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There were police helicopters, bomb-sniffing dogs, snipers on roofs and plenty of unconcealed machine guns. Was it a hostage situation? Nope. Was it a bank robbery? Nope. Was the President in town? Nope. It was the 2013 running of the First Midwest Bank Marathon in May. On April 15, terrorists bombed the finish line of the Boston Mara-thon leaving deaths and injuries in its wake. While the cops and gov-ernment officials pieced together what had happened in Boston, the men that ran the half-marathon here at home were a little edgy. Co-race director Mel Diab was actually running the Boston Mara-thon but was miles away when the explosions hit. Still, he was shaken by the events. The next morning he said he was sad and angry, saying “These are cowardly, terrible human beings that did this.” The other co-director, Jeff Prestinario, was spitting mad. Prestinario is normally a low-key friendly guy with a smile on

Two runs, less guns10K added to the half marathon helped save race

Race securityshouldn’t beas threatening

Photos by Jeff Vorva

Last year, there was still plenty of fun at the First Midwest Bank Half Marathon as Tinley Park’s Rold Talusan crossed the finish line (top left photo) wearing an anatomy running suit. But there was also a serious presence of cops with machine guns (top right photo) and police helicopters (bottom photo) at the event, which was held weeks after the Boston Marathon bombing.

Photo by Rob Rakow

A snowman and other winter decorations are in the foreground of a fire that destroyed and Oak Lawn home Saturday morning.

Fiery argument may have led Oak Lawnman to torch home

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By Tim HadacStaff Reporter

Like a long-distance runner hitting a wall halfway through a race, the First Midwest Bank Half Marathon faltered briefly last month, but has rebounded and is on pace for success this year, organizers said last Friday. With expenses almost outpacing revenue, a 10K race has been added to “enhance the race, to make the race more attractive, but probably the most important reason — [raise] more money!” event committee chairman Jeff Prestinario said with a smile to about 20 half marathon organizers at a meeting held at the Palos Heights Recreation Center, 6601 W. 127th St. Prestinario acknowledged that he and event co-founder Mel Diab (owner of the Running for Kicks specialty running shop, 7158 W. 127th St.), briefly considered walking away from the run, now in its seventh year and billed as the premier athletic event in the southwest suburbs. “We had to do something for this race to continue. So the easi-est and best thing for us to do was to add this 10K,” Prestinario said. “If you realized it or not, last year our numbers were down, so we decided that we needed to do something. Otherwise, Mel was not planning on having the race. So we needed to do that, and we’re going forward.” The half marathon is set for Sunday, May 4, on a course that starts and ends near Palos Heights

By Bob RakowStaff Reporter

A fierce argument between an Oak Lawn man and his wife may have led the man to burn down his house a few hours after the dispute, prosecutors said. Arunas Samoska, 48, was charged with two counts of ag-gravated arson and one count of residential arson Monday morn-ing after appearing in Bridgeview Court where a request for bond was denied, according to police. He remains at Cook County Jail. Oak Lawn police and fire departments from several com-munities responded at 5:14 a.m.

Saturday to a house fire/explosion in the 8900 block of 55th Court. The house was engulfed with fire and required about one hour to extinguish. Prosecutors said Samoska poured gasoline throughout his home, including the living room and the bed in the master bed-room. The vapors ignited when he went to his garage to get more gasoline, prosecutors said. The explosion and subsequent fire rendered the home a complete loss, officials said. No one was in the home at the time of the explo-sion and there were no injuries. The houses on each side of the fire were occupied but no one


One day before the owner of an Oak Lawn bar agreed with the village on a series of modi-fications designed to prevent un-derage drinking at his tavern, a manager of his bar was charged with drunken driving and pos-session of a controlled substance, Oak Lawn police said. Jillian M. Lindquist, 30, an Oak Lawn resident and a manager at TC Pub, 9700 S. Cicero Ave., also was charged with speeding, no insurance, failure to yield to an emergency vehicle and illegal transportation of alcohol follow-ing a Jan. 5 stop at 105th Street and Pulaski Road, police said. Mayor Sandra Bury, who also serves as the village’s liquor com-

missioner, said she is “very, very concerned” about the incident, which was not brought to her attention before the Jan. 6 liquor commission hearing involving TC Pub. At that hearing, Robert Ol-son, the bar’s owner, was fined $250 for being open after hours on Dec. 13 and $1,000 because cocaine was found in the office of the establishment when police responded to a disturbance that night. Olson apologized at the hearing for everything that hap-pened that night. Olson could not be reached for comment about the Jan. 5 arrest. The agreement between Olson and the village calls on him to en-force an employee code of conduct as well as a drug-free workplace

Bury is ‘very, very concerned’ about TC Pub’s employee’s arrest

Sandra Bury

policy. It also requires employees to complete the state’s Beverage Alcohol Sellers and Servers Edu-cation and Training program. Bury said it was likely Olson knew about the incident before the liquor commission hearing. “He had to have known, being a DUI attorney. I’m sure she called him,” Bury said. The mayor said she sent Olson a letter asking for his response to the incident. “I’m hoping he’ll tell me there


News of the closing of St. Ber-nadette Catholic Academy came as a shock to parents, teachers and students, but Evergreen Park Mayor Jim Sexton isn’t ready to throw in the towel. Sexton hoped to meet this week with Principal Arlene Baumann and the Rev. Bene-dykt Pazdan, St. Bernadette’s pastor, to discuss options for keeping the school open. “I think we deserve to sit down and talk,” Sexton said Monday. School parents were in-formed Friday of the decision by the Archdiocese of Chicago to close the 64-year-old school.

The news was delivered by Sr. Mary Paul McCaughey, super-intendent of Catholic schools for the archdiocese. Sexton, who attended the meeting, said the parish com-munity must at least try to save the school, which he described as “a tremendous part of the community.” He said he has not met with parents, as he does not want to raise their hopes. He attended Friday’s meeting at a parent’s request. “Nothing is promised at this time,” said Sexton, who added that he needed more informa-tion before discussing specific solutions. “I’m wondering if there’s an alternative (to closing),”

Mayor Sexton wants Saint Bernadette’s school to stay open

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A man awoke an elderly woman and forced her out of bed Jan. 2 before stealing her purse, police said. The incident took place at 7:54 p.m. in the 9300 block of Tulley Ave., police said.

The man told the 85-year-old victim, “I want your purse, where’s your money?” He then placed the woman in a headlock, forced her out of the bed and down the stairs into the living room, according to reports. The woman pointed out her purse, which was located next to the couch. The man grabbed the

purse, left the house and headed north on foot, police said. The victim told police the of-fender looked familiar and she believed he might be from the area. She was unsure of the exact contents of his purse. Police later brought a man in for questioning who also lives on Tulley Avenue

Woman placed in headlock and robbed

Results are in from the Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over holiday crackdown on drunk drivers. During the holiday season, re-ducing the deadly dangers from drunk drivers was a top prior-ity as Oak Lawn Police was out in force to arrest those who put themselves and others on the road at risk. From December 20, 2013, to January 5, 2014, Oak Lawn Police stopped and arrested 12 drunk drivers who had blood alcohol concentrations over the legal limit

of 0.08 grams per deciliter. “We warned party-goers not to drink and drive, and we backed it up with aggressive enforcement,” said Sgt. Robert Brewer. “These offenders needed to realize their actions have serious and poten-tially fatal consequences, and hopefully, now that they have been arrested, they will not put themselves and others at risk by driving drunk again.” “Drunk driving is deadly dan-gerous and people can get too wrapped up in the excitement of

the holidays and make bad deci-sions,” said Brewer. “The bottom line is if you have been celebrat-ing the holidays with alcohol, you don’t belong behind the wheel. Never drink and drive.” The recent law enforcement crackdown was funded by federal traffic safety funds through the Illinois Department of Transpor-tation and is part of the Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over and Click It or Ticket campaigns.— Submitted by the Oak Lawn

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Oak Lawn cops arrest 12 drunkdrivers during the holidays

By Bob RakowStaff reporter

A Worth woman died last Thursday as a result of expo-sure to the cold, police said. She was the 12th reported cold-related death in Cook County

this winter. Lynda K. Eads, 57, was found lying in the snow at 8:25 a.m. in the 7200 of Southwest High-way, near the mobile home park where she lived, according to reports. The Cook County Medical

Examiner on Friday ruled that Eads died of hypothermia due to extreme cold, alcohol intoxi-cation and hypertension, police said. Record cold temperatures dipped into the negative teens last week.

Worth woman found dead in snow


An Oak Lawn pizzeria was bur-glarized early Saturday morn-ing after a rock was thrown through the front window of the carry-out restaurant, po-lice said. A security video shows a rock lying on the floor of Domino’s Pizza, 9022 S. Cicero Ave., at 1:21 a.m. A man wearing a

hooded sweatshirt, track pants and gym shoes entered the res-taurant through the broken window and jumped over the front counter, reports said. The man, who wore a white glove on his left hand and a red glove on his right hand, tried unsuccessfully to open the cash register with the regis-ter key, police said. He then jumped over the counter, picked up the rock and exited the store

through the broken window, re-ports said.

A delivery driver noticed the broken window several hours later when he arrived for work and contacted the store’s gen-eral manager. The last employee to leave the previous night told police that the register and touch screen were moved from their original location, police said.

Man with mismatched gloves tried to rob OL Domino’s

Beverly J. Morgan, 44, of Chi-cago, was charged with retail theft Jan. 8 after allegedly stealing eyeglasses and sunglasses val-ued at $835 from Lenscr after’s Eye Care in Chicago Ridge Mall, police said.

*** Latoshia Hodges, 39, of Chicago, was charged with retail theft and possession of drug paraphernalia Jan. 10 after allegedly stealing goods from Kohl’s at Chicago Ridge Mall, police said.

*** Courtney J. Greenwood, 21, of Country Club Hills, was charged with soliciting Jan. 10 after be-ing stopped in the 6200 block of Washington Street, police said. She also was arrested on a Will County warrant for conspiracy to conduct wire fraud, police said.

*** Stephanie M. Anderson, 55, of Chicago, was charged with retail theft Jan. 11 after allegedly steal-ing merchandise from Kohl’s at Chicago Ridge Mall, police said.

Dion D. Anderson, 34, and Dan S. Rupert, 21, both of Chicago, were charged with retail theft Jan. 3 after they allegedly stole merchandise from Wal-Mart, 2500 W. 95th St. Anderson also was charged with possession of mari-juana, police said.

*** Demetrius D. Cook, 22, of Chica-go, was charged with forgery Jan. 8 after allegedly admitting that he twice used a fake credit card for cash advances at U.S. Bank, 9200 S. Western, police said.

*** Scott R. Pizer, 28, of Alsip, was charged with possession of a con-trolled substance, improper lane use and driving with an obstruct-ed windshield Jan. 9 following a traffic stop in the 9600 block of Western Avenue, police said.

*** Jeff Fox, 31, of Oak Lawn, was charged with possession of mari-juana with intent to deliver Jan. 9 after a he was stopped with 11.3 grams of marijuana at 94th Street and Western Avenue, po-lice said.

*** Lorena Gutierrez, 26, of Chi-cago, was charged with retail theft Jan. 9 after allegedly stealing goods from Wal-Mart, 2500 W. 95th St., police said.

*** Rodolfo Perez, 18, Jose G. Perez, 19, and Josue Salazar, 20, all of Evanston, were charged with tres-passing to a motor vehicle Jan. 9 at 103rd Street and Western Avenue, police said. They said Perez also was charged with driv-ing without a valid license and no insurance.

Natalie S. Preston, 31, of Chi-cago, was charged with drunken driving, speeding and illegal transportation of alcohol Dec. 21 after a stop at 87th Street and Cicero Avenue, police said.

*** Electrical equipment includ-ing video games and DJ equip-ment valued at $8,000 was re-ported stolen between Dec. 25 and Jan. 8 from a garage in the 9600 block of Merton Avenue.

*** Power tools valued at approx-imately $2,600 were reported stolen Jan. 4 from a van in the 5400 block of Kimball Place.

*** Jeffrey Hines, 22, of Palos Hills, was charged with drunken driving, speeding, improper dis-play of license plate and expired registration Jan. 4 after a stop in the 5000 block of 95th Street, police said.

*** Two men reportedly stole cases of laundry detergent, energy drink and soft drinks Jan. 5 from Jewel-Osco, 8801 S.

Ridgeland Ave. Four days later, Michael B. Davies, 34, of Brid-geview, was charged with retail theft after allegedly stealing additional bottles of detergent and cases of pop from the store, police said.

*** Henry P. James, 49, of Bur-bank, was charged with retail theft and battery Jan. 6 after he allegedly stole a bottle of alcohol from Kenwood Liquors, 10750 S. Cicero Ave., and got into a physical altercation with an employee who attempted to detain him, police said.

*** Barbara J. Sims, 44, of Chi-cago, and Erich W. Little, 46, of Willowbrook, were charged with retail theft Jan. 6 after allegedly stealing goods from Kmart, 4101 W. 95th St., police said.

A car was reported stolen Jan. 6 in the 10200 block of 86th Ter-race. The car was found the fol-lowing day in the 10600 block of 82nd Court.

*** A purse containing an iPod and a cell phone were reported

was corrective action,” she said. “His response will determine my next step.” Police spotted Lindquist’s car swerving on eastbound 103rd Street at 2:36 a.m. according to reports. The squad car activated its emergency lights but Lindquist sped up, police said. She turned right at 103rd Street and Pulaski Road and stopped near 105th Street. Lindquist’s speech was slurred and she allegedly had a strong odor of alcohol on her breath, re-ports said. She denied she was drinking, but police found an empty bottle of hard apple cider in her car, they said. Police also found a partial pill, later identified as Amphetamine, in her wallet. Lindquist said the odor of al-cohol existed because she was a bartender. She denied that she sped up when police activated the patrol car lights. She refused to undergo field sobriety tests or chemical testing at the police station, police said.

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A Cook County judge set bail at $1 million last Friday for a Palos Hills man charged with at-tempted murder and aggravated domestic battery after allegedly stabbing his wife and daughter Jan. 7, police said. Waldemar Dzbik, 50, stabbed

his wife with a collector’s keep-sake knife multiple times in the bathroom of their home in the 9700 block of Maple Crest Drive, police said. He stabbed his 19-year-old daughter once in the chest when she tried to pull him off her mother, police said. Both victims were taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where Dzbik’s wife un-

derwent surgery, police said. His daughter was treated and released, officials said. The incident occurred at ap-proximately 10 a.m. When police arrived, they located the victim and her daughter at a neighbor’s house. Dzbik, meanwhile, fled in his Volkswagen Jetta. Palos Hills Police Chief Paul Madigan found Dzbik sitting in his car

at 12:30 p.m. in the parking lot of a McCook trucking company, police said. Dzbik drove away when he saw Madigan approach his car, but he was later arrested by Madigan near 47th Street and Harlem Avenue, according to reports. Police have responded in the past to domestic disturbances at the house, they said.

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By Kelly WhiteCorrespondent

With the trend of cyber-hackers creating havoc across the world, the city of Hickory Hills has de-cided to take precautionary action by purchasing cyber insurance. The council unanimously voted Thursday to buy insurance from the Beazley insurance vendor based out of Chicago at a cost of $6,501 annually with a 3.6 percent state tax rate on a $1 million liability coverage claim. Cyber insurance includes cover-age for theft of personally identi-fiable non-public information in computer data and hard copy form and liability rising from failure to comply with state breach-notice laws; and coverage for failure to comply with the insured’s privacy policies. “With what happened at Ad-vocate and most recently, Target, I believe it’s necessary for us to have cyber liability (insurance),”

Alderman Mark Szesycki said at Thursday’s City Council Meet-ing. Szesycki said he has received three quotes from cyber liability insurance vendors, including AIG, ACE and Beazley. Beazley’s Information Security and Privacy Insurance provides coverage for fast changing indus-tries confront fast changing risks, the alderman said. Beazley will be providing Hickory Hills with a variety of industry-leading coverages for emerging data security and pri-vacy exposures facing companies today. Hickory Hills will receive third party coverage in response to unauthorized access, theft of or destruction of data, de-nial of service attacks and vi-rus transmission involving the insured’s computer systems re-sulting from computer security breaches, along with electronic media liability coverage.

The electronic media cover-age covers the display of elec-tronic content on the insured’s website; and extends to many internet-related exposures in-cluding advertising injuries that are not covered under many of

today’s general liability policies. Hickory will also be receiving an additional coverage endorse-ment for the destruction and loss of data as well as network business interruption and cyber extortion caused by failures of

Taking a whack at the hacks — Hickory Hills buys cyber insurance

his face but during that time, he was trying to get ready for one of the biggest events in his village, and a flood of thoughts were running through his head, including possibly cancelling the May 5 event. But those thoughts quickly were erased and he, Diab and several law enforcement organizations teamed up for a day in which there was a heavy security presence. Cops with machine guns milled around with the thousands of kids, run-ners and spectators at the race. Shortly before the race started, a helicopter from the Chicago Police Department made an appearance and buzzed around for a little while checking things out. The day went without incident and Prestinario was back smiling again. The organizers had their first committee meeting for the May 4, 2014 race on Friday, and while the emotions from the Boston bombings are in the past, they aren’t forgetting that tragic event, either. In the coming months, there

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will be a game plan for security but it doesn’t figure to be a se-vere. “The terrorism created as huge problem for our race,” Prestinario said on Friday. “It happened soon before our race. The police and fire department and city will be discussing what level they will supply services and security for this year. “I don’t think it will be at the level of last year. Knock on wood, this won’t be an issue. The security last year was un-believable. We had more security than probably any race you have seen.’’ Palos Heights Sgt. Jeff Crowley had a big hand in security last year. This year, Sgt. Adam Nagy will take over for Crowley but Crowley was at Friday’s meeting in Nagy’s absence and agreed with Prestinario’s assessment. “We incorporated a lot of things last year because of international events’’ Crowley said. “We don’t anticipate we’re going to do that much again. But we will go over all of that.’’ There figures to be a fair pres-ence of security this year but not as prevalent as last year. Outsiders may scoff that last

year was overkill. After all, why would a terrorist want to make a statement by bombing a race in Palos Heights? But at the time it made sense. It was an uncertain time and it was smart to be too cautious than to underplay the safety of thousands.

10K saves the day The seventh running of the race has been saved and it looks like it will be alive and will be for three years, thanks to the First Midwest Bank sponsorship. But it was almost shut down because of costs. During the holidays, it was still up in the air. But adding the 10K race to the half marathon could defray some costs. “We talked about it and I met with Mel [Jan. 2] and we did some numbers and figured out what we needed,” Prestinario said. “At that time, we had to decide if we wanted to do it another three years. It was close.

“People don’t understand that the cost of running this race from top to bottom is expensive.” Presitinario added. “We needed to do something to bring in more runners. A 10K was the most natural way.’’

computer security to prevent a security breach. City Treasurer, Dan Sch-ramm, said there is no credit card information available in Hickory Hills’ online files; how-ever, if someone does hack into a city computer or a city employee loses a city computer or city government file, Beazley will provide the proper coverage. “We don’t really have the same type of risk as Target did with credit card informa-tion saved on file,” Schramm stated, “But, we do have enough of a risk.” Schramm added that at first he was hesitant of the $6,501 an-nual fee from Beazley; however, with the one million dollar liabil-ity coverage offered to the city, he feels it is well worth it. Szesycki agreed the city hav-ing cyber liability insurance at the offered cost is definitely worth it. “We don’t want any-one getting into our computer

files,” he said. The information that could be stolen in the case of a hacker sit-uation within the city of Hickory Hills City Government would be all current and former em-ployees’ personal information, personnel files, payroll files and social security numbers. Schramm noted the impor-tance of employees’ social secu-rity numbers saved within the city’s database, and the neces-sity to keep that information safely guarded and insured. City Attorney Vince Cainkar voiced his opinion on the issue by reminding the city council about 3-4 years ago, the Alsip Park District had their employ-ee account hacked into and the bank affiliated with the park district at the time did nothing about it. “I couldn’t believe it,” Cain-kar said. “I definitely think cyber liability insurance is a good idea.”

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City Hall, 7607 W. College Drive. The half marathon starts at 7:30 a.m., the 10K race begins at 7:40, and a “Run, Walk or Roll” half-mile race (for people with disabili-ties) is set to start at 7:45. Some 2,000 runners are ex-pected to participate, with an equivalent number of specta-tors. Proceeds from the event benefit the American Cancer Society, the South West Spe-cial Recreation Association, and Lake Katherine Nature Center and Botanic Gardens. Registration details and more information on the event may be obtained at firstmidwesthalf-marathon.com. Diab, competing in races at the 2014 Walt Disney World Marathon Weekend, was not at Friday’s committee meeting. Prestinario did not speculate on how much revenue the newly added 10K race will bring in, but expressed confidence that it will be sufficient to ensure the popular event’s survival for at least the near future. Another change over the 2013 event is security. Last year’s race saw an unprecedented level of security that included bomb-sniffing dogs, a surveillance he-licopter, marksmen on rooftops, police carrying machine guns and more. “Terrorism was an issue last year, because our event here in Palos Heights was just two weeks after [the terrorist at-tack at the Boston Marathon],

so everybody was on high alert,” he said. Exactly how much and what kind of security will be provided at this year’s event “is something that the police and fire departments and the city will be discussing. It won’t be at the level of last year, because, knock on wood, [an attack] isn’t an issue.” “The amount of security that was given to this race [last year] was unbelievable,” he added. “We had more security than probably any race you’ve seen.”

Began with an idea “Mel and I started the race about nine years ago,” Presti-nario recalled. “I was a runner at that time. I used to meet with Mel on Monday nights, and we’d go out for a run. One night, he just said, ‘Jeff, you know my dream is to have a large race, like a half marathon race.’ I had been involved with [organizing] some special events in the city [as a Palos Heights alderman], so I said, ‘That’s a good idea. Let’s do it.’” “So we went to the mayor, and he said, ‘Are you crazy?’” Prestinario added with a smile, “and I said, ‘No, no, no, we really want to do it. We can do it.’ He said OK, but I don’t think he ever thought it would happen, because a half mara-thon, of course, is 13.1 miles, which means you have to go outside of Palos Heights and get the cooperation of other jurisdictions, like Palos Park, Palos Hills, Alsip, unincorpo-rated Cook County, the For-

est Preserve [District of Cook County]. You have to get per-mits for everything. You have to close off Route 83. We’ve got two fire districts involved. We have multiple police depart-ments involved, including the county, the forest preserves and the state. There’s, like, one thing after another.” “When we started, we actu-ally thought we’d have this race up and running within a year,” he continued. “Well, we weren’t even close. It took two years to get everybody on board, and thanks to the cooperation we re-ceived from all the government agencies and everyone else, we were able to pull it off — and here we are years later, going on our seventh race. Prestinario praised First Midwest Bank and all other organizations and individuals that contribute to the annual event’s success.

“Everything has to work, it’s like one big chain, and every link has to be strong and can’t break,” Prestinario concluded. “Everyone involved has to sacri-fice a little bit, and say ‘OK, this is a great event.’ We’re at the point where we’ve raised over $150,000 for charity over the years, and we plan on adding to that this year. We’ve gotten approximately 300 volunteers out for the event. We have spectators and runners com-ing from all over. So it’s been kind of a win-win situation. It’s been amazing, a good ride so far, and we’d like to continue doing it.”


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By Bob RakowStaff Reporter The dispute between Oak Lawn and the union that represents the emer-gency dispatchers, whose jobs were outsourced in December, was settled Tuesday following a marathon mediation ses-sion. “Any and all disputes have been resolved as part of this agreement,” village manager Larry Deetjen said at Tuesday’s village board meeting. “Today was a very productive meeting.” Terms of the agreement were not available Tues-day night. Representa-tives from the Metropoli-tan Alliance of Police, the union that represents the 911 dispatchers, did not attend the village board meeting. “We were prepared to issue a joint statement but it requires the executive council of the (Metropolitan Alliance of Police) to approve that statement. They were not prepared between 6:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. to sign off on that agreement and we agreed. They needed some time.”

The mediation session started at 9:30 a.m. and ended at 6:30 p.m., one hour before the village board meeting, Deetjen said. He said it was likely that some of the village’s dispatch-ers would be hired by Norcomm Public Safety Communications, the company that is taking over emergency dispatching services for the village and the towns it serves. Norcomm will begin operations out of the village’s dispatch center Wednesday.

The union in December filed an unfair labor practice charge with the Illinois Labor Relations Board against the village follow-ing the village board’s contro-versial decision to privatize the service. It stated that the village has no right to terminate the dispatchers because they have an existing contract with the village. The contact was not set to expire until December, 2014.

The labor board recommend-ed that the village and union consider mediation, Deetjen said. The village accepted the recommendation followed by the union, he said. “I’m a strong believer in me-diation,” Deetjen said. “I think both parties talking together is a proper way to conduct labor management.”

Deetjen described the agree-ment, which requires village board approval, as “fair and just.”

The agreement covers the Nov. 27 administrative leave and pending disciplinary action involving emergency operator Lori Gromala. Gromala was the subject of an investigation into behavior disrupting call center operations during her shift, ac-cording to a village press re-lease. Gromala also received a three-day suspension in 2012 for misconduct, according to

the village. The village board voted 4-2 to privatize 911 call center dispatch services, a move that could save the village $1 million over two years, Deetjen said. Trustees Robert Streit and Carol Quinlan voted against the proposal. At that meeting, union attorney Ron Cicinelli pleaded with the board to continue negotiations with the union to reach an accord. He added that he blamed elected officials, not Deetjen, for the de-cision. Deetjen in August re-ceived authority from the village board to negotiate with two national dis-patching firms to operate the emergency dispatch center, which handles fire, police and ambulance calls for Oak Lawn, Evergreen Park, Burbank and Brid-geview. The center also

handles fire department calls for Bedford Park and a portion of the Central Stickney Fire Protection District.

Deetjen said the move was not a reflection on the performance of the current dispatchers. The Metropolitan Alliance of Police in late 2012 approved a contract with the village after a lengthy negotiation, Cicinelli said. The union was hopeful it could extend the contract through at least 2016, he said.

One month after the current contract was ratified, the vil-lage asked the union to consider cost-saving measures, includ-ing deferring the 2.5 percent wage increase included in the contract, regular pay for over-time hours, hiring part-time dispatchers and changing the wage scale for new employees, Cicinelli said.

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In 2012, the weather was warm and the Palos Hills’ Skate Un-der the Stars event had to be cancelled. In 2013, the event was again cancelled because of warm weather. So when the temperatures were cold and the snow was piled high after the New Year was rung in, it looked like a safe bet that the event was going to go on as planned on Friday. But then the rain hit on Friday afternoon. And it just wouldn’t stop. The song “Rain, rain go away” was the sentiment some Palos Hills residents were feeling Friday night but it didn’t go away. The unseasonably wet fore-cast called for a cancellation of the city’s Skate Under the Stars event, hosted at Glacier Park, West 101st Street and South

78th Ave. Both the 2012 and 2013 Skate Under the Stars events were cancelled due to unseasonably warm winter weather, and Gla-cier Park was described by a city alderman as more of a lake instead than an ice-skating rink last year. According to Public Works Commissioner, Dave Weakley, the event needed a severe winter storm with frost in order for the pond to freeze over. “Once the frost builds a nice base, we can continue to fill it with more water,” he said. “But, we needed that original frost to build a solid foundation.’’ Although the pond was able to freeze over, providing a solid ice skating rink, Friday night’s rain resulted in slushy and sog-gy conditions, and with several potential safety hazards, the event was cancelled. “Even though, a great ef-fort was made by Public Works Department and our Park De-

partment, Mother Nature does not seem to want to cooperate with us with this scheduled event,” Alderman Joe Marrotta (4th Ward) said. The city remains hopeful and plans to continue planning for the Skate Under the Stars event, of course with weather permitting, in the future. Skate under the Stars is de-signed to encourage and give children in the community a chance to get outside and get some exercise during the cold weather, while enjoying the winter weather by ice skating, playing hockey and drinking hot chocolate with their fami-lies. Everyone attending was encouraged to bring their own pair of ice skates. Past Skate under the Stars events at Glacier Park have been successful for Palos Hills residents, also drawing in chil-dren and their family members from the surrounding suburbs of Palos Hills.

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For the third year in a row, a skating event at Glacier Park in Palos Hills was cancelled because of weather.

Jan. 16: ON THIS DATE in 1920, Prohibition began in the United States under the 18th Amendment to the Constitution. It later was repealed by the 21st Amendment. In 1991, Operation Desert Storm began to drive Iraqi forces out of Kuwait. Jan. 17: ON THIS DATE in 1917, the United States paid Denmark $25 million for the Virgin Islands. In 1956, Ford Motor Co. began selling stock to the public, ending total family control of the company. Jan. 18: ON THIS DATE in 1778, Capt. James Cook discovered the Sandwich Islands, now known as Hawaii. In 1943, by government order, American bakeries stopped selling sliced bread to save steel for cutting machinery for the war effort. Jan. 19: ON THIS DATE in 1966, Indira Gandhi became prime minister of India, following in the footsteps of her father, Jawaharlal Nehru, the nation’s first prime minister. In 1976, the Beatles turned down a $30 million offer to hold a reunion concert. Jan. 20: ON THIS DATE in 1964, the “Meet the Beatles” album was released in the United States. Jan. 21: ON THIS DATE in 1976, the supersonic Concorde passenger jet made its maiden flights from Britain and France. Answer to last week’s question: This week in 1967, quarterback Bart Starr of the victorious Green Bay Packers was voted the Most Valuable Player in Super Bowl I. This week’s question: In 1977, what future president of the United States ended his tenure as director of Central Intelligence? (Mark Andrews can be reached via e-mail at [email protected].)

