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NEWS | 3Quinn slates

$6.5M for road project

By TARAH THORNE

LAKE BARRINGTON – Gov. Pat Quinn recently more than $6.5 million for a road project in Lake Bar-rington, part of his Illinois Jobs Now! capital construc-tion program.

“Our investment will im-prove the River and Roberts Road intersection in Lake Barrington,” Quinn said. “The project will also em-ploy a number of construc-tion workers, which will drive the local economy for-ward.”

The River and Rob-erts Road intersection in Lake Barrington will be reconstructed to provide a multi-lane roundabout. The project includes earth stabi-lization, pavement widen-ing and resurfacing, culvert replacement, storm sewer, sidewalks, curb and gutter, retaining wall, lighting and landscaping.

Berger Excavating Con-tractors of Wauconda was the lowest of four bidders at $6,552,520. The project will be overseen by the Illinois Department of Transporta-tion.

“Improving local traf-fic safety and modernizing intersections are a critical aspect of investing in our roads,” State Representative Ed Sullivan, R-Mundelein, said. “Projects like these help us to keep the Barrington area a great place to live, work and raise a family.”

Darch addresses State of the VillageBy TARAH THORNE

BARRINGTON – Barrington Village President Karen Darch highlighted the past year’s ac-complishments in her State of the Village report Monday eve-ning while trustees approved an estimated $192,685 Metra sta-tion improvement project.

The village’s Numbers Re-port, delivered by Darch, re-viewed 2013 as a year of change.

Darch said countless hours were spent analyzing best alter-natives for the Route 14 grade separation project at the Cana-dian National Railway – “a proj-ect which will enhance the safe-ty, emergency access and traffic flow for our village and region when ultimately completed.”

Another “separation” proj-ect has involved the Barrington Countryside Fire Protection District.

Darch said the village chose not to fight the district’s de-cision to terminate a shared

services contract with the village-run Barrington Fire Department because the down-sizing of the village service has lead to “excellent response times and a more sustainable financial model – particularly in terms of long-term pension liability.”

Darch said the village has seen a 43 percent reduction in liability costs and workers compensation premiums for 2014 with the separation from the district – the village’s lowest cost in 20 years.

While addressing a com-ment from a village citizen that urged trustees to re-think

Hough and Main streets devel-opment plans under the reali-ties of current economy, Darch said the commercial project will indeed proceed this year as the village is “sound financially and growing.”

Nearly 20 new businesses joined the village in 2013, she said.

Darch also addressed village efforts at the state level.

“In order to keep our finan-cial house in order, we have to concern ourselves with more than our own village depart-ments,” Darch said.

Darch said reform – or state-mandated, but local-ly-funded pension systems – and changes in other state man-dates, which interfere with the village’s ability to manage its resources, are once again prior-ities this year.

Despite tough economic times in the past few years, Barrington is very much alive, Darch said.

“We have our village gov-

ernment challenges, like man-dates from the state, expenses increasing faster than infla-tion and revenues, increasing train traffic, costs due to ex-cessive snow and rain; or Em-erald Ash Borer tree destruc-tion, but we are determined to bring our best efforts to meet them and continue to accentu-ate the very many wonderful attributes of our corner of the world.”

The Barrington Metra sta-tion improvement project, ex-pected to be complete by mid-June, will feature stamped colored concrete and six plant-ers, serviced by two local gar-den clubs.

Barrington Public Works Director Mark Werksman said the plan is to remove the sta-tion’s brick paver elements to decrease future maintenance costs. Trustees approved Alli-ance Contractors to carry out the project. Werksman said construction will begin mid-April, depending on weather.

Fire district honors retired deputy chiefBy TARAH THORNE

LAKE BARRINGTON – Barrington Countryside Fire Protection District trustees approved a new engine pur-chase Monday evening after celebrating a surprise dedi-cation for Illinois Fire Chiefs Association consultant and retired district deputy chief John Feit.

Trustee Paul Heinze made a public address to dedicate the district headquarters confer-ence room, at 22222 N. Pepper

Road, Lake Barrington, to Feit in honor of his service. The room was named the Deputy Chief John J. Feit Center.

