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By JOHN O’CONNORThe Associated Press
SPRINGFIELD – House Speaker Michael Madigan is proposing more money for state programs in a plan that takes advantage of new road building funds, shifts money saved from prison closures to child-welfare services that could also spare up to 1,900 jobs.
The Chicago Democrat’s legislation includes a $675 million boost to tran-
sit construction highly prized by busi-nesses and labor unions.
The plan is part of an annual exer-cise aimed at shoring up parts of state government that are running short of mon-ey halfway through the fiscal year.
The House Execu-tive Committee was scheduled to consider the appropriations bill Monday.
Also part of the plan is $25 million that Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn expects to save from closing correctional facilities. Quinn wants the money shifted to the Department
of Children and Family Services. The agency will use the money to add child-abuse investigators and other employ-ees to recruit foster parents and more quickly reunite children with their birth families.
The bill also includes $12 million for community mental health grants, $83 million for workers’ compensation claims, $25 million for rental housing assistance, $5.7 million for job-training programs and $5 million for construc-tion of a 200-bed veterans’ home.
The so-called supplemental appro-priation – including the infusion of road money and the transfer of child-protection funds – failed after political bickering in the Senate during the fi-nal days of the last legislative session
in January. A committee controlled by Demo-
crats voted it down when senators objected to funding going to or being withheld from areas such as public schools or horse racing. That made businesses and organized labor ner-vous. The Transportation for Illinois Coalition turned up the pressure last week, saying the Legislature needed to move quickly to get the trucks mov-ing this spring – the season begins as early as next month when project bids are solicited for the first time.
The money includes a $175 million infusion of federal money after Con-gress adopted a new national transit strategy last summer. There’s $500 mil-lion of state money available this year
from healthy motor-fuel tax revenues, previous projects that cost less than ex-pected, and work scheduled for later years that could be bumped up.
The Department of Children and Family Services would avoid as many as 1,900 layoffs with the additional money, spokesman Dave Clarkin said. Middle management positions have been eliminated and the agency has moved staffers into “front line” posi-tions.
Those positions include 138 investi-gators who knock on doors in response to abuse complaints, staff members to recruit foster parents because of short-ages, and other employees to focus on moving foster kids back into homes with their birth families.
New app will allow DeKalb residents to report crime
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Sgt. Tracy Smith of the DeKalb Police Department shows the screen for the iWatch DeKalb app on Monday. The DeKalb version of the app that allows residents to anonymously report crimes is not available yet.
By JEFF [email protected]
DeKALB – DeKalb residents will soon be able to report a crime in the time it takes to send a text message.
The DeKalb Police Department is planning to launch a smartphone ap-plication either this month or in ear-ly March that would allow residents to anonymously report suspicious activity and send photographs and video from their phone that could help police in investigations.
The program, called iWatch, is a free application that connects police departments and residents through a third party. Reports can be submitted in more than 30 languages and trans-lated, a key feature DeKalb Police Chief Gene Lowery said could break language barriers and make people more comfortable communicating with police.
“Everything in life is based on relationship building, and this will help us connect with the communi-ty,” Lowery said. “Smartphones are becoming the norm. We are utilizing that technology to add eyes and ears that could benefit us all.”
When the application is launched, residents are prompted to select a crime type with choices including assault, drunken driving, crimes against animals and more. Once the type of report is selected, submis-sions can be specific or general, with options to give descriptions of sub-jects and vehicles.
If officers have questions, they will be able to contact the resident through the application without knowing the person’s identity, Low-ery said.
The program offers information for residents such as crime alerts and a crime map that shows areas where of-fenses occurred and were reported. Res-idents also can file complaints against officers through the application.
Lowery said he is hopeful the ap-plication will appeal to students in DeKalb who witness or are victims of crimes that go unreported.
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Michael Madigan
Sycamore looking at increase in water fees
By STEPHANIE HICKMAN [email protected]
SYCAMORE – An increase in water and sewer fees is just one of the options Sycamore City Man-ager Brian Gregory proposed to City Council members Monday in an effort to bridge a $273,000 spend-ing gap within the city’s water and sewer funds for Fiscal 2014.
Sycamore’s water fund is ex-pected to have about $2.4 million in reserves at the completion of fiscal 2013, which ends April 30. Gregory said this reserve, along with the revenue from user fees, is a rela-tively healthy amount. But it’s still not enough to cover the hefty cost of maintaining the city’s water and sewage systems.
User fees are the main source of revenue for both the city’s water and sewer funds. The city currently uti-lizes a tiered fee sys-tem where the more water residents use, the less they pay per unit.
Gregory said the average Syca-more household pays just less than $26 a month for sewage costs and about $24 a month for water.
“User fees are close to generating enough revenue to offset expendi-tures,” he said. “However, it comes back to that question of mainte-nance.”
Some of the maintenance ex-penses include replacing 35-year-old radium removal equipment, as well as a sewer line that’s been in the ground for almost 100 years. Grego-ry said these expenses are measures the city should take to prevent a big-ger financial problem in the future.
“We’d rather be more proactive than reactive,” he said.
Sycamore Mayor Ken Mundy said he also feels these expenditures would benefit the city in the long run.
“A proactive, planned, preventa-tive maintenance scheme at an af-fordable level is only a good invest-ment in our system,” he said.
The council also approved a $13,000 tax increment financing grant Monday to reimburse the DeKalb County Community Foun-dation for unexpected renovation costs the organization made to their new offices at the Sycamore Train Depot.
“There isn’t a better use of TIF money in my opinion,” Mundy said. “To take a building that would’ve been razed and make it produc-tive.”
Ken Mundy
MORNING READ Daily Chronicle / Daily-Chronicle.comPage A2 • Tuesday, February 5, 2013
8 DAILY PLANNER
Today
Sycamore Kiwanis: 6 p.m. at Mitchel Lounge, 355 W. State St.; 815-899-8740 or visit sycamoreki-wanis.org.
Take Off Pounds Sensibly: 6 to 6:30 p.m. weigh-in, 6:30 p.m. meeting at CrossWind Community Church in Genoa. 815-784-3612.
Better Off Sober AA(C): 6:30 p.m. at DeKalb Area Alano Club, 312 E. Taylor St., DeKalb, 800-452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com.
Free Fit Club: 6:30 to 8 p.m. at International Montessori Academy, 1815 Mediterranean Drive, Sycamore. Featuring rotating cardio or yoga programs from various Beachbody workouts such as P90X, Insanity, Turbo Fire, Body Gospel, Turbo Jam, Hip Hop Abs, Rev Abs and many oth-ers. Call 815-901-4474 or 815-566-3580 for more information.
Green Party: 6:30 p.m. at Ameri-can National Bank, Sycamore and Bethany roads in DeKalb. Meetings are open to all. Contact: John at 815-593-0105.
Homework Help Nights: 6:30 to 8 p.m. at Neighbors’ House, Fifth and Pine streets, DeKalb. Free help for DeKalb fourth- to 12th-graders; [email protected] or 815-787-0600.
Alcoholics Anonymous Tues-day Night Fellowship Group(C): 7 p.m. at The Church of St. Mary, 244 Waterman St. in Sycamore. 815-739-1950.
Bingo: 7 p.m. at Genoa Veterans Club, 311 S. Washington St. Must be 18 or older to play. www.genoavet-shome.us; contact Cindy at [email protected] or 815-751-1509.
Good Vibes Al-Anon group: 7 to 8 p.m. at First Lutheran Church, 324 N. Third St., DeKalb. Wheelchair accessible entrance is on North Third Street Parking available in lot located on northwest corner of Third and Pine streets. Contact Mary Ann at 815-895-8119.
Northern Illinois Walleye Club: 7 p.m. at Pizza Pros, 1205 W. Lincoln Highway, DeKalb. For information, call Terry Parkhouse at 815-895-6864 or 815-901-6265.
Sexaholics Anonymous: 7 p.m. at 512 Normal Road, DeKalb (behind church in brick building). 815-508-0280.
Willard Aves Post 1010 Ameri-can Legion: 7 to 8 p.m. at the Kingston Friendship Center, 120 S. Main St. Contact Daniel W. Gal-lagher at [email protected].
Prairie Echoes women’s cho-rus: 7:15 to 10 p.m. at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 900 Normal Road in DeKalb. 877-300-SING (7464); [email protected]. www.PrairieEchoes.com.
Daily Reflections AA(C): 7:30 p.m. at Trinity Lutheran Church. 33930 N. State Road, Genoa, 800-452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com.
Prairie Dames HEA: 7:30 p.m. Part of the Homemakers Education Association. For meeting location, call Kay at 815-756-4085 or Ellen at 630-262-9093.
Narcotics Anonymous: 8 p.m. at 1201 Twombly Road in DeKalb; www.rragsna.org; 815-964-5959.
Program of Recovery AA(C): 8 p.m. at DeKalb Area Alano Club, 312 E. Taylor St., DeKalb, 800-452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com.
Wednesday
Business Networking Inter-national: 8 a.m. at 920 W. Prairie Drive, #M, Sycamore.
Home-schoolers activities: 8:45 to 11:45 a.m. in Sycamore. All ages are welcome to participate in hands-on classes and field trips. Contact: Lisa at 815-748-0896 or [email protected].
Free Blood Pressure Clinic: 9 to 11 a.m. at Valley West Com-munity Hospital, 11 E. Pleasant Ave., Sandwich. No appointment necessary. 815-786-3962 or www.valleywest.org.
Men and Caregivers Network-ing Breakfast: 9 to 10 a.m. at Kishwaukee Community Hospital Cancer Center. This free group is open to those with cancer for discussion. No registration is required. For more information, call 815-748-2958 or visit www.kishhospital.org/programs
Fresh Beginnings AA(C): 9:30 a.m. at DeKalb Area Alano Club, 312 E. Taylor St., DeKalb, 800-452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com.
Blessing Well food and cloth-ing pantry: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at First Church of the Nazarene, 1051 S. Fourth St. in DeKalb. Meat and food offered, with clothing avail-able in sizes for infants (diapers, too) up to 3X adults. Spanish interpreter also is available. www.dekalbnaz.com. 815-758-1588. Donations of nonperishable foods and clothing can be left at any time on the front porch.
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These women play cards for a cause
8 TODAY’S TALKER
By JILL LAWLESSThe Associated Press
LEICESTER, England – He was king of England, but for centuries he lay without shroud or coffin in an un-known grave, and his name became a byword for villainy.
On Monday, scientists announced they had rescued the remains of Rich-ard III from anonymity – and the mon-arch’s fans hope a revival of his reputa-tion will soon follow.
In a dramatically orchestrated news conference, a team of archaeologists, geneticists, genealogists and other sci-entists from the University of Leicester announced that tests had proven what they scarcely dared to hope – a scarred and broken skeleton unearthed under a drab municipal parking lot was that of the 15th century king, the last English monarch to die in battle.
Lead archaeologist Richard Butler said that a battery of tests proved “be-yond reasonable doubt” that the re-mains were the king’s.
Lin Foxhall, head of the university’s
school of archaeology, said the discov-ery “could end up rewriting a little bit of history in a big way.”
Few monarchs have seen their repu-tations decline as much after death as Richard III. He ruled England between
1483 and 1485, during the decades-long battle over the throne known as the Wars of the Roses, which pitted two wings of the ruling Plantagenet dynasty – York and Lancaster – against one an-other.
Experts confirm England’s King Richard III remains
AP photo
Remains were found underneath a car parking lot in September at the Grey Friars excava-tion in Leicester, which have been declared Monday “beyond reasonable doubt” to be the long lost remains of England’s King Richard III, missing for 500 years.
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Note to readers: Barry Schrader’s “DeKalb County Life” column will appear on the first Tuesday of each month.
In 1898, Annie Glidden and a few other DeKalb women formed the Library Whist Club to raise money to buy books for the fledgling library, which had opened in 1893 in a room above the City Council chambers.
The club continues to meet today, but the original membership of 21 has been reduced to 12. There is a waiting list for those who would like to join, probably more difficult than getting into a P.E.O. chapter.
Originally the game was whist, but after a few years they changed to auc-tion bridge, then contract bridge and later duplicate bridge, which they play today.
A Daily Chronicle article on the group’s history in 1993 reported they had donated 10,140 books by that time, so 20 years later the total must be near 11,000, but DeKalb Library Director Dee Coover said they have stopped counting.
Initially the club donated books only after members had perused them “to make sure they reflected the cor-rect moral tone.” But after a few years, the city’s librarians were entrusted with making decisions on book selec-tions. I wonder what they would have thought of “Catcher in the Rye” and “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” or even “Huckleberry Finn” in those early days.
The 12 women meet each Monday afternoon during the fall and winter for refreshments and some serious card playing. They rotate among members’ homes and have alternates or substi-tutes on call when a member cannot attend. Such was the case one day last
month when I visited the club and two women were there as alternate players.
They elect a president, vice presi-dent, secretary and treasurer, as well as select a scorekeeper who totals the year’s cumulative scores to determine a winner. The scorekeeper for the past 10 years has been Elaine Johansen, who joined in 1975 at the invitation of the late Jane Bradt.
The late Charlie Bradt (Jane’s hus-band) once told me that in his teenage years he was allowed to fill in at the last minute when they were short of players. I recall Charlie still play-ing bridge at Oak Crest when he was almost 107; he passed away at age 108 two years ago.
The longest-tenured club member is Phyllis Moore, who joined 40 years ago. Her husband, Frank, like most other spouses, manages to leave the house each time she hosts the club and knows not to return until the women
have departed, so he says.In addition to Moore and Johansen,
the other members are club President Fran Erickson, Marti Birkett, Shirley Johnson, Mary Pearson, Virginia Larsen, Nancy Mecklenburg, Bev Murphy, Barbara Sherman and Bon-nie Yocum.
You’ve got to have a lot of respect for this group, staying together for 115 years, keeping focused on the goal of helping the library acquire more books, and enjoying themselves with a game of bridge along the way.
These women and thousands of other DeKalb residents have a monu-mental task ahead of them, trying to raise several million dollars in the next few months so the state grant for expanding the library can be secured.
•BarrySchradercanbereachedvia email at [email protected] or though P.O. Box 851, DeKalb, IL. 60115.
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A listing of candidates for the April 9 election that ran on page A9 of Saturday’s Daily Chronicle contained incorrect information. Cortland mayoral candidate Chuck Lanning’s name was misspelled. Robert P. Knudsen is running for Clinton Township assessor, while Melody Birdsell is running for Cort-land Township assessor. There is no Pierce Township assessor position.
