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ON THE COVERCharlie Brown, commander of Veterans of Foreign Wars St. Juvin Post 1336 shakes the hand of Joe Corsello on Wednesday and thanks him for his service. See story on page 3 Photo by Heidi Litchfield [email protected]

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MORRIS Kathleen V. Heisterman,

55, of Michigan, was arrested by Morris police Tuesday on charges of driving under the

influence, driving while license revoked and driving under the influence while license revoked. She was booked into the Grun-dy County Jail.

Emily G. Omeara, 24, of Morris, was arrested by Morris police Monday on charges of obstructing a peace officer and resisting a peace officer. She was also cited for speeding, operating an uninsured vehicle, expired registration, improper passing and drivers license not

on person. She was given a Jan. 4 court date and booked into the Grundy County Jail.

David T. Stickel, 21, of Bon-field, was arrested by Morris police Monday on charges of delivery of marijuana pos-session of between 10 and 30 grams of marijuana and possession of drug equipment. He was booked into the Grundy County Jail.

Michael J. Molaschi Jr., 22, of Morris, was arrested by Mor-

ris police Sunday on charges of driving under the influence of alcohol and failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident. He was booked into the Grundy County Jail.

Scott A. Longfellow, 39, of Lake in the Hills, was arrested by Morris police Friday on an in-state warrant.

Zachary J. Bopp, 22, of Morris, was arrested by Morris police Friday on a charge of possession of drug equipment.

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Grundy Countys Kindelspire appointed to national panel

By MIKE MALLORY [email protected]

MORRIS From Massa-chusetts to Wyoming and ev-erywhere in between, quality work will get you noticed.

Chris Kindelspire, direc-tor of electronic communica-tions for the Grundy County Emergency Telephone System Board/Consolidated 911 Cen-ter, was recently appointed to a Department of Homeland Se-curity advisory panel.

The DHS Science and Tech-nology Directorate announced Dec. 9 the membership of its Project 25 Compliance Assess-ment Program Advisory Panel to help establish standards for interoperability among digi-tal two-way land mobile radio communications products.

Besides Kindelspire, the advisory panel includes in-dividuals from Michigan, Tennessee, New York, Wy-oming, Missouri, Colorado, Massachusetts, the National Institute of Justice and the

Federal Communications Commission.

Kindelspire has been a part of other committees on a volunteer basis, but was sur-prised he was chosen for this one.

Some of my colleagues told me to apply, he said. A couple months went by and I thought, This isnt happen-ing. Next thing I know theres an email asking me to confirm membership.

Kindelspire found out in November he was chosen. The first formal panel meeting will be in February.

The panel is different than volunteer committees Kindel-spire has been on, he said. It will meet more regularly and work to find solutions and standards for cooperative technology.

To successfully respond to day-to-day incidents and large-scale emergencies, first responders must be able to communicate with each oth-er regardless of the make or

model of their equipment, DHS Undersecretary for Sci-ence and Technology Dr. Reg-inald Brothers said in a news release.

Project 25 aims to solve issues first responders face, as manufacturers often use different technical approach-es that make their radios unique, and thus, potentially incompatible with other sys-tems, the release stated. For example, Kindelspire said a Motorola radio might not work well with another com-panys product.

S&T has been working to address this challenge by promoting the acceleration of interoperability standards and establishing compliance testing, Brothers said in the release.

Kindelspire is glad the panel is composed of first re-sponders from communities of all different sizes and that they all have the same oppor-tunity for input. Grundy is considered a smaller county, population-wise, he said.

Its exciting that it doesnt matter where were from, Kindelspire said. Were all using our knowledge for the betterment of everybody we serve.

Kindelspire said hes al-ways been interested in radio and technology. In 1996, he began consolidating dispatch radio systems in Grundy County, which created ease of use, especially when mutual aid is needed. The 911 Center still uses the system, finished in 1998, he said.

911 Center tech director to work on communications compatibility

To successfully respond to day-to-day incidents and large-scale emergencies, first responders must be able to communicate with each other regardless of

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By HEIDI LITCHFIELD [email protected]

MORRIS Area veterans are keeping warm this winter with blankets representing their branches of service.

Veterans of Foreign Wars St. Juvin Post 1336 members have been celebrating Christ-mas with Grundy County vet-erans for the past five years. For the past three, they have given them blankets with their name or nickname embroi-dered on an American-made blanket that represents their time serving their country.

About five years ago, we started putting money on the veterans accounts at area nursing homes or assisted liv-ing places. Some needed it and some didnt, Cmdr. Charlie Brown said Wednesday. For the past three years we have given them blankets.

Brown said the tradition started when three members of the St. Juvin post which is located in Coal City were ill.

The blankets were my wifes idea, Brown said. It went over so well with the three members of our post that we decided to buy them for all of our veterans.

