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ON THE COVERRunners begin the PeppeRuni 5K Push for the Path run Saturday in Yorkville. The event was to raise funds for a recre-ational trail along Kennedy Road.

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Tax bills continue to creep up for most property owners

By MATT SCHURY [email protected]

Kendall County property owners should find their annual property tax bills in the mail this week, according to Jill Ferko, county treasurer.

Ferko said Monday her office mailed the bills May 6. The bills will be due in two installment payments, June 7 and Sept. 7.

Taxpayers can pay their bills online by going to illinoisepay.com, which charges a convenience fee for this service. Ferko says residents can also contact her office to sign up to have the two payments directly withdrawn from their bank accounts on the due dates. There is no cost for that option.

Residents who have the time can also stop by the Treasurer’s Office to pay their bills. The treasurer’s office is located on the first floor of the Coun-ty Office building 111 W. Fox St. in Yorkville.

A majority of county taxpayers now pay their taxes through escrow accounts their banks set up with their monthly mortgage payments. Those escrowing their tax payments will still receive a bill in the mail that they should review.

Ferko estimates that about 52,000

bills were sent out in Kendall County. Of those bills, the majority of proper-ty owners will see an increase due in part to rising property assessments. Assessments are based on a three-year average. This year’s property assess-ments are based on data collected by assessors in 2012, 2013 and 2014.

Under state law, all properties with the exception of farmland must be as-sessed at one-third their fair market value. Assessments across the county have been trending upward in recent years after bottoming out in the wake of the 2008 recession.

To determine how much is owed on each tax bill, county officials multiply the total tax rate of the appropriate local government agencies by the as-sessed value of each property, minus any exemptions.

Tax bills will show an increase if the assessed value of the property has increased and the local tax rate either stays the same or also increases.

Referring to this year’s tax bills, Ferko said, “For the most part I think that, yes, you will probably see your bill go up a little bit.”

However, the size of the increase will vary, depending upon the location of the property in the county.

A typical household in the city of

Plano saw their total tax rate decrease from 15.15 percent to 14.25 percent, while a village of Montgomery proper-ty owner in Yorkville School District 115 saw a total tax rate increase from 12.05 percent to 12.11 percent.

In the city of Yorkville, the typical household saw an increase in their tax rate from 11.6 in 2014 to 11.7 percent in 2015, while in the village of Oswego there was a decrease in the total rate from 11.56 percent to 10.91 percent, ac-cording to information provided by the Kendall County Office of Assess-ments.

Overall, tax rates were mostly likely the highest in the north and eastern incorporated areas of Kendall County while they tended to be lower in the southern and western potions of unin-corporated Kendall County, according to Kendall County supervisor of assess-ments Andy Nicoletti.

While people can’t appeal their new tax bills, Nicoletti says, they can be-come more involved in the process of determining those bills by attending public meetings and letting their voic-es be heard.

“When 67 percent of your bill is go-ing to the schools, that’s really where you need to start addressing things,” he said.

Yorkville man dies in DeKalb County car/truck crash

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A Yorkville man was killed Friday in a collision at the intersection of Route 23 and Chicago Road, DeKalb County sheriff’s police said in a news re-lease.

Police said Javier A. Rangel, 34, of the 1200 block of Willow Way in Yorkville, was killed after the 1996 Honda Accord he was driving collided with a semitrailer in the intersection about 6:30 a.m.

Police said Rangel’s vehicle was westbound on Chicago Road when it disobeyed the stop sign at the intersection and collided with a semitrailer that was southbound on Route 23 and driven by Jeffrey S. Brackmann, 59, of the 4500 block of East 18th Road, Leland.

Rangel died of injuries he suffered from the crash, police said. Paramedics from the Somonauk Fire Department took Brackmann to Valley West Hospital for treatment of injuries that were not life-threatening, police said.

Mandatory meeting for dual language program

There will be a mandatory meet-ing for Yorkville School District 115 families interested in the district’s dual language program at Autumn Creek Elementary School for the 2016-17 school year will be from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 25, at the school at 2377 Autumn Creek Blvd. Call 630-553-4048.

Parents must attend this meeting if they are considering dual language for their incoming kindergartner.

Dual language is a program offered in the Yorkville School Dis-trict where English-speaking stu-dents are integrated in the same classrooms with Spanish-speak-ing students, and their instruction is in Spanish for the majority of their day. More information can be found on the district website

www.y115.org under the academ-ics tab.

YMS S.T.E.P. fundraiser set at Culver’s tonight

The Yorkville Middle School S.T.E.P. Team qualified at the Youth Step USA Regional last month and is now raising money for their first ever trip to nationals in Harrisburg, PA Memorial Day Weekend.

There are several ways the community can help these 20 stu-dents go on a fantastic trip. Visit their Edco fundraising page at yorkville-middle.ed.co/yms-step-team, buy popcorn from a stepper or eat at Culver’s on North Bridge Street in Yorkville on Thursday, May 12.

Certificates for Culver’s are available on the team’s Facebook site at YMS STEP Team.

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A top administrator in the Yorkville School District has resigned to take a position with Community Consolidated School District 181 serv-ing Hinsdale and Clarendon Hills.

Kelley Gallt, Yorkville’s director of teaching and learning, was hired by District 181, a prekindergarten to eighth-grade district, as the assistant superintendent of learning (curricu-lum and instruction) effective July 1.

Gallt has worked here for three years and said, “I really love this dis-trict.”

Board member Dr. Robert Brenart said she would be “sorely missed.”

“Very few people put in the amount of work she has,” he added.

The board also hired the first teach-ers to teach blended (part classroom, part online) classes this summer. Rachel Juarez will teach the high school government class and Mickey Nauman the consumer management course.

Special education staffing levels for each school were approved for next year, after the June 30 dissolution of the Kendall County Special Education Cooperative. Three full-time staff will serve the entire district – one for hear-ing-impaired students, an adaptive physical education teacher, and a mu-sic therapist.

Staffing levels at each school will

vary depending on which programs are housed in each building. There will be 10.5 full-time equivalent staff members at Autumn Creek Elemen-tary School, four at Bristol Bay Ele-mentary School, 6.5 at Bristol Grade School, six at Circle Center Grade School, seven at Grande Reserve El-ementary School, six at Yorkville Grade School, nine at Yorkville Inter-mediate School, 13 at Yorkville Mid-dle School, and 18 at Yorkville High School/Yorkville High School Acad-emy.

In addition, the board accepted res-ignations from computer technician Timothy Connolly and special educa-tion teacher Laura Machuca, and from Joe Fornell as Yorkville High School wrestling coach, and Kevin Cain as Yorkville Middle School eighth-grade boys basketball coach. They granted an unpaid leave of absence to Melissa Hardecopf for the remainder of this school year and next year.

They hired five special education paraprofessionals for next year – Julia Wiewiora, Melissa Davis, Kristin Mu-kuta, Jessica Wright and Bonny Mat-tison; hired Holly Garton as a learning disabilities teacher for the remainder of this school year; and moved Jill Harker from part-time copy aide to full-time clerical secretary.

Kevin Cain was hired as YHS as-sistant boys basketball coach, Caitlin Graff as YHS head winter cheerlead-ing coach, Jon Calder as YHS head

golf coach, Amy McMahill as YHS head fall and winter pom coach, and Jacob Oster as YHS wrestling coach.

Four YMS soccer coaches were switched from half-time to full-time stipends. They are Ben Rollins and Andrew Chilton, girls soccer coaches, and Nate Rahn and Chris Palmisano, boys soccer.

Since the district will now be pro-viding Extended School Year (ESY) summer school programs to special education students who need the ser-vice, the board hired staff members for that program.