The Daily Chronicle regrets the errors.
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Gathered for a recent weekly bridge game are these members and guests of the Library Whist Club. From left at the front table are Shirley Johnson, Fran Erickson and Sally Stevens. In the back from left are: Elaine Johansen, Mary Pearson, Linda Pietens, Barbara Sherman, Phyllis Moore, Bev Murphy, Virginia Larsen, Nancy Mecklenburg and Diane Barick.
8BRIEFS
Obama signs bill averting default
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama has signed into law a bill raising the government’s borrowing limit, averting a default and delaying the next clash over the nation’s debt until later this year.
The legislation temporarily suspends the $16.4 trillion limit on federal borrowing. Experts say that will allow the govern-
ment to borrow about $450 bil-
lion to meet interest payments and other obligations.
The Senate gave the bill final approval last week and sent it to Obama, who signed it Monday shortly after returning from Minneapolis.
Democrats and Obama had warned that failure to pass the bill could set off financial panic and threaten the economic recovery.
The bill includes a provision at-tached by House Republicans that
temporarily withholds lawmakers’ pay in either chamber that fails to produce a budget plan.
Dixon sues audit firm for failing to detect fraud
DIXON – A north central Illinois city whose former comptroller embezzled almost $54 million is suing its long-
time accounting firm for failing to detect the fraud, claiming it missed red flags such as bogus invoices.
Rita Crundwell, 60, pleaded guilty and is scheduled to be sentenced next week for the scam that authorities say lasted 20 years and enabled Crundwell to live lavishly and build a world-renowned quar-ter horse breeding operation.
The city of Dixon is suing the firm of CliftonLarsonAllen, which audited Dixon’s books and performed other duties, such as check-processing, while the firm’s personnel
prepared Crundwell’s tax re-
turns, Crain’s Chicago Business reported Monday. The lawsuit seeks compensation for the entire loss.
Among its claims is that CliftonLarsonAllen overlooked bogus state invoices submitted to the city by Crundwell, who then deposited the six-figure checks into her own account at a local bank branch where Dixon also kept its money.
– Wire reports
By CURTIS CLEGG [email protected]
Larry Forsberg is hoping to find people willing to serve as trustees on the DeKalb County Regional Office of Education Board.
“Our board consists of eight elected or appointed of-ficials,” said Forsberg, presi-dent of the board. “Currently we have four vacancies for the April 2013 election, and we can only have one elect-ed official from [each] town-ship.”
Forsberg said that the board does not have a trustee from any township south of
DeKalb Township, and he hopes to find residents of southern DeKalb County who are willing to run for the open positions.
“The board doesn’t have many responsibilities any-more, but the ones we do have are important,” Fors-berg said. “One [task] that we are charged with has to do with school consolidation. As school districts continue to suffer financial woes, they end up looking at closing the district down and consolidat-ing with a neighboring dis-trict.”
Forsberg said that there are “a couple of very econom-
ically fragile school districts in DeKalb County,” and that he would like to have board members from all areas of the county who could offer input from those constituencies. There are 19 townships in DeKalb County.
The board has regularly-scheduled quarterly meet-ings, but often meets only twice a year.
“It’s one of those instanc-es where they could have no business to handle for quite some time, but when an issue presents itself, I need to have a fully functioning board ac-tive in their communities,” said Amanda Christensen,
regional superintendent of schools.
There are two open six-year terms, and two seats have two years left on unexpired terms. Anyone who is interested in running for the board would have to run as a write-in can-didate in the April 9 consoli-dated elections.
“The deadline to be put on the ballot was Dec. 26,” DeKa-lb County Clerk John Acardo said. “There were no candi-dates for those positions.”
Acardo said that candi-dates who wish to run as write-ins will have to file pa-perwork in his office no later than Thursday.
“I want to see all people getting connected to this program,” he said. “This can help us prevent crimes from happening. If there is a serial burglar out there, we can get the kind of information we need from people in the com-munity to identify and stop that person.”
With greater access to anonymous tips comes the po-tential for more false reports. But Lowery said the positives of anonymity outweigh the problems because too often people are too intimidated to approach officers or talk about a crime they witnessed
or experienced. One of the first police de-
partments in the state to use iWatch is in south suburban Lynwood, where the depart-ment has experienced an in-crease in citizen reports, es-pecially drug cases, said the village’s Police Chief Michael Mears.
Mears said the program took off after the department mailed fliers explaining how iWatch works to every resi-dent. He said the focus is on encouraging residents to send information about non-emergency situations that may have otherwise gone un-noticed by police.
“It’s a new spin on the community policing itself,” Mears said. “Most people
do have some sort of smart-phone now, so it’s a great new tool that makes communities safer.”
Lowery said as more po-lice departments join, the program will become more effective. He said one ma-jor help for DeKalb would be Cook County’s recent launch of iWatch. The tips Cook County officers re-ceive could help DeKalb investigations because of the large crossover, Lowery said.
Although there will be roughly $5,000 in startup costs, Lowery said the pro-gram would easily pay for itself with the efficiencies it will create in solving crimes faster and focusing resources
in target areas.Lowery plans to reach out
to local businesses and resi-dents with information about iWatch in the coming weeks. He said the launch is part of a bigger plan called “20/20 A Clear Vision for the Futures” where the department will introduce 20 initiatives in 20 months focused on engaging the community and building relationships.
“When you look at the big picture, [iWatch] supports these other initiatives,” he said. “It’s all part of changing the paradigm of community and safety.”
The application will be able to be accessible on any smartphone models and com-puters.
LOCAL&STATE Tuesday, February 5, 2013 • Page A3Daily Chronicle / Daily-Chronicle.com
GENEVA ‘PUDGE’ DeVAULTBorn: May 24, 1944, in Knoxville,
Tenn.Died: Feb. 2, 2013, in Rockford,
Ill.
DeKALB – N. Geneva DeVault, 68, of DeKalb, Ill., died Saturday, Feb. 2, 2013, at OSF Saint Anthony Medical Center, Rockford.
Born May 24, 1944, in Knoxville, Tenn., the daughter of James E. and Evelyn L. (Talley) Paul, Geneva married Micheal “Ed” DeVault on March 18, 1966, in Sycamore.
She was employed as a clerical worker by Driv-Lok in Sycamore for many years. Before that, she ran a home day care, where she loved and cared for many children and their families over the years.
Geneva’s whole life was her family. No matter where her grandchildren’s activities were being held, from Nebraska or throughout the country, she went. She loved being “Every-body’s Mom.” This was shown in how she took care of her husband, daughter and son-in-law, grandchildren, cousins, “sisters,” and ALL of her family and friends. Any time, day or night, she loved to be there for anyone who needed her love, her guidance or just someone to listen. She knew that God put her on this Earth to care for others.
She was a mother for her own family, as well as a surrogate mother to many of her daughter’s friends while growing up. Her caring and guidance was evident in the way that she helped people find their “best selves,” from her day care kids through the years, to people she loved talking to wherever she found them.
She is survived by her husband, Ed; daughter, Jaime (John) Dahl-berg of Bellevue, Neb.; grandchil-dren, Corey, Alysia and Tyana; several aunts, uncles, cousins and in-laws; and her extended family, which she always thought of as just more “immediate” family.
She was preceded in death by her parents.
The memorial service will be held at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 6, at Anderson Funeral Home, DeKalb, with the Rev. Brian Gil-bert officiating. Cremation is by Anderson Funeral Home Crema-tory. Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday at Anderson Funeral Home, DeKalb.
Flowers can be sent, or contri-butions can be made to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, in her name. These can be made to the Nettie Geneva DeVault Memorial Fund, sent in care of Anderson Funeral Home, P.O. Box 605, 2011 S. Fourth St., DeKalb, IL 60115.
For information, visit www.AndersonFuneralHomeLtd.com or call 815-756-1022.
To sign the online guest book, visit www.legacy.com/daily-chronicle.
FELICIA E. GIORDANOBorn: Nov. 7, 1947, in Hillsborough,
Calif.Died: Jan. 30, 2013
BRISTOL – Felicia E. Giordano, 65, of Bristol, Ill., formerly of Kewanee, passed away Jan. 30, 2013.
She was born Nov. 7, 1947, in Hillsborough, Calif. Felicia retired from Caterpillar Inc. in Aurora af-ter 28 years of service. After she retired, she moved to Kewanee where she was a member of the Assembly of God Church.
Felicia loved spending time with her family and friends, watching movies and shopping. She was a loving sister, mother, grand-mother and great-grandmother who will be deeply missed by her family and many friends.
Felicia is survived by her chil-dren, Kelly Ann (Mark) Baumgart-ner of Canyon Lake, Texas, Amy (Steve Jr.) Dubrava of Benton,
Ark., Derrick (Susan) Bartotto of Ste. Genevieve, Mo., and Erika (Brian) Stillmunkes of Bristol; eight grandchildren, Matthew, Sarah Baumgartner, Jacquelyn Dubrava, Christine Murphy, Steve Dubrava III, Silas Bartotto, Jacob and Anna Stillmunkes; and four great-grandchildren.
Felicia was preceded in death by her mother, Erma Tate; and brother, John McCoy I.
A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, Feb. 8, at New Life Church, 3205 Cannonball Trail, Yorkville, IL 60560.
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the American Cancer Society, P.O. Box 22718, Okla-homa City, OK 73123-1718.
To sign the online guest book, visit www.legacy.com/daily-chronicle.
VIRGINIA KATHLEEN ‘KIT’ LIDDICK
Virginia Kathleen “Kit” Liddick, 89, of DeKalb, Ill., died Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013, at Pine Acres Rehab & Living Center, DeKalb.
Arrangements are pending at Anderson Funeral Home, P.O. Box 605, 2011 S. Fourth St., DeKalb, IL 60115.
For information, visit www.AndersonFuneralHomeLtd.com or call 815-756-1022.
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MATTHEW ‘JEFF’ YAGENBorn: Dec. 26, 1914, in Virgil, Ill.Died: Feb. 3, 2013, in Geneva, Ill.
MAPLE PARK – Matthew “Jeff” Yagen, 98, of Maple Park, Ill., passed away peacefully, sur-rounded by the love and prayers of his family Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013, at Delnor Hospital in Geneva.
He is survived by two children, Michael (Judy) Yagen and Jeffery (Peggy) Yagen; one granddaugh-ter, Maggie (Neil) Foy; a sister, Mary Ann (Joseph) Schramer; two sisters-in-law, Guyla Yagen and Evelyn Yagen; many nieces and nephews, including Gary and Beverly Tierney, as well as other extended family: John, Ed, Steve, Chris, their spouses and children.
He was preceded in death by his parents, John and Gertrude; two brothers, William “Slim” Yagen and John “Bud” Yagen; and two sisters, Kantherine (Norm) Beck and Elizabeth (Bill) Powers.
A special thank you goes to Norma Strang, who spent count-less Sundays with Jeff. Her kind words and actions brought a special kind of peace to not only Jeff’s heart, but to his family’s as well.
Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 6, at Con-ley Funeral Home, 116 W. Pierce St., Elburn. A Mass to celebrate his life will begin at 11 a.m., with a brief visitation from 10 to 10:45 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 7, at St. Mary of the Assumption Catholic Church, Maple Park. Interment will follow at Gardner Cemetery, Maple Park.
In lieu of flowers, a memorial has been established in his name to benefit his favorite chari-ties. Checks can be made to the “Matthew Yagen Memorial” and mailed in care of P.O. Box 66, Elburn, IL 60119.
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Program today details local history book
DeKALB – The Friends of Barb City Manor Volunteer Auxiliary is hosting a presentation today about “Acres of Change: A History of DeKalb County, IL 1963-2012.”
The presentation by Barry Schrader, a former Daily Chron-icle editor and current Daily Chronicle columnist, will start at 2 p.m. in the Activity Room at Barb City Manor Retirement Home, 680 Haish Blvd., DeKalb, according to a news release.
Audience members will get to preview the book on DeKalb County from 1963 to 2012. The publication is being organized by the DeKalb County Histor-ical-Genealogical Society and is a sequel to “From Oxen to Jets,” published in 1963, cover-ing the history of the county up to that time.
Information on ordering the new book will be available. The order deadline is March 15.
After Schrader’s presentation, there will be a brief Friends business meeting and refresh-ments.
Call 815-756-8444 for infor-mation about Friends or if you need a ride to the meeting.
Nominations sought for volunteer awards
The Serve Illinois Commission on Volunteerism and Com-munity Service is accepting
nominations for the fourth annual Governor’s Volunteer Service Awards.
The deadline is Feb. 15, according to a news release. Awards will be offered for individuals, AmeriCorps and Senior Corps members and busi-nesses in various regions across Illinois. Within each category, the following areas will be given special priority: economic op-portunity, education, environ-mental conservation, disaster preparedness or response, health and veterans affairs.
For more information and nomination forms, see www.serve.illinois.gov.
Goodwill planning dress sale for April 6 and 7
DeKALB – Goodwill Industries will host a Diva Dress Sale with special occasion dresses offered for $10 to $30 April 6 and 7.
The sale will be at the DeKalb store at 1037 S. Annie Glidden Road, as well as at Goodwill stores in Rockford, Machesney Park, Freeport, Sterling, Ot-tawa, McHenry and Huntley, according to news release. Shoes, handbags and jewelry also will be for sale.
Proceeds from the sale will go toward area community college scholarships, the news release states. For more infor-mation, visit goodwillni.org/
diva or call 815-987-6237.
Mental health board will accept funding requests
The DeKalb County Mental Health Board is accepting funding applications through noon Feb. 25.
The board funds programs that serve DeKalb County residents with mental illness, developmen-tal disabilities and substance abuse problems, as well as prevention and educational programs, according to a news release. For questions about the grant application and process, call Donna Moulton at 815-899-4960 or Kathy Ostdick at 815-899-4970. To request an application by email, contact [email protected].
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Proposal would tax athletic shoes 25 cents
SPRINGFIELD – New athletic shoes could cost 25 cents more in Illinois.
State Rep. Will Davis from the Chicago suburb of Hazel Crest wants the new tax to pay for a youth job preparation program.
The Democratic lawmaker wants to raise about $3 million, and says most consumers wouldn’t notice it.
The 25 cents per pair of athletic shoes would go to the state’s YouthBuild programs.
Davis says he sees it “as a uniquely creative way of help-
ing youth.”There is opposition to the plan.