Starting his work in the dis-trict 35 years ago as a paid-on-call firefight-er, Feit said he “certainly did not expect” this sort of recogni-tion.

Heinze said Feit has always pushed for the highest level of district service, knowing ev-ery part of the district.

“His standards for perfor-mance and quality are legend-ary,” Heinze said. “He doesn’t

accept any gray areas or levels of uncertainty.”

Feit has most recently been consulting the district through its separation from operations with the village of Barrington, planning the development of a third dis-trict fire station and talking trustees through apparatus purchases.

With April 10 being the district’s 100-day mark of in-dependent operations, its 70 firefighter-paramedics have

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Parents, officials discuss heroinBy TARAH THORNE

B A R R I N G T O N – B a r -rington area doctors and po-lice officers agree that drug usage is a local and national problem. And, these drugs are now widely available to ado-lescents.

Special agent Sean Lewa-kowski met with middle and high school parents March 12 to address an increasingly popular drug – heroin.

The lethal amount of heroin weighs in close to the intoxi-cation amount, making it easy to overdose, Lewakowski said.

“It’s like chasing the drag-on,” he said. “You’re never go-ing to be as high as you were the first time you tried heroin so you do more and more.”

Although drugs are not rampant at Barrington High School, Barrington police offi-cer John McGowan said drugs have been present. He said a high school student is found to be either under the influence, possessing drugs, buying, or selling, about once every two weeks.

Heroin, McGowan said, is a tough drug to stay clean from.

“I’ll see kids go to rehab and go back using drugs as soon as they’re hanging out with old buddies again,” McGowan said.

Lake County Metropolitan Enforcement Group Supervi-

sor Michael Goers told parents the Chicago area drug deals ar-en’t like the movies.

Goers said suburban drug traffic almost always comes from street gangs in the west side of Chicago.

“It’s a major distribution

center,” Goers said. “Anyone could buy dope. It’s that easy.”

Coming most easily are the trusting relationships built with drug dealers, Goers said.

“The dealers will take a re-al-nice-guy approach,” Goers said. “They wouldn’t want to frighten a teen. It’s bad for sales. Instead, they’ll tell their customers to come try a batch for free and follow up with a phone call to see how they liked it.”

Another scary aspect of heroin is its purity level.

Goers said users could be-come accustom to inhaling or injecting a certain amount of heroin and then pick up a new batch with a higher purity lev-el and overdose.

Knowing what a heroin

death looks like – a gradual shut down of the body, begin-ning with slowing of the lungs; ending with a final loss of breath – Goers said he is most frustrated by parents turning a blind eye to usage and over-dose.

Lewakowski agreed there are likely many more hero-in deaths than what is being reported each year – 24 Lake County heroin overdose deaths in 2013, according to the Lake County Coroner’s Office.

As a Barrington high school resource officer, McGowan said there is a huge reporting issue.

“We have a 70-something-square-mile school district with 12 law enforcement ju-risdictions,” McGowan said, explaining there’s no account for how much heroin is being used in Barrington.

Lewakowski said he has interviewed users as young as eighth graders or freshmen in high school.

“There’s signs,” Lewakow-ski said. “When someone is on heroin, their pupils will con-strict so small it’s unbeliev-able. The black part of their eye will be as tiny as the tip of pencil.”

Dr. Elizabeth Horvath, a 13-year emergency room phy-sician at Advocate Good Shep-herd Hospital in Barrington, said she has seen more heroin overdose cases than usual in

the past year.“They come in spurts,”

Horvath said. “Usually late at night, a mix of males and fe-males, but mostly 18 to 20-year-old patients.”

Horvath said heroin over-dose patients typically come in blue or not breathing, brought by friends or ambulance.

Symptoms range in sever-ity from drowsiness to being completely comatose, Horvath said.

At a Barrington 220 school board meeting March 10, mem-bers discussed adopting a stu-dent drug testing policy.

Board member Richard Buckhart said although it is not yet official, the drug test-ing policy would likely be dis-trict-wide and tests would be random.

Buckhart said the Bar-rington 220 policy would fol-low a U.S. Supreme Court policy stating student drug testing is OK if those students are involved in co-curricular activities or taking advantage of school privileges, such as parking.

