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Determining numbers 

Impact fees for new construction receive 

adjustments, Page 5 

Eyes to the sky Residents stop by Homer 

Township Public Library to pick up glasses, make pinhole 

cameras for solar eclipse, Page 8 

Connecting people with jobs 

Windy City Wire, 22nd Century Media offer Get 

Hired Career Fair at Georgios, Page 11 

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The Homer Glen Parks & Recreation Committee (left to right) Bob Kman, Christina Neitzke-Troike, Dale Janssen, John Walters, Cassandra Courtright, Regina Robinson, 

Sharon Sweas and Russ Knaack participate in the groundbreaking ceremony Aug. 21 at Heritage Park. Thomas Czaja/22nd Century Media

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THURSDAY 

Butler Curriculum Night 

6-8 p.m. Aug. 31 at Butler 

School, 1900 Farrell 

Road, Lockport. For parents/ 

guardians of Butler School 

students. 

Opioid Awareness 

Information Session 

6:30 p.m. Aug. 31, Homer 

Township Public Library, 

14320 W. 151st St. Will 

County Board Members 

Mike Fricilone and Steve 

Balich from District 7 will 

host an informational session 

on opium awareness 

and suicide prevention. Dr. 

Kathleen Burke, Will County’s 

director of substance use 

initiatives, will lead the session. 

For more information, 

call (708) 301-7908. 

FRIDAY 

Basic Yoga 

9-10 a.m. Sept. 1, Homer 


41320 W. 151st St. Marti 

Anne will lead a yoga class 

specifically designed for 

first-time yoga students. The 

class will consist of learning 

a series of gentle poses, 

postures and positions. Participants 

are encouraged to 

bring their own yoga mat, 

but ones will be provided for 

those who do not own one. 

Registration is required. For 

more information, or to register, 

call (708) 301-7908 

WEDNESDAY 

Hadley Curriculum Night 

5:30-7 p.m. (grade 5) and 

6:30-8 p.m. (grade 6) Sept. 

6, Hadley Middle School, 

15731 Bell Road, Homer 

Glen. For parents/guardians 

of Hadley Middle School 

students. 

Cub Scout Pack 61 LEGO 

Derby 

4:30-7:30 p.m. Sept. 6, 

John Olson American Legion 

Post 18, 15052 S. Archer 

Ave., Lockport. All are 

invited to join to build and 

race a LEGO Derby car and 

learn more about Cub Scout 

Pack 61. 

UPCOMING 

Homer Jr. High Curriculum 

Night 

6-9 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 

7, Homer Jr. High School, 

15711 Bell Road, Homer 

Glen. For parents/guardians 

of Homer Jr. High School 

students. 

Spanish Language Classes: 

Homer 33C and D92 

Sept. 8-Oct. 25. These 

classes will teach conversational 

Spanish through fun 

and educational activities 

and music. Older children 

will learn conversational 

Spanish, Spanish phonetics, 

readying and writing 

skills. Six-week sessions are 

$77 per student for Lockport 

Township Park District 

residents and $87 for nonresidents. 

Each school has 

its own session with specific 

times and date ranges. 

For more information, or to 

register, visit the Lockport 

Township Park District website 

at www.lockportpark. 

org or call (815) 838-1183. 

Homer Harvest Days 

Saturday, Sept. 9 and 

Sunday, Sept. 10, Trantina 

Farm, 15744 W. 151st 

Street. Enjoy food, live music, 

old-fashioned games 

and entertainment at Homer 

Glen’s Homer Harvest Days. 

Children’s activities, pioneer 

demonstrations, petting zoo, 

pony rides, antique tractors, 

artisan and unique craft vendors 

will all be available. 

There will be free admission 

and free parking for this 

event. For more information, 

visit www.homerharvest 

days.com. 

Barnes & Noble Book Fair 

Supporting Homer 33C 

10 a.m.-2 p.m. Sunday, 

Sept. 10, Barnes & Noble, 

160 Orland Park Place, Orland 

Park. Reference Book 

Fair ID No. 12207924, and 

a portion of the sale will be 

donated to the school district. 

The school with the 

highest attendance will receive 

a STEM kit for their 

library. 

100+ Women Who Care 

of Will County September 

Meeting 

6-7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 12, 

P.B. Mulligan’s Restaurant 

& Bar (located inside Prairie 

Bluff Public Golf Club), 

14933 Renwick Road, Crest 

Hill. At each of the quarterly 

meetings, members nominate 

charities. Three are chosen 

at random, and, after a 

brief presentation, the members 

vote on which charity to 

support. Once the winning 

charity is announced, everyone 

writes a $100 check 

on the spot directly to that 

charity (teams of two or four 

are welcome to join an share 

in the giving). All charities 

must be located in and serve 

Will County, as well as have 

501(c)(3) nonprofit status. 

For more information, visit 

www.100wwc-will.org. 

Healthy Kids Running Series 

3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 24, 

Stonebridge Park, 14200 

Stonebridge Park. This 

next series will begin Sept. 

24 and run every Sunday 

until Oct. 22. Children are 

required to wear sneakers. 

Arrival at 2:15 p.m. is 

suggested for those who 

have not pre-registered or 

have not picked up a race 

bag. On-site registrations 

are welcome each week. 

Fore more information, 

visit www.healthykids 

runningseries.org. 

School Finance 101 

7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 

26, Hadley Administration 

Center, 15733 S. Bell Road, 

Homer Glen. Join school finance 

experts Tom Kersten , 

author of “Taking the Mystery 

Out of Illinois School 

Finance,” and Beth Kersten 

as they explain school 

finance at the Homer 33C 

Board of Education meeting. 

Second Annual Race to Walk 

5K 

8 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 1, Konow’s 

Corn Maze, 16849 S. 

Cedar Road, Homer Glen. 

Alexandra’s Ambition Foundation 

is hosting its second 

5K to support children with 

Arthrogryposis Multiplex 

Congenita for all ages. The 

cost is $30 per person and 

includes all-day access to 

the corn maze. For more information, 

visit www.alex 

andrasambition.org. 

Stargazing 

8-10 p.m. Friday, Oct. 13, 

Trantina Farm, 15744 W. 

151st St. Astronomers from 

the Kankakee Area Star- 

Gazers, the Naperville Astronomical 

Association and 

the South West Astronomy 

Observers Group will have 

their large telescopes available 

for free viewing of astronomical 

beauties such as 

Saturn, Sagittarius, Cygnus 

the Swan, Hercules, the Ring 

Nebula M57 and the Milky 

Way. There will be free 

parking at this free event. 

For more information, visit 

www.homerglenil.org/2413/ 

stargazing. 

Bow Wow Bingo 

6-10 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 

14, New Lenox VFW, 323 

Old Hickory Road, New 

Lenox. A night of bingo 

and dinner to benefit TLC 

Animal Shelter. Cost is $25 

per person. Doors open at 6 

p.m., play starts at 7 p.m. 

Ongoing 

Heritage Village 

Noon-4 p.m. Heritage 

Village, 249 W. 2nd St., 

Lockport. Costumed interpreters 

on Saturdays; open 

to the public daily. Heritage 

Village includes historical 

buildings: Wells Corner 

Schoolhouse, the Symerton 

Depot, the Greenho Farmhouse, 

the Mokena Jail and 

other small buildings. For 

more information or tours, 

call (815) 838-5080 or visit 

www.willcohistory.org. 

Citizens Against Ruining the 

Environment 

6-7:30 p.m. every third 

Monday of the month, 

White Oak Library, 121 E. 

8th St., Lockport. CARE, a 

nonprofit and all-volunteer 

organization, will discuss 

environmental and healthrelated 

issues in Will County 

and the surrounding areas. 

Community service hours 

also available. 

Rainy Boots and Slickers 

Debbie Luscombe — 

State Farm Insurance, 15742 

S. Bell Road, Homer Glen. 

Donations of gently used or 

new rain coats, boots and 

umbrellas to help the women 

and children of local shelters. 

For more information, 

contact debbie@debbieon 

bell.com or call (708) 301- 

1512. 

Eyeglasses and Hearing Aid 

Donations 

8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday-Friday, 

Homer Township 

Administration Office, 

14350 W. 151st St., Homer 

Glen. The Lyons Club is 

sponsoring the donation of 

gently used eyeglasses and 

hearing aides, which will 

be distributed to residents in 

need. 

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one week prior to publication. 

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the calendar, contact Assistant 

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Heritage Park to be closed until July for construction 

Groundwork being 

done, with amenity 

decisions still to 

come in future 

Thomas Czaja, Editor 

One day, the Village anticipates 

Heritage Park by 

Village Hall to be an outdoor 

center for the community, 

with various amenities for 

its residents to enjoy. 

On Aug. 21, that vision 

came another step closer to 

fruition, as officials gathered 

for a groundbreaking ceremony 

at the site for Phase I 

of its development. 

In Phase I of this process, 

with a targeted completion 

date of June 30 of next year, 

a handful of tasks will be 

achieved. 

Things to be completed 

in the first part of the first 

phase are the Heritage Circle 

site roadway, a multipurpose 

walking/biking trail that 

will span approximately 1.5 

miles, the Village green, the 

main west parking lot, storm 

water management, sanitary 

sewer, water main and smart 

lighting and landscaping, 

including the planting of approximately 

136 new trees. 

After the groundbreaking, 

the Parks & Recreation 

Committee met for its regular 

meeting to further discuss 

Heritage Park. There, it was 

reiterated the second part of 

the first phase would be put 

to bid in the winter, with 

construction set to begin in 

spring 2018. 

The second phase is slated 

to handle primary grantrelated 

work for the Section 

319 grant awarded to the Village 

from the Illinois Environment 

Protection Agency 

earlier this year. The grant is 

worth $560,000, according 

to officials at the meeting, 

and will go toward the construction 

of storm water wetlands 

and bioswales. 

With a completion 

planned for the end of June, 

Homer Community Fest will 

not move to Heritage Park 

next year, Village of Homer 

Glen Administrative Analyst 

Sean Keane confirmed at the 

meeting. 

“Homer Fest will still be at 

the [site it is currently at on 

the northeast corner of 151st 

Street and Creme Road],” 

Keane said. “I know it was 

said in the past it would be 

here, but we are going to 

keep it there one more year.” 

He also emphasized that 

Phase I was literally and 

figuratively setting a foundation 

for the park. 

“Phase I is for the groundwork 

for future phases,” 

Keane said. “Not many of 

the [park’s future proposed] 

amenities will be in Phase I, 

but it’s still important.” 

The bid for Phase I was 

approved by the Village 

Board earlier this month for 

Austin Tyler Construction, 

Inc. at $3,392,350.09, the 

lowest of the five bids considered. 

