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orland park’s Award-Winning Hometown Newspaper opprairie.com • December 8, 2016 • Vol. 11 No. 29 • $1<br />
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THURSDAY<br />
Christmas in Chicago<br />
2-4:15 p.m. Dec. 8. Public<br />
Library, 14921 Ravinia.<br />
Presenter Dave Clark will<br />
bring back happy memories<br />
of what Chicago’s State<br />
street used to look like.<br />
Department stores used<br />
to compete for the best<br />
Christmas window display.<br />
This presentation will be<br />
held in meeting room 104.<br />
For more information, call<br />
(708) 428-5115.<br />
Coil Clay Pots<br />
4-6 p.m. Dec. 8. The<br />
Bridge Teen Center, 15555<br />
S. 71st Court. Students will<br />
make an air-dry clay pot<br />
with 3D designs and paint<br />
it with their favorite colors.<br />
This free event is for teens<br />
in grades 7-12. For more<br />
information, call (708)<br />
532-0500 or visit www.<br />
thebridgeteencenter.org.<br />
Romance Discussion<br />
7 p.m. Dec. 8 Public<br />
Library, 14921 Ravinia. Join<br />
in a discussion of the book<br />
“The Mountain Midwife”<br />
by Laurie Alice Eakes. This<br />
discussion will be held in<br />
meeting room 102. For more<br />
information, call (708) 428-<br />
5100.<br />
FRIDAY<br />
Test Anxiety with Intellect<br />
Learning Center<br />
4:30-5:30 p.m. Dec. 9. The<br />
Bridge Teen Center, 15555<br />
S. 71st Court. Students will<br />
learn the secrets behind<br />
preparing for test days by<br />
discovering different testing<br />
strategies. This free event is<br />
for teens in grades 7-12. For<br />
more information, call (708)<br />
532-0500 or visit www.<br />
thebridgeteencenter.org.<br />
Book Appetite<br />
7-8 p.m. Dec. 9. Granite<br />
City Food and Brewery,<br />
14035 S. LaGrange Road.<br />
Join in a discussion of the<br />
book, “Free Winds Blow<br />
West” by L.P. Holmes. For<br />
more information, call (708)<br />
428-5100.<br />
Art Studio Night with the<br />
Aaron Williams Band<br />
7:30-10:30 p.m. Dec. 9.<br />
The Bridge Teen Center,<br />
15555 S. 71st Court.<br />
Students can bring their<br />
favorite creative projects<br />
and supplies or use what<br />
The Bridge has to work in<br />
The Bridge’s Art studio.<br />
Enjoy live Indie/Pop music<br />
from the Aaron Williams<br />
Band and free samples from<br />
Panera Bread. This free<br />
event is for teens in grades<br />
7-12. For more information,<br />
call (708) 532-0500 or visit<br />
www.thebridgeteencenter.<br />
org.<br />
The Christmas Bus<br />
7:30 p.m. Friday and<br />
Saturday, Dec. 9 and 10.<br />
Civic Center, 14750 Ravinia<br />
Ave. The Orland Park<br />
Theatre Troupe presents a<br />
play about Mrs. Frump, the<br />
director of an orphanage,<br />
who is trying to give her<br />
charges the best Christmas<br />
ever. This adventuresome<br />
play will culminate with<br />
a Christmas more special<br />
than Mrs. Frump could<br />
have imagined. A Sunday<br />
performance on Dec. 11<br />
will go on at 2 p.m. Tickets<br />
are $14 for adults, $12 for<br />
seniors and students, and $10<br />
for children 12 and under.<br />
For more information, call<br />
(708) 403-7275.<br />
SUNDAY<br />
Community Tree Trimming<br />
Event<br />
Noon-2 p.m. Sunday, Dec.<br />
11. Winter Wonderland,<br />
15600 West Avenue. The<br />
village invites all residents<br />
out for the annual tree<br />
trimming event. Groups<br />
can begin decorating<br />
trees outside the Winter<br />
Wonderland Ice rink at<br />
noon. Santa will arrive at<br />
2 p.m. Participants will<br />
enjoy cookies, holiday<br />
music, and hot chocolate.<br />
This is a free event for all.<br />
The village requests that all<br />
decoration and ornaments<br />
be home made, decorating<br />
guidelines will be provided.<br />
Register at the Recreation<br />
Administrative office<br />
located at 14600 Ravinia<br />
Ave.<br />
WEDNESDAY<br />
Senior Christmas Party<br />
11:30 a.m.-4 p.m.<br />
Wednesday, Dec. 14. Orland<br />
Chateau, 14500 South La<br />
Grange Road. The Leisure<br />
Plotters club is hosting a<br />
Christmas party for anyone<br />
who wishes to attend.<br />
Tickets are $20, and includes<br />
a family style dinner as<br />
well as entertainment for<br />
the evening. For more<br />
information, or to purchase<br />
tickets, call Jean Egan (708)<br />
479-8739.<br />
UPCOMING<br />
Village’s Property Tax<br />
Rebate Application Deadline.<br />
5 p.m. Friday, Dec. 16.<br />
Frederick T. Owens Village<br />
Hall, 14700 South Ravinia<br />
Avenue. Eligible Village<br />
of Orland Park residents<br />
must apply for the village’s<br />
property tax rebate by the<br />
deadline listed above. Further<br />
information is available at<br />
www.optaxrebate.com or by<br />
calling (708) 403-3086.<br />
Orland Park Theatre Troupe<br />
“Beauty and the Beast”<br />
Auditions<br />
Noon-10 p.m. Sunday,<br />
Dec. 18. Orland Park<br />
Cultural Center, 14760 Park<br />
Lane. The Village of Orland<br />
Park Theatre Troupe will<br />
hold auditions for children,<br />
ages 6-15. Adult auditions<br />
will be held from 7 p.m.<br />
to 10 p.m. on Dec. 19.<br />
Everyone auditioning must<br />
bring sheet music with 16<br />
measures of a prepared piece<br />
and be dressed comfortably<br />
to learn and perform a<br />
dance audition. For more<br />
information, call the Village<br />
of Orland Park Recreation<br />
Department at (708) 403-<br />
7275.<br />
The Bridge New Year’s Eve<br />
Party 2017<br />
9:30 p.m. - 12:30 a.m.<br />
Saturday, Dec. 31. The<br />
Bridge Center is hosting a<br />
New Year’s Ever party for<br />
students in grades 7-12.<br />
Free food and drink will<br />
be provided. Live music<br />
will be provided by DJ<br />
Zaitrix and Gabe Burdulis.<br />
The party will include<br />
a midnight countdown,<br />
confetti showers, free t-shirt,<br />
games and prizes. In lieu<br />
of admission the center<br />
is asking for a donation<br />
of Clorox wipes or paper<br />
towels. Space is limited.<br />
For more information, or to<br />
sign-up, call (708) 532-0500<br />
or visit thebridgeteencenter.<br />
org.<br />
ONGOING<br />
Find Frosty the Snowman<br />
Nov. 26. Public Library,<br />
14921 Ravinia Avenue.<br />
Starting Nov. 26 Frosty will<br />
be hidden somewhere in<br />
the shelves of the library,<br />
find him before he melts! If<br />
Frosty is found participants<br />
will be entered into a drawing<br />
to win a winter prize. Frosty<br />
will change locations every<br />
Monday morning. For more<br />
information, call (708) 428-<br />
5100.<br />
Donate to Neat Repeats<br />
Resale<br />
Neat Repeats Resale, 9028<br />
W. 159th Street, Orland Park,<br />
is looking for donations.<br />
The list includes but is not<br />
limited to women’s, men’s<br />
and children’s clothing,<br />
housewares, jewelry, toys<br />
and books. The store is<br />
open seven days a week.<br />
All proceeds support<br />
programs for victims of<br />
domestic violence. For more<br />
information, call the store<br />
manager: Orland Park (708)<br />
364-7605 or Worth (708)<br />
361-6860.<br />
Donations needed for All<br />
God’s People<br />
The mission of All<br />
God’s People is to help the<br />
homeless. The organization<br />
is looking for food, toiletries<br />
and clothing donations.<br />
They also look to help<br />
provide others with bicycles,<br />
bicycle locks, women’s and<br />
men’s gym shoes, umbrellas,<br />
bedsheets, sleeping bags and<br />
diapers. For the complete list<br />
of donation suggestions, visit<br />
allgodspeoplechicago.org.<br />
For more information, email<br />
allgodspeoplechicago@<br />
gmail.com.<br />
FOCUS Group<br />
5-7 p.m. Wednesdays,<br />
Orland Township, 14807 S.<br />
Ravinia Ave. This group for<br />
teens will focus on the “Six<br />
Pillars of Character.” It will<br />
also teach teens how to make<br />
better life decisions and how<br />
to become a better citizen in<br />
their community. For more<br />
information, call (708) 403-<br />
4222.<br />
Total Lipid Profile Testing at<br />
Orland Township<br />
8:30-11 a.m. third<br />
Thursday of the month.<br />
Orland Township, 4807 S.<br />
Ravinia Ave., Orland Park.<br />
The price of the test is $25<br />
for residents. Nonresidents<br />
may also undergo a test for<br />
$30. For more information<br />
or to make an appointment,<br />
call (708) 403-4222.<br />
Have an item for calendar?<br />
Deadline is noon Thursdays.<br />
To submit an item to the<br />
calendar, contact Assistant<br />
Editor Brittany Kapa at<br />
(708) 326-9170 ext. 11 or<br />
b.kapa@22ndcenturymedia.<br />
com.
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the orland park prairie | December 8, 2016 | 3<br />
Consolidated High School D230 Board of Education<br />
Officials boast great returns for students on new curriculum focusing on Period 2<br />
Lee Edwards<br />
Freelance Reporter<br />
Consolidated High<br />
School District 230’s associate<br />
high school principals<br />
reported Thursday, Dec. 1,<br />
during a special meeting<br />
of the Board of Education<br />
the success of a systemwide<br />
curriculum change<br />
that provides structured<br />
in-school opportunities for<br />
students and teachers to<br />
grow together.<br />
Implemented by D230<br />
during the 2011-2012<br />
school year, Period 2 — a<br />
mandatory 35-minute study<br />
hall for all students — originally<br />
was a pilot program<br />
designed to give a select<br />
number of freshmen opportunities<br />
to have additional<br />
academic assistance. By<br />
the 2012-2013 school, Period<br />
2 was fully integrated<br />
in all district high schools<br />
for all grades.<br />
Now, Period 2 occurs<br />
four days a week, offers<br />
student choices, as well<br />
as provides individualized<br />
student assistance, small<br />
group relearning, test, quiz<br />
assignment make-up, independent<br />
study, and enrichment<br />
and leadership opportunities.<br />
Period 2 is broken down<br />
into two categories: advisory<br />
and intervention/<br />
enrichment. The advisory<br />
component is based upon<br />
the American School Counselor<br />
Association model,<br />
which places an emphasis<br />
on four pillars: academics,<br />
social-emotional learning,<br />
transition and college/career.<br />
The pillars are reinforced<br />
by teachers throughout<br />
students’ high school<br />
careers through relationship<br />
development, academic<br />
wellness checks and SEL<br />
curriculum.<br />
Intervention/enrichment<br />
provides students with<br />
times to sign up with their<br />
specific teachers for assistance,<br />
as well as media center<br />
quiet study, group work,<br />
computer labs research/paper/canvas,<br />
physical education<br />
make-up and enrichment,<br />
test prep, and more.<br />
Students identified in need<br />
of immediate academic assistance<br />
meet with deans<br />
and other staff.<br />
Brian Klene, associate<br />
principal at Sandburg; Abir<br />
Othman, associate principal<br />
at Andrew; and Ian MacLeod,<br />
associate principal<br />
at Stagg; all gave their remarks<br />
in support of Period<br />
2. The trio discussed how<br />
Period 2 impacts standardized<br />
test scores, incoming<br />
teachers, parent response<br />
and more.<br />
Klene noted that, prior to<br />
Period 2, not all students<br />
had access to/or sought the<br />
most beneficial methods to<br />
their own success but now<br />
are compelled to do so.<br />
“The key point is we have<br />
all the kids captured now<br />
with some sort of assistance;<br />
whereas, with the old<br />
structure, it was optional,”<br />
Klene said. He said parent<br />
response to Period 2 has<br />
been “positive” thus far.<br />
“I think [parents] love the<br />
fact that all of the kids have<br />
been captured,” said Klene.<br />
“Their sons and daughters<br />
have access to their specific<br />
teacher, and I think<br />
that’s a really important<br />
component of it. If they’re<br />
struggling with something<br />
the night before, they can<br />
schedule to see that teacher<br />
the next day.”<br />
Othman recalled prior to<br />
Period 2 classes, began at<br />
8:30 a.m. instead of 8 a.m.<br />
which did not accommodate<br />
students in need of additional<br />
academic support<br />
but without the means to<br />
come to school early. She<br />
explained this year as the<br />
state of Illinois transitions<br />
to SAT prep from ACT<br />
prep, Period 2 is in place to<br />
help students prepare.<br />
“We’re providing them<br />
opportunities, structured,<br />
with an adult in the room to<br />
help guide them,” Othman<br />
said. “It has actually transformed<br />
our guidance in our<br />
student services for all three<br />
buildings. We have a lot of<br />
college career opportunities<br />
with the kids at this time.”<br />
MacLeod said teachers<br />
new to D230 “love” Period<br />
2 and are partnered with established<br />
teachers to become<br />
acclimated to the schedule.<br />
“In many cases, with the<br />
advisories, we have two<br />
teachers working with our<br />
students, so we’re able to,<br />
in most cases, partner new<br />
teachers with those who<br />
might be veterans,” MacLeod<br />
said. “What we have<br />
found in all of our buildings<br />
is that teachers catch<br />
on right away. They realize<br />
that the advisory piece is<br />
all about the relationships,<br />
and it’s so nice to have that<br />
same group in front of you.”<br />
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Publisher announces return of Holiday Card Contest<br />
The Prairie calls<br />
for entries in 2016<br />
competition<br />
Bill Jones, Managing Editor<br />
Jingle bells, winter smells<br />
Help keep it at bay<br />
Oh, cards bring us some<br />
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In a U.S. postal truck<br />
Hey, jingle bells, winter<br />
smells<br />
Help keep it at bay<br />
Oh, Holiday Card Contest<br />
2016, try your luck?<br />
It is that time again. The<br />
weather starts looking grim,<br />
the daylight only peeks for<br />
long enough to remind us it<br />
exists and we start writing<br />
terrible songs-turned-poetry.<br />
We even think for a splitsecond<br />
they’re not that bad.<br />
(We’re wrong. They are.)<br />
But maybe, oh, just maybe,<br />
your holiday spirit can<br />
bail us out of this doom and<br />
winter gloom once again.<br />
Oh, you didn’t know?<br />
Publisher 22nd Century Media<br />
officially just announced<br />
the return of its Holiday<br />
Card Contest for 2016.<br />
When?<br />
Right now!<br />
We thought it might just<br />
do the trick in cheering us up<br />
and getting us to knock it off<br />
with all these other aspirations<br />
we start having when<br />
we’re cooped up inside.<br />
By now, we hope you’re<br />
familiar with the rules, but<br />
we’re happy to run through<br />
them one more time, just in<br />
case. (We’ve got nothing<br />
better to do. Can you believe<br />
this weather?)<br />
We want to see your coolest<br />
Christmas cards. Homemade<br />
wonders, unique<br />
presentations, sassy jokes,<br />
beautiful envelopes. We also<br />
want to read your year-end<br />
letters: You know the ones<br />
your friends really enjoy<br />
getting that brag about how<br />
wonderfully everyone’s doing<br />
in your family? Yeah,<br />
those letters. We want holiday<br />
photos, be they goofy,<br />
tropical or traditional.<br />
Whatever it is you do for<br />
the people you love during<br />
the holidays (PG-13, please),<br />
simply address these things to<br />
Managing Editor Bill Jones,<br />
and mail them to 11516 W.<br />
183rd St. Unit SW Office<br />
Condo 3, Orland Park, IL,<br />
60467. Make sure the items<br />
somewhere include a name<br />
and a phone number at which<br />
we can reach you, should you<br />
happen to win the contest, as<br />
well as your hometown.<br />
We will accept submissions<br />
through 5 p.m. on<br />
Christmas Eve (this year a<br />
Saturday, every year Dec.<br />
24). They must be received<br />
(not postmarked) by that<br />
day, so please make sure to<br />
give yourself enough time<br />
for holiday mail service.<br />
The entries will be evaluated<br />
by our editorial staff<br />
and judged in two categories<br />
— Best in Show and<br />
Funniest. We will pick one<br />
winner in each of the categories<br />
from across all seven of<br />
the towns covered by 22nd<br />
Century Media’s Southwest<br />
office: Orland Park, Tinley<br />
Park, Frankfort, Mokena,<br />
New Lenox, Lockport and<br />
Homer Glen.<br />
In addition to awarding<br />
prizes, we plan to publish<br />
images or transcripts of our<br />
winners in print, along with<br />
a few of our other favorites.<br />
We do have three important<br />
rules to follow.<br />
• We are only allowing<br />
one entry per household for<br />
this contest.<br />
• The entry must be from<br />
this holiday season.<br />
• Electronic entries are<br />
accepted and can be sent to<br />
bill@opprairie.com.<br />
Prizes will be announced<br />
first on our Twitter platform<br />
(@<strong>OP</strong>Prairie) over the<br />
course of the next week, and<br />
in full in our Thursday, Dec.<br />
15 issue.<br />
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the month before and after<br />
her daughter was born, but is<br />
now restarting her treatment<br />
and will have to undergo a<br />
double mastectomy and reconstructive<br />
surgery.<br />
Berry lives with her mother<br />
in Peoria, to help her during<br />
this time, while her husband<br />
is an active member in<br />
the U.S. Army, stationed at<br />
Fort Campbell in Kentucky.<br />
He tries to make it to Peoria<br />
every chance he gets, but it<br />
is difficult with the hours<br />
of driving between them.<br />
Berry is hoping that after her<br />
recovery from surgery, the<br />
three of them will be able<br />
to return to Kentucky to be<br />
with her husband.<br />
Berry contacted 3 Little<br />
Birds 4 Life with a wish.<br />
The organization is a nonprofit<br />
dedicated to enhancing<br />
the lives of young adult<br />
cancer patients, ages 18-40,<br />
with any type of cancer, at<br />
any stage. The organization<br />
grants “wishes” that are<br />
funded through the donation<br />
of money, time and services.<br />
Berry listed three possible<br />
wishes: a trip with her<br />
husband, a visit to Six Flags<br />
with her family, and three bicycles<br />
and a bicycle carrier<br />
for her baby.<br />
The organization and S2<br />
Breakthrough think they can<br />
help Berry with this wish.<br />
S2 Breakthrough is a softball<br />
and strength training facility<br />
in Orland Park, and is to host<br />
a Workout 4 Wishes event<br />
Dec. 17 in hopes of raising<br />
$5,000 to grant Berry’s wish.<br />
Workout 4 Wishes events<br />
can be hosted by individuals<br />
or facilities through 3 Little<br />
Birds 4 Life, in which participants<br />
engage in some type of<br />
fitness activity while raising<br />
money for the organization.<br />
S2 Breakthrough will be<br />
inviting any participants from<br />
the community who raise a<br />
minimum of $25 to come to<br />
the event and participate in a<br />
fun workout, as well as raffles,<br />
food and other fun activities.<br />
For more information,<br />
visit s2breakthrough.com/<br />
enrichment.