In the past three years, Brown said theyve handed out between 260 and 270 blan-kets, counting the 34 they gave as Christmas gifts this year.

I think this was won-derful, Chuck Orman, who served in the U.S. Navy during World War II, said after open-ing his gift. This is something I will remember forever.

Orman looked at his blan-ket through the plastic bag it came in, waiting to open it with his wife.

To his right, Joe Corsello rubbed his hand over the stitching that said Corporal, the name he wanted on his U.S. Army-themed blanket.

Corsello served in the Army during the Korean War and still carries a black-and-white photograph of a young Kore-

an boy in his wallet a boy he wanted to adopt, but because of regulations at the time and because of his age, wasnt al-lowed to.

Its great to be honored, Corsello said. Ive been hon-ored so many times in my life, I dont know if I deserve it.

Brown thinks otherwise. He thinks every veteran has earned the honor given to them at events such as Wednesdays Christmas gift-giving.

Ness, who served in the U.S. Army Infantry, said the blan-ket was beautiful, tearing up a bit after he opened it.

Benjamin Kelly, a U.S. Army Air Corps veteran, served prior to 1947 when the

VFW St. Juvin Post 1336 gives Christmas gifts to Grundy County veterans

Photos by Heidi Litchfield [email protected]

ABOVE: Park Pointe residents Joe Corsello (from left), Chuck Orman and Russ Ness receive blankets for Christmas that honor their time in ser-vice from the St. Juvin VFW post in Coal City. BELOW: Russ Ness, who served in the U.S. Army, and Benjamin Kelly, who served in the U.S. Army Air Corps before the U.S. Air Force was separated from the Army in 1947, receive a gift from the St. Juvin VFW post for Christmas.

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MORRIS Nettle Creek Elementary School students in sixth, seventh, and eighth grades chose a scientist to study and bring to life at the schools annual wax muse-um.

Students filled the gymna-sium dressed as scientists as other students and parents walked through, pressing a hand-drawn button to learn what the student knew about the scientist.

Before Edwin Hubble, not a lot of people accepted Ein-steins theory of relativity, Makenna Wills said.

She explained how Hub-ble, an American astrono-mer, played an important part in establishing extra-ga-lactic astronomy.

Before him, most people didnt know more about gal-axies than the Milky Way, Wills said.

While some students chose well-known scientists such as Marie Curie, Aristotle and Stephen Hawking, oth-ers thought outside the box and chose those that even the teacher didnt know a lot

about.Geno Eberhard portrayed

Vera Cooper Rubin, a scien-tist who discovered dark mat-ter and that the matter makes up 90 percent of space.

Rubin, who is still alive today, is one of many female scientists who isnt well-known.

One of the reasons I chose (Vera Cooper Rubin) is not a lot of women are recognized scientists, Eberhard said.

Olivia Dunlap, a sev-enth-grade student, chose to be Alfred Nobel, because while he is well-known for the Nobel Peace Prize, many are shocked to learn he also studied nitroglycerin and in-vented dynamite.

He didnt want to be re-membered for making a

weapon that could be used for mass murder so he created the peace prize, Dunlap said.

She said she wonders what made him even think about creating dynamite.

I picked him because he was the inventor of dyna-mite. How did he think of that? she said. What made him decide something might

blow up?Jada Gross, a sixth-grade

student, chose Charles Dar-win because she wanted to know more about his view on natural selection and his the-ory of evolution.

I thought it would be in-teresting. Im a Catholic and we disagree with his theory, she said.

She wanted to compare his theory with creationism, which she was taught at home and in church. She said it was interesting to learn how dif-ferent his beliefs were.

Science teacher Jessica Vogen said the wax museum is a great way for students to learn about scientists in an interactive way.

Students bring scientists to life with wax museum

Heidi Litchfield [email protected]

Tucker Tesdal chose to present Ben Franklin on Wednesday for his part in the Nettle Creek student wax museum.

Heidi Litchfield [email protected]

Jada Gross, a sixth-grade student at Nettle Creek, portrays Charles Darwin during the schools wax museum Wednesday afternoon.

One of the reasons I chose (Vera Cooper Rubin) is not a lot of

women are recognized scientists.

Geno EberhardNettle Creek student

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By MIKE MALLORY [email protected]

MINOOKA Addison Cail-teux, a 7-year-old girl from Minooka, can say shes done something a lot of young foot-ball players only dream of.

Not only did she win in the girls 6- to 7-year-old group Dec. 5 in the National Football League Punt, Pass & Kick Chi-cago Bears regional, she prac-ticed Dec. 6 on Soldier Field with other winners before the Bears played the San Francis-co 49ers.

Her mother, Susan Cail-teux, said Addison is a calm and centered athlete who knows the importance of preparation.

But Addison couldnt help being upbeat after the win as she wore her jersey to school and told her friends.

She said they thought it was cool.