The bid came in under 

the budget for what was 

accounted for in the park’s 

concept plan, according to 

Keane and committee cochairs 

and Village Trustees 

Please see Heritage, 4 

Heritage Park had its groundbreaking ceremony Aug. 21 

and will officially be closed for construction until the end of 

next June. Thomas Czaja/22nd Century Media 

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Will County Forest Preserve to distribute free safety wristbands for trail-goers 

Submitted by the Will 

County Forest Preserve 

District 

The Forest Preserve District 

of Will County has 

launched a wristband campaign 

to help people remember 

the telephone number 

they should call if they need 

police assistance in a preserve 

or on a trail. 

The colorful wristbands 

come in two sizes — small 

and large — and they are 

imprinted with the telephone 

number for the Will County 

Sheriff’s Police dispatch 

center. The center provides 

dispatching services for the 

Forest Preserve District’s 

Police Department. 

If one is faced with an 

emergency where seconds 

count, call 911. But if there 

is a non-emergency that requires 

police assistance, or 

if one sees something suspicious, 

call the dispatch number, 

(815) 727-6191. 

The wristband campaign 

is part of the Forest Preserve 

police department’s “Eyes, 

Ears and Cell Phones” campaign, 

which provides advice 

about how to stay safe 

in the forest preserves by using 

your sight and hearing to 

be aware of your surroundings 

and a cell phone to call 

for assistance or report concerns. 

Police Chief Tracy Chapman 

said she came up with 

the idea for wristbands while 

she was in a safety planning 

meeting where public outreach 

was being discussed. 

“I looked down at my 

wristband that I wear every 

day for my best friend who 

passed away in 2011 from 

brain cancer, and it hit me. 

We should have wristbands 

with our dispatch phone 

number on it,” Chapman 

said. 

Forest Preserve staff hand 

out “Eyes, Ears and Cell 

Phones” brochures, which 

also include the dispatch 

number and other safety tips. 

And trail users are encouraged 

to program the number 

into their phones. But that 

might not always happen, 

Chapman said. So the wristbands 

will help guarantee 

that the number is always 

available and help is only a 

phone call away. 

A cyclist on the Old Plank Road Trail shows off a new safety wristband he recently 

received from the Forest Preserve District of Will County. The free wristbands list the 

dispatch number people should call if they need non-emergency police assistance on a 

trail or in a preserve. Photo submitted 

“The wristbands are not 

just for your wrist,” Chapman 

said. “They also can be 

placed on a bike’s handlebars, 

around water bottles or 

even around your cell phone 

while you are spending time 

in the preserves. Having the 

phone number right there 

and available will encourage 

people to call.” 

Chapman said people 

shouldn’t wait to call with 

information or concerns. 

“See it; report it,” she said. 

“Real-time reporting will 

increase public safety and 

crime prevention.” 

Ralph Schultz, the Forest 

Preserve’s chief operating 

officer, said the wristbands 

are informative and helpful, 

but they also serve another 

purpose. 

“Along with providing 

a contact number for our 

police, the wristbands can 

serve as a subtle reminder 

to think about safety and to 

be aware of your surroundings,” 

he said. 

The free wristbands were 

distributed by police during 

Trail Safety Days. Around 

100 wristbands were distributed 

during a Trail Safety 

Day July 30 at Rock Run 

and Hadley Valley preserves 

and Veterans Memorial and 

Old Plank Road trails. 

Wristbands also can be 

picked up at four Forest 

Preserve visitor centers: Isle 

a la Cache, 501 E. Romeo 

Road in Romeoville; Monee 

Reservoir, 27341 Ridgeland 

Ave. in Monee; Plum Creek 

Nature Center, 27064 S. 

Dutton Road in Beecher; and 

Sugar Creek Administration 

Center, 17540 W. Laraway 

Road in Joliet. 

For more information on 

the Forest Preserve District’s 

police department 

and its “Eyes, Ears and Cell 

Phones,” campaign, visit 

www.reconnectwithnature. 

org. 

HERITAGE 

From Page 3 

Sharon Sweas and Christina 

Neitzke-Troike. 

The Village Board next 

plans to determine available 

funding for future phases in 

Heritage Park in either September 

or October, with the 

Parks & Recreation Committee 

playing an advisory 

role for amenity planning 

in future phases based on 

budget allocated this fall and 

winter. 

“I think it’s going to be 

great,” Sweas said after the 

meeting. “It’s going to take 

a while for the phases because 

of the roadway and 

bike trails and everything, 

but even Phase I is going to 

be exciting. 

“… It has to be done right. 

We don’t want to rush, rush, 

rush into things.” 

To that end, Sweas spoke 

on some of the feedback that 

was gathered from residents 

through surveys and open 

meetings on what they wanted 

to see in the park. 

Suggestions included everything 

from a band shell, 

splash pad that can be converted 

into a winter ice rink, 

a patio/plaza behind Village 

Hall, playground areas for 

children, a sensory garden, 

sports centers, and more. 

But when Planning Resources, 

Inc. presented a 

concept plan with a total cost 

just under $21 million for all 

planned park amenities at a 

March Village Board meeting, 

officials were quick to 

shoot down what they saw 

as an excessive price tag. 

At the Aug. 21 Parks & 

Recreation Committee meeting, 

resident Frank Bujan 

brought up these points, expressing 

his concerns on the 

budget and more expensive 

items originally proposed, 

like the proposed $2.2 million 

band shell. 

“Almost everything in life 

comes down to money, most 

of the time,” Bujan said. 

“We want everything, but 

what can you afford?” 

Village Trustee Carlo 

Caprio at the March meeting 

also questioned the need 

of a nice but expensive band 

shell, adding they did not 

need anything more elaborate 

then “a stage with a 

couple columns and a roof.” 

Homer Glen Mayor 

George Yukich also interjected 

at the March meeting 

that officials were not going 

“to spend this kind of money” 

proposed in the concept 

plan, and that the Village 

would “shop around and cut 

the cost on most of these 

things.” 

Fast forward to the August 

meeting, and the board 

reiterated those points, with 

Keane noting there will be a 

“good, better and best” option 

on any of the amenities. 

“Some of the ideas like 

pickle ball and disc golf, 

those are affordable things,” 

Sweas said afterward, 

though she noted no amenities 

were yet set in stone and 

would be determined at a 

later date. “We can work on 

that, but having huge sports 

centers and things, that’s 

millions and millions of dollars.” 

As a result, Sweas and 

officials are trying to balance 

making Heritage Park 

a comprehensive site where 

all ages can enjoy a number 

of amenities without 

breaking the bank for its 

completion. She said she 

envisioned outdoor activities 

like the splash pad, a 

sledding hill and similar 

amenities, with the idea to 

also expand the fishing area 

by the shed. 

“It will get done, and I 

think it will be a great asset 

to the community,” Sweas 

said. “These are some of the 

ideas that residents put forth. 

We took what they thought. 

So many people wanted 

this or that, so we took the 

majority and are trying to 

incorporate their ideas and 

thoughts, as long as we can 

afford it. 

“We’ve done the surveys 

with residents and everything 

and the open meetings 

and maybe would bring them 

back in once we get into the 

more nitty-gritty of things.” 

For more information 

on Heritage Park, visit 

the Village’s website at 

www.homerglenil. 

org/2247/Homer-Glen- 

Community-Parks.

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Homer Glen Village Board 

Impact fees for new construction officially adjusted 

Intergovernmental 

agreements also 

approved at meeting 

Jessie Molloy 

Freelance Reporter 

The Homer Glen Village 

Board met Aug. 23 and approved 

long awaited changes 

to the Village’s impact fees 

for new construction. 

Impact fees are charged as 

part of the permitting process 

for new construction in the 

village and benefit the services 

homes will potentially 

be utilizing once completed 

such as the school districts, 

fire district and park sites. 

The last time the Village reviewed 

its impact fees was 

in 2007, before the economic 

recession when property values 

were significantly higher 

than they are currently. 

During the meeting, the 

board voted unanimously 

to set new impact fee rates 

for school facilities, park 

and recreation sites, and the 

Homer Township Fire Protection 

District, lowering the 

first two and approving a rate 

increase in the third. 

Property assessments by 

Homer Community Consolidated 

School District 33C and 

Will County School District 

92 lowered the fair market 

value for an acre of unmodified 

land in their districts 

from $160,000 to $80,000 

and $75,000, respectively. 

This evaluation then lowers 

the rate of the impact fees on 

the property from $10,346.95 

to $7,502.84 in District 33C 

and brings down District 

92’s fees from $9,888.31 to 

$7,360.17. 

Similarly, the decreased 

fair market property value 

from $160,000 to $80,000 in 

the village lowered the park 

impact fee from $6,624.64 to 

$3,312.32. 

Finally, due to the expense 

of maintaining and purchasing 

equipment, as well as 

servicing a growing neighborhood, 

the impact fee per 

new building for the fire district 

was raised from $250 to 

$500. 

All three measures were 

passed unanimously, with 

only Trustee Christina Neitzke-Troike 

abstaining on the 

fire district measure. 

Mayor George Yukich said 

the review of the measures 

was long overdue and that 

“this will hopefully encourage 

more people to come 

here and have houses built.” 

Intergovernmental 

agreements 

Throughout the course of 

the meeting, the board also 

approved two intergovernmental 

agreements. 

Both of the intergovernmental 

agreements included 

Homer Township. The first 

of the two was a renewal of 

the Village and Township’s 

annual agreement to split the 

cost of Homer Harvest Days, 

which will be held Sept. 9 

and 10 at Trantina Farm. The 

agreement states that the Village 

will pay two-thirds of 

the costs of the event, while 

the Township pays for onethird 

and supplies the land 

and utilities needed to host 

the festival. 

The agreement also sets a 

spending limit for the Village 

of $10,000, which has not 

been exceeded and is rarely 

reached. If the event generates 

profits, they are also 

split, with two-thirds going 

to the village. 

The second agreement 

is between the Village, the 

Township, Will County and 

the City of Lockport. The 

agreement splits the costs 

of an engineering study between 

Homer Glen, Homer 

Township and Lockport. The 

study is meant to determine 

an alternate route to the socalled 

Middle Alignment of 

the North-South connector 

for the Caton Farm Road- 

Bruce Road project east of 

the Des Plaines River. 

The project would connect 

up to 159th Street between 

Cedar Road and Gougar 

Road. Homer Glen and 

Lockport both oppose the 

measure, as the Village believes 

it would take up prime 

real estate, sandwich a school 

between two busy roads and 

inconvenience residents. 

