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OBITUARIES 5OPINION 6SCHOOLS 8A & E 10MARKETPLACE 11COMMUNITY 12

CALENDAR 18CLASSIFIED 20PUBLIC NOTICES 22PUZZLES 24SPORTS 25

NEWSWoodstock’s 911 services are moving to McHenry

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MARKETPLACEThe Woodstock Square is home to a new hair salon

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COMMUNITY

The Land Conservancy is raising funds to buy a Bull Valley property that’s home to a huge bur oak

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OBITUARIESRobert ‘Bob’ Brunner, WoodstockRebecca M. Ottesen, Brentwood, CA

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END QUOTE“It’s not exactly for kids.”

- ROGER ZAWACKI, PAGE 9

iNDEX

» SCHOOL BOARD

By Stephanie PriceTHE INDEPENDENT

�e Woodstock School District 200 Board of Education was set to reconsider a contract extension and pay raise for Superintendent Mike

Moan after a Woodstock resident filed a complaint alleging the board violated the Illinois Open Meet-ings Act by not specifically posting the matter on its May 10 meeting agenda.

Annie �ompson, spokesperson for the Illinois Attorney General’s Office, confirmed June 16 the office is investigating a complaint, called a

Complaint filed against D-200, board expected to re-vote on superintendent contract

Please see Contract, Page 4

PERKINS PLAYERS PORTRAY DEBS SAGA

INDEPENDENT PHOTO BY WHITNEY RUPP

Craig Pfannkuche, Wonder Lake, portrays a leader from the Ameri-can Labor Union June 16 during a Perkins Hall Players re-enactment of Eugene V. Debs’ release from the McHenry County Jail. Debs was imprisoned in the former jail on the Woodstock Square in 1895. The re-enactment took place at the Old Courthouse and Sheriff’s House and in the Park in the Square.

» CITY COUNCIL

By Katelyn StanekTHE INDEPENDENT

�e Woodstock Opera House and 15 nonprofits were awarded funding from the city of Woodstock’s Hotel/Motel Tax Tourism Grant Program.

Funding for the program comes from a 5 percent tax on lodging in Woodstock. Grants are intended for nonprofit organizations that hold events that attract visitors and tour-ists to the city, generating hotel or motel stays in the process.

�e City Council unanimously approved a total of $86,500 in grant disbursements June 7.

Tier 1 organizations — those which automatically are allocated funds based on their longevity and his-tory of bringing visitors to town — received $65,000. �e Woodstock

By Stephanie PriceTHE INDEPENDENT

A 45-year-old Woodstock man has been arrested and charged with robbery and theft stemming from

robberies at a cash store and bank in Belvidere.

Shawn M. Rank, of the 100 block of Sunshine Lane, was charged June 15 with two counts of robbery, Class

2 felonies, and two counts of theft, a Class 3 felony, according to a news release issued by the Belvidere Police Department.

Rank remained in the Boone County Jail as of June 17 on a

Please see Hotel/motel, Page 3

Please see Robbery, Page 3

Shawn M. Rank is charged with felony robbery and theft

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NEWS

Emergency dispatch will move to NERCOMMWoodstock and Harvard will consolidate with McHenry Police dispatch

By Stephanie PriceTHE INDEPENDENT

�e city of Woodstock and the Woodstock Fire/Rescue District are preparing to move its 911 dispatch services to the McHenry County Northeastern Regional Communi-cations Center, NERCOMM.

In an effort to consolidate ser-vices, the state of Illinois has demanded McHenry County reduce the number of public safety answer-ing points, PSAPS, otherwise known as dispatch centers, from six to three sites by July 1, 2017, according to Woodstock City Manager Roscoe Stelford.

Because of the mandate, the cit-ies of Woodstock and Harvard agreed to consolidate the police dis-patch services with McHenry Police Department, which will oversee

NERCOMM. �e Lake in the Hills Police Department will combine with the Southeast Emergency Com-munications system in Crystal Lake, SEECOM, which encompasses Crys-tal Lake, Cary and Algonquin police and fire dispatch services.

�e Woodstock City Council in April approved an intergovernmen-tal agreement to join NERCOMM. In the long run, combining dispatch services is hoped to save money. However, ini-tially, the city of Woodstock will pay $144,000 for dispatch equipment and $189,000 in one-time payouts for severance, sick and vacation days to Wood-stock dispatchers whose jobs will be eliminated, Stelford said.

Woodstock currently spends $772,753 annually to operate its police dispatch center and receives $84,000 from the Woodstock Fire/Rescue District to handle its

dispatching. Once merged with NERCOMM, that expenditure is expected to drop to $502,000 in the first year, Stelford said.

“�is year, we estimate we will spend about $98,673 more (on pur-chasing the equipment for the con-solidation),” Stelford said. “After that, the city will save about $234,771 per year. It will be a positive for the community in the long run.”

Woodstock police dispatch cur-rently employs eight full-time and two part-time dispatch-ers at the sta-tion, 656 Lake Ave. During the

transition, one full-time dispatcher will transfer to a records clerk posi-tion at the police department and five are expected to join the NER-COMM staff, Stelford said. Two dis-patchers will be unemployed, and the city will pay their unemploy-ment benefits.

“We have negotiated with the

union to work out severance pay-ments and retention payments for those dispatchers who stay on while we switch over to the new system,” Stelford said.

Per the new agreement between Woodstock and NERCOMM, the consolidation of services must be completed by May 1, 2017. WFRD’s costs to join NERCOMM will be $120,000 annually, an increase of $36,000. �e city of Woodstock has agreed to subsidize the district $36,000 annually the first five years to assist WFRD with the change-over, city documents show.

In April, the City Council also approved purchasing 42 StarCom radios for $120,130, to correlate with equipment used by McHenry Police. �e StarCom radios will provide Woodstock Police and WFRD access to a statewide public-safety radio system. �e city’s current cost to operate its radio system is $53,700 annually, and that is expected to drop to $16,320 per year under the new agreement, Stelford said.

$250,000 bond.�e arrest came the same day

officers from the Belvidere and Woodstock police departments, Boone and McHenry County sher-iff’s offices, McHenry County SWAT and the FBI executed a search war-rant at Rank’s residence. Rank was taken into cus-tody at his resi-dence without incident, accord-ing to Belvidere Police Chief Jan Noble.

Noble said i n v e s t i g a t i o n s into two recent crimes devel-oped Rank as a suspect.

On April 1, police said a man demanded money from a clerk at the Cash Store, 1479 N. State St., Belvidere. �e investi-gation into that incident led Bel-videre detectives to coordinate efforts with the Harvard and Genoa police departments, the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office and the FBI.

In a second incident, Belvidere police were called June 13 to the Alpine Bank and Trust Company, 600 S. State St., Belvidere, for a

report of robbery. Noble did not dis-close how much money Rank alleg-edly stole.

Police and the FBI coordinated investigative efforts and acted on numerous tips from the commu-nity and other law enforcement agencies.

Belvidere police worked with resi-dents and businesses to collect evi-dence that assisted law enforce-ment, after which Rank became the suspect, Noble said in the release.

�e Boone County State’s Attor-ney’s Office assisted with the prep-aration and authorization of the search warrant and charging doc-uments. �e multi-jurisdictional investigations are ongoing, Noble said.

A Class 2 felony is punishable by three to seven years in prison, and a Class 3 felony is punishable by two to five years in jail.

�e Belvidere Police Department encourages anyone having infor-mation pertaining to the aforemen-tioned crimes to call the department at 815-544-2135 or Crime Stoppers at 815-547-7867.

ROBBERY(Continued from page 1)

Opera House, the McHenry County Convention and Visitors Bureau, the Woodstock Chamber of Commerce & Industry and the Challenger Learning Center for Science & Technology are Tier 1 organizations.

Twelve other nonprofits, desig-nated as Tier 2 organizations, received a total of $21,500 from the program.

Of the groups to receive funding, the city’s Woodstock Opera House was granted the most, at $30,000. �e convention and visitors bureau received $15,000, and the chamber and Challenger Center each received $10,000.

�e events and organizations funded with the tourism grants are expected to attract a range of vis-itor totals, from 400 people for a Woodstock Professional & Business Women art tour to 90,000 people

for the Woodstock Farmers Market’s twice-weekly markets, according to a press release from the city.

“�e partnerships that we have to build Woodstock up are a valuable thing,” council member Maureen Lar-son told grant recipients who were in attendance at the meeting. “And the hotel/motel tax is one piece of that, but obviously, your efforts are a huge piece of it as well.”

Woodstock Celebrates Inc. requested to become a Tier 1 orga-nization but was turned down. It was denied funding this year along with the McHenry County Fair Association.

HOTEL/MOTEL(Continued from page 1)

Shawn M. Rank

Opera House $30,000Convention bureau $15,000Chamber $10,000Challenger Center $10,000Farmers Market $3,500Groundhog Days $4,000 McHenry Co. Heatwave $2,500TownSquare Players $2,000

Midwest Mozart Fest $2,000Jazz on the Square/JazzFest $2,500 MHRL/Fair Diddley $1,000 NWAA Council/2nd Fridays $1,000 Off Square Music/Harvest Fest $1,000Adult & Child Therapy/Ale Fest $750Woodstock Folk Festival $750 WPBW/Art Tour $500

Hotel/Motel Tax Tourism Grants

How They VotedTo approve hotel/motel tax grants:YESDan HartMaureen LarsonMark SaladinJoe StarzynskiRB Thompson

Mike TurnerBrian Sager

NONone

“It will be a positive for the community in the long run.”

