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SEASONAL SUCCESSOperation St. Nick raises $100,000 during radio auction / 3
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Up closeChristmas celebrations at Midnight in Morris / 4
In worksMorris City Council to discuss amendment / 7
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Book signingAuthor Jan Brett appears in Coal City / 9
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ON THE COVEROperation St. Nick board member Missy Durkin finalized the sale of the Stafford Guitar and private wine tast-ing auction items. See story, page 3 Photo by Allison Selk for Shaw Media
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This Fretwork of ornamental open work on a house in the 400 block of Seventh Street in Mazon adds an elaborate contrast-ing pattern to the roofline peak. The roofline is typical Carpenter Gothic from the mid-19th century. It’s also known as ginger-bread.
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Sharing Christmas around the worldWhile we are busy trying
to spread Christmas cheer around our communities – visiting Santa, baking cookies, handing out gifts – one 18-year-old Channahon resident, Sydney Monroe, will be spreading cheer across the globe.
Monroe is part of a group of college-age students on a nine-month mission trip visiting and helping people in Thai-land, Cambodia, South Africa and Nicaragua. The program is called the World Race Gap Year, through Adventures in Missions.
Instead of hanging orna-ments on a tree with her fami-ly, going to holiday parties or shopping for presents at the mall with her friends, Monroe will be in South Africa cele-brating Christmas at Hillsong Church, which she considers a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
“Although being away from my family and typical tradi-tions like Christmas trees and food and movies will be super tough, it’s cool knowing that have we such an experience and might even have the
chance to spread Christmas cheer to people who may have never had that cheer before,” Monroe wrote in a text to me.
She chose to take the year between high school and col-lege to find out what God has planned for her, rather than what she had planned for her-self. The mission trip seemed to be an opportunity to do that and deepen her relationship with Christ.
So far, Monroe has been in Thailand for two months and Cambodia for one month. In Thailand, she lived with a family on their banana farm where she helped farm, pick weeds and shovel goat manure to use as fertilizer around the banana trees.
But she also was able to run a few English language camps for kids and adults from all different back-grounds.
In Cambodia, she stayed in
an orphanage with 36 chil-dren ages 4 to 18 years old. She “just simply did life with them,” she said.
Monroe became close with a 14-year-old boy who had been abandoned on the side of the road, along with his siblings, with nothing but the clothes on his back. They would ride bikes together; she would watch him and the other children swim or play volleyball.
One day the boy asked Monroe to help him fly a kite. Together they walked down a path along a rice field, him dragging his kite behind.
“I was just looking at him and thinking of everything he had experienced and how he was standing in a blistering hot rice field just choosing joy,” she said. “I learned a lot in that moment about choos-ing joy.”
Monroe has learned much on the trip thus far, about herself, about loving people and embracing their differ-ences. As she’s met people from all backgrounds, reli-gions, ethnicities and beliefs,
she’s found they are not so scary and she can share smiles, laughs and stories with them.
Monroe has a lot of work yet to do and doesn’t know what each day or each coun-try may bring next. In the be-ginning it was hard to spend hours on end in the middle of the mountains shoveling goat poop. But after a week or so, she realized she signed up for the trip to be more like Christ and love people more like Him, and that’s exactly what she is doing.
“There is so much good in this world and good people,” she said, “you just have to seek it and not focus on all the bad and the hurt.”
• Kris Stadalsky writes about people and issues in the Channahon-Minooka area. Community Pulse is a weekly column that provides a dedi-cated space for Grundy Coun-ty-area nonprofits, schools, organizations and sometimes Morris Herald-News staff to share news and information about their organization.
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MORRIS – With 30 min-utes left in the auction, phone calls were taken via landline, cellphones, and text messages while runners ran new totals into the radio host who an-nounced the latest bid on-air to create competition.
Numbers and names were yelled out with last-minute offers and runners settled bid-ding wars between callers. At high noon, all was quiet except the clack of the calculator as it added up totals from four hours of fundraising.
Sunday marked the 33rd Annual Operation St. Nick radio auction held at WCSJ AM and FM radio stations in downtown Morris to benefit its St. Nick Christmas Program. Operation St. Nick Christmas Program founders Joe Schmitz and Shirley Kiss spearheaded the event along with radio host Kevin Schramm and board members aka “elves” to raise more than $96,000 in a mere four hours.
“This is amazing. I tell peo-ple all of the time that I can’t believe that we raise around $100,000 with a radio auction on a Sunday in Grundy Coun-ty. People in this community see that there is a need and they know that Operation St. Nick takes care of that need
and give great support,” board member Guy Christensen said. “It’s fun to see how deep people dig to give.”
Board member Kathy Lam-bros said there were several
last-minute donations this year which led to four, 1-hour feature auction items, 21 live auction items, 164 non-auction items and 23 prepared gift bas-kets for sale.
The hot ticket live auction items were a Jim Stafford of “Train” autographed guitar
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Nearly $100,000 raised in four hours for Operation St. Nick
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Operation St. Nick founders Shirley Kiss and Joe Schmitz announce live auction items Sunday while at the annual fundraiser at WCSJ AM and FM in Morris.
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MIDNIGHT IN MORRIS
By HEIDI LITCHFIELD [email protected]
MORRIS – Midnight in Morris offers consumers a chance, once a year, to wander through the Christmas-lit streets of downtown Morris with friends and family until midnight.
Retailers welcome them in, offering refreshments such as creme puffs and cookies to add to the down-home ambience they’ve created with this event.
Many stores offer discounts this night and unlike Black Fri-day, the customers meander through the stores, coupons in hand looking for that one-of-a-kind, special gift for someone, or even for themselves.
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McKenna Tucker, 1, of Channahon plays with a plush animal at Apple Butter during the Midnight in Morris shopping event.