The study would in part 

look into the feasibility of 

an alternative route created 

by the expansion of existing 

roads instead of the new 

bridge. Each government entity 

will pay $32,139 towards 

the study over the course of 

two years. If an alternative is 

found, Lockport has agreed 

to pay the entire cost of the 

second phase of the study. 

“This probably won’t be 

built in some of our lifetimes, 

but we don’t want people to 

be left dealing with this in 

the future,” Yukich said. “It’s 

really more Lockport’s issue, 

but we have to stand by our 

neighbors and make sure the 

right thing is done because it 

does affect us, too.” 

The board voted unanimously 

to approve both 

measures, with the exception 

once again of Neitzke- 

Troike, who abstained from 

the Harvest Days vote. 

Water main to be installed 

The board voted unanimously 

to approve a construction 

agreement with Illinois 

American Water for a 

water main to be installed on 

159th Street between Cedar 

Road and Gougar Road. The 

Village will pay for the installation 

of the pipe, which 

will extend the Village’s city 

water access to property the 

board believes can be developed 

both commercially and 

residentially. 

For the first 20 years, the 

Village will collect all the 

fees for access to the main to 

recapture its costs, and then 

the ownership and control of 

the pipe will revert to Illinois 

American Water. The board 

hopes to begin construction 

on the project in November 

after collecting bids. The 

project is estimated to cost 

about $2.6 million. 

Goodings Grove extension 

The board also approved 

an agreement with Commonwealth 

Edison, which 

will allow the Village to 

construct the Goodings 

Grove extension of the 

Heroes Trail path system. 

In order to build the paths, 

the Village needs to reach 

a lease agreement with the 

power company to use their 

right-of-way. 

The 10-foot-wide path 

will be constructed on the 

company’s right-of-way for 

a one-time rent payment of 

$1 for twenty years, with an 

option to extend the agreement 

for another 10 years at 

the same price. 

Local Meijer matches gift 

card donations for food 

pantry 

Resident and Lockport/ 

Homer FISH Food Pantry 

volunteer Dave Frede addressed 

the board during the 

public comments section of 

the meeting to remind the 

community that the Homer 

Glen Meijer store is running 

one of its limited time “just 

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allows shoppers to purchase 

$10 gift cards, which are 

donated to the pantry and 

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with double matching days 

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the end of the benefit, volunteers 

from the food pantry 

take the money to Meijer and 

buy supplies to give to their 

beneficiary families. 

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currently serves over 

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triple the work it did when 

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2010, and encouraged all 

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Bill 1, Lockport Township 

High School District 205 

Superintendent Todd Wernet 

joined a list of school officials 

across the state Aug. 21 

voicing opposition. 

The measure was passed 

earlier this year in session and 

subsequently vetoed by the 

governor with an amendment. 

Since that time, the Senate has 

overridden Rauner’s veto of 

the bill keeping it alive for the 

House to consider. 

“If you took at look at the 

bill and the amendatory veto 

components, there were several 

other pieces to the amendatory 

veto that are problematic 

particular to school districts 

like Lockport Township High 

School,” Wernet said. 

One of the issues Wernet 

has with the measure is in the 

area of tax increment financing 

districts. 

The amendatory veto, for 

example, outlines its intent to 

take away the equalized assessed 

valuation of property 

taxes owed to the district, 

but were captured within a 

TIF. At that point, the school 

funding formula is computed, 

leaving the district with less 

money in general state aid. 

To date, D205 receives 80 

percent of its funding through 

its share of local property 

taxes, while another 3 percent 

of its revenue stream is 

general state aid. 

Prior to introducing Senate 

Bill 1, a hold harmless 

was instituted by lawmakers 

to ensure that schools, like 

Lockport Township High 

School, maintain current revenue 

streams at districts that 

do not have property tax bases 

to fund to a foundation level. 

Another problem factoring 

in includes the freezing of 

the previous year’s extension 

base, which puts districts in a 

position to referendum to acquire 

additional funds. 

Wernet referenced a recent 

news article he read that 

showed the state providing 

many Will County schools 

with a substantial amount of 

additional new dollars under 

Senate Bill 1 and said the district’s 

share would have been 

$120,000. 

District 205 has a budget 

of approximately $58 million 

that makes for $30 per 

student. 

Wernet dismissed the idea 

of taking in more money 

through Senate Bill 1 and 

said it is not enticing for the 

district to be handicapped by 

the amendatory components. 

Like other suburban districts, 

District 205 has always 

paid into the pension systems, 

Wernet said. The issue is that 

Chicago Public Schools has 

not met its obligation. 

Wernet said the situation at 

hand is “unprecedented.” 

District promotes college, 

career readiness 

Also at the meeting, officials 

examined progress made 

over the last year to the Advanced 

Placement program. 

Wernet commended the 

district for all the work done 

to advance curriculum and 

instruction. 

“I’m very proud of it,” he 

said. 

College Board recently 

confirmed that Lockport 

Township High School attained 

a score of 85.3 percent 

in reviewing the AP exam 

taken by the student body. 

Brett Gould, assistant superintendent 

for curriculum 

and instruction, said this is 

the highest achievement in 


School history and gave kudos 

to the students. 

Over the last year, District 

205 has made efforts to 

increase participation in its 

more rigorous courses. 

As of May, Lockport 

Township High School administered 

1,169 AP exams 

to 563 students. That means 

200 additional exams were 

completed by 68 more students, 

compared to the data 

reported previously in 2016. 

Gould said not only are 

students testing more within 

the AP program, but they are 

also increasing their scores. 

Earlier this year, District 

205 received recognition 

by both U.S. News & World 

Report and The Washington 

Post for promoting college 

and career readiness. 

Building improvements 

reviewed 

The board also took a moment 

to review the district’s 

efforts to maintain its facilities, 

with a focus on areas 

such as the East Campus construction 

project and soccer 

field improvements. 

“Overall, it’s progressing 

very, very well,” Wernet said. 

“Of course, there are issues 

as you go toward completion. 

One issue is the fire doors and 

then three of the classrooms’ 

orders were not completed. 

We had to push that back a 

little bit, so those classrooms 

are not ready and will not be 

ready probably until the first 

of October.” 

As for the soccer field, 

the work performed on the 

stadium turf was completed 

recently. 

Wernet said it looks like a 

“brand new field.” 

Other improvements highlighted 

include the auto shop, 

courtyard, science labs and the 

media center, which are progressing 

well or have reached 

completion, Wernet said.

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Homer residents flock to library for eyewear, 

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in community, 

throughout nation 

Brittany Kapa, Assistant Editor 

All across America on 

Aug. 21, millions of people 

stood outside and waited for 

a celestial phenomenon. 

The Earth, moon and sun 

all perfectly aligned so the 

moon was blocking the sun’s 

light from reaching the Earth, 

thus creating a solar eclipse. 

A path of totality spread 

across the United States, and 

as the day loomed closer, interest 

in and around Homer 

Glen grew. 

In the weeks leading up to 

the solar eclipse, knowledge 

about the celestial experience 

spread, and the Homer 

Township Public Library 

Solar eclipse facts from Space.com 

•A solar eclipse can only occur during a new moon. 

•Only during totality is it safe to view the eclipses 

without special equipment. 

•The sun and moon align once every 18 months, but 

because the moon is 5 degrees to the Earth’s orbit, a 

solar eclipse doesn’t always happen. 

•Only during totality in a solar eclipse can the sun’s 

outer atmosphere, known as the corona, be seen. 

made sure it was prepared. 

Monthly before the solar 

eclipse was to happen, 

Patti Nakutis, an administrative 

assistant at the Homer 


applied for a grant through 

the Science-Technology Activities 

& Resources for Libraries, 

or STAR_Net. The 

grant awarded Homer Township 

Public Library 1,000 

solar eclipse viewing glasses, 

which the library started 

handing out June 1. 

In the weeks leading up 

to the solar eclipse, programing 

for both adults and 

youth likewise took place. 

The library even dedicated 

a section to books explaining 

what a solar eclipse 

was. However, during all 

of this preparation, staff did 

not know if there would be 

enough interest from surrounding 

residents. 

“When we got the 1,000 

[glasses], we weren’t sure 

if school was going to be in 

session, and we were thinking, 

‘Are we going to be able 

to give out 1,000?,’ thinking 

that people were going to



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buy theirs,” said Alex Annen, 

adult services manager. 

Library staff reserved 

roughly 250 pairs of glasses 

for the day of the eclipse; 

within 20 minutes, they 

were gone. Staff said that a 

line had formed outside of 

the doors just before opening 

and that Will County 

Sheriff’s Office deputies had 

to come out and help direct 

traffic due to the amount of 

people trying to park in the 

library’s lot. 

The library experienced 

an influx of calls prior to 

the eclipse, so they were 

prepared with extra staff the 

day of. 

“I think what happened is 

that when people first found 

out about the eclipse, they 

knew that we weren’t in totality,” 

Annen said. 

That changed when area 

residents learned that Homer 

Glen would be able to 

see about 88 percent totality. 

The event’s popularity 

grew from there, and the 

hunt for solar eclipse glasses 

was on, especially after 

Amazon announced a recall 

on glasses purchased from 

their website, according to 

an article posted by PBS 

NewsHour. 

Amazon was unable to 

confirm the safety of the 

glasses and sent out a mass 

recall. Annen said that 

while area Jewel-Osco’s 

had the real glasses for 

sale, which all contained 

the appropriate ISO number 

12312-2, they were still 

becoming harder and harder 

to find. 

“I guess I’m surprised at 

the event popularity,” Nakutis 

said. “And not just 

here, but everywhere. [The 

news] showed people driving 

to Carbondale, and, 

actually, one of our staff 

members was driving to Carbondale 

today.” 

For those that were unable 

to secure one of the 250 

glasses the library was handing 

out, additional programming 

was already in place so 

patrons could make a pinhole 

camera. 

Elizabeth Tobin and her 

four children were among 

the library patrons looking 

for glasses the day of the solar 

eclipse. 

“Well, we were hoping to 

get glasses because we really 

couldn’t get them anywhere 

else,” Tobin said. “So, we 

dashed over here, and they 

were all gone; we decided it 

would be fun to try [the pinhole 

camera].” 

Tobin said that she has 

been talking to her four children 

about the eclipse for a 

few days, and that the family 

has been doing some research 

on it. 

“We’ve tried to read some 

newspaper articles, and we 

watched a news program 

this morning about it to see 

what we’re exactly looking 

at,” she said. 

Tobin also talked to her 

children about viewing the 

eclipse and the safety aspect 

of not looking directly into 

the sun. Her children were a 

little skeptical if the pinhole 

camera would work or not, 

but Tobin said that she was 

“excited to try this.” 

