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14 | December 8, 2016 | The Mokena Messenger news
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Marine Mokena native killed in Naperville crash
Kirsten Onsgard, Contributing Editor
A former Mokena resident and graduate
of Lincoln-Way East High School
was among those killed in a head-on
crash on Interstate 88 near Naperville
Friday, Dec. 2, according to reports.
Thirty-year-old Domenic Andreoni,
a U.S. Marine Corps sergeant,
lost control of his car while driving
westbound on I-88 near Mill Street at
about 12:55 a.m. He hit a wall, spun
and crashed into a car with two men,
according to ABC7 Chicago. No one
survived.
Illinois State Police and the U.S.
Marine Corps did not immediately respond
to a request for comment.
Andreoni lived in Elgin and was a
recruiter for the Marines, according to
his obituary posted Saturday. He was
a 2004 graduate of Lincoln-Way East
High School.
After high school, he enlisted in
the Marines as an amphibious assault
vehicle crewman. He served with the
31st Marine Expeditionary Unit in
Okinawa, Japan, and in Afghanistan
during Operation Enduring Freedom.
Services were held Wednesday, Dec.
7, at the Kurtz Memorial Chapel. Interment
Abraham Lincoln National
Cemetery in Elwood.
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FROM THE NEW LENOX PATRIOT
Cache Creek urges families to adopt
pets for the holidays
Cache Creek Animal Rescue in New
Lenox is encouraging people to consider
adoption instead of buying a pet
this year.
Animals come to the shelter from
animal control, owner surrenders and
other shelters. Some have come to the
shelter from far-away places, like St.
John in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Denise Lasater, who has been volunteering
at the shelter for a year-and-ahalf,
said many times families give up
their pets because of their behavior.
According to the American Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals,
every year roughly 7.6 million
animals enter shelters, and only approximately
2.7 million are adopted.
Lasater said adopting a shelter dog
is a different experience than buying a
dog.
“There is a bond there that I don’t
think you have otherwise,” she said.
While adoption numbers ebb and
flow throughout the year, staff and
volunteers at Cache Creek are hoping
to see an increase in adoptions for the
holidays.
“Our goal is just to get them out for
the holidays,” said Mary Nebor, who
started volunteering at the shelter earlier
this year.
Reporting by Amanda Stoll, Assistant Editor.
For more, visit NewLenoxPatriot.com.
FROM THE TINLEY JUNCTION
TPHS students, seniors get into the
spirit of Christmas with annual holiday
party
Tinley Park High School’s gym
looked a little different the morning of
Nov. 30.
Several rows of chairs and tables
were placed neatly on the main floor,
and a few small, white picket fences
decorated with wreaths separated the
audience and the performers.
Those aspects set the stage for the
annual Senior Citizen Holiday Party,
which showcased a handful of talent
from the school’s choir, jazz band and
drama club.
Choir director Victor Pazik led his
students into a mix of Christmas classics
like “O Come All Ye Faithful” and
“Do You Hear What I Hear?” And the
jazz band turned up the funk, as band
director Vince Aiello gave them the
cue to play The Temptations’ “Shakey
Ground.” The song’s playfulness and
spunk became the perfect backdrop for
a dance-off, and students and seniors
showed off their moves.
Bernadette Wischhover, of Tinley
Park, walked away the winner of that
contest, and she was awarded a T-shirt
that boasted the band’s attitude: “Admit
it. We help you get your groove on.”
“It’s so nice to have our senior community
here in our building to see our
kids, to see our talents, to just spend a
little time with them,” Principal Theresa
Nolan said.
Reporting by F. Amanda Tugade, Editor.
For more, visit TinleyJunction.com.
Police Reports
Police: Woman drove with expired license, registration, no insurance
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Samantha M. McMahon, 31, of 1400
Briarcliff Drive in New Lenox, was arrested
Nov. 21 for operating an uninsured
vehicle, expired registration and
driving without a valid driver’s license
after police reportedly observed the tan
Mercury Mountaineer she was driving
on South Wolf Road and Front Street
driving with a red sticker on the license
plate. Police initiated a traffic stop and
found that the registration expired in
March. McMahon allegedly provided
police with a driver’s license that expired
in July of 2015 and could not produce
proof of insurance for the vehicle.
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Mokena Messenger’s
police reports come from the Mokena
Police Department. Anyone listed in these
reports is considered to be innocent of all
charges until proven guilty in a court of law.