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Jerling eighth-graders compete in engineering challenge<br />
Brittany Kapa, Assistant Editor<br />
Jerling Jr. High School<br />
students recently got a taste<br />
of what engineers go through<br />
on a daily basis.<br />
The students displayed<br />
their skills in the field of<br />
hydraulics and pneumatics<br />
during the school’s eighthgrade<br />
Fluid Power Challenge,<br />
which was held Nov.<br />
29 at the Orland Park Civic<br />
Center.<br />
The Fluid Power Challenge<br />
is a competition designed<br />
for eighth-grade<br />
students to get firsthand experience<br />
building a machine<br />
to accomplish that year’s<br />
chosen task. Jerling Principal<br />
Kevin Brown wanted to<br />
expand the school’s science<br />
program, and the Fluid Power<br />
Challenge proved to be<br />
the perfect addition, he said.<br />
Bob Hammond, of Deltrol<br />
Fluid Products, hosted<br />
the challenge with representatives<br />
from Mursix and<br />
Bimba Manufacturing. The<br />
challenge is designed to introduced<br />
eighth-grade students<br />
to the initial principles<br />
and science behind hydraulic<br />
and pneumatic devices.<br />
An assembly was held five<br />
weeks prior to the competition<br />
in order to prepare the<br />
students for the expectations<br />
involved in the challenge.<br />
Important concepts were<br />
explained, supplies were<br />
handed out and then each<br />
team worked to develop<br />
their machines through trail<br />
and error.<br />
Judy Stellato and Wendy<br />
Marinier, both eighth-grade<br />
science teachers at Jerling,<br />
worked with their classes<br />
through the preparation stages.<br />
With only three 50-minute<br />
class periods a week for two<br />
weeks, and a final week devoted<br />
entirely to the project,<br />
there was not an abundance<br />
of time to work out issues.<br />
“Science is failure,” Stellato<br />
said. “There is a lot of<br />
failure involved. Even if<br />
they spend the time, they<br />
work, and they get [to the<br />
competition] and the device<br />
doesn’t work ... that’s a<br />
learning experience.”<br />
Some teams failed in<br />
their endeavours on the day,<br />
while others overcame and<br />
achieved. That was just the<br />
nature of the challenge.<br />
Challenge Day<br />
Armed only with their<br />
notes, each team of five students<br />
had just three hours to<br />
complete a machine for the<br />
competition portion of the<br />
day.<br />
This year’s task required<br />
each machine to lift a rectangular<br />
wooden block from the<br />
base of a platform to any of<br />
the three platforms at varying<br />
heights. Each machine<br />
needed to move up and<br />
down, back and forth, and<br />
have an arm rotate enough to<br />
pick up an item.<br />
Plastic syringes filled with<br />
water and tubing were used<br />
as the actuators to power<br />
each group’s machine.<br />
Machines were given point<br />
values based on overall design.<br />
Up to five points could<br />
be awarded, and then additional<br />
points were gained<br />
for the amount of times the<br />
team was able to move the<br />
block onto a platform within<br />
a two-minute time frame.<br />
The higher a group was able<br />
to lift the block up and onto<br />
the platform, the more points<br />
it received.<br />
While every team received<br />
a participation medal, only<br />
three teams were awarded<br />
to honors. Awards for best<br />
journal, teamwork and best<br />
machine were given out for<br />
the group that best fit the criteria.<br />
Hammond said he could<br />
not stress enough how important<br />
having an accurate<br />
record of work is for an engineer,<br />
which is why the Best<br />
Journal award is given out.<br />
Students are required to list<br />
the division of labor, to offer<br />
sketches of their designs and<br />
to answer questions in their<br />
books, which were turned in<br />
once their final projects were<br />
complete.<br />
“As an engineer, when<br />
you’re designing something,<br />
you have to have documentation<br />
and a paper trail of<br />
what you’re trying to convey,”<br />
Hammond said. “They<br />
create this journal, and in<br />
that journal they do a division<br />
of labor ... orthographic<br />
projections and isometric<br />
views of their machines.”<br />
The Results<br />
It seemed that the girls<br />
were on their game during<br />
the competition portion of<br />
the event, as every group<br />
that won exclusively featured<br />
female members.<br />
Monsters Inc. won for Best<br />
Journal, Little Einstein’s<br />
won for Teamwork and the<br />
Hot Oompa Loompa’s took<br />
home the top prize for Best<br />
Machine. It is the first time<br />
in the school’s eight-year<br />
history of competing that an<br />
all-girls team won for best<br />
machine, according to Stellato.<br />
“Rarely did you see an<br />
all-girl team win something,<br />
with the exception of the<br />
journal,” Stellato said with<br />
excitement. “To see the girls<br />
win with the actual machine<br />
performance, that is just so<br />
cool.”<br />
Daria Sickler, Natalia<br />
Diaz, Ana Rose Bialek, Brielle<br />
Morris and Marytherese<br />
Nevin formed the group<br />
Monsters Inc. and were the<br />
winners for Best Journal,<br />
with 33-of-35 points gained.<br />
While their machine worked<br />
in the prototype stage, once<br />
it came time for competition<br />
Jerling Jr. High School students (left to right) Yara Swaiss, Madison Sullivan, Megan<br />
Woods, Abby Powyszynski and Sydney Moreno pose with their winning project Nov. 29 for<br />
Best Machine in the Fluid Power Challenge. Brittany Kapa/22nd Century Media<br />
it did not work quite as well.<br />
“[Monsters, Inc.] had an<br />
awesome journal,” Hammond<br />
said. “There was another<br />
33 on a journal, and we<br />
tie-broke it on the interview<br />
questions.”<br />
Abby Powyszynski, Megan<br />
Woods, Madison Sullivan,<br />
Yara Swaiss and Sydney<br />
Moreno were the winning<br />
Best Machine group. With<br />
eight total points, the team<br />
took home the top prize.<br />
For the Future<br />
The Fluid Power Challenge<br />
only fuels principal<br />
Kevin Brown’s desire to<br />
keep developing the school’s<br />
science program and providing<br />
new and exciting challenges<br />
for future classes. Its<br />
success is twofold, not only<br />
for Brown but also for Hammond.<br />
Even during recent harsh<br />
economic times, Hammond<br />
could not stress enough<br />
how in demand engineers<br />
were within the industry.<br />
For a time, Hammond and<br />
his company were trying to<br />
encourage parents to enroll<br />
their children in a program<br />
with Deltrol that would help<br />
them keep track of students<br />
who would later go into the<br />
field of engineering.<br />
Parents, however, did not<br />
like the idea of their children’s<br />
personal information<br />
being kept for long periods<br />
of time, and since then interest<br />
has waned. Hammond<br />
mentioned they know of two<br />
students who participated in<br />
the first program nine years<br />
ago who have entered the<br />
field.<br />
“If I can get two [students]<br />
interested in engineering<br />
later, I’ve won,” Hammond<br />
said.<br />
Stellato said she was surprised<br />
that all three teams<br />
that won were exclusively<br />
girls, but she hoped it would<br />
boost their confidence early<br />
in the field.<br />
“I wonder if they even considered<br />
engineering before,”<br />
Stellato said. “And now they<br />
get that boost of confidence,<br />
and then they think, ‘Yeah,<br />
maybe I can do this.’”<br />
Brown’s overall plan is to<br />
keep incorporating interesting<br />
competitions into the science<br />
curriculum at Jerling.<br />
“It was really neat to see<br />
[students] doing engineering<br />
all day long like that, it was<br />
just amazing,” Brown said.<br />
The next project planned<br />
is the rocket launch, held<br />
at Centennial Park in the<br />
spring.<br />
“As a maiden voyage, so<br />
to speak, I was blown away<br />
at how professional everything<br />
went,” Brown said.<br />
“The people from Deltrol<br />
were just super-super-helpful.<br />
... I could have not been<br />
more happy.”
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Orland Park kicks off holiday season with annual event<br />
Jason Maholy<br />
Freelance Reporter<br />
Santa Claus showed up at<br />
the Orland Park Civic Center<br />
late in the afternoon of<br />
the final Sunday in November,<br />
and with the jolly old<br />
elf’s arrival the holiday season<br />
was officially underway<br />
in the village.<br />
St. Nick was not just<br />
stopping by to let everyone<br />
know only 27 shopping<br />
days remained until Christmas.<br />
His customary visit the<br />
weekend after Thanksgiving<br />
kicked off the Mayor’s<br />
Holiday Festival and Tree<br />
Lighting Ceremony.<br />
The event — held Nov.<br />
27 this year — has become<br />
a tradition in Orland Park,<br />
and regardless of the chill<br />
in the air outside, the number<br />
of people who crowd<br />
into the Civic Center for the<br />
occasion ensures the conditions<br />
inside will be a bit on<br />
the steamy side.<br />
Hundreds of people —<br />
roughly three-quarters of<br />
them children 8 years old<br />
or younger — attended the<br />
free festival, which featured<br />
singing, dancing, a magic<br />
show and, of course, visits<br />
with Santa.<br />
Youths and their parents<br />
waited up to 40 minutes to<br />
spend a few moments with<br />
the iconic man in the red<br />
suit, with the children sharing<br />
their Christmas wishes<br />
and their parents snapping<br />
photos.<br />
A horse-drawn carriage<br />
made it rounds through the<br />
parking lot, providing parents<br />
and their children a<br />
break from the heat inside<br />
and an opportunity to let<br />
the lines of people waiting<br />
for Santa and an elf creating<br />
balloon art to calm.<br />
The festival was punctuated<br />
by the ceremonial<br />
lighting of the Village’s<br />
Christmas tree in the square<br />
south of Village Hall. Also<br />
illuminated at that time on<br />
the adjacent lawn were numerous<br />
other outdoor decorations,<br />
part of the inaugural<br />
“Spectacular Life-Size<br />
Holiday Light Display.”<br />
But before the grand finale,<br />
attendees indoors were<br />
treated to hot chocolate,<br />
with their choice of toppings,<br />
including whipped<br />
cream, candy sprinkles and<br />
marshmallows. They also<br />
watched hip-hop dance and<br />
ballet performances.<br />
The Sandburg High<br />
School Chamber Singers<br />
filled the south end of the<br />
building with the mostly<br />
soft sounds of classic<br />
Christmas carols and holiday<br />
songs.<br />
A magician who introduced<br />
himself as Mr. Andrew<br />
kept children engaged<br />
and laughing with a comedic<br />
but impressive show, during<br />
which he made a bunny appear<br />
in a cage and levitated<br />
a young girl. Several of the<br />
youths in the crowd assisted<br />
Andrew with his tricks.<br />
“It was pretty cool, the<br />
way the balloon popped and<br />
the bunny appeared,” said<br />
Anabelle Roach, who was<br />
among the magician’s helpers.<br />
How did she make the<br />
bunny appear?<br />
“It was magic, I guess,”<br />
the 8-year-old Orland Park<br />
girl said.<br />
Anabelle also visited Santa,<br />
and asked for a piano,<br />
drum set and electric guitar.<br />
She got an acoustic guitar<br />
for Christmas this past year<br />
and learned to play a couple<br />
of songs. She said she wants<br />
to take electric guitar lessons<br />
with her father.<br />
Brady Roach, Anabelle’s<br />
7-year-old brother, has his<br />
Christmas wishes set on a<br />
Lego Death Star and Kylo<br />
Ren mask — and a coffee<br />
mug.<br />
Orland Park resident<br />
Lindsey Bartholomew and<br />
her son Leo, 5, waited in<br />
line to see Santa with and<br />
Hailey (left), 6, and Hannah Kristin (right), 8, of Orland Park, share their wish lists with Santa Claus Nov. 27 during the<br />
Mayor’s Holiday Festival and Tree Lighting Ceremony at the Orland Park Civic Center.<br />
Photos by Mary Compton/22nd Century Media<br />
Carol Dispensa (left) paints a snowman on the face of<br />
8-year-old Jacob Doss, of Orland Park, during the festival.<br />
their friends Laura Szymczyk<br />
and her daughter Sky,<br />
also 5, of Willow Springs.<br />
The excitable Leo has an<br />
extensive Christmas list, but<br />
at the top he had a couple of<br />
interesting items.<br />
“I’m asking for a robot,<br />
one that has missiles in it<br />
— big ones — and it cooks<br />
Mayor Dan McLaughlin (left), accompanied by Santa<br />
Claus, waves to the people who came out to celebrate the<br />
holidays Nov. 27 in Orland Park.<br />
food,” Leo explained. “And<br />
I want a remote control<br />
car that’s really fast, and a<br />
drone that has missiles.”<br />
Sky, meanwhile, will be<br />
happy with a “cool robot”<br />
and a Teddy bear.<br />
“And an iPad,” she said.
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Reaching out to <strong>OP</strong> for help<br />
Orland Park women’s LGMD<br />
fight helped by GoFundMe<br />
efforts<br />
Ryan Esguerra, Freelance Reporter<br />
Often in life, people fail to appreciate<br />
the little things.<br />
For Dawn Kestel-Torsan of Orland<br />
Park, it is the little things she is unable<br />
to do in her day-to-day life that make<br />
the biggest differences.<br />
“I think that a lot of people take for<br />
granted the little things that they are<br />
able to do on a day-to-day basis,” Kestel-Torsan<br />
said. “I have a huge struggle<br />
that I go through each and every day.”<br />
Kestel-Torsan, 47, was diagnosed<br />
with limb-girdle muscular dystrophy —<br />
a disorder that affects voluntary muscles<br />
around the hips and shoulders — at age<br />
3. The disorder has slowly taken its toll<br />
as her age increases. By age 30, Kestel-<br />
Torsan found herself in a wheelchair. In<br />
2008, she had to be connected to a defibrillator<br />
to help her breathing.<br />
“They’re no operations that they can<br />
do to help me, because I am allergic to<br />
narcotics,” Kestel-Torsan said. “I can’t<br />
really move all that much. I have slept<br />
in the same position for over 4 years,<br />
and I have to drink through a straw in<br />
order to eat, so it is difficult for me.”<br />
Kestel-Torsan and her family have<br />
been using a 1996 handicap conversion<br />
van for family outings since 2006.<br />
She said that in September of 2016, her<br />
family van finally broke down, leaving<br />
her without a vehicle.<br />
“Handicap conversion vans are expensive<br />
to fix, because they are so old,”<br />
Kestel-Torsan said. “Finding parts for it<br />
is basically impossible, and paying up<br />
front for a brand new one was out of<br />
the question.<br />
“I am not one to ask for help, but<br />
confronted with forever without transportation,<br />
I had no choice.”<br />
In October 2016, Kestel-Torsan<br />
turned to the social media page Go-<br />
FundMe to tell her story and seek any<br />
help from people who would be willing<br />
to spare some cash. $16,000 dollars later,<br />
and she is one step closer to her van.<br />
“I am so shocked and blessed to see<br />
all of the support that I have received,”<br />
she said. “When I started the page, I<br />
was only planning on around $500. To<br />
see all the close friends, community<br />
Makayla Kestel-Torsan (left) and her brother, Nathan (right), pose for a photo<br />
with their mother, Dawn, who is raising money through GoFundMe for a<br />
handicap conversion van. Photo submitted<br />
members and people I haven’t seen in<br />
20 years donate is amazing.<br />
“It lets you know that there is kindness<br />
and love in the world. Sometimes<br />
we lose sight of it with our busy lives,<br />
but it is there.”<br />
Through the GoFundMe page and<br />
private donations, Kestel-Torsan and<br />
her family have managed to raise nearly<br />
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“Even with the money that we have<br />
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working with the MobilityWorks<br />
Foundation, and they are looking for us.<br />
We just have to hope for the best.”<br />
Kestel-Torsan lives at her home in<br />
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“My family keeps me going through,”<br />
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“I can honestly say that I have the<br />
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time I get mad, I have to remember my<br />
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Despite the uphill battles that Kestel-<br />
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“Sometimes, I have my moments when<br />
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Police Reports<br />
Duo allegedly takes headphones on<br />
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Alycia J. Widlacki, 31, of<br />
17330 Tamar Lane in Tinley<br />
Park, and Christopher J.<br />
Widlacki, 34, of 1219 Cedarwood<br />
Drive, were each<br />
charged Nov. 11 with two<br />
counts of retail theft greater<br />
than $300 and two counts of<br />
retail theft fewer than $300<br />
after they allegedly tried to<br />
take headphones on four<br />
occasions from a store at<br />
Orland Square. Both were<br />
being sought for three prior<br />
thefts from the same store<br />
when they entered Nov. 11,<br />
and Christopher concealed<br />
a pair of headphones valued<br />
at $349.95 in a bag held by<br />
Alycia and tried to leave<br />
the store, police said. They<br />
also reportedly took one<br />
pair of headphones valued<br />
at $299.95, one pair of headphones<br />
valued at $299.95<br />
and two pairs of headphones<br />
valued at a total of $599.90<br />
from the same store over the<br />
course of a month.<br />
Nov 18<br />
• Lisa M. Pietrzyk, 24, of<br />
9750 Ravinia Lane in Orland<br />
Park, was charged with retail<br />
theft after she allegedly tried<br />
to take three makeup items<br />
valued at a total of $98 from<br />
a department store at Orland<br />
Square. She reportedly took<br />
the items off shelves, concealed<br />
them in her purse and<br />
tried to leave the store.<br />
Nov. 13<br />
• Zachary L. Stronach, 23, of<br />
661 Kruk St. in Lemont, was<br />
charged with retail theft after<br />
he allegedly tried to take<br />
three T-shirts valued at a<br />
total of $105 from a department<br />
store at Orland Square.<br />
He reportedly left with the<br />
shirts but was spotted in a<br />
vehicle outside the store.<br />
Jakub T. Witkowski, 19, of<br />
871 Schultz St. in Lemont,<br />
was charged with possession<br />
of stolen property and illegal<br />
possession of alcohol by<br />
a minor, after he allegedly<br />
took one of the T-shirts from<br />
Stronach, knowing it had<br />
been stolen. Police reportedly<br />
spotted Witkowski in<br />
the driver’s seat of the vehicle,<br />
taking a sip of beer, and<br />
found a 30-pack of beer with<br />
eight unopened cans inside it<br />
in the trunk, along with the<br />
T-shirts.<br />
Nov. 8<br />
• Tier Vanessa Spencer, 19,<br />
of 16111 Emerald Ave. in<br />
Harvey, was charged with<br />
felony retail theft after she<br />
allegedly tried to take items<br />
on two separate dates valued<br />
at a total of $769.50 from a<br />
department store at Orland<br />
Square, where she worked.<br />
She allegedly conspired<br />
with a co-worker to take the<br />
items on Oct. 25 and Oct.<br />
30. On Oct. 25, she brought<br />
clothing to a cashier terminal<br />
where the other employee<br />
was working, police said.<br />
The items were scanned,<br />
their sensors were removed<br />
and they were placed in a<br />
bag, police added. The cashier<br />
rang up six items but<br />
deleted five before charging<br />
Spencer only $2.20 for the<br />
items, before Spencer left<br />
the store with them, police<br />
said.<br />
On Oct. 30, the other<br />
employee brought items to<br />
Spencer at a cashier terminal,<br />
police said. Spencer<br />
reportedly scanned nine<br />
items but only charged the<br />
employee for a candy bar<br />
valued at $2.20, removed the<br />
security sensors and placed<br />
the items in a bag, deleting<br />
the other eight from the sale.<br />
That employee placed them<br />
in a security closet and later<br />
collected them, police said.<br />
The same day, Spencer<br />
brought more items to a<br />
terminal, and the other employee<br />
rang up five items but<br />
deleted four, leaving Spencer<br />
to pay only $2.20 for one<br />
item, police said. Spencer<br />
reportedly put the bag in a<br />
storage closet and later collected<br />
it.<br />
Editor’s note: The Orland Park<br />
Prairie’s police reports come<br />
from the Orland Park Police<br />
Department. Anyone listed in<br />
these reports is considered to<br />
be innocent of all charges until<br />
proven guilty in a court of law.
