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A rabid fan base in the house? Check. A great, sunny afternoon for football? Check. A fired up football team? Check. All the pregame ingredients were there for a Richards football team that was four quarters away from winning an Illinois High

School Association Class 6A state football championship against a team it beat in the second week of the regular season. But it didn’t work out the way Richards wanted it to. Batavia’s Bulldogs scored early and often and knocked off the Richards Bulldogs 34-14 Saturday afternoon at Huskie Stadium on the campus of Northern Illinois University in DeKalb. Despite the thumping, the Bull-dogs from the Oak Lawn school

Doggone itBatavia’s Bulldogs take achomp out of Richards’ state championship dreams

Photos by Jeff Vorva

The Richards Bulldogs’ mascot, left photo, and junior wide receiver Ryan Willett, right photo, show their frustrations during Richards’ 34-14 loss to Batavia Saturday afternoon in the IHSA Class 6A state championship in DeKalb.

Photo by Jeff Vorva

Disappointed Richards players accept the Class 6A second-place trophy after Saturday’s 34-14 setback to Batavia. For more details on the game and photos, see pages 3 and 9 and sports.

By Kelly WhiteCorrespondent

Palos Hills city officials are hoping the cold weather sticks around to prevent another cancel-lation of the city’s annual Skate Under the Stars. The 2013 Skate Under the Stars in January was canceled, the second year weather pre-vented the annual winter event from taking place at Glacier Park, 101st Street and 78th Avenue. The event is scheduled for 7 to 8:30 p.m. Jan. 10.

The 2012 Skate Under the Stars was scheduled to take place in mid-January, but unseason-ably warm weather pushed the event to February. However, once February arrived with its contin-ued fluctuating warm and cold weather, Ald. Joe Marrotta (4th) and the public works department decided it was best to cancel the event, hoping for better luck, ironically, next year. When the 2013 January event arrived, Glacier Park was de-scribed by aldermen as a lake instead of an ice skating rink.

For a second time, the event was cancelled. “Even though a great effort was made by public works de-partment and our park depart-ment, Mother Nature does not seem to want to cooperate with us with this scheduled event,” Marrotta said. Public Works Commissioner Dave Weakley said what the city needs is a severe winter storm with frost in order for the pond to freeze. “Once the frost builds a nice

The colder, the merrierPalos Hills’ Skate Under the Stars officials hoping for frosty weather to avoid cancellation

Class 6a Championship: Batavia 34, RiChaRDs 14

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Photo by Bob Rakow

Santa on Green stands tall Grace Desmond, 7, (left) and her sister, Lily, 6, are dwarfed by the elf on stilts Saturday afternoon at Oak Lawn’s Santa on the Green fest. Hundreds of families turned out for the annual festival and were greeted by unseasonably warm weather. The Desmond girls are daughters of village Trustee Tim Desmond. For more photos, see page 4.

By Bob RakowStaff Reporter

The union that represents Oak Lawn’s emergency dispatchers has filed an unfair labor practice charge against the village following the board’s controversial decision to privatize the service. Ron Cicinelli, an attorney for the Metropolitan Alliance of Police, the union the represents the dispatch-ers, filed the grievance Monday with the Illinois Labor Relations Board. It states that the village has no right to terminate the dispatch-

ers because they have an existing contract with the village. If the board rules in favor of the union, it would issue a com-plaint and go before the attorney general to get an injunction, Ci-cinelli said. The village could resume con-tract negotiations with the dis-patchers or proceed with out-sourcing plans. The latter option would require the village to honor the terms of the current contract, including salary, benefits and pen-sion, Cicinelli said. The union’s contract does not

expire until December 2014. “We told them at the (village) board meeting that we were going to do it,” Cicinelli said. “I was hop-ing (the village) would honor the existing contract. We have a con-tract. They have to honor it.” Cicinelli said the village has not meet with village officials since the Nov. 26 board meeting. He said he received on Monday the village’s layoff plan for the dispatchers. Village Manager Larry Deetjen would not comment Tuesday on the possibility of the talks resum-ing between the village and the

union. The village on Nov. 27 placed emergency operator Lori Gromala on paid administrative leave pend-ing a disciplinary action. Gromala is the subject investigation into behavior disrupting call center op-erations during her shift, according to a press release. Gromala also received a three-day suspension in 2012 for misconduct, according to the village. The village board voted 4-2 to privatize 911 call center dispatch services, a move that could save the village $1 million over two years,

Deetjen said. Trustees Robert Streit and Carol Quinlan voted against the proposal. At that meeting, Cicinelli plead-ed with the board to continue ne-gotiations with the union to reach an accord. He added that he blames elected officials, not Deetjen, for the deci-sion. “I put 100 percent of this on the mayor and her village board,” Cicinelli said. “Larry (Deetjen) is just an agent. All he can do is

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Despite fears from some trustees about the bickering on tv during board meetings from a neighboring community, Chicago Ridge will likely finalize a vote to stream its board meetings onlineSee Kevin M. Coyne’s report page 5

He survived being under more than 5,000 pounds of rubble and now North Palos firefighter Michael Sullivan needs funds for surgery and now friends and family will host a benefit for him on SundaySee Bob Rakow’s rundown, page 5

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recommend.” Deetjen in August received au-thority from the village board to ne-gotiate with two national dispatch-ing firms to operate the emergency dispatch center, which handles fire, police and ambulance calls for Oak Lawn, Evergreen Park, Burbank and Bridgeview. The center also handles fire de-partment calls for Bedford Park and a portion of the Central Stickney Fire Protection District. Deetjen said the potential move is not a reflection on the performance of the current dispatchers. Streit said at last week’s meet-ing that outsourcing emergency dispatching services was an ill-advised move. He said the village will spend more money defending a lawsuit that ultimately will be filed by the union than it will save via outsourcing. Norcomm Public Safety Commu-nications will assume dispatching services for the village and the other communities it serves. Oak Lawn dispatchers will have the opportu-nity to apply for their old jobs. The Metropolitan Alliance of Po-lice in late 2012 approved a contract with the village after a lengthy nego-tiation, Cicinelli said. The union was hopeful it could extend the contract through at least 2016, he said. One month after the current contract was ratified, the village asked the union to consider cost-saving measures, including defer-ring the 2.5 percent wage increase included in the contract, regular pay for overtime hours, hiring part-time dispatchers and changing the wage scale for new employees, Cicinelli said.

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Melina Almaguer, 26, of Chicago Ridge, was charged with retail theft Nov. 29 after allegedly steal-ing merchandise from Chicago Ridge Mall, police said.

*** Wilma Weist, 48, of Oak Lawn, was charged with retail theft Dec. 1 after allegedly stealing merchan-dise from Kohl’s in Chicago Ridge Mall, police said.

*** Trent Lewis, 44, of Chicago, was charged with retail theft Dec. 1 after he allegedly stole clothing from Chicago Ridge Mall, police said.

Candise Green, 22, of Chicago, was charged with theft Nov. 22 after allegedly using a coupon multiple times to purchase nu-merous items at Meijer’s, 9200 S. Western Ave., where she was employed, police said.

*** Belinda Holman, 53, of Chi-cago, was charged with retail theft Nov. 23 after allegedly stealing items from Wal-Mart, 2500 W. 95th St., police said.

*** Paul Fanello, 53, of Ham-mond, Ind., was charged with possession of a controlled sub-stance, drug equipment and no insurance Nov. 23 after a stop at 95th Street and Kedzie Avenue, police said.

*** Beverly Ferrello, 33, of Chica-go, was charged with retail theft Nov. 27 after allegedly stealing a watch from Carson’s, 9700 S. Western Ave., police said.

*** Shanelle Henry, 25, of Chi-cago, was charged with theft Nov. 27 after she allegedly used a pharmacy coupon at Meijer’s, 9200 S. Western Ave., to pur-chase non-pharmacy items, po-

lice said. Henry was an employee at the store, they said.

Damage was done to Martin Park, 7800 W. 89th Place, Nov. 28 when a car drove onto the property near the soccer fields, spun its tires and drove away leaving deep tire ruts in the grass.

Anthony F. Gaydusek, 38, of Oak Lawn, was charged with drunken driving, improper lane use and driving on an expired license Nov. 21 after a stop at 98th Street and Central Avenue, police said.

*** Carlos R. Perez, 41, of Oak Lawn, was charged with drunken driving, speeding and improper lane use following a Nov. 21 stop at 95th Street and Massasoit Av-enue, police said.

*** Jozef Rapciak, 49, of Burbank, was charged with drunken driving Nov. 23 after a stop at 95th Street and 69th Avenue, police said.

*** Talesia J. Anderson, 23, of Chi-cago, was charged with retail theft Nov. 21 after stealing merchandise from Kmart, 4101 W. 95th St., police said.

*** Julius A. Carmichael, 26, of Chi-cago, was charged with retail theft Nov. 20 after he was arrested at Marshalls, 9601 S. Cicero Ave., police said.

*** Kyle C. Summers, 41, of Ever-green Park, was charged with use of an intoxicating compound Nov. 22 after he was spotted inhaling the contents of a metal can while sitting in his car parked in the lot of Home Depot, 4060 W. 95th St., police said.

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A catalytic convertor was re-ported stolen between Nov. 20-22 from a car in the 4100 block of 98th Street.

*** Daniel J. Gremer, 53, of Ev-ergreen Park, was charged with drunken driving, making an im-proper turn, improper lane use, driving in the wrong lane and no insurance Nov. 27 after a stop at 95th Street and Kilbourn Avenue, police said.

*** Diego Heredia, 18, of Justice, was charged with battery Nov. 19 after a disturbance at Pride School, 4201 W. 93rd St., police said.

*** Estrella Franco, 25, of Oak Lawn, was charged with disor-derly conduct Nov. 24 after al-legedly making false 911 calls, police said.

A semi-truck was stolen Nov. 18 from the 7800 block of 112th Place. Four mirrors and 100 gal-lons of diesel fuel were reported stolen Nov. 29 from another truck at that location.

*** A man who was preparing to sell a cell phone Dec. 1 at the Shell gas station, 103rd Street and Harlem Avenue, reported he had the phone stolen by a man who approached from behind to ask for directions, police said. As he was giving the man directions, the man interested in buying the phone got into a tan car that left the area.

*** Mia Kammerer, 28, of Palos Hills, was charged with disorderly conduct, battery and criminal damage to property Dec. 1 fol-lowing a disturbance at Durbin’s, 10154 S. Roberts Road, police said. Employees told police that Kam-merer began swearing, threw a beer bottle and refused to leave. She allegedly kicked and head butted police officers when trans-ported to the police station, police said.

*** Jonathan Owens, 24, of Worth, was charged with criminal damage to property and obstructing justice Dec. 1 following a disturbance in the 10400 block of Terry Drive, police said.

Timothy L. Fulkerson, 55, of Worth, was charged with drunken driving, improper lane use and no insurance Nov. 17 after being involved in an accident at 107th Street and Southwest Highway, police said. Fulkerson told police he was returning from a bar after watching the Bears game when the crash occurred.

Two Chicago men are in cus-tody and charged with residen-tial burglary after they were ap-prehended at 1:39 a.m. Nov. 26 in a home in the 3900 block of Spyglass Circle. Martel D. Curtis, 21, and Dar-nell M. Blackwell, 26, are held on $50,000 bond and set to ap-pear in court in Bridgeview on Dec. 19. Authorities were alerted to the situation at about 1:15 a.m. by the victim, who was out of state at the time, but was monitoring his home video cameras via a cell phone app. When he saw two men in the home, he immediately con-tacted Palos Heights police. Police responding to the 911 call set up a perimeter around the residence and learned from the victim that the two men were still inside the home. Minutes later, Curtis and Blackwell were taken into cus-

Burglars nabbed insidehome in Heights: police

Darnell M. Blackwell Martel D. Curtis

A car fire in Palos Heights early on Nov. 27 is being investigated as a possible arson, according to the Palos Heights fire protection district. Firefighters responded to the suspicious fire at 3:23 a.m. near a drainage ditch in front of a home in the 12300 block of South 74th Avenue. The 1990 Oldsmobile was towed away later that afternoon. It appears not to have been reg-istered at a local address in the neighborhood. Palos Heights police had no report on the car fire still under investiga-tion in its reports this week.

On Thanksgiving Day, Palos Heights firefighters responded to a fire in a house in the 6200 block of West 128th Place at 9:36 a.m., Fire Chief Tim Saharge said. No one was injured in the fire that was contained to one room, a bedroom used as an office, in the one-story home, Saharge said. Although the cause of the fire was still under investigation as of Monday, it appears to have been caused in a piece of office furniture in the room, he added. The house suffered smoke dam-age from the blaze.

Arson suspected incar fire in Heights

tody without incident, police said. Authorities noted that they were assisted by a canine unit from Palos Hills, as well as units from Crestwood, Palos Park and Chicago Ridge.

Police told The Regional News on Tuesday that Curtis and Blackwell entered the home via a window, but declined to say whether there was any sign of forced entry, since the case if still under investigation.

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That was fun. Well, not the final score. That wasn’t so fun for Richards’ foot-ball fans. The Bulldogs were beaten, 34-14, by Batavia Saturday after-noon in the Illinois High School Association Class 6A State Cham-pionship game. Their dreams of a state title were dashed and Batavia won the first football championship in the history of the school. The only other state championship for that school was a state basketball title in 1912. Even with the 101-year gap, that’s still better than the Cubs. Anyway, what was really spe-cial was the atmosphere of the game. The state championships were held at the University of Illinois in Champaign since 1999 but were moved to DeKalb this year and the two sites will ping-pong back and forth through 2021. Playing the games at the Uni-versity of Illinois is pretty cool to a point. Memorial Stadium is historic and big. Way, too big. You get 5,000 to 10,000 fans at the place and the 60,000-seat old joint swallows them up. Unless you are right in the middle of the crowd, it isn’t all that exciting. At the 24,000-seat Huskie Sta-dium, Batavia filled about three quarters of west stands. The town is less than a half hour from DeKalb and there was a drive to

bring 10,000 fans to the game. I don’t know if they hit that mark or not — the IHSA didn’t release attendance figures — but there were a lot of people in the stands wearing red and gold. Richards’ crowd wasn’t too shabby either. The black and gold-clad fans probably filled close to half of the east stands. They, too, had thousands of fans on hand. I’m not sure if they would have brought as many if the game was in Champaign. Before the game, both fan bases were geeked up and made a ton of noise. I’ve covered quite a few state title games at the U of I and never felt the excitement this intense. Even with about 10 minutes left in the game and Batavia leading by three touchdowns, the Richards fans were making a racket when the team was on offense. ‘’It was an awesome experi-ence,” Richards junior quarter-back Hasam Muhammad Rogers said. “It was a great atmosphere. The emotions were high. The

stakes were high. The support we had from our parents, coaches, students and our nation … it was cool to see.” The IHSA takes a lot of criti-cism for a lot of its decisions but bringing the state champi-onships up north was a pretty good idea. An even better idea would have been Toyota Park in Bridgeview, which was considered by some to be a player in this mix. For what-ever reason, the local field didn’t make the final destination. Maybe when the DeKalb-Champaign-DeKalb-Champaign merry-go-round is over in 2021, Toyota Park could get back in the mix. The place hosts the Chicago Fire and a variety of other events. Jimmy Buffett and his parrot-heads made it their home for a little while. Why not the IHSA? More Chicago area teams tend to hog up the final slots in Classes 5A to 8A and would bring even bigger crowds if it was held there. This would make the atmosphere even better. Maybe there could even be a sellout or two, espe-cially if Mt. Carmel was still a powerhouse. I wouldn’t mind seeing a trad-eoff of DeKalb and Bridgeview from year to year. Knocking Champaign out of the mix wouldn’t break my heart. It would be good for our area and

good for the Chicago-area fans. As for the players? “Wherever they have it, that’s where I want to be,” Rogers said.

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For the second time in less than a month, the Illinois Attorney Gen-eral has agreed to review a partially denied request for information in Oak Lawn. The attorney general’s Public Access Bureau on Nov. 19 asked the village to respond to allega-tions made by former Mayor Dave Heilmann regarding a Freedom of Information Act request he submit-ted on Oct. 11. Heilmann’s FOIA request sought copies of contracts for landscape im-provements performed on property on 95th Street west of the I-294 overpass as well as copies of checks paid to contractors and emails as-sociated with the project. On Oct. 21, the village provided Heilmann with a copy of the invoice and a check but denied other infor-mation that he sought, specifically a proposal for the work. About a week later, Heilmann asked if the contractor had submit-ted a proposal to the village. The village responded that no proposal had been sent. Heilmann believes a proposal does exist. “We have determined that fur-ther inquiry is necessary,” the at-torney general wrote in a letter to Carmie O’Leary, a village freedom of information officer. “Please re-spond to the allegations made in Mr. Heilmann’s request for review. Specifically, please clarify whether

Attorney General looks into formerOak Lawn mayor’s FOIA request

By Kevin M. CoyneCorrespondent

Some Chicago Ridge board of trustee members think a ma-jor stride for transparency is to stream board meetings online but want to avoid the politicking and constant campaign mode seen at neighboring community city council meetings and the village hopes to hammer out the final details at its Dec. 17 meeting. Meanwhile at Tuesday night’s board meeting, a familiar figure stopped by to publically throw in his support for the idea. Don Pratl, Community High School Dist. 218 board mem-ber and Chicago Ridge resi-dent, complimented Trustee Sally Durkin for starting the discussion regarding streaming board meetings. He encouraged the board to approve the mo-tion despite comments that were in last week’s Reporter in which some trustees expressed concern that neighboring Oak Lawn meetings that are tele-vised feature political speeches and campaigning. Pratl said Chicago Ridge should still stream the meet-ings. “The objections to bringing the board meetings to televi-sion are the same as some of the comments you made in the local newspaper about we don’t want this to be like a neighbor-ing community,” said Pratl, a

Beaming over streaming — Chicago Ridge inches closerto live meeting coverage


Terms limits for elected of-ficials in Oak Lawn likely will be discussed at Tuesday’s village board meeting. Trustees must vote before the end of the year on a proposal to place a term limits referendum on the March 2014 ballot. The board’s Dec. 24 meet-ing has been cancelled, mak-ing Tuesday’s meeting the final gathering for 2013. The board has twice delayed action on the measure, most re-cently because it did not want to proceed without Village Clerk Jane Quinlan being present at the meeting. The mayor, village clerk and six trustees would be limited to three consecutive terms of office if voters approved the referen-dum question in March. Village officials serve four-year terms. Term limits would take effect following the 2015 elections, if approved.

Trustee Robert Streit is the longest serving member of the board, having been elected in 1991. Trustee Alex Olejniczak and Jane Quinlan are in their third terms. Trustee Carol Quinlan is serving her second term. Mayor Sandra Bury and the remaining three trustees were elected in April when Bury ousted Dave Heilmann, who

served for eight years. Term limit opponents argue that the April election is proof that term limits are not necessary. But Bury has said she’s “very committed” to setting term lim-its and directed the legislative license and ethics committee to recommend what the term limits should be.

The mayor said term limits would keep the village board “fresh.”

“New people bring in new ideas,” Bury told The Reporter shortly after she was elected. “When village trustees know they have a time frame, then they know they have four years or eight years or a certain amount of time to get things done. Without term limits, we

Oak Lawn Mayor Sandra Bury is all for having fresh faces on a government board.

let’s try it againAfter two delays, Oak Lawn officialsmay green light a term limit referendum

former Chicago Ridge trustee. “I don’t think that should be the focus of the discussion and I think having this discussion with the community is very important.”

For the past eight months, School Dist. 218 board members have toiled over a way to stream board meetings and the cost of providing community access. This month the school board has accepted a proposal to stream board meetings. Pratl said the school pays roughly $9,100 to stream board meetings and most of the cost is incurred by in-stalling microphones and audio equipment, which the village has already purchased. “We all represent different communities on [School Dist. 218] board and except for me all of the other board members had their meetings on television and they all reported no problems

with behavior of trustees or at-tendees,” he said. “I think you need reach out to you constitu-ents and I think many of them would tell you this is something they would enjoy.” Pratl suggested using a free YouTube account, citing a Thanksgiving video showing Great Lakes Naval Academy recruits, featured on Facebook and YouTube by Police Chief Robert Pyznarski. Durkin proposed streaming board meetings live either on-line or via a local television channel. During the Nov. 19 board meeting Durkin’s pro-posal was accepted pending the cost to broadcast board meetings. Two of the six elected offi-cials — Amanda Cardin and John Lind — opposed stream-ing board meetings due the unknown cost and witnessing how streaming board meetings causes trustees in Oak Lawn to put on a show for the viewing audience. Mayor Chuck Tokar also shared his concerns. The village board will make a final decision at the Dec. 17 with full details on the cost and feasibility of streaming the meetings. “I think the entire board including myself is in favor of moving forward and we voted on moving forward last meet-ing,” said Tokar. “I am sure we can get that accomplished shortly.”

the village possesses any additional responsive records that have not already been provided to Mr. Heilmann pursuant to his FOIA request.” Heilmann said the village is “se-lectively enforcing” the Freedom of Information Act. He said that Chad Weiler, the village’s former director of business operations, whose position was eliminated earlier this year, saw the pro-posal. “The village said there was no proposal,” Heilmann said. “I don’t know why they are hiding that. Chad (Weiler) handed it to (Village Manager) Larry (Deetjen) and it’s on our email system.” “There’s a very dishonest thing that was done,” Heilmann added. “It’s dishonest to residents.” Weiler’s position was cut as a

cost-saving measure, according to Deetjen. Heilmann contends that the village should not have spent approximately $19,000 on landscap-ing improvement at the western entrance to the village if other cost-cutting measures were needed to help balance the budget. The attorney general’s Public Access Bureau on Oct. 21 asked the village to provide unredacted copies of the emails requested by Trustee Carol Quinlan. Quinlan on Aug. 19 submitted a Freedom of Information Act re-quest for all emails between Deetjen and village attorneys between Nov. 1 and Dec. 31, 2012. The village partially denied her request, and provided Quinlan with a portion of the emails she requested. Quinlan initially requested all emails between Deetjen and the

village attorney between Nov. 1, 2012, and June 1, 2013. The village denied the request claiming “that it was too burdensome because of the amount of emails that would have to be produced and reviewed and reviewed by attorneys,” Quin-lan wrote. The village told Quinlan that there were 2,831 emails between Deetjen and attorneys during the seven-month period plus attach-ments. The village asked her to narrow the date range of her re-quest. The Public Access Bureau grants most of the appeals it receives, a spokesman for the Attorney Gen-eral’s office said. It can decide to uphold the village’s partial denial or direct it to turn over the com-plete records sought by Heilmann or Quinlan.

have people who have been in office for so long, they either sit there and do nothing, or work the system so well that there is a potential for conduct that is inappropriate and can take advantage of their position.”

Only a handful of Illinois com-munities, none in the southwest suburbs, have terms limits. Tinley Park voters last No-vember passed a referendum asking whether the village board should establish term limits for elected officials.

The board formed a seven-member term limits committee that investigated whether term limits in Tinley Park would prove beneficial or detrimental to the community. The commis-sion ultimately decided it could not issue a full recommendation for the village to institute term limits for elected officials.

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‘Death tree’ in Palos Hills suffers its own demise50 years agoFrom the Dec. 5, 1963 edition The story: A tree known to some Palos Hills residents as the “death tree” at 103rd Street and Kean Avenue was destroyed by a car in a fatal accident. Earlier in the year, two teenagers were killed in two separate accidents involving the same tree. The quote: “Oak Lawn is centrally located, has wonderful facili-ties and has a fine, clean atmosphere. I’m sure we can create a model court here.’’ — Judge Irving Eiserman on building a district court in Oak Lawn. Fun fact: Hawkinson Ford was offering a brand new Galaxie 300 with a heater for $1,950.

We will steal your stuff and stab your bed25 years agoFrom the Dec. 8, 1988 edition

The story: Burglars stabbed a waterbed with a fork before leaving a Hickory Hills apartment with a CB radio, a cordless telephone and

a Walkman radio, police said. The quote: “It’s Thursday night—time to kick off our heels, hang up your suits, throw your apron in the closet and put on your fanciest Rebocks and jeans.” — Writer Bonnie Jean Chereskin on a review of Maggie May’s restaurant in Orland Park.

Fun fact: Marist’s Carl Cozen brought down 25 rebounds and scored 20 points in a 63-51 victory over Holy Cross in boys basketball. “You might think I’m kidding but this wasn’t Carl’s greatest game,” Marist coach Ken Styler said. “He wasn’t at his peak on offense.”

Oscar nominee returns to Bother Rice10 years agoFrom the Dec. 4, 2003 edition The story: Palos Books Ltd. in Palos Hills closed after 10 years, and owner Martin Singer took the business into cyberspace as he sold his books over the internet. The quote: “It’s an absolutely horrible looking business,”— Hickory Hills Mayor Michael Howley after his city shut down the Hickory Hills Auto Sales used car lot. Fun fact: Academy Award nominated actor John C. Reilly came back to visit his alma mater — Brother Rice High School. He was inducted into the school’s Hall of Fame. He held a question and answer session at Mother McAuley High School.

Dec. 5: ON THIS DATE in 1831, former President John Quincy Adams took his seat as a new member of the House of Representatives. Dec. 6: ON THIS DATE in 1790, Congress moved from New York to Philadelphia. Dec. 7: ON THIS DATE in 1787, Delaware became the first state to ratify the U.S. Constitution. In 1941, Japanese forces attacked American and British territories and possessions in the Pacific, including the home base of the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Dec. 8: ON THIS DATE in 1941, the United States entered World War II as Congress declared war against Japan. In 1980, former Beatle John Lennon was shot to death outside his New York City apartment building by an apparently deranged fan. Dec. 9: ON THIS DATE in 1957, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis gathered at Sun Records in Memphis, Tenn., for an informal recording session. In 1965, “A Charlie Brown Christmas” premiered on television. In 1990, former dockworker and anti-communist activist Lech Walesa was elected president of Poland. Dec. 10: ON THIS DATE in 1936, Britain’s King Edward VIII abdicated his throne to marry an American divorcee, Wallis Warfield Simpson. Answer to last week’s question: This week in 1923, Calvin Coolidge became the first U.S. president to deliver a speech over radio. This week’s question: In 1898, what Spanish territories did the United States acquire at the end of the Spanish-American War? (Mark Andrews can be reached via e-mail at [email protected].)

Santa on the Green brings out fun

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Josh Hernandez, 6, (left) and his brother, Alex, 8, of Oak Lawn, visit with Santa Saturday afternoon at Oak Lawn’s Santa on the Green festival. Santa and Mrs. Claus sat in the gazebo and greeted a steady line of children and their families throughout the afternoon.

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A soldier on stilts visits with Cindy Pender and her dog, Kayla, at Saturday’s Santa on the Green festival in Oak Lawn.

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Oak Lawn resident Juliana Denton, 3, takes her turn in Santa’s lap Saturday afternoon at Oak Lawn’s Santa on the Green fest. In addition to Santa, the annual event featured horse-drawn sleigh rides and carols sung by the Sward/Kolmar School choir.

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Mia Sinisi, 8, visits Saturday with Frosty the Snowman and a Christmas tree during Oak Lawn’s Santa on the Green Festival. Sinisi was one of hundreds of children to attend the annual event.


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Adriana Aranda stands next to a case featuring a wide selection of cupcakes at Simply Sweet Creations, 5712 W. 95th St., Oak Lawn.

Oak LawnVFW Ladies ChristmasParty set for Dec. 17 Johnson-Phelps VFW Ladies Auxiliary 5220, will be hosting their annual ladies Christmas party from 6 to 10 p.m. Tues-day, Dec. 17 at the post, 9514 S. 52nd Ave., Oak Lawn. The cost is $16 per person. A cash bar will be available beginning at 6 p.m. and dinner is served at 7 p.m. Entertainment, bingo and raffles will be featured at the party. For more information and tickets, call 423-5220.

Palos HillsHealth Fair coming Palos Township Health Ser-vice is sponsoring the Loyola

Medicine Health Fair from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday, Dec. 13 at the Palos Township office, 10802 S. Roberts Road, Palos Hills. They will be offering ultrasound tests of the heart and arteries. There is a heart disease, stroke, and aneurysm screening pack-age for $179, which includes an echocardiogram ultrasound test, electrocardiogram, harden-ing of the arteries test, stroke/carotid artery ultrasound test, peripheral arterial disease test, and abdominal aortic aneurysm ultrasound. They also offer a “Know Your Numbers Risk Assessment” for $99, which tests a five year disease risk and lipid panel. To schedule an appointment, call the Loyola Medicine Health Fair at 1-855-441-8378.

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What started as a home-based business is flourishing in Oak Lawn as a specialty bakery. Adriana Aranda recently opened Simply Sweet Creations, 5712 W. 95th St., after spend-ing two years baking cakes, cupcakes and other delectable bakery items in the kitchen of her Hickory Hills home. Making the jump from work-ing out of her home to operat-ing a full-time business wasn’t easy but she said she has no regrets. “There’s never a right time to do it. “I’ve got this creative side and I’ve always wanted to unleash that,” said Aranda, who has a career in the financial in-dustry. Aranda looked at several lo-cations for her business, which opened in September, and she’s pleased with the 95th Street site

“I underestimated the walk-in traffic on 95th Street,” she said. “Everybody loves cupcakes. It’s kind of gets people in the door.” The shop is open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday and Friday and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, but Aranda plans to expand to full-time hours soon, she said. “Business has been great,” Aranda said. The bakery specializes in a wide variety of cupcakes, cake pops, cookies and cakes for all occasions, including birthday parties, religious events and weddings. But Aranda’s shop offers more than sweet treats. Bak-ery connoisseurs can take cake and cupcake decorating classes, which are designed for both and children and adults. Aranda is getting her business off the ground with the help of friends and family. Her sister,

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Adriana Aranda arranges a selection of cupcakes in the kitchen of Simply Sweet Creations. Aranda, who opened the business in September, specializes in a wide variety of bakery treats.

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Adriana Aranda stands near the entrance of her bakery, 5712 W. 95th St., which she opened after spending two years baking at home.