And while overcast skies 

made it almost impossible to 

see the partial solar eclipse 

Aug. 21, there will be another 

one April 8, 2024. Coincidentally, 

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Homer Harvest Days set to return Sept. 9 and 10 at Trantina Farm 

Thomas Czaja, Editor 

Soon, Trantina Farm in 

Homer Glen will once again 

be transformed into a site 

featuring a glimpse into a 

different, more rustic era. 

The farm, located at 15744 

W. 151st St., will host the 

2017 version of Homer Harvest 

Days from 11 a.m.-6 

p.m. Saturday, Sept. 9 and 11 

a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 10. 

The event features free 

admission and parking and 

also includes “food, live music, 

old-fashioned games and 

entertainment, children’s 

activities, pioneer demonstrations, 

petting zoo, pony 

rides, antique tractors, artisan 

and unique craft vendors 

and so much more from a 

simpler and more rural era,” 

according to the Homer Harvest 

Days website. 

One new performer that 

Homer Township Clerk 

Linsey Sowa said would be 

there this year is a circus 

group called Knotty Bits. 

“It is something like an 

aerial performer and a stage 

show, something a little bit 

different,” she said. “… 

They do some aerial but 

some more basic juggling 

and a lot of comedy. It’s 

supposed to be incredibly 

funny.” 

Organizers likewise maintain 

more interactive areas 

like the petting zoo, where 

Sowa added children can 

hold smaller animals, of 

which there is a variety. 

“We think the petting zoo 

is a good fit for us,” Sowa 

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said. “We have so many kids 

that come and partake in the 

pony rides and petting zoo.” 

Homer Harvest Days will 

also have food trucks to add 

variety and options for those 

in attendance. The cuisine 

selections show despite stepping 

back into time to see 

things like coopering, candle 

dipping and making rawhide, 

guests can still enjoy 

more contemporary aspects 

of present day. 

“I think it’s really neat and 

that a lot of local events have 

moved to using food trucks,” 

Sowa said. “Though it’s not 

super historic, we want to do 

something fun and change it 

up a little bit. 

“Some people go to events 

just to try food trucks. Hopefully, 

people will get a kick 

out of it.” 

Another addition to the 

event will be youthful magician 

Anthony Stockton, who 

will be performing for the 

first time at Homer Harvest 

Days on Sunday. 

Beyond the circus-like 

performance, magician and 

food trucks, Kevin Wood 

returns to portray Abraham 

Lincoln, Steven and Judith 

Gerlach will showcase 18thcentury 

medicine and Alan 

Harrison will have Native 

American tools, weapons 

and skills on display. 

Coming back for a second 

year to Homer Harvest 

Days will be Russ Knaack, a 

member of the Homer Harvest 

Days Committee, and 

Shawn Borri, with the duo 

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Russ Knaack brought antique phonographs to last year’s Homer Harvest Days, including 

the Edison wax cylinder player with the large horn, which was used to record children’s 

voices. Knaack will return with antique phonographs this year. Photo submitted 

bringing back their presentation 

of different types of antique 

phonographs. 

“We have old records we 

play and keep the music 

going throughout the day,” 

Knaack said. “Something 

we did last year that was 

a big hit was take a Edison 

wax cylinder recording device 

and have kids come up 

and speak into the big horn, 

recording their voice on vintage 

equipment.” 

Knaack said it is the same 

recording method people 

100-plus years ago used, and 

that they will then play the 

recording back on another 

phonograph so children can 

hear their voices. 

“It’s like hearing yourself 

on an old record you found 

in your grandfather’s attic,” 

Knaack said. 

He first began collecting 

the antique phonographs 

around five years ago. Being 

an engineer, he enjoys the 

fact they are mechanical yet 

produce music, two hobbies 

he enjoys. 

“It’s a piece of history,” 

Knaack said. “You put one of 

these on, and it’s sort of like 

going back in time a little bit.” 

Collectively, demonstrations 

and attractions both old 

and new add up to what organizers 

see as providing both 

educational and entertaining 

moments for residents of all 

ages, according to Sowa. 

Knaack and Sowa both 

said that officials strive to 

better the event each year. 

“We’re always looking for 

new ideas, constructive criticism, 

volunteers and people 

to participate in planning the 

event,” Knaack said. 

For more information on 

Homer Harvest Days, visit 

www.homerharvestdays. 

com. Those interested in volunteering 

can call the Township 

at (708) 301-0522. 

Police Reports 

Alleged 

theft at 

Menards 

A man reportedly was seen 

on security cameras by a loss 

prevention employee walking 

aisles and placing various 

razor merchandise into a cart 

Aug. 14 at Menards, 13956 

S. Bell Road. The man was 

then observed allegedly putting 

the merchandise inside 

his jacket. A store manager 

said the loss prevention employee 

observed the man at 

around 7:30 p.m., police said. 

The employee followed the 

man outside, and the man reportedly 

stopped and said, “I 

got a [expletive] gun!” 

The man ran into the passenger 

side of a blue Honda 

or Hyundai with Indiana 

plates, police said. The man 

is described by police as being 

white, about 50 to 55 

years old, 5-foot-10, 170 

pounds and having brown 

eyes, brown hair and missing 

a few front teeth. He was 

reportedly wearing a blue 

LA baseball hat, blue windbreaker 

and a multi-colored, 

flannel shirt and stole eight 

power cartridges, one Mach3 

cartridge and one Mach3 turbo 

cartridge, all worth $254. 

Aug. 8 

•A 2016 Subaru Outback was 

reportedly stolen from the 

driveway of a residence on the 

13000 block of W. Cavecreek 

Court. Burr Ridge police located 

the allegedly stolen vehicle 

in their jurisdiction. 

Editor’s note: The Homer 

Horizon’s police reports come 

from the Will County Sheriff’s 

Department’s online news bulletin 

service. Anyone listed in 

these reports is considered to 

be innocent of all charges until 

proven guilty in a court of law.



Windy City Wire, 22nd Century Media join forces to help people ‘Get Hired’ 

Laurie Fanelli 


Searching for employment 

is a job in and of itself. 

From filling out online 

applications to handing out 

resumes to attending networking 

events, the process 

can feel overwhelming and 

endless. 

Windy City Wire and 22nd 

Century Media joined forces 

Aug. 23 to make the job hunt 

a little easier and create the 

opportunity for prospective 

employees to meet face-toface 

with local businesses 

during the inaugural Get 

Hired Career Fair. 

FedEx Ground, First Staff 

Services, Tinley Court, 

Transamerica Agency Network, 

the Lockport Police 

Department and many more 

employers filled Georgios 

Banquets to meet with jobseekers, 

schedule interviews 

and fill open positions. 

The event’s sponsors, 

22nd Century Media and 

Windy City Wire, also were 

both looking to add to their 

staffs with a new inside sales 

director and machine operators, 

respectfully. 

Heather Warthen, chief 

events officer at 22nd Century 

Media, said she thought 

that the career fair would be 

a natural fit for a community 

newspaper company, as 

it has the ability to connect 

local people with area businesses. 

“We’ve got a variety of 

businesses onsite here today 

— everything from Delta 

Sonic to Harrah’s to Windy 

City Wire and Village Realty 

Shoppe,” Warthen said. 

“There are nearly 30 employers 

offering a variety of 

positions for people to take.” 

Representatives from 

Harrah’s Joliet Casino & 

Hotel were scheduling interviews 

on site at the Get 

Hired event. 

“We’re hiring for the entire 

facility, so we’re looking 

Ray Palma (left) and John Wegner, both of Transamerica 

Agency Network, chat at the career fair sponsored by 22nd 

Century Media and Windy City Wire. 

for entry-level to mid-level 

positions,” said Ray Garcia, 

human resources training 

and recruiting supervisor. “A 

lot of entry-level positions 

are in our food and beverage 

department, so we’re looking 

for cashiers, bussers, 

servers and cooks. We’re 

actually offering a hiring 

bonus for culinary positions 

right now.” 

On top of all that, Harrah’s 

also is interested in adding a 

few more dealers to its staff. 

“We’re starting a dealer 

school the day after Labor 

Day, so even people with 

no experience can come in, 

learn the trade and take a 

six-week course on how to 

deal poker or blackjack,” 

Garcia said. “There’s usually 

job offers after that, if people 

can pass the audition.” 

If you are someone between 

the ages of 21-35, 

with a valid driver’s license, 

good moral character, good 

physical fitness, with no visible 

tattoos or piercings, a 

position as an officer with 

the Lockport Police Department 

may be perfect. 

“We’re hiring for police 

officers, and once you get 

hired on — after a probation 

period — you can apply for 

specialty positions,” Officer 

Adam Schreiner said. “It’s a 

great job, and we hope that a 

lot of people apply.” 

Along with connecting 

career seekers with employers, 

Get Hired also offered 

a variety of workshops to 

help people prepare for all 

the stages of the job search, 

including how to dress for 

success, interview, write a 

resume and network. 

“We decided to add in 

some elements to help 

people who may be a little 

confused or not exactly sure 

what to expect when going 

for their first job or going for 

a job after they’ve been laid 

off,” Warthen said. “We put 

together some workshops, 

and we’ve had some great 

sponsors — including Prudential, 

Tinley Court, [Village 

Realty Shoppe] and 

Family Hyundai — which 

has been wonderful.” 

The workshops were a big 

draw for Tinley Park resident 

James Baiza — who is 

interested in learning a trade 

— in deciding to attend the 

event. 

“It’s great how they offer 

a lot of different ways to 

get you set up for a job and 

ways to make yourself more 

marketable to employers,” 

he said. 

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Village Realty Shoppe Aug. 23 at the Get Hired Career Fair at Georgios Banquets in Orland 

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Job-seeker James Baiza (right), of Tinley Park, chats with Assistant Supervisor Ana Ruiz 

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Back to school 

Summer break ends as elementary districts welcome students 

District 92 

District 33C 

ABOVE: Goodings 

Grove Principal 

Ann Christie invites 

students to sit in her 

chair Aug. 23 on the 

first day of school. 

Ludwig students Sophia Chudoba (left) and Jade 

Penzkofer disembark the school bus Aug. 21 on the 

first day of school. Photos submitted 

Students flood the halls of Ludwig School for the 

first time in months. 

LEFT: Homer Jr. High 

School Principal 

Troy Mitchell (left) 

welcomes students 

on the first day. 

LTHS’s East Campus gets 

new assistant principal 

Greenan enters role after 

being dean since 2011 

Staff Report 

John Greenan, a familiar face in 

the halls of LTHS, has been named 

new assistant principal at East Campus. 