- Roscoe Stelford, Woodstock city manager

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request for review, filed by Joe Tirio.“We have received the request for

review regarding the District 200 meeting, and we will be looking into it,” �ompson said.

Tirio alleges the school board vio-lated the Open Meetings Act when it failed to post a proposed contract extension and 7-percent pay raise for the superintendent on the May 10 meeting agenda. Moan was in the sec-ond year of a three-year contract due to expire June 2017.

�e school board first approved the new three-year contract, which will run from July 2016 to June 2019, by a 5-0 vote, increasing Moan’s sal-ary to $198,870 for the 2016-2017 school year. He will receive a 2 per-cent annual raise for the second and third year of the contract, according to the terms of the contract. School board member Carl Gilmore was not present at the meeting, and William Nattress abstained from voting on the measure.

Tirio, who is the Republican nom-inee for McHenry County Recorder and leader of local political advocacy group Voters in Action, filed the for-mal complaint June 14 with the Pub-lic Access Counselor for the Illinois Attorney General’s Office.

�e agenda line item under which Moan’s contract extension was

approved read: “Approval of Routine Personnel Matters,” followed by the statement, “A full copy of the Personnel Report is available at the meeting.” �e item was part of the consent agenda.

Tirio maintains the vague descrip-tion failed to notify the public about the school board’s intentions for the meeting.

“If they knew it was important enough to say a detailed report would be available at the meeting, [that] suggests they knew it was important enough to post on the agenda,” Tirio said. “�e purpose of the Open Meet-ings Act is to allow us the opportu-nity to participate in government. �e purpose of the agenda is to let us know what they’ll be discussing. ... �e spirit of the matter is so people have an idea of what’s going to be talked about.”

Tirio said he was surprised to learn earlier this month the school board awarded Moan a salary increase for “doing what he was hired to do.” Tirio and other members of Voters in Action have attended school board meetings over the past year and have criticized the district’s spending.

Moan started as the superintendent in July 2014 and was given a three-year contract. His initial salary was $180,000 for the first year, and he is earning $185,850 this year. �e new

contract will replace the existing con-tract and give the superintendent a $13,020 pay raise next year.

“First of all, a 7 percent raise is absolutely ridiculous,” Tirio said. “It’s far above what you would find in the private sector, and even in the public sector, for schools. It’s an insult to the District 200 taxpayers.”

District 200 School Board Presi-dent Carl Gilmore, who assumed the president’s seat at the May 24 meet-ing, declined to respond regarding

the complaint because he had not yet seen it. He said meeting agendas are put together by Dis-trict 200’s admin-istration staff, and

he did not know why consideration of the superintendent’s contract was not specifically listed on it.

Don Craven, legal counsel for the Illinois Press Association, said court rulings have stated school dis-tricts cannot post vague descrip-tions on meeting agendas. In some case where such descriptions were used and the board voted on matters, those votes were nullified, and the school boards were forced to repeat the process. Craven said governing bodies should post as much infor-mation as possible regarding action items so the public is aware of what they are considering.

“�is demonstrates precisely why

the Open Meetings Act exists,” Craven said from his Springfield office. “�e Open Meetings Act requires post-ing the notice of a meeting and the agenda so that the public is aware of what the board will be considering. If they knew they were going to be con-sidering a contract extension for the superintendent — which they obvi-ously did — then why didn’t they put it on the agenda?”

(�e Woodstock Independent is a member of the Illinois Press Association.)

Susan Handelsman, an outspoken critic of the district’s spending policies who lives within District 200’s bound-aries, questioned why the board was awarding Moan a new contract when the existing contract had not yet expired.

“�is is one of several examples illustrative of this school board repre-senting the interests of the narrow few recipients of public funds rather than the many who are forced to pay into this school district,” Handelsman said.

After the May 10 vote, Gilmore said the contract was approved because the board was pleased with Moan’s performance as superintendent.

According to an agenda published June 16, the school board was set to vote again on the contract at its reg-ularly scheduled meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday, June 21, at Clay Professional Development Center, 112 Grove St.

�at meeting came after �e Inde-pendent’s print deadline.

CONTRACT(Continued from page 1)

“This demonstrates precisely why the Open Meetings Act exists.”

- Don Craven, Illinois Press Association legal counsel

Old Courthouse Commission asks for public input in meetings and online

The city of Woodstock’s Old Court-house and Sheriff’s House Advisory Commission is asking residents of Woodstock and McHenry County to attend its meetings and provide input for its discussions.

The commission is seeking to identify possible uses and funding sources for restoration and redevelopment of the Old Courthouse and Sheriff’s House on the Woodstock Square. Commission meet-ings are held at 7 p.m. the third Monday of the month in the City Council cham-bers at Woodstock City Hall, 121 W. Cal-houn St.

The commission also is asking people to complete a brief web survey regard-ing their vision for the property. To com-plete the survey, visit www.woodstockil.gov and click on the Old Courthouse and Sheriff’s House section.

Members of the commission were appointed in early 2016.

IN BRIEF THE GREAT PYRAMIDMem-bers of the Won-der Lake Water Ski Show Team per-form a pyr-amid trick on Won-der Lake June 17. The team performs at 7 p.m. most Fri-days from Memo-rial Day through Labor Day at Won-der Center Beach.

INDEPENDENT PHOTO BY WHITNEY RUPP

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OBITUARIESRobert ‘Bob’ Brunner

Robert “Bob” Brunner, 89, Woodstock, died Friday, June 11, 2016.

In April 1979, he married Sophie Ann Bucher.

He served in the U.S. Army from 1944 to 1946, in the 37th Infantry Division and the 49th Infantry Division, and was stationed in the Philippines and Japan.

He attended Northwestern University. He worked for The First National Bank of Chi-cago, Chicago Title Company and Liberty Mutual Savings and Loan. He lived in Chi-cago, Arlington Heights and Woodstock. He was an active member of Presbyterian Church of Norwood Park, serving on the governing boards, teaching Sunday school and singing in the choir.

When the Brunners moved to Wood-stock, they became members of First Pres-byterian Church of Woodstock. He enjoyed traveling to Europe, reading extensively, lis-tening to classical music and having intel-lectual discussions with family and friends.

Survivors include a son, Charles (Nancy) Cain; two granddaughters, Stephanie Cain and Jennifer (Jason) Heeres; and three great-grandsons, Benjamin, Nicholas and Zachary Heeres.

He was preceded in death by his wife. Donations in his memory can be made

to the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago.

Rebecca M. OttesenRebecca M. Ottesen, 58, Brentwood,

Calif., formerly of Glendale Heights, died Sunday, June 12, 2016, at Cen-tegra Hospital-McHenry, in the company of family members.

She was born June 9, 1958, to Robert and Marilyn (Kenyon) Reis in Elgin.

On August 12, 1995, she married

She graduated from the University of Illi-nois with a bachelor’s degree in education and worked as a substitute teacher.

She loved cooking, sewing, antiquing,

bowling, traveling and especially her res-cue dogs. She was a former Brownie Scout Troop leader.

Survivors include her husband; two daughters, Jennifer (Lawrence) Incandela, Crystal Lake, and Danielle Korbus, Santa Cruz, Calif.; her mother, Wonder Lake; a sister, Robin (Arthur) Taylor, Wonder Lake; a brother, Robert Reis, Wonder Lake; and several nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her father.The visitation and funeral were June

17 at Ehorn-Adams Funeral Home, Richmond.

Private inurnment will be at a later date.Memorials may be made in her name

to Crème de la Crème Animal Foundation, 1325 S. Main St., Algonquin, IL 60102.

By Stephanie PriceTHE INDEPENDENT

�e McHenry County Coroner's Office has determined several bones found in a residential yard are not from human remains.

�e coroner’s office notified the Woodstock Police Department June 14 the bones likely came from a domesticated animal, such as a large dog, Police Chief John Lieb said.

Police responded at 9:30 p.m. June 12 to an apartment building in the 400 block of West Judd Street, after a res-ident reported finding several bones on the ground in some bushes.

�e bones were collected as poten-tial evidence and delivered to the McHenry County Coroner’s Office June 13 for further examination.

Bones in yard did not belong to human,

Earnest T. Farr, 59, 103 Grove St., Wood-stock, was charged May 19 with driving

revoked, expired registration and improper lane usage. Farr was turned over to the

has been set. Court date was set for June 23. Charles E. Akerberg, 30, 118 N. Madison

St., Woodstock, was charged May 25 with domestic battery at his home. Akerberg was turned over to the McHenry County Sheriff’s

Juana Popoca-Guadarrama, 48, 303 S. Park Ave., Harvard, was charged May 26 with no valid driver’s licence at Washington and Mary Ann streets. Popoca-Guadarrama posted $150. Court date was set for July 7.

Joseph L. Foat, 30, 1580 Wicker St., Woodstock, was charged May 26 with driv-

-sured motor vehicle and possession of drug paraphernalia at 850 Wicker St. Foat was turned over to the McHenry County Sheriff’s

Court date was set for June 23.

Woodstock, was charged May 26 with driv-

zone violations and improper turn signal -

dez posted $100 and his driver’s license as bond. Court date was set for June 23.

