, Huntley. He had been a member of the Jaycees, co-chaired Buffalo Grove Days, was an avid golfer and Bears fan and was Vice-President of the Italian-American Club in Sun City.

He is survived by his wife, Patricia

of Huntley; his daughters, Jessica Panella and Kristen (Troy) Fleener of Carpentersville; his grandson, Patrick Fleener; and his brother, Rocco (Betty) Panella of Elk Grove Village; sister-in-law, Sylvia Panella of Glen Ellyn; his mother-in-law, Barbara Rhodenbaugh; and brother-in-law, Neville (Doris) Beamer both of Pinehurst, North Carolina; and many nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his parents, brother, Frank; and his sister, Antionette.

Visitation will be on Monday, December 28 from 9:00 a.m. until the time of the 10:00 a.m. Mass of Christian Burial, all at St. Mary Catholic Church, 10307 Dundee Road, Huntley. Burial will be in St. Mary Cemetery, Huntley.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to St. Jude’s Childrens Research Hospital or Journeycare Foundation.

For more information please call 847-515-8772 or online condo-lences can be directed to www.defiorejorgensen.com.

BARBARA ROSE ROGERS

Barbara Rose Rogers, 72, of Crystal Lake, Illinois, passed away peacefully on December 11, 2015, surrounded by her family.

She was born in Chicago, Illinois, to the late Charles and Florence (Shields) Beutell. She attended Catholic grade and high schools in the city and then received a bache-lor’s degree from Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti. She earned a Master’s Degree in Education from Northern Illinois University.

She taught in middle schools and community colleges in the public school system in Michigan and California. She met and married her husband George Rogers in 1967 while working at United Airlines in Chicago. In the early 1980s, she decided to start her own busi-ness, Barbara’s Upholstery. She thoroughly enjoyed it for close to 25 years and it was there that her children acquired her strong work ethic while helping in the business from a very young age. She loved spending time with her family, es-pecially her grandchildren. She was also an extremely skilled and avid Bridge player, enjoying the game her entire life.

She is survived by her children, Geoffrey (Jessica) Rogers and Kath-leen (Robert) Krystal; her grandchil-dren, Alex Rogers; Matthew Rogers; Mackensie, Molly, and Morgan Krystal; a sister, Candace (Richard) Gardner; and a brother, William (Louise) Beutell.

A memorial service will be held on January 16, 2015, from 11:00 until 2:00 at Park Place Banquet Facility, 406 West Woodstock Street, Crys-tal Lake, IL.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Barbara’s name to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, 60 East 56th Street, 8th Floor, New York, New York 10020 or www.bcrfcure.org.

VIRGINIA RUPPELBorn: Dec. 22, 1920Died: Dec. 24, 2015

Virginia Ruppel, age 95, of Fox River Grove passed away December 24, 2015, at her home surrounded by her family.

She was born December 22, 1920, in Chicago, the daughter of Frank and Anna LaBuda.

Virginia is survived by her daugh-ter, Donna (Ralph) Stalesky; her grandchildren, Jeff (Judy) Kell, Jim (Tori) Kell, Ralph (Christa) Stalesky;

her great grandchildren, DeAnna, Jodi, Scott, Stefani, Katie, R.J., Shelby, Luke, Destiny, Devon. Kaley and Cameron; and her great great grandchildren, Jadalina, Angelina, Melanie and Zayden.

Besides her parents she is preced-ed in death by her husband, John Ruppel.

Virginia enjoyed nature, planting flowers in her yard and spending time with her family. She will be remembered for her classic beauty inside and out, her love for singing and her nurturing heart.

There will be a visitation on Tuesday, December 29, 2015, from 6:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. with a prayer service at 7:00 p.m. at the Kahle-Moore Funeral Home, 403 Silver Lake Rd., Cary.

VIRGINIA SHRIVERBorn: July 26, 1944; in Berwyn, ILDied: Nov. 19, 2015; in Greenville,

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Virginia (Ginny) Shriver, age 71, of Huntley, passed away Novem-ber 19, 2015, in Greenville, South Carolina.

Ginny is survived by her husband, Paul; brother, Edward (Mary) Kocmoud; nephew, David; as well as many cousins in the area.

She is preceded by her parents, Edward and Victoria Kocmoud.

Ginny was an elementary teacher for School District 47 in Crystal Lake for 38 years. She also did a lot of volunteer work for the church, as well as the Huntley library.

Visitation will be Wednesday, December 30, 2015, starting at 10:00 a.m., at Trinity Ev. Luther-an Church, 11008 N. Church St., Huntley, followed by a Memorial Service and luncheon at the church.

ROSANNE V. SPEARSBorn: May 18, 1944Died: Dec. 25, 2015

Rosanne V. Spears, age 72, of Lakemoor, passed away Friday, December 25, 2015, at Centegra Hospital-McHenry.

She was born May 18, 1944, in Chicago, to Casey and Anna (Para) Brzezinski. Rosanne was a lifetime resident of Lakemoor. For 24 years, she was an accountant for CF Industries in Lake Zurich. She retired at the age of 60, to care for her mother. Rosanne enjoyed traveling to Western Arizona and Northern Wisconsin. Rosanne loved crafting, knitting, and crocheting. She was a loving mother and doting grandmother.

Rosanne is survived by her two loving and dedicated children, John “Jack” (Kellie) Spears, Jill (Jim) Quillin; two grandchildren, Katie Spears, Bethany Spears; a sister, Maryann Brzezinski; and her niece, Emily Merker. She also left behind her precious “son”, Earl, her loving Bloodhound.

In addition to her parents, Rosanne is preceded in death by her sister, Kathy Stein-Brzezinski.

Visitation will be from 4:00 p.m. until 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, December 30, 2015, at Justen Funeral Home & Crematory, 3400 Charles J. Miller Road, McHenry, IL 60050. The funeral service will be at 7:30 p.m. at the funeral home.

For those wishing to send an ex-pression of sympathy, her family suggests memorials to the Mercy Home For Girls, 2125 W. 116th Street, Chicago, IL 60643, or to the Mercy Home for Boys, 1140 W. Jackson, Chicago, IL 60607.

For information, please call the funeral home at 815-385-2400, or visit www.justenfh.com, where friends may leave an on-line con-dolence message for her family.

MARY ANN TRANBERGBorn: Oct. 29, 1937; in Chicago, ILDied: Dec. 20, 2015; in Woodstock,

IL

Mary Ann Tranberg, age 78, of Johnsburg, passed away peacefully due to complications from a stroke on December 20, 2015 in Wood-stock. She was born on October 29, 1937 in Chicago, the daughter of Sigmund and Gertrude (Sand-owski) Zarzecki. On September 8, 1956 she married the late Ronald Tranberg at Christ the King Catho-lic Church in Wonder Lake.

Mary Ann spent her younger years in McHenry, then moved to Wonder Lake where she raised her family. In 2002, she moved to Johnsburg to be close to her daughter and grandchildren. She was a member of St. John the Bap-tist Catholic Church in Johnsburg.

She enjoyed many things, among them spending time with her grandchildren, working in her flow-er garden, traveling, crossword puzzles, and one of her favorite things, playing bingo. She will be remembered for her great sense of humor, and her honesty.

Mary Ann is survived by her daughter, Colleen (Loren) Schmitt of Johnsburg; her son, John (Lynne) Tranberg of Alvaton, KY; and grandchildren, Danielle and Kaili Tranberg and Carly and Ashly Schmitt. Also surviving are three great-grandchildren, Lillyana, Dom-inick and Gaige Tranberg.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Ronald; her beloved son, Thomas “Tranny” Tranberg; and a brother, Ronald Ford.

The family wishes to express their gratitude to Valley Hi Nursing Home for the wonderful care she received in the last months of her life. They also wish to thank Journey Care Hospice for the compassionate care she received while with them.

A Memorial Mass will be cele-brated at 10:00 AM on Tuesday, December 29, 2015 at St. John the Baptist Church, 2302 W. Church St., Johnsburg, IL 60051.

In lieu of flowers, please perform a random act of kindness, forgive someone, or make a memorial contribution to the charity of your choice.

In the goodness of her heart, Mary Ann chose to donate her body for scientific research.

Arrangements were entrusted to Colonial Funeral Home and Crema-tory, 591 Ridgeview Dr., McHenry, IL 60050.

For information, call the Funeral Home at 815-385-0063 or log onto www.colonialmchenry.com.

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Janet V. Cluff-Levander: The celebration of life will be at 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 27, at Harvard Bible Church, Harvard.

Larry Colver: The visitation will be from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 27, at Anderson Funeral Home, Buck-Wheeler-Hyland Chapel, 248 W. Hurlbut Ave., Belvidere. The funeral service will be at 11 a.m. Monday, Dec. 28, at the funeral home. Interment will be in Lawrenceville Cemetery, Garden Prairie.

Edmund B. DeBoer: The memori-al service will be at 2 p.m. Sun-day, Dec. 27, at Querhammer & Flagg Funeral Home, 500 W. Terra Cotta Ave., Crystal Lake. For information, call the funeral home at 815-459-1760.

Jerry Glade: The visitation will be from 1 p.m. until the 4 p.m. memorial service Sunday, Dec. 27, at Justen Funeral Home & Crematory, 3700 Charles J. Miller Road, McHenry. For infor-mation, call the funeral home at 815-385-2400.

Stanley R. Hoff: The visitation will be from noon until the 1 p.m. funeral service Sunday, Dec. 27, at DeFiore-Jorgensen Funeral Home, 10763 Dundee Road, Huntley. Burial will be in McHen-ry County Jewish Cemetery, Woodstock. For information, call the funeral home at 847-515-8772.

Grace W. Kokuska: The visitation will be from 3 to 7 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 27, at Kahle-Moore Funeral Home, 403 Silver Lake Road, Cary. Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Monday, Dec. 28, at the funeral home. Burial will follow in Windridge Memorial Park. For information, call the funeral home at 847-639-3817.

Kenneth M. Molbeck III: The celebration of life will be from 1 p.m. until the 3 p.m. service Sunday, Dec. 27, at Zion Lu-theran Church, 412 Jackson St., Marengo. For information, call Marengo Community Funeral Service at 815-568-8115.

George E. Oakley: The visitation will be from 3 to 8 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 27, at Glueckert Funeral Home, 1520 N. Arlington Heights Road, Arlington Heights. The prayers will be at 11:15 a.m. Monday, Dec. 28, at the funeral home, proceeding to a noon Mass celebration at St. James Catholic Church, 831 N. Arling-ton Heights Road, Arlington Heights. For information, call the funeral home at 847-253-0168.

Stanley J. Pankiewicz: The visitation will be from 2 to 6 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 27, at Colonial Funeral Home & Crematory, 591 Ridgeview Drive, McHenry. The visitation will continue from 9:30 to 10:15 a.m. Monday, Dec. 28, at the funeral home, proceeding to the 11 a.m. funeral Mass celebration at St. Patrick’s Church, 3500 W. Washington St., McHenry. For information, call the funeral home at 815-385-0063.

Teresa C. Ratajczak: The visi-tation will be from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 27, at Saunders & McFarlin Funeral Home, 107 W. Sumner St., Harvard. The visitation will continue from 9 a.m. until the 10 a.m. funeral Mass celebration at St. Joseph Catholic Church, 206 E. Front St., Harvard. Interment will be in St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery. For information, call the funeral home at 815-943-5400.

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New York City was hit by its biggest 24-hour snowstorm on Dec. 26 and 27, 1947. The accumulation was more than 26 inches in Central Park, 26 inches at nearby Newark, N.J., and almost 30 inches at Long Branch, N.J.

Through Jan. 8• 1 to 4 p.m. – Holiday exhibit,

McHenry County Historical Society Museum, 6422 Main St., Union. Features 70 vintage aluminum Christmas trees, color wheels, lighted figures and other decorations from the past. Hours are 1 to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, and on weekends by special appointment. The museum will be closed Dec. 31 and Jan. 1. Admission: free for historical society members, $3 to $5 for nonmembers. Information: 815-923-2267 or www.gothistory.org.

Dec. 26 • 9 a.m. to noon – Habitat res-

toration work day, Community Research Forest, 20500 Lembcke Road, Harvard. The Land Conser-vancy of McHenry County seeks volunteers to help restore an oak woodland. Information: www.conservemc.org or 815-337-9502.

• 10 a.m. to noon – Habitat restoration work day, Boger Bog, 2100 Cherry Valley Road, Bull Valley. The McHenry County Conservation District seeks volun-teers to help clear brush from the area. Information: 815-455-1537 or www.mccdistrict.org.

Dec. 27 • 1 p.m. – Bingo, Harvard

Moose Lodge, 22500 Route 173, Harvard. Play bingo for money. There also will be a progressive raffle and pull tabs. Doors open at 11:30 a.m. with lunch available to buy. Information: 815-943-5925.

• 5 to 6:30 p.m. – Sunday

evening community dinner, First United Methodist Church, 236 W. Crystal Lake Ave., Crystal Lake. A free dinner for those in need. Information: [email protected].

Dec. 28 • 10 to 11 a.m. – Dot Day sto-

rytime, McHenry Public Library, 809 Front St., McHenry. Dot Day celebrates creativity, collab-oration and courage. Related stories, songs and activities will be featured. Open to 3- through

6-year-olds accompanied by an adult. Free. Information: 815-385-0036 or www.mchenrylibrary.org.

• 10 to 11:30 a.m. – Interme-diate Scratch programming for tweens, McHenry Public Library, 809 Front St., McHenry. Fourth- through eighth-graders will continue learning the basics of programming for computer games. Create a new project or work on previous ones. Previous experience with Scratch required. Free. Registration required. Infor-mation: 815-385-0036 or www.

mchenrylibrary.org.• 10 a.m. to noon – Winter

break movie, Crystal Lake Public Library, 126 W. Paddock St., Crys-tal Lake. Featuring a screening of “Minions,” rated PG. Open to library cardholders only. Free. Registration required. Information: www.clpl.org or 815-459-1687.

• 8 to 9:30 p.m. – Poetry Night, Raue Center for the Arts, 26 N. Williams St., Crystal Lake. Hosted by poet and puppeteer Phil Denofrio, the Raue Center’s poet-in-residence. Free. Infor-

mation: 815-356-9010 or www.rauecenter.org.

Dec. 29 • 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. – Habitat

restoration work day, Trout Valley Fen, Turkey Run Road, Trout Valley. The Land Conservancy of McHenry County seeks volunteers to help restore a rare ecosystem. Information: www.conservemc.org or 815-337-9502.

• 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. – Monop-oly tournament, ninth annual, McHenry Public Library, 809 Front St., McHenry. Open to tweens and teens. Featuring a qualifying round in the morning, snack break and the final game in the afternoon to crown the Monopoly champion. Free. Registration re-quired. Information: 815-385-0036 or [email protected].

• Noon to 6 p.m. – Baby-sitting training, McHenry Municipal Center, 333 S. Green St., McHenry. Continues from noon to 6 p.m. Dec. 30. The American Red Cross Baby Sitter’s Training Course is designed to provide youth ages 11 to 15 with the knowledge and skills to safely and responsibly care for infants and children. Cost: $50 residents, $60 nonresidents. Information: 815-363-2160 or [email protected].

• 2 to 3 p.m. – Wacky Team Challenge Game Show, Wauco-nda Area Library, 801 N. Main St., Wauconda. An interactive event featuring trivia and zany physical challenges. Open to youth of all ages. Information: 847-526-6225 or www.wauclib.org.


Grace Baran (left) and Madelyn Strombom stand in a doorway dressed as Polichinelles before a Dec. 17 dress rehearsal for “The Nutcracker” presented by the Raue Center for the Arts in Crystal Lake with the Berkshire Ballet Theatre and Summers Academy of Dance.

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THE SECOND CITY’S “HOLIDAZED”WHEN: Through Dec. 31WHERE: Metropolis Perform-ing Arts Centre, 111 W. Camp-bell St., Arlington HeightsCOST & INFO: “Holidazed” bursts the monotony of the season with a riotous send-up of all things holiday. Schedule: 7 p.m. Dec. 27; 7 & 9:30 p.m. Dec. 28-30; 7 & 10 p.m. Dec. 31. Tickets: $30, stage tables $35. New Year’s Eve tickets: $50, stage tables $60. Tickets and informa-tion: 847-577-2121 or www.metropolisarts.com.

HOLIDAY TRAIN DISPLAYWHEN: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Dec. 27WHERE: Prairie Lodge, 12880 Del Webb Blvd., HuntleyCOST & INFO: Last day of an annual model train display presented by the Kishwaukee Valley & Eakin Creek Sun City Model Railroad Club. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Free. Information: 847-669-2392 or www.sccah.com.

“PLAID TIDINGS”WHEN: 3 p.m. Dec. 27; 8 p.m. Jan. 1-2; and 3 p.m. Jan. 2WHERE: Raue Center for the Arts, 26 N. Williams St., Crystal LakeCOST & INFO: Still time to see this holiday musical revue set in the Christmas season. Written by Stuart Ross and performed by Williams Street Repertory. Tickets: $32.50-$38.50. Tickets and informa-tion: 815-356-9212 or www.rauecenter.org.

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Surprises ruled 2015

In each section of today’s Northwest Herald, you will find our year in review stories.

There is no shortage of memorable stories in 2015. Perhaps the most memorable was that of Fox Lake Police Lt. Joseph Gliniewicz, who went from hero police officer killed in the line of duty to a disgraced police officer who clev-erly staged his own suicide.

Gliniewicz’s story tops our list of local news stories of the year, which also includes the death of McHenry County Sheriff’s Deputy Dwight Maness and the overturned murder conviction of Mario Cas-ciaro in the Brian Carrick case.

In business, Silgan Plastics’ announcement that it will close its doors this spring tops our local business stories of the year list. Silgan’s decision means 151 people will lose their jobs. The commercial growth of two McHenry County craft breweries and an uptick in the local real estate market also are among our top business stories.

Marian Central’s girls volleyball team won the Class 3A state championship in November. The Hurricanes’ title tops our local sports stories of the year list. The success of local high school wrestlers last winter and McHenry run-ner Jesse Reiser capping his career also were among the year’s top local sports stories.

You might remember way back in January that Woodstock Theatre’s most-historic audito-rium became Harold Ramis Auditorium. Ramis directed “Groundhog Day,” which was filmed in Woodstock and, to this day, has a cult-like following. The Ramis dedication topped our lo-cal entertainment stories of the year list.

In the past year, we also published some stories that didn’t fit into any our year-end lists but received plenty of buzz on social media. Who could forget the story about homeless Woodstock North football player Wolfgang Kemp or the Algonquin mom who shot up the TV because the kids were watching a Primus video?

Needless to say, 2015 was full of surprises. We’re sure 2016 will be, too. Who knows? Maybe we’ll even get a state budget in 2016.

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2015 was full of surprises. We’re sure 2016 will be, too.

Not for a long time has the world seemed so removed from the angelic proclamation of 2,000 years ago: “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men” (Luke 2:14).

Millions have died in count-less wars over the past 100 years. People continue to die today as the result of worldwide terrorism and daily shootings in too many American cities.

The prophecy delivered by the Christmas Child that there would be “wars and rumors of wars” until He comes again seems more like current events than a far-off future.

One hears a lot of silliness from theological illiterates and institutions whose sole inter-est in Christmas appears to be profit. Consider the conspicu-ous consumption associated with “Black Friday,” a day that began for some businesses days earlier.

People speak of “the spirit

of Christmas,” or when observ-ing some special act with which they approve or seek to inspire, refer to “the true meaning of Christmas.” They are never asked what they mean by either.

The true meaning of Christ-mas is this: God took on the form of a human to die in our place, paying for our sins, so humans who receive Him might be forgiven and be with Him forever.

You are free to reject that message and the One who deliv-ered it, but what you are not free to do is redefine or change the message into something that fits your own beliefs and choices.

In “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” (part of his clas-sic “The Chronicles of Narnia” series), C.S. Lewis writes of a

frozen land ruled by a “White Witch,” devoid of hope. In that world, it is “always winter, but never Christmas.”

It is a metaphor for a world that has rejected God and His redemptive power. It is a world where humans choose to live as they please, rather than be transformed, even renewed. It is this world in which we now live, full of mendacity, envy, greed, lust, anger, terrorism, war, political divisions and confu-sion. We have forgotten who we are, because we have forgotten Whose we are.

It is these and so many other human deficiencies the Christ child came to reset. Like a gift under a tree, however, the trans-action is not complete until the one for whom the gift is intend-ed receives it. If anyone refuses a gift, the transaction is incom-plete, its purpose thwarted. Does it matter that so many reject Him? Look around and consider the result.

While some point to the occa-sional violence mistakenly done in His name to “prove” God does not exist, there are far more examples of good, such as chari-ties, hospitals and inner-city missions that help the poor and homeless. If the bad disproves God, what does the good prove?

These good acts rooted in faith are motivated not by selfishness, but selflessness, the kind of selflessness dem-onstrated by the One who left perfection and emptied Himself, taking on the form of a servant, to come to a fallen world and save us from the consequences of unbelief.

Isn’t that message worth cel-ebrating? Isn’t that child worth worshipping? Isn’t that Man worth receiving?

As the carol says, “Where meek souls will receive Him still, the dear Christ enters in.”

• Email Cal Thomas at [email protected].

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Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

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Northwest Herald Editorial BoardJohn Rung, Kate Weber, Dan McCaleb,

Jason Schaumburg, Kevin Lyons,

Jon Styf, John Sahly, Val Katzenstein

Americans can do betterOver the past weeks, we have used some

sharp words in our editorials about the race for the Republican nomination – words such as bigot, bully and buffoon. Some readers have asked whether by so doing we undermine our own calls for civil discourse. The answer has a lot to do with this moment in American his-tory – a dangerous moment when something ugly is taking place in the political arena. It’s a time that demands a sharp and clear response from everyone who cares about fair-ness and decency, democracy and tolerance.

Generally the system works best when peo-ple assume their political opponents are acting in good faith. We may feel strongly about gun laws, campaign finance or free trade, but we recognize there are defensible arguments on the other side. In the heat of the debate, we sometimes fall short of our aspirations, but as U.S. politics become ever more partisan, it becomes ever more important to give opposing views a fair hearing.

But Donald Trump and his imitators pres-ent a different kind of challenge to democratic discourse, in at least three ways. Trump, the leading candidate for the Republican nomina-tion, seeks to make his political fortune not by staking out and defending positions but by fanning and exploiting hatred and fear. He says and repeats things that are demonstrably false, which makes a mockery of legitimate debate. He prefers to insult, demean and ridi-cule anyone who challenges him rather than to engage meaningfully with their arguments. The essence of his campaign has been to por-tray those who are different from him and his supporters as unworthy, less than human and so deserving of abuse. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, follows a similar playbook.

We are told Trump’s ugliness has found an audience because Americans are resentful and afraid. Globalization and technological change have left many behind. Rapid immigration has made some feel like strangers in their own country. After the shootings in Paris and San Bernardino, California, some wonder whether their government can keep them safe. Each of these issues could and should be addressed in a presidential campaign. It is Trump’s noxious choice to conflate all three without offering real solutions to any of them.

Today many may be fearful of terrorists, immigration or losing ground economically. But most of us realize that demonizing others won’t solve problems. Trump is running the campaign of a bigot, a bully and a buffoon. It seems to us it’s worth saying so, if only to make clear that we also know we can do bet-ter.

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full name, home address and day and evening telephone numbers.