Claudia, and friend, Carmen, of-ten can be found in the kitchen working on specialty cakes or other creations. “It’s kind of been a team ef-fort,” she said. “No one has more

passion than your family.” To place an order and inquire about classes, call 773-492-8151 or visit www.simplysweetonline.com. The bakery also has a Face-book page.

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“Believe In Your Elf,” a humor-ous and heartwarming Christmas musical performed by the Oak Lawn Park District Theatre, runs for six performances Dec. 12 through Dec. 15. The story, which was written by former Oak Lawn Mayor Dave Heilmann, is set in the hectic few days before Christmas. As the hysterical elves and tap- danc-ing reindeer rush to be ready for Santa’s Christmas Eve flight, the stories of three families who each have their struggles heading into Christmas are told. The stories feature a little girl whose father is off to war, and her only wish is to see her daddy on Christmas. Santa does his best but needs the magic of one little elf named Eddy, who leaves the shelf” and teaches us that there are no bounds to what we can

give if we follow our hearts and just believe. Songs include a new version of “Jingle Bells,” “Eddy got run over by a Reindeer,” “Santa Claus Is Coming To Town,” “All I Want for Christmas is You,” “Sleigh Ride Together With You,” “Be-lieve,” “Jingle Bell Rock” and the tearjerker “Bring Him Home Santa The large cast of adults, teens and children come together for a show for that will make audi-ences laugh, cry and walk out filled with Christmas spirit. “Believe in Your Elf” will run at the Oak View Center, 4625 W. 110th St., at 8 p.m. on Dec. 12, 13, 14 and 15. 8 p.m. Matinee performances will be held at 3 p.m. on Dec. 14 and Dec. 15. Tickets are $21 for adults and seniors and $17 for children, 12 and under. To purchase tickets or for more information, call 708-857-2200.

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Frankie Zabilka plays Eddy The Elf In the Oak Lawn Park District Theatre’s production of “Believe In Your Elf” alongside Natalie Heilmann, daughter of Dave Heilmann, who wrote the play.

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Michael “Sully” Sullivan has responded to many fires during a 17-year career with the North Palos Fire Protection District, but an Oct. 6 house fire in Palos Park left him with serious in-juries that may threaten his future as a firefighter. At one point during the or-deal, he was trapped under ap-proximately 5,300 pounds of the plaster and cement. Sullivan’s surgeries and medical treatment will place a financial strain on his fam-ily. To help relieve that stress, friends and family will hold a benefit, from noon to 3 p.m. on Sunday at Krapil’s Steakhouse and Patio, 6600 W. 111th St. in Worth. The event will feature a buf-fet, beverages, entertainment, raffles, split the pot and silent auctions, including sports mem-orabilia. Tickets are $40 and $50 at the door. The situation on Oct. 6 was dire. Firefighters from several de-partments responded to a fully involved attic fire with reports of elderly residents still in the house. It was later learned that no one was in the house at the time of the fire. Sullivan, 44, and his col-leagues entered the living room of the house and prepared to pull the ceiling to expose the fire. Minutes later, however,

a large section of the ceiling, which was which was construct-ed of approximately two inches of plaster and cement, landed on top of the crew. Several firefighters were able to escape out the front door, while two others exited through a window in another room. Sul-livan and another firefighter remained trapped. The other firefighter, who was uncon-scious, was pulled out the house by fellow firefighters. Sullivan, meanwhile, was trapped under approximately 5,300 pounds of the plaster and cement. Sullivan, an Evergreen Park resident, had to make the call that every firefighter dreads to hear much less having to make — a “mayday” call. He couldn’t move, and firefight-ers needed several minutes to extricate Sullivan and remove him from the building.

Three firefighters were hos-pitalized as a result of the fire. Two returned to work a few weeks later after recovering from their injuries. Sullivan was not as fortunate. He suf-fered serious injuries to both knees and a shoulder injury, all which require surgery.

Colleagues describe Sullivan as a great friend and coworker who’s always willing to help someone professionally and per-sonally. Now Sullivan’s friends and coworkers want to return the favor.

A laid-off union plumber, Sul-livan was working as a part-time firefighter. He faces a long road to recovery. So far, he’s undergone a surgery on one of his knees and will have at least two more surgeries in the next few months, which will be fol-lowed by extensive rehabilita-tion. He doesn’t know if he’ll recover sufficiently to return

to the job he loves. To donate a raffle or auction prize, contact Rick Cronin at 708-525-3890 or [email protected]. Monetary donations can be made to the Michael Sullivan Benefit at any Pri-vate Bank location or mailed to Supporting Sully, 10629 S. Roberts Road, Palos Hills, IL 60465.

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A fire at this house in Palos Park helped cause injures to firefighter Michael Sullivan and his family and friends are putting on a benefit for him in Worth on Sunday.

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The so-called “pension reform plan” being pushed through by Ill. Sen. Pres. John J. Cullerton (D), Ill. House Speaker Michael J. Madigan (D), Senate Minority Leader Christine Rodogno (R), and House Minority Leader Jim Durkin is being kept a secret from legislators and taxpayers, but smells like a rotten deal for taxpayers, according to the President of Taxpayers United of America (TUA). “Cullerton, Madigan, Rodo-gno, and Durkin are trying to cram a bad bill down the throats of taxpayers by keeping it from review by legislators and taxpayers alike,” said Jim Tobin, TUA President. “Their secrecy and their new-found sense of urgency tell me that they have found a way to kow-tow to the union bosses who keep them in power and pass the cost to the taxpayers before they know what hit them.” “According to the limited details that have been released regarding the agreement between the Illinois power bro-kers, there is very little reform to the system that has been bankrupting the state and bur-dening taxpayers. This proposal shifts even more of the cost of these lavish, multi-million dollar pensions to the taxpayers and provides additional guarantees to perpetuate a system that has

decimated Illinois’ budget.” “It seems that reelection is more important to some Illinois legislators than providing real reform for lavish, gold-plated government pensions.” “Immediate and real pension reform is long-overdue. Ending pensions for all new govern-ment hires will eventually eliminate unfunded government pensions,” said Tobin. “New government hires should plan for their own retirements by being placed in Social Security and 401(k)-style plans.” “Furthermore, if each govern-ment employee were required to contribute an additional 10% toward his or her pension, tax-payers would save $150 billion over the next 35 years. Instead, the proposed plan shifts even more cost away from the em-ployees to the taxpayers.” “Finally, requiring Illinois government employees and retirees to pay for one half of their healthcare premiums would save even more — an estimated $230 billion over cur-rent projections.” “This proposed deal stinks and is nothing more than politi-cal cover for the government bureaucrats who seek reelec-tion.”

—Submitted by Taxpayers United of America

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There has been a lot of news coverage lately about bully-ing between teammates on the Miami Dolphins. And by all accounts, it’s an ugly situa-tion—the team in disarray, spon-sors canceling contracts, season ticket holders canceling tickets, the Dolphin brand becoming a punch line for comedians’ jokes, and an overall loss of value for the franchise. And that’s not even taking into account the potential for destroying careers. “But to my mind, the real story is that so many people are sur-prised by it,” said Bill McBean, author of “The Facts of Busi-ness Life: What Every Success-ful Business Owner Knows That You Don’t” (Wiley, October 2012, ISBN: 978-1-1180949-6-9, $24.95, www.FactsOfBusinessLife.com). “I’m not surprised, and neither should the NFL, franchise own-ers, or their executives be. The only thing that does surprise me is that it took so long for a bul-lying story to become public.” The fact is that bullying is a real problem in business, and can become a major issue if it’s ignored or unchecked. It’s something that can happen in any business, which successful owners understand and, when necessary, take steps to over-come. (Interestingly enough, professional football players not-withstanding, not all workplace bullies are men. Women can be bullies as well, and are some-times downright nasty to each other as well as intimidating to men.) “But regardless of who’s doing the bullying, at the end of the day it is the owner’s responsibil-ity to have the backbone, and

the guts, to stand up and pro-tect his or her entire staff, even if it means firing good individual performers, and, on occasion, good customers,” McBean said. “In fact, if you don’t own your own business but would like to, and you don’t think your personality is strong enough to handle bullies face to face, you might want to rethink becoming an owner,” he warns. “If you don’t, you may well find yourself unable to control your business, having to constantly face disgruntled employees, and feeling continuously frustrated.” There are actually several different kinds of bullying, and as an owner it’s essential that you know how to deal with all of them. Some of the most com-mon forms are: Customers Bullying Employees. Whoever said the customer is always right was full of it. Part of your job as an owner is to protect your employees, and that includes protecting them from abusive customers. What that means in practice is that if you see—or hear about—a customer who bullies a member of your staff, you have to step in and let the customer know that he or she is upsetting your employees as well as other customers. And if they continue to act that way, you can ask them to leave. “It isn’t easy to fire a cus-tomer, especially the first few times, but once you’ve done it, it sends a message to your employees that you’re a leader they can count on to look after them,” McBean said. “It also shows any bullies on the staff that if you’re willing to fire a

customer, you might be willing to fire them as well.” Owners Bullying Employ-ees. A skunk stinks from the head down, and if the owner is a bully, it sets the stage for the rest of the staff to act the same way. And they will. “Whenever I’ve wanted to hire experienced employees, I’ve always found one of the most fertile places to look are compa-nies where the owner is a bully, because good employees always want to escape,” said McBean. “So if you’re the bully, you need to realize that you’re the problem, and that if you don’t do something about it your business will never reach its potential. If you don’t feel you can change—and doing so is hard—you can replace yourself with someone who’s better suited to dealing with your employees or you can sell the business. It’s not an easy choice, but as the leader you’re the one who’s ultimately respon-sible for the company’s success.” Managers or Supervisors Bullying Employees. Like the owner’s role, management’s role is to show leadership, create controls and processes, motivate, educate, and develop an environ-ment in which everyone can suc-ceed. “If someone at the higher levels of your company is a bully, it usually means you have the wrong person in that position, and the sooner he or she is re-leased the better,” McBean said. Employees Bullying Each Other. As in the case with the Dolphins, owners and manag-ers who allow their employees to bully other employees create a problem for the whole orga-nization. It shows management

weakness, and an uncaring attitude toward the staff that creates an environment where teamwork and safe working conditions are foreign concepts, dissatisfied employees are com-mon, and success is uncommon. “As an owner or manager, it’s your responsibility to let bul-lies know that their conduct is unacceptable, and that if they don’t change they will be gone,” McBean said. Employees Bullying Managers and Owners. This happens a lot more often than you might think. Management is often under pressure to produce results, and because of that, they sometimes allow high produc-ers to dictate how a business is operated. “But you can’t let the tail wag the dog, and if a company is going to be successful in the long run, you must have the courage to push back,” McBean says. “This is especially true of owners. As an owner, it’s es-sential that you remember it’s your company, and that what you want matters. And if your authority is challenged, you have to take swift and firm action.” “This isn’t a complete ‘bully’ list—just some of the more com-mon ways it can happen in your business,” McBean concludes. “And believe me, no one is im-mune to it. At the same time, the actions I’ve suggested aren’t always easy to do. But doing them is important, because it separates the great—and most profitable—owners from the average ones.”

— Submitted by author Bill McBean

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Cindy Falco,Oak Lawn “I picked out a book on disc.”

John Michalak,Oak Lawn I use the Internet. I don’t have a computer at home.”

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Experience the wonder and story of Christmas when the Southwest Symphony plays its most popular concert, Home for the Holidays, at Sacred Heart Church, 8245 W. 111th St., Palos Hills, this Saturday, Dec. 7, at 7:30 p.m., and at St. Michael Church, 14327 Highland, Or-land Park, on Friday, Dec. 13, at 7:30 p.m. Joining the SSO for this magi-cal evening of holiday favorites are the St. Michael and Sacred

Heart Music Ministries and the Voices of the Valley. Tickets, from $5 to $25, are available at the door, in advance by calling 802-0686 and online at southwestsymphony.com. Children 12 and under are free. Instrumentalists wish-ing to audition for the Sym-phony, should call the number above. This concert is partially sup-ported by a grant from the Il-linois Arts Council Agency.

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Benefits & Fundraisers Community residents are asked to bring their gently used men’s, women’s and children’s coats to Neat Repeats Resale. They are also looking for new and gently used children’s winter clothing and toys. Donations are accept-ed daily at either store, 7026 W. 111th St., Worth, or 9028 W. 159th St., Orland Park. For more information, call the Worth store at 361-6860, or the Orland Park location at 364-7605. Neat Re-peats is now open from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sundays.

All sales at Neat Repeats Resale benefit the clients served by the Crisis Center for South Suburbia. The Crisis Center for South Sub-urbia is a non-profit community organization that provides emer-gency shelter and other services for individuals and families victimized by domestic violence.

*** Neat Repeats Resale stores are looking for volunteers to work in their stores in Worth and Orland Park. Volunteers are asked to give five hours a week to make a dif-

ference in the lives of victims of domestic violence. Volunteers can develop new skills and help in their community. Volunteer Recruit-ment Day is Saturday, Dec. 7th and those interested can visit the stores in Orland Park at 9028 W. 159th St. or in Worth at 7026 W. 111th St. Attendees will be given a tour, a chance meet other volunteers, and learn why Neat Repeats is a great place to volunteer. For more information, call the store manager either in Orland Park at 364-7605, or Worth at 361-6860.

Community Churchhosts breakfast

with Santa The Oak Lawn Presbyterian Community Church, 9000 S. Ridgeland Ave., is welcoming Santa and Mrs. Claus to their annual Breakfast With Santa and Cookie sale being held from 9 to 11 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 14. Santa and Mrs. Claus will make an appearance at 10 a.m. Pancakes, sausage, eggs, biscuits and gravy, potatoes, toast and beverages are on the menu. A play and mini craft show will also be part of the event. There is no cost for admittance, but a free will offering will be accepted. For more information, call the church at 599-4025.

Pilgrim Church hostsChristmas music Sunday

Pilgrim Faith United Church of Christ, 9411 S. 51st Ave., Oak Lawn will present a service of Christmas music at 9:30 a.m. Sunday. The Pilgrim Faith Vocal

Ensemble, the Harmony Guys, the Youth Bell Choir, and the Women’s Ensemble will provide music for the service under the direction of Ellen Pearson. The public is invited. The church is handicapped accessible.

Christmas Craft Workshopat Pilgrim Faith UCC

The annual Christmas Craft Workshop at Pilgrim Faith United Church of Christ, 9411 S. 51st Ave., Oak Lawn will be held from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, for children with their parents. It begins at with Christmas carols and the lighting of the Christmas tree. Then children can make a vari-ety of Christmas crafts, including their very own edible gingerbread house. The donation per craft ranges from free to $1 each. A “Christmas Treasure” sale, with gently used treasures ready for bargain hunters, also will be available. For more information, call 708-422-4200. The church is

handicapped accessible.

Christmas musicwith vocal ensemble

Pilgrim Faith United Church of Christ, 9411 S. 51st Ave., Oak Lawn will present a ser-vice of Christmas music at 9:30 a.m. Sunday. The Pilgrim Faith Vocal Ensemble, the Harmony Guys, the Youth Bell Choir and the Women’s Ensemble will be performing under the direction of Ellen Pearson. The public is invited and the church is handicapped accessible.

*** The United Methodist Wom-en of the First United Method-ist Church of Oak Lawn are having a cookie bonanza Satur-day from 9 a.m. until they are sold out. Homemade cookies for the Christmas holidays will be available for $9 a pound. The church is located at 10000 S. Central Ave. For more informa-tion, call 423-1170.

Smith Crossing tohost support group

Residents of Orland Park who care for seniors living with Alzheimer’s disease or dementia will get together during a free meeting at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 5 at Smith Cross-ing, 10501 Emilie Lane, Orland Park. Nancy Reed, hospice and palliative liaison of Passages Hos-pice, will discuss how to approach behaviors without medications. The hour-long gathering at the continu-ing care retirement community will be open to questions and comments from the assembled group. For more information and reservations, call 326-2300.

Legal clinic at PLOWS PLOWS will host the next monthly legal clinic presented by the Center for Disability and Elder Law (CDEL). Low-income senior citizens may receive free assistance with a variety of legal matters including powers of attorney, wills, landlord/tenant issues, collections and consumer fraud. Appointments are necessary and may be made by contacting CDEL at 312-376-1880, Ext. 22.

Double Nickel The Double Nickel Plus Chorus meets at the Community Center, 3450 W. 97th St. in Evergreen Park, every Wednesday at 9:30 a.m. in Room 111. Newcomers are wel-come. For more information call 422-8776.

Meals on Wheels The Evergreen Park Office of Citizens’ Services offers a Meals on Wheels program for village resi-dents 60 years and older who are unable to prepare their own meals. Meals are delivered Monday through Friday. For more information call 422-8776.

55 and Up Palos Hills residents 55 years and older meet from noon to 2 p.m. the second and fourth Wednes-days of each month at the Palos Hills Community Center, 8455 W. 103rd St. Tickets for events must be purchased one week in advance. Entertainment includes musicians, singers, luncheons, movies, plays and bingo.

Pinochle The Worth Senior Pinochle club is seeking new members. Member-ship is free. Visit the group at the Worth Park District Terrace Centre, 11500 Beloit Ave., every Monday and Wednesday from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Games begin at noon. Call 448-1181 for information.

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47 Norse prankster50 First of four Holy Roman emperors52 *Law firm bigwig58 Bird sacred to Tut59 T, to Socrates60 Pong producer61 *Foam bedding item65 Fishing pole66 Trap during a winter storm, maybe67 Chopin work68 “__ to Joy”69 About, date-wise70 Managed somehow71 Filmmaker Craven

Down1 Cook, as asparagus2 Carb-loader’sentrŽe3 Forty-niner’s disillusionment4 Bite-sized Chinese dish5 Parseghian of football6 Light brown7 Mohawk River city8 Something to hum9 Energy10 Blog posters’ self-images11 Peter, the pickled-pepper picker12 Dined in13 Comedic Cable Guy

19 Jungle swingers21 Color of water25 Actress Thompson26 Civil rights pioneer Parks27 Animal rights org.30 Civil __31 “Yoo-__!”33 One, to Juanita35 Aligned perfectly36 Hold up37 Sailor’s distress signal39 Synthesizer pioneer Robert40 Fall41 Pocket bread44 Stretchy, as a waistband46 Former Senate majority leader Trent48 Flying toy49 “Be right there!”51 Dealt players52 Act like53 Calculators often made with bamboo frames54 Compound in fireworks55 Exuberance56 Gradually wear away57 Fair attractions62 Genetic letters63 Newborn dog64 Fruity drink

Death noticesVirginia Helen Fitzgerald Virginia Helen Fitzgerald, 89, of Palos Hills died last week in Plainfield. Visitation was Mon-day as Palos-Gaidas Funeral Home in Palos Hills. The funeral was Tuesday at Sacred Heart Church. Ms. Fitzgerald is survived by her daughter Patricia (Vincent) Yelmini and sister Laverne Blum-ka. She was born in Milwaukee and worked as a bookkeeper.

Mary Jean Goodman Mary Jean Goodman, 79, of Hickory Hills died Saturday at Christ Hospital. Visitation was Wednesday at the Palos-Gaidas Funeral Home in Palos Hills. Ms. Goodman was survived by children Margaret Mary Rzeszut-ko, Robert (Pam) James, Karen

(Theodore) Wozniak, Colleen (Jo-seph Giardino) Reitz and Kathy (Gordon) Adams. Ms. Goodman was born in Chicago and was a school bus driver.

Harriet L. Mile Harriet L. Mile, 91, formerly of Evergreen Park died last week. Visitation was Tuesday at Our Lady of the Angels Chapel at Marian Village in Homer Glen. Entombment was St. Mary’s Gar-den Mausoleum. Ms. Mile was survived by her children Robert and Michael (Janet) Mile and sister Irene Lejman.

Francis R. Szczepkowski Francis R. Szczepkowski, of Chicago Ridge died and visita-tion was Monday at the Curley

Funeral Home in Chicago Ridge. Mass was Tuesday at Our Lady of the Ridge Church in Chicago Ridge and interment was at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery. He was survived by his wife, Bernadette and children Kevin (Sarah), Jeffrey and Mark (Lau-ra).

Robert E. Quinn Robert E. Quinn, 81, of Ev-ergreen Park died recently and a memorial mass will be per-formed at 11 a.m. Saturday at Most Holy Redeemer Church, 9525 South Lawndale, Ever-green Park. Interment will be at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery. He is survived by Daniel Quinn, Mary Beth (Tim) Luchene, Molly (Brian) Laabs and Pat-rick (Winter) Quinn.

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What’s for dinner if you’re a food pantry client? How about chicken tetrazzi-ni? Or gumbo? Or fried ravioli? Those dishes will be easy to make for clients of Together We Cope, thanks to the creativity of culinary students from Robert Morris University who competed in a Food Pantry Challenge Nov. 23. Challenged to come up with interesting ways to make meals using only food pantry-supplied staples, meat and produce, the students created nearly 100 recipes that call for ingredients the Tinley Park-based agency is packing up for clients this month. “Everyone who’s worked in the pantry has, at some point, come across a donation — it could be something packaged, or a vegetable, or meat — and we’ve asked each other, ‘What

would you do with this?’” said Kathryn Straniero, executive director at Together We Cope. To generate recipes, the agency hosted the Food Pantry Chal-lenge, a contest that drew 28 student chefs from Robert Morris. They had 24 hours to come up with recipes and four hours to cook the food for a panel of judges to sample at the university’s Orland Park campus. The winning menu included 14 dishes ranging from sau-sage/Ramen stroganoff, which includes a novel use for Ramen noodles, to a pork-and-bean dish featuring braised pig’s feet, an item that many cooks might find difficult to use. “You’ve made so many wonderful dishes using our food,” Straniero said before announcing the winners. “Your creativity is just amazing, and we are so grateful.” Grand Prize winners were student chefs Timothy Beutel,

of Joliet, Grant Duncan, of Jo-liet and Dillon Sandberg, of Lib-ertyville. They were chosen by judges Nicholas Kapellas, manag-ing partner at Bonefish Grill in Orland Park; Donna Lorent-Mi-gliorese, local store marketer at Texas Roadhouse in Tinley Park; and José Torres, executive chef at Rock Bottom Brewery in Or-land Park. Additionally, longtime Together We Cope volunteers John and Pat Slack awarded the Good Home Cooking award to Liz Rice and Anna Piech, both of Orland Park. Robert Morris University chef instructor Mark Wroczynski was proud of the way the students rose to the challenge. “They were really thinking way outside the box,” he said. Recipes will be distributed to clients and also available on the agency’s website at TogetherWe-Cope.org.

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Nicholas Kapellas, managing partner at Bonefish Grill in Orland Park, samples the fare created by Good Home Cooking award winners Anna Piech and Liz Rice, both of Orland Park.

Culinary students cook 100 recipesusing Together We Cope food pantry


Grade schools

The Oak Lawn-Hometown Middle School music depart-ment and Band Parents As-sociation are collecting funds for those affected by the recent tornadoes in downstate Wash-ington. The destruction in Washing-ton left many families with very little, including their music stu-dents’ instruments and music supplies. “As a band teacher, I can’t imagine how difficult that must be, on top of everything else the families are dealing with,”

said Beth Lyons, OLHMS band director and former Washing-ton, summer band teacher.” I think we could certainly make a difference and help our stu-dents learn about reaching out to their long-distance band fam-ily.” Lyons has contacted both the Illinois Music Education Association and the Washing-ton High School Band Boost-ers about setting up a program to accept monetary donations to help with replacing instru-ments, music and supplies.

The fundraiser is in conjunction with the school’s coming winter concerts. OLHMS Winter Band Concert is Dec. 13, and the Choral Concert is Dec. 17. Both concerts are scheduled for 7 p.m.

Checks can be made payable to WCHS Band Boosters. Oak Lawn Hometown Middle School is located at 5345 W. 99th St. Anyone with questions can contact Lyons at [email protected].

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Banding together for victims

By Jim HookDistrict 117

On a recent Thursday morn-ing Amany Ghanem is putting her charges through their week-ly routine. Upon entering Room 26 at Dorn School, each student finds a seat, signs in and shares some light-hearted banter with class-mates. Some students come bearing treats they baked at home and will share with the class. This isn’t your typical class-room, and Ghanem isn’t your typical teacher. In fact, the married, 40-year-old Hickory Hills mother of four isn’t a teacher at all. Ghanem is a pharmacy technician. But that doesn’t matter to the more than two dozen Arabic-speak-ing adults who have assembled this week. All that matters is that they want to improve their English language skills, and Ghanem is the person to help them. Majida Abuseini is one of those students who hopes to improve her English. Through a translator, Abu-seini said her main reason for improving her language

skills is to help her son with his homework. In the country only two months, she wants to improve her English enough to “become more involved in the community and help my family by getting a job.” Ghanem started teaching the English class about a month ago and hopes to continue through the end of the school year. She said she got the idea after speaking with Dorn principal Eileen McCaffrey. “Dr. McCaffrey is so open and friendly and really works with the parents to achieve their goal of helping their kids at home with reading and homework,” Ghanem said. “She talks about a partnership between schools and teachers and students and parents and how we all have to work together for the benefit of the child. “It all makes sense,” she said. “I’m trying to help Arabic-speaking parents learn English so they can not only improve their lives but also the lives of their kids and their entire families.” Born in Kuwait, she later moved with her family to Jor-dan where she learned a modi-cum of English before immi-

grating to the United States 13 years-ago. Ghanem earned an associate’s degree from a community college in North Carolina. Each class begins with a vocabulary test followed by a lesson in grammar and sentence structure. Quite the technology maven, Ghanem incorporates Powerpoints and SMARTboards into her presentations.

“You need to help your chil-dren strive for greatness,” said Ghanem, who is part teacher, part motivational speaker. “We can’t settle for just good grades. We need great grades. We need to prepare leaders for tomorrow. “Do your job as parents,” she exhorted her class. “Get involved in your kids’ education and stay involved. The teachers are here to help our kids.”

Ghanem said she will con-tinue to hold classes “as long as students show up.” “The long-term goal is to improve English skills for my students so they can live bet-ter lives,” she said. “Our kids should be able to go to their parents for help with home-work. This (program) is an investment in our kids.”

Dorn volunteer teachesEnglish to adults

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pie for everyone! Students raised funds to provide a pie for every family in the St. Patricia Thanksgiving Food Drive run by Deacon Charlie’s Community Services.

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Celebrating the first Thanksgiving Students at St. Louis de Montfort School, 8840 Ridgeland Avenue, enjoyed their Thanksgiving feast where each student dressed the part of a Native American or pilgrim. After acknowledging all that they were thankful for, the students feasted on cornbread, cranberries and mini pumpkin pies. Pictured: In the back row, left to right, is Dylan Odell, Reese Cano, Amy Dziuba, Maya Cruz, Isabella Lopez, Zavian Rosales, Anthony Gonzalez and Sean Kennedy. The middle row features Nathan Cantrall, Nicholas Fleming, Fatima Juarez, Thomas Fuentes, Sophia Perez, Brielle Petty, Olivia Markowicz and Makenzie Kent. The front row features Luis Ramirez, Gianna Flemming, Oliver Slodyczka, Sabrina Aguirre, Gabriel Fuentes, Bella Milewski, Max Serafin and Joelle Harris.

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Vikings collect food forour Savior Lutheran St. Laurence students collected several thousand cans and food items for those in need this holiday season during their annual food drive, sponsored by the student council. Several student council members delivered the food to Our Savior Lutheran Church in Burbank, which will distribute the items.

Lewis University Heritage Theatre Company will celebrate the season with the 9th Annual Holiday Spectacular. Per-formances will be at 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 4 p.m. on Saturday. Fun for the whole family, the show will deck the halls with 90 minutes of music, skits, and mer-riment. The Holiday Spectacular is a non-stop sleigh ride of heart-warming moments filled with singing, dancing, and laughter. A special feature this year will be the return of the Snowflake Auditions sketch. Digital photos for $5 on stage with Santa and his holiday help-ers will be available 30 minutes prior to show time. The proceeds from concessions and the photos go to the Theatre Scholarship Fund. This year’s show features a cast of 36 Lewis students and alumni. Tyler Senjanin of Evergreen Park is an actor in the production. Tickets are $10 for the general public, and $2 for the members of the Lewis community. Half price tickets are available with a dona-tion of non-perishable foods going to local shelters. Seating is general admis-sion and ticket reservations are recommended. Tickets may be purchased at the Philip Lynch Theatre box office in advance during regular box office hours Monday through Friday, from 1 to 4:30 p.m. E-mail the box office at [email protected] or call 815- 836-5500 for tickets.Moraine Valleyonline/hybrid courses Moraine Valley offers online and Internet hybrid learning for college credit. More than 275 classes are offered during the 2014 spring semester. Online classes are taught pri-marily over the Internet, while In-ternet hybrid courses are taught through a combination of class-room and Web-based instruction. Both types allow for students to attend all or part of their class via the Internet with the ability to access the instructor, classmates and course materials. Access to a Web-equipped computer is re-quired. Some of the online and Web-as-sisted classes this spring include Arabic, General Sociology, World Mythology, Introduction to Fic-tion, Beginning Algebra, West-ern Civilization I and II, Medical Terminology, Composition I and II, and General Biology, among others. A complete listing of credit and noncredit classes can be found in the spring 2014 class schedule or online at morainevalley.edu. Registration is ongoing. Tuition is $109 per credit hour plus fees and books. Students who have applied to the college can register in the Registration Office, located on campus in the Student Ser-vices Center (Building S), 9000 W. College Pkwy. in Palos Hills; by phone at 974-2110 (TTY for the hearing impaired 974-9556); or online at morainevalley.edu.Moraine ValleySpring registration Moraine Valley Community College can help students real-ize their educational goals, pursue an associate’s degree and prepare for a successful future. Registra-tion is underway for the spring 2014 semester, which starts Jan. 13 with on-campus credit classes.