Gabriella D. Rivera, 19, 12204 Price Road, Hebron, was charged May 27 with reckless driving, two counts of hit and run, improper lane usage, operating an uninsured motor vehicle, failure to notify the Secretary of State with an address change, possession of cannabis and possession of drug para-phernalia. Rivera posted $150 bond. Court date was set for July 7.

Abraham A. Navarro Tolano, 19, 885 Tever-ton Lane, Crystal Lake, was charged May 30 with no valid driver’s license, operating an uninsured motor vehicle, no registration light and possession of cannabis at Benton and Church streets. Tolano posted $300 bond. Court date was set for June 23.

Jill T. Hayden, 37, 3747 Sunset St., Markham, was arrested May 30 in the 200 block of Church Street on an outstanding warrant from McHenry County for failure to appear on a disorderly conduct charge. Hayden also was charged with unlaw-ful possession of drug paraphernalia. She was turned over to the McHenry County

June 23. The second court date is to be determined.

Brent A Wendt, 27, 304 Lincoln St., Apt. 4, Harvard, was arrested May 30 in the 200 block of Church Street on outstand-ing warrants from Boone County for failure to appear on a trespassing charge and an outstanding warrant from McHenry County for theft. Wendt was turned over to the

one offense is $2,500 and to be set on the other offense. Court date is to be set.

Reva M. N. Ury, 26, 521 Burbank Ave., Woodstock, was charged June 1 with driv-ing while license suspended and operating a vehicle while using an electronic commu-nication device at Lake Avenue and South Eastwood Drive. Ury posted $150 bond. Court date was set for July 7.

Christopher B. Peterson, 717 Irving Ave., Apt. 310, Woodstock, was charged June 5 with trespass to railroad property at 90 Church St. Peterson was turned over to the

set at $120. Court date was set for July 21.Any charges are merely accusations, and defendants or suspects are presumed innocent unless proven guilty.

POLICE BLOTTER

In the June 15-21, issue of The Wood-stock Independent, in the article “Rabbi Gor-don retires from MCJC” on page 12, the group that conducts weekly visits to immi-grants detained at the McHenry County Jail

for Detained Immigrants is the name of the group that provides pastoral counseling to immigrants.

The Independent regrets the error.

Rebecca M. Ottesen

CORRECTION

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Nothing ‘routine’ about D-200 deal

THE WOODSTOCK INDEPENDENT

Cheryl Wormley PUBLISHER, CO-OWNER

Paul Wormley CO-OWNER

Katelyn Stanek MANAGING EDITOR

THE EDITORIAL BOARD

Cheryl WormleyKatelyn StanekSandy KucharskiStephanie Price

�ere’s nothing routine about an early contract renewal and big raise for a government body’s highest paid employee, but you’d never know that by looking at the agenda for the Woodstock School District 200 Board of Education’s May 10 meeting.

�ere, hiding in an item titled “Approval of Rou-tine Personnel Matters,” was what would lead to a new three-year contract for Superintendent Mike Moan that included a 7 percent raise in the first year and sub-sequent 2 percent raises for the second and third years.

Dr. Moan was in the second year of a three-year contract due to expire in June 2017.

An early contract extension for a school district’s most important employee would seem the sort of thing that would receive special deliberation from a school board, but Dr. Moan was relegated to No. 34 in a 58 line-item personnel report that also included the hiring of summer school teachers and cafeteria staff, among others.

As a result, the school superintendent received a raise and contract extension, but the public had no way of knowing the matter would even be voted upon.

�at is appalling.�e Illinois Open Meetings Act exists to make sure

citizens know what their governments are doing. We believe categorizing Dr. Moan’s contract as a “routine personnel matter” and providing no specific details to the public — many of whom are increasingly wary of the school district’s spending — runs afoul of this important law.

Whether due to ignorance or deceit, the school board hoodwinked this community May 10. Voting in favor of the contract were Russ Goerlitz, Camille Goodwin, Paul Meyer, Jerry Miceli and David Shinherr. Carl Gilmore was not present at the meeting, and Wil-liam Nattress abstained from voting.

By the time many of you read this, the school board likely will have re-voted on the contract. It was placed on the agenda for the June 21 meeting, prob-ably prompted by questions from reporters and by a complaint filed with the Illinois Attorney Gener-al’s Office by a resident alleging the board broke the Open Meetings Act.

�at’s the right thing to do. But it will not repair the damage this board has done to its own reputation nor will it erase the ill feelings of a public who believe they were duped.

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It’s time for a countywide school district

In McHenry County, where homeowners pay among the highest property taxes in Illinois and in the U.S., it’s time to discuss the idea of a countywide school system.

Illinois has 7,000 units of local government, 2,000 more than any other state. Just like Illi-nois’ 1,432 townships, Illinois’ 865 school dis-tricts are considered units of local government and have a monster effect on the state’s overall tax burden.

Why are Illinois’ property taxes out of con-trol? Simply put, 7,000 units of local govern-ment are overlapping, duplicative and contrib-ute to Illinois’ growing debt and waste.

Besides the elimination or consolidation of Illinois’ townships, another key candidate for property-tax relief would be to research the benefits of a McHenry County countywide school district.

How does Illinois compare with other states? Illinois school districts are very inefficient when compared with other large states. Here are a few.

Florida, with an enrollment of 2,709,000 stu-dents, has 67 school districts, which averages 40,000 students per district. California has an enrollment of 6,237,000 students and averages 6,100 students per district. Texas has an enroll-ment of 5,136,000 and averages 4,200 students per district. Illinois, the government state, has an enrollment of 2,075,000 students and aver-ages 2,400 students in its 865 districts. Note: Florida, California and Texas are nontownship states. One of Illinois’ neighboring states, Iowa,

has countywide school districts and is also a nontownship state.

A countywide school district will reduce over-head and the number of highly paid administra-tors, and staff will be streamlined.

Bob AndersonHarrison School District 36 Board Member,

Wonder Lake

Frank facts about FranksFact: In 1998, Jack Franks made a pledge to

serve only three terms as state representative.Fact: Jack Franks is now running for his 10th

term.Fact: Jack Franks was quoted in the Northwest

Herald: “I can promise I’m not running for county chairman.”

Fact: Jack Franks is now running for county chairman.

Fact: �e local newspapers have reported that Jack Franks is relinquishing the 63rd Illinois House District seat.

Fact: Jack Franks had not filed withdrawal of candidacy paperwork as of June 6 with the State Board of Elections. Jack Franks is currently still running for the 63rd District while simultane-ously running for county chair.

When will local newspapers start report-ing facts rather than promoting Franks’ politi-cal rhetoric? If Franks has lied directly to voters about these issues, what is he doing when we are not watching?

Adam Liebmann,Wonder Lake

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INDEPENDENTTheWoodstock

Inviting people to come for a party,

maybe for coffee or lunch or dinner

or take in a performance at the Opera

House is fun. And, that’s what Wood-

stock is doing. We are inviting people

who ride Metra to visit Woodstock.

�e nonprofit group Promote Wood-

stock, which is supported by the city of

Woodstock, has launched a Metra mar-

keting campaign. �e goal is to increase

tourism and encourage economic

development.

I received an email last week from

Krista Coltrin, city of Woodstock eco-

nomic development coordinator, with

some specifics about the campaign. It

uses the Real Woodstock slogan and

logo we first saw last summer.

�e campaign, which includes five dif-

ferent looks at what Woodstock has to

offer, is focused on six Metra lines to the

north and west of Chicago. In all, there

are 200 car cards – advertisements in

the vestibules of the Metra passenger

cars, 25 ads on station platforms and

a digital advertising board at Ogilvie

Transportation Center.

We all know what’s expected if com-

pany comes – be polite, welcoming

and helpful. �at’s how we should be

all the time. But extra effort, starting

this summer, will encourage visitors to

return and to tell

their friends about

Woodstock.

Imagine the peo-

ple you see down-

town are first-time

visitors. Welcoming

smiles and friendly

hellos can be said

to anyone – visitor,

neighbor or fellow

resident. Every-

one who lives here

knows how to get from the train station

to the Square, but for people arriving on

Metra, it’s not as obvious. Visitors will

appreciate your offer to direct them to

the Square, the Opera House or a spe-

cific store or restaurant.

I decided to take a few hours last week

to see what it would be like to be a visi-

tor in Woodstock. It was a bright, sunny,

warm day, so I bought a sandwich and

some iced tea and went to the Park in

the Square for lunch. I enjoyed the clas-

sical music being broadcast from under

the bandstand. �e two little girls who

were twirling and dancing on the band-

stand seemed to enjoy it too.

After my lunch, I went to the Opera

House to see Cheryl Marshall’s Fac-

ing Legacy: Portraits of Long Lives in

the community room. I enjoyed it thor-

oughly – 23 portraits of 80-plus-year-

old residents or former residents of

Hearthstone Communities. It was a joy

seeing the portraits – some of longtime

Woodstock residents. Below each por-

trait was an excerpt from an interview

of the person in the portrait. �e exhibit

continues until June 30.

�en I walked around the Square,

stopping at some of the shops – not all,

for my time was limited. At some I was

greeted with a friendly hello. At others,

I wasn’t greeted. I felt better about the

stores where I was greeted.

�e downtown looks spruced up for

all of us and for our visitors and guests

to enjoy. Flowers are blooming in the

planters on the sidewalks, and the

bump-outs at the corners are well culti-

vated and very pretty. �e Opera House

has a variety of performances and pro-

ductions scheduled for the summer, and

our restaurants offer a variety of foods

and beverages.