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

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for length and clarity at the sole discretion of the editor.Submit letters by:• Email: [email protected]• Mail: Northwest Herald “It’s Your Write” Box 250 Crystal Lake, IL 60039-0250

Reick should be indictedTo the Editor:A few years ago, state Rep.

Wanda Sharp was indicted by the state’s attorney during her re-election for submitting peti-tions for nominations that were fraudulent. Sharp claimed indi-viduals signed the petitions she circulated, but that was untrue. Sharp was found guilty and left office.

Last week, the Kane County coroner dropped his bid for re-election when he admitted he did not follow the election law and had submitted fraudulent peti-tions for nomination.

In McHenry County, candidate Steve Reick filed petitions he personally circulated. He swore under oath that his Democratic opponent signed, in Reick’s presence, Reick’s petition for nomination. If that were true, the Democrat would be ineligible to stay on the primary ballot. Reick lied under oath. He either lied about his Democratic opponent signing Reick’s petition, or he lied that he circulated the peti-tion. Either way, Reick lied under oath and submitted fraudulent petitions and should, like other candidates who break the law, be indicated for his crime.

State’s Attorney Lou Bianchi must protect the integrity of our electoral system and indict

Reick. Partisan politics should play no role in the decision. Because Reick is a fellow Repub-lican should not give him license to break our election laws and commit fraud on the citizens. Ev-eryone should be treated equally under the law, and no one should get special treatment because of their political affiliation.

Tim KeoughCrystal Lake

Faith and trust in GodTo the Editor:Countless reported instances of

medical cures or positive medical results inexplicable by the best medical facilities and staff in the world are well-documented.

These “miracle” cures may or may not be the result of faith and prayer, but dismissing trust in God or faith is akin to a person born blind rejecting the concept of a rainbow described to them by a sighted person.

Just because you don’t have eyes to see does not mean it doesn’t exist.

Keep the faith.

Jim GiglMcHenry

Property taxes not too muchTo the Editor:The property tax is the fair-

est of taxes on property, and wealthier property, as in McHenry County, is and should be taxed more than lesser valued property. Owners of $349,000 residences have complained of $8,000 in taxes being too high, but it is progressive considering a $108,000 residence is taxed at $4,600, and twice as much tax means the $349,000 home should be $9,200 instead of only $8,000.

Thus the wealthiest are defi-nitely not overcharged, but cor-rectly – progressively. Property is not income, but income taxes federally have undercharged the wealthy, such as on stocks and bonds, effectively 12 percent, with a higher tax rate on wages than on capital income.

Likewise, a flat tax is not pro-gressive, for everyone pays the same percentage.

On state income, Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s state tax of 5 percent helps, as Illinois

has borrowed from and not re-paid earned pensions, which the state needs to repay for this and other reasons. The state long has under-assessed the wealthiest and corporations.

The property tax is progres-sive. Madigan’s tax is needed for Illinois’ budget.

Bernice RussellCrystal Lake

Rare kindnessTo the Editor:In addition to being a prominent

local businessman, few people know Haig Haleblian has been helping the needy for years. He has provided sorely needed stor-age space for the Crystal Lake Food Pantry. While he probably could have rented the space, in-stead he helped so many of those less fortunate. Such kindness is rare.

Nancy VazzanoCrystal Lake

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Chicago police: Officer accidentally shoots, kills womanBy CARYN ROUSSEAU

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CHICAGO – A Chicago police officer responding to a domestic disturbance call accidentally shot and killed a 55-year-old woman, who was among two people fatally wounded, police said late Saturday.

Relatives said Bettie Jones lived downstairs from Quin-tonio LeGrier, the 19-year-old who prompted the initial call to police and who also was killed by police gunfire.

Officers who responded to the call “were confronted by a combative subject resulting in the discharging of the officer’s weapon,” the Chicago Police Department said in a brief state-ment.

“The 55-year-old female vic-tim was accidentally struck and tragically killed,” reads the statement, which extends “deepest condolences to the vic-tim’s family and friends.”

The shooting happened

around 4:25 a.m., police said. The Cook County medical ex-aminer’s office and family members said Jones, a mother of five who had hosted family for Christmas, and LeGrier, a college student home for holi-day break, were pronounced dead at hospitals within an hour.

Both Jones and LeGrier were black, the medical exam-iner’s office said. Police did not immediately disclose the race of the officer, saying in a state-ment only that officers involved in the incident will be placed on administrative duties for 30 days while “training and fitness for duty requirements can be conducted.”

The shooting comes amid ongoing scrutiny of police af-ter a series of deaths of Afri-can-Americans at the hands of officers gave rise to the Black Lives Matter movement. The Chicago Police Department also is under a federal civil rights investigation launched after

last month’s release of police dashcam video showing white officer Jason Van Dyke shoot-ing black 17-year-old Laquan McDonald 16 times in 2014.

Officials have said the feder-al investigation will look into

patterns of racial disparity in the use of force, as well as re-view how the department dis-ciplines officers and handles misconduct accusations.

LeGrier’s father told the Chi-cago Sun-Times he had invited

his son to a family holiday gath-ering before the shooting but the younger man chose not to go. Antonio LeGrier said when he returned to his second-floor apartment early Saturday, his son appeared to be a “little ag-itated.”

The elder LeGrier said he heard loud banging on his locked bedroom door around 4:15 a.m. and that his son said, “You’re not going to scare me.” He said his son tried to bust the door open, but he kept him from doing so and called police.

The father said he called Jones, who lived a floor below, and warned her that his son was a “little irate” and not to open the door unless police ar-rived. He said Jones told him she saw his son outside with a baseball bat.

When police arrived, Anto-nio LeGrier said he heard Jones yell, “Whoa, Whoa Whoa!” He said he heard gunshots as he made his way down from the second floor and then saw his

son and Jones lying in the foyer.“I identified myself as the fa-

ther and I held my hands out,” he said.

Jones’ daughter, Latisha Jones, told the Sun-Times and Chicago Tribune that she woke up when she heard gunshots. She said she walked to the front door and saw her mother bleed-ing on the ground.

Antonio LeGrier said police later told him that Quintonio LeGrier was shot seven times, and that he had called 911 be-fore his father did.

Chicago police on Saturday afternoon referred Associated Press requests for additional comment to the Independent Police Review Authority, the city’s main police oversight agency. IPRA spokesman Larry Merritt said it was “very early on in the investigation” and he couldn’t release further details. Autopsies, which would deter-mine how many times LeGrier and Jones were shot, were not scheduled Saturday.

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Springfield looks to offer free wireless access

SPRINGFIELD – City officials in Springfield said the capital is working to start offering down-town public wireless access early in 2016. The State Journal-Reg-ister reported that the network will be accessible in a 35-square-block area. It will be unsecured and free for the public. Mayor Jim Langfelder said the hope is to offer convenience and make downtown Springfield more attractive. The network will be in-stalled in phases. The first phase will include the area around the Old State Capitol and downtown hotels. The second will include the rest of the coverage area.

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Poll: Shootings on Americans’ minds in 2015

By VERENA DOBNIK The Associated Press

NEW YORK – Mass shoot-ings and attacks weighed heav-ily on the minds of Americans in 2015, according to a new poll that found most believe this year was worse for the world than last year.

Preoccupied by mass shootings

Americans say the most important events of 2015 were a string of mass shootings, in-cluding the attacks in San Ber-nardino, California, and Paris, plus Islamic State group atroc-ities.

Fifty-seven percent of those polled say this year was worse than the last year for the world as a whole, up from the 38 per-cent asked that question a year ago.

Only 10 percent believe 2015 was a better year than 2014, while 32 percent think there wasn’t much difference.

Americans also are much less likely than they were a year ago to believe that the current year was better for the United States – only 17 percent compared with 30 percent a year ago.

Thirty-seven percent think this year was worse for the country than last year, while 44 percent don’t think there was much difference.

On a personal level, fewer than a third (29 percent) be-lieve 2015 was better for them than 2014, while 21 percent feel it was worse, compared with 15 percent in 2014.

Interviewed separately from the poll, Jason Pruitt, a 43-year-old corporate pilot from the Detroit area, said se-curity concerns were a factor in deciding whether to take his wife and daughter along on a Christmas trip to New York.

“We were thinking about not coming this year, because of everything that’s going on,” Pruitt said. But they went ahead, “because when you change your life, the terrorists win.”

Three events share top spotOf those polled, 68 percent

listed mass shootings in the U.S. as very or extremely im-portant news events this year, including the one in San Ber-nardino that heightened fears of domestic terrorism, plus shootings in Charleston, South Carolina; Roseburg, Oregon; and Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Close behind, at 64 per-cent, were the Paris attacks that ushered in 2015, targeting Charlie Hebdo and the Jewish market, then the Bataclan con-cert hall and other city sites in November.

And third, at 63 percent, came the Islamic State group’s various far-flung atrocities.

Commenting on the com-pleted poll was 32-year-old J.P. Fury, working in a food truck in Times Square.

“At this point, I’m numb to all of it,” he said. “This is noth-ing new. Every week there’s a new shooting somewhere in America, and there’s a new terrorist attack somewhere around the world.”

Gingerbread house a dining experience

By TERRY TANG The Associated Press

MARANA, Ariz. – Like something out of “Hansel and Gretel,” a larger-than-life gin-gerbread house made with hundreds of pounds of sugar and spice has been luring in guests at one southern Arizo-na resort. Much like the fairy tale, they are free to enter and sit down by a roaring fire. But there is no wicked witch.

Instead, there’s a server with a three-course menu.

A team of pastry chefs at the Ritz-Carlton, Dove Moun-tain in Marana decided this Christmas to go make a gin-gerbread building that was more than a display. The 19-foot-tall “house” has been operating for the past month as a private dining room and become valuable real estate in terms of the attention.

There’s no cost to walk through. But for $150, you can reserve the whole thing. Up to six people can sit down and or-der meals and beverages from the hotel kitchen. The fireside fee does not include food.

The idea of a life-size gin-gerbread house where people could go in and out drew skep-ticism, even from some hotel workers. But head pastry chef Daniel Mangione was confi-dent it could be done.

“There’s a lot of ginger-bread houses out there but usually it’s just a facade and the inside is forgotten about,” Mangione said. “But this year we really wanted to see if we could make it different.”

Up since Thanksgiving, the house will be coming down af-ter Sunday. But Mangione as-sured that they will resurrect it in some form next Christ-mas.

Lawsuits seek to get rid of bail bond system

By PAUL ELIAS The Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO – Crys-tal Patterson didn’t have the cash or assets to post $150,000 bail and get out of jail after her arrest for assault in October. So Patterson, 39, promised to pay a bail bonds company $15,000 plus interest to put up the $150,000 bail for her, allowing to go home and care for her invalid grandmother.

The day after her release, the district attorney decided not to pursue charges. But Patterson still owes the bail bonds company. Criminal jus-tice reformers and lawyers at a nonprofit Washington D.C. legal clinic say that is uncon-stitutionally unfair.

The lawyers have filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of Patterson, Rianna Buffin and other jail inmates who argue that San Francisco and California’s bail system un-constitutionally treats poor and wealthy suspects differ-ently.

Wealthy suspects can put up their houses or other valu-able assets – or simply write a check – to post bail and stay out of jail until their cases are resolved. Poorer suspects ar-en’t so lucky. Many remain behind bars or pay nonre-fundable fees to bail bonds companies.

San Francisco public de-

fender Chesa Boudin said some of his clients who can’t afford to post bail plead guilty to minor charges for crimes they didn’t commit so they can leave jail.

Boudin represented Buf-fin, 19, after her arrest for grand theft in October.

Buffin couldn’t afford to post the $30,000 bail or pay a bond company a $3,000 fee and so contemplated pleading guilty in exchange for a quick release from jail even though she says her only crime was being with the “wrong peo-ple at the wrong place at the wrong time.”

Fortunately, the district at-torney declined to charge Buf-fin and she was released after being held for three days.

“My family was worried,” said Ruffin, who lost her $10.50 an hour baggage han-dler job at the Oakland In-ternational Airport after her arrest.

The lawsuit filed by the Equal Justice Under Law in San Francisco federal court in October seeks to abolish the cash bail system in the city, state – and the country. It’s the ninth lawsuit the cen-ter has filed in seven states.

“The bail system in most states is a two-tiered sys-tem,” said center founder Phil Telfeyan. “One for the wealthy and one for everyone else.”

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HOUSTON – A fire at a Houston mosque is suspicious and may have been intentionally set, an official from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said Saturday.

The fire was reported Friday afternoon at the Islamic Society of Greater Houston. It caused major damage to the building but no one was injured.

The blaze had “multiple points of origin,” which is an indicator that a fire accelerant may have been used, according to ATF Spe-cial Agent Nicole Strong with the agency’s Houston Field Division.

The Houston Fire Department is investigating with help from the ATF. They are collecting video and other materials, Strong said.

Mustafaa Carroll, who is the ex-ecutive director for the Houston chapter of the Council on Amer-ican-Islamic Relations, called on law enforcement to investigate, citing a recent spike in vandalism to mosques that have prompted hate crime investigations.

“We urge law enforcement au-thorities to investigate a possible bias motive for this fire,” he said in a statement.

Dramane Diallo, who is respon-sible for opening the worship center for prayer every morning, told The Houston Chronicle that the center has no kitchen or equipment that would easily cause an electrical fire.

“It’s very hard to believe it was an accident,” Diallo said.

3 detained after leading authorities on boat chase

FORT MYERS BEACH, Fla. – Three suspects are in custody after leading authorities on a 300-mile chase in the Gulf of Mexico.

According to a Lee County Sheriff’s Office news release, authorities were alerted to a boat theft in Fort Myers Beach, about 125 miles south of Tam-pa, early Thursday.

When officers arrived, the suspects allegedly attempted to ram their vessel with the stolen 36-foot Invincible. The sheriff’s office said the suspects then fled, outrunning local and federal authorities in an open fishing boat capable of speeds over 70 mph.

Authorities chased the sus-pects for more than 20 hours off the Florida coast. Petty Of-ficer 3rd Class Ashley Johnson told the News-Press that they eventually were stopped about 65 nautical miles off the coast of Cuba.

The Coast Guard is bringing the suspects and the stolen boat back to Florida.

Southeast death toll rises to 18 after violent weather

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – The death toll in the Southeast climbed to 18 on Saturday after days of tumultuous weather – unusual warmth, tornadoes and torrential downpours – wreaked havoc during the Christmas holiday.

Two deaths attributable to weather were reported Saturday in Mississippi: two people who have been missing since Wednesday, bringing that state’s death toll to 10. Late Saturday, one death was reported in Alabama.

Flash flooding closed roads across Alabama and trapped motorists in rapidly rising waters.

Ranager Tyler and his son waded into flood water Christ-mas night and used rope to pull an 11-year-old boy out after his family’s car was swept away near Pinson, about 15 miles northeast of Birmingham.

“The little boy was hanging on to the back of the car,” Tyler said Saturday.

IS leader says ‘caliphate’ well, mocks Saudi alliance

BEIRUT – The Islamic State group on Saturday released a new message purportedly from its reclusive leader, claiming that his self-styled “caliph-ate” is doing well despite an unprecedented alliance against it and criticizing the recently announced Saudi-led Islam-ic military coalition against terrorism.

In the 24-minute audio, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi said airstrikes by the international coalition only increase his group’s determination and resolve. The message was al-Baghdadi’s first since May, and comes amid battlefield setbacks that IS has recently faced.

Meanwhile, a U.S.-backed coalition of rebels in Syria – including Syrian Kurdish, Arab and Christian groups – captured a major dam on the Euphrates River from the Islamic State group as part of the coalition’s march on IS-held areas in northern Syria.

The coalition, known as Syria Democratic Forces, announced earlier this week a new offen-sive aimed at cutting supply lines between IS strongholds in the country’s north. The SDF said it seized the Tishrin Dam, which supplies much of northern Syria with electricity, on Saturday.

An SDF spokesman told AP earlier this week that his forces are also trying to cut the supply lines between the Islamic State’s de-facto capital of Raqqa and the group’s strong-hold of Manbij in northern Syria.

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JERUSALEM – Israeli po-licemen shot and killed a Pal-estinian as he tried to stab them in Jerusalem on Satur-day, police said, while another Palestinian was shot dead in the West Bank after ramming his vehicle into a checkpoint, the military said, in the latest incidents in over three months of unrelenting violence.

According to police spokes-woman Luba Samri, officers approached a man who was said to had drawn their suspi-cions just outside the Old City for following a pair of Jewish worshippers.

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Top Syrian rebel’s death shuffles peace talk plans

BEIRUT – The assassination of a top Syrian rebel commander who led one of the most pow-erful groups battling President Bashar Assad’s forces has dealt a significant setback to the opposition that could reshuffle the lineup of key players on the ground ahead of the planned peace talks in Geneva next month. On Saturday, the Army of Islam and allied militant groups in Syria mourned the killing of Zahran Alloush, while govern-ment supporters and the Islamic State group cheered his death.

Allouch was killed in airstrikes that targeted the group’s headquarters during a meeting on Friday. He was instantly killed along with a number of senior commanders of his Army of Islam group and those of the Ahrar al-Sham and the Faylaq al-Rahman groups.

Japan: Armed China ship enters disputed territory

TOKYO – Japanese authori-ties said that for the first time Saturday, an armed Chinese coast guard vessel entered its territorial waters off islands claimed by both countries that are a flashpoint of disputes between the neighbors.

Japan’s coast guard said the ship, armed with what appeared to be four gun turrets, was one of three Chinese coast guard vessels spotted inside Japanese waters in the East China Sea. It was the only one that was armed. Chinese vessels regularly sail around the disputed islands, known as the Senkaku in Japa-nese and the Diaoyu in Chinese. But Japanese coast guard official Nanako Uehara said it was the first time an armed Chinese ves-sel had been sighted in Japan’s waters.

– Wire reports

WORLD BRIEFS

AP photo

Palestinian mourners carry the body of Mahdia Hammad, 38, during her funeral Saturday in the village of Silwad, near the West Bank city of Ramallah. Hammad was shot and killed Friday when she sped to-ward Israeli forces, the police spokeswoman said.

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SPORTSTexas misstepPair of late miscues

cost Bulls chance to tie score in 118-111 loss to

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By JOE [email protected]

ALGONQUIN – Jacobs had no problem describing its fin-ish in the Hinkle Holiday Clas-sic in one word.

Disappointing.“The first three games,

good,” forward Tim Randl said. “We fought well. Disappointing outcomes (in the final two) and fourth place for the third year in a row.”

Golden Eagles coach Jimmy Roberts used it twice for em-phasis.

“Disappointing. Disappoint-ing,” Roberts said. “You’re in the final four with a chance to win the whole thing. We get fourth place, which you just get by losing.”

Jacobs held the lead most of the way against Barrington in Saturday’s third-place game, until the Broncos put together a big fourth quarter for a 52-45 victory at the Eagles’ Nest.

The Eagles (11-3) took a 39-31 lead with a 10-0 run, which Barrington (9-6) followed with

its own 15-2 spurt to take the ad-vantage for good.

“We didn’t make shots in the fourth quarter,” Roberts said. “I don’t think we turned it over a lot, we had good shots,

By TIM [email protected]

MUNDELEIN – The Grays-lake North girls basketball team avenged a four-point loss to Fox Valley Conference Fox Division foe Prairie Ridge eight days ago with a 38-36 victory Saturday in the Mundelein Holiday Tour-nament’s third-place game at Mundelein High School.

With Grayslake North short-handed with a few players away for Christmas break, Prairie Ridge (10-6) picked up the tem-po and tried to take advantage of the Knights only having sev-en players available. Grayslake North responded with a 2-3 zone that gave PR a lot of open looks, but the shots weren’t fall-ing most of the night.

Grayslake North held a five- or seven-point lead most of the first half, and the

Wolves really struggled to hit shots. PR shot 25 percent from

THE NORTHWEST HERALD

Even from the start of the season, Marian Central volleyball coach Laura Watling sensed something was special about this year’s team.

The Hurricanes figured to be a strong contender in Class 3A, with many of the key pieces returning from last season’s sectional cham-pionship team. Only one week into the season, Marian Central got a taste of its potential when the Hur-ricanes knocked off the reigning Class 3A state champion, St. Fran-cis, and followed it up with a cham-pionship in the Jacobs Invitational.

“Part of me feels like we’re living in a dream world with how quickly

it’s all happening,” Watling said at the time. “We just started the season and already here we are with eight wins and big wins over big teams.

“And this is just the start. Who knows where we can get to?”

Two months later, the Hurri-canes took the court at Redbird Arena in Normal with a shot at the Class 3A state title on the line.

After losing the first set to Joliet Catholic, the Hurricanes rebounded to win the next two. Senior Norah Cetera finished it off with one final kill to give the Hurricanes a 16-25, 25-18, 25-12 win in the Class 3A state championship – the Northwest Her-ald’s top local sports story of the year, as voted by the newspaper staff.

The season that started so prom-isingly ended with the Hurricanes hoisting a trophy with medals around their necks.

The season was without ques-tion the best in Marian Central volleyball history. The Hurricanes rolled through the regular season, picking up tournament champion-ships at Jacobs, Huntley and Crys-tal Lake Central’s Doug Blundy Invitational. Their 39-3 record was the best in school history.

High-level talent could be found at virtually every position. Senior

libero Alex Kaufmann led the team defensively with 477 digs, includ-ing 17 in the championship match. Junior setter McKayla Wuensch re-corded the ninth-most assists in Il-linois history (1,053), while spread-ing the ball to a variety of weapons who will be continuing their play-ing careers at the next level, in-cluding Lauren Hanlon (Houston Baptist), Rachel Giustino (Murray State) and Sydney Nemtuda (Flori-da Atlantic University).

“We had so many talented girls on the team this year,” Watling said. “It was a coach’s dream. To see how well they all performed this year at the same time was fan-tastic to see five-six players play the

best volleyball they’ve ever played. That’s really rare and an awesome sight to behold.”

At the team’s banquet at the end of the season, Watling reflected on the Hurricanes’ season.

“I told the girls and the parents that it’s not necessarily that we won a state championship,” Watling said. “That is obviously huge and immea-surable. But it’s also who you did it with and how you did it. That is what makes it so much more special. To reflect more upon those moments that I had with those girls and these coaches and the school along the way and the journey that we took to get there. Knowing how it all finished, is what makes it even more sweet.”

NEWS • SPORTS • BUSINESS • ENTERTAINMENT

State title part of what made ’Canes special


The Marian Central volleyball team celebrates with the Class 3A state trophy after beating Joliet Catholic Academy, 16-25, 25-18, 25-12, on Nov. 14 at Illinois State University’s Redbird Arena in Normal. The Hurri-canes’ championship season is the Northwest Herald’s top local sports story of the year, as voted by the newspaper staff.

MARIAN CENTRAL CAPTURED CLASS 3A HIGH SCHOOL VOLLEYBALL CHAMPIONSHIPMORE INSIDE: See the list of top sports stories of the year on page C4.

BOYS BASKETBALL: JACOBS’ HINKLE HOLIDAY CLASSIC

Host disappointed with 4th placeOUTSIDE THE BOX SCORE

q UNSUNG HERO

Tim RandlJacobs, sr., F

Randl started the Golden Eagles with a 3-pointer and they proceeded to lead for most of the game until 3:40 remained in the fourth quarter. He finished with six points.

q THE NUMBER

Barrington limited Jacobs’ 6-foot-9 center Cameron Krutwig to three points in the

second half. Krutwig finished with 13.

q AND ANOTHER THING ...