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They say it’s your birthday<br />
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Iggy<br />
Steve and Kristin<br />
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Happy happy 5th birthday,<br />
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This week’s Photo Op comes from Naomi Fortino, of<br />
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FROM THE MOKENA MESSENGER<br />
Mokena earns certificate for<br />
emergency preparedness<br />
In case of emergency, the<br />
Village of Mokena is in good<br />
hands.<br />
Mokena was recognized<br />
Nov. 28 at its regularly<br />
scheduled Village Board of<br />
Trustees meeting with a certificate<br />
from the Illinois Law<br />
Enforcement Alarm System<br />
organization for the Village’s<br />
work in improving its emergency<br />
management plans.<br />
Mokena Police Chief<br />
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when he first started in Mokena,<br />
Mayor Frank Fleischer<br />
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Village’s emergency operations<br />
plan.<br />
“Through assistance from<br />
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Michael D’Amico, regional<br />
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“[This] is a program that<br />
we offer to help police agencies<br />
with to bring their police<br />
departments and communities<br />
up to speed on their ability<br />
to handle major disasters<br />
or large critical incidents,”<br />
D’Amico said. “The most<br />
important component of [the<br />
program] is the emergency<br />
operations plan. Steve did a<br />
marvelous job. I reviewed it,<br />
and, in addition to that, the<br />
county emergency management<br />
agency approved it.”<br />
The certification also<br />
is a rare achievement, as<br />
D’Amico said only 10 percent<br />
of Illinois’ 1,000 law<br />
enforcement agencies have<br />
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Reporting by Jon DePaolis,<br />
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FROM THE NEW LENOX PATRIOT<br />
Cache Creek urges families<br />
to adopt pets for the<br />
holidays<br />
Thinking of bringing<br />
home a pet this holiday season?<br />
Cache Creek Animal Rescue<br />
in New Lenox is encouraging<br />
people to consider<br />
adoption instead of buying a<br />
pet this year.<br />
Animals come to the shelter<br />
from animal control,<br />
owner surrenders and other<br />
shelters. Some have come<br />
to the shelter from far-away<br />
places, like St. John in the<br />
U.S. Virgin Islands.<br />
While some pets end up at<br />
the shelter because of abuse<br />
or neglect, Denise Lasater,<br />
who has been volunteering<br />
at the shelter for a yearand-a-half,<br />
said many times<br />
families give up their pets<br />
because of their behavior.<br />
When puppies become<br />
full-sized and have not had<br />
proper training, many people<br />
do not know how to handle<br />
them and give them away,<br />
she said.<br />
According to the American<br />
Society for the Prevention<br />
of Cruelty to Animals,<br />
every year roughly 7.6 million<br />
animals enter shelters<br />
and only approximately 2.7<br />
million are adopted.<br />
Lasater said adopting a<br />
shelter dog is a different experience<br />
than buying a dog<br />
from a breeder.<br />
“There is a bond there that<br />
I don’t think you have otherwise,”<br />
she said. “There’s<br />
so many dogs out there that<br />
are excellent dogs that need<br />
a home.”<br />
While adoption numbers<br />
ebb and flow throughout the<br />
year, staff and volunteers at<br />
Cache Creek are hoping to<br />
see an increase in adoptions<br />
for the holidays.<br />
“Our goal is just to get<br />
them out for the holidays,”<br />
said Mary Nebor, who started<br />
volunteering at the shelter<br />
earlier this year. “We just<br />
want them to have a home<br />
for the holidays.”<br />
Reporting by Amanda Stoll,<br />
Assistant Editor. For more, visit<br />
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FROM THE TINLEY JUNCTION<br />
TPHS students, seniors get<br />
into the spirit of Christmas<br />
with annual holiday party<br />
Tinley Park High School’s<br />
gym looked a little different<br />
the morning of Nov. 30.<br />
Several rows of chairs and<br />
tables were placed neatly<br />
on the main floor, and a few<br />
small, white picket fences<br />
decorated with wreaths<br />
marked the boundary between<br />
the audience and the<br />
performers.<br />
Those aspects set the stage<br />
for the annual Senior Citizen<br />
Holiday Party, which showcased<br />
a handful of talent<br />
from the school’s choir, jazz<br />
band and drama club.<br />
Choir director Victor<br />
Pazik led his students into<br />
a mix of Christmas classics<br />
like “O Come All Ye<br />
Faithful” and “Do You Hear<br />
What I Hear?” And the jazz<br />
band turned up the funk, as<br />
band director Vince Aiello<br />
gave them the cue to play<br />
The Temptations’ “Shakey<br />
Ground.” The song’s playfulness<br />
and spunk became<br />
the perfect backdrop for a<br />
dance-off, and staff, students<br />
and seniors gathered to show<br />
off their moves.<br />
Bernadette Wischhover,<br />
of Tinley Park, walked away<br />
the winner of that contest,<br />
and she was awarded a T-<br />
shirt that boasted the band’s<br />
attitude: “Admit it. We help<br />
you get your groove on.”<br />
“It’s so nice to have our<br />
senior community here<br />
in our building to see our<br />
kids, to see our talents, to<br />
just spend a little time with<br />
them,” Principal Theresa<br />
Nolan said.<br />
Reporting by F. Amanda<br />
Tugade, Editor. For more, visit<br />
TinleyJunction.com.<br />
FROM THE LOCKPORT LEGEND<br />
Lockport native donates $1<br />
million to UIUC<br />
What started with a $250<br />
scholarship from the Lockport<br />
Woman’s Club in 1963<br />
has resulted in a $1 million<br />
donation to the University<br />
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.<br />
With the help of that $250<br />
scholarship, Robert Carr —<br />
a Lockport Township High<br />
School graduate — earned a<br />
bachelor’s degree in mathematics<br />
and a master’s degree<br />
in computer science from<br />
UIUC. He went on to found<br />
Heartland Payment Systems,<br />
a payments processing company<br />
that recently sold for<br />
$4.3 billion.<br />
Carr founded the Give<br />
Something Back Foundation,<br />
which provides mentors<br />
and scholarships to children<br />
in low-income households.<br />
The organization identifies<br />
students in ninth-grade who<br />
are Pell Grant-eligible and<br />
helps make sure they are<br />
taking the correct college<br />
preparatory classes. It also<br />
provides them with mentors.<br />
When the students reach college,<br />
if they choose to attend<br />
one of the 17 Give Something<br />
Back university partners,<br />
their tuition, fees, and<br />
room and board are paid in<br />
full for four years.<br />
“We’re going after the<br />
neediest kids trying to get<br />
them early,” Carr said. “We<br />
want our kids to graduate in<br />
four years with no debt.”<br />
Reporting by Max Lapthorne,<br />
Editor. For more, visit Lock<br />
portLegend.com.<br />
FROM THE HOMER HORIZON<br />
Homer Glen native set to<br />
release second book in<br />
paranormal trilogy<br />
There are demons lurking<br />
in the shadows in Homer<br />
Glen — at least in D.A.<br />
Roach’s world.<br />
The Homer Glen native<br />
and Lockport Township High<br />
School graduate has made<br />
her hometown the stage for<br />
a paranormal battleground in<br />
her Demon Hunter trilogy.<br />
She released the first book,<br />
“Between the Bleeding Willows,”<br />
in March and is set to<br />
release the second, “Within<br />
the Darkest Hollows,” Dec.<br />
13.<br />
“It’s like, ‘You’re excited,<br />
you’ve been working hard,<br />
but you don’t know how it’s<br />
going to go or how it’s going<br />
to be received by the public,’”<br />
Roach said. “You’ve<br />
put forward your best. ... I’m<br />
excited but anxious, as well.”<br />
Roach — who has since<br />
moved to a suburb of Zionsville,<br />
Indiana — based<br />
the “Human Realm” of her<br />
books off Homer Glen. She<br />
even likened locations in the<br />
books to local landmarks<br />
such as Bengtson’s Pumpkin<br />
Farm and Bachelor’s Grove<br />
Cemetery in Midlothian,<br />
which serves as the portal<br />
between the human and demon<br />
realms.<br />
The book follows the adventures<br />
of 18-year-old Cassidy<br />
and a mystical ring that<br />
belonged to her boyfriend,<br />
which she discovered after he<br />
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died in a car accident. In the<br />
latest installment, Cassidy is<br />
caught in the middle of a conflict<br />
between her friend and<br />
head Demon Hunter, Killian,<br />
and the Demon Queen, Rya.<br />
Cassidy finds herself being<br />
used as collateral.<br />
“Within the Darkest Hollows”<br />
will be available in<br />
both paperback and eBook<br />
form from www.Barnesand<br />
Noble.com and www.Ama<br />
zon.com beginning Dec. 13.<br />
Reporting by Erin Redmond,<br />
Assistant Editor. For more, visit<br />
HomerHorizon.com.<br />
FROM THE FRANKFORT STATION<br />
Armed man reportedly robs<br />
Frankfort bank<br />
An armed man allegedly<br />
robbed a Frankfort bank<br />
Nov. 28, according to a press<br />
release issued by the Frankfort<br />
Police Department.<br />
Old Plank Trail Community<br />
Bank, 20901 S. La<br />
Grange Road, was reportedly<br />
robbed at about 5 p.m.<br />
by a suspect who displayed<br />
a handgun and threatened<br />
an employee in an effort to<br />
get cash, according to FBI<br />
spokesperson Garrett Croon.<br />
The suspect then received<br />
the stolen goods and fled<br />
north on foot, Croon said.<br />
The alleged offender is<br />
described as a thin, white<br />
male between the ages of 40<br />
and 50 years old who stands<br />
about 5 feet and 11 inches<br />
tall, according to an alert issued<br />
by law enforcement. He<br />
wore blue jeans, sunglasses,<br />
and a dark gray or black shirt<br />
at the time of the crime, according<br />
to police.<br />
Croon said anyone with<br />
information should contact<br />
the FBI. A reward up to<br />
$1,000 is available for information<br />
leading to an arrest.<br />
Reporting by Kirsten Onsgard,<br />
Editor. For more, visit<br />
FrankfortStation.com.
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BILL JONES<br />
bill@opprairie.com<br />
As this week wound to<br />
a close, I realized I<br />
did not have any one<br />
particular thing that stood<br />
out to address in this week’s<br />
editorial space but rather a<br />
smattering of quick hits.<br />
I also must eschew the<br />
usual fanfare, as I have left<br />
myself with less space than<br />
usual to share my thoughts,<br />
so here it goes.<br />
Make sure to read Assistant<br />
Editor Brittany Kapa’s<br />
News cover story on Jerling<br />
Jr. High School’s engineering<br />
challenge. It is a cool look<br />
at a lot of smart girls who<br />
dominated a local engineering<br />
competition.<br />
My favorite story, however,<br />
has to be our Life & Arts<br />
cover story this week. It’s another<br />
long one, but Freelance<br />
Reporter Jon DePaolis talked<br />
to Joe Dela Pena, an Orland<br />
Park native who recently<br />
took part in Food Network’s<br />
“Christmas Cookie Challenge.”<br />
He also runs Warm<br />
Belly Bakery in Chicago.<br />
While on the longer side, it<br />
is a quick read, because Dela<br />
Pena offered a lot of personality<br />
in his interview, so there<br />
are some fantastic quotes<br />
in that one. And thanks to<br />
the Food Network for a fun<br />
photo to go with it.<br />
Also, we are a little later<br />
than usual with the announcement,<br />
so please make sure to<br />
check out our Holiday Card<br />
Contest on Page 4 and enter<br />
as soon as possible. We’re going<br />
to have some cool prizes<br />
yet again, which are to be announced<br />
first on Twitter feed<br />
@<strong>OP</strong>Prairie.com. So make<br />
sure to follow us there.<br />
Beyond that, ’tis the season<br />
for charity. Make sure to<br />
check out the story Ryan Esguerra<br />
wrote on Page 9 this<br />
week, about a GoFundMe<br />
campaign for a local resident<br />
in need. Then skip down to<br />
Page 26. There, you’ll find<br />
another story by Kapa, this<br />
one about a local resident<br />
who has a history of collecting<br />
toys for children in need.<br />
We heard about it somewhat<br />
late this year, so today is the<br />
last day to donate, if you<br />
wanted to contribute. Either<br />
way, you should read about<br />
the great things he has done<br />
over the years.<br />
And not to leave out our<br />
Sports section, longtime<br />
Freelance Reporter Randy<br />
Whalen put together a cool<br />
story, on Page 47, that looks<br />
at three former Consolidated<br />
High School Districts 230<br />
students, who despite competing<br />
against one another<br />
on rival teams back then are<br />
now teammates at St. Ambrose<br />
University. Competitive<br />
dance is the name of the<br />
game.<br />
Page 45 also has a nice<br />
recap of Jack Ferraro’s recent<br />
Hall of Fame honor.<br />
Quite honestly, I’ve been<br />
too busy this week to think<br />
about much else, but when<br />
I step back, it’s easy to see<br />
that much of that workload<br />
has led to a solid newspaper<br />
with a lot of interesting<br />
content this week. I’m happy<br />
it worked out.<br />
So please take some time<br />
to read the hard work the<br />
staff has put into this one,<br />
and then get back to your<br />
Christmas shopping. You’re<br />
running out of time.<br />
(Jackie OBoyle has some<br />
tips below.)<br />
The Bridge Teen Center posted the accompanying<br />
photo Dec. 2 with the note, “Thank<br />
you to all of our amazing volunteers and<br />
interns that make The Bridge Teen Center<br />
possible! We couldn’t do it without your<br />
help!”<br />
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Fashion is a Lifestyle<br />
What’s on her list?<br />
Jackie OBoyle<br />
Contributing Columnist<br />
Orland Park resident<br />
It’s a few weeks till<br />
Xmas. Now, is the time<br />
to get moving on your<br />
best girl’s list.<br />
Perhaps she provides one,<br />
perhaps she doesn’t. Either<br />
way, it’s nice to be pleasantly<br />
surprised by something<br />
unexpected in a beautifully<br />
wrapped box.<br />
Women want to feel you<br />
took the time to pick out<br />
something personal for<br />
them. This is not always<br />
easy, I know.<br />
Here are some suggestions,<br />
all of which can be<br />
found locally or online.<br />
For the overachievers, get<br />
into her closet, and check<br />
sizes on tops and bottoms<br />
and shoes. Take a photo of<br />
her with you to the store and<br />
ask for help.<br />
Small, local Orland Park<br />
boutique shopping will offer<br />
a more personalized experience<br />
in finding something<br />
perfect. A good stylist like<br />
myself can find the perfect<br />
outfit, head to toe.<br />
If this is stressing you out,<br />
take a deep breath.<br />
Boots. Over-the-knee<br />
boots, to be exact. For those<br />
shopping for the shorter gal,<br />
opt for booties.<br />
A well-made handbag<br />
also will get applause.<br />
Overwhelmed still? Pop<br />
into the local jewelry store<br />
and get something sparkly.<br />
You’re welcome.<br />
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necessarily reflect those of The<br />
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Orland Park<br />
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20 | December 8, 2016 | The orland park prairie Faith<br />
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Pastor Column<br />
Can I tell you a secret?<br />
Rev. Caleb Hong<br />
Faith United Methodist Church<br />
Have you ever<br />
noticed that some<br />
people cannot keep<br />
a secret around Christmastime?<br />
I have a friend named<br />
Harry. When Harry was 7<br />
years old, his father took<br />
him Christmas shopping,<br />
and together they picked<br />
out a nice picture frame for<br />
his mother. Harry was so<br />
excited about this gift that<br />
he could hardly contain<br />
himself. But he promised<br />
his father that he would<br />
keep their secret.<br />
So, he did — for about<br />
a day.<br />
The very next day Harry<br />
asked his mother, “Mom,<br />
do you know what dad and<br />
I got you for Christmas?”<br />
His mother responded,<br />
“No, of course not. You<br />
don’t have to tell me if you<br />
don’t want to.”<br />
Harry said, “I don’t want<br />
to, but I can’t hold it in<br />
anymore.”<br />
And he blabbed the secret<br />
to his mother.<br />
Afterward, he asked his<br />
mother if she could keep a<br />
secret.<br />
It’s a good thing Harry<br />
never tried to join the CIA.<br />
We’re in the season of<br />
Advent. I think Advent is<br />
one of the best-kept secrets<br />
of the Church. Most people<br />
(even longtime Christians)<br />
forget the reason for this<br />
season. We think that<br />
Advent is the religious<br />
equivalent of the “holiday<br />
shopping season.” We so<br />
easily forget (or overlook)<br />
the reason for this season.<br />
So, let me blab and share<br />
three reasons for the season<br />
of Advent.<br />
First, Advent is a season<br />
of preparation. It’s a time<br />
for the Church to prepare<br />
for the celebration of Jesus’<br />
birth.<br />
Second, Advent is a<br />
season of proclamation.<br />
It’s a time when Christians<br />
(along with the prophets of<br />
old) proclaim that Jesus is<br />
coming again. Our hope is<br />
not merely in Jesus’ birth<br />
but his return. Our hope<br />
rests on his promise that<br />
he will return one day and<br />
usher in the fullness of<br />
God’s Kingdom.<br />
Third, Advent is a season<br />
of waiting. As Christians<br />
await Jesus’ return, we pray<br />
for that time when wars<br />
will cease, violence will<br />
end and justice will prevail.<br />
We await the day when<br />
“the wolf shall dwell with<br />
the lamb, and the leopard<br />
shall lie down with the kid,<br />
and the calf and the lion<br />
and the fatling together,<br />
and a little child shall<br />
lead them” (Isaiah 11:6).<br />
We pray for the day when<br />
swords will be beaten into<br />
plowshares, spears will<br />
be repurposed as pruning<br />
hooks; when nation shall<br />
not lift up arms against<br />
nation, nor train any more<br />
for war (Isaiah 2:4). Even<br />
as the darkness of winter<br />
settles in, the Church<br />
reminds us to focus on the<br />
“light” of the world.<br />
Can I tell you a secret?<br />
The key to experiencing<br />
true hope and peace in<br />
life is connecting with the<br />
source of true hope and<br />
peace.<br />
The opinions of this column are<br />
that of the writer. They do not<br />
necessarily reflect those of The<br />
Orland Park Prairie.<br />
In Memoriam<br />
Anne E. Bennett<br />
Anne E. Bennett (nee<br />
Oleksyn), 95, formerly of<br />
Orland Park, died Nov. 27.<br />
She was a homemaker. She<br />
is survived by her daughter,<br />
Carole Coyner; son, Garry<br />
Mark (Deborah) Bennett;<br />
granddaughter, Jennifer<br />
(Phil) Dahlem; grandsons,<br />
Ignazio Fiorella, Craig (Jennifer)<br />
Bennett, Chad Bennett<br />
and Cody Bennett; and<br />
great-grandchildren, Jason,<br />
Gavin and Reagan. Visitation<br />
services were held at<br />
Colonial Chapel. Interment<br />
at Zion Lutheran Cemetery.<br />
Sandra J. Griffiths<br />
Sandra J. Griffiths (nee<br />
Fredendall), 72, of Orland<br />
Park, died Nov. 25. She was<br />
a first- and second-grade<br />
teacher at Memorial School<br />
in Tinley Park for 10 years<br />
before deciding to stay home<br />
with her children. She is survived<br />
by her husband, Frank;<br />
son, Troy (Megan); daughter,<br />
Tracy (Brian) Pautsch;<br />
grandchildren, Ethan and<br />
Hannah Pautsch; siblings<br />
and extended family. Services<br />
were held privately with<br />
the immediate family. In<br />
lieu of flowers, donate in her<br />
name to the American Cancer<br />
Society, PO Box 22478,<br />
Oklahoma City, OK, 73123.<br />
Ruth Whitlow<br />
Ruth Whitlow (nee Baldock),<br />
98, of Orland Park,<br />
died Nov. 26. She was a homemaker.<br />
She loved spending<br />
time with family and friends,<br />
cherishing all the beauty<br />
mother nature and God offers,<br />
and traveling. She is survived<br />
by her sons, Douglas (Beverly)<br />
Whitlow, Marcus (Gina)<br />
Whitlow; grandsons, Larry Jr.,<br />
Johnny, Tommy (Lisa), Alex,<br />
Marcus H.; granddaughters<br />
Brandy, Kimberly (James),<br />
Amanda, Candice (Eric); 10<br />
great-granddaughters and two<br />
great-grandsons. Visitation<br />
was held at Colonial Chapel.<br />
Interment at Summer Shade<br />
Cemetery in Summer Shade,<br />
Kentucky. In lieu of flowers,<br />
memorials to American Heart<br />
Association appreciated at<br />
www.heart.org.<br />
Have someone’s life you’d<br />