Greenan was approved as the new 

assistant principal for leadership, student 

and building operations by the 

LTHS Board of Education and began 

his new position July 1. 

Since 2011, Greenan helped 

oversee and enforce the attendance 

and discipline policies as a dean at 

East Campus, as well as the Illinois 

School Code. He also was an LTHS 

social studies teacher from 2002 to 

2011. 

In addition to his teaching and 

dean duties, Greenan has served as an 

assistant coach for the varsity boys 

basketball team since 2006 and as 

the assistant athletic director for the 

2010-2011 school year. 

Greenan earned his master of science 

in educational leadership from 

the University of St. Francis and 

continued masters level education in 

school guidance counseling at Lewis 

University. 

Currently, Greenan is pursuing 

a doctorate degree in educational 

leadership, superintendent 

endorsement at the University of 

St. Francis. 

Homer 33C introduces Hashtag for a Chance to Win 

Submitted by Homer Community 

Consolidated School District 33C 

To celebrate Homer Community 

Consolidated School District 

33C’s tradition of excellence, the 

district is asking everyone — 

from students and staff to parents 

and alumni — to tell why they 

are proud to be a member of the 

Homer 33C family. 

Those who participate will be 

entered to win prizes in a monthly 

raffle. 

There are three ways to enter: 

•Tweet reasons for being a 

proud parent, community member, 

staff member, etc. using the 

hashtag #33CPride 

•Look for the colorful “Hashtag 

for a Chance to Win” promo on 

School News 

University of Wisconsin-Madison 

Two from Homer Glen earn 

dean’s list recognition 

Alyssa McLaughlin and Massimo 

Onesto, both of Homer Glen, 

were recognized for being named 

to the dean’s list for the spring 

semester of the 2016-2017 academic 

year. 

To be eligible for the dean’s 

list, students must complete a 

minimum of 12 graded degree 

credits in that semester. Each university 

school or college sets its 

own GPA requirements for students 

to be eligible to receive the 

distinction. 

the district’s Facebook page and 

post a comment there 

•Complete the Google survey 

at goo.gl/forms/sokRESbvthNah 

bP23 

The district plans to share 

answers — and announce its 

winners — through the district 

website, newsletters and social 

media. 

McLaughlin is in the College of 

Letters and Science at the university, 

and Onesto is in the College 

of Agricultural and Life Sciences. 

School News is compiled by Editor 

Thomas Czaja, tom@homerhorizon. 

com.

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FROM THE NEW LENOX PATRIOT 

Bolden shoots 4-under on 

9-hole round to lead win 

Brianne Bolden had herself 

a day the first time she 

played Silver Lake Country 

Club’s South Course in Orland 

Park. 

The Lincoln-Way Central 

junior finished with a bogeyfree, 

4-under round of 31 

to help the Knights defeat 

Sandburg and Homewood- 

Flossmoor in a triangular 

held Aug. 22. 

“I was able to just putt 

good,” Bolden said. “I chunked 

a chip on one of the par- 

5s, and then made a 20-footer 

for birdie. So, my putter 

was just good all day. 

“Today was a perfect 

[green] speed for me — not 

too fast, not too slow,” said 

Bolden, who noted that she 

changed her putting grip and 

approach to reading greens 

during the summer. “I was 

able to read things pretty 

easily. And that’s one of my 

strong areas, reading the 

greens.” 

The short game was there 

for Bolden, but in a 4-under 

nine-hole round, pretty much 

everything has to be working. 

The junior All-State 

golfer also drove two par-4s 

— including a drive approximately 

20 feet past the hole 

on the No. 14, which is listed 

at 278 yards. 

“Two-putt birdies, those 

are nice,” Bolden said with 

a laugh. “I like that kind of 

golf.” 

Bolden’s score was the big 

round of the day for Central, 

but the team had three other 

scores of 40 or better. A 37 

from defending individual 

Class 2A state champion 

Grace Curran helped, and 

a 38 and a 40 from Taylor 

Miron and Carly Schiene, 

respectively, made up the 

other qualifying scores to 

beat runner-up Sandburg by 

17 strokes. 

Reporting by Tim Carroll, Contributing 

Editor. For more, visit 

NewLenoxPatriot.com. 

FROM THE ORLAND PARK PRAIRIE 

Police arrest man wanted 

for allegedly robbing Dick’s 

Sporting Goods at gunpoint 

The man who wielded 

a handgun during an April 

robbery of Dick’s Sporting 

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Goods in Orland Park finally 

is in custody, according to 

police. 

Stephaun L. Dennis, 21, 

of 7818 S. Kenwood Ave. in 

Chicago, was charged with 

armed robbery, according to 

a press release issued Aug. 

22 by the Orland Park Police 

Department. 

He is one of two people 

police said entered the 

store at 1 Orland Park Place 

around 5:35 p.m. April 30, 

grabbed armfuls of clothing 

and left without paying for 

the items. When confronted 

by a female employee, Dennis 

allegedly pulled a handgun 

from his waistband and 

pointed it at the employee, 

as he and a woman left the 

store with some stolen clothing, 

police said. 

On May 2, police reportedly 

located a 2004 Pontiac 

Grand Am in the 2200 block 

of Thornton Lansing Road 

in Lansing. Police reportedly 

seized the vehicle and 

arrested Christopher Duckery, 

21, of 2256 Thornton 

Lansing Road in Lansing 

— the alleged driver — and 

Krystal Williams, 27, of the 

same address. Duckery was 

charged with retail theft, 

while Williams was charged 

with attempted retail theft. 

Orland Park police began 

working with the United 

States Marshals Service, 

as well as Chicago Police 

from the 6th District, in an 

attempt to locate and apprehend 

Dennis, according to 

the press release. Chicago 

officers reportedly conducted 

a traffic stop Aug. 20 on a 

vehicle in the 7600 block of 

S. Maryland Ave. and found 

Dennis in the backseat. 

Dennis allegedly was 

armed with a handgun at the 

time of his arrest. 

Reporting by Bill Jones, Editor. 

For more, visit OPPrairie.com. 

‘Reel’ good time 

Punk music, professional 

wrestling and hand-crafted 

beers were all equal parts of 

the equation that made 350 

Fest a success in the south 

suburbs. 

While the event was very 

much a community-driven 

affair, it also pulled in hundreds 

of attendees from 

across the United States 

who were eager to revel in 

a unique experience Aug. 19 

at the Tinley Park Convention 

Center. 

350 Brewing Company, 

7144 W. 183rd St. in Tinley 

Park, has been producing 

350 Fest for the past two 

years. 

When it came time to 

hold the third installment, 

350 Brewing owner/founder 

Todd Randall kept everything 

he loved about the past 

editions and added a few 

more elements to make this 

one even better. 

One particular aspect was 

the inclusion of Freelance 

Wrestling — a Chicagobased 

professional wrestling 

company that held matches 

in between the five-act music 

lineup. 

“People are really into 

it,” Randall said. “They are 

getting really engaged with 

the wrestling today, which 

is really good to see. I love 

wrestling. That’s the reason 

we included it, and I’m glad 

that everyone else is enjoying 

it, too.” 

This year’s lineup included 

Reel Big Fish, Face 

to Face, Bigwig, The Stereo 

and Lights Over Bridgeport. 

“I’ve been a fan of Face to 

Face and Reel Big Fish since 

high school,” Randall added. 

“That’s what’s fun about this 

fest. I can say, ‘These are 

bands I like. I want to bring 

them here and share them 

with the people that like 350 

Brewing Company.’” 

FROM THE FRANKFORT STATION 

New Frankfort plan 

commissioner selected 

Frankfort resident Gene 

Savaria became the newest 

member of the Frankfort 

Plan Commission after the 

Frankfort Village Board 

voted to approve his nomination 

at its Aug. 21 board 

meeting. 

The new appointment, effective 

immediately, fills the 

vacancy left by the departure 

of former commissioner 

Susan Anstett, who stepped 

down earlier this summer to 

move out of the area with her 

family. Savaria is expected 

to complete the remainder of 

Anstett’s term, which concludes 

April 30, 2019. 

Savaria has a degree in 

finance from the University 

of Illinois at Chicago and 

is employed with Bank of 

America, where he handles 

global risk oversight. He 

has lived in Frankfort for 22 

years with his wife, Jeri, and 

three children and has participated 

in several Frankfort 

projects and events, including 

the Frankfort Fall Festival 

entertainment tent and 

the creation of Fort Frankfort 

at Commissioners Park. 

“We have received quite 

a good number of applications 

from just some great 

residents. … I think just 

about any one of them would 

have worked very well on 

our planning commission,” 

Frankfort Mayor Jim Holland 

said. 

Trustee Bob Kennedy 

called Savaria a “great addition” 

to the board, adding 

he wanted to thank all of the 

candidates who applied for 

the position. 

“I want to welcome Gene, 

and that’s just great,” Kennedy 

said. “Our planning 

commission’s one of our 

most important committees 

that we have.” 

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FROM THE TINLEY JUNCTION 

Tinley Park’s 350 Brewing 

Co. shows punk rockers a 

Reporting by Laurie Fanelli, 

Freelance Reporter. For more, 

visit TinleyJunction.com. 

Reporting by Nuria Mathog, 

Editor. For more, visit Frank 

fortStation.com.

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From the Editor 

A fascination of 

natural occurrence 

Thomas Czaja 

tom@homerhorizon.com 

It was a little before noon 

at our office on Aug. 21 

when I started to really 

pay attention to the solar 

eclipse. 

Knowing that was when 

it was set to begin, with the 

sun to be most covered at 

approximately 1:19 p.m., 

I pulled up a tab on my 

computer while proofing the 

previous issue of this paper 

and watched a live feed of 

the phenomenon. 

We were not on the path 

of totality for the eclipse, 

and clouds unfortunately 

covered the area. Nonetheless, 

as we got closer to 

that 1:19 p.m. mark, several 

co-workers began to periodically 

head outside, solar 

eclipse glasses in hand, to 

try to catch a glimpse. 

After eventually being 

coaxed into joining them at 

peak time, I headed outside, 

borrowed a colleague’s 

glasses and turned my gaze 

toward the heavens. 

I wish I could say I saw 

a spectacle unlike any 

my eyes had previously 

witnessed, but I barely saw 

anything through the darkened 

tint the eye protection 

provided. Apparently, 

I should have went out 

sooner, when the cloud coverage 

wasn’t as thick, when 

co-workers saw more of the 

eclipse. 

Nonetheless, it was 

noticeably a bit dimmer outside, 

and it made for a cool 

experience to break up what 

was otherwise a monotonous 

Monday. 