“It’s time to commit,” Buck-hart said. “We’ve been talking about it for almost three years and there’s scientific evidence proving what drugs do a hu-man brain. We allocate dis-trict funds for school safety. This is a safety issue and we want to take a preventative ap-proach.”

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Nature Center offers spring programsBy TARAH THORNE

BARRINGTON – The Still-man Nature Center of South Barrington, has announced its spring programs.

An evening woodcock bird watch will be held at 6:30 p.m. March 21 for anyone 10 or old-er. Each spring, the American woodcock bird goes through a mating ritual at Stillman. The bird looks like a portly inland sandpiper with a long beak and short legs. During courtship, the birds call each other at sunset and sunrise. Binoculars are recommended for this free event.

Then, a “build your own bird house” workshop will be held from 1 to 3 p.m. March 30. Many birds, including wrens and chickadees, nest in tree cavities. Nest boxes increase the chances of birds being attracted to local yards. Out-side attire is recommended. Participants must bring their own hammer. House kits are $5 for Stillman members; $10 non-members.

Enjoy stories and roast-ed marshmallows at a Friday night campfire from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. April 25. A suggested do-nation for this event is $2.

Stillman Director Mark Spreyer will lead a morning

bird walk at 8 a.m. each Sun-day beginning April 27. Bird migration will be underway. Binoculars and field guides are recommended. Materials can be borrowed. This free event is for anyone 8 or older.

Also on Sundays, wildflow-er walks will begin at 2 p.m. May 4 for anyone 10 or older. Stillman’s woodlands contain an array of wildflowers. Cam-eras are recommended for this free event.

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A ndrea Atwater, brand manager for the Attitude prod-uct family, credits hard work for her current role.

Atwater’s 2011 concept Craft Attitude has taken off, she said. Craft Attitude allows people to print any image they want on any surface they want, including leather. Atwater of Port Barrington is a home-town celebrity be-cause of her appearances on the Home Shopping Network. Atwater discussed the product and her future goals with Lake County Suburban Life reporter Kyle Stephans.

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Stephans: How long have you been working at Craft Attitude?

Atwater: [About] two years. I am a brand manager at Craft Attitude. I was able to start of on good terms since I was a friend of the owner of the com-pany, but I worked very hard. Before I worked as a district manager in retailing for many years. I don’t like to sit at home and do nothing. That is boring, so I also still do all the work at home. Their are no maids in my house.

Stephans: You market print-able accessorizing. Where did that idea come from?

Atwater: In 2011, I came up with the concept of personaliz-ing products with pictures or designs. I was originally doing it for my kids for fun and to show off the sports they were involved in. So, I realized that by using printable film, you can accessorize nearly any ma-terial you want. So once I start-ed working at Craft Attitude, they really helped me produce the product widely.

Stephans: How were you able to market something in the Craft department?

Atwater: In 2011, I went to CAH [Craft and Hobby], in Anaheim, [Calif.] as a test market to see how printable ac-cessorizing film worked. I was representing Craft Attitude at the time, and the product won the top prize for Most Innova-tive Product. That jumpstarted the idea and was really worth the run, because it made the product much more widely known.

Stephans: Where can I get the product?

Atwater: We are now in are variety of stores includ-ing Jo-Ann Fabric, Michaels Stores, Amazon and on our website. It will also be avail-able at Walmart on April 28, as our rollout for 2,600 stores. I think what really made us get recognized even more widely was attending the CAH in 2012. That year we had balloons and elephants to attract more atten-tion to Craft Attitude.

Stephans: What does a brand manager do?

Atwater: As brand manager I’m required to get the brand of Craft Attitude on different types of social media – mostly Facebook, trade shows, and HSN [Home Shopping Net-work]. I believed in this prod-uct and company so much that I held this position without a salary for one year, just to help get it started.

Stephans: You promoted print-able accessorizing on television March 6. How did it go?

Atwater: I first went on the Home Shopping Network eight years ago to promote a brownie cutter I had called the Perfect-Kut. But still, when the lights went on, who would not be scared? When you think about it eight minutes is short, but it feels longer when the spotlight is on you.