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Note to readers: Information in Police Reports is obtained from local police departments and the Grundy County Sher-iff’s Department. Individuals listed in Police Reports who have been charged with a crime have not been proven guilty in court.
Grundy County• David P. Cranston, 19, of Mor-
ris, was arrested by Grundy Coun-ty sheriff’s deputies Thursday on a charge of criminal damage to property. He was given a Dec. 21 court date and booked into the Grundy County jail.
• Bradley W. Clark, 21, of Mazon,
was arrested by Grundy County sheriff’s deputies Thursday on a Putnam County failure-to-appear warrant for a charge of posses-sion of marijuana. He was booked into the Grundy County jail.
• Markeise D. Washington, 25, of LaSalle, was arrested by Grundy County sheriff’s deputies
Thursday on a failure-to-appear warrant for a charge of driving with a suspended license. He was given a Dec. 28 court date.
• Karisa K. Cox, 24, of Joliet, was arrested by Grundy County sheriff’s deputies Wednesday on a charge of driving with a sus-pended license and a Will County
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Morris• Drew W. D. Urban, 24, of Mor-
ris, was arrested by Morris police Tuesday on a charge of residen-tial burglary. He was booked into the Grundy County jail.
Illinois Student Assistance Commission announced 2016-17 Illinois State Scholars
MORRIS HERALD-NEWS
DEERFIELD The Illinois Student Assistance Commis-sion announced last week the names of the 2016-17 Illinois State Scholars.
Illinois State Scholars pos-sess strong academic potential and are chosen based on a com-bination of exemplary ACT or SAT test scores and sixth se-mester class rank. State Schol-
ars rank in approximately the top ten percent of high school seniors, representing 652 high schools across the state.
“It is always an honor to an-nounce another extraordinary group of State Scholars,” ISAC Executive Director Eric Zarni-kow said in a news release. “At a time when postsecondary education could not be more important to future job and career success, these students
have demonstrated the kind of effort and dedication that will help them advance not only their futures, but the future of the state as well. We wish each of them the best as they pur-sue their chosen educational path.”
The following students who attend Grundy County school districts received the honor:
See SCHOLARS, page 12
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Morris Council to discuss Grundy ETSB agreement amendment
By MIKE MALLORY [email protected]
MORRIS – Six tele-commu-nicators for the Grundy Coun-ty Emergency Telephone Sys-tem Board will see a change in their pensions if various governmental entities and pub-lic safety agencies approve an amendment to the original con-solidation agreement.
The Morris Finance and Administration Committee recommended Thursday after-noon that City Council approve the amendment during an up-coming council meeting Mon-day night.
In March 2012, Morris dis-patch and Grundy County dis-patch consolidated services and became the Grundy Coun-ty Emergency Telephone Sys-tem Board, as they moved into a new 911 Center located south of the Illinois River on Route 47.
But recently, the need for an amendment arose because the Illinois Municipal Retire-ment Fund’s internal audit of Grundy County, dated April 29, 2015, found the six tele-commu-nicators participating in the Sheriff’s Law Enforcement Per-sonnel, or SLEP, pension plan were ineligible.
As a result, they will be transferred to the IMRF if the amendment is approved. SLEP, a tier within the IMRF’s group
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Morris City Attorney Scott Belt said the IMRF audit con-cluded the change should be reflected retroactive to when Grundy County Sheriff Kevin Callahan was appointed in De-cember 2012.
A transfer to the IMRF tier would bring changes in com-pensation packages for the six participants, Belt said, though he’s not sure of specifics. Also, the pluses and minuses of IMRF and SLEP are often a matter of opinion, Belt and Mayor Richard Kopczick said.
From the standpoint of gov-ernmental entities, there will be changes in the personnel costs. Belt said he’s unsure of the specific cost changes at this point because IMRF will use a complicated equation system to calculate them.
In addition to Morris, the Grundy County board, Grundy County Sheriff, Grundy County ETSB and Seneca ETSB must approve and sign the amended agreement for it to take effect.
It also must be approved and signed by the municipal boards or councils of Seneca, Minooka, Coal City and Mazon, as well as the fire and/or am-bulance districts of Braceville, Coal City, Gardner, Mazon, Morris, South Wilmington and Mazon-Verona-Kinsman.
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St. Ann’s religious education students donate blankets to pediatric patients at Silver Cross
MORRIS HERALD-NEWS
NEW LENOX – Alyssa Cousineau and Jessica De-craene, who are seventh-grade religious education students at St. Ann’s Catholic Church in Channahon, recently do-nated blankets to Silver Cross Hospital for pediatric patients.
As part of the church’s All Saints Fair service project, the girls chose St. Vincent de Paul since he helped children. This saint’s life inspired them to make blankets and donate them to Silver Cross to make area sick children feel special and loved during their hospi-tal stay.
“We are grateful to Alyssa Cousineau and Jessica De-craene for their support for our pediatric patients,” Larry Johnson, vice president of the Foundation at ]Silver Cross Hospital, said in the news re-
lease. “Their donation of blan-kets will give comfort to our littlest of patients as they re-cover from an illness.”
To learn about Silver Cross Hospital and its initiatives, call the Silver Cross Founda-tion at 815-300-7105.
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Alyssa Cousineau and Jessica Decraene, seventh grade religious ed-ucation students at St. Ann’s Catholic Church in Channahon, donated blankets to Silver Cross Hospital for pediatric patients.
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Author Jan Brett packs house in Coal CityBy JEANNE MILLSAP
Shaw Media correspondent
COAL CITY – An estimated 600 fans packed the Coal City High School auditorium Sat-urday evening to see a favorite writer.
Jan Brett, the beloved au-thor of 36 children’s books, is celebrated throughout the world for her charming stories and exquisite accompanying artwork.