For the elementary school level, they hired certified staff members Traci Underwood, Kathleen Coffey, Kari Smith, Julie Pehlke, Anna Toth, Cady Hanson, Tracy Olson, Kimber-ly Minkler, Kristin Melick, Caitlin Graff, Lisa Deville and Bobby Speer; secretary Laura Barbante; and para-professionals Joan Sim, Patt Schaum, Barb Murphy, Clint Rocen, Dan Schul-tz, Jodi Bammer, Lesley Shanks, Beth Mack, Donna Rhode, Josie Holmes, Robin Blank, Carol Schuenemann, Vickie Berg, Robin Blank, Mindy Albrecht, Claudia Schneider, Heidi Dockstader, Lisa Friel, Ines Fenton, Deborah Lueck, Diane Cikauskas, Ra-chel Mateyka and Katelyn Bedford.

Middle school ESY staff hired were: certified teachers Jana Ochoa, Sheri Rocen, Nathan Rahn, Amy McMahill, Tatum Diehl, Patrick Jeckman, May Sandgren, Alice Strobel, Sarah Burns, Emily Christian, Rosemary Kern and Brian Erjevec; psychologist Me-gan Yahle; administrative assistant Marisella Mendoza; and paraprofes-sionals Danine Polizza, Desiree Kice, Jessica Wright, Mary Najdzion, Ash-

lee Entas, Maureen Boylan, Michele Brown, Laura Bell, Illir Imini, Roya Rasti, Suzanne Roark, Laura Hilliard, Audrey Matysek, Pamela Hansen and Victoria Espinoza.

Board members also approved some additional positions at Yorkville High School – three more campus monitors, two summer school secre-taries, one full-time math teacher, and additional time for a Project Lead The Way teacher.

Human Resources Director Troy Courtney presented information, which was not voted on, recommend-ing an additional fifth-grade teacher at Autumn Creek Elementary School and an additional third-grade teacher at Circle Center Grade School because of large class sizes.

He also mentioned additional staff-ing needs at Yorkville Middle School, including a part-time German teacher as 41 students enrolled for that class next fall; more time for the family and consumer science, business ba-sics and computer science teachers; a full-time physical education/health teacher, and an additional half-time orchestra teacher.

Enrollment in orchestra at YMS has grown from 146 in 2012 to 220 now, Courtney said, with no additional teachers.

The Building and Grounds Depart-ment will need 21 summer workers to do grounds work, waxing floors, painting, moving, etc. Building and Grounds Director Brian DeBolt not-ed that the summer helpers – usual-ly high school and college students – don’t work full-time as most will be gone part of the time for classes, ath-letic practices and family vacations.

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Huge Rummage SaleThis year’s semi-annual rummage and bake sale is scheduled for FridayMay 20 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and SaturdayMay 21 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at

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Cross Lutheran School in Yorkville is now enroll-ing for the 2016-17 school year.

The school offers a faith-based approach to learn-ing.

Cross Preschool offers morning preschool classes

for 2 year-olds. The 3 year-old and 4 year-old pro-grams offer a variety of morning options, as well as an extended day program. The preschool uses the project approach and “Handwriting Without Tears” curriculum.

In addition to preschool, Cross offers a full-day kindergarten program continuing through eighth

grade. The school also offers before-school care be-ginning at 6:30 a.m. and after-school care until 5:30 p.m.

Cross Lutheran School is at 8535 Route 47, Yorkville. For more information and a tour, call the school office at 630-553-7861 or email us at [email protected].

Cross Lutheran enrolling students for 2016-17 school year

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Freeze taxes? Why that’s not so simple

We’ve noticed over the last few weeks area state lawmakers – both Republicans and Democrats – have been hosting seminars to explain the state’s property assessment and tax bills system to their constituents.

We commend the lawmakers for hosting the infor-mational sessions. Anything to improve the public’s understanding of Illinois’ confusing and often arcane method of taxing real estate has to be a positive. We are still baffled as to why a general explanation of the state’s property tax system is not part of the civics curriculum in the state’s public high schools.

In announcing her May 19 seminar, State Rep. Stephanie Kifowit, D-Oswego, noted the area’s high property tax burden needs to be addressed “locally and legislatively.” She added, “My free seminar will give homeowners the information they need to appeal their property tax bill and possibly save money.”

We would caution area residents, however, that it is months too late for them to appeal the property tax bill they may have just received or soon will receive in the mail. State law does not provide a mechanism for property owners to appeal their tax bills. Instead, it gives property owners the ability to appeal the as-sessment on which their property tax bills are based.

Here in Kendall County, the county supervisor of assessment’s office usually notifies property owners by mail if their assessments have changed in the late summer or early fall. State law requires that all properties – with the exclusion of farm parcels – be assessed at one-third their fair market value, aver-aged over the previous three years.

Property owners who believe their new assess-ments are in excess of that one-third value have a 30-day window after they receive their change notices to file an appeal with the county supervisor of assessments office. The county board of tax review considers the appeals during public hearings, usu-ally held in the winter. Those property owners who file appeals and gain the board of review’s approval for an assessment reduction are then in a position to realize some savings on their next property tax bills.

Current state politicians beginning with the Gov. Bruce Rauner all down the line are in favor of a prop-erty tax freeze, just like their predecessors decades ago. Who doesn’t want to pay less in property taxes? But the problem the politicians have always faced is that if they were to freeze property taxes without significantly increasing funding for education from another source – such as the income tax – local school systems would soon go broke.

The ill effects of a property tax freeze without a corresponding increase in taxes from another source would be especially deleterious on school districts in growth communities like Oswego/Montgomery and Yorkville where enrollments and thereby operation-al expenses continue to climb.

OUR VIEW

Surviving the good old days

It is human nature to look back on a time in the past and decide that was the ideal era.

Politically, folks on the right side of the political spectrum look back fondly on the Reagan era of the 1980s as an ideal, while those on the left are enamored of the New Deal 1930s. Most of us look back on our childhood years as some sort of ideal, which is not at all surprising. As kids, our par-ents (for the most part) took care of us, made sure we were housed and fed and had clothes to wear. We played with our friends and didn’t have all those pesky adult worries that seem to occupy our minds as we cope with making ends meet.

Back in the 1960s and early ‘70s when my generation were young adults, young people looked back with fondness on our parents’ and grandparents’ eras when people lived close to the soil and expe-rienced “natural” lives. If only, we heard from the back-to-nature crowd, all that nasty machinery and all those harmful fertilizers, insecticides and herbicides were eliminated, everyone would be healthier and happier. It would be thrilling to return to the days when everyone ate health food and no one suffered from a lack of

roughage in their diets.And while living in a chem-

ical-free world sounded pretty good then – and now, actually – if those youngsters had bothered to study rural American history, they would have learned that life back in pre-machinery, pre-farm chemical times was not all that good or healthy. Compared to today’s agricultural operations, relatively little food was actually produced on those early farms, and since paved roads really didn’t exist in most areas of the country until the 1920s, it was difficult to get what was produced to market. In addition, life itself was dear. On a regular basis, terrible diseases swept through rural communities, killing whole families in those pre-antibiotic days when a splinter in a finger could prove fatal.

Back in the “Good Old Days,” people preserved fruit, vegetables and meat all summer because they’d starve all winter if they didn’t. People didn’t live the way they did a century ago because they liked it; they did it because it was the most modern way of life in the world – just as our current way of life is.

Kenyon T. Palmer, who grew up in and around Oswego during the early years of the 20th century, recalled later in life that he was happy to have had the experiences, but didn’t think the Good Old Days were all they were cracked up to be. In 1971,

he published his autobiography, “For Land’s Sake: The Autobiog-raphy of a Dynamic Arizonan,” in which he detailed small town and country life during that era.

During the summer, Palmer worked on Roy Hettrick’s Oswego Township farm, shocking oats, hoeing weeds out of the corn, putting up hay, and all the other hard work farmers did back then, most of which is now done by machines. Palmer worked from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., and was not impressed with his closeness to nature.