Suburban Cook County is ex-periencing an increase in influen-za-like illness with 44 confirmed influenza ICU admissions and six influenza related deaths. Cook County Department of Public Health’s Chief Operating Officer, Dr. Terry Mason is en-couraging everyone 6 months of age and older to get a flu shot. “Of the 44 ICU admissions the ages range from toddler to late 90’s,” Dr. Mason said. “That dem-onstrates that anyone can get the flu and since the activity hasn’t even peaked yet, we expect more ICU admissions and potentially deaths in the coming weeks. It’s extremely important to get your

flu shot now; it’s the best defense against the flu virus.” Flu vaccine is readily avail-able at your local pharmacy, family doctor and some grocery stores throughout suburban Cook County. Influenza is a health concern for people of all ages including young children and pregnant women. However, individuals with a weakened immune sys-tem and people aged 65 years and older are at a higher risk for complications from the flu. Influenza is a virus that af-fects the respiratory system and is spread primarily when an in-fected person coughs or sneezes.

Symptoms of influenza can range from mild to life-threatening and include fever, cough, sore throat, runny or stuffy nose, headache, muscle aches and fatigue. To limit the spread of flu, resi-dents should practice common sense and 3 C’s: • Clean — properly wash your hands frequently • Cover — cover your cough and sneeze • Contain — contain your germs by staying home if you are sick For more information about the county’s influenza surveil-lance, or to use the Flu Vaccine Finder, visit cookcountypubli-chealth.org.

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Bombs away in Oak Lawn, Stickney50 years agoFrom the Jan. 16, 1964 edition The story: A black powder bomb exploded and did $5,000 worth of damage to the Liquor Mart, 6421 W. 87th St. in Oak Lawn. Ten minutes later, a bomb was thrown through a window at the Jewel Tea Co. grocery store in Stickney Township but it failed to explode. The quote: “I know he is ill and unhappy and we want him home,” Palos Hills’ Sandra Stevenson, whose husband, Robert, was missing for weeks. He was thought to be depressed over a foot injury and the inability to may for the medical bill. The Stevensons had five kids and Sandra was expecting a sixth. Fun fact: Work began on a bridge on Harlem Ave. that would carry traffic over the Cal-Sag canal.

Jealousy may have motivated murder25 years agoFrom the Jan. 19, 1989 edition The story: Martin Myers of Midlothian was charged with first degree murder in Hickory Hills after he allegedly struck Mark Tilton with his vehicle and killed him. Hickory Hills police said

jealousy was a motivating factor. The quote: “Whether he knows it or not, Worth Township Republican Com-mitteeman Bob Streit is politically dead.” — an editorial in the Reporter after Streit presided over a caucus that was described by some as “Communistic” and “Fascist.” Fun fact: Courtesy Foods and Liquors offered a Super Bowl Special on booze that included 1.75 liters of Bicardi rum for $7.99 — after a rebate.

The whole tooth and nothing but the tooth10 years agoFrom the Jan. 15, 2004 edition The story: An Oak Lawn dentist was charged with two counts of misdemeanor battery after he allegedly ripped a tooth cap out of a 58-year-old woman’s mouth because he thought she owed him money for previous dental work. The woman said she had to go to the hospital because of so much bleeding in her mouth. “Never in my career have I ever seen anything like this,” Oak Lawn Police Chief Mike Spellman said. The quote: “We ask them to play hard and tough and, by God, they played their hearts out,” — Mount Carmel basketball coach Mike Angelidis after a tough 39-31 loss to Brother Rice. Fun fact: Hickory Hills erected a statue of a genderless child holding an American flag in one hand and saluting with the other hand.

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Long-awaited ribbon cutting Tom Hartwig, Oak Lawn Park District’s superintendent of special facilities and pavilion manager, and park board President Sue Murphy, are surrounded by local dignitaries and park district employees Saturday morning as they cut the ribbon at the grand reopening of the Community Pavilion.

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Some sports stars will be making appearances in two area communities on Friday. Members of the Chicago Cubs will stop by at 11 a.m. at Ad-vocate Children’s Hospital in Oak Lawn during its annual caravan. Starting pitcher Edwin Jack-son and television analyst Jim Deshaies are scheduled to be a part of the Oak Lawn stop. Jackson was 8-18 with a 4.98 ERA in his first year with the North Siders last year. He has a lifetime 78-89 mark with a 4.47 ERA with the Los Angeles Dodgers, Tampa Bay, Detroit, Arizona, the White Sox, St.

Bonnie BlairJim DeshaiesEdwin Jackson

Sports figures coming FridayLouis and Washington. Baseball Reference does a sim-ilarity score, comparing players with 10 other players in history with similar scores. In the list of 10 pitchers in major league history with similar numbers to Jackson is Deshaies. Deshaies was 84-95 with a 4.14 ERA in 12 years with the New York Yankees, Houston, San Diego, Minnesota, San Francisco and Philadelphia. After a stint as an Astros broadcaster, Deshaies joined Len Kasper in the Cubs’ TV booth in 2013. The Oak Lawn event is a prelude to the Cubs Conven-tion, which takes place Friday through Sunday in Chicago. To help students get excited

for the winter Olympics, Stagg High School in Palos Hills will host speed skater Bonnie Blair at 2 p.m. in the school’s Per-forming Arts Center. The five-time medalist will give a moti-vational speech weeks before she will represent America at the closing ceremonies of the winter Olympics.

Blair is the only woman to have won an Olympic speed skating event at three successive games with victories in the 500 metres in 1988, 1992 and 1994. She also won the 1,000 metres in 1992 and 1994 after taking the bronze in 1988, and her total of five speed skating gold medals has only been topped by the Russian Lidiya Skoblikova.


ChicagoBeverly Arts Center tohost bluegrass bands The Henhouse Prowlers per-form a show of traditional music and originals inspired by the roots of bluegrass at 8 p.m. Sat-urday at the Beverly Arts Cen-ter, 2407 W. 111th St., Chicago. The Leadfoot Band opens for Henhouse Prowlers. Tickets are $15, or $13 for BAC members. For tickets and more informa-tion, call 773-445-3838, or visit beverlyartcenter.org. The Hen-house Prowlers’ most recent album, Breaking Ground, was produced by Greg Cahill, the Grammy-nominated bandleader of Special Consensus. Chicago-based bluegrass quartet, The Leadfoot Band, is known for a hard-driving, high-octane brand of bluegrass, roots, and rock-influenced acoustic music.

Little Companysupport program Little Company of Mary offers Bereavement Support Group Program Little Company of Mary Hospital and Health Care Centers is offering a six-week bereavement grief support pro-gram, from 1 to 3 p.m. Wednes-days, Jan. 29 through March 5, at Smith Village, 2320 W. 113th Pl., Chicago. This educational series is free and is open to the community. To register, call the Bereavement Team at 229-6947. The program provides sup-portive and skilled companion-ship for men and women who are mourning the death of a loved one. The goal of this six-week series is to answer ques-tions about loss, grief, coping strategies, and the potential for renewing hope and meaning. Through interpersonal engage-ment with other bereaved, with

chaplains and social workers, and through the guidance of inspirational materials, the fol-lowing topics will be explored: • January 29, 2014: Griev-ing Process: What is happening to me? • February 5, 2014: Under-standing Feelings: Why do I feel the way I do? • February 12, 2014: Seeking Support: How does my family grieve? • February 19, 2014: Address-ing Complicated Grief: What are my issues? • February 26, 2014: Living Again: What is my hope during this journey? •March 5, 2014: Coming through Grief: What is next for me?

Oak LawnTommy Hawk to appear at Valentine Skate The Oak Lawn Park District will host a Valentine family skat-ing even from 2 to 3:15 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 9, at Ice Arena, 9320 S. Kenton Ave. Sponsor-ing the event is Andy’s Frozen Custard who will provide ice skating, raffles and treats from the restaurant. CMT produc-tions will play the music. A spe-cial guest appearance from the official mascot of the Chicago Blackhawks, Tommy Hawk, will take place from 2 to 2:45 p.m. Admission is $6 and skate rental is $3. For more information, call 857-5173.

Bobby Dunne Trio to playat Stony Creek Clubhouse A mixture of classic rock, country, reggae, Motown and oldies will be played by the Booby Dunne Trio appearing from 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday at the Stony Creek Clubhouse, 5850 W. 103rd St. Admission is $12

and includes food and beverages up to $6. For more information or to make reservations, call 857-2433. Bobby Dunne has performed at Navy Pier, Walter Payton’s Roadhouse and several area entertainment venues. He has recorded a CD with Jerry Martini from Sly and the Fam-ily Stone.

Dr. King PlayHighlights Celebration Presentation of the award-winning play, The Mountain-top, a poetic drama that offers a portrayal of Dr. Martin Luther King’s final hours preceding his assassination, will highlight the annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration at Advocate Christ Medical Center on Jan. 20. The public is invited to at-tend the event, which will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the medical center’s au-ditorium on Kilbourn Avenue, just south of 93rd Street, in Oak Lawn. In addition to a shortened version of the winner of the Ol-ivier Award for Best New Play, the program will feature the music and singing of Chicago’s Providence — St. Mel School Chamber Choir, conducted by Dr. David Barr and accompanied by Brian Ward.

WorthRemembering theTornado of 1967 Kevin Korst, the Oak Lawn Public Library local history co-ordinator, will discuss his new book, “Images of America: Oak Lawn Tornado of 1967,” at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 29, at the Worth Park District Historical Museum, 11500 S. Beloit. His book will be available for pur-chase for $21.99 at the lecture. For more information, call 448-7080.

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Photo by Bob RakowA view of the home that was destroyed by fire Saturday morning.

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was injured. A neighboring house sustained considerable damages, police said. Samoska was found outside of his home when police and fire-fighters arrived. He was subse-quently questioned by police, who secured search warrants and began collecting physical evidence, which was presented to the Cook County State’s At-torney’s Office. Approximately three hours be-fore the fire, Oak Lawn police responded to the house for an

unwanted subject. Police officers intervened in a verbal between Samoska and his wife. His wife and children left for a relative’s house while he stayed behind. A co-worker also left the house. Before Samoska’s wife left, she smashed the couple’s wedding photo, prosecutors said. Samoska later found the photo, they said. After the house blew up, Samo-ska admitted in a phone call with a friend that he was responsible, prosecutors said. He also posted an apology on his Facebook page, they said. He also called his wife and left a message in which he admitted to blowing up the house,

prosecutors said. Samoska is scheduled to ap-pear in court Feb. 3.


Robert Machak, superinten-dent of Evergreen Park School District 124, is a finalist for the top spot in a north suburban school district. Machak is one of two candi-dates who could become super-intendent in Park Ridge School District 64. He met with com-munity members and visited schools during a daylong visit last Thursday. Machak met with principals, assistant principals and adminis-trators as well as PTO and union representatives, District 64 board president Anthony Borrelli said. The meetings were followed by a three-hour interview with the school board. The board was expected to meet Wednesday to discuss the

candidate visits. Board members will then visit the preferred can-didate’s school district. It hopes to announce the new superin-tendent at its Jan. 28 meeting, Borrelli said. District 64 serves students who attend four elementary schools and two middle schools in Park Ridge and Niles. Machak is in his second year as District 124 superintendent. Previously, he was superinten-dent for four years of Emmons Elementary School District 33 in Antioch. He also has served as a prin-cipal in West Northfield School District 31 in Northbrook for a decade and as an assistant principal in Hawthorn School District 73 in Vernon Hills for a year. He began his career in education teaching English for eight years.

A graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Machak received his master’s de-gree from Northeastern Illinois University and his doctorate from National-Louis Univer-sity. Machak did not return calls for comment. If he is chosen for the position, District 124 will have to conduct its third superintendent search in five years. Machak and the other final-ist for the position were chosen from a field of six candidates. Those candidates were selected from a group of 30 recommended to the District 64 school board by an administrative search firm. The new superintendent will replace Philip Bender, who has been in the position for four years and earns $220,569. Mach-ak earns $152,000 in District 124.

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he said. “The kids deserve us to discuss it.” Baumann said Monday that parents responded to the news with a mix of shock and res-ignation. “It’s a very close community. The school is truly like a family,” Baumann said Monday morn-ing before visiting classrooms to discuss the news. Baumann, principal for the past 14 years, said the decision to close was solely a financial one—a disappointment because the school consistently has high test scores, a diverse student body and uses advanced tech-nology tools. Baumann said she did receive advanced news of the decision, adding that she attended a meet-ing with diocesan officials in December during which plans for next school year were dis-cussed. She said that the school will not grieve the decision through-out the remainder of the year. “We’re going to have a cel-ebration,” she said. “We have great plans for the next five months.”

Over the past five years, the Chicago Archdiocese has contrib-uted more than $100 million to operate its school system over and above what local parishes contributed. Continued support at that level is unsustainable, the diocese said in a statement.

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An Indiana man and convicted sex offender was charged with resi-dential burglary Jan. 4 after he was found in a vacant house in Oak Lawn, police said. Ulysses Green, 38, of Gary, Ind., also was arrested on 2013 outstanding warrants for burglary and forced entry out of Lake Coun-ty, Ind., and failure to appear in court and driving on a suspended license out of Sangamon County, Ill., according to reports. Green was found at 11:21 p.m. inside a house under construction in the 10100 block of Kolin Av-enue crouching behind a piece of insulation holding a copper pipe, police said. He had a flashlight, screwdriver, wrench, wire stripping tool and

cell phone on him. The owner of the house later told police that the screwdriver, wrench and cop-per pipe belonged to him. Police later found a crowbar, which Green used to enter the house, they said. A report said Green told po-lice he was in the area working on a house. At 5 p.m., the work was completed and he called for a ride home. After waiting an hour, Green decided his ride was not coming, and he needed a place to stay. Green said he entered the Kolin Avenue house through an open window. He said that all of the items in his possession belonged to him and he was trying to sleep, according to police. Police initially responded to report of a suspicious vehicle at 101st Street and Kostner Avenue.

They spotted a minivan with a man asleep in the front passenger seat. The man said he went for a ride with Green, who said he was going to see a female friend, reports said. The passenger said he fell asleep on the trip from Gary to Oak Lawn. He woke up when they arrived in front of the Kolin Av-enue house. Green got out of the van and said he’d return shortly. The man went back to sleep until police arrived, at which point he was placed in a squad car. He was not arrested but taken to the police station for questioning. Green denied having been with the other man or inside the mini-van, police said. Green was convicted in 1992 of aggravated criminal sexual assault against a child under 10. He served a four-year term in prison.

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The families of the 775 chil-dren affected by the closures of St. Bernadette and five other elementary schools will be en-couraged to transfer their chil-dren to nearby Catholic schools and offered tuition discounts to offset any inconvenience, the diocese said. Evergreen Park also is served by Most Holy Redeemer, Queen of Martyrs and St. John Fisher schools. “We are committed to provid-ing a high-quality educational and faith formation experience to every child in our schools,” McCaughey said in a statement. “By focusing our resources on schools that are well positioned to attract an optimum enroll-ment level and equipped to meet the needs of a modern curricu-

lum we can help ensure this network will remain sustainable over the long term.” Pazdan said St. Bernadette parish will remain “vibrant” despite the school’s closing. “Though our school is clos-ing, our church and parish will remain open and continue to be a vibrant place where we gather together as a community to pro-fess our faith. Even though we are joining the ranks of Catholic parishes that do not operate a school, St. Bernadette will con-tinue to provide religious educa-tion to our children,” Pazdan said in a statement. “Catholic schools will continue to fulfill the mission of nourishing our children both intellectually and spiritually, but, sadly, not here in our parish.”

The Forest Preserves of Cook County is hosting its second year of Photo Meet-ups designed for photographers of all skill levels, from beginners to experts. Whether you’re using an ad-vanced SLR camera, a point-and-shoot or a smart phone, photographing nature scenes and subjects can be both rewarding and challenging. The 2014 series begins January 25. Each event will take place at 10 am on the fourth Saturday of each month at one of the Forest Preserves’ six nature centers, or a nearby location selected for its

photography potential. Each gathering will feature a Forest Preserve naturalist lead-ing a brief tour of the area, high-lighting interesting and unusual plants, scenic vistas and locations frequented by wildlife. During and after the tour, photographers can capture images and share tips and suggestions for getting the best shot. Photographers are encouraged to share their photos with the Forest Preserves’ Flickr group at www.flickr.com/groups/fpdcc/. The partial schedule for the year is below. Photographers should

meet at the appropriate nature center at 10 a.m. For more infor-mation, visit www.fpdcc.com. Jan. 25 Sagawau Environmen-tal Learning Center, 12545 W. 111th St., Lemont, Call (630) 257-2045 to register. Feb. 22 Crabtree Nature Cen-ter, 3 Stover Road, Barrington Hills. March 22 Little Red School-house Nature Center, 9800 S. Wil-low Spring Rd., Willow Springs. Aug. 23 Swallow Cliff South, La Grange Road, just south of Rt. 83. Hosted by the Little Red School-house Nature Center.

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A few years ago, I dropped in on the dry cleaners my fam-ily had patronized for several years and asked if they could press the dress shirt my son was required to wear at St. Rita High School on the days that Mass was celebrated. The shirt was badly wrin-kled but also needed to be cleaned. The trouble was, my son needed the shirt the fol-lowing day, and there was no time for dry cleaning. I asked if it simply could be pressed so it would look presentable. The owner of the dry cleaners flatly refused, saying it had to be cleaned as well. I walked out of the busi-ness after telling the owner that there were several other dry cleaners in Oak Lawn. I’ve never returned, choosing instead to bring our regular cleaning business to a competi-tor a few miles away. On another occasion, we or-dered food for my son’s gradu-ation party from an Oak Lawn restaurant. On the day of the party, I watched a family mem-ber place a piece of chicken on his plate that had a bone and

deep-fried skin. There was no meat. We laughed about it, but it was an embarrassing mo-ment. I complained to the restaurant owner a few days later, but he merely shrugged his shoulders and said there was nothing he could do. I was more than a little surprised, as we routinely ordered dinners and pizzas from the restaurant for years prior to the party. I recount these examples of poor customer service after receiving something unexpected in the mail this week. Our family Christmas Eve party was catered by Barra-co’s Restaurant, which has locations in Evergreen Park, Burbank and Crestwood. I spotted a coupon for their holiday catering offer and decided to give them a try.

On the night of the party, my wife waited for more than 30 minutes at the restaurant to pick up the food. It was an inconvenience, to be sure, but we quickly forgot about it when the food was served. Fried chicken—with meat on the bone, by the way—mostac-cioli, tossed salad and rolls had all of our guests raving and returning to the table for seconds. My son went beyond seconds—always a good gauge for measuring quality food. More than one week later, I got a phone call from Barraco’s asking about the holiday order. I told the woman on the phone that the food was great, and then, reluctantly, I mentioned my wife’s long wait. I added that it was understandable be-cause Christmas Eve is a busy night. The woman apologized and told me the owners would be notified. I appreciated the call and forgot about it. Then, last week, an envelope arrived from Barraco’s contain-ing a $65 gift certificate. I was more than a little surprised. “Have a meal on us,” the restaurant was saying, “we

appreciate your business.” This was a great example of excel-lent customer service—some-thing that’s become all too infrequent these days. Of course, the move makes good business sense as well. There’s no doubt we’ll go back to Barraco’s for future par-ties or dinner. And, I’m bound to tell people about the gift certificate (as I’m doing in this space), something that can only benefit the restaurant. I look forward to a coming night when we have a meal at Barraco’s. Community leaders often remind us to shop local, sup-port area businesses and keep your dollars in town. That’s a good idea. Small business own-ers rely on us for their success. But we also have the right to good customer service and to vote with our wallets. When you’re unhappy with a product or service, tell the proprietor. Ditto when you’ve had a great experience. A smart business owner will respond appropriately.— Bob Rakow is a news reporter for The Reporter

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By Charles C. Haynes

It’s anything but a happy New Year for Christian pastor Saeed Abedini, an American citizen who has spent the last 12 months in an Iranian prison because of his faith. In December 2012, the Idaho minister was visiting his native Iran to help start an orphan-age when he was arrested for “undermining the Iranian government,” according to the American Center for Law and Justice, a legal group working on Abedini’s behalf. Despite torture, denial of medical care, and a painful separation from his wife and two small children, Pastor Abe-dini steadfastly refuses to re-nounce his faith — a condition reportedly set by the Iranian authorities for his release. Abedini’s case has received media attention and high-profile support from many sources, including the White House and Billy Graham (thus far to no avail). But hundreds of other prisoners of conscience — people of many faiths — languish in jail cells across the world largely unknown and unheralded. Last month, the plight of people imprisoned for practic-ing their faith got some much-needed attention in a report entitled “Freedom of Religion or Belief” issued by Human Rights Without Frontiers, an international advocacy group with offices and affiliates throughout the world. (See the full report at www.hrwf.org) The report highlights 24 countries that arrested and jailed people in 2013 for violat-ing laws that prohibit free-dom of religion. Five nations — China, Eritrea, Iran, North Korea and South Korea — are cited as “countries of particular concern” with large numbers of prisoners of religious con-science. The dismal human rights records of totalitarian regimes like China and Iran are, of course, well known. In China, for example, members of “house churches” (Protestant groups not sanctioned by the government) are routinely harassed and often arrested. Iran oppresses all minor-ity religious groups, but gives special attention to Baha’is — a religious tradition con-demned by the government as heretical and dangerous. More than 100 Baha’is are currently in Iranian prisons, includ-ing most of the community’s

leadership. It’s somewhat surprising and disappointing, however, to find South Korea — a democratic country and close American ally — high on the list of coun-tries denying religious freedom. According to the report, 599 young South Korean Jehovah’s Witnesses were serving 18-month prison sentences in 2013 for conscientious objection to military service. Since the end of the Korean War, South Korea “has relent-lessly prosecuted young Wit-ness men who refuse military service and has not provided an alternative to resolve the issue.” An astonishing 17,549 Witnesses have been sentenced to a combined total of 34,100 years in prison for refusing to perform military service. Behind the mind-numbing statistics, of course, are individ-ual human beings — each one with a heartbreaking story of being forced to choose between upholding their faith and going to prison. Akemanjiang, to cite just one example, is a Muslim in the Aqsu district of China ar-rested in 2008 for not following government policy requiring restaurants to stay open during the month of Ramadan. For this simple act of conscience, he remains in prison to this day. Akemanjiang, Saeed Abedini, and the hundreds of other pris-oners of conscience urgently need Americans to do at least two things: First, urge the American government to move religious freedom higher on the list of priorities in our dealings with other nations. Where the Unit-ed States has leverage — in South Korea for example — we should use it to make the case for liberty of conscience. And second, call attention to the imprisoned so that they cannot be forgotten. By shining the spotlight of public aware-ness on the plight of people of faith, Americans can help hold these governments accountable — and, in some cases, embar-rass them into releasing those they hold captive. In 2014, let’s resolve to do whatever we can to help free the faithful.

Charles C. Haynes is director of the Religious Freedom Cen-ter of the Newseum Institute, 555 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Washington, DC 20001. Web: religiousfreedomeducation.org Email: [email protected]

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By Dave Heilmann

The silence is deafening. Oak Lawn just quietly gave contracts to a company owned by a village employee. Thousands of dollars without a word to the public of what they were doing. On October 25, 2013, the vil-lage made a $3,400 payment to a company called Bring It, Inc. November 27, 2013 another check was cut to that company, this one for $4,706. Bring It, Inc. is a company owned by village employee Steve Radice. The checks were mailed to his home address. Apparently no one checked the laws applicable to giving business to a company owned by a village employee. A state law said that whom-ever, be it an officer, direc-tor, agent, or employee of, or affiliated in any capacity with any unit of local government or school district participates, shares in, or receiving directly or indirectly any money, profit,

property, or benefit through any contract with the unit of local government or school district, with the intent to de-fraud the unit of local govern-ment or school district is guilty of a Class 3 felony. Steve Radice, an employee of Oak Lawn, profited through a contract Oak Lawn gave to his business. Larry Deetjen and Sandra Bury knew it was a company owned by an employee and when the invoices came before the board in November, they did not disclose to board mem-bers — or more importantly to residents — that Bring It, Inc. was owned by a village inspector. No request for pro-posal, no bid, no disclosure to the public. Do the elected officials not have the courage to follow the law when it comes to one of their own? The payments were for “economic development/out-reach services for the Village Manager’s office”, according to

the Bring It, Inc. invoice. Bring It, Inc. is not an economic development/outreach consultant. Public information reveals that it is a one person company with a location at the inspector’s home address. It was formed to sell a sports game where circles are placed on the ground as markers to take basketball shots. Given the importance of economic de-velopment to the future of our community, did anyone bother to ask about background of this new consultant? Regardless of whether the board majority and Sandra Bury support Larry Deetjen, there still is the obligation to follow the law. What’s alarm-ing to me as a resident and former official is to see this happen and not hear officials say, “wait, we need to look into this, it may be wrong or even illegal.” It’s very simple. You don’t give contracts to companies owned by Village employees. Period.

Sandra Bury had absolutely no reservations about making repeated attacks and accusa-tions that village officials were engaged in ‘‘secret deals”. It wasn’t true but that didn’t seem to matter. She vowed to follow a “10 point transpar-ency checklist of the Illinois Policy Institute.” There are many legitimate questions. Is the Village now allowing the manager to enter into contracts with companies owned by village employees? Is the manager allowed to enter into new contracts during a spending freeze? Are tax laws being broken? Is there any investigation about the man-ager leaving the scene of an accident involving a taxpayer owned vehicle? Are we allowed to ask who is benefiting from insider contracts? We’ve heard nothing. Silence sometimes screams the truth.

Heilmann is the former mayor of Oak Lawn.

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Anthony Caciopo,Palos Heights “The overnight stress of worry-ing about freezing pipes.”

Jennifer Czarlinski,Palos Heights “Ice slid off our roof and de-stroyed an evergreen tree.”

Eriq Perez,Crestwood “I didn’t get to go sledding. It was too cold.”

Timothy Lasasso,Oak Lawn I got stuck at my cousin’s house for two days, which has its pros and cons.”

Michelle Chambers,Oak Forest I got stuck in Los Angeles for a day and a half. My flight got cancelled.”

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Seven physicians on staff at Little Company of Mary Hos-pital are named Top Doctors in the January 2014 issue of Chicago Magazine. Honorees were nominated by physicians nationwide who were asked to consider such factors as clini-cal excellence, bedside manner, education, and board certifica-tion. Chicago Magazine’s Top Doctors list was created in collaboration with Castle Con-nolly Medical Ltd., publisher of America’s Top Doctors and other consumer health guides. Castle Connolly’s physician-led team of researchers follows a rigorous screening process to select top doctors on both the national and regional levels. Little Company of Mary proudly congratulates the more than 500 physicians who come from all over the Chicagoland area to practice at the Hospi-

tal and are certified in a wide array of specialties. In many cases, Little Company of Mary is a family affair, with multiple generations of practicing physi-cians. Through the years, many talented men and women have lent their hearts, minds and hands to make the southwest area of Chicago a healthier place to live. Hassan Alzein (pediatrics), Richard M. Farrell (internal medicine), Philip C. Hoffman (medical oncology), Jacob Rot-mench (gynecologic oncology) Howard T. Strassner (maternal and fetal medicine), Michael F. Thomas (geriatric medicine) and James Valek (family medi-cine) were recognized. Little Company of Mary Hos-pital and Health Care Centers was also named one of the nation’s Top Performers on Key Quality Measures by The Joint Commission. The Joint

Commission accreditation and certification is recognized na-tionwide as a symbol of quality that reflects an organization’s commitment to meeting certain performance standards. Little Company of Mary has a rich history of providing the community with nationally recognized, high-quality care. Little Company of Mary’s new state-of-the-art West Pavilion patient tower allows the hos-pital to focus on its family-centered model and continue with their mission to care and provide the latest technology to heal. For more information about Little Company of Mary, visit our website at www.lcmh.org. To find an exceptional phy-sician near you, please call our free community physician refer-ral service at 708-423-3070.

— Submitted by Little Company of Mary

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Rebound for Glory, a musi-cal comedy about the seven, make that 10, deadly sins will be performed at 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 26 at St. Mark Evangeli-cal Lutheran Church, 11007 S. 76th Ave., near the intersection of 111th Street and Southwest Highway, Worth. Tickets are free at the door, but a free will offering will be received. The play’s synopsis said, “It’s a little known fact that you can take an express train from Hell to Heaven, and if you want to, you can stay. But if you stay, you must leave all of Hell back

in Hell. Most travelers prefer to take the return trip in the afternoon.”

Dig through the closets and pull out gently used prom and bridesmaid dresses to donate to Moraine Valley Community Col-lege’s Dream Come True Project. The dresses will be given away free of charge to local high school girls on Saturday, March 22, from 9 to 11 a.m., in Building S, Room 117, on the main campus, 9000 W. College Pkwy, Palos Hills. Dresses of all styles and sizes that are in good condition will be accepted. Shoes, purses, jew-elry, and other accessories also will be accepted. Donations can be brought to the Multicultural

Student Affairs Department in Room 201, on the second floor of Building S, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. For more information about making a donation, call Nereida Perez at 974-5475.