Brett made Coal City the one Illinois appearance on her nationwide tour for her new-est book, “The Turnip,” after Coal City Public Library’s Teen Services Director Dan-ielle Diamond won an online competition sponsored by the author’s publisher.
Many in the audience were children toting their colorful hardback Brett books, but most were adults – longtime fans of the books they grew to love while reading them to their children or students.
Linda Micetich, of Coal City, brought eight books she hoped Brett would sign. A first-grade teacher in Darian, Micetich said she’s long ad-mired the author’s works.
“I buy them for my boys,” Micetich said. “They’re 15, 18, 21 and 24.”
Micetich said she thinks the illustrations are beautiful and loves the way the books offer further glimpses into the story with artwork on either side of the text.
“I’m just excited to meet her and see her new book,” said Micetich’s sister, Diane D’Arcy. “I want to buy some for my grandkids.”
Coal City second-grader Lily Spiewak was in the front row of the auditorium.
“We’re here so we can see the art,” said Spiewak, who wants to be a writer/illustra-tor herself someday.
Hedgie, a hedgehog charac-ter played by Coal City Middle School eighth-grader Kelsie Norris, also was at the presen-tation and posed for pictures with those who attended.
Wilmington first-grader Ryan Schraeger posed for a picture and said he was excit-ed to meet Brett.
“I really love Jan Brett,” he said. “I love her pictures, and her writing is really good.”
“She’s the only author that he’ll read consecutive books for,” his mother Micki Vantil-burg said. “He’ll come home and say, ‘She’s got another one out.’ ”
Randy and Shirley Clapp, also of Coal City, bought a copy of what is perhaps Brett’s most beloved book, “The Mitten,” for their great niece in Pied-mont, Oklahoma.
Before the presentation, Brett said her new book was a bit of a challenge, as the words to the old Russian folk tale were a tongue-twister in the Russian language.
While traveling in and around St. Petersburg recently with her husband, Boston Sym-phony bass player Joe Hearne, Brett said she made careful ob-servations of the area’s envi-ronment, architecture, people and culture to bring that flavor to “The Turnip.”
Brett has traveled all over the world to bring cultural aspects to her books. For this book, she and her husband also bought a couple of an-imals they now keep at their Boston home.
“We bought a rooster to help me get the authenticity,” she said.
Brett brought that rooster, Reuben, and “his wife” on the tour and showed them off on-
stage.During her presentation,
Brett also demonstrated her drawing technique and gave tips about how to draw ani-mals with personalities. She
recommended that anyone who wants to draw well should set aside time often to practice.
“The more you practice,” she said, “the better you’ll get at it.”
Jeanne Millsap for Shaw Media
Author Jan Brett signs autographs after her presentation Saturday in Coal City.
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Montage, No. 1 of 15 limited edition Jonathan Toews au-tographed jersey, White Sox scout seats for a Cub’s game, a generator, and airplane pedal car and a trip to the American Girl store via limo.
At 11:20 a.m. Schmitz said his “gold coin in a bucket” do-nation came into the station with a $20,000 personal check which was a donation only. This anonymous donor has done this for the past seven years after he saw the excite-ment on Schmitz’s face the first time.
Schmitz said in the early years when Kiss was at We Care of Grundy County, he would call her and ask for a family or two who were in need of gifts for their children for Christmas. He said they did that for a few years and when he had a lawyer in town offer him a $500 check to help others, he knew they could do more.
“This is so unbelievable. We started doing this to make kids dreams come true at Christ-mas. Thirty-three years ago, the station manager at WCSJ, Terry White said we should have a radio auction. I thought to myself, how do we raise money with a radio auction,” Kiss said.
The first year Operation St. Nick auctioned off one Cab-bage Patch Kid doll for $785. Schmitz said that doll led him to have one of the best stories throughout the years. With the Cabbage Patch Kid dolls popular and hard to find in the 1980s, Schmitz said he wanted to find the dolls for the girls on the list that next year. He final-ly struck a deal with the man-ager of Coast to Coast store to let him know when he received a shipment.
“I needed 10 to 12 dolls and when the manager called and
told me that he had a shipment of 20 and I needed to take all or none, I took them all. At mid-night, I picked up the dolls and the Grundy County Sher-iffs Department escorted me to the warehouse and acted as a guard while I unloaded the dolls,” Schmitz said. “I gave the girls their dolls and kept the rest for the second auc-tion. I was sitting in church at Christmas and thought about those girls and the dolls they received. My own daughter didn’t even get one that year.”
After that, Schmitz knew the group could come up with something to auction each year to support the Operation St. Nick efforts and now 33 years later it is still going strong.
This year, Operation St. Nick helped 69 families with 153 children within those fam-ilies. Each child is granted $200 in gifts and the families received $300 to $500 food gift certificates dependant on fam-ily size.
After it was all said and done, Schmitz walked around the radio station and waited for the final tally of the morn-ing. When tears welled up in his eyes, he joked about how his allergies acted up or there must be onions in the room.
“I’m happy. It brings tears to my eyes when I think about it because it’s so overwhelm-ing,” Schmitz said.
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“This is so unbelievable. We started doing this to make kids dreams come
true at Christmas. Thirty-three years ago,
the station manager at WCSJ, Terry White said we should have a
radio auction. I thought to myself, how do we
raise money with a radio auction.”
Shirley KissOperation St. Nick founder
Auction results helped 69 families, 153 children
Allison Selk for Shaw Media
Operation St. Nick founders Shirley Kiss and Joe Schmitz, along with WCSJ AM and FM radio host Kevin Schramm (right), announced the incoming bids on the live auction items Sunday at the studio in Morris.