I was on the Jumbotron three times before the game, Addison said.

After dominating section-als in October in Woodridge, Addison was selected to com-pete in the Bears regional. Each of the 32 NFL teams have a regional.

The Cailteuxs werent sure what to expect, but when they arrived at the Walter Payton Center at Halas Hall in Lake Forest, everyone was met by security and checked over.

It was a pretty profession-al process, Susan said.

Once on the field, Addi-son was on her own. Parents werent allowed to have direct contact with their respective competitors and there was another added twist.

They had them kick off a professional tee, which is a dif-ferent style than the tees used in previous rounds, Susan said. But she hit the ball on the mark.

Her point total was 84 feet 10 inches for the Punt, Pass & Kick combined score.

Competitors were judged based on distance and accura-cy.

The key to Addisons vic-

tory was that her kick landed within the designated lines, Susan said.

Another competitor kicked the ball farther, but points were deducted because the ball landed outside of the lines, while Addison wasnt docked any points.

Addison practiced each day with her father outside in the cold and wind during the week leading up to regionals. It paid off.

She did what she trained to do, Susan said. She took deep breaths, took three steps from the tee, then kicked.

Now the family awaits to learn whether Addison is se-lected for the national compe-tition next month in Nashville. News could come after Christ-mas, but they said theyre not expecting a selection. At the same time, the Cailteuxs said they have been surprised by her performance at each step so far.

Addison said she dreams of kicking for the Wisconsin Bad-gers one day.

Even if she isnt selected for nationals, shell be preparing to compete again next year.

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By KRIS STADALSKY Shaw Media Correspondent

MINOOKA Minooka res-idents are likely to see an increase in the villages por-tion of property taxes with the unanimous Village Board approval Tuesday night of an 18.1 percent levy increase.

The increase is neces-sary to carry on the villages work, Finance Director John Harrington said, and should be considered a long-term in-vestment in the village.

The biggest cost increases are in the corporate and po-lice pension categories.

Both are part of the gener-al fund.

The villages police pen-sion fund currently is funded at 62.35 percent.

Trustee Barry Thomp-son said even at that rate, the pension fund is not un-derfunded and the village is

where it needs to be.We are committed to

keeping it funded appropri-ately, Thompson said.

Other considerations for the levy increase, accord-ing to a summary read by Village Administrator Dan Duffy, are renovations to the Village Hall, property acqui-sitions, additional staffing for the future and replace-ment of squad cars, public works street vehicles and equipment.

Despite the increase over last years amount, the levy is in line with the 2009 levy, Harrington said.

The levy had been kept at a flatter rate when equalized assessed value dropped sig-nificantly, even though the village received less funding at the time.

The village has brought in a lot of new industrial businesses over the past five

years, which helps to lessen the impact on residential property taxes, Harrington said.

A home valued at $200,000 would have had $480 in prop-erty taxes from the villages portion in 2015.

If all other factors remain the same, that same home would increase to $550 next year, Harrington said.

A public hearing was held before the vote. There were no comments brought to the board.

Residents can view levy

information on the village website, www.minooka.com.

Fine payment failure could cost driving privileges

Those who fail to pay fines on parking violations in Minooka will soon run the risk of losing their driving privileges.

A new ordinance gives the village authority to seek as-sistance from the Secretary of States Office for regis-tered vehicle owners with 10 or more violations or who are more than 14 days in de-fault of a payment plan with the village.

Until now, the village could only work with the State Treasurers Office to recoup fines by taking them out of violators income tax refunds.

But not everyone files a return or receives a refund, Minooka Chief of Police Jus-

tin Meyer said.This allows municipal-

ities to seek suspension of drivers licenses, Meyer said. Its another penalty option for us.

Cross Country team applaudedMinooka Mayor Pat Bren-

nan and village trustees honored and applauded the Minooka Community High School girls cross country team and their coaches for their Class 3A state cham-pionship win. This is a first for the cross country team, Brennan said. The previous best was sixth place in 2013.

As I understand, you are truly a team and thats what it takes to win, Brennan said.

Each member received a certificate of recognition and an orange head warmer em-broidered with Minooka as a gift.

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Rural Morris man shot in leg; investigation yields no charges


MORRIS No charges will be brought in a Nov. 29 shoot-ing in rural Morris.

Grundy County sheriffs deputies were dispatched to a residence in the 11500 block of North Middle Road to inves-tigate the shooting involving two residents, according to a news release from Grundy County States Attorney Jason Helland.

An investigation showed the two residents had an al-tercation that resulted in one being shot in the right leg with a shotgun, the release stated.

The shooter in the incident called 911 to report the shoot-ing and requested medical help for the other resident.

A grand jury, after hear-ing evidence on the case, de-clined Wednesday to return a Bill of Indictment, confirming that the shooting was done in self-defense and there would be no charges.