Off-campus credit classes and on-campus continuing educa-tion classes begin Jan. 21, and off-campus continuing education classes begin Jan. 27. Some of the college’s courses are offered in different formats to accommodate the needs of stu-dents, making it easy for people to fit college classes into their life. These Flexible Learning Options include: • Online and Internet Hybrid classes • Short-Term Classes • Weekend Classes • Off-Campus Classes • Evening Classes • One-Day-a-Week Classes A complete list of credit and noncredit classes can be found in the spring 2014 class schedule or online at morainevalley.edu. Registration is ongoing. Tuition is $109 per credit hour plus fees and books. Students who have applied to the college can register in the Registration Office, located on campus in the Student Ser-vices Center (Building S), 9000 W. College Pkwy. in Palos Hills; by phone at 974-2110 (TTY for the hearing impaired 974-9556); or online at morainevalley.edu.Shepard The Alan B. Shepard High School Fall Arts, Crafts and Ven-dor Bazaar will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday in the gym, 13049 S. Ridgeland Ave., Palos Heights. The entrance is at door number 12 at the back of the building. Admission is $2 per person, but parking is free. Sponsoring the event are the Athletic Boosters and it features more than 150 crafters. Conces-sions are available all day. For more information, call 371-1111, Ext. 3871.Shepard Choirspaghetti pasta dinner The Shepard High School Choir Department will serve its first spaghetti pasta dinner on Satur-day, Dec. 14, from 4 to 8 p.m., in the Alan B. Shepard main cafete-ria, 13049 S. Ridgeland Ave. in Palos Heights. The dinner will include spa-ghetti/mostaccioli, tossed salad and Italian bread with butter. The cost is $10 for adults and $5 for children 6 and under. En-ter at Door 12 in the back of the building. Enjoy music from DJ as well as performances from choir classes. E-mail [email protected] for more information.St. Xavier University Saint Xavier University an-nounced that highly regarded docu-mentary photographer Fr. Don Doll, S.J., will receive an honorary doctor-ate and deliver the commencement address at the University’s 2013 Winter Commencement on Sat., Dec. 14. The ceremony is sched-uled for 10 a.m. in the Shannon Center at SXU’s Chicago campus, 3700 W. 103rd St. Fr. Doll is a Jesuit priest whose work has been featured in National Geographic and a number of the “Day in the Life of...” book series created by Rick Smolan. A two-year project titled “The Jesuits” has taken him around the world. One of his stories from this proj-ect, “Finding Ernesto,” aired on ABC’s Nightline with Ted Koppel in 1999. Doll has photographed for the Jesuit Refugee Service in Uganda, Southern Sudan, Bu-rundi, Rwanda, the Congo, Chad, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East since 2005.

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are setting their goals high for 2014. Quarterback Hasan Muham-mad Rogers, wide receivers Spencer Tears and Ryan Willett, safety/running back Romanta Hill and a host of other under-classmen could be back, making anticipation high for another big run in 2014. “This team was special,” Rog-ers said. “We had hard workers, and we had some phenomenal seniors. Romel Hill was the heart and soul of the team and played with so much passion. He has a little brother [Ramonta] and if we can get that same stuff out of him and me being a senior, we should have enough of experience. We know what it takes to get here.’’ Richards won back-to-back state titles in Class 4A in 1988 and 1989. The Bulldogs whipped Peoria, 40-6, in 1988 and nipped

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A van on Interstate 88 is decorated to root Richards on.

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Richards fans enjoy a tailgating feast before the Bulldogs faced Batavia in the Class 6A championship on Saturday.

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Members of the Richards band jam during the state championship contest.

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Richards fans go crazy during the early stages of Saturday’s state championship football game.

Morris, 12-6, in overtime in 2009. They finished second in Class 6A in 2001 and were beat-en 41-0 by Providence Catholic in the championship game.

Since then, the Bulldogs qualified for the playoffs 11 of the next 12 years but had not gotten past the third round until this season.

Batavia won its first football state title. It’s only the second state title in the history of the school. It also won a basketball title in 1912.


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“Necessity is the mother of invention.” That old quote can easily be related to a horrific experience in the life of the developer of a psoriasis skin remedy. I can remember an old friend suffering from severe psoriasis, an autoimmune condition in which the immune system at-tacks the skin causing itching and a miserable rash that often caused her to draw blood. She would never show her arms or legs and always kept them cov-ered even in the hottest summer weather. She tried many topical oint-ments and received little relief. She would explain the only genuine relief she received was when the family would take their yearly two-week trip to Florida and she would go into the ocean. She said bathing and swimming in the ocean helped relieve her psoriasis for days at a time. I would have thought the ocean being salt water would actually exacerbate her condi-tion, but she insisted it gave her relief. She also said aloe vera that was used widely in Florida before it became a rage in the Midwest, would give her some relief as well. She moved

out of state and we lost touch, but remember feeling sorry for her misery. Just recently, I picked up an

issue of Health Sciences Insti-tute, where author, Michele Cagan, wrote about a gentle-man with the same problem as my friend. The gentleman, too, found the ocean gave him relief from his psoriasis. The article piqued my interest again because I was convinced the ocean’s salt water would ir-ritate the skin and dry it out. The gentleman, Adam Gross-man, related how he had suf-fered for years with chronic psoriasis. He explained his skin would actually peel off immedi-ately after he would get out of the shower. He tried medications that helped, but created other problems with his liver forcing him to discontinue the medica-tions. (The black box warnings on some of the medications for this disease, actually warn the

patient can get infections, fun-gus and other terrible side ef-fects from the medication itself because it interferes with the ac-tion of the immune system). He researched for years to find something that would give him relief and allow him to live what he felt would be a ‘normal’ life. His journey led him to a type of bladderwrack seaweed that would also give him relief. The problem was the smell of the sea-weed and the slimy mess it made in the tub. It gave him a great deal of relief, but cleanup made it almost impossible to continue with straight seaweed. He then began reading about an ancient practice from the French seaside,that goes back hundreds of years. It was a healing bath known as ‘thalas-sotherapy’ or ‘balneotherapy.’ Cagan writes that the natural healing method used by the French utilized minerals, mag-nesium, postassium, calcium, sodium, and iodine. Grossman remembered the seaweed and how much it relieved him, but had to figure out a way to make it more palatable. He turned the seaweed into a powder and then began adding ingredients such as the aloe vera plant, Dead Sea salt—(actually, from the Dead sea

in Israel), vitamin E and an oil I had never heard of from Hawaii, known as kukui oil. His invention led him to create a seaweed powder bath company. He states his creation eventually healed his psoriasis week by week. He referred to it as bringing the ocean into his tub. He says the smell of the seaweed is still there but one can use lavender or any other essential oil to eliminate it. There is no slime associated with the product. Who cares if it provides adequate relief? At any rate, for those who would like to try the combina-tion he created, you can call The Seaweed Bath Company at 877-317-3106. Or go to www.seaweed-bathco.com. It’s $19 a canister. I also found some of the products at both Swanson Vitamins and Lucky Vitamins www.luckyvita-min.com at a more discounted price of a bit over $14. If only I could contact my old friend to advise her of the possibility of relief. I would appreciate feedback from readers who decides to try the product.

Dee Woods runs every first and third Thursday of the month. She can be reached at [email protected].

Seaweed-based product helps soothe psoriasis

Mixing it upfor good health By Dee Woods

Evergreen park The Evergreen Park Public Li-brary is at 9400 S. Troy Ave. The phone number is 422-8522.

*** Lego® Club for children in grades 5 and younger will meet at 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 15 at the Evergreen Park Public Library. The library will pick the theme and participants will create with the library’s Legos®. For more information, call 422-8522, or visit evergreenparklibrary.org.

*** The Evergreen Park Public Li-brary invites children ages 3 to 5 Preschool Story Time at vari-ous times Mondays, Wednesdays or Thursdays through Thursday, Dec. 19. The class features chil-dren learning with books, songs and activities as they build their early literacy skills. Registration required. For more information or to register, call 422-8522, or visit evergreenparklibrary.org.

*** Toddlers, ages 18 to 35 months, and their favorite adults are wel-come to Toddler Time at various times Tuesdays or Wednesdays through Wednesday, Dec. 18 at the Evergreen Park Public Li-brary. Toddler Time is interac-tive story time. Registration is required. For more information or to register, call 422-8522, or visit evergreenparklibrary.org.

*** The Monarch Club for chil-dren in kindergarten through third grade will meet at the Evergreen Park Public Library at 3:30 p.m. Wednesdays through December 18. Participants will listen to Illinois children’s choice book award nominations, create crafts and play games. Regis-tration is required. For more information, call 422-8522, or visit evergreenparklibrary.org.

Green hills The Green Hills Public Library is at 8611 W. 103rd St. in Palos Hills. The phone number is 598-8446.

*** Green Hills Public Library Dis-trict is located at 8611 W. 103rd St., Palos Hills. For more informa-tion, call 598-8446. Registration, when it is required, can be made online at greenhillslibrary.org.

Holiday Hours The library will be open from

9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 24, closed on Wednesday, Dec. 25. The library also will be open from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 31 and closed on Wednesday, Jan. 1.

Expanded Hours The Green Hills Public Library will be extending Friday hours to 9 p.m. beginning Friday, Dec. 6. The library also will be hosting special events on select Friday evenings. The schedule is in the Winter 2014 newsletter, mailed out in mid-November.

Holiday Cookieswith Chef Kate Bradley Chef Kate Bradley returns to the library to help patrons learn to make and decorate cookies, in-cluding fruit-filled thumbprints, cornmeal-cranberry biscotti, pe-can butter rounds, and pizzelles. Registration is required and lim-ited to 60. The event will be held at 7 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday, Dec. 12.

Ornament Painting Craft Children five and older are invited to paint ornaments to take home for the holiday sea-son. The class will be held at 6 p.m. Thursday, and Thursday, Dec. 17. Registration is required and limited to 30.

Love Actually: Movie andDiscussion with Sue McCoy The library will celebrate its new Friday hours with a special screening of Love Actually fol-lowed by a discussion with Sue McCoy at 6:30 p.m. Friday. This year marks the 10th anniversary of this romantic comedy about eight couples whose lives inter-sect during the holidays. Refresh-ments will be served. Registration is required.

Teen Ornament Painting Teens will be using do-it-your-self techniques to make their own ornaments, at 6 p.m. Monday. All supplies will be provided. Regis-tration is required and limited to 25 teens.

Ray Kamalay’s MusicalFlea Market Whether it’s blues, classical, ragtime, or hillbilly, Ray Kamalay has built an historic repertoire of music. Kamalay, a professional musician for more than 35 years, brings his special collection of

songs to the library at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 10. Registration is required.

Green Team Timewith Miss Emily Children ages 6 to 8 years old can enjoy nature themed sto-ries and activities at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 11 at the library. Registration is required.

Family Movie Time:Monsters University Monsters University will be shown at 4 p.m. Dec. 13 at the library during family movie time. Each person receives popcorn and lemonade. All ages are welcome. Registration is required.

Mrs. Claus visit Mrs. Claus will be visiting the library to share winter stories just in time for the holidays at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 18. All ages are welcome. Registration is required.

oak lawn The Oak Lawn Public Library is located at 9247 S. Raymond Ave. For more information, or to register, call 422-4990.

*** The Oak Lawn Community Partnership will hold free health screenings at the library, from 10 to 11 a.m. Wednesday. Oak Lawn Fire Department personnel will give the blood pressure screen-ings. For a complete schedule of dates, visit www.oaklawnlibrary.org. The Oak Lawn Community Partnership is a cooperative alli-ance between the Village of Oak Lawn, Advocate Christ Medical Center, service organizations, educators, interested community members and business leaders.

*** Teen Game Night, for students in grades eight through 12, will be held at the library, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday. The new PlayStation 4 will be available, as well as Kinect and Wii games, DDR and board games. Snacks and drinks will be provided. For more information about this and other young adult programs, call the library.

*** High school students are invited to bring their books and meet their friends at the library to study for finals. Meeting Room C has been designated for group study and

snacks. Quiet study areas are avail-able throughout the library. The library will offer the studies from 4 to 9 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 12, 9 a. m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 14, from 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 15, and from 4 to 9 p.m. Monday, Dec. 16 through Wednesday, Dec. 18. For more information about this and other young adult programs, call the library.

Children ages 2 to 5, with an adult, are being asked to visit the library from 9:30 to 10 a.m. Friday, Dec. 13 for “Storytime Science.” Children can listen to some favorite books and songs that teach basic science and math concepts. The library will also have hands-on demonstrations that families can manipulate during the program. Registration is underway. For more information about this and other youth programs, call the library.

The Muppet Christmas Carol is the free movie being screened at the library at 10 a.m. Monday, Dec. 23. The Muppet characters tell their version of the classic tale of an old and bitter miser’s redemp-tion on Christmas Eve. The movie from 1992 is rated G and lasts 85 minutes (one hour, 15 minutes).

Finals Week Snack and Study High school students are in-vited to bring their books and meet their friends at the Oak Lawn Public Library to study for finals. Students will congregate in Meeting Room C for group study and snacks. Quiet study areas are available throughout the library. The times and dates for Snack and Study are: 4 to 9 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 12; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 14; 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 15; and 4 to 9 p.m. Monday, Dec. 16 through Wednesday, Dec. 18.

Free Movie: Holiday Inn A free movie screening of “Holi-day Inn” will be held at 10 a.m. Friday, Dec. 13 at 10 a.m. at the Oak Lawn Public Library. The movie features an inn which is only open on holidays, a crooner and a hoofer vie for the affections of a beautiful up-and-coming performer. It stars Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire. It premiered in 1942, is not rated, and is 100 minutes long (one hour, 40 min-utes). The free movie is one of the adult programs offered at the library.

Chicago Ridge The Chicago Ridge Park District is taking team registration for 4th through 8th grade boys basketball and girls volleyball leagues. For registration information, please call 708-423-3959 or visit our web-site www.chicagoridgeparks.com.Evergreen Park The Evergreen Park Recreation Department holds classes in sever-al locations. For more information and registration, call 229-3373 or 229-3374.Santa visits start soon The Evergreen Park Recreation Department is beginning Santa visits Friday, and they will run through Christmas Eve. Santa visits are scheduled at 20-minute intervals between 5 and 9 p.m. Ap-pointments are necessary. For ap-pointments and more information, call the recreation department starting at 9 a.m. Monday.2013 Holiday Break Offen-sive Skills Basketball Camp offered at Activity Center Drills will focus on teaching players the fundamentals neces-sary to be effective offensive bas-ketball players. They will learn proper footwork, balance, ball handling and passing, shooting mechanics, teamwork and offen-sive moves. The camp will be held Thursday through Tuesday, Dec. 26, through Dec. 31. Class one will be offered from 9:30 to 11 a.m. to 6 to 9 year old boys and girls. Class two will be offered from 11 a.m. to 12: 30 p.m. to 10-13 year old boys and girls. Classes will be held at the Activity Center, 3220 W. 98th St., and the fee is $50. Registration is being held at Recreation Department, 3450 West 97th St., or by calling 229-3373.Hickory Hills Open basketball for 5th through 12th grade boys and girls is avail-able on Fridays through Dec. 20. The 5th through 8th graders at-tend from 4 to 6:15 p.m. The 9th through 12th graders attend from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. at Krueger Park Rec. Center, 9100 S. 88th Ave. The fee is $3 to $5 each session.

*** The Hickory Hills Park District has openings in its preschool classes. Five-day class is $1,540, three-day class (Monday, Wednes-day, Friday) is $860, and two-day class (Tuesday and Thursday) is $695. Classes run through May 2014. Class times are 8:45 to 11:45 a.m. and 12:15 to 3:15 p.m. The office is open Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. for registration. Parents must provide child’s birth certificate and immunization records. For more information call 598-1233 or visit hhparkdistrct.org.

Oak Lawn Duplicate bridge will be held at 11:30 a.m. Mondays at the Oak View Center. Cost is $7 per per-son and includes a light lunch. For more information, call 857-2200.Worth The Worth Park District is located at the Terrace Centre, 11500 Beloit Ave. For registra-tion and more information, call 448-7080.

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Worth Park District is located at 11500 Beloit Ave. The Win-ter/Spring Worth Park District program guide has arrived and registration has begun. For more information, call 448-7080.

Brew Island: Guest Speaker Sponsored by the Worth Park District Historical Museum, Ja-son Berry, author of Brew Island: Breweries and Taverns in Pre-Prohibition Blue Island will be speaking about the Blue Island brewing tradition that began in the 1850’s. Berry will be speak-ing at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 11 at the Chieftain Bar, 6908 W. 111th St. Pre-registration is not required, but would be ap-preciated.

Youth Basketball League Registration is now being tak-en for the Worth Park District Youth basketball league, a co-op league with both Palos Heights and the Palos Park recreation de-partments. Boys and girls teams are being organized for students in first through eighth grades. Each participant must attend one mandatory player evaluation day. Volunteer coaches are needed. For more information, call the Worth Park District.

Senior Lunch Bunch This month Worth Park Dis-trict is traveling to Aodake in Romeoville Wednesday, Dec. 18. Registration is required one week prior to the trip and the cost is $8 per residents and $12 for non-residents. Trips leave from the Terrace Centre at 10:30 a.m. and are expect to return by 2 p.m. For more information and details on registration, call or visit the park district.

Youth Basketball League forming now Registration is now being taken for the Worth Park District Youth basketball league. It is a co-op league with both Palos Heights and Palos Park recreation de-partments. Boys and girls teams are being organized for students in first through eighth grades. Each participant must attend one mandatory player evaluation day. Volunteer coaches are needed.

*** The Worth Park District, 11500 S. Beloit Ave. is hosting several events in the upcoming weeks. For more information, call 448-7080.

*** Pickle Ball will be at the Ter-race Centre, 11500 Beloit Ave., from 6 to 8 p.m. every Tuesday. Pickle Ball is a cross between ten-nis and ping-pong and involves strategies such as lobbing, drive shots and overhead slams. Cost is $1.

*** The Terrace Centre, 11500 Beloit Ave., has an indoor play-ground featuring slides, a climb-ing wall, tree house and more for children who can walk through 4 years old. Hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Fri-day. Fee is $1 for residents, $2 for non-residents. For more in-formation call 448-7080 or visit worthparkdistrict.org.

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WhATIZIT You folks couldn’t wait to beat the drums and guess last week’s easy answer of drumsticks. In the seven-minute span, Bella Fruendt of Hickory Hills, Har-rison Debre of Hickory Hills and Steve Rosenbaum of Oak Lawn were the first to weigh in on Friday. After that the floodgates opened. I think that so many people wanted to guess this one that you guys crashed our computer system. If you sent a guess in between Saturday night at 10 p.m. and Monday morning at 11 a.m. and you don’t see your name, let us know. Other upbeat winners were Worth’s Carol and Jerry Janicki, Theresa and George Rebersky, Celeste Cameron, Gene Sikora and Robert Solner and Linda and Mike Martin, Palos Heights’ Crystine Busch, Marcia Bulthuis and Lynn TenKate, Evergreen Park’s Vince Vizza and Amanda Callas, Chicago Ridge’s Dana Oswald, Dan and Kathy Higgins and Joe and Marilyn Blackwell, Hickory Hills’ Jack and Griffin Burke Faddis and Janice Mastro, Palos Hills’ Marilyn Gutierrez, Bob Compton and Goldie Xirafakis and Evergreen Park’s Henrietta Mysliwiec. A drumroll also goes out for a correct guess from far, far away with Steph Cap of Washington D.C. weighing in. This week’s clue is look up in the sky — it’s not a bird. It’s not a plane. It’s only the beginning. Send all guesses to [email protected] with Whatizit in the subject line. Give us your name and home town by Monday night and please don’t crash our computer system again!

Did you all enjoy Thanksgiving? I certainly hope so, and that you didn’t suffer any ill effects in the following days. Do you know who doesn’t en-joy Thanksgiving? Turkeys. An elder turkey was overhead at a turkey farm lecturing a group of younger birds: “Beware of humans,” the old, wise turkey said. “They feed you well – in order to get you fat and healthy and sell you to a market. “Then they kill you! Then they pluck all your feathers, leaving you naked and cold. Then they put you in an oven and bake you until you are cooked! “Finally,” he continued, “people gather together to eat you up! Beware of those humans, they’re dangerous and treacherous!” Many people don’t eat meat (especially after reading this ar-ticle), and for good reason. While meat can be among the tastiest of food, humans were never meant to subsist on a diet high in the flesh of other land-dwelling crea-tures. Our digestive systems are akin to those of the vegetarian

gorillas, not carnivores. Meat is difficult to digest, and can bind and pollute the digestive tract producing complications such as constipation and sickness. There are many good options for obtaining protein other than eating meat. Fish of any kind are high in protein and many are rich in heart-healthy, brain-feeding omega-3 fatty acids. Beans of all kinds and their kin, legumes and lentils, are packed with protein and fiber. You don’t believe you can grow big and strong eating plants? Look at the gorilla, the horse or the elephant, creatures that eat no meat yet ripple with muscle and grow far larger than is possible for us. Add to your diet raw fruit such as apples, oranges, bananas, pears, avocados and berries of all shapes and colors. These are loaded with the nutrients vital for life. Instead of bacon and eggs or cereal for breakfast, try eating fruit for you morning meal for one week and see how you feel by that seventh day. Now, you have to eat a lot of fruit because it is

easily digestible, but you will have more energy and you will feel lighter and, quite simply, “better.” With your lunch and dinner eat broccoli, cauliflower, beets, car-rots, celery, and green leafy veg-etables such as endive, escarole, spinach, Romaine, watercress and red leaf lettuce. Eat your salads with a delicious dressing of extra virgin olive oil, lemon juice and apple cider vinegar, and throw in whatever herbs you like such as dill, basil or oregano. Thirsty? Make juice or smooth-ies out of any fruits or vegetables – combine the ones you don’t like so much with ones you do, in the right proportions, and you likely won’t even know the “bad” ones are in there. If you buy juice at the store make sure it is never from concentrate. Pineapple, cranberry, pomegranate and to-mato juice are exceptional. What-ever you do avoid sugary drinks, especially soda. And don’t forget that nectar of the gods, that essence of life – wine. Drink two glasses with your lunch or dinner, or at lunch

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and dinner. It really is good for you. Stick to it and you will see. You will be sick less often, your sicknesses will be shorter in dura-tion if you do fall ill, and you will have more energy and maybe even a more positive state of mind.

Anthony Scarano is not a doctor. He is an Evergreen Park resident, winemaker and certified naturo-path. Suggestions in this space are solely the opinions of Mr. Scarano based on years of inde-pendent study and personal experi-ence, and may not be beneficial to health. Wine should be consumed in moderation, as overindulgence may be harmful to health.

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It’s become clear that the big-gest risk to the future of the mul-tibillion-dollar football industry is the high-impact sport’s pro-pensity for giving its athletes concussions. There have already been 29 football-related deaths in 2013, 16 of them attributed to brain injuries. After being blamed for years of denial, the National Football League has agreed to pay hun-dreds of millions of dollars to com-pensate former players with brain injuries and to fund research, and it’s also working to change the rules of the game. At the other end of the spec-trum, American youth football enrollment is dropping, with par-ents citing the risk of concussions as the reason they aren’t signing up their kids. So why is this a tech story? One way to manage risks and concerns is to get better data about them, and some companies are produc-ing wearable devices that mea-sure players’ brain activity during games. The leader seems to be a Seattle-based startup named X2 Biosystems, which just reached a deal to make its systems manda-tory for all 32 NFL teams. X2 benchmarks athlete’s brains so coaches and staff can better determine when they are ready to re-enter the game after a con-cussion. At the most basic level, X2 of-fers an iOS app for tracking mea-surements of brain activity, coor-dination and balance throughout the season. And some pro teams are already using X2’s stick-on patch, which measures six dif-ferent axes of acceleration and communicates the data wirelessly while an athlete is playing. After head impact, players are retested and monitored until they have met a standard safe for them to return to the sport. What with wearable, connected sensors being just about the hot-test thing in tech right now, X2

has attracted some crossover in-vestors from the Internet sphere. MySpace co-founder Chris De-Wolfe is part of a group of angel investors who have put $9 mil-lion into the company, and he recently joined its board amid further fundraising efforts. DeWolfe is now CEO of Social Gaming Networks, and said his fellow MySpace co-founder and SGN COO Colin Digiaro also has invested in X2. “This is one of the world’s big problems,” DeWolfe said in an interview last week, noting that everyone he talks to can think of an example of a child who got a concussion playing sports. “It’s kind of like not wearing a seatbelt, to not wear a helmet as a kid.” Of course, X2 is set up to support football, not discourage people from playing. Its advisory board includes NFL All-Pro line-backer Ray Lewis, Hall of Fame quarterback Terry Bradshaw and UCLA head coach (and former NFL coach) Jim Mora. And X2 isn’t going to stop concussions from happening. Football is a sport that rewards brutality; teams at all levels have been known to test athletes with what’s called the Oklahoma drill, where two players come at each other — often helmets first. X2 CEO Christoph Mack showed me a video of how the brain accelerates on impact dur-ing one of these drills, but it was hard to look at his nifty chart without being sickened by the accompanying slo-mo video of

two players bashing their brains on purpose. Mack explained that concus-sions seem to be especially dam-aging when people experience them without having sufficiently recovered from a previous injury. What’s called “Second Impact Syndrome” can be fatal. Over the past few years, legislators have ratcheted up standards about when young athletes can return to play after receiving concussions. That’s where X2 comes in. Be-cause of its initial benchmarks, it can evaluate when the brain is back to normal. Mack said some athletic insurers will now give discounts on liability poli-cies when teams show they use X2. “This is a public health is-sue that has an exposure limit model,” Mack said. The closest analog, he said, comes from youth baseball, where studies in the 1990s about overuse in-juries led to establishing limits on the number of pitches allowed per player. And concussions aren’t only a problem in football. The rate of concussions in women’s col-lege soccer has been measured to be higher than that of high school football. The benefits of the X2 patch are that it is tiny and can be worn anywhere on the head — rather than being built into a helmet — which makes it applicable for sports other than football. Currently, X2 software costs $1 per month per athlete, and the patch costs $120 per device, charged as a service at $10 per month per year. Mack said a lower-cost consumer version is in the works, which should have a battery life of a year. His company also plans to sell the devices to the military, which has a major traumatic brain impact problem of its own.

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Technology could have a hand in tracking concussions after hard hits during games.

Now that another year is ending, it’s a good time to take stock of where you are on your journey toward fi-nancial security. Of course, you could find many different measuring sticks to assess your progress, but you can certainly gain considerable information by asking yourself some basic questions.

Here are a few to consider: • How close am I to my retire-ment goals? Your comprehen-sive investment strategy should include a reasonably good esti-mate of how much money you will eventually need to sustain the retirement lifestyle you’ve envisioned. At least once a year, you should evaluate how much closer you’ve gotten to your goals than the year before. • Am I making sufficient progress toward my goals? When assessing your prog-ress, try to determine if your portfolio is properly allocated between stocks, stock-based ve-hicles, bonds, government se-curities, certificates of deposit and other investments. If you’re “overweighted” in a particular asset class, such as cash, you may be impeding your ability to move toward your goals. • Am I adhering to my invest-ment strategy? To stick with your investment strategy, you need to invest at regular inter-vals and meet regularly with your financial professional to

review your progress and make adjustments — such as rebal-ancing your portfolio — when necessary. Of course, even with regular progress reviews and portfolio rebalancing, it can be challenging, psychologically and emotionally, to stick with a strategy. For example, dur-ing any given year the financial markets could be down, and your results might be disap-pointing. Nonetheless, if you have built a diversified portfolio containing quality investments, and your portfolio is well suited to your own risk tolerance and time horizon, you don’t neces-sarily need to make changes following a down year in the markets. • What aspects of my life have changed in the past year? Your investment strategy should be based entirely on your individ-ual needs and circumstances — so if these have changed during the past year, you may also have to adjust the way you invest. Consider any and all changes

in your life — marriage, new children, divorce, remarriage, new job, new home, etc. — and then try to determine what im-pact these changes might have on your long financial strategy and if you need to adjust that strategy in response. • Have I changed my think-ing on my retirement goals? Over time, you might undergo some changes in your thinking about retirement. For example, perhaps you’ve decided that you no longer want to retire early and travel the world. Instead, you’ve discovered a growing de-sire to open a small business or do some consulting. Any sig-nificant changes you make to your retirement plans will likely have a big effect on your savings and investment strategies, so you’ll want to incorporate these changes into your planning as soon as possible. By asking, and answering these questions at the end of each year, you should always have a good sense of where you are in pursuit of your long-term goals — and what you need to do to bring the realization of those goals closer to reality.

Scott Johnson, CFP, is a finan-cial advisor with Edward Jones, 8146 W. 111th St., Palos Hills, 974-1965. Edward Jones does not provide legal advice. This article was written by Edward Jones for use by your local Ed-ward Jones financial advisor.

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Oak Lawn Chambersponsoring food drive

The Oak Lawn Chamber is sponsoring a holiday food drive again this year. Donations will benefit the Pilgrim Faith United Church of Christ food pantry. Donors should bring their offerings to the chamber office, 5120 Museum Drive, in-side the Metra train station, or to the holiday luncheon on

Tuesday, Dec. 10 at the Hilton Oak Lawn.

Oak Lawn Chamberof Commerce to host

holiday luncheon The Oak Lawn Chamber of Commerce will meet for its annual holiday luncheon Tuesday, Dec. 10 at the Hilton Oak Lawn, 9333 S. Cicero Ave. Networking and registration begins at 11:30 a.m.

followed by lunch at noon. Cham-ber members and residents are welcome to attend. The Oak Lawn Community High School Chorus, under the direction of Meredith McGuire, will provide entertain-ment. The luncheon costs $20 per person, payable at the door by cash, check, or credit card. For more information or reservations, call 424-8300, or send an email to office@oaklawncham.

Kriser’s, a multi-unit retailer specializing in all-natural pet food, supplies and grooming, will add a 12th store to its lineup of Chicago area loca-tions, totaling 22 stores. The store is scheduled to open on Saturday in Orland Park at 15160 S. LaGrange Rd. Kriser’s is expanding its pres-ence in Chicago’s suburban communities. Named “Best Pet Store” by the Chicago Reader for the last two years, the store will provide an all-natu-ral lineup of pet food, treats, supplements, toys, supplies and more for both cats and dogs. Additionally, the Orland Park location will have an in-house grooming facility that utilizes all-natural grooming products and techniques. “Our goal with this opening is to provide Orland Park pet parents with a one-stop shop-

ping experience for all of their healthy, all-natural pet necessi-ties,” said Brad Kriser, Kriser’s CEO and founder. “We want our customers’ pets to live long, healthy lives and continually make it our goal to educate and provide them with the tools and resources needed to support an all-natural lifestyle for their pets.”