like to honor? Email Assistant<br />
Editor Brittany Kapa at<br />
b.kapa@22ndcenturymedia.<br />
com with information about a<br />
loved one who was a part of the<br />
Orland Park community.<br />
FAITH BRIEFS<br />
St. Michael’s Parish (14327 Highland Ave., Orland<br />
Park)<br />
Women’s Club Trip<br />
3:45-10 p.m. Saturday, Dec.<br />
10. The club will be sponsoring a<br />
Christmas lights tour of downtown<br />
Chicago. Stops will be made at the<br />
planetarium, Millennium Park, and<br />
the Christkinlemarket. The group<br />
will leave St. Mike’s at 3:45 p.m.<br />
via bust. There will be time to eat,<br />
shop and enjoy the holiday season<br />
on this trip. Tickets are $40 per person,<br />
which can be purchased in the<br />
church office or call Mary at (708)<br />
349-5407. For more information,<br />
call Paulette at (708) 460-6535.<br />
Calvary Church (16100 S. 104th Ave., Orland Park)<br />
“It’s a Wonderful Life”<br />
6 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 17. The<br />
church theater group will be performing<br />
“It’s a Wonderful Life”<br />
during a two night run, with the<br />
other performance on Sunday, Dec.<br />
18 at 6 p.m. There are no tickets<br />
required, and the performance is<br />
free. Live music will accompany<br />
the performance.<br />
Men’s Barnabas Bible Study<br />
7-8:30 a.m. Thursdays. Study<br />
various books written by Christian<br />
authors. Coffee and light refreshments<br />
are served. For more information,<br />
email info@calvaryop.org.<br />
Stretch and Balance<br />
6:30-7:30 p.m. Every second<br />
and fourth Tuesday of the<br />
month. All are welcome to an<br />
hour session of stretching and<br />
balancing. All are invited to<br />
bring water, beach towel and<br />
yoga mats. For more information,<br />
contact Elizabeth Kolada at el<br />
leof67@att.net.<br />
Ashburn Baptist Church (153rd Street and Wolf<br />
Road, Orland Park)<br />
Bible Study<br />
9:45 a.m.<br />
Wednesday prayer meetings<br />
10 a.m. and 8 p.m.<br />
Faith United Methodist Church (151st Street and<br />
80th Avenue, Orland Park<br />
Blue Christmas<br />
2 p.m. Dec. 10. The church welcomes<br />
everyone to this service of<br />
healing during the holiday season.<br />
Veterans Voices<br />
7 p.m. every third Tuesday of the<br />
month. This is a group for veterans.<br />
For information, contact Darryl<br />
Wertheim at (708) 923-0021 or<br />
Darryl.wertheim@gmail.com.<br />
Hope Covenant Church (14401 West Ave., Orland<br />
Park)<br />
Swedish Christmas Breakfast and<br />
Lucia Pageant<br />
10 a.m. Dec. 10. The 21st annual<br />
Swedish Christmas breakfast<br />
will include traditional Swedish<br />
foods such as cardamom coffee<br />
cakes, bond-ost cheese, rice<br />
pudding and lingonberry. Mokena<br />
resident Lena Thompson,<br />
a junior who is home schooled,<br />
has been chosen to play Lucia<br />
Queen for this year’s pageant.<br />
Tickets are $15 and must be reserved<br />
in advance. For more information<br />
or to purchase tickets<br />
email christmas@orland<br />
hope.org or call Dawn Mueller at<br />
(708) 342-6120.<br />
Men’s Bible Study<br />
7:30-8:30 p.m. The one-hour<br />
session includes coffee and conversation.<br />
Presbyterian Church in Orland Park (13401 S. Wolf<br />
Road, Orland Park)<br />
Little Free Library<br />
On the southeast corner of the<br />
parking lot a Little Free Library<br />
has been constructed. All are welcome<br />
to use it, and the library is<br />
operated on the take a book, leave<br />
a book premise. For more information,<br />
call (708) 448-8142.<br />
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Information is due by noon on Thursdays<br />
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<strong>OP</strong> native competes in ‘Cookie Challenge’<br />
Joe Dela Pena talks<br />
Warm Belly Bakery<br />
opening, more<br />
Jon DePaolis<br />
Freelance Reporter<br />
Orland Park native Joe<br />
Dela Pena has had a lifelong<br />
passion for sweets.<br />
And with the holidays coming<br />
up, the former Lincoln-<br />
Way Community High School<br />
District 210 teacher and Consolidated<br />
High School District<br />
230 alumnus has a distinct<br />
childhood memory of roasting<br />
marshmallows — not<br />
chestnuts on an open fire —<br />
indoors, all by himself.<br />
That may have gotten him<br />
in trouble with his parents<br />
years ago, but it served as<br />
inspiration recently, when<br />
Dela Pena — now the owner<br />
of Warm Belly Bakery, located<br />
at 1148 W. Monroe St.<br />
in Chicago — competed in<br />
the Food Network’s “Christmas<br />
Cookie Challenge.”<br />
A passion for baking<br />
Dela Pena’s interest in<br />
food began at a young age,<br />
with his parents introducing<br />
him to all different types of<br />
cuisine.<br />
“It’s always been a big<br />
part of my life,” he said.<br />
But baking? That love affair<br />
was more recent.<br />
“It must have been six or<br />
seven years ago now, I was<br />
telling my sister and brotherin-law<br />
that I didn’t have any<br />
appliances in my place,” he<br />
said. “I was saying how I<br />
was going to buy a KitchenAid,<br />
and my brother-in-law<br />
gave me his old one.”<br />
Upon receiving it, Dela<br />
Pena started thinking of all<br />
the things he could make<br />
with it, like sausages. But<br />
that seemed “hard and<br />
gross,” he thought, so he<br />
settled on pastries.<br />
“I started fooling around,<br />
trying to develop my own<br />
recipes,” Dela Pena said, as<br />
he got his family and friends<br />
to taste test every new concoction.<br />
But Dela Pena’s culinary<br />
interests were not kept in his<br />
kitchen. Not long after he<br />
developed his new hobby,<br />
Dela Pena did a fundraiser<br />
for the American Cancer Society.<br />
His father is a cancer<br />
survivor, so the cause was<br />
important to Dela Pena’s<br />
family.<br />
“I thought I’d raise a<br />
couple hundred bucks selling<br />
some cookies,” Dela<br />
Pena said. “I ended up raising<br />
a few thousand dollars in<br />
two weeks. I was baking all<br />
these cookies [at home], and<br />
home ovens are not meant to<br />
have to bust out thousands of<br />
cookies in a couple weeks.”<br />
It was at that point that<br />
Dela Pena first began to<br />
think he might have a business<br />
venture in his future. He<br />
kept sharp by catering some<br />
events for his friends, but<br />
did not revisit the idea for<br />
a store until he appeared on<br />
“Who Wants to be a Millionaire?”<br />
in 2013. On the show,<br />
he realized that if he won the<br />
grand prize, he wanted to<br />
open his own bakery.<br />
“I didn’t win the million<br />
bucks, but I did become<br />
friends with a guy who<br />
turned out to be a venture<br />
capitalist,” Dela Pena said.<br />
“[Opening the bakery] was<br />
actually his idea. He said,<br />
‘Why don’t you change careers,<br />
and let’s open a bakery<br />
together.’ He talked me into<br />
it, and I’m pretty happy I<br />
made that decision.”<br />
From the classroom to the<br />
kitchen<br />
Dela Pena earned a master’s<br />
degree in education. He<br />
was a student teacher at Lincoln-Way<br />
East in Frankfort,<br />
before working as a substitute<br />
teacher (and, eventually,<br />
an English teacher) at<br />
the D210 school. He also<br />
coached boys and girls tennis<br />
at Lincoln-Way Central<br />
in New Lenox from 2008-<br />
2012.<br />
“I’m a D230 guy, so it<br />
was a little weird coming<br />
from Sandburg [to Lincoln-<br />
Way],” Dela Pena said. “At<br />
Sandburg, you’re taught to<br />
hate all things Lincoln-Way.<br />
Jumping in headfirst to being<br />
a Knight [was weird], but I<br />
had some great kids there,<br />
and it was awesome.”<br />
But around the time of the<br />
taping for the game show,<br />
Dela Pena started thinking<br />
he might want to try something<br />
new.<br />
“There’s no secret that<br />
Lincoln-Way was going<br />
through some pretty [big]<br />
economic things,” Dela Pena<br />
said. “It was a tough time to<br />
be a new teacher, because<br />
the state budget wasn’t the<br />
greatest.<br />
“I loved teaching, but I<br />
think it was more of a passion<br />
[for baking]. I was single<br />
and didn’t have any kids.<br />
I was still relatively young,<br />
so if I wanted to take this giant<br />
risk, now was the really<br />
opportune time.”<br />
In late 2014, Dela Pena<br />
fully committed to the idea<br />
of opening up his own bakery<br />
with the help of his<br />
friend — the venture capitalist<br />
who pitched the idea to<br />
him a year prior. But getting<br />
the store open took a long<br />
time. Warm Belly Bakery<br />
did not open until February<br />
of this year.<br />
“My business partner and<br />
I thought we could open up<br />
in a few months, but little<br />
did we know that there was<br />
a lot more that goes into it,”<br />
he said with a laugh. “It took<br />
about a year to talk to architects<br />
and design teams to<br />
Orland Park native Joe Dela Pena appears on Food Network’s “Christmas Cookie<br />
Challenge.” Photo courtesy of Food Network<br />
create a space that we liked.”<br />
They also scoured the city<br />
to try to find the right space<br />
in the right neighborhood<br />
that would match their goal,<br />
as well as their budget.<br />
“We ended up looking in<br />
the West Loop and falling in<br />
love with it,” Dela Pena said.<br />
“The West Loop is the food<br />
destination in Chicago now,<br />
so we thought it would be<br />
really neat to open up a new<br />
bakery concept there.”<br />
Bakery begins with a lot of<br />
buzz<br />
Since opening, the bakery’s<br />
success has been trending<br />
upward at a frenetic pace<br />
— as has Dela Pena’s notoriety.<br />
“We won the Chicago<br />
Dessert Fest in the summer<br />
of 2015, ramping up to<br />
our opening,” he said. “So<br />
we had a good buzz. I was<br />
asked to take part in it, and<br />
I was kind of worried, because<br />
I never went to culinary<br />
school and I wasn’t<br />
formally trained. I just kind<br />
of do things on my own and<br />
taught myself. I was going to<br />
be competing against pastry<br />
chefs from amazing places<br />
all around the city.<br />
“My main goal was just<br />
not to embarrass myself.”<br />
For the event, he made<br />
an espresso chocolate chip<br />
cookie, with a raspberry<br />
gelée — which he described<br />
as a viscous sauce, with a<br />
little bit of booze in it.<br />
“We also had hazelnut<br />
quenelle, so it was a chocolate-<br />
and hazelnut-flavored<br />
mousse that we formed into<br />
the shape of a quenelle,” he<br />
said. “We topped it with an<br />
espresso toffee.”<br />
At the Cuisine for Cancer<br />
fundraiser in 2015, Dela<br />
Pena made a Mexican hot<br />
chocolate cookie with cinnamon,<br />
nutmeg and cayenne.<br />
He paired it with an Argentinian<br />
chocolate torte and a<br />
rum-infused mango sauce.<br />
“This is my favorite part<br />
— we topped it with churro<br />
chicharones, so it was cinnamon,<br />
sugar and a fried pigskin,”<br />
he said. “It’s probably<br />
one of my favorite things<br />
I’ve ever made. We converted<br />
a vegetarian, which was<br />
pretty neat.”<br />
He also made a dessert<br />
for the opening of the James<br />
Beard Awards.<br />
Dela Pena said the creative<br />
process of pairing different<br />
items is one of his favorite<br />
parts of the job.<br />
“I can think of flavors and<br />
know in my head what they<br />
are going to taste like together<br />
before I actually make it,”<br />
he said. “I think that’s true for<br />
anyone who works in food.”<br />
Going to TV<br />
Dela Pena said he was<br />
contacted by a producer<br />
from the Food Network’s<br />
“Christmas Cookie Challenge”<br />
in May, asking if he<br />
was interested in being on<br />
the show.<br />
“At the James Beard<br />
Awards, I met so many people<br />
and I crossed paths with<br />
a lot of Food Network people,”<br />
Dela Pena said.<br />
He interviewed with the<br />
producers on Skype, and he<br />
was selected to compete on<br />
the show in Los Angeles.<br />
Dela Pena said the experience<br />
was intense.<br />
“I’ve done TV before,<br />
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Making colorful artwork<br />
Art a la Carte teams up with Bridge for Watercolor Florals program<br />
Photos in motion<br />
Bridge Teen Center’s program marketing associate leads program<br />
Participants in the recent Watercolor Florals work on art with the help of Art a la Carte<br />
owner Kathy Almeda at The Bridge Teen Center in Orland Park. Photo submitted<br />
Making some noise at The Bridge<br />
Teens learn how to drum during program at Orland Park center<br />
Program Marketing Associate Esther Morfoot (far right) leads a recent Cinemagraphs<br />
program at The Bridge Teen Center in Orland Park. Photo submitted<br />
Imparting a message<br />
Bridge co-founder shares ‘Things I Would Tell My Young Self’<br />
during teen program<br />
Connor Brown, of the band the Deadbolts, leads a recent Drums program at The Bridge<br />
Teen Center in Orland Park. Photo submitted<br />
Priscilla Steinmetz, co-founder and executive director of The Bridge Teen Center, leads a Soul<br />
Cafe: Things I Would Tell My Younger Self program at the Orland Park spot. Photo submitted
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‘Fury Road’ Black & Chrome<br />
results as mixed as its cover art<br />
Bill Jones, Editor<br />
In the optional introduction<br />
for the Black &<br />
Chrome Edition of “Mad<br />
Max: Fury Road,” director<br />
George Miller offers an<br />
explanation for draining<br />
the bombastic orange tones<br />
from the best film of 2015<br />
(no matter what the Academy<br />
of Motion Picture Arts<br />
and Sciences said).<br />
And, really, it has a lot to<br />
do with another film.<br />
Miller said he first got the<br />
idea to do a Mad Max film<br />
in black and white after seeing<br />
a cheap color print of<br />
“Road Warrior” while the<br />
composer was referencing<br />
it on a soundstage. He loved<br />
the way it looked and actually<br />
thought that might have<br />
been a better way to release<br />
the film.<br />
Clearly the idea stuck in<br />
his head, and it is easy to<br />
understand why. In the brief<br />
moments black-and-white<br />
footage of “Road Warrior”<br />
is shown during the introduction,<br />
it does look really<br />
cool.<br />
For moments in “Mad<br />
Mad: Fury Road,” it looks<br />
really cool, too. But “Fury<br />
Road” was not the best of<br />
the Mad Max films to drain<br />
of its color; it just happened<br />
to be the one successful<br />
enough to afford Miller the<br />
opportunity to try it.<br />
The experiment is worth<br />
it. “Fury Road” proves interesting<br />
in this format, especially<br />
for die-hard fans.<br />
And there are certain instances<br />
— especially when<br />
the camera is shooting up at<br />
characters against the sky<br />
— that it looks absolutely<br />
brilliant.<br />
But Miller took such care<br />
with the colors of “Fury<br />
rating: R | genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | run time: 120 minutes<br />
Road” that it absolutely<br />
wowed in color. And it feels<br />
like something is lost in the<br />
explosions, in the character<br />
designs and in the postapocalyptic<br />
landscape in the<br />
Black & Chrome edition.<br />
Certain action elements —<br />
most notably the frenetic<br />
introductory scenes — also<br />
feel less engaging, and the<br />
upped pacing of the early<br />
chase sequence does not<br />
translate well to the format.<br />
The biggest disappointment,<br />
though, may be<br />
the box art. The edition<br />
offered a great opportunity<br />
to do some “Black &<br />
Chrome” art with the box,<br />
but instead it seems Warner<br />
Home Video opted to play<br />
it safe, to make sure potential<br />
buyers know they also<br />
get the color version with<br />
the new set. But the “Two-<br />
Film Collection” branding<br />
does not seem completely<br />
honest, and the split cover<br />
looks like something out of<br />
the bargain bin, rather than<br />
a special edition.<br />
All of that said, while it is<br />
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“Fury Road” and not worth<br />
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Soundtrack to the season<br />
Meadow Ridge fifth-graders perform during<br />
‘Vacation for Santa’ program<br />
Santa makes a Pit stop<br />
The jolly one stops by Orland Park’s Sportsplex for meet and greet<br />
The Meadow Ridge School’s fifth-grade choir sings<br />
Thursday, Dec. 1, for its program, called “Vacation for<br />
Santa.” Photos by Mary Compton/22nd Century Media<br />
Ronan (left), 5 months, and his brother Finn O’Connor, of Homer Glen, visit with Santa Claus Saturday, Dec. 3, during the<br />
Santa’s Pit Stop event at the Village of Orland Park Sportsplex. Mary Compton/22nd Century Media<br />
Meadow Ridge students (left to right) Neveen Hassan,<br />
Jordyn Abercrombie, Melodee Harrison and Caleb Arrigoni<br />
sing “Santa Needs a Vacation” during the fifth-grade choir<br />
program.<br />
Klaudia Sieczka joins other fifth-grade choir members as<br />
they sing, “Surfin’ U.S.A. Medley” during a holiday program<br />
at Meadow Ridge School.<br />
Pena<br />
From Page 21<br />
so the being on TV doesn’t<br />
throw me, but the competition<br />
part [did],” he said. “I<br />
was hoping I didn’t embarrass<br />
myself. But it was great,<br />
because everyone else was<br />
awesome and nice. We got<br />
along really well, and we all<br />
rooted for each other.”<br />
He said the competition<br />
aspect is more with the individual<br />
and not with other<br />
chefs.<br />
“You don’t really know<br />
what they are doing or see<br />
what they are cooking,” he<br />
said. “There is no defense in<br />
competitive cooking. It’s not<br />
like they can actually affect<br />
what you’re doing.”<br />
In the three-round competition,<br />
Dela Pena won the<br />
first stage — which called<br />
for making “nostalgic cookies”<br />
in a Christmas past and<br />
Christmas future theme. He<br />
made a s’mores cookie for<br />
the Christmas past entry.<br />
“When I was a kid, my<br />
parents caught me roasting<br />
marshmallows inside<br />
and making a huge mess,”<br />
he said, recalling the childhood<br />
memory. “I probably<br />
could have set the house on<br />
fire, and I got in a little bit of<br />
trouble for that. But I always<br />
remembered that.”<br />
The cookie had a graham<br />
cracker base, stuffed with<br />
marshmallow fluff and dark<br />
chocolate, with a roasted<br />
marshmallow on top.<br />
For the Christmas future<br />
entry, he created raw cookie<br />
dough.<br />
“You’re not supposed to<br />
eat raw cookie dough, because<br />
it is unsafe because<br />
of the eggs,” he said. “But<br />
in the future, I hope that’s<br />
not an issue. So, I made raw<br />
cookie dough, but I replaced<br />
the eggs with yogurt and<br />
sour cream. It was totally<br />
safe to eat raw.”<br />
Dela Pena said the judges<br />
loved it.<br />
In the second round,<br />
however, he was tasked<br />
with making a “snow globe<br />
cookie” — a round that was<br />
geared more toward presentation<br />
than taste.<br />
“My strength is making<br />
things that taste good; my<br />
weakness is that I am by no<br />
means an artist,” he said. “I’ve<br />
got bear paws for hands. They<br />
are not meant for art.”<br />
Dela Pena said his fatal<br />
flaw was infusing liquor into<br />
the icing for his cookie, as it<br />
never fully hardened — affecting<br />
the design of the entry.<br />
“One judge said there was<br />
too much booze, but I don’t<br />
think that’s possible,” he<br />
said. “If you like the taste of<br />
whiskey, you’d have loved<br />
this cookie.”<br />
He said the judges enjoyed<br />
the taste but the design just<br />
was not there. He compared<br />
it to an old “Saturday Night<br />
Live” sketch with Chris Farley<br />
and Patrick Swayze, in<br />
which they played Chippendales<br />
dancers.<br />
“I feel like my cookie was<br />
Chris Farley — he had all the<br />
moves, he just didn’t have the<br />
body,” Dela Pena said. “So,<br />
that [cookie] sent me home.”<br />
Dela Pena said he was<br />
content with his showing<br />
during the competition.<br />
“It was a blast,” he said. “I<br />
made some lifelong friends,<br />
too, from the show. It was<br />
definitely worthwhile.”<br />
As for the future, Dela<br />
Pena said he does not know<br />
what is to come, as he is surprised<br />
by the amount of success<br />
he has had thus far.<br />
“All of these things have<br />
happened to me and to the<br />
business before our first anniversary,<br />
and I couldn’t<br />
have told you when we first<br />
opened in February that all<br />
of these things would have<br />
happened in one calendar<br />
year,” Dela Pena said. “I’m<br />
excited about what the future<br />
holds, but I’m not sure what<br />
it may be.”<br />
For more information about<br />
Warm Belly Bakery, visit<br />
www.warmbellybakery.com.