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MORRIS Morris Hospital & Healthcare Centers recently hon-ored 137 employees celebrating milestones during a dinner held at the Morris Country Club.

This years top honorees were Cathy Lowery, a sterile process-ing technician in the surgery department, and Anita Schultz, a licensed practical nurse from 2 East, both with 40 years of ser-vice. Kim Landers, vice pres-ident of Patient Care at Morris Hospital & Healthcare Centers, welcomed the guests and intro-duced board members Kelly Beaty, Rod Engstrom and Dr. John Roth. Beaty thanked the honorees for their service. Pres-ident and CEO Mark Steadham congratulated the honorees.

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I hear the housing market is gettingbetter. Is it good now?

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Hospital workers honored

Paula Norris, Materials Management

Whitney Olson, Patient Ac-cess

Amy Olson, 2 East/Pediat-rics

Colleen Perkins, Family Birthing Suites

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Michelle Pfaff, Administra-tion

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mation Management Jennifer Leone, Nutrition

Services Rachel Milton, Radiation

Therapy Center Jill Moore, Cath Lab Cynthia Muraro, Morris

Healthcare Center Kristin Payne, Pulmonary

Services Paula Schlabowske, Family

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py Jammie Vickers, Education

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formation Management

Carol Donahue, Patient Transportation/Lifeline

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agement Kurt Salems, Security Karla Stark, Transportation Jane Tesdall, Wellness

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VETERANSContinued from page 3

Air Corps was named the Air Force. His blanket showed the insignia of the U.S. Air Force.

I certainly appreciate it, Kelly said. Im glad to get it.

The four men, who are living at Park Pointe Senior Living, where Wednesdays

gift-giving was held, are just a small representation of the veterans who live in the area, Brown said.

We hand blankets out all year, and at Christmas give the gifts to veterans in nurs-ing homes and assisted-living facilities in Morris, Wilming-ton and Dwight, Brown said. This has become our tradi-tion to do it as a Christmas

gift.He said for some of the vet-

erans who dont have family, its the only gift they get.

We get as much out of this as they do, Brown said.

The post raises mon-ey during its annual poppy program around Veterans Day and during raffles held throughout the year to pay for the blankets.

Veterans gifted 32 handmade blankets this year

Benjamin Kelly receives a blanket represent-ing the Air Force for Christmas from the St. Juvin VFW post in Coal City.

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By TOM VERDIN The Associated Press

SACRAMENTO, Calif. Doug Willis, who followed Ronald Reagan from the gov-ernors office to the presiden-tial campaign trail and cov-ered Jerry Browns first stint as governor during a three-de-cade career writing about Cal-ifornia politics for The Associ-ated Press, has died.

He was 77.He died Tuesday night

at a hospital in Sacramento from complications after hip surgery, said his wife, Judy. He had been diagnosed with Alzheimers about three years ago and had been living in a memory-care home since summer, she said.

Judy Willis said it was especially sad that her hus-band suffered from dementia because he had such a quick wit, nimble mind and fail-safe memory throughout his jour-nalism career and their 22-year marriage.

Somebody once called him a walking encyclope-dia, she said. Its absolutely heartbreaking.

Indeed, Willis was some-thing of an anomaly in a profession notorious for its aversion to math: He had won a full-ride engineering schol-arship to Stanford University before getting bored with that major and switching to jour-nalism.

Colleagues recalled him as a congenial but fierce compet-itor who never forgot a fact or let sources off the hook.

He didnt give up. He would get his question an-swered, said Rebecca LaVal-ly, a Sacramento State Univer-

sity communications lecturer who was a reporter and man-ager in the state capital for the competing wire service, Unit-ed Press International, during the 1970s and 1980s.

She described Willis as de-termined, cordial, tenacious and a bit rumpled. He didnt try to be showy or flashy, she said.

Willis started with the AP in San Francisco in 1969 after beginning his career as a po-lice and general assignment reporter for the old San Jose News and a brief stint as an editor for a newspaper in

Bend, Oregon.A year later, he was of-

fered a temporary job helping the APs Sacramento bureau cover the state Legislature. He did so well he was invited back the following year, when his assignment in the capital became permanent.

He became correspondent, the bureaus top position, in 1974.

In a memoir written a de-cade after he retired, Willis re-called his first big scoop as a young reporter covering state government, one that relied on his analytical skills: Piec-

ing together various threads of information, he was able to say how much state taxpayers were shelling out for each trip then-Gov. Ronald Reagan took in a leased private plane. Wil-lis said his reporting on the cost every time Reagan flew to an event annoyed both Rea-gan and my press corps rivals for the next three years.

Willis covered Reagans last term as California gover-nor and his two runs for the Republican nomination for president, in 1975-76 and 1979-80.

He also was the APs lead reporter covering another famous California governor with presidential aspirations.