To celebrate the retailer’s new location, Kriser’s will partner with three local rescue groups. Donations of Kriser’s product will be awarded to each organization as part of a grand opening contest where Orland Park residents are encouraged to attend the grand opening and vote for their favorite an-imal shelter or rescue. Each customer can cast a vote by filling out a ballot provided by the Kriser’s staff and submit-

ting it at the register. Prizes will be awarded incrementally based on votes.

Throughout the weekend, Kriser’s will offer a variety of promotions as well. Customers can look forward to 20 percent off all pet food and supplies and four plush toys for a total of $5. Kriser’s will also give away 25 percent off coupons for a pet’s first groom and free nail trimmings, ID tags, scoopers and lids. Additionally, compli-mentary professional photos will be taken on Dec. 7 from noon to 4 p.m., and attendees can register to win a number of giveaways, including one year of free grooming, a $100 gift certificate for all-natural pet food and supplies and a $50 grooming gift certificate.

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All-natural pet retailer to open shop in Orland Park

Lessons learned from ahand laden with mistakes

Not long ago I found myself in the ballroom of the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Fla., playing in one of the biggest tournaments of the year: a $5,000 main event with a $10 million guaranteed prize pool. It consisted of three fast-paced starting days and allowed players unlimited re-entries if eliminated. Luckily, I made it to Day 2 after two attempts. I’d heard that someone went off for nine rebuys. (If that happened to a good player I’d be surprised.) The blinds were 1,200/2,400 with a 400 ante. A straightforward older gentleman with 100,000 in chips raised to 6,100 in middle position. Right behind him was a solid player with a healthy 150,000 stack who called. I was on the cutoff with 95,000 and looked down at As Qd. I reraised to 18,300. Action was back to the original raiser, who folded. The solid player to my immediate right called my three-bet. The flop revealed the Js 5s 7d. My opponent checked, and I checked behind. The turn card was the Jc. He bet 10,500. I called.

The river was the 4h, and he checked to me. I bet 24,000, leaving myself with a little more than 40,000 in chips. After some thought, he decided to call and exposed the winning hand: 10c 10h. I played this hand horribly. At the time, I had reasons for the decisions I made, but looking back, it’s clear that I made a few mistakes. My preflop decision of three-betting to 18,300 was correct. I had a strong hand, there was a lot of money in the pot already, and I had position on the two other players in the hand. All of my mistakes came after the flop. Since the flop contained two spades (and I was holding the ace of spades), it was important to see all five community cards. I felt the caller’s range included a number of middle pocket pairs, which is why I checked the flop. I believe that betting the flop would have been the best play. It’s hard for me to continue to represent a strong hand on future streets if I don’t bet this type of board, plus he will fold the parts of his range that didn’t hit the flop. When my opponent bet so small on the turn, I felt like his hand was defined as a middle pocket pair, 8-8

to 10-10, that didn’t connect with the board. With almost 50,000 in the pot, I doubt he would have bet that amount with a strong hand. Reraising here would have been an interesting play, but that story might not have been believable. I don’t mind calling here, but only with a strong feeling about how the river will play out. When he checked to me on the river, that somewhat confirmed my suspicions that his hand was marginal. I don’t think my bet of 24,000 allowed him to find a fold. I should have moved all in, since I had a pot-sized bet left. With that bet sizing, it would have been a much harder decision for him and would have given me a chance to win the pot. If he called and was wrong, it would have affected his tournament greatly. This was a difficult hand to play given all the variables. I learned from my mistakes, and you should, too. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice; I’m the idiot who didn’t learn from his mistake. (Tristan Wade is a World Series of Poker bracelet winner and the director of training and education for DeepStacks Live poker seminars. Learn more at deepstacks.com. Twitter: @TristanCre8ive.)

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Stagg’s Kevin White releases a shot close to the basket during last Wednesday’s game against St. Laurence in the John McBride Classic. White scored 20 points to help the Chargers register a victory over the Vikings.

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PLAYOFF FOOTBALL FORECAST

‘We did put the school on the map’Despite state title loss, Richards looks ahead

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Richards receiver Tacari Carpenter finds himself in a sea of red as a horde of Batavia players celebrate the winning of a Class 6A football championship Saturday in DeKalb. Batavia avenged a regular-season loss to the Bulldogs with a 34-14 victory.

By Jeff Vorva

DE KALB — The expressions were grim. When a handful of Richards football players were awarded the second-place trophy on a portable stage after finishing as state run-ner-up in Class 6A football, disap-pointment was etched in some of their faces. The trophy was brought down off the stage to the rest of the team, but there was no hooting or hollering accompanying the act, nor was the trophy raised over players’ heads. It was merely a matter of quiet acceptance. Batavia, a team the Bulldogs had defeated in Week 2 of the regular season, denied them a state championship by making off with a 34-14 victory Satur-day afternoon at Northern Illi-nois University’s Huskie Stadium. Richards (12-2) was making its first state appearance since 2001 and was seeking its third-ever crown. The Bulldogs captured back-to-back titles in 1988 and ’89 while going undefeated both seasons. While Richards’ present-day players fell just short of reaching the mountaintop and were under-standably upset, junior quarter-back Hasan Muhammad-Rogers

was able to reflect positively on a memorable campaign once the loss had soaked in. “It was fun — it was really fun,” he said. “We had a lot of success during different points in the season. Everyone worked so hard. “Coming off the field last year [following a 23-19 second-round loss to Lemont], we said this year that we didn’t want to end the season with a loss. We did end the season with a loss, but it was here in the championship and not the second round, like we usually did. “I believe we did put the school back on the map. Everyone knows we can play football here, so we need to keep working hard and we’ll be there again.” The Bulldogs’ stubborn defense was put to the test right away, as Batavia’s first five full possessions resulted in touchdowns. The only time Batavia didn’t reach Rich-ards’ end zone during that stretch was at the end of the opening half, when quarterback Micah Coffey took a knee on his team’s lone snap of that particular series. In its first 13 contests this sea-son, Richards had posted six shut-outs and held two other foes to six points. Only Evergreen Park had topped the 30-point mark against

the Bulldogs, doing so in Week 5 en route to a 35-34 win. Four of Batavia’s TDs occurred before intermission, including a 96-yard Coffey-to-Michael Moffatt aerial strike that put the Bulldogs into a 14-0 hole. Batavia’s posses-sion began at the 2 after Richards punter Shawn Chiaramonte had his kick downed there. Also hurting the Bulldogs was

their own failure to capitalize on a prime scoring opportunity late in the second period. Trailing 28-7 at the time, Richards drove down to the Batavia 3-yard line, but could not punch the ball across the goal line. “I don’t know if that was de-flating, but momentum-wise, if we scored we go into halftime down two touchdowns,” Bulldogs

coach Tony Sheehan. “But get-ting down there and not scoring really hurt us. “Hats off to [Batavia] — they did a great job. We couldn’t make that play when we needed to.” Despite the lopsided final score, Richards amassed 389 yards. Muhammad-Rogers threw for 226 yards on an 18-of-41 perfor-mance, which included a touch-

down toss to Dedrick Shannon. Shannon had eight catches in all for 112 yards. Romeo Johnson paced the ground attack with 97 yards on seven carries, while Muhammad-Rogers added 65 yards on 16 totes and accounted for the Bulldogs’ other score. However, Muham-mad-Rogers was also sacked three


By Ken Karrson

It would seemingly be difficult for a 6-foot-6 individual to stay hidden. In John Daniels’ opinion, how-ever, Max Strus has somehow managed to do that. Daniels, who is in his 11th coaching season at Stagg and 21st overall, unabashedly refers to Strus, a still-growing senior, as the best player he’s ever coached. And the veteran leader insists “it’s not even close.” “You know you have a Division I athlete when you have one,” Daniels said. “He’s better than some of the guys who have com-mitted to those schools.” By “those schools,” Daniels was referring to the mid-sized NCAA Division I universities in Illinois, none of which has approached Strus with a scholarship offer. The latter’s decision to eschew AAU basketball for baseball at Stagg has likely kept Strus a relatively unknown commodity to the col-legiate basketball world. “He wants to play college bas-ketball,” Daniels said, “but Max decided to play baseball [last spring]. He wanted to be out there with his friends and have a good time. “These [scouts] need to come see how good he is. He can handle the ball and he’s got 25-foot range, but I can also post him up and he can go to the rim. Max makes me look really smart.” Strus did a little bit of every-thing for the Chargers during last week’s season-opening John McBride Classic. He never scored fewer than 21 points in any of Stagg’s four encounters, and his 21-point, six-rebound, six-assist

effort paved the way for the Char-gers’ 66-51 victory over Nazareth Academy on Saturday night that locked up a third straight Thanks-giving tournament title for the hosts. Strus earned tourney MVP hon-ors for his weeklong performance, but he didn’t have to carry the Stagg load all by himself. In the

finale, for instance, his heroics were supported by solid outings from Kevin White (17 points, six assists), Anthony Gardner (10 points, eight rebounds) and Jeff Goral (nine points, eight boards). While White’s abilities became recognized a year ago, guys like

John McBride Classic

Max-imum efficiencyStrus carries Chargers to another tourney crown

By Ken Karrson

A year ago, they simply hit the ground. This time, the Sandburg Eagles hit the ground running. The Eagles eventually recov-ered from a disastrous start to the 2012-13 basketball season, enough to where they played plus-.500 ball over the final 17 games and created a positive outlook for the current campaign. And coach Todd Allen hopes that last Mon-day’s unexpected conquest of De La Salle was the first indicator that those feelings of optimism weren’t misplaced. Sandburg didn’t make it

through last week’s Hinsdale Central Tournament unscathed, but it did split four games. And, as Allen pointed out, the field was highly competitive. “On the last day of the Hinsdale tournament, any team could have finished either first or last,” he said. “It was definitely not a cup-cake tournament. It was a good test for the start [of the season], and hopefully that prepares us for the rest of the year because we do not schedule lightly. “I love our group [of players]. We’ve got a lot of work to do, but I’m looking forward to the season. I think we’ll be pretty good.” Not too long ago, Allen figured

on the Eagles being very good, thanks to the slated return of senior Malek Harris and the ar-rival of 6-foot-7 junior TJ Vorva from Marist. However, an injury has delayed Vorva’s introduction to the Sandburg lineup. As for Harris, his career with the Eagles is over. Another school-rules infraction saw to that. “I’m still not over it [complete-ly],” Allen said of the offseason turmoil. “But I have to be because I’ve got to get our team ready.” He certainly had Sandburg adequately prepared for De La Salle, which entered its season-opener owning a top-25 ranking

Hinsdale Central Tournament

Bravura beginningEagles knock off De La Salle in opener

By Ken Karrson

Football took center stage at Richards last week, and some bas-ketball players went along for the ride to DeKalb. That’s where the Bulldogs sought to bring home the Oak Lawn school’s first football state championship in 24 years. And among those individuals con-tributing to a season’s worth of notable achievements were receiv-ers Dedrick Shannon and Spencer Tears, both of whom missed out on preseason basketball practices because of their gridiron obliga-tions. Minus those two, as well as a

pair of projected reserves, coach John Chappetto’s hoopsters en-tered the annual Thanksgiving-week District 218 Tournament in shorthanded condition. And the situation worsened when another veteran, guard Deon Alexander, missed the last two of Richards’ four contests for family-related reasons. Then, just to top off the mount-ing unfavorable circumstances, Bulldogs forward Josh Meier was chained to the bench for all but a few minutes of the first half of Friday’s meeting with Marist because of foul trouble. But while Richards’ bigger names were non-factors for vari-

ous reasons, its no-names stepped forward. Guys like Jaylan Cat-ledge Thaer Othman, Ameen Hussein and Greg Slaughter did so well enough, in fact, to allow the Bulldogs to gain four straight victories in the first week of the 2013-14 campaign. A second-half surge broke open a close game against the Red-Hawks and sent Richards on its way to a solid 59-40 triumph in the championship tilt at Eisen-hower. Earlier in the week, the Bulldogs notched victories over Shepard (83-55), Andrew (58-26) and Chicago Perspectives Charter (67-58) at D-Wade Court.

District 218 Tournament

Making a name for themselvesNew faces key Bulldogs’ sweep to tourney title




Ken Karrson Jeff Vorva Anthony Nasella Jason Maholy Wally FindyszLast week: 4-5 6-3 6-3 5-4 5-4Final regular season: 73-14 69-18 64-23 72-15 72-15Postseason: 36-17 36-17 34-19 37-16 34-19Overall 109-31 105-35 98-42 109-31 106-34

Jason Maholy should buy Tyler Oakley a nice Christmas present. Oakley ran for a touchdown and returned two fumble recoveries for scores to help lead Lena-Winslow to a 28-21 victory over Tri-Valley in the Class 1A state championship to help Maholy seal the postseason MVP honors by one game over regular season King Ken Karrson and also-ran Jeff Vorva. Overall, Karrson and Maholy finished the season tied at 109-31. The five forecasters picked a combined 700 games and finished 527-173, which is a 75.3 percentage. That rates about a “C” grade. We thank our contestants — especially reader Wally Findysz — for playing and everyone for reading and looking at our five (cough, cough) handsome mugs all this time. Until next August ....

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Marist’s Brooke Wyderski smiles after getting back to her feet following a fall last Monday against South Shore. The Lady RedHawks didn’t slip, however, in their own Thanksgiving tournament as they downed the Lady Tars in the opening round.

Photo by Jeff Vorva

(Reprinted from Oct. 20, 2011)

Is it just me, or are some of you also growing weary of con-stantly being told what’s good and not good for us? I’m talking food and drink here. Most of us are already aware that stepping in front of a speeding train, sticking a fork into a plugged-in toaster and standing under a tree dur-ing a thunderstorm are not ac-tivities undertaken with health consciousness in mind. The dietary police might not be so bad if they arrived at an opinion and then never wavered from it, but theories abound and tend to change with the same frequency as Jennifer Aniston’s love interests. Two items that seem to cause the most confu-sion are eggs and coffee. About 40 years ago, eggs went from being an accepted breakfast staple to an accelerated date-maker with the Grim Reaper. Eat too many egg yolks, we were warned back then, and we might as well just take a radio into the bathtub with us because either option was going to be a quick killer. But then the poultry farm-ers must have donated money to a worthy cause because they somehow ingratiated themselves to all the food-watchdog groups and, lo and behold, eggs suddenly weren’t so bad after all — until that time when someone decided they should be considered so again. And back and forth it has gone for decades. I’ve kind of lost track of eggs’ status these days and don’t re-ally know whether they’re cur-rently on the eat-‘em-by-the-doz-en or avoid-like-rat-poison list. Maybe I’ll check on it while I’m downing my omelet tomorrow morning. Coffee falls into the same pendulum-swinging category — one minute it’s preventing heart disease, the next minute it’s causing the illness. Creating a much bigger problem, though, is these clowns whose main job is to befuddle consumers. Why all the talk about digest-ible products? I began thinking

about them after receiving a publicity email for the new-est “next big thing” in sports drinks. Once upon a time, athletes drank water to quench their thirst, especially when liquor wasn’t readily available. Hey, anything that came from a tap was OK by them. And back in the olden days, there was no such thing as Ga-torade, which wasn’t developed until the late 1960s and, for years afterward, was only avail-able in that kind of funky, some-what unidentifiable flavor. Nevertheless, the old-timers survived on the water-only for-mula, but that’s passé now, un-less it’s the kind that comes in bottles and isn’t charged for on a utility bill. Even Gatorade and its various offshoots are becom-ing yesterday’s news. That’s what a place called ChicExecs PR told me in so many words. The company is promoting a product called “OXYwater” that “gives you a blast of healthy hydration, with none of the bad stuff.” According to the ChicExecs press release, OXYwater is “the world’s first enhanced water to contain added oxygen, B vitamins, trace minerals, anti-oxidants and electrolytes.” It then reported how this “ground-breaking drink” has even at-tracted the attention of star athletes such as Eric Weems, Kenny Gregory and Shaun Stonerook, and that got me to thinking some more. What I thought about most was how Weems, Gregory and Stonerook had raised themselves up from anonymity with such rapidity. But I didn’t want to belabor the point and wreck ChicExecs’ high level of excite-ment. So I thought about OXY-water’s ingredients instead. If “water” is part of the name, then H2O would seemingly be contained within the drink. Now, as any of my past sci-ence teachers could attest from their futile attempts to keep me awake in class through the years, I’m no chemist. I am, however, capable of tooling around the

Internet and locating scientific heads much wiser than mine, and a few of them pointed out that adding oxygen to the H2O formula could create hydrogen peroxide (H2O2). Gee, no wonder the beverage would cleanse your system. But let’s assume that doesn’t happen. That still leaves us with “trace minerals.” Sorry, but the word “trace” always conjures up images of something better off omitted from my diet. Of course, since OXYwater comes in island citrus, passion berry and cherry pomegranate, we won’t notice anything but the taste. And supposedly, one drink will supply us with antioxidant power equal to five servings of fresh fruit, which would seem a good thing. But does all this even matter to a real athlete? My son has been a runner for years, and I jokingly tell him that he’s the envy of every middle-aged guy I know because he can eat ab-solutely anything he wants and not suffer consequences for it because he burns off so much energy and is in peak physical condition. I mean, the kid downs enough chocolate chip cookies to throw a half-dozen of those Keebler elves into sugar shock, and yet his body-fat percentage is about five. I have that much on my big toe. The point is, let’s allow people to make their own choices. If OXYwater happens to be that choice, great, but I’m tired of feeling guilty if I don’t indulge in the latest eating or drink-ing craze. And just remember that the cycle never ends. No sooner will OXYwater catch on than we’ll be presented with a newer sports-drink option, one that will undoubtedly try to convince us that consuming OXYwater is no different than drinking fluids drawn straight from beautiful Lake Erie. It’s all part of the promotional game. We’ve all learned to live with it. I’ve also learned to live with something else. But first I have to find my darn coffee cup.

Drink to our health?Nah, they’ll toast their wealth

Bartosh

By Anthony Nasella

Oak Lawn coach Janet Meyers can confidently say that the mem-bers of her Lady Spartans team truly enjoying playing basketball with one another. And through the first five games of the 2013-14 season, her athletes are also winning. That certainly was true at last week’s Glenbard East Tourna-ment, where Oak Lawn captured a championship by triumphing four times in a row. The Lady Spartans edged Downers Grove North 60-58 in the title contest last Wednesday, one day after they slipped past Glenbard South 55-52 in the semifinal round. Oak Lawn’s Brianna Marku-sic was named the tournament MVP, while LaTondra Brooks and Jannah Mahmoud joined her on the all-tourney team. By sweep-ing their tournament contests, the Lady Spartans are off to their best start to a season under Meyers. “The girls are playing good ball,” she said. “We’ve beaten some good teams. Our opponents have gotten more competitive, so it’s great to see my girls step up to the challenge and succeed. “Brianna really came up big for us. She played well in fourth-quarter pressure situations, pull-ing down rebounds and putting herself into positions to score. LaTondra and Jannah not only played great, but they both did an excellent job getting Brianna the ball. “In every game, we seem to have someone new stepping up for us. A lot of these girls have been together for several seasons, and they’re excited about the season, playing with each other and win-ning. This is a fun team to coach and to watch.” Oak Lawn opened tournament play with a 59-33 victory over Glenbard West. The Lady Spar-tans jumped out to a 20-3 lead in the opening period and never looked back, as Mahmoud scored 12 of her game-high 18 points in that quarter. Oak Lawn continued to build on its lead in the second stanza, ex-cept this time Brooks led the way

with nine points. By the end of the third quarter, the score was 53-20 in the Lady Spartans’ favor. In addition to their points, Mah-moud snared six rebounds, while Brooks tacked on six steals and four assists. Also chipping in were Brooke Annerino (eight points, five steals) and Kelsey Luckett (five steals).

*** In its next game, Oak Lawn pre-vailed 59-40 over Glenbard East. However, the victory did not come without a bit of struggle. The Lady Spartans, in fact, trailed 16-15 after one period, their initial first-quarter deficit of the young season. But after making some adjustments, Oak Lawn surged ahead and held a 30-26 halftime edge and then used a 13-4 surge in the third frame to seize control. Mahmoud had another solid performance for the Lady Spar-tans as she notched a double-dou-ble of 20 points and 11 rebounds. Brooks backed her with 14 points, seven rebounds seven steals and six assists, Markusic finished with nine points and six rebounds, and Annerino tallied eight points. In order to beat Glenbard South, Oak Lawn had to over-come a team that boasted a 6-foot-4 center. It was when that center encountered foul trouble in the second quarter that the Lady Spartans began to make their move, which translated into a 32-21 halftime lead. Glenbard South bounced back in the third period by outscoring Oak Lawn 13-5, which reduced the deficit to three points at the break. The Lady Spartans’ advantage had been built up to 53-43 with 2:10 to go on Markusic’s basket off a Brooks feed when Glenbard South made one final lunge. The differential was just four with 50 seconds left, but An-nerino’s pass to Markusic resulted in another bucket and that was enough to extinguish Glenbard’s last threat. Markusic netted 13 of her game-high 20 points in the fourth frame, which were all but two of the points Oak Lawn garnered in the last eight minutes. She also had

nine rebounds in the contest. An-nerino scored 10 points and was a perfect 6-of-6 at the free-throw line, while Brooks finished with nine points, six assists and four steals. This was the first game in which the Lady Spartans encountered foul trouble. Brooks fouled out, and both Markusic and Mahmoud played with four. “It was nice to see Brianna step up when we needed her to,” Mey-ers said. “She was solid under pressure in the fourth quarter. We also got some quality minutes from Dee Dee Shatat (six points), Alyssa Radoicic (four points) and sophomore Kellie O’Connor when the starters got in foul trouble. “That game was our biggest challenge of the season so far.”

*** The championship-game clash with Downers Grove North was another tense affair. The Lady Trojans opened the game with a 3-point basket and extended the lead to 4-0 before Oak Lawn got into any sort of offensive flow. Brooks scored on a driving layup and Shatat hit the first of her two 3-point baskets to put Oak Lawn up 5-4. Brooks extended the lead to 7-4 with a steal and a layup on the next possession, and the Lady Spartans held an 18-13 lead at the period’s end. Downers Grove North out-scored Oak Lawn 16-12 in the second quarter and trailed by just one at intermission. The Lady Spartans’ lead stood at only four points through three stanzas and never grew past seven. “We got careless with the ball and made some turnovers that we were not making early in the game,” Meyers said. “Downers Grove then capitalized on those turnovers.” However, Markusic once again stepped up big in the fourth quar-ter by scoring 12 of Oak Lawn’s 14 points. After the Lady Trojans cut their deficit to 57-56 with 1:04 to go, Markusic received a pass from Shatat, drew a foul and made one free throw. Then after Downers Grove North pulled even at 58, Brooks

Girls’ basketball roundup

Lady Spartans perfect through five

By Ken Karrson

Great America is closed for the winter, but Chicago Christian coach Kevin Pittman still man-aged to ride a roller coaster last weekend. His youthful basketball team put him aboard it by living an up-and-down existence during a two-day stay at the downstate Brimfield Tournament. Even though they were forced to play four games over that short period, the Knights managed to gain a split, with both wins realized by double-digit margins. A similar fate befell Christian, however, on the two occasions when it wound up on the short end of the final score. Therein lay the reason for the twists and turns in Pittman’s emotions. “We talked about the roller-coaster ride earlier, and I was hoping for the sign that said I wasn’t tall enough to get on it,” he joked. “Inexperience and youth really make themselves evident at certain points of games. “Talent can overcome some of that, but it really was a baptism under fire. We’re in a definite youth movement, and hopefully it’s going to make us better before very long.” Pittman admitted his patience was sometimes stretched thin by the Knights’ bouts of inconsis-tency, but he just as quickly ac-knowledged that possessing such a trait is crucial when dealing with a roster featuring five sophomores and only two seniors who have any sort of previous varsity experience from which to draw. “Patience is a virtue and I’ll have to have it,” Pittman said. “Watch-ing [some of] that unfold wasn’t easy, but enough good things were interspersed with them to show it’s not hopeless.” One area that pleasantly sur-prised Pittman was the Knights’ ability to score. The fewest points they accrued in any game was 45, and that particular contest ended in victory. Christian also demonstrated some offensive bal-ance, as three different players topped the team in points over

the first three games. In the opener against Trem-ont, that individual was senior Blaine Wright, who finished with 20 points, seven rebounds and five steals. Farrell Winchester tallied nine points and five other Knights reached the scoring column. That was the good news. Not so good was Christian’s inability to successfully conclude promising possessions often enough. “There were probably 10 shots in the paint that we missed,” Pit-tman said. “We noticed in practice we have a hard time finishing.” Had more of those field-goal attempts fallen, the Knights prob-ably wouldn’t have done so. But without the short-range shots being counted in the “baskets” category, Christian was forced to absorb a 61-51 setback. The Knights went 19-of-56 from the floor, which was actually right in line with the Turks’ 20-of-55 showing. Little separated the two squads statistically elsewhere, ei-ther — Tremont had one more made free throw and two fewer turnovers, while Christian snared three additional rebounds. However, the Turks grabbed 15 offensive boards, including four after missed foul shots. “That was one that got away,” Pittman said. “You’re always dis-appointed when you don’t win, but we did some good things. We left too many of their shooters unac-counted for, but we never put our heads down and our kids fought back.” Pittman was referring to a third-period sequence in which the Knights whittled a 15-point Turks lead down to six at one juncture. Tremont was back up by 10 at the quarter break and Christian could make no further inroads over the remaining eight minutes. “We just didn’t have enough in the arsenal,” Pittman said.Chicago Christian 51Princeville 36 The same wasn’t true in Fri-day’s second encounter, where the Knights outscored the Princes in every quarter and pulled away for a solid victory. Daylon Washing-ton (15 points), Marcus Parker

(13 points, three assists), Trevor Wolterink (10 points) and Wright (six points, 10 rebounds, five as-sists, five steals) all played pivotal roles for Christian. But while he had no complaints about the success itself, Pittman felt his guys had performed at less than peak efficiency. As proof, he pointed to a brief third-period span. The Knights were ahead by 10 points, but then saw that advan-tage sliced in half in a matter of seconds. A Princeville field goal, free throw and putback came one right after the other and tem-porarily threatened Christian’s well-being. “We were basically in control for most of the game, but could never get a [firm] handle on it,” Pittman said. “It should have been [a wider margin] than this, but every time we seemed to have a comfortable lead, something [negative] would happen. I’m hoping to live and learn from this.” The Knights once again had to deal with errant marksmanship as they nailed only 1-of-9 3s and 22-of-51 shots overall. Christian was able to offset those difficul-ties with a defense that caused 25 turnovers and cowed the Princes into 12-of-41 shooting.Chicago Christian 45Midwest Central 35 Defense was again the watch-word in Saturday’s first contest, as the Knights held the Raiders to single-digit scoring in three of four quarters and used that as a springboard to another win. Christian’s own attack wasn’t exactly sizzling, but Parker (14 points) and Wolterink (11) gave it some punch. Washington and Wright both delivered eight points, but only one other player tallied for the Knights. “It’s a ‘W,’ but [it’s fortunate] they don’t put pictures in the box score,” Pittman said. “We looked OK, but we didn’t play extremely well. We didn’t make it any easier for ourselves.”Brimfield 72Chicago Christian 49 Due to the logistical nightmare

Brimfield Tournament

Riding the roller coasterKnights live up-and-down existence in first week


By Ken Karrson

A new day — actually four of them within the same week — dawned more brightly for Brother Rice than might have been expected. The 2013-14 Crusaders, after all, bear little resemblance to last year’s 20-win contingent. Gone from that squad are Player of the Year Alex Majewski and other key contributors, not to mention coach Pat Richardson. For the first time since the 1988-89 season, Rice’s hoops program is under the direction of somebody other than Richardson, whose teams won 433 games over 24 years. That alone would give the Crusaders a vastly different look, but one thing stayed the same when Rice got the current cam-paign underway at the Riverside-Brookfield Tournament. The Crusaders still know how to win. Officially, they did so only twice, as they got the better of Kenwood Academy and Rich Central. But in terms of performance, new coach Rick Harrigan considered Rice’s opening week a successful one. “Except for the first quarter of the Oak Park-River Forest game

and the last three minutes against Riverside-Brookfield, I think we had a pretty good week,” Har-rigan said. “We were really close to being 3-1. “I love the positive energy of our team and the enthusiasm. These kids know they have kind of a clean slate and an opportunity. At least for the first week, we played about nine or 10 guys to try to stay fresh.” While Harrigan is undeniably turning a page in the Crusaders’ basketball story, he is mindful of what came before. That’s not sur-prising, given that he is a Rice alumnus who credits his student-athlete experience there for plant-ing the seeds of successful college and post-collegiate careers. “It all started at Brother Rice,” Harrigan said. “I learned hard work and discipline, and carried those with me into college and beyond. “If I have half the success [Richardson] had, we’ll be in good shape. I want to appreci-ate the history and continue the tradition, but also lay some new groundwork by taking bits and pieces of what I’ve learned from some great coaches.” Along with the new, the Crusad-

ers benefited from a bit of the old last week. Their two most experi-enced players, seniors Ray Rubio and Quinn Niego, showed up in a big way throughout Rice’s ap-pearance at R-B. They especially excelled in the Crusaders’ 65-58 victory over Ken-wood last Tuesday. Each player scored 27 points, collected five rebounds and dished out an as-sist. Behind the Rubio-Niego duo, Rice tallied 48 second-half points to overtake the Broncos. “I think they’re both college-cal-iber players, and they started out great,” Harrigan said. “They work hard and really care, and we’ll go as far as they’ll take us.” That being said, Harrigan stated a preference for seeing the scoring load distributed among a greater number of people. He felt Niego was sometimes a bit too passive when dealing with team-mates, while Rubio may have tried to do too much, but Harrigan isn’t worried that his other athletes will become overly deferential to either player. “We don’t have 6-[foot]-7 shot blockers or guys that’ll get 15 re-bounds, so we have to play [with balance among] five guys and

Riverside-Brookfield Tournament

New day dawns brightlyCrusaders solid in Harrigan’s debut week



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The 2013 football season didn’t produce the kind of team accom-plishments St. Xavier University has grown used to in recent years, but individual accolades were still plentiful in the postseason. A total of 12 Cougars were rec-ognized by the Mid-States Football Association as members of its All-Midwest League squad. Nine of those players were named to the first team, and two of them — ju-nior Nick DeBenedetti and senior Spencer Nolan — were chosen in a couple of categories. DeBenedetti copped first-team honors as both a receiver and re-turn specialist, while Nolan was tabbed as the first-team punter and second-team place-kicker. Other first-team selections from SXU were senior running back Nick Pesek (Oak Lawn), senior of-fensive lineman Tim Ladd, senior linebackers Zach Dolph and Dave Marciano, junior defensive line-man Greg Hayward (Oak Lawn) and junior defensive back Jacob Ghinazzi. Freshman receiver Stephen Simms was picked for the sec-ond team and the trio of redshirt freshman offensive lineman Luke Rowell, freshman offensive line-man Kevin Lonergan (Oak Lawn) and junior defensive lineman JD Barchard were all honorable-men-tion selections. “Even though we didn’t have the kind of season we’re accus-tomed to having, it’s still nice that so many of our guys received individual recognition from the MSFA,” Cougars coach Mike Feminis said. “I’m particularly happy for our senior captains Dave Marciano, Zach Dolph, Ja-cob Ghinazzi, Tim Ladd and Nick Pesek, who were all voted to the first team. “They were all great leaders and very instrumental in helping us win the NAIA national cham-pionship in 2011 and solidifying our program as one of the best in the nation. But as good as they were on the field, they’re some of the best character kids I’ve ever coached, and I know they will all find huge success in whatever they do.” SXU finished 18th in the na-tion after posting a 7-4 record. It missed out on the NAIA na-tional tournament for the first time since 2008.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL For the third straight week, the Cougars were forced to make ad-justments in the wake of a setback and then rebounded with a victory in their next game. That was again the case last weekend, when SXU took part in the Siena Heights Tournament in Adrian, Mich. After being held to their lowest point total of the season in an 84-67 loss to the No. 16-ranked host school on Fri-day, the Cougars bounced back to notch an 82-70 triumph over 11th-ranked Shawnee State Uni-versity on Saturday night. Morgan Stuut, who was named to the all-tournament team, ex-ploded for 30 points in the win over Shawnee State. Suzie Broski scored 17 points against Shawnee State and led SXU (6-3) with 13 points versus Siena Heights. “Morgan and Suzie really had great performances in a game where we needed a win,” Cou-gars coach Bob Hallberg said. “We went with an eight-player rotation against Shawnee State, and that seemed to work for us. “We beat a very good opponent in Shawnee State, and nobody has played a tougher schedule so far than we have. With nine games under our belt and just one home game — [and] six of our nine opponents ranked in the NAIA — we’ll definitely be benefiting by the time we reach our conference competition.” SXU led Shawnee State most of the way after completing a 17-4 run with one of Stuut’s five 3-pointers at the 12:50 mark of the first half. The Cougars took con-trol of the game in the second half and built a double-digit advantage late to secure the victory. In addition to their points, Stu-ut and Broski combined to pull down 13 boards for SXU. Sopho-more forward Caitlin McMahon led the rebounding effort with 11, including seven on the offensive end. McMahon also chipped in seven points, while senior point guard Jordan Brandt totaled 13 points and two assists. “I know I have to keep Caitlin out there because she is our tall-est player and a big rebounding force for us,” Hallberg said. “She

needs more minutes. “Jordan Brandt had a great tournament with back-to-back solid games. She was all over the floor in the win over Shaw-nee State with 13 points in 33 minutes.”