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RICHARD D. HOGEBorn: Feb. 15, 1933; in Morris, ILDied: Dec. 3, 2015; in Morris, IL
Richard D. Hoge, 82, of Morris, passed away Thursday, December 3, 2015, at his home.
Funeral services will be held on Thursday, December 10, 2015, at
12:00 p.m. at the Fruland Funeral Home, 121 W. Jefferson St. in Morris with Pastor Patrick Lohse officiating. Interment will follow in Evergreen Cemetery. Visitation will be held on Thursday from 11:00 a.m. until time of service at the funeral home.
Born February 15, 1933, in Morris, he was the son of Leslie and
Gudrun(Gulbrandson)Hoge. He graduated from Seneca High School with the class of 1951. For most of his life he lived on the family farm in Nettle Creek Township. For several years he was employed at Western Electric and International Harvester.
He is survived by one brother, David (Betty)Hoge of Summit; one
sister, Diane Rosengren of Ever-green Park; two nieces, Ingrid(Les-lie) Lesko of Hickory Hills and Susan (Michael) Reardon of Elmhurst; four great nephews; one great niece and one great, great niece.
Preceded in death by his parents and one brother-in-law, Howard Rosengren.
He was a member of Our Savior’s Lutheran Church in Seneca and the Grundy County Farm Bureau.
Richard enjoyed hunting, fishing and traveling.
For more information, call the funeral home at 815-942-0700 or sign the private online guestbook at www.frulandfuneralhome.com.
OBITUARIES
Chuck Williams, founder of Williams-Sonoma, dies at 100By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ
The Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO– Chuck Williams, who founded the Wil-liams-Sonoma empire and ush-ered in an era of aspirational culinary retailing, has died. He was 100.
The retailer of high-end home goods said Williams died peacefully of natural causes Saturday at his home in San Francisco.
Williams opened his first Williams-Sonoma store in Sonoma, California, in 1956 in-spired by a trip to Paris three years earlier. A lover of cook-ing and entertaining, he want-ed U.S. professional chefs and home cooks to have access to high-quality cookware and tools.
“I couldn’t get over seeing so many great things for cooking, the heavy pots and pans, white porcelain ovenware, country earthenware, great tools and professional knives,” Williams told The Washington Post in 2005.
He refurbished the store off Sonoma’s town square, cov-ering the floor with black and white checkerboard tiles and painting the walls a bright yel-low that he’d seen in pictures. He built custom shelving to display individual pots and pans and crafted a simple logo with the words “Williams” and “Sonoma” in block letters over a woodcut illustration of a pine-apple – a symbol of hospitality.
The shop was such an enor-mous success that in 1958, he relocated to a 3,000-square foot store in San Francisco, next to the city’s bustling Union Square shopping district.
Julia Child’s landmark 1961 cookbook, “Mastering the Art of French Cooking,” and her cooking show on television sent even more cooks interest-ed in French cuisine to Wil-
liams-Sonoma and by 11 years later, that store had expanded to twice its original size and the catalog, first published in black and white in 1958, was flourish-ing.
Renowned chef and restau-rateur Thomas Keller said Wil-liams made a major contribu-tion to the world of cuisine.
“His tireless search for new equipment, techniques and ingredients to feature at Williams-Sonoma brought the pleasures of using fine cook-ware into reach for Amer-icans, and by following his passion, Chuck allowed us to
fulfill ours,” Keller said in a statement. “As we do with all of our mentors, we must ac-knowledge and be thankful for his vision and commitment; for what he did has impact-ed kitchens and restaurants worldwide. Chuck Williams once said, ‘If you love what you do, then the world will fall in love with you.’ We fell for you, Chuck, and we thank you for touching our lives.”
Born Oct. 2, 1915 in northern Florida, Mr. Williams’ earliest memories were of hand-mixing egg whites for divinity fudge and lemon meringue pies with
his grandmother, who once owned her own restaurant.
Williams’ family moved to Palm Springs, California, during the Great Depression. He later relocated to Los An-geles, where he worked as a window dresser at the I.Mag-nin and Bullocks department stores. During World War II, he traveled to India and Africa, exploring the food, drinks and unique cooking techniques and tools of those parts of the world.
After returning home, he visited Sonoma and decided to move there and start a home
construction business before venturing into the world of high-end cooking ingredients and home goods.
“With his impeccable taste and unique talent for select-ing the right products at the right time, he built a powerful brand that inspired a cultural revolution around food and had immeasurable impact on home and family life around the world,” said Janet Hayes, Williams-Sonoma brand pres-ident.
He sold the company in 1979, but he remained closely involved with it.
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Chuck Williams stands in 2007 in front of his original store location in Sonoma, Calif, during a reception celebrating the company’s 50th anni-versary. Williams, who founded the Williams-Sonoma empire and ushered in an era of aspirational culinary retailing, died Saturday. He was 100.
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I. A public hearing to approve a proposed property tax levyincrease for Morris Elementary School District #54 for 2015will be held on December 14, 2015 at 6:00 p.m. at theBoardroom of the District Offices at White Oak ElementarySchool. Any person desiring to appear at the public hearingand present testimony to the taxing district may contact Dr.Teri Shaw, Superintendent, Administrative Offices, 54 WhiteOak Drive, Morris, IL 60450, (815) 942-0056.
II. The corporate and special purpose property taxes extendedor abated for 2014 were $3,577,536. The proposedcorporate and special purpose property taxes to be leviedfor 2015 are $4,032,728. This represents a 11.29% increaseover the previous year.
III. The property taxes extended for debt service and publicbuilding commission leases for 2014 were $3,419,800.
The estimated property taxes to be levied for debt serviceand public building commission leases for 2015 are$3,522,459. This represents an 2.91% increase from theprevious year.