“I was so slow one summer,” Palmer wrote, “that I painfully remember I was still shocking the 100 acres of oats that had been cut and tied into bundles long after Roy had joined the thresh-ing ‘ring’ and was helping his neighbors thresh. It was a hot, lonely job.”

He recalled that a strapping 16-year-old Aurora youth (Palmer was only 14) hired lasted just half a morning shocking oats before quitting.

Palmer didn’t like hoeing this-tles out of the corn, either. Today, farmers, apply herbicides along with fertilizer when they plant, so you rarely see a thistle in a field. But in Palmer’s day, it was either hoe the thistles out by hand or be fined by the township weed com-missioner. Palmer recalled that working in 10-foot-high rows of

Photo provided by the Little White School Museum

The interior of W.J. Morse’s general store at the northeast corner of Main Street and Washington Street in downtown Oswego. This photo was taken in 1902.

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corn was, at best, unpleasant: ‘“If it was hot in the open hay field, it was hotter and more humid surrounded by the verdant corn. That was what farming meant to me. Blazing sun, hard physical labor, long hours, and low pay.”

After deciding that farming was not his cup of tea, Palmer went to work at W.J. Morse’s store on Main Street in Oswego. Groceries were the biggest sellers at Morse’s, but the store’s reg-

ular stock included boots and shoes, women’s wear, rock salt by the barrel, kerosene for lamp fuel, and gasoline for both stoves and the growing num-ber of automobiles.

Gasoline, stored in barrels, was pumped by hand into five-gallon cans and carried the full length of the store to be poured into waiting autos parked out front.

The hardest jobs, Palmer recalled, were carrying 100-pound sacks of potatoes up the cellar steps, handling 100-pound sacks of sugar, and manhan-dling barrels of salt.

“Nobody bought less than a dollar’s

worth of sugar – 12 to 16 lbs. according to the market – and many bought by the 100 lb. sack,” Palmer wrote. “Nor did anyone buy less than a bushel of potatoes. Bread we bought at our house by the half-dozen loaves.”

A typical workday at Morse’s store was 6:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. on Saturdays when farmers came to town to trade. Palmer was paid $7 to start for a six-day week. After a year and a half on the job, he was making $11 a week.

For most, the Good Old Days are a time we can’t remember very well, but which seems better than what’s

currently happening. I remember the 1950s as a great time to grow up in my small, Midwestern town, but I was spared the racism, political extremism, and religious bigotry that so many had to cope with during those years.

And those “back-to-nature” folks? Most of them are now retired stock-brokers, lawyers, teachers, or other professionals. Reinstalling past values and practices over top of modern life is never as easy as it might seem.

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Mayor backing Rauner reformsTo the Editor:Last week, a group of Aldermen and I

traveled to Springfield with the Metro West Council of Government to discuss issues and lobby our state government leaders on legislation that is important to Yorkville. I had meetings with Senate President Cullerton, Senate Republican Leader Christine Radogno, House Majority Leader Currie, House Republican Leader Jim Durkin and several other Senators and Representatives from our area. Some of the topics that were discussed include Home Rule authority for communities that have a population of over 5,000 residents, continuing appropriation authority for local funds, defining the term catastrophic injury in the Public Safety Employee Bene-fits Act (PSEBA) and reforming the state’s workers’ compensation laws.

Of particular interest were the con-versations with lawmakers on workers’ compensation laws. The state’s current laws directly affect the ability to attract and retain Yorkville businesses, espe-cially small businesses, by putting an unfair burden on them. When it comes to attracting new jobs, new businesses, and keeping the ones we already have in Yorkville, along with Illinois as a whole, we are losing regionally, nationally, and globally. This has nothing to do with our people and nothing to do with our location. But, it has everything to do with our high costs of doing business.

Specifically, one of the key policies that hinders our economic growth is the high rates of workers’ compensation. State and local governments pay nearly $900 million annually. Our neighboring states have decreased the cost of Workers’ Compen-sation and have effectively began to poach companies from our local communities. Ac-cording to the 2014 Oregon Workers’ Com-pensation Premium Rate Ranking Summary, Illinois has the seventh highest workers’

compensation costs in the country.The rules in Illinois are so broad and the

threshold is so low, employers assume risk for injuries that most of us would consider to be outside of the course of work. For example, we punish employers for injuries sustained on a lunch break, or even injuries that originated outside of the workplace.

I believe that workers’ compensation is important to protecting employees injured on the job, and that should continue. However, we shouldn’t be holding employers accountable and paying workers’ compensation on injuries that occur outside of a factory, office or workplace. That just isn’t fair policy.

That is why I support Gov. Bruce Rauner’s efforts to reform the workers’ compensation system here in Illinois. Reforming our workers’ compensation laws will make Illinois more business friendly and give businesses more money to invest and pay higher wages to their workers. Now is the time for our state legislators to get back to work and create an Illinois that can compete regionally, nationally and globally once again.

Gary J. GolinskiMayor, United City of YorkvilleYorkville

Cancer in this country, tooTo the Editor:Some people have asked why I haven’t

written. Simply put, we have cancer in our household and a recent scan showed it spreading. We have become distracted. There is cancer in this country as well. It’s the cancer of apathy, confusion and abusive power. And like cancer in a body, it started so small we can be unaware until suddenly it is out of control.

There are some courageous lawmakers trying to get a treatment plan passed before it’s too late. The treatment plan is based on our own Constitution. No one

talks about that anymore because we’re confused as to its relevancy to our day-to-day lives. But we need a Constitution “infusion.” Our founders left a state of persecution where they were marginal-ized, jailed, fined and taxed. They did not “found” a Christian nation; however, they founded one based on Christian princi-ples. Even non-Christians thrived here. Mutual respect was the treatment of the day. Rights of conscience were critical to survival, but other “rights” came down the pike: freedoms we cherish as our current-ly-under-attack Bill of Rights.

There isn’t much talk about these doc-uments because too many people want their own personal agendas advanced. Everyone wants to benefit the ultimate “me,” instead of us. Blood was shed to ad-

vance our separation from persecution. It was shed to secure these documents and what they embodied. How can we ignore this? Today, we aren’t united about much of anything. We marginalize groups of people because they disagree with a po-litically rabid group busy constructing its own set of laws for the rest of us to follow. They’ve built a machine more interested in their agenda than the thriving of our gen-eral population. Intolerance began small yet has grown like cancer into an out-of-control state. Anyone disagreeing is called phobic. This cancer has been responsible for jailing, fining and penalizing those who dissent. Don’t count on the media to accurately portray these happenings.

It isn’t just about one political party or an-other either. Like a cancer that grows out of control, this is an ideology, a politically-cor-rect world that will topple US shortly. It demands its own way and tolerates nothing else. It will not tolerate your “conscience” or your beliefs. It allows for no rights unless they are their rights, because their rights are the “only way.” This forced acceptance is the purest form of intolerance, something that would have enraged our founders. It stands against the Constitution. This should enrage us. We can tolerate without accep-tance of a particular view.

As we approach elections, listen care-fully to arguments given. For instance, a socialist can’t believe in the validity of our current Constitution. Too much liberty involved. Make yourself aware of a candi-date’s Constitutional position. We have a few Patrick Henrys in Congress willing to put their own necks on the line. They are conservatives by nature. We need more of them because liberals have advanced us into end-stage cancer with little chance of healing. I don’t want to be there.

Cindy AkrePlano

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Bristol Boy Scout Troop 34 will host its 24th annual pancake breakfast fundraiser on Sunday, May 22.

Boy Scout Troop 34 planning pancake breakfast fundraiser


Bristol Boy Scout Troop 34 will host its 24th annual pancake breakfast fund-raiser from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday, May 22, at the Beecher Community Center, 908 Game Farm Road in Yorkville.