�ere’s no question, Woodstock has a

lot to offer. But it’s up to all of us to make

our visitors feel welcomed and appreci-

ated – so they will come again and will

tell others about the Real Woodstock.

Cheryl Wormley is publisher of �e Woodstock Independent.

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The Pulse of public opinion

“�e ultimate tragedy is not the

oppression and cruelty by the bad peo-

ple but the silence over that by the good

people.” – Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

My column is typically somewhat

light-hearted, even on serious subjects.

Indeed, this column was originally going

to be about my visit to a “Wheel of For-

tune” Wheelmobile event in Rosemont

early this month.

�e events of June 12 changed all that.

When 49 people enjoying a night at an

Orlando club, Pulse, are murdered and

53 injured by a heavily armed individual,

every other topic goes out the window.

Whether the motive was anger against

LGBT people, or ISIS-influenced, or both,

is a side issue. �e main issue is gun con-

trol, and whether 49 murders in one hor-

rific incident is the number that finally

spurs Congress to set partisan politics

aside and make a difference.

As President Obama said that Sunday

afternoon, “�e shooter was apparently

armed with a handgun and a powerful

assault rifle. �is massacre is therefore

a further reminder of how easy it is for

someone to get their hands on a weapon

that lets them shoot

people in a school,

or in a house of wor-

ship, or a movie the-

ater, or in a night-

club. And we have

to decide if that’s the

kind of country we

want to be. And to

actively do nothing is

a decision as well.”

I respect the opin-

ions and rights of

gun owners. I’m not saying that we

need to repeal the Second Amendment.

One of my friends posted on social

media that his guns “do not act on

their own, never have and never will.

No gun does anything horrible, man

does. Fix the man before you melt my

metal.” Admittedly, guns are not firing

themselves.

But having the right to purchase a

shotgun or a handgun is one thing,

and being able to buy an assault-style

weapon is another. �e same day of the

massacre, a large ad for an area gun

shop promoted its customer apprecia-

tion day. It had details on a giveaway

of two new guns, including an AR-15,

which was apparently the assault-type

rifle used at the Pulse. Quoting from

a Washington Post article: “Of the 10

mass shooting incidents with the high-

est number of casualties — killed and

wounded — in the U.S., seven involved

the use of an assault-style rifle, accord-

ing to Mother Jones’s database.” My

question: why would the average

American ever need an assault rifle,

whose primary purpose is to kill large

numbers of people? As Conan O’Brien

said, “Nobody I know or have ever met

in my entire life should have access to

a weapon that can kill so many people

so quickly.” Because of the powerful

gun lobby, I doubt that it will actually

happen, but I strongly feel that in the

aftermath of the worst mass shoot-

ing in U.S. history, legislation to ban

the purchase of assault-style weap-

ons should fly through Congress. If not

now, when? Do we need to wait until

somebody kills 100 people?

Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin,

looking back at our recent history,

said, “I think after Sandy Hook, when

Obama went out, and he talked about

gun control and met with the parents,

there was a sense that something was

going to happen. But then, I guess, the

power of special interests was greater

than public sentiment.”

�is can’t be the case yet again. In

my opinion, despite it being an election

year, it’s time for public sentiment to

overpower the NRA’s influence.

Paul Lockwood has lived in Woodstock for 15 years with his wife, Diane. �ey lived in the Orlando metro area from 1989 to 1997 and feel tremendous sorrow for their former neighbors in Central Florida.

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SchoolsWestwood wins Fuel Up award

By Janet DovidioTHE INDEPENDENT

Westwood Elementary School stu-dents recently were rewarded for their efforts to eat healthy and stay active.

Westwood food service manager Debbie Barnhill has guided West-wood students and staff in the Fuel Up to Play 60 program for the past four years. It is an in-school nutrition and physical activity effort sponsored by the National Dairy Council, Midwest Dairy Council and the National Foot-ball League. Westwood once again became a “Touchdown School” and completed six total steps to earn an invitation to the reward event.

More than 120 Illinois students in third through 12th grade gathered May 21 at the Walter Payton Center at Halas Hall, Lake Forest, for a nutrition and NFL-themed event. Westwood was the only District 200 school to qualify.

Barnhill and five of her student ambassadors enjoyed an opening introduction by Bears defensive back Adrian Amos, had lunch in Halas Hall, and viewed Bears memorabilia. �ey participated in football drills with Bears punter Pat O’Donnell and line-backer Sam Acho.

“My kids were catching passes from them and taking selfies,” Barnhill said.

�e students also joined a variety of sessions focused on farming, nutrition and physical activity.

“I believe the whole day was a huge success with the kids,” Barnhill added.

Barnhill and her ambassadors kept Westwood busy through the year. �ey hosted their second annual Tur-key Trot obstacle course, had a “Bring Someone You Love to Breakfast” event, made an exercise video used in the classrooms, sent information hand-outs with healthy recipes to school families, hosted contests and gave Fuel Up to Play 60 prizes donated by the sponsors.

“It’s such a great program. I am lucky that the Westwood staff has gone along with all our ideas over the past years,” said Barnhill.News of recognitions, milestones and other community events can be sent to Janet Dovidio at fetjetjd@aol.com.

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District 200 honors mathletes» SCHOOL BOARD

By Stephanie PriceTHE INDEPENDENT

�e Woodstock School District 200 Board of Education recently recognized the student members of math teams from Woodstock and Woodstock North high schools.

At a school board meeting last month, the board honored 39 high school students for their success this past school year as members of the math teams.

Woodstock High School’s team of 17 students and Woodstock North’s team of 22 students qualified for the state finals while competing at the Illinois Council of Teach-ers of Mathematics High School Regional Contest Feb. 27. Eight other area high schools competed at the regional competition, which was held at Rock Valley College in

Rockford, according to District 200 documents.

�e ICTM state finals were held May 7 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. District 200 and school board members recog-nized the following mathletes and their coaches, Jari Sharma, WHS, and Carol Koltz, WNHS.

WHS Algebra I: Alex Fetzner, Mason Hurless, Erica Lande, Kenna Miles, Maddie Scolio and Ben �uma.

WHS Algebra II: Andrew Brewer, Cullen Brown, Spencer Hanson, Ben Hernacki, Luke Klinefelter, Lizbeth Martinez, Kelly Read and Andrew Shelton.

WHS Geometry: Andrew Ahmeti, Miguel Alvarez, Jose Botello, Michael Gavran, Anthony �omas and Alexis Zepeda.

WNHS Algebra I: Jeremy

Bukowski, Kayle Czischki, Jeff Massman, Elijah McCoy, Liam Meal and Maddie Noonan.

WNHS Algebra II: Wes Ford, Ryan Hanson, Jack McCoy, Alec Molve, Josh Powell and Will Taylor.

WNHS junior/senior 8-person team: Danielle Chamberlain, Wes Ford, Ryan Hanson, Jack McCoy, Alec Molve, Kaisa Mucha, Allison Nordvall and Katya Taylor.

WNHS orals competition: Dani-elle Chamberlain and Will Taylor.

�e ICTM was founded in 1949 to encourage interest in teaching math-ematics at all grade levels, accord-ing to its website. �e organiza-tion also strives to inspire students’ learning in all areas of mathematics, promote mathematics educational research and provide opportunities for instructors to share ideas about teaching mathematics.

WIU announces spring graduates

Western Illinois University, Macomb, announced graduates following the 2016 spring semester. Graduates from Wonder Lake: Haley Ashton earned a Bachelor of Arts in communication; Charles R. Ward earned a Bachelor of Science in medical sci-ences; and Bryan Wegner earned a Bache-lor of Science in law enforcement and justice administration. Graduates from Woodstock include: Diana Dominguez earned a Bach-elor of Business in human resource

management; Jonny Fabian earned a Bach-elor of Science in law enforcement and jus-tice administration; Zachery Galuski earned a Bachelor of Science in law enforcement and justice administration; and Jessica Soltys earned a Bachelor of Science in law enforcement and justice administration.

Grogg graduates from University of Oregon

Eddie Grogg, Woodstock, graduated from the University of Oregon, Eugene, Ore.

Grogg earned a Bachelor of Science in eco-nomics and business.

Millikin announces spring graduates

Millikin University, Decatur, announced graduates following the 2016 spring semes-ter. Elizabeth Popoca graduated magna cum laude with bachelor’s degrees in inter-national business and marketing. Caitlin Trainor earned a bachelor’s degree in the-ater. Both graduates are from Woodstock.

St. Mary School releases fourth-quarter honor roll

The following students were named to St. Mary School’s fourth-quarter honor roll for the 2015-16 school year.

Chase Gattuso, Jayson Lange, Benjamin Merryman, Ava Primus, Aila Reuter, Abi-gail Weber and Shaina Yumol.

Second honors: Matthew Brunken, Xiclaili Cruz, Liam Keisling, Joseph Klimczak, David

Kranenburg and Brendan Stoll.-

gante, Maggie Gillaspie, Jenna Golem-biewski, Lauren Harding, Julia Hogel, Molly Iden, Melanie Knuth, Lauren McNulty, Jade Mikalauskis, Isabelle Molina, Madelyn Price, Ingrid Reyes, Andrew Steffes, Kath-leen Stumpf, Jane Walsdorf, Joseph Wals-dorf and Peter Walsdorf.

Second honors: Nathaniel Aftanski, Paige Berry, Quentin Blais, Reid Kenyon and Noah Peterson.