In his memoir, Willis de-scribed the abrupt transition from Reagan to Brown, who was 36 years old when he stepped into the governors of-fice the first time in 1975.

The buttoned-down for-mality of the Reagan years transitioned to an administra-tion populated with Buddhist monks and former astronauts, Willis wrote. Reporters cov-ering Brown in his current stint as governor would rec-ognize some of Willis success-ful techniques in getting the famously hard-to-nail-down governor to talk.

Forget the press office, Willis wrote in his memoir. Just catch up with Brown anyplace where there werent a lot of people around to dis-tract him, and just start ask-ing questions. Once he was talking, if he started to lose interest and cut off an inter-view, I would just repeat one of his points back to him, but in a slightly inaccurate way. It always worked.

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NEW YORK Lillian Ver-non, creator of a multimil-lion dollar catalog business that sold specialized gifts and home goods, has died in New York.

She was 88.Fred Hochberg, president

and chairman of the Ex-port-Import Bank, says his mother died Monday.

He described her as a force of nature who was fiercely creative and compet-itive.

Vernon came to the Unit-ed States from Germany as a Jewish immigrant fleeing the Nazis.

She began her mail order business in 1951, selling inex-pensive gifts and household organizers.

Her company went public in 1965 and by 1970 she had her first million-dollar sales year.

In 1987, Lillian Vernon was the first woman-owned company to be listed on the American Stock Exchange.

Vernon sold her business in 2003 for $60.5 million.

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Charleen Mann Spicer, age 76, of Marseilles, passed away on Wednesday Dec. 16, 2015.

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Doug Willis, AP political writer, dies

Catalog creator Lillian Vernon dies in New York at age 88

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Associated Press correspondent Doug Willis (left) talks with then-Gov. Ronald Reagan in 1974 at the Capitol in Sacramento, California.

Czech artist, sculptor Ales Vesely dies at age 80The ASSOCIATED PRESS

PRAGUE Ales Vesely, a Czech artist known for his monumental sculptures, has died aged 80.

Tomas Kraus, secretary of the Federation of Jewish Com-

munities, said Wednesday that Vesely was found dead in his Prague apartment Monday. No cause was given.

Veselys huge artworks, made of welded metal some-times in combination with stone and wood, have been dis-

played worldwide. They are in collections of major museums, including New Yorks Guggen-heim and Paris Georges Pom-pidou Center. Some are in pub-lic spaces in South Korea, the Netherlands, Germany and elsewhere. Among his recent

installations, Vesely in March unveiled a train track point-ing to the sky called the Gate of Infinity at a former railway station in Prague from which Czech Jews were sent in trans-ports to Nazi death camps during World War II.

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S E N E C A C h e y e n n e McPeak, a sixth-grade stu-dent at Seneca Grade School South Campus, has taken the first step to becoming an internationally recognized artist by winning a local competition sponsored by the Seneca Lions Club.

The club announced Oct. 30 that McPeaks poster was among more than 400,000 en-tries submitted worldwide in the 28th annual Lions International Peace Poster Contest.

Lions Clubs Internation-al is sponsoring the con-test to emphasize the im-portance of world peace to young people everywhere.

The poster was selected by the Seneca Lions Club Members for its originality, artistic merit and portrayal of the contest theme, Share Peace.

The judging was held Oct. 29 at Fergys Restaurant.

Lions Club President

John Duffy said he was impressed by the expres-sion and creativity of the students at Seneca Grade School.

One grand-prize winner and 23 merit award winners will be selected.

The grand prize includes a cash award of $5,000, plus a trip for the winner and two family members to an award ceremony.

The 23 merit award win-ners will each receive a cer-tificate and a cash award of $500.

Locally, McPeak and two other students were hon-ored Nov. 2 for their partic-ipation by the Seneca Lions Club.

Residents can view in-t e rnat i onal grand - p ri ze and merit award winners at www.lionsclub.org.

NEIGHBORS How to submit Neighbors features community news, including events. Submissions can be emailed to [email protected]. High-resolution photos should be sent as attachments to an email.

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The Morris Community High School FCCLA members helped raise funds for We Care of Grundy County with Cookies For A Cause. Pictured are (from left) Mrs. Zan Higgins, Mrs. Tammy Fritchtnitch, Isabela Garcia, We Care representative Eric Fisher, Jessica Webber, Cassidy Murphy, Vanessa Buenrostro. Front Row: Guadalupe Maravilla and Kimberly Gonzalez.

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MORRIS The Morris Com-munity High School FCCLA members helped raise funds for We Care of Grundy County with Cookies For A Cause.

Students, teachers and staff at MCHS were given the oppor-tunity to buy a cookie to send to a friend at the school, along with a handwritten message. Cookie sales took place Nov. 9

through 13.On the afternoon of Nov. 15,

students gathered at the MCHS foods room to frost and deco-rate freshly baked cookies. The cookies were delivered Nov. 16. FCCLA sold more than 300 cookies and donated the to-tal profit of $351 to We Care of Grundy County. FCCLA Exec-utive Board members delivered the check to Eric Fisher, a rep-resentative from We Care.