Tickets are $5 a person, or $20 for a family. Kids 5 and younger eat free.

Tickets can be purchased in advance from Troop 34 Boy Scouts, or at the door.

Bristol Troop 34 is sponsored by the Yorkville Moose Lodge. Proceeds from this event will be used to support the activities of Troop 34. For information, call Kari at 630-742-8970 or Missy at 630-553-0712.

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Happy thank youTo the Editor:A huge, happy thank you to Thomas and

the Heustis Street block for the enor-mous pick-me-up you sent our way while Doug was in the hospital. He is home now. Yay.

Again, our thanks.

Jo and Doug PierceYorkville

Lions Club needs your helpTo the Editor:The Yorkville Lions Club needs your help

to rebuild our blood drives to what they used to be. Heartland Blood Centers have arranged a great deal for those who join us. It is called Pint for a Pint. You donate a pint of blood and you will receive a cer-tificate for a free pint of Baskin-Robbins hand-packed ice cream.

Come to the Beecher Center at 908 Game Farm Road in Yorkville on Thursday, May 26 from 3 to 7 p.m. Call me at 630-

553-0695 to set up an appointment or sign up online at heartlandbc.org. Walk-ins are welcome and needed. Eat a good meal and drink lots of water before donating.

Thank you to the many local churches that allow us to leave posters and fliers for their members.

Bill SchellMillbrook

The perfect stormTo the Editor:With the continuing fiscal mess in

Illinois it has become obvious that the media and the Dems want the state to continue on its path to bankruptcy. They call for Rauner to be the bigger man and give in to Madigan. It’s the Madigan agenda that got the state into the mess it’s in today.

As usual there is the call for more taxes in the form of raising the income tax or going to a graduated income tax where the rich would pay a higher rate or raising the gas tax etc., etc., etc. Instead of the media calling on Rauner to cave to

Madigan’s wishes, why aren’t they after Madigan to explain where all the money magically disappeared when the state had a higher income tax under Quinn?

Perhaps they could ask Madigan why the state taxpayers have one of the highest tax burdens in the country and yet has the worst credit rating of any state and the top pension deficit? Then they could ask why, when Quinn said he wasn’t going to pay them until there was a balanced budget, they went running to the Supreme Court to get that action declared unconstitutional and yet when Rauner got elected they passed a budget that was $4 billion short with no regard for the balanced budget requirement in the constitution. Then of course it was Rauner’s fault for not coming up with the money to pay for it.

Illinois, just like many other states, has a pension problem. In Illinois the problem is pensions are so bloated there is no way out but bankruptcy. The thousands of retired public employees getting six-figure pension payments is simply not

sustainable. The Dems and their lust for more taxes as the answer to everything are speaking to a smaller and smaller tax base. Illinois had the highest outflow of taxpayers in the country according to the latest stats and Cook County last year led the country in loss of taxpayers at the county level.

It’s the perfect storm, just like Detroit, fewer and fewer taxpayers paying higher and higher taxes until they either get sick of it or simply can’t afford it and move out. Add to this all the businesses that have left or are looking at leaving or not growing because of the tax burden and all Madigan can come up with for the solving the problem is more taxes.

If Madigan wants more taxes, why doesn’t he produce a balanced budget that includes all his new taxes. He has a super majority in the House and Senate so he could pass anything he wants. Then he can watch as the exodus from Illinois becomes a stampede.

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A deer jumped through the window of a title company office building in the 100 block of West Veterans Parkway in Yorkville on Sunday morning, police reported.

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Police said they opened all the doors to the building to provide the deer with an avenue to escape.

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A proposed new grading plan for Yorkville School District 115 drew con-cerns from some teachers and a parent at Monday’s Board of Education com-mittee meeting. The proposal would limit grades on homework and for class-room behavior and give students more ways and more time to show they have mastered a subject.

The 26 teachers and administrators on the district’s Curriculum Coordi-nating Council (CCC) have been re-searching and developing the plan over the past two years. If approved by the board, they plan to present it to teach-ers on an Institute Day on June 8 and have it go into effect when school begins again in August.

CCC member Melissa Condon said the idea was to have students focus on “learning vs. earning” grades. It would give them multiple opportunities to demonstrate what they have learned.

Derek Miller, another CCC member, said the group researched other dis-tricts’ grading plans and what are be-lieved to be best practices. He said they believe that academic performance and skills are separate from academic be-haviors and that grades should reflect the mastery of content.

Condon said they believe homework should be meaningful and purposeful and – beyond reading outside the class-room – should take no more than 10 minutes per grade level. For example, no more than 50 minutes per day for a fifth-grader. This would include work done outside class, either at school or at home.

Homework won’t be graded unless it is part of a larger classroom project. Only quizzes used to measure student mastery will be graded. There would not be comprehensive final exams – only a final assessment that is of similar point value to other assessments during the semester or year.

Alison Strandell said any grades re-

lated to behavior, participation or at-tendance would not be used as part of the achievement grade. If students com-plete the work assigned, she said, that will probably correlate with mastery of the material.

Assessments can be done to guide teacher planning, measure the growth of students receiving an intervention, or as checks to help guide instruction but which are not included as part of a student grade. Summative assessments, which are used to measure if a student has mastered the material, can be proj-ects, portfolios, or labs, as well as tests.

Grades in core subjects (math, lan-guage arts, etc.) in kindergarten to third grade are now given as M meets expectations, N does not meet, NA not applicable, or I incomplete. In phys-ical education, music and art, grades are reported as M meets, P progress-ing, N does not meet, or I incomplete. That grading system would be extended through fifth grade in this proposal.

The CCC will look at middle school and high school grading systems next year to see if it’s feasible to expand this system, instead of the letter grades A through F as used now.

Grades would be communicated to parents as they are now, with as much of the communication as possible through the e-school electronic format. Parents would be notified of missing or late work and teachers would keep the information updated weekly.

The committee recommends that ex-tra credit not be offered.

In the new plan, students would be allowed to retake or rewrite the assess-ments or show competency in a dif-ferent but comparable way. Students and teachers will collaborate to make up learning activities and assessments missed due to absence. Students would have three weeks into the next marking period to complete any summative as-sessments.

While zeroes are discouraged, fail-ure to resolve an incomplete will result in zero after all other efforts have been

exhausted. That includes providing op-portunities to redo or complete work before or after school or during a free period and notifying parents. Graduat-ing seniors would have to complete all work before graduation practice.

Teacher Shawn Collins, who is also president of the Yorkville Education Association representing district teach-ers, said he wasn’t necessarily opposed to the changes, but concerned about the amount of time teachers would have to adopt and implement them. He suggest-ed that teachers receive training in the new methods next year and they be im-plemented in the 2017-18 school year.

Tammi Nauman, a high school learning disabilities teacher, said she was concerned that there was no rep-resentation on the committee from sec-ondary special education teachers. She questioned how the plan would fit in with Illinois High School Association regulations on eligibility to participate in sports, and also suggested waiting a year to implement it.

Lynette O’Leary, a high school sci-ence teacher, questioned how multiple opportunities to retake or redo work would prepare students for post high school work. She also asked how allow-ing three weeks into the next grading period to complete work would allow

teachers to keep grade books current.Jon Calder, high school family and

consumer science teacher, also ques-tioned the discrepancy of high school representation on the committee. He said elimination of grades for home-work was a concern for special educa-tion students who sometimes struggle with the pressure of taking tests. He asked that the committee “get more in-put from those affected most.”

Parent Christa King asked what oth-er districts the CCC studied and ques-tioned the lack of a comprehensive final exam. “Unless college changes drasti-cally in the next 12 years, I don’t know where I could send my children without their being expected to know all the ma-terial,” she said.

High school English teacher Jamie Rominski asked how students from the other districts studied were doing and what research on final exams was used. She expressed concern that students who struggled the most would be im-pacted most. She said five of her stu-dents have “incompletes” in multiple classes and wondered when they would have time to do remediation with all of those teachers after school.