The teams have a split for the month, as Jacobs won a game Dec. 14 at Barrington, 45-42.

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OUTSIDE THE BOX SCORE

q UNSUNG HERO

Karly StatterPrairie Ridge, fr., G

Statter gave the Wolves their first lead late in the third quarter with a 3-pointer and also had a big steal late in the fourth quarter.

q THE NUMBER

Prairie Ridge players with at least eight rebounds


Prairie Ridge’s fourth-place finish was the highest in school history in the tournament. Alyssa Clark was named to the all-tournament team.

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GIRLS BASKETBALL: MUNDELEIN HOLIDAY TOURNAMENT

PR edged out in 3rd-place game

See WOLVES, page C2


Jacobs’ Nikolas Balkcom shoots against Barrington in the fourth quarter of the Jacobs’ Hinkle Holiday Classic third-place Satur-day in Algonquin. The Golden Eagles lost, 45-52.See JACOBS, page C2


ALGONQUIN – Marian Central’s pa-rade to the free-throw line started at the 6:01 mark of the fourth quarter.

Player after player strolled to the line and stuck their free throws: Sam Ohlrich, Adam Pischke, Josh Horney, Xavier Awe, then Pischke and Ohlrich again.

Crystal Lake South desperately tried to close the gap, which the Hurricanes made more difficult by hitting 14 con-secutive tosses.

“In a tight game, free throws can be the deciding factor,” Pischke said. “It’s a good thing we made them. We just re-mained focused and had confidence.”

Marian needed every one of them to hold off the Gators, 59-55, Saturday in the Consolation A championship of Jacobs’ Hinkle Holiday Classic at the Eagles’ Nest.

The Hurricanes (10-3) built and main-tained the lead for the last 31/2 quarters, first by pushing the pace and trying to attack before South’s zone defense was set. The fourth quarter became a differ-ent pace, but nonetheless was effective with the torrid free-throw shooting. Marian hit only four of its first 11 free throws in the game.

“It seemed like we had spurts and could never put them away. That’s a credit to them,” Hurricanes coach Cur-tis Price said. “We would get a lead and they would keep fighting. We wanted to continue to build. We didn’t accomplish that, but we came out on top and you can’t complain about that.”

Pischke finished with 22 points, four short of the tournament record set by Carmel’s Chris Duff last year. Price and the players were aware of the pos-sible record, but he said they didn’t talk about it.

“There was no pressure,” Pischke said. “[Having the record] would be cool, but I’m not going to do anything differ-ently in my game. As long as we win, I’m happy. It’s about the team and I’m really glad we could go 4-1. That’s the best we’ve done since I’ve been here.”

The Hurricanes (10-3) got 11 points from T.J. Kaufmann and eight from Ohl-

rich to win their bracket. They jumped out to a 39-29 lead in the third quarter,

then weathered South’s fourth-quarter run that came without leading scorer Zach Geske.

Geske picked up his fifth foul with 6:01 remaining and also was assessed a technical as he walked off the court. Still, the Gators (8-5) battled back and cut the lead to 57-55 on Tim Siesennop’s 3-pointer with 1:43 remaining.

“Every time we looked like we were out of it we kept coming,” Gators coach Matt LePage said. “We just needed a guy to make a play. We have to stop look-ing at the other guy and go make a play. With Zach on the bench in the last 6 minutes, we needed somebody to step up there.”

Forward Wes Buckner, playing in only his fifth game after battling a sprained ankle, scored 14 points and grabbed 10 rebounds to lead South. Geske and center Josh Friesen each added 12.

By TIM [email protected]

MUNDELEIN – After los-ing 11 of its first 12 games this season, the Cary-Grove girls basketball team needed to re-group.

The Trojans might have fig-ured it out this past week. Cary-Grove forced 31 turnovers, hit its free throws and held on for a 43-42 victory over Vernon Hills on Saturday to win its third consecutive game and the con-solation championship on the final day of play at the Mun-delein Holiday Tournament at Mundelein High School.

After a quick start by Ver-non Hills, C-G clamped down the defense, and with two baskets off the bench by soph-omore Vanessa Morris, was

only down 12-9 after the first quarter despite shooting 4 for 17 from the field.

“We gave up way too many

offensive rebounds in the first quarter and really needed to cut that down if we were going to have any chance,” Trojans coach Rod Saffert said.

C-G (4-12) worked on the of-fensive rebounding and run-ning its offense, which result-ed in maybe its best quarter of the season. The Trojans hit their first four shots of the sec-ond quarter and jumped out to an eight-point lead halfway through the quarter. C-G out-scored the Cougars, 16-8, in the quarter and held a five-point lead at halftime. The Trojans forced 17 first-half turnovers, which was a big reason for the turnaround.

Neither C-G nor Vernon Hills shot the ball well in the second half, but the game came down to foul shooting, and the

Trojans converted 7 of 9 in the second half while Vernon Hills was 5 for 14.

“We knew we were a better team than our record showed, we just needed to make a few adjustments,” Saffert said. “We were giving up 60 points a game, and for us to win, we can’t do that. Our defense played a lot better this week and we start-ed to run our offense, and that showed in our play all week.”

The Trojans were led by Maddie Gorz and Katie Sowa with 11 points each.

“Coach Saffert told us to keep it going on defense, and that is what won it for us to-night,” Gorz said. “It feels real-ly good to end the tournament with three straight wins, and, hopefully, we can keep it going in conference play.”

SPORTS • Sunday, December 27, 2015 • Section C • Northwest Herald / NWHerald.com2

BOYS BASKETBALL: JACOBS’ HINKLE HOLIDAY CLASSIC


q UNSUNG HERO

T.J. KaufmannMarian Central, sr., G

Kaufmann hit a pair of 3-pointers and finished with 11 points as the Hurricanes beat Crystal Lake South, 59-55, for the Consolation A title at Jacobs’ Hinkle Holiday Classic.

q THE NUMBER

Rebounds for 5-foot-10 Marian Central guard Adam Pischke, which led the team.


Pischke finished the tournament with 135 points, four shy of the tournament record set by Carmel’s Chris Duff last season.

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ALGONQUIN – Huntley fol-lowed a tough loss in its final day of pool play at Jacobs’ Hinkle Holi-day Classic with a pair of victories to take the Consolation C bracket.

The Red Raiders (6-6) worked their way back to .500 Saturday at the Eagles’ Nest with a 52-42 victory over Johnsburg. Sopho-more guard J.J. Flores, hit with foul trouble most of the game, scored all 12 of his points in the fourth quarter for the Raiders.

Forward Olalere Oladipo led Huntley with 13 points.

Michael Shelton led the Sky-hawks (6-7) with 18 points and 5 of 5 on free throws. Tanner Kreassig added 11 points.

“We talked about this being an important game because Johns-burg beat Cary-Grove and McHen-ry. They kind of like beating Fox Valley (Conference) teams,” Raid-

ers coach Will Benson said. “They play hard, they play scrappy. We were very solid defensively, we contested a lot of shots. We didn’t shoot the ball from 3, we’ve been shooting well lately, but to win when we did that was positive.”

Consolation APrairie Ridge 57, Bartlett 55: The

Wolves (11-3) got 17 points and five 3-pointers from Christopher Bradshaw as they held off the Hawks in their final game of the tournament.

Payton Otto added 15 points for Prairie Ridge and Brian Dorn scored 10. Robby Jimenez led Bartlett (6-6) with 21 points.

Consolation CCary-Grove 73, Corliss 50: C-G

won the battle of Trojans to end its long losing streak. Zach Beaugureau scored 22 points and hit four 3s for C-G (3-10). Danny Schmidt added 14 points.

BOYS BASKETBALL: JACOBS’ HINKLE HOLIDAY CLASSIC ROUNDUP’Canes seal victory at line Huntley wins Consolation C

Jacobs’ shooting goes cold in 4th quarter

By CHRIS [email protected]

C A R P E N T E R S V I L L E – Crystal Lake South girls basketball players would sit in awe watching some of the teams play in the Dundee-Crown Charger Classic in past years.

Watching some of the big-ger schools and the talent they brought, coach Mark Mucha knew regardless of that awe that his team would be up to the challenge in its first year as part of the 16-team field.

The Gators got paired up with one of those tough matchups in unbeaten Bur-lington Central, but senior Chanel Fanter and company were not intimated and found a way to hold off the Rockets and pick up a 42-39 win Satur-day afternoon.

“We didn’t want to get in a mind game with them, like they are some big juggernaut in front of us, and I think we did that,” Crystal Lake South coach Mark Mucha said. “We focused on what we did well and executed very well. Being in awe of some of those teams when watching, and now to be one of those teams, it’s a notch in the girls’ heads that they are good enough and de-serve to be here.”

It also helps when Mu-cha has the luxury of one of

those rare breeds of talent in Fanter. The senior finished with a double-double, with a game-high 21 points and 10 rebounds, added three as-sists and played good defense down the stretch.

After leading for the entire game, the Gators (12-4) saw Burlington Central (8-1) start the fourth quarter on a 10-0 run to tie the score at 34. But what turned out to be the big-gest basket of the game came next from junior Kelly Gaede. Her 3-pointer from the top of the key gave the Gators a lead they wouldn’t relinquish.

It was Gaede’s only basket of the game, but its importance was bigger than any other.

“We always have a lot of confidence,” Gaede said. “As long as we stayed patient and ran our sets, we would find the shots we wanted. We didn’t panic and took our time, and luckily I came off the screen and had an open shot. It’s a huge win for us to continue to build that confi-dence and play against some really good competition the next few days.”

Annika Sevcik added eight points for the Gators – six of which came from the free-throw line.

Crystal Lake South will take on Resurrection – a 48-41 winner over Barrington – in the second round at 6:30 p.m. Monday.


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Becca KendeighCary-Grove, jr., G

Kendeigh hit a 3-pointer in the third quarter to put C-G up by four and converted 6 of 8 free throws to help lead C-G to victory.

q THE NUMBER

Combined turnovers for Cary-Grove and Vernon Hills


C-G sophomore Maddie Gorz was named to the all-tournament team.

52Mary Beth Nolan for Shaw Media

GIRLS BASKETBALL: D-C CHARGER CLASSIC

GIRLS BASKETBALL: MUNDELEIN HOLIDAY TOURNAMENT

3rd straight win gives C-G consolation title

Lockwood scores 13 points

PREP BASKETBALL ROUNDUP

NORTHWEST HERALD

Ali Andrews scored 28 points to lead the Huntley girls basketball team to a 53-43 win over Bolingbrook on Saturday in its first game at the Monti-ni Christmas Tournament in Lombard.

The Red Raiders (12-0) trailed at the half but took control by outscoring Boling-brook 20-8 in the third quarter. Andrews scored 20 of her 28 points after the half.

Morgan Clausen had eight points and Maddy Moffett add-ed seven points. Huntley ad-vances to play Hersey at 3 p.m. Monday.

Jacobs 41, West Aurora 33: At Bill Neibch Falcon Classic at Wheaton North, the Golden Eagles finished 2-2 at the tour-ney with a win. Jacobs out-scored West Aurora, 15-6, in the third quarter to pull away for the win. Nicole Durben led the team with 14 points, and Kerri Healy added 12.

Hampshire 50, Hinkley-Big Rock 19: At Lisle Holiday Clas-sic, the Whip-Purs held H-BR to eight points at the half in their opening game of the tour-nament. Nikki Dumoulin led

Hampshire with 11 points, and Emma Benoit added 10.

New Trier 55, Dundee-Crown 38: At the Charger Classic in Carpentersville, the Chargers struggled shooting the ball in the opening game loss. Melis-sa Barker led D-C with eight points, and Allison Michalski added seven.

BOYSMinooka 54, McHenry 35: At

York Jack Tosh Holiday Tour-nament in York, the Warriors fell in their opening game.

The Warriors were down just six entering the fourth quarter. Minooka outscored McHenry 24-11 in the fourth. Colton Klein led McHenry with nine points, and Brian O’Toole and Gavin Markgraff each added eight.

The Warriors will play Lane Tech at 10 a.m. Monday.

Glenbrook North 45, Hamp-shire 30: At DeKalb Chuck Day-ton Holiday Tournament, the Whip-Purs fell in the opening round game. Luke Tuttle led Hampshire with 13 points, and Deion Garcia added five.

Hampshire will play Ster-ling at 9 a.m. Monday in the consolation bracket.

Huntley wins opener

CLS tops undefeated Burlington Central

Crystal Lake South’s

Chanel Fanter (left) beats Burlington

Central’s Kayla Ross

to a rebound in first-round

action at the Dundee-Crown Char-

ger Classic on Saturday

in Carpen-tersville. The Gators won,

42-39.

the field and turned the ball over 11 times. The positive for the Wolves was its size advantage, led by Sam Lockwood, who had seven of her game-high 13 points in the first half.

“We knew we had a big ad-vantage sizewise, so we really focused on lobbing it inside to the bigs,” Lockwood said. “Our guards got us the ball inside and that kept us in the game.”

The Wolves started to hit shots in the third quarter and

made three 3-pointers and took the lead late in the third.

With the score tied in the fourth quarter, the Wolves held the ball for more than four min-utes looking to regain the lead, which Lockwood did, 36-34, with 2:30 remaining. The Knights scored four more points, and with a few seconds left, Alyssa Clark’s 3-point attempt rimmed out.

“We started to knock down shots in the second half and had a chance at the end,” Wolves coach Rob Baker said. “Alyssa had a great look and it came up just short. Grayslake North is a good team.”

• WOLVESContinued from page C1


Crystal Lake South’s Tyler Haskin shoots during the first quarter against Marian Central at Jacobs’ Hinkle Holiday Classic on Saturday in Algonquin. The Hurricanes won, 59-55.

good looks. We lost to two good basketball teams (Zi-on-Benton and Barrington), but we’re on our home floor, and three years in a row we get fourth place.”

Jacobs made 2 of 10 field-goal attempts in the fourth quarter, and 2 of 5 free throws. Late in the third, sophomore guard Nikolas Balkcom sparked the run that put the Eagles up 39-31.

“We fell apart on defense and we stopped executing and making shots on of-fense,” Balkcom said. “We just couldn’t make shots and had defensive lapses and left guys open.”

Barrington center Will Reinhard scored eight of his game-high 17 points and grabbed five of his 11 re-bounds in the fourth quarter. Guard Ben Weber added 14 for the Broncos.

“In that (Jacobs) run, we felt we were really bad with the basketball,” Barrington coach Bryan Tucker said. “We had empty possessions, bad turnovers and some bad shots. We took a timeout and said, ‘Let’s take care of the basketball and play with a lit-tle more confidence.’ ”

Weber’s 3 with 3:40 to go made it 44-41 and gave the Broncos the lead for good. Jacobs cut the lead to three in the final minute on Balk-com’s steal and layup, but never had the ball with a chance to tie.

“We had open shots, we just couldn’t knock them in,” Randl said. “The other thing was we were breaking down on defense. When both those things happen, it usually doesn’t work out well.”

Jacobs’ center Cameron Krutwig finished with 13 points, 14 rebounds and five blocked shots. Balkcom add-ed nine points.

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Marengo softball takes second

The Indians advanced to the Class 3A state softball championship in June at East Peoria’s EastSide Centre, losing to Wash-ington, 2-1, and falling one win short of the team’s second state tournament title in five

seasons (2011).Marengo finished 35-7, one win shy of the school

record set in 2012, and swept through the Big Northern Conference East Division for back-to-back conference titles.

Sophomore Mariah Dionne led the Indians in the circle, going 26-4 with a 1.82 ERA and 266 strikeouts in 192 innings, while Veronica Ruelius (Illinois) paced the offense with a school-record 17 home runs, 18 doubles, 63 runs scored and 65 RBIs.

Romeo McKnight’s ascentWinning the Class 2A 220-pound state

wrestling title kicked off a whirlwind five months for Crystal Lake Central’s Romeo McKnight.

McKnight suffered one loss in the wrestling season, at which point he rededicat-

ed himself, worked out harder, ate more nutritious food and eventually made himself known at the Nike Open Combine in early May at Addison Trail.

Working as a defensive end and blowing past bet-ter-known offensive line prospects, McKnight immedi-ately shot up recruiting lists. By late May, the 6-foot-5, 235-pounder committed to Iowa. He suffered a torn right ACL, which knocked him out for both sports this year.

Hampshire cheerleading wins it all

The Hampshire cheerleading team almost didn’t even make it to state. A fall at sectionals bumped the Whip-Purs into fourth place at DeKalb. But when

it got to state, Hampshire turned in its best performance in team history. The Whip-Purs scored an 88.5 to nar-rowly edge Columbia (88.43) for the state championship, besting 24 other teams competing in February.

The trip to state was the second in two seasons under coach Rachael Fischer. After finishing ninth in Fisch-er’s first season as coach, the Whip-Purs won it all. The state championship was Hampshire’s fourth in school history and first since the football team’s Class 2A state championship in 1995.

A closer look at the remainder of the stories that make up the Northwest Herald’s local sports stories of the year for 2015, as voted by the newspaper staff:

Wrestling titles all over

The McHenry County area never had been more well-represented at the IHSA wrestling

state tournament than it was in February. Four competitors – Cary-Grove’s Michael Cullen (Class 3A, 120 pounds), Crystal Lake South’s Eric Barone (3A, 145), Crystal Lake Central’s Andrew Marsden (2A, 195) and Central’s Romeo McKnight (2A, 220) – won state titles.

Cullen and Barone’s were firsts in their schools’ histories. Cullen beat Oak Park-River Forest’s Alex Madrigal, 3-1, for the state title. Barone held off OPRF’s Larry Early III, 3-2, in his championship match. Mars-den was a repeat champion in his weight class. McKnight avenged his only loss of the sea-son, beating Washington’s Jake Godinez, 6-2, for the title.

Crystal Lake Central’s Romeo McKnight pins McHenry’s Ryan Grannemann during the 220-pound match in the Fox Valley Conference wrestling meet Jan. 31.

Jesse Reiser’s big finishMcHenry’s Jesse Reiser won the Class 3A 3,200 meters at the boys

track and field state meet, capping a brilliant career that included three state championships. Reiser, who now runs at Illinois, won the 3A 3,200 as a junior and a senior.

Reiser also won the 3A boys title at the cross country state meet in No-vember 2014. He almost pulled off the 3A distance triple crown, but came up just short as the state runner-up in the 1,600 meters.

Valerie Tarazi takes it

Prairie Ridge soph-omore Valerie Tarazi, who swims for the Crystal Lake co-op team (comprised of the three

Crystal Lake high schools), became the first girls swimming state cham-pion in 20 years when she won the 100-yard breaststroke in November at the swimming and diving state meet.

Tarazi narrowly lost in the 200 individual medley, which was the only heat she lost the entire season. Tarazi is the first McHenry County girls swimming state champion since McHenry’s Brianne Fowles won the 200 and 500 freestyles in 1995.

On, Marengo!Marengo had not made the football postseason and had not won a playoff game since 1997,

but that changed this season when the Indians rolled to the Class 4A playoff semifinals, winning every game by at least 10 points.

Marengo won the Big Northern Conference East Division championship in convincing manner, then beat its first three playoffs opponents before losing to eventual state champion Chicago Phillips, 47-13. The Indians’ fast-break offense, led by quarterback Zach Knobloch, produced big plays, while their speedy defense consistently clamped down on foes.

Ethan Farnam’s historic yearPrairie Ridge’s Ethan Farnam made a late run at the

Class 3A boys golf state individual title with a 4-under-par 32 on the back nine at The Den at Fox Creek in Bloomington – the lowest nine-hole score of 110 golfers playing – but ulti-mately fell two strokes short of medalist honors in October.

The junior’s runner-up finish and two-day score of 147 set a school record, beating his own 152 and 17th-place

finish set in 2014 as a sophomore.Farnam started the year as one of 312 players worldwide to play at

Olympia Field in the 115th U.S. Amateur Championship – the nation’s most prestigious amateur tournament. He missed the cut after two rounds of stroke play, but shot even-par on Day 2.

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State gymnastics championsPrairie Ridge’s co-op girls gymnastics team, which draws athletes from

Cary-Grove, Crystal Lake Central and Prairie Ridge, won the team title, and senior Rachael Underwood won the all-around championship at the state meet in February.

The Wolves, who were runners-up the previous two years, finally won the big trophy, but it came with an added degree of difficulty. Senior Riley Ma-honey, a competitor with similar skills of Underwood, suffered a knee injury

that ended her season. Still, the Wolves managed to win the team championship, scoring 150 points to Geneva’s 147.3 for second.

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McHenry’s Jesse Reiser has been named the Northwest Herald Track and Field Player of the Year.

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Valerie Tarazi is the Northwest Herald Girls Swimmer of the Year. The Prairie Ridge sophomore and Crystal Lake co-op swimmer won the 100-yard breaststroke and placed second in the 200 individual medley in the state finals.

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Prairie Ridge sophomore Ethan Farnam tees off on the 11th hole during the Crystal South Invite boys golf invitational Thursday in Crystal Lake.

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Marengo’s Colton Wightman tries to rally the crowd to get it to stand in the final few minutes against Coal City on Oct. 30 at Marengo High School in Marengo. Marengo won, 28-10.

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Noon kickoff on Fox (Sam Rosen, Matt Millen, Peter Schrager); Can be heard on WBBM Radio AM-780 and 105.9-FM (Jeff Joniak, Tom Thayer, Zach Zaidman)

Last time they met

Nov. 23, 2014 – Bears beat the Buccaneers, 21-13, at Soldier Field in their final win of the 2014 season.

Key matchup to watch

Buccaneers RB Doug Martin vs. Bears run defense – The Bears have been wildly inconsistent against the run this season. They did a fine job last week on Vikings running back Adrian Peterson, but enter Sunday 28th in the league, allowing 4.56 yards a carry. Not a good situation against the league’s second-best rushing attack, which averages 4.86 yards a touch. Martin is explo-sive with 13 gains this season of 20 yards or more. The Bears are not letting opposing backs get to the open field, allowing only four such runs this season. Martin has the strength to break tackles and good balance to hit the holes. He likes running behind Logan Mankins, as the Bucs are averaging 6.5 yards a carry over left guard, tops in the NFL. That actually is running right into the Bears’ strength, as they allow 3.55 yards a touch on left guard runs, 10th-best in the league. Shea McClellin is not expected to play, so the Bears could have two undrafted rookies starting at inside linebacker – Jonathan Anderson and John Timu. Both have shown flashes this season, but they need help from the defensive linemen to win blocks, and the Bears cannot afford to miss tackles as they did in Minnesota.

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accuracy can get the Bears’ defense off the field. Forcing a turnover or two would help, something that has evaded the Bears’ secondary this season. On offense, they have to find a way to put the game on the backs of RBs Matt Forte and Jeremy Langford against a good Bucs de-fense with WR Alshon Jeffery likely sitting this one out.

The Buccaneers will win if…

They run the ball like they have most of the season, which will wear

down the Bears’ defense and give them an early lead. The Bears haven’t played well from

behind of late. If Lavonte David and Gerald McCoy stop Forte and Lang-ford on early downs, it’ll be a long day for Jay Cutler and a depleted receiving corps.

Fishbain’s pick

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Bears see value in momentumArgue strong finish is as valuable as a higher draft pick

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When Jay Cutler finished with a flourish in the final two games of his first season with the Bears in 2009, it seemed like fool’s gold. Two weeks after the Bears had been elim-inated from the playoff pic-ture, Cutler threw for four touchdowns in an overtime upset of Brett Favre and the playoff-bound Minnesota Vi-kings and for four more touch-downs against the not-playoff-bound Detroit Lions at Ford Field. He had passer ratings of 108.4 and 122.0 as the Bears finished 7-9.