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From left to right: Diane Till, Seneca Club secretary; third-place win-ner Hailey Kennedy; second-place winner Evalynn Berg; first-place winner Cheyenne McPeak; and John Raibley, Seneca Club treasurer.

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Jacqueline Jollay of Lisbon was presented with the Judges Choice Award for her solo acting performance in the Nov. 14 Speech Contest.

Lisbon student presented with award for November 14 speech contest

Morris HS FCCLA Donates to We Care of Grundy County

Seneca Lions Club selects student work as best peace poster

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SHOWING IMPROVEMENTSeneca boys basketball plays well despite loss to Dwight / 19

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Senecas Sean Baker (left) goes up for a shot in the Fighting Irishs 63-54 loss to Dwight on Tuesday night in Seneca.

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SENECA Last season, Dwights boys basketball team handed Seneca one of its worst losses, beating the Irish by nearly 40 points.

Seneca didnt let that hap-pen again this year.

Although the Fighting Irish (2-6) dropped a 63-54 nonconfer-ence decision to their former Interstate Eight Conference rivals, coach Russell Witte felt his team took a major step for-ward.

Were getting better, Witte said. We are still pretty inexperienced as a team, but the kids are pulling together well. This is only our second time trying out a new defense and we did a pretty good job with it tonight.

Indeed, Seneca coupled strong defense with solid out-side shooting in the first half to frustrate the Trojans and take a 30-24 lead into halftime. The Irish made six 3-pointers in the first half alone, as Ross McCor-mick and Sean Baker each had two and Kole Gallick and Nick Bartkus each made one.

Meanwhile, the defense was collapsing on Dwight big man Drew Travers, limiting the 6-foot-5, 255-pound center to no field-goal attempts in the sec-ond quarter as the Irish took a 15-15 tie at the end of the first quarter and turned it into the halftime advantage.

I thought we did a real nice job on Travers in the first half, Witte said. Then they made an adjustment in the sec-ond half and put some better shooters in the corners where we had to honor them a little more, and that opened up pass-ing lanes inside to Travers.

In the second half, Travers, who made all 10 of his field goal attempts for the game, went 7-of-7 from the floor and had 15 of his game-high 24 points. Teammate Blake Graham also heated up in the second half, scoring 13 of his 20 points as the bigger Trojans took con-trol.

Their guards have some good length, Witte said. Its hard when you are facing guards that are 6-2 and 6-3 with long arms and our guys are 5-9

and 5-10. But I have to hand it to our guards. In the first half, we were able to force them to get out of their pressure de-fense, which is what they like to do. We were able to break the pressure and get some good looks at the basket and they had to come out of it.

This was a big step for us. The next step is getting to be able to close out a game like this when we have the lead. But this is a team that beat by almost 40 points this year and for a lot of the game tonight, it was a one-possession game. They didnt really stretch the lead out much until pretty late.

It was only the second game of the year for McCormick,

who suffered a stress fracture during cross country season.He scored eight points in the first quarter and finished with 11, tying Sean Baker for team scoring honors. Kole Gallick and Brody Harty each reached

double digits with 10 points for Seneca, as well.

We are still watching Ross court time, Witte said. You really have to monitor that with a stress fracture. He was scheduled for about two and a

half quarters. He might have gone a little more than that, but not much. He wants to be out there so badly, and the team really looks to him as a leader.

But, the plus side is that we are learning how to play with-out him, so when he does come back full time, we will be that much better for it.

Gallick took over the scor-ing in the second quarter for Seneca, hitting for seven points, while Baker and Bart-kus each had a 3-pointer and Harty hit a pair of free throws that helped Seneca build the halftime lead.

Dwight then outscored Sen-eca, 21-10, in the third quarter as Travers scored 11 points. A three-pointer by Graham in the fourth quarter gave the Trojans a 50-45 lead and, after a putback by Harty, Connor Gantzert answered with an-other 3-pointer to put Dwight ahead 53-47. After a putback by Devin Bryant made it 55-49 with 2:43 left, Seneca got no closer than seven points.

BOYS BASKETBALL: DWIGHT 63, SENECA 54

Seneca puts up strong fight in loss to Dwight

Photos by Rob Oesterle [email protected]

ABOVE: Senecas Kole Gallick fires up a 3-pointer in a 63-54 loss to Dwight on Tuesday in Seneca. Gallick finished with 10 points. BELOW: Sene-cas Brody Harty (left) passes to teammate Nick Bartkus. Harty had 10 points and five rebounds.

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By DICK GOSS [email protected]

MINOOKA The pieces are coming together for the Minoo-ka boys basketball team.