*** Siena Heights and SXU both shot 43 percent from the field on Friday, but the host Saints won the rebounding battle 42-33 and the Cougars committed 25 fouls, which sent Siena Heights to the line 36 times and resulted in 28 points off free throws. Brandt also scored in double figures for SXU on Saturday with 11 points on 4-of-5 shooting. Stuut just missed another double-dou-ble outing for the Cougars with eight points and a game-best 11 rebounds while also supplying six assists and four steals. Senior guard Niara Harris and McMahon each chipped in nine points. SXU struggled to find its long-range shot, hitting just 1-of-11 3-point attempts in the game. The Cougars led 13-8 in the opening minutes, but the Saints tied the game shortly thereafter — one of 10 deadlocks in the first half. Siena Heights took a 40-36 lead into intermission, saw SXU knot the score at 44 on Broski’s layup after play resumed and then re-sponded with a 10-2 run that put it ahead for good. The Cougars got within three points multiple times, but critical turnovers and missed shots in the closing min-utes sealed SXU’s fate. While Hallberg admitted the Cougars simply didn’t play espe-cially well against Siena Heights, he also realized something else about his team. This discovery concerned the number of players he should typically use. “I played [all] 13 players in a very close game,” Hallberg said, “and I came to the conclusion that I had to make some adjustments, which really helped us out the next game. Everybody on the team are great players, but it’s hard to play them all in a game. “We got out-rebounded, outshot and outplayed by a pretty good team on their home court. And when Morgan is only limited to eight points and not her normal 25-to-30 points, we’re just going to struggle.” SXU returns to CCAC action this week with games against Roosevelt and Judson universi-ties. The Cougars host the latter Saturday at 1 p.m. “It’s been a while since we’ve had a home game, so that will be a nice change of pace for us,” Hall-berg said. — Anthony Nasella

MEN’S BASKETBALL This Jack was also nimble and, much to the delight of everyone within the Cougars basketball program, very quick to return to the SXU lineup. Unlike the character made famous in a children’s fable, however, this Jack — last name Krieger — proved himself in a man’s world. After undergoing ACL surgery in June, the junior guard figured to be idled for quite some time. “I wasn’t even sure he was com-ing back at all,” Cougars coach Tom O’Malley said. Krieger had no such qualms himself; in fact, he predicted a pre-Christmas return despite the severity of his injury. Various med-ical people recently agreed as they issued him a clearance to play, and by living up to his own am-bitious prognostication, Krieger gave O’Malley “a Thanksgiving present and Christmas present all rolled into one.” “He’s a kid that really worked hard [to come back],” the coach said. “He put a lot of demands on himself and nothing’s going to faze him. We only played him part-time [last Friday] and we didn’t expect him to come in and do a lot, but he was an important factor.” Nine-of-17 shooting from 3-point range in two games at SXU’s Thanksgiving tournament proved Krieger was ready to go. He nailed three of those treys and totaled 19 points in his debut, as the Cougars pinned a 91-78 defeat on Madonna University at the Shan-non Center, then contributed six 3s and 24 points to SXU’s cause on Saturday. The Cougars needed every bit of that latter input, too, as they narrowly escaped with a 98-96 triumph over Indiana-East. Per-haps appropriately, Krieger also played a major role at the end,

as his steal and on-target pass set Kyle Huppe up for the game-winning layup with five seconds remaining. O’Malley felt SXU (6-2) should have been able to subdue the Red Wolves with a little less difficulty, but he wasn’t going to complain about the result. “We’ve still got work to do, but a couple wins make you feel better than a couple losses,” said O’Malley, whose club had gotten tagged with consecutive setbacks the week before by defending NAIA Division II national cham-pion Cardinal Stritch University and Arizona Christian, which is currently ranked among the top 20 teams in Division I. “In this particular game [against Indiana-East], I felt we played poorly on defense,” O’Malley said. “They pretty much got whatever they wanted — there were a lot of shots [taken] where our guys didn’t get out on their shooters fast enough, and they made a lot of 3-point shots in the second half. I think they were 11-of-20 [for the game].” The Red Wolves fired away at a 53 percent clip from the field overall, a figure the Cougars were basically able to match. However, SXU wasn’t as proficient from long range and, as a result, there was “never a safety lead” for it, according to O’Malley. The Cougars got things roll-ing their way right away, as they netted 13 of the contest’s first 18 points within the opening four minutes. But instead of be-ing shaken by that early blitz, Indiana-East simply responded in kind. The Red Wolves’ 11-2 tear expunged SXU’s lead, then the visitors rallied again after the Cou-gars had re-established a seem-ingly comfortable advantage with a 27-12 spurt before halftime. By scoring 24 points in the first six minutes of the second half, In-diana-East positioned itself right alongside SXU for the remainder of the game. In addition to Krieger’s 24-point eruption, the Cougars benefited from a 30-point, five-steal effort by senior guard Brad Karp. Sopho-more forward Josh Mawhorr de-livered 12 points and a team-best seven boards, while senior guard Michael Simpson provided SXU with a double-double of 10 points and 10 assists.St. Xavier 91Madonna 78 Whatever defensive deficien-cies popped up for the Cougars on Saturday were nowhere to be found the day before. The NAIA-ranked Crusaders were completely shut down by SXU over the first 20 minutes and slipped well in arrears of the hosts. Madonna hit only 11 field goals before intermission and to-taled just 25 points. “Being up by 20 points on them was fantastic,” O’Malley said. “We were playing at a quicker pace, and we were doing everything we wanted to do offensively and defensively.” Indeed, while their defense was hampering the Crusaders, the Cougars’ offense also carried its fair share of the load. Joining Krieger on the list of ringleaders were Karp (27 points) and Simp-son (18 points, nine assists), and SXU fired away at a 56 percent clip (32-of-57) for the game. “We’ve [so far] played five teams that are top-level teams,” O’Malley said. “To be able to hold our own against them, and win a majority of the games, is pretty pleasing.” One thing O’Malley desires to avoid is developing a case of amne-sia in regard to some of his play-ers. While he’s obviously happy to have Krieger back in the fold and already being a person of in-fluence, O’Malley wants to make sure anyone who stepped forward in his absence doesn’t suddenly become an odd man out. “You can’t play the season hoping he’s going to come back [when it wasn’t certain],” he said of Krieger. “Hopefully, he stays healthy from now on, but we’ve got guys with six full games un-der them while he was out. We can’t forget about them now just because he’s back.” Two Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference encounters were on tap for the Cougars this week. Following a matchup with Trinity International University on Tuesday, SXU squares off with Judson University on Saturday. — Ken Karrson

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Sports wrapBy Anthony Nasella

With 11 of 14 starters from last season’s state championship team having graduated in the spring, this year’s Sandburg wrestling squad is definitely younger. The Eagles still have talent, however, most noticeably with defending state champ Johnny Pellegrino. But he’s not going it alone. It’s already evident that Sand-burg’s youthful makeup isn’t hin-dering its performances. The Ea-gles opened their 2013-14 season last Wednesday with a dual-meet win over Homewood-Flossmoor, then went 3-0 at their own quad-rangular on Saturday. And Sandburg wasn’t too stern-ly challenged over the weekend, as TF South (76-3), Class 2A No. 4-ranked Lincoln-Way West (44-16) and No. 2-ranked Washing-ton from downstate (46-20) all fell hard. Pellegrino (152 pounds) and fellow senior Hunter Pindel (195) both pinned all three of their opponents on Saturday and are 4-0 for the year, and junior Mat-thew Frostman also won three times in the quad. “We’ve come across some solid opponents, and so far we’ve fared pretty well,” Eagles coach Eric Siebert said. “John Pellegrino is our leader and centerpiece, but we also have some young, scrappy, hard-nosed guys who are eager to learn and who are going about their business the right way thus

far. We’re 4-0 and showing really good signs. “We’re really young, which is kind of fun. They’re young, but the kids are also talented and hungry. A little green and rough around the edges, but they have great attitudes and are really scrappy — that’s a hard thing to teach. “We’re working on learning to become tougher. We want them to learn how to beat better wres-tlers and better teams by buying into the Sandburg system. I think they’re doing that.” Seniors Adrian Gutierrez (120 pounds), Moe Shuaibi (132), Brad Crnich (145), Mathew Drozd (195) and Nate Sonneveld (heavyweight) comprise the veteran core behind Pellegrino, and sophomore Chris-tian Robertson (126) also gained experience last winter. Newcomers of note include sophomores Louie Hayes (106), Kevin Stearns (113), Colin Glascott (120), Christian Rob-ertson (126), Benjamin Schneider (138), Thomas Slattery (160) and Brian Krasowski (160). Also part of the youth movement are fresh-men Cole Bateman (182) and Pat-rick Brucki. Brucki and Robertson are younger siblings of former state champs CJ Brucki and Ricky Rob-ertson, respectively. The Eagles will definitely be tested in the weeks ahead, begin-ning with this weekend’s quad against Batavia, Lyons Township

and Naperville North. Also on tap are the 28-team Hinsdale Central Invitational, which will include Montini and Oak Park-River Forest in the field; The Clash, which is considered the toughest tournament in the country, on Jan. 3 and 4; and dual matches versus highly ranked Glenbard North and Lockport. “We’re not so much worried about the wins and the losses right now,” Siebert said. “We feel we have a pretty solid bunch, and we think that we’re going to get considerably better as we go on in the season. “We’re still figuring some things out, but our attitude and work ethic is great. We hope to be a con-tender by the end of the year.”

*** Shepard dropped a 43-27 match to Brother Rice last Tuesday. Reigning state champion Rudy Yates recorded a pin at 113 pounds to power the Crusaders.

BOYS’ BOWLING Brandon Dietz rolled a 277 game and 483 series for Shepard, as the Astros defeated TF North 1,993-1,676 in a South Suburban Conference crossover match at Castaways Bowl in Calumet City last Tuesday.

*** Stagg suffered a 2,047-1,616 set-back against Lincoln-Way North in a SouthWest Suburban Confer-ence crossover match last Tuesday at Tinley Park Bowl.

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Richards junior Antonio Mitchell tackles Batavia’s Anthony Scaccia during Saturday’s Class 6A championship contest in DeKalb.

times and threw three intercep-tions. Coffey’s 229 yards on 15-of-18 passing led Batavia (13-1), which totaled 451 yards. Moffatt had six receptions for 127 yards. Run-ning back Anthony Scaccia gave Batavia’s offense good balance by rushing for 189 yards and three TDs on 33 carries. The setback Richards doled out to Batavia in September featured the locals racing out to a 31-13 lead and then hanging on for a five-point triumph. Batavia’s loss was its first in the regular season since 2010. “They brought a little more pressure against us this time,” Sheehan said “We kind of expected it. We just couldn’t make the plays

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Richards quarterback Hasan Muhammad-Rogers breaks free for a gain in Saturday’s Class 6A state title game. Muhammad-Rogers rushed for 65 yards and threw for 226 more in the Bulldogs’ 34-14 loss to Batavia.


Richards when we had to.” Lucas White and Romel Hill both had eight tackles to lead the Bulldogs’ defense, and White also intercepted a Coffey pass.

Statistics

Richards 0 7 7 0 - 14Batavia 14 14 6 0 - 34

HLR BATFirst downs 18 21Yds. rushing 163 222Yds. passing 226 229Total yds. 389 451Att./comp. 41-18 18-15Fumbles/lost 1-0 1-1Had intercepted 3 1Penalties/yds. 6-40 4-29Punts/avg. 1-31.0 1-29.0

Scoring BAT — Anthony Scaccia, 1-yd. run (Howie Morgano kick)

BAT — Michael Moffatt, 96-yd. pass from Micah Coffey (Morgano kick) HLR — Dedrick Shannon, 9-yd. pass from Hasan Muhammad-Rogers (Shawn Chiaramonte kick) BAT — Rourke Mullins, 25-yd. pass from Coffey (Morgano kick) BAT — Scaccia, 1-yd. run (Morgano kick) BAT — Scaccia, 12-yd. run (kick failed) HLR — Muhammad-Rogers, 4-yd. run (Chiaramonte kick)

Richards Rushing: Johnson 7-97, Mu-hammad-Rogers 16-65, Carpenter 1-1. Passing: Muhammad-Rogers 41-18-226. Receiving: Shannon 8-112, Willett 4-27, Tears 4-21, Carpenter 2-66.

Batavia Rushing: Scaccia 33-189, Coffey 8-20, Green 5-13, Moneghini 1-0. Pass-ing: Coffey 18-15-229. Receiving: Moffatt 6-127, Scaccia 4-33, Zwart 2-28, Green 2-16, Mullins 1-25.

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By Tim Cronin

The road to success is some-times filled with potholes. Trinity Christian College’s men’s basketball team has to hope they don’t get too deep, lest the wheels come off. The Trolls dropped three straight games last week, losing a conference matchup with Roos-evelt University before suffering back-to-back defeats against Indi-ana-East and Madonna University in the St. Xavier Thanksgiving Classic. The setbacks left Trinity with a five-game losing streak and eight losses in its last nine games entering this past Wednesday’s game at Viterbo. The 78-65 loss to Roosevelt was the Trolls’ second in as many Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference outings this season, and was due to slow starts in each half. It took Trinity almost three minutes to score a field goal, and it was down by nine points quickly, en route to trailing by 13 at the break. Aside from Jake Van Den Berg’s 3-pointer, there was another slump to start the second half, and the deficit was too much to make up against the Lakers. Van Den Berg’s 13 points led the Trolls, and while four players scored at least 10 points, the same was true for Roosevelt, which was paced by Kevin Priebe’s 23 and game-leading eight rebounds. The boards belonged to the Lakers by a 36-29 margin. Friday’s 84-76 loss to Indiana-East was decided by a five-minute stretch in the second half, when the Red Wolves broke a 43-43 tie with a 10-2 run from which Trini-ty couldn’t recover. Indiana-East’s Tyler Fangman and Cody Banet scored 23 points each, negating the Trolls’ five double-figure men, of whom Jared Jones (18 points) led the way. The difference came on the boards. Indiana-East pulled down 14 offensive rebounds while shoot-ing 47 percent — and 62 percent in the second half, when Trinity shot 59 percent itself — and out-rebounded Trinity 37-33 overall. Aside from Ezekiel Odonkor’s 14 rebounds, nobody on the Trolls had more than six. Saturday brought an off-key performance in the form of an 84-60 loss to Madonna. The 24-point defeat was similar to the others — Madonna shot better from the field (52-to-39 percent) and out-rebounded Trinity 42-26.

The Trolls fell down fast, as they trailed 24-6 and couldn’t recover despite 11 points each from Logan Vos, Odonkor and Jones.

*** • Record: 2-8 overall, 0-2 CCAC, 2-2 home, 0-3 away, 0-3 neutral. Leaders (through Nov. 29): Jared Jones 13.9 ppg., 25 as-sists; Ezekiel Odonkor 8.3 rpg., 9 blocks; Cody Rhorer 8 steals. • Schedule: Saturday, at Trin-ity International University, 7:30 p.m.; Dec. 14, at Indiana-North-west, 3 p.m.; Dec. 17, at Cardinal Stritch University, 7:30 p.m.; Dec. 19, vs. Judson, 3 p.m.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Roosevelt won the CCAC last season, and showed no sign of diminished quality when meeting Trinity last week. The Lakers rolled over the Trolls, administering a 91-57 spanking. The loss was Trinity’s third straight, and it was a com-prehensive one. Three more road games loom before the Trolls play at home again. Trinity trailed 51-21 at inter-mission, closing the second-half gap from 47 points to the 34-point margin found at the finish by scor-ing against the Lakers’ second string. But the general theme of this season — and the previous one — continued. The Trolls’ shooting percentage (34) was less than Roosevelt’s (48), and outside of a 46-43 rebound-ing advantage for the locals, the Lakers held the edge in every statistical category. Caitlin Cody led Trinity with 20 points. She and Rebecca DeHaan (11 points) both pulled down 10 rebounds.

*** • Record: 2-8 overall, 0-2 CCAC, 1-3 home, 1-4 away, 0-1 neutral. Leaders: Allie Paluchni-ak 10.3 ppg., 23 assists, 14 steals; Caitlin Cody 7.1 rpg., 6 blocks; Rebecca DeHaan 14 steals; Brooke Bambrick 6 blocks. • Schedule: Saturday, at Trin-ity International University, 5:30 p.m.; Dec. 14, at Goshen, noon CT; Dec. 17, at Cardinal Stritch University, 5:30 p.m.; Dec. 19, vs. Judson University, 1 p.m.

VOLLEYBALL The Trolls (37-7) were set for at least a three-day run at the NAIA Championship, in round-robin play from this past Tuesday through today. Trinity was slated to play Park University (Mo.) today at 1 p.m., following matches against defend-

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Trolls men drop three moreing national champion Concordia (Calif.) on Tuesday and George-town (Ky.) on Wednesday. The top two teams of that quartet move to single-elimination play begin-ning Friday. The final match is Saturday at 7 p.m.

*** • Record: 37-7 overall entering NAIA Championship, 17-1 CCAC, 13-0 home, 9-1 away, 15-6 neutral. Leaders: Kaitlin Feddema 429 kills; Erynn Schuh 45 aces, 10.18 sets per game; Ellie Raebel 571 digs; Jessica Wiltjer 174 blocks. • Schedule: NAIA Champion-ship at Sioux City, Iowa: today, vs. Park (Mo.), 1 p.m.; Friday-Saturday: TBA.

WOMEN’S SOCCER The second-seeded Trolls (15-3-2) began National Christian Col-lege Athletic Association Champi-onship play against eighth-seeded Houghton (N.Y.), in Kissimmee, Fla., and continued this past Wednesday against Azusa Pacific (Calif.). The survivor from that three-team group was to join the win-ners of two other groups, plus the next-best squad from all three in the NCCAA semifinals on Fri-day. The championship match is Saturday. Trinity advanced via a 2-0 victory over Judson, which was goalkeeper Becky Gold’s seventh shutout of the season. Abby Mc-Donald (fifth goal) and Rachael Webb (team-high 17th) scored for the Trolls in the 20th and 81st minutes, respectively. Gold made six saves, while Trin-ity put nine shots on goal against Judson keeper Sara Hoffman. Houghton (13-3-1), a provi-sional NCAA Division III school, beat Mt. Vernon Nazarene 2-0 to also advance, while Azusa Pacific (12-2-1) won the Pacific West, an NCAA Division II league, but is too new to the league to advance to NCAA Tournament play. Thus, Azusa Pacific accepted an at-large bid after dropping a 2-0 decision to Point Loma in the NCCAA West final.

*** • Record: 15-3-2 overall, 9-1-1 CCAC, 9-2-1 home, 6-1-1 away, 0-0 neutral. Leaders: Rachael Webb 17 goals, 8 assists, 42 points; Becky Gold, 0.94 goals-against average, .845 save percent-age (87 saves, 16 goals against, 6 shutouts). • Schedule: NCCAA Champi-onship at Kissimmee, Fla.: Friday-Saturday: TBA.

multiple three-hour bus trips would create, the Knights didn’t enjoy the luxury of a spread-out schedule within the Brimfield Tournament, something every other participant had available to it. And that four-game clus-ter Christian experienced upon arriving may have contributed to its downfall against the host school. According to Pittman, the Knights “played some nice ball early, but let it slip away.” After building an 11-7 lead, Christian watched it evaporate beneath a 16-2 Indians run that closed out the opening stanza in Saturday’s later encounter. From there, the margin kept expanding. Brimfield drilled nine 3-pointers in the contest to spark its attack. “I was disappointed with our effort,” Pittman said. “We knew


Knights they could hit 3s and we left way too many shooters open. If you give a good shooter time, he’s go-ing to hit shots. “I think conditioning was a factor [for us], but I didn’t like our mentality in this one. Our learning curve has to be steep if we want to be successful. We were never able to put a run on and erase that 16-point [deficit] we built for ourselves [in the first half].” Washington (13 points), Parker (12), Wolterink (10) and Wright (eight) were the Knights’ ring-leaders in their final tourney outing. Christian was back home this past Tuesday, when it hosted Evergreen Park.

Statistics

Chgo. Christian 13 14 15 9 - 51Tremont 17 18 17 9 - 61

Chicago Christian Scoring: Wright 20, Winchester 9, Parker 6, Washington 6, Spencer 4, Wolterink 4, Leo 2. Rebounds:

Washington 7, Wright 7, Spencer 6. As-sists: Parker 5. Steals: Wright 5.

Chgo. Christian 12 10 17 12 - 51Princeville 10 6 11 9 - 36

Chicago Christian Scoring: Washington 15, Parker 13, Wolterink 10, Wright 6, Boss 3, Leo 2, Spencer 2. Rebounds: Wright 10. Assists: Wright 5. Steals: Wright 5.

Chgo. Christian 13 7 15 10 - 45Midwest Central 13 9 7 6 - 35

Chicago Christian Scoring: Parker 14, Wolterink 11, Washington 8, Wright 8, Spencer 4. Rebounds: Washington 8, Wolterink 7. Assists: Parker 5. Steals: Wright 5, Parker 4.

Chgo. Christian 13 8 10 18 - 49Brimfield 23 14 12 23 - 72

Chicago Christian Scoring: Washington 13, Parker 12, Wolterink 10, Wright 8, Winchester 4, Spencer 2. Rebounds: Spencer 10, Wright 9. Assists: Wright 4. Steals: Wright 4.

drove and dished off to Marku-sic, who scored the game-win-ning basket with 19.3 seconds remaining. The Lady Trojans missed a 3-point attempt on their ensu-ing possession and could not get off another shot before time ex-pired. Markusic scored 24 of her game-high 26 points in the sec-ond half. She also pulled down 16 rebounds. Mahmoud (13 points, 14 rebounds), Brooks (10 points, seven assists, five steals) and Shatat (six points) also positively impacted the Lady Spartans. Oak Lawn opens up its South Suburban Conference schedule tonight with a crossover game against TF North at home.

STAGG The Lady Chargers split a pair of games at last week’s Hins-dale South Tip-Off Tournament, falling short of Hinsdale South (62-51) on Friday before defeat-ing Plainfield South (43-32) on Saturday. The Hinsdale game stayed close until the Lady Hornets stretched their lead out in the fourth quar-ter. Stagg never got any closer than seven points the rest of the way. Both teams were solid in the opening period, which ended with Hinsdale in front by four, 17-13. Better dribble penetration and a combined 8-of-10 display at the foul line by Hannah Henderson and Alex Abed then enabled the Lady Chargers to climb within 27-24 at intermission. Junior forward Mia DiGiacomo (team-high 14 points) had Stagg’s only field goal of the second quar-ter. “Mia is playing well for us in the post, improving and gaining more confidence with each game,” Lady Chargers coach Bill Turner said. Abed (12 points) made two 3-point baskets for Stagg in the third frame, and Henderson (13 points) dropped in a bucket and a couple of free throws to keep the game close (43-37) entering the final period. The Lady Chargers had some difficultly stopping one player, Hinsdale’s Gabrielle Rush (24 points), who knocked in six long-distance shots. The last of those opened the fourth quarter and put Stagg on its heels. The Lady Chargers also lost the rebounding battle and were hurt several times on offensive putbacks by the Lady Hornets. “We need to shore up our inte-rior defense a little bit and limit teams to one shot,” Turner said. “On the offensive end, we have to improve our team free-throw shooting percentage and our pe-rimeter shooting as well.” Stagg shot just 4-of-20 from 3-point territory. “We are getting double-digit scoring from several players, and I thought we had a good effort and competed for 32 minutes against a very good team,” Turner said. “We are going to get to work and make a couple of adjustments when we get back to practice.”

*** In their final game of the tour-ney the Lady Chargers came away with a convincing win over the Plainfield South. Stagg limited the Lady Cougars to single-digit scoring in all four quarters. “This was our best defensive effort of the season, and it was a total team effort,” Turner said. “All available players played in the contest and we led the game from beginning to end.” After opening up an 11-9 first-quarter edge, the Lady Chargers extended it to 25-18 by halftime. Casey McMahon led Stagg’s of-fense with 13 points, but Abed added eight and six other Stagg players also reached the scoring column. “We took care of business on the backboards against a taller team and were rewarded with second-chance points and 24 trips to the foul line,” Turner said. “I thought our defensive pressure caused a

lot of problems for them, resulting in 30 turnovers.” Stagg’s lead was extended to 34-24 by the end of the third quarter and grew to as many as 16 points in the final period. “Even though we did not shoot the ball real well again, defending and rebounding can carry you on those rough shooting nights,” said Turner, whose team weathered a 24 percent showing from the field. “Consistency in those [other two] areas will be the key to our success throughout the season, but especially in the next few games.” Mother McAuley, Andrew,

Homewood-Flossmoor and Lin-coln-Way East await the Lady Chargers (2-2) in upcoming tilts.

MARIST The Lady RedHawks started their Thanksgiving Classic on a bad note by dropping a 68-61 decision to Rich Central last Tuesday. Marist rebounded over the rest of the week, however, and won its final three games to capture the tournament title. The Lady RedHawks earned the crown with a 55-49 triumph over Crete-Monee on Friday.


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Marist’s Tehya Fortune throws a pass to Bri Rosa during last Monday’s Thanksgiving tournament game against South Shore.

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Marist’s Dajawe Black calls out a play while bringing the ball up-court for the Lady RedHawks last Monday versus South Shore.


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Eaglesfrom one large media outlet. When the Meteors scored 23 second-pe-riod points and assumed a 36-29 halftime lead, they appeared in control of the proceedings. But De La Salle got “Niko-ized” in the third quarter. Niko Cahue and Niko Kogionis both deposited six points for the Eagles in that frame — Kogionis doing so on a pair of 3-point buckets — and point guard Alec Martinez drilled another trey. It all added up to a 22-10 scoring advantage for Sandburg, which then held on for a 66-60 triumph that Allen jokingly called “the up-set of the century.” “I’m real happy to get the win — it says a lot about the kids,” he said. “We felt good about the game. “Last year, we came out of the gate and really struggled, so I’m glad to get that first one under our belts. This was great for the kids’ confidence because [the Meteors] were very talented, and I’m very proud of them in that regard.” Cahue and Kogionis finished with 27 and 14 points, respectively, and the former also grabbed nine rebounds. Cahue notched one-third of his points in the fourth quarter to keep De Salle at bay. Allen, though, credited the third period as the most instrumental one in terms of deciding the out-come. “Twenty-two points, for us, is a lot in one quarter,” he said. “We got good shot opportunities and open 3s in transition.” Sandburg went 9-of-18 from 3-point range and clicked on 59 percent of its shots overall. It also picked up 13 points at the char-ity stripe.Hinsdale Central 47Sandburg 37 The Eagles couldn’t carry their good fortune over into Tuesday, as they fell behind the host Red

Devils early and trailed by 14 at in-termission. Even though Hinsdale Central was limited to 17 points after the break, Sandburg was unable to make up much ground, thanks to 29 percent shooting. “I don’t know if it was [due to] the big win from the night before, but it was the tale of two games,” Allen said. “I thought we got very rushed offensively and their size hurt us. “We didn’t do a good job of matching up with them physically and we weren’t able to establish an inside presence. They were able to keep us away from the rim and forced us to shoot from the perimeter.” The Devils’ superior size also translated into a hefty 37-19 edge on the glass. Hinsdale included a dozen offensive rebounds among its total, which led to 21 points. No Eagles player managed to reach double figures in scoring. Pete Paxinos’ nine points topped Sandburg and Kogionis tallied seven.