It seemed more like too-lit-tle-too-late than a momentum boost for 2010. But coinciden-tally or not, it was a prelude to a great season. The Bears started 3-0 in 2010, including a victory over the Green Bay Packers at Soldier Field. They went 11-5, won the NFC North and reached the NFC title game.

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perception than reality. In former coach Lovie Smith’s first season in 2004, the Bears lost their final four games and six of their last seven, then came of age in 2005, winning the NFC North at 11-5 before losing to John Fox’s Carolina Panthers at home in the divi-sional playoffs.

Then again, in 2000, when the Bears finished a dreadful 5-11 season under Dick Jauron with an exhilarating 23-20 win over the Lions at the Silver-dome – with Paul Edinger’s 54-yard field goal knocking out the Lions in the playoff pic-ture – not even veteran James

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“I don’t feel good about this season,” Williams said that day. “I’m glad we won our last game. But ending the season 5-11 is not exactly what we planned on being this year.”

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But the draft is of no con-cern to the Bears. They are a rebuilding team in a for-mative stage. Any success is more likely to be real.

“We can get on a good win-ning streak going into the offseason,” cornerback Tracy Porter said. “We can put a lot of good things on tape, show that we can bounce back from this loss (to the Vikings) and create a lot of momentum go-ing into next season.”

Porter has a real refer-ence point. In 2008, his Saints finished strong after being eliminated from the playoff race, beating the winless Li-ons, 42-7, and pushing Fox’s division-champion Panthers to the limit before losing, 33-31, on a last-second field goal. The Saints started 13-0 the next season and won the Su-per Bowl.

“Those final games, that fi-nal momentum carrying over into the offseason [and] into training camp, that can defi-nitely help you out,” Porter said.

REDSKINS 38, EAGLES 24

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Bears cornerback Tracy Porter takes the field Dec. 6 before a game against San Francisco at Soldier Field.

Washington clinches NFC East titleBy ROB MAADDI

The Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA – Worst to first in a mediocre division counts the same.

Kirk Cousins threw four touchdown passes and had a season-high 365 yards and the Washington Redskins beat the Philadelphia Eagles, 38-24, Saturday night to clinch the NFC East title.

Only 4-12 last season, the Redskins (8-7) began their

turnaround when Cousins rallied them from a 24-0 first-h a l f d e f i c i t to a 31-30 win over Tampa Bay on Oct. 25. They’ve won three straight for the first time since a s e v e n - g a m e winning streak helped them secure the division in 2012 in Robert Griffin III’s rookie year.

DeAngelo Hall returned DeMarco Murray’s fumble 17 yards for a momentum-chang-ing TD in the third quarter. Cousins threw TD passes to Chris Thompson and Pierre Garcon and a pair to Jordan Reed.

The Eagles (6-9) entered the game in control of their play-off hopes. They needed to beat the Redskins and Giants next week to win the East. Wash-ington’s win also eliminated New York (6-8).

Two teams have clinched division crowns in Philadel-phia in six days. Arizona won the NFC West with a 40-17 win over the Eagles on Sunday night.

While the Redskins and coach Jay Gruden head to the playoffs, the Eagles and coach Chip Kelly face a challenging offseason. Kelly took control of personnel decisions last year and overhauled a team that went 10-6 in each of his first two seasons.

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From Jay Cutler, coach killer, to Jay Cutler, coach maker?

Talk about a Christmas miracle!

Despite the Bears’ 5-9 record, offensive coordi-nator Adam Gase is being mentioned prominently for head-coaching jobs that aren’t even open yet.

How did it come to be that the architect of the 21st-ranked passing offense in the league is considered such a catch? Gase found a way to get Cutler under control on the field. That once was thought to be impossible, along with time travel.

It would be just Cutler’s luck that, after burning through coordinators like kindling, a coach he finally bonds with leaves him.

I’ve never been a big Cutler fan, but it’s difficult not to feel sorry for him right now. If Gase departs for a better job, Cutler will welcome his sixth offen-sive coordinator as a Bear next season, provided the team still wants him as its quarterback. And that’s not even counting former head coach Marc Trestman, who ran the offense when he was in town.

I know that the Bears are saying all the right things, that if Gase does go they’ll find someone with the same philosophy who can run the same offense and keep Cutler happy. But the evidence suggests it’s difficult to find a coach who can drill through the many strata of rock and reach Cutler.

Gase has done that. He has made Cutler better and made Cutler happy. Let’s be clear, though: It’s not as though Cutler’s numbers are otherworld-ly. His 63.3 completion percentage is fine, and his 3,258 yards are pedestrian. But his passer rating is a career-high 92.3, mostly because his interceptions (eight in 13 games) are way down. He had a league-high 18 last season. The maddening mistakes that have haunted Cutler during his career are fewer. Gase spoke, and Cutler’s ears were opened.

Normally, a team makes the playoffs and its coordi-nators become commodities. The Bears, very not normal, struggle during a rebuilding process and are in danger of losing an offensive coordi-nator with apparent mysti-cal powers.

Doesn’t it figure?

Sir Dunk-A-Not: Derrick Rose still having trouble getting above the rim

I recently found myself wondering how many NBA players can’t dunk, perhaps looking for common ground and shared lifelong gravity issues.

It never occurred to me that Derrick Rose might be one of them.

OK, that’s not fair. The Bulls guard surely can dunk. I think. Did you see that effort against the Thun-der on Christmas? He took a pass from Nikola Mirotic in the second quarter and barely got the ball over the rim on a dunk attempt. And all I could think was: He’s that bad off?

Injuries are never in the rearview mirror for Rose, but I thought he at least had recouped some of his explosiveness. That weak effort Friday seemed to expose a jaw-dropping lack of hops.

Now, there are some qualifiers here. Rose wasn’t in the best position to catch the ball and dunk. He didn’t have a running start.

But still.Rose hasn’t dunked in

a game this season, and what first was ruled a dunk against the Thunder was changed to a layup.

‘‘I’m getting close,’’ Rose said afterward.

If you want to torment yourself, go to YouTube and type in ‘‘Derrick Rose dunk Thunder.’’ You’ll get an outrageous two-handed slam from 2010. It’s an aching reminder of what used to be and of what probably never will be again.

These days, Rose often will follow a good game with a game or two that lies flat like a rug. That tells you he’s still not close to being back from the three knee surgeries that have defined his career.

Rose without a ridiculous vertical leap is a pale imita-tion of the 2011 most valu-able player. Dunking in and of itself doesn’t mean any-thing. Dunking as a gauge of Rose’s physical health does. It’s hard to watch.

If Stephen Curry is what’s wrong with basketball, we should all be so wrong

It’s hard to believe Mark Jackson was an NBA coach and an NBA point guard.

This is what the ABC analyst had to say about Stephen Curry during the telecast of the Cavaliers-Warriors game Friday:

‘‘He’s hurting the game. And what I mean by that is that I go into these high school gyms, I watch these kids, and the first thing they do is they run to the three-point line. You are not Steph Curry. Work on the other aspects of the game.’’

For years, the criticism here and in many other places has been that dunking has taken over the game – and for the worse. Good luck trying to find an excellent outside shooter among elite high school players these days. Why? Turn on ESPN, and you’ll see that most NBA replays involve a dunk. If an outside shot is shown, it’s often a buzzer-beater.

Now comes a man who stands out not for his jumping ability but for the elegance of his game, which includes lights-out shooting on command. If you’re a young player, Curry’s path to success is worth emulat-ing. Tirelessly practice your shooting. Find ways to get to the basket, no matter how slight you might appear to be. Pass to open teammates as opponents converge on you. Oh, and win an NBA championship.

If you’re a young, smaller basketball player, Curry’s game seems in reach – or at least accessible in some ways. If you’re a 5-5 high school freshman, you can’t aspire to be a 6-8 forward with a 40-inch vertical jump. You can look at your small-ish parents and see that’s not going to happen.

Derrick Rose’s game was built on his powerful leaping. With that weapon gone, he has been reduced. Curry’s game relies on touch, and that’s not going to desert him. It’s true that very few humans can shoot like he can. It’s also true that not everyone should be hoisting three-pointers. But when the sport has devolved into phenomenal athletes trading dunks, we should be celebrating Curry for his diverse abilities, not looking at him as what’s wrong with the game.

If Curry is hurting the sport, why does everyone not known as ‘‘former Warriors coach Mark Jackson’’ feel so good about it?

• Rick Morrissey is a Chicago Sun-Times sports columnist. Write to him at [email protected].

By JOSH DUBOW The Associated Press

OAKLAND, Calif. – Stephen Curry’s greatness as a basket-ball player can be measured by his record-setting shooting numbers that are changing the game.

His immense popularity derives from something less tangible.

While many NBA greats rely on uncommon height and athletic ability that average fans can only dream of hav-ing, Curry’s game relies on the traits that every casual play-er can work on: shoot, dribble and pass.

The difference is, perhaps nobody ever has put those three skills together the same way Curry has the past year as he has dominated on the court and made the once downtrod-den Golden State Warriors the NBA’s must-watch team.

“The way that I play has a lot of skill but is stuff that if you go to the YMCA or rec leagues or church leagues around the country, everybody wants to shoot, everybody wants to handle the ball, make creative passes and stuff like that,” he said. “You can work on that stuff. Not everybody has the vertical, or the physical gifts to be able to go out and do a windmill dunk and stuff like that. I can’t even do it.”

That’s about all Curry is unable to do on the basket-ball court. His amazing year,

in which he won an MVP, led Golden State to its first title in 40 years and helped the War-riors get off to a record-setting start this season, earned him The Associated Press 2015 Male Athlete of the Year.

C u r r y f i n -ished first in a vote by U.S. e d i t o r s a n d news directors, w i t h t h e r e -sults released Saturday. He joined LeBron

James, Michael Jordan and Larry Bird as the only basket-ball players to win the honor in the 85 years of the award. Curry beat out golfer Jordan Spieth, who won two majors, and American Pharoah, who became the first horse since 1978 to win the Triple Crown.

While American Pharoah got three more first-place votes than Curry’s 24, Curry appeared on 86 percent of the 82 ballots that ranked the top five candidates. More than one-third of the voters left American Pharoah off their list.

“That’s a real honor,” Cur-ry said. “I’m appreciative of that acknowledgement be-cause it’s across all different sports. ... It’s pretty cool.”

Curry has become the face of the NBA this past year. His jersey is the best-seller in the league, his team’s games get record television ratings at home and in opposing mar-

kets and even his 3-year-old daughter Riley became a star by overshadowing her dad at playoff news conferences.

Even his intricate warmup routine has become a show for fans who get out early or even sometimes on TV pregame shows. He does an elaborate two-ball dribbling routine, works on passes and shots with both hands, takes jump shots from just inside half court and then caps it with a long-range shot from the tun-nel on the way back to the locker room.

“Steph actually looks dif-ferent,” ESPN analyst Ja-len Rose said. “Like the best player in the league usually is also physically opposing – 6-6 plus, scowl on his face, men-acing. With the attitude that we appreciated because like a Michael Jordan or Shaquille O’Neal, or Kobe Bryant, you know, just a cutthroat nature. Steph allows us into his living room. We see him on a nation-al stage be a son, a dad, a hus-band, a father, a brother. And he does all of it while continu-ing to improve.”

Curry has improved his scoring from 23.8 points per game to 30.8 – the biggest one-year jump ever by an MVP – prompting Rose to say that Curry could be the most im-proved player and repeat as MVP this season in a remark-able tribute to the offseason work he put in even after win-ning a title.

By SCHUYLER DIXON The Associated Press

DALLAS – J.J. Barea made a career-high seven 3-pointers and finished with 26 points coming off his first 30-point game, and the Dallas Maver-icks beat the Chicago Bulls 118-111 Saturday night.

Derrick Rose led the Bulls with 25 points, including nine in the fourth quarter, but had a key turnover before getting called for a 5-second violation when Chicago had a chance to tie in the final 11 seconds.

Dirk Nowitzki scored 16 points in his first home game since passing Shaquille O’Neal on the career scoring list, and Zaza Pachulia had 17 points and 12 rebounds. Barea was 7 for 8 from beyond the arc.

Nikola Mirotic had 23 points, seven rebounds and three blocks for the Bulls, who were trying for back-to-back wins a night after win-ning at Oklahoma City. The Mavericks had a mini two-day Christmas break.

The start of the game was delayed about 30 minutes be-cause of reported tornadoes in the Dallas area.

Raymond Felton broke a late tie with two free throws af-ter a strong drive to the basket, and then tipped a pass from Rose that Nowitzki grabbed and threw ahead to Chandler

Parsons. After stopping at the basket, Parsons handed off to Wesley Matthews for a layup and a 112-108 lead.

After Rose missed a runner, Felton made two more free throws for a 114-108 Dallas lead with 38 seconds left.

Jimmy Butler hit a 3-point-er that bounced around the rim, and the Bulls got another chance after a Dallas miss. But with Felton defending him, Rose couldn’t get the ball in. Dallas clinched the victory with free throws.

Chicago’s Pau Gasol had 18 points, nine rebounds and three blocks, and Butler scored 17 points with a game-high eight assists.

Nowitzki got a standing ovation early in the first quar-ter after a video tribute for him passing O’Neal for No. 6 on the NBA’s scoring list in the Mav-ericks’ last game at Brooklyn.

The 37-year-old German promptly hit a fadeaway jump-er coming out of the timeout, and had 10 points in the first half. Barea was 5 of 5 from long range before halftime to lead Dallas with 15 points.

Barea set a career high in 3-pointers with his sixth on the first basket of third quar-ter, putting Dallas ahead 62-60. He had five 3s nine previous times in his career, including when he scored a career-best 32 points in an overtime win at

Brooklyn on Wednesday.Barea finally made his first

two-pointer on a driving layup with 3.9 seconds left in the third for a 90-89 lead.

Dallas left Taj Gibson alone at the other end, and Devin Harris scrambled back to foul him while preventing a dunk with 0.4 seconds to go. Gibson missed both free throws, so the Mavericks kept the lead going to the fourth.

TIP-INSBulls: F Joakim Noah missed

his second straight game with a left shoulder sprain. He got hurt Monday against Brook-lyn and is expected to miss at least another week. ... Chica-go fell to 9-4 against the West. The Bulls have two wins over the Thunder and one over San Antonio.

Mavericks: PG Deron Wil-liams missed his second straight game with a left hamstring strain. Coach Rick Carlisle wouldn’t put a time-table on his return. ... Harris returned after missing three games with a right hamstring injury. ... Parsons had 20 points and five assists.UP NEXT

Bulls: Host Toronto on Mon-day.

Mavericks: Host Milwaukee on Monday.

Rick Morrissey

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BULLS 118, MAVERICKS 111

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Chicago Bulls guard Derrick Rose (1) looks to pass to teammate forward Nikola Mirotic (44) as he is defended by Dallas Mavericks guard J.J. Barea (5) and forward Chandler Parsons (25) in the first half Saturday in Dallas.

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By RALPH D. RUSSO The Associated Press

DALLAS – Alabama started its season in North Texas with a goal of coming back. Michi-gan State ended last season at the Cotton Bowl and the plan for this season was to return to play for even higher stakes.

Mission accomplished for both the Crimson Tide and Spartans.

“Yeah, this is where we wanted to be,” Alabama line-backer Reggie Ragland said Saturday. “We fought hard all year, and now we’re where we want to be, and in a position to win it all.”

The teams were in place and started practicing Saturday in the Dallas area for the College Football Playoff’s Cotton Bowl semifinal. The third-seeded Spartans and No. 2 Tide will ring in the new year Thursday night at the home of the Dallas Cowboys.

Michigan State (12-1) arrived Friday night. Alabama (12-1) got in Saturday morning, leav-ing behind the severe weather that brought flooding and tor-nadoes in its home state to find some more ominous weather brewing in North Texas. The entire area was on a tornado watch for most of the afternoon and into the evening. Tornado and flash flood warnings dotted the counties around Dallas.

A few Crimson Tide players who went home for Christmas were delayed getting back to Tuscaloosa on Christmas night, but all the players expected to be on Alabama’s team plane made it.

“Certainly was a difficult circumstance last night, but we didn’t have any issues at least with the group that came with us, which was probably 90 per-cent of the guys,” Tide coach Nick Saban said. A few players from this part of the country were allowed to meet the team in Texas, Saban said.

On Saturday, the National Weather Service in Fort Worth confirmed that a tornado touched down south of Dallas. An emergency management of-ficial in Ellis County reported damage to some homes in the area. The storm passed through downtown Dallas, leading to more tornado warnings.

Spokesmen for Michigan State and Alabama said the weather in North Texas did not affect either team.

The Spartans worked out at AT&T Stadium in Arlington as scheduled and the Crimson Tide got their work in at Cop-pell High School, a bit north of Dallas. Both teams then took part in a welcome party thrown by the Dallas Cowboys at the stadium.

A year ago, Michigan State faced Baylor in the Cotton Bowl and scored 21 points in the fourth quarter to wipe out a 20-point deficit and beat the Bears 42-41.

“Our goals are always try-ing to go a little bit farther,” Spartans coach Mark Dantonio said. “And last year the way the season wrapped up, big win in the Cotton Bowl. But at the same time, we weren’t in the College Football Playoff, which our goal is always to win the Big Ten championship, which I believe should put you in that playoff, if you are fortunate enough to do that.”

Alabama began this season with a 35-17 victory at AT&T Stadium against Wisconsin, and went on to become the only team to repeat as a playoff participant. Big Ten champion Ohio State upset the Tide 42-35 in last year’s semifinals at the Sugar Bowl.

“Everybody on the team knew that the leadership wasn’t the right way, some guys can’t say nothing about it. But now I can say something about it because I’m a leader,” Rag-land said about last year’s loss. “If I feel like I don’t like some-thing, I’m going to say it. If we need to do this, I’m going to say it. The guys on the team know we need to do this the right way. The right way gets it done. You can tell my guys are ready already.”

Alabama is a 10-point favor-ite against Michigan State this time, which works well for the Spartans.

“It’s when we thrive,” center Jack Allen said.

The teams were at one point scheduled to play and home-and-home series, starting in 2016 in Tuscaloosa. The Tide and former Michigan State coach Saban were to come to East Lansing, Michigan, in 2017. But in 2013, with the SEC considering adding a ninth con-ference game for future sched-ules, Alabama canceled the series.

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NEW YORK – Ross Martin kicked a 36-yard field goal in overtime, and Duke won a bowl game for the first time in 54 years with a 44-41 victory over Indiana on Saturday in the Pinstripe Bowl at Yankee Stadium.

After Martin made his kick on the first possession of the extra period, the Hoo-siers’ Griffin Oakes missed a 38-yard attempt to hand the Blue Devils their first bowl victory since the 1961 Cotton Bowl.

Oakes’ try sailed over the right upright and was ruled wide. Oakes protested that it was good, but the kick could not be reviewed, and Duke’s players poured onto the field to celebrate.

Shaun Wilson had 282 all-purpose yards and two touchdowns for the Blue Devils (8-5), including a 98-yard kickoff return. Quarter-back Thomas Sirk accounted for 318 yards and three touch-downs before getting hurt in overtime. His 5-yard TD run tied it with 41 seconds left.

Oakes then missed a 55-

yard potential winning at-tempt at the end of regulation.

SUN BOWLWashington State 20, Miami

14: At El Paso, Texas, Luke Falk threw two touchdown passes to lead Washington State past Miami in the snowy Sun Bowl.

Erik Powell added field goals of 30 and 25 yards to help the Cougars (9-4) win a bowl games for the first time since the 2003 Holiday Bowl.

Miami (8-5) lost its sixth consecutive bowl game.

HEART OF DALLAS BOWLWashington 41, Southern

Miss 31: At Dallas, Myles Gas-kin broke a third-quarter tie with an 86-yard run and had a season-high 181 yards and four touchdowns to help Washington beat Southern Mississippi in the Heart of Dallas Bowl.

The Huskies (7-6) won their last two regular-season games by a combined 97-17 over Oregon State and Wash-ington State to become bowl eligible and then delivered Chris Petersen’s first postsea-son victory in his two seasons at Washington.

ST. PETERSBURG BOWLMarshall 16, Uconn 10: At St.

Petersburg, Fla., Chase Litton completed 23 for 34 passes for 218 yards and a touchdown in Marshall’s victory over Con-necticut in the St. Petersburg Bowl.

Nick Smith made three field goals for Marshall (10-3), the last a 32-yarder with 1:44 to play that capped a 13-play, 80-yard drive that lasted 6:35.

Bryant Shirreffs complet-ed 10 of 17 passes for 86 yards and gained 75 yards on 19 car-ries for UConn (6-7). The Hus-kies failed in their bid to have a winning record for the first time since 2010.

INDEPENDENCE BOWLVirginia Tech 55, Tulsa 52:

At Shreveport, La., Michael Brewer threw for 344 yards, Isaiah Ford had 227 yards receiving and coach Frank Beamer won his final game at Virginia Tech, 55-52 over Tul-sa on Saturday night in the Independence Bowl.

The 69-year-old Beamer announced in November he would retire following the season. He finished with a 238-121-2 record at Virginia Tech over 29 seasons.

By TIM REYNOLDS The Associated Press

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. – Only two years ago, Michigan State lost a close early season game to Notre Dame and was effectively out of the nation-al championship chase right when that game ended.

The Spartans won all 10 of their remaining games and finished 13-1.

Still, that single loss – and it wasn’t even a bad loss – doomed them.

That’s the way it was in college football for decades, a lone defeat against a good op-ponent often being enough to deny a team its shot at play-ing for the national champi-onship. And if the old mod-els that decided national titles were still in place today, there’s almost no way Mich-igan State and Oklahoma would still be championship contenders.

“I think that’s probably fair,” Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops said.

Yet here they are, in Col-lege Football Playoff semi-final games on Dec. 31 and beneficiaries of a system that is more forgiving than its pre-decessors.

Technically, there’s only been one consensus national champion – Notre Dame in 1977 – that won the title in a season where it lost to an op-ponent that finished with a re-cord below .500. The Irish lost to Ole Miss that year and the Rebels finished 5-6. Ole Miss

now says it went 6-5 because Mississippi State had to for-feit several wins, including one against the Rebels.

No team, at least since the advent of The Associated Press first awarding its na-tional championship in 1936, has ever lost to someone with a 5-7 record or worse and won it all.

That might change now.This year, Oklahoma lost to

a Texas team that finished 5-7. Michigan State lost to a Ne-braska team that finished 5-7. The Spartans’ loss was mildly controversial because of some debatable late-game calls, but it would have obviously been difficult in the poll-only era or the Bowl Championship Series days for the Sooners or Spartans to stay in the title mix after those defeats.

The playoff committee, though, saw more than just one bad day on their resumes. That’s why No. 4 Oklahoma meets No. 1 Clemson in one CFP semifinal at the Orange Bowl, and No. 3 Michigan State meets No. 2 Alabama in the other at the Cotton Bowl.

“Fact is, there’s only one undefeated team and they were going to play somebody that had a loss, no matter what system was in use,” College Football Playoff exec-utive director Bill Hancock said. “I think it’s a good thing for the game. Every team has blemishes. Even Clemson, un-defeated Clemson, had a cou-ple. ... And these teams, after their blemishes, they turned things around and played ex-tremely well for the rest of the season.”