The rest of the Southwest Prairie Conference certainly is taking notice.

The score last weekend was the same both nights the Indi-ans (6-2) beat both SPC foe Plain-field East and nonconference rival Joliet Catholic, 52-48.

As Minooka coach Scott Tanaka noted after the win over JCA, the Indians did a great job closing the game against two quality opponents, thus stretch-ing their winning streak to four.

Some things never change. Senior forward Joe Butler came up huge, scoring 12 of his 15 points in the fourth quarter, including eight straight free

throws.I dont know why it happens,

but I always seem to play better later in the game, Butler said. I have to learn to pull it togeth-er for four quarters. Our team, though, did a great job keeping it together the entire game.

Ask Tanaka, however, and he would tell you Butler is being a little too hard on himself.

Joe has scored over 1,000 points in his career, Tanaka said. He is just a special athlete in this area. I cant say enough about him.

Now about some of those other pieces. How about junior guard Jon Butler? He had four of his 11 points in the fourth, in-cluding the driving layup that put Minooka ahead for good with just over a minute left. He also had three key rebounds in the fourth quarter and appears

to be getting comfortable in his role. Blake Parzych? The se-nior center who is committed to Southern Illinois for football takes care of the dirty work around the basket. And if you run into one of the picks he sets, you feel it.

Everybody knows Blake is the unsung hero of our team, Tanaka said.

The Indians were having some difficulty scoring against the JCA defense through the first quarter. But when senior Nick Clemmons banked in a 24-foot shot to beat the first-quarter buzzer, that provided a spark.

Then in the second quarter, senior Larry Roberts, who fin-ished with 12 points, hit back-to-back 3s and scored on a driving layup before Clemmons hit an-other three. The Indians con-verted 7 of 11 shots, including all

three 3-pointers, and scored 18 points in that quarter to lead 29-23 at halftime.

That was some great senior leadership on the part of Clem-mons and Roberts, Tanaka said. Joe [Butler] was sitting with some foul trouble and we got the lead than quarter, any-way.

More elements to the Indians success came in the form of de-fense. JCA finished the game hit-ting 18 of 48 shots, 37.5 percent. But what was more noteworthy is that Hilltoppers senior guard Jalen Jackson, who like Butler is among the top players in the area, settled for 14 points on 5-of-16 shooting.

Who was guarding him? The twins, sophomore guards Kee-gan and Kyle Graebner, both had stints on Jackson, and re-serve junior guard Antonio Mi-

lazzo also helped out.Jackson is very talented and

our two sophomore guards and Antonio Milazzo made sure he worked on every possession, for every shot he got, Tanaka said.

When Minooka hit a scoring drought in the third quarter, Tanaka said he felt the Indians got good looks but failed to con-vert.

Still, Minooka hung in and won it down the stretch because the Indians play defense and make the opponent work extra hard on defense because of their patient offensive possessions.

As for the Indians, after fall-ing to Joliet Central in the cham-pionship game of the WJOL Thanksgiving Classic, they seem to have flipped the page. It will be interesting to see how they fare in their Christmas tournament at York.

Minooka boys continuing to improve this winterBOYS BASKETBALL

AREA ROUNDUPG-SW boys basketball cruises to easy victory over Wilmington

STAFF REPORTS

GARDNER A good start and a solid all-around game helped the Gardner-South Wilming-ton boys basketball team score a 52-36 nonconference win over Wilmington on Tuesday night.

The Panthers (5-2) jumped out to a 16-8 lead at the end of the first quarter and increased that to 26-12 by halftime before cruis-ing to the win over the Wildcats.

Scott Horrie led G-SW with 20 points, while Alex Bunna scored 13 points and Walker Eutsey added eight.

I thought our defensive in-tensity in the first half was as good as its been all season. We guarded hard and pushed them out of their comfort zone, Gard-ner-South Wilmington coach Chris Gibson said.

Families of Faith Christian Acad-emy 62, Romeoville Christian 36: Jaylin Barnes had 18 points and seven rebounds to lead Families of Faith (8-5) to the win Tuesday, while Amari Morgan scored 17 points and Cameron Latour had a team-leading 11 rebounds to go with eight points.

BOYS SWIMMINGFenton 90, Morris 79: Morris

got a win Tuesday in the 200-me-

ter freestyle relay from the team of Jeremy Gregorec, Ma-son Dant, Chris Collet and Sean Smith, who finished in 1:49.60.

Smith won the 100 butterfly (1:01.67) and took second in the 50 freestyle (:24.85). Collet won the 200 individual medley (2:32.91) and the 500 freestyle (6:09.07).

Morris also got a win from Ethan Frobish in the 200 free-style (2:29.08), while Soren Knud-sen took second in the 200 IM (2:39.27) and the 100 free (1:02.14) and Brett Simmons took second in the 100 breaststroke (1:18.44).