The Illinois Retail Merchants Association says it will fight the proposal because it creates paperwork for store owners.
Stilt walker burned at Lyric Opera rehearsal
CHICAGO – A Lyric Opera of Chicago performer was burned after setting his head on fire during a dress rehearsal of a production of “Die Meisters-inger von Nurenberg.”
Wesley Daniel, who plays a fire-blowing stilt walker, on Monday suffered burns after putting alcohol in his mouth and attempting to blow fire. According to Lyric Opera spokeswoman Magda Krance, Daniel was wearing a flame-proof costume and mask when the incident occurred.
Chicago paramedics took the 24-year-old Daniel to North-western Memorial Hospital suf-fering from burns to his face and throat. He was later transferred to Loyola University Medical Center in critical condition.
Krance said the fire-blowing effect had been approved by the Chicago Fire Department, but has been removed from future performances.
Opera officials said the re-hearsal continued briefly before being halted by union rules.
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It’s already February! Change is definitely in the air. The weather has cer-tainly felt like the seasons are changing each and every month, just as the economic climate has been changing.
This is something we have heard a lot about recently, es-pecially in our area. Although change is difficult, it will happen whether you want it to or not. Change is inevitable and change is necessary. As I recently heard Tony Robbins say, “Change will either drive you or destroy you, you make the choice.”
Although we certainly know that can be true, this may be the time to consider driving your business, re-fueling and retooling for a better tomorrow. And what better way than joining the chamber for its fifth annual Home and Business Expo.
Business owners know the importance and value placed on the right type of advertis-ing. The annual Home and Business Expo can provide businesses with the perfect platform to give them the exposure to market their products and services, with strong networking benefits.
The expo places business owners face-to-face with potential customers over a six-hour time period. Live demonstrations offer an opportunity to capture new customers and engage them.
There were more than 750 visitors at last year’s expo.
This valuable networking opportunity will certainly capture a larger audience this year. Register today. Cham-ber, community and area residents will be there to sup-port and connect with you. Visit genoacc.com for more information.
The expo will take place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. March 9 at Genoa-Kingston High School, 980 Park Ave. (Route 72), Genoa. Bring the whole family. There will be free admission and free parking.
The expo includes more than 50 booths along with food concessions, and a chance to win fabulous prizes such as a 51-inch Samsung plasma TV, a family vaca-tion package for four to Mt. Olympus and Top Secret in the Wisconsin Dells, donated by KishHealth System and Mt. Olympus, and a romantic two-night stay at The Grand Geneva Resort and Spa including dinner for two, do-nated by The Grand Geneva Resort and Spa.
For more information, call the Genoa Area Chamber of Commerce at 815-784-2212 or visit genoacc.com.
•KristieMulsoisex-ecutive director of the Genoa Area Chamber of Commerce.
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Genoa chamber readies for expoBy DAVID THOMAS
SYCAMORE – For the past 20 years, Kimberly Bobka was been working to make man’s best friend an even better one.
“There’s nothing better than seeing them from when they start and they’re wild and unruly to when they’re happy and well-trained,” said Bobka, owner of Teacher’s Pet K-9 School in Sycamore.
To mark her 20 years of privately training and taking care of dogs, Bobka is offering five deals for customers throughout 2013. A customer can pick only one package deal, but it can be renewed many times throughout the year, she said.
Bobka offers three levels of training: basic, intermediate and advanced, as well as agility and therapy classes. In basic training, dogs learn basic com-mands such as “sit,” “down” and “heel.” The intermediate and advanced stages are the same kind of training, but with more potential distractions thrown in.
“In intermediate, you perfect those [commands] and learn to do them off-leash and with heavy distractions -- other dogs, animals,” Bobka said. “Ad-vanced, you keep going and get better and better.”
Bobka also offers a “Doggie Day Care,” in which people can drop off their dogs for the day. She also provides pet sitting, boarding and treadmill rental.
Bobka has been training dogs since she was really young, but it wasn’t until she was 14, when she met a professional trainer in Chicago, that she became serious about the profes-sion. It was only a matter of time before she opened her first training school in Streamwood.
“I got more and more experience and started to do the therapy work and police dog training,” Bobka said. “And kept on
going and showing mine in obedience, training and agility [competitions].”
Bobka said she always wanted to relocate to Sycamore.
In 2000, she made the move to 15408 Plank Road. Next to her house is a 3,000-square-foot warehouse where Bobka does her training. The concrete floors are heated, she said, and it has a garage
door so the animals can come in and out at will.
Some dogs are easier to train than others, she said. Those breeds include Labrador retrievers, German shepherds and Rottweilers.
“Any dog, if you start with them as a puppy, you can work with them,” she said, adding that she specializes in German shepherds and Rottweilers. She said, however, that every dog is different.
Bobka said there is an unlimited benefit to having a trained dog.
“You can control them in situations where there are distractions,” Bobka said. “Taking them to the vet without worrying about them. Things like that.”
Dog trainer marks 20 years
Genoa welcomes visitors with free chocolate
Ditch the New Year’s resolu-tions and head for downtown Genoa on Saturday for Chocolate Walk. Businesses throughout downtown will offer visitors free chocolate treats during this an-nual pre-Valentine’s Day event.
Up to 20 businesses plan to participate. Each one will have a “chocolate kiss” sign on the door.
Heartland Bank will conduct its annual brownie bake-off the day before the Walk. Bank employees compete for the title of best brownie baker.
“Some of the recipes are very creative,” Pattie Marx, of Heartland Bank, said in a news release. “Others are purists and stick to tradition. There are always plenty of volunteer judges. Visitors can try samples of the brownie entries Saturday morning at the bank.”
Chocolate Walk is presented by Genoa Main Street Inc., a nonprofit organization dedicat-ed to preserving and promoting downtown Genoa.
For more information go to genoamainstreet.com, email [email protected] or call 815-784-6961.
Edward Jones to host career seminar
Edward Jones is looking to hire more financial advisers in the DeKalb/Sycamore area.
As the firm continues to expand its business and grow its network of branch offices, Edward Jones will host a career
development seminar at 6 p.m. Feb. 19 at the Edward Jones of-fice of Ryan Genz, 1170 DeKalb Ave., Suite 109, Sycamore.
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DeKalb B&B receives ‘guest favorite’ award
BnBFinder, one of the world’s most comprehensive online bed-and-breakfast directories, has named the Parkside Bed and Breakfast in DeKalb a Guest Favorite for 2012. The Guest Favorite Award, based on independent reviews posted to the site and guest prefer-ences, is the gold standard and
highest distinction awarded by BnBFinder.
“Guests at the Parkside Bed and Breakfast gave it high marks for the delicious breakfasts and the welcoming atmosphere provided by inn-keepers Bob and Pam Snow,” Mary White, founder and CEO of BnBFinder, said in a news release.
“We are very excited and gratified to have won the Guest Favorite Award given by
BnBFinder.com,” Pam Snow said in the release. “Providing our guests with a luxurious, yet comfortable, home-like stay in our Parkside Bed and Breakfast is our highest goal.”
Parkside Bed and Breakfast, located on Roosevelt Street in DeKalb, is in a cottage originally built in 1854. The Snows reno-vated the cottage for use as a bed-and-breakfast in 2010. For more information, visit www.parksidebedandbreakfast.com.
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Kimberly Bobka, owner of Teacher’s Pet K-9 School in Sycamore, is celebrating 20 years in business. Bobka offers three levels of dog training, as well as agility and therapy classes.
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Although DeKalb County Clerk John Acardo’s office has certified the preliminary ballot, there’s still time for those who want to get involved with local government to do so. And in many parts of DeKalb County, there are local governments that still need the help of interested citizens. There are more than 20 local offices in communi-ties around the area that do not have enough candidates to fill the vacancies.
It’s too late to have your name printed on the ballot, but there is time to run as a write-in candidate for those offices. Anyone interested in running as a write-in must register with Acardo’s office by Thursday.
The filing process is easy: Citizens simply go to the elections office and fill out a one-page document and they’re on their way.
The list of offices without enough candidates is long. The District 427 school board in Sycamore is short a candidate. In DeKalb, no one is running for the office of clerk, a position voters said they wanted to remain elected in a referendum last fall.
If there’s no one to elect, the clerk position becomes an appointed job by default.
Three candidates are needed for the Hinckley-Big Rock District 429 school board, and the Kaneland District 302 board is also short three candidates. A candidate is needed to fill a two-year unexpired term in Somonauk District 432, and the Genoa Township Park District board also is short two candidates.
Library boards for communities including Clinton Township, Genoa, Hinckley, and Malta all are in need of candidates. Boards such as these often can provide a good introduction to local governance for people who are interested but lack experience.
It has been noted many times before that although local elections generally don’t draw anywhere near as much interest as the race for our country’s president, it’s local government that holds more sway over the day-to-day lives of people.
The quality of local government depends on the people who are elected or appointed to run it. It is not glamorous or high-paying work, but it is an essential service.
A complete list of all the local races and the people running for them is available online at www.dekalb-clerk.com/Elections/Infoforvoters.html, or by calling the election department at 815.895.7147.
For anyone who would like to get involved, there is still time to run and make a difference.
Filling out local seats
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George Ryan did the crime, and he did the time – more than 5 years behind bars – despite the determined efforts of friends in high places, who tried to have Illinois’ for-mer governor released early.
Illinoisans who believe corrupt politicians should be duly punished for their crimes can take satisfaction that justice was served.
Ryan, 78, Illinois’ governor from 1999 to 2003, was con-victed of corruption charges in 2006 and sentenced to 6 1⁄2 years in federal prison. He entered prison Nov. 7, 2007.
Ryan’s lawyer was another former governor, James R. Thompson, who defended Ryan free of charge and constantly looked for ways to get his friend out of jail.
In late 2008, after Ryan had served barely one year in prison, Thompson pushed to have outgoing President George W. Bush grant clemency to Ryan.
Ryan, Thompson and Bush all are Republicans, but surprisingly, some Democrats rallied to the cause. U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin called for Ryan’s early release. So did then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich, mere weeks before he himself was arrested on federal corruption charges.
Unfortunately for Ryan, but thankfully for the public, Bush ignored the clemency request. Ryan remained in prison. A second big push to have Ryan freed early came during the final illness of Ryan’s wife, Lura Lynn, who died of cancer in June 2011.
Thompson tried every trick in the book to have Ryan freed early so that he could be at the side of his frail wife. Although officials allowed Ryan to leave prison tempo-rarily to visit her, the criminal justice system stood firm that Ryan must serve at least 85 percent of his sentence before his release.
On Wednesday, after more than 5 years and 2 months, Ryan was released from the federal prison in Terre Haute, Ind., to home confinement at his Kankakee house. He was allowed to skip living at a Chicago halfway house. He will remain on home confinement until his prison sentence officially ends July 4.
Ryan served the state as House speaker, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, and governor.
He served more than 5 years in prison.And he now serves as a stark reminder that political
corruption is no longer a game in Illinois. Those convict-ed of it should no longer expect quick reprieves.
Ryan’s successor, Blagojevich, began his 14-year prison term for corruption in March. Under federal rules, nearly 12 years must elapse before Blagojevich can expect to be released.
Ryan’s failure to win early release gives no comfort to Blagojevich or his supporters. However, it should give great comfort to long-suffering Illinoisans who are sick of corrupt politicians running roughshod over the law, sul-lying the state’s reputation, and not paying the price.
Glad to see Corn Fest returning to downtown
To the Editor:
I am truly excited about Corn
Fest finally is coming back to the
downtown DeKalb area.
I went to Corn Fest the first
two years that it was held at
the DeKalb Taylor Municipal
Airport, and it just didn’t have
that “hometown” feel. I didn’t see
anyone I knew, and there was no
shade to keep cool. And I missed
being able to go into the stores
downtown to see what they had
on sale.
Now that there will be no more
“On the Waterfront” in Rockford,
maybe DeKalb will be able to
book some older great classic
rock bands, and once again to
have some bleachers set up for
more people to be seated while
listening to the music.
Sherre PerkinsDeKalb
Urge EPA to ban bee-killing chemical
To the Editor:
There have been several reports
in recent weeks concerning the
die-off of bees involving the
so- called “colony collapse”.
The importance of bees to our
agricultural industry cannot be
overstated.
We cannot provide with human
labor and resources alone the
services that bees provide.
Now we learn that a block-
buster study released last week
by the European Food Safety
Authority has for the first time
labeled the pesticide clothianidin
as an “unacceptable” danger to
bees.
Scientists have long thought
that clothianidin is at least
partially to blame for the alarming
rate that bees have been dying off
in the U.S. – nearly 30 percent of
our bee population, per year, has
been lost since 2006.
Our own U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency has repeatedly
ignored scientists’ warnings and
the urging of Americans to ban
the use of clothianidin.
The reply is usually that there is
a lack of evidence or the subject
“needs more study.”
Now, the EFSA study could be
a major breakthrough to con-
vince the EPA to take emergency
action, and suspend the use of
clothianidin to stop the precipi-
tous decline in global honeybee
populations. It is time for all
concerned citizens to write to the
EPA and tell them not to wait. End
the use of clothianidin.
The EPA mailing address:
Environmental Protection
Agency
Ariel Ross Bldg.
1200 Pennsylvanica Ave NW.
Washington, D.C. 20460
Paul D. SorensenDeKalb
Fewer dollars, babies threaten social programs Our major public policies are based
on the assumption that America will continue to enjoy growth. Economic growth and population growth.
Through most of our history, this assumption has proved to be correct. These days, not so much.
Last week, the Commerce Department announced that the gross domestic prod-uct shrunk by 0.1 percent in the fourth quarter of 2012. And the Census Bureau reported that the U.S. birth rate in 2011 was 63.2 per 1,000 women age 15 to 44, the lowest ever recorded.
Slow economic growth and low popu-lation growth threaten to undermine en-titlement programs like Social Security and Medicare.
Despite contrary rhetoric, they are programs in which working-age people pay for pensions and medical care for the elderly.
When Medicare was established in 1965 and when Social Security was vastly expanded in 1972, America was accustomed to the high birth rates of the post-World War II baby boom. It was widely assumed that the baby boom gen-eration would soon produce a baby boom of its own.
Oops. The birth rate fell from the peak of 122.7 in 1957 to 68.8 in 1973 and hovered around that level until 2007. The baby boom, it turns out, was an excep-tion to a general rule that people tend to have fewer babies as their societies become more affluent and urbanized.