Stephans: What is unique about the printable accessories that Craft Attitude is producing?

Atwater: The product can

be put on any type of material such as wool, plastic, metal – nearly anything. You can per-sonalize anything you want. When using our product, all you need is a glue stick when attaching it to your material and it will stick. If you do not want it or want to change it, all you need to do is tear it off and it comes neatly off with no mess.

Stephans: What is the most popular accessorizing item peo-ple are ordering?

Atwater: The most popular type of accessorizing that people are ordering right now is for shoes. It allows you to select a picture or design and decorate part of your shoe with it.

People who are scrapbook-ers, moms and kids love these because of being allowed to make it the way they want to. But. we are still going to go to CAH each year to attract more companies and educate consumers on how the prod-uct works.

Stephans: What advice do you have to anyone who is looking to market their product in our current economy?

Atwater: Well, besides the entrepreneurship aspects, I would say if you never step out of the box, you will never get there. Now, everybody is main-stream, so just go for it and try to reach your dreams. Know that it will be a lot of work, but it will be fun. The whole point is to try to step out of the box and try to be different so you can go after your dreams.

Stephans: What are your future goals?

Atwater: We are still so new, and you want to get the product out of the company to the consumer.

But, my real goal is to get this product marketed to kids in school, because every stu-dent wants to be unique and have their own thingsWith the product being available to them, I believe that it will be very popular in the student environment.

Andrea Atwater created Craft Attitude and now is brand manager for the Attitude product family.

responded to 124 emergencies in the month of February, alone; transporting 61 patients to a hospital, Chief Jeff Swan-son said.

Setting celebration aside, Feit advised trustees to pur-chase new apparatus for dis-trict’s second station in Bar-rington Hills.

The rescue-pumper-squad engine, a demo piece at Fire Service in Florida, is expected to be delivered in more than 40 days.

District spokesman Ryan McKeon said the purchased apparatus will serve as a front-line fire engine, water pump-er and tool-equipped squad vehicle, as well as deliver ad-vanced life support for severe accidents.

Trustee Marvin Hill ex-

pressed his budget concern before trustees approved the purchase.

“We’ve already spent quite a bit on equipment and are do-ing a lot pretty fast,” Hill said. “We need to be mindful.”

Feit said the planning com-mittee is well aware of the district’s budget and has been preparing to replace older ap-paratus, while reusing already purchased tools and attached equipment, since its separa-

tion from the village fire de-partment in January.

District President Tom Rowan said he feels confident the $318,550 engine purchase is a good deal.

Feit and Station 2 Captain Nick Asta said the new en-gine is meant to alleviate an overcrowding issue at the Bar-rington Hills station, where ap-paratus is now housed bumper-to-bumper, and generate more water at fire emergencies.

By making this single EMS, heavy rescue and fire engine purchase, officials said they will be able to replace three whole vehicles causing an overcrowding issue in the sec-ond station.

Feit said with this pur-chase, the district will be able to arrive at a fire with 10,000 gallons of water on its own ap-paratus.

“We’ve never done this be-fore,” Feit said.

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Student biz helps seniors learn techBy TARAH THORNE

BARRINGTON – Fan-tasTech CEO Scott Arnett knows that newer tech-nology, which has become second-nature to teens, is sure to mind-boggle an un-trained crowd.

Therefore, given the op-portunity to create a busi-ness through the brand-new Barrington High School Business Incubator Start Up class, Arnett and his peers chose to launch a ser-vice that gives back to the community.

FantasTech, a local three-man business of BHS juniors, offers fixed-price tutoring sessions for cell-phone, computer, tablet, and social media communi-cations users.

Arnett said class advi-sors have required students to choose a focus audience, which is why FantasTech is geared toward older gener-ations.

“We would never turn anyone down though,” Ar-nett said. “It’s for every-one. I helped my grandma learn how to use her iPad over summer break and she’s been adding Facebook friends ever since. Her en-tire face lights up.”

After gaining a Micro-soft-employed community mentor and $600 startup funding from BISU class investors, FantasTech’s second order of business has been establishing rela-tionships with local retire-ment-age hotspots, such as the Barrington Area Library, Barrington Area Council on Aging and the Garlands assisted living fa-cility.