Andrews, Arianna Benitez, Nick Domek, Ellie Fortin, Linzie Harding, Carly Hill, Mad-die Hogel, Carly Hoover, Haven Jakubowicz, Emily Markowski, Mary Narusis, Brogan Pivnicka, Ben Reuter, Siobhan Stoll, Daniel Stumpf, Leah Taylor and Megan Weber.

Second honors: Sean Cloherty, Drew Gillum, Matt Jablonski, John Klaus, Sara Kranenburg, Shaun Nayahangan, Aidan Seaver, Alex Toepper, Valen VonBergen and Jake Wand.

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A & EDramatic ‘Cuckoo’s Nest’ returns to Opera House

Art exhibition features nationally recognized local artists

The Summer Solstice Art Exhibition, cur-rently running at the Old Courthouse Arts Center, features works from several local artists who are nationally recognized in their particular media.

Many internationally known artists live in McHenry County and are part of the show that runs through Saturday, June 26.

Exhibited art ranges from quilts to pho-tography, painting to sculptures. Many of the artists have achieved recognition

acknowledged in journals, museums and corporate and private collections around the nation and throughout the world.

The show features McHenry County art-ists Jane Sassaman, Karen Stahlecker and husband and wife artists Arthur Ganson and Chehalis Hegner.

Sassaman has traveled worldwide,

quilts and original textile designs. Many of her designs are based on the natural envi-ronment in the countryside around Har-vard. She is also an artist ambassador for Bernina, a premier sewing machine manufacturer.

Ganson and Hegner, a Woodstock native,

recently moved to rural Harvard from Cam-bridge, Mass., where they had careers at MIT and the University of Massachusetts. Ganson’s work has been featured in Smith-sonian Magazine, the New York Times Mag-azine and “Nova: Science Now” on PBS. He also has presented a TED Talk on his work.

Hegner has exhibited her photography in Europe and the U.S. She currently works as

Stahlecker, also raised in Woodstock, built a career in California, Alaska and Europe before returning to Woodstock. Her watercolors and handcrafted jew-elry appear in books, magazines and pri-vate and museum collections including the

Smithsonian. The show also features local, regional

and Chicago artists Larry Zgoda, Bill Moran, Yvonne Beckway, Paul Justen, Bobby Joe Scribner, Francine Gourguechon, John Buehler, David Orth and Gregory Gantner.

Gantner and Gabriel Karagianis are the curators of the annual Summer Solstice Exhibition, billed as “a show run by art-ists for artists and the artist in everyone,” according to a press release

The Old Courthouse Arts Center, 101 N. Johnson St. is open 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays, 11. a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturdays and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sundays. For information, call 815-33-4525.

TSP last produced popular play in 2001

By Sandy KucharskiTHE INDEPENDENT

In a departure from some of the more lighthearted fare they’re so well known for, TownSquare Players is presenting the intense drama “One Flew Over �e Cuckoo’s Nest” on their home stage at the Woodstock Opera House, 121 Van Buren St.

Made famous by the 1975 Acad-emy Award-winning film featuring Jack Nicholson, “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” is produced by Roger Zawacki and stars Rikki Lee Travolta as Randle P. McMurphy and Kate Curtin in the role of Nurse Ratched.

�e director of the production, Randall W. Knott, is joining Town-Square Players from DuPage County. Active with Wheaton Community �eater, Knott applied to TSP for the opportunity to direct one of the shows, saying “One Flew Over �e Cuckoo’s Nest” would be his dream show.

“He’s never directed at the Opera House before. He’s doing a fantastic job,” said Zawacki. “His job is over now – it’s up to the cast.”

�e play, based on the 1962 novel by Ken Kesey, tells the story of one man’s struggle against inward and outer oppression.

McMurphy, a repeat criminal, pleads insanity in order to serve out his sentence in a mental institution instead of a prison. Once there, he leads a rebellion of patients against

the oppressive Nurse Ratched.Like the movie, the stage produc-

tion contains humor and drama as well as some adult language.

“It’s not exactly for kids,” Zawacki said.

�e fact that 40 actors auditioned for the 16-member cast is a testa-ment to the popularity of the play. Zawacki said there were a lot of local actors who sought dramatic roles in contrast to parts in musicals.

�is is the first time TSP has pro-duced a June play.

To avoid running into the July 4th holiday, “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” will only run two weekends. �e hope is the short run will be a benefit, encouraging a full house for each show.

TSP last staged the show in 2001. “It was extremely successful for

us,” said Zawacki. “We’re hoping to repeat.”

In the second week of the two-week run, remaining shows will be at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, June 24 and 25, and a 3 p.m. matinee Sunday, June 26. Ticket prices are A seating $23, B seating $18 and C seating $13. For information, call the box office at 815-338-5300.

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Rikki Lee Travolta, left, portrays Randle P. McMurphy opposite Mike Hillstrom, who portrays Dale Harding, in the TSP production of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.”

‘One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest’When: 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, June 24 and 25, and 3 p.m. Sunday, June 26Where: Woodstock Opera House, 121 Van Buren St. Tickets: A seating $23, B seating $18 and C seating $13

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MarketplaceFiled in the McHenry County Recorder’s Office May 16 to 20:

Residence at 1639 Clay Court, Wood-stock, was sold by Joanne and James Gum-precht, Woodstock, to Joanne Gumprecht, Woodstock, for $145,000.

Residence at 3501 S. Cherry Valley Road, Woodstock, was sold by Linda Reed, Wood-stock, to Cliff and Katie Kroening, Wood-stock, for $480,000.

Part of vacant outlot (.267 acres) on Cas-tlebar Trail, Woodstock, was sold by David and Elizabeth Stumpf, Woodstock, to James and Vicki O’Leary, Woodstock, for $18,000.

Residence at 816 Mitchell St., Wood-stock, was sold by Home State Bank, Crys-tal Lake, to Transform:RE LLC, Woodstock, for $74,000.

Residence at 244 Hoy Ave., Woodstock, was sold by Gary and Sharon Schauer, Woodstock, to Juan Ruiz and Kylie Baxter, Woodstock, for $149,900.

Residence at 5116 Hilltop Drive, Won-der Lake, was sold by Jessi and Gigi Smith, Cape Coral, FLa, to Gary Rogers, Wonder Lake, for $134,900.

Residence at 611 Ridgeland Ave., Wood-stock, was sold by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Lake-in-the-Hills, to HPS4 LLC, Lake-in-the-Hills, for $90,000.

Industrial building at 1000 Courtaulds Drive., Woodstock, was sold by Columbia Pipe & Supply Co., Chicago, to 1000 Cour-taulds Drive LLC, for $1,500,000.

Residence at 4112 East Drive, Wonder Lake, was sold by Deutsche Bank National Trust Company as trustee for Morgan Stan-ley home equity loan trust 2005-4, West Palm Beach, Fla., to Jeffrey Middleton, Won-der Lake, for $60,909.

Residence at 8716 Alden Road, Wonder Lake, was sold by the Federal National Mort-gage Association, Dallas, to Robert Johnson, Wonder Lake, for $147,600.

Residence at 201 Nuthatch Drive, Wood-stock, was sold by the Federal National Mort-gage Association, Burr Ridge, to Enrique Diaz and Catalina Ocampo, Woodstock, for $153,000.

REAL ESTATE

By Stephanie PriceTHE INDEPENDENT

When Darrin Flynn and Alberto Perez visited Woodstock in December 2015, they immediately loved the holi-day lights and the ambience of the his-toric Square.

�e two McHenry men had been tossing around the idea of opening their own salon business for five years. Perez was managing an upscale salon in Chi-cago, and the long commute was chal-lenging. Flynn worked from home, but was longing to start his own business.

“We were walking around the Square looking at the holiday lights, and we saw the ‘for lease’ sign in the window, and we decided let’s do it,” Flynn said.

Last month, Flynn and Perez opened D & A Salon Apothecary at 108 N. Ben-ton St., located between Diva’s Attic and Burseth Farm. �ey brought aboard Andrea Garcia, West Chicago, as their lead stylist and creative director. In addition to cutting, coloring and styling hair, D & A Salon offers scalp treatments for men and women, special-event styl-ing, extensions and wax treatments.

�e store’s retail end offers a wide

selection of hair, body, skin and home care products, which are free of harm-ful chemicals. Many of the products are only carried by select salons.

“We carry lines no one else in the area carries,” Flynn said.

D & A’s products include Malin & Goetz apothecary brand, a nationally known company from New York. �e closest stores that offer the line are Bloomingdale’s and Barney’s in Chi-cago. �e company’s unisex skin care line is treatment-oriented and designed for people with sensitive skin, Perez said.

Other brands include Little Barn Apothecary, based in Atlanta, Ga., which just opened its first stand-alone store; Green Envee, of Frankfort, a brand made with organic essential oils that focuses on body care and aroma therapy; R+Co., whose products are vegetarian, cruelty-free, gluten-free and color-safe; Phyto Paris, of France, a leader in offering plant-based hair-care and salon formulas for 50 years; and Layrite, a men’s barbering products line from the West Coast.

Customers wanting to sample the products can make themselves

comfortable at D & A Salon Apothe-cary’s play table located in the front of the store. �ere, the salon offers samplings of all its products and staff explains how to use them.

“We’re very education-based,” Garcia said. “We can make you look gorgeous when you leave us, but if you can’t use the products correctly at home, what’s the point. We want our customers to understand the products when they’re using them at home.”