Social Security had to be tweaked in 1983 when it became clear there weren’t enough working-age people to fund benefits promised to the elderly. It needs tweaking again today for the same reason.
Medicare presents even greater prob-lems. Health care costs have generally been rising at rates above economic growth.
By itself this is not necessarily a problem. Economic growth and market competition have enabled Americans to spend smaller percentages of their incomes on food and clothes, with more
left over to spend on other things. Spending more on health care is a
sensible thing for an affluent society to do – especially as new medical proce-dures and drugs mean that health care can deliver more than it used to.
But in a society in which the elderly are an increasing share of the popula-tion and working age people are a de-creasing share, it becomes increasingly difficult to fund these programs.
These problems are exacerbated when the economy fails to grow as rapidly as the working age population.
Birth rates fell sharply during the Depression of the 1930s. They have fallen significantly since the housing collapse, from 69.3 in 2007 to 63.2 in 2011. The steepest decline in births since 2007 has been among Hispanic immigrants, who were also hit hard by housing foreclo-sures.
We don’t know whether this trend will continue. But if it does, the conse-quences will resemble the subtitle of Jonathan Last’s newly published book, “What to Expect When No One’s Expect-ing: America’s Coming Demographic
Disaster.”Last points out that our fertility
rate – the number of children a woman has over a lifetime – has been below the replacement level of 2.1.
Over time, a below-replacement-level fertility rate means population decline.
To see what that means, look at Japan. Its fertility rate is 1.4, its popula-tion is declining, and it has had essen-tially zero economic growth since 1990.
We are not in such a bad position, yet. Since the end of the recession in June 2009, quarterly GDP growth has aver-aged 2.1 percent.
That has left job growth way below the historic trend line. Four years ago, the incoming Obama administration’s economists promised that we would be heading back up to the trend line, with unemployment down to a little above 5 percent now.
Instead, it was 7.9 percent in January, and that’s with millions no longer even looking for work. Labor force participa-tion is the lowest it’s been since 1981.
The danger is that all this can come to seem the new normal. Low birth rates, as Last argues, can persuade others to want fewer children.
Low economic growth or even decline can shape expectations and become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
“An economic recovery has begun,” President Barack Obama said in his in-augural speech last month. The implica-tion: This is all you’re going to get.
In the 1990s, Canada and Sweden faced economic crises similar to ours. In response, they sharply cut public spend-ing. Their economies have done well since, and their governments have been running budget surpluses.
We did something like the opposite. The consequences could be enduring.
•MichaelBarone,seniorpoliticalanalyst for The Washington Examiner, is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a Fox News Channel contributor and a co-author of The Almanac of Ameri-can Politics.
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Opinions Daily Chronicle • www.daily-chronicle.com • Page A5 • Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Satisfactory end to sad political downfall
MichaelBarone
VIEWS
In the 1990s, Canada and Sweden
faced economic crises similar to ours.
In response, they sharply cut public
spending. Their economies have done
well since, and their governments
have been running budget surpluses.
We did something like the opposite.
The consequences could be enduring.
Michael Barone
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Elgin 30 12 sn 28 22 pc
Joliet 33 13 sf 29 23 pc
Kankakee 32 16 sf 31 24 pc
Mendota 33 13 sf 28 24 pc
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Morris 34 14 sf 30 23 pc
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Cause of Super Bowl power outage unclear
NEW ORLEANS – Who turned out the lights?
The day after the 34-minute blackout at the Super Bowl, the exact cause – and who’s to blame – were unclear, although a couple of potential culprits had been ruled out.
It wasn’t Beyonce’s halftime performance, according to Doug Thornton, manager of the state-owned Superdome, because the singer had her own generator. And it appar-ently wasn’t a case of too much demand for power. Me-ters showed the stadium was drawing no more electricity than it does during a typical Saints game, Thornton said.
The lights-out game Sunday proved an embarrassment for the Big Easy just when it was hoping to show how far it has come since Hurricane Katrina in 2005. But many fans and residents were forgiving, and officials expressed confidence that the episode wouldn’t hurt the city’s hopes of hosting the championship again.
To New Orleans’ great relief, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said the city did a “ter-rific” job hosting its first pro football championship in the post-Katrina era, and added: “I fully expect that we will be back here for Super Bowls.”
Fans watching from their living rooms weren’t deterred, either. An estimated 108.4 million people saw the Bal-timore Ravens beat the San Francisco 49ers, 34-31, mak-ing it the third most-viewed program in TV history.
The problem that caused the outage was believed to have happened around the spot where a line that feeds current from the local power compa-ny, Entergy New Orleans, con-nects with the Superdome’s electrical system, officials said. But whether the fault lay with the utility or with the Superdome was not clear.
– Wire report
Pro hockeyBlackhawks at San Jose, 9:30 p.m., CSN
The Hawks (7-0-2) have gone to a shootout in each of their first three games of a season-high, six-game road trip. Will they make it four against the Sharks (7-0-1)?
Also on TV...Men’s basketball
Purdue at Penn St., 6 p.m., BTN
Florida at Arkansas, 6 p.m., ESPN
Villanova at DePaul, 6 p.m., ESPN2
Ohio St. at Michigan, 8 p.m., ESPN
Pro hockeyTampa Bay at Philadelphia,
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Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher walks off the field after a 23-17 overtime loss to the Seahawks on Dec. 2 at Soldier Field.
BEARS
Time for Urlacher to move onAfter the curtain closed on his
remarkable 17-year career, Ray Lewis cried.
Lewis hugged his teammates on the Baltimore Ravens. He saluted fans in the stands. He hoisted the Vince Lombardi Trophy as a two-time Super Bowl champion.
I couldn’t help but wonder whether Brian Urlacher was watch-ing.
Like Lewis, Urlacher has proved to be one of the most dominant mid-dle linebackers of the 21st century. Like Lewis, Urlacher became the face of a proud franchise by playing old-fashioned defense during an era of offense, offense, offense.
However, unlike Lewis, Urlacher never has won a Super Bowl.
As he approaches his 35th birthday and officially becomes an unrestricted free agent, the time
has come for Urlacher to chase his championship goal in another uniform.
It’s a tough decision, but then again, football is a tough game.
No one can argue Urlacher is one of the greatest players in the history of the Bears. He has been selected to eight Pro Bowls in 13 seasons and earned all sorts of accolades, from Defensive Rookie of the Year in 2000 to Defensive Player of the Year in 2005 to the Bears’ prestigious Ed Block Courage Award in 2011.
No matter what, Urlacher always will be a Bear.
He just might be a Bear who is on
loan with another team for a couple of seasons.
It will be tempting for the Bears to keep Urlacher if he offers to sign a short-term, affordable contract. He hinted that familiarity was more important than money during an in-terview last week with the “Waddle & Silvy” show on WMVP AM-1000.
“It’s going to be hard to not give them a discount because of my age, obviously,” Urlacher said. “Not a lot of teams are going to want to do a whole lot, I don’t think. …
“I’m not going to make what I was making in the past. How about that? Does that make sense?”
Yes, it does.It also makes sense for the Bears
to find their next great middle line-backer.
Tom Musick
VIEWS
See MUSICK, page B2
GLENBARD WEST SECTIONAL
Co-op trying to avoid another near-miss
By ANTHONY [email protected]
DeKALB – DeKalb-Sycamore gym-
nastics coach Andy Morreale knew the
pressure was mounting on his gymnasts
as they fell, one after another, on the
balance beam in last year’s Glenbard
North Sectional, but he tried to keep
thoughts of imminent failure out of his
head.
The Barbs were close to securing an
at-large berth in the state meet, but the
balance beam stood in their way. Every
DeKalb-Sycamore gymnast slipped off of
the beam, which cost the Barbs two points.
They missed qualifying for the state meet
by a half point.
“It was one of those things, where if
one of those kids falls, it’s kind of a snow-
ball effect,” Morreale said. “If you miss, you’re not just hurting yourself, you’re hurting the whole team, and I think that adds a lot of extra pressure.”
This year, Morreale is trying to make sure his team doesn’t make the same mis-takes when the Barbs head to the Glen-bard West Sectional, which begins at 6:30 p.m. today.
Kyle Bursaw – [email protected]
Sycamore-DeKalb co-op gymnast Alison Morreale works on a routine on the beam during practice Friday at Energym in DeKalb. The freshman and her teammates will be competing in the Glenbard West Sectional today in Glen Ellyn.
Team missed ’12 state meet by half a point
See GYMNASTICS, page B4
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NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOTBALL
Kyle Bursaw – [email protected]
Northern Illinois linebacker Sean Folliard squats during a team lifting session Friday in the Yordon Center in DeKalb. Folliard graduated from Prairie Ridge High School in Crystal Lake in December so that he could get a jump on his collegiate career. “It’s kind of all about the football for me,” Folliard said. “It was a hard decision leaving all my friends and family back there, but I’m not too far away. It’s not that bad at all.”
Getting a head start
By STEVE [email protected]
DeKALB – Early on in his senior year, Sean Folliard had a meeting with his guidance counselor at Prairie Ridge High School in Crystal Lake.
There, he learned that
graduating high school early
and getting a head start on
his college football career
would be a lot easier than he
expected.
All Folliard, who played
safety for the Wolves and was
part of the school’s Class 6A state championship team in 2011, had to do to graduate in December was pick up an extra English class.
It wasn’t too much to ask.
Folliard added the class, and
with the second semester at
NIU under way, Folliard is
in DeKalb early, working out
and attending meetings with
the rest of his new team-
mates.
“It’s kind of all about the
football for me,” Folliard said.
“It was a hard decision leav-
ing all my friends and family
back there, but I’m not too far
away. It’s not that bad at all.”
Folliard added that heading
to NIU a semester early was
purely his choice, although
the coaching staff certainly
was on board.
“It was pretty much my de-
cision. Nobody really expected
me to do it,” he said. “It was a
pretty spontaneous thing for
me to do.”
More online
Check out our Signing Day recruit-ing profile videos at HuskieWire.com.
See FOLLIARD, page B4
Early graduation allows LB to arrive a semester early
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8UPCOMING PREPSSPORTS SCHEDULE
8SPORTS SHORTS
Nader named MAC West Player of the Week
The Mid-American Conference named Northern Illinois sopho-more wing Abdel Nader its West Division Player of the Week on Monday.
Nader averaged 22.5 points and 11 rebounds in games against Kent State and Toledo. In the Huskies’ 67-65 win over the Golden Flashes on Wednesday, Nader had his first career double-double with 26 points, which tied a career high, and 11 rebounds. He saved his best for last, hitting a game-winning jump shot with 2.2 seconds left to secure the win.
NIU to face Eastern Illinois in BracketBuster game
The NIU men’s basketball team will get an in-state opponent for its 2013 BracketBuster game, as Eastern Illinois will travel to DeKalb on Feb. 23. Tip-off is 3 p.m. at the Convocation Center.
The alumni game, as part of the annual men’s basketball alumni day, will take place at 12:30 p.m. the same day.
Just like the Huskies (5-15, 3-5 Mid-American Conference), the Panthers have struggled this season, as well. EIU is 6-17 and 3-7 in the Ohio Valley Confer-ence. The Panthers defeated NIU in Charleston during a 2010 BracketBuster, 73-70.
Montini guard commits to NIU football team
Northern Illinois has a new in-state commit. Montini guard Tate Briggs has committed to NIU, according to his Twitter account. Sunday night, Briggs tweeted, “Committed to Northern Illinois to play football #GOHUSKIES” and attached a picture of the NIU logo.
Briggs comes from a strong tradition at Montini, a school that has won the past four Class 5A state championships. He is listed at 6-foot-5, 300 pounds.
According to Rivals.com, he also had offers from Ball State, Central Michigan, New Mexico, Western Michigan and FCS-Coastal Carolina.
3 Democratic appointees to hear Bonds’ appeal
SAN FRANCISCO – Barry Bonds’ appeal of his felony obstruc-tion of justice conviction will be heard by three federal judges who were each appointed by a different Democratic president.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday unveiled its February schedule, which showed publicly for the first time the three judges assigned to Bonds’ case.
Senior Circuit Judges Mary M. Schroeder and Michael Daly Hawkins along with Judge Mary H. Murguia will hear oral argu-ments Feb. 13.
– Staff, wire reports
TODAY
Boys BasketballIndian Creek at Mooseheart,
6:45 p.m.West Chicago at Kaneland, 7 p.m.Marengo at Genoa-Kingston, 7 p.m.Sycamore at Sterling, 7 p.m.Ashton-Franklin at Hiawatha,
7:10 p.m.DeKalb at Elgin, 7:15 p.m.
Girls BasketballClass 1A Hinckley-Big Rock
Regional: Hinckley-Big Rock vs. Paw Paw, 6 p.m.
Kaneland at Marengo, 7 p.m.Class 1A Hinckley-Big Rock
Regional: Indian Creek vs. Amboy, 7:30 p.m.
Sycamore at Aurora Central Catholic, 7:30 p.m.
Girls GymnasticsDeKalb/Sycamore at Glenbard
West Sectional, 6:30 p.m.
WEDNESDAY
Girls BasketballClass 1A Alden-Herbron Regional:
Hiawatha vs. Durand, 7 p.m.
THURSDAY
Girls BasketballDeKalb at Sycamore, 7 p.m.Genoa-Kingston at Harvard, 7 p.m.Kaneland at Rochelle, 7 p.m.Class 1A Hinckley-Big Rock Re-
gional: championship, 7:30 p.m.
NBA
NHL
EASTERN CONFERENCECentral Division
W L Pct GBIndiana 29 19 .604 —Bulls 29 19 .604 —Milwaukee 25 21 .543 3Detroit 18 31 .367 11½Cleveland 14 34 .292 15
Atlantic Division W L Pct GBNew York 31 15 .674 —Brooklyn 28 19 .596 3½Boston 24 23 .511 7½Philadelphia 21 26 .447 10½Toronto 17 31 .354 15
Southeast Division W L Pct GBMiami 31 14 .689 —Atlanta 26 20 .565 5½Orlando 14 34 .292 18½Washington 12 35 .255 20Charlotte 11 36 .234 21
WESTERN CONFERENCESouthwest Division
W L Pct GBSan Antonio 38 11 .776 —Memphis 30 16 .652 6½Houston 26 23 .531 12Dallas 20 28 .417 17½New Orleans 15 33 .313 22½
Northwest Division W L Pct GBOklahoma City 36 12 .750 —Denver 30 18 .625 6Utah 27 22 .551 9½Portland 25 23 .521 11Minnesota 18 27 .400 16½
Pacific Division W L Pct GBL.A. Clippers 34 16 .680 —Golden State 30 17 .638 2½L.A. Lakers 22 26 .458 11Sacramento 17 33 .340 17Phoenix 16 32 .333 17
Monday’s ResultsIndiana 111, Bulls 101Philadelphia 78, Orlando 61Washington 98, L.A. Clippers 90New York 99, Detroit 85Miami 99, Charlotte 94Portland 100, Minnesota 98Oklahoma City 112, Dallas 91Utah 98, Sacramento 91 (OT)
Today’s GamesAtlanta at Indiana, 6 p.m.L.A. Lakers at Brooklyn, 6:30 p.m.Golden State at Houston, 7 p.m.Phoenix at Memphis, 7 p.m.Milwaukee at Denver, 8 p.m.