The eclipse, I believe, 

had a positive impact on 

the country, a conversation 

piece that got many 

excited about science and 

something that was educational, 

and something that 

felt simultaneously almost 

mystical and reminded us of 

our humble statures as part 

of a grander cosmos. 

That solar eclipse enthusiasm 

seemed to translate 

right here in Homer Glen, 

where a fair amount of 

residents went to Homer 

Township Public Library on 

eclipse day to pick up a pair 

of the protective glasses or 

make pinhole cameras to 

view the event. 

You can read Assistant 

Editor Brittany Kapa’s story 

on the eclipse on Pages 8 

and 9 of this issue, which 

talks about how the local 

library prepared for it, the 

strong response and turnout 

they got for the event, as 

well as some interesting 

eclipse facts. 

The glasses were all 

quickly scooped up at the 

library, as people each went 

their own respective ways 

to view it. The eclipse was 

something that transcended 

age, gender, race and political 

affiliation, a subject free 

of divide shared by a united 

populace. 

Families got to partake in 

it together, as Kapa’s story 

also shows, with her speaking 

to a local family on how 

they spent time talking to 

their children about it. 

Though it only lasted 

several hours on a single 

day, it is something not set 

to occur again for a long 

time, and it is something 

that will surely stick with 

many for a long time to 

come, reminding them of 

how grand nature is and 

stirring a sense of awe. 

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Moving into Mokena 

Balagio brings Italian traditions started 

in Homewood to new location, Page 22 

Analyzing the scene 

Area nightlife and entertainment 

highlighted, Page 23 

Cross of Glory’s pet blessing recognizes the importance of all creatures, the lessons they can teach, Page 21 

Hannah Capperino (left) sits with her dog, Roxy, and the Rev. Dana O’Brien Aug. 20 at the pet blessing outside of Cross of Glory Church in Homer Glen. 

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20 | August 31, 2017 | The Homer Horizon FAITH 


FAITH BRIEFS 

Cross of Glory Lutheran Church (14719 W. 

163rd St., Homer Glen) 

Community Blood Drive 

2-6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 

7. Please call to set up an appointment 

at (708) 301-6998. 

CROP Walk 

Sunday, Sept. 17, Dellwood 

Park, Lockport. 

Raising money for Church 

World Services to help feed 

the hungry. For more information, 

call the church at 

(708) 301-6998. 

Christ Community Church (13400 Bell 

FUNERAL SERVICES DIRECTORY 

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rest of the decisions? 

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Road, Lemont) 

Young at Heart Luncheon 

11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. 

Tuesday, Sept. 12. 

The church’s Young at 

Heart senior group will 

be hosting its monthly 

luncheon. Join the group 

in Room 206 for food 

and fellowship. If you 

have any questions, 

email Sandie Peccia at 

sandieroman@yahoo.com. 

Our Mother of Good Counsel Parish 

(16043 S. Bell Road, Homer Glen) 

Part-time Music 

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Director Needed 

The church is seeking a 

part-time music director for 

a parish of 1,400 families. 

Applicants should have a 

strong music background, 

able to play piano, lead the 

choir and more. For those 

interested, please email fr 

joseph@omgccc.org or call 

(708) 301-6246. 

‘That Man is You’ 

7 p.m. Monday, Sept. 25. 

This talk is for men 20 years 

old and older. The talk will 

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address the pressure and 

temptations that men face in 

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Pastor Column 

Understanding the why 

and how of marriage 

THE REV. THOMAS LOYA 

Annunciation Byzantine 

Catholic Church 

Unless we know the 

“why” behind something, 

we cannot 

really know the “how” of being 

or doing something. This 

is particularly true when it 

comes to marriage. 

In marriage counseling 

sessions, I always reassure 

a couple that they do not 

have a “marriage problem” 

because there is actually no 

such thing. There are only 

problems with a man not 

truly understanding why his 

wife is a woman and a wife 

not truly understanding why 

her husband is a man. 

Without understanding 

the deep “why” behind our 

being man and woman, 

and, in turn, the deep “why” 

behind marriage, a husband 

and wife do not know how 

to determine and meet the 

deepest needs of each other 

as man and woman. 

Instead, they plug into 

each other’s greatest fears 

as man and woman, and this 

perpetuates the cycle of hurt 

and anger, often leading to 

divorce. Related to this are 

problems in spirituality, in 

understanding the basics of 

loving relationship. 

A married couple does not 

have problems because they 

are married. Marriage is a 

venue that simply exposes a 

man and woman to one another 

on every human level. 

After being exposed, the 

couple has to make a choice 

over and over again to love 

the person that has been 

exposed before them. 

The word “marriage” 

itself is very specific. Not 

every emotional bond, no 

matter how strong, can be 

called marriage. The biblical 

tradition offers a compelling 

model and basis for what 

marriage really is. Marriage is 

actually a sharing in the very 

life of the Holy Trinity and in 

the way that God loved us. 

In fact, the most predominant 

analogy in the Bible 

and in the language of the 

church for God’s love and 

relationship with us is “marriage.” 

Mystically speaking, 

God created a bride for 

himself. God made human 

beings male and female precisely 

so they could share in 

God’s own life and so that 

human beings could love as 

God loves. 

The biblical model of marriage 

therefore tells us that 

marriage is a venue in which 

two people help each other 

achieve their final destination 

in heaven. Marriage is 

not just two people who are 

attracted to each other and 

want to be together. In the 

venue of marriage, precisely 

through the mutual gift of 

self, a husband and wife help 

each other become the best 

versions of each other. 

Even after many years of 

pastoral counseling, I still 

believe that just about any 

marriage can be saved once 

a couple comes to know and 

live by the ultimate why 

of being man, woman and 

spouse. 

The opinions of this column are 

that of the writer. They do not 

necessarily reflect those of The 

Homer Horizon.

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Pet blessing at Cross of Glory dedicated to beloved animals 

Donations collected 

for local TLC Animal 

Shelter by church 

Jason Maholy 


They love us unconditionally, 

demonstrate faithfulness 

and think we are the 

greatest, regardless of how 

we look or what kind of car 

we drive. 

Children? Perhaps when 

they are young and at their 

most innocent, and then 

again beyond the rebellious 

and anxiety-ridden, selfconscious 

teenage years. 

In honor of these devoted 

members of the family, the 

Rev. Dana O’Brien invited 

these furry family members 

to a special pet blessing 

service at Cross of Glory 

Church. The Aug. 20 petcentric 

service featured 

songs dedicated to creatures 

big and small and part of 

the services collection was 

donated to the TLC Animal 

Shelter in Homer Glen. 

O’Brien also made her 

rounds through the congregation 

— gathered outdoors 

on a pleasant, sunny 

morning — and personally 

blessed every dog in attendance. 

While dogs were the 

only animals in attendance, 

O’Brien did bless photographs 

of pets that could not 

or did not make the trip. 

She also delivered a message 

in which she compared 

the love pets show their 

owners with the love God 

shows humankind. 

“We talk about this being 

a pet blessing,” she said, 

“but it is often our pets that 

bless us.” 

The occasion was the first 

of what the church plans to 

make an annual tradition. 

“They demonstrate unconditional 

love, faithfulness 

and presence,” O’Brien 

said after the service. “And 

they’re like members of 

somebody’s family, so we 

want to acknowledge that 

pets are loved by God and 

created by God.” 

Earlier, during her message 

to the congregation, 

O’Brien noted what every 

dog owner knows — that 

upon walking through the 

door, his or her furry family 

member will race to the door 

and excitedly greet them. 

“It doesn’t matter if 

you’ve been gone five days 

or five minutes,” she said. 

“The things that impress 

people don’t make a bit of 

difference to them. They accept 

us for who we are, and 

they don’t feel the need to 

change us. 

“They think we’re just the 

greatest thing next to sliced 

bread ... even if we gain a 

couple of pounds,” she added, 

drawing laughter from 

the people gathered. 

Homer Glen resident Jennie 

Hoffman and her son, 

Evan, brought their labradoodle, 

Charlie, and dachshund, 

Ginger, to the service. 

“My dogs love being outside, 

and I love being able 

to be here with them,” Hoffman 

said. “This is truly a 

congregation where everyone 

enjoys all human life, 

and animals, and it’s just a 

very good place to be. And 

the blessing was very nice. I 

wish we could bring them all 

the time.” 

Bonnie and Rob Petrick 

did not bring their pet, and 

instead came to church with 

a ceramic-framed photo of 

their 17-year-old cat. The 

couple’s now-grown daughter, 

Ashley, adopted the feline 

from TLC when he was 

just a kitten. Ashley eventually 

went away to college 

and graduate school and now 

lives out of state and left the 

Ariel Deal, 12, of Romeoville, pets Stella, a rat terrier owned by Robert Kirkland (left), at the Aug. 20 pet blessing held at 

Cross of Glory Church in Homer Glen. Photos by Jason Maholy/22nd Century Media 

cat with her parents when 

she moved. 

“So he loves me now — not 

her so much, and not him, either,” 

Bonnie joked, referring 

to her daughter and husband. 

“He’s been with us for a long, 

long time. I didn’t want to 

bring him because we would 

have had to bring a carrier, 

and he’s not used to being 

outside or being on a leash.” 

O’Brien’s point throughout 

the pet blessing was 

that pets are the most perfect 

example of God’s unconditional 

and everlasting 

love for humankind, and at 

the same time reflect how 

people should approach their 

relationship with Him. They 

demonstrate what it means 

to fully and unhesitatingly 

trust something else and rely 

on that something else for 

everything. 

The Rev. Dana O’Brien blesses Fern, who is being held by her owner, Lemont resident Jeff 

Wandersen. 

“They don’t worry where 

their next meal will come 

from, or who will take them 

for a walk, because they 

trust us,” she said. “They can 

teach us how to live in relationship 

with God. We hopefully 

can learn to trust God 

the way our pets trust us.”

22 | August 31, 2017 | The Homer Horizon DINING OUT 


The Dish 

Family recipes, atmosphere and ownership drive Mokena’s Balagio 

Menu boasts 

traditional, 

homemade and 

fresh Italian fare 

Amanda Stoll, Assistant Editor 

With a large selection 

of pasta, fish and chicken 

items, along with a madeto-order 

mentality, there is 

something for everyone at 

the new Balagio location in 

Mokena, which opened in 

March. 

The single-page menu 

provides a variety of traditional 

Italian recipes for 

a range of taste buds and 

diets, including vegetarian 

and gluten-free options. Additionally, 

the bar selection 

provides plenty of cocktails 

and wines. 