D & A is offering the services in 1,000 square feet of space on the main floor, which Flynn and Perez have reno-vated by removing the top four layers of flooring to reveal the building’s orig-inal hardwood floors from the 1860s, they said. �ey upcycled an antique table into the shampoo bar and added a touch of sparkle by installing glass chandeliers.

�e duo said the response to their new Woodstock salon has been tre-mendous thus far. Fellow business owners on the Square have visited and welcomed them, and the response from the community has been great, too.

“�e response has been amazing,” Perez said.

INDEPENDENT PHOTO BY STEPHANIE PRICE

Andrea Garcia, Alberto Perez and Darrin Flynn sit at the play table, a place where customers can sample and learn about products at D & A Salon Apothecary, which opened last month at 108 N. Benton St.

New salon opens on Woodstock Square

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CommunityAAUW awards scholarships to MCC students

By Janet DovidioTHE INDEPENDENT

McHenry County College announced its American Association of University Women Spring 2016 Scholarship recipients.

Angela Carrillo of Woodstock received the spring tuition schol-arship. She is studying nursing. A recipient of the scholarship must be enrolled as a full-time student at MCC, demonstrate financial need, be 21 years of age or older, intend to continue at a four-year college and be a resident of McHenry County. She must maintain a grade-point average of 2.5 or better.

Nicole Szeszel of Crystal Lake received the spring book scholarship. She is earning a business degree. A recipient must be a returning MCC student 24 years of age or older, intend to continue studying at a four-year college and reside in the greater Crystal Lake/Algonquin area. She must maintain a 3.0 GPA.

AAUW co-president Marlene Bon-cosky and scholarship chairper-son Kathleen Novak coordinated the scholarship program, which the Crystal Lake club has sponsored for more than 30 years. �e group raises money for the awards through small fundraisers during the year, and at its large annual spring luncheon and raffle.

“�is is an important project for our club,” said Boncosky. “Part of our mission is equity for women and girls in their studies. We follow national AAUW guidelines and pre-fer to benefit local girls and women.”

Each year, the Crystal Lake branch of AAUW donates $1,200 per year in tuition scholarships and $400 in scholarships for book purchases. �e application process takes place at MCC under the direction of Brenda Stiff, interim executive director of the Friends of McHenry County Col-lege Foundation.News of recognitions, milestones and other community events can be sent to Janet Dovidio at fetjetjd@aol.com.

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Property at 120 and Thompson features 300-year-old oak tree

By Stephanie PriceTHE INDEPENDENT

Anyone who knows Lisa Haderlein knows her passion for oak trees.

As the executive director of �e Land Conservancy of McHenry County, based in Woodstock, Had-erlein works to preserve area land and easements in their natural state including remnant prairies, oak woodlands, farmland and water areas.

Currently, Haderlein has her sights set upon a pristine piece of property, known as the Clark Farm, located northwest of Route 120 and �omp-son Road in Bull Valley. �e 30-acre parcel, already dubbed Wolf Oak Woods, encompasses a mix of oak savannah, sedge meadow, a bluff and grasses. When walking the property,

TLC staffers came across Dutchmen breeches, a native spring flower that’s extremely uncommon to see these days, Haderlein said.

“�is place needs a little help, but it’s intact,” Haderlein said. “I think it’s a microcosm of what the natural landscape was like in McHenry County years ago.”

Wolf Oak Woods’ piece de resistance is a gigantic bur oak tree that rises about 30 feet tall and has a trunk that measures nearly 5 feet wide. It’s estimated to be 300 to 350 years old, Haderlein said.

“It’s amazing,” said Haderlein. “It just dominates the landscape. �is tree was growing here when there were wolves and bison living here.”

�e oak tree branches spread so far, the tree is nearly as wide as it is tall. Its massive roots bulge from the ground near its base. Because the tree

was overtaken by a thick overgrowth of buckthorn and honeysuckle shrubs for so many years, some branches grew through the thick brush to reach toward the sunlight. As a result, sev-eral of the tree’s massive limbs touch the ground.

�e big old oak has been dubbed “�e Wolf Oak,” a reference given to old trees that have “been through a lot during their

lifespan,” Haderlein said. �ere are few such trees remaining in McHenry County because earlier European set-tlers hated them for their size and the amount of space they took away from farming, Haderlein said.

“�ey took up the space from farm-ing and grazing cattle so these trees were usually the first to go,” Hader-lein said. “Many years ago, about 40

INDEPENDENT PHOTO BY WHITNEY RUPP

Lisa Haderlein, executive director of The Land Conservancy, stands underneath a massive bur oak tree at the Clark Farm in Bull Valley.

TLC raising funds to buy Bull Valley farm

Please see TLC, Page 13

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percent of McHenry County was cov-ered in oak trees.”

�e Land Conservancy is working to buy the Wolf Oak Woods prop-erty from the Clark family, which has owned it since about the 1850s according to some estimates, Had-erlein said. Gordon Clark, now deceased, farmed the land for many years. He nor his ancestors never leveled the tree, but worked around it and a nearby cluster of oaks.

“Fortunately, the Clarks were a family that recognized this was a special tree,” Haderlein said.

TLC’s goal is to raise $400,000 to help buy the property. �e nonprofit has already collected $200,000 from its members and regular donors. �e organization will be hosting more fundraisers through-out the year to raise the rest of the money. TLC aims to purchase the property by the end of the year.

Once purchased, Haderlein and her staff intend to clear invasive plants from the site and create trails for visitors to explore the prop-erty. She envisions a small park-ing area off Route 120 and a picnic area where families can relax not far

from the mighty Wolf Oak Tree. She hopes to have the property open to the public by spring 2018.

Gordon’s sisters Alice and Leta Clark, longtime preservationists themselves known for hosting wild-flower walks placed a conservation easement on five acres they owned at the corner of Route 120 and �ompson Road. “�e Clark Sisters’ Wildflower Preserve” was the first conservation easement established by TLC, Haderlein said.

TLC is in its 10th year working on Project Quercus (quercus is the Latin word for oak). �e organiza-tion is striving to plant more oak trees and return them to their status as the county’s key tree species in the area. Oak trees are slow growers at first, but once they begin to take off they quickly catch up with other trees. And oaks can grow up to 400 years old, Haderlein said.

“�roughout the county there are maybe a dozen such trees as old as this one (the Wolf Oak Tree),” Had-erlein said.

�ere are several large red oak trees in Harvard and a smaller white oak tree in Gateway Park, also in Harvard, she said. Glacial Park in Ringwood is home to a bur oak that is larger than the Wolf Oak Tree, Haderlein said. More information is available at ConserveMC.org.

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Just as some knowledge of his-tory can help us to regain the context within which to understand the gene-alogical records that we unearth, so can genealogical records help us to comprehend the historical record.

True for the family trees of each of us, this is also true of royal family trees. I have forgotten how I com-piled many genealogical charts in a composition notebook some years ago, but I somehow set down the most important data for English royal families from William the Bas-tard to Elizabeth II.

�is notebook astonishes me now, with its pages of crabbed but still legible detail. It reminds me of some interesting or pathetic facts: that George III sired nine boys and six girls upon Queen Charlotte; that Queen Anne survived 19 dead chil-dren; that Bonnie Prince Charlie (the Young Pretender) had a younger brother who became a Cardinal, Henry Cardinal Duke of York.

More importantly, visualizing the English royal bloodlines adds some depth to my understanding of Eng-lish history. I may know a fact, but seeing that fact embodied in a family tree deepens its significance. Prin-cess Victoria’s governess, wanting Victoria finally to perceive her own significance to the royal succession, gave her the Hanover family tree to read. �e young Victoria at last understood, replying “I will be good.” In much the same way, my reading the royal charts drives home facts

that I already “know,” fleshing out their continu-ity and context.

I must have started this note-book when I studied Shake-speare’s English history plays and tried to puzzle out the densely tangled compet-ing claims to the throne that inspired the fratricidal struggle called the Wars of the Roses. My notebook begins with energetic attempts to explain to myself the Lancastrian and Yorkist bloodlines. Paging through these charts chroni-cling a murderous royal house, I now perceive the symptoms of the rise of the House of Tudor, like a parasite battening on a dying tree.

�e Tudors had an obscure ori-gin and the flimsiest of claims to the throne. After the warrior king Henry V died, his French widow secretly married a Welshman named Owen Tudor and bore him several children, including their sons Edmund and Jasper. Edmund died young but stays on the chart just long enough to father the first Tudor usurper, Henry VII. �e Lancastrian Jasper eventu-ally married the Dowager Duchess of Buckingham, widow of the Yor-kist ally of Richard III and sister of the Yorkist Queen Elizabeth Wood-ville, a detail that fills me with curi-osity about their chances of marital happiness.

�e charts illuminate several later dynastic struggles that determined much English history. Just like the Lancastrians and Yorkists, the Tudors and the Stuarts, as well as the earlier Hanoverian sovereigns, recurrently contended with rebel-lions based on disputed bloodlines. Lady Jane Grey reluctantly dis-placed Queen Mary for a week and

a half, and an ardent Mary Queen of Scots threatened Elizabeth’s security for decades. Seeing from the trees that these great-granddaughters of Henry VII were second cousins—Jane Grey being the granddaugh-ter of Henry VIII’s sister Mary Tudor and Mary Stuart being the grand-daughter of their sister Margaret Tudor—somehow clarifies what I already know.