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Orland Park resident organizes toy drive for 15th year<br />
Brittany Kapa, Assistant Editor<br />
Don Ade retired from the<br />
Chicago Police Department<br />
in 2000, and the Orland<br />
Park resident went looking<br />
for a part time job to keep<br />
busy during the day.<br />
Ade contacted the Orland<br />
Park Police Department and<br />
lucked out in finding a position<br />
in the evidence room.<br />
Then, Chief Tim McCarthy<br />
approached Ade about<br />
starting the Orland Park Law<br />
Enforcement Organization<br />
— a place for retired police<br />
officers to come together.<br />
For the past 15 years, Ade<br />
has been having monthly<br />
meetings with the organization,<br />
and November is by far<br />
the biggest meeting. Held at<br />
the Orland Park Civic Center,<br />
the group has the biggest<br />
turnout during November<br />
because of the toy drive Ade<br />
holds.<br />
The toys collected during<br />
the Nov. 17 meeting, along<br />
with those in the donation<br />
box at the Orland Park Police<br />
Department, will be delivered<br />
to excited students<br />
Dec. 9 at Blair Early Childhood<br />
Center in Chicago.<br />
“I always think it’s better<br />
to give than receive,”<br />
McCarthy said. “It’s such<br />
a worthy cause. Everyone<br />
is really looking forward to<br />
this meeting in November.<br />
There’s a social aspect to<br />
it, of course. It’s the biggest<br />
meeting we have every<br />
year.”<br />
Between 75 and 100 people<br />
show up for that November<br />
meeting, and every one of<br />
them brings a toy. Ade, and a<br />
few others volunteers from<br />
the organization, bring the<br />
donated toys to Blair themselves,<br />
along with a special<br />
guest. Santa Claus spends<br />
half the day handed out the<br />
donations from members.<br />
“There’s about 130 [students]<br />
at the school, and<br />
each class comes in at one<br />
time,” Ade said. “There’s<br />
only 6, 7 or 8 [children] in<br />
a class.”<br />
Blair provides small class<br />
sizes for children who suffer<br />
from multiple disabilities,<br />
and multiple families<br />
at the school cannot afford<br />
Christmas presents for their<br />
children. That is why the<br />
members of <strong>OP</strong>LEO like to<br />
get involved.<br />
“All of them have seen the<br />
dark side through their law<br />
enforcement careers,” Mc-<br />
Carthy said of the <strong>OP</strong>LEO<br />
members. “I know they like<br />
the idea of helping out these<br />
kids during Christmas. It<br />
brings a little smile to a kids<br />
face and helps them out at<br />
a time of year when they<br />
wouldn’t get a toy under<br />
their tree.”<br />
It is that feeling of helping<br />
those who really need it<br />
that Ade said keeps him motivated<br />
holiday season after<br />
holiday season.<br />
For those who wish to donate<br />
a gift for the children at<br />
Blair school, a box located in<br />
the lobby of the Orland Park<br />
Police Department, 15100<br />
S. Ravinia Ave, will be accepting<br />
gifts until Thursday,<br />
Dec. 8.<br />
Business Briefs<br />
Culver’s of Orland Park’s holiday<br />
toy drive to benefit Advocate<br />
South Suburban Hospital, South<br />
Suburban Family Shelter<br />
Culver’s celebrates this holiday<br />
season by giving back to the community.<br />
Throughout the Chicago<br />
area, more than 30 restaurant locations<br />
will be hosting toy drives for<br />
local hospitals. As a third-year initiative,<br />
Culver’s continues its tradition<br />
of spreading holiday cheer.<br />
Culver’s of Orland Park has<br />
partnered with Advocate South<br />
Suburban Hospital and the South<br />
Suburban Family Shelter for its<br />
drive that will see all toy donations<br />
personally delivered to the<br />
pediatric unit by team members<br />
in mid-December. Until then, the<br />
restaurant will be collecting new,<br />
unwrapped gifts for all ages.<br />
To donate, visit Culver’s of Orland<br />
Park at 9130 W. 159th St.<br />
Orland Park woman among those<br />
honored for marketing, public<br />
relations<br />
The Illinois Society for Healthcare<br />
Marketing and Public Relations<br />
honored marketing, public<br />
relations and communications professionals<br />
from across the state at<br />
its annual Conference and Pinnacle<br />
Awards Presentation in Galena.<br />
Silver Cross Hospital received<br />
10 Pinnacle Awards, including<br />
Best of Show for Silver Cross<br />
Healthy Community Commission’s<br />
partnership with Warren<br />
Sharpe Community Center’s<br />
Green Sprout Urban Farm. The<br />
Commission provided $30,000<br />
in funding to educate area youth<br />
about agriculture, healthy food<br />
choices and entrepreneurship, as<br />
well as increase physical activity<br />
along with supporting the Warren-<br />
Sharpe Community Center’s food<br />
pantry. An additional $3,500 was<br />
donated to sponsor 15 children and<br />
5 adults to travel to Washington<br />
D.C. to tour First Lady Michelle<br />
Obama’s White House garden in<br />
2015.<br />
Each year, ISHMPR sponsors<br />
the Pinnacle Awards to recognize<br />
excellence and achievement in<br />
healthcare marketing and public<br />
relations. This year’s program included<br />
100 entries in 25 project<br />
categories, submitted by hospitals<br />
and healthcare systems from<br />
across the state. Entries were<br />
judged on their own merit by the<br />
Carolinas Healthcare Public Relations<br />
& Marketing Society, in accordance<br />
with established criteria<br />
for project planning, implementation<br />
and overall results.<br />
The Silver Cross Marketing<br />
Team and Community Relations<br />
includes Karen Helman, manager<br />
of marketing and community relations<br />
and an Orland Park resident.<br />
The team received a total of 10<br />
awards.<br />
Compiled by Editor Bill Jones, bill@<br />
opprairie.com.<br />
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Treasure Chest’s Holiday Toy Drive<br />
to benefit children with cancer<br />
Submitted by Treasure Chest<br />
Foundation<br />
Area residents and businesses<br />
have an opportunity this holiday<br />
season to support children and<br />
teens fighting cancer by donating a<br />
new toy or gift during the Pediatric<br />
Oncology Treasure Chest Foundation’s<br />
annual Holiday Toy Drive.<br />
The POTCF is a nonprofit organization<br />
that provides comfort<br />
and distraction from painful procedures<br />
to children and teens diagnosed<br />
with cancer by providing a<br />
toy, gift or gift card in 50 hospitals<br />
nationwide. Nowhere else in the<br />
nation does such a program exist.<br />
CEO Colleen Kisel founded the<br />
organization in 1996 after her then<br />
7-year-old son Martin had been<br />
diagnosed with leukemia in 1993.<br />
Kisel discovered that giving her<br />
son a toy after each procedure provided<br />
a calming distraction from<br />
his pain, noting that when children<br />
are diagnosed with cancer their<br />
world soon becomes filled with<br />
doctors, nurses, chemotherapy<br />
drugs, surgeries and seemingly<br />
endless painful procedures. Martin<br />
celebrated his 23rd anniversary of<br />
remission from the disease earlier<br />
this year.<br />
Unwrapped, brand new toys or<br />
gifts may be dropped off through<br />
Dec. 23 at the following locations.<br />
• Ameriprise Financial, 15030<br />
S. Ravinia Ave., Suite 39, Orland<br />
Park<br />
• BISA, Bonding and Insurance<br />
Specialist Agency, 13841 Southwest<br />
Highway, Orland Park<br />
• Dave & Buster’s, 49 Orland<br />
Square Drive, Orland Park<br />
• Evergreen Senior Living,<br />
10820 183rd St., Orland Park<br />
• Fernway Park Elementary<br />
School, 16600 S. 88th Ave., Orland<br />
Park<br />
• Let’s Polka U.S.A., 14500 S.<br />
La Grange, Orland Chateau, Orland<br />
Park<br />
• Orland Fire Protection District<br />
Station 2, 15100 S. 80th Ave., Orland<br />
Park<br />
• Orland Fire Protection District<br />
Station 4, 16515 S. 94th Ave., Orland<br />
Hills<br />
• Orland Fire Protection District<br />
Station 5, 8851 W. 143rd St., Orland<br />
Park<br />
• Thomas Place, 15415 S. Harlem<br />
Ave., Orland Park<br />
• Treasure Chest Foundation,<br />
15430 70th Ct., Orland Park<br />
For more information about the<br />
Treasure Chest Foundation, contact<br />
Kisel at (708) 687-8697 or<br />
visit www.treasurechest.org.
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The Orland Park Prairie’s<br />
The owners of this wellmaintained<br />
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it was a perfect place to<br />
watch their family grow.<br />
WHERE: 17220 Browning<br />
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subdivision of Orland Park<br />
WHAT: 5,500-square-foot,<br />
two-story home<br />
AMENITIES: Enhanced<br />
throughout with crown<br />
molding, arched entryways,<br />
designer ceilings, Venetian<br />
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inlays, custom staircase<br />
and more. Chef’s kitchen<br />
with gleaming, cherry<br />
cabinetry, endless granite,<br />
island with seating and<br />
bright dinette area.<br />
Adjacent family room with<br />
warm stone fireplace. Main<br />
level office and mud room<br />
with plenty of storage and<br />
a refrigerator. Four large<br />
bedrooms, three princessinspired<br />
with private baths,<br />
and a master suite fit for<br />
a king, with large his/her<br />
closet, adjacent second<br />
personal office space, as<br />
well as a spa-inspired,<br />
expansive, luxury shower<br />
with dual heads. The<br />
finished lower level has<br />
9-foot ceilings, wet bar,<br />
stamped floors, recreation<br />
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exercise room and steam<br />
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Near all amenities and<br />
new bike/walking paths.<br />
PRICE: $619,000<br />
CONTACT: For more<br />
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Century 21 Affiliated, at<br />
(708) 945-2121.<br />
Want to know how to become<br />
“Home of the Week”? Contact<br />
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9170, ext. 47.<br />
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HOLIDAY MATINEE<br />
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2016, 3PM<br />
Lincoln-Way West Performing Arts Center<br />
21701 Gougar Rd., New Lenox<br />
Featuring the music and narration from<br />
The Polar Express, plus selections from<br />
The Nutcracker Suite and other<br />
holiday classics.<br />
Special pre-concert activities<br />
in the lobby from 2:15-2:45PM.<br />
With special guests: Conductor<br />
Francesco Milioto, narrator<br />
Mark Meier, SYSO violinist<br />
Joshua Litao, Ballet 5:8, and<br />
the Grande Prairie Singers<br />
and Children’s Choir<br />
Nov. 8<br />
• 15625 Wild Rose Lane, Orland Park,<br />
60462-5142 - Carlson Jr. Trust to<br />
Michael D. Murphy, Eileen M. Murphy,<br />
$156,000<br />
• 17832 Maine Court 8, Orland Park,<br />
60467-9330 - Fallon Trust to Michael R.<br />
Egan, Nancy M. Egan, $183,500<br />
• 11137 Ravengate Court, Orland Park,<br />
60467-8750 - Brian Elslager to Riley<br />
Mangan, $186,000<br />
• 10612 Great Egret Drive, Orland<br />
Park, 60467-8487 - First Midwest Bank<br />
Trustee to Thomas J. Sawyer, Keli R.<br />
Sawyer, $450,000<br />
Nov. 9<br />
• 6970 Heritage Circle 5 3D, Orland<br />
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The Going Rate is provided by Record<br />
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Dave & Buster’s donates appreciation<br />
luncheon for Treasure Chest volunteers<br />
Submitted by Treasure<br />
Chest Foundation<br />
Going for a ride<br />
The Bridge welcomes teens to Horseback Riding program<br />
Dave & Buster’s Special Events Manager April Witte (back<br />
left) and Assistant General Manager Kylah Bishop oversee<br />
the Treasure Chest Foundation volunteer appreciation<br />
luncheon, held recently at Dave & Buster’s in Orland Park.<br />
Photo submitted<br />
The Pediatric Oncology<br />
Treasure Chest Foundation’s<br />
weekly volunteers recently<br />
were recognized for their<br />
commitment and dedication<br />
at the third annual volunteer<br />
luncheon, donated by Dave<br />
& Buster’s in Orland Park.<br />
The Treasure Chest Foundation<br />
is an Orland Parkbased,<br />
nonprofit organization<br />
that provides comfort and<br />
distraction from painful treatments<br />
to children and teens<br />
diagnosed with cancer by<br />
providing a toy or gift card in<br />
49 hospitals nationwide.<br />
Dave & Buster’s Special<br />
Events Manager April Witte<br />
thanked the weekly volunteers<br />
who convene every<br />
week throughout the year for<br />
their gift of service. Every<br />
Friday, the core group of senior<br />
age volunteers arrives at<br />
the Treasure Chest Foundation<br />
headquarters and begins<br />
to prepare hundreds of toys<br />
for shipping to children and<br />
teens battling cancer.<br />
The POTCF is a unique organization<br />
that impacts more<br />
than 10,000 young cancer<br />
patients each month in 49<br />
hospitals across 17 states.<br />
Nowhere else in the nation<br />
does such a program exist.<br />
OTCF Founder and CEO<br />
Colleen Kisel started the organization<br />
in 1996 after her<br />
then 7-year-old son Martin<br />
had been diagnosed with<br />
leukemia in 1993. She discovered<br />
that giving her son<br />
a toy after each procedure<br />
provided a calming distraction<br />
from his pain, noting that<br />
when children are diagnosed<br />
with cancer their world soon<br />
becomes filled with doctors,<br />
nurses, chemotherapy drugs,<br />
surgeries and seemingly endless<br />
painful procedures. Martin<br />
celebrated his 23rd anniversary<br />
of remission from the<br />
disease earlier this year.<br />
For more information<br />
about the Treasure Chest<br />
Foundation, contact Kisel at<br />
(708) 687-8697 or visit www.<br />
treasurechest.org.<br />
Jill Sachs, of Palos Heights, poses for a photo during a recent Horseback Riding program<br />
with The Bridge Teen Center, of Orland Park. Photo submitted<br />
Learning little guitars<br />
The Bridge Teen Center alumnus leads Ukulele program<br />
Central alumni to march in Cali<br />
Three former<br />
students selected in<br />
nationwide contest<br />
Submitted by D146<br />
Three former Central<br />
Middle School students,<br />
now attending Marian Catholic<br />
High School, have been<br />
selected to march in the<br />
2017 Tournament of Roses<br />
Parade.<br />
Ryan Lavin, a junior; Jacob<br />
Kopczyk, a sophomore;<br />
and Kyle Lavin, a freshman;<br />
have been selected by the<br />
nonprofit Music for All to<br />
join the Bands of America<br />
Honor Band at the annual<br />
parade in Pasadena, California.<br />
Ryan Lavin plays the<br />
trombone, Kopczyk plays<br />
the trumpet, and Kyle Lavin<br />
plays the tuba. The three will<br />
spend a week in southern<br />
California to take part in rehearsals.<br />
They will also perform<br />
at Disneyland and the<br />
Tournament of Roses Bandfest<br />
prior to their featured<br />
appearance in the world-famous<br />
parade.<br />
This is the fourth time<br />
Music for All’s Bands of<br />
America Honor Band has<br />
performed in the Tournament<br />
of Roses Parade. The<br />
parade is broadcast on numerous<br />
national networks<br />
and is seen in more than 200<br />
international territories and<br />
countries.<br />
Community Consolidated<br />
School District 146 features<br />
Central Middle School,<br />
Fierke Education Center,<br />
Fulton School, Kruse Education<br />
Center and Memorial<br />
School. Students from<br />
Tinley Park, Orland Park<br />
and Oak Forest attend D146<br />
schools.<br />
Bridge Teen Center alumnus Kit Tupas (far right) leads a recent Ukulele program at the<br />
Orland Park spot. Photo submitted
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crosstown CROSSWORD & Sudoku<br />
The crosstowns: Frankfort, Homer Glen, Lockport, Mokena, New Lenox, Orland Park, Tinley Park<br />
Crossword by Myles Mellor and Cindy LaFleur<br />
Across<br />
1. Hot spring<br />
4. Tricksters<br />
8. High tech speakers<br />
12. Southwest Asian<br />
13. Herb<br />
15. Not here<br />
16. Little bison<br />
17. Crudity<br />
19. Disparage<br />
20. Modigliani’s workplace<br />
21. Fooled<br />
22. Go through volumes<br />
23. Buy or sell instruction<br />
on the stock market<br />
28. Single cells<br />
30. Real<br />
32. Parsley bit<br />
33. Member of a colony<br />
34. Must have<br />
35. Much recommended<br />
New Lenox Golf Course<br />
39. PDQ<br />
42. Choler<br />
43. Heart link<br />
47. Doctrine of inevitable<br />
social decline<br />
49. Boredoms<br />
50. Marshy stream<br />
51. Sing loudly<br />
53. Established<br />
54. New Lenox middle<br />
school<br />
57. “___ Traffic”<br />
58. Relating to a replacement<br />
body part<br />
62. Blue-pencil<br />
63. Extent of loss<br />
64. Choose<br />
65. Word with dance or<br />
drive<br />
66. Actor Mark of “The<br />
Full Monty”<br />
67. Aplenty<br />
68. KFC piece<br />
Down<br />
1. Artificial tan source<br />
2. With head held higher<br />
3. When Purim is observed<br />
4. Stork-like birds<br />
5. Big underwater ray<br />
6. Pretentious sort<br />
7. Young herring<br />
8. Farm call<br />
9. Hold title to<br />
10. SW Missouri river<br />
11. Iris’ place<br />
12. Buckwheat groats<br />
14. Hawaiian necklace<br />
18. Thug<br />
22. Shankar lilt<br />
24. Writer whose stories<br />
inspired “Guys and Dolls”<br />
25. Go out<br />
26. Mariner’s point<br />
27. A Christmas hue<br />
29. Cafe<br />
30. Kenyan big game<br />
31. Airport posting, abbr.<br />
33. Gnawed<br />
36. Pinch<br />
37. Weep<br />
38. Bloviate<br />
39. Valentine’s Day period<br />
40. A collection of antidotes<br />
41. Porker’s place<br />
44. Knighted British Indian<br />
author<br />
45. Part of a horse-hitching<br />
device<br />
46. Shrewd<br />
48. Sack<br />
49. Picks<br />
51. Hawk<br />
52. Decree<br />
55. Most common in<br />
English<br />
56. Congeal<br />
57. Rat<br />
58. After-school social<br />
59. “Maggie” singer<br />
Stewart<br />
60. Faded<br />
61. Fox-like<br />
How to play Sudoku<br />
Each sudoku puzzle consists of a 9x9 grid that<br />
has been subdivided into nine smaller grids of 3x3<br />
squares. To solve the puzzle, each row, column and<br />
box must contain each of the numbers 1 to 9.<br />
LEVEL: Medium<br />
Sudoku by Myles Mellor and Susan Flanagan<br />
answers<br />
ORLAND PARK<br />
The Brass Tap<br />
(14225 95th Ave. Suite<br />
400, Orland Park; (708)<br />
226-1827)<br />
■8 ■ p.m. Tuesdays: Trivia.<br />
Prizes awarded<br />
■9 ■ p.m. Fridays and Saturdays:<br />
Live music<br />
Dan ‘D’ Jac’s<br />
(9358 171st St., Orland<br />
Hills; (708) 460-8773)<br />
■Thursdays: ■ Friday and<br />
Saturday: Whirlwind<br />
karaoke<br />
■Wednesdays: ■<br />
Open mic<br />
comedy night with host<br />
Ray Fischer<br />
Fox’s Restaurant and Pub<br />
(9655 W. 143rd St.,<br />
Orland Park; (708) 349-<br />
2111)<br />
■6 ■ p.m. Tuesdays,<br />
Wednesdays and Thursdays:<br />
Live entertainment<br />
■7 ■ p.m. Fridays and Saturdays:<br />
Live entertainment<br />
and face painter<br />
Papa Joe’s<br />
(14459 S. LaGrange<br />
Road, Orland Park; (708)<br />
403-9099)<br />
■5-9 ■ p.m. Thursdays:<br />
Gene Infelise and Francesca<br />
■6-10 ■ p.m. Fridays: The<br />
keyboard stylings of<br />
Roger Pampel<br />
Rokwelz Bar Meets Grill<br />
(11265 159th St., Orland<br />
Park; (708) 226-0042)<br />
■7 ■ p.m. Tuesdays: Bingo.<br />
Free to play. Progressive<br />
jackpot. Minimum $500<br />
■8 ■ p.m. Thursdays: Bingo<br />
Square Celt Ale House &<br />
Grill<br />
(39 Orland Square Drive,<br />
Orland Park; (708) 226-<br />
9600)<br />
■8 ■ p.m. Tuesdays: Acoustic<br />
Night/Open Mic<br />
Night<br />
■8 ■ p.m. Wednesdays:<br />
Free Trivia<br />
■8 ■ p.m. Thursdays: Country<br />
Night<br />
■10 ■ p.m. Fridays: Live DJ<br />
■10 ■ p.m. Saturdays: Live<br />
Music/Band<br />
■9 ■ p.m. Sundays: Karaoke<br />
To place an event<br />
in The Scene, email<br />
b.kapa@22ndcenturymedia.<br />
com.