Wednesday’s GamesCharlotte at Cleveland, 6 p.m.Indiana at Philadelphia, 6 p.m.Boston at Toronto, 6 p.m.L.A. Clippers at Orlando, 6 p.m.New York at Washington, 6 p.m.Memphis at Atlanta, 6:30 p.m.Brooklyn at Detroit, 6:30 p.m.Houston at Miami, 6:30 p.m.Phoenix at New Orleans, 7 p.m.Golden State at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m.Portland at Dallas, 7:30 p.m.Milwaukee at Utah, 8 p.m.San Antonio at Minnesota, 8 p.m.
WESTERN CONFERENCECentral Division
GP W L OT Pts GF GABlackhawks 9 7 0 2 16 28 20St. Louis 8 6 2 0 12 31 19Detroit 8 4 3 1 9 22 24Nashville 8 3 2 3 9 14 20Columbus 9 3 5 1 7 18 28
Northwest Division GP W L OT Pts GF GAVancouver 8 4 2 2 10 21 20Edmonton 8 4 3 1 9 20 21Minnesota 9 4 4 1 9 21 24Colorado 9 4 5 0 8 21 23Calgary 6 1 3 2 4 16 24
Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GASan Jose 8 7 0 1 15 30 14Anaheim 7 5 1 1 11 27 22Phoenix 10 4 4 2 10 29 27Dallas 10 4 5 1 9 20 25Los Angeles 7 2 3 2 6 16 23
EASTERN CONFERENCEAtlantic Division
GP W L OT Pts GF GAPittsburgh 9 6 3 0 12 30 22New Jersey 8 4 1 3 11 20 19N.Y. Islanders 8 4 3 1 9 27 26N.Y. Rangers 8 4 4 0 8 19 22Philadelphia 9 3 6 0 6 21 26
Northeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF GABoston 8 6 1 1 13 24 19Montreal 8 6 2 0 12 26 17Ottawa 9 5 3 1 11 25 16Toronto 9 4 5 0 8 22 27Buffalo 9 3 5 1 7 27 33
Southeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF GATampa Bay 8 6 2 0 12 39 21Carolina 8 4 4 0 8 22 24Winnipeg 8 3 4 1 7 24 32Florida 8 3 5 0 6 20 30Washington 9 2 6 1 5 21 33Two points for a win, one point for OT loss.
Monday’s ResultsCarolina 4, Toronto 1Dallas 3, Colorado 2Phoenix 2, Minnesota 1Vancouver at Edmonton (n)San Jose at Anaheim (n)
Today’s GamesN.Y. Rangers at New Jersey, 6 p.m.Pittsburgh at N.Y. Islanders, 6 p.m.Toronto at Washington, 6 p.m.Los Angeles at Columbus, 6 p.m.Buffalo at Ottawa, 6:30 p.m.Tampa Bay at Philadelphia, 6:30 p.m.Calgary at Detroit, 6:30 p.m.Florida at Winnipeg, 7 p.m.Nashville at St. Louis, 7 p.m.Blackhawks at San Jose, 9:30 p.m.
Wednesday’s GamesBoston at Montreal, 7:30 p.m.Anaheim at Colorado, 9:30 p.m.Dallas at Edmonton, 10 p.m.
NCAA BASKETBALL
AP TOP 25 POLL
The top 25 teams in The Associated Press’ college basketball poll, with irst-place votes in parentheses, records through Jan. 27, total points based on 25 points for a irst-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and last week’s ranking: Record Pts Prv
1. Indiana (58) 20-2 1,615 32. Florida (7) 18-2 1,536 43. Michigan 20-2 1,490 14. Duke 19-2 1,413 55. Kansas 19-2 1,350 26. Gonzaga 21-2 1,249 77. Arizona 19-2 1,248 88. Miami 17-3 1,132 149. Syracuse 18-3 1,091 610. Ohio St. 17-4 1,033 1111. Louisville 18-4 1,018 1212. Michigan St. 18-4 994 1313. Kansas St. 17-4 782 1814. Butler 18-4 774 915. New Mexico 19-3 660 2016. Creighton 20-3 578 2117. Cincinnati 18-4 552 2418. Minnesota 17-5 454 2319. Oregon 18-4 390 1020. Georgetown 16-4 364 —21. Missouri 16-5 245 1722. Oklahoma St. 15-5 235 —23. Pittsburgh 18-5 207 —24. Marquette 15-5 137 2525. Notre Dame 18-4 132 —
Others receiving votes: Mississippi 75, N.C. State 64, Colorado St. 49, Wich-
ita St. 49, Memphis 44, Wisconsin 28, Saint Mary’s (Calif.) 27, Louisiana Tech 24, Kentucky 21, San Diego St. 17, UNLV 13, Saint Louis 8, UCLA 8, VCU 8, Akron 4, Virginia 4, Connecticut 2, Belmont 1.
PACERS 111, BULLS 101
Pacers move into tie with Bulls
Anyone who watched the
Bears last season saw an older,
slower Urlacher than ever
before. He struggled to shed
blocks. He did not move side to
side as easily as in years past.
Even when he made a good
play, such as his interception
against the Tennessee Titans,
he lumbered down the sideline
like a pickup truck with four
flat tires.
At one point or another,
almost every team has parted
ways with a superstar.
Michael Jordan retired
(again) from the Bulls in 1998,
only to un-retire (again) and
spend a couple of seasons with
the Washington Wizards. Joe
Montana made history with
the San Francisco 49ers but played two more years with the Kansas City Chiefs. In the final at-bat of his career, Frank Thomas struck out as an Oak-land Athletic.
These things happen.Look no further than last
season, when the Indianapolis Colts made the difficult deci-sion to say goodbye to franchise icon Peyton Manning. The Colts had hired a new coach and new coordinators, and the new regime drafted Andrew Luck first overall while Man-ning signed a free-agent con-tract with the Denver Broncos.
Everyone benefited from the changes. Well, everyone except Tim Tebow, who was replaced by Manning and went on to become an undesirable on the New York Jets.
A similar transition period
has arrived for the Bears.Lovie Smith was fired after
nine seasons as head coach, and defensive coordinator Rod Marinelli decided to join his friend, Monte Kiffin, on the Dallas Cowboys’ staff instead of remaining with the Bears. Longtime linebackers coach Bob Babich also left to become the defensive coordinator of the Jacksonville Jaguars.
As the Bears prepare for next season, Marc Trestman is the head coach. Mel Tucker is the defensive coordinator. Tim Tibesar will coach the linebackers.
A new era at Halas Hall presents an opportunity for a clean break between the Bears and Urlacher. However tough that might be, it will only become tougher if Urlacher sticks around for another sea-
son or two but struggles as his athleticism fades.
Urlacher is no dummy. He understands that the NFL is a business.
In a couple of years, Urlach-er can return to Soldier Field for a ceremony in his honor and wave to thousands of of grateful fans. He can watch as his Hall of Fame bust is un-veiled in Canton, Ohio, where he is sure to be enshrined after his career is over.
In the meantime, the Bears must move on.
Unfortunately, not every Hall of Fame career comes with a storybook ending.
•WritetoShawMedia columnist Tom Musick at [email protected] and follow him on Twitter @tcmusick and @bears_insider.
• MUSICKContinued from page B1
Not every Hall of Fame career has storybook ending
Short-handed Bulls challenge, then fall short
By MICHAEL MAROTThe Associated Press
INDIANAPOLIS – Indiana suddenly has a shooting touch to go with its tough defense.
The combination is just too much.
David West scored 29 points Monday night and All-Star Paul George finished with 21 points, 11 rebounds and five assists, leading the Pacers past the Bulls, 111-101, for a 14th consecutive home win and into a tie with the Bulls for the Cen-tral Division lead.
“We’re just playing togeth-er; every game I feel like we’re play-ing sharper,” West said. “We still need to pick it up defen-sively, we’re slip-ping in that regard, but in terms of the offense and how we’re moving the ball and what we’re looking for, it’s just game-by-game im-
provement.”It shows.Three nights after shoot-
ing a season-high 55.7 percent in a relatively easy win over defending NBA champion Mi-ami, Indiana shot 52.7 percent against a Bulls defense that is ranked No. 2 in the NBA in de-fensive field goal percentage. The only team ahead of the Bulls is the Pacers, and Indiana never trailed in the second half Monday.
Indiana has topped the 100-point mark four times in the past five games after do-ing that only seven times in the first 43. It was the Pacers’ highest point total in a non-overtime game all season, and the timing couldn’t have been better as they head into a three-games-in-three-night swing. They are the only NBA team to deal with that this season.
Now the Pacers will take a three-game winning streak into tonight’s home game against Atlanta as they try to win a 15th consecutive home game for the first time since 1999-2000 when they won 25 in a row. On Wednesday, they visit Philadelphia.
Indiana’s recent surge has it tied for the division lead with
the Bulls (29-19) and behind only Miami (30-14) and New York (31-15) in the Eastern Con-ference playoff chase.
Over the past month, the Pacers have beaten Miami twice and New York and the Bulls once each, going 4-0 mark against the East’s three other top teams since Jan. 8 and they now have a 2-0 series lead over the Bulls, the league’s best road team.
“We played the No. 1 team in Miami and New York and Chi-cago is right there, and this is a big win for us, definitely play-ing against a division team,” George Hill said. “So I’m happy with our ballclub, we played a great game.”
The Bulls didn’t look like
themselves, though.Starting guards Derrick
Rose (left knee) and Kirk Hin-rich (right elbow) and starting center Joakim Noah (right foot) all sat out again with injuries, and they had another scare late in the first quarter when Marco Belinelli crashed to the floor clutching his right ankle. He returned later and finished with a season-high 24 points. Nate Robinson finished with 19 points, nine assists and five re-bounds, and Carlos Boozer had 10 points and five rebounds as he returned from a right ham-string injury.
All of those players, other than Belinelli and Robinson, missed Saturday’s 93-76 victory at Atlanta.
“I feel like we’re short-hand-ed right now, but we’re com-peting hard and that’s all you can ask for and I feel like our best basketball is yet to come,” Noah said. “We’ve just got to keep fighting and I think we’ll be all right.”
Those expecting a defensive slugfest were in for a surprise.
Indiana started the game fast, making its first six shots to take a 13-2 lead, and finished the first half nearly as fast, us-ing a 12-6 run to break a 48-48 tie to make it 60-54 at the half. The Pacers shot 66.7 percent from the field in the half.
The Bulls had seven players in double figures and continu-ally challenged Indiana, but never had control and couldn’t even forge a tie over the final 27½ minutes.
Robinson opened the second half with a 3-pointer and a 20-foot jumper to close the deficit to 60-59, but a few minutes lat-er, Indiana seized control with two quick scoring flurries.
The first came when George hit a 3-foot jumper, Lance Ste-phenson then completed a three-point play and Hill add-ed a four-point play to make it 73-63 with 7:35 left in the third. The Bulls answered with four straight points, and Indi-ana came right back with six straight to take a 79-67 lead.
“We started the game in a big hole and we had to get out of that hole,” Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau said. “Now you’re scrambling and trying to give yourself a chance. I thought we were in position with five min-utes to go.”
The Bulls rallied again in the fourth, using an 8-0 run to close to 90-84, and it got as close as four three times.
Indiana finally sealed it with a 3 from George and two free throws from West with 1:05 to play.
“I’m proud of the way we’re growing on the offensive end,” Pacers coach Frank Vogel said. “Still a few too many turnovers, but we’ve made a commitment to the extra pass. When the ball is moving, we’re too many weapons to be as poorly effi-cient as we have been.”
Notes: It was Indiana’s first regular-season home win over the Bulls since March 18, 2011. ... The Bulls are 6-20 all-time at Bankers Life Fieldhouse. ... Bulls guard Marquis Teague finished with two points in his first pro appearance in his hometown. ... The Bulls lost for only the third time in nine games.
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Pacers forward Paul George does a reverse dunk over Bulls forward Taj Gib-son in the second half of the Bulls’ 111-101 loss Monday in Indianapolis.
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By RONALD BLUMThe Associated Press
NEW YORK – Sitting on a stage with their manager and GM during a fundraiser, Mariano Ri-vera and Mark Teixeira vowed to welcome Alex Rodriguez back to the New York Yankees after the latest drug allegations against the New York Yankees star.
Rodriguez is recovering from hip surgery expected to sideline him until at least the All-Star break. The Miami New Times reported last week that Rodri-guez is included in records the paper claims show he bought
performance-enhancing drugs from a defunct Florida anti-aging clinic. Rodriguez denied the charges.
“We have to embrace him. He’s our team-mate,” Rivera said.
Yankees gen-eral manager Brian Cashman said the team will wait for Major League Baseball to determine the truthfullness of the allegations, and manager Joe Girardi said there’s no way to tell whether the All-Star third baseman will
regain his offensive production after his surgery.
“This involves some very
nasty facts,” Cashman told about 150 fans at the Hard Rock Cafe in Times Square. “There needs to patience here as they thoroughly investigate this to determine the accuracy or in-accuracy, or where are there accuracies or inaccuracies in the story, and see if we can come up with what is fact and what are provable facts.”
“Everybody, they deserve due process and right now you have just a very nasty story,” Cash-
man added. “We’ll just have to
wait and let it all play out.”Rodriguez was among a
half-dozen major leaguers ac-
cused in the report and could face a 50-game suspension. He admitted four years ago that he used PEDs while with the Texas Rangers from 2001-03, be-fore MLB and the union started their joint drug program. He has denied using PEDs since.
“He wears that uniform, that
New York Yankees uniform, and I have to go out and be there for him,” Rivera said. “Besides, he’s my friend and I will respect and wait for him to give you the answer that you want.”