Exhaustion of the womb of the last Stuart sovereign, Queen Anne, led to the acquisition of a king for England who never learned any English, the Elector of Hanover who became George I. He might not speak English, but at least he was Protestant (unlike the legitimate heir, Anne’s younger brother, the Old Pretender). Puzzling out how George possessed a claim becomes easier when I look at the chart of his grandmother, Elizabeth the Winter Queen of Bohemia, who began life as Princess Elizabeth Stuart, daugh-ter of James I and granddaughter of Mary Queen of Scots.

After several failed challenges to the Hanoverian kings from the Old Pretender and his son Bon-nie Prince Charlie, the protracted reign of George III introduced a new dynastic crisis. �e charts show nine sons with rights to succeed, but they are too small to list over 50 bas-tard grandchildren. Only one son had produced a legitimate child, the Prince Regent. Nerved by much alcohol to the dread deed, he had reluctantly begotten his daughter upon a detested and bigamous bride, but his heir, Charlotte of Wales, died in childbirth in 1817. Her and her baby’s deaths caused several princes in late middle age to abandon their mistresses, embrace matrimony, and seek to beget children. Not the only royal baby born in 1819 but the one who eventually succeeded, Victoria owed her very existence to her first cousin’s agonized death.

An amorous woman unenthusi-astic about pregnancy or babies, Victoria nevertheless became Europe’s grandmother by virtue of the dynastic alliances formed by her descendants. Kaiser Wilhelm II held his dying grandmother in his arms 13 years before the Great War. Other German relatives in Victo-ria’s tree had a powerful impact on her royal house, renamed Windsor as a result of popular anti-German hysteria.

�e Battenbergs took a small role at first. A morganatic branch of the House of Hesse and by Rhine, the family included Henry, who mar-ried Victoria’s daughter Beatrice. His brother Louis wed Victoria of Hesse, the old Queen’s granddaughter and the sister of the Tsarina Alexandra. Louis and Victoria had a son named Louis of Battenberg, renamed Louis Mountbatten during the Great War, later Earl of Burma and the Viceroy who relinquished India. �ey also had a daughter, Alice, wife of Prince Andrew of Greece and mother of Prince Philip of Greece, renamed Philip Mountbatten to emphasize his mother’s bloodline.

Eventually Elizabeth II’s hus-band, Philip Mountbatten is related to everyone. His father was Tsar Nicholas’ first cousin, as was George V. �us, on his paternal side, Philip is his wife’s second cousin, once removed. In his maternal bloodline, Philip and Elizabeth share Victoria as a great-great-grandmother, which makes them third cousins. �e tragic Tsarina was Philip’s Great-aunt Alix (and Elizabeth’s first cousin, twice removed). Philip provided the DNA evidence that identified her and her slaughtered children’s desecrated and battered bones.Woodstock resident Kathleen Spaltro has worked as a writer, editor and teacher for many years. Her book “Royals of England” is available from Amazon.com and the Woodstock Public Library.

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IN BRIEFEDMC to host documentary screening and discussion at MCC

The Environmental Defenders of McHenry County announces a free screen-ing of Plastic Paradise, an independent

June 23, at McHenry County College, 8900

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On June 15, members of Woodstock Girl Scout Troop 510 planted 40 native shrubs and plants at Ryders Woods. They were assisted by staff of The Land Conservancy of McHenry County. Pictured, from left, front row: Eliza Gores and Alexis Hunt. Back row: Elisa-beth Young, Ingrid Gay, Annabella Ely, Norah Mungle and Cheyanne Bierman.

STUDIO HELPS GIRL SCOUTS EARN BADGE

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SCOUTS ADD PLANTS AT RYDERS WOODS

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‘GOOSEBUMPS’10 a.m. Wednesday, June 22

‘MINIONS’10 a.m. Wednesday, June 29

‘FREE STATE OF JONESAs the Civil War divides the nation, a farmer from Missis-sippi leads a group of rebels against the Confederate army. Directed by Gary Ross. Stars Matthew McConaughey and Gugu Mbatha-Raw.R, 139 MINUTES

‘INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE’

is faced with a new threat. Directed by Roland Emmerich. Stars Liam Hemsworth, Jeff Goldblum and Bill Pullman. PG-13, 120 MINUTES

‘THE SHALLOWS’When surfer Nancy is attacked by a shark close to shore, her

short journey to safety becoming the ultimate contest of wills. Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra. Stars Blake Lively and Oscar Jaenada. PG-13, 87 MINUTES

‘FINDING DORY’

ones, and everyone learns a few things about the real mean-ing of family along the way. Directed by Andrew Stanton and Angus MacLane. Stars Ellen DeGeneres and Albert Brooks. PG, 103 MINUTES

‘CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE’After he reunites with an old pal through Facebook, a mild-man-nered accountant is lured into the world of international espio-nage. Directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber. Stars Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart. PG-13, 114 MINUTES

‘NOW YOU SEE ME 2’The Four Horsemen resurface and are forcibly recruited by a tech genius to pull off their most impossible heist yet. Directed by Jon Chu. Stars Jesse Eisenberg and Mark Ruffalo. RATED PG-13, 129 MINUTES

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22 WEDNESDAYUNDERSTANDING AND RESPONDING TO DEMEN-TIA-RELATED BEHAVIORSWoodstock Public Library414 W. Judd St.2 to 4 p.m.815-484-1300See June 21.

23 THURSDAYSENIOR EXERCISE CLASSDorr Township1039 Lake Ave.9 a.m.$10 monthly exercise class fee,

$2 lunch815-344-3555Senior citizens are invited to exer-cise, followed by coffee, program, lunch and bingo.

24 FRIDAYCOMMUNITY DRUM CIRCLEPotts & Pans Building1039 Wanda Lane7:30 p.m.$10 suggested donation815-814-8360Attendees can participate with group drumming activities for celebration, recreation and stress relief. Instruments will be provided.

25 SATURDAY

WOODSTOCK FARMERS MARKETWoodstock Square8 a.m. to 1 p.m.The market will feature a variety of food and craft items produced directly by the vendors.

26 SUNDAYDRUM CIRCLEUnity Spiritual Center225 W. Calhoun St.815-337-3534The public is invited to bring drums and other percussion instruments and join in a drum cir-cle led by Jeff Bedwell.

27 MONDAYGROWN-UP COLORING

Woodstock Public Library414 Judd St.10 a.m. to 1 p.m.Adults can stop by to color, a calming art therapy.

28 TUESDAYWOODSTOCK FARMERS MARKETWoodstock Square8 a.m. to 1 p.m.See June 25.

COFFEE AT THE CAFÉStage Left Café125 Van Buren St.1 p.m.Senior citizens are invited to drop in for coffee and more. June 28: Visitors are invited to share a memory about summer

as a child.

30 THURSDAYSENIOR EXERCISE CLASSDorr Township1039 Lake Ave.9 a.m.$10 monthly exercise class fee, $2 lunch815-344-3555See June 23.

2 SATURDAYWOODSTOCK FARMERS MARKETWoodstock Square8 a.m. to 1 p.m.See June 25.

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‘THE CONJURING 2’Lorraine and Ed Warren travel to north London to help a single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued by malicious spirits. Directed by James Wan. Stars Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson. RATED R, 133 MINUTES

MUSICCITY BAND CONCERTJune 22, 29, July 6, 7:30 p.m.Woodstock SquareThemes for the concerts will be:June 22: “Journeys”June 29: “American Salute”July 6: “If it ain’t Baroque”

STAGE LEFTOVERSJune 22, 7:30 p.m.Stage Left Café125 Van Buren St. FreeThe Stage Leftovers, consistingof Rich Prezioso, Joe Pesz, BrianMurphy, Laurel Palma, PeteJonsson, George Koester and Les Urban, will perform.

LIVE MUSIC AT EXPRESSLY LESLIE’SJune 24, July 1, 8, 6 p.m.Woodstock Square Mall110 Johnson St.June 24: Big Fish will perform.July 1: Guyz with Bad Eyez will perform.July 8: Small Potatoes will

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OPEN MIC NIGHTJune 24, July 8, 7 p.m.Stage Left Café125 Van Buren St. $3 donationoffsquaremusic.org815-338-5164Open Mic is sponsored by OffSquare Music. Various artists will perform in 15-minute slots.

WOODSTOCK FARMERS MARKETJune 25, 28, July 2, 5, 9, 12, 16Woodstock SquareFreeJune 25: 9 a.m. Bad PennyJune 28: 9 a.m. Judson and Judy BrownJuly 2: 9 a.m. Briar Road; 10:30 a.m. Justin PurtillJuly 5: 9 a.m. Courtney Sullivan;

10 a.m. Suzy Schwartz, 11 a.m. Jim FineJuly 9: 9 a.m. Stage LeftoversJuly 12: 9 a.m. Kishwaukee RamblersJuly 16: 9 a.m. Guyz with Bad Eyez; 10:30 Cheryl Niemo and the Down Home Boys

JAZZ JAMJuly 1, 15, 8 p.m.Stage Left Café125 Van Buren St.815-337-1395$5 donationJazz Jam is sponsored by Jazz on the Square. Artists will perform jazz music.

THEATER‘ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST’

June 24, 25, 8 p.m.June 26, 3 p.m.Woodstock Opera House121 Van Buren St.$23 A seating, $18 B seating, $13 C seating815-338-5300TownSquare Players present the story of one man’s strug-gle against inward and outer oppression.