Arnett said the library has already agreed to let FantasTech visit for a day talk to patrons about the tutoring service. Relation-ships with the Garlands and BACOA are pending, given more conversations and

contracts, Arnett said.Arnett said he is excited

about the upcoming local opportunities.

“We’ve been the first group in our class to estab-lish a partnership between a BISU business and the library,” Arnett said. “It’s been all about learning and applying ever since the first day of class. We know that the beginning of BISU class was more focused on test-ing, but we’ve been treat-ing FantasTech as a full-on business all along.”

FantasTech has already serviced two clients and the tutoring team has more ap-pointments scheduled for coming weeks.

The students helped a Barrington Hills attorney

back up his financial docu-ments to his computer. An-other service required con-necting a Playstation 3 to the Internet and uploading family photos from a digital camera to a computer, Ar-nett said.

Jake Coon, chief strategy officer for FantasTech, said he and his partners have given thought to expanding nationwide in the future.

“I know a lot of other schools want to promote the BISU class program outside of Illinois,” Coon said. “It would be nice to join forces across states and look into hiring more employees in retirement regions like Ar-izona and Florida.”

Currently, FantasTech staff will drive within sev-

en miles of BHS to service customers. Services cost $40 and last about an hour; with a reduced rate for each ad-ditional hour, Arnett said.

Once FantasTech repays its $600 startup cost, Arnett said FantasTech employ-ees will make about $9 per hour.

Arnett and Coon said they have compared their pricing to other local busi-nesses such as Best Buy’s Geek Squad and have found FantasTech to be a good deal.

“I think people underes-timate our business capa-bilities,” Arnett said. “We know this stuff.”

FantasTech with make a final pitch to a BISU class development board and Chi-cago area angel investors in May. BISU class instructor Hagop Soulakian said the amount of money to be in-vested in the winning busi-ness(es) will be determined by the type of business that is selected. A public presen-tation of the students’ busi-ness ideas will be held May

28, Soulakian said.According to the original

BISU class curriculum, only one business will be chosen to continue on into next school year by the BISU class development board; possibly more non-profits. Angel investors, unassociat-ed with the class, are free to fund as many of the student businesses as they choose.

Arnett said that even if FantasTech is not chosen to continue, he is grateful for the learning experience.

“It’s a huge opportunity and it was just handed to us,” Arnett said. “My pub-lic speaking has improved and that’s a huge sense of accomplishment in itself. Plus, it’s been fun. I love talking about business now.”

Coon said he never even dreamed about creating a business until the BISU class.

“I was afraid of taking that big of a risk,” Coon said. “That’s the thing about starting a business – you can always fall through.”

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Cathleen Mikosz of Cathleen’s Critter Care has just celebrated Pro-fessional Pet Sitters Week. Mikosz started the business in May 2009 while working at a local animal hospital and part-time pet-sitting. The Barrington-based care business has clients in Barrington, Fox River Grove and Lake Zurich.

Thumbs up to the staff at Rose Elementary School, one of 16 state finalists for the National Blue Ribbon Award from the U.S. De-partment of Education. The honor recognizes schools with high academic performance and the ability to close achievement gaps. Here’s hoping Rose Elementary gets the nod when the winners are announced this fall.

The announcer on our bed-room TV says in a grave tone, “Their good fortune is about to run out. She went for her morning run and didn’t come back. It’s as if she’s vanished into thin air.” It’s 10:15 p.m., and I am listening to this so I can fall asleep. Real-life crime shows such as “Dateline” relax me, and yes, I know it’s odd. My husband comes into the bedroom and switches to the channel playing the mov-ie, “The Cowboy, His Horse, and His Old Yellow Dog.”

“You can’t change the channel!” I say, only my words come out, “You chan’t t thane chan’thange” because my face is buried in the pillow.

“You’re going to sleep,” he says. “What difference does it make what I watch?” It’s amazing that he can under-stand me.

“I can only fall asleep to real-life crime dramas,” I say raising my head a bit. “They comfort me.”

“That’s nuts,” he says, but then shares, “I think someone shoots the dog in the cowboy movie. Can’t that comfort you enough to sleep?”