Rivera says team will support A-Rod
Alex Rodriguez
SUPER BOWL XLVII Tuesday, February 5, 2013 • Page B3Daily Chronicle / Daily-Chronicle.com
Goodell: New Orleans ‘terrific,’ despite blackoutBy BRETT MARTELThe Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS – The blackout at the Superdome will not stop the Super Bowl from returning to New Orleans.
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said that despite the electrical outage that delayed Sunday night’s game for 34 minutes, the city did a “ter-rific” job hosting its first pro football championship in the post-Katrina era.
“Let me reiterate again what an extraordinary job the city of New Orleans has done,” said Goodell, speaking Monday at a post-Super Bowl news confer-ence held for the game’s most valuable player, Baltimore quarterback Joe Flacco, and winning coach John Harbaugh.
“The most important thing is to make sure people understand it was a fantastic week.”
New Orleans has hosted 10 Super Bowls, including Balti-more’s 34-31 victory over San Francisco, tied for the most with Miami.
While serving as the site of America’s biggest sporting event and focus of an unoffi-cial national holiday gets any place a lot of attention, this game had special meaning for New Orleans.
The city last hosted the Su-per Bowl in 2002 and officials were hoping this would serve as the ultimate showcase – on a global scale – of how far it has come since being devastated by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The storm winds tore holes in the roof of the Superdome and
there was water damage from the rain that affected electri-cal systems and caused mold to spread. More than $330 mil-lion has been spent to upgrade the facility, which has hosted the annual Sugar Bowl, Saints games, two BCS title games and a men’s Final Four since the storm.
Yet the loss of power was an embarrassment that quickly became perhaps the signature moment of the Ravens’ win.
Goodell said not to worry.“I do not think this will
have an effect on future Super Bowls in New Orleans,” he said. “I fully expect to be back here for Super Bowls. I hope we will be back. We want to be back here.”
Local officials have said they will bid to host an 11th
Super Bowl in 2018 to coincide with the 300th anniversary of the city’s founding. Political strategist James Carville, who along with wife Mary Matalin served as host committee co-chairs, said he disagreed with the premise that the outage overshadowed a full week of celebration.
Still, he acknowledged some initial anxiety when the lights went down – using a hurricane metaphor, no less.
“When this thing hap-pened, I said to myself, ‘This could be a Category 5,’ ” Car-ville said in a phone interview with The Associated Press. “It turned out to be a fast-moving tropical storm. Everybody was completely well behaved. The problem was identified and fixed.”
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Fans hoist a giant Ray Lewis head as they walk down Bourbon Street while celebrating the Ravens’ victory over the 49ers as fans of both teams pack the French Quarter on Sunday for Super Bowl XLVII in New Orleans.
Niners looking to next season
By JANIE McCAULEYThe Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS – Offensive linemen Alex Boone and Mike Iupati stood in one corner of a near-empty San Francisco locker room and pondered just how close they had come to winning the Super Bowl.
It quickly began to sink in, beneath the Superdome on Sun-day night as the Baltimore Ra-
vens celebrated, that their season had ended short of the goal.
O n e y e a r , t h e y a l m o s t r e a c h e d t h e NFL’s champi-onship game.
The next, they nearly won it.“It just hurts, it hurts now,”
Iupati said. “There are no words to express how we feel right now. We’ve got to put it in the past now and we can’t ever for-get this moment. We’ve just got to go out there and next year is another year, and compete.”
The 49ers head into the off-season after a 34-31 Super Bowl loss knowing they were right there against the Ravens, and now move forward with the hope of keeping much of the team together and building to get back – and this time win it all.
One big question: What to do with backup quarterback Alex Smith?
CEO Jed York said last week he would address Smith’s situ-ation soon. Smith would like to have the chance to start some-where, and the 49ers realize that’s a fair request.
“Last year losing in the NFC Championship Game, come back this year and you’re in the Super Bowl, it feels the same way,” running back Frank Gore said. “Any other team probably would have just laid down but we kept fighting. We just didn’t get it done.”
Coach Jim Harbaugh and general manager Trent Baalke soon will begin planning for the 2013 season – not to men-tion the draft in April – and de-termine whether they can find a team for Smith.
The 2005 No. 1 overall draft pick lost his starting job in November to second-year pro Colin Kaepernick, who nearly led the greatest comeback in Super Bowl history in the 10th start of his NFL career.
A win would have put him right there in the 49ers’ sto-ried Super Bowl history aside Hall of Famers Joe Montana and Steve Young, who led San Francisco’s last championship after the 1994 season.
The Niners lost for the first time in six Super Bowls, leav-ing Harbaugh to shake hands with Ravens coach and big brother, John, afterward as the loser in the first sibling-coached championship.
“We want to handle this with class and grace,” Har-baugh said. “Had several op-portunities in the game. Didn’t play our best game.”
Alex Smith
NFL NOTES
Lions release YoungThe ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Detroit Lions released wide receiver Titus Young.
The team made the an-nouncement Monday. It wasn’t much of a surprise.
“If y’all going to cut me let me go,” Young posted on his Twitter account last month. “I’m tired of the threats.”
An email seeking com-m e n t w a s sent to Young on Monday. Y o u n g w a s banished from the team in November for what Jim Schwarz called un-acceptable behavior and was later put on injured reserve. Young also was told to stay away from the team during its last offseason for punching teammate Louis Delmas when the safety wasn’t looking.
Detroit drafted Young out of Boise State in 2011 and he had 48 receptions for 607 yards and six touchdowns as a rookie. His production dropped off last season.
Flacco does ‘Late Show’: AT New York, Super Bowl MVP Joe Flacco told David Letter-man the time has come for him to start talking contract with the Ravens.
The quarterback completed a remarkable postseason run with 11 TD passes and no inter-ceptions in four games. He is about to become a free agent.
Less than 24 hours after winning the Super Bowl, Flacco appeared as a guest on CBS’ “Late Show.” The show aired Monday night.
Flacco turned down an extension offer from the Ra-vens last year. He says Ra-vens owner Steve Bisciotti told him when the season was over he could come to his of-fice and pound on his desk.
Ravens plan celebration: At Baltimore, the city is in party-planning mode a day after the Ravens’ Super Bowl victory.
Baltimore Mayor Stepha-nie Rawlings-Blake said the city’s parade for the team will begin at City Hall today and end with a free celebration at M&T Bank Stadium.
The lineup still was being
finalized as the team arrived back in Maryland on Monday afternoon.
Record betting on Super Bowl: At Las Vegas, sports fans bet a record $98.9 million at Nevada casinos on the Su-per Bowl, the Nevada Gaming Control Board said Monday.
Unaudited tallies show 183 sports books made $7.2 million on the football ac-tion. The San Francisco 49ers started out as a five-point fa-vorite, but the Baltimore Ra-vens won, 34-31.
Odds makers say Califor-nia fans drove the unprece-dented handle, flooding Las Vegas and the Lake Tahoe area with wagers on the home-town team, which hadn’t been in the Super Bowl since 1995.
Police raid Super Bowl party: At Aurora, Ontario, police in Ontario said they busted a multimillion-dollar gambling operation when they raided an invitation-only Super Bowl event.
Six men have been arrest-ed and face illegal gambling-related charges after the Sun-day night raid at a packed hall in Markham, north of To-ronto. More than 2,300 people were said to be there.
York Regional Police Supt. Paul Pedersen said almost $2.5 million in cash was seized af-ter more than 400 officers exe-cuted search warrants across the Toronto area and as far away as London, Ontario.
He says those in the hall were allowed to leave without charges, except for the six. Po-lice said they were profiting from the gambling operation.
LB Joiner joins Bengals after prison term: At Cincinnati, rookie linebacker Brandon Joiner has been activated by the Cincinnati Bengals after completing a prison term.
The Bengals signed Joiner out of Arkansas State as an undrafted free agent last year, knowing he would be going to prison in Texas over a rob-bery that led to his indict-ment in 2008. He was placed on a reserve list and missed all of last season while com-pleting his sentence.
Joiner is out of prison and was reinstated Monday. He can work out with the team.
Titus Young
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Super Bowl MVP Joe Flacco rides with Mickey Mouse in a parade Monday through the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. Flacco led the Ravens to a 34-31 victory over the 49ers in Super Bowl XLVII on Sunday in New Orleans.
Whirlwind ride begins for Super Bowl MVPBig pay day ahead for QB
By DAVID GINSBURGThe Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS – Work-
ing on 90 minutes of sleep,
Joe Flacco wore a day-old
beard and a weary smile that
wouldn’t go away.
Super Bowl tradition deems
that the game’s MVP appear at
a ceremony the next morning
to shake hands with the com-
missioner of the NFL, accept
the shiny trophy, pose for pic-
tures and receive the keys to a
new car. And so, after celebrat-
ing the Baltimore Ravens’ 34-31
victory over the San Francisco
49ers into the early hours of
Monday morning, Flacco duti-
fully fulfilled his obligation.
The quarterback’s immedi-
ate reward for throwing three
touchdown passes Sunday
night was a 2014 Corvette. In
the months ahead, Flacco is
almost assured of receiving a
lucrative, long-term contract
befitting his incredible perfor-
mance during Baltimore’s run
to the NFL championship.
In the playoffs, Flacco had
11 TD passes and no intercep-
tions, a feat commissioner
Roger Goodell called “extraor-
dinary.”
“He was unflappable and
brought his team to a Super
Bowl level,” Goodell said.
“His play represented that all
the way through.”
Less than 12 hours after
hoisting the Lombardi Trophy
over his head amid a shower
of purple confetti, Flacco still
couldn’t come to grips with
what he and the Ravens had
accomplished.
After throwing for three
scores in the first half to stake
the Ravens to a 21-6 lead, Flac-
co directed two scoring drives
in the fourth quarter to help
fend off a 49ers comeback. He
was 22 for 33 for 287 yards.
“I’m pretty tired right now,
and it hasn’t sunken in,” he said.
“It’s just a surreal moment.”
With a parade scheduled
for the team today, Flacco vis-
ited Disney World in Florida
on Monday afternoon before
heading home.
“I anticipate not getting
very much sleep, but it’s for all
good reasons, man,” he said.
“Unbelievable game. It was just
awesome to be a part of it.”
After the game, Flacco
shared a little secret with the
rest of his family: He and his
wife are expecting their sec-
ond child. After the Ravens
played San Francisco last
season, he revealed their first
child (a boy) was on the way.
Flacco almost assuredly
has a big payday upcoming as
well. His rookie contract ends
after this season, and soon he
and owner Steve Bisciotti will
sit down to determine just how
much a Super Bowl title will be
worth. He could wind up with
one of the biggest deals in NFL
history, perhaps commanding
somewhere in the neighbor-
hood of $20 million a year.
“I’m pretty optimistic, but
who knows?” he said.
SPORTS Daily Chronicle / Daily-Chronicle.comPage B4 • Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Morreale is trying to make sure his athletes are pres-sure-tested, setting up drills in which every athlete gath-ers around one gymnast.
He also is making sure his gymnasts focus inward, in-structing them to turn their backs when teammates are performing on the beam.
“We did some things to try to change their mind-set,” Morreale said. “At the same time, it’s an individual sport up there. It’s just you and the equipment, and in-dividually, you’ve got to get it done.”
The Barbs think they have a strong chance of qual-ifying for the state meet this year, even after losing last year’s state champion in the all-around, Alyssa Lopez, to graduation.
Morreale hopes improve-ment from within will be enough to put DeKalb-Syca-more over the top. Freshman Alison Morreale, who fin-ished third in the all-around in the Glenbard North Re-
gional, has improved im-mensely from last season after hurting her ankle and back last year.
“I’m able to work on my events longer and bump up my assignments to more skills,” she said. “I’ve im-
proved a lot. I’ve been work-ing on different skills, work-ing in the gym longer.”
Anita Bell hopes to quali-fy in the all-around this year after making it to the state meet in the vault and the floor exercise last year. The
senior finished second in the
all-around in the Glenbard
North Regional, which the
Barbs won.
DeKalb-Sycamore’s 142.275
points in the Wheaton-War-
renville South Regional was
the 10th-highest total of any
regional. The four sectional
winners, and four additional
at-large teams will qualify for
the state meet. Morreale said
fixing a few minor mistakes
will make up enough points
to put them through.
As the Barbs saw last sea-
son, a state berth is no sure
thing.
But Bell sees a different
mentality from her team last
year that will keep the Barbs
from making the same mis-
takes. This year, she sees a
more focused, confident group
that won’t let small failures
obstruct the bigger picture.
“Everyone’s pushing re-
ally hard, and you can see it
on their face when they don’t
place in an even that they re-
ally want to place in,” Bell
said. “Now, I see the girls
are really stepping it up, and
we’re trying to [qualify] as a
team.”
The best advantage for Folliard being in DeKalb a semester early? Being able to participate in the Huskies’ spring drills, and he said that played a decision to graduate early that much easier.
Folliard was an Illinois High School Football Coaches Associa-tion Class 6A all-state selection as a senior, and even played some quarterback for the Wolves late in the 2012 season.
For the Huskies, Folliard will be moving to linebacker, where he’ll be at for the next four or five seasons. He hopes being in school for spring practice will help him get on the field as a freshman.
“The coaches and players told me that’s going to be a big help. I obviously won’t know until I’m there,” he said. “Ultimately, that’s going to be the coaches’ decision on whether I redshirt or not.”
Over the winter, Folliard, who Rivals.com lists at 6-foot-2, 205 pounds, will be trying to mold his body into a linebacker, and will get valuable reps in spring practice.
“I’m definitely going to have to get a lot bigger and stronger,” he said. “Kind of just want to get better overall as an athlete, in the weight room and stuff like that. I’ve got a lot to learn.”
Signing Day hasn’t even ar-rived yet, but Folliard already is one step ahead of everyone else. So far, he hasn’t been disap-pointed.
“It’s been fun. Working out every day, just getting to know my teammates,” he said. “Really good times.”
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Sycamore-DeKalb co-op gymnast Meredith Whisenhunt jokes with assistant coach Bri Dicus while waiting to get on one of the beams during practice Friday at Energym in DeKalb.
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The Hiawatha girls bas-ketball team advanced to the semifinals of the Class 1A Al-den-Hebron Regional with a 41-29 win over South Beloit in Monday’s quarterfinals.
Dani Clark led the Hawks with 17 points, with Ashley Tamraz adding 14.