Happy to be back: Alabama and Michigan State return to Texas

Duke wins a bowl game for first time in 54 years

Sooners, Spartans overcome blemishes to reach CFP semifinals

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

COLLEGE FOOTBALL: COTTON BOWL

COLLEGE FOOTBALL: BOWL ROUNDUP

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Michigan State coach Mark Dantonio (bottom) and players celebrate with their Big Ten East Division Championship trophy after beating Penn State 55-16 Nov. 28 in East Lansing, Mich.

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Alabama head coach Nick Saban arrives at the team hotel before the Alabama arrival news conference Saturday at Hilton Anatole in Dallas.

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Duke’s A.J. Wolf (right) reacts after a stop during the first half of the Pinstripe Bowl against Indiana Satur-day at Yankee Stadium in New York.


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Final Pool StandingsPool I: Jacobs (3-0), Bartlett (2-1),

Jefferson (1-2), Johnsburg (0-3).Pool II: Barrington (3-0), Crystal Lake

South (2-1), Lakes (1-2), Chicago Corliss (0-3).

Pool III: Zion-Benton (3-0), Marian Central (2-1), Grant (1-2), Cary-Grove (0-3).

Pool IV: Boylan (3-0), Prairie Ridge (2-1), South Elgin (1-2), Huntley (0-3).

Monday, Dec. 21Game 9: Prairie Ridge 67, South Elgin 64Game 10: Lakes 64, Corliss 38Game 11: Bartlett 68, Jefferson 62Game 12: Boylan 72, Huntley 44Game 13: Zion-Benton 84, Grant 74Game 14: Marian Central 54, Cary-

Grove 42Game 15: Barrington 71, Crystal Lake

South 41Game 16: Jacobs 50, Johnsburg 35

Tuesday, Dec. 22Game 17: Bartlett 49, Johnsburg 37Game 18: Marian Central 79, Grant 76Game 19: Zion-Benton 72, Cary-Grove 44Game 20: Prairie Ridge 66, Huntley

61 (OT)Game 21: Crystal Lake South 52, Lakes

45 Game 22: Boylan 59, South Elgin 44Game 23: Barrington 74, Corliss 49Game 24: Jacobs 66, Jefferson 60

Wednesday, Dec. 23Game 25: Huntley 66, Corliss 45Game 26: Johnsburg 48, Cary-Grove 47Game 27: Lakes 45, South Elgin 44Game 28: Grant 55, Jefferson 53Game 29: Crystal Lake South 50, Prairie

Ridge 49Game 30: Marian Central 69, Bartlett

63 (OT)Game 31: Boylan 72, Barrington 55Game 32: Zion-Benton 56, Jacobs 45

SaturdayConsolation C Bracket

Game 33: Cary-Grove 73, Corliss 50Consolation B Bracket

Game 34: South Elgin 78, Jefferson 59Consolation A Bracket

Game 35: Prairie Ridge 57, Bartlett 55Game 36: Huntley 52, Johnsburg 42,

Consolation C championshipGame 37: Grant 78, Lakes 75 (OT),

Consolation B championshipGame 38: Marian Central 59, Crystal

Lake South 55, Consolation A champi-onship

Game 39: Barrington 52, Jacobs 45 third place

Game 40: Boylan 68, Zion-Benton 67, championship, 7:30 p.m.

All-Tournament team(In alphabetical order)

Kienan Baltimore, Zion-BentonZach Couper, BoylanSam Fehrle, BoylanAnthony Foreman-*, BoylanZach Geske-*, Crystal Lake SouthDamarquis Henry, Zion-BentonJohn Kerr, GrantCameron Krutwig-*, Jacobs (repeat)Sam Ohlrich, Marian CentralPayton Otto, Prairie RidgeAdam Pischke-*, Marian Central (third

time)Will Reinhard-*, BarringtonKyle Rohr, LakesBen Weber-*, Barrington (repeat)DeShawn Wilson-*, Zion-Benton*-Unanimous selection.

Consolation C Bracket

CARY-GROVE 73, CORLISS 50

Cary-Grove 28 11 20 14 – 73Corliss 15 16 6 13 – 50

CARY-GROVE (73)J. Clarke 0 0-0 0, Walther 1 2-2 4, Loch

2 0-0 5, VBeaugureau 9 0-0 22, Johannsen 0 0-0 0, Bear 2 0-0 4, Walsh 4 0-0 8, Celske 2 0-0 5, D. Clarke 2 1-2 7, Schmidt 6 2-2 14, Ivarson 1 0-0 2, Bazdor 1 0-1 2. Totals: 29 5-7 73

CORLISS (50)Addison 3 0-2 8, Taylor 8 1-2 20, Kernan

3 0-0 6, Stockton 6 0-2 12, Freeman 2 0-0

4. Totals: 22 1-6 50.

3-point goals: Cary-Grove 8 (Beau-gureau 4, D. Clarke 2, Loch, Celske), Corliss 5 (Taylor 3, Addison 2). Total fouls: Cary-Grove 8, Corliss 9.

Consolation C Championship

HUNTLEY 52, JOHNSBURG 42

Johnsburg 11 8 11 12 – 42Huntley 9 13 11 20 – 52

JOHNSBURG (42)Stark 0 0-0 0, Rackow 0 0-0 0, Kreassig

5 0-0 11, Smith 0 0-2 0, Jordan 2 0-1 4, Bein 0 0-00, Nusser 0 0-0 0, Whiting 3 2-2 9, Shelton 6 5-5 18. Totals: 16 7-10 42.

HUNTLEY (52)Allare 0 0-0 0, Spoeth 1 1-2 3, Coss 2 0-1

5, Seng 2 2-2 6, J.J. Flores 2 8-10 12, Parks 1 0-0 3, Nwogu 4 2-2 10, Oladipo 4 5-8 13. Totals: 16 18-22 52.

3-point goals: Johnsburg 3 (Shelton, Whiting, Kreassig), Huntley 2 (Coss, Parks). Total fouls: Johnsburg 22, Huntley 16.

Consolation A Bracket

PRAIRIE RIDGE 57, BARTLETT 55

Bartlett 9 8 16 22 – 55Prairie Ridge 16 4 21 16 – 57

BARTLETT (55)Reyes 1 0-0 3, Martin 0 0-0 0, Johnson 2

2-2 6, Turner 0 0-0 0, Hayes 0 0-0 0, Ryan 1 0-0 2, Hasenberg 4 5-9 13, Jimenez 7 4-4 21, Awalt 2 0-1 4, Pauletti 2 1-2 6. Totals: 19 12-18 55.

PRAIRIE RIDGE (57)Otto 7 1-1 15, Card 1 0-0 2, Bradshaw 6

0-0 17, T. Loeding 1 0-0 2, Dorn 4 0-1 10, Lamb 1 1-1 4, K. Stenzel 0 0-0 0, K. Loed-ing 0 3-4 3, Potter 0 2-2 2, Paulsen 0 0-0 0, Eschweiler 1 0-0 2. Totals: 21 7-9 57.

3-point goals: Bartlett 5 (Jimenez 3, Pauletti, Reyes), Prairie Ridge 8 (Bradshaw 5, Dorn 2, Lamb). Total fouls: Bartlett 14, Prairie Ridge 14.

Consolation A Championship

MARIAN CENTRAL 59 CRYSTAL LAKE SOUTH 55

Marian Central 20 12 9 18 – 59CL South 14 13 11 17 – 55

MARIAN CENTRAL (59)Pischke 7 6-8 22, Kaufmann 3 3-4

11, Ohlrich 2 4-4 8, Moscinski 1 1-2 4, Limbaugh 2 0-0 4, Horney 1 2-2 4, Scott 0 0-0 0, Menner 1 0-1 2, Miguel 0 0-4 0, Awe 0 2-2 2. Totals: 17 20-29 59.

CL SOUTH (55)Meyers 1 0-1 2, Geske 5 0-0 12, Friesen

6 0-0 12, NOlan 1 1-2 3, Buckner 3 8-9 14, Haskin 2 0-0 4, Siesennop 2 2-2 8, Wilde 0 0-0 0, Carlson 0 0-0 0. Totals: 20 11-14 55.

3-point goals: Marian Central 5 (Pischke 2, Kaufmann 2, Moscinski), CL South 4 (Geske 2, Siesennop 2). Total fouls: Marian Central 16, CL South 18. Fouled out: Geske. Technichal fouls: Geske.

Third-place game

BARRINGTON 52, JACOBS 45

Jacobs 17 7 15 6 – 45Barrington 10 14 9 19 – 52

JACOBS (45)Kale 0 0-0 0, Nelson 1 3-4 6, Krutwig 6

1-2 13, Phillips 1 0-1 3, Randl 2 1-2 6, Balk-com 4 0-1 9, Schwartz 1 3-4 5, Materna 1 0-0 2, Price 0 1-2 1, Rechsteiner 0 0-1 0, Hogle 0 0-0 0, Nikoley 0 0-0 0. Totals: 16 9-17 45.

BARRINGTON (52)O’Donnell 1 0-0 2, Weber 3 6-6 14,

Reinhard 8 0-6 17, Perkins 2 0-0 4, Budzak 3 3-5 11, Spann 2 0-0 4, Small 0 0-0 0. Totals: 19 9-15 52.

3-point goals: Jacobs 4 (Nelson, Phillips, Randl, Balkcom), Barrington 5 (Weber 2, Budzak 2, Reinhard). Total fouls: Jacobs 19, Barrington 19.

DEKALB CHUCK DAYTON HOLIDAY TOURNAMENT

GLENBROOK NORTH 45HAMPSHIRE 30

Hampshire 12 7 4 7 – 30Glenbrook North 6 12 14 13 – 45

HAMPSHIRE (30)Tuttle 4 3-4 13, Duchaj 0 1-2 1, Dumoulin

1 0-0 2, Garcia 2 0-0 5, Cork 1 1-2 3, Diete 1 0-0 2, Gomez 1 2-2 4. Totals: 10 7-10 30.

3-point goals: Hampshire 3 (Tuttle 2, Garcia).

YORK JACK TOSH HOLIDAY TOURNAMENT

MINOOKA 54, MCHENRY 35

McHenry 4 13 7 11 – 35Minooka 10 9 11 24 – 54

McHENRY (35)O’Toole 3 1-2 8, Markgraff 3 2-3 8, Mohr

2 0-0 4, Mulhall 2 0-0 6, Klein 4 0-0 9. Totals: 14 3-5 35.

3-point goals: McHenry 4 (Mulhall 2, Klein, O’Toole).

GIRLS BASKETBALL

MONTINI CHRISTMAS TOURNAMENT

HUNTLEY 53, BOLINGBROOK 43

Huntley 9 8 20 16 – 53Bolingbrook 16 7 8 12 – 43

HUNTLEY (53)Clausen 3 2-3 8, Brown 2 2-4 6, Renkosik

1 2-2 4, Maddy Moffett 2 2-2 7, Andrews 11 5-8 28. Totals: 19 13-19 53.

3-point goals: Huntley 2 (Andrews, Maddy Moffett).

WHEATON NORTH TOURNAMENT

JACOBS 41, WEST AURORA 33

West Aurora 8 6 6 13 – 33Jacobs 9 3 15 14 – 41

JACOBS (41)Durben 5 1-2 14, Surges 3 1-2 9, Hoff-

mann 0-0 2, Healy 4 2-3 12, Richman 1 0-0 2, Anderson 1 0-0 2. Totals: 15 4-9 41.

3-point goals: Jacobs 7 (Durben 3, Healy 2, Surges 2)

DUNDEE-CROWN CHARGER CLASSIC

CRYSTAL LAKE SOUTH 42 BURLINGTON CENTRAL 39

CL South 12 15 7 8 – 42BC 8 6 10 15 – 39

CRYSTAL LAKE SOUTH (42)Jozefowicz 3 1-2 7, Gaede 1 0-1 3,

Fanter 9 3-6 21, Sevcik 1 6-8 8, Keegan 0 1-2 1, Ross 0 0-0 0, Schoen 1 0-0 2, David 0 0-0 0. Totals: 15 11-19 42.

BURLINGTON CENTRAL (39)Ross 4 2-4 12, Cruz 2 0-0 6, Holt 2 0-0 5,

Gerke 2 0-0 4, S. Pryor 4 0-0 10, Ahlers 0 2-2 2, Hodgson 0 0-0 0. Totals: 14 4-6 39.

3-point field goals: Crystal Lake South 1 (Gaede), Burlington Central 7 (Ross 2, Cruz 2, S. Pryor 2, Holt). Total fouls: Crystal Lake South 7, Burlington Central 16. Fouled out: Gerke.

NEW TRIER 55, DUNDEE-CROWN 38

New Trier 18 11 16 10 – 55Dundee-Crown 3 10 6 19 – 38

DUNDEE-CROWN (38)White 2 1-1 5, Barker 1 5-7 8, Kieltyka

1 3-5 5, Atherton 0 1-2 1, Geiseke 3 0-0 6, Michalski 3 1-4 7, Tripp 3 0-0 6. Totals: 13 11-28 38.

3-point goals: Dundee-Crown 1 (Barker).

LISLE HOLIDAY CLASSIC

HAMPSHIRE 50 HINKLEY-BIG ROCK 19

Hampshire 16 13 12 9 – 50Hinkley-Big Rock 4 4 8 3 – 19

HAMPSHIRE (50)Goad 3 0-0 6, Gustitus 0 1-2 1, Penrod 1

0-0 2, Heine 3 0-0 6, N. Dumoulin 5 0-1 11, Peters 1 0-0 2, Thompson 1 0-0 3, Benoit 4 2-4 10, R. Dumoulin 3 0-0 9. Totals: 21 3-7 50.

3-point goals: Hampshire 5 (R. Du-moulin 3, Thompson 1, N. Dumoulin).

MUNDELEIN TOURNAMENT

CARY-GROVE 43, VERNON HILLS 42

Cary-Grove 9 16 7 11 – 43Vernon Hills 12 8 10 10 – 42

CARY-GROVE (43)Miller 2 2-2 6, K. Sowa 4 3-5 11, Kend-

eigh 1 6-8 9, Gorz 5 0-0 11, Pilut 1 0-0 2, Morris 2 0-0 4. Totals: 15 11-15 43.

VERNON HILLS (42) Meline 4 5-6 13, Burrows 3 0-0 7, Le-

hocky 2 1-2 5, Caudle 1 0-4 2, Bahlmann 3 0-1 6, Daniels 1 3-7 5, Long 2 0-0 4. Totals: 16 9-20 42.

3-point goals: Cary-Grove 2 (Kendeigh

1, Gorz 1). Vernon Hills 1 (Burrows 1). Total Fouls: Cary-Grove 17, Vernon Hills 14.

GRAYSLAKE NORTH 38 PRAIRIE RIDGE 36

Grayslake North 16 11 7 4 – 38Prairie Ridge 10 9 13 4 – 36

GRAYSLAKE NORTH (38) Gunn 1 0-0 3, O’Brien 4 1-2 11, Thi-

beaux 2 0-1 4, Lovitsch 5 2-3 12, Queen 1 2-4 4, Swanson 1 2-2 4. Totals: 14 7-12 38.

PRAIRIE RIDGE (36) Statter 2 0-0 5, Clark 4 0-0 9, Lockwood

5 3-4 13, Voel-Pel 3 0-0 6, Ljunggren 1 0-0 3. Totals: 15 3-4 36.

3-point goals: Grayslake North –3

(O’Brien 2, Gunn 1). Prairie Ridge- 3 (Statter 1, Clark 1, Ljunggren 1). Total Fouls: Grayslake North 9, Prairie Ridge 13.

SCHEDULE

MondayBoys Basketball: McHenry at York In-

vite, Harvard at Alden-Hebron Christmas Tournament, Hampshire at DeKalb Chuck Dayton Holiday Tournament, TBA

Girls Basketball: McHenry at Ed-wardsville Tournament, Huntley at Mon-tini Christmas Tournament, Harvard at Alden-Hebron Tournament, Hampshire at Lisle Holiday Classic, Crystal Lake South at Dundee-Crown Charger Classic, TBA

Wrestling: Huntley, Harvard at Granite City Holiday Tournament, 8 a.m.

Boys Bowling: Huntley at Boylan Invite, 7:30 a.m.

Girls Bowling: Dundee-Crown, Hunt-ley, Jacobs, Johnsburg at Grayslake North Tournament, 9 a.m.

TuesdayBoys Basketball: McHenry at York In-

vite, Harvard at Alden-Hebron Christmas Tournament, Hampshire at DeKalb Chuck Dayton Holiday Tournament, TBA

Girls Basketball: McHenry at Ed-wardsville Tournament, Huntley at Mon-tini Christmas Tournament, Harvard at Alden-Hebron Tournament, Hampshire at Lisle Holiday Classic, Crystal Lake South at Dundee-Crown Charger Classic, TBA

Wrestling: Huntley, Harvard at Granite City Holiday Tournament, 8 a.m.; Cary-Grove, Dundee-Crown at Mid-States Clas-sic at UW-Whitewater, 8:30 a.m.; Marengo at Lincoln Tournament, Richmond-Burton at Berman Classic at Palatine, 9:30 a.m.; Crystal Lake South, Johnsburg at Dekalb Tournament, 4 p.m.

Boys Swimming: Woodstock co-op, Huntley at Boylan Invite, 10 a.m.

PREPS

PREGAME.COMNBA

SundayFAVORITE LINE O/U UNDERDOGMEMPHIS 11 (198) LA LakersBOSTON OFF (OFF) New YorkOKLAHOMA CITY OFF (OFF) DenverSACRAMENTO OFF (OFF) Portland

COLLEGE BASKETBALLSunday

FAVORITE LINE UNDERDOGMARYLAND 22½ MarshallS. DAKOTA STATE 6 Middle Tennessee

National Hockey LeagueSunday

FAVORITE LINE UNDERDOG LINEBlackhawks -205 Carolina +185OTTAWA -115 Boston +105NY ISLANDERS -194 Toronto +179DALLAS -140 St. Louis +130FLORIDA OFF Columbus OFFWINNIPEG OFF Pittsburgh OFFANAHEIM -145 Philadelphia +135COLORADO -170 Arizona +158CALGARY -150 Edmonton +140

College FootballMonday Bowls

FAVORITE TODAY O/U UNDERDOGMilitary BowlAt Annapolis

Navy 3 (53½) PittsburghQuick Lane Bowl

At DetroitMinnesota 4½ (48) Cent. Michigan

Tuesday BowlsArmed Forces Bowl

At Fort WorthCalifornia 7 (68½) Air Force

Russell Athletic BowlAt Orlando

North Carolina 3 (68½) BaylorArizona Bowl

At TucsonColorado St 3 (56) Nevada

Texas BowlAt Houston

LSU 7 (74) Texas Tech

More Upcoming BowlsBirmingham Bowl

At BirminghamAuburn 3 (63½) Memphis

Belk BowlAt Charlotte

Mississippi St 5½ (61) NC StateMusic City Bowl

At Nashville

Louisville 4 (47½) Texas A&MHoliday BowlAt San Diego

SOUTHERN CAL 3½ (49½) WisconsinPeach BowlAt Atlanta

Florida St 7 (55) HoustonCotton BowlAt Arlington

Alabama 10 (46) Michigan StOrange Bowl

At Miami GardensOklahoma 4 (64½) Clemson

Outback BowlAt Tampa

Tennessee 8½ (47) NorthwesternCitrus BowlAt Orlando

Michigan 4 (38½) FloridaFiesta BowlAt Glendale

Ohio State 6½ (56½) Notre DameRose Bowl

At PasadenaStanford 6½ (54) Iowa

Sugar BowlAt New Orleans

Mississippi 7 (68) Oklahoma StTaxslayer BowlAt Jacksonville

Georgia 6½ (42½) Penn StLiberty BowlAt Memphis

Arkansas 12½ (55) Kansas StAlamo Bowl

At San AntonioTCU 1 (78½) Oregon

Cactus BowlAt Phoenix

West Virginia 1½ (64) Arizona St

NFLSunday

FAVORITE TODAY O/U UNDERDOGTAMPA BAY 3½ (45½) BearsMINNESOTA 6 (44½) NY GiantsCarolina 6½ (47) ATLANTABUFFALO 6½ (42) DallasNEW ORLEANS 3 (51½) JacksonvilleDETROIT 10 (43) San FranciscoKANSAS CITY 11 (42) ClevelandMIAMI 2½ (44) IndianapolisNew England 3 (45½) NY JETSHouston 3½ (40½) TENNESSEEARIZONA 4½ (50½) Green BaySEATTLE 12 (40½) St. LouisPittsburgh 10 (47) BALTIMORE

MondayDENVER 3½ (39½) Cincinnati

Home teams in CAPSUpdated odds available at Pregame.com

BETTING ODDS

BASKETBALLNBA

EASTERN CONFERENCECentral Division

W L Pct GBCleveland 19 9 .679 —Indiana 17 12 .586 2½Bulls 16 12 .571 3Detroit 17 14 .548 3½Milwaukee 12 19 .387 8½

Atlantic Division W L Pct GBToronto 19 12 .613 —Boston 17 13 .567 1½New York 14 17 .452 5Brooklyn 8 22 .267 10½Philadelphia 2 30 .063 17½

Southeast Division W L Pct GBAtlanta 20 12 .625 —Miami 18 11 .621 ½Orlando 17 13 .567 2Charlotte 16 13 .552 2½Washington 14 14 .500 4

WESTERN CONFERENCESouthwest Division

W L Pct GBSan Antonio 26 6 .813 —Dallas 17 13 .567 8Memphis 16 16 .500 10Houston 16 16 .500 10New Orleans 10 20 .333 15

Northwest Division W L Pct GBOklahoma City 20 10 .667 —Utah 12 16 .429 7Denver 12 18 .400 8Portland 12 20 .375 9Minnesota 11 19 .367 9

Pacific Division W L Pct GBGolden State 28 1 .966 —L.A. Clippers 18 13 .581 11Sacramento 12 17 .414 16Phoenix 12 20 .375 17½L.A. Lakers 5 25 .167 23½

Saturday’s GamesDallas 118, Bulls 111Washington 111, Brooklyn 96Toronto 111, Milwaukee 90New Orleans 110, Houston 108Miami 108, Orlando 101Charlotte 98, Memphis 92Boston 99, Detroit 93Atlanta 117, New York 98Indiana 102, Minnesota 88San Antonio 101, Denver 86L.A. Clippers 109, Utah 104Philadelphia 111, Phoenix 104Portland 105, Cleveland 76

Sunday’s GamesL.A. Lakers at Memphis, 5 p.m.Denver at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m.New York at Boston, 6 p.m.Portland at Sacramento, 8 p.m.

Monday’s GamesToronto at Bulls, 7 p.m.Atlanta at Indiana, 6 p.m.New Orleans at Orlando, 6 p.m.L.A. Clippers at Washington, 6 p.m.L.A. Lakers at Charlotte, 6 p.m.Brooklyn at Miami, 6:30 p.m.Minnesota at San Antonio, 7:30 p.m.Milwaukee at Dallas, 7:30 p.m.Philadelphia at Utah, 8 p.m.Cleveland at Phoenix, 8 p.m.Sacramento at Golden State, 9:30 p.m.

Friday’s GamesBulls 105, Oklahoma City 96Miami 94, New Orleans 88, OTGolden State 89, Cleveland 83Houston 88, San Antonio 84L.A. Clippers 94, L.A. Lakers 84

MAVERICKS 118, BULLS 111

CHICAGO (111)Gibson 6-8 0-2 12, Mirotic 6-10 7-11 23,

Gasol 7-10 4-4 18, Rose 12-20 1-1 25, But-ler 4-11 7-8 17, Hinrich 0-3 0-0 0, Portis 1-3 0-0 2, McDermott 3-4 0-0 7, Bairstow 0-0 0-0 0, Brooks 3-9 0-0 7. Totals 42-78 19-26 111.