SPOKEN WORDSPOKEN WORD CAFÉJuly 9, 7 p.m.Stage Left Café125 Van Buren St.815-337-1395International and national travel-ing professional storytellers‚ aswell as talented local amateurs,students and elders, will perform.

DAR GENEALOGY WORKSHOPWoodstock Public Library414 W. Judd St.10 a.m. to noon815-338-0542Volunteer genealogists from the Kishwaukee Trail Chap-ter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, will help people trace their American ancestors.

DICK TRACY DAYWoodstock Square1-5 p.m.Friends of the Old Courthouse will sponsor a variety of family activities including sidewalk chalk drawing, photo op in the old jail, a walking tour and more to cele-brate the Dick Tracy comic strip’s Woodstock legacy.

VENETIAN NIGHTWonder LakeDuskIlluminated boats will parade around Wonder Lake.

3 SUNDAYWONDER LAKE 4TH OF JULY PARADEDowntown Wonder Lake1:30 p.m.The parade will kick off at Christ the King Church, 5006 E. Wonder

Lake Road.

WONDER LAKE WATER SKI SHOW TEAMCenter BeachWonder Lake4 p.m.The Wonder Lake Water Ski Show Team will perform.

WONDER LAKE FIREWORKSOver the lakeDusk

4 MONDAYFOURTH OF JULY FIREWORKSEmricson ParkDusk

5 TUESDAYWOODSTOCK FARMERS MARKETWoodstock Square8 a.m. to 1 p.m.See June 25.

COFFEE AT THE CAFÉStage Left Café125 Van Buren St.1 p.m.Senior citizens are invited to drop in for coffee and more. June 14: Visitors are invited to bring a favorite snack and play bingo.

LEGO NIGHTWoodstock Public Library

414 W. Judd St.6:30 p.m.815-338-0542LEGOS and Duplos are avail-able for builders ages 2 years and older.

8 FRIDAY2ND FRIDAYS ON THE SQUAREWoodstock Square6 to 9 p.m.Visual art displays and trunk sales along with entertainment will be on the streets of downtown Woodstock.

9 SATURDAYWOODSTOCK FARMERS MARKETWoodstock Square8 a.m. to 1 p.m.See June 25.

HABITAT RESTORATION

11418 McConnell Road9 a.m. to nooneventsprout.com/register/

815-337-9315Individuals, students, small groups and families with children older than age 6 can participate in restoring native habitat for this McHenry County Conservation District site.

YONDER PRAIRIE WORK DAYYonder Prairie

14401 Trinity Court9 a.m. to noonconserveMC.orgThe Land Conservancy is seeking volunteers to help clear invasive plants at the restoration site.

10 SUNDAYYONDER PRAIRIE WORK DAYYonder Prairie14401 Trinity Court10 a.m. to 1 p.m.conserveMC.orgSee July 9.

11 MONDAYGROWN-UP COLORINGWoodstock Public Library414 Judd St.10 a.m. to 1 p.m.Adults can stop by to color, a calming art therapy.

SPOUSAL CAREGIVER SUPPORT GROUPFamily Alliance2028 N. Seminary Ave.10:30 a.m. to noon815-338-3590An open support group meeting will be offered for individuals car-ing for a spouse.

MCHENRY COUNTY HORSE CLUB MEETINGHooved Animal Humane Society10804 McConnell Road7 p.m.847-366-1315

The general meeting of the club is open to everyone. Meetings will have various speakers and exhibits.

COFFEE WITH THE CHIEFWoodstock Police Department656 Lake Ave.7 p.m.There will be a program, to be announced.

12 TUESDAYCOFFEE AT THE CAFÉStage Left Café125 Van Buren St.1 p.m.Senior citizens are invited to drop in for coffee and more.

ALZHEIMER’S DEMENTIA SUPPORT GROUPValley Hi Nursing Home2406 Hartland Road6 p.m.815-334-2817A monthly meeting will offer sup-port for caregivers of individuals with Alzheimer’s and dementia.

13 WEDNESDAYWOODSTOCK LIONS CLUB MEETINGMain Street PourHouse214 Main St.6:30 p.m.815-236-4759The meeting is open to the pub-lic. Prospective members are welcome.

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SportsSwimmers notch personal bests with club

By Liz StrohTHE INDEPENDENT

A summer tradition 52 years in the making has returned to Woodstock for another season.

�e Woodstock Dolphins swim team has taken to area pools again, having just completed a home meet June 11.

�e third annual pentathlon took place at Woodstock North High School, where many of the Dolphins team notched at least one personal best. Also swimming in the event were the Rockford Marlins and the Dundee Township Park District Dolphins.

Woodstock Dolphin Gunner Dun-nett was awarded a third-place medal for high point, a recognition for the swimmer who scores the most points in a given age group. Tessa Jones qualified for region-als in the 50-yard backstroke and 50 butterfly and took third in high point. Kiersten Shulfer broke the club record for backstroke in the girls 8-and-under 25 backstroke. She also was awarded third place for high point.

“�e coaching staff on hand has been phenomenal,” said Susan Dun-nett, a Dolphins parent educator.

�e nonprofit Woodstock Dol-phins organization is unaffiliated with local school swimming pro-grams and is made up of children and teenagers. Swimmers com-pete for medals in a wide variety of events, including the backstroke, freestyle and butterfly.

�e current Dolphin coaches are �eresa Albrecht, Adam Steinken, Morgan Hoffmann, Henry Gantner

Woodstock Dolphins swim team is in 52nd season

and Olivia Hunt. All but Albrecht are past members of the Dolphins, and Steinken, Hoff-man and Gantner all still hold the club record in the 400 freestyle relay.

Although med-als are up for grabs, the swimmers are taught to swim against the clock to keep improving their times and skills.

“It’s about kids having fun and

[continuing] to grow and to be com-petitive,” Dunnett said.

To that end, the team will host an inter-team fun swim June 29, the Firecracker Fun-draiser, which raises funds to help support the

club. Team members and coaches will swim fun relays, races and par-ticipate in team-building exercises. �e club has other events remaining

this season, including the ISI Sum-mer Regionals at Woodstock North High School Friday to Sunday, July 22 to 24.

Earlier in the season, 2012 U.S. Olympic gold and silver medalist Nick �oman came to the club’s Fit or Faster event and spoke to swim-mers about his training and qualify-ing for the Olympics, among other things.

For information on the Woodstock Dolphins, visit www.woodstockdol-phins.com.

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Woodstock Dolphins swimmer Dominic Siwiec, 11, dives into the pool at Woodstock Water Works June 14. The Woodstock Dolphins were established 52 years ago.

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Registration is open for the annual Run for Hope 5K run/walk held in memory of Hope Fuller, a student at Creekside Middle School who died of a pediatric brain tumor in 2010.

The race will start at 8 a.m., Saturday, July 9, at Grace Lutheran Church, 1300 Kishwaukee Valley Road. Pre-race registra-tion fees will be $25 for adults and $15 for children 17 and younger, available online at raceagainsttheodds.com.

Preregistration will be open through July 4. Race-day registration will open at 7 a.m., July 9 with a fee of $30 adults, $20 children.

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IN BRIEF

Woodstock Little LeagueMajor League Standings through June 181. Reds 10-2-02. Marlins 8-4-13. Cardinals 8-5-04. White Sox 6-5-25. Athletics 5-6-26. Rangers 5-6-17. Diamondbacks 4-8-18. Brewers 1-10-1

The White Sox and Marlins tied 12-12

June 13 at Merryman Field 3. The leading hitters for the White Sox were Darren Rad-kiewicz, Ben Stroh and Aidan Gibson. The leading hitters for the Marlins were Finn Pivnicka, Shane Buening and John Herff.

The Diamondbacks beat the White Sox 15-12 June 14 at Sullivan Field in Emric-son Park. The leading hitters for the White Sox were: Jacob Binder, and David Alli-son. The leading hitter for the Diamond-backs was Cayden Leonard.

The White Sox beat the Brewers 14-12 June 18 at Merryman Field 3. Leading hit-ters for the White Sox were: Jacob Binder,

Payton Rockwood and David Allison. The leading hitter for the Brewers was Char-lie Baker.

Woodstock Avalanche 14U Avalanche lost to the McHenry

Outlaws 10-9 June 14. 11U Avalanche lost to the Huntley Hit-

men 11-7 June 13, defeated the North-west Vipers 10-6 June 15 and defeated the Barrington Broncos 9-8 June 18.

-ning 16-4 June 16 and to Barrington 17-7 June 18.

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10U TEAMS MEET

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Two of Woodstock Girls Softball 10U teams celebrate their night game June 15 at Bates Park. Wood-stock 1 beat Woodstock 3 9-8. From left, front row are: Erica Kelly, Anna Wickerscheim, Abi Forester, Georgia Sedlack and Krista Herrmann. Middle Row: Grace Topf, Maggie Hockemeyer, Cassidy Ryan, Annabelle Groves, Brooke Gillum, Melanie Nunez and Hannah Kaufmann. Back Row: Grace Ribbe, Allie O’Brien, Lyla Arnow, Caylin Stevens, Grace Murphy, Madison Sherrill, Delaney Heidtke, Mikaela Abeyla and Abbi Young.

THE WOODSTOCK INDEPENDENT 27 June 22-28, 2016 SPORTS

THE WOODSTOCK INDEPENDENT 28June 22-28, 2016