“We don’t have the personnel and we don’t have the time built into the day,” Rominski said.

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Health insurance premiums will decrease 2.4 percent for the Yorkville School District in the coming year.

School Board members voted April 25 to approve the recommendation from the district’s insurance consul-tant, GCG, to keep the Blue Cross Blue Shield health insurance plan.

Human Resources Director Troy Courtney said there typically would have been a 10 to 14 percent increase in premiums, however, based on the most recent 24 months of claims from district employees, Blue Cross Blue Shield agreed to a 9.3 percent decrease for HMO plan premiums and a 9.1 per-cent increase in PPO plan premiums. That meant a net 2.4 percent decrease

for the district.There was a 1.4 percent increase in

dental insurance premiums and also an increase in the co-pay for pharmacy costs for both the HMO and PPO plans.

Other business• The board approved an amended

2015-16 budget. It includes a transfer of $1,544,951 from the Operations and Maintenance Fund to Capital Projects. That money went toward paying the final $3.5 million for recent construc-tion of additions and remodeling at Yorkville High School.

A public hearing on the amended budget is scheduled for the June 13 board meeting.

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increase administrative costs from one year to the next by more than five percent. However, school districts with per pupil administrative costs in the lowest quartile – which includes Yorkville – may waive that limit after conducting a public hearing.

This year, Yorkville added the new position of director of student services to assume responsibility for special education programming that now will be provided by the district since the Kendall County Special Education Co-operative is being dissolved. That addi-tion put administrative cost increases at more than five percent.

• Board members approved a pro-posed student trip to Spain and France in June 2017, to be led by Yorkville

High School Spanish teacher Joey Fitzpatrick. Students will be allowed to host fundraising activities to help raise the $3,761 cost per person.

• Students in the Skills Training and Autism Related Services (STARS) program performed a song and made a presentation to the board in honor of Autism Awareness Month in April.

• At their annual reorganization meeting, the board re-elected the pres-ent officers. They are Board President Dave Dockstader, Vice President Dr. Lynn Burks and Secretary Ashley Shields.

Board meeting dates in the next fis-cal year are set for July 18, Aug. 8 and 22, Sept. 12 and 26, Oct. 17 and 24, Nov. 7 and 21, Dec. 5 and 12, Jan. 9 and 23, Feb. 13 and 27, March 13 and 20, April 10 and 24, May 8 and 22, and June 12 and 26.

Jake Zarate, a Central Michigan University junior from Yorkville majoring in accounting, was named to CMU’s fall semester honors list of students who earned 3.5 (on a 4.0 scale) and higher grade point averages.

• • •Russell A Stuebinger Jr., of Yorkville, a

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• • •Drew Kleyweg, of Yorkville, earned a gold

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partment is offering a babysitters training course. This fun interactive class teaches babysitting basics and safety for infants, toddlers, preschool, and school aged children. Participants will practice hands-on child and infant CPR, relief of choking and basic first aid. BLAST Babysitting is on Saturday, May 14, from 1 to 5 p.m. at the Yorkville Parks and Recreation Department (201 W. Hydraulic Ave., Yorkville). This class is for ages 11 to 15 and costs $46 for residents and $50 for nonresidents. For information or to register, call the Parks and Recreation Department at 630-553-4357 or visit yorkvilleparksandrec-reation.com.

Yorkville Garden Club walk scheduled for June 25

The Yorkville Garden Club’s biennial Gar-den Walk will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. rain or shine on Saturday, June 25. Five Yorkville gardens will be open for viewing. Tickets are $10 each, in advance, and $12

the day of the walk. Tickets are available through the Garden Club’s website: yorkvillegardenclub.org.

For information, call 630-553-8949 or visit the Garden Club website. No stroll-ers will be allowed on the walk.


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YORKVILLE POLICE REPORTSDUI, no insurance

Yorkville police arrested Glen R. Bretzing, 28, of the 200 block of North Larch Avenue, Elmhurst, after stopping his vehicle for speeding in the 2000 block of South Bridge Street May 8 at 1:57 a.m. Police said the suspect has been charged with driving under the influence, speeding and driving without insurance.

DUI arrestYorkville police arrested Heather Lee

Watts, 42, of the 200 block of Main Street, Neshkoro, Wisconsin, May 6 at 12:16 a.m. after stopping her vehicle on Route 47 near Landmark Avenue. Police said Watts has been charged with driving under the influence and no valid registration.

Medical products stolenAn unknown male subject stole

approximately $1,314.49 in medical products from a supermarket in the 200 block of East Veterans Parkway in Yorkville May 5 at 6:43 p.m., police reported. Police said the offender fled the store on foot.

Boulder Hill man hurtYorkville police said a Boulder Hill

resident, Shane M. Glover, 24, of the 0-100 block of Long Beach Road, was

injured after his vehicle hit a wooden pole on Alice Avenue approximately one-eighth of a mile west of Can-nonball Trail May 3 at 11:45 a.m. Police said Glover was transported to Rush-Copley Medical Center in Aurora. Glover was cited for improper lane usage in the crash, according to police.

Warrant, cannabis chargesYorkville police arrested Austin G.

Oidtman, 20, of the 3000 block of Kenilworth Lane, Montgomery, while investigating an incident in the 1000 block of Canyon Trail Court May 5 at 1:07 a.m. Police said the suspect wanted on warrant and charged with obstructing identification for providing a false name to officers and unlawful possession of cannabis, less than 2.5 grams.

Warrant arrestYorkville police arrested Jordan Mc-

Dowell, 24, of the 100 block of Harbor Drive, Oswego, after they stopped the vehicle he was a passenger in on Route 126 at Mill Street May 4 at 10:10 a.m. Police said McDowell was on a Kendall County Sheriff’s Office warrant.

License violationYorkville police arrested Phillip Bel-

lah, 37, of the 3000 block of Hoffman

Street, Plano, after they stopped the vehicle he was driving on Route 34 at Isabel Drive May 4 at 11:04 a.m. Police said the suspect has been charged with driving on a suspended license.

Motorist cited in crashYorkville police ticketed Lisa

Casbarian 51, of the 3000 block of Manchester Drive, Montgomery, with failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident after the vehicle she was driving struck another vehicle in the rear in the northbound lane of Route 47 at Baseline Road May 4 at 4:27 p.m. Police said no one was hurt in the crash.

Traffic violations• Jennifer Ashfield, 39, of the 500

block of South Johnson Avenue, Sheri-dan, driving while license suspended.

• Elva Esparza, 24, of the 700 block of Second Avenue, Aurora, driving while license suspended.

• Arties L. Titus, 49, of the 200 block of Mill Road, Joliet, driving while license suspended and operating an uninsured motor vehicle.

• Sergio A. Figueroa, 20, of the 400 block of Seminary Avenue, Aurora, driving while license suspended, operating an uninsured motor vehicle and driving without tail lights.

Quilting club to raffle ‘Blue Ridge Beauty’ during fest

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Each year, the Quilters Dozen Quilting Club of Oswego raffles off one of their handmade quilts, with proceeds benefiting Oswego’s historic Little White School Museum and the annual PrairieFest commu-nity celebration itself.

With a nod toward this year’s National Park Ser-vice 100th birthday, the 2016 PrairieFest Quilt is ti-tled “Blue Ridge Beauty.” The “Blue Ridge Beauty” pattern was designed by Brenda Plaster, and was fea-tured in the May/June 2014 issue of “Fons & Porters Love of Quilting” magazine.

The quilt, measuring 84 by 85½ inches, was as-sembled from dark blue and white flowered patches, and was then hand-quilted with oval, elliptical, and curved designs, evoking the landscape shapes and colors of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Quilt raffle tickets are $1 each or six for $5. They are available from all Quilters Dozen members, and also at all Oswegoland Park District offices, as well as at the Little White School Museum.