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The Dish<br />
Adventure inspires Dancing Marlin’s menu<br />
Owner, chefs draw<br />
from experiences,<br />
creativity to craft<br />
changing cuisine<br />
Kirsten Onsgard<br />
Contributing Editor<br />
From Hawaiian shrimp<br />
trucks to Japanese street<br />
food, Dancing Marlin’s<br />
menu is a curated conglomeration<br />
of owner Ed Nemec’s<br />
culinary experiences.<br />
It is enough to warrant<br />
a running list of his ideas,<br />
culled from memorable<br />
meals and food trends.<br />
“I love bringing those flavors<br />
and those experiences<br />
from all over the country —<br />
or the world — to the Dancing<br />
Marlin,” If I have something<br />
amazing in Japan on the<br />
street, and I come back, I’m<br />
like, ‘All right, you guys, this<br />
is what I had. I don’t know<br />
how we’re going to do this.’”<br />
Thanks to Dancing Marlin’s<br />
seasonal evolutions and<br />
the occasional entrée tweak,<br />
Nemec incorporates these<br />
culture-fusing flavors into<br />
his American small plates<br />
restaurant beyond its namesake<br />
fish dishes. Dancing<br />
Marlin made its latest menu<br />
switch just this past Friday.<br />
Dancing Marlin has a few<br />
mainstay, “home run” dishes<br />
Nemec will not shelve,<br />
such as The Fig & The Pig<br />
($11) — bacon stuffed with<br />
sausage, fig and goat cheese<br />
— and crab-stuffed peppers<br />
($15). But even with these<br />
menu changes and no definitive<br />
style on which to fall<br />
back, Nemec said there are<br />
two things at the 3-year-old<br />
restaurant’s core: shareable<br />
dishes and unique takes on<br />
trendy global cuisine.<br />
“What can we bring to our<br />
guests that they just can’t find<br />
anywhere else,” he asked.<br />
“And then make it shareable<br />
at the table, so that whatever<br />
comes out, it’s, ‘Hey, give me<br />
one of those,’ and, ‘Give me<br />
one of those.’”<br />
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• 3-11 p.m. Saturday<br />
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Phone: (815) 464-6646<br />
Seafood might be Dancing<br />
Marlin’s bread and butter,<br />
but this season includes<br />
heartier meat dishes, too<br />
— a counterbalance to the<br />
lighter summer fare.<br />
That means bratwurst and<br />
kielbasa seasoned, ground<br />
and cased in house by head<br />
chef. It’s a marriage of skill<br />
and flavor — “Jon loves to<br />
make sausage, and I love to<br />
eat it,” Nemec said — and,<br />
served sliced, is inherently<br />
shareable. The restaurant<br />
plans to eventually expand<br />
to apple and boar sausages.<br />
“We’re inspired by what<br />
our butchers say, ‘Hey, I’ve<br />
got this cut of meat that<br />
would be great in a sausage,’”<br />
Nemec said.<br />
Local restaurants and customers<br />
serve as inspiration<br />
for dishes, such as a roasted<br />
chicken, which is cooked<br />
sous vide and topped with a<br />
demi-glace and wild mushrooms.<br />
Nemec was wowed<br />
by a whole chicken at a<br />
Michelin-Starred restaurant,<br />
which in part kick-started his<br />
drive to satisfy guests’ desire<br />
for a chicken dish.<br />
The challenge, he said, is<br />
to do things people have not<br />
had a chance to try yet.<br />
“We don’t want to do<br />
something somebody’s already<br />
done, or is kind of<br />
passé,” Nemec said.<br />
Dancing Marlin’s new,<br />
shell-on garlic shrimp is one<br />
of those. An homage to Hawaiian<br />
food trucks, it is a food<br />
The Dancing Marlin’s chicken dinner is brined, cooked<br />
sous vide and pan-seared for a juicy center and crisp skin.<br />
It is topped with a cabernet reduction and mushrooms.<br />
Photos by Kirsten Onsgard/22nd Century Media<br />
The Japanese scallops at Dancing Marlin, 20590 S. La<br />
Grange Road in Frankfort, are seared, topped with yuzu<br />
pearls and served with potato cakes.<br />
throwing back to Nemec’s<br />
trips to Oahu, enjoying peeland-eat<br />
shrimp on the beach.<br />
Dancing Marlin’s limitedtime<br />
sea bass — as sweet and<br />
flaky as lobster, Nemec said<br />
— also is sourced from Hawaiian<br />
fisheries and shipped<br />
express to the restaurant.<br />
Other dishes making their<br />
debut include a New Havenstyle<br />
clam pizza, pear bruschetta<br />
and eight on-tap cocktails.<br />
Dancing Marlin also<br />
has 18 wines on tap, and is<br />
growing its budding Sunday<br />
brunch with breakfast standards,<br />
seafood and a bloody<br />
mary bar.<br />
But among these shifts is<br />
something even bigger: an<br />
expansion. Nemec said he is<br />
looking into opening a second<br />
restaurant in the suburbs<br />
— one that will be different<br />
while maintaining the ethos<br />
of Dancing Marlin.<br />
“For us to go to store No.<br />
2, the key is, ‘Does all of<br />
this work? Does everybody<br />
get it?’” he said. “After three<br />
and a half years, we finally<br />
feel that we understand this.”<br />
For now, Nemec and his<br />
chefs are looking forward<br />
to the next challenges, such<br />
as fish sticks and tater tots<br />
— without the jarred tartar<br />
sauce and ketchup — for the<br />
Lenten season this spring. It<br />
does not always work right<br />
away, he said, but he and his<br />
staff will be constantly tasting<br />
and tweaking.<br />
“That’s the beauty of what<br />
we do here,” he said. “It just<br />
really challenges us. We love<br />
doing that, that’s all part of<br />
the inspiration and what we<br />
do here.
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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK<br />
COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY<br />
DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION<br />
WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.<br />
P l a i n t i f f ,<br />
- v . -<br />
EMILIA S. GORSS, CITY OF OAK<br />
FOREST, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND<br />
NONRECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants<br />
16 CH 005492<br />
15935 DEBRA DRIVE OAK FOREST, IL<br />
6 0 4 5 2<br />
NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS<br />
HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a<br />
Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in<br />
the above cause on September 26, 2016, an<br />
agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation,<br />
will at 10:30 AM on December 28, 2016, at<br />
The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South<br />
Wacker Drive - 24th Floor, CHICAGO, IL,<br />
60606, sell at public auction to the highest<br />
bidder, as set forth below, the following<br />
described real estate: Commonly known as<br />
15935 DEBRA DRIVE, OAK FOREST, IL<br />
60452 Property Index No.<br />
28-21-120-005-0000. The real estate is<br />
improved with a residence. Sale terms: 25%<br />
down of the highest bid by certified funds at<br />
the close of the sale payable to The Judicial<br />
Sales Corporation. No third party checks will<br />
be accepted. The balance, including the<br />
Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential<br />
Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is<br />
calculated on residential real estate at the<br />
rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof<br />
of the amount paid by the purchaser not to<br />
exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire<br />
transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours.<br />
No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee<br />
acquiring the residential real estate pursuant<br />
to its credit bid at the sale or by any<br />
mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other<br />
lienor acquiring the residential real estate<br />
whose rights in and to the residential real<br />
estate arose prior to the sale. The subject<br />
property is subject to general real estate<br />
taxes, special assessments, or special taxes<br />
levied against said real estate and is offered<br />
for sale without any representation as to<br />
quality or quantity of title and without<br />
recourse to Plaintiff and in \"AS IS\"<br />
condition. The sale is further subject to<br />
confirmation by the court. Upon payment in<br />
full of the amount bid, the purchaser will<br />
receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle<br />
the purchaser to a deed to the real estate<br />
after confirmation of the sale. The property<br />
will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff<br />
makes no representation as to the condition<br />
of the property. Prospective bidders are<br />
admonished to check the court file to verify all<br />
information. If this property is a condominium<br />
unit, the purchaser of the unit at the<br />
foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee,<br />
shall pay the assessments and the legal fees<br />
required by The Condominium Property Act,<br />
765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this<br />
property is a condominium unit which is part<br />
of a common interest community, the<br />
purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale<br />
other than a mortgagee shall pay the<br />
assessments required by The Condominium<br />
Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF<br />
YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR<br />
(HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT<br />
TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30<br />
DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF<br />
POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH<br />
SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS<br />
MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You<br />
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7 papers<br />
2701 Property for<br />
Sale<br />
will need a photo identification issued by a<br />
government agency (driver's license,<br />
passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our<br />
building and the foreclosure sale room in<br />
Cook County and the same identification for<br />
sales held at other county venues where The<br />
Judicial Sales Corporation conducts<br />
foreclosure sales. For information, examine<br />
the court file or contact Plaintiff's attorney:<br />
CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 15W030<br />
NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100,<br />
BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876<br />
Please refer to file number 14-16-04637.<br />
THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION<br />
One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor,<br />
Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE<br />
You can also visit The Judicial Sales<br />
Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day<br />
status report of pending sales. CODILIS &<br />
ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH<br />
FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR<br />
RIDGE, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 E-Mail:<br />
pleadings@il.cslegal.com Attorney File No.<br />
14-16-04637 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002<br />
Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 16 CH<br />
005492 TJSC#: 36-11917 NOTE: Pursuant<br />
to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you<br />
are advised that Plaintiff's attorney is deemed<br />
to be a debt collector attempting to collect a<br />
debt and any information obtained will be<br />
used for that purpose.<br />
I707977<br />
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK<br />
COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY<br />
DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION<br />
HSBC BANK USA, NATIONAL<br />
ASSOCIATION, AS SUCCESSOR<br />
TRUSTEE TO WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.<br />
AS TRUSTEE FOR BEAR STEARNS<br />
MORTGAGE FUNDING TRUST<br />
2006-AC1,<br />
ASSET-BACKED<br />
CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-AC1<br />
P l a i n t i f f ,<br />
- v . -<br />
ROBERT J. VLASAK, ERIKA VLASAK, U.S.<br />
BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS<br />
TRUSTEE, SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST<br />
TO BANK OF AMERICA, NATIONAL<br />
ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE AS<br />
SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO LASALLE<br />
BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS<br />
TRUSTEE FOR CERTIFICATEHOLDERS<br />
OF BEAR STEARNS MORTGAGE<br />
FUNDING TRUST 2006-SL3, MORTGAGE<br />
-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES<br />
2006-SL3, SOUTHMOOR COUNTRY<br />
CLUB HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION<br />
D e f e n d a n t s<br />
13 CH 018053<br />
9323 TANDRAGEE DRIVE ORLAND<br />
PARK, IL 60462<br />
NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS<br />
HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a<br />
Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in<br />
the above cause on December 8, 2015, an<br />
agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation,<br />
will at 10:30 AM on January 3, 2017, at The<br />
Judicial Sales Corporation, One South<br />
Wacker Drive - 24th Floor, CHICAGO, IL,<br />
60606, sell at public auction to the highest<br />
bidder, as set forth below, the following<br />
described real estate: Commonly known as<br />
9323 TANDRAGEE DRIVE, ORLAND<br />
PARK, IL 60462 Property Index No.<br />
23-34-310-005. The real estate is improved<br />
with a residence. Sale terms: 25% down of<br />
the highest bid by certified funds at the close<br />
of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales<br />
Corporation. No third party checks will be<br />
Real Estate<br />
$50<br />
7 lines/<br />
7 papers<br />
Merchandise<br />
$30<br />
4 lines/<br />
7 papers<br />
2701 Property for<br />
Sale<br />
p p y<br />
accepted. The balance, including the Judicial<br />
sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property<br />
Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated<br />
on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for<br />
each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount<br />
paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in<br />
certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within<br />
twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid<br />
by the mortgagee acquiring the residential<br />
real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the<br />
sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor,<br />
or other lienor acquiring the residential real<br />
estate whose rights in and to the residential<br />
real estate arose prior to the sale. The<br />
subject property is subject to general real<br />
estate taxes, special assessments, or special<br />
taxes levied against said real estate and is<br />
offered for sale without any representation as<br />
to quality or quantity of title and without<br />
recourse to Plaintiff and in \"AS IS\"<br />
condition. The sale is further subject to<br />
confirmation by the court. Upon payment in<br />
full of the amount bid, the purchaser will<br />
receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle<br />
the purchaser to a deed to the real estate<br />
after confirmation of the sale. The property<br />
will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff<br />
makes no representation as to the condition<br />
of the property. Prospective bidders are<br />
admonished to check the court file to verify all<br />
information. If this property is a condominium<br />
unit, the purchaser of the unit at the<br />
foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee,<br />
shall pay the assessments and the legal fees<br />
required by The Condominium Property Act,<br />
765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this<br />
property is a condominium unit which is part<br />
of a common interest community, the<br />
purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale<br />
other than a mortgagee shall pay the<br />
assessments required by The Condominium<br />
Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF<br />
YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR<br />
(HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT<br />
TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30<br />
DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF<br />
POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH<br />
SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS<br />
MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You<br />
will need a photo identification issued by a<br />
government agency (driver's license,<br />
passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our<br />
building and the foreclosure sale room in<br />
Cook County and the same identification for<br />
sales held at other county venues where The<br />
Judicial Sales Corporation conducts<br />
foreclosure sales. For information, examine<br />
the court file or contact Plaintiff's attorney:<br />
CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 15W030<br />
NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100,<br />
BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876<br />
Please refer to file number 14-13-17514.<br />
THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION<br />
One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor,<br />
Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE<br />
You can also visit The Judicial Sales<br />
Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day<br />
status report of pending sales. CODILIS &<br />
ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH<br />
FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR<br />
RIDGE, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 E-Mail:<br />
pleadings@il.cslegal.com Attorney File No.<br />
14-13-17514 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002<br />
Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 13 CH<br />
018053 TJSC#: 36-13257 NOTE: Pursuant<br />
to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you<br />
are advised that Plaintiff's attorney is deemed<br />
to be a debt collector attempting to collect a<br />
debt and any information obtained will be<br />
used for that purpose.<br />
I708222
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2701 Property for<br />
Sale<br />
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK<br />
COUNTY,<br />
ILLINOIS<br />
COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY<br />
D I V I S I O N<br />
CALIBER HOME LOANS, INC.;<br />
P l a i n t i f f ,<br />
v s .<br />
TAGHRED Z. MOHAMMAD; AMMAR<br />
M O H A M M E D ;<br />
BRIDGEVIEW BANK GROUP; UNKNOWN<br />
HEIRS<br />
AND<br />
LEGATEES OF TAGHRED Z.<br />
MOHAMMAD, IF ANY;<br />
UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF<br />
AMMAR<br />
MOHAMMED,<br />
IF ANY; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON<br />
R E C O R D<br />
C L A I M A N T S ;<br />
D e f e n d a n t s ,<br />
14 CH 6724<br />
Consolidated with 13 CH 22043<br />
BRIDGEVIEW BANK GROUP, AN<br />
ILLINOIS<br />
BANKING<br />
C O R P O R A T I O N ;<br />
P l a i n t i f f ;<br />
v s .<br />
TAGHRED Z. MOHAMMAD; AMMAR<br />
M O H A M M E D ;<br />
PORTFOLIO RECOVERY ASSOCIATES,<br />
LLC;<br />
CAPITAL<br />
ONE BANK, N.A.; UNKNOWN OWNERS<br />
AND NON RECORD<br />
C L A I M A N T S ;<br />
D e f e n d a n t s ,<br />
13 CH 22043 Consolidated with 14 CH 6724<br />
NOTICE OF SALE<br />
PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that<br />
pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and<br />
Sale entered in the above entitled cause<br />
Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on<br />
Wednesday, January 4, 2017 at the hour of 11<br />
a.m. in their office at 120 West Madison<br />
Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell at<br />
public auction to the highest bidder for cash,<br />
as set forth below, the following described<br />
mortgaged real estate:<br />
P.I.N. 27-10-408-012.<br />
Commonly known as 15043 Castlebar Lane,<br />
Orland Park, IL 60462.<br />
The mortgaged real estate is improved with a<br />
single family residence. If the subject<br />
mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common<br />
interest community, the purchaser of the unit<br />
other than a mortgagee shall pay the<br />
assessments required by subsection (g-1) of<br />
Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property<br />
A c t .<br />
Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds,<br />
balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours.<br />
No refunds. The property will NOT be open<br />
for<br />
inspection<br />
For information call the Sales Clerk at<br />
Plaintiff's Attorney, The Wirbicki Law Group,<br />
33 West Monroe Street, Chicago, Illinois<br />
60603. (312) 360-9455 W14-0923.<br />
INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES<br />
C O R P O R A T I O N<br />
Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122<br />
I708670<br />
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK<br />
COUNTY,<br />
ILLINOIS<br />
COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY<br />
D I V I S I O N<br />
U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS<br />
T R U S T E E<br />
UNDER POOLING AND SERVICING<br />
AGREEMENT<br />
DATED<br />
AS OF MAY 1, 2007 MASTR<br />
2701 Property for<br />
Sale<br />
A S S E T - B A C K E D<br />
SECURITIES TRUST 2007-HE1<br />
MORTGAGE<br />
PASS-<br />
THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES<br />
2 0 0 7 - H E 1 ;<br />
P l a i n t i f f ,<br />
v s .<br />
UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF<br />
MAHMOUD<br />
ALRUB;<br />
SAFA ALRUB; SAMIRA ALRUB;<br />
FOUNTAIN<br />
HILLS<br />
HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION;<br />
FOUNTAIN HILLS OF<br />
ORLAND PARK HOMEOWNERS<br />
ASSOCIATION;<br />
AMAL<br />
ALRUB; MAHMOUD ALRUB, JR.; RULA<br />
A L R U B ;<br />
CYNTHIA SUTHERIN, AS SPECIAL<br />
R E P R E S E N T A T I V E ;<br />
UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF<br />
SAFA ALRUB, IF<br />
ANY; UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES<br />
OF<br />
SAMIRA<br />
ALRUB, IF ANY; UNKNOWN OWNERS<br />
AND NON RECORD<br />
C L A I M A N T S ;<br />
D e f e n d a n t s ,<br />
15 CH 10490<br />
NOTICE OF SALE<br />
PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that<br />
pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and<br />
Sale entered in the above entitled cause<br />
Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on<br />
Wednesday, January 4, 2017 at the hour of 11<br />
a.m. in their office at 120 West Madison<br />
Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell at<br />
public auction to the highest bidder for cash,<br />
as set forth below, the following described<br />
mortgaged real estate:<br />
P.I.N. 27-32-309-006-0000.<br />
Commonly known as 11022 Haley Court,<br />
Orland Park, IL 60467.<br />
The mortgaged real estate is improved with a<br />
single family residence. If the subject<br />
mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common<br />
interest community, the purchaser of the unit<br />
other than a mortgagee shall pay the<br />
assessments required by subsection (g-1) of<br />
Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property<br />
A c t .<br />
Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds,<br />
balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours.<br />
No refunds. The property will NOT be open<br />
for<br />
inspection<br />
For information call the Sales Clerk at<br />
Plaintiff's Attorney, The Wirbicki Law Group,<br />
33 West Monroe Street, Chicago, Illinois<br />
60603. (312) 360-9455 WA15-0296.<br />
INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES<br />
C O R P O R A T I O N<br />
Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122<br />
I708683<br />
2703 Legal<br />
Notices<br />
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OFCOOK<br />
COUNTY, ILLINOIS<br />
COUNTY DEPARTMENT -CHAN-<br />
CERY DIVISION<br />
BAYVIEW LOAN SERVICING, LLC<br />
Plaintiff,<br />
-v.-<br />
THERESA R. DAMRATOWSKI, MI-<br />
CHAEL A. GUCWA, MA-<br />
NORHOMES OF SOMERSET PARK<br />
CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION<br />
2703 Legal<br />
Notices<br />
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Automotive<br />
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7 papers<br />
NO. 1<br />
Defendants<br />
15 CH 08359<br />
9158 CLAIRMONT COURT<br />
Orland Park, IL 60462<br />
NOTICE OF SALE<br />
PUBLIC NOTICE ISHEREBY GIVEN<br />
that pursuant to aJudgment ofForeclosure<br />
and Sale entered in the above cause<br />
on October 19, 2016, an agent for The<br />
Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30<br />
AM on January 20, 2017, at The Judicial<br />
Sales Corporation, One South<br />
Wacker Drive -24th Floor, CHICAGO,<br />
IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the<br />
highest bidder, as set forth below, the<br />
following described real estate:<br />
UNIT 124 TOGETHER WITH ITS<br />
UNDIVIDED INTEREST IN THE<br />
COMMON ELEMENTS IN MANOR<br />
HOMES OF SOMERSET PARK CON-<br />
DOMINIUM NUMBER 1 AS DE-<br />
LINEATED AND DEFINED IN THE<br />
DECLARATION RECORDED AS<br />
DOCUMENT NUMBER 25280578, IN<br />
THE SOUTH 1/2 OF SECTION 10,<br />
TOWNSHIP 36 NORTH, RANGE 12,<br />
EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL<br />
MERIDIAN, IN COOK COUNTY, IL-<br />
LINOIS.<br />
Commonly known as 9158 CLAIR-<br />
MONT COURT, Orland Park, IL 60462<br />
Property Index No.<br />
27-10-400-042-1108.<br />
The real estate is improved with asingle<br />
unit dwelling.<br />
The judgment amount was $173,885.19.<br />
Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid<br />
by certified funds at the close of the sale<br />
payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation.<br />
No third party checks will beaccepted.<br />
The balance, including the Judicial<br />
sale fee for Abandoned Residential<br />
Property Municipality Relief Fund,<br />
which is calculated on residential real<br />
estate atthe rate of $1 for each $1,000<br />
or fraction thereof of the amount paid<br />
by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in<br />
certified funds/or wire transfer, is due<br />
within twenty-four (24) hours. Nofee<br />
shall bepaid bythe mortgagee acquiring<br />
the residential real estate pursuant to its<br />
credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee,<br />
judgment creditor, or other lienor<br />
acquiring the residential real estate<br />
whose rights inand to the residential<br />
real estate arose prior to the sale. The<br />
subject property is subject to general<br />
real estate taxes, special assessments, or<br />
special taxes levied against said real estate<br />
and is offered for sale without any<br />
representation as to quality or quantity<br />
of title and without recourse to Plaintiff<br />
and in AS IS condition. The sale is further<br />
subject to confirmation by the<br />
court.<br />
Upon payment in full ofthe amount bid,<br />
the purchaser will receive aCertificate<br />
of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to<br />
adeed to the real estate after confirmation<br />
of the sale.<br />
The property will NOT be open for inspection<br />
and plaintiff makes no representation<br />
astothe condition ofthe property.<br />
Prospective bidders are admonished<br />
to check the court file to verify all<br />
information.<br />
If this property isacondominium unit,<br />
the purchaser ofthe unit atthe foreclosure<br />
sale, other than amortgagee, shall<br />
pay the assessments and the legal fees<br />
required by The Condominium Property<br />
Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4).<br />
If this property isacondominium unit<br />
which ispart ofacommon interest comp<br />
munity, the purchaser ofthe unit atthe<br />
foreclosure sale other than amortgagee<br />
shall pay the assessments required by<br />
The Condominium Property Act, 765<br />
ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).<br />
IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR<br />
(HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE<br />
RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION<br />
FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF<br />
AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN AC-<br />
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Sports Briefs<br />
Orland Parker helps Eastern<br />
Illinois men’s basketball<br />
team<br />
No. 24 Joe Kuligoski —<br />
6-foot-6, 200-pound senior<br />
from Orland Park — is playing<br />
on the Eastern Illinois<br />
University men’s basketball<br />
team this season. Over his<br />
past five starts in 2016, he<br />
averaged 5 points and 3.6 rebounds.<br />
As a members of the<br />
This Week In ...<br />
Eagles Varsity Athletics<br />
Wrestling<br />
■Dec. ■ 8 - host Lincoln-Way<br />
Central, 6 p.m.<br />
■Dec. ■ 9 - at Lincoln-Way East,<br />
5 p.m.<br />
■Dec. ■ 10 - at Wheeling Quad,<br />
9 a.m.<br />
■Dec. ■ 15 - host Lockport, 6<br />
p.m.<br />
Girls Basketball<br />
■Dec. ■ 8 - at Lyons Township,<br />
6:30 p.m.<br />
■Dec. ■ 10 - at Oak Lawn<br />
Christmas Tournament, 10:30<br />
a.m.<br />
■Dec. ■ 12 - at Oak Lawn<br />
Ferraro<br />
From Page 45<br />
[head coach Mike Wiggins]<br />
that group is really good,”<br />
he said. “Some of them<br />
decided not to play later in<br />
high school and went off to<br />
club or academy or wherever,<br />
but the core of them<br />
stayed, so that was pretty<br />
cool to see happen.”<br />
Wiggins coached against<br />
Ferraro for many years, so<br />
he got to know him as a<br />
competitor.<br />
“The more I got to know<br />
Jack, the more I saw a man<br />
who really cared about the<br />
players he coached,” he<br />
said. “He is a hard worker<br />
who demands a lot of his<br />
athletes. We have been fortunate<br />
to have him with us<br />
over the past six years.”<br />
reserves, he had 4 points in<br />
the season-opener, playing<br />
12 minutes, making 1-of-2<br />
field goal attempts and 2-of-<br />
3 free throw attempts.<br />
Orland Park volleyball<br />
player earns Academic All-<br />
Conference honors<br />
Augustana College recently<br />
announced its 2016-2017<br />
Academic All-Conference<br />
Christmas Tournament, TBA<br />
■Dec. ■ 13 - host Stagg, 6 p.m.<br />
■Dec. ■ 14 - at Oak Lawn<br />
Christmas Tournament, TBA<br />
Boys Basketball<br />
■Dec. ■ 9 - host Stagg, 6:30<br />
p.m.<br />
■Dec. ■ 10 - host St. Ignatius,<br />
3:30 p.m.<br />
Boys Swimming<br />
■Dec. ■ 9 - host Fenwick, 5<br />
p.m.<br />
■Dec. ■ 13 - host Stagg, 5 p.m.<br />
Boys Bowling<br />
■Dec. ■ 8 - at Lincoln-Way West<br />
(Laraway Lanes), 4:30 p.m.<br />
He said he could be happier<br />
about Ferraro’s Hall of<br />
Fame recognition.<br />
“I know that the boys<br />
here at Hinsdale Central,<br />
along with all of us on staff,<br />
are really excited for him,”<br />
he said. “The IHSSCA has<br />
a very recognized Hall of<br />
Fame, and for Jack to join<br />
that very accomplished list<br />
of individuals is a real credit<br />
to all of the time he has put<br />
into the game.”<br />
It truly was fitting that<br />
Nick Kolliniatis, a 1995<br />
Sandburg grad who was an<br />
All-American player, introduced<br />
Ferraro at the Hall<br />
of Fame ceremony. Coincidentally,<br />
Kolliniatis now<br />
teaches at Sandburg.<br />
While Ferraro’s teams<br />
had so much success on the<br />
field, what was not lost was<br />
what he did off of it to truly<br />
selections for fall sports.<br />
Among them was Claire<br />
Martin, a women’s volleyball<br />
player with a 3.36 grade<br />
point average, majoring in<br />
biology. She is from Orland<br />
Park and graduated from<br />
Mother McAuley Liberal<br />
Arts High School.<br />
Compiled by Editor Bill Jones,<br />
bill@opprairie.com.<br />
Girls Bowling<br />
■Dec. ■ 8 - host Lincoln-Way<br />
Central, 4:30 p.m.<br />
■Dec. ■ 10 - at Plainfield North<br />
Strikefest (Town and Country<br />
Lanes), 9 a.m.<br />
■Dec. ■ 13 - at Lincoln-Way<br />
East (Orland Bowl), 4:30 p.m.<br />
■Dec. ■ 14 - host Andrew, 4:30<br />
p.m.<br />
Girls Gymnastics<br />
■Dec. ■ 10 - at Hinsdale<br />
Central Invite, TBD<br />
Hockey Club<br />
■Dec. ■ 11 - at Oak Park-River<br />
Forest (Ridgeland Common<br />
Ice), 4 p.m.<br />
benefit soccer.<br />
“I always have tried to do<br />
things to promote the sport<br />
and to help make coaches<br />
better,” he said. “When I<br />
was recognized, I was very<br />
humbled by it, but I realize<br />
a lot of people have helped<br />
me along the way. It’s not<br />
just the players, but it’s<br />
their parents and the school<br />
administration.”<br />
While he has accomplished<br />
a lot, he is showing<br />
no signs of slowing down.<br />
“I’ll continue to coach<br />
as long they’ll have me,”<br />
he said. “We’ve got a tremendous<br />
staff, a wonderful<br />
facility and great kids<br />
at Hinsdale Central. It’s a<br />
great place for me to be at<br />
this time. I feel very fortunate<br />
and I plan to continue<br />
coaching here.”<br />
Athlete of the Week<br />
10 Questions<br />
with Maeve Hennessy<br />
Maeve Hennessy is a senior<br />
at Sandburg, and this is<br />
her second year playing on<br />
the varsity girls basketball<br />
team.<br />
What got you into<br />
playing basketball?<br />
I started when I was 6<br />
years old, and my two older<br />
brothers played. So, I wanted<br />
to play, too.<br />
What’s the most<br />
rewarding part of the<br />
game?<br />
If we’re in a rut as a team<br />
or I’m in a funk. If we really<br />
come together in practice or<br />
go on a winning streak in a<br />
game, It’s rewarding knowing<br />
that you worked out the<br />
kinks together.<br />
What’s the most<br />
frustrating part of the<br />
game?<br />
When you get mad at<br />
yourself when you’re having<br />
a bad game, because you<br />
know you’re bringing down<br />
your team. It’s hard to get<br />
out of that mindset sometimes,<br />
even if your teammates<br />
are trying to tell you<br />
it’s OK.<br />
Who would be in your<br />
celebrity entourage?<br />
Ellen DeGeneres, Jennifer<br />
Lawrence and Jimmy Fallon.<br />
They’re all just so funny, and<br />
“The Hunger Games” are<br />
my favorite movies.<br />
If you’re in Walgreens<br />
with a couple dollars,<br />
what do you buy?<br />
I would buy Muddy Buddies.<br />
What’s the most<br />
random thing you’ve<br />
bought at Target that<br />
you didn’t need?<br />
I bought a Dustbuster,<br />
even though my mom had<br />
one at home. Fuzzy socks,<br />
too, I have way too many<br />
pairs of those.<br />
What are you binge<br />
watching on Netflix<br />
right now?<br />
I just finished “Stranger<br />
Things.” What a show! It’s<br />
set in the late [1980s], and<br />
it’s just cool.<br />
What’s your favorite<br />
social media platform to<br />
use?<br />
Twitter. I just laugh at it.<br />
I think people say what they<br />
22nd Century Media File Photo<br />
really want to say on it.<br />
What’s the best day<br />
you’ve ever had?<br />
Over the summer, I went<br />
on a school trip. We went to<br />
Central America. One day,<br />
we were in Belize and our<br />
tour guide had friends who<br />
lived in this really small village<br />
that was way up in a<br />
mountains. They invited us<br />
into their home and taught us<br />
about their culture, the Mayan<br />
culture, and their way of<br />
life. It was so eye-opening.<br />
What’s your favorite<br />
book?<br />
“The Help.” I love that<br />
book, and the movie, too. I<br />
really like history. I know<br />
it’s a terrible part of history,<br />
but I’m really excited to<br />
learn about it. There are still<br />
so many issues we haven’t<br />
solved.<br />
Interview by Assistant Editor<br />
Brittany Kapa
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Girls Gymnastics<br />
Roe leads the way, but Sandburg-Stagg co-op falls<br />
Frank Gogola<br />
Freelance Reporter<br />
Lincoln-Way co-op gymnastics<br />
coach Kim Lago believes<br />
this year’s squad is the<br />
deepest team she has had in<br />
her four years leading the<br />
program.<br />
That team opened the season<br />
by beating Sandburg-<br />
Stagg co-op 140.6 to 126.95<br />
Nov. 29 at Lincoln-Way East.<br />
Even without its top gymnasts<br />
competing in all events,<br />
that depth helped them overcome<br />
the performance of<br />
Sandburg junior Maddy Roe<br />
— a returning state qualifier<br />
who won two events and tied<br />
for first in another.<br />
Lincoln-Way outscored<br />
Sandburg in all four events,<br />
despite having an individual<br />
win in only one event. It won<br />
35.1 to 30.2 on bars, 34.95 to<br />
30.9 on floor, 35.2 to 32 on<br />
beam and 35.35 to 33.85 on<br />
vault.<br />
But when the team gets to<br />
full strength, Lago said she<br />
thinks it has the depth of talent<br />
to get to the 145-point<br />
mark she wants to see.<br />
“I told the girls that if they<br />
don’t get it done in practice,<br />
they’re not going to be out<br />
there,” Lago said. “The expectations<br />
are set a little higher<br />
this year because we have<br />
more talent than we have in<br />
the past, so I need them to<br />
step it up and produce the<br />
routines I want to see.”<br />
Junior Una Farrell finished<br />
tied for first on bars (9.1),<br />
second on vault (9.15) and<br />
third on beam (8.8) — the<br />
last of which was an event in<br />
which she placed 28th at state<br />
this past season. She will add<br />
floor as the season goes on,<br />
Lago said.<br />
Junior Gabby DeVito<br />
finished third on bars (8.8)<br />
and tied for fourth on vault<br />
(8.6). DeVito sat out the floor<br />
event, which she placed 26th<br />
in at state last season.<br />
On floor, junior Barb Belka<br />
won (9.0) in her lone event,<br />
while sophomore Korina Jarosz<br />
placed third (8.65). Jarosz<br />
also took third on vault<br />
(9.0).<br />
Senior Kara Auchstetter, a<br />
sectional qualifier on beam,<br />
took fourth (8.7) in the event.<br />
Sandburg was led Roe,<br />
who won on beam (9.4) and<br />
vault (9.3), and tied for first<br />
on bars (9.1). Roe’s fifthplace<br />
finish on floor (8.35)<br />
was a team high. She said she<br />
“panicked” and “freaked out”<br />
when she forgot the floor routine<br />
she was performing for<br />
the first time after not cleanly<br />
pulling off her first landing.<br />
“It was a little improv,”<br />
Roe said.<br />
“She was a hot mess on<br />
the floor,” Sandburg assistant<br />
coach Krystyn Misheck said.<br />
Roe’s day started by crashing<br />
into coach Mike White,<br />
who was spotting her on bars.<br />
She transferred from the low<br />
bar to the high bar, and hit<br />
White in the back of the thigh<br />
with her hip on the swing<br />
through. White ducked under<br />
the low bar to get to the other<br />
side of the high bar instead of<br />
going around.<br />
“I’ve never ducked under<br />
like that,” White said. “I just<br />
thought I could get there,<br />
and I was wrong. We both<br />
laughed it off and just moved<br />
on from there. A lot of kids<br />
would get shook and it would<br />
just turn their whole day off<br />
and nothing would go right<br />
the rest of the day.”<br />
Sandburg-Stagg co-op’s Maddy Roe performs Nov. 29<br />
during a meet against the Lincoln-Way co-op.<br />
Mark Korosa/22nd Century Media<br />
Roe is coming off a season<br />
in which she placed eighth<br />
at state on vault and 11th on<br />
beam. She took ninth allaround<br />
at state after placing<br />
21st in all-around as a freshman.<br />
Outside of Roe, no other<br />
Sandburg gymnast placed in<br />
the Top 3 in any event. Sandburg<br />
junior Toni Muzzo, a<br />
sectional qualifier this past<br />
year, didn’t join the team<br />
this year, instead focusing on<br />
getting a scholarship in pole<br />
vaulting, Misheck said.<br />
“It’s hard with just two<br />
weeks and us not having<br />
a gym to practice over the<br />
summer,” Misheck said. “So,<br />
they did pretty well for what<br />
we’ve been given. They surprised<br />
me on beam with how<br />
confident they looked. Floor<br />
and bars is endurance, so<br />
that’s just getting reps.”<br />
Athlete of the Month<br />
Lockport swimmer wins November competition<br />
Bill Jones, Managing Editor<br />
Lindsey Merk already has a great way to<br />
show just how talented a swimmer she is,<br />
after taking home the bronze medal in the<br />
100-yard butterfly from this year’s Illinois<br />
High School Association State Swimming &<br />
Diving Finals.<br />
But in the event that she needs an insurance<br />
policy, she also now can call herself 22nd<br />
Century Media Southwest Chicago’s Athlete<br />
of the Month for November, after earning the<br />
most votes to take home the honor.<br />
The Athlete of the Month competition pits<br />
featured Athlete of the Week selections from<br />
our south suburban newspapers against one<br />