“The performance wasn’t where it needs to be. It was a really weird, sloppy game,” Hiawatha coach Franz Schu-macher said. “They did their job and got the win and that’s what we needed.”
Fourth-seeded Hiawatha (9-17) will play top-seeded Du-rand in Wednesday’s semifi-nals at 7 p.m.
Spartans win at IMSA: Syca-more beat IMSA, 46-30, in a nonconference game. Paige Wogen had 16 points for the Spartans (12-11), and Bailey Gilbert added 15.
MEN’S BASKETBALL AP TOP 25 POLL
By MICHAEL MAROTThe Associated Press
Tom Crean’s whirlwind week got even crazier Monday.
Upon returning home from the Super Bowl, the Indiana coach found out he’s leading America’s No. 1 col-
lege basketball team. Again.It was another crowning moment
in a week full of big wins for the Crean clan. Indiana beat No. 13 Michigan State, archrival Purdue and No. 1 Michigan in a seven-day span, before Crean headed to New Orleans. There, he watched one brother-in-law beat
his other brother-in-law for the Super Bowl title. Finally, he saw the Hoo-siers reclaim the top spot in The As-sociated Press poll after seven weeks.
“Our guys appreciate winning. They appreciate the task that it is and I think because our older guys have been through so many hard times,
they appreciate it that much more,” a weary-sounding Crean said during Monday’s weekly Big Ten conference call. “And I think our younger guys were raised on winning. Guys like Yogi (Ferrell), Cody (Zeller), Remy Abell, those guys were really raised on winning, and that helps.”
Hoosiers move back into No. 1 spot
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I called my parents,
but they didn’t answer the
telephone because they were
asleep. I called at 7 a.m.
the following day, and they
were in a tizzy because they
were up, and they didn’t
know where I was. They had already called the police and reported me as missing. Now I’m grounded for a month be-cause they said I should have continued to call because
eventually they would have
heard the phone ring. I only
called once, but I let it ring at
least 10 times.
I think my parents are
wrong for grounding me.
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ence their poor decision. –
Nameless, St. Charles, Ill.
Nameless: Being a passen-ger with a driver who has been drinking is very risky. Your life was too important to take the risk. The alter-natives for riding with a driver who has been drink-ing include: getting a ride home from a friend who has not been drinking, having a parent or trusted adult pick you up, taking a taxi even if you don’t have the necessary
funds (mom and dad will
gladly pay the bill), spending
the night at a friend’s house.
You were 100 percent cor-
rect in what you did. Your
parents were highly con-
cerned when they didn’t find
you at home, and they prob-
ably overreacted by punish-
ing you instead of praising
you. I’m positive that they
will change their minds for
the better.
Dr. Wallace: I’m a 17-year-old guy and work part-time after school and on Satur-day mornings at a fast-food restaurant. I live at home with my mother, who doesn’t drive, and a younger sister. Because my mom doesn’t drive, I don’t have access to a car. I get to school and to my job on a bicycle.
One of my fellow employ-ees is a girl who’s also 17.
Julie is nice and attractive.
Lately, we have become
rather friendly at work, and I’d like to take her out. But since I don’t have a car, I don’t know how to approach her on the subject. She owns a car and drives to work. Would it be considered in poor taste if I asked her out and then asked her to drive? – Mario, Alameda, Calif.
Mario: Tell Julie that you’d like to take her out, but that she would have to drive if her answer is yes. Of course,
insist on paying for the gaso-
line and the date. I have the
feeling that she’ll go for the
deal. It’s worth a try.
•EmailDr.RobertWallaceat [email protected].
Wife intolerant of illness needs health lesson
Remedies for hot flashes not well studied
The way to play a suit can vary
Victor Hugo wrote, “He who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.”
A declarer who every first trick plans the transactions of the deal, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of a most busy deal.
That is true, but declar-ers must always be ready to change their plans if neces-sary. For example, look at to-day’s club suit. If South has no other worries, what is his best play for four tricks? Then, South is in three no-trump. West leads the heart six: five, jack, king. How should declarer plan the transactions of the deal?
South has seven top tricks: two spades, one heart (trick one), two diamonds and two clubs. He needs two – not three – more club tricks to get home.
In isolation, the best plan is to cash dummy’s ace, then play low to dummy’s jack on the second round. But one of the main reasons bridge retains its popularity is that the right way to play a suit mathematically will not al-ways be the correct approach in a given deal.
Here,ifEastgetsonplay,he will lead a heart through South’s queen. That will not hurt if the hearts are 4-4, but if they are 5-3 or 6-2, the contract will fail. Declarer must work tokeepEastoffplay.Southshould lead a club to the king and cash the ace. Here, the queen drops and South gains an overtrick. But if the queen has not appeared (and the suit is 3-2), declarer plays a third round, hoping for the best.
Daughter deserved praise, not punishement
Dear Abby: My wife and I are both schoolteachers. She hates to call in sick and often teaches class when she says she feels ill. I don’t argue with her.
The problem arises when I am not feeling well. When I am sick and feverish, I’m not inclined to rise from my sickbed and go to work. On those few occasions, my wife objects strenuously. She interrogates me about my symptoms, then makes her own “diagnosis” on the spot. Apparently, her gold stan-dard for staying home is the inability to stand.
This creates a problem for me at work because co-workers are concerned about catching my obvious illness. The last time I felt sick, my wife ordered me to go to work.
When I saw a doctor after-ward, I was told I had a virus and should be in bed. My wife still objected to my missing work because she considered it to be “just a cough.”
I missed a grand total of two days because of it. On one of them I wasn’t able to stand, the other because I refused to get out of bed. Then, since I was staying home “doing nothing,” my wife insisted I care for our two children (ages 3 and 1), rather than send them to my mother-in-
law who baby-sits while we
work.
Today a staff member
called in sick with the same virusIhad.Everyonelookedat me as the responsible party.
If I stay home, my wife will dump the kids on me and give me the cold shoulder. If I go to work, I expose my co-workers and perform poorly. Help! – At A Total Loss in Corpus Christi
Dear Total Loss: It appears you married a woman who is not only lacking in empa-thy, but also is a controlling, slave-driving witch. Unless you can find the backbone to take control of the situation and stop acting like a victim, your wife will continue to punish you when you’re least able to defend yourself – and nothing will change.
P.S. A teacher with a virus
can not only infect co-work-
ers and administrative staff, but also his students – not to mention his own children. Please point that out to “Si-mone Legree.”
Dear Abby: The adage, “If you don’t have anything nice to say ...” is easier said than done. When I am tired or stressed, I have a tendency to be less tolerant of others’ quirks, and sometimes I voice my annoyance. While my opinions do have a basis, I sometimes feel guilty about insulting or hurting the person’s feelings. I envy those who are strong enough to not allow the stress of certain situations to affect them.
I have never been a be-liever in “killing them with kindness” because that seems
to enable their behavior. My
intolerance is probably due
to unhappiness about my own life. So how do I allow these annoyances to roll off my back and bite my tongue? – Can’t Tolerate Fools in Des Moines
Dear Can’t Tolerate Fools: One way to do that would be to re-mind yourself that the more you take your unhappiness out on those around you, the more you will isolate your-self. When you are tired or stressed, and before shooting off your mouth, ask yourself: Is it true? Is it kind? Is it helpful? And if what you were about to say is not all three, bite your tongue, zip your lip, or walk away until you get a grip.
•WriteDearAbbyatwww.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.
Dear Dr. K: I’m having menopausal hot flashes, but I don’t want to take hormone therapy. Can you tell me about natural remedies?
Dear Reader: Natural remedies can help for hot flashes, but hormone therapy is helpful more often. For that reason, I’ll come back to the pluses and minuses of hor-mone therapy after answer-ing your question.
You don’t need this ex-planation, but some readers who have not experienced them may not be sure what hot flashes are. They’re brief but intensely uncomfortable feelings of warmth followed by drenching perspiration. They’re common during menopause, but not all wom-en get them. They can be ac-companied by heart palpita-
tions, dizziness or weakness, and they can cause sleepless nights followed by irritabil-ity and exhaustion during the day. At their worst, they can really interfere with a woman’s life.
There are traditional medi-cines other than hormone therapy that can help with hot flashes. These include drugs that relax blood vessels as well as certain antidepres-sants.
Several herbal remedies claim to help prevent or treat hot flashes, but most have not been well studied. There is some evidence that the herb
black cohosh may be effective.You can take steps to help
make hot flashes less severe or less frequent – steps that don’t require either tradi-tional medicines or “natural remedies”:
•Drinkaglassofcoolwater at the beginning of a hot flash.
•Drinksixtoeightglassesof water per day.
•Plungeyourhandsincold water and pat it on your face, neck and chest when a hot flash starts.
•Begindeep-breathingexercises at the beginning of a hot flash to help nip it in the bud.
•Avoidcaffeineandalco-hol, which make hot flashes more uncomfortable.
•Cutdownonredwine,chocolate and aged cheeses.
They contain a chemical that can trigger hot flashes.
•Don’tsmoke.Smokingcan make hot flashes worse.
•Wearloose,comfortablecotton clothing.
•Dressinlayers.Removesome clothing if you suddenly feel hot.
•Keepyourhousecool.Atwork, open a window or use a small portable fan.
•Atnight,uselightweightblankets that can be removed.
•Engageinregularvigor-ous exercise.
Now let’s come back to hormone therapy. Here’s the bottom line – at least for me – of a complicated story. The most effective medication for hot flashes is the hormone estrogen. If you’re 60 or over, or are 10 years past enter-ing menopause, I would stay
away from hormone therapy. I think it does increase your risk of heart disease and stroke.
However, if you are enter-ing menopause – which typi-cally occurs in a woman’s late 40s or early 50s – I think the evidence does not show an in-creased risk of heart disease. Indeed, hormone therapy taken at that age to relieve hot flashes may actually pro-tect you from heart disease. I’ll address the question of how your age affects your risk from hormone therapy in another column.
•Dr.Komaroffisaphysi-cian and professor at Harvard Medical School. Visit www.AskDoctorK.comtosendquestions and get additional information.
Phillip Alder
BRIDGE
Jeanne Phillips
DEAR ABBY
Robert Wallace
’TWEEN12 & 20
Anthony L.Komaroff
ASK DR. K
ADVICE & PUZZLES Tuesday, February 5, 2012 • Page B5Daily Chronicle / Daily-Chronicle.com
By BERNICE BEDE OSOLNewspaper Enterprise Association
TODAY – You could be very lucky in the year ahead where your personal relationships are concerned. It looks like you will have more friends than ever, and they’ll all be willing to help you out.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) – Involvements with authority fig-ures will work out in your favor, whether they were deliberately orchestrated or occur by happenstance.
PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) – Establish some definite objec-tives for the day, but keep them private. You’ll find that you will perform far more effectively if you don’t have to justify your intentions to others.
ARIES (March 21-April 19) – Certain knowledge you recently acquired can be used constructively on a current project. You can not only better your own lot in life, but improve things for associates as well.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20) – Take the reins, because your leadership abilities can be a critical factor in revitalizing a joint endeavor that has been going downhill. Your new direction can produce success.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20) – It looks like balance and harmony can be restored in a situation that has become increasingly unsettling. Your efforts, coupled with another’s, will be mostly responsible for the improvement.
CANCER (June 21-July 22) – Certain things that have been impos-sible to handle on your own can be achieved with the help of surrogates if you motivate them properly. Make sure they can benefit as well, and you’ll all do quite well.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) – A partnership arrangement can become far more productive if you provide the initiative and let the other person serve as a backup. It could be totally up to you to rev the engines.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) – A number of important assignments you’ve been unable to conclude satisfactorily can be finalized by prioritizing them and then knocking them off one at a time.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) – Your popularity is peaking right now, and the impression you’re making in your social encounters is favorable and lasting. You’ll not find a better time to circulate and make new friends.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) – Financial trends are far more favorable than they might be tomorrow. If you’re involved in something that could spell profit, make every minute count.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) – You’ll not only be a fast thinker, but you should also be able to express yourself in an eloquent and effective manner. All your comments will receive serious consideration.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) – A venture in which you’re presently involved looks like it could be turned into a financial winner, even though you might have to use a slightly different approach than you normally would.
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PUBLIC NOTICE
"THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COL-LECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMA-TION OBTAINED WILL BE USED
FOR THAT PURPOSE"W12-1478
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE23RD JUDICIAL DISTRICTDEKALB COUNTY, ILLINOIS
COUNTY DEPARTMENT,CHANCERY DIVISION
Bank of America, N.A.;Plaintiff,
VS.Bradley A. Hammond a/k/a Brad A.Hammond; Jalee M. Poore;
Defendants.12 CH 240
NOTICE OF JUDICIAL SALEOF REAL ESTATE
MORTGAGE FORECLOSURENOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that
pursuant to a judgment heretoforeentered by the said court occurredin the above entitled cause, SheriffRoger Scott, Sheriff of DeKalb, Illi-nois, will on February 28, 2013, atthe hour of 01:00 PM at DeKalbCounty Sheriff`s Office, 150 NorthMain Street, Sycamore, IL 60178 ,sell at public auction to the highestbidder for cash, all and singular,the following described real estatein the said judgment mentioned,situated in the County of DeKalb,State of Illinois, or so much thereofas shall be sufficient to satisfy suchjudgment to wit:
C/K/A: 974 West Main Street,Genoa, IL 60135
PIN: 02-24-427-006The person to contact regarding
information regarding this propertyis: Sales Dept., The Wirbicki LawGroup, 33 W. Monroe St., Suite1140, Chicago, IL 60603. Anyquestions regarding this saleshould refer to file number W12-1478. The terms of the sale areCash. 10% at time of sale, withthe balance due within 24 hours.The property is improved by: Singlefamily home. The Property is notopen for inspection prior to sale.
The real estate, together with allbuildings and improvements there-on, and tenements, hereditamentand appurtenances thereunto be-longing shall be sold under suchterms.Russell C. Wirbicki (6186310)The Wirbicki Law Group LLCAttorney for Plaintiff33 W. Monroe St., Suite 1140Chicago, IL 60603Phone: 312-360-9455Fax: [email protected]
(Published in the Daily Chronicle,January 22, 29 & February 5,2013.)