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Channahon youth basketball league deadline approachingMORRIS HERALD-NEWS
CHANNAHON – The last day to register for the Chan-nahon Park District’s Youth Basketball League is Dec. 21 or when the league fills.
The Youth Basketball League is for third through eighth grade boys and girls. The league is designed for your child
to utilize fundamental skills of basketball in game situations.
Each team will be lead by a head coach who will provide instruction on basketball fun-damentals in a positive and fun environment. Teams will have one practice during the week, starting the week of January 11 and one game every Satur-day, starting January 23 and
ending March 5. All games are held at Heritage Crossing Field House, 24935 W. Sioux Drive in Channahon. There is a separate league for boys and girls. The fee is for the league is only $69 for residents and $89 for nonres-idents.
Is your child not old enough for the league? A first- and sec-ond-grade instructional basket-
ball league has been added. This league is designed to develop the essential fundamental skills of basketball while also giving them a game atmosphere. Scott Slocum will provide a 45 min-ute instruction session each week followed by a game. The instructional league runs start-ing at 1 p.m. Sundays from Jan. 10 to Feb. 21. The fee for the in-
structional league is $59 for res-idents and $76 for nonresidents.
Register online at www.channahonpark.org or in per-son, by mail or by fax at 815-467-5677, or at Arrowhead Commu-nity Center, 24856 W. Eames Street, Channahon.
For information, call the Channahon Park District at 815-467-7275.
Coal City High School• Clarissa Barkley• Michael Chiarappa• Andrew Fischer• Alyssa Gernenz• Holly Grizzle• John Halloran• Hannah Horn• Ryan Horrie• Seth Johnson• Riley Kauzlaric• Adam McLuckie• Nicholas Micetich• Abigail Olsen
Gardner-South Wilmington High School
• Guy Adelman• Sydney Bartels• Collin Cash• Jennaveve Johnston• Michael Mankowski• Maranda Residori
Minooka Community High School
• Madeline Alessio• Persephone Allee• Kelli Anderson• Sydney Arlis• Brandon Baranski• Marielena Bautista• Daniel Beaudin• Sydney Bebar• Sarah Boeringa• Daniel Burdick• Andrew Burjek• Drew Burjek• Mark Burjek• Joseph Butler,• Jordyn Button• Mackenzie Chesko• Shane Chetney,• Taylor Cinkovich• Matthew Claassen• Liam Connellan• Michael Conway• Robert Cortesi• Morgan Crouch• Vinni Dayag• Mitchell Degraaf• Paige Dobbyn• Jacob Doster,• Andrew Engel• Katelynn Fuller• Kaylee Fuller
• Conrad Goffinet• Jacob Gornik• Kathleen Gossen• Chelsea Hagen• Kallie Haritopoulos• Marcus Hayden• Chandler Horvat• Andrew Jepsen• Benjamin Karczewski• Marissa Kasuba• Madison Kaufman• Alexander Keener• Jeffrey Kirkolis• Brandon Kopp• Jacquline Krohn• Tessa Krusinski• Amber Lindstrom• Hailey Machnikowski• Michael Malinowski• Justin Marquardt• Peyton Mart• Kathryn Marti• Marisa Martinez• Kayla McComb• Kylie McFee• Alexandra Motsch• Dylan Nielsen• Michelle Pappas• Zachary Petersen• Alec Peterson• Katelyn Prindle• Jason Raether• Hayley Ranieri• Jacob Reynolds• Austin Robare• Anthony Rodriguez• Theo Romac• Alex Roop• Gillian Ruggeri• Patrick Rumsey• Isabella Sadler• Jacqueline Sartore• Nicholas Saveas• Morgan Scholtes• Hannah Schulz• Samuel Siesser• Jailene Silveri• Nicholas Stallion• Jacob Swank• Nicholas Swanson• Gabrielle Taylor• Benjamin Trouvais• Berker Ustura• Emma Van Drie• Nathaniel Vaught• Alyssa Walter• Margaret Ward• Allison Wasiak• Kevin Wilson
• Paige Withall• Justin Wolz• Heather Zelko
Morris High School• Maren Bashor• Matthew Borgstrom• Peyton Christensen• Regan Degrush• Emma Dingbaum• Maxwell Dudley
• Dakota Foland• Evan Gagnon• Nathan Guth• Jason Jurak,• Jessica Jurak,• Mikaela Marino• Avery Norris• Haley Nystedt• Kaitlin Palko• Matthew Paulson
• Alexa Rain• Mykayla Schlappi• Lindsey Schmidt• Autumn See• Summer Shaw• Eleanor Tibbott• Alyssa Trobl• Jessica Webber• Hunter Wills• Ryan Wills
• SCHOLARSContinued from page 6
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Morris’s Matt Shaw shoots over the arms of Minooka’s
Jonny Butler Saturday night in Minooka’s 50-31 win in
Morris.
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Morris boys looking forward to practice timeBy ROB OESTERLE
MORRIS – Heading into the 2015-16 season, Morris boys basketball coach Joe Blumberg knew that his team would have a very different look than the one that took the floor a majority of the time the last couple of years. Mainstays Austin Patter-son, Evan Bjelland and Jake Walker all graduated, leaving the backcourt jobs wide open.
The Redskins have had an eventful first couple of weeks, filled with the ups and downs that should be expect-ed at the start of any year, but perhaps more so due to the game-heaviness of their early season schedule.
In 14 days since beginning the Coal City Turkey Tour-nament, the Redskins played seven gams. As Blumberg pointed out after Saturday night’s 50-31 loss to Minooka, if you take away two Sun-days and Thanksgiving, that makes 11 days that the team was together.
Playing seven games in 11 days doesn’t leave a lot of time to practice. In certain seasons, that wouldn’t be a huge problem.
But this year, with the Redskins basically entering the season with an entire-ly new lineup, that practice time is invaluable.