Hinsdale South 56Sandburg 40 It was more of the same on Friday, at least offensively, as the Eagles once again struggled to get anything substantive going. Allen cited the presence of 6-foot-9 Hor-nets sophomore Barrett Benson as a factor in his team’s lackluster production. “He kept us out of the lane,” Allen said. “I wasn’t happy with our performance offensively be-cause everybody on our team was too perimeter-oriented.” Martinez and Kogionis both had nine points to pace Sandburg, which could not get closer than eight in the fourth quarter.Sandburg 61Glenbard South 57 A new wrinkle in the Hinsdale Central Tournament was its cross-promotion with an event hosted by Glenbard West. On Saturday, that pitted the Eagles against the Raiders in a game played at

Glenbard East. And coming forward to head-line for Sandburg was junior Joe Ruzevich, whose eight first-period points fueled a 20-6 getaway. Ru-zevich ended the contest with a team-best 17 points, a perfor-mance that Cahue backed with 12 points of his own. Martinez added 10. Glenbard South rallied in the second frame and reduced the margin to one, then inched in front by a point in the third quar-ter. But the foul line became the Eagles’ ally over the last eight minutes, as they went 9-of-13 from there to seal their victory deal. “I was glad to see us come back and get a win after losing two in a row,” said Allen, whose club faces Lincoln-Way East in a SouthWest Suburban Conference Blue game on Friday.

Statistics

Sandburg 13 16 22 15 - 66De La Salle 13 23 10 14 - 60

Sandburg Scoring: Cahue 27, Kogionis 14, Paxinos 8, Straka 6, Martinez 4, Ru-zevich 4, Manthey 3. Rebounds: Cahue 9. Assists: Martinez 6.

Sandburg 9 7 8 13 - 37Hinsdale Central 17 13 11 6 - 47

Sandburg Scoring: Paxinos 9, Kogionis 7, Cahue 6, Straka 6, T. Demogerontas 3, Manthey 3, Martinez 3. Rebounds: Straka 4.

Sandburg 7 9 11 13 - 40Hinsdale South 14 11 14 17 - 56

Sandburg Scoring: Kogionis 9, Martinez 9, Manthey 6, Cahue 5, Piazza 5, Straka 3, Paxinos 2, Ruzevich 1.

Sandburg 20 9 13 19 - 61Glenbard South 6 22 15 14 - 57

Sandburg Scoring: Ruzevich 17, Cahue 12, Martinez 10, Kogionis 6, Straka 6, Mansour 4, T. Demogerontas 3, Man-they 3.

By Maura Vizza

Moraine Valley College’s men have a fondness for coming from behind on the basketball court, and that strategy worked out well for the Cyclones last Tuesday. A slow start and flat perfor-mance put Moraine in arrears of the College of DuPage at halftime, but the Cyclones rallied behind Kyle Ward and Johnte Shannon in the second half to bag a 78-66 win over the Chaparrals. Ward and Shannon combined for 26 points and were included among five double-digit scorers. Also providing solid perfor-mances on Moraine’s behalf were Paulius Ostruskevicius (15 points, five rebounds), Cameron Juillerat (15 points, three assists), Stagg alumnus Brett Kaiser (12 points, 11 rebounds) and Des’nique Har-ris (eight points, nine rebounds), In addition to his team-high 16 points, Ward had five rebounds and three assists, while Shan-non complemented his 10 mark-ers with six steals, five rebounds and four assists. First-year coach David How-ard liked the energy he saw from the Cyclones over the final 20 minutes and asserted that the

team would possess a better re-cord to date had it played with the same degree of intensity at other times.

*** Last weekend was a disappoint-ment to Moraine, as it dropped two games at the Cincinnati State Tech and Community College Surge Classic Tournament. The Cyclones squared off with the host school on Friday and were routed 106-44. Besides not coping well with the winners’ de-fensive pressure and giving their shooters too many open looks, Moraine was also hampered by the absence of Ward, one of its best players, because of an in-jury. According to Howard, that affected his other athletes psy-chologically. Harris’ double-double of 13 points and 10 rebounds paced the Cyclones. Shannon contributed 12 points, five rebounds and three as-sists, and Ostruskevicius supplied 11 points and four boards. The news wasn’t much better on Saturday, as Moraine fell to a 116-89 defeat against Malcolm X College. The Cyclones were with-in 28-21 in the first half before enduring a cold spell that couldn’t be completely overcome.

Shannon (19 points), Harris (15 points, seven rebounds), Kaiser (14 points), Jason Allen (11 points), Juillerat (10 points, three assists) and John Curran (eight rebounds) all played well for Moraine in a losing cause, which pleased Howard. He also liked the fight the Cyclones dem-onstrated much of the way. “Other teams [in the Illinois Skyway Collegiate Conference] are 5-3 or 5-4, so we’re still in the mix,” Howard said. “All these games are preparing us for the conference [and] the scores are not indicative of who we are as a team. “We have what it takes, [but] we need to rise to the occasion when we play better teams. Our Achilles heel is rebounding — we definitely need to work on that. “[Our players are] discouraged, but I still believe in my guys. As long as we keep working hard, we still can be in it. When we play aggressive and don’t settle for jump shots and attack the rim, we’re a much better team.”

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL The Cyclones lost to the College of DuPage, 63-60, last Tuesday at home.

Moraine athletics wrapCome-from-behind win highlights Cyclones’ week

Gardner, Goral, Sebastian Kolpak and Nick Sims still fall into the lesser-known category. Yet, like so many other athletes who’ve passed through Daniels’ programs over the years, they’re finding im-portant niches to fill. “Everybody sort of chipped in, and that’s the encouraging thing,” Daniels said. “You can’t [always] rely on one kid to pull you through. “There are things we’ve got to get better at — we didn’t draw a charge all week, which is unheard of for our teams — but it’s nice when other guys do their part. That’s the biggest thing I liked. They got some confidence [from that].” Against Nazareth, a 13-0 surge by the Chargers in the third quar-ter allowed them to break open a 29-28 game. Strus contributed four points to the cause, but just as important to the run were Sims’ 3-pointer, Goral’s bucket, and a steal and layup by Kolpak. “A 13-0 run means you got stops,” Daniels said. “I thought our defense really stepped up. It could have gone either way [be-fore that], but [Nazareth] tried to run with us and they took quick shots.” And with White on the floor, Stagg’s lead was safe. “Kevin White is like [former New York Yankees pitcher] Maria-no Rivera — he’s a closer,” Daniels said. “It’s really hard to trap Kevin [and force mistakes] because he’s such a good ball handler and he knows his angles. He only had four turnovers, which is nothing considering that he handles the ball on every possession.”

Stagg 58St. Laurence 40 The Vikings hung with the Chargers for most of the first half last Wednesday, but Stagg created a bit of breathing room for itself before intermission, which it en-tered with a 29-21 lead in tow. Thanks to the Strus-White duo, things never got any better for St. Laurence, which was outscored by five points in each of the last two periods. Between them, the Chargers’ big guns accounted for 41 points, although Vikings coach Mark Sevedge noted that six of Strus’ 21 markers came on transi-tion baskets. “We’ve got nobody near his size, [so] I think the guys that guarded him did a pretty good job,” Sevedge said. “I thought his kids played really hard,” Daniels said, referring to Sevedge’s athletes. “They were scrappy and they battled us early. Mark’s a good guy and he’s coach-ing them up.” One thing definitely not work-ing in St. Laurence’s favor was its long-distance shooting. While the Vikings were an acceptable 9-of-20 from inside the arc, their accuracy rate dipped below 25 per-cent outside it as they canned just 4-of-17 3-point attempts. “You live and die by the 3 [some-times],” Sevedge said. “Unfortu-nately, we died by it three times [during the tournament].” Quentin Forberg paced St. Laurence with 17 points, Matt Gurgone had 10, and guard Tim Delaney provided the Vikings with five points, five rebounds and three assists. More impressive to Sevedge was the latter’s work on the defensive end throughout the tournament — Delaney got charges called against foes seven times in four games.

***

Prior to tangling with St. Lau-rence, the Chargers bagged wins over Lindblom and Willowbrook. In both cases, Stagg distanced itself after engaging in a tight opening period — Lindblom, in fact, scored eight of the first 10 points last Monday. Strus was the Chargers’ main man in both contests, as he roasted the Eagles with 28 points and then poured in 30 versus the Warriors. Meanwhile, neither of the Chargers’ opponents was able to settle into a prolonged offensive groove. Their willingness to keep launching perimeter shots actu-ally played into Stagg’s hands. “Every team we played wanted to shoot the 3-pointer,” Daniels said. “They kept firing it, and long shot [means] long rebound. We got it and we were off. “We were doing a real good job of getting the ball in transition and we just sort of put on the jets in the second half [of each game].”Nazareth Academy 51St. Laurence 37 Long-range inaccuracy was also the Vikings’ bane in their season-opener, as a 6-of-29 display of 3-point shooting undermined their bid to topple the Roadrunners last Monday. What was unusual about St. Laurence’s struggles was that, for the most part, they didn’t stem from a failure to properly execute. “Twenty-five of those were out-standing looks — open shots we want our guys to take,” Sevedge said. “That was a game we could have had, but I think missing those open shots got inside our kids’ heads a little bit and kind of set the tone for the rest of the week. If we would have had more success there, I think things would have gone differently [from

Photo by Jeff Vorva

Stagg’s Max Strus squares up to launch a 3-point shot last Wednesday versus St. Laurence. Strus tallied a game-high 21 points for the Chargers in their win.

Photo by Jeff Vorva

St. Laurence’s Tim Delaney drives to the basket during last Wednesday’s matchup with Stagg at the John McBride Classic.


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a win-loss standpoint].” Forberg, Gurgone and Mike Wit-kowski all netted eight points to lead the Vikings, who were guilty of only 10 turnovers. Sevedge also felt his guys were respectable on the defensive end, even though Naza-reth was awarded 35 free throws, 19 more than St. Laurence. “[The Warriors] were much big-ger than us, but I thought we guarded well,” he said. “We’re real young — every game we started four juniors and a senior, and for a lot of [our kids], this was their first time on a varsity floor. At times we played like it, [but] I thought we played very well [here], especially defensively.”

Lindblom 54St. Laurence 49 The Vikings spotted the Eagles a first-period edge and spent the rest of last Tuesday in chase mode. They were as close as two points during the fourth stanza, and in the late going reduced a nine-point deficit to three behind a long ball from Forberg and Delaney’s three-point play. With 20 seconds left, St. Lau-rence fouled Lindblom’s poor-est free-throw shooter and saw that strategy rewarded with two misses. However, the Vikings were unable to corral a rebound and the Eagles got two more chances at the stripe, which they converted to hold St. Laurence at bay. “I felt this game was decided on the boards,” Sevedge said. “The timely rebounds they got really hurt us. As small as we are de-fensively, it’s going to be big for us to play as well as we can on the boards.” Dan Curley’s 19 points topped

the Vikings in their losing cause. Delaney pitched in with 12 points, four assists and three rebounds, while Forberg tossed in nine points. St. Laurence connected on 13-of-35 shots, but was just 2-of-16 from 3-point territory. The Vikings also misfired 10 times in 33 chances at the line.St. Laurence 52Willowbrook 44 A 10-2 getaway for the Vikings on Saturday gave them the boost they needed to defeat the Warriors and salvage some tournament success. Willowbrook did climb to within a deuce in the fourth quarter, but 11 free throws helped St. Laurence survive. Gurgone hit five of those foul shots, part of a 28-point outburst for him. His production included a perfect 6-of-6 effort from behind the arc. Delaney added 13 points, and both players, plus Forberg, dished out three assists. “I was kind of hoping we could get out of there with a 2-2 start [to the season],” Sevedge said. “We could have, but I’m really happy with how hard we played. As young as we are and with our [lack of] size, I’m a little nervous, but I thought we went after it and executed well.” For the first time in four games, the Vikings demonstrated a good shooting eye as they drilled over 50 percent of their field-goal tries, which included a 7-of-14 display on 3s.

Statistics

St. Laurence 12 9 8 11 - 40Stagg 12 17 13 16 - 58

St. Laurence Scoring: Forberg 17, Gur-

gone 10, Delaney 5, Dan Curley 4, Rad-ford 4. Rebounds: Delaney 5. Assists: Delaney 3.

Stagg Scoring: Strus 21, White 20, Gard-ner 8, Goral 8, Kolpak 1. Rebounds: Strus 8. Assists: White 4.

Nazareth Acad. 12 11 10 18 - 51Stagg 8 19 24 15 - 66

Stagg Scoring: Strus 21, White 17, Gardner 10, Goral 9, Sims 5, Kolpak 4. Rebounds: Gardner 8, Goral 8, Strus 6. Assists: White 6.

Willowbrook 11 9 18 12 - 50Stagg 12 27 23 10 - 72

Stagg Scoring: Strus 30, Goral 16, White 7, Gardner 6, Kolpak 6, Sims 6, Jordan 1. Rebounds: Strus 6. Assists: White 5.

Nazareth Acad. 13 11 11 16 - 51St. Laurence 10 14 5 12 - 37

St. Laurence Scoring: Forberg 8, Gur-gone 8, Witkowski 8, Kelly 4, Delaney 3, Cummings 2, Dan Curley 2, Radford 2. Rebounds: Gurgone 5. Assists: Del-aney 4.

Lindblom 16 10 12 16 - 54St. Laurence 13 12 7 17 - 49

St. Laurence Scoring: Dan Curley 19, Delaney 12, Forberg 9, Gurgone 6, Rad-ford 4, Witkowski 1. Rebounds: Delaney 3. Assists: Delaney 4.

Willowbrook 9 16 7 12 - 44St. Laurence 17 13 9 13 - 52

St. Laurence Scoring: Gurgone 28, Delaney 13, Dan Curley 3, Forberg 3, Witkowski 3, Kelly 2. Rebounds: Wit-kowski 5. Assists: Delaney 3, Forberg 3, Gurgone 3.


Two St. Alexander’s 8th-grade girls’ basketball teams won recent tournament championships at Mother McAuley.Submitted photos

Sinclair honored as‘Man of the Year’ The Catholic Grade School Foot-ball Conference posthumously se-lected Dave Sinclair as its “Man of the Year” for 2013. The announce-ment was made at a grade-school all-star football game played at St. Rita on Nov. 23. Sinclair, who succumbed to ALS in September, spent many years as a football coach at St. Patricia.

Mt. Assisi student-athletesnamed state scholars Six student-athletes from Mt. As-sisi were recently feted for their aca-demic accomplishments by getting named as Illinois State Scholars. Included among the Screech-ing Eagles chosen for the honor were two local residents: Mary Kate Wetzel, of Palos Heights, and Jeslyn Vayalil, of Orland Park. Also recognized were Jacqueline Freeman, Patricia Peters, Rachel Sepulveda and Lauryn White.

Hickory Hills, Palos Hillsbaseball programs merge After years of competing against each other as local rivals, Hickory Hills Youth Baseball and the Palos Hills Baseball Association have merged into one organization. The new entity will be known as “Hills Baseball Softball Asso-ciation,” and provide baseball and softball at all levels for children aged 4-16. HBSA, which will con-duct play on fields in both com-munities, will accept youngsters from throughout the southwest suburbs for recreational participa-tion, as well as for its part-time and full-time travel teams. Registration dates are Jan. 11 and Feb. 8 from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. each day. Both Saturday sessions will be held at Conrady Junior High School, Roberts Road and 97th Street in Hickory Hills. George Czarnik, of Hickory Hills, and Peter Donahue, of Palos Hills, will serve as HBSA president and vice president, re-spectively. For more information about the new organization or how to become involved with it, contact Czarnik at 599-6983.

Sandburg athletesmake college choices Ten Sandburg athletes recently finalized their college choices by signing National Letters of In-tent. Four of them were softball play-ers. Lady Eagles making their decisions official were Caroline Kuzel (St. Xavier University),

Sarah Herold (Dennison Univer-sity), Brooke Heimerl (Millikin University) and Karli McLaughlin (Quincy University). Other spring-season athletes who selected their future schools were baseball players Ryan Donegan (Concordia University), Sean Leland (University of Louis-ville) and Bryan Pall (University of Michigan), and soccer players Emily Osoba (University of Il-linois) and Samantha Messina (University of Illinois-Chicago). Also declaring her college in-tentions was tennis player Molly Traverso, who will continue her education at John Carroll Uni-versity in Ohio.

Two more baseballcamps announced Chicago Christian and Lewis University in Romeoville will both host six-week baseball camps dur-ing the winter. Lewis’ camp will begin Jan. 11 and be directed by Flyers coach Tim McDonough, while the one at Chicago Christian starts Feb. 1 under the guidance of Knights coach and school athletic director Eric Brauer. Both are being held in conjunction with U.S. Baseball Academy and are open to players in grades 1-12. Sessions will be offered in ad-vanced hitting, pitching, catching, fielding and baserunning. Regis-tration is now underway, and classes are limited to six players per coach. Previously, a similar camp was announced for Oak Lawn High School with a start date of Jan. 5. For more information on any of three camps, visit www.US-BaseballAcademy.com or call 1-866-622-4487.

Midwest Elite lookingfor softball players Midwest Elite Diamond 19-and-over women’s fast-pitch softball club is looking for college-rostered players to compete in the sum-mer of 2014. The team will play in four local tournaments — including nation-als — and two round-robin events. All positions will be considered, but specific needs include pitcher, catcher and infield/slapper. No practices are required. For more information, con-tact Bill Lammel at 289-3438 or [email protected].

St. Al’s 8th-graders completeimpressive basketball run Two St. Alexander 8th-grade girls’ basketball teams captured titles in the South Side Catholic Tournament at Mother McAuley. Defeated in the championship con-tests were squads representing MHR and St. Barnabas. The two St. Al’s teams are no strangers to success, having claimed 32 championships of some sort over a five-year span. Those feats include 11 regular-season crowns and 10 tournament titles in two different leagues, plus three tourney champi-onships apiece at Mother McAuley and Incarnation. The key has been a sense of selflessness — no head-and-shoulders-above-the-rest star has emerged from St. Al’s ranks, as different players have routinely stepped up to deliver a spark on either the offensive or defensive end. That balance was created by a sense of camaraderie, which one

of the girls stated this way: “We went to the basketball evaluations as relative strangers in 4th grade and exited as best friends and a family as 8th-graders.”

Comprising the St. Al’s ros-ters were Maddie Brennan, Ally Corcoran, Anna Djikas, Lauren Dytrych, Emma Fisher, Mad-die Glennon, Emily Marx, An-nie McKenna, Jesse McMahon, Abby Munro, Molly Murrihy, Molly O’Leary, Sam Reidy, Abby Rosynek, Jaime Ryan, Eileen Somers and Moira Touhy. St. Al’s coaches included Tom Murrhy and Mike Glennon this year, as well as Mike Ahern, Bridget Brennan,

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Dave Sinclair

Bob Dytrych, Mike O’Leary, Bret Rosynek, Brian Reidy, Jim Ryan and Ed Touhy previously.

Palos Park to hostwinter basketball league Palos Park, in conjunction with the Palos Heights Recreation Department and Worth Park District, will host a winter bas-ketball league for youngsters in grades 1-8 that will play games each Saturday from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. beginning Jan. 18 and running through March 15. Each child will have one practice and one game per week, with an emphasis being placed on skills de-

velopment. Separate leagues will be formed for boys and girls, and play will be conducted in a total of four different age groups. For more information, call 671-3760.

Oak Lawn High School to hostbaseball camp in January Oak Lawn High School will host a six-week baseball camp, in conjunction with U.S. Baseball Academy, starting Jan. 5, 2014. Former Spartans varsity coach Brian Clifton will direct the pro-gram, which has classes available for players in grades 1-12. Ses-sions will be offered in advanced

hitting, pitching, catching, field-ing and baserunning, but space is limited. Registration is currently under-way. For more information, visit www.USBaseballAcademy.com or call 1-866-622-4487.

Openings forDiamond in the Rough Diamond in the Rough fast-pitch softball has player openings in its girls’ windmill pitching, beginner, intermediate and advanced levels.

For more information, call Bill Lammel at 289-3438 or email [email protected].

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Oak Lawn’s girls’ basketball team won four games and a tournament championship at Glenbard East last week, giving it a 5-0 start to the 2013-14 season.

Marist started its comeback with a hard-fought 67-63 win over Oak Park-River Forest. Daniela Boricich broke a 63-all tie with the Lady Huskies at the 34.2-sec-ond mark by hitting both ends of a 1-and-1, then Tehya Fortune cashed in on another pair of char-ity tosses with 16.5 seconds left to lock it up. Fortune finished with a team-high 12 points, while Brooke Wyderski (12 rebounds), Madison Naujokas (11 points) and Skylar Patterson (11) also performed well for the Lady RedHawks. In the championship matchup with the Lady Warriors, Wyder-ski’s double-double of 17 points and 10 rebounds led the way for Marist (4-1). Fortune added 11 points, while Patterson chipped in 10 points and six rebounds. The Lady RedHawks were declared the tourney champion because of this head-to-head vic-tory over Crete, which also went 3-1 last week.

MOTHER MCAULEY The Mighty Macs split a pair of games last week. Morgan Park doled out a 58-47 setback on Tuesday, but Mother McAuley rebounded with a 51-47 triumph over Maine West at the Hoffman Estates Tournament on Friday. Elizabeth Nye was a dominant figure for the Macs (3-2) versus the Lady Mustangs as she tossed in 28 points. Raven Willis added six, Amy Balich had five points and seven rebounds, and Claire

Mueller totaled five points and six rebounds. McAuley entered the game without Shea O’Malley (ankle), Lauren Carlson (back) and Molly O’Malley (illness). The Macs also lost guard Molly McGinty to an ankle injury midway through the first period. Nye (18 points, eight assists), and Erin Drynan (17 points, 11 rebounds) were McAuley’s ring-leaders against Maine West.

SHEPARD The Lady Astros were defeated twice last week at the Beecher Tournament, as they dropped verdicts to Peotone (50-31) and Tinley Park (45-41) on Monday and Tuesday, respectively. Dae Jae Williams had 21 points and eight rebounds for Shepard (1-5) in the third-place contest versus the Lady Titans after scor-ing nine against the Lady Blue Devils.

CHICAGO CHRISTIAN The Lady Knights lost a pair of games at last week’s Lincoln-Way Central Tournament as they came up short against both Lincoln-Way West (55-35) and Plainfield North (67-56). Anna Persenaire posted a dou-ble-double of 21 points and 11 rebounds for Chicago Christian (1-3) in the latter contest.

SANDBURG The Lady Eagles gained a split at the Hinsdale South Tourna-ment last week. Sandburg downed Plainfield South 61-30 behind 17 points from Sam Youngwirth and 12 by Erin Cronin. Youngwirth stood tall again on Saturday, but her 16 points weren’t enough to prevent the Lady Eagles (3-1) from suffer-ing a tough 58-55 loss to Hinsdale

Central on Saturday.

MT. ASSISI Host Riverside-Brookfield nosed out the Screeching Eagles 56-55 in Thanksgiving tourna-ment play last Monday. Mary Kate Wetzel was Mt. Assisi’s top gun with a double-double of 25

points and 13 rebounds. The Eagles entered the current week with a 2-1 ledger.

QUEEN OF PEACE Downers Grove South nipped the Pride 39-38 last Tuesday in the Lyons Township Tourna-ment. That Queen of Peace loss

was followed up by another, 46-24 versus Oak Forest on Friday. Nicole Carli notched 11 points and Maggie Bennett added eight for the Pride (0-4) against the Lady Mustangs.

EVERGREEN PARK Jonie Nard’s basket with 10

seconds remaining lifted the Lady Mustangs to a thrilling 39-38 vic-tory over Elmwood Park at the Immaculate Conception Tourna-ment on Friday. Zoe Monks led Evergreen Park (4-4) with 17 points, while Ni-cole Larkin scored 10 and Nard finished with eight.


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The title was Richards’ first in the season-opening tournament since 2009. “We’ll take the 4-0,” Chap-petto said. “I think people were stunned to see we were 4-0 with-out Tears and Shannon. I kind of was, too. “And it’s not like we won by last-second shots or any of the crazy stuff — we beat everyone pretty good. If everything remains normal, we’ll have depth at a lot of positions.” Chappetto pegged Slaughter as the perfect example of a break-through player. “He’d never been on any Rich-ards team before,” Chappetto said of the 6-foot-6 senior guard. “He had some maturity issues [previ-ously], but I’ve seen some [posi-tive] changes. And his game has improved.” Chappetto admitted the Bull-dogs entered into their first contest “with a lot of question marks,” but District 218 sister school Shepard derived no real benefit from that uncertainty. Be-hind five 3s from Othman, Rich-ards constructed a commanding 41-27 lead by halftime and was never seriously challenged over the final 16 minutes. “That was one of those Rich-ards starts when we’re good,” Chappetto said. “We play quick, get easy baskets and shoot the ball well.” Jacob Littleton tried to keep the Astros in the hunt by tally-ing all but three of his squad’s 17 third-quarter points, but his outburst couldn’t make a dent in the differential. Meier and Othman combined for 41 points between them, and freshman Catledge flashed star potential by torching Shepard for nine points, eight rebounds, three steals and two assists in just 12 minutes of floor time. “You always worry about fresh-men, but he doesn’t have any ego,” Chappetto said of Catledge. “And he has the best hands of prob-ably anybody I’ve ever coached. He gets everything that comes his way.” According to Chappetto, hav-ing the Chicago State University-bound Meier around is a big plus for everyone else on the Bulldogs’ roster. “We had the best player in the tournament and he makes life easier for everybody,” Chappetto said. “It’s like having six guys out there. Obviously, we’re going to establish Meier in the post until [opponents] find somebody good enough to guard him, but when teams try to double- and triple-team him, that opens things up for other people.” Richards took 68 shots from the field and connected on 46 percent of them. The Bulldogs registered a 42 percent success rate from 3-point range and sank 10-of-14 free throws. By contrast, Shepard shot 40 percent from the floor and 47 percent at the line. Also hampering the Astros were 18 turnovers — 10 of which result-ed directly from Richards steals — and a 36-22 disadvantage on the glass. “Richards has got a nice team — I was impressed,” Shepard coach Tony Chiuccariello said. “And we’re really inexperienced. Even some of the seniors we have didn’t play as juniors, so we’ve got a few growing pains to go through.” Littleton’s 25 points on 8-of-16 shooting paced the Astros. Kyle Longfield added 10 points and was one of three Shepard players to collect four rebounds.Richards 58Andrew 26 Chappetto thought there were moments against Shepard when his team experienced “a defensive lull that looked really troubling,” but there was nothing of the sort emanating from the Bulldogs’ side last Tuesday. Not only did Richards hold the Thunderbolts to one first-half field goal, but it never loosened its suf-focating grip. Andrew ended the game with only eight baskets in 49 tries, a performance that was low-lighted by an 0-of-15 exhibi-tion from 3-point land. The T’bolts also missed half of their 20 char-ity tosses. “I think our defense was really good and they shot poorly,” Chap-petto said. “I think some of our ef-forts made them take bad shots. “They played really fast the first night [against Chicago Perspectives Charter], and I think they thought they could do the same against us. We were challenging a lot of their shots at the end of the press.” Andrew was facing an uphill climb of 18 points after 16 min-utes, thanks both to Richards’ stern defense — the ’Dogs fin-ished with 13 steals — and Meier’s 12-point eruption in the second period. The big senior ended the contest with a double-double of 21 points and 13 boards. Othman and Alexander each chipped in 10 points, while Cat-ledge had six points, nine re-bounds and four steals. Richards went 19-of-42 from the field.Richards 67Perspectives Charter 58 The Panthers used a shortened