*** Neat Repeats Resale stores are looking for volunteers to work in their stores. Volunteers are asked to give five hours a week to make a difference in the lives of vic-tims of domestic violence. The next volunteer recruitment day is Monday, Jan. 20 at the stores

in Orland Park, 9028 W. 159th St., or in Worth, 7026 W. 111th St. Interested individuals can come in, receive a tour, meet other vol-unteers, and learn more about Neat Repeats. For more informa-tion call the store manager in Orland Park at 364-7605, or in Worth at 361-6860. All sales at Neat Repeats Resale benefit the clients served by the Crisis Center for South Suburbia, a non-profit community organization that provides emergency shelter and other services for individuals and families victimized by domestic violence.

AARP Offers DriverSafety Program for Seniors The first AARP Smart Driver Class for 2014 will be offered at the Office for Citizen Services, 3450 W. 97th St., Evergreen Park, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday and Friday, Feb. 6 and Feb. 7. Attendance on both days is required. The class size is limited, so early registra-tion is suggested. The eight-hour refresher course reviews rules of the road for the mature adult. Sign up for the class may be made in person, or by mail at the OCS. Checks should made payable to AARP, and include the partici-pant’s name, address and phone number. The fee for AARP mem-bers is $15 and for non-members, $20. AARP members are asked card to the first class for verifica-tion. For more information, call 422-8776. In addition to updat-ing driving knowledge and skills, class members may be eligible for a discount on auto insurance after completing the course.

Legal clinic at PLOWS PLOWS will host the next monthly legal clinic presented by the Center for Disability and Elder Law (CDEL). Low-income senior citizens may receive free assistance with a va-riety of legal matters including powers of attorney, wills, land-lord/tenant issues, collections and consumer fraud. Appointments are necessary and may be made by contacting CDEL at 312-376-1880, Ext. 22.

Double Nickel The Double Nickel Plus Chorus meets at the Community Center, 3450 W. 97th St. in Evergreen Park, every Wednesday at 9:30 a.m. in Room 111. Newcomers are welcome. For more informa-tion call 422-8776.

Meals on Wheels The Evergreen Park Office of Citizens’ Services offers a Meals on Wheels program for village residents 60 years and older who are unable to prepare their own meals. Meals are delivered Monday through Friday. For more informa-tion call 422-8776.

55 and Up Palos Hills residents 55 years and older meet from noon to 2 p.m. the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month at the Palos Hills Community Center, 8455 W. 103rd St. Tickets for events must be purchased one week in advance. Entertainment includes musicians, singers, luncheons, movies, plays and bingo.

Pinochle The Worth Senior Pinochle club is seeking new members. Mem-bership is free. Visit the group at the Worth Park District Terrace Centre, 11500 Beloit Ave., every Monday and Wednesday from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Games be-gin at noon. Call 448-1181 for information.

Vincent Aparo Vincent Aparo, 81, of Ever-green Park died and visitation was Tuesday at St. Bernadette in Evergreen Park. Mass was at noon and interment at St. Mary Cemetery. Mr. Aparo was the husband of MarquetteAparo, nee Giagrande. He was the father of John (Joyce) Aparo Sr., Kimberly (Paul) Ceri-cola and Barbara (Craig) Miller. He was also the brother of Fran-ces Pusateri. He was a retired deputy director of streets and park in Evergreen Park.

James Glenn Brown James Glenn Brown, 83, of Evergreen Park died Jan. 8 at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn. Visitation was Fri-day at Colonial Chapel in Or-land Park. A funeral service was

held Saturday at St. Bernedette Church in Evergreen Park and interment was at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery. Mr. Brown was survived by daughter Catherine Ann (Rob-ert) Bush and brother-in-law Fred (Joyce) Lemaster. He was born in Chicago and was a retired salesman for Chicago Chain and Transmission. He also served in Korea for the Army.

Robert Cole Robert Cole, 75, of Chicago Ridge died Jan. 7 at his home, Visitation was held Friday at Schmaedeke Funeral Home. A service was held Saturday at Our Lady of the Ridge Church and an entombment was at Holy Sepulchre Mausoleum. Mr. Cole was survived by brother Leon Cole and children

Anthony (Mary) Cole, Debora (Richard) Petbok and Catherine (Kenneth) Nelson. He was born in Chicago and was a machinist for 3M.

Willis “Ray” Mancil Willis “Ray” Mancil, 56, of Chicago Ridge died Jan. 8 at home. Visitation was Monday at Schmaedeke Funeral Home in Worth. The service was Tuesday at the funeral home. Mr. Mancil was survived by wife Char Mancil and son Mi-chael Mancil. He was also sur-vived by his sister Sonya Gasida and stepchildren Donna (Eric) Plonka, Jennifer Page, Leslie (Edwardo) Campins and Jim (Melissa) Schwichtenbert. He was born in Liberty, Texas. He was a retired chief petty officer in the United States Navy.

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When it comes to heart care, Advocate Christ Medical Center is still being listed among the greats, according to the January 2014 edition of Becker’s Hospi-tal Review, which, for the second consecutive year, has included the medical center in its national list-ing of “100 Hospitals With Great Heart Programs.” The publication’s editorial team selects hospitals on the basis of their achieved recognition for qual-ity care, clinical awards and contri-butions to the fields of cardiology and cardiovascular surgery. Hospitals on the Becker’s list have received accolades for out-standing cardiovascular services by U.S. News & World Report, Truven Health Analytics, Blue Cross Blue Shield, the American

College of Cardiology Foundation and the American Nurses Creden-tialing Center. Among other honors in 2013, Christ Medical Center’s Heart and Vascular Institute was: • Named again by U.S. News and World Report as one of the nation’s top 50 hospitals in heart care and heart surgery, • Selected for the second con-secutive year by Truven Health Analytics for inclusion in that organization’s 100 Top Hospitals, and, • For the eighth consecutive re-porting period, earned the highest rating — three stars — from the Chicago-based Society of Thoracic Surgeons for the quality of the medical center’s adult open heart surgery, particularly achieved out-

comes in coronary artery bypass grafting. “To merit inclusion again in Becker’s listing of some of the best hospitals in the country for heart care is truly testament to the work of our medical staff and associates in the Heart and Vas-cular Institute,” said Pat Pappas, MD, cardiothoracic surgeon and chief of cardiothoracic surgery at Christ Medical Center. “This achievement also underscores the quality of medical center leader-ship supporting our Institute.” A monthly publication, Becker’s Hospital Review provides high-level hospital and health system leaders with up-to-date business and legal news and analyses.

— Submitted by Advocate Christ Medical Center

Advocate still has heart; makes national listing again

Continuing her efforts to respond to the concerns of all her constituents, state Rep. Fran Hurley (D-35), will form a Women’s Citizen Advisory Committee. Hurley’s Women’s Citizen Advisory Committee is open to all residents desiring to voice their opinions on gender equal-ity issues and potential legisla-tion affecting women. She is creating her Women’s Citizen Advisory Committee after many women expressed interest in the opportunity to discuss their unique perspectives on legisla-tion and provide input on how the state can better serve their needs and concerns. Some of the topics to be ad-dressed include women’s health, services and resources avail-able through the state, budget concerns affecting women and families, and how legislation af-fects women in Illinois. Hurley also plans to collaborate with the committee to offer events

that will benefit women. “It’s important to openly dis-cuss the issues that we deal with on a daily basis,” Hurley said. “As a working mother, I understand some of the many challenges women face. We might be able to address some of these issues through legislation or by increasing awareness of resources and services.”

“The real strength of this committee is the individuals who will participate,” Hurley added. “Your views and ideas will help shape our future laws and state services.”

Residents are encouraged to sign up for the committee by Thursday, Jan. 30. To receive more information, or to join the Women’s Citizen Advisory Committee, contact [email protected] or call Hurley’s full-time constituent service of-fice at (773) 445-8128 or 233-9703.

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I often see parents in the office who are worried that their child might have diabetes. It is important to know the symptoms of type 1 diabetes, previously known as juvenile onset diabetes. While there’s plenty of coverage on type 2 diabetes, which is typically related to childhood obesity, the mystery of type 1 diabetes has not yet been totally explained. Type 1 diabetes affects about 1 in 400 children and adolescents. There does seem to be a genetic predisposition (certain genes are being identified) to the disease, and then “something” seems to trigger the development of diabetes. Researchers continue to look at viral triggers, as well as environmental triggers, such as cold weather, since diabetes is more common in cold climates. Early diet may also play a role, as there is a lower incidence of diabetes in children who were breast fed and who started solid food after 6 months of age. In type 1 diabetes, the pancreas

does not produce enough (or any) insulin. Insulin is needed to help sugars (glucose) in the diet to enter the cells of the body to produce energy. Without insulin, the body can’t make enough energy and glucose levels in the blood stream become elevated, which leads to numerous problems. Children with type 1 diabetes are often fairly sick by the time they’re diagnosed. The most common symptoms of type 1 diabetes are extreme thirst (while all kids drink a lot, this is over-the-top thirst), frequent urination (sometimes seen as new onset bedwetting with excessive daytime urination, as well), excessive hunger, and despite eating all the time, weight loss and fatigue. Any time a child complains of being thirsty or seems to have to go the bathroom a lot, parents (including me) worry about diabetes. But, this is not thirst or having a few extra bathroom breaks or wetting the bed one night. The symptoms worsen and persist, and parents soon realize their child is also losing weight and not feeling well.

The Kid’s DoctorBy Sue Hubbard, M.D.

Although diabetes is currently not curable, great strides have been made in caring for diabetics and improving their daily life. I now have children who are using insulin pumps, and one mother has had an islet cell transplant. The research being done is incredible, and hopefully there will one day be a cure. In the meantime, try not to worry every time your child tells you he or she is thirsty or tired, as all kids voice these complain from time to time. Do watch for ongoing symptoms. Lastly, eating sugar does NOT cause type 1 diabetes. It may lead to weight gain, which can lead to type 2 diabetes, but that’s another story. (Dr. Sue Hubbard is an award-winning pediatrician, medical editor and media host. “The Kid’s Doctor” TV feature can be seen on more than 90 stations across the U.S. Submit questions at http://www.kidsdr.com. The Kid’s Doctor e-book, “Tattoos to Texting: Parenting Today’s Teen,” is now available from Amazon and other e-book vendors.)

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Little pals Seventh grade students at St. Louis de Montfort School take time to read to their Little Pals in the Pre-3 program. Karen Navarro captivates her preschool Little Pals, MaKenzie Kent and Dylan Odell.

St. Patricia St. Patricia Grade School, 9000 S. 86th Ave., is hosting a Big Game Day open house from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 2. Parents and children are invited to take a tour to meet with students, faculty, staff,

and parents and get a better sense of what St. Patricia has to offer. St. Patricia educates students in pre-kindergarten to eighth grade and offers before and after school care. For more information, call 598-8200, or visit stpatriciaparish.com.

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The District 123 band raised $8,051.06 for music students af-fected by the November tornados in Washington, Il. The destruction left many fam-ilies with very little, including their music students’ instruments and music supplies. “As a band teacher, I can’t imag-ine how difficult that must be, on top of everything else the families are dealing with,” expressed Mrs. Beth Lyons, former Washington summer band teacher and current band director. Lyons was joined by a variety of local performing arts booster clubs in raising money during their winter performances. “I feel really excited…because 100% of our money is going to the band boosters in Washington, Illinois and given directly to those

students who need assistance,” she said. “Words cannot express how in-credible our community has been in support of reaching out to our long-distance music families in Washington, IL. I am more proud than I could ever describe.” Contributors who helped make the effort a success were D123 bands, the Oak Lawn Hometown Middle School Choruses and Vil-lage Singers, the D123 Education Foundation, George Quinlan, Jr., the Oak Lawn Community High School Band, the H. L. Richards Band the St. Laurence Band, St. Rita Band, SXU Bands and Orchestra, the Marist Band the Brother Rice Band, the Mother McAuley Band and Raiders Social Athletic Club.

— Submitted by District 123

D123 band raises 8Kfor tornado victims

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The District 123 band performs and makes money for students in Washington, Il.

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Boot camp graduates A Worthwoods Schools fourth grade class completed a Multiplication Boot Camp. Every time a student answered a multiplication problem incorrectly you they to do an obstacle. You had to run around cones, jump rope, jumping jacks etc… It made learning the multiplication tables a fun way for the kids. Pictured are the students that graduated the camp including Sabrina Sproch, Heba Rashid, Hiba Amara, Graciella Ramirez, Omar Taladt, Mahmoud Alramahi, Haneen Rahim, Angela Passi, Joey Stockwell, Sammy Harb, Kamari Copeland and Jada Willett.

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The varsity cheerleaders from Shepard High School placed second in the Co-Ed Division this weekend at the IHSA invitational in Springfield. Alex Joiner and Ashley Buksa ( top left) were selected to the all-state team, based on their per-formances at the IHSA meet. This squad will cheer in June in Peoria for the IHSA all-state boys basketball team. Buksa placed second among the state scholarship finalists and earned the second highest financial

award of $3,000 to the college of her choice. Five of the senior cheerleaders were honored as state scholar-athletes. Criteria include a grade point average of at least 3.5 on a scale of 4.0. Students who earned this prestigious honor included Ashley Buksa, Becca Bruesch, Melissa Kelly, Alexandra Joiner and Jackie O’Leary. Above, the varsity cheerleaders are shown performing at the IHSA meet in Springfield.

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Shepard cheerleaders take 2nd at IhSA meet

Shepard High School will host “A Little Bit of Germany” to support its exchange program this Saturday, Jan. 18, from 4 to 8 p.m. The fundraiser, which fea-tures German food, a folk band, dancing, and imported goods for sale, has set new attendance records the past two years. Nearly 350 people attended last year.

Admission is $10 for adults and $5 for children age 12 and under. Ticket price includes a German dinner of bratwurst, sauerkraut, German potato salad, bread, and coffee, water or cider. Dinner will be served from 4 to 7 p.m. Soda and

root beer will be available for purchase. The fun includes entertain-ment by the folk band Paloma from the Dankhaus German Cultural Center in Chicago. Next summer, teacher Jen-nifer Fischer and a group of German Club students will visit students from Johann Wolfgang Goethe Gymnasium in Germersheim. During their trip, Shepard students will at-tend classes at Goethe (German schools feature a full-year calen-dar), visit various cultural and historical sites, and, in general, live as Germans. Goethe and Shepard students have visited one another for more than 25 years.

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Dressed in traditional German clothing, Shepard High School students dance with senior citizens at “A Little Bit of Germany” last year.

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Shepard High School teacher Jennifer Fischer and her German Club students appear on the grounds of the Michelsberg Abbey in Bamberg, Germany. “A Little Bit of Germany” this Saturday, Jan. 18, from 4 to 8 p.m. will support the German Club trip next summer.

Taste of ‘Bit of Germany’ at Shepard

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Area Student Namedto Dean’s List The following students have been named to the fall semes-ter dean’s list at St. Norbert College: Matthew Menke of Evergreen Park, and Michael Myren and Jennifer Ward of Oak Lawn. A minimum 3.5 grade-point average is required for academic eligibility. The only Norbertine college in the world, St. Norbert is a four-year, Catho-lic liberal arts college, devoted to the Norbertine traditions of community, prayer and service to others. St. Norbert College is located on the banks of the Fox River in the residential com-munity of De Pere, Wisconsin, neighboring Green Bay.

Graceland University HonorRoll Features Local Students Dariusz Obrochta of Oak Lawn was named to the presi-dent’s list and Brittani LaRus-so of Oak Lawn was named to the honor’s list for Graceland University’s fall term. Stu-dents with a perfect 4.0 grade point average are named to the president’s list. Students with a GPA between 3.65 and 3.99 are named to the honor’s list. Students with a GPA between 3.25 and 3.64 are named to the dean’s list. Graceland Univer-sity has two campuses, one in Lamoni, Iowa and one in Inde-pendence, Missouri.

Western Illinois UniversityNames Local Residentsto Dean’s List More than 1,730 undergradu-ate students enrolled at Western Illinois University were named to the fall dean’s list. The num-ber includes 123 students at WIU-Quad Cities. To receive this award, an un-dergraduate student must earn at least a 3.6 grade point average on a scale of 4.0. Those earning academic honors include:

• Rebecca Ann Dunter-

man, a sophomore from Chi-cago Ridge; • Brenna Catherine Smith, a sophomore from Evergreen Park; • Christina Nicole Makro-poulos, a senior; • Amy Michelle Smith, sophomore, both from Hickory Hills; • Kyle Thomas Corbett, a senior, • Colleen Nicole Krasich, a senior; • Lauren Elizabeth Ward, a senior, all from Oak Lawn; • Megan Elizabeth Kelly, a senior from Worth.

Brother Rice StudentGains College Acceptance James Dwyer of Brother Rice High School has been ac-cepted to Culver-Stockton Col-lege for enrollment in the fall 2014 semester. Along with ac-ceptance to the college, Dwyer has been awarded the Hilltop Scholarship, a four-year award. Dwyer’s anticipated major is psychology.

Oak Lawn Woman EarnsAcademic Honors Lily Paterno of Oak Lawn qualified for the fall dean’s list at Belmont University. Eligi-bility is based on a minimum course load of 12 hours and a quality grade point average of 3.5 with no grade below a C. Approximately 30 percent of Belmont’s more than 6,900 students qualified for the fall dean’s list.

Palos Hills’ KorniejczukNamed To Dean’s List Freshman Melissa Korn-iejczuk of Palos Hills earned a spot on Beloit College’s dean’s list for the fall semester. To be eligible for the dean’s list, a student must carry a semester grade point average of 3.4 or higher, and take a minimum of three letter-graded units for the term.

Brother Rice Reservations are needed by Monday for the Brother Rice Alumni Mothers’ Club’s second annual Trivia Night at 7 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 25, at Brother Rice High School, 10001 S. Pulaski Rd., Chicago. The cost is $15 per person. Participants are welcome to bring their own snacks, and pizza orders will be taken. This is a 21 and older event; beer, wine, and pop will be available for purchase. Due to our liquor license, no outside liquor is al-

lowed. For more information and reservations, call Peggy Gannon at 773-239-6399, or email her at [email protected].

Moraine Valley Women are asked to dig through their closets and pull out gently used prom and bridesmaid dresses to donate to Moraine Val-ley Community College’s Dream Come True Project. Dresses of all styles and sizes that are in good condition will be accepted. Shoes, purses, jewelry, and other

accessories also will be accepted. Donations can be brought to the Multicultural Student Affairs De-partment in Room 201, on the second floor of Building S, be-tween 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. The dresses will be given away free of charge to local high school girls from 9 to 11 a.m. Saturday, March 22 in Building S, Room 117, on the main campus, 9000 W. College Parkway, Palos Hills. The Dream Come True Project is sponsored by the college’s

Women’s Celebration Month committee and the Celebrating Diversity Task Group. For more information, call Nereida Perez at 974-5475.

Moraine ValleySpring registration Moraine Valley Community College can help students realize their educational goals, pursue an associate’s degree and prepare for a successful future. Registration is underway for the spring 2014 semester, which starts Jan. 13

with on-campus credit classes. Off-campus credit classes and on-campus continuing educa-tion classes begin Jan. 21, and off-campus continuing education classes begin Jan. 27. Some of the college’s courses are offered in different formats to accommodate the needs of stu-dents, making it easy for people to fit college classes into their life. These Flexible Learning Options include: • Online and Internet Hybrid classes

• Short-Term Classes • Weekend Classes • Off-Campus Classes • Evening Classes • One-Day-a-Week Classes

A complete list of credit and noncredit classes can be found in the spring 2014 class schedule or online at morainevalley.edu. Registration is ongoing. Tuition is $109 per credit hour plus fees and books. Students who have applied to the college can register

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Chicago Ridge The Chicago Ridge Library is at 10400 Oxford Ave. The phone number is 423-7753.Evergreen Park The Evergreen Park Public Li-brary is at 9400 S. Troy Ave. The phone number is 422-8522.

*** Ongoing: Members of the community are invited to visit the Evergreen Park Public Li-brary in November and Decem-ber as it showcases a variety of artwork from Evergreen Park High School students enrolled in studio photography, begin-ning art, introduction to art, and ceramics/sculpture/jewelry design. For more information, call 422-8522, or visit evergreen-parklibrary.org.Green Hills Green Hills Public Library District is located at 8611 W. 103rd St., Palos Hills. For more information, call 598-8446. Registration is made online at greenhillslibrary.org.

*** Through Jan. 31: Library patrons are invited to join the 2014 Winter Reading Pro-gram. Children in grades Pre-K through 12 can earn weekly priz-es. Adults will also win prizes including gift certificates to lo-cal restaurants, bookstores, and more. Everyone is encouraged to read to win. Registration is necessary.

*** Jan. 16: Beth Randall, certi-fied professional organizer, will discuss the benefits of getting organized to reduce the stress in life at 7 p.m. Participants will learn the tools to make them feel better about their life and environment. Registration is required.

*** Jan. 17: The library’s Fam-ily Movie Time will feature the movie “Planes” at 4 p.m. Each person receives popcorn and lemonade. All ages are welcome. Registration is required.

*** Jan. 22: The library is of-fering a lecture-based class that will teach individuals all they need to know about the popular social networking site, Facebook at 6 p.m. Participants can learn the do’s and don’ts, notifications, photo tagging, and much more. Registration is required.

*** Jan. 23: Teens will learn how to construct different creations using a variety of patterned duct tapes at 6 p.m. All supplies will be provided. Registration is required and limited to 25 teens.

*** Jan. 27: New York Times bestselling author Julie Hyzy discusses and signs copies of “Grace Takes Off,” the fourth book in her Manor House Mys-tery series at 6:30 p.m. The first 30 patrons to sign up and attend the event will get a free copy of Hyzy’s book. Registration required.

*** Jan. 28: An Internet Ba-sics class is being offered at the library from 5 to 8 p.m. Participants will learn how to operate various search engines, bookmarks, favorites, and social media. Registration is limited to four per class and open to residents only. Laptops will be provided.

*** Jan. 30: Patrons are urged come to the library to play sports-themed games and activi-ties. Teams will work together to earn prizes at 6 p.m. Light refreshments will be served. Registration is required and limited to 40.oak Lawn The Oak Lawn Public library is located at 9427 S. Raymond Ave. For more information, or to register for a program, call 422-4990.

*** The library’s regular hours are: Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and Sunday, 1 to 5 p.m. For more information, call 422-4990.

*** Jan. 17: The Oak Lawn Pub-lic Library will host an overview of the major provisions of the Affordable Care Act, aimed at those 65 years of age and old at 2 p.m. Patrons can discover the provisions that may impact them and the timeline for what happens and when.

*** Jan. 18: By the time firefighters put on their gear, it can add up to 60 pounds to their weight. Find out how firefighters keep fit, what they eat and how to stay safe all year long from 10-11 a.m. at the library. The program will include stories, equip-ment show and tell, and a question and answer ses-sion. Registration is not required.

*** Jan. 19: The library will host a free concert featuring Tropical Sound Steel Drums from 2 to 3 p.m. Concert-goers can ex-perience the spirit of the Caribbean Islands with a variety of tropical music, including reggae, calypso, soca, Latin and pop. Each set includes songs varying from Jimmy Buffet to Bob Marley to Harry Belafonte as well as traditional songs of the steel band. The Friends of the Oak Lawn Library are sponsoring the concert.

*** Jan. 20: Patrons who like fish, frogs and other swimming creatures and painting are in-vited to come by for the drop-in fish-printing program from 10 a.m. to noon. Participants will create their own unique piece of art. Activities will take approxi-mately 20 minutes to complete. All those participating should bring a bag, T-shirt or other item to decorate. Other materi-als will be provided. Registration is not required and all ages are welcome.

*** Jan. 20: The Oak Lawn Pub-lic Library will host a free movie screening of “42” at 2 and 6:30 p.m. The move focuses on the life story of Jackie Robinson and his history-making sign-ing with the Brooklyn Dodg-ers under the guidance of team executive Branch Rickey. The movie stars Chadwick Boseman, T.R. Knight and Harrison Ford. “42” was released in 2013, is rated PG-13, and is 2 hours, 8 minutes long.

*** Jan. 21 and 28: Preschool Storytime is being offered for children ages 3 to 5 from 10: 30 to 11 a.m. during the month of January. Youngsters joining the group will listen to stories, sing songs and create crafts. Regis-tration begins 10 days before each session. No parents are allowed.

*** Jan. 22: Registration begins for Oak Lawn Library’s winter games. Someone will take home the gold Saturday, Feb. 1. The library will challenge young ath-letes in both team and individual events. Games will be played outside if snow is present, so appropriate dress is necessary. Children 6 to 8 will compete from 10 to 11 a.m., and those ages 9 to 12 will play from 1 to 2 p.m.

*** Jan. 22: This is the first day of registration for the library’s winter games. The library will challenge young athletes in both team and individual events Sat-urday, Feb. 1 on library grounds. Participants will go outside if snow is present, so appropriate dress is necessary. Children ages 6 to 8 will compete from 10 to 11 a.m. Youth ages 9 to 12 will be challenged in winter sports from 1 to 2 p.m. Registration is necessary.

*** Jan. 22: Teams of up to five players will compete in four rounds of Teen Trivia Night to become the ultimate trivia champs from 7 to 8 p.m. in the Young Adult area at the library. The winners will re-

ceive a prize.***

Jan. 22: College Funding Strategies of Tinley Park will show individuals how to help their high school students choose the best college with the least amount of damage to the family’s finances during the program Finding the College with the Best Financial Fit at

7 p.m. at the library.***

Jan. 25: The library will host, “Fermilab Presents: The Mr. Freeze Cryogenic Show” from 10 to 11 a.m. Patrons will learn from Fermilab scientist Mr. Freeze about the field of super cooling cryogenics. Mr. Freeze will demonstrate lots of the basic properties of cryo-genics, using liquid nitrogen as the main material. Due to loud explosions, this show is recom-mended for students in second grade and up. Younger children are welcome with appropriate adult support. Registration is not required.

*** Jan. 26: The library will host a free lecture on the opera “Bar-ber of Seville” at 1:30 p.m. At this session, a member of the Lyric Opera Lecture Corps will explain the plot, play musical selections and give background on the composer. The Friends of the Oak Lawn Public Library are sponsoring this program.

*** Jan. 27: Dr. Kevin Luke, or-thopedic surgeon and medical director of the Bone and Joint Institute at Advocate Christ Medical Center, reveals the facts about today’s joint replacements at 6:30 p.m. He can help patrons answer the question, “Joint Re-placement: Is it Time?”

*** Jan. 27: The library will begin an Adventure Club from 6:30-7:30 p.m. This new pro-gram will keep children guessing what will happen next. Activities will be based on historical hap-penings, odd occurrences and unusual celebrations that are significant for that date’s ses-sion. Participants can be playing games, making crafts, reading books, and even going outside. Registration begins 10 days be-fore each session.

*** Jan. 28: Illinois Joining Forces: Resources for Military and Veteran Families presents an open house at 7 p.m. at the library. The group wants to kick off an effort to recognize all that our military families have contributed and sacrificed for our nation. Also included is a program about General George Washington and his creation of the Military Badge of Merit, the predecessor to the currently awarded Purple Heart Medal.

*** Tuesdays in February: Tod-dlers ages 2 to 3, with anaccom-panying adult, can listen stories, and participate in fingerplays and movement during toddler time from 9:30 to 10 a.m. at the library. Registration begins 10 days before each session.

*** Wednesdays in February: Children ages 2 to 3, with an ac-companying adult, are invited to participate in a toddler art class at the library. Toddlers will hear a story, sing, make a process-oriented art project and dance.

Chicago Ridge Ongoing: The Chicago Ridge Park District is taking team regis-tration for 4th through 8th grade boys basketball and girls volley-ball leagues. For registration in-formation, please call 708-423-3959 or visit our website www.chicagoridgeparks.com.Evergreen Park The Evergreen Park Recreation Department is headquartered at the Village Community Center, 3450 W. 97th St., but holds programs in various locations throughout the village. For more information, or to register for a class, call 229-3373.

*** Jan. 17: Girls Night Out for girls in second through fifth grades will be held from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in the Community Center. The evening will feature winter themed activities including crafts, games, snacks, and more. The fee is $15.

*** Jan. 23: The Evergreen Park Recreation Department Preschool will host a preschool open house for new students from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. The preschool staff will be on hand to greet parents and children and answer questions. Parents will be able to tour the three preschool rooms and discuss curriculum with the teachers. Parents will be able to register for the fall session the same evening. Registration continues until classes are filled, or the session begins. Children who attend must be 3 years old, and fully toilet trained by the first day of school. Classes will begin the week of Aug. 25. To regis-ter for preschool, parents must provide the following items: the child’s birth certificate, proof of residency, and a $35 non-re-fundable deposit, which will be applied to the first preschool payment. Pre-school classes are offered from 9 to 11:30 a.m. or 12:15 to 2:45 p.m. Mon-day, Wednesday and Friday, or 9 to 11:30 a.m. Tuesday and Thursday. There is also a five day pre-school class offered from 9 to 11:30 a.m. Monday through Fri-day, but chil-dren must be entering kin-dergarten the following year to participate in this class.