DALLAS (118)Matthews 4-11 0-0 10, Nowitzki 5-11 3-4

16, Pachulia 6-13 5-5 17, Felton 2-5 8-8 13, Barea 9-14 1-2 26, Parsons 8-15 2-3 20, Powell 4-6 1-3 9, Harris 2-8 2-3 7, McGee 0-2 0-0 0, Villanueva 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 40-87 22-28 118.

Chicago 26 34 29 22 —111Dallas 33 26 31 28 —118

3-Point Goals–Chicago 8-21 (Mirotic 4-7, Butler 2-5, McDermott 1-2, Brooks 1-3, Rose 0-1, Hinrich 0-3), Dallas 16-33 (Barea 7-8, Nowitzki 3-7, Parsons 2-5, Matthews 2-8, Harris 1-2, Felton 1-2, Villanueva 0-1). Fouled Out–Powell. Rebounds–Chicago 48 (Gasol 9), Dallas 48 (Pachulia 12). Assists–Chicago 20 (Butler 8), Dallas 24 (Felton, Parsons, Barea 5). Total Fouls–Chicago 23, Dallas 25. Technicals–Dallas defensive three second. A–20,392 (19,200).

MEN’S COLLEGE

TOP 25 FARED

Saturday1. Michigan State (13-0) did not play.

Next: at Iowa, Tuesday.2. Kansas (10-1) did not play. Next: vs.

UC Irvine, Tuesday.3. Oklahoma (11-0) did not play. Next:

vs. No. 11 Iowa State, Saturday, Jan. 2.4. Maryland (10-1) did not play. Next:

vs. Marshall, Sunday.5. Virginia (10-1) did not play. Next: vs.

Oakland, Wednesday.6. Xavier (12-0) did not play. Next: at

No. 17 Villanova, Thursday.7. North Carolina (10-2) did not play.

Next: vs. UNC Greensboro, Monday.8. Arizona (12-1) did not play. Next: at

Arizona State, Sunday, Jan. 3.9. Butler (10-1) did not play. Next: vs.

IUPUI, Monday.10. Providence (12-1) did not play. Next:

at No. 9 Butler, Thursday.11. Iowa State (10-1) did not play. Next:

vs. Coppin State, Wednesday.12. Kentucky (10-2) beat No. 16 Louis-

ville 75-73. Next: vs. Mississippi, Saturday.13. Miami (10-1) did not play. Next: vs.

Princeton, Tuesday.14. Purdue (12-1) did not play. Next: at

Wisconsin, Tuesday.15. Duke (9-2) did not play. Next: vs.

Elon, Monday.16. Louisville (11-2) lost to No. 12

Kentucky 75-73. Next: vs. Wake Forest, Sunday, Jan. 3.

17. Villanova (9-2) did not play. Next: vs. Pennsylvania, Monday.

18. SMU (11-0) did not play. Next: at Tulsa, Tuesday.

19. West Virginia (10-1) did not play. Next: at Virginia Tech, Wednesday.

20. George Washington (10-2) did not play. Next: at UCF, Tuesday.

21. Texas A&M (9-2) did not play. Next: vs. Cal Poly, Tuesday.

22. Cincinnati (10-3) did not play. Next: vs. Temple, Tuesday.

23. Baylor (9-2) did not play. Next: vs. Texas Southern, Tuesday.

24. Utah (10-2) did not play. Next: vs. College of Idaho, Monday.

25. South Carolina (11-0) did not play. Next: vs. Francis Marion, Wednesday.

FOOTBALLNFL

NATIONAL CONFERENCENorth

W L T Pct PF PAx-Green Bay 10 4 0 .714 347 265Minnesota 9 5 0 .643 296 272Detroit 5 9 0 .357 302 363Bears 5 9 0 .357 289 352

East W L T Pct PF PAy-Washington 8 7 0 .533 354 356N.Y. Giants 6 8 0 .429 373 358Philadelphia 6 9 0 .400 342 400Dallas 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 9 0 .357 350 432

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 CONFERENCEEast

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

North 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

West W L T Pct PF PADenver 10 4 0 .714 308 259Kansas City 9 5 0 .643 365 257Oakland 7 8 0 .467 342 376San Diego 4 11 0 .267 300 371

y-clinched divisionx-clinched playoff spot

Thursday’s GameOakland 23, San Diego 20 (OT)

Saturday’s GameWashington 38, Philadelphia 24

Sunday’s GamesBears 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’s GameCincinnati at Denver, 7:30 p.m.

Week 17Sunday, Jan. 3

Detroit at Bears, noonJacksonville at Houston, noonOakland at Kansas City, noonWashington at Dallas, noonMinnesota at Green Bay, noonN.Y. Jets at Buffalo, noonNew England at Miami, noonTampa Bay at Carolina, noonNew Orleans at Atlanta, noonBaltimore at Cincinnati, noonPittsburgh at Cleveland, noonTennessee at Indianapolis, noonPhiladelphia at N.Y. Giants, noonSt. Louis at San Francisco, 3:25 p.m.San Diego at Denver, 3:25 p.m.Seattle at Arizona, 3:25 p.m.

PLAYOFF SCENARIOS

Week 16

AFCCLINCHED: New England: AFC East

and first-round bye; Cincinnati: playoff berth.

NEW ENGLAND (at N.Y. Jets, Sunday)

Clinches home-field advantage through-out AFC playoffs with:

— Win or— Tie and Cincinnati loss or tie

CINCINNATI (at Denver, Monday)Clinches AFC North with:— Win or tie, or— Pittsburgh loss or tieClinches first-round bye with:— Win or tie

DENVER (vs. Cincinnati, Monday)Clinches AFC West with:— Win and Kansas City loss or tie, or— Tie and Kansas City loss

Clinches playoff spot with:— Win and N.Y. Jets or Pittsburgh loss

or tie, or— Tie and N.Y. Jets or Pittsburgh loss

HOUSTON (at Tennessee, Sunday)Clinches AFC South with:— Win and clinches strength of victory

tiebreaker over Indianapolis, or— Win and Indianapolis loss or tie, or— Tie and Indianapolis loss

KANSAS CITY (vs. Cleveland, Sunday)

Clinches playoff spot with:— Win and N.Y. Jets or Pittsburgh loss

PITTSBURGH (at Baltimore, Sunday)

Clinches playoff spot with:— Win and N.Y. Jets loss

NFCCLINCHED: Carolina: NFC South and

first-round bye; Arizona: NFC West; Green Bay: playoff berth; Seattle: playoff berth.

CAROLINA (at Atlanta, Sunday)Clinches home-field advantage through-

out NFC playoffs with:— Win or tie, or— Arizona loss or tie

ARIZONA (vs. Green Bay, Sunday)Clinches first-round bye with:— Win or tie

GREEN BAY (at Arizona, Sunday)Clinches NFC North with:— Win and Minnesota loss or tie, or— Tie and Minnesota loss

MINNESOTA (vs. N.Y. Giants, Sunday)

Clinches playoff spot with:— Win or tie, or— Atlanta loss or tie, or— Seattle win or tie

LEADERS

NFC

Week 16Quarterbacks

Att Com Yds TD IntRu. Wilson, SEA 414 285 3538 29 7C. Palmer, ARI 485 312 4277 32 9C. Newton, CAR 439 258 3402 33 10Brees, NOR 549 371 4135 28 11Cousins, WAS 482 336 3625 22 11E. Manning, NYG 546 348 3900 32 11A. Rodgers, GBY 500 304 3379 29 6M. Stafford, DET 516 341 3663 27 13Cutler, Bears 433 274 3258 18 8Bridgewater, MIN 403 267 2964 13 8

Rushers Att Yds Avg LG TDA. Peterson, MIN 286 1314 4.59 80t 9D. Martin, TAM 256 1305 5.10 84 5Gurley, STL 210 1023 4.87 71t 9J. Stewart, CAR 242 989 4.09 44 6D. Freeman, ATL 218 907 4.16 39 10McFadden, DAL 208 898 4.32 50 3Rawls, SEA 147 830 5.65 69t 4Ch. Johnson, ARI 196 814 4.15 62 3Ma. Ingram, NOR 166 769 4.63 70 6Forte, Bears 190 768 4.04 27 4

Receivers No Yds Avg LG TDJu. Jones, ATL 118 1544 13.1 54 7Fitzgerald, ARI 99 1131 11.4 44 7Beckham Jr., NYG 91 1396 15.3 87t 13G. Tate, DET 82 720 8.8 43 6Cooks, NOR 74 993 13.4 60t 8J. Reed, WAS 74 778 10.5 32 9Ca. Johnson, DET 72 1000 13.9 57 7Jo. Matthews, PHL 72 839 11.7 78t 5Olsen, CAR 71 1048 14.8 52 7R. Cobb, GBY 70 777 11.1 53t 6

AFC

Week 16Quarterbacks

Att Com Yds TD IntDalton, CIN 386 255 3250 25 7Brady, NWE 572 368 4405 35 6T. Taylor, BUF 334 211 2674 20 5Al. Smith, KAN 424 278 3205 16 4Roethlisberger, PIT 399 271 3369 18 12Rivers, SND 626 416 4564 27 12J. McCown, CLE 292 186 2109 12 4Hoyer, HOU 329 199 2357 18 6D. Carr, OAK 540 329 3793 31 12Mariota, TEN 370 230 2818 19 10

Rushers Att Yds Avg LG TDL. Murray, OAK 255 1035 4.06 54 6Ivory, NYJ 230 951 4.13 54 7L. McCoy, BUF 203 895 4.41 48t 3Gore, IND 226 806 3.57 25 4De. Williams, PIT 178 799 4.49 55 9L. Miller, MIA 160 781 4.88 85t 7Yeldon, JAX 182 740 4.07 45 2Hillman, DEN 183 711 3.89 72t 6Blount, NWE 165 703 4.26 38t 6Bernard, CIN 140 680 4.86 28 2

Receivers No Yds Avg LG TDAn. Brown, PIT 116 1586 13.7 59 9

De. Hopkins, HOU 97 1315 13.6 61t 10Landry, MIA 97 974 10.0 50t 4B. Marshall, NYJ 93 1261 13.6 69t 11Dem. Thomas, DEN 93 1128 12.1 48t 5Crabtree, OAK 82 888 10.8 38t 8Maclin, KAN 79 985 12.5 61 6A. Green, CIN 77 1206 15.7 80t 8D. Walker, TEN 76 935 12.3 61t 6Decker, NYJ 72 930 12.9 35 10

TEAM STATS

NATIONAL FOOTBALL CONFERENCE

OFFENSE Yards Rush PassArizona 5920 1769 4151New Orleans 5534 1289 4245Seattle 5392 2064 3328Tampa Bay 5239 1981 3258Carolina 5237 2016 3221Atlanta 5198 1442 3756N.Y. Giants 5091 1310 3781Philadelphia 4997 1578 3419Bears 4845 1569 3276Detroit 4827 1181 3646Green Bay 4825 1673 3152Washington 4806 1353 3453Dallas 4542 1669 2873Minnesota 4529 1842 2687St. Louis 4192 1721 2471San Francisco 4080 1315 2765

DEFENSE Yards Rush PassSeattle 4231 1175 3056Carolina 4408 1261 3147Arizona 4615 1214 3401Dallas 4725 1552 3173Tampa Bay 4753 1321 3432Bears 4789 1763 3026Minnesota 4794 1581 3213Atlanta 4891 1445 3446Green Bay 4924 1633 3291Detroit 4930 1576 3354St. Louis 5115 1653 3462Washington 5180 1817 3363San Francisco 5464 1800 3664Philadelphia 5506 1878 3628New Orleans 5789 1919 3870N.Y. Giants 5922 1604 4318

COLLEGE

BOWL SCORES AND SCHEDULE

Saturday’s ResultsSt. Petersburg (Fla.) Bowl

Marshall 16, UConn 10

Sun BowlEl Paso, Texas

Washington State 20, Miami 14

Heart of Dallas BowlWashington 44, Southern Mississippi 31

Pinstripe BowlBronx, N.Y.

Duke 44, Indiana 41, OT

Independence BowlShreveport, La.

Virginia Tech 55, Tulsa 52

Foster Farms BowlSanta Clara, Calif.

Nebraska 37, UCLA 29

Monday’s GamesMilitary Bowl

Annapolis, Md.Navy (10-2) vs. Pittsburgh (8-4), 1:30

p.m. (ESPN)

Quick Lane BowlDetroit

Central Michigan (7-5) vs. Minnesota (5-7), 4 p.m. (ESPN2)

Tuesday’s Games

Armed Forces BowlFort Worth, Texas

Air Force (8-5) vs. California (7-5), 1 p.m. (ESPN)

Russell Athletic BowlOrlando, Fla.

North Carolina (11-2) vs. Baylor (9-3), 4:30 p.m. (ESPN)

Arizona BowlTucson

Nevada (6-6) vs. Colorado State (7-5), 6:30 p.m. (ASN)

Texas BowlHouston

Texas Tech (7-5) vs. LSU (8-3), 8 p.m. (ESPN)

Wednesday, Dec. 30Birmingham (Ala.) Bowl

Auburn (6-6) vs. Memphis (9-3), 11 a.m. (ESPN)

Belk BowlCharlotte, N.C.

NC State (7-5) vs. Mississippi St. (8-4), 2:30 p.m. (ESPN)

Music City Bowl

Nashville, Tenn.Louisville (7-5) vs. Texas A&M (8-4), 6

p.m. (ESPN)

Holiday BowlSan Diego

Wisconsin (9-3) vs. Southern Cal (8-5), 9:30 p.m. (ESPN)

Thursday, Dec. 31Peach Bowl

AtlantaHouston (12-1) vs. Florida State (10-2),

11 a.m. (ESPN)

Orange Bowl (Playoff Semifinal)Miami Gardens, Fla.

Clemson (13-0) vs. Oklahoma (11-1), 3 p.m. (ESPN)

Cotton Bowl Classic (Playoff Semifinal)

Arlington, TexasAlabama (12-1) vs. Michigan State (12-

1), 7 p.m. (ESPN)

Friday, Jan. 1

Outback BowlTampa, Fla.

Northwestern (10-2) vs. Tennessee (8-4), 11 a.m. (ESPN2)

Citrus BowlOrlando, Fla.

Michigan (9-3) vs. Florida (10-3), noon (ABC)

Fiesta BowlGlendale, Ariz.

Notre Dame (10-2) vs. Ohio State (11-1), noon (ESPN)

Rose BowlPasadena, Calif.

Iowa (12-1) vs. Stanford (11-2), 4 p.m. (ESPN)

Sugar BowlNew Orleans

Oklahoma State (10-2) vs. Mississippi (9-3), 7:30 p.m. (ESPN)

Saturday, Jan. 2TaxSlayer Bowl

Jacksonville, Fla.Penn St. (7-5) vs. Georgia (9-3), 11

a.m. (ESPN)

Liberty BowlMemphis, Tenn.

Kansas St. (6-6) vs. Arkansas (7-5), 2:20 p.m. (ESPN)

Alamo BowlSan Antonio

Oregon (9-3) vs. TCU (10-2), 5:45 p.m. (ESPN)

Cactus BowlPhoenix

West Virginia (7-5) vs. Arizona State (6-6), 9:15 p.m. (ESPN)

Monday, Jan. 11College Football

Championship GameGlendale, Ariz.

Orange Bowl winner vs. Cotton Bowl winner, 7:30 p.m. (ESPN)

Saturday, Jan. 23East-West Shrine Classic

At St. Petersburg, Fla.East vs. West, 3 p.m. (NFLN)

NFLPA Collegiate BowlAt Carson, Calif.

National vs. American, 5 p.m. (ESPN2)

Saturday, Jan. 30Senior Bowl

At Mobile, Ala.North vs. South, 1:30 p.m. (NFLN)

FCS

ChampionshipSaturday, Jan. 9

At Toyota StadiumFrisco, Texas

North Dakota State (12-2) vs. Jackson-ville State (13-1), 11 a.m.

PROSFOOTBALL

National Football LeagueMIAMI DOLPHINS — Signed CB Tyler

Patmon from the practice squad. Waived DE Jordan Williams.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Claimed DB Troy Hill off waivers from Cincinnati. Signed WR Chris Harper from the practice squad. Released TE Asante Cleveland and WR Leonard Hankerson.

SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS — Signed RB Jarryd Hayne from the practice squad. Placed OL Alex Boone on injured reserve.

SEATTLE SEAHAWKS — Placed TE Anthony McCoy on injured reserve. Signed WR Kasen Williams from the practice squad.

TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS — Placed DT Akeem Spence on injured reserve. Signed RB Mike James from the practice squad.

HOCKEYNational Hockey League

ARIZONA COYOTES — Signed D Dysin Mayo to a three-year entry-level contract.

COLORADO AVALANCHE — Recalled G Calvin Pickard from San Antonio (AHL).

WASHINGTON CAPITALS — Recalled D Connor Carrick from Hershey (AHL).

COLLEGERUTGERS — Named Zak Kuhr has been

hired as Rutgers’ wide receivers coach.

TRANSACTIONS

NHLWESTERN CONFERENCE

Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GADallas 36 26 7 3 55 126 91St. Louis 37 22 11 4 48 95 87Blackhawks 36 20 12 4 44 96 87Minnesota 34 18 10 6 42 92 83Nashville 35 17 12 6 40 92 89Colorado 35 17 17 1 35 99 97Winnipeg 34 15 17 2 32 92 104

Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GALos Angeles 34 21 11 2 44 88 79San Jose 34 17 15 2 36 93 94Arizona 34 16 15 3 35 93 108Vancouver 36 13 14 9 35 91 103Calgary 34 16 16 2 34 91 113Edmonton 35 15 18 2 32 91 106Anaheim 33 12 15 6 30 62 85

EASTERN CONFERENCEAtlantic Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GADetroit 35 18 10 7 43 92 91Montreal 37 20 14 3 43 106 92Boston 34 19 11 4 42 107 91Florida 35 19 12 4 42 95 81Ottawa 35 17 12 6 40 105 104Tampa Bay 36 18 15 3 39 92 84Buffalo 35 15 16 4 34 85 92Toronto 33 12 14 7 31 86 93

Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF GAWashington 34 26 6 2 54 108 72N.Y. Rangers 36 20 12 4 44 104 93N.Y. Islanders 35 19 11 5 43 96 82New Jersey 36 17 14 5 39 84 90Pittsburgh 34 17 14 3 37 79 85Philadelphia 34 15 12 7 37 74 92Carolina 35 14 16 5 33 83 102Columbus 37 13 21 3 29 90 117

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

Saturday’s GamesSt. Louis 3, Dallas 2, SOBuffalo 6, Boston 3Tampa Bay 5, Columbus 2Washington 3, Montreal 1Carolina 3, New Jersey 1Detroit 3, Nashville 2Pittsburgh 3, Minnesota 1Los Angeles 4, Arizona 3, OTEdmonton at Vancouver (n)

Sunday’s GamesCarolina at Blackhawks, 6 p.m.Boston at Ottawa, 4 p.m.Columbus at Florida, 5 p.m.Toronto at N.Y. Islanders, 5 p.m.St. Louis at Dallas, 5 p.m.Pittsburgh at Winnipeg, 7 p.m.Arizona at Colorado, 7 p.m.Philadelphia at Anaheim, 7 p.m.Edmonton at Calgary, 8 p.m.

Monday’s GamesWashington at Buffalo, 6 p.m.Montreal at Tampa Bay, 6:30 p.m.N.Y. Rangers at Nashville, 7 p.m.Detroit at Minnesota, 7 p.m.Los Angeles at Vancouver, 9 p.m.Colorado at San Jose, 9:30 p.m.

AHLWESTERN CONFERENCE

Central Division W L OL Pct Pts GF GAMilwaukee 20 9 1 .683 41 92 84Rockford 18 7 2 .683 41 89 81Grand Rapids 17 8 0 .673 35 85 65Lake Erie 15 9 2 .607 34 76 77Charlotte 16 11 1 .589 33 87 87Wolves 14 11 1 .554 31 86 76Manitoba 8 16 1 .352 19 55 88Iowa 6 22 2 .258 17 63 106

Pacific Division W L OL Pct Pts GF GAOntario 16 4 2 .761 35 66 43San Diego 14 10 0 .580 29 72 72San Antonio 14 10 6 .567 34 90 90San Jose 10 9 2 .521 25 64 76Texas 14 13 2 .516 32 118 111Bakersfield 11 12 2 .481 25 73 80Stockton 10 11 0 .478 22 67 69

EASTERN CONFERENCEAtlantic Division

W L OL Pct Pts GF GAW-B/Scranton 21 6 0 .768 43 98 58Hershey 16 8 1 .633 38 88 89Bridgeport 17 12 2 .578 37 82 78Portland 15 11 1 .574 31 84 75Lehigh Valley 14 16 1 .468 29 88 90Providence 11 13 5 .467 28 78 90Springfield 12 15 1 .448 26 77 95Hartford 12 16 2 .433 26 68 92

North Division W L OL Pct Pts GF GAToronto 24 5 2 .806 50 124 75Albany 17 8 3 .661 37 77 59St. John’s 14 8 5 .603 35 89 92Utica 15 10 2 .586 34 90 77Syracuse 12 11 4 .518 29 70 79Rochester 14 13 1 .517 30 76 97Binghamton 8 17 2 .333 18 75 96

NOTE: Two points are awarded for a win, one point for an overtime or shootout loss.

Saturday’s GamesIowa 2, Wolves 1Toronto 5, St. John’s 2Albany 4, Providence 1Hershey 5, Wilkes-Barre/Scranton 0Grand Rapids 7, Lake Erie 3Syracuse 3, Springfield 1Bridgeport 2, Lehigh Valley 1Binghamton 4, Hartford 2Utica 3, Rochester 1Milwaukee 2, Rockford 1, SOSan Antonio 5, Texas 4Stockton 5, Bakersfield 3Ontario at San Diego (n)

Sunday’s GamesSt. John’s at Toronto, 2 p.m.Syracuse at Utica, 2 p.m.Lehigh Valley at W-B/Scranton, 3:05 p.m.Binghamton at Hershey, 4 p.m.Grand Rapids at Lake Erie, 4 p.m.Texas at San Antonio, 4 p.m.Providence at Bridgeport, 4 p.m.Portland at Springfield, 4 p.m.Hartford at Rochester, 4:05 p.m.Rockford at Iowa, 5 p.m.San Diego at Bakersfield, 7 p.m.

HOCKEY

COMMUNITYGOLF

McHenry County Senior League

The McHenry County Senior Golf League is accepting new members for the 2016 season. Anyone interested should contact Bob Kelly at 847-220-8174 for information. Players must be at least 55 years old to play.

The league play is a Chapel Hill Golf Course and will run from May through September on Monday mornings. Rounds are nine holes.

Indoor Leagues

The Golf Academy at Terra Cotta is taking registrations for fall and winter indoor simulator golf leagues.

High school, men and senior leagues are available in five week sessions in the fall and 10 week sessions in the winter. The fall session begins November 2 and the winter session begins January 4.

For information, contact Jim Buenzli or Bob Lunkenheimer at 815-355-4225 or visit golfacademytc.com.