“I opened up my first 

Balagio [in Homewood] in 

1997, and we try to bring 

the Chicago atmosphere to 

the [southwest suburbs] with 

the dining,” Mike Galderio 

Sr. said. “Cooking with my 

grandmother all the years, 

[I] learned a lot of recipes.” 

He said many of the menu 

items have come from employees, 

as well, including 

homemade pastas and bread. 

“We got pretty lucky when 

a couple local restaurants 

closed and all the Italian ladies 

came on board with us,” 

Galderio said. “It’s all fresh 

ingredients, and we try to 

stay with that, because that’s 

probably the key to our success. 

We’ve been doing it for 

a long time.” 

Galderio Sr., who is a 

Frankfort resident, runs the 

two restaurants with his son 

Mike Galderio Jr., and the 

two of them split their time 

between the Homewood and 

Mokena locations. 

“It’s definitely a tough 

industry; I’m not going to 

The salmon ($21) entrée at Balagio in Mokena is served with garlic lemon aioli, house 

potato and vegetables. Photos by Amanda Stoll/22nd Century Media 

lie,” said Galderio Jr., who 

studied hospitality management 

at Eastern Illinois University 

while working summers 

and weekends at the 

Homewood location, which 

opened in 1997. “I really 

don’t know what I’m going 

to get day to day, so it’s always 

a surprise. It’s a good 

surprise, too,” 

Previously, the family was 

a partner in Ciao Ristorante 

& Bar in Matteson. 

“I was 8 years old when 

we first [opened Ciao], peeling 

potatoes and stuff like 

that,” Galderio Jr. said. “So, 

I just kind of grew up in it 

... bartending, bus boy, I’ve 

probably done every job in 

this except for cook.” 

He said he loves the look 

of the Mokena location, with 

modern touches, natural 

lighting and a sophisticated, 

sleek bar. The Mokena location 

is not as large as the 

Homewood location, making 

the dining area more 

intimate ,while still having 

space for group gatherings. 

Balagio in Mokena hosts 

groups of 40-50 people for 

luncheons, parties and showers. 

Galderio Sr. said patrons 

have been excited about the 

recently completed patio at 

Balagio, with seating for 60 

people around cafe tables 

and covered, cabana-style 

seating, where people can 

tune in to a game on a TV. 

Large, sliding glass doors 

open between the bar area 

and the patio for an extended, 

outdoor seating space. 

“I’ve been doing this for 

32 years,” Galderio Sr. said. 

“It’s a passion of mine, and 

it’s good to see the look on 

people’s faces when they’re 

happy about something — 

Balagio 

9716 West 191st St. in 

Mokena 

Hours 

• 11 a.m.–9 p.m. 

Tuesday–Thursday 

• 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Friday 

• 4–10 p.m. Saturday 

• 3–8 p.m. Sunday 

For more information ... 

Phone: (708) 719-3370 

Web: www.balagiorestaurant.com 

especially the food.” 

And good food makes 

people happy. 

The eggplant marinara 

($9) appetizer is a customer 

favorite, with lightly breaded 

and fried eggplant, ricotta 

cheese and marinara sauce. 

The appetizer menu also 

features steamed mussels 

($11) with fresh tomato 

The chicken Romano ($18) at Balagio in Mokena is made 

with artichoke hearts, white wine, Romano cheese and 

roasted potato. 

Frutti di mare ($21) — featuring shrimp, calamari, mussels, 

chopped clams, linguini and spicy marinara — is one of 

Balagio’s many pasta options. Gluten-free and whole wheat 

pasta are available upon request. 

sauce, basil and crostini; 

fried calamari ($12) with 

tangy cocktail sauce and 

fresh lemon; and baked goat 

cheese ($9) with black olive, 

marinara sauce and toasted 

crostini. 

Pasta dishes are at the core 

of the menu, with owner 

favorites being the shrimp 

francese ($21) with egg-battered 

shrimp, angel hair pasta 

and lemon butter sauce; 

and the country-style rigatoni 

($15) featuring Italian 

sausage, tomato, mushroom, 

red pepper and garlic cream. 

Other entrée items include 

a veal piccata ($24) with 

tender medallions, lemon, 

capers, roasted potato and 

vegetables; chicken Romano 

($18) with artichoke hearts, 

Roma tomatoes, white wine, 

Romano cheese and roasted 

potato. 

Although Galderio Sr. said 

Balagio is not a steak house, 

he knows steak is a go-to for 

some people, so the menu 

includes a 12-ounce New 

York strip ($29), served with 

bell pepper, smashed red potato 

and vegetables

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The crosstowns: Frankfort, Homer Glen, Lockport, Mokena, New Lenox, Orland Park, Tinley Park 

Crossword by Myles Mellor and Cindy LaFleur 

Across 

1. Greeting at sea 

5. Largest Italian lake 

10. Muscle mag displays 

14. Behave sulkily 

15. “Dallas” family name 

16. Pin holder 

17. Ready for business 

18. Like Bob Dylan’s voice 

19. Naval investigation 

show 

20. Frankfort’s children’s 

museum 

22. Arles assent 

24. “Far out!” 

25. In soccer, scoring 

against yourself 

29. “The Immoralist” 

author 

32. Former Paris coin 

34. $100 bill 

35. Breezing through 

36. Lao-___ 

37. Fireplace piece 

38. Quits 

39. They sang “Happy 

Jack” 

40. Loses weight 

42. Velvet finish? 

43. English singer Corinne 

Bailey __ 

44. Maker of precious 

violins 

45. Bring up 

48. E.R. figures 

50. Oil org. 

51. Ohioan 

53. Officer, abbr. 

55. ___ baba 

56. Wine and martini bar 

in Lockport 

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64. Kicking Bird’s people 

66. Heroine of Tennessee 

William’s “Summer and 

Smoke” 

67. ___ in a blue moon 

68. Cousins of ospreys 

69. “Uh-huh” 

70. School grps. 

71. Tournament favorites 

72. Our boys 

Down 

1. Run ___ (go wild) 

2. Basket makers 

3. Piece, in a paper 

4. Itches 

5. Italian city with a 

Christopher Columbus 

monument 

6. Trophies 

7. Insurer’s calculation 

8. CSI evidence 

9. Radiant 

10. Harmless 

11. Stock page heading 

12. Behind-the-wheel 

no-no 

13. A sib 

21. Small songbirds 

23. The Tar Heels, for 

short 

25. Greek liqueur 

26. Limestone 

27. Infinitesimal 

28. Walkers 

29. Sponge cake 

30. Representative 

31. Sink 

33. Survey choice 

38. Slavic native 

39. 1973 Supreme 

Court decision name 

40. ___-Hawley Tariff 

Act of 1930 

41. Once around the 

pool 

46. Emulates Gretzky 

47. Scaleless fish 

49. Conned 

52. “Omigosh!” 

54. Without refinement 

56. Corn bread 

57. Capitol votes 

58. Spread selection 

59. Model/actress in 

“No Way Out” 

60. Fan sounds 

61. Unruly head of hair 

62. Toronto’s prov. 

63. Edible tuber 

65. Wrath 

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HOMER GLEN 

Mullets Sports Bar and 

Restaurant 

(14903 S. Bell Road, 

Homer Glen; (708) 645- 

7000) 

■7 ■ p.m. Wednesdays: 

Trivia 

ORLAND PARK 

Girl in the Park 

(11265 W. 159th St., 

Orland Park, IL; (708) 

226-0042) 

■7 ■ p.m. Mondays: Trivia 

■5:30 ■ p.m. Tuesdays: 

Live Music 

■8 ■ p.m. Thursdays: Bingo 

■8 ■ p.m. Fridays and Saturdays: 

Live Music 

The Brass Tap 

(14225 95th Ave. Suite 

400, Orland Park; (708) 

226-1827) 

■8 ■ p.m. Tuesdays: Trivia. 

Prizes awarded 

■9 ■ p.m. Fridays and Saturdays: 

Live music 

Dan ‘D’ Jac’s 

(9358 171st St., Orland 

Hills; (708) 460-8773) 

■Thursdays: ■ Friday and 

Saturday: Whirlwind 

karaoke 

■Wednesdays: ■ 

Open mic 

comedy night with host 

Ray Fischer 

Square Celt Ale House & 

Grill 

(39 Orland Square Drive, 

Orland Park; (708) 226- 

9600) 

■8 ■ p.m. Tuesdays: Acoustic 

Night/Open Mic 

Night 

■8 ■ p.m. Wednesdays: 

Free Trivia 

■8 ■ p.m. Thursdays: Country 

Night 

■10 ■ p.m. Fridays: Live DJ 

■10 ■ p.m. Saturdays: Live 

Music/Band 

■9 ■ p.m. Sundays: Karaoke 

LOCKPORT 

Strike N Spare II 

(811 Northern Drive, 

Lockport; (708) 301- 

1477) 

■8-11 ■ p.m. Wednesdays: 

Quartermania 

■7-10 ■ p.m. Fridays and 

Saturdays: Cosmic Bowl 

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in The Scene, email 


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“Actually our last average 

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In all, buyers can select 

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Distinctive offers custom 

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energy efficient windows and 

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Typically a wide variety of 

homes are available to tour 

that include ranch and twostory 

homes. 

Distinctive is also offering 

a brand new home, the 

Stonegrove, a 3,000 square 

foot open concept home with a 

split foyer entry, formal living 

and dining rooms, a two-story 

great room, four bedrooms 

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Distinctive also offers Appbased 

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Prairie Trails is also a beautiful 

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Besides Prairie Trails, Distinctive 

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year-round & seasonal 

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in-person 7320 Duvan Dr, 

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looking for individuals to 

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thou among women, and 

blessed is the fruit of thy 

womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, 

Mother of God, pray for us sinners, 

now and atthe hour of 

our death. Amen. TM 

Oh most Beautiful Flower of 

Mt Carmel, Fruitful vine, 

splendor of heaven, blessed 

mother of the Son of God, Immaculate 

Virgin, Assist mein 

this my neccessity, oh star of 

the sea help me and show me 

herein you are mymother. Oh 

holy Mary, Mother of God, 

Queen of Heaven and Earth, I 

humbly beeseach you from the 

bottom ofmyheart to succor 

me in my necessity (make request) 

there are none that can 

withstand your power, oh Mary 

conceived without sin, pray for 

us who have recourse tothee 

(3x). Holy Mary, Iplace this 

cause in your hands (3x). Say 

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2703 Legal 

Notices 

SIDEWALK BID 

INFORMATION 

Sealed bids will be received by the 

Board of Education, Homer Community 

Consolidated School District 

33c, onSeptember 14, 2017 at 

3:30 p.m. prevailing time for the 

Luther J. Schilling – New Bus 

Drop-off Sidewalk. Bids will be 

opened atthe District Administration 

Center, 15733 Bell Road, 

Homer Glen, Illinois 60491. 