*** Jan. 25: to March 15: Group swim lessons for boys and girls ages 4 years and older will be held on Saturdays from 11 to 11:45 a.m., or from noon to 12:45 p.m. The fee for eight weeks is $75 for residents and $85 for non-resi-dents. Swim lessons are held at the Evergreen Park High School pool, 99th Street and Kedzie Ave.Oak Lawn Ongoing: Duplicate bridge will be held at 11:30 a.m. Mondays at the Oak View Center. Cost is $7 per person and includes a light lunch. For more information, call 857-2200.Worth Headquarters for the Worth Park District is located at the Terrace Centre, 11500 S. Beloit Ave. For more information, or to register, call 448-7080. The Win-ter/Spring Worth Park District program guide has arrived and registration has begun.

*** Ongoing: Pickle Ball will be at the Terrace Centre, 11500 Be-loit Ave., from 6 to 8 p.m. every Tuesday. Pickle Ball is a cross between tennis and ping-pong and involves strategies such as lobbing, drive shots and overhead slams. Cost is $1.

*** Ongoing: Open gym basketball is offered at the Terrace Centre, 11500 Beloit Ave., Thursdays from 6 to 8 p.m. Cost is $1.

*** Ongoing: The Terrace Centre, 11500 Beloit Ave., has an indoor playground featuring slides, a climbing wall, tree house and more for children who can walk through 4 years old. Hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Fee is $1 for residents, $2 for non-residents. For more information call 448-7080 or visit worthparkdistrict.org.

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Aprons are provided. There are two sessions: from 9:30 to 10 a.m., or 10:15 to 10:45 a.m. Reg-istration begins 10 days before each session.

*** Feb. 5: Landscape historian Barbara Geiger will present “In-side the Devil in the White City” at 7 p.m. She will trace the steps of Henry Holmes who owned the

World’s Fair Hotel, and Daniel Burnham, master architect and planner. She will also discuss the 1893 World’s Fair and Victorian Chicago.

*** Feb. 8: Local writers are invit-ed to share their original poetry and short stories at 1 p.m. at the library. There is a five-minute time limit per reader. Light re-freshments will be provided.

*** Feb. 8: An in-person regis-tration will be held from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. for the upcoming The Friends of the Oak Lawn Public Library sponsored trip to the 2014 Flower & Garden Show Wednesday, March 19. The trip will include a visit the 2014 Flow-er & Garden Show at Navy Pier and lunch and a show aboard the Spirit of Chicago. Once on board, participants will partake in a buffer and witness a floral arrangement demonstration. An interactive master of ceremonies will provide entertainment. Trip-goers depart at 9 a.m. and return at 3 p.m. This cost is $72 for Friends members and $77 for others. There is a mini-mum of 30 and a maximum of 45 people who can register for this trip. Friends of the Library must present a current mem-bership card to receive the $5 discount. There is a two ticket limit per person. These trips are not wheelchair accessible.

*** Feb. 9: Dennis Debondt is back from 2 to 3 p.m. at the library to entertain patrons with his humor and magical talent. Registration is not required and all ages are welcome.

*** Ongoing: Patrons are asked to donate their “gently used” books, magazines, CDs and vid-eos to the Friends of the Oak Lawn Library Ongoing Book Sale at the library. Due to space limi-tations, the Friends will not ac-cept Readers Digest Condensed Books, encyclopedias and older textbooks. The donation drop-off area is near the library’s Cook Avenue entrance. Interested par-ties may fill out a short form at the reception booth to receive a tax letter by mail that acknowl-edges their donation. The Friends Ongoing Book Sale provides an ever-changing variety of books, magazines and other forms of media at bargain prices. Hardcover books cost 50 cents each, paperbacks are 25 cents and magazines cost 10 cents each. Audio-visual items are priced as indicated. Funds collected from the book sale sup-port library programming and purchases that are beyond their regular budget.

*** Ongoing: Patrons are asked to donate their “gently used” books, magazines, CDs and vid-eos to the Friends of the Oak Lawn Library Ongoing Book Sale at the library. Due to space limi-tations, the Friends will not ac-cept Readers Digest Condensed Books, encyclopedias and older textbooks. The donation drop-off area is near the library’s Cook Avenue entrance. Interested par-ties may fill out a short form at the reception booth to receive a tax letter by mail that acknowl-edges their donation. The Friends Ongoing Book Sale provides an ever-changing variety of books, magazines and other forms of media at bargain prices. Hardcover books cost 50 cents each, paperbacks are 25 cents and magazines cost 10 cents each. Audio-visual items are priced as indicated. Funds collected from the book sale sup-port library programming and purchases that are beyond their regular budget.


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When you’re working to achieve your financial objectives, you will encounter obstacles. Some of these can be anticipated — for example, you won’t be able to invest as much as you want for retirement because you have to pay for your mortgage. Other challenges can’t be easily antici-pated, but you can still plan for them — and you should. Obviously, the word “unex-pected,” by definition, implies an unlimited number of possibilities. However, at different stages of your life, you may want to watch for some “expected” unexpected developments. For example, during your work-ing years, be prepared for the following: • Emergency expenses — If you needed a major car or home repair, could you handle it? What about a temporary job loss? These events are costly — especially if you are forced to dip into your long-term investments to pay for them. To help guard against these threats, try to build an emergency fund containing six to 12 months’ worth of living expenses, held in a liquid, low-risk account. • Investment risk and mar-ket volatility — Extreme price swings are unpredictable, and they can affect your investment success. To defend yourself against wild gyrations in the market, build a diversified port-folio containing quality invest-ments. While diversification, by itself, can’t protect against loss or guarantee profits, it can help reduce the effect of volatility

on your portfolio. And here’s one more thing you can do to cope with the ups and downs of investing: Maintain a long-term perspective. By doing so, you won’t be tempted to overreact to short-term downturns. • Long-term disability — One-third of all people between the ages of 30 and 64 will become disabled at some point, accord-ing to the Health Insurance As-sociation of America. Disabilities can be economically devastating. As part of your benefits pack-age, your employer may offer some disability insurance, but you may need to supplement it with private coverage. • Premature death — None of us can really predict our lon-gevity. If something happens to you, would your family be able to stay in your home? Could your children still attend college? To protect these goals, you need adequate life insurance. As you approach retirement, and during your retirement years, you may want to focus on these challenges: • Living longer than expected — You probably don’t think that

“living longer than expected” is necessarily a bad thing. How-ever, a longer-than-anticipated life span also carries with it the risk of outliving your money. Consequently, you may want to consider investment solutions that can provide you with an income stream that you can’t outlive. Also, you’ll need to be careful about how much you withdraw each year from your various retirement and invest-ment accounts. • Need for long-term care — If you had to stay a few years in a nursing home, the cost could mount to hundreds of thousands of dollars. These expenses could jeopardize your financial security, so you’ll need to protect yourself. You could “self-insure,” but as that would be extremely costly, you may want to “transfer the risk” to an insurance company. A financial professional can help explain your choices. None of us can foresee all the events in our lives. But in your role as an investor, you can at least take positive steps to pre-pare for the unexpected — and those steps should lead you in the right direction as you move toward your important goals.

Scott Johnson, CFP, is a finan-cial advisor with Edward Jones, 8146 W. 111th St., Palos Hills, 974-1965. Edward Jones does not provide legal advice. This article was written by Edward Jones for use by your local Ed-ward Jones financial advisor.

Prepared for the unexpected?

Techno Talk

By Owen WilliamsThe Next Web

Rumors of the next major Windows release code-named “Threshold” have been circling for some time now, but Paul Thurott has now revealed fur-ther details on the next version of Windows. Threshold will reportedly bring a number of major chang-es to Windows 8, such as the return of the Start Menu and the beginning of a converged platform encompassing Win-dows Phone and Windows RT. The company is also working on delivering a single app store across Xbox, Windows Phone and Windows. Thurott mentions that “Threshold” will likely be ti-tled Windows 9 to “distance the company from the Windows 8 debacle” because “Windows 8 is tanking harder than Micro-soft is comfortable discussing in public.” It’s true that Windows 8 has struggled to gain rapid

adoption; even with the major tweaks in Windows 8.1 (which is free) the company has not seen more than 25 million PCs install the update, according to Thurott. Windows 8 adoption still lags behind that of Win-dows 7, despite having been on the market for over a year. Traditionally, Microsoft re-leases a preview of an upcom-ing version of Windows at its BUILD conference (which will be held in April of this year). Instead of previewing a full new version of Windows this year, Thurott believes that the

conference will see the release of an interim update labeled “Windows 8.1 Update alongside the release of Windows Phone 8.1. Thurott’s sources believe that Windows 9 will be deliv-ered in April 2015 with major changes that refine and de-velop the Modern UI interface (please, give us windowed mode for Modern apps!) as well as potentially splitting Windows into consumer and enterprise versions. Delivering Windows 9 in 2015 means that Windows 8 will have been available for almost three years and may mean that con-sumers will look elsewhere for tablet devices. Microsoft has its work cut out; three major platforms (Xbox, Windows Phone, Win-dows) will need new features this year to bring them closer as a family of products before Threshold seals the deal.

Windows 9 on the threshold of being announced

Target has announced that the number of individuals who may have been impacted by their holiday data breach is approximately 110 million compared to the original num-ber of 40 million. Additionally, the company reports that the hackers also were able to get more informa-tion than previously reported with the credit and debit card breach. Target spokespeople revealed that company’s data-base was also hacked and the names, mailing addresses, and email addresses of its customers were also stolen. “With the theft of personal information such as email ad-dresses the threat of Identity Theft becomes even greater” said Steve J. Bernas, president and CEO of the Better Busi-ness Bureau serving Chicago and Northern Illinois. “Not only do those who may have been impacted by the original breach need to be concerned that their bank and credit card accounts may be compromised but they now must be prepared to protect their identities as

well.” In addition to monitoring your banking and credit card statements closely the Bet-ter Business Bureau recom-mends:Be on guard • If you shopped at Target, expect to get fake phone calls, emails and letters in the mail, because there is a good chance scammers can contact you. • NEVER give out personal information or click on these links. • If a person calls and claims to be with your bank and says you’ve been affected by the hack, hang up. • Call bank number on credit card directly. • If you receive an email with someone who claims to be from Target, don’t click on links. Go to Target.com/databreach instead. This website gives all the correct information when handling the situation.Contact your bank • Don’t wait for your bank to contact you, contact your bank yourself. • Let the bank know you’ve

shopped at Target and are at risk. You might get a new card or PIN number. • Check your credit report online. • Check bank and credit card statements for charges you don’t recognize.Sign up forfraud monitoring • Target is offering one year of free credit monitoring and identity theft protection. Use this to your advantage. • Watch websites you use: • If criminals have your con-tact information they can pose as you on websites with your credit card information. • Contact the website directly if you have any concerns. Bernas adds, “Identity theft is still the fastest growing white collar crime. The BBB is here for consumers not only when they need help finding a trust-worthy business, and also to help protect their identity”. Go to this link for free infor-mation on data breach tips and other consumer resources.

— The Better Business Bureau

Target customers must be watchfulfor ID theft after data breach

Mortgage RatesAround the Area

United Trust Bank(as of Jan. 14)

RATES APR POINTS30-year fixed 4.250 4.237 015-year fixed 3.250 3.270 010-year fixed 3.000 3.046 0

Prospect Federal(as of Jan. 13)

RATES APR POINTS30-year fixed 4.625 4.664 .2520-year fixed 4.250 4.303 .2515-year fixed 3.500 3.565 .25

All rates subject to change daily.Equal opportunity lenders.

ChiCago RidgeJack & Pat’s - 10717 S. Ridgeland7-11 - 10658 S. Ridgeland Ave.PK Pantry - 6410 W. 107th StreetShoprite - 9910 S. Harlem AvenueMobile - 10001 S. Ridgeland Avenue

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Bold players, bold playswin out in the end

People sometimes ask whether certain poker players just “have what it takes” and others don’t. In at least one way, the answer is yes. I have consistently seen one personality trait among great players that weak players lack: boldness. Playing without fear, neither of money nor of losing, is a hallmark of many dominant players in the poker world. Some of my colleagues recently discussed a hand in which a superior player threw away his advantage by worrying about the money at risk. With a little more than $1,000 in play in a $2/$5 no-limit hold ‘em game, the stakes were higher than usual for our hero, as typical buy-ins ranged from $350 to $500. He was dealt 9s 8s in early position and elected to call, after which a loose and mediocre opponent, sitting with more than $1,000 himself, raised to $20 from middle position. Two other opponents called from the button and the small blind, both weak players. Our hero also called, and four people saw a flop of Js 5h 6s.

The pre-flop raiser was the first to decide to bet, tossing out $80, nearly the size of the pot. After the button folded, the small blind called. Holding 9s 8s here gave my colleague some different options. His flush draw and inside straight draw added up to about a 45 percent chance of making a monster hand by the end. With no hand yet but a good chance of making one, he could reasonably take either a passive or aggressive approach. He decided to just call and see a turn. Three players remained and the pot had grown to $325 when the 10c landed. Again, the original aggressor was the first to bet, and he made another strong one: $300. The small blind folded, and our hero felt that it was time to leverage the power of his draws and become aggressive. He went all in for about $900, leaving his opponent with a decision to call for $600 more. After some agonized groaning, he made the call, complaining that he just couldn’t fold, and tabled Ad Ah. The Kc on the river changed

nothing, and our hero had lost more than $1,000 in the end. This was a reasonable play, one that could almost never lose big in the long run. Unfortunately, just being reasonable does not make a strategy optimal. Ideally, our hero wanted to win before showdown. But he did a poor job of persuading his opponent to fold. By waiting until the turn to take the initiative, he made two major mistakes: He let his opponent get in deep enough to feel committed, and he didn’t convincingly represent a strong hand. If he had raised the flop and continued betting on the turn and river, his opponent may well have believed our hero was strong and just given up. More important, he would have played his hand fearlessly, making himself harder to read and giving himself a stronger presence at the table. In the end, bold plays — and bold players — win the most money. (Corwin Cole is a poker coach whose instructional videos can be found at CardRunners.com. He can be reached at [email protected].)

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In ancient Egypt, around 400 to 55 A.D., the fad of the day was for men to become hermits. Some lived alone, while others lived in monasteries, but most of them knew one another and on Sundays they all gathered for Mass. According to one story, the last hermit to arrive to the monastery one day was refused entry because of his disheveled appearance -- until they real-ized the man was the one they knew as Anthony, later St. An-thony. For those of you unfamiliar with St. Anthony, he is said to have lived a life of miracles. The story goes that he lived to be 103 years old despite sub-sisting on a diet of only bread and water. Fast forward to today, to an-other tale of a man denied be-cause of his appearance. Small in stature, unshaven and un-bathed, he appeared for break-fast one day at a corner diner, but the waitress assigned to his station refused to serve him. Another waitress agreed to wait on him instead, and treated him as she would any other patron – with kindness and respect. She even bought him his sec-ond cup of coffee. The story goes that he died a year later, leaving the kind waitress more than a million dollars. The moral of such stories is that you never know who you may be dealing with, and that we should treat all people equal-ly despite their appearance,

religion, ethnicity or personal beliefs. That is what the Bible says. They may be saints, or they may have the intent to bestow gifts of gratitude upon the first kind soul they meet that day. Unfortunately, today we live in an upside down world where belligerence and ignorance is not only accepted but often ap-plauded. Turn on the news any day of any hour of the week and you’ll either hear stories of hatred and discrimination, or you’ll see two clowns arguing over the latest political talking point. Both are usually wrong, and both are usually equally arrogant. These people know not how to behave properly or how to treat other people, yet they’ll harp on one an-other as if they’re experts on those things and more! They are also unaware of the severe and dangerous stress they are building inside them, and how this stress will ultimately sicken or kill them. They are already sick in the mind, and despite the fact they may be wealthy and enjoy prestigious careers acting like an idiots, are cer-tainly not happy. Happy people don’t argue with their fellow men for the sake of inflating their own egos. Doctors’ offices today are filled with people who are “stressed out,” usually by their own inability to cope with the lives they have built for them-selves. They are unconsciously building stress with their se-

cret fears, and are dwelling on things they cannot change. I read a story about an 8-year-old boy who when asked what he was afraid of, said “dying.” How sad is it that a little boy, who should be concerned only with playing and doing well in school, is afraid of dying? In these days much courage and calmness must be practiced. We need to stop the unnecessary running around, which makes our lives hectic. We must get rid of offensive thoughts about how we are going to deal with the economy or the political situ-ation. These are not thoughts that should occupy the mind, for life is so much greater than those ultimately trivial issues. We must refocus on living our own lives as best we can, to be the best people we can be; fretting about who the presi-dent is, or who will be the next president, or how will we turn the economy around, is wasted thought and wasted energy that

could be better used thinking constructively or coming up with a solution to your life’s own issues. Diet is one of the best tools to help you through. Learn how to cook, and educate yourself on what foods feed your body band mind, instead of polluting it and contributing to break down. Learn about vitamins and miner-als, about how the elements on the periodic table you learned in sixth grade factor into good health. Read good books and magazines, and articles about food and health. This is a pleas-ant way to pass the time, instead of rotting your brain in front of a television listening to misguided opinions about war, money and politics, or any of the other gar-bage that pollutes the airwaves. Reading about good stuff will calm your mind, instead of get-ting you worked up about things you cannot change. Start this New Year right by getting right with yourself. Start incorporating more fruits, vegetables and herbs into your diet, and reap the rewards.

Anthony Scarano is not a doctor. He is an Evergreen Park resi-dent, winemaker and certified naturopath. Suggestions in this space are solely the opinions of Mr. Scarano based on years of independent study and personal experience, and may not be ben-eficial to health. Wine should be consumed in moderation, as overindulgence may be harmful to health.

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One of the most dangerous present disasters, especially in the United States, is the surfac-ing of drug resistant bugs. We’ve been warned about the overuse of antibiotics, yet the prescrip-tions keep pouring in for antibi-otics, even against viruses that do not respond to antibiotics. We are exposed to antibiotics in our meat, milk and dairy and most people have been prescribed an-tibiotics for simple colds or flus. In fact, it has hit even more severely among those with sexu-ally transmitted diseases. They are actually becoming untreat-able and they no longer react to Penicillin. Germs have found a way to avoid all the costly drugs on the market.

Modern medicine is in crisis, not only from the implemen-tation of the “Affordable Care Act”, but from the onslaught of bacterium that refuse to die—superbugs. News reports have disclosed a Chicago area hospital that has

been hit by a new bug that actually ‘eats’ and destroys antibiotics, rendering them useless. Now, that’s scary. So, when I read the December is-

sue of “Second Opinion” by Dr. Robert Rowen, I felt a bit more comfortable about why we must seek alternative and integrative sources to address what conven-tion has ignored and is helpless in treating. In the early 1900d, until 1962, there was a cumbersome, but effective, method of addressing these bugs, according to Rowen. The method was known as UBI (ultra-violet blood irradiation). It came about in the early 1900s

when doctors successfully used ultra-violet skin exposure to kill topical skin bacteria. It is used today. Physicians then began draw-ing about seven ounces of an infected patient’s blood, expos-ing it to a special ultraviolet light wavelength and then re-introduced the blood into the patient. It provided exceptional effectiveness, in fighting dan-gerous bacteria of all types, ac-cording to Rowen. In fact, he says, the method, reduced blood viscosity (thickness) and actu-ally helped blood flow itself. Just seven ounces of treated blood was able to cause the elimina-tion of bacteria throughout the system. The practice was discontinued because now there were wonder drugs, especially sulfa drugs. It was discovered the UBI system was not working among patients who were also taking the sulfa drugs. The entire practice was then given up. Rowen believes it’s time to train physicians in

UBI in order to overcome the medical crisis now upon us.

Just like the old song, it ap-pears everything old is new again. Yes, the method is cum-bersome, and yes, many doc-tors don’t have a clue about the method, but it appears there is an emergency here. The phar-maceuticals are working over-time to develop something that will kill the new treacherous culprits, and they may well be able to do it down the road, but until they do, Rowen says, find an alternative physician who is trained in UBI. We may need to encourage doctors to seek in-formation on the method and while it may not be applicable for every case of infection, it appears to be a decent begin-ning to addressing a medical dilemma.

Dee Woods runs every first and third Thursday of the month. She can be reached at [email protected].

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WhATIZIT? Well it looked like you were dis-com-bob-ulated by Bob Rakow’s photo of his boiler cap lid gasket for his Krup’s cappuccino maker, which he sold for seven smacks on e-Bay. Few tried. All failed. The WHA-TIZIT? contestants were finally stumped for the first time since Jason Whatzizname abandoned you good folks. Incorrect guesses were a knob for a gas stove, a radiator cap, a gas cap, an old car radio knob, a car dent remover and a rotary switch knob. Vorva is back in the saddle with what could be another tough-ie. The clue is that it’s not cocaine or any other drug, but it could aid some people in getting really high. Send those guesses by Monday night to [email protected] with WHATIZIT? in the subject line and don’t forget your name and hometown.

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in the Registration Office, located on campus in the Student Services Center (Building S), 9000 W. Col-lege Pkwy. in Palos Hills; by phone at 974-2110 (TTY for the hearing impaired 974-9556); or online at morainevalley.edu.

Moraine ValleyTinley Park campusspring courses Looking for a shorter commute for classes at Moraine Valley Com-munity College? The college will offer 60 classes, beginning Jan. 21, at its South-west Education Center (SWEC), 17900 S. 94th Ave. in Tinley Park. Some credit classes include Keyboarding I, Art Appreciation, Introduction to Business, Com-position I and II, Introduction to Criminal Justice, American History I, Medical Terminology, College Algebra, Music Apprecia-tion, Introduction to Psychology, General Sociology, and Spanish. There are also several noncredit classes offered at SWEC includ-ing Plus 50 Internet Basics, Medicare Workshop, Hiring Em-ployees, Food for Life, “Reel” Classic Films, and Beginning Conversational Spanish. A complete listing of all the classes at SWEC and credit and noncredit classes offered at all Moraine Valley campuses can be found in the spring 2014 class schedule or online at moraineval-ley.edu. Registration is ongoing. Tuition is $109 per credit hour plus fees and books. Students who have applied to the college can register in the Registration Office, on the main campus in the Student Services Center (Building S), 9000 W. College Pkwy. in Palos Hills; by phone at 974-2110 (TTY for the hearing impaired 974-9556); or online at morainevalley.edu.

Mother McAuley Sarah Dynia, a junior at Mother McAuley High School, has been chosen to participate, with full scholarship, in the Hugh O’Brian Youth (HOBY) Advanced Leadership Academy in Talladega, Ala. Feb. 13 thru 17. For over five decades, HOBY has inspired young people to make a difference and become catalysts for positive change in their home, school, workplace, and community. HOBY aims to inspire and develop our global community of youth and vol-unteers to a life dedicated to leadership, service, and inno-vation.

Queen of Peace Queen of Peace High School will sponsor a Leadership Con-ference for fifth, sixth and sev-enth grade girls on Saturday, Feb. 8. Eighth grade girls who have already taken the entrance exam at Queen of Peace may also attend. The purpose of the conference is to provide leadership training for female student leaders as they prepare to assume leadership roles in the next few years. The cost is $5. The Queen of Peace Leadership Conference will concentrate on training emerging leaders, as well as provide current leaders new tools in how to lead effec-tively. For more information, or

to register, call Mary Kate Love at 496-4753, or email her at [email protected].

Katlyn Carrington was an-nounced as the Hugh O’Brian Youth (HOBY) Scholar for the next school year. HOBY’s mis-sion is to inspire and develop our global community of youth and volunteers to a life dedicated to leadership, service and in-novation. HOBY programs pro-vide students selected by their schools to participate in unique leadership training, service-learning and motivation-build-ing experiences. Carrington is involved in many activities at school. She was the captain of her JV volleyball team and named the most valuable player. Carrington also is involved in basketball and softball. She is on the executive board of the student council, a member of the St. Catherine of Siena program, a Peace ambassador and on the Queen of Peace math team. Izabela Paraga is the HOBY runner-up. She was chosen to be our Illinois Leadership Seminar representative. The seminar is designed for high school sopho-mores to recognize their lead-ership talents and apply them in becoming effective, ethical leaders in their home, schools, workplace and community. Paraga is involved with many activities. She is on a peer jury, a member of the executive board of student council, a member of the St. Catherine of Siena pro-gram, and the Queen of Peace math team. In addition she is a Croatian dancer, part of a youth group and an assistant teacher on Saturdays at Cardinal St-epinac Croatian School.

*** Each year the VFW offers a scholarship, the Voice of Democ-racy, to high school students. An application is needed, in addi-tion to a written and recorded essay with the theme, “How you are optimistic about our nation’s future?” Kelly Meloy and Stephanie Vaccaro both applied for the scholarship. They attended an awards ceremony Dec. 9 for the first step of the process. Meloy wrote about the Ameri-can dream of having your own business, owning a home and attending college. Vaccaro wrote about the pride she sees every-day for our military and first responders. Each person at the ceremony received $50 and an award for entering. Three peo-ple are chosen from each VFW district to move on to the next level. Meloy and Vaccaro were two of the three chosen for the Chicago Ridge district.

St. Xavier University Saint Xavier University re-cently surpassed more than 110 other schools across the country to earn the top spot on U.S. News & World Report’s “2014 Best Online Graduate Nursing Programs” list released Jan. 8. The rankings weighed a variety of factors, including: student engagement; faculty credentials and training; student services and technology; peer reputation; and admissions selectivity. For more information, call 773-298-3701, or visit sxu.edu, keyword: online programs, or nursing.


*** Ongoing: The Friends of the Oak Lawn Library are asking community residents to donate their “gently used” books, magazines, CDs and videos to the Friends ongoing book sale at the library. Due to space limitations, the Friends will not accept Readers Digest Condensed Books, encyclopedias and older textbooks. The dona-tion drop-off area is near the library’s Cook Avenue entrance. Interested parties may fill out a short form at the reception booth to receive a tax letter by mail that acknowledges their dona-tion. The Friends Ongoing Book Sale provides an ever-changing variety of books, magazines and other forms of media at bargain

Library Notes(Continued from page 10) prices. Hardcover books cost 50

cents each, paperbacks are 25 cents and magazines cost 10 cents each. Audio-visual items are priced as indicated. Funds collected from the book sale sup-port library programming and purchases that are beyond its regular budget. Feb. 12: Pre-teens and teens, ages 11 to 14, can sign up for the Read Club meeting from 4 to 5 p.m., and get a free book at the library. Participants are asked to read the book, and then come to Read Club for trivia, discus-sion, games and other activities about the book. The first meet-ing will be a Read Club Warm Up. The second will focus on a “Tale Dark and Grimm.” Reg-istration begins 10 days before each session.

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DEAR MAYO CLINIC: A year ago, I had a melanoma removed from my lower leg. I didn’t need additional treatment at the time, but unfortunately the cancer has returned. My doctor recommends limb perfusion. What can you tell me about this treatment? Is it just as successful as traditional chemotherapy? ANSWER: This procedure, known formally as hyperthermic isolated limb perfusion, is a way of delivering chemotherapy directly to one arm or leg without affecting the rest of the body. Limb perfusion is used mainly for melanoma, but some other kinds of cancer that are isolated to a single limb can also be treated using this method. The process involves putting the arm or leg affected by cancer on a bypass machine, similar to those used in heart surgery, to isolate the blood flow in the affected limb from the rest of the body. That way, high doses of chemotherapy can be delivered where needed without exposing the rest of the body to the chemotherapy. Typically, the doses of chemotherapy delivered during limb perfusion are six to 10 times higher than would be possible to give to a person’s entire body. This makes limb perfusion more effective at targeting che-motherapy to the cancer, and it’s safer for the patient. In addition to melanoma, certain kinds of soft tissue sarcomas and other rare cancers such as Merkel cell carcinoma can be treated with limb perfusion. Even in people who have melanoma, only about 2 percent are good candidates for limb perfusion. Melanoma is the most common type of cancer treated with limb perfusion for two reasons. First, the chemotherapy agents given during the procedure have been shown to be effective against melanoma, but they are toxic if given to the whole body in the doses used for limb perfusion. Second, melanoma is the

most common form of cancer to af-fect only an arm or leg. Cancer that’s confined to a single spot can usually be effectively removed with surgery. But in some patients, melanoma re-turns in multiple spots throughout an arm or leg, and simple surgical removal is not feasible. In these cases, limb perfusion is a viable alternative. People treated with limb per-fusion for melanoma confined to one arm or leg respond quite well. More than 85 percent see a reduc-tion in the cancer and, in more than 70 percent, the melanoma goes away completely, though significant risk remains that the cancer will return. The risks of limb perfusion treatment are mainly related to the effects of the chemotherapy drugs and, rarely, damage to the blood vessels that are used to con-nect the arm or leg to the bypass machine. Most people get redness of the skin and have swelling of the tissues where the chemotherapy is delivered. If chemotherapy medica-tion escapes into the rest of the body, it can cause damage such as bone marrow suppression or kidney injury. Because the chemo-therapy does not usually affect a person’s entire system, side effects such as hair loss and nausea, which are commonly associated with che-motherapy, do not affect people who undergo limb perfusion. Among appropriate candidates for the procedure, limb perfusion can be an effective treatment option that targets therapy directly at the cancer while minimizing side effects. It can help almost all those patients avoid amputation of the limb and preserve quality of life. — Rich-ard Gray, M.D., Surgical Oncology, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, Ariz. (Medical Edge from Mayo Clinic is an educational re-source and doesn’t replace regular medical care. For more information, visit www.mayoclinic.org.)