The drawing for the “Blue Ridge Beauty” Prairie-Fest 2016 Quilt will be at the Little White School Mu-seum on Sunday afternoon, June 19, at the close of Prairie Fest activities. Winners need not be present to win.

The Quilters Dozen meets from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. each Thursday at the Little White School Museum, 72 Polk Street Oswego. For more information on this year’s quilt, or on the Quilters Dozen, call Mary Ann Wagner at 630-896-3352 or Sue Matile at 630-554-8743.



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DUI among chargesCounty sheriff’s deputies arrested Joseph

George Gomoll, 40, of the 10000 block of Lisbon Road, Yorkville, after the vehicle he was driving on Lisbon Road at Highpoint Road at 9:15 p.m. May 6 left the roadway and rolled over several times. Police said Gomoll has been charged with driving under the influence and was cited for failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident, improper lane usage, disobeying a traffic control device, unsafe equipment, operating an uninsured motor vehicle and failure to report an acci-dent to police authority.

Bogus text messageAn Oswego Township resident told sheriff’s

police she received a fraudulent text mes-sage informing her that her bank credit/debit card had been locked. Upon calling the num-ber provided in the text, police said the victim provided an automated telephone message with her personal information. Later the victim contacted her bank and was informed that the text message she had received had not been generated by the bank.

One hurt, one ticketedAn Aurora resident, Armando Espino, 50,

of the 700 block of County Line Road, was injured in a two-vehicle crash on Route 71 at Hilltop Road at 12:56 p.m. May 9, accord-ing to county sheriff’s reports. Police said Espino’s vehicle struck another vehicle driven by Lauren Michele Lundquist, 25, of the 2700 block of Ridgeline Drive, Corona, California. Police ticketed Lundquist for failing to yield turning left.

Passenger chargedCounty sheriff’s deputies arrested Caleb

Stephen Lauer, 27, of the 200 block of North Orange Street, Orange, California, on a charge of unlawful possession of drug equipment after the vehicle he was a passenger in was involved in an accident on Route 71 and Hilltop Road at 12:56 p.m. May 9.

Plano man injured, chargedCounty sheriff’s deputies arrested Silvano

Lopez, 25, of the 500 block of West Steward Street, Plano, after he crashed his vehicle on Galena Road west of Clark Road at 5:52 p.m. May 8 Police said Lopez’s vehicle left the road, struck a ditch, went airborne and rolled several times. Lopez was injured in the crash and taken to Rush-Copley Medical Center in Aurora.

Police said Lopez has been charged with driving under the influence and was cited for improper lane usage, failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident, failure to wear a seat belt and illegal transportation of alcohol.

Motorist arrestedCounty sheriff’s deputies arrested Cesar

Baca, 29, of the 3000 bock of Courtney Street, Plano, after stopping his vehicle for a traffic violation on Route 34 at Eldamain Road at 12:10 p.m. May 7. Police said Baca was

wanted on two warrants for failure to appear in court on prior charges and was charged with driving on a suspended driver’s license.

Warrant arrestCounty sheriff’s deputies arrested Daniel

Gonzalez, 26, of the 500 block of Lake Street, Aurora, at 10:57 p.m. May 7 at a gas station-convenience store while conduct-ing a business check. Police said Gonzalez was found to be wanted on a Kane County warrant for contempt of court. He was taken into custody and transported to the Kendall County Jail.

Resisting among chargesCounty sheriff’s deputies arrested Ethan

Clifford Carver, 26, of the 10th block of Amy Drive, Oswego, at his residence May 6 at 4:40 a.m. Police said Carver faces charges of domestic battery, resisting arrest and was wanted on an outstanding warrant.

Millington batteryCounty sheriff’s deputies are investigating

a battery incident that occurred between two men in the 300 block of South Church Street in Millington at 1:54 a.m. May 8.

Domestic arrestSheriff’s deputies arrested Mayra Alejandra

Delgado, 31, of the 0-40th block of Saugatuck Road, Boulder Hill, at her residence May 8 at 5:11 p.m. on a charge of domestic battery. Police said Delgado was also wanted on a warrant on a prior charge of domestic battery stemming from a previous incident.

Warrant arrestSheriff’s deputies arrested Whitney Lee

Bywater, 26, of the 1800 block of Lilac Lane, Aurora, after they stopped her vehicle for an equipment violation May 8 at 3:59 a.m. on Route 31 and Light Road. Police said Bywater was found to be wanted on a warrant and was charged with possession of drug para-phernalia and cannabis.

Theft by credit cardA resident of Bristol told county sheriff’s

deputies May 4 that he had discovered an un-known person was using his credit/debit card in Canada. Police said they are investigating.

Boulder Hill man hurtA Boulder Hill resident, Edwardo Jesus

Perez, 18, of the 100 block of Boulder Hill Pass, received non-life-threatening injuries in a three-vehicle crash on Ridge Road at Holt Road in Seward Township at 9:48 p.m. May 5, sheriff’s deputies reported. Police said the crash occurred when Perez, who was traveling southbound on Ridge Road, struck the rear of a vehicle stopped in traffic. Perez’s vehicle then traveled into the northbound lane of Ridge Road and struck a second vehicle head on. Police said the drivers of the other vehicles were not hurt.

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KENDALL COUNTY SHERIFF’S REPORTS

Have footage of hit, runCounty sheriff’s deputies have obtained

surveillance video and are continuing their investigation of a hit-and-run accident that occurred at a gas station in the 17000 block of Ridge Road near Minooka at 6:55 a.m. May 5.

Warrant arrestCounty sheriff’s deputies arrested a juvenile

after stopping his vehicle for having no license plate light at Sonora Road and Long Beach Road in Boulder Hill at 12:28 a.m. May 6. Police said the juvenile was found to be wanted on an outstanding warrant.

Fugitive apprehendedOne of Kendall County’s most wanted

fugitives, Patrick McCullah, was apprehend-ed April 29 in Chicago by the Great Lakes Regional Fugitive Task Force.

McCullah, a 34-year-old Montgomery resi-dent, was wanted on a Kendall County war-rant. The warrant was issued by the Aurora Police Department following the investigation of an aggravated battery incident.

The Kendall County Sheriff’s Office, Aurora

Police Department and Great Lakes Regional Fugitive Task Force all worked together to locate McCullah.

McCullah had been a fugitive in Kendall County since March 2016.

Burglary investigatedCounty sheriff’s deputies are investigating

the burglary of two vehicles parked at a resi-dence in the 300 block of Boulder Hill Pass in Boulder Hill on May 2.

Respond to domesticCounty sheriff’s deputies responded to a

domestic battery incident at residence in the 0-200 block of Boulder Hill Pass in Boul-der Hill at 11:06 p.m. May 3. Police said no charges were filed.

Harvey Road burglaryLandscaping equipment valued at approx-

imately $6,000 was stolen from several maintenance trailers parked at a business in the 900 block of Harvey Road in Oswego on May 5, sheriff’s police reported.

Warrant arrestCounty sheriff’s deputies arrested Guillermo

Aguilara, 33, of the 2200 block of Holt Road,

Minooka, in the 17000 block of Ridge Road in Seward Township at 7:11 a.m. May 5 on a DuPage County warrant for retail theft.

Fleeing, eluding arrestCounty sheriff’s deputies arrested Kelly

Renee McCutcheon, 22, of the 3000 block of Evans Court, Yorkville, at her residence May 5 at 2:31 a.m. Police said they initiated a traffic stop for a speeding violation on a vehicle driven by McCutcheon in the area of Mill Road and Tuscany Trail in Oswego Township. Police said McCutcheon’s vehicle then accelerated, trying to elude deputies. Police said they apprehended McCutcheon after she had pulled into her residence and attempted to run into her house. Police said the incident is still under investigation.