BUSINESS • Sunday, December 27, 2015 • Section D • Northwest Herald / NWHerald.com2

Ventures require smart business structuresDear Dave,I work as a software devel-

oper, and a co-worker recently approached me about starting a side business together. We would create apps for the legal community with advice from my wife, who is a lawyer.

The only problem is we’re in the middle of Baby Step Two of your plan, and we still have some debt to pay off. Do you think starting a business would be too risky at this point?

– Jeremy

Dear Jeremy,It sounds to me like this is the

kind of idea that would require more in the way of brain sweat and time than money. I would just think of it as a part-time side job and go for it.

However, make sure you have a clear understanding of exactly how

much – if any – financial support would be required. Set these finan-cial boundaries, and also be clear on when you expect the business to make money.

One thing I would warn against is ending up in a partnership if this thing becomes a success. Partner-ships are bad news in the business world, so I’d advise you to figure out a way to structure things where you each own different parts – some-thing more along the lines of a joint venture.

But in terms of doing some side deals, creating some cool new apps and making money in the process? Absolutely, I would do that. Just figure out an intelligent way to

structure the business and finances so you don’t get pinched.

– Dave

Dear Dave,I haven’t spoken to my mom and

sister in more than six months. Over time, I realized we have a real clash of moral values that has led to arguments and hard feelings.

Lately, with it being Christmas season and a new year just around the corner, I’ve found myself want-ing to navigate things a little better and stop avoiding them. It’s been mostly just between myself and them, so my wife and kids are pretty insulated from the ugliness. Do you have any advice for handling situa-tions such as these?

– DaveDear Dave,Well, the good news is it doesn’t

sound like you’ve had to spend a lot of time with them. So their influ-

ence over you and your household has been minimal. Still, things like this are painful. These are people you love, even if they are hard to get along with or understand.

I’m not a family counselor, but my initial advice would be don’t try to change them. And don’t take discussions too deep. If you get to-gether, just keep things simple and on the surface.

To the extent they try to invade your family, that’s where you have to put up a good solid boundary. You have to protect your family and try your best to keep bad influences at a distance.

But I don’t think you’re going to fix them. Probably the best thing you can do is model sanity and rea-son in front of them.

A friend of mine who has some crazy in-laws said he adopted the bobblehead deal. He just sits there like a bobblehead, smiles and nods,

no matter what craziness is swirl-ing around. And that’s not a bad idea when you think about it. You don’t want things getting ugly if you can help it – plus, the chances of you changing a lifetime of toxic behaviors in one brief interaction are small.

Pray for them, too, Dave. Then, if they ask for help, maybe you could insert some gentle wisdom. Don’t tell them what they’re doing is wrong or that they’re bad people. Just describe things you and your family have done and how you’ve handled similar situations. But until they bring it up, I wouldn’t go there.

– Dave

• Dave Ramsey is the author of five New York Times best-selling books. Follow him on Twitter at @DaveRamsey and on the web at daveramsey.com.

FACES & PLACES

Dave Ramsey

DAVE SAYS

Friday P/E 50-day 200-day Stock close ratio avg. avg. 52-week range Abbott AbbVieAGL Resources AllstateAlphabetAmerican Air.AppleAptarGroup Arch DanAT&T Bank of AmericaBank of MontrealBaxter Berry Plastics Boeing Caterpillar CME Group Coca-Cola Comcast Dean FoodsDow Chem.Exelon Exxon Facebook Ford General ElectricGeneral MotorsHome Depot IBMITW JPMorganChase Kellogg Kohl’s Kraft Heinz Live Nation McDonald’sMedtronicMicrosoftModine Motorola NetflixOffice Depot Pepsi Pulte Homes Sears HoldingsSnap-OnSouthwest Air.

Supervalu

Target Tesla MotorsTwitterUnited Contint.Visa Wal-MartWalgreenWaste Mgmt.Wintrust Fincl.

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WALL STREET WEEK IN REVIEW

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Representatives from the Crystal Lake Chamber of Commerce recently handed the employees at Kirchner Fire Extinguisher, 4420 S. High Point Road, McHenry, a plaque commemorating its 40-year membership with the local chamber. Pictured are chamber ambassador Ann Viger (left); chamber board member Laura Sinnaeve; Kirchner employees Richard Kirchner, Julie Quinney and Brett Quinney; and Chamber President Mary Margaret Maule.

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Glazy Daze Pottery Studio, 121 W. Main St., Cary, formally opened its new location in downtown Cary during a ribbon-cutting event earlier this fall with the Cary-Grove Area Chamber of Commerce. Glazy Daze sells various ceramic pieces, art supplies and provides pottery lessons. Owners Hope Fischer Coe and Bob Pesek cut the ribbon along with family, friends, chamber representatives and village officials.

Heartland Realtor Organization members give back this holiday season to Salvation Army, Toys for Tots

CRYSTAL LAKE – The Heartland Realtor Organization in Crystal Lake worked with both the Salvation Army and Toys for Tots this holiday season to give back.

More than 30 real estate professionals with the Heartland orga-nization rang bells for the Salvation Army outside Jewel locations in Crystal Lake and McHenry.

Heartland members helped fill the Salvation Army’s red kettles for its annual holiday campaign. The real estate professionals successfully filled two of the four kettles within the day at both locations, a news release said.

The organization also hosted a benefit for Toys for Tots earlier this month at Galati’s Hideaway in Cary.

More than 80 attendees brought numerous boxes of toys to donate to Toys for Tots.

The Heartland Realtor Organization is a trade group represent-ing more than 1,000 area real estate professionals. For informa-tion, visit www.heartlandro.org.

Huntley business group donates $500 to Grafton Food Pantry to help families during holidays

HUNTLEY – A business networking group in Huntley recently donated to a local food pantry to help families in need this holi-day season, according to a news release.

The HuntleyArea.Biz Networking Group gave $500 to the Grafton Food Pantry, which continues to look for donations this holiday season.

“The Grafton Food Pantry does great work in the community, and we want to help support their mission,” HuntleyArea.Biz Treasurer Lora Ball said in a news release. “Not only are we small business owners, but as part of this community we feel it’s our duty to help our neighbors.”

A group of local businesses and organizations form the Hunt-leyArea.biz group. The group strives to deliver quality goods and services and works to make a difference in their community, the release stated.

For information, visit www.huntleyarea.biz. To donate to the Grafton Food Pantry, call the pantry at 847-495-0922.

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The Crystal Lake Chamber of Commerce recognized Rosenthal Company, 190 Liberty Drive, Crystal Lake, for its 75-year membership to the organization. Owner Bill Rosenthal and his employees marked the occasion with chamber representatives.

Global manufacturer of in-dustrial heaters, temperature sensors and other thermal system components, Watlow already operates similar well-ness centers at its St. Louis headquarters, two other Mis-souri locations and another in Minnesota.

“The primary goal of our new on-site clinic is to help our team members live healthier lives,” Frost said. “If we make it more convenient to engage team members in health promotion, prevention and health risk management activities, it will result in a healthier workplace.”

Watlow renovated a por-tion of its Richmond location to create the new wellness center, which includes a sepa-rate clinic entrance, waiting and examination rooms. The center, operated by North Carolina-based Heathstat, em-ploys an on-site nurse who can provide acute care and coor-dinate primary care services.

Other health services at the center include lab testing, medical prescriptions, refer-rals, chronic disease manage-ment, preventative health strategies and health coach-ing, the company said.

Watlow also purchased volleyball and basketball equipment for its Richmond employees, along with an in-vestment in numerous fitness programs such as massages, yoga and Zumba.

With the new wellness center, Watlow extends ad-ditional wellness services to employees at its Richmond facility.

Roughly two-thirds of hu-man resource professionals surveyed in a 2015 report from the Society for Human Re-source Management said their organizations offered employ-ees some form of wellness pro-gram, resource or service.

More than three-quarters of respondents said the pro-grams effectively reduced health care costs, while 82 per-cent said the programs helped improve employees’ physical health.

Richmond center a part of healthy workplace trend• WELLNESSContinued from page D1

By STEPHEN Di BENEDETTO [email protected]

WOODSTOCK – After the loss of a major cus-tomer, a Silgan Plastics plant in Woodstock is set to close by late spring in a move that puts 151 employees out of work.

Once a major employer in Woodstock, Silgan Plastics at the start of the decade operated two facilities in the city before it decided to close its plastics production plant along Lake Avenue in 2011.

The plastics manufacturer now will leave McHenry County entirely after announcing in November it would shutter its tubes plant along Courtaulds Drive in Woodstock and layoff 151 employees by late April.

Silgan’s decision tops the Northwest Herald’s list of local business stories of the year, as voted by newspaper staff. The company’s exit from the county represents the largest single set of layoffs to hit the area since Quad/Graphics let go nearly 550 employees after a decision in 2014 to close the Brown Printing Facility in Woodstock.

“We are losing another company,” said Pam Cumpata, president for the McHenry County Economic Development Corp. “The upside is,

hopefully, we have enough molders in the county who are struggling to find employees that many of these people will land with other plastic mold-er and injection companies.”

The layoffs mostly are manufacturing posi-tions that helped produce plastic tubes for Silgan customers primarily in the personal care mar-ket.

Earlier in the fall, Silgan reported in paper-work with the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity that a company re-structure would result in layoffs to only 39 em-ployees by mid-November at its Woodstock lo-cation. City and McHenry County officials said Silgan representatives didn’t indicate to them why the company decided to change plans.

Representatives from Missouri-based Silgan Plastics never returned requests for comment on the decision.

In a letter sent to the state in late October,

the North American plastics container maker said it would close the Silgan Tubes plant at 1005 Courtaulds Drive because of a restructuring to its manufacturing operations and the loss of a major Woodstock customer.

Silgan Plastics, known for its containers used by companies in health care, food, personal care and household markets, operates 20 manufactur-ing plants and a half-dozen sales offices in the U.S. and Canada, according to its website.

Silgan executives in 2011 closed its plastics plant along Lake Avenue in Woodstock. The move affected about three dozen Silgan employ-ees at the time.

With the latest round of layoffs at Silgan, of-ficials at the McHenry County Workforce Net-work said they were planning job fairs tailored to Silgan employees for early 2016. MCEDC also planned to work with the network, helping the workforce group offer various employment ser-vices to the affected workers.

“We still will be working with them to help them get re-employed,” network director Julie Courtney said. “There seems to be a lot of in-terest from other plastics manufacturers in the county interested in the skills and talents of the employees affected at Silgan.”

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Overtime changes loom in new year

In summer 2015, the Department of Labor (DOL) proposed changes to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) concerning overtime exemp-tion regulations.

Specifically, the DOL proposed to double the minimum salary require-ment that would exempt executive, administrative and professional employees from overtime pay.

The proposal means the current minimum salary requirement of $455 of earnings a week ($23,660 an-nually) would increase to $970 per week ($50,440 annually).

The proposed changes to the minimum salary requirements also contemplate automatically updating the minimum salary requirement each year based upon a certain per-centile (40 percent) of earnings for all full-time salaried workers.

Another proposed change to “highly compensated employees” would increase the exemption status from $100,000 to $122,148, with annual adjustments thereafter.

The obvious effect of the pro-posed changes is the likelihood of more employees, despite being sala-ried, being eligible for overtime pay. As a result, employers will need to be cognizant of the exempt earnings amount on a continuing annual basis (as it would be adjusted each year) for their salaried employees to ensure they do not run afoul of the FLSA regulations.

At the present time, there is no specific timetable for when or if these rules will go into effect. Based upon comments by Solicitor of Labor Patricia Smith, the Wall Street Journal has speculated final regulations would not be issued until late 2016.

Employers should monitor the proposed changes and minimally evaluate their employees who fit into exempt classification and earning less than $50,400 annually. Employers should consider evaluat-ing compensated employees earning less than $122,148.

Employers also have several possible options to address the increased salary requirements. Businesses and organizations can evaluate tasks and duties to ensure such employees do not trigger overtime.

They can consider reassignment of tasks to other employees and possibly increase pay for employees who would otherwise fall below the minimum pay threshold to keep them properly in exempt status.

Another item of note for employ-ers is the Illinois Department of Labor guidelines effective since 2014 that require hours of all employees – exempt and non exempt – to be recorded and retained for at least three years.

Undoubtedly, this requirement for employees classified as exempt promotes the ability for employees who question their exempt status to document any claim for unpaid overtime wages.

• Brad Stewart is an attorney with Zukowski, Rogers, Flood & McArdle in Crystal Lake. Stewart mainly practices corporate and local government law. He can be reached at [email protected].

CONTACT: Stephen Di Benedetto • [email protected]

Silgan Plastics’ exit tops list


By late spring, Silgan Plastics Corp. will lay off 151 employees and close its one remaining manufacturing plant in Woodstock, dramatically changing course on a local restructuring plan announced in fall 2015.

Woodstock manufacturer set to close by late spring• A closer look at the remainder of the stories that make up the Northwest Herald’s local business stories of the year for 2015, as voted by the newspaper staff. Page D5

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RICHMOND – An on-site nurse, fitness programs and preventative health services are among the fea-tures at a new in-house wellness cen-ter thermal systems maker Watlow built for its 277 employees in Rich-mond.

The 300-square-foot Health and Wellness Center should help the em-ployees maintain and improve over-all health, and save them time and money in the process, Nathan Frost, Watlow director of operations, said in a statement. Employers across the country have started to offer more comprehensive wellness programs and services as a way to control their health care costs.

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Virtual reality is finally here, yet still has a ways to goBy ANICK JESDANUN The Associated Press

NEW YORK – With the launch of Samsung’s Gear VR headset a few weeks ago, virtual reality for the masses is finally a thing. Now comes the next big challenge: Who, exactly, will care?

If you’re a gamer, the appeal of immersing yourself in a virtual world might be obvious. Strap on a headset and you could find yourself in a three-dimensional death match with opponents who could – almost literally – creep up right behind you. Early trends look promising: The $100 Gear VR briefly sold out at many retailers. Research firm TrendForce projects sales of 14 mil-lion VR devices in 2016, mostly for gaming.

The rest of us, though, still need convincing. Just a few years back, manufacturers lined store shelves with 3-D TVs capable of projecting stereoscopic images into your liv-ing room – and on those shelves the sets stayed. Among the reasons 3-D TV flopped: You had to wear uncom-fortable glasses, and the experience made some people dizzy. Perhaps most important, there just wasn’t much good stuff to watch.

Sound at all familiar? Virtual re-ality requires people to wear large headsets that block out the real

world, and immersive video has made some viewers nauseous. It’s not exactly a friends-and-family ex-perience, either.

Jason Tsai, TrendForce’s wear-able devices analyst, said compa-nies are reluctant to invest in non-gaming VR media until they’re sure there’s a real market for it.

Many leading companies are bet-ting on VR. Google, for instance, of-fers a low-rent system it calls Card-board – literally a folded-cardboard contraption that holds lenses and a smartphone for playing VR apps. The Samsung headset is a step above that; it also uses a phone to play video, but includes its own motion sensors to better track the movement of your head.

More sophisticated headsets are on their way. Sony’s PlayStation VR – formerly Project Morpheus – won’t need a phone and attaches to a PlayStation game console. Oculus, which helped develop Samsung’s Gear VR, will release its own VR set called Rift next year. HTC’s Vive is due by April. Prices for these sys-tems haven’t been announced yet, though most are likely to cost at least a few hundred dollars.

VR’s immediate challenge is simply getting people to try VR. Bonnie To, a Los Angeles accoun-tant, watched a few minutes of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony in VR

during a lunch-break demo. She said the ability to look around the concert hall was “really cool” and thought the sound and picture qual-ity was good.

VR makers are working with media companies to expand options for non-gamers. Eventually, they figure the new technology will pro-duce new storytelling forms – for in-stance, choose-your-own-adventure narratives that viewers can influ-ence through their actions.

For now, the hope is early own-ers will show and tell their less tech-

savvy friends about the potential of VR, said Richard Marks, who heads Sony PlayStation’s research arm, Magic Labs.

Video games have grown so much they’re no longer a niche mar-ket, said Diffusion Group analyst Joel Espelien, who argues younger players likely will embrace VR. As they get older, subsequent genera-tions may follow.

“It’s a decade-long story,” he said. “Things don’t happen over-night when you’re talking about a pretty significant new behavior.”

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Two craft breweries in McHenry County positioned themselves this year for wid-er commercial distribution

throughout the Chicago area.Crystal Lake Brewing upgraded to an

automated canning line and started sell-ing its four flagship beers in six-packs throughout McHenry, DeKalb, DuPage, Lake, Kane and Kendall counties for the first time. Scorched Earth Brewery in Al-gonquin also upgraded to an automated bottling line that allows for faster pro-duction, as the microbrewery prepares for wider distribution across the Chicago area.

The number of new craft breweries across the country increased dramatical-ly from 2013 to 2014, as smaller indepen-dent beer makers try to increase their market share.

In 2014, craft breweries captured a re-cord 11 percent volume share of the beer marketplace in the U.S., according to the Brewers Association.


Scorched Earth Brewing Company brewmaster Dan Payson shows an empty wooden barrel as he discusses the processes involved in making craft beer on July 2, 2015 in Algonquin. Scorched Earth and Crystal Lake Brewing both ramped up production in 2015.

Countywide real estate market shows improvement

For the first time in years, the real es-

tate market in McHenry County showed positive momentum from month to month, especially during the summer.

Total homes sales in June, for example, increased 19 percent from June 2014 as median sales price reached its highest level in five years.

A strong July followed those gains when year-over-year home sales increased by another 19 per-cent.

Home sales dipped in the au-tumn months.

But local real estate experts said demand remains strong for homes in McHenry County after a slow-down from the economic recession in the late 2000s.

A rocky economic recovery

National economic indica-tors throughout 2015 showed a common trend: Consumer confidence is growing and employers across various

industries are wanting to hire. Local-ly, Visit McHenry County reported four consecutive years of tourism growth in the county that ended declines in tourist spending after the Great Recession. Car dealers such as Tom Peck Ford in Huntley saw stronger demand and sales in 2015. Technipaq in Crystal Lake and other area manufacturers also detailed stronger cli-ent demand.

The local and national economy, how-ever, showed signs of volatility. The U.S. stock market struggled in the sum-mer because of concerns with the global economy. Wage growth remains stagnate for many McHenry County households. Some local manufacturers have expressed doubts that the economy will continue its rebound.

Unemployment rates decline locally

The McHenry County area saw the local unemploy-ment rate decline signifi-cantly from the start of 2015.

In January, the Illinois Department of Employment Security put the local unem-ployment rate at 6.5 percent. By October, IDES said the rate in McHenry County had fallen to 4.3 percent.

Although unemployment rates dropped across Illinois in 2015, IDES Di-rector Jeff Mays has warned that most metro areas in Illinois aren’t seeing a cor-responding increase in the number of new jobs.

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Fabrik Plastics production floor in McHenry is shown. The custom injection molding supplier is contemplating a move out of state, a move that could lose the county and the state roughly 400 jobs.

Fabrik Plastics in McHenry weighs move out of IllinoisSince early 2015, a major primary employer in McHenry has weighed whether to expand and add jobs in McHenry or

do so in states such as Alabama, Indiana or Kentucky. The local and state efforts to convince Fabrik Plastics to stay in its home base of McHenry have taken unexpected turns along the way.

Employing around 400 people, plastics manufacturer Fabrik announced in the summer a potential expansion within McHenry that would move them into two industrial buildings. McHenry officials have tried to bolster the retention effort, offering Fabrik a reimbursement deal on the property taxes collected at the building targeted for the expansion.

Gov. Bruce Rauner’s office, meanwhile, made an unexpected announcement in November that Fabrik would receive state tax credits, if and when the Republican governor ends a months-long budget impasse with Democratic legislative leaders. Fabrik isn’t expected to make a decision on the expansion until early 2016.

Businesses step up for Just For Fun Roller RinkMore than 20 businesses around McHenry County contributed money,

equipment, manpower and supplies to help the owners of Just For Fun Roll-er Rink make needed repairs and renovations. After an unsuccessful online donation effort, owners Toby Tagliapietra and Lisa Duncan thought about closing the rink until Scott Humphrey, owner of Audio Specialties in Cary, started calling people he knew in the construction trades. The effort snow-balled and involved more than 20 area businesses.

County’s f i rst enterprise zone gains traction

Working with the county government, officials from Harvard and Woodstock this year secured the county’s

first enterprise zone, entitling both cities to numerous local and state tax incentives meant to spur economic development.

The new zone roughly covers 8 square miles of major commercial and industrial areas in Harvard and Woodstock.

Like many other issues involving state government, the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity has yet to certify the new zone and 48 oth-ers because of the budget impasse between Rauner and Democratic lawmakers.

Local officials still made plans for the new zone, forming a five-person oversight board in the fall that will oversee the new economic tool. The Harvard-Woodstock enterprise zone takes effect Jan. 1, but the state budget stalemate might delay it.


Co-owners of Just For Fun Roller Rink, Toby Tagliapietra (left) and Lisa Duncan pose for a portrait with volunteers at the McHenry rink June 1, 2015.

Miller Formless changes owners after 45 years

The original owner of the McHenry-based manu-facturer sold the business in 2015 to a new three-per-

son ownership team after he founded the company 45 years ago.

Charles Miller, who founded Miller Formless in 1970, remains with the com-pany as president and adviser to new owners Scott Smith, John Smith and Tom Uutala.

The three owners bring decades of engineering, construction and finance expertise and will continue to operate the company under the Miller Formless name, Miller said.

Employing 34 people, Miller Form-less makes automated paving systems, primarily for the construction industry. Clients in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Cen-tral America, Asia and Australia use the company’s machines.

Home State Bank turns 100 years oldThe community bank in Crystal Lake celebrated its 100th anniversary

throughout 2015 with special promotions and events.Since receiving its charter Sept. 29, 1915, Home State Bank has seen its

assets consistently grow with its footprint. Home State Bank locations in the county now stretch from its banking center in Woodstock to the one in Lake in the Hills.

Throughout its history, the Crystal Lake-based institution weathered the Great Depression and Great Recession, various technological advancements that have tested traditional banking methods and the rise of big banks that have increased competition.

“It’s pretty unique for any community bank to be around for 100 years, particularly in today’s environment,” President and CEO Steven Slack said. “It speaks so highly not only of the people who work here but also the confi-dence customers have in Home State Bank.”

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LOS ANGELES – “Star Wars” isn’t just strong. It’s unstoppable.

The revival of the nearly 40-year-old space saga already has dominated the box office and toy shelves. Now, it’s also been selected as The Associated Press Entertainer of the Year and is amassing support for Academy Awards consideration.

“Personally, it’s been three years of feeling privileged to be part of some-thing that’s bigger than all of us,” filmmaker J.J. Abrams told the AP in an interview. “This accolade is very much appreciated and no exception to that feeling.”

“Star Wars” won the AP’s annual Entertainer of the Year contest with a volley of votes from members that would rival the firepower of the First Order.

The sci-fi series bested Adele, Tay-lor Swift and Amy Schumer as the top vote getter. Others up for the honor included streaming services, Jon Stewart, Jennifer Lawrence, Taraji P. Henson, Viola Davis and the Kardashi-ans. Voters were asked to consider who had the most influence on entertain-ment and culture in 2015.

“In a year full of sequels, reboots and returns, none have recaptured the zeitgeist like ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens,’” wrote Nick Dutro of The Advertiser-Tribune in Tiffin, Ohio.