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Sports SouthwestThe Regional News - The Reporter Ken Karrson, Sports Editor [email protected] Thursday, January 16, 2014 Section 2 Page 1

By Ken Karrson

Twelve wins in 16 tries should create a sense of satisfaction in everyone involved with the achievement. So why is Stagg coach John Daniels not a happy man at the moment? The Chargers’ fourth loss offered the reason. That defeat, which was handed down by Lockport last Thursday night, featured Stagg in a less-than-flattering light. While the Porters have been a stalwart within the SouthWest Suburban Conference Blue for a number of seasons, the 2013-14 campaign hasn’t been their best. The 51-41 win over the Char-gers lifted Lockport just above the .500 plateau, but Daniels had no difficulty declaring the Porters the better team in this latest meeting between the schools. “We have a saying — play hard, play smart, play together — but we didn’t represent the image we want as a program,” he said. “I was very disappointed in our effort. “For years, I’ve talked about trying to build a good reputa-tion and getting respect [for Stagg]. We’re there, but along with that comes the responsibil-ity of playing up to everybody’s best effort. “Right now, we’re a very marked team and [Lockport] came in jacked up — they played harder

than us and took it to us. It’s al-most like the roles were switched [from past years].” As an illustration of that, Dan-iels pointed to the Porters’ 12 of-fensive rebounds in the contest. Eight of their 28 first-half points were generated on second chances, and Lockport’s physicality helped stake it to an 11-point lead by intermission. The Chargers (12-4, 2-2) didn’t fade away after that, but Porters boss Lawrence Thompson was in no hurry to give Stagg any sort of emotional boost. “Lockport tried taking the air out of the ball and working the clock,” Daniels said. “It was a good game plan he had.” That didn’t prevent the Char-gers from eventually narrow-ing the gap to three points, but they were unable to complete a comeback. Contributing to that failed attempt were 12 missed free throws, including the front end of three 1-and-1s. While the hosts went 10-of-22 at the line for the game, the Porters buried 12-of-16 charity tosses. “We had opportunities to score, but we were flat,” said Daniels, whose club was also guilty of 14 miscues and shot just 39 percent from the field. He lamented, too, the fact none of his players dished out more than two assists. Jeff Goral totaled 15 points and four rebounds to lead Stagg, while Max Strus had 13 points and five

Reality checkChargers take a tumble against Porters

boards. Daniels also praised An-thony Gardner, who did not score but demonstrated the greatest amount of hustle among Char-gers players. “It’s hard to explain, but it doesn’t feel like a 12-4 season,” Daniels said. “We’ve got some issues to deal with and work through. Our practice on Wednes-day was awful — there was no intensity. “We’ve had 177 wins over the past 9½ seasons, and [other ath-letes] had success being blue-collar players. They’re good kids [now], but I’ve got to find a way to get them hungry again. We’ve got to get it back — fast.” Stagg, which had to resched-ule last Tuesday’s slated contest against Oak Lawn for Feb. 1 due to bad weather, meets up with SWSC Blue and District 230 rival Sandburg Saturday at the United Center. The Eagles got tagged with a 77-73 overtime loss by Joliet West in their most recent encounter. “Sandburg’s going to be hun-gry for us,” Daniels said. “We can’t have an off-night in our league.”

Statistics

Lockport 16 12 10 13 -51Stagg 11 6 10 14 -41

StaggScoring:Goral15,Strus13,White9,Sims4.Rebounds:Strus5.

By Ken Karrson

Well-rested athletes didn’t ar-rest Richards’ on-court develop-ment. In fact, Bulldogs coach John Chappetto was glad his guys re-ceived some unexpected time off last Tuesday, when sub-zero tem-peratures and snow combined to force the closure of many south suburban schools. That wiped out a scheduled nonconference con-test with highly regarded Marian Catholic and meant Richards had gone a full two weeks without a game when it finally resumed on-court activities Friday night against Tinley Park. All did not go perfectly for the Bulldogs in the South Suburban Conference crossover encounter, as was evidenced when the vis-iting Titans fought back from a 15-point third-quarter deficit and forged a tie midway through the final stanza. “We had five guys on the floor who had no trust in each other,” Chappetto said. “It didn’t look good.” Things looked better after Chappetto called a timeout to get his players on the same page. Richards responded with a 17-9 run over the last 3:40 and kept its league ledger spotless with an 83-72 triumph at D-Wade Court. “We needed the timeout when I called it, for sure,” Chappetto said. “[Tinley Park is] OK — they have some talent, but I have a three-year starting point guard and a Division I center. It comes

down to the team that has better talent, so we’d better win [in that situation]. “Tinley Park played on Jan. 3 and won, [so] I think the Marian Catholic postponement was good for us. I don’t think we were ready to play them, and if that [outcome] went south, Friday’s game would have been tough to get.” The Bulldogs won just once in three tries at the Kankakee Tour-nament between Christmas and New Year’s, and the last of those games — against Carver — was played without junior guard De-drick Shannon, who injured his ankle. So not only did Richards have to sit for a while on a sizable loss, but Shannon’s availability in early January was iffy. “His last game was Dec. 27, and he didn’t do anything except try to get healthy until Jan. 9,” Chappetto said. Shannon didn’t make his pres-ence felt very keenly against Tin-ley until the fourth period, when he notched 10 of the Bulldogs’ last 25 points. His drive to the hoop initiated Richards’ closing run and then, following a Titans turnover, Deon Alexander’s three-point play off a putback got the Bulldogs (10-3, 5-0) rolling in earnest. “We didn’t do anything differ-ent,” Chappetto said. “Our turn-overs, our missed free throws and our bad defense had gotten us in trouble, and it snowballed. But all of a sudden we realized we were in a tie game and we needed to be a little bit more together. “We just had to stop getting

Winning formulaTime off beneficial as Bulldogs top Titans

upset with each other and focus on the next play. [It helped that] Tinley quit scoring as well.” Shannon finished with 18 points for Richards, second only to Chi-cago State University-bound cen-ter Josh Meier’s team-high total of 20. Other Bulldogs reaching double digits were Spencer Tears (17 points) and Thaer Othman (11). Richards survived a nightmar-ish exhibition at the charity stripe, where it misfired on half of its 38 attempts. By doing so, it main-tained a two-game edge in the loss column over SSC Red pursuers Reavis and Shepard. Conference matchups versus Lemont and Oak Forest were on this week’s docket, as are two games in the Rockford Jefferson Tournament on Saturday. That event continues on Monday with two more contests, as the Bulldogs tangle with a pair of foes from Rockford and a couple others from Belvidere. “We play six games in six days,” Chappetto said. “This is going to be a tough stretch for us.” No official makeup date for the Marian game has yet been settled on, but Chappetto antici-pates it taking place sometime in February.

Statistics

TinleyPark 10 19 22 21 -72Richards 15 24 19 25 -83

Richards Scoring: Meier 20, Shannon18, Tears 17, T. Othman 11, Alexander9,Catledge6,White2.

By Ken Karrson

Call it a period piece. For one quarter, Quinn Niego was the whole story last Wednes-day night. Brother Rice’s senior star had already made his iden-tity well known to Crusaders foes long before that, but nothing could have adequately prepared visiting Bishop McNamara for what Niego unleashed on it during the open-ing stanza of the teams’ Chicago Catholic League matchup. Using five 3-point baskets as the main thrust, Niego torched the Fightin’ Irish with 19 points over the first eight minutes, an output that placed his name atop Rice annals for single-session scoring. His total was one more than the previous school standard, which was shared by Mike Kennedy (Class of 2008) and former two-time Player of the Year Jimmy Sexton (1994). Niego only tallied four points after that, but his initial explo-sion keyed a 27-point frame for the Crusaders and laid the groundwork for a 66-46 victory in Chicago. “I’ve been telling him since I got here that he’s a college-caliber player,” Rice coach Rick Harrigan said. “We push him a lot, but it’s easy to coach a player like that. “When players feel that good, you let the game flow as much as you can. You don’t call time-outs; you leave him alone and let him go.” With Niego serving as ringlead-er, the Crusaders (7-7, 2-3) con-structed a hefty 15-point cushion for themselves, which definitely ran counter to the slow starts

that Harrigan termed a “sore spot” for Rice on several other occasions this season. Bishop Mac battled its hosts on pretty even terms afterward, but the Irish needed more than that in order to make a legitimate run at the Crusaders. “We played pretty good,” Harri-gan said. “It was our first Catholic League game in the new year and a home game, so it was important for us to get.” Rice split four contests at York’s holiday tournament right after Christmas, but Harrigan thought his club still lacked steadiness. Both of the defeats, he felt, had been winnable games for the Crusaders. “It sounds simple, but we’ve played good in our wins and not very good in our losses,” Harri-gan said. “We want more con-sistency.” He certainly got it in this in-stance, as Niego’s scoring wasn’t the only noteworthy part of Rice’s exhibition. Also making life good for the home team were 52 percent shooting — including 44 percent (8-of-18) from 3-point land — a 29-17 rebounding edge and 14-3 assists-to-turnovers ratio. “We’ve been encouraging our guys to take better care of the ball,” Harrigan said. “We’ve got to make it a point to get a shot on every possession, and [we] don’t [want to] settle for a good shot. Get a great shot.” Besides his points, Niego aided the Crusaders with 11 rebounds and three assists. His primary cohort was fellow senior Ray Rubio, who provided Rice with 18 points, seven rebounds and

The mighty QuinnNiego sets record in Crusaders’ romp

two assists. Having that duo carry a big chunk of the load wasn’t any-thing unusual for the Crusad-ers. Making it mean more was measurable input from a third party, Dan Scanlon, who netted a dozen points. “Scanlon gets a lot of hustle plays,” Harrigan said of the se-nior, who was an all-area selection in football during the fall. “His energy is important to us.” Also key to Rice’s success here was credible defense, which forced the Irish into 11 turnovers and held them to a 42 percent accuracy rate from the field. The game was rescheduled from Tuesday, when school closures across the area forced postpone-ment of all activities that day. The Crusaders also failed to hit the court for their other slated contest against Hales Franciscan on Friday because of weather-cre-ated problems. That game will be played Satur-day at 5 p.m. at Hales. Rice hosted Nazareth Academy this past Tues-day, and Harrigan hopes that his athletes gained a big pick-me-up from their Wednesday conquest. “Teams are either getting bet-ter or worse at this point of the season,” he said. “We can’t just go through the motions.”

Statistics

BishopMac 12 11 16 7 -46BrotherRice 27 13 15 11 -66

Brother Rice Scoring: Niego 23, Rubio18,Scanlon12,Gallagher7,Conlisk6.Rebounds: Niego 11, Rubio 7. Assists:Niego3.

By Ken Karrson

Chicago Christian may not become king in its final season within the Suburban Christian Conference, but it still reigns as local royalty. The Knights became the princes of Palos Heights, at least for the 2013-14 regular season, by inch-ing their way past Shepard last Wednesday. The game, which was postponed from Tuesday because of the weather-induced closing of both schools, wasn’t decided until the very end, when the visiting Astros were unable to capital-ize on Darren Cohen’s steal of Christian’s inbounds pass. Shepard coach Tony Chiucca-riello felt Cohen had drawn con-tact on his layup, but no foul was whistled. As a result, the Knights maintained a two-point lead with less than 10 seconds left, and a pair of free throws sealed the verdict on a 50-46 victory. Chiuccariello admitted that he was “pretty upset at the officiat-ing” in more than one instance — he cited the referees’ failure to see him vigorously signaling for a fourth-quarter timeout as another frustrating moment — but he was

also quick to credit his team’s conqueror. “There were some weird calls and non-calls, but I don’t want to take anything away from Chris-tian,” Chiuccariello said. “Give them their due — I thought Chris-tian did a real nice job.” Knights boss Kevin Pittman wasn’t as enamored of his club’s showing, saying it “played well enough to win. I don’t think we played poorly, but I don’t think we played great.” Nevertheless, he appreciated Chiuccariello’s praise. “Tony’s a great guy and I love going against him,” Pittman said. “Our announcer called it ‘the Bat-tle of Palos Heights,’ and with this series it seems to go back and forth. I guess this was our turn [to succeed] and I’ll always take a win.” Blaine Wright helped finalize it for Christian by depositing 4-of-5 free throws in the closing stanza. He had 19 points, six rebounds and three assists to lead the Knights, who never re-linquished their advantage over the last eight minutes despite en-tering the quarter with a slim 36-32 edge in hand.

Three of Wright’s charity tosses extended the hosts’ lead to 42-35, but Jacob Littleton’s hoop followed for Shepard and kept it in the hunt. The Astros’ defense barely missed forcing Christian into a 10-second violation, but then Jay Spencer hit a basket for the Knights that gave them a bit more breathing room. Shepard misfired on a potential game-tying 3 with less than a min-ute-and-a-half to go after Littleton and Malcolm Lawson combined to create another Christian mis-cue. However, Cohen’s long ball answered a Knights layup and drew the visitors back within a deuce. Littleton (19 points) sank one last bucket for the Astros, but it wasn’t enough to save them. “I give them credit for com-ing up with shots out of their press break,” Chiuccariello said of Christian. “They did what they needed to do to win.” The Knights made the same number of field goals as Shepard, but bettered their guests by three at the foul line while connecting on 84 percent of their attempts. The Astros drilled just half of

Princes of PalosKnights nip Astros in neighborhood battle


Photo by Jeff Vorva

Photo by Jeff Vorva

Several Marist and Loyola Academy players set out for a loose ball during last Thursday’s matchup in Wilmette. The basketball roundup begins on Page 2.

A scramble for the ball

Shepard’s Darren Cohen fires a pass from out of bounds during the Astros’ neighborhood matchup with Chicago Christian last Wednesday. The host Knights registered a 50-46 victory.

2 Section 2 Thursday, January 16, 2014 The Regional News - The Reporter

Christmas is supposed to be a time of giving and receiving, not going and removing. That seasonal memo obviously escaped the notice of the good folks at Beef ‘O’ Brady’s, a res-taurant chain that has served as the title sponsor of a college football bowl game for the past three years. The event didn’t originate under the ‘O’ Brady’s banner — its rich history dates all the way back to 2008, when magicJack, a computer-related enterprise, provided corporate sponsorship. However, the latter wanted out at the end of a three-year agreement, and now Beef ‘O’ Brady’s is following suit. After the 2013 bowl game was played, restaurant ownership declared an unwillingness to extend its own three-year deal with orga-nizers of the contest. What a shame. Not that Beef ‘O’ Brady’s had the good sense to get out, but that it wasn’t taking the game itself along for a one-way ride into sport-ing oblivion. No, the bowl will return next December in all its manufac-tured glory, with a brand-new sponsor and a renewed sense of disinterest among the masses. This criticism is not solely aimed at Beef ‘O’ Brady’s, but the bizarre world of the never-ending bowl season. Once con-sidered a reward for a regular-season job well done, bowl games these days are more like merit badges for mediocrity. Consider that one of this season’s Beef ‘O’ Brady’s Bowl participants, Ohio University, entered the game with a spar-kling 7-5 ledger. Not too long ago, that record would have been good enough only to send Bobcats players into offseason training before Thanksgiving arrived. And OU is not alone. Each year, several bowl contests pit av-erage clubs against one another. That’s to be expected when 70 slots are needed to fill 35 bowl games, which is why six wins is sufficient for a Football Bowl Subdivision program to gain an invitation from somebody with seats to fill. My question is, how many seats really do get filled? Slug-

gish economy aside, some teams simply don’t travel very well, regardless of the financial cli-mate. For every Notre Dame, Alabama and Texas that attracts fans like a magnet to whatever destination is on the itinerary, there is a Buffalo, Louisiana La-fayette and Middle Tennessee that brings with it little more than the players and coaches who are required to make the journey. The aforementioned Beef ‘O’ Brady’s Bowl drew 20,053 fans to Tropicana Field in Florida. Granted, those numbers are enough to make the baseball-playing Marlins salivate, but there’s a good chance the oil changers at Jiffy Lube could also attract bigger crowds than the Fish. Or how about the 32,327 fans Minnesota and Syracuse coaxed into Reliant Stadium for the Texas Bowl? That figure doesn’t seem too bad until one realizes it meant the facility was still half-empty. And in case you think I’m merely singling out certain bowls to strengthen my argu-ment, maybe you’ll believe the findings on the AL.com website. According to the site — which compared attendances at each bowl for the past two years — 20 of the 35 games saw a drop in fans between 2012 and 2013, and seven of those had declines exceeding 5,000 fans compared to 2012 numbers. Of the bowl games that bucked the sliding-attendance trend, the biggest winners were the BCS title contest and the Sugar Bowl, which brought together two storied programs, Oklahoma and two-time defending national champ Alabama, for the first time in a decade. Now, in the face of such sta-tistical evidence, you’d think the NCAA would re-evaluate the landscape and do some stream-lining for the future. That would seem the most sensible course of action, which is why the bowl field is expanding to 39 games for the 2014 season. Granted, the impending four-school playoff accounts for some of that, but that gives meaning to a total of three games. Every-thing else is an afterthought.

Even if you want to include the Rose, Sugar, Orange and Cotton bowls — you know, the quar-tet that were once considered New Year’s Day staples and have histories that predate the new millennium — as viable entries, that still leaves an awful lot of fat that can be trimmed. Wall-to-wall football certainly seems like a good idea, but in reality it’s reached a point of saturation. New Year’s Day used to be a college football fan’s dream — anywhere from four to eight bowl games shown on TV that day, most of them featur-ing worthwhile and meaningful matchups, and scattered across the television dial. In our ESPN-dominated so-ciety, however, nearly as many games were played on Dec. 21 as on Jan. 1. Sorry, but most purists would say there’s some-thing very wrong with that sce-nario. Obviously, money drives ev-erything in sports, just as it does in all other facets of life. As long as revenue can be raised from bowl games, we won’t see a reduction in them, but how much of a windfall is truly be-ing realized? Ask yourself this question: If the Beef ‘O’ Brady’s Bowl was a cash cow, would the game cur-rently be sponsor-less? Just for fun, let’s see how many bowl games we can name without consulting a list. If there aren’t too many, that shouldn’t be a problem, right? I’ll give you a moment to think ... OK, how many of you remem-bered the Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl? Or the Russell Athletic, Pinstripe, Belk, BBVA Compass, Armed Forces, Heart of Dallas, V100 AdvoCare, GoDaddy, Fight Hunger and Famous Idaho Po-tato bowls? I wouldn’t have, either, with-out cheating. By the way, most of those games drew fewer than 50,000 fans — and remember, college football is a sport with very healthy regular-season at-tendance. We should really thank Beef ‘O’ Brady’s for doing its part to bring a little sanity into the bowl season by bowing out grace-fully. Too bad it’s flying solo in that regard.

No Beef with ‘O’ Brady’s desertion

Bartosh

By Anthony Nasella

With the return of guard Myris-sha Mitchell to Shepard’s lineup last week, the Lady Astros put together a much-needed two-game winning streak. Shepard defeated Mt. Assisi 48-45 on Wednesday behind a game-high 17 points from Mitch-ell, who was back in action after being sidelined with a concussion. Courtney Dalton backed Mitchell with a double-double of 11 points and 12 rebounds. One day later, the Lady Astros picked up their first South Sub-urban Conference triumph of the season by upending Bremen 45-37. While the Braves held Mitchell fairly well in check, Shepard’s pro-ductive trio of Dae Jae Williams (15 points), Abby Newsome (10) and Dalton (12 rebounds) still hurt Bremen. “The season has been tough, but these two wins were good for the girls,” said Lady Astros coach Jenna McCormick, whose club improved its ledger to 4-14 overall and 1-4 in the SSC. “Myrissha came back and played with a lot of energy against Mt. Assisi. She played really well for us [and] she’s the glue that we’ve been missing. Obviously, it’s important to get her back for the physical play she brings and her ability to run the offense.” McCormick has also been im-pressed with Dalton. “Courtney Dalton is a monster on the rebound,” McCormick said.

“She’s the hardest worker in prac-tice and the hardest worker in the games, and it’s been translating into double-doubles because she works so hard. She plays like she’s 6-foot-2, but she’s only 5-foot-6. “She definitely is physical and plays much bigger than her height. She plays with such heart.” McCormick said she was es-pecially pleased with her team’s ability to successfully close out its first conference victory against a very aggressive Braves squad. “It was a big team win against Bremen, and we came out strong,” she said. “We had a good first quarter, but in the second quarter we let up a little [and then] the second half was very physical. Our team is finally understanding and learning how to close out close games. The Bremen game was a good confidence win. “We lost four or five games by five points or less. It’s been a rough season, where we could have won some games that were tight, but now we’re learning how to win. We’re coming to work ev-ery day and playing hard with a good attitude.” McCormick said that Williams, who leads the Lady Astros in scor-ing, is another valuable asset due to her aggressive play. “Dae Jae is a stud who has come so far,” McCormick said. “Like Courtney Dalton, she plays so hard every opportunity she has to play. We’re playing her more down low, so she’s changing from a guard to post position.”

Newsome is yet another player who is emerging to a greater de-gree each time out. “Abby is a sophomore who will have her ups and downs,” Mc-Cormick said. “She [usually] plays with a lot of poise [and] it’s nice to know we have her for a couple more years. “She’s getting more confident with every game. She does all the little things well. We love hav-ing her.” As for Mitchell, McCormick be-lieves her time being idled was not a waste. “Sitting on the bench and watching the game, I think, has helped her grow,” McCormick said. “She reads the game better now and understands our offense because she saw it differently, like a coach and not a player.” With the second half of the season still ahead, McCormick believes a fully healthy Shepard club is headed in the right di-rection. “I think it took some time [af-ter] losing six seniors from last year and needing time for every-one to get comfortable with each other,” she said. “I think they’re realizing how good they can be when they play the way they’re capable of playing. “It is coming together. Hope-fully, we can continue to take steps forward and not steps back.”

STAGG Despite coming away without a victory in two SouthWest Subur-

Girls’ basketball roundupWith Mitchell back, Lady Astros move forward

By Ken Karrson

Evergreen Park experienced some small-town hospitality Sat-urday and then proceeded to play the role of big shot versus host Indian Creek. The journey to northwest-sub-urban Shabonna was a successful one for the Mustangs, who erased an early 10-point deficit with a 25-point outburst in the second quarter and then seized control of the nonconference game with an 11-2 surge late in the third pe-riod. Indian Creek never got closer than seven points over the final eight minutes and suffered a 64-54 defeat against Evergreen, which was coming off a 65-60 South Sub-urban Conference setback to Oak Forest the night before. With their win over the Tim-ber Wolves, the Mustangs sent a pack-the-place home crowd away unhappy. But while he certainly appreciated the victory, Evergreen coach Pat Flannigan wouldn’t have been inconsolable had the result been flip-flopped. Either way, he considered the trip one worth taking. “We saw the sign coming into town that said ‘905 [residents]’ — we come from a school of about 870,” Flannigan said. “I thought [visiting] a small town would be a good experience for our guys, and the people were super nice to us — [our kids] were shocked at how nice people were to them. That was good to see. “Basketball should be more than just about the game. We should also use it from a teaching standpoint. It was a nice atmo-sphere and a fun event, and [the Timber Wolves] were a worthy opponent.” Helping make Indian Creek so was a 6-foot-8 pivot man who Flannigan jokingly said “did not look that big on my IPad.” The Timber Wolves raced out to an 18-8 lead in the opening stanza and likely had the Mustangs wondering what else might be

in store for them in an atypical environment. “I don’t know if it was [be-cause of] the long bus ride, but we struggled early,” Flannigan said. “We took some bad shots before we got it going.” But get it going is what Ever-green did beginning in the second quarter. The Mustangs gained a 29-27 edge after embarking on a 10-0 run that was sparked by a three-point play and bucket from Tony Weathersby, plus a 3-point hoop by Tyler Sorbellini. The game stayed close through most of the third period as well, but another Sorbellini 3 and bas-kets by Jacquet McClendon, Alex Cheatham and Tobi Olajedo fi-nally put Evergreen in control. “We had some good spurts and we were able to wear them down,” Flannigan said. “I think we made better decisions [as the game pro-gressed] and, offensively, I thought we played pretty well except for free-throw shooting.” Weathersby and McClendon tallied 17 and 10 points, respec-tively, to give the Mustangs a trio of double-digit men. Leading the charge was Issac Matthews, who topped Evergreen in scoring (20 points), rebounding (nine) and steals (three). Flannigan was glad to see his guys deal effectively with the change in their normal routine and thinks it might indicate they’re on the cusp of a genuine breakthrough. “We get in a rut sometimes be-cause guys have an off-night and we don’t have much depth, but we’re very competitive,” he said. “Our kids fight and they’re pretty athletic. There’s nobody I think would be willing to play us again because we’re not a pushover.”OakForest 65EvergreenPark 60 The Bengals found that out on Friday, as the Mustangs (4-7, 0-5) gave them all they could handle. Were it not for some empty pos-sessions in the fourth period, Ev-

Small-town big shotsMustangs prosper on trip to Shabonna

ergreen might have sprung an upset on Oak Forest. Jordan Brown’s bucket had the Mustangs within 50-47 at the 6:12 mark, but five missed shots and a couple turnovers dogged Ever-green down the stretch. A score-less span that lasted more than four minutes ultimately doomed the Mustangs. Flannigan was not bothered by Evergreen’s latest close loss in conference play, however. “We played to our game plan,” he said. “Oak Forest had a little more talent — this is probably one of the most talented teams they’ve had. You can’t beat your kids up about that.” Oladejo had 18 points, including four 3-pointers, and four steals to pace the Mustangs. McClendon chipped in 12 points, both Brown (five rebounds) and Weathersby tossed in 10, and Matthews sup-plied eight points and five as-sists. Evergreen stayed close despite shooting just 42 percent from the floor and 53 percent at the line. The Mustangs had four contests on tap for this week, including two on Saturday in a tournament at Moline. Hillcrest and Bremen provided Evergreen with SSC crossover competition.

Statistics

EvergreenPark 13 15 13 19 -60OakForest 19 9 18 19 -65

Evergreen Park Scoring: Oladejo 18,McClendon 12, Brown 10, Weathersby10,Matthews8,Cheatham2.Rebounds:Brown 5. Assists: Matthews 5. Steals:Oladejo4.

EvergreenPark 8 25 19 12 -64IndianCreek 18 13 12 11 -54

Evergreen Park Scoring: Matthews 20,Weathersby17,McClendon10,Oladejo8,Sorbellini6,Cheatham3.Rebounds:Matthews9.Assists:Oladejo4.Steals:Matthews3.

By Ken Karrson

In the final analysis, the final quarter was a fickle entity for Marist. One minute, the fourth period was the RedHawks’ best friend. That was the case last Thursday, when Marist overcame a nine-point deficit at the start of that frame by outscoring Lindblom 21-8 the rest of the way. But no sooner had the Red-Hawks bagged a satisfying 51-47 victory over the Eagles than Carmel was turning the tables on them in an East Suburban Catholic Conference encounter. On Saturday, it was the Corsairs putting forth the late-game hero-ics, as their 19-8 points advantage enabled them to lock up a 48-38 triumph. “I’m proud of our kids’ effort,” Marist coach Gene Nolan said following his team’s setback, just its third of the season. “I wish for them they could have experienced a really good win on the road. “I really like [Carmel’s] team. Last year, they had their first win-ning season in 21 years and played in a sectional final, and they’re 13-3 this year. Their kids under-stand their roles real well and they don’t beat themselves.” Nor, in Nolan’s opinion, did the RedHawks (12-3, 1-1), who played without Nic Weishar. The senior forward sprained his ankle in the second quarter of Thurs-day’s contest, briefly re-entered the game against Lindblom, then hurt it again and was sidelined for good. But even without Weishar’s for-midable presence, Marist didn’t wilt, despite the fact its players

had to contend with the Corsairs’ 6-foot-10 center, John George. “For the first three quarters, I thought the pace of the game was good for us,” said Nolan, whose team held a 30-29 lead after 24 minutes. “We were very efficient offensively and defensively. Over-all, I thought the kids played well.” That really didn’t change in the fourth frame, but the Cor-sairs picked that time to assert themselves in the paint. Carmel grabbed offensive rebounds and hit putbacks on its first three possessions of the period, which came on the heels of a similar occurrence at the conclusion of the third quarter. “Those were things we couldn’t defend,” Nolan said. “It slowly got away from us after that.” The RedHawks never lost sight of their foe, but 37 percent shoot-ing (14-of-38) and a shortage of free throws ultimately did them in. Marist’s lackluster marksman-ship overshadowed its low turn-over total of seven. “I thought the kids took great shots,” Nolan said. “But Car-mel was jamming our shooters on closeouts and they defended without fouling.” Brian Holland solved the Cor-sairs’ defense well enough to pace the RedHawks with 14 points. Only four other Marist players reached the scoring column, however, with the eight points registered by Jeremiah Ferguson and Kevin Lerma (five rebounds) representing the locals’ second-highest output.