lineup in last Wednesday’s game and, interestingly, that gave the Bulldogs some first-half problems. Othman (10 points) and Meier got the Bulldogs off and running in the opening quarter, but Perspec-tives Charter was within one at the break and two at halftime. In the third period, however, Richards benefited from the stricter enforcement of hand-check and body-contact rules that are in place this season and took 13 free throws. A technical foul called on the Panthers’ coach also contributed to the Bulldogs’ char-ity-toss bounty, which paved the way for a 16-point uprising and 12-point lead after 24 minutes. “The game lacked a lot of flow,” Chappetto said, “and maybe that helped us.” Richards’ edge grew as big as 20 in the fourth quarter, but after Othman fouled out, Perspectives Charter was able to make some inroads. The Bulldogs were never in danger of relinquishing their lead, but they also weren’t able to emphatically slam the door on their foe. Meier (20 points), Othman (16) and Catledge (12, including 9-of-11 at the stripe) were Richards’ offensive stars, while Slaughter loomed large as a defensive pres-ence. His work on the Panthers’ David Bryant was a key to the ’Dogs’ success — after scoring 12 first-quarter points, Bryant netted just two more baskets over the next two frames. “A lot of different guys are step-ping up,” Chappetto said. “We’re playing nine or 10 guys, and some of them are guys I thought would be cut.”Richards 59Marist 40 Under a revamped tournament format that divided eight teams into two separate pools, the Bull-dogs met up with the RedHawks to decide an overall champion. Like Richards, Marist had chalked up three consecutive victories to begin its 2013-14 campaign. And 16 minutes into the title clash, the two teams were evenly matched. With Meier beset by foul trouble, the Bulldogs had a difficult time generating a great deal of offense, and their halftime lead stood at a meager two points (23-21). But everything changed in the third quarter. With Meier back in action and supplying nine points, Richards embarked on a momen-tum-shifting 17-0 run that put it in full command. “We really turned up the pres-sure and forced them to rush,” Chappetto said of the RedHawks, “and I think their inexperience showed a little bit there.” Othman (19 points) and Meier (17) again led the way for the Bulldogs. Catledge scored eight points, two of which came on a thunderous dunk that followed a steal.Perspectives Charter 69Shepard 43 Last Tuesday’s matchup against the Panthers presented Chiuccari-ello with a reunion of sorts — on the opposite sideline sat Javon Mamon and Mike Smith. Mamon is a former Homewood-Flossmoor player whom Chiuc-cariello remembered from the Astros’ days in the now-defunct SICA East, and Mamon’s brother, Jesse, once played for Shepard. So, too, did Smith, who teamed with Michael Hall, Reggie George and Jon Cleveland to form one of the Astros’ best-ever contingents in the early 2000s. Mamon and Smith put aside any personal fondness of Chi-uccariello long enough to have Perspectives Charter dole out a defeat. The Panthers outscored Shepard in every quarter, start-ing with a 12-7 advantage in the opening period. While Chiuccariello had no trou-ble crediting Perspectives Charter for all it did right, he also thought the Astros “could have done some things better out there.” “We could have done a better job with our effort and execu-tion,” Chiuccariello said. “I was disappointed with the team aspect — we didn’t do a very good job of moving the ball and we forced some things on an individual ba-sis. That’s not what I consider to be Shepard basketball. “We always talk about [the fact] there are things we can control, and this was the one game out of four I felt we didn’t play very well.” Evidence of the Astros’ lack of sharing was found in their total of just eight assists. Longfield (13 points) and Littleton (12) both cracked the double-figure plateau in scoring, but Shepard shot only 30 percent from the floor while committing 23 turnovers and getting out-rebounded by a 37-21 margin.Andrew 53Shepard 48 The Astros and T’bolts went toe-to-toe for three periods and took a 40-all tie into the final frame last Wednesday, but Andrew inched in front near the end and handed Shepard a tough-to-swal-low loss. Littleton’s layup off a Zack Hexel assist had the Astros within a point with two minutes to go, but Shepard missed a 3-pointer on its next trip down the floor and then allowed the T’bolts to

rebound their own missed free throw. Andrew, which had net-ted a basket right before the charity toss, ran more seconds off the clock to put the Astros into a deeper — and ultimately inescapable — hole. But while his club suffered a third straight setback, Chiuccari-ello saw a light in the apparent darkness. “I thought it was the hardest and most together we’ve played so far,” he said. “When you do those things, you’re at least giving yourself a chance to win.” For the first time in three games, Shepard played even with its foe on the glass and committed fewer turnovers. Littleton (16 points, five assists) and Longfield (12 points, six rebounds) once again gave the Astros’ attack much of its juice, but Shepard’s accuracy rate continued to languish near the 40 percent mark.Shepard 74Southland Prep 41 Everything finally clicked for the Astros on Saturday, when they drubbed Southland Prep in a meeting of last-place pool fin-ishers. A 22-11 edge in the first quarter got Shepard going, and it followed up with a 21-9 scor-ing advantage over the next eight minutes. Littleton was four assists away from recording a triple-double, as he totaled 28 points, 10 rebounds and six assists. Longfield contrib-uted 10 points and eight boards, Yakov Witherspoon delivered eight points and six rebounds, and Darren Cohen also tossed in eight points. While Chiuccariello still wasn’t thrilled with his club’s lack of ac-curacy, having 66 shot attempts enabled the Astros to survive another round of rather heavy misfiring. Shepard benefited from a 44-29 differential on the glass — which included 15 offensive rebounds — 25 made free throws and 24 Southland Prep turnovers, which were seven more than the locals committed. The losing team shot only 26 percent from the floor. “Southland Prep’s a little down, so it’s hard to gauge this game,” Chiuccariello said. “But for the second game in a row, we played as a team. That’s where we have to get with this group — being [consistently] unselfish.”Marist 62Little Village 35 The 20 turnovers and 18 per-cent shooting that undermined the RedHawks in their Friday loss to Richards ran counter to everything else they accomplished in the District 218 Tournament before that. Its lopsided season-opening conquest of Little Village was a better example of what Marist can do when its execution is up to snuff. The RedHawks jumped out to an 11-point lead in the first quarter and kept on extending that margin over the remaining 24 minutes. With Jeremiah Ferguson (17 points, eight rebounds, two as-sists), Bradley Hill (16 points, two assists, two steals) and Kevin Lerma (13 points, two steals) showing the way, Marist sank 57 percent of its two-point shots. Complementing that display was a defense that caused 20 Little Village turnovers. “I thought our efficiency on both sides of the ball was very good, and winning just becomes a product of that,” RedHawks coach Gene Nolan said. The rapid getaway for Marist was somewhat unexpected, seeing as how 10 seniors graduated from the program last spring, including career scoring leader LJ McIntosh and No. 1 assist man Lexus Wil-liams. With Ryan Tucker and Nic Weishar not yet available follow-ing a prolonged football season, Ken Rivard was the lone Red-Hawks player with any degree of past varsity experience. “It’s different,” Nolan said of his team’s situation. “All of the faces are new, but it’s something exciting. We’re kind of learning about ourselves, [but] some un-knowns became knowns, or at least we got a better sense of what we have. “For a team with as little experi-ence as us, the game minutes are what we’re lacking. However they set it up, we’ve always enjoyed going to [the District 218 event], but getting a guaranteed fourth game was big for us.”Marist 67Southland Prep 42 Although the RedHawks chalked up another convincing win last Tuesday, that didn’t begin happening until the sec-ond quarter. The first period was spent engaging Southland Prep in a heated battle. Nolan wasn’t completely taken aback by Marist’s slow start. “Everybody’s always up to play Game 1, no matter who it is,” he said. “The real test is in Game 2, when the excitement has worn off. That’s always a challenge. “We want to make sure we al-ways approach things the way we need to and find a way to play well for four quarters, not just the middle two.” Doing well in the second and third periods was enough to boost the RedHawks on this particu-lar occasion, however. An 8-0 run

triggered by contributions from Ferguson, Lerma and Kyle Reyn-olds, plus a couple of Southland turnovers gave Marist a double-digit edge during the earlier of those stanzas. The RedHawks outscored Southland 20-9 over that eight-minute stretch to assume a 34-19 halftime lead and then posted a 19-12 advantage in the third frame to basically seal the deal. Lerma finished with 21 points, six rebounds and three steals to pace Marist, while Reynolds (11 points), Ferguson (10 points, five rebounds) and freshman Romello Burrell (seven points, six re-bounds) all offered able support behind him. Three other players had six points for the RedHawks, who shot 59 percent from inside the arc and collected 36 rebounds. “We were able to play everybody in the first two games, which re-ally helped [their development],” Nolan said. Notable in this game was Marist’s lack of reliance on the 3-ball. Normally a major compo-nent in the RedHawks’ attack, the long shots taken here numbered just six. “One of the things for us is having an accurate perception of reality,” Nolan said. “We can’t ask every kid to be great at every-thing. We want to accentuate our strengths and stay away from our weaknesses.”Marist 97Eisenhower 93 Even when pitted against the shot-happy Cardinals last Wednes-day, the RedHawks didn’t sud-denly start launching bombs. Marist, in fact, reduced its total of 3-point tries to two. Nevertheless, the RedHawks had enough potency to withstand a typical Eisenhower barrage and emerge with a third consecutive victory in Blue Island. The Cards did briefly grab a fourth-quarter lead, but that 79-78 edge soon turned into a 92-85 advantage for Marist. Nolan, though, didn’t grow too comfortable. “When you play a team like Eisenhower, no lead is safe and no deficit is insurmountable,” he said. Sure enough, the Cardinals came roaring back and drew within 93-90 with 45 seconds left. Eisenhower’s best shooter then missed an open 3 and Brian Barry’s two free throws created a five-point margin, but Marist


Bulldogs required another pair of charity tosses from Lerma to survive after the Cardinals drilled one more long-range bucket. There were still 5.6 seconds left after Lerma buried his second foul shot, but with no timeouts remaining, Eisenhower was in a dire predicament. “We told our players, ‘Let them fly the ball up the floor because they can’t stop the clock,’” Nolan said. “They couldn’t win unless we fouled them on a [made] 3-point shot, so we just had to make sure we didn’t. “To win a game like this was a real character test for our team, and our kids responded very well.” Five players tallied in double figures for the RedHawks, a group led by Lerma, who deposited 28 points on Marist’s behalf. Chamar Hawkins had 15, Ferguson and Burrell 12 apiece, and Hill 11. Six players grabbed at least four rebounds. The RedHawks shot 61 percent in the game.

*** Hill’s 12 points represented Marist’s high-water mark against Richards, as the Bulldogs’ pres-sure defense continually frus-trated the RedHawks. “Their pressure on our guards really sped us up and we were not able to get into an offensive rhythm,” Nolan said. “All of their kids stepped up and played well. A sign of a really good team is when it finds [different] ways to win.”

Statistics

Shepard 14 13 17 11 - 55Richards 21 20 19 23 - 83

Shepard Scoring: Littleton 25, Longfield 10, Cohen 9, Lawson 5, Heidinger 3, Witherspoon 2, Hexel 1. Rebounds: Hei-dinger 4, Hexel 4, Longfield 4.

Richards Scoring: Meier 21, T. Othman 20, Catledge 9, Alexander 8, Cottrell 6, Slaughter 6, Jones 4, Hussein 3, Anag-nostopolous 2, Burton 2, O. Othman 2. Rebounds: Catledge 8, Meier 6. Assists: Alexander 5, T. Othman 5. Steals: Alex-ander 3, Catledge 3.

Andrew 3 6 7 10 - 26Richards 11 16 15 16 - 58

Richards Scoring: Meier 21, Alexander 10, T. Othman 10, Catledge 6, Anag-nostopolous 2, Cottrell 2, Hussein 2, O. Othman 2, Spencer 2, Jones 1. Rebounds: Meier 13, Catledge 9. Assists: T. Othman

3. Steals: Catledge 4.

Persp. Charter 16 18 6 18 - 58Richards 17 19 16 15 - 67

Richards Scoring: Meier 20, T. Othman 16, Catledge 12, Anagnostopolous 9, Cottrell 4, Slaughter 4, Jones 2.

Marist 11 10 4 15 - 40Richards 15 8 21 15 - 59

Marist Scoring: Hill 12, Hawkins 7, Reyn-olds 7, Ferguson 6, Turner 5, Burrell 3. Rebounds: Hawkins 6. Assists: Fergu-son 5.

Richards Scoring: T. Othman 19, Meier 17, Catledge 8, Hussein 7, Cottrell 5, Anagnostopolous 3.

Persp. Charter 12 18 18 21 - 69Shepard 7 11 11 14 - 43

Shepard Scoring: Longfield 13, Little-ton 12, Cohen 7, Ogungbemi 6, Hexel 2, Lawson 2, Witherspoon 1. Rebounds: Cohen 5.

Andrew 15 9 16 13 - 53Shepard 11 13 16 8 - 48

Shepard Scoring: Littleton 16, Longfield 12, Cohen 9, Ogungbemi 5, Witherspoon 4, Gorski 2. Rebounds: Longfield 6. As-sists: Littleton 5.

Southland Prep 11 9 5 16 - 41Shepard 22 21 16 15 - 74

Shepard scoring: Littleton 28, Longfield 10, Cohen 8, Witherspoon 8, Hexel 6, Vitello 5, Ogungbemi 3, Gorski 2, Law-son 2, Smith 2. Rebounds: Littleton 10, Longfield 8, Witherspoon 6. Assists: Littleton 6.

Little Village 6 12 9 8 - 35Marist 17 16 18 11 - 62

Marist Scoring: Ferguson 17, Hill 16, Lerma 13, Hawkins 5, Burrell 4, Rivard 4, Turner 2, Barry 1. Rebounds: Ferguson 8, Hawkins 8. Assists: Ferguson 2, Hill 2. Steals: Hill, Lerma.

Southland Prep 10 9 12 11 - 42Marist 14 20 19 14 - 67

Marist Scoring: Lerma 21, Reynolds 11, Ferguson 10, Burrell 7, Hill 6, Rivard 6, Turner 6. Rebounds: Burrell 6, Lerma 6, Rivard 6, Ferguson 5. Assists: Hawkins 3, Turner 3. Steals: Lerma 3.

Marist 23 32 15 27 - 97Eisenhower 23 18 24 28 - 93

Marist Scoring: Lerma 28, Hawkins 15, Burrell 12, Ferguson 12, Hill 11, Reynolds 9, Barry 8, Rivard 2. Rebounds: Ferguson 6. Assists: Ferguson 5.


Crusaderswe’ve got to do all the little things to make sure we compete,” Har-rigan said. “Guys need to come off the bench and be confident. “Teams will make sure Ray and Quinn don’t hurt them too badly, but if [Rubio and Niego] know they’re being keyed on, they’ll be sure to get other guys involved.”Brother Rice 58Rich Central 38 That was the scenario against the Olympians last Saturday. While Niego (12 points) and Rubio (11 points, six rebounds, four assists, three steals) did their part to aid the Rice cause, so, too, did several others. A total of nine Crusaders reached the scor-ing column, and football players Dan Scanlon and Luke Mueller also gathered in 14 rebounds be-tween them. “They’ve both stepped up and given us some toughness,” Har-rigan said of the latter pair. With Scanlon and Mueller lead-ing the charge, Rice held a decisive 32-16 edge on the boards. The Crusaders also shone on defense, as evidenced by Rich Central’s 31 percent shooting and 15 turn-overs.Riverside-Brookfield 69Brother Rice 66 The host Bulldogs trailed the Crusaders by 10 points at one

juncture of last Friday’s matchup, but R-B bounced back from a meager eight-point third period to score 26 fourth-quarter points and ease its way past Rice. The Bulldogs prospered be-hind 60 percent marksmanship and a measurable differential at the free-throw line. There, R-B sank two more tosses than the Crusaders attempted (25-23). Once again Rubio and Niego were something of a two-man gang for Rice, as they combined for 43 points. Rubio augmented his offense with eight rebounds and three assists. “I was kicking myself for small things I could have done differ-ently,” Harrigan said. “I want our default mind-set to be one of aggressiveness.”OPRF 68Brother Rice 48 The tale of the tape last Mon-day was the Crusaders’ disastrous opening stanza. Rice never fully recovered from a two-point output that shoved it into a double-digit hole. The Huskies outshot the Cru-saders 62 percent to 44 overall and by 14 percent (43-29) from behind the arc. Niego had 21 points for Rice and Rubio added 15, but no other Crusader generated more than five. Harrigan understands that some Rice fans might not be as satisfied with the team’s four-game split as he was, but that’s OK with him.

“There’s definitely an expecta-tion,” Harrigan said. “That’s one of the things Coach Richardson established, and that’s good.” The Crusaders begin Chicago Catholic League play on Friday versus longtime nemesis Mt. Carmel.

Statistics

Brother Rice 2 15 16 15 - 48OP-RF 14 19 15 20 - 68

Brother Rice Scoring: Niego 21, Rubio 15, Collins 5, Finn 4, Baldali 3. Rebounds: Mueller 5. Assists: Finn 3.

Brother Rice 7 10 23 25 - 65Kenwood Acad. 11 11 12 24 - 58

Brother Rice Scoring: Niego 27, Rubio 27, Baldali 4, Mueller 4, Conlisk 3. Rebounds: Collins 5, Niego 5, Rubio 5. Assists: Con-lisk 1, Niego 1, Rubio 1.

Brother Rice 12 19 15 20 - 66R-B 13 22 8 26 - 69

Brother Rice Scoring: Rubio 24, Niego 19, Finn 9, Gallagher 7, Mueller 5, Scanlon 2. Rebounds: Rubio 8, Mueller 7. As-sists: Rubio 3.

Rich Central 8 8 8 14 - 38Brother Rice 17 15 11 15 - 58

Brother Rice Scoring: Niego 12, Rubio 11, Finn 8, Scanlon 8, Collins 5, Finn 4, Gallagher 4, Perez 4, Baldali 2. Rebounds: Mueller 8, Rubio 6, Scanlon 6. Assists: Perez 4, Rubio 4. Steals: Rubio 3.

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. Plaintiff, -v.- ANTHONY M. JARZEMBOWSKI A/K/A TONY JARZEMBOWSKI, KARI M. HETT, DEER CHASE ESTATES HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION, BMO HARRIS BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, JILL GALVIN, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRE-CORD CLAIMANTS Defendants12 CH 043160 17231 BROWNING DRIVE ORLAND PARK, IL 60467NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclo-sure and Sale entered in the above cause on September 26, 2013, Auction.com, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 1:00 PM on January 8, 2014, at the Holiday Inn Chicago Mart Plaza, 350 West Mart Center Drive (in the Auction.com room), CHICAGO, IL, 60654, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Com-monly known as 17231 BROWNING DRIVE, OR-LAND PARK, IL 60467 Property Index No. 27-29-422-002, Property Index No. (27-29-401-004/012, 27-29-403-001, 27-29-011 Underlying). The real estate is improved with a residence. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certi ed funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accept-ed. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certi ed funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residen-tial real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to con rmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certi cate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after con rmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court le to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common in-terest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SEC-TION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information, examine the court le or contact Plaintiff’s attorney: CO-DILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876. Please refer to le num-ber 14-12-34828. THE JUDICIAL SALES COR-PORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. AUCTION.COM LLC For Additional Information regarding Auction.com, please visit www.Auc-tion.com or call (800-280-2832) CODILIS & AS-SOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 Attorney File No. 14-12-34828 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 12 CH 043160 TJSC#: 33-22037 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.I571735

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION JPMORGAN CHASE BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Plaintiff, -v.-JACK HOWE JR. A/K/A JACK O. HOWE JR., AMERIPRISE BANK, FSB, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ORLAN-BROOK CONDOMINIUM OWNER’S ASSOCIATION, UNKNOWN OWN-ERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTSDefendants12 CH 2102615500 ORLAN BROOK DRIVE #221 ORLAND PARK, IL 60462NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclo-sure and Sale entered in the above cause on September 24, 2013, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on January 8, 2014, at the The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive - 24th Floor, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bid-der, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 15500 ORLAN BROOK DRIVE #221, ORLAND PARK, IL 60462 Property Index No. 27-14-302-018-1389, Property Index No. 27-14-302-018-1441. The real estate is improved with a four unit condominium building with individual garages. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certi ed funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corpora-tion. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Aban-doned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certi ed funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further sub-ject to con rmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certi cate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after con rmation of the sale. Where a sale of real estate is made to satisfy a lien prior to that of the United States, the United States shall have one year from the date of sale within which to redeem, except that with respect to a lien arising under the internal revenue laws the period shall be 120 days or the period allow-able for redemption under State law, whichever is longer, and in any case in which, under the provi-sions of section 505 of the Housing Act of 1950, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1701k), and subsection (d) of section 3720 of title 38 of the United States Code, the right to redeem does not arise, there shall be no right of redemption. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court le to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common in-terest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SEC-TION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information: Visit our website at service.atty-pierce.com. between the hours of 3 and 5 pm. PIERCE & ASSOCIATES, Plaintiff’s Attorneys, One North Dearborn Street Suite 1300, CHICAGO, IL 60602. Tel No. (312) 476-5500. Please refer to le number PA1127530. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. PIERCE & ASSOCIATES One North Dearborn Street Suite 1300 CHICAGO, IL 60602 (312) 476-5500 Attor-ney File No. PA1127530 Attorney Code. 91220 Case Number: 12 CH 21026 TJSC#: 33-21382I573947

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, I L L I N O I S �COUNTY DEPARTMENT, CHANCERY DIVISIONMIDFIRST BANK,P l a i n t i f f �V . �RUTA HARDIN A/K/A RUTA KHAN; NOORUN KHAN; MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC.; THE RIVIERA IN PALOS IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD C L A I M A N T S , �D e f e n d a n t s �11 CH 3582Property Address: 23 COUR MADELEINE PALOS HILLS, IL 60465NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALEFisher and Shapiro file # 11-049689(It is advised that interested parties consult with theirown attorneys before bidding at mortgage foreclosure s a l e s . ) �PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered on April 19, 2013, Kallen Realty Services, Inc., as Selling Official will at 12:30 p.m. on January 3, 2014, at 205 W. Randolph Street, Suite 1020, Chicago, Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described real property:Commonly known as 23 Cour Madeleine, Palos Hills, IL 6 0 4 6 5 �Permanent Index No.: 23-23-101-018The mortgaged real estate is improved with a dwelling. The property will NOT be open for inspection.The judgment amount was $ 216,835.68. Sale terms for non-parties: 10% of successful bid immediately at conclusion of auction, balance by 12:30 p.m. the next business day, both by cashier's checks; and no refunds. The sale shall be subject to general real estate taxes, special taxes, special assessments, special taxes levied, and superior liens, if any. The property is offered "as is," with no express or implied warranties and without any representation as to the quality of title or recourse to Plaintiff. Prospective bidders are admonished to review the court file to verify all information and to view auction rules at w w w . k a l l e n r s . c o m . �For information: Sale Clerk, Fisher and Shapiro, Attorney # 42168, 2121 Waukegan Road, Suite 301, Bannockburn, Illinois 60015, (847) 291-1717, between 1:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. weekdays only.I570790

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL A S S O C I A T I O N �P l a i n t i f f , �- v . - �MOHAMMED H. SHOUBAKID e f e n d a n t s �10 CH 02700215410 YORKSHIRE LANE ORLAND PARK, IL 60462NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on October 1, 2013, Auction.com, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 1:00 PM on January 8, 2014, at the Holiday Inn Chicago Mart Plaza, 350 West Mart Center Drive (in the Auction.com room), CHICAGO, IL, 60654, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 15410 YORKSHIRE LANE, ORLAND PARK, IL 60462 Property Index No. 27-15-208-011. The real estate is improved with a residence. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "AS IS" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information, examine the court file or contact Plaintiff's attorney: CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876. Please refer to file number 14-10-19875. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. AUCTION.COM LLC For Additional Information regarding Auction.com, please visit www.Auction.com or call (800-280-2832) CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 Attorney File No. 14-10-19875 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 10 CH 027002 TJSC#: 33-22296 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff's attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.I571988

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION CITIMORTGAGE, INC. SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO ABN AMRO MORTGAGE GROUP, I N C . �P l a i n t i f f , �- v . - �NANCY LIZOTTE, BANK OF AMERICA, NA S/B/M TO LASALLE BANK NA, HICKORY OAKS CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION UNIT 1, UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF CHARLENE M LIZOTTE, IF ANY, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS, WILLIAM BUTCHER, SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE ESTATE OF CHARLENE M. LIZOTTE, D E C E A S E D �D e f e n d a n t s �13 CH 078699430 GREENBRIAR DRIVE UNIT 1F Hickory Hills, IL 6 0 4 5 7 �NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on October 4, 2013, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on January 7, 2014, at the The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive - 24th Floor, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate:Commonly known as 9430 GREENBRIAR DRIVE UNIT 1F, Hickory Hills, IL 60457 Property Index No. 23-02-303-109-1006. The real estate is improved with a three story multi unit condominium. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "AS IS" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information: Visit our website at service.atty-pierce.com. between the hours of 3 and 5 pm. PIERCE & ASSOCIATES, Plaintiff's Attorneys, One North Dearborn Street Suite 1300, CHICAGO, IL 60602. Tel No. (312) 476-5500. Please refer to file number PA1302676. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. PIERCE & ASSOCIATES One North Dearborn Street Suite 1300 CHICAGO, IL 60602 (312) 476-5500 Attorney File No. PA1302676 Attorney Code. 91220 Case Number: 13 CH 07869 TJSC#: 33-23524I573216

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION CALIBER HOME LOANS, INC. Plaintiff, -v.- MUHAMMAD A. JAVAID, MOQUDDAS C. JA-VAID, A.S.A. CONSTRUCTION INC., VILLAGE OF ORLAND PARK, CAPITAL ONE BANK (USA), N.A.Defendants13 CH 007981 14721 S. 88TH AVENUE ORLAND PARK, IL 60462NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on October 3, 2013, Auction.com, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 1:00 PM on January 8, 2014, at the Holiday Inn Chicago Mart Plaza, 350 West Mart Center Drive (in the Auction.com room), CHICAGO, IL, 60654, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following de-scribed real estate: Commonly known as 14721 S. 88TH AVENUE, ORLAND PARK, IL 60462 Prop-erty Index No. 27-10-409-029. The real estate is improved with a single family residence. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certi ed funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judi-cial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Mu-nicipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on resi-dential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the pur-chaser not to exceed $300, in certi ed funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment credi-tor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject prop-erty is subject to general real estate taxes, spe-cial assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condi-tion. The sale is further subject to con rmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certi cate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real es-tate after con rmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court le to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common in-terest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SEC-TION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information, examine the court le or contact Plaintiff’s attorney: CO-DILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876. Please refer to le num-ber 14-13-06971. THE JUDICIAL SALES COR-PORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. AUCTION.COM LLC For Additional Information regarding Auction.com, please visit www.Auc-tion.com or call (800-280-2832) CODILIS & AS-SOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 Attorney File No. 14-13-06971 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 13 CH 007981 TJSC#: 33-22606 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.I571719

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOISCOUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVI-SIONONEWEST BANK, FSB Plaintiff, -v.- JEFFREY S. HANSEN A/K/A JEFF HANSEN, DONNA J. HANSEN, ROBERT DUFFER, CE-LESTE ZYWICIEL, SUNSET RIDGE CONDO-MINIUM ASSOCIATION, INC. A/K/A ORLAND GOLF VIEW CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION CALENDAR #58: JUDGE SIMKO Defendants 12 CH 044071 15713 S. SUNSET RIDGE COURT UNIT #1N OR-LAND PARK, IL 60462NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclo-sure and Sale entered in the above cause on July 30, 2013, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corpo-ration, will at 10:30 AM on December 19, 2013, at the The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive - 24th Floor, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 15713 S. SUNSET RIDGE COURT UNIT #1N, ORLAND PARK, IL 60462 Property Index No. 27-14-401-021-1039. The real estate is improved with a condo/townhouse. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certi ed funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judi-cial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Mu-nicipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on resi-dential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the pur-chaser not to exceed $300, in certi ed funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment credi-tor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject prop-erty is subject to general real estate taxes, spe-cial assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” con-dition. The sale is further subject to con rmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certi cate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after con rmation of the sale. The prop-erty will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court le to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mort-gagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condo-minium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POS-SESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For informa-tion, examine the court le or contact Plaintiff’s at-torney: CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876. Please refer to le number 14-12-34028. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corpora-tion at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 At-torney File No. 14-12-34028 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 12 CH 044071 TJSC#: 33-25168 NOTE: Pursu-ant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.I574265

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, I L L I N O I S �COUNTY DEPARTMENT, CHANCERY DIVISIONJPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL A S S O C I A T I O N , �P l a i n t i f f �V . �WILLIAM M. THOMAS; ANGELA L. THOMASA/K/A ANGIE L. THOMAS; WEBSTER BANK, N.A.;PALISADES COLLECTION, LLC; CITY OF C H I C A G O , �AN ILLINOIS MUNICIPAL CORPORATION;MONTEREY FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC.,ASSIGNEE OF ARONSON FURNITURE COMPANY,D e f e n d a n t s �12 CH 42024Property Address: 6843 WEST EDGEWOOD RD. PALOS HEIGHTS, IL 60463NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALEFisher and Shapiro file # 11-056227(It is advised that interested parties consult with theirown attorneys before bidding at mortgage foreclosure s a l e s . ) �PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered on October 8, 2013, Kallen Realty Services, Inc., as Selling Official will at 12:30 p.m. on January 6, 2014, at 205 W. Randolph Street, Suite 1020, Chicago, Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described real property:Commonly known as 6843 West Edgewood Road, Palos Heights, IL 60463Permanent Index No.: 24-31-110-008-0000The mortgaged real estate is improved with a dwelling. The property will NOT be open for inspection.The judgment amount was $ 308,991.77. Sale terms for non-parties: 10% of successful bid immediately at conclusion of auction, balance by 12:30 p.m. the next business day, both by cashier's checks; and no refunds. The sale shall be subject to general real estate taxes, special taxes, special assessments, special taxes levied, and superior liens, if any. The property is offered "as is," with no express or implied warranties and without any representation as to the quality of title or recourse to Plaintiff. Prospective bidders are admonished to review the court file to verify all information and to view auction rules at w w w . k a l l e n r s . c o m . �For information: Sale Clerk, Fisher and Shapiro, Attorney # 42168, 2121 Waukegan Road, Suite 301, Bannockburn, Illinois 60015, (847) 291-1717, between 1:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. weekdays only.I569650

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, I L L I N O I S �COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISIONWELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. SUCCESSOR IN I N T E R E S T �TO WORLD SAVINGS BANK, FSBP l a i n t i f f , �v s . �NANCY L. BLARY; ORLAND GOLF VIEW C O N D O M I N I U M �ASSOCIATION; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON R E C O R D �CLAIMANTS; Defendants,12 CH 6672NOTICE OF SALE PURSUANT TOJUDGMENT OF FORECLOSUREUNDER ILLINOIS MORTGAGEFORECLOSURE LAWPUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause on September 20, 2013, Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Friday, January 10, 2014, at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described property:P.I.N. 27-14-412-013-1047.Commonly known as 15704 FOXBEND COURT UNIT 2N, ORLAND PARK, IL 60462.The mortgaged real estate is improved with a condominium residence. The purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by subdivisions (g)(1) and (g)(4) of Section 9 of the Condominium Property Act Sale terms: 25% down by certified funds, balance within 24 hours, by certified funds. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the premises after confirmation of the sale.For information: Visit our website at http://service.atty-pierce.com. Between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. only. Pierce & Associates, Plaintiff's Attorneys, 1 North Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois 60602. Tel.No. (312) 476-5500. Refer to File Number 1200445.INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATIONSelling Officer, (312) 444-1122I574956