another in an online voting contest.<br />
The next contest is to begin Saturday, Dec.<br />
10.<br />
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most votes to be named 22nd Century Media<br />
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Wrestling<br />
Lincoln-West West out-toughs Sandburg on the mat<br />
Lower weights key to<br />
Warriors’ victory over<br />
Eagles<br />
Dave Owen, Freelance Reporter<br />
Lincoln-Way West’s wrestling<br />
team is getting bigger,<br />
better and tougher.<br />
The Warriors’ impressive<br />
38-17 dual meet win over<br />
Sandburg Thursday, Dec. 1,<br />
featured domination at the<br />
lower weights, as well as<br />
key wins on pins by middleweights<br />
Josh Bohne (160<br />
pounds) and Trevor Schmidt<br />
(182).<br />
And maybe the biggest effort<br />
of all came from heavyweight<br />
Nick Skentzos, who<br />
battled through four overtime<br />
periods before a lastsecond<br />
escape earned him<br />
a 3-2 win over Sandburg’s<br />
Malik Scates.<br />
“Skentzos was huge beating<br />
a [2015 state qualifier in<br />
Scates],” West coach Brian<br />
Glynn said. “He’s a first-year<br />
varsity kid who could never<br />
break into the lineup, one of<br />
the hardest working guys in<br />
the room, and last week he<br />
beats a really good kid and<br />
this week a state qualifier.<br />
It’s been maturity and his<br />
work ethic.”<br />
Lincoln-Way West’s Jake Price (left) and Sandburg’s Tim<br />
Houston battle at 152 pounds.<br />
Skentzos added, “I just<br />
work hard, try to be stronger<br />
and get the win.”<br />
Skentzos’ win followed<br />
the matchup of the night — a<br />
battle of state title contenders<br />
at 220 pounds. Sandburg’s<br />
Patrick Brucki turned a 2-0<br />
lead after one period into a<br />
15-5 major decision win over<br />
the Warriors’ Jake Dudeck.<br />
“Out of the gate, Bohne<br />
got us going with a pin,”<br />
Glynn said of the night’s first<br />
match. “And then the marquee<br />
matchup with Brucki<br />
— I know Dudeck lost, but<br />
it was closer than the score,<br />
for sure.”<br />
The team score was 12-<br />
11 Warriors after the Brucki<br />
win, but Skentzos’ overtime<br />
battle began a run of six<br />
West wins in the next seven<br />
matches.<br />
Wins by Garrett Geigner<br />
(4-1 decision at 106 pounds),<br />
Payton Geigner (8-2 at 113)<br />
and Chris Kennedy (10-2<br />
major at 120) were the opening<br />
salvos from a strong<br />
lightweight corps.<br />
“At 106 and 113, we have<br />
the freshmen [Geigner]<br />
twins, and they beat two<br />
really kids and also outtoughed<br />
them,” Glynn said.<br />
“After that I knew it was<br />
going to be good for us, because<br />
we have our hammers<br />
in a row [at lower weights].<br />
I knew it was going to get<br />
ugly — in a good way.”<br />
Dominant major decision<br />
wins by seniors Gehrig Simon<br />
(19-4 major at 132)<br />
and Jake DiBenedetto (17-1<br />
major at 138), and a 7-3 win<br />
by senior Joey Schloegel at<br />
145 capped the night for the<br />
Warriors.<br />
West’s already formidable<br />
lineup became even better<br />
with the offseason arrival<br />
of former state qualifiers<br />
Dudeck from Lincoln-Way<br />
Central, and DiBenedetto<br />
from Lincoln-Way East.<br />
“It’s pretty similar,”<br />
DiBenedetto said of moving<br />
to West. “I have really good<br />
partners here, and everybody’s<br />
competing hard every<br />
day. It’s pretty awesome.”<br />
With former state medalist<br />
Tom Buell also in the<br />
lineup at 126, the Warriors<br />
are loaded.<br />
“Everyone pushes each<br />
other,” DiBenedetto said.<br />
“If you’re having a bad day,<br />
someone’s going to beat up<br />
on you. You better be ready<br />
to work.”<br />
In addition to Brucki,<br />
Sandburg wins came from<br />
Alex Hirschfield (2-0 decision<br />
at 170), Cole Bateman<br />
(11-3 major decision at 195),<br />
Pat Nolan (8-5 at 126) and<br />
Tim Houston (8-3 at 152).<br />
Sandburg’s Pat Nolan (right) battles Lincoln-Way West’s<br />
Tom Buell Thursday, Dec. 1, in the 126-pound weight class.<br />
Photos by Julie McMann/22nd Century Media<br />
“It was Pat Nolan’s first<br />
match of the year, and he beat<br />
a really good kid for them,”<br />
Sandburg coach Eric Siebert<br />
said. “That was good to see.<br />
And Timmy Houston continues<br />
to be one of our leaders.<br />
He’s a junior that people don’t<br />
know yet, but they will.”<br />
The win capped sophomore<br />
Nolan’s impressive<br />
comeback from an injury<br />
during football season.<br />
“I just worked hard<br />
throughout the week,” Nolan<br />
said. “I came back from<br />
a fractured hip. Today was<br />
my first match.”<br />
After the graduation of state<br />
champions Rudy Yates and<br />
Louie Hayes, Nolan’s emergence<br />
helps fill the big gap for<br />
the Eagles at lower weights.<br />
“Practices have been a lot<br />
harder, and some of the JV<br />
kids are jumping up,” Nolan<br />
said. “Everyone can wrestle<br />
each other and make each<br />
other better.”<br />
Siebert said he expects<br />
better nights for his squad<br />
but knew the West test would<br />
be formidable.<br />
“You have to give them a<br />
lot of credit,” he said. “They<br />
beat us in the top, bottom,<br />
neutral — all phases. They<br />
were unfortunately a little<br />
tougher than us tonight as<br />
well, and that’s something<br />
we pride ourselves on.”<br />
Former Sandburg coach inducted into soccer Hall of Fame<br />
Jack Ferraro still<br />
teaches Eagles, now<br />
coaches Red Devils<br />
Chris Walker<br />
Freelance Reporter<br />
It really was not a question<br />
of whether or not Jack Ferraro<br />
was a Hall of Famer; it<br />
was when he would receive<br />
the honor.<br />
That came on Nov. 17<br />
in Elmhurst, as the former<br />
Sandburg coach was inducted<br />
into the Illinois High<br />
School Soccer Coaches Association<br />
Hall of Fame.<br />
“It means a lot to me,”<br />
Ferraro said. “I can look<br />
back at a lot of fond memories,<br />
but we also had some<br />
pretty good feeders for kids<br />
coming in and we always<br />
tried to be a competitive<br />
team.”<br />
He joined the coaching<br />
staff at Sandburg in 1990<br />
and helped the Eagles win<br />
the title in 1993 — a season<br />
in which they also went undefeated<br />
with a single tie.<br />
The next year, he replaced<br />
Brian Papa as head coach.<br />
“That was a pretty tough<br />
act to follow, with winning<br />
the state championship,”<br />
Ferraro said. “We tried to<br />
keep the winning alive.<br />
I’ve always been concerned<br />
about making our program<br />
competitive and one our<br />
players could be proud of,<br />
and I think we did that during<br />
the time I was at Sandburg.”<br />
During his 16 seasons, the<br />
Eagles compiled a 312-102-<br />
19 record and won a pair of<br />
state titles — back-to-back<br />
in 2001 and 2002, both 1-0<br />
shutouts against Edwardsville<br />
and Evanston.<br />
“With all the great talent,<br />
the All-Americans, when<br />
you have players of that caliber<br />
who should be competitive,<br />
but it’s keeping them<br />
together as a team,” he said.<br />
“We always stressed that<br />
it’s not individual goals but<br />
that the program is bigger<br />
than you, and that’s what I<br />
instilled in my teams.”<br />
Ferraro continues to<br />
teach at Sandburg but now<br />
coaches the freshman boys<br />
at Hinsdale Central.<br />
In 2014, the Red Devils<br />
won the Class 3A state title<br />
and many of the players<br />
from that team played for<br />
Ferraro as freshmen.<br />
“I knew they were a really<br />
talented group, and I told<br />
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Sandburg beats Andrew at the line to take close game<br />
Eagles start season<br />
on a 5-1 run<br />
Jason Maholy<br />
Freelance Reporter<br />
Sandburg players hit three<br />
free throws in the final seconds<br />
of this past Friday’s<br />
contest against Andrew, providing<br />
the margin of victory<br />
in a 35-32 win in a district<br />
rivalry game played before<br />
a packed house in the Eagle<br />
Gym.<br />
Barlow Alleruzzo, playing<br />
in his first home game<br />
as a member of the Eagles,<br />
sunk what proved to be the<br />
winning free throw Dec. 2<br />
with 3.5 seconds to go; however,<br />
his miss of the second<br />
attempt gave the visiting<br />
Thunderbolts a chance to<br />
make a play and get the ball<br />
back, down just one point.<br />
Fortunately for Sandburg<br />
(5-1), the smallest player<br />
on the floor, Eagles junior<br />
point guard Jake Pygon, corralled<br />
the loose ball and was<br />
abruptly fouled. He then hit<br />
both free throws to give the<br />
hosts a three-point cushion<br />
with 2.4 seconds remaining.<br />
Andrew senior guard Joey<br />
Krutilla had a clean look at<br />
the basket on the game’s final<br />
play, but his heave from<br />
just inside half court glanced<br />
off the front of the rim.<br />
Pygon led all Eagles with<br />
14 points. Alleruzzo — a junior<br />
forward who transferred<br />
to Sandburg from St. Rita<br />
this past year but did not<br />
play because of Illinois High<br />
School Association eligibility<br />
rules — scored six points.<br />
“Barlow stepped up,”<br />
Sandburg coach Todd Allen<br />
said. “There was a lot of<br />
pressure on him. It was his<br />
first home game at Sandburg,<br />
so I was happy for him<br />
that he was able to come<br />
through for us and get the<br />
one that put us ahead.<br />
Sandburg’s Jack McNulty (middle) passes the ball to a<br />
teammate over two Andrew defenders.<br />
“But as big a play was Pygon<br />
getting the loose ball on<br />
the rebound.”<br />
After an intense first quarter<br />
in front of a raucous<br />
crowd ended with the score<br />
knotted at 11, both squads<br />
were largely offensively<br />
challenged for the remainder<br />
of the contest. The Eagles<br />
managed only 13 points over<br />
the second and third quarters<br />
combined. For the game,<br />
they hit as many free throws<br />
(11) as they did shots from<br />
the field.<br />
The Thunderbolts (2-5),<br />
however, fell into even bigger<br />
problems. After Krutilla<br />
scored on a layup to tie the<br />
game at 16 with 5 minutes to<br />
go in the first half, Andrew did<br />
not put the ball in the basket<br />
again until Mike DeHaan’s<br />
bucket with 47 seconds remaining<br />
in the third quarter.<br />
“We knew it was going to<br />
kind of be that way,” Allen<br />
said of both teams’ offensive<br />
struggles. “I think it was a<br />
case of both teams being patient<br />
offensively, but I don’t<br />
think either team set the<br />
world on fire. Neither team<br />
found a rhythm offensively<br />
and couldn’t establish any<br />
kind of lead.<br />
“But credit Andrew. I<br />
thought they mixed in some<br />
zone and man, and did a<br />
good job there. They’re<br />
tough kids and well coached.<br />
It was a grind-’em-out district<br />
rivalry game ... and a<br />
game that came down to the<br />
wire. We were happy to get<br />
the win, and we’ll take them<br />
any way we can.”<br />
Despite managing only<br />
eight points over the second<br />
and third quarters and<br />
going scoreless for a nearly<br />
12-minute stretch, Andrew’s<br />
defense held the Eagles in<br />
check and kept the team<br />
in the game. A Krutilla<br />
3-pointer closed the gap to<br />
two points with 55 seconds<br />
remaining, and DeHaan’s<br />
basket with 23 seconds left<br />
Sandburg’s Barlow Alleruzzo shoots Friday, Dec. 2, during a game against Andrew in the<br />
Eagle Gym. Photos by Adam Jomant/22nd Century Media<br />
in the contest tied the score<br />
at 32.<br />
Andrew coach Dave Wilson<br />
said he was pleased<br />
with his team’s effort, coming<br />
off a 71-42 thrashing at<br />
Hinsdale South earlier in the<br />
week.<br />
“The outcome wasn’t what<br />
we wanted, but we were<br />
challenged to come back<br />
from the effort on Tuesday<br />
to keep grinding in practice<br />
and show some fight today,”<br />
Wilson said. “We battled<br />
from the tip all the way to<br />
the end, and in that way, I<br />
felt my team responded after<br />
being blown out of the gym<br />
by Hinsdale South.”<br />
Wilson said the Thunderbolts<br />
are still trying to find<br />
out who they are, and leaned<br />
heavily on their seniors during<br />
practice the two days<br />
leading up to the game versus<br />
Sandburg.<br />
“We knew that this was<br />
going to be a physical battle<br />
and would test our ability<br />
Sandburg’s Jake Pygon (right) runs the ball downcourt<br />
against the Thunderbolts.<br />
to handle that pressure and<br />
adversity, and we were just<br />
a few buckets short of coming<br />
out of here with a win,”<br />
Wilson said. “Good defense<br />
keeps you in every game, but<br />
I have to do a better job of<br />
getting my team in position<br />
to make shots under pressure,<br />
and that starts in practice.<br />
... Right now, we make<br />
shots in practice, but we’re<br />
not making them in games.”<br />
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fastbreak<br />
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1st and 3<br />
Roe-ling over the<br />
competition<br />
1. Recent accomplishments<br />
On. Nov. 29, Sandburg-Stagg<br />
co-op<br />
competitor Maddy<br />
Roe (ABOVE) won on<br />
beam and vault, and<br />
tied for first on bars<br />
again the Lincoln-<br />
Way co-op. She also<br />
finished fifth on floor<br />
for a team high.<br />
2. Last year’s accomplishments<br />
This past season,<br />
Roe finished eighth<br />
at state on vault and<br />
11th on beam as<br />
a sophomore. She<br />
took ninth all-around<br />
at state after placing<br />
21st in all-around as<br />
a freshman.<br />
3. But wait; there’s<br />
more<br />
Check out Freelance<br />
Reporter Chris<br />
Walker’s story on<br />
the team taking on<br />
Lincoln-Way recently,<br />
Page 44 this week.<br />
Former D230 rivals turn dance teammates at St. Ambrose<br />
Randy Whalen<br />
Freelance Reporter<br />
When Taryn Moustakas,<br />
Sam O’Malley and Sydney<br />
Sobkowiak competed in<br />
competitive dance competitions<br />
at Stagg, Andrew and<br />
Sandburg, respectively, they<br />
always wanted to do it at the<br />
highest level — especially<br />
when they competed against<br />
another Consolidated High<br />
School District 230 team.<br />
But now the trio is performing<br />
together and truly<br />
doing it at the highest level.<br />
That is because all three<br />
of them are now on the competitive<br />
dance team at St.<br />
Ambrose University.<br />
This past season, the<br />
Fighting Bees won the dance<br />
portion of the 2016 National<br />
Association of Intercollegiate<br />
Athletics Competitive<br />
Cheer & Dance Invitational.<br />
It was the second straight<br />
season and third time in five<br />
years that the university —<br />
located in Davenport, Iowa<br />
— won the NAIA Championship.<br />
“It was incredible,”<br />
O’Malley said of being on<br />
the title team. “You work so<br />
hard during the season, and<br />
to see all that hard work pay<br />
off ... words can’t describe<br />
it.”<br />
O’Malley is a 2015 Andrew<br />
graduate and a sophomore<br />
on the university’s<br />
team. Moustakas and Sobkowiak<br />
graduated from their<br />
respective high schools this<br />
past spring and are freshman.<br />
“I’ve known Sam since<br />
we little kids,” Sobkowiak<br />
said of her relationship with<br />
“Defending our title means<br />
working hard and working<br />
together. It’s no longer Stagg<br />
versus Sandburg or Andrew; it’s<br />
St. Ambrose University versus<br />
everyone else.”<br />
Taryn Moustakas — Stagg graduate, on competing<br />
alongside former D230 rivals in college<br />
O’Malley. “We went to the<br />
same dance studio, [TNT]<br />
Extreme Dance in Tinley<br />
Park. I found out about [St.<br />
Ambrose] because of her.<br />
I knew she was here, but<br />
when I came on my visit it<br />
convinced me to go here.<br />
“I basically committed<br />
on my visit but didn’t make<br />
it official until a few weeks<br />
afterward. I also love that<br />
the class size here is smaller.<br />
You’re not just a number.”<br />
Even though they competed<br />
against each other in high<br />
school, Moustakas did not<br />
know either of the other two.<br />
“In our first time meeting<br />
as a team, it was like, ‘Hey,<br />
we’re all from the same<br />
area,’” Moustakas said. “I<br />
had never met Sam or Sydney.<br />
I have been dancing<br />
since I was 3 [years old],<br />
but never really took it serious<br />
until high school. Then,<br />
I thought about competing<br />
24/7 when I was at Stagg.”<br />
It is serious for the three<br />
now, as they hope to combine<br />
to bring a D230 flavor<br />
in helping the Fighting Bees<br />
to a third straight National<br />
championship.<br />
“We had to come together<br />
and form a new bond and<br />
have left behind old beliefs,<br />
especially since we<br />
are defending our championship<br />
title this season,”<br />
Moustakas said. “Defending<br />
our title means working<br />
hard and working together.<br />
It’s no longer Stagg versus<br />
Sandburg or Andrew; it’s St.<br />
Ambrose University versus<br />
everyone else.”<br />
The three are not just from<br />
D230; they have other things<br />
in common, too.<br />
“Taryn and I never met,<br />
but it was really cool when<br />
we found out we were from<br />
the same area,” O’Malley<br />
said. “All three of us knew<br />
the same places, the same<br />
restaurants. I also started<br />
dancing when I was 3 and<br />
kept going.”<br />
Sobkowiak added, “I also<br />
started dancing in the age of<br />
3, 4, 5 range. I didn’t really<br />
do it competitively until I<br />
was 8 or 9. But I love it and<br />
don’t want to give it up. I<br />
Former D230 rivals turned St. Ambrose competitive<br />
dance teammates (left to right) Sydney Sobkowiak, Taryn<br />
Moustakas and Sam O’Malley pose for a photo together.<br />
Photo submitted<br />
dance everywhere I go, even<br />
in the store.”<br />
While it has been in place<br />
a number of years, this is<br />
the first season competitive<br />
dance is considered an official<br />
“sport” at St. Ambrose.<br />
That makes it eligible to give<br />
out scholarships. The team<br />
performed poms routines<br />
at the Fighting Bees football<br />
games and has the state<br />
dance competition coming<br />
up in Davenport, Iowa.<br />
The regionals are in February,<br />
and in March the NAIA<br />
Championships is held.<br />
“Dance in college is super<br />
competitive,” O’Malley said.<br />
“We have a winter season, and<br />
then a state competition. Then<br />
if you place high enough, you<br />
qualify out of that you get to<br />
go to nationals.”<br />
Naturally, the Fighting<br />
Bees hope to go to nationals<br />
and bring back another title.<br />
And now the three friends<br />
from the same high school<br />
district hope to keep the<br />
Fighting Bees on top.<br />
“I talked to Taryn and<br />
Sam, and we’ve all connected<br />
so much,” Sobkowiak<br />
said. “We’re like, ‘Wow,<br />
District 230 is here.’”<br />
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“We both laughed it off and just moved on from there. A lot<br />
of kids would get shook and it would just turn their whole<br />
day off and nothing would go right the rest of the day.”<br />
Mike White — Sandburg-Stagg co-op girls gymnastics coach, on recently colliding<br />
with Maddy Roe while spotting her on bars<br />
What 2 Watch<br />
Girls Gymnastics — 10 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 10<br />
• The Eagles take it on the road for the<br />
Hinsdale Central Invite.<br />
INDEX<br />
41 - Athlete of the Week<br />
41 - This Week In<br />
Compiled by Editor Bill Jones, bill@opprairie.com.
Orland Park’s Hometown Newspaper | www.opprairie.com | December 8, 2016<br />
United in Davenport Former D230<br />
rival dancers compete together nowadays at St.<br />
Ambrose, Page 47<br />
Worrisome Warriors<br />
Sandburg’s wrestling squad downed on the<br />
road by Lincoln-Way West, Page 45<br />
Sandburg hits some final-seconds free throws to beat district rival Andrew, Page 46<br />
The Sandburg boys basketball team celebrates<br />
after breaking a late-game tie Friday, Dec. 2, to<br />
earn a win over Andrew and improve to 5-1.<br />
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