Add to it the facts that se-nior post player Jake Jurasits is out with an injury, forcing sophomore Tyler Spiezio to be called up to play with the varsity, and that point guard Tommy Balentine has played his way into the starting role despite not having played last year or during the summer, and practice time is sorely needed for nothing else if not to let the players shake hands and meet each other. Or at least get to know what each other’s strenghs and weak-nesses are and how they can learn to play together.
“I am not making excuses for our team,” Blumberg said after the Redskins lost Satur-day for the second time in two nights, following up Friday night’s 72-41 loss at Kaneland to open the Northern Illinois
Big 12 East schedule. “But we haven’t played together enough to get much consis-tency yet. To me, the biggest thing coming up about this week is that we don’t play a game until next Saturday [at Yorkville].
“We’ve had to bring up a
sophomore due to an injury, and we are playing with a point guard who didn’t play with us last year or during the summer. Now, we have a full week of time in practice to go through things and get better at what we need to get better at.”
Against Minooka early on Saturday night what the Redskins (4-3) were good at was keeping the pace of the game to their liking.
Matt Shaw got things go-ing with a three-pointer, then got an assist when he spotted Jackson Shannon open un-
derneath for a basket and a quick, 5-0 lead.
Minooka’s Joe Butler, who scored his 1,000th career point later in the game, got the Indians on the board with a three-pointer., but Shaw connected on a jumper in the lane to give Morris a 7-3 lead.
Even when Minooka’s Jonny Butler was fouled at-tempting a three-pointer with under a second left in the pe-riod and made all three free throws, Morris ended the first with a 7-6 lead against a team loaded with the expe-rience the Redskins are lack-ing.
“I really thought we con-trolled the game and the pace of the game for one quar-ter,” Blumberg said. “That was good to see, but then we weren’t able to keep that up and they were able to get some runout baskets off of pressure. That’s the same thing that killed us against Kaneland, and it’s something we need to work on this week at practice.”
Larry W. Kane for Shaw Media
ABOVE: Morris’s Nathaniel Halcomb drives to the basket in front of Minooka’s Joe Butler on Saturday at Morris High School. BELOW: MInooka’s Keegan Graebner jump ball Morris’s Jackson Shannon.
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SAN FRANCISCO 26, BEARS 20 (OT)
Bears stick to game plan, use Forte, Langford, CareyBy NATE ATKINS
The Bears came into Sun-day with a clear plan on of-fense: They were going to run it to the bitter end.
Employing a three-headed rushing attack for the first time this season, the Bears ran the ball 42 times for 170 yards Sunday, marking the most rushes the team has had in any game since 2011 and tied for the most in a game since 2007. That streak includes the en-tire Marc Trestman era, when the Bears’ traditional ground-and-pound game often tended to disappear, prompting John Fox’s new regime to promise to reverse that this season.
They entered Sunday al-ready ranked seventh in the league in attempts, but the game against the 49ers pre-sented an even more focused attack. Perhaps it had to do with an off day by Jay Cutler with two starting receivers in-jured, but the Bears also had in their stable three healthy running backs for the first time in more than a month.
Matt Forte led the way with 21 carries for 84 yards. Jeremy Langford took 12 carries for 59 yards. Ka’Deem Carey add-ed five carries for 17 yards. It marked the first game all sea-son in which all three backs saw game action.
“I’m pretty sure if it’d been just me with 30 or 40 carries, it would have been kind of tough to do that,” said Forte, who as-sured he is 100 percent recov-
ered from the knee injury he suffered against the Vikings. “... The run is important be-cause you get time of posses-sion, you’re able to keep their offense off the field, and you’re able to grind it out.”
That was the plan, and despite a 26-20 loss, it consis-tently placed the Bears in a position to win. On their sec-ond-to-last drive of regulation, all three running backs had carries, and Carey capped the 83-yard series with a 4-yard plunge to give the team a 20-13 lead.
After San Francisco tied the score on a Blaine Gab-bert scramble, the Bears took over in field goal range after Deonte Thompson’s 74-yard kick return. Carey made the game-winning attempt easier after an 11-yard run, but kick-er Robbie Gould pulled a 36-yard attempt wide left to end regulation.
The Bears only abandoned the approach in overtime, af-ter a holding call set them back into a first-and-17. Forte took one more carry, the Bears went three-and-out, and the
49ers took the field for the last series they’d need to win the game.
Forte celebrates more than TD
Forte enjoyed a n i c e bounce-back game from the tough night he had on Thanks-giving against Green Bay, which held him to less than 3 yards per carry.
Against the 49ers, Forte av-eraged 4 yards per carry on a team-high 21 attempts. He also found the end zone for the first time since Week 6 against De-
troit, taking a handoff from the 5 and churning through tack-lers for a second-quarter score.
When he got back on his feet, he cradled the ball like a baby in his arms, his mind clearly on the boy he wel-comed into the world Thurs-day, Matthew Christian.
“I just thought about it when I scored. I was like, ‘Hey, my family is probably watch-ing. I’m going to just pretend like it’s my baby at home,’” Forte said.
In the act, a referee ap-proached him to say the foot-ball can’t be used as a prop, but since Forte really did just wel-come a child into the world, it could slide this one time.
Carey celebrates first career score
In his 19th career game, the second-year player Carey scored his first career touch-down.
It was a big one, too, giving the Bears a go-ahead score with less than four minutes remain-ing. From the 4-yard line, Carey took a stretch handoff left and followed his blockers. Then he realized that if he wanted his first score, he’d have to muscle through three-time first-team All-Pro linebacker NaVorro Bowman at the goal line.
“Shoot, I just saw that big 53 dude standing in front of me, and I said, ‘It’s me and you. If you’re going to take my touch-down, you better knock my head off because I’m getting in this thing,’” Carey said.