The initial impact of a “Star Wars” resurgence first began reverberating

across the pop-culture landscape in 2012 when Disney acquired Lucasfilm for more than $4 billion, plotting a pair of movie spin-offs and a new trilogy merging veterans Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), Leia Organa (Carrie Fisher) and Han Solo (Harrison Ford) with newcomers Rey (Daisy Ridley), Finn (John Boyega) and Kylo Ren (Adam Driver).

In the year leading up to the Decem-ber release of “The Force Awakens,” Disney and Lucasfilm unleashed a barrage of “Star Wars” merchandise, comic books and video games that fu-eled anticipation for the film.

When the movie opened in theaters, “The Force Awakens” lit up screens – and fans’ eyeballs – brighter than a lightsaber. With an astronomical $248 million debut at the box office last weekend, the newest “Star Wars” entry trampled over the record for biggest debut in North America, set earlier in the year by “Jurassic World.”

“The Force Awakens” also has won over most critics, despite not being screened for them ahead of the film’s mammoth Dec. 14 premiere in Hol-lywood. The American Film Institute selected it as one of its 10 best movies of the year, and the Critics’ Choice Awards added it as an 11th best picture nominee, leading many to have faith in “The Force Awakens” as a viable Oscar contender.

“The ‘Star Wars’ franchise is hold-ing an IOU that it could cash in this year,” said Tom O’Neil, editor-in-chief of Gold Derby, a site that handicaps

Hollywood awards and other events. “The Oscars owe major love to the ‘Star Wars’ franchise. It’s one of the most successful and beloved franchises in Hollywood history. It’s criminal that Oscar voters have never historically taken sci-fi seriously.”

While previous “Star Wars” films garnered 22 nominations and seven wins at the Academy Awards, only the original “Star Wars” earned a best pic-ture nod. It lost to “Annie Hall” in 1978.

“The Force Awakens” is already on the academy’s short list for a visual ef-fects nomination with nine other films, and O’Neil is hopeful it will be among the best picture candidates when the Oscar nominations are announced Jan. 14. He also wouldn’t be shocked if Harrison Ford is recognized for repris-ing his role as Han Solo and composer John Williams earns his 50th nomina-tion for the film’s score.

“It’s funny,” said Abrams. “I’ve spent the last few years with everyone asking me how I am dealing with the pressure. The truth is that anything that happens at this point is icing on a cake that I’m just happy came out of the oven.”

“Star Wars” joins the list of previ-ous AP Entertainer of the Year win-ners who in recent years have mostly included female performers, including Adele, Taylor Swift, Jennifer Law-rence, Lady Gaga, Tina Fey and Betty White. The animated Disney jugger-naut “Frozen” captured the prize in 2014, and Stephen Colbert was honored in 2007.

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By LEE REICH The Associated Press

Trees, shrubs and vines may need a little help getting ready for winter’s frigid tem-peratures, but not too much.

Don’t prune, don’t fertil-ize, don’t water. Any of those three could awaken parts of the plants at a time when they should be shutting down.

Of course, there are exceptions to this do-nothing approach. Late-season water-ing is called for only if winter survival is chancy because a plant is crying out from thirst. Evergreens, especially young ones, are an exception to the no-watering rule because they have limited root systems and lose water through their leaves all winter, so they need watering during extended periods of dry weather.

Preparing for other winter hazards

One potential winter hazard is sunscald, which can occur when the temperature of dark-colored bark that’s been heated by sunlight on a clear day plummets at sunset. More of a problem with thin-barked trees, sunscald can be avoided with white latex paint. Mixed with equal parts water, and either sprayed or painted onto tree trunks, the white latex paint reflects sunlight to keep the bark evenly cold.

An organic mulch, such as wood chips, straw, leaves or pine needles, spread at the foot of a tree, shrub or vine is another way to help woody plants in winter. Fluffy, organic mulches insulate the soil, preventing the frequent freezing and thawing that could heave young plants, still not well-anchored in the soil, up and out of the ground.

Although stems won’t grow until winter is over, roots grow whenever soil tem-peratures are above about 40 degrees F. Insulation provided by mulches also prevents deep freezing of the soil so roots have a longer period of growth and can continue to absorb water from the ground. Evergreens, especially, benefit from this insulating blanket that keeps water from freez-ing.

Furry creaturesOn the downside, mulches

provide mice with a cozy ha-ven, hidden from the eyes of predators. And hungry mice can eat and damage your plants. Don’t give them the convenient food, lodging and protection of mulch; leave a mulch-free ring of a few inches diameter around the base of the plant.

For further protection against mice and, a little high-er up, rabbits, the well-accou-tered woody tree or vine also will wear something around its “ankles” for winter: A cylinder of 1/4-inch mesh hardware cloth, 2 feet high and pressed an inch into the soil to discourage burrowing, keeps these creatures at bay.

Make the cylinder’s diam-eter wide enough to allow for plant growth, and to let you reach inside to pull weeds. Alternative “anklets” might include tree wrap paper, white plastic spirals and various other plastic, metal or plastic-coated metal guards.

Your woody plants’ final winter accessory is some sort of “perfume” to keep deer at bay. A number of repellents are commercially available, some offering a one-two punch of olfactory and taste turnoffs. For best results, perfume woody plants before deer begin feeding and then reapply the repellent, prefer-ably a different one each time, every few weeks until spring.

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This young tree is well-dressed for winter and ready to fend off winter cold and feeding by furry animals in New Paltz, N.Y.

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WOODSTOCK THEATRE RENAMES HISTORIC AUDITORIUM FOR DIRECTORNORTHWEST HERALD

WOODSTOCK – After filming “Groundhog Day” in 1992 in the Woodstock Square, the late Harold Ramis wrote a letter to residents thanking them for their hospitality.

Many appeared as extras in the film, others brought heaters to warm the cast and crew in the cold weather, and all welcomed the production.

“It is not often that an entire community takes us into both their homes and their hearts,” Ramis wrote. “I hope that when you see the movie, you will enjoy seeing Wood-stock on film and delight in the knowledge that people all over the world will get to enjoy your hometown as well.”

That letter is framed and hung at the Woodstock Theatre, where Ramis’ name forever will be known. On Jan. 31, the theater’s most historic auditorium became the Harold Ramis Auditorium – the Northwest Herald’s top local entertainment story of the year, as voted by the newspaper staff.

The naming of the newly restored auditorium at the theater, owned by Classic Cinemas and dating to 1927, took place during Woodstock’s annual Groundhog Days festi-val, a weeklong celebration of the movie’s filming through-

out Woodstock and on the Woodstock Square, known in the film as Gobbler’s Knob.

Along with the framed letter, residents gathered to dedicate a plaque outside the theater’s main auditorium. They then were treated to a free showing of “Groundhog Day” inside the auditorium. The movie has gained a cult-like following, with fans watching it and returning for Groundhog Days festivities year after year, just as Bill Murray’s character relives the same day in an endless loop in the film.

Festival organizers, at the time of the dedication, said renaming the auditorium came to mind immediately after Ramis’ death at age 69 in February 2014.

“I’m thinking that of our 13 theaters and 104 auditori-ums, this is probably the first time we are commemorating or placing an auditorium to someone,” Mark Mazrimas, the marketing director for Classic Cinemas, said at the time of the dedication.

“We know it’s a big part of the community and a big part of the theater,” he said of the movie. “That’s our mo-ment of stardom. He put us in the movie, so now we are honoring him with our auditorium, our nicest audito-rium.”

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Harold Ramis leads the filming of “Groundhog Day” in 1992 in Woodstock.

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“Groundhog Day” director Harold Ramis died at age 69 in Febru-ary 2014. The Woodstock Theatre, which was featured in the movie, named its most historic auditorium after him in January 2015. ONLINE: Find these and more stories of the year at NWHerald.com/review/2015.


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2. HISTORIC APPLE MAZE IN HARVARDRoyal Oak Farm Orchard in Harvard will go down

in history as the country’s first apple orchard with an apple maze.

The farm along Hebron Road opened its 4-acre Amaze ’N Apples on Aug. 14, boasting nearly 2 miles of winding trails in the shape of an apple amid “growing, living, pickable fruit walls.” Peter Bianchini, the patriarch of the family, which includes four generations living in four houses on the farm, thought of the idea more than four years ago. It took quite a bit of planning and work after that to make the maze a reality.

“We weren’t quite sure how to start with everything, only because no one had ever done it before,” said Sarah Bell, Bianchini’s granddaughter and a co-owner of the orchard. “There might be [an apple tree maze] on a prop-erty out in England, but it’s much smaller. This is the only one of its kind that’s been created.”

Visitors could taste more than nine varieties of apples on more than 3,000 trees as they meandered through the maze.



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5. LOOKING FOR LOVE ON TVTwo McHenry County natives competed on

“The Bachelor” when it premiered in January.Amanda Goerlitz, 24, of Lake in the Hills,

and Trina Scherenberg, 33, an Algonquin na-tive and former special education teacher at Crystal Lake South High School, were two of 30 contestants on the most recent season, which featured Chris Soules, a farmer from Iowa.

Although they didn’t make it to the final rounds – Goerlitz was sent home on the first episode and Scherenberg on the third episode – both said they enjoyed the experience and were grateful for the support of their home-towns as they took a chance on the popular reality series, which averages 9 million view-ers a season.

“For right now, I think I’m very content being home, as far as being on TV anymore goes,” Goerlitz said. “It was a great experi-ence. My life is here, and this is where my family is, and I’m going to focus on me.”

3. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ORSON

Like the iconic film-maker himself, Woodstock’s celebration of what would have been Orson Welles’ 100th birthday in 2015 was majestic.

So grand, in fact, it took on an entire month’s worth of presentations, film screen-ings and productions, with organizers drawing Welles’ partner and collaborator for the last 24 years of his life, actress and filmmaker Oja Kodar, along with Academy Award-winning filmmaker Chuck Workman and other Welles’ scholars and film-makers.

May was basically Welles’ month in Woodstock.

“The idea was, ‘Let’s do this and pull all the stops out,’ “ said Gregory Gantner, a filmmaker and co-chair-man of the Orson Welles’ Centennial Festival, hosted by Woodstock Celebrates Inc., a group formed to celebrate historical figures from Woodstock.

The festival stood out among the numerous Welles celebrations taking part throughout the world because of its depth and the town’s ties to Welles, who called Woodstock home as an 11-year-old student at the former Todd School for Boys in 1926.

“What we learn [from him] is how far we can go. That’s what I learned from him, and I think a lot of filmmakers have,” Work-man said at the time of the festival. “They see there’s no limit to what you can do.”


Co-owner Sarah Bell, walks around the new apple maze at Royal Oak Farm Orchard in Harvard on Aug. 6.

4. MOVING ON FROM MASTHOUSE

On Sept. 6, Masthouse in Woodstock hosted its last sing-along. The Victorian home on Calhoun Street that hosted musical greats such as Pete Seeger, The Kingston Trio and Tom Chapin, and carried their messages written on its rafters, was listed for sale this year.

Don and Eunice Mast, who bought the home in 1975, created a “music room” in the home that hosted acts from all over the country, including artists who would perform an encore there after performances at the Woodstock Opera House.

The sing-alongs continued after Eunice Mast’s death in 1993, but eventually wound down, and the home was put on the market this year when Don Mast moved to a retirement home in Pennsylvania.

“It’s tough to think about closing down the sing-along room, but that’s been several years ago, and now we’re ready to move on,” Don Mast said.

Bill Oakes – For Shaw Media

Don Mast asks who attended the 25th anniversary of the Pete Seeger perfor-mance at Masthouse, a Woodstock home that has hosted major recording art-ists and sing-alongs since the 1960s that recently was listed for sale.

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Algonquin native and former special education teacher in Crystal Lake Trina Scherenberg (center) talks with friends Jan. 5 during a viewing party of “The Bachelor” at Nero’s Pizza & Pub in Algonquin. Scherenberg was among the 30 contestants on the show, but she was sent home in the third episode.



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Matthew Apgar – [email protected] Sarah Nader – [email protected] Sarah Nader – [email protected] Sarah Nader – [email protected] H. Rick Bamman – [email protected]

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FROM LEFT: Star Wars fan Patrick Lewis of West

Dundee, part of the Midwest Garrison 501st Legion, draws on a wall while dressed as a storm trooper during a free

comic book day event May 2 at the Algonquin Area Public

Library. Brock Iverson, 8, of Cary calls out plays Sept. 29

during the Cary Junior Trojans football practice at Deer Path

Elementary in Cary. Iverson is fighting cancer and is not well enough to play football

but still attends practices on the sidelines and helps out

the coaches. The Cary Junior Trojans rallied around him with their “Brock Strong”

campaign, which has raised more than $10,000 and will

continue raising money through his three-year che-

motherapy treatment. People attend a candlelight vigil

Sept. 2 in Fox Lake for police Lt. Charles Joseph Glinie-

wicz, who was fatally shot while on duty the morning of

Sept. 1. Boaters line up June 8 on the Crystal Lake shore

while listening to the Crystal Lake Community Band at

Main Beach during Concert in the Park. Wonder Lake Neigh-

bors and food pantry volun-teers Virginia Hartung (right)

and Alice Burress practice their dance line kicks before

the start of the celebration honoring the 96th birthday of

Hartung. “She’s my adopted mother,” Burress said. Har-

tung is a 52 year resident of Wonder Lake and has been

a food panty volunteer for 9 years. RIGHT: Members of the Muslim community pray dur-ing the Nov. 27 service at the

American Muslim Community Organization Mosque in Lake

in the Hills.

SECOND FROM LEFT: Carol Swinford of Shades of Blue Ranch in Hebron takes Sere-bella, a 9-year-old therapy Falabella miniature horse, on a training session through the Wal-Mart Superstore on Sept. 29 in Johnsburg. Sere-bella trained for six months in a variety of social scenar-ios to become comfortable in different surroundings. LEFT: Gabriella Odegaard of Algonquin, 7, swims under-water to beat the heat Aug. 1 at Lions Armstrong Memorial Pool in Algonquin. BOTTOM ROW FROM LEFT: Jessica Rogers of McHenry rubs her fingers over her newly shaved head March 12 after participating in the fifth an-nual St. Baldrick’s McHenry Community Shave sponsored by McHenry High School. Rogers raised $1,265 for childhood cancer research. Sue Smith of Cary heads to her car Nov. 20 after doing some grocery shopping at the Cary Aldi during the first snow of the season. Attorney Adam Diamond sits in his McHenry office July 1. Diamond was chosen for the McHenry County Business Journal’s annual Best Under 40 edition. Richmond-Burton cheerleader Taylor Zullo, 17, covers her head with a plas-tic poncho Sept. 18 as rain begins to pour down before the football game against Marengo at Richmond-Bur-ton High School. The game would be postponed and was rescheduled. Jake Manning of Hampshire hauls in a long first quarter pass in front of Woodstock’s Nick Thomp-son during a game Oct. 23 at Woodstock High School. Hampshire won, 26-0.

H. Rick Bamman – [email protected] Matthew Apgar – [email protected] Apgar – [email protected]

MOVING PICTURESThe photographers and editors of the Northwest Herald set out to compile some of the top photos that appeared in print and online in 2015. We came

up with a mix of images notable for their technical composition or their relation to the year’s biggest stories – or how just plain fun they are. While they only scratch the surface of our photo staff’s talent, these photographs

help put faces on the low points and high points of this year. See the complete photo gallery at NWHerald.com/review/2015.

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By LEANNE ITALIE The Associated Press

Spoiler alert: This is an unscientific look at some popular terms

and favorite things of the year that we need to leave behind come 2016 because, frankly, they give us a headache.

Need a warning so an ending or plot twist won’t be spoiled? Just don’t look! Also on our Over It list: adult coloring books, tiny houses, artisanal everything and the notion that cauliflower deserves to be anointed.

For your consideration and in no particular order:

2015,we’re

moving on

Washington Post photo

Renee and Greg Cantori have built a “tiny house” that they plan to relocate to West Virginia.

1. HacksWe get it. There are ways around things that some-

times work better and cost less or are easier. The term has been ransacked for profit in every corner of culture.

2. Diffuser bottlesYou know those often brightly colored plastic

bottles with the filter thing in the center where you put your cut fruit and whatever else to flavor your water? Just hydrate.

4. Spoiler alerts and trigger warnings

Manage yourself. ’Nuf said.

5. Tiny housesAccording to Thetinylife.com, the

typical U.S. home is about 2,600 square feet. The typical tiny house is 100 to 400 square feet. Some of us have been there. It’s not a pretty thing. Find some other social movement.

3. CauliflowerWayyyy back in 2013,

the question was posed: Is cauliflower the new kale? It’s 2015, people have just discovered baked and roasted cauliflower, mashed cauliflower, cauliflower pasta sauce, cauli-flower pizza crust and fancy things to do with what is a fine thing now delicate-ly plated in fine restau-rants.

7. Artisanal and curated You want only the best for us. You are craftspeople

and very dedicated and high masters of your worlds and are willing to make us better people by taking our money and you work very, very hard. You want us to like the things you like or do or buy.

6. Adult coloring booksYes, millions sold! Yes, mindful-

ness! Yes, beautiful flowers and geomet-ric patterns and all manner of animal life and wonder! We now have enough things for grown-ups to color to keep us stress-free clear through to Armaged-don.

8. Man bunsThey’re every-

where, except maybe the majority of male heads in real life. A clip-in version is a scary little pouf.

Grilled cauliflower steak with lemon lime feta gremolataAP photo

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Dear Abby: My daughter, a single parent, has a 27-year-old son who has assaulted her several times. He has never worked and has been in trouble with the law because of drugs. Recently, she called me to ask whether she and her son could spend the night with me. (They live 160 miles away.) I told her because of his past behavior it wasn’t a good idea.

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Dear Abby: I am a teacher who occasionally must conduct parent-teacher conferences through a trans-lator. My colleague and I are wonder-ing, what is the proper protocol for these conversations? We are not sure whether to make eye contact with the translator or the parent when talking and listening. Thank you for your help. – An International Educator

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Dear Abby: My boyfriend, “Mac,” and I come from two different worlds. I am from Europe but have been living in the U.S. for 15 years. I have many friends, male and female, and I make a point of staying in touch with them.

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Rio, Indy 500, German beer, Christo in Italy to drive travel

Rio and the Olympics: Rio de Janeiro hosts the Summer Olym-pics, Aug. 5-21.

Super Bowl 50: America’s most important football game takes place Feb. 7 at the San Francisco 49ers’ stadium in Santa Clara, California. San Francisco hosts a free public fan village, Super Bowl City, and other pre-game events beginning Jan. 30.

Philadelphia and Cleveland: Democrats choose their presi-dential candidate at a convention in Philadelphia on July 25-28. Re-publicans choose their candidate in Cleveland on July 18-21.

Cuba mania: Cuban tourism will likely keep booming after a year in which visits by Americans rose more than 50 percent and travel from elsewhere surged, too.

Rome’s Year of Mercy and Chris-to’s Walk on Water: Up to 10 million pilgrims may visit Rome during Pope Francis’ Holy Year of Mercy, which began Dec. 8 and runs through November 2016.

Events include the September canonization of Mother Teresa. And in northern Italy, fans of Christo will walk on water thanks to his “Floating Piers” project on Lake Iseo in Lombardy, June 18-July 3, weather permitting. The 3-kilometer (2-mile) walkway will consist of floating cubes covered in shimmering yellow fabric. Lakeside mountains will offer a bird’s-eye view.

National parks: The National Park Service turns 100 on Aug. 25. A campaign called “Find Your Park” is designed to inspire a new generation to visit. Individual sites marking centennials include Acadia in Maine, established as a national monument July 8, 1916; Abraham Lincoln Birthplace in Kentucky; New Mexico’s Capulin Volcano and Bandelier na-tional monuments; and in Hawaii, Volcanoes and Haleakala parks, originally part of Hawaii National Park.

Shakespeare: Seems like only

yesterday William Shakespeare died, but it was 400 years ago, on April 23, 1616. His birthplace, Stratford-upon-Avon, and many other places around England plan tours, performances, festivals and exhibitions.

Germany and beer: Happy Okto-berfest! Germany celebrates 500 years since the Reinheitsgebot was signed into law on April 23, 1516, guaranteeing beer purity by specifying its ingredients.

New museums: The National Museum of African American History and Culture opens fall 2016 on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., part of the Smithsonian Institution. Objects range from slave shackles to Louis Armstrong’s trumpet to a segregation-era railcar. The Met Breuer, a modern and contempo-rary art space for the Metropoli-tan Museum, opens March 18 in New York City. The landmark building designed by Marcel Breuer on Madison Avenue and 75th Street formerly housed the Whitney Museum, which moved downtown. The Louvre Abu Dhabi’s supposed to open in late 2016, but the project has been re-peatedly delayed and plagued by controversies over the treatment of workers.

Indy 500 at 100: The Indy 500, one of the most famous car races in the world, celebrates its centennial May 29 in Indianapo-lis. A citywide celebration with

parties, concerts and more is planned. The Indianapolis Motor Speedway is also undergoing a $100 million renovation.

Glaciers and northern lights: Northern lights and other magical winter experiences are drawing more tourists in the coldest, darkest months of the year to places like Alaska, Iceland and Norway. Norway also has seen more tourists from fans of the movie “Frozen.” Glaciers around the world have become must-sees, too, as some tourists worry glaciers may disappear because of climate change. Glacier Na-tional Park in Montana has been experiencing record tourism, including more than 2.5 million visitors in 2015.

Safaris: The new year also may be a big one for trips to see Africa’s wildlife. Botswana marks its 50th anniversary of indepen-dence, and South Africa and East

Africa – especially Tanzania and Zimbabwe, which are offering new safari options – are on several travel industry lists for top destinations in 2016.

Theme parks: Shanghai Disney Resort opens in China in spring 2016 with the tallest, grandest castle of any Disney park. Other Disney news: a new “Frozen” boat ride at Epcot; a new “Frozen” stage show at Disney California Adventure; new “Star Wars” experiences at Disney parks on both coasts; and at Disney’s Animal Kingdom in Florida, night tours and a “Riv-ers of Light” nighttime illumina-tion show. Universal Hollywood in Los Angeles opens its own Wizarding World of Harry Potter on April 7. Universal Orlando Resort in Florida expects a sum-mer opening for Skull Island: Reign of Kong, themed on King Kong.

Where to go in 2016

By BETH J. HARPAZ The Associated Press

R io and Cuba. The Pope’s Year of Mercy and artist Christo’s walk on water. Philadelphia, Cleveland and the next U.S. president. Super Bowl in California and

the Indy 500 at 100. A centennial for America’s National Park Service, 400 years since Shakespeare died and 500 years of pure German beer.

These are among the places and events driving travel in 2016.

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Tourists ride a vintage American convertible during sunset on the Malecon in Havana, Cuba. Tourism to Cuba has surged in the wake of improved relations with the U.S.

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Juan Pablo Montoya of Colombia leads Will Power of Australia into the first turn on the 198th lap on his way to winning the 99th running of the Indianapolis 500 auto race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in In-dianapolis. The race’s centennial takes place in 2016.

And don’t forget

• A massive Noah’s Ark attrac-tion opens in northern Kentucky in July.

• Las Vegas gets two major de-buts in April: The Park, an outdoor area with restaurants, entertain-ment and more, and the Arena, a concert venue with performances scheduled by George Strait, Janet Jackson and Garth Brooks.

• Australia is turning up on many travel industry lists of top places to go in 2016. The island of Tasmania in particular – known for wildlife and scenery – is seeing record numbers of visitors.

• The strong U.S. dollar is expected to drive more travel abroad by Americans.

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