Now I am almost awake. “Someone shoots a dog? I’ll be up all night crying.” I sit up, grab the remote and turn it back to my real-life crime drama.

“We are going to search a nearby landfill,” the sher-iff wearing the Stetson hat drawls. “It doesn’t look good.”

“Who are they searching for?” my husband asks, grab-

bing the remote back.“A woman. Well, bits and

pieces of her.”“And this lulls you to

sleep?”“We all have our own ways

of drifting off.”Admittedly, my husband

seldom watches TV in bed. He says it hurts his neck and he can only view the screen if he lies on his side, closes one eye, and pulls the blanket over his other eye. Still, he wants to watch his dog-gone (literally) cowboy movie, and when it’s over, “How it’s Made” on the Science channel.

“Listen,” he says, “to-night’s ‘How it’s Made’ features the Jaws of Life, artificial Christmas trees and ratchets.”

“I can’t fall asleep to that!”“Why not? It will bore you

to death. For sure, it will bore you to sleep.”

“But it wouldn’t take my mind off anything that’s wor-rying me like a real-life crime drama will.”

“How about if we turn off the TV and just fall asleep to quiet?” he says.

“Are you kidding? You know I can’t fall asleep in quiet and dark.”

The stern-voiced announc-er is now reporting, “The body was found on the 14th day of a

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School cafeteria Saturday.School officials said the competition is staged to run

much like the Food Network TV show “Chopped.”Fourteen challenge contestants, in fourth and

fifth grades, represented all seven of Barrington 220’s elementary schools. Each chef prepared his or her best “healthy sandwich” recipe. Several Barrington-area chefs and Chicago culinary experts helped judge the competition.

Sophia Denison of North Barrington Elementary School took home gold with her zesty chicken avocado wrap. Last year’s competition involved salad making.

Hough Street Elementa-ry School fourth-grader Julia Deering grills zucchini for her grilled veggies on focaccia bread sand-wich.

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North Barrington Elementary School fifth-grader Oliver Valskis (left) presents his turkey pockets to judges during Sat-urday’s second annual Barrington 220 Future Chefs Competition at Barrington High School.

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ANTIOCH – Sheriff Mark C. Curran Jr. and Undersheriff Raymond J. Rose sped down the aisles of Piggly Wiggly, and food flew off the shelves March 13 during the 16th annual Race for Hunger event.

Both contestants loaded a shopping cart with nonperishable food with a time limit of five minutes. The contestant’s cart containing the highest monetary value was announced the winner of the Race for Hunger event. Cur-ran came in first place with a total of $1,241.23. Rose’s total was $1,079.85.

The food items were purchased by the Lake County Farm Bureau and given to local food pantries.

Curran’s food items were given to COOL Ministries in Waukegan. Rose’s food items were given to Fremont Township Food Pan-

Lake County undersheriff Raymond J. Rose loads cans of food into his shopping cart during the 16th annual Race for Hunger at the Piggly Wiggly on March 13 in Antioch. Rose’s grocery total was $1,079.85.

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BARRINGTON – Local schools are signing on as part-ners in the establishment of a one-of-a-kind digital manufac-turing lab to be built in Goose Island, Chicago.

President Barack Obama announced Feb. 25 that a mul-tipartner team led by UI Labs, a University of Illinois nonprofit research and development orga-nization, has been selected to re-ceive a $70 million award from the U.S. Department of Defense for a new digital manufacturing and design institute.

An additional $250 million has been donated toward the venture by industry, govern-ment and community partners. The digital lab will serve as a self-sustaining research insti-tute following an initial five-year investment, officials said.

Barrington High School and Lake County High School’s Technology Campus are among a long list of the UI Labs’ part-ner organizations, Partnership Director Jason Harris said.

Partnership spans across 17 states.

Harris said the goal is to make the institute’s technology readily available nationwide.

“Partnership is free and any member of the digital lab in-stitute will have access to our baseline information,” Harris said. “If the schools wish to par-ticipate in programs or projects, we ask that they contribute at some level, whether it be hu-

man resources, technology or monetary donations.”

Barrington 220 School Dis-trict spokesman Jeff Arnett said this is a partnership the district will be looking at more closely in the future. The lab is project-ed to be complete by the end of this year. Planning has taken 18 months.