Marist 51Lindblom 47 Upon entering their meeting with the Eagles, the RedHawks were experiencing a game-day en-vironment for the first time since Dec. 28, when they concluded a 3-1 stay at the Centralia Tour-nament by logging a consolation championship. Nolan called the extended break “big, but not bad.” “I think it’s good when you go back to basic fundamentals after Christmas and have time to practice them,” he said. “You get some answers to where are we and why, and where are we going and how?” Certainly, Marist’s first-period performance indicated no signs of rust. The RedHawks outscored

Fourth-right — and wrongFinal quarter goes boom, then bust for RedHawks

Lindblom 15-8 and seemed to have the situation fairly well in hand. But Weishar went down in the second stanza, and along with him went Marist’s solid play. Eleven of the RedHawks’ 16 turnovers occurred over the middle two quarters, and the hosts saw their lead quickly evaporate. “Our issue was [lack of] ball security,” Nolan said. “You can’t play great offense [like that], ob-viously, but you can’t play great defense, either, because you can’t defend turnovers.” But just when it appeared as if Marist was in deep trouble, back it came behind 3-pointers from Bradley Hill, Brian Barry and Holland, the latter’s bring-ing the RedHawks into a 42-all fourth-period deadlock. Setting up that critical basket was Ryan Tucker’s steal and pass to Barry, who earned the assist. “He had no business getting to it,” Nolan said of Tucker’s thievery. “There were two or three [Lindblom] guys closer to the ball than he was, but he just dove on the floor and was able to get a hand on it. “As soon as we got back into a tie, the kids believed they had a chance.” Also part of Marist’s fourth-quarter surge were six Eagles turnovers, five free throws from Ferguson (nine points, four re-bounds) and one by Tucker that made it a two-possession game with little time remaining. Lerma (11 points, six rebounds, two assists), Holland (nine points) and Weishar (eight points, four re-bounds) also positively influenced the outcome for Marist, which was due to play St. Laurence and Har-lan this week.

Statistics

Lindblom 8 17 12 10 -47Marist 15 9 6 21 -51

Marist Scoring: Lerma 11, Ferguson 9,Holland 9, Weishar 8, Hill 6, Tucker 5,Barry 3. Rebounds: Lerma 6. Assists:Lerma2,Tucker2.

Marist 10 14 6 8 -38Carmel 12 7 10 19 -48

MaristScoring:Holland14,Ferguson8,Lerma 8, Hill 6, Hawkins 2. Rebounds:Lerma 5. Assists: Ferguson 2, Hill 2,Tucker2.

Marist’s Skylar Patterson tries to stay ahead of a pursuing Loyola Academy defender last Thursday in the Lady RedHawks’ nonconference loss.

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The Regional News - The Reporter Thursday, January 16, 2014 Section 2 3

Chicago Christian’s Bradford Fitzpatrick grabs some of Shepard player Nick Heidinger’s jersey last Wednesday in Palos Heights.

their 18 charity tosses and also wound up short on the boards, as they again played without Kyle Longfield, who fractured a bone in his foot during Christmas tourna-ment play and is lost to Shepard indefinitely. Also scoring in double figures for Christian were Spencer (10 points) and Trevor Wolterink (10 points, six rebounds, three assists). Pittman thought the Knights’ victory represented a logical progression from their fi-nal holiday outing, which featured Christian playing Reavis tough before losing by single digits. “There was a lot more good than bad [versus the Rams],” Pittman said. “A couple key things for us right now are the two P’s: patience and poise, and we saw some of the improvement we were hoping to make [in that regard].”ImmaculateConception 61ChicagoChristian 37 Pittman lost his own patience on Friday, so much so that he was assessed a pair of technical fouls and won’t be able to coach Saturday’s game against Guerin Prep. Knights assistant coach Wally Ottenhoff also received a “T” in Christian’s rematch with IC. What set the two men off? Well, a 26-8 differential in foul calls cer-tainly didn’t put either Pittman or Ottenhoff in a good frame of mind. IC found itself in the double bonus with three minutes left in the first half, while being guilty of just two fouls of its own over those first 13 minutes. “I’m not saying we didn’t com-mit any fouls,” Pittman said. “But in no way, shape or form were we the more aggressive team.” Despite the apparent uphill climb, Christian (6-9, 0-4) trailed by only four at halftime. Still, Pit-tman found that circumstance frustrating. “We outplayed them the whole first half,” he said of IC. “Playing as well as we did, I think [our ath-letes] were a little deflated going into the locker room. I think the kids were wondering what they had to do [to catch a break].” The score remained close into the fourth quarter, but IC’s seven-point edge soon grew significantly,

thanks to a series of free throws. What finally made Pittman — who had only been assessed three tech-nical fouls in 19 years of coach-ing prior to Friday night — blow his cool was when Wright was charged with an offensive foul while stationed right in front of the Knights’ bench. According to Pittman, Wright’s pushing away of an IC defender’s arm came only after the latter had made contact with Wright’s face while guarding the Christian player. “There was clear contact, and at that point I was beside my-self,” Pittman said. “I had just had enough. If the coaches didn’t get a technical foul there, Blaine would have because he was livid. It was a time I felt I had to step up and protect our players.” While Pittman was understand-ably irate, he later regretted “it got down to that level” and apolo-gized to his players because “that doesn’t excuse what I did.” With the charity tosses aiding it, IC ran away from the Knights in the fourth period by outscor-ing them 25-8. IC had beaten Christian by 17 points back on Dec. 13. Wright had 11 points, eight re-bounds and three assists for the Knights, while Wolterink con-tributed eight points and seven boards.Shepard 49Bremen 31 Playing what Chiuccariello deemed “our best defensive game of the season” on Friday night was enough for the Astros to roll over the Braves in a South Suburban Conference crossover game in Palos Heights. Knowing his squad enjoyed an overall size advantage against Bremen, Chiuccariello desired to exploit that asset as much as possible. “We wanted to make them play a half-court game,” he said. “They have a small team with quick guards, so we did not want a transition game.” A 9-7 first period favoring Shepard (6-8, 3-2) proved that the Astros were doing what their leader wanted. The hosts were up by eight (33-25) after three stanzas, then gradually increased their lead in the early stages of the final quarter by scoring a few times at the end of long posses-

sions. Buckets by Malik Smith and Littleton were part of the clinch-ing surge, as were a couple of free throws. “Everything was being passed around and going inside,” Chiuc-cariello said. “We got to be pa-tient and were taking what the defense gave us. Offensively, we were sloppy at times [earlier], but we played really hard.” Littleton dropped in 26 points to pace the Astros, while Cohen chipped in 10 points and seven re-bounds. Nick Heidinger and Zack Haxel collected 15 more boards for Shepard, which posted a 35-24 advantage on the glass. Chiuccariello would have pre-ferred something better than a 32 percent success rate from his squad shooting-wise, but that wasn’t a problem here. The As-tros held the Braves to a field-goal percentage of just 27 while forcing 15 turnovers. “If we can play defense like this all the time, we’re going to be successful,” said Chiuccari-ello, whose team was scheduled to face TF South and TF North this week. Shepard hosts the Me-teors on Friday.

Statistics

Shepard 13 10 9 14 -46Chgo.Christian 11 13 12 14 -50

ShepardScoring:Littleton19,Cohen9,Haxel7,Gorski6,Heidinger3,Smith2.Rebounds: Heidinger 5. Assists: Cohen4.Steals:Cohen3.

Chicago Christian Scoring: Wright 19,Spencer 10, Wolterink 10, Leo 6, Fitz-patrick5.Rebounds:Fitzpatrick7,Wolt-erink6,Wright6.Assists:Fitzpatrick3,Wolterink3,Wright3.

Chgo.Christian 10 10 9 8 -37IC 9 15 12 25 -61

Chicago Christian Scoring: Wright 11,Wolterink 8, Spencer 4, Washington 4,Parker3,Fitzpatrick2,Leo2,Winchester2,Decker1.Rebounds:Wright8,Wolt-erink7.Assists:Parker4.

Bremen 7 9 9 6 -31Shepard 9 13 11 16 -49

ShepardScoring:Littleton26,Cohen10,Gorski4,Haxel3,Heidinger2,Smith2,Witherspoon2.Rebounds:Heidinger9,Cohen7,Haxel6.


Knights

Bradford Fitzpatrick’s hair flies as the Chicago Christian player goes after a jump ball last Wednes-day versus Shepard.

Photo by Jeff Vorva

Photo by Jeff Vorva

By Ken Karrson

Normally, a 10-point loss doesn’t present grounds for optimism. When it comes on the heels of a 43-point setback, however, there’s a reason for hope. That’s the way St. Laurence coach Mark Sevedge viewed last week’s happenings. Mind you, he certainly wasn’t thrilled with dropping a Chicago Catholic League decision to St. Ignatius on Friday, but Sevedge knew the circumstances could have been much worse for his club. That’s because they definitely were on Wednesday, when Loyola Academy visited Burbank and made off with a resounding 69-26 win. The Ramblers, whose only two defeats to date were admin-istered by opponents outside the state of Illinois, used a combina-tion of sharpshooting and rugged defense to run roughshod over the Vikings. “They’re the real deal — they’ve got everything,” Sevedge said of Loyola. “They’re not huge, but they just play so hard. They run a very similar offense to ours, so we were prepared, but they’re probably one of the best shoot-ing teams we’ve seen.” Interestingly, St. Laurence (2-11, 0-6) did a credible defensive job on Ramblers guard Jack Morrissey, who was named the Catholic League North’s best player as a junior. In this latest encounter, Morrissey managed only 14 points, just two of which were tallied while he was being guarded by Vikings junior Mike Witkowski. “We picked our poison and chose to concentrate on trying to stop Morrissey,” Sevedge said. “We were hoping nobody else would hurt us.” That turned out to be a hope left unfulfilled, as guard James Clark tossed in 19 points for Loyola.

Sevedge called Clark, who went on to blitz Mt. Carmel with a 28-point explosion two days later, “a difference-maker.” Hampering the Vikings, too, was their own inaccuracy. While the Ramblers clicked on 50 per-cent of their shots from both in-side and outside the 3-point arc and all but four of their 19 free throws, St. Laurence went 8-of-42 from the floor, which offset a relatively mistake-free display overall. “We were forcing everything we were trying to do offensively,” said Sevedge, whose team was charged with only five turnovers. “They were so aggressive and we were taking quick shots — nothing [happened] in a good rhythm because we were playing at a fast tempo.” No Viking reached double dig-its in scoring. Quentin Forberg’s eight points led the way, while Rich Lamb added five points and a team-best three rebounds.

St. Ignatius 61St.Laurence 51 Given the lopsided nature of Wednesday’s contest, Sevedge was understandably nervous about his guys’ state of mind entering Friday’s matchup in Chicago. One thing did bring him some sense of calm, though. “Thursday night was probably our best practice of the season,” Sevedge said. “We ran toughness drills — we worked on taking charges and diving on the floor for loose balls — and we kind of put Wednesday’s game behind us.” With Tim Delaney and Matt Gurgone notching 12 and 10 points, respectively, and three other players tallying eight apiece, the Vikings boasted an offensive balance that had been missing from their previous performance. That didn’t prevent the Wolfpack

Defeated, but not beatenVikings hopeful following loss at St. Ignatius

from enjoying a double-figure ad-vantage much of the evening, but they were also unable to com-pletely distance themselves from their foe. “Every time they tried to build it up a little bit, we’d go on a 5-0 or 6-0 spurt,” said Sevedge, whose team drilled five 3-pointers in the fourth quarter to keep some heat on the hosts. “It seemed to me that St. Ignatius never felt comfortable with the lead. If we could have gotten [the margin] under 10, I think we would have had them on their heels.” St. Laurence’s 17-of-44 shoot-ing was an improvement over Wednesday’s effort, but still not what Sevedge would prefer. In his opinion, however, the Vikings were hurt more by their defense, which allowed the Wolfpack to connect on 55 percent of their field-goal tries. “[But] at least our kids fought,” Sevedge said. “Everybody who was dressed and ready to go did that, and it’s something we’ve got to build on.” St. Laurence stepped outside of the Catholic League this past Tuesday to clash with Marist. The Vikes host Gordon Tech on Friday.

Statistics

LoyolaAcad. 21 18 18 12 -69St.Laurence 8 11 3 4 -26

St.LaurenceScoring:Forberg8,Lamb5,Carli4,Delaney3,Witkowski3,Gurgone2,Radford1.Rebounds:Lamb3.Assists:Delaney2,Gurgone2.

St.Laurence 9 12 8 22 -51St. Ignatius 17 17 14 13 -61

St.LaurenceScoring:Delaney12,Gur-gone 10, Forberg 8, Kelly 8, Lamb 8,DanCurley2,Radford2,Cummings1.Rebounds:Lamb5.Assists:Radford3.

By Ken Karrson

Scoring points was easy for Sandburg Friday night — when it managed to hang onto the bas-ketball, that is. The latter task proved far more difficult than Eagles coach Todd Allen ever envisioned. While he certainly respected the athleticism visiting Joliet West brought into the SouthWest Suburban Confer-ence Blue contest, Allen didn’t plan on seeing Sandburg so badly victimized by it. The Tigers caused the Eagles to commit a season-high 26 turn-overs, several of which the former converted into fast-break points. Twenty-two of those, plus 17 sec-ond-chance points that resulted from 20 offensive rebounds were the main ingredients for Joliet West, which weathered superb shooting by Sandburg to bag a 77-73 over-time triumph in Orland Park. “If you shoot 62 percent from two-point range and 47 percent from 3-point range, you’d like to think your chances of winning were pretty good,” said Allen, whose club did that very thing. “That’s bizarre — I don’t know if we’ve ever done something like that before. “They pressured and trapped us, and we made a lot of poor decisions. It was a tough one to swallow and we were pretty dis-appointed.” Despite all their miscues, the Eagles (4-9, 1-3) were still on the

verge of success in the late going of regulation. But Sandburg’s misses on the front end of two 1-and-1s left the door ajar for the Tigers, then the visitors benefited from what Allen thought was a rather questionable foul call with two seconds remaining. Joliet West sank just one of the two ensuing free throws, but that was enough to force OT. The Ti-gers outscored the Eagles 10-6 in the extra session, going ahead to stay on a putback that followed a Joliet West steal and missed shot in transition. “It was a game where we had an eight-to-10-point lead in the second half,” said Allen, whose team was up 57-50 after 24 minutes. “When you’re five or six points ahead in the fourth quarter and the other team fouls you, it’s a problem when you don’t make free throws.” Ironically, foul shooting had actu-ally been a Sandburg strong suit for most of the night. Besides the aforementioned 1-and-1s, the Eagles were off-target only four other times at the stripe in 22 chances. Wasted in the setback was a 32-point outburst by senior for-ward Niko Cahue, double-digit scoring from guard Niko Kogionis (15 points) and Eric Straka’s 14-rebound effort. Also of note were Alec Martinez’s seven assists, part of a 22-assist display by Sandburg, which totaled 25 field goals. “I was pleased with a lot of things we did,” Allen said. “When

Points of no returnEagles waste strong offensive effort

we didn’t turn the ball over, we did some good things. We scored over 60 points once last year, but we haven’t had trouble doing that [this season].” The Eagles were superior to Joliet West shooting-wise, but the Tigers compensated for their 45 percent success rate by attempting 27 more field goals, a number obvi-ously made possible by the visitors’ dominance on the offensive glass. Joliet West’s total of 35 re-bounds was just three more than Sandburg managed, but the home team fell well short of the Tigers in both fast-break and second-chance points. While Joliet West was accumulating a combined 39 points via those methods, the Eagles were limited to 19. “Those were key stats and something we just couldn’t over-come,” Allen said. Sandburg’s next opportunity to right some of its wrongs oc-curs Saturday, when it squares off with conference and District 230 neighbor Stagg at the United Center.

Statistics

FinalJolietWest 77Sandburg 73

SandburgScoring:Cahue32,Kogionis15,Paxinos8,Straka6,Martinez5,Manthey3,Hyde2,Mansour2.Rebounds:Straka14.Assists:Martinez7.

Trinity sports report

The beat goes on

Photo by Jeff Vorva

Although it appears that Trinity Christian College’s Erynn Schuh is getting the worst of things, St. Xavier University’s Morgan Stuut, 32, went to the line after this play last Wednesday.

By Tim Cronin

Trinity Christian College’s men’s basketball team is getting closer to conference success — so close, in fact, that the defeats have become much more agonizing. Saturday brought the latest example, as the Trolls suffered a 75-69 overtime road defeat to fellow Chicagoland Collegiate Ath-letic Conference member Calu-met College of St. Joseph. Trinity stayed in contention until the end despite shooting only 36 percent from the floor, a figure that was eight percentage points below the Crimson Wave’s mark. The Trolls were able to hang around and force extra time via the 3-point shot. Jared Jones made five of Trinity’s seven baskets from beyond the arc, with the Trolls hitting five of theirs in the second half while the hosts were being blanked. Calumet College captured the contest with a parade to the free-throw line in overtime. The Crimson Wave were 9-of-13 at the stripe in the extra five minutes. That, and a resounding dunk from

Robert Jackson (20 points), helped make the difference. The Trolls had four players tally

in double figures, beginning with Jones’ 19 points. Jake Van Den



ban Conference Blue road games last week, Lady Chargers coach Bill Turner said there were several positives Stagg players could take away from those contests. The week began with a 59-49 loss to Bolingbrook on Wednesday. Lockport then extended the Lady Chargers’ misery by posting a 43-34 triumph two days later. Stagg enjoyed a great start against the Lady Raiders as it hit its first six field-goal attempts and constructed a 12-9 lead. Ju-nior Mia DiGiacomo was the Lady Chargers’ game-long person of in-fluence as she totaled 18 points on 8-of-10 shooting and pulled down 10 rebounds. But just as quickly as Stagg got hot, it cooled down. The Lady Chargers went nearly eight min-utes without a point, a drought that bridged the first and second stanzas and pushed them into a 27-17 halftime hole. “When you go eight minutes without a point, we felt fortu-nate to be in the game with a very good [Lady] Raiders team,” Turner said.” Stagg senior Hannah Henderson (14 points, seven rebounds, three assists) led an offensive explosion of 22 points in the third period, with help from DiGiacomo, senior Casey McMahon (six points, four assists, four steals) and sophomore Kate Adams (seven points, seven rebounds). However, Bolingbrook still managed to take an 11-point edge with it into the final frame, and the Lady Chargers were only able to play even with the Lady Raiders the rest of the way. “I thought we gave a great effort for the entire 32 minutes and were able to fight through the second quarter scoring drought [by] keep-ing our poise and composure,” Turner said. “Out-rebounding a very good basketball team [33-29] is a good sign for us. “That is our sixth opponent in a row that we have held a rebound-ing advantage over. Now, we need to find a way to put a few more points on the board.”

*** In its other contest, Stagg (6-9, 0-4) again held a decisive edge on the glass, but even that 35-20 differential couldn’t prevent a loss to Lockport. “We couldn’t convert [enough of] those rebounds into points,” Turner said. DiGiacomo (10 points, 13 re-bounds) and McMahon (10 points, seven rebounds) and DiGiacomo (10 points, 13 rebounds) were the main contributors for the Lady Chargers, who were ahead 20-19 at the half after trailing by four with eight minutes gone. DiGiacomo’s double-double was her fourth of the season. “She has really stepped up her game and continues to improve in all facets of the game,” Turner said. Stagg was up 34-31 midway through the fourth quarter, but then Henderson fouled out and momentum started to shift away from the Lady Chargers. “Hannah is our best defender and provides leadership for us with co-captain Casey McMa-hon,” Turner said. “Some of our turnovers really hurt us in this one.” Also hampering the locals was another untimely dry spell, this one lasting about four minutes. “We are going to have to find a way to generate some consistent offense and get some points from a few other players,” Turner said. “We have played a lot of close games this season, wins and losses alike. I believe our average scoring differential versus our opponents is around three.

“Even though we did not come away with a win last week, I like the direction our team is going. The girls are very positive, work hard, continue to give a good effort and have a great attitude. That is all a coach can ever ask for.”

OAKLAWN Having not played a game since Dec. 21, Lady Spartans coach Ja-net Meyers was hoping her team would still be ready to face a very tough Hillcrest squad. However, the time off didn’t benefit Oak Lawn, as the Lady Hawks prevailed 64-27 on Thurs-day in the SSC crossover affair. The Lady Spartans bounced back smartly, though, from their initial setback of the season by roasting Oak Forest 60-27 on Saturday. The matchup with Hillcrest was close at the outset. Oak Lawn struck first on baskets from Jan-nah Mahmoud and LaTondra Brooks, both of which were set up by Brooke Annerino, but it was behind 13-9 at the quarter stop. The second period was the Lady Spartans’ undoing. A 19-6 scoring advantage for the Lady Hawks shoved Oak Lawn into a deep — and ultimately inescap-able — hole. “Although we outscored them in the second half, we could not recover from the second-quarter deficit,” Meyers said. “We hustled the entire game, but we seemed to be a step slow. They did a good job of stopping our running game and we did not do a good job on the boards.” The Lady Hawks snared 23 of-fensive rebounds, which led to 18 second-chance points for them. “You cannot run and score in transition if you cannot rebound,” Meyers said. “We had been suc-cessful all year by holding teams to one shot, scoring in transition and having a balanced scoring at-tack — we did not do any of those things against Hillcrest. We let them get to us mentally, and it showed.” Brooks topped the Lady Spar-tans with 28 points, five steals and three assists. Brianna Markusic added seven points and 10 re-bounds for Oak Lawn, which shot just 27 percent from the field. That mark included a 12 percent success rate beyond the arc.

*** It was a completely different story against Oak Forest, as the Lady Spartans found their offen-sive rhythm and raced out to a

23-5 first-period edge. “One of our goals was to get back to having strong first quar-ters,” Meyers said. “The girls were upset about our loss to Hillcrest, and we talked about refocusing and getting ourselves back on track. “We had a tough practice on Friday and worked a lot on de-fense and blocking out. We did a good job of scoring in transition and much better on the defensive boards.” Markusic delivered 13 points to spark Oak Lawn’s early getaway and finished with a game-high 23, to go along with nine rebounds. “Our posts really stepped up for us, scoring 44 of our 60 points,” Meyers said. “LaTondra had another nice game for us. She did a good job of feeding our posts and getting in the passing lanes defensively.” Also contributing for Oak Lawn (14-1, 4-1) were Mahmoud (16 points, six rebounds), Brooks (six points, eight assists, seven steals), Annerino (six points) and Alyssa Radoicic (five).

SANDBURG The Lady Eagles won twice in SWSC Blue play last week: 44-40 over Lockport on Wednesday and 56-38 victory over Joliet West on Friday. Sandburg saw a 10-point lead against the Lady Porters whittled down to one in the late going, but Julia Ruzevich saved the day for the Lady Eagles by nailing three free throws in the final 20 sec-onds. Two of those came at the six-second mark. Ruzevich finished with 11 points, second only to Victoria Stavropoulos’ 14, and six re-bounds. Sam Youngwirth con-tributed six points for Sandburg (12-6, 3-1). Stavropoulos was the Lady Eagles’ scoring leader again on Friday with 17 points, which were complemented by eight rebounds. Ruzevich supplied 15 points and seven boards.

RICHARDS The Lady Bulldogs split a pair of matches last week, with the loss coming by a 43-41 score to Tinley Park in an SSC crossover matchup on Friday. Two days before that, Richards defeated Chicago Agri-cultural Science 69-51. The latter contest was es-sentially over not too long after it began, as the Lady Bulldogs built a 25-7 first-quarter lead. The margin stood at 19 points by intermission and Ag Science never got closer than eight points during the second half. Sydni Tears poured in 31 points for Richards, while Carly Stazak joined her in double figures with 12. Also contributing were Bri-anna Kuchenny (eight points) and Christina Kwartnik (six). The Lady Bulldogs (6-8, 1-4) led Tinley after both the first and second quarters, but couldn’t fight back from a 33-28 deficit the Lady Titans created in the third stanza. Tears (22 points), Stazak (nine) and Taylor Sonichsen (five) were Richards’ principal performers.

MARIST The Lady RedHawks (8-8) dropped decisions to Loyola Acad-emy (72-55) and Bishop McNa-mara (66-60) on Thursday and Saturday, respectively. Skylar Patterson paced Marist with 13 points opposite the Lady Irish. Brooke Wyderski added 12, Teyha Fortune had 10, and Claire Finn narrowly missed a double-double as she finished with nine points and 10 rebounds.

EVERGREENPARK After capturing the title at Chicago Agricultural Science’s Christmas tournament, the Lady Mustangs fell short of Oak Forest, 54-47, in an SSC crossover game last Thursday. Megan Pfister, who had been chosen for the all-tournament team at Ag Science, led Evergreen (11-8, 2-2) versus the Lady Ben-gals with 13 points.


Basketball roundup

Marist’s Tehya Fortune dribbles the ball downcourt against Loyola Academy last Thursday.

Photo by Jeff Vorva

BASKETBALLSTANDINGS

8thGrade

W LJr. Phoenix 4 1LAC Indians 4 1Burbank Fusion 3 2Cardinals 2 3Jr. T-Bolts 2 3Sutherland 0 5

7thGrade

W LLemont Coyotes 4 0LAC Indians 3 1Jr. T-Bolts 2 2Oak Lawn Deer 2 2Shooters 1 3

Sutherland 0 4

5thGrade W LJaguars 4 1Jr. Knights 4 1Jr. T-Bolts 4 1Lemont Coyotes 3 1Orland Magic 2 3Shooters 2 3Palos Demons 1 5Eagles 0 5

4thGrade W LOrland Magic 4 1R-B Bulldogs (Blue) 4 1Lemont Coyotes 2 3R-B Bulldogs (White) 0 5

Chicago RidgePark District

By Ken Karrson

For a while Friday night, Oak Lawn was one of the haves. The last 16 minutes of their South Suburban Conference crossover game with Hillcrest, however, became a half not for the Spartans. What Oak Lawn was unable to do with any regularity was tally points. After hanging with the Hawks throughout the first two quarters and trailing by only a deuce at intermission, the Spar-tans’ offense went into the deep freeze. Single-digit outputs in both the third and fourth periods doomed Oak Lawn, which got outscored by Hillcrest in each stanza and wound up suffering a 56-37 set-back. “They started extending their pressure a little bit and forced us closer to the sideline,” Spartans coach Jason Rhodes said of the Hawks. “That’s Hillcrest — that’s what they do. “[And] I think fatigue ended up being a little bit of a factor. We were making mistakes we weren’t making before.” Oak Lawn (3-7, 0-5) was mis-take-free in the second frame, as it committed no turnovers after getting charged with seven in the opening quarter. That ball secu-rity enabled the Spartans to chalk up 14 points in the eight minutes before halftime, which drew them into a 24-all tie. Hillcrest snapped it with a buzz-er-beating layup, but Rhodes still felt good about where his squad was positioned. Mitch Swatek and David Stacy accounted for all but two of Oak Lawn’s first-

half markers, and the Spartans were also helped along by solid board work — 11 times they se-cured offensive rebounds to keep possessions alive. “The three keys for us going into the game were to keep the rebounding numbers close, which we did, keep turnovers to a mini-mum and knock down some 3s,” Rhodes said. “The 3 was a [big] part of our attack and we got a bunch of good looks [from behind the arc], but only one went down [in the second half].” Despite its early prosperity, Oak Lawn didn’t enjoy dead-eye success from long distance before halftime, either. As a result, it ended the evening with a sub-par 4-of-23 ef-fort from 3-point territory. “We wanted to make 10 of them,” Rhodes said. “We had good ball movement and we weren’t shooting quick. We were being very patient.” That lack of perimeter-based firepower proved fatal to the Spartans, who gave up 24 fast-break points to Hillcrest while netting only four themselves and were at an 11-3 disadvantage at the charity stripe. The Hawks attempted 18 free throws in all, while Oak Lawn received just five chances. “We had a hard time getting to the free-throw line because of their size,” Rhodes said. Hillcrest hit 22-of-50 shots from the field, a conversion rate Rhodes felt spoke fairly well of the Spartans’ defensive performance. So, too, did the Hawks’ 15 turn-overs. The biggest bright spot for Hillcrest was George McDaniel, who notched 14 points on 7-of-8 shooting.

Have and half notSpartans’ quiet offense costly in loss

The Hawks began leaving the Spartans in the rearview mirror in the third period after the lat-ter were assessed a technical foul while they had the ball. Hillcrest proceeded to sink a free throw and basket to up its edge to seven and Oak Lawn slowly slipped further in arrears. Swatek and Stacy paced the Spar-tans in scoring, even though neither player added to his total over the final two quarters. Stacy also had 10 rebounds and three assists to lead the locals in both of those categories. Josh Prince provided seven points and seven boards. Oak Lawn was supposed to meet Stagg in a nonconference tilt last Tuesday, but the contest was postponed. It will be made up on Feb. 1. The Spartans were set to tangle with Bremen and TF South in two more SSC crossovers this week, and they’ll also take part in a shootout at York on Saturday. The outcome with Hillcrest notwith-standing, Rhodes is optimistic that Oak Lawn can soon start reaping greater success. “Hopefully, we can keep im-proving,” he said. “We’ve had a couple stinkers — we played Oak Forest right before Christmas and got thumped pretty good — but we’ve been competitive in most games.”