GIRLS BASKETBALLSerena 30, Coal City 29: Mack-

enna Emerson had a team-high 14 points for Coal City (4-7), while Mackenzie Bugg scored six and Taylor Meents added five.

WRESTLINGSeneca 45, Lisle 28; Coal City

70, Seneca 12: Against Lisle, Sen-eca got victories from Jackson Beene (10-8 decision), Jace Ca-sey (forfeit), Kyle Sigmon (pin), Austin Richardson (pin), Mason Dooley (pin), Anthony Sams (for-feit), Hunter McAlpine (pin), and Collin Wakerlin (pin). Against Coal City, Seneca got victories from Casey (forfeit) and Rich-ardson (pinfall).

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By ARTHUR ARKUSH [email protected]

LAKE FOREST Even af-ter what he described as an off-kilter game for Shea McClellin in Sundays loss to Washington, Vic Fangio sounded steadfast on his belief the former first-round defen-sive end can be part of Chica-gos long-term answer at his third NFL position, one cur-rently littered with questions for the Bears.

Fangios confidence in Mc-Clellin is nothing new. But Wednesday was the first time he was asked directly wheth-er he envisions the project of developing McClellin, wholl be an unrestricted free agent at seasons end, continuing in Chicago beyond the next three games.

Yes, Fangio said ada-mantly. He can learn [to make more plays at the point of attack]. Again, its all key-ing and diagnosing and reac-tion and instincts and repeti-tions; the more he plays, the more I think hell do better at that.

Fangio stopped short of en-dorsing fellow starter, incon-sistent Christian Jones. The Bears decision to promote undrafted rookie linebacker John Timu from the practice squad, giving him first-team reps alongside McClellin, sug-gests hell get a chance ahead of Jones and Jonathan Ander-son.

[Timu] does have good in-stincts. He is a powerful guy, and hes a young player, John Fox said of the 6-foot,

247-pound Washington prod-uct who earned a spot on the 53-man roster this summer and was active the first four games before being waived and spending the past 10 weeks on the practice squad.

I think hes earned the opportunity in what hes done on the practice squad and in practice.

Timus promotion is both the latest example of a 5-8 Bears club beginning to evalu-ate for the future and of anoth-er inexperienced off-the-ball linebacker getting a chance to strengthen the middle of the defense, where Washington tight end Jordan Reed was the latest to expose Chicago.

Dont look back, Timu said when asked what direc-tive the staff gave him with his promotion. Coach al-ways talks about every day is an evaluation. Some of that I cant control. What I can con-trol is how I go out there pre-pared and how I execute.

Fangio and special teams coordinator Jeff Rodgers both echoed Foxs assessment that Timus preparation has been one of his greatest strengths.

He asks questions in meet-ings, answers questions in meetings, Rodgers said. His intelligence is probably his best attribute. And he kind of knows how to find the ball. Hes an active player around the football.

Timu made several plays on the ball in the preseason, beginning with a instinctive, diving interception in the opener versus Miami and a sack in the preseason finale.

THURSDAYS EVENTSWRESTLING5:30 p.m. Morris at KanelandGIRLS BASKETBALL5:30 p.m. Illinois Lutheran at

Gardner-South WilmingtonGIRLS BOWLING4 p.m. Ottawa at Morris

FRIDAYS EVENTSBOYS BASKETBALL6:30 p.m. Minooka at Romeoville6:45 p.m. Coal City at Sandwich7 p.m. Morris at DeKalb7 p.m. Gardner-South Wilming-

ton at DonovanWRESTLING4:30 p.m. Minooka at Hinsdale

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The following four books published by Master Point Press are labeled In-termediate/Advanced. Each contains a lot of information on a specialized subject.

Sixpack by Allan DeSerpa is about Six Ace Roman Key Card Blackwood, which occurs when a partnership has bid and supported two suits. The six key cards are the four aces and both agreed-suit kings. There is also discus-sion of several bidding situations.

Mastering Hand Evaluation by Lawrence Diamond is self-explanatory. It gives comprehensive coverage of the most well-known methods.

Better Signalling Now by Mark Horton is the third edition of a book first published in 1994. It covers all of the basic aspects of defense and several more advanced methods.

Conventions Today by Brian Se-nior gives the basics of many bidding styles (for example, better minor) and conventions, often with the author explaining his preferences.

This is one of the easier deals from Hortons book. After that competitive auction, South is in three no-trump. West leads the diamond king. How should East plan the defense?

South made a negative double to show four hearts. Then, looking fondly on her club queen, she bid three no-trump, hoping to have nine runners on a spade lead.

For West to lead a diamond, not a spade (West surely couldnt be void in spades), she has to have good diamonds.

East could encourage with the eight, but it is much better to overtake the king with the ace and return the jack. Here, the defenders take the first six tricks.

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