“We are on a very aggressive timeline,” Harris said.

The digital lab will, in-short,

be a demonstration site for showing off new technologies and research, Harris said. The products and services them-selves will be in production on manufacturing sites all over the nation, such as General Electric, Rolls-Royce, Procter & Gamble, Dow, Boeing, Deere and Microsoft.

Harris said if the technolo-gy appears to be boosting these big companies, UI Labs may commercialize that service and make it available to others.

“Our partner facilities are our pilot facilities,” Harris said.

An 80-to 100-person staff will be housed in Goose Island, Har-ris said, ranging from research-ers to industry persons on loan from their companies. Harris said additional project manag-ers will be hired, but success will come from the partnerships across the nation.

By utilizing the Digital Manufacturing Commons, an open-source online software platform, the digital lab will cre-ate online networks of people, manufacturing machines and factories.

An official press release states that this will enable re-al-time collaboration and anal-ysis of large-scale data during the design and manufacturing processes – reducing the time and cost of manufacturing, strengthening the capabilities of the U.S. supply chain and re-ducing acquisitions costs.

U.S. Senator Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said the new digital lab has the potential to revolution-ize the way the U.S. approaches manufacturing, with a major effort now being centered in Il-linois.

The state of Illinois will “undoubtedly benefit from the thousands of jobs created through this research,” Sen. Durbin said.

Gov. Pat Quinn shared Sen. Durbin’s excitement.

“This first-of-its-kind digital hub will make companies more competitive and stronger by providing them with the most cutting edge tools and technol-ogies,” Quinn said. “It will be a birthplace for innovations that will change the world in which we live, work and play.”

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Barrington teams preparing for spring matchupsBy ANDY SCHMIDT

BARRINGTON – Even as the snow remains on the ground, the spring sports season at Bar-rington is getting underway.

It may be a few extra days or weeks before baseball and softball get started, but Bar-rington girls soccer is well on its way – starting the sea-son against two of the top five teams in the country. Here is a preview of the upcom-ing baseball, softball and girls soccer seasons.

Girls soccerThe 2013 season was one to

remember for the Fillies, going 19-5-1 and finishing with a third place finish at the Class 3A state tournament. A 2-0 win against Buffalo Grove finished the sea-son for Barrington and as the 2014 season gets underway, ex-pectations are high for a team that could easily return to the state tournament.

Coach Ryan Stengren said the expectations are just some-thing that is normal for the pro-gram.

“I think our program always has high expectations, but it’s really about the girls and what their focus is and if they want to improve and get better each time [out],” Stengren said. “We talk about where we want to be and where we are at the start of the season and where we want to be at the end of the season with the mindset of getting bet-ter at the end of the year.”

Stengren’s team began the season March 17 with a game at Naperville North, ranked fifth in the country, and will play March 20 at Neuqua Valley, ranked first in the country, ac-cording to Stengren.

The team will then take 11 days off before their home open-er against Rolling Meadows at 6 p.m. April 1.

BaseballThe Broncos finished the

2013 season with a loss in the Jacobs Regional to end their season at 22-11. The 2014 season is scheduled to start on March 25 with a game at Glenbrook South, but that will all depend on whether or not the snow melts.

There is one major change on coach Pat Wire’s coaching staff heading into this season with the addition of former Bar-rington star pitcher Dan Pohl-man returning as the team’s pitching coach.

Wire will have Mitch Pfeiffer and Wyatt Trautwein returning as well who both made the all-conference team in the Mid-Suburban League last season.

Trautwein has commit-ted to Bradley to pitch for the Braves, while Pfeiffer will

be the team’s center fielder. Daniel Kubiuk returns after suffering an ankle injury that ended his season early last year along with Joey Sciaccotta, Jake Peterson and Jake Coon.

Barrington won the MSL West for the first time since 2009 last season and will need all the main returning players to be successful again if they want to repeat as divisional champions.

SoftballJust like the girls soccer

program, the Fillies on the di-amond finished third in state in 2013 after winning their third place game in Class 4A over York to finish 36-2 for the sea-son.