Statistics

Hillcrest 9 17 14 16 -56OakLawn 10 14 5 8 -37

OakLawnScoring:Swatek12,Stacy10,Prince7,Cosenza3,Samra3,Jones2.Rebounds: Stacy 10, Prince 7. Assists:Stacy3.

Straight talk from Bartoshin Sports Southwest

On the edge...and right on target!

Submitted photo

Evergreen Park freshman Shaun Quinn bowled a perfect game for the Mustangs at Saturday’s South Suburban Conference Red meet.

Evergreen freshmanbowlsperfectgame Evergreen Park High School freshman Shaun Quinn is one of only three varsity bowlers for the Mustangs, and he experienced a once-in-a-lifetime thrill at El Mar Lanes in Burbank on Saturday. While Evergreen couldn’t field a complete team for the South Suburban Conference Red meet, Quinn made his individual pres-ence felt in a huge way. As an at-large competitor representing the Mustangs, Quinn rolled a 300 score during his six-game series. His first perfect showing al-lowed Quinn to place fourth at the varsity level with a 1,299 se-ries. He also recorded games of 231 and 218 during the morning portion of the meet. “It was awesome to see the support [Quinn got] from the other schools, during and after his [perfect] game,” Evergreen coach Ron Pula said. “Shaun is an accomplished bowler who has been bowling since the age of 3. He is a talented lefty with high aspirations to compete at the col-legiate and possibly professional levels in his life. “Not having a team to field put us at a disadvantage in the compe-tition, but all three boys did their best and Shaun demonstrated a high skill level at his first high school-level competition. We are hopeful that he can achieve anoth-er high finish [in this weekend’s regional].” Also taking part for the Mus-tangs at the SSC Red meet were Nick Montano and Isiah Colon.

Stagg’sKellynamed toall-stateacademic team Stagg senior Austin Kelly, a two-time member of this paper’s all-area football team, recently added a scholastic honor to his list of accomplishments.

Kelly, whose career total of 1,389 rushing yards made him the Chargers’ No. 2 ground gainer in the new millennium, earned a spot on the Illinois High School Foot-ball Coaches Association All-State Academic team. Stagg’s former captain sports a 3.8 grade-point average on a 4.0 scale.

OakLawnsecondatRicebowling tourney With a pinfall total of 5,905, Oak Lawn trailed only Free-port and captured second place at Brother Rice’s Winter Finale bowling event. Ryan Kirby was the Spartans’ top individual with a 1,354 series, which was good for third place overall. The host Crusaders, who were fifth as a team with 5,728 pins, boasted the best single-game bowl-er in Anthony Butler, whose top effort left him just 11 pins shy of a perfect game. St. Laurence’s Manny Sanlhez took fifth with a high game of 267.

HickoryHills,PalosHillsbaseballprogramsmerge After years of competing against each other as local rivals, Hickory Hills Youth Baseball and the Palos Hills Baseball Association have merged into one organization. The new entity will be known as “Hills Baseball Softball Asso-ciation,” and provide baseball and softball at all levels for children aged 4-16. HBSA, which will con-duct play on fields in both com-munities, will accept youngsters from throughout the southwest suburbs for recreational participa-tion, as well as for its part-time and full-time travel teams. Registration date Feb. 8 from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday session will be held at Conrady Junior High School, Roberts Road and 97th Street in Hickory Hills. George Czarnik, of Hickory Hills, and Peter Donahue, of

Palos Hills, will serve as HBSA president and vice president, re-spectively. For more information about the new organization or how to become involved with it, contact Czarnik at 599-6983.

MidwestElite lookingforsoftballplayers Midwest Elite Diamond 19-and-over women’s fast-pitch softball club is looking for college-rostered players to compete in the sum-mer of 2014. The team will play in four local tournaments — including nation-als — and two round-robin events. All positions will be considered, but specific needs include pitcher, catcher and infield/slapper. No practices are required. For more information, con-tact Bill Lammel at 289-3438 or [email protected].

Openings forDiamond in theRough Diamond in the Rough fast-pitch softball has player open-ings in its girls’ windmill pitch-ing, beginner, intermediate and advanced levels. For more information, call Bill Lammel at 289-3438 or email [email protected].

PalosPark tohostwinterbasketball league Palos Park, in conjunction with the Palos Heights Recreation Department and Worth Park District, will host a winter bas-ketball league for youngsters in grades 1-8 that will play games each Saturday from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. beginning Jan. 18 and running through March 15. Each child will have one practice and one game per week, with an emphasis being placed on skills de-velopment. Separate leagues will be formed for boys and girls, and

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The Regional News - The Reporter Thursday, January 16, 2014 Section 2 5

Ask anyone within St. Xavier University’s men’s basketball program, and he’ll likely state that Brad Karp is a team-first kind of guy. Saturday afternoon in South Bend, Ind., however, the senior guard made himself the unmistak-able center of attention. Karp did so by eclipsing a 36-year-old school record. When he collected the 16th of his game-best 28 points against Indiana Uni-versity-South Bend, Karp passed Mike Walaczak on the Cougars’ career scoring list. With nearly half a season still to play, Karp’s point total sits at 2,530. Walaczak finished his col-legiate career at SXU with 2,517 points. “It is a very cool accomplish-ment, but as special as it is, our team wants to accomplish a lot more this season,” Karp said in a statement following the NAIA Division II No. 7-ranked Cougars’ 106-85 Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference triumph over the Titans. “When I started my career at St. Xavier University, I would never have expected to break this record and score this many points. It is hard to focus on it right now because we are playing really well as a team and I want to keep that momentum going. “One thing is for sure: I would never have been able to achieve this record without my current and former teammates and coaches. They deserve a lot of the credit.” And according to Cougars boss Tom O’Malley, so does Karp, who is shooting 63 percent from inside the arc this season and 43 percent from beyond it. He is doing so within the context of SXU’s of-fense, which is evidenced by the Cougars’ ongoing success. One year after generating a 17-game winning streak and piling up 29 victories in all, SXU is at it again. The decision over IUSB was its 12th win in a row, and the Cougars have lost only twice in 18 outings thus far this season. “Nobody begrudges anything he’s got,” O’Malley said of Karp. “He’s a great player, but he’s an even better person. I think ev-erybody on the team would say that. He tries to keep everybody’s spirits high and he never gets de-rogatory about any of his team-mates. “You look at those [shooting] numbers [Karp has put up] and it’s difficult to fathom. Usually, the guys who do that play in the post.” While Karp’s landmark feat was the most noteworthy happening on Saturday, not to be ignored was SXU’s team prosperity, which came after it had suffered a tough road loss at South Bend during the 2012-13 campaign. “The game we lost down there last year cost us a [conference] championship,” O’Malley said. “We split with Cardinal Stritch, and we would have had home court [for the CCAC Tourna-ment].” Amazingly, the Cougars (16-2, 6-1) brushed aside the Titans while operating in a weakened state. Already without forwards Josh Mawhorr and Tony Core due to a pair of sprained ankles, SXU lost guard Jack Krieger for the second half after he was knocked to the floor while driving to the basket just prior to intermission. Krieger, who supplied the Cou-gars with 25 points before exiting, was kept out of action after half-time as a precautionary measure. He has been cleared to play again this week. With only eight athletes avail-able to him, O’Malley mixed and matched his lineup well enough to keep SXU in control. The Cougars’ blistering 72 percent marksman-ship (18-of-25) over the final 20 minutes certainly didn’t hurt their cause. “I thought it was a very uplift-ing thing for our team,” O’Malley said, referring to SXU’s ability to defeat IUSB with a slimmed-down roster. “Anytime you can put guys into a game who haven’t played a lot of minutes and they contrib-ute, it builds a little confidence for them.” Michael Simpson (14 points, five assists, three steals) and Munir Smith (12 points, team-high seven rebounds) were other statistical leaders for the Cougars, but O’Malley also praised the complementary work guys such as Darius Draper, Kyle Tackett and Kody Kleinrichert delivered in extended minutes. SXU, which surpassed the century mark in scoring for the third consecutive game, raced out to a 19-10 advantage and never trailed. Simpson’s three-point play at the 10:49 mark of the open-ing half gave the Cougars their first double-digit edge at 27-17, and the visitors used a 10-2 run early in the second half to cool a potential Titans rally. IUSB fell behind by as many as 22 points later on and did not issue even a minor threat to SXU, which returned to CCAC play this

past Wednesday at home versus Purdue-North Central. “We hope the train keeps roll-ing,” O’Malley said.St.Xavier 111TrinityChristian 84 Never has an O’Malley-coached club failed to vanquish the Trolls, although the Cougars narrowly escaped defeat against Trinity Christian twice in the 2012-13 season. There was no such scare awaiting SXU last Wednesday, however. The Cougars constructed a 21-7 lead for themselves within the game’s first seven minutes and never wavered. In fact, the dif-ferential got as big as 39 points during the evening before the Trolls were able to make some inroads. Karp led a quintet of double-figure SXU scorers with 26 points, while Simpson backed him with 25. Other contributors included Krieger (16 points), Core (14 on 7-of-9 shooting) and Draper (10). Karp and Smith both grabbed eight rebounds and Krieger dis-tributed five assists for the Cou-gars, who clicked on 61 percent of their second-half field-goal tries after going 20-of-36 from the floor before the break. “Obviously, we’re scoring a lot of points, but so are our oppo-nents,” O’Malley said. “I’d like to see us do a little better on the defensive end.” Freshman Jared Jones was Trinity’s go-to guy as he registered 22 points, including six 3s. “For the most part, we’ve had a little more talent [than the Trolls], but in these close-rivalry games, you’ve got to keep playing hard,” O’Malley said. “You always have to worry about Trinity. They scare you all the time because they shoot the ball well.” — Ken Karrson

WOMEN’SBASKETBALL In summarizing a pair of victo-ries last week, Cougars coach Bob Hallberg called his team’s 60-49 win over Trinity Christian Col-lege on Wednesday and Saturday’s 82-67 triumph over Indiana Uni-versity-South Bend a tale of two different games. In the first contest, Hallberg felt the Trolls outperformed his own club. The scenario shifted dramatically three days later, though, as the veteran leader deemed SXU’s conquest of the Titans one of its top performances thus far this winter. The wins improved the NAIA Division II No. 8-ranked Cougars to 15-3 overall and 6-1 in the CCAC. They carried a 10-game unbeaten streak into the current week, having not fallen short of any foe since Nov. 30. “We did not play well against Trinity Christian, but we still sur-vived with the victory,” Hallberg said. “They rose to the occasion and outplayed us. We beat them simply because we were more tal-ented, not because we were better or that we outplayed them. They gave it everything they got. “At South Bend, we always struggle there, and we played one of our best games this season. Winning on the road by 15 against a team that was 12-4 at the time was a great accomplishment. “In this 10-game winning streak, we haven’t had a bad game. It was, however, a night-and-day difference in the two games [last week].” Junior guard Suzie Broski fin-ished with 16 points and six re-bounds to lift SXU past the Trolls at the Shannon Center. Junior forward Morgan Stuut just missed a triple-double as she totaled 12 points, 17 rebounds and nine assists, and she augmented her superb all-around effort with four steals and three blocked shots. Senior point guard Niara Harris chipped in eight points for the Cougars, while sophomore Caitlin McMahon had seven points, seven rebounds and three blocks. SXU enjoyed another solid defensive outing as it held the visiting Trolls to just 26 percent shooting while causing 17 turn-overs, 12 of which resulted directly from Cougars steals. SXU netted 16 of its points in the game off the Trinity miscues. “Niara Harris came off the bench for us and played a really good ballgame,” Hallberg said. “So did Chrissy Heine and Caitlin Mc-Mahon, [but] Harris really gave us the spark.” The Cougars used a 9-0 run midway through the first half to build a 22-10 lead. After seeing it pushed to 14 points on a McMahon layup, the Trolls responded with a closing 8-0 run that narrowed the margin to 29-23 at the break. Trinity continued to chip away at the deficit in the second half and took a three-point lead with 12:29 left in the game before SXU scored 10 unanswered points. Harris’ jumper capped the clinch-ing surge. Although he would have pre-ferred a crisper performance from his women, Hallberg said he wasn’t terribly worried about Wednesday’s hard-fought win negatively affecting their focus for Saturday.

“As long as I’ve been doing this, there’s really no carryover from one game to the next,” he said. “Everything starts out new. And that turned out to be very true on Saturday.”

*** In the win over IUSB in South Bend, Stuut and Broski combined for 54 points and 23 rebounds. Stuut notched her 13th double-double of the season with another monster effort of 33 points and 17 rebounds, while Broski hit 10 of her 17 shot attempts en route to totaling 21 points and six rebounds. “Morgan was just unbelievable again,” Hallberg said. “She’s just amazing, and then the other play-ers all find a way to contribute to the outcome. It all adds up — without those points, whether from starters or off the bench, we may not have won some of these games.” With this contest tied at 8-all four minutes into the action, Stu-ut scored seven straight points to give SXU a 15-8 edge. The Titans cut into their deficit, but the Cou-gars kept them from either tying the game or taking a lead for the rest of the half. A 3-pointer by Stuut and Bros-ki’s jumper late in the session helped SXU carry a 44-37 advan-tage into halftime. The Cougars controlled the contest in the sec-ond half as they held a double-digit lead most of the way. A 13-0 run got SXU’s edge up to 18 points, and the Cougars made sure IUSB couldn’t rally by limiting their own turnovers to just eight. Redshirt freshman guard Sid-ney Prasse, senior forward Chris-sy Heine and junior guard Maloree Johnson all chipped in six points toward the winning effort. SXU tallied 21 points off the Titans’ 15 miscues. Junior center Maegan Callaway led IUSB with a double-double of 26 points and 14 rebounds. “We just have to continue to remember that we’re the big game on many schools’ schedules,” Hall-berg said. “At this level of play, you’re never good enough that you can take any team lightly. We just have to keep mentally prepared for all of our opponents.” — Anthony Nasella

VOLLEYBALL The Cougars opened their 2014 men’s volleyball season with a three-set loss to No. 4-ranked Grand View (Iowa) University on Saturday afternoon in Des Moines. Senior outside hitter Justin Cousin supplied eight kills, two service aces, three assisted blocks and three digs for SXU, which committed 14 attacking errors in the 25-12, 25-16, 25-22 setback. Also performing well in a losing cause were senior setter Jacob Siska (14 assists, three aces) and sophomore middle hitter Sam Kull (three kills, two assisted blocks). The Cougars hosted No. 10 Clarke University this past Tues-day in their home opener.

FOOTBALL Four more student-athletes have joined the Cougars program by signing letters of intent. Arriving from the College of DuPage is wide receiver Randall Wells, a Marian Catholic alum-nus, and current Marian student Ki-Jana Carter, a defensive back, is also aboard. Linebacker Chris Friend and defensive lineman Joshua Wallick were recruited out of downstate Washington and Fisher high schools, respec-tively. “Randall brings big-time speed to our offense and should com-pete for a job at one of our wide receiver positions right away,” SXU coach Mike Feminis said. “The fact that he has two years of college football under his belt and will be here for spring ball to learn the system is huge. With the guys we have coming back and the addition of a talented young man like Randall, our receiving corps is in great shape heading into the 2014 season. “KJ has tremendous quick-ness and is a terrific all-round athlete who can help us in a lot of ways. He’s a starting guard and an integral part of Marian’s basketball team, which is one of the best in the state so that cer-tainly speaks to his athleticism. He could probably play college basketball, but has decided to just play football. “KJ is not very big, but he’s physical and has the ability to be a shutdown corner for us. He also excels as a kick- and punt-return specialist. I could not be happier than to get two quality young men from my alma mater, and I’m sure both Randall and KJ will have tremendous careers here.” Feminis is also excited about his other two newcomers, both of whom were all-state selections in 2013. The 295-pound Wallick was also a Class 1A state-champion-ship wrestler as a junior. “Chris and Josh are two excep-tional young men who will have

great careers at SXU,” Feminis said. “Chris really stood out on film. He reminds me of [former SXU All-American middle line-backers] Mike Lally and Sean Kenney out of high school. “Chris reads his keys extremely well, plays downhill and is a very physical tackler. I expect him to compete for playing time right away, and I won’t be surprised

SXU sports summary

Karp sets record in Cougars’ 12th straight win

four years from now if he is mentioned in the same sentence as Mike or Sean. We think he’s that good. “Evaluating Josh was a little more difficult because he ab-solutely dominated the kids at that [Class 1A] level who were much smaller than him. He is extremely strong and plays with great leverage, which probably

comes from his background as a wrestler, but what put him over the top for us is how well he moves for such a big guy — watching a 300-pound lineman run down on a kickoff and make a tackle was impressive. Josh turned down a preferred walk-on opportunity at the University of Illinois to come here, so we feel very fortunate to get him.”

Photo by Jeff Vorva

Photo by Jeff Vorva

St. Xavier University’s Margaret Wildner, a Mother McAuley grad, blocks the shot of Trinity Christian College’s Brooke Bambrick during last Wednesday’s neighborhood encounter.

St. Xavier University senior Brad Karp, shown here unleashing a pass against Trinity Christian College last Wednesday, became the Cougars’ career scoring leader on Saturday during their win at Indiana-South Bend.


By Maura Vizza

Moraine Valley College’s “O” was in overdrive last Thursday. The Cyclones’ women’s squad had its offense in full working order against Olive-Harvey Col-lege, which was victimized 102-71. In topping the century mark in single-game points for the first time this season, Moraine stretched its unbeaten string to three in a row. The Cyclones used a 14-2 run in the first half to establish a healthy lead and were never headed. Stagg grad Maggie Yandel was Moraine’s standout as she piled up 29 points on 14-of-20 shooting in just 21 minutes of action. She augmented her scoring with six rebounds, six steals and three assists. Also pitching in for the Cyclones were Amber Hunter (13 points, nine rebounds), Jamilla Jones (12 points), Bonnie Lewis (11) and Aileen Gorman (eight points, nine rebounds, seven steals, six assists).

*** Moraine concluded the first half of its 2013-14 campaign before Christmas by downing Joliet Ju-nior College (61-47) and Wilbur Wright College (86-60) on Dec. 19 and 17, respectively. Things did not go especially well for the Cyclones versus the Wolves prior to intermission, as

the locals netted only 17 points over the opening 20 minutes and were in arrears by five at the break. Yandel tossed in nine of Moraine’s markers. A 14-2 surge gave the Cyclones some second-half juice, however, and they went on to post a double-digit triumph. Katie McGann sank five 3-pointers and produced 18 of her team-best 21 points after halftime. She also made three steals in the contest. Yandel finished with 19 points, while Nariman Jaber delivered eight blocks and six rebounds.

*** There was no such drama at-tached to the matchup with Wil-bur Wright, which was crushed 35-10 on the offensive glass. That hefty rebounding advan-tage helped Moraine construct an insurmountable 49-18 half-time lead. Wright showed signs of life in the second half and eventually climbed within 13 points, but the Cyclones stemmed the rising tide with a few well-timed 3s and break-away layups. Every Moraine player scored, with Jaber’s 14 points leading the way. She also grabbed eight boards. Sam Holler (13 points), Yandel (12 points, six steals), Lewis (nine points), Ashley Cun-ningham (nine) and Jones (12 rebounds, eight offensive) were

Moraine athletics wrap

Cyclones women rout Olive-Harveyother Cyclones notables.

MEN’SBASKETBALL The Cyclones opened the second half of their season by falling to an 81-70 defeat versus Olive-Harvey last Thursday. Paulius Ostruskevicius topped Moraine with 22 points, four re-bounds and three assists. Addi-tional help came from Brett Kaiser (12 points), Kyle Ward (10 points, 13 rebounds), Des’nique Harris (eight points, 13 rebounds) and Johnte Shannon (nine points, six rebounds, seven steals, six assists).

*** In their final outing before Christmas, the Cyclones lost 82-73 in overtime to Danville Commu-nity College on Dec. 21, although the margin of defeat was much better than in the two squads’ initial meeting — earlier in De-cember, Moraine suffered a 34-point loss to Danville. Shannon had 25 points, seven rebounds and three steals to pace the Cyclones in the rematch. Ward chipped in 22 points, 11 rebounds and five assists, Harris contrib-uted a double-double of 11 points and 10 rebounds, and Ostruskevi-cius totaled 10 points. Before falling short of Danville, Moraine beat Joliet (72-71) and Wright College (63-57) on Dec. 19 and 17, respectively.

The Cyclones squandered a 12-point lead against the Wolves and were down by one with 20 seconds remaining. Fourteen sec-onds later, Shannon earned a trip to the foul line and converted two free throws to lift Moraine to victory. He wound up with 11 points and three steals.

Also lending a hand were Harris (15 points, 11 rebounds), Ward (11 points, seven re-bounds, six assists, six steals), Ostruskevicius (13 points, five steals) and Cameron Juillerat (10 points). Denton Wallace (16 points, six rebounds) and Shannon (15

points, five rebounds, three as-sists) were the Cyclones’ head-liners in the win over Wright. Juillerat (11 points, three re-bounds), Harris (eight points, seven rebounds) and Ward (six points, 12 rebounds, three assists) also made their presences felt on Moraine’s behalf.

By Anthony Nasella

With just four meets left before his team makes a sectional ap-pearance, Sandburg/Stagg co-op gymnastics coach Mike White is keeping the goals simple. “Basically, I want the girls to contend for the conference title,” he said. “We have a little ways to go. “Lincoln-Way is a little bit ahead of us so far right now. We have to keep moving in the right di-rection.” In one way, White’s squad moved ahead in that regard by being able to stay focused at last weekend’s Lincoln-Way East In-vitational. That was particularly true in the wake of an injury to Hannah Mussalem that forced her out of the meet. Sandburg/Stagg responded by scoring a greater number of points (128.7) than it had accrued in any of its previous four meets while also keeping a competitive balance during more events. “We have to keep working on our falls,” White said. “We limited our falls during our last meet. We’re looking to have that first real good meet.” White is hopeful the “first real good meet” comes today at home versus Lincoln-Way. In the mean-time, he’s hoping that Mussalem’s toe injury is not too serious. “We’re hoping to take the next step,” White said. But whatever steps Sand-burg/Stagg ultimately takes will be influenced by the talent and emerging leadership of junior

Anna Girlich, who cracked the top 10 at Lincoln-Way. She was 10th in the all-around with 34.250 points, which were amassed in part from a seventh place (9.2 points) in floor exercise. “Anna’s progressing nicely,” White said. “She always gets off to a late start [in the sport] because she’s a diver, but she’s getting better and better every day, which is what I’ve come to expect from her. “More importantly, she’s learned how to become a really good team leader. That’s very important — I need that out of her. We’re returning almost the entire team from last year and will have everybody but two back next year.”

BOYS’BOWLING Sandburg finished fourth at Saturday’s SouthWest Suburban Conference Blue meet at Orland Bowl with 5,841 pins. Josh Harder was fifth individually with a 1,258 series. Lockport won the event with 6,269 pins, which was just one more than runner-up Bolingbrook managed. Joliet West finished third with 5,926 pins. The Raiders (96 points) won the overall conference title, which was determined by both regular-season and tournament results. Lockport (86) took second, with Joliet West (79), Sandburg (65), Joliet Central (34) and Stagg (9) completing the list. The Chargers totaled 4,980 pins at the conference meet af-ter dropping a 1,934-1,803 verdict

to Richards at Arena Lanes last Wednesday. Cody Johnson had a team-best 422 series for Stagg opposite the Bulldogs.

*** Hillcrest edged Shepard 1,713-1,703 in a South Suburban Con-ference crossover match last Thursday at Brunswick Zone XL in Homewood. The Astros’ Bran-don Dietz led all competitors with a 243 game and 436 series.

GIRLS’BOWLING Stagg dropped a 1,596-1,373 decision last Thursday to Lin-coln-Way East in a SouthWest Suburban Conference crossover match at Palos Lanes.

*** Also absorbing defeats on Thursday were Shepard and Sandburg. The Lady Astros came up short against Argo (1,543-1,221) in an SSC Red dual match at AMF For-est Lanes in Lyons, while the Lady Eagles fell 1,836-1,608 to Lincoln-Way East in an SWSC Blue en-counter. Kristen Crowe posted a 358 series to pace Sandburg.

BOYS’SWIMMING Four individual victories by Hayden Wiest propelled Shepard to a pair of SSC Red triumphs last week. His wins in the 100-yard but-terfly (1 minute, 1.04 seconds) and 100-breaststroke (1:10.91) keyed the Astros’ 130-54 rout of Argo on Wednesday. Sanders Yu added victories in the 100-backstroke (1:05.61) and 200-individual med-ley (2:13.86), while Zach Siergaza was also a double-winner as he set the pace in both the 200-free

Sandburg/Stagg junior Anna Girlich placed 10th in the all-around at Saturday’s Lincoln-Way East Invitational.

Photo by Jeff Vorva

Sandburg/Stagg gymnast Megan Sullivan does a flip during her floor exercise routine at Saturday’s Lincoln-Way East Invitational.

Photo by Jeff Vorva

Stagg product Maggie Yandel scored 29 points in 21 minutes last Thursday to help Moraine Valley College’s women log their third straight victory, 102-71 over Olive-Harvey.

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Trinity Christian College’s Jared Jones looks for an open man during last Wednesday’s matchup with St. Xavier University. Jones, one of seven freshmen on the Trolls’ roster, sank six 3-pointers and finished with 22 points in a 114-88 loss to the Cougars.

Photo by Jeff Vorva

Sports wrap

(1:57.91) and 500-free (5:26.10). Garnering one first place each were Mike Jokubauskas in the 100-free (1:00.78) and diver Tyler Timmer (182.45 points). Wiest touched out first in the 100-free (55.23) and 100-back-stroke (1:02.02) against Eisen-hower on Thursday. That led the way to a 138-45 team triumph for Shepard. Solo winners included Yu in the 200-individual medley (2:12.70), Timmer (178.30 points), Joe Walters in the 100-breaststroke (1:19.43), Mawon Brown in the 200-free (2:26.25), Jeremy Schultz in the 500-free (5:48.12) and An-

drew Choragwicki in the 100-fly (1:16.78).

*** Stagg defeated Sandburg 105-81 in an SWSC Blue dual meet on Thursday. Delivering victories for the Chargers were Lucas Smiarowski in the 50- and 100-frees (23.53 and 59.92, respectively), Harlan Long in the 100-fly (58.69) and Jacob Stypula in the 200-free (1:57.93).

WRESTLING Sandburg dropped a 38-25 decision to Glenbard North on Saturday after falling behind in

the lower weight classes early in the meet. The Eagles opened with a 7-5 overtime win by Matt Frost-man over Paul Pennington at 220 pounds, but then Glenbard hit its stride and led 29-3 at the match’s halfway point. Sandburg senior John Pellegri-no captured a 12-2 major decision at 145, and the Eagles also gained wins from Hunter Pindell (pin at 4:48 in the 182-pound match), Brian Krasowski (a 17-2 technical fall in 4:55 at 160), Tom Slattery (13-5 major decision at 152) and Ben Schneider (8-3 decision at 138).


Trinity

Berg’s 14 points (and 13 rebounds) followed, while Cody Rhorer and Joe Hehir scored 11 apiece.

*** The week’s earlier loss, to St. Xavier University (16-2, 6-1), wasn’t close. The Cougars pounded the Trolls 111-84, out-rebounded Trinity 44-30, hit 14 3-point shots to the Trolls’ 13, and shot 58 percent from all spots on the floor. The margin was 18 points at the half. Jones’ 22-point showing, includ-ing six 3s, led Trinity. Van Den Berg added 16 points. The two losses dropped the Trolls to 4-14 overall and kept them winless in CCAC contests entering this past Wednesday’s game against Holy Cross (13-5, 6-1). Trinity is at the bottom of the North Division and shares an 0-7 mark with South Division doormat Purdue-North Central (5-12). Those two schools meet on Feb. 12 in Palos Heights, but before that the Trolls have to run a gauntlet against the likes of Purdue University Calumet (14-3), Robert Morris (10-5) and Roosevelt (11-6). Their best chances to win in the next month come against the University of St. Francis (7-

9, 4-2) on Saturday in Joliet and Indiana-South Bend at home on Jan. 25. Closer really will not do in those games.

*** • Statistics: 4-14 overall, 0-7 CCAC, 2-3 home, 2-8 away, 0-3 neutral. Leaders: Jared Jones 16.1 ppg., 46 assists; Ezekiel Odonkor 7.9 rpg., 16 blocks; Cody Rhorer 14 steals. • Schedule: Saturday, at Uni-versity of St. Francis, 7 p.m.; Wednesday, vs. Purdue University Calumet, 7:30 p.m.; Jan. 25, vs. Indiana-South Bend, 3 p.m.; Jan. 29, at Olivet Nazarene University, 7:30 p.m.; Feb. 1, vs. Robert Mor-ris University, 3 p.m.

WOMEN’SBASKETBALL A pair of losses to open 2014 dropped the Trolls to 5-13 over-all and 1-6 in CCAC competition heading into this past Wednes-day’s game against Holy Cross (5-12, 2-4). Trinity stayed close through most of both games before fading. Saturday’s 61-51 loss at Calumet College (9-8, 2-4) perfectly illus-trated the Trolls’ situations. They were down three points at the half and trailed by only four (39-35) with 10 minutes to play. Then the roof fell in. The Crimson Wave scored six straight points to establish a double-digit lead and took it from there, even-tually expanding the margin to 14 in the final minutes. Shooting 30 percent for the game hurt Trinity, but turning

the ball over 23 times hurt even more. The Trolls had 80 posses-sions, and giving the ball up more than a quarter of the time simply won’t get it done very often. Three players scored in double figures for Trinity: Allie Paluch-niak (14 points), Erynn Schuh (11) and Caitlin Cody (10).