PUBLIC NOTICE
"THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COL-LECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMA-TION OBTAINED WILL BE USED
FOR THAT PURPOSE"W12-1478
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE23RD JUDICIAL DISTRICTDEKALB COUNTY, ILLINOIS
COUNTY DEPARTMENT,CHANCERY DIVISION
Bank of America, N.A.;Plaintiff,
VS.Bradley A. Hammond a/k/a Brad A.Hammond; Jalee M. Poore;
Defendants.12 CH 240
NOTICE OF JUDICIAL SALEOF REAL ESTATE
MORTGAGE FORECLOSURENOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that
pursuant to a judgment heretoforeentered by the said court occurredin the above entitled cause, SheriffRoger Scott, Sheriff of DeKalb, Illi-nois, will on February 28, 2013, atthe hour of 01:00 PM at DeKalbCounty Sheriff`s Office, 150 NorthMain Street, Sycamore, IL 60178 ,sell at public auction to the highestbidder for cash, all and singular,the following described real estatein the said judgment mentioned,situated in the County of DeKalb,State of Illinois, or so much thereofas shall be sufficient to satisfy suchjudgment to wit:
ALL THAT PART OF LOTS B ANDC OF WILCOX`S ADDITION TO THEVILLAGE (NOW CITY) OF GENOA,BOUNDED AND DESCRIBED ASFOLLOWS:
COMMENCING AT A POINT INTHE CENTER OF THE HIGHWAY(BEING THE NORTHERLY LINE OFSAID LOTS "B" AND "C" WHICH IS26 FEET EASTERLY FROM THENORTHWEST CORNER OF SAIDLOT "C" THENCE SOUTHWESTERLYPARALLEL TO THE WESTERLY LINEOF SAID LOT "C" TO THE RIGHT-OF-WAY OF THE ILLINOIS CENTRALRAILROAD, THENCE EASTERLYALONG THE RIGHT-OF-WAY OFTHE ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROADTO THE SOUTH LINE OF LOT "C";THENCE CONTINUING EASTERLYON THE SOUTHERLY LINE OF SAIDLOT "C" TO A POINT OF INTERSEC-TION WITH A LINE DRAWN PARAL-LEL TO AND 83 FEET EASTERLY OFTHE WESTERLY LINE OF SAID LOT"C"; THENCE NORTHEASTERLY ONSAID PARALLEL LINE TO A POINTWHICH IS 174 FEET (MEASUREDON SAID PARALLEL LINE) FROMTHE NORTHERLY LINE OF LOTS "C"AND "B"; THENCE WESTERLY PAR-ALLEL TO SAID NORTHERLY LINEOF LOTS "C" AND "B" FOR A DIS-TANCE OF 50 FEET, THENCENORTHEASTERLY PARALLEL TOTHE WESTERLY LINE OF LOT "C"FOR A DISTANCE OF 174 FEET TOTHE NORTHERLY LINE OF LOT "C";THENCE WESTERLY ALONG SAIDNORTHERLY LINE OF LOT "C" TOTHE PLACE OF BEGINNING, MOREPARTICULARLY BOUNDED AND DE-SCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: COM-MENCING AT THE NORTHWESTCORNER OF SAID LOT C; THENCESOUTH 58 DEGREES 44 MINUTES50 SECONDS EAST ALONG THENORTH LINES OF SAID LOT C ANDLOT B, A DISTANCE OF 26.00 FEETTO THE POINT OF BEGINNING OFTHE HEREINAFTER DESCRIBEDTRACT OF LAND; THENCE SOUTH30 DEGREES 26 MINUTES 24SECONDS WEST PARALLEL WITHTHE WEST LINE OF SAID LOT C, ADISTANCE OF 320.05 FEET TO THENORTHERLY RIGHT-OF-WAY LINEOF THE CHICAGO, CENTRAL ANDPACIFIC RAILROAD (FORMERLYTHE ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD);THENCE SOUTH 41 DEGREES 06MINUTES 39 SECONDS EASTALONG SAID NORTHERLY RIGHT-OF-WAY LINE, A DISTANCE OF33.25 FEET TO THE SOUTH LINEOF SAID LOT C; THENCE SOUTH 58DEGREES 47 MINUTES 51 SEC-ONDS EAST, A DISTANCE OF25.46 FEET TO A POINT 83 FEETEASTERLY OF, AS MEASURED PER-PENDICULAR TO THE WEST LINEOF SAID LOT C; THENCE NORTH30 DEGREES 26 MINUTES 24SECONDS EAST PARALLEL WITHTHE WEST LINE OF SAID LOT C, ADISTANCE OF 156.10 FEET TO APOINT 174.00 FEET SOUTHERLYOF THE NORTH LINES OF SAID LOT
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STATE OF ILLINOISIN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE
TWENTY-THIRD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF DE KALB
ESTATE OF DALE E. GROMETER,DECEASED.
Case No. 13 P 17CLAIM NOTICE
Notice is given of the death ofDALE E. GROMETER, of Waterman,Illinois. Letters of Administrationwere issued on the 30th day ofJanuary, 2013, to Denise R.McWilliams, P.O. Box 600, Hinck-ley, Illinois 60520, whose attor-neys are The Foster & Buick LawGroup, LLC, 2040 Aberdeen Court,Sycamore, Illinois 60178.
Claims against the estate may befiled in the office of the Clerk of theCourt at the DeKalb County CourtHouse, 133 West State Street,Sycamore, Illinois 60178, or withthe representative, or both, no laterthan 4:30 p.m. on or before the6th day of August, 2013, and anyclaim not filed within that period isbarred. Copies of a claim filed withthe Clerk must be mailed or deliv-ered to the representative and to theattorney within 10 days after it hasbeen filed.
Denise R. McWilliams,Administrator
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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE TWENTY-THIRD
JUDICIAL CIRCUITDEKALB COUNTY, ILLINOIS
HEARTLAND BANK AND TRUSTCOMPANY SUCCESSOR IN INTER-EST TO CITIZENS FIRST NATIONALBANK,
Plaintiff,v.
EDWARD R. CURRAN, PAULINECURRAN, E.C. PAGE'S BAR &
EDWARD R. CURRAN, PAULINECURRAN, E.C. PAGE'S BAR &GRILL, INC., PUB 34, INC., LUCKYPLUMBING, INC., WW HOME EX-PERTS, INC., GUARDIAN FIRE AD-JUSTERS, INC., UNKNOWN TEN-ANTS OR OCCUPANTS, UNKNOWN OWNERS and NON-RECORDCLAIMANTS,
Defendants.
No. 13 CH 55PUBLICATION NOTICE
The requisite affidavit(s) for pub-lication having been filed, NOTICEIS HEREBY GIVEN TO ALL DEFEN-DANTS IN THE ABOVE-ENTITLEDACTION, that said suit has beencommenced in the Sixteenth Judi-cial Circuit Court of DeKalb County,by the Plaintiff against you andother defendants, praying for theforeclosure of a certain Mortgageconveying the premises describedas follows, to-wit:
THAT PART OF BLOCK 1 OF LUK-IN'S ADDITION TO SANDWICH, ILLI-NOIS, DESCRIBED BY COMMENC-ING AT THE SOUTHEAST CORNEROF SAID BLOCK 1; THENCE WEST-ERLY ALONG THE SOUTH LINE OFSAID BLOCK 1, 73.85 FEET FORTHE POINT OF BEGINNING;THENCE CONTINUING WESTERLYALONG SAID SOUTH LINE, 20.00FEET; THENCE NORTHERLY230.14 FEET TO A POINT ON THENORTH LINE OF SAID BLOCK 1,SAID POINT LYING 96.00 FEETWESTERLY OF THE NORTHEASTCORNER OF SAID BLOCK 1;THENCE EASTERLY ALONG SAIDNORTH LINE 51.37 FEET; THENCESOUTHEASTERLY AT AN ANGLE OF139 DEGREES 24 MINUTES 54SECONDS (MEASURED COUNTER-CLOCKWISE) FROM LAST DE-SCRIBED COURSE, 22.78 FEET;THENCE SOUTHERLY AT AN ANGLEOF 139 DEGREES 24 MINUTES 54SECONDS (MEASURED COUNTER-CLOCKWISE) FROM LAST DE-SCRIBED COURSE, 119.48 FEET;THENCE SOUTHERLY AT AN ANGLEOF 169 DEGREES 03 MINUTES 42SECONDS (MEASURED COUNTER-CLOCKWISE) FROM LAST DE-SCRIBED COURSE, 45.05 FEET;THENCE SOUTHWESTERLY AT ANANGLE OF 133 DEGREES 18 MIN-UTES 32 SECONDS (MEASUREDCOUNTERCLOCKWISE) FROM LASTDESCRIBED COURSE, 38,00 FEET;THENCE SOUTHWESTERLY AT ANANGLE OF 176 DEGREES 58 MIN-UTES 21 SECONDS (MEASUREDCOUNTERCLOCKWISE) FROM THELAST DESCRIBED COURSE, 41.44FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGIN-NING, (EXCEPT THAT PORTIONTHEREOF DESCRIBED AS FOL-LOWS: BEGINNING AT A POINT INTHE SOUTH LINE OF SAID BLOCK1, SAID POINT BEING 67.85 FEETWEST OF THE EAST LINE OF THENORTHWEST QUARTER OF SEC-TION 36, TOWNSHIP 37 NORTH,RANGE 5 EAST OF THE THIRDPRINCIPAL MERIDIAN; THENCE
RANGE 5 EAST OF THE THIRDPRINCIPAL MERIDIAN; THENCEEASTERLY ON SAID SOUTH LINEOF BLOCK 1, SAID LINE HAVING ABEARING OF NORTH 86 DEGREES35 MINUTES 50 SECONDS EAST, ADISTANCE OF 20.0 FEET TO APOINT; THENCE NORTHEASTERLYON A LINE HAVING A BEARING OFNORTH 53 DEGREES 53 MINUTES05 SECONDS EAST, A DISTANCEOF 20.04 FEET TO A POINT;THENCE WESTERLY ON A LINEHAVING A BEARING OF SOUTH 84DEGREES 49 MINUTES 06 SEC-ONDS WEST, A DISTANCE OF36.09 FEET TO A POINT LYING10.02 FEET NORTHERLY OF THEPOINT OF BEGINNING; THENCESOUTHERLY ON A LINE HAVING ABEARING OF SOUTH 0 DEGREES00 MINUTES AND 00 SECONDSWEST, A DISTANCE OF 10.02 FEETTO THE POINT OF BEGINNING), INTHE CITY OF SANDWICH, DEKALBCOUNTY, ILLINOIS, SUBJECT TOTHE RIGHTS OF THE PUBLIC OVERTHAT PART KNOWN AS OLDROUTE 34.
COMMONLY KNOWN AS: 717 E.Church Street, Sandwich, Illinois60548
PIN NO: 19-36-131-004
And which said Mortgages weremade by Edward R. Curran andPauline Curran, Mortgagors, to Citi-zens First National Bank, as Mort-gagee, and recorded in the Office ofthe Recorder of Deeds of DeKalbCounty, Illinois as document num-ber: 2008005178
NOW, THEREFORE, UNLESSYOU, the said defendant(s), fileyour answer to the Complaint inthis case or otherwise file your Ap-pearance in the Office of the CircuitCourt Clerk, 33 West State Street,Sycamore, IL 60178, on or beforeMarch 29, 2013, a default may beentered against you at any time af-ter that day and a decree entered inaccordance with the prayer of saidcomplaint.
And for such other relief prayed;that summons was duly issued outof the said Sixteenth Judicial CircuitCourt against you as provided bylaw, and that the said suit is nowpending.
YOU ARE FURTHER ADVISEDTHAT THE TIME IN WHICH THESUBJECT REAL ESTATE MAY BEREDEEMED FROM FORECLOSURE,PURSUANT TO LAW, COMMENCESTO RUN WITH THE FIRST DATE OFPUBLICATION OF THIS NOTICE.
In testimony whereof, I havehereunto set my hand and affixedthe Seal of the Court on January31, 2013.
/s/ Maureen A. JoshMaureen A. Josh, Clerk of theTwenty-Third Judicial Circuit
Maureen A. Josh, Clerk of theTwenty-Third Judicial Circuit
Court DeKalb County
O'Brien Law Offices, P.C.Michael A. O'Brien/6216625 Leslie G. Bleifuss/6224495 124A South County Farm Road Wheaton, IL 60187Ph: 630-871-9400Fax: 630-871-9435
(Published in the Daily Chronicle,February 5, 12 & 19, 2013.)
POINT 174.00 FEET SOUTHERLYOF THE NORTH LINES OF SAID LOTB AND C, AS MEASURED PARALLELTHE WEST LINE OF SAID LOT C;THENCE NORTH 58 DEGREES 44MINUTES 50 SECONDS WEST PAR-ALLEL WITH THE NORTH LINE OFSAID LOT B, A DISTANCE OF 50.00FEET; THENCE NORTH 30 DE-GREES 26 MINUTES 24 SECONDSEAST PARALLEL WITH THE WESTLINE OF SAID LOT C, A DISTANCEOF 174.00 FEET TO THE NORTHLINES OF SAID LOTS B AND C;THENCE NORTH 58 DGREES 44MINUTES 50 SECONDS WESTALONG SAID NORTH LINE, A DIS-TANCE OF 7.00 FEET TO THEPOINT OF BEGINNING, CONTAIN-ING 0.229 ACRES, MORE OR LESS, SUBJECT TO THAT LAND BEINGUSED FOR PUBLIC ROAD PURPOS-ES AND ALSO SUBJECT TO ALLEASEMENTS, AGREEMENTS, CITYCODES AND/OR ORDINANCES OFRECORD, IF ANY, ALL SITUATED INTHE CITY OF GENOA, THE COUNTYOF DEKALB AND THE STATE OFILLINOIS.
C/K/A: 974 West Main Street,Genoa, IL 60135
PIN: 02-24-427-006The person to contact regarding
information regarding this propertyis: Sales Dept., The Wirbicki LawGroup, 33 W. Monroe St., Suite1140, Chicago, IL 60603. Anyquestions regarding this saleshould refer to file number W12-1478. The terms of the sale areCash. 10% at time of sale, withthe balance due within 24 hours.The property is improved by: Singlefamily home. The Property is notopen for inspection prior to sale.
The real estate, together with allbuildings and improvements there-on, and tenements, hereditamentand appurtenances thereunto be-longing shall be sold under suchterms.Russell C. Wirbicki (6186310)The Wirbicki Law Group LLCAttorney for Plaintiff33 W. Monroe St., Suite 1140Chicago, IL 60603Phone: 312-360-9455Fax: [email protected]
(Published in the Daily Chronicle,January 22, 29 & February 5,2013.)
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