If there is one player that is going to lead Barrington this season, it would be Keenan

Dolezal in the circle. Dolezal committed recently to play col-lege softball at Loyola and fin-ished 29-2 last season while av-eraging more than a strikeout per inning.

The team was scheduled to have their Spring Fling tour-nament this week and will play against Stevenson at noon March 28 inside The Dome at Rosemont.

There aren’t going to be very many trips outside of Bar-rington for the Fillies at least early in the season. The team will play just two true road games between the beginning of the season and April 16 with a loaded home schedule that in-cludes a game against Marengo, who beat the Fillies for their only regular season loss in 2013, on April 9.

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I am once again drifting off to sleep, listening to this morbid news.

My husband, I sense, is actu-ally watching the show.

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“Don’t you want to know who killed her?” he asks.

“It’s always the husband,” I say.

I hear him mutter under his breath, “I can’t imagine why any guy would even entertain the thought of doing away with his wife.”

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In St. Patrick’s Day spirit, my eyes skimmed the Blarney Balls – deep-fried garlic, ched-

dar and bacon mashed potato balls, and the Irish Eggrolls stuffed with corned beef and sauerkraut.

Sticking to what we know, my date and I were excited for the Fried Pickles. We both enjoyed the dish. The coined pickles came out to be a very generous serving for both of us – warm, right out of the fry-er and big enough to slice up and dip with a fork. Knowing we had a full meal to order, we

bagged the rest of the appetiz-er for later.

The staff was very atten-tive, providing extra dishes for the appetizer and asking if we could use anything else. We took our time discuss-ing the dinner menu. Items ranged from burgers to sand-wiches, Schnitzel, fish, tacos and pizza pies. Side dishes included baked French onion soup and housemade chili.

Confession – I’m a pesca-

tarian, eating no meat aside from fish. My date hunts. After taking a look at the burgers and sandwiches, my date opted for fish and chips, which is all you can eat on Fridays – wink, wink to Fri-day dinner-goers.

I considered the Ahi Tuna Sandwich, but decided to go for something I’ve never tried before – grilled Swordfish. The dish was served with a colorful selection of “Finn’s potatoes.” My favorite was the diced sweet potato. The other

side was delicious, seasoned asparagus.

My steak-size serving of swordfish came with a lemon wedge for taste. It was simple, yet more filling than I had ex-pected. The fish was thick and juicy like chicken. I caught myself dipping the sword-fish in the leftover “3-alarm ranch” for a little kick. This is no-doubt a dish that I would order again.

My date’s fish and chips was a Saturday special – perch. Both the perch and the sword-fish were a rare treat in win-ter. The beer-battered perch came with fries and coleslaw. Both meals were hearty and we again requested to-go box-es. My date had no complaints. I snuck a bite and found the perch to be just as savory as the swordfish. This was not your average bar food.

Needless to say, there was no room for dessert. A sea-sonal selection of cakes was available to those who pace their dining. Thanking our servers and gathering our left-over goods, we headed back out into the cool winter night, only dreaming of summer fish frys and the restaurant’s outdoor seating.

The Mystery Diner is a newsroom employee at Sub-urban Life Media. The diner’s identity is not revealed to the restaurant staff before or during the meal. Only positive dining experiences will result in published reviews.

Mickey Finn’s draws full house, new locationMickey Finn’s Brewery & Pub

Q Where: 412 N Milwaukee Ave, Libertyville

Q Hours: 11:30 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. Monday through Thurs-day, 11:30 a.m. to 1:15 a.m. Friday and Saturday, 11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday

Q Dress code: CasualQ Info: Visit www.mickeyfinns-

brewery.com or call 847-362-6688 for information.

Suburban Life Media photos

Open since 1994, Mickey Finn’s Brewery and Irish Pub, Libertyville, serves everything from traditional Amer-ican bar food to burgers, German dishes, Irish and Mexican meals, pizza, sandwiches and seafood.

The pub menu at Mickey Finn’s includes a dinner dish of grilled sword-fish, mixed potatoes and steamed asparagus.

Fridays are all-you-can-eat fish and chips nights at Mickey Finn’s. A Saturday special featured fried perch, coleslaw and French fries.

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