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Bears running back Ka’Deem Carey runs the ball down the field during the second half against the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday at Soldier Field.
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Morris wrestlers go 1-2 at Riverside-Brookfield
STAFF REPORTS
BROOKFIELD – The Morris wrestling team went 1-2 on Sat-urday at the Riverside-Brook-field Quad. The Redskins blanked Chicago Hubbard, 78-0, before falling to Vernon Hills, 45-24, and losing, 61-12, to Riverside-Brookfield.
Recording pins against Hubbard for Morris were Abby Eisenbeis (106-poumds) Michael Milton (113), Zach Sater (120), Merrich Hairapa-tian (160), Shaine Hennessy (170), Cody Baldridge (182), R.J. Roderick (195), Colby Es-chenbaum (220) and Bobby Stubinger (285), while Dakota Sater (126), Marques Kjelles-vik (132), Ethan Elleson (138) and Jacob Barkley (145) each won by forfeit. Against Ver-non Hills, Brandon Hall (285) won by pin, while Hairapatian (160), Hennessy (170) and Sean Terando (182) won by forfeit. Against Riverside-Brookfield, Hall (285) won by pin and Baldridge (182) won by forfeit.
Seneca Invitational: Seneca finished seventh in the 16-team event with 106 points. Tyler Draine (126) and Hunter McAlpine (182) each finished third for the Irish while Jack-son Beene (113), Kye Sigmon
(138) and Anthony Hasse (160) finished fourth and Mason Dooley (152) placed fifth.
Boys basketballHerscher 46, Coal City 43:
Christian Johnson led Coal Coty (1-4, 0-1) with 13 points in the Interstate Eight Confer-ence opener, while Nick Mice-tich added 12.
Families of Faith Christian 71, Grace Christian 54: Amari Mor-gan scored 24 points and had 11 rebounds while Jaylin Barnes added 21 points for Families of Faith (6-1, 2-1).
Minooka sophomores 44, Morris 37: Kameron Drans-feldt led Morris with 10 points, while Payton Voitik added sev-en.
Girls basketballCoal City 39, Herscher 37: On
Thursday, Coal City (4-4, 2-0) got 12 points from Mackenzie Bugg and 11 each from Mack-enna Emerson and Taylor Meents to remain unbeaten in Interstate Eight play.
Beecher 52, Gardner-South Wilmington 40: Jenni Price led GSW (4-4, 1-1) with 11 points, four assists and three steals in the River Valley Conference loss, whie Kaylee Steichen had eight points and three assists.
Kaneland 69, Morris 23 : Meghan Smith and Alissa Bo-jovic each had six points for the Redskins on Friday night while Meghan Jurak had a team-high six rebounds. Mor-ris lost the sophomore game, 35-22, as Amanda Schmidt led all scorers with nine points and Madi Mayberry scored six.
Plainfield North 49, Minoo-ka 41: Savannah Johnson (15 points) and Brooklyn Bach-mann (10 points) led the In-dians (3-3, 1-1) in Friday’s Southwest Prairie Conference game.
Families of Faith Christian 54, Grace Christian 40: Destiny Villalejo scored 32 points for Faith Christian (3-1, 2-0).
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MONDAY’S EVENTS Girls basketball 6:45 p.m. – Coal City at Lisle 7 p.m. – Plano at Seneca 7 p.m. – St. Anne at Gardner-South Wilmington Boys bowling 4 p.m. – Minooka at Lincoln-Way East
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Freelance reporter is why Chicago knows details about Laquan McDonald shooting
SPRINGFIELD – I watched the video in disbelief.
Bullet after bullet tore into the prone body of Laquan McDonald. The shooting of the 17-year-old was captured on video by a squad car’s camera.
It was a horrifying display of the ultimate use of government power – the taking of a human life.
I’ve been a reporter for nearly 30 years. Early in my career I covered cops and crime. I’ve cov-ered shootings that were justified and some that were not.
But what happened after the shooting was all too familiar. Folks started to lie. Bureaucrats covered their butts. And politi-cians pointed fingers.
There is no other way to describe the situation. It was a cover-up. Initially, the Chicago Police Department said McDon-ald was shot once after lunging at an officer. But the autopsy showed that he was shot 16 times. And the video shows him walk-ing away rather than lunging at anyone. McDonald was no saint. But no one deserves to be shot while lying helpless on a street.
A tenacious freelance report-er, Brandon Smith, filed a Free-dom of Information Act request for the video. When the request was denied by the city, he went to court, fought for its release and won.
And it was not until the video was on the brink of release that the officer involved was charged with murder.
It was 13 months after the shooting. Thirteen months.
Oh, and the taxpayers of Chicago already had paid a $5 million settlement to McDonald’s family with a provision that vid-eo would remain confidential.
Just call it hush money. Mayor Rahm Emanuel said he
didn’t see the video until it was made public last week.
The city dished out millions of
bucks to McDonald’s family and the mayor hadn’t even bothered to see what was on the video? Give me a break.
Even in Chicago, $5 million isn’t chump change.
But who is this Brandon Smith? He’s the reporter who forced the Chicago Police Depart-ment to release the video.
He writes part time for whoev-er will buy his work and also has worked in restaurant kitchens and drives for Uber to support himself.
Smith broke this story with-out working for any particular news organization. In fact, this small-town Ohio native, who set the Chicago’s political estab-lishment on its ear, hasn’t even earned his bachelor’s degree yet.
But he already is holding those in power accountable and demanding transparency from the opaque corridors of Chicago’s City Hall. And he is learning some tough lessons about those in power not wanting to be held accountable.
On the day the video was made public – because of his lawsuit – Chicago police officers turned him away from a mayoral news conference.