*** That loss came on the heels of a 60-49 setback at NAIA Division II No. 8-ranked St. Xavier (15-3, 6-1), a contest that actually was competitive until the late going. The Trolls trimmed a 14-point deficit to six at halftime and then stormed out of the second-half gate to grab a 34-33 edge on Rebecca DeHaan’s jumper. The Cougars pulled away down the stretch, however, as Trinity was again undermined by poor shoot-ing (26 percent for the game) and too many turnovers (17 in 75 pos-sessions, or 23 percent). Cody’s 17 points led all scor-ers, but only Brooke Bambrick (nine points, 11 rebounds) was also close to hitting double figures for the Trolls. Holy Cross and St. Francis, Trinity’s next two opponents, are the only foes in the next seven games with records under .500. If the Trolls don’t have success against them, it will be rough sledding for the next month.

*** • Statistics: 5-13 overall, 1-6 CCAC, 1-4 home, 3-7 away, 1-2 neutral. Leaders: Caitlin Cody

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Moraine Valley College’s Kyle Ward brings the ball upcourt last Thursday against Olive-Harvey. The Cyclones suffered an 81-70 loss in their first outing of the new year.

13.5 ppg., 7.7 rpg., 12 blocks; Allie Paluchniak 37 assists; 28 steals. • Schedule: Saturday, at Uni-

versity of St. Francis, 5 p.m.; Wednesday, vs. Purdue Univer-sity Calumet, 5:30 p.m.; Jan. 25, vs. Indiana-South Bend, 1

p.m.; Jan. 29, at Olivet Naza-rene University, 5:30 p.m.; Feb. 1, vs. Robert Morris University, 1 p.m.

play will be conducted in a total of four different age groups. For more information, call 671-3760.

Baseball campsannounced Chicago Christian will host six-week baseball camps during the winter. Chicago Christian camp starts Feb. 1 under the guidance of Knights coach and school athletic director Eric Brauer. The camp will be held in conjunction with U.S. Baseball Academy and are

open to players in grades 1-12. Session will be offered in ad-vanced hitting, pitching, catching, fielding and baserunning. Regis-tration is now underway, and classes are limited to six players per coach. For more information on any of three camps, visit www.US-BaseballAcademy.com or call 1-866-622-4487.


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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK County, Illinois, County Department, Chancery Division.Marquette Bank,P l a i n t i f f , �v s . �Heartland Bank and Trust Company, Successor Trustee to Western Springs National Bank and Trust Company, not personally but as Trustee under Trust Agreement dated February 3, 2003 and known as Trust No. 3987, Lawrence J. Gesiakowski, Gail T. Gesiakowski, Non-Record Claimants and Unknown O w n e r s , �D e f e n d a n t s . �12 CH 12873;Sheriff's No. 130982-001F.Pursuant to a Judgment made and entered by said Court in the above entitled cause, Thomas J. Dart, Sheriff of Cook County, Illinois, will on February 10, 2014, at 1:00 P.M. in Room LL06 of the Richard J. Daley Center, 50 W. Washington Street, Chicago, IL, sell at public auction the following described premises and real estate mentioned in said Judgment:PIN: 23-27-409-021-0000.Address: 8912 W. 125th St., Palos Park, IL 60464.Improvements: Single family residence.Sale shall be under the following terms: Not less than 10% of successful and highest bid to be paid at the time of sale, and the balance to be paid in full within 24 hours after the sale, all paid to the Sheriff of Cook County by cashier's check or certified funds.Sale shall be subject to general taxes, special assessments, and any prior first mortgages.Premises will NOT be open for inspection. For information: Paul J. Richter/James L. Stephenson, Kelly, Olson, Michod, DeHaan & Richter, LLC, Plaintiff's Attorneys, 333 W. Wacker Dr., Suite 2000, Chicago, IL 60606, Tel. No. (312) 236-6700.This is an attempt to collect a debt pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.I579674

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY D I V I S I O N �PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO NATIONAL CITY BANK, SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO NATIONAL CITY MORTGAGE CO.P l a i n t i f f , �- v . - �LORRAINE MCNEVIN A/K/A LORRAINE BRODERICK, FINTAN BRODERICKD e f e n d a n t s �11 CH 0378917848 W. 99TH STREET HICKORY HILLS, IL 60457NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on October 23, 2013, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on January 27, 2014, at the The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive - 24th Floor, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 7848 W. 99TH STREET, HICKORY HILLS, IL 60457 Property Index No. 23-12-105-025. The real estate is improved with a residence. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "AS IS" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information, examine the court file or contact Plaintiff's attorney: CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876. Please refer to file number 14-11-34450. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 Attorney File No. 14-11-34450 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 11 CH 037891 TJSC#: 33-24092 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff's attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.I581182

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.P l a i n t i f f , �- v . - �JOHN MCKEE A/K/A JOHN F. MCKEE, RUTH MCKEE A/K/A RUTH MARIE MCKEE, WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. S/B/M TO WELLS FARGO BANK SOUTHWEST, N.A. FKA WACHOVIA MORTGAGE FSB FKA WORLD SAVINGS BANK, F S B �D e f e n d a n t s �12 CH 1468011904 SOUTH 93RD AVENUE PALOS PARK, IL 6 0 4 6 4 �NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on August 7, 2013, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on February 3, 2014, at the The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive - 24th Floor, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 11904 SOUTH 93RD AVENUE, PALOS PARK, IL 60464 Property Index No. 23-27-102-002-0000. The real estate is improved with a one story single family home with a two car detached garage. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "AS IS" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information: Visit our website at service.atty-pierce.com. between the hours of 3 and 5 pm. PIERCE & ASSOCIATES, Plaintiff's Attorneys, One North Dearborn Street Suite 1300, CHICAGO, IL 60602. Tel No. (312) 476-5500. Please refer to file number PA1206369. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. PIERCE & ASSOCIATES One North Dearborn Street Suite 1300 CHICAGO, IL 60602 (312) 476-5500 Attorney File No. PA1206369 Attorney Code. 91220 Case Number: 12 CH 14680 TJSC#: 33-24688I580383

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, I L L I N O I S �COUNTY DEPARTMENT, CHANCERY DIVISIONMIDFIRST BANK,P l a i n t i f f �V . �JEREMY KINGERY; SCENIC TREE CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION,D e f e n d a n t s �13 CH 14597Property Address: 10152 SOUTH 84TH TERRACE UNIT 12-312 PALOS HILLS, IL 60465NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE - C O N D O M I N I U M �Fisher and Shapiro file # 13-067532(It is advised that interested parties consult with theirown attorneys before bidding at mortgage foreclosure s a l e s . ) �PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered onNovember 12, 2013, Kallen Realty Services, Inc., as Selling Official will at 12:30 p.m. on February 14, 2014, at 205 W. Randolph Street, Suite 1020, Chicago, Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described real p r o p e r t y : �Commonly known as 10152 South 84th Terrace, Unit 12-312, Palos Hills, IL 60465Permanent Index No.: 23-11-302-003-1332The mortgaged real estate is improved with a dwelling. The property will NOT be open for inspection. The purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4).The judgment amount was $109,743.87. Sale terms for non-parties: 10% of successful bid immediately at conclusion of auction, balance by 12:30 p.m. the next business day, both by cashier's checks; and no refunds. The sale shall be subject to general real estate taxes, special taxes, special assessments, special taxes levied, and superior liens, if any. The property is offered "as is," with no express or implied warranties and without any representation as to the quality of title or recourse to Plaintiff. Prospective bidders are admonished to review the court file to verify all information and to view auction rules at w w w . k a l l e n r s . c o m . �For information: Sale Clerk, Fisher and Shapiro, Attorney # 42168, 2121 Waukegan Road, Suite 301, Bannockburn, Illinois 60015, (847) 291-1717, between 1:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. weekdays only.I577110

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOISCOUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVI-SIONOCWEN LOAN SERVICING, LLC Plaintiff,-v.- SAULIUS DEMIKIS, RIVIERA REGAL I CONDO-MINIUM ASSOCIATION A/K/A RIVIERA REGAL CONDOMINIUM PHASE I ASSOCIATION, UN-KNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIM-ANTS Defendants 11 CH 01453911119 S. 84TH AVENUE UNIT #1A PALOS HILLS, IL 60465NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on October 29, 2013, Auction.com, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 1:00 PM on February 5, 2014, at the Holiday Inn Chicago Mart Plaza, 350 West Mart Center Drive (in the Auction.com room), CHICAGO, IL, 60654, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 11119 S. 84TH AVENUE UNIT #1A, PALOS HILLS, IL 60465 Property In-dex No. 23-23-200-026-1055. The real estate is improved with a condo/townhouse. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accept-ed. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residen-tial real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common in-terest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SEC-TION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information, examine the court file or contact Plaintiff’s attorney: CO-DILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876. Please refer to file num-ber 14-11-11873. THE JUDICIAL SALES COR-PORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. AUCTION.COM LLC For Additional Information regarding Auction.com, please visit www.Auc-tion.com or call (800-280-2832) CODILIS & AS-SOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 Attorney File No. 14-11-11873 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 11 CH 014539 TJSC#: 33-24387 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.I582472

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, I L L I N O I S �COUNTY DEPARTMENT, CHANCERY DIVISIONRBS CITIZENS, N.A.,P l a i n t i f f �V . �CAROLE A. MALIN A/K/A CAROLE MALIN A/K/A CAROLE ANN MALIN; RBS CITIZENS, N.A., SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO CCO MORTGAGE CORP.; OAK HILLS COUNTRY CLUB VILLAGE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION; OAK HILLS CONDOMINIUM FIVE TOWNHOUSE VILLAS,D e f e n d a n t s �12 CH 14230Property Address: 13495 TURTLE POND LANE PALOS HEIGHTS, IL 60463NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE - C O N D O M I N I U M �Fisher and Shapiro file # 11-057425(It is advised that interested parties consult with theirown attorneys before bidding at mortgage foreclosure s a l e s . ) �PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered onNovember 5, 2013, Kallen Realty Services, Inc., as Selling Official will at 12:30 p.m. on February 6, 2014, at 205 W. Randolph Street, Suite 1020, Chicago, Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described real property:Commonly known as 13495 Turtle Pond Lane, Palos Heights, IL 60463Permanent Index No.: 23-36-303-162-1081The mortgaged real estate is improved with a dwelling. The property will NOT be open for inspection. The purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4).The judgment amount was $ 210,183.91. Sale terms for non-parties: 10% of successful bid immediately at conclusion of auction, balance by 12:30 p.m. the next business day, both by cashier's checks; and no refunds. The sale shall be subject to general real estate taxes, special taxes, special assessments, special taxes levied, and superior liens, if any. The property is offered "as is," with no express or implied warranties and without any representation as to the quality of title or recourse to Plaintiff. Prospective bidders are admonished to review the court file to verify all information and to view auction rules at w w w . k a l l e n r s . c o m . �For information: Sale Clerk, Fisher and Shapiro, Attorney # 42168, 2121 Waukegan Road, Suite 301, Bannockburn, Illinois 60015, (847) 291-1717, between 1:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. weekdays only.I575057

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, I L L I N O I S �COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISIONBAYVIEW LOAN SERVICING, LLC, A DELAWARE LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY Plaintiff,- v . - �ELENI PASHOS AKA ELENI PASILOS Defendants13 CH 1685810331 S. Roberts Rd. Palos Heights, IL 60465NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on December 12, 2013, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on January 30, 2014, at the The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive - 24th Floor, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate:Commonly known as 10331 S. Roberts Rd., Palos Heights, IL 60465 Property Index No. 23-13-102-080-0000. The real estate is improved with a commercial building. The judgment amount was $504,696.71. Sale terms: The bid amount, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, shall be paid in certified funds immediately by the highest and best bidder at the conclusion of the sale. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "AS IS" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information, contact Plaintiff's attorney: HEAVNER, SCOTT, BEYERS & MIHLAR, LLC, 111 East Main Street, DECATUR, IL 62523, (217) 422-1719. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee's attorney. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. HEAVNER, SCOTT, BEYERS & MIHLAR, LLC 111 East Main Street DECATUR, IL 62523 (217) 422-1719 Attorney Code. 40387 Case Number: 13 CH 16858 TJSC#: 33-27607 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff's attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.I581753

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION CITIMORTGAGE, INC. SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO ABN AMRO MORTGAGE GROUP, I N C . �P l a i n t i f f , �- v . - �JOSEPH F. VANDERWAL, PALOS COMMONS HOMEOWNERS' ASSOCIATIOND e f e n d a n t s �13 CH 00245537 BROOK LANE PALOS PARK, IL 60464NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on October 24, 2013, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on January 27, 2014, at the The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive - 24th Floor, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 37 BROOK LANE, PALOS PARK, IL 60464 Property Index No. 23-26-201-032. The real estate is improved with a single family residence. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "AS IS" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information, examine the court file or contact Plaintiff's attorney: CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876. Please refer to file number 14-13-01781. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 Attorney File No. 14-13-01781 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 13 CH 002455 TJSC#: 33-24171 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff's attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.I581257

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, I L L I N O I S �COUNTY DEPARTMENT, CHANCERY DIVISIONDEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE FOR LONG BEACH MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2006-5,P l a i n t i f f �V . �KHALED JAMIL SHALTAF; AKRAM QANDEEL; NISREEN AD QANDEEL A/K/A NISREEN AD Q A N D E E K , �D e f e n d a n t s �09 CH 03352Property Address: 10112 South 81st Court Palos Hills, IL 60465NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALEFisher and Shapiro file # 08-015653(It is advised that interested parties consult with theirown attorneys before bidding at mortgage foreclosure s a l e s . ) �PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered on September 14, 2011, Kallen Realty Services, Inc., as Selling Official will at 12:30 p.m. on February 19, 2014, at 205 W. Randolph Street, Suite 1020, Chicago, Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described real property:Commonly known as 10112 South 81st Court, Palos Hills, IL 60465Permanent Index No.: 23-11-405-040The mortgaged real estate is improved with a dwelling. The property will NOT be open for inspection.The judgment amount was $714,784.50. Sale terms for non-parties: 10% of successful bid immediately at conclusion of auction, balance by 12:30 p.m. the next business day, both by cashier's checks; and no refunds. The sale shall be subject to general real estate taxes, special taxes, special assessments, special taxes levied, and superior liens, if any. The property is offered "as is," with no express or implied warranties and without any representation as to the quality of title or recourse to Plaintiff. Prospective bidders are admonished to review the court file to verify all information and to view auction rules at w w w . k a l l e n r s . c o m . �For information: Sale Clerk, Fisher and Shapiro, Attorney # 42168, 2121 Waukegan Road, Suite 301, Bannockburn, Illinois 60015, (847) 291-1717, between 1:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. weekdays only.I580608

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION FIFTH THIRD MORTGAGE COMPANYP l a i n t i f f , �- v . - �JEFF BLOCKSON AKA JEFFREY BLOCKSON, JUANITA M. BLOCKSON, AMERICAN CHARTERED BANK, UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF JEFF BLOCKSON AKA JEFFREY BLOCKSON, IF ANY, YCONDA COLLINS, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD C L A I M A N T S �D e f e n d a n t s �10 CH 320128126 ABERDEEN DRIVE PALOS HEIGHTS, IL 60463NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on November 18, 2013, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on February 20, 2014, at the The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive - 24th Floor, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate:Commonly known as 8126 ABERDEEN DRIVE, PALOS HEIGHTS, IL 60463 Property Index No. 23-35-416-011-0000. The real estate is improved with a 2 story home with a detached garage. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "AS IS" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information: Visit our website at service.atty-pierce.com. between the hours of 3 and 5 pm. PIERCE & ASSOCIATES, Plaintiff's Attorneys, One North Dearborn Street Suite 1300, CHICAGO, IL 60602. Tel No. (312) 476-5500. Please refer to file number PA1016207. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. PIERCE & ASSOCIATES One North Dearborn Street Suite 1300 CHICAGO, IL 60602 (312) 476-5500 Attorney File No. PA1016207 Attorney Code. 91220 Case Number: 10 CH 32012 TJSC#: 33-25384I583547

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY D I V I S I O N �PNC BANK, N.A. S/B/M TO MIDAMERICA BANK, F S B �P l a i n t i f f , �- v . - �STANLEY LITWIN, GRAZYNA LITWIND e f e n d a n t s �11 CH 2363710338 SOUTH 75TH AVENUE PALOS HILLS, IL 60465NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on November 14, 2013, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on February 18, 2014, at the The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive - 24th Floor, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 10338 SOUTH 75TH AVENUE, PALOS HILLS, IL 60465 Property Index No. 23-13-203-013-0000. The real estate is improved with a two story single family home with a two car attached garage. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "AS IS" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information: Visit our website at service.atty-pierce.com. between the hours of 3 and 5 pm. PIERCE & ASSOCIATES, Plaintiff's Attorneys, One North Dearborn Street Suite 1300, CHICAGO, IL 60602. Tel No. (312) 476-5500. Please refer to file number PA1113934. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. PIERCE & ASSOCIATES One North Dearborn Street Suite 1300 CHICAGO, IL 60602 (312) 476-5500 Attorney File No. PA1113934 Attorney Code. 91220 Case Number: 11 CH 23637 TJSC#: 33-25146I583562

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Out & AboutYour Guide to Arts and Events in the Southwest Suburbs and Beyond

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Broaden Your Horizons

1. Blame it All on My Roots: Five Decades of Influences, Garth Brooks, Pearl Records 2. Duck the Halls: A Robertson Family Christmas, The Robertsons, Capitol Nashville (Universal) 3. Crash My Party, Luke Bryan, Capitol Nashville 4. Here’s to the Good Times, Florida Georgia Line, Republic Nashville 5. Golden, Lady Antebellum, Capitol Nashville (Universal) 6. Based on a True Story..., Blake Shelton, Warner Bros. 7. Red, Taylor Swift, Big Machine Records 8. Night Train, Jason Aldean, Broken Bow 9. See You Tonight, Scotty McCreery, Interscope Records 10. Danielle Bradbery, Danielle Bradbery, Big Machine Records

(NOTICE: Ratings for each film begin with a ‘star’ rating — one star meaning ‘poor,’ four meaning ‘excellent’ — followed by the Motion Picture Association of America rating, and then by a family-viewing guide, the key for which appears below.) STARTING THIS WEEK: “LEE DANIELS’ THE BUTLER”: Inspired by a true story, “Precious” director Daniels’ fine drama — and compact history lesson — features many notable performances, led by Forest Whitaker’s as a White House servant who tended to several presidents. Playing the chief executives are Robin Williams (as Dwight D. Eisenhower); James Marsden (John F. Kennedy), Liev Schreiber (Lyndon B. Johnson), John Cusack (Richard Nixon) and Alan Rickman (particularly good as Ronald Reagan). Oprah Winfrey, Jane Fonda and Mariah Carey also star. DVD extras: two “making-of” documentaries; deleted scenes; outtakes; music video. *** (PG-13: AS, P) (Also on Blu-ray and On Demand) “ENOUGH SAID”: Included on many film critics’ 10-best lists for 2013, writer-director Nicole Holofcener’s excellent comedy-drama is boosted considerably by what was one of James Gandofini’s last performances. In a hugely engaging departure from his tough-guy roles, he plays the new love interest of a single-mom masseuse (Julia Louis-Dreyfus, also superb) who’s facing empty-nest syndrome. Little do they suspect they have someone in common who could thwart their relationship. Catherine Keener and Toni Collette also appear. DVD extras: theatrical trailer; “making-of” documentaries. ***** (PG-13: AS, P) (Also on Blu-ray) “RIDDICK”: A movie with this title only can mean Vin Diesel is back for another round as the brawny antihero he first played

more than a decade ago in “Pitch Black.” With writer-director David Twohy in charge again, Riddick is in another nightmare scenario, stranded on a dangerous planet where bounty hunters arrive to claim his head ... literally. One is portrayed by Katee Sackhoff (“Longmire”); Karl Urban (“Star Trek”) also stars. DVD extras: two “making-of” documentaries; motion comic prequel. *** (R and unrated versions: AS, N, P, V) (Also on Blu-ray and On Demand) “CARRIE”: The Stephen King thriller has been remade before — for TV in 2002 — but this latest version adds very contemporary themes to the story of the telekinetic teenager, played here by Chloe Grace Moretz, who makes others regret having made her the target of their meanness. As usual, things reach their peak at a school prom no attendee ever will forget ... provided he or she survives it. Director Kimberly Peirce (“Boys Don’t Cry”) also draws a fine performance from Julianne Moore as Carrie’s possessive mother. DVD extras: theatrical trailer; two “making-of” documentaries. *** (R: AS, P, V) (Also on Blu-ray and On Demand) “THE SPECTACULAR NOW”: An unexpected romance yields surprising results — plus affecting performances by Miles Teller and Shailene Woodley (“The Descendants”) — in director James Ponsoldt’s (“Smashed”) version of the Tim Tharp novel. Teller plays a popular high-schooler whose drinking leads him to stumble in life and to cross the path of a bookish schoolmate (Woodley) who opens him to new possibilities. Brie Larson, Kyle Chandler and Mary Elizabeth Winstead also are featured. DVD extras: “making-of” documentary; audio commentary by Ponsoldt; deleted scenes. *** (R: AS, P) (Also on Blu-ray and On Demand) “FRUITVALE STATION”: Writer-director Ryan Coogler’s acclaimed, memorable drama is based on a true incident at a Los Angeles train station on New Year’s Day 2009. A young father was shot by a transit officer, and the film details the hours leading up to the tragedy, with Michael B. Jordan playing the unarmed victim — whose fate was captured by other travelers on video — and Chad Michael Murray (“One

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Did you know that Tina Fey and Amy Poehler got their starts at The Second City? Tickets are on sale now for the March 1 show when Chicago’s legendary comedy theatre The Second City will appear at Sand-burg High School in the Perform-ing Arts Center at 7 p.m. Drawing on classic material from The Second City archives as well as scenes ripped from the morning headlines, The Second City’s Happily Ever Laughter is your chance to see comedy stars in the making in an evening of smart, cutting edge comedy. The Second City celebrates 53 years of cutting edge satiric re-vues as well as being launching pad for generations of comedy superstars. The Second City continues to develop the leading voices in comedy while touring

the globe. Founded in Chicago in 1959, The Second City has become the premier training ground for the comedy world’s best and brightest. Their alumni list reads like a who’s who of American comedy, as it includes: Mike Nichols, Elaine May, Alan Arkin, Joan Rivers, Robert Klein, Peter Boyle, Harold Ramis, John Belushi, Dan Ayk-royd, Bill Murray, Gilda Radner, George Wendt, Martin Short, John Candy, Bonnie Hunt, Ju-lia Louis-Dreyfus, Horatio Sanz, Ryan Stiles, Jack McBrayer, Tim Meadows, Chris Farley, Mike My-ers, Steve Carell, Stephen Col-bert, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler and countless others. Not only will an evening with The Second City provide audi-ences with the chance to see comedy stars in the making, but

they will also have the opportu-nity to see absolutely hilarious satire and cutting-edge improvi-sation. No topic or subject mat-ter is off limits for The Second City. If your parents asked you not to speak about it at the din-ner table, chances are it will be made fun of in an evening with The Second City. This is a PG-13 show.

Tickets for The Second City are $25 for general admission, $15 for students with ID and seniors age 60 or older. A special rate of $20 per tickets is available for groups of 10 or more. Tickets can be purchased at d230foun-dation.org or at the District 230 Administration Center (15100 S. 94th Avenue in Orland Park) For group rates or information call Carla Erdey at 745-5222.

Second City coming to SandburgThis week

‘Narnia’ at Stagg Students in Spotlight Youth Theater present “Narnia, The Lion, The Witch, and the Ward-robe,” C. S. Lewis’ children’s clas-sic story adapted for theater with original music, this weekend at Stagg High School. Showtimes are Friday, Jan. 17, at 7 p.m.; Saturday, at 2 and 6 p.m., and Sunday, at 2 p.m., at the Stagg Performing Arts Au-ditorium, 8015 W. 111th St. in Palos Hills. Tickets cost $9-$12 presale: Call (847) 516-2298, or visitspotlight.org, or $2 more at the door. Group, child, and senior prices available. Spotlight Youth Theater is a non-profit, educational theater arts program for students 5-18.

Movie luncheon “To Kill a Mockingbird” will be shown and discussed at a luncheon program on Tuesday, Jan. 21, from noon to 2:30 p.m., at The Center, 12700 Southwest Highway, Palos Park. The program is planned in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday this month. In the 1962 Academy Award-win-ning film, Gregory Peck stars as a scrupulously honest and highly respected Southern lawyer de-fending a black man in the 1930’s. Based on Harper Lee’s best-sell-ing novel, the film has become a classic and is expected to generate a serious discussion of the civil right struggle for which Martin Luther King gave his life. The luncheon begins at noon, costs $17 per person, and requires reservations. Call The Center at 361-3650.

Wooden snowflakefolk art workshop

The Log Cabin Center for the Arts, 12700 Southwest Highway in Palos Park, will offer a Wooden Snowflake workshop on Wednes-day afternoon, Jan. 22, from 1 to 3 p.m. Under the guidance of folk artist Holly Soule, students will make wood reed woven snowflakes. The workshop costs $17, which includes all materials. Registra-tion is required. For more in-formation, call The Center at 361-3650.

Center Singers The Center, 12700 Southwest Highway, Palos Park, invites new members to join its choir, which rehearses on Monday evenings, from 7 to 8 p.m. The first rehearsal of the new year is scheduled for Jan. 20. Known as the Center Singers, the choir performs once or twice a month on Sunday afternoons at Wayside Chapel Vespers services and at special seasonal events such

as The Center’s Easter Sunrise Service. The choir is led by Direc-tor Penny Wills and accompanied by rehearsal pianist Shirley Swan-son. (361-3650)

Naturephotography forum

Camera and nature enthusiasts are invited to a Nature Photog-raphy Forum this Sunday, Jan. 19, from 2 to 3:30 p.m., at The Center, at 12700 Southwest High-way, Palos Park. Films of outstanding nature photographers are shown. Nature photography instructor Rick Stef-fen of Orland Park facilitates the program. The public is invited and there is no fee for the program, but reservations are requested. For further information, interested persons should call The Center at 361-3650.

Mindfulness A Mindfulness group meets ev-ery Sunday morning at 11 a.m. at The Center, 12700 Southwest Highway, Palos Park. Pastoral Director Chris Hopkins and volunteers Patty Parker, Dan Morley, and Kitty Riggenbach lead these hour long meditations which focus on one aspect of mindfulness each week. The group offers encouragement and support as participants seek to be mindful of their thoughts, feelings, and surroundings in the present moment. No fee is charged and new participants, both adults and children age 8 and up, are welcome. Call 361-3650 or visit thecenterpalos.org for informa-tion about The Center.

The Bridge TeenCenter events

The Bridge Teen Center, 15555 S. 71st Court, Orland Park, pres-ents Sugar Rush 7:30-10:30 p.m. this Friday, Jan. 17: live music by the student band Sugar Rush and free samples from Chipotle. • Improv Night — 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. Jan. 18, improv with Andrew High School’s Drama Club, and free samples from Pad Thai. This event is exclusively for students in 9th-12th grade and is free with a student membership application or $5 with a school ID. For more information call 532-0500 or visit thebridgeteencenter.org. • Family Night in a Box — Jan. 21-24, Sign up to stop by The Bridge this week and pick up a “Family Night Box,” full of tools to help you have a fantastic family night at a time of your choosing. The contents will include reci-pes, coupons to local restaurants, games, activities, inspiration, and more. Call or visit the website for more information. • Paint to Inspire — 4:30 to 6 p.m. Jan. 21, pick a quote that inspires and motivates you, then add it to a hand-painted, colorful piece of art.

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Moraine Valley Community College’s main campus is locat-ed at 9000 W. College Parkway, Palos Hills. For more informa-tion regarding these events, or to purchase tickets, call the college’s box office at 974-5500, or visit morainevalley.edu. • The Smithsonian Jazz Mas-terworks Orchestra Tribute to Ella Fitzgerald will be held at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 1 in the Dorothy Menker Theater. Tickets are $30 for the public, or $25 for students and seniors. • “Vestiges,” the Justin San-tora Art Exhibition will be held from Monday, Feb. 10 through Saturday, March 8 at the Robert F. DeCaprio Art Gallery. The art gallery is open from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, and during most performances. A reception will be held from 2 to 4 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 20. • “The Diary of Anne Frank” will be onstage at 7:30 p.m. Fri-days and Saturdays and at 3 p.m. Sundays, Feb. 21, 22 and 23, and Feb. 28 and March 1 and 2 at the John and Angeline Oremus Theater.

• What’s it like to be: A TV Producer with Don Dupree — 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. Jan. 22, meet Don Dupree, Emmy award-winning producer of the show “A Piece of the Game”. He will share what goes into creating a hit TV show. As a bonus, get your picture taken with a real Emmy award. This free event is for teens in 7th through 12th grade. For more information call 532-0500 or visit thebridgeteencenter.org.

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