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL A S S O C I A T I O N �P l a i n t i f f , �- v . - �DAINIUS KOPUSTAS, VIRGINIA KOPUSTIENED e f e n d a n t s �13 CH 124019424 S. 83rd Ave. Hickory Hills, IL 60457NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on October 2, 2013, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on January 3, 2014, at the The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive - 24th Floor, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 9424 S. 83rd Ave., Hickory Hills, IL 60457 Property Index No. 23-02-411-013-0000. The real estate is improved with a single family residence. The judgment amount was $283,392.17. Sale terms: The bid amount, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, shall be paid in certified funds immediately by the highest and best bidder at the conclusion of the sale. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "AS IS" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information, contact Plaintiff's attorney: HEAVNER, SCOTT, BEYERS & MIHLAR, LLC, 111 East Main Street, DECATUR, IL 62523, (217) 422-1719. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee's attorney. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. HEAVNER, SCOTT, BEYERS & MIHLAR, LLC 111 East Main Street DECATUR, IL 62523 (217) 422-1719 Attorney Code. 40387 Case Number: 13 CH 12401 TJSC#: 33-22617 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff's attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.I567985


IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISIONPNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION SUCCES-SOR BY MERGER TO NATIONAL CITY BANK SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO MID AMERICA BANK, FSB Plaintiff, -v.- GEORGE DODAS, THEODORE DODAS, OR-LAND VIEW CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION, UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF AR-GIRIOS DODAS, IF ANY, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS, PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION S/B/M TO NATIONAL CITY BANK, WILLIAM BUTCHER, SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE ESTATE OF AR-GIRIOS DODAS, DECEASED Defendants12 CH 4513515801 SOUTH 76TH AVENUE UNIT 2B ORLAND PARK, IL 60462 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclo-sure and Sale entered in the above cause on September 24, 2013, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on January 8, 2014, at the The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive - 24th Floor, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate:Commonly known as 15801 SOUTH 76TH AVENUE UNIT 2B, ORLAND PARK, IL 60462 Property Index No. 27-13-402-025-1005, Property Index No. 27-13-402-025-1017. The real estate is improved with a 6 unit condominium with a two car detached garage. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certi ed funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corpora-tion. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Aban-doned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real es-tate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certi ed funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residen-tial real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to con rmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certi cate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after con rmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court le to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common in-terest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SEC-TION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information: Visit our website at service.atty-pierce.com. between the hours of 3 and 5 pm. PIERCE & ASSOCIATES, Plaintiff’s Attorneys, One North Dearborn Street Suite 1300, CHICAGO, IL 60602. Tel No. (312) 476-5500. Please refer to le number PA1224748. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. PIERCE & ASSOCIATES One North Dearborn Street Suite 1300 CHICAGO, IL 60602 (312) 476-5500 Attor-ney File No. PA1224748 Attorney Code. 91220 Case Number: 12 CH 45135 TJSC#: 33-21311I573779

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY D I V I S I O N �PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO NATIONAL CITY BANK, SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO MID AMERICA BANK, FSBP l a i n t i f f , �- v . - �ROMUALDA ROKITTA A/K/A ROMUALDA UZKURIENE, WOODS EDGE II CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION Defendants13 CH 110049174 SOUTH RD APT F PALOS HILLS, IL 60465NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on October 1, 2013, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on January 8, 2014, at the The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive - 24th Floor, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 9174 SOUTH RD APT F, PALOS HILLS, IL 60465 Property Index No. 23-22-200-045-1024. The real estate is improved with a six unit condominium with a one car detached garage. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "AS IS" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information: Visit our website at service.atty-pierce.com. between the hours of 3 and 5 pm. PIERCE & ASSOCIATES, Plaintiff's Attorneys, One North Dearborn Street Suite 1300, CHICAGO, IL 60602. Tel No. (312) 476-5500. Please refer to file number PA1305752. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. PIERCE & ASSOCIATES One North Dearborn Street Suite 1300 CHICAGO, IL 60602 (312) 476-5500 Attorney File No. PA1305752 Attorney Code. 91220 Case Number: 13 CH 11004 TJSC#: 33-21873I573949

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‘Joan Walsh Anglund’Christmas luncheon

The Center, 12700 Southwest Highway, Palos Park, will host a Joan Walsh Anglund-style Christ-mas Luncheon on Tuesday, Dec. 10, from noon to 2:30 p.m. Each December, The Center celebrates an artist whose Christ-mas artwork they love. This year they are sharing their love and enjoyment of beloved folk artist Joan Walsh Anglund. Do you re-member those tiny books, in the 1960s and ’70s, of wisdom and drawings of wide-eyed children? Accompanied by photos of her artwork and stories of her life, Lois Lauer will lead the celebra-tion of the life and work of Joan Walsh Anglund and also include some favorite Christmas carols and readings from her books. With the help of Center art teacher April Schabes, the event will end with some Joan Walsh Anglund-inspired Christmas crafts. The luncheon costs $17 per person, and requires reservations. Call The Center at 361-3650.

The Bridge TeenCenter upcoming events • Holiday Tunes with Ashleigh Ashton — 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. Dec. 6, The Bridge Teen Cen-ter, 15555 S. 71st Court, Orland Park, will serve hot chocolate and live holiday music from Ashleigh

Ashton. • Aaron Williams and Wooden Paddle — 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. Dec. 7, listen to live music from Aaron Williams and get free pizza from Wooden Paddle Pizza. This event is exclusively for students in 9th-12th grade and is free with a stu-dent membership application or $5 with a school ID. For more information call 532-0500 or visit thebridgeteencenter.org. • Christmas Cookies — 4 to 5:30 p.m. Dec. 10, decorate or bake a tray of Christmas cookies. • Help, I’m Lost! — 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. Dec. 11, learn all about driving permits with activities to get ready for the road. • Recording and Mixing — 4:30 to 6 p.m. Dec. 11, a new multime-dia studio that allows students to record and create demos of their very own music. Learn how the equipment and software is used before reserving your own studio time. • Cross Stitch Frame — 5 to 6 p.m. Dec. 12, pick a word that inspires you and cross stitch it onto a screen inside a picture frame. • Dream Drop Distance — 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. Dec. 13, live music from Dream Drop Distance and free food from Famous Dave’s. This free event is for teens in 7th through 12th grade. For more information, call 532-0500 or visit thebridgeteencenter.org.

Labyrinth Group labyrinth walks will be

Broaden Your Horizonsheld on Thursday evening, Dec. 5, at 5:30 p.m. and Saturday morn-ing, Dec. 7, at 8 a.m., at The Center, 12700 Southwest High-way, Palos Park.

The labyrinth, a new large circular stone path for spiritual meditation is located at the north end of The Center parking lot. In addition to the group walks focused on peace and fellowship, the labyrinth is available for in-dividual walks at any time during the month.

There is no cost to those wish-ing to walk the labyrinth and no reservations are necessary. The walks will take place rain or shine. For information, call Pastor Chris Hopkins at 361-3650.

Dickens’Christmas dinner

Reservations are currently be-ing taken for a Dickens Christmas Dinner to be held at The Center, 12700 Southwest Highway, Palos Park, on Sunday, Dec. 8, beginning at 5:15 p.m.

The evening features a reading of Charles Dickens’ “Christmas Carol” and a roast goose, turkey, and plum pudding dinner, reminis-cent of the Bob Cratchit family’s dinner in Dickens’ story.

The Bob Cratchit Dinner costs $32 and requires reserva-tions. For reservations and more information, call The Center at 361-3650.

STARTING THIS WEEK: “THE WOLVERINE’’: Thanks in no small part to the input of director James Mangold (“Walk the Line’’), Hugh Jackman gives his “X-Men’’ character another reboot in this well-staged adventure. An appeal from an old friend (Hal Yamanouchi) to protect his daughter (Tao Okamato) sets Wolverine on a mission in contemporary Japan, where he faces not only other enemies — including one atop a bullet train in a fabulous action sequence — but also the one within himself. And, as always whenever Jackman tackles this role, special kudos to his physical trainer. DVD extras: “making-of’’ documentary. *** (PG-13 and unrated versions: AS, P, V) (Also on Blu-ray) “THE SMURFS 2’’: There’s trouble when Smurfette — whose voice is supplied again by music superstar Katy Perry — is kidnapped and taken to Paris by the ever-sinister Gargamel (Hank Azaria) in this sequel that combines animation and live action, as did the first film. Neil Patrick Harris and Jayma Mays (“Glee’’) also reprise their parts from the initial round, but the little blue Smurfs expectedly get plenty of screen time as they mount a rescue mission. The film is dedicated to the late Jonathan Winters, heard again as Papa Smurf. Alan Cumming, George Lopez, Christina Ricci and J.B. Smoove also supply voices. DVD extras: two “making-of’’ documentaries; deleted scenes. *** (PG: AS) (Also on Blu-ray and On Demand) “ T H E M O R T A L INSTRUMENTS: CITY OF BONES’’: It might seem like “Twilight’’ time again, but this familiar-feeling adventure is adapted from a separate set of best-selling books (by Cassandra Clare). Lily Collins (“Mirror Mirror’’) plays the young heroine, whose mother’s (Lena Headey)

disappearance clues her into her heritage; she’s a descendant of demon slayers, and she uncovers a world beneath New York that puts her to the test of living up to her ancestors’ skills. Co-stars include Jamie Campbell Bower, Jonathan Rhys Meyers (“Dracula’’), CCH Pounder and Jared Harris (“Mad Men’’). DVD extras: two “making-of’’ documentaries; deleted scenes; music video. *** (PG-13: AS, V) (Also on Blu-ray and On Demand) “MARY HARTMAN, MARY HARTMAN: THE COMPLETE SERIES’’: Veteran producer Norman Lear (“All in the Family’’) generated a cult classic — and also gave syndicated television another benchmark — with this satirical soap opera, casting Louise Lasser as the title housewife who faces crises both large (waxy buildup) and small (serial murders) in the fictional Ohio town of Fernwood. Martin Mull, Mary Kay Place and Dabney Coleman were among the co-stars whose fame was boosted by the show. Greg Mullavey, Dody Goodman and Debralee Scott also appear. *** (Not rated: AS, V) “THE SIMPSONS: THE SIXTEENTH SEASON’’: By now, you know whether you’re “in’’ or “out’’ when it comes to Springfield’s most famous family, the stars of television’s longest-running scripted series ... with no end in immediate sight. If you’re “in,’’ you know what to do regarding this round of the animated Fox sitcom, detailing the further misadventures of Homer, Bart and company. Among the guest voices here are Amy Poehler, Ray Romano, Stephen Hawking, James Caan, Liam Neeson and Jason Bateman. DVD extras: audio commentary by cast and crew; deleted scenes; sketch galleries; bonus episode; “Easter eggs.’’ *** (Not rated: AS, V) (Also on Blu-ray) “GOOD OL’ FREDA’’: Even those who think they know the

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Beatles’ history thoroughly should enjoy this portrait of Freda Kelly, who was the Fab Four’s secretary and confidante, witnessing their ups and downs from a perspective that only a true insider could have. The fellow Liverpudlian shares her observations of the wild ride John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr took on the roller coaster of fame during the 1960s. DVD extras: deleted and extended scenes; AXS TV documentary. *** (PG: AS, P) (Also on On Demand) COMING SOON: “ADORE’’ (Dec. 10): The long friendship of two women (Naomi Watts, Robin Wright) is threatened when each falls for the other’s son. (R: AS, P) “BATTLE OF THE YEAR’’ (Dec. 10): Dance teams from around the world compete for an international trophy. Josh Holloway (“Lost’’) stars. (PG-13: AS, P) “DESPICABLE ME 2’’ (Dec. 10): Now domesticated, the formerly evil Gru (voice of Steve Carell) is enlisted to join the Anti-Villain League in the animated sequel. (PG: AS) “FAST & FURIOUS 6’’ (Dec. 10): Vin Diesel, Paul Walker and others return as the original crew sets out to stop a team of more sinister drivers. (PG-13 and unrated versions: AS, P, V) “ELYSIUM’’ (Dec. 17): In a grim world of the future, the elite live aboard a luxurious space station hovering over a depleted Earth. Matt Damon and Jodie Foster star. (R: AS, P, GV) “THE LONE RANGER’’ (Dec. 17): As the masked hero, John Reid (Armie Hammer) gets assistance from the loyal Tonto (Johnny Depp) in trying to right wrongs in the Old West. (PG-13: AS, V) FAMILY-VIEWING GUIDE KEY: AS, adult situations; N, nudity; P, profanity; V, violence; GV, particularly graphic violence.

Vince Gilligan to direct‘Breaking Bad’ spinoff

“I NEVER drink ... wine.” That, of course, is Bela Lugosi’s famous line from the original “Dracula.” The count’s polite refusal of normal libation has been repeated down the ages by others who’ve played the role, but Bela still stands alone in his delivery and menace. Speaking of vampires. Like zombies, they are undead, in myth and in movies and TV. This is the one genre that can’t suffer a stake through the heart. (Or shot in the head - that’s how you kill a zombie.) Now we learn that acclaimed director Guillermo del Toro will present 13 episodes of a new vampire saga on FX, based on “The Strain” a trilogy of books del Toro co-authored. Apparently, the first season will tell how a “vampire virus” was conceived. The second - if there is one - will presumably show us how the vamps are being fought. Hey, AMC’s “The Walking Dead” continues to be a smash hit. So maybe FX will strike an artery with this one. ARE YOU suffering from the end of the “Breaking Bad” fever? Well, in case you can’t keep up with what goes down in TV and cable these days, let me pass on that “BB” creator Vince Gilligan has signed on for an eight-figure deal with Sony, which produced his “BB” drama on AMC. As you probably know, creator Vince has a deal for a spinoff titled “Better Call Saul,” in which his “BB” stars Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul (now ready for sainthood) will play cameo roles. And Vince swears he will also direct the “Saul” follow-up himself and stick around for a year at least. Meantime, actress Anna Gunn, who played the betrayed or treacherous - depending on your point of view - wife, Skyler, in “Breaking Bad” has her own fish to fry. She will play a detective, the lead character, in a Fox series “Gracepoint.” (This will be an American version of the BBC drama “Broadchurch.”) We will then see if all the crazy fans of “Breaking Bad” can stop

attacking and wanting to kill her, so much so that she wrote a defense of herself as an actress in The New York Times op-ed page. Now maybe they will worship her as a real-life detective; one of the good guys! ONE OF my favorite people is the actress Elizabeth Berkley. She survived being abandoned by everybody connected with the (now) classic “Showgirls” and went out on her own to face the music. It was more of a dirge of bad reviews and lousy box office. Of course, since then, the movie has made a fortune on video and DVD. Elizabeth, who had come to fame on the teen-themed “Saved by the Bell,” held her head high. Honestly, I never thought she was bad in “Showgirls.” Everybody in the film was directed to project to the balcony - in China! Berkley did as her director asked. Too young to argue. Elizabeth went on to some impressive stage, TV and screen work. She never appeared bitter. She just moved on, as they sing in “Chicago.” Recently, she’s been seen on “Dancing with the Stars” looking like a million bucks. Now the mom of a one-year-old, Elizabeth says she’s in better shape, and feels far sexier than her old “Showgirls” days. She credits the endless training with her “DWTS” partner Val Chmerkovskiy. She also tells In Touch magazine that despite her “Showgirls” role as an alluring dancer, she wasn’t that confident about herself. (Actually, to see the film now, she looks terrific but real, a body many women could identify with.) I interviewed Elizabeth a number of times over the years and always came away with a little high. She’s very positive and forward thinking. And she’s mad for animals! I’m glad the “Stars” are dancing with her! IT’S SUCH a fast-moving, fast-food world. More than ever! And it caused me to ponder the good old days of the automat. Some of you must remember? They were pretty big. Manhattan had quite a few Horn and Hardart automats scattered all over town. They served simple but tasty little meals. You could see the food through windows. Put in some

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coins or a bill and out it popped. Quite inexpensive, and the many automats were often hangouts for those who were in-between jobs, or actors (who are always in-between jobs.) The old-fashioned automats were eventually killed off by faster fast-food emporiums. I believe the last one in Manhattan closed in the early ‘90s. It might have been the one just a couple of blocks from my apartment, on the corner of Third Ave and 42nd. There’s a Gap store there now. I say bring back the automat. Make it faster, gussy it up, but keep the essentials. And don’t say it can’t be done. Back in the mid-’60s, when skirts rose and heels fell, fashion experts predicted high heels would never return. Ha! The ‘70s wave of nostalgia for the ‘40s and ‘50s brought back the platform shoe. Within a couple of years, women were again sauntering on high, slender stilettos. If you can bring back crushed toes and backs thrown out of alignment, you can bring back mac and cheese pushed through a little glass window. I AM usually loathe to print blind items. For one thing, Michael Musto does it so much better! But I can’t resist. What early-morning news show might be teetering on the edge of a tremendously entertaining scandal? It does not involve anybody being fired, promoted, using drugs, drinking, or using slur words. However S-E-X is playing a big factor! Rumors are all over the Internet, naming names. I can’t go down that road. (Ah, to be young and have made your name in the reckless age of cybergossip!) If it’s true and it breaks open, media rivals and columnists will be clutching their heads in glee. The participants will not be so joyful. (E-mail Liz Smith at [email protected].)

ARIES (March 21-April 19): A lot of smoke doesn’t necessarily mean there’s a fire. During the week ahead, you might be forced to deal with emotional issues and might not be able to act on passing enthusiasms. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): It’s admirable to be organized and strive for security. With enough hard work and by applying yourself you’ll receive recognition and easier times in the week ahead. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The only people you need in your life are those who need you in theirs. Following your heart and fancies wherever they lead may prove disappointing this week. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Maintain an angelic viewpoint and fly high above petty whims in the week ahead. Don’t lose altitude by discussing your intentions prematurely or before all the data is in. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Put business above pleasure in the week ahead. If you focus on making ambitions a reality you can go far. If you’re overly sensitive to slights you might overreact and lose traction. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): If you’re soft as a marshmallow you won’t be hurt by the hardest things. In the upcoming week, a partner may vie for your attention and be slightly unpredictable or exasperating. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Know your part by heart. This isn’t a good week to try out new

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situations. The first half of the week is a poor time to fix problems that crop up, as tinkering could make things worse. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Don’t let anyone dull your sparkle in the week ahead. You might not always get your way by using your charm but don’t let that make you feel you must head for the doghouse.

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More and more, the world of dining is going global. In my own flagship restaurant, Spago, for example, you’ll find dishes inspired by the kitchens of France, Italy, Japan, China, India, America and my own native Austria, among other places. So why, I sometimes wonder, do home cooks so often stick to one cuisine when they entertain? They’ll offer their guests an Italian-themed menu, or they’ll cook up some all-American favorites, or they’ll announce they’re “doing Chinese” for a particular evening. That approach surprises me, for two main reasons. First, offering a variety of cuisines can delight your guests, a phenomenon I see every day in my restaurants, as people not only get excited by the range of options available but also often turn a meal into an edible world tour. Second, a global approach also expands your options as a cook, giving you even more opportunities to be creative when composing a meal. Such flexibility comes into play even more as you start planning parties for the quickly approaching holiday season, especially casual gatherings featuring hors-d’oeuvres or buffet-style food. Sure, it helps to fall back on some old standbys - the cheese platter with artisanal breads and crackers, the crudites platter with assorted dips, the deviled eggs, the cocktail meatballs kept warm in a chafing dish or slow cooker. But why not add a few original twists from around the world? They don’t have to be difficult. You could have some preassembled pizzas ready to pop onto a hot pizza stone in the oven, which bake up in a matter of minutes and can be cut into small, easy-to-pass-around slices or squares. Or maybe serve some simple Chinese dumplings — pot stickers made from wonton wrappers filled with seasoned minced pork or chicken, or steamed shrimp in rice-noodle wrappers — served with a dip of soy sauce, rice vinegar, and ginger. One my favorite offerings at such parties, though, is satay, the slender skewers of marinated meat, poultry, or seafood popular in Southeast Asia. They’re very easy to assemble on bamboo or wooden skewers, cook quickly, and are great fun for guests to eat. If you have an electric countertop

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grill or griddle, you could even put it somewhere safe and secure on the buffet table and let guests cook their own or pick them up freshly cooked, since the skewers need less than a minute per side. The recipe I share here for beef satay with a Szechuan-inspired dipping sauce is incredibly simple, yet delivers big flavor. You can use it with pork, lamb, chicken, or turkey, too, and multiply or divide the quantities to suit the size of your party. I hope it will help you expand your horizons and go global during this holiday season.

BEEF SATAY WITHSPICY SZECHUAN SAUCE

Makes 24 skewersMEAT:3/4 pound New York strip steak or fillet

MARINADE:1/2 cup soy sauce1 tablespoon honey1 teaspoon red pepper flakes1/2 teaspoon ground cumin1/2 teaspoon ground turmeric

SPICY SZECHUAN SAUCE:6 tablespoons unsalted butter2 garlic cloves, blanched for 30 seconds in boiling water, drained, chilled in ice water, and minced1 organic green onion, finely chopped1/4 cup bottled hoisin sauce1/4 cup soy sauce1 teaspoon red pepper flakes

Put 2 dozen bamboo or wooden skewers in a shallow baking dish wide enough to hold them flat. Add cold water to cover, put the dish in the refrigerator, and chill

for 1 hour. Cut the steak into 24 long equal strips, each weighing about 1/2 ounce. Drain the skewers and wipe the baking dish dry. Pass each skewer back and forth through a strip of steak all along its length. Arrange the skewers on a platter or baking pan. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate until needed. About half an hour before serving time, prepare the marinade: In a small bowl, stir together the soy sauce, honey, pepper flakes, cumin and turmeric. Remove the skewers from the refrigerator, uncover them, and pour the marinade over the meat, turning the skewers to coat the meat evenly. Leave at room temperature to marinate for about 15 minutes. Meanwhile, preheat an indoor countertop electric grill, a stovetop grill pan, or the broiler. While the grill or broiler is heating, prepare the sauce: In a small skillet, melt 2 tablespoons of the butter over medium heat. Add the garlic and green onion and saute, stirring frequently, until soft, about 2 minutes. Pour in the hoisin sauce and the soy sauce, add the pepper flakes and cook 1 to 2 minutes longer. Strain into a clean pan and whisk in the remaining butter. Cover and keep warm. Just before serving, arrange the skewers on the grill or under the broiler. Cook until medium rare, 30 to 40 seconds per side. Pour the sauce into a small bowl and set in the center of a large serving platter. Arrange the skewers around the bowl and serve immediately.

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sizzle but don’t burn Imagine being able to pay for the privilege of having Sandra Lee or “Barefoot Contessa” Ina Garten use a specific kind of butter, sugar or spice in one of the recipes they prepare on TV’s Food Network. For years, that sort of thing had only been a pipe dream of various marketing executives. The people behind Food Network have kept the outlet’s how-to programming — the backbone of its daytime schedule — free from shout-outs to various comestibles made by Pillsbury, Kraft or McCormick. “We always had a policy of not doing that and the reason was that we really wanted to build a brand based upon authority and trust,” says Karen Grinthal, senior VP of ad sales for Food Network and its sibling, Cooking Channel. “We couldn’t risk losing that neutral status, which is what would have happened if we had appeared to endorse any brand within the content.” Twenty years in, however, Food Network has tweaked its advertising recipe. While the outlet continues to run a platoon of how-to programs such as “Ten Dollar Dinners” or “Cooking for Real,” it has broadened its palate. As Food Network’s programming menu has expanded, so too have opportunities to let advertisers weave themselves into the content mix. Placements can take the form of product appearances in the shows themselves, or in the ad breaks, where Food Network talent might show up in special vignettes hawking the wares. Grinthal recalls a 2006 effort that matched Guy Fieri, at the time fresh from winning “The

Every grown-up seems to be-come a child again as the holi-days approach. We’re humming carols. We’re wearing festive out-fits. We’re all wondering, at least secretly, what presents we might receive — while hurriedly finish-ing up the shopping for the ones we’re going to give. And, usually not so secretly, we’re dreaming about all the delicious, sweet holi-day treats we’re going to eat. Some of those treats we might actually bake ourselves, too. I know so many people right now who seem up to their elbows in sugar and flour, nuts and dried fruits and chocolates. They’re pulling all their baking sheets and pans from the cupboards. They’re trying to figure out how they’re going to wrap everything, and to whom they’re going to give it all. So let me offer one little sug-gestion that might ease your mind about that last-minute holiday baking: Keep it simple. Bake a batch of holiday cupcakes! Unlike fruitcakes, on which public opinion will be forever divided, cupcakes are universally loved. Who doesn’t want to re-ceive their own individual cake, one they don’t have to share, one they can eat in a single sitting? It’s like every child’s dessert fantasy come true. No wonder so many cupcake shops have popped up in recent years. But you don’t have to go shop-ping and pay high prices to enjoy great cupcakes. They’re so easy to make at home. Whether you have a stand mixer, or just a big bowl and a hand-held electric mixer, you can put together the batter in a matter of minutes. Pretty paper or foil cupcake liners (you can even find them decorated in holiday colors and patterns) eliminate the need to grease the pan — and they make unmolding and serving simple, and cleanup a cinch. You’ll find my recipe for but-termilk cupcakes easy. The acidity of the buttermilk gives them a pleasant tang, while also help-ing to keep them extra tender. (You could also substitute sour cream, for an even tangier taste, or canned coconut milk for its unique character.) A whole vanilla bean (you’ll find jars of them in the spices section of your super-market), its tiny seeds and pulp scraped out and included in the batter, adds remarkable flavor. And I can’t say enough about how easy, and luscious, the chocolate frosting recipe is from Spago’s ex-ecutive pastry chef Sherry Yard. Once you’ve baked, cooled, and

frosted the cupcakes, decorating them is easy. Top each with a fresh berry, if you like. Or go wild with your favorite little candies, from traditional rainbow sprinkles to jelly beans or gumdrops to crushed pieces of red-and-white-striped holiday candy canes. So, what are you waiting for? Make your inner child happy and bake a batch soon!

HOLIDAY BUTTERMILKCUPCAKES

Makes 2012 ounces unsalted butter, at room temperature1 vanilla bean1-3/4 cups granulated sugar2 teaspoons vanilla extract4 large cage-free eggs1 pound cake flour1 tablespoon baking powder1/4 teaspoon salt1 cup buttermilk

Semisweet ChocolateFrosting (recipe follows)Whole fresh organic raspberries or blackberries, unwrapped holi-day candies, or other decorations (optional) Set a rack in the middle of the oven. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Put the butter in the mix-ing bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, or in a large mixing bowl. Using the stand mixer at medium speed, or a hand-held electric mixer at medium speed, beat the butter until it looks light, pale yellow, and fluffy, about 1 minute. With a small, sharp knife, care-fully split the vanilla bean length-wise. With the knife tip, scrape the seeds from each half and put the seeds in the bowl with the butter. Add the sugar and beat at high speed until the mixture looks very light and fluffy, about

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Melt semisweet chocolate to frost these festive treats.

Bake a batch of holiday cupcakes6 minutes, stopping as needed to scrape down the bowl with a rub-ber spatula. Add the vanilla extract and break in 2 of the eggs. Beat un-til thoroughly blended, and then scrape down the bowl. Beat in the remaining eggs and scrape down again. Over a separate bowl, use a flour sifter or fine-meshed wire sieve to sift together the flour, baking powder, and salt. In three batches each, alternate beating in the dry ingredients and the buttermilk until combined, stop-ping as necessary to scrape down the bowl. Line 20 cupcake cups with pa-per or foil cupcake liners. Spoon in the batter, filling them about three-fourths full. Bake in the preheated oven for 12 minutes, then rotate the pan and continue baking until the cupcakes look golden brown in the center and darker brown around the edges, 3 to 5 minutes longer. Remove the pan from the oven and leave on a wire rack to cool to room temperature. Remove the cupcakes from the pan and spread them with the frosting. Decorate each cupcake, if you like, with a berry or candy. Store in an airtight container at room temperature until serving.

SEMISWEET CHOCOLATE FROSTINGMakes about 4 cups12 ounces semisweet or bitter-sweet chocolate chips12 ounces unsalted butter, at room temperature2 cups confectioner’s sugar Bring 1 to 2 inches water to a boil in a medium saucepan. Reduce the heat to maintain a simmer. Put the chocolate in a heatproof bowl large enough to sit on top of the rim of the pan without its bottom touch-ing the water. Stir the chocolate over the simmering water until melted. Remove from the heat and leave at room temperature until completely cool but still soft and creamy. Put the butter and sugar in the bowl of a stand mixer with the paddle attachment, or in a mixing bowl using a hand-held electric mixer, and beat at me-dium speed until smooth and fluffy, about 3 minutes, stopping as necessary to scrape down the bowl with a rubber spatula. Use the spatula to scrape the melted chocolate into the butter mixture. Beat until smooth, about 1 minute longer. Use immediately to frost the cupcakes.

Next Food Network Star,” with TGI Friday’s. As Fieri hosted “Ultimate Recipe Showdown,” recipes from the program would show up in promotional cards at the chain’s outlets. TGIF ended up striking a separate endorsement deal with the celebrity chef, Grinthal recalls. Today, Food Network often serves as a broker (the better to help avoid marketing relationships such as a controversial one Paula Deen struck with Novo Nordisk, a medication for diabetes that raised questions about the fatty, creamy ingredients she used on her shows). And there are times when the cabler uses its clout to nix endorsement opportunities for its personalities if the deals happen to clash with the network’s agenda. But more often than not, the association with the Food Network is money for chefs. Consider the case, of Alex Guarnaschelli, who came to be known as a regular judge on “Chopped.” Guarnaschelli was enlisted last year to share recipes inspired by sponsor Fisher Nuts during ad breaks on both Food Network and Cooking Channel. Parent company Scripps Networks Interactive helped put together a separate one-year deal between the celebrity chef and John B. Sanfilippo and Son, the company that owns Fisher Nuts.

As Food Network grew bigger, “we got much more involved in the deals,” Grinthal says, though all the hosts are represented independently by agents. In the meantime, sponsors are cropping up in all sorts of spaces. John Lee, executive chef of Outback Steakhouse, served as a judge on an Australian-themed episode of “Chopped,” while FedEx was able to demonstrate how it helped print and deliver posters quickly on “Restaurant: Impossible.”

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