Why? They don’t consider him “legitimate” media.
Well, he may not have a press pass in his pocket, but he has truth marching at his side. And for the public, horrified by the images he brought to light, that is credential enough.
• Scott Reeder is a veter-an statehouse reporter and a journalist with Illinois News Network, a project of the Illinois Policy Institute. He can be reached at [email protected].
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LEGISLATIVE DIRECTORYPresident Barack ObamaThe White House1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NWWashington, DC 20500202-456-1414Comment: 202-456-1111
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill.230 S. DearbornKluczynski Federal BuildingSuite 3892Chicago, IL 60604312-353-4952
711 Hart Senate Office BuildingWashington, DC 20510202-224-2152
U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk, R-Ill.230 S. Dearborn Suite 3900Chicago, IL 60604312-886-3506
387 Russell Senate Office BuildingWashington, DC 20510202-224-2854
Gov. Bruce Rauner207 StatehouseSpringfield, IL 62706800-642-3112
U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Channahon (16th District)District office628 Columbus Street Suite 507Ottawa, IL 61350 815-431-9271 Washington, D.C., office1221 Longworth House Office BuildingWashington D.C. 20515202-225-3635
State Sen. Sue Rezin, R-Morris (38th District)District office103 Fifth StreetPO Box 260Peru, IL 61354 815- 220-8720
Springfield office309I Capitol BuildingSpringfield, IL 62706217-782-3840
State Sen. Toi Hutchinson, D-Olympia Fields (40th District)District office222 Vollmer Road, Suite 2CChicago Heights, IL 60411708-756-0882
Springfield office121C Capitol BuildingSpringfield, IL 62706217-782-7419
State Rep. John Anthony, R-Plainfield (75th District)District office3605 N. State Route 47, Suite FPO Box 808Morris, IL 60450-0808815-416-1475
Springfield office201-N Stratton Office BuildingSpringfield, IL 62706217-782-5997
State Rep. Kate Cloonen, D-Kankakee (79th District)District office1 Dearbourn Square Suite 419Kankakee, IL 60901815-939-1983
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CROSSWORD SUDOKU BRIDGE by Phillip Alder
CELEBRITY CIPHER
As the holiday season is practically upon us, let’s look at a few possible gifts for your bridge friends.
First, if she or he is not already a member, give a gift subscription to the American Contract Bridge League. Apart from allowing masterpoint collection and cheaper entry into events at the three North American Championships, every month members receive an 80-page magazine. The Bridge Bulletin contains information about those Nationals, book and soft-ware reviews, and many instructive articles aimed at various levels: newer, intermediate and advanced. Details are at acbl.org.
In this deal from the May 2015 issue, how should South play in six clubs after West leads a trump?
In the auction, two clubs was an inverted minor-suit raise, showing at least game-invitational strength and denying a four-card major. Two hearts indicated a heart stopper and denied a diamond stopper. Three diamonds promised a stopper in that suit and game-forcing values. After three control-bids, North jumped to six clubs with such great trumps and no more control-cards to show.
South could draw trumps and try both major-suit finesses. But instead of that 76 percent line, why not guar-antee the contract? After removing the trumps, cash dummy’s diamonds, ruff the diamond six, and return to dummy with a trump. Then play a heart and cover East’s card as cheaply as possible.
Suppose West wins South’s nine with the jack. What does he do now? He is endplayed. Whichever major he returns concedes the contract-fulfilling extra trick.
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Dear Abby: Every year around the holidays, well-in-tentioned strangers wish me and my family “Merry Christmas!” Even though we are Jewish, I have always re-garded it to be a kind gesture to spread good cheer. I smile and return the greeting.
My children have asked me why I don’t tell people we’re Jewish and that we don’t celebrate Christmas. I don’t feel I need to educate strang-ers when they’re just trying to be friendly, but my kids don’t agree. We’ve had several dis-cussions about being friendly and polite, but still they ask if being Jewish is something to keep secret or be embarrassed about.
I don’t want to rain on
anyone’s parade, but I do want to give my kids the message that we are proud of who we are. How do you recommend I handle this situation, because it happens a lot? – Jill in Santa Rosa, Calif.
Dear Jill: Explain to your children that you return the greeting to be polite, not because you feel being Jewish is anything to be ashamed of. The strangers who do this are saying something nice, and you are returning the greet-ing.
However, the response to
people to whom you are closer and with whom there will be a deeper relationship should be different.
To them, your children should explain that they are Jewish and that you cele-brate Hanukkah rather than Christmas. When you’re with them, if they feel the need to assert their Jewish identity, they should go right ahead and do it.
Dear Abby: I have been with my boyfriend for 16 years. Last year I found out he was married before I met him and still is married to her. He never told me he was mar-ried when I met him – or at all. If he had, we wouldn’t be together.
His wife got ahold of me
on Facebook because she was looking for him. I was in dis-belief. We almost got married in 2007, which would have been bigamy. I have stayed with him for the sake of our kids, but I’m miserable.
I recently reconnected with a male friend from high school. We have been talking, but not romantically. He knows my situation. The problem is, he said that he had a crush on me back in school and still does. I have feelings for him, too – more than just friendship. What do I do? – Emotionally Lost in Maryland
Dear Lost: I can only imag-ine the extent to which your trust has been shaken. What you need to do right now is recognize how vulnerable
you are feeling. What you shouldn’t do is rebound from one relationship into another.
Because you are no longer happy with your boyfriend, consult an attorney to ensure your children’s father lives up to his financial obligations to them. If you don’t have a job, start looking for one to supplement the child support income.
Once you have established economic independence, you will be in a better position to judge whether or not your old high school friend is your knight in shining armor.
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Holiday greeting need not prompt a religious claimJeanne Phillips
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