APre-Bid Conference will beheld 

on September 7, 2017, 4:00 p.m. at 

Luther J. Schilling School, 16025 

Cedar Road, Homer Glen, Illinois 

60491. All Bidders are encouraged 

to attend and sign in at the meeting 

which will also beattended bythe 

Owner, Architect and Engineer. 

Anticipated Award of Contract 

date: September 26, 2017 

Anticipated Start of Construction: 

September 27, 2017 

Anticipated Substantial Completion 

date: October 20, 2017 

Lump sum bid proposals will be 

received for this project at the 

scheduled time of receipt bids and 

will be publicly opened at that 

time. 

Bid security in the form of abid 

bond, certified check or cash in an 

amount equal to 10 percent ofthe 

base bid amount shall be submitted 

with the bid. Should abid bond be 

submitted, the bid bond shall be 

payable to the Board of Education, 

Homer CCSD 33c. 

Bids shall be submitted on or before 

the specified closing time in 

an opaque sealed envelope addressed 

to: Ms. Christi Tyler, Assistant 

Superintendent for Business. 

The Board of Education reserves 

the right to reject any or all bids or 

parts thereof, or waive any irregularities 

or informalities, and to 

make the award inthe best interest 

of the District. 

All bidders must comply with applicable 

Illinois Law requiring the 

payment of prevailing wages by all 

Contractors working on public 

works. Bidder must comply with 

the Illinois Statutory requirements 

regarding labor, including Equal 

Employment Opportunity Laws. 

Bidding documents are onfile and 

may be obtained upon receipt of 

deposit in the amount of $50.00 for 

1 set of the bidding documents 

consisting of2sets of plans, 2Project 

Manuals, 1Compact Disc containing 

PDF files of drawings and 

project manual, and 1set ofbid 

forms from: Gill Reprographics, 

Inc. (GRI), 17W715 Butterfield 

Road, Suite B, Oak Brook Terrace, 

IL 60181, (630) 652-0800, 

www.gillrepro.com. 

The Architect for the above referenced 

project is Tria Architecture, 

Inc., (630) 455-4500. 

2900 Merchandise 

Under $100 

12 drawer tool chest $66. 2 

Ryobi rechargable drills $25. 

815.529.5804 


Under $100 

2 drawer oak file cabinet w/ 

flip desk top $40 OBO. Call 

708.769.9758 or L/M 

708.479.7020. Mokena. 

20 ft aluminum ladder. Good 

condition. Must sell fast (you 

pick up) $50. 708.873.1245 

3floor fans, $7apiece. 2cat 

carriers, $5 ea. Aluminum 20 ft 

ladder $40. 815.838.0239 

5 drawer oak laminate tall 

dresser $40 OBO. Call 

708.769.9758 or L/M 

708.479.7020. Mokena. 

5HPshop vac, like new $40. 8 

1/4 compound meter saw $45. 

708.448.9597 

8” sril drill press $60. Bench 

saw with stand $50. 

708.479.0193 

Beer sign collectors, Lowenbrau 

special &dark beer (vintage). 

Fast sale $50 or best offer. 

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Black & Decker Workmate 

$50. Good condition. 

708.494.1913 

Downsizing! Boxes of Christmas 

& Halloween decorations 

$10 ea. McDonald new inthe 

paper, $15 a box. Zenith Allegro 

speakers &new beauty 

rings. Paul 708.349.6433 

Four dinette chairs with rolling 

casters, upholstered seats & 

arms in neutral color, very 

good condition. $100 for 4. 

708.349.3524 

Jogger stroller (3 wheels 

in-step) 2 spare tires, good condition 

$55. 708.921.8505 

Jogger stroller (3 wheels, 

in-step) 2 spare tires, good condition 

$55. (708)421-8505 

Local honey $15 per quart, no 

sugar added. 708.466.9809 

Makita grinder $20. 

708.873.1245 

Mattress set, full size. Very 

good condition, clean. Tinley 

Park. $100. 708.532.7041 

New Abu Garcia graphite 

spinning rod. 6.5 ft. two piece 

medium heavy action 1/4-3/4 

oz. lures, 8-14 lb. line. Excellent 

travel rod. Cost $109. Sell 

$60. 708.301.0356 

One 100 used golf balls, all 

brands $29. 708.301.7645 

Rubbermaid (yellow) commercial 

mop bucket, like new $50. 

Rare CJ vintage gasoline five 

gallon can &spout by Jayes 

Can Co. $30. 708.466.9907 

Stroller Evenflo. navy blue 

$40. Call 708.769.9758 or L/M 

708.479.7020. Mokena. 

Toro lawn mower 21” gas. 

Great shape $75. 

260.585.4393. Lockport. 


Under $100 

Mattress set, full size. Very 

good condition, clean. Tinely 

Park $100. 708.532.7041 

Men’s Schwinn Windwood 

Cruiser 26” red/chrome frame, 

hardly used $99. 

(708)460-3919 

Mushroom ceramic canister set 

$20. Singer sewing machine 

$25. 815.485.5886 

Navy blue leather recliner. 

Wonderful condition $50. Call 

708.349.3524 

One 100 used gold balls. All 

brands. $29. 708.301.7645 

Petmate plastic dog carrier, 

new. It is 24” long & 13” wide. 

Silver &black with carrying 

handle $20. 815.464.0645 

Red Wing soft toe shoes size 

8.5D $55. Gently worn. 6foot 

ladder $10. 708.798.9755 

Red Wing, soft toe shows 

8.5D, great condition $55. 6 

foot wood ladder $10. 

708.798.9755 

Safe electronic floor safe $80. 

Leaf net for 21 foot round pool 

$10. Call 708.522.8338 

Soda Stream, new $50. vintage 

purple salad bowl set, new $25. 

Sunbeam bread maker, new 

$20. 708.301.0519 

Tunturi rower with timer (similar 

toStamina 1205 Precision 

Rower, $249.99 at Dick’s 

Sports, $194.99 on Amazon 

Prime). Barely used. Asking 

$100 or best offer. Debra 

708.263.0390 Tinley Park. 

Vintage Sioux heavy duty electric 

all in one polisher, sander, 

grinder. Made in the USA $75. 

Vintage stainless steel meat 

cleaver & sharpener $25. 

708.466.9907 

Wall coverings smoother brush 

$3. 24 pc. foam brush set $5. 

3” brass wire wheel $2. Misc. 

new 4” one coat paint brushes 

$5. 708.460.8308 

Light weight high chair, can be 

lifter &held in one hand. Folds 

flat for portability &storage. 

Excellent condition $20. 

815.464.0645 

1HPHayward pool pump $75. 

Call Lou 708.448.9599 

2 beer signs, Budweiser 

lighted, one Coors beer sign 

$100. 708.408.5174 

2 Cocktail/End Tables: stone 

base, glass top, excellent condition 

$50 ea. (708)567-1196 

White kitchen sink, cast iron, 

double bowl, no chips $60. 

Smokey Joe grill 14 1/2” used 

once $20. 12” Magnvox TV, 

excellent picture $5. 

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38 | August 31, 2017 | The Homer Horizon SPORTS 


Athlete of the Week 

10 Questions 

with Shae O’Neil 

Shae O’Neil is a senior at 


School and plays setter on 

the volleyball team. 

How did you get started 

playing volleyball? 

When I was in third 

grade, we got this form for 

[Homer Athletic Club], it 

was like a [recreational] 

volleyball. My mom asked 

me if I wanted to do it, so I 

did it. I really liked it, so I 

just continued to keep playing. 

What do you love about 

volleyball? 

I love how it’s really intense 

at times and how the 

atmosphere is really fun. 

What is the most 

challenging part of 

playing volleyball? 

The most challenging 

part of volleyball is trying 

to read where they’re going 

to hit or going to tip [the 

ball]. 

What is a goal of yours 

for the season? 

A goal of mine is to pass 

better than I did last year. I 

did really well last year, and 

I want to continue that and 

try and do better. 

Who is the most funny 

person on the team? 

The funniest person on 

the team is probably Emma 

[Sweeney], the libero. She 

is her own self; she is funny. 

She jokes a lot. 

Did you go on any fun 

vacations this summer? 

This summer, I just went 

to Michigan with my neighbors, 

and we just boated, 

jet-skied and laid out on the 

water for a long time. 

If you could play any 

other sport, what would 

you want to play? 

I would probably be a 

cheerleader. It just looks totally 

fun. 

If you were a 

superhero, what would 

your superpower be? 

Probably to fly because I 

hate waiting in traffic, and 

Brittany Kapa/22nd Century Media 

I hate just walking through 

the halls and not being able 

to go when I want to because 

of the congestion. 

What is your favorite 

TV show? 

Probably “Grey’s Anatomy.” 

It’s on Netflix now. 

If you could have dinner 

with anyone living or 

dead, who would you 

choose? 

Kourtney Kardashian. She 

is just real and seems cool to 

hangout with. 

Interview by Assistant Editor 

Brittany Kapa 

This Week In... 

Porters Varsity 

Athletics 

Football 

■Sept. ■ 2 at South Elgin, 1:30 

p.m. 

Girls Tennis 

■Sept. ■ 5 host Lincoln-Way 

West, 4:30 p.m. 

■Sept. ■ 6 at Glenbard West, 

4 p.m. 

Girls Swimming 

■Sept. ■ 2 host Lockport 

Invitational, 10 a.m. 

■Sept. ■ 6 host Hinsdale 

South, 5 p.m. 

Boys Soccer 

■Sept. ■ 2 at Plainfield South, 

TBD 

Girls Cross Country 

■Sept. ■ 2 at Plainfield Central 

Invite, 9 a.m. 

Boys Cross Country 

■Sept. ■ 2 at Connelly Invite vs. 

St. Ignatius, 9 a.m. at Lewis 

University 

■Sept. ■ 2 at Plainfield Central, 

9 a.m. 

Boys Golf 

■Sept. ■ 2 at Homewood- 

Homer Heat 10U victorious in Brewtown Showdown 

Team captures 

tournament 

championship in 

Milwaukee 

Submitted by Homer Heat 

The Homer Heat 10U 

team coached by Rick Gorecki 

has posted a 37-15-1 

overall record, highlighted 

with winning the championship 

of the Brewtown Showdown 

at the Rock Sports 

Complex at the end of July 

in Milwaukee. 

After going 1-1 on July 29, 

the Heat won all three games 

on July 30 to win the championship. 

Final scores were 15-0, 