Trespass complaintA representative for the Fox Metro Water

Reclamation District signed a complaint for criminal trespass to a motor vehicle May 7 against Matthew L. Leedy, 23, of the 11000 block of Route 71, Yorkville, according to the county sheriff’s office.

Police said Leedy entered a vehicle owned by Fox Metro on Brisbin Road in Kendall Township in an effort to move it to get farm

equipment through the area.

Traffic citations• Kelsie Jean Carrigan, 30, of the 0-100

block of Primrose Lane, Oswego, driving on a suspended license and no insurance.

• Arties L. Titus, 49, of the 200 block of Mill Road, Joliet, failure to provide information and leaving the scene of a traffic crash without notifying police.

• Alexander Michael Herr, 21, of the 100 block of Eisenhower Drive, Oswego, driving on a suspended license.

• Remond Lee Hollis, 38, of the 400 block of Gregory Lane, Plano, driving on a suspended license and improper lane usage.

• Devontae O’Keefe Robb-Turner, 22, of the 10-20 block of Greenbriar Road, Boulder Hill, driving on a suspended license, operat-ing an uninsured motor vehicle and expired registration.

• Camisha L. Gardner, 44, of the 300 block of Grapevine Trail, Oswego, improper lane us-age, no insurance and driving on a suspended license.

• Derrick Dion JR Anderson, 24, of the 700 block of Honeysuckle Lane, Aurora, driving on a suspended license, operating an uninsured motor vehicle and having no front registration.

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Atlas Xtreme Team hosts Roy DeanKENDALL COUNTY RECORD

Atlas Xtreme Team Grappling Club recently hosted world renowned martial arts instructor Roy Dean.

This is AXT’s second annual sem-inar event with Dean, in which he in-structed attendees in the art of Brazil-ian Jiu-Jitsu.

The event pulled in local and oth-er Chicago-area students, as well as, participants from all over the country including Minnesota, Oklahoma, Mis-sissippi and Arizona.

With over 30 participants this

year, the event was sold out.XT head coach Chris Mikuta said,

“This year surpassed our expecta-tions. We had so many people sign up from outside the area. Plus, several individuals from outside the BJJ com-munity attended as well. It was nice to get to meet new people and make some friends out of the experience. We can’t wait until next years event.”

Anyone interested in trying out a class, or to sign up for membership, please call 630-917-0070 or send a mes-sage via the club website at www.at-lasxtremeteam.com.

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Newark’s Jack Clausel commits to North Central

By CHRISTINE BOLIN DASCHER [email protected]

Jack Clausel, one of the best boys basketball players in Newark history, recently made his decision on where he wants to play in college.

Clausel, a four-year varsity starter who de-parts Newark as the fifth all-time leading scorer, will continue playing at North Central College. He had recently nar-rowed his choices down between playing for the Cardinals and Millikin University.

“It was really hard [to make the final decision]. I visited both places a bunch of times, and I finally just made the deci-sion to go to North Central. It was hard, but in the end, I’m really excited to be at North Central next fall.”

Clausel was a big fan head coach Todd Raridon and assistant Mitch Raridon. In the 2015-16 season, the Car-dinals finished 19-8 overall and 12-2 in the College Conference of Illinois and

Wisconsin.“I really liked the coaching staff. I got

along with everyone really well,” Clau-sel said. “I think the team is going to be really good in the next couple of years.”

“This is a good choice for Jack,” Newark head coach Rick Tollefson said. “CCIW is a good conference, with really good Division-III players and programs, good fan base, good rivals. I think he’ll enjoy that a lot.”

Clausel, a 6-foot-7 forward/center, averaged 14.5 points per game as a freshman for the Norsemen, 17.2 ppg as a sophomore and 13.9 ppg in his junior year, which was shortened due to an in-jury. It was then he eclipsed the 1,000 point mark. He finished with 1,573 ca-reer points and 674 rebounds.

In Clausel’s senior year, he averaged 15.8 points per game, as the Norsemen finished the season at 28-3.

“It was a real pleasure having Jack for four years,” Tollefson said. “A lot of fun. Good memories. Just a hard-work-ing kid. Even when he got hurt his ju-nior year, he had a great attitude. I’m going to miss him.”

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Yorkville wins deciding game in series with Morris


With the Northern Illinois Big 12 Conference series tied, Yorkville won the decisive game against visiting Morris, 7-6, to take the series last Thursday.

With the score tied in the bottom of the sev-enth inning, Travis Voelker hit a walk-off sin-gle to right field that allowed Michael Wojcik to score the winning run against the Redskins.

Will Ferguson (two hits, two RBIs) and Brady Kauppila (two hits) also contributed to the win, and Jeffrey Freiberg was the winning pitcher in relief for Yorkville, which was 14-12 overall and 4-6 in the conference entering games this week against Kaneland and Andrew.

“It was a playoff-like atmosphere, a very back-and-forth type of game,” Yorkville coach Scott Luken said. “I’m pleased with how our guys didn’t fold or get rattled. It was nice to see things go so well for the guys. They came through in the clutch.”

After Morris, however, Yorkville dropped two games to Oswego (12-5 last Friday) and Kaneland (13-0 in six innings on Monday).

Against Oswego, the Panthers out-hit Yorkville 17-10. The Foxes were led by Ty Liar-omatis (two hits, two RBIs), Mark Sommers (tri-ple, two steals) and Cameron Van Boekel (dou-ble).

“[Oswego’s] guys swung the bats, so they real-ly responded. They made the plays,” Luken said. “This game became more about our guys getting opportunities.”

Against Kaneland, pitcher Matt O’Sullivan allowed Yorkville just one hit. He struck out 10 batters. The Foxes also made five errors. The Knights posted 13 hits and scored twice in the first, six in the third, once in the fifth and four times in the sixth.

“Their pitcher probably pitched one of his best outings of the year,” Luken said. “It was miserable outside, but you can’t use that as an excuse. I hope we play better next time.”

By KRISTIN SHARP [email protected]

Late into last Friday’s Northern Illinois Big 12 Conference meet in Sycamore, the Yorkville coaching staff wasn’t sure if they would have enough to catch Kaneland in the team standings.

In the end, the Foxes did not have enough to overtake the Knights, but instead finished in a tie at 129 points to share the NIB12 champion-ship – the third consecutive for the Yorkville program. DeKalb finished third with 114 points and Geneseo was a distant fourth with 51 points.

“We knew it would be really, really close. It was just a matter of who had people step up and who didn’t,” Yorkville coach Ben Draper said. “Kaneland had a couple events where they really came through and events where they faltered. We had people step up, and events where we faltered. It shook out about how we expected.”

Yorkville had multiple confer-ence champions. Sydney Anderson cleared 5-6 to tie the school record and win the high jump ahead of DeKalb’s Jasmine Kemp (5-4). She also won the triple jump with a mark of 36-1¾ to set a new school record. She finished in a tie with Kemp in the event, and won the jump off to add 10 more points to the Foxes’ team total.

“We’re really happy; she stepped up really big for us and scored a lot of points,” Draper said. “In high jump, she had been beaten by a girl from DeKalb two straight times. On [Kemp’s] last jump, she tied her with the same mark, so it went to a tiebreaker and Sydney had to jump one more time. She had already checked in for the 400 and had to jump 35 feet to break the tie and came in with 35-1.”

Louisa Washburn cleared 11-7 to win the pole vault by a foot. Nicole Greyer won the 1,600 with a time of 5:12.88 and Summer Pierson won the 3,200 in 11:18.24.

All-Conference was awarded to the top five finishers in each event. Maddie Dearborn was the runner-up in the 3,200 (11:33). Mischara Palm-er was fourth in the 200-meter dash (26.88) and Emily Eberhart was fifth in the 800 (2:27.51). Alexis Grandys was fifth in the 1,600 (5:32). Alainna Batres was third in the 100-meter hurdles (16.32) and Washburn was second in the 300-meter hurdles (46.86) while Becca Jasutis was fifth (48.35). Baylee Konen was fourth in the triple jump (32-6). Jade Volkart

took a second-place finish in the shot put (34-10½).

Yorkville will now enter the Class 3A Ottawa Sectional on Thurs-day.

Boys Track: The Yorkville boys scored 111.5 points to place third at DeKalb’s Tim Holt Invite last Fri-day behind DeKalb (159) and Mo-line (123). Gabe Arroyo won the 400 (54.40) and Trevor Wills won the 1,600 (4:32.11). Alexx Nauman took second in the 3,200 (10:00.11) while Peyton Frankenreider was second in the 110 hurdles (16.02) and fourth in the 300 hurdles (42.13). Yorkville also won the 4x800 in 8:26.

Sterling will host the NIB12 Con-ference meet on Friday.

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Foxes win share of NIB12 title

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Yorkville’s Sydney Anderson clears the high jump bar at 5 feet, 6 inches to win the event during the girls Northern Illinois Big 12 Conference meet.

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Foxes top Rochelle to snap nine-game losing streakBy CHRISTINE BOLIN DASCHER

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The Yorkville softball team snapped a nine-game losing streak with a big 11-1 win in five innings over Rochelle last Friday. The Foxes are 9-15 overall and 3-7 in the Northern Illinois Big 12 Con-ference with games against Morris and LaSalle-Peru this week.

“I think it was nice to get a win. Hopefully, it will give us a spark go-ing into the last couple weeks of regu-lar season play,” Yorkville coach Jory

Regnier said. “If our hitting comes back alive like it was at the beginning of the season, we could make a good run to finish our season out. Our girls know it’s not how we start, it’s how we end.”

Against Rochelle, the Foxes scored four runs in the first, three in the sec-ond and twice in both the fourth and fifth innings. They had eight hits and no errors and were led by Bekah Hahn and Ally Martin, who each had two hits. Al-lyson Johnson was the winning pitcher with six strikeouts.

“They key to the Rochelle game was

getting ahead early and being patient at bat,” Regnier said.

Prior to Rochelle, Yorkville fell to both Sycamore (12-6 on May 3) and DeKalb (3-0 last Thursday).

Against Sycamore, Cameron Wicker had three hits, Sydney Woodworth had two hits, including a home run, Han-nah Bazan and Cali Bishop each had two hits and Megan Corneils hit a home run. Yorkville hit well but made six er-rors.

“Unfortunately, defense has been a constant [struggle] for us this season,

and this was just one game where our defense fell apart,” Regnier said. “We out-hit Sycamore, but gave them too many opportunities to come up to the plate by giving them extra outs as a re-sult of errors.”

Against DeKalb, Barbs’ pitcher Mor-gan Newport kept the Foxes hitless through 6 1⁄3 innings.

“This was an extremely well-played defensive game by both teams,” Regnier said. “Morgan Newport is an excellent pitcher, and our hitters struggled to get the key hit when we had runners on.”

Yorkville resident completes Boston MarathonBy KRISTIN SHARP

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Although her father, Don Duffy, was the Yorkville cross country and track coach while she was a student, Kerry (Duffy) Stillmunkes only ran one season of cross country.

“Running was just always my form of exer-cise,” Stillmunkes said. “When I was in high school, my dad was the cross country coach and helped coach track. But miles were always intim-idating.”

On April 18, the Yorkville resident completed her first Boston Marathon with a time of 4 hours, 4 minutes and 14 seconds – good enough for an average pace of 9:19 per mile through the 26.2-mile course.

“You spend so much time preparing for it, and then it’s over so quickly,” Stillmunkes said. “The hardest part has been the last couple weeks trying to get back into your normal routine. You have to give your body time to recover. My normal outlet of running hasn’t really been available to me.”

This was her fifth marathon, qualifying for Boston with her finish in the 2014 Chicago Mar-athon. Her 2015 Chicago finish this past fall has already qualified Stillmunkes to run in the 2017 Boston Marathon – if she decides to give it an-

other try. (The Chicago Marathon’s October date misses the qualifying deadline for the Boston race six months later, becoming a qualifier for the race 18 months ahead of time.)

“It’s the hardest thing I’ve ever done. I enjoyed Boston so much more after I ran,” Stillmunkes said. “I definitely understand why you have to qualify to be there because it was so much more challenging. You start later in the day – I think I finally started around 11 a.m. – and the course itself is rolling hills. It’s really hard to find that kind of training here.”

Stillmunkes, who was a member of Yorkville’s 1992 state championship 4x800-meter relay team, went back to her alma mater and asked to borrow a Yorkville jersey to represent her hometown as well as one of the top running programs in the Midwest to wear during her race last month.

“I love the running program at Yorkville. They’ve really turned that program into some-thing – they’ve just had so much success,” Still-munkes said. “It was neat to be able to wear that jersey while I was there.”

“I thought it would be really cool to represent my hometown where it all kind of started, at the Boston Marathon. It’s a huge honor to be able to go, and it’s a milestone in a marathon runner’s life.”

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Yorkville resident Kerry Stillmunkes completed the Boston Mara-thon on April 18.

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Finding a silver liningFoxes win twice in singles play, but fall 5-2 to Panthers

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The one big positive from the Yorkville boys tennis team’s 5-2 loss to Oswego on Monday is No. 2 singles play-er Josh Tatum remains undefeated at 17-0.

Tatum topped his opponent from Os-wego, 8-1. The match was shortened due to the rainy weather.

“[Tatum has] gotten stronger since the beginning of the year,” Yorkville coach Frank Yabsley said. “His back-hand is improving, he’s very consistent and has been really competitive for us. He’s on a mission to remain undefeat-ed.”

Eric Naumann at No. 1 singles was Yorkville’s other winner. He topped his opponent from Oswego, 8-4, and im-proved to 9-9 this season.

“He’s improving and getting better and better,” Yabsley said of Naumann. “He’s getting steadier and more confi-dent playing all these very good players at No. 1 singles.”

The Panthers swept all four of the doubles matches and improved to 9-5 overall heading into the Southwest Prai-rie Conference meet.

“It was good to get a nice win like this,” Oswego coach Ryan Parr said. “This was a positive thing for us, es-pecially because the last two weekend tournament [Oswego’s Panther Invite and Lockport’s Invite] were rained out and we lost a close one to Minooka [4-3 on May 3].”

After duals against Plainfield Central and Plainfleld North, the Foxes will be a part of the Northern Illinois Big 12 Con-ference meet on Saturday. Geneseo is hosting but it will take place at Rochelle.

The Foxes are currently 2-5 in duals in conference action (7-7 overall).

“We are hoping to improve our cur-rent position and improve on how we’ve been playing,” Yabsley said of going into the conference meet.

Notes: Prior to the dual with Oswego, Yorkville won the dual with Plainfield South, 6-1. Winners for the Foxes includ-ed Naumann (6-0, 6-0), Tatum (6-0, 6-0), the No. 1 doubles team of Alex Burks/Zach Miesuk (6-0, 6-0), No. 2 doubles Ethan Piszczek/Clay Elleby (6-1, 6-1), No. 3 doubles Chase Aulis/Rey Castro (6-1, 6-1) and No. 4 doubles Spencer Snid-er/Antonio Bolanos (6-1, 6-1).

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ABOVE: Yorkville’s Eric Naumann returns the ball No. 1 singles on Monday against Oswego. BELOW, LEFT: Yorkville’s Clay Elleby hits a serve at No. 2 doubles against Oswego on Monday. BELOW, RIGHT: Yorkville’s Josh Tatum improved to 17-0 at No. 2 singles after his win against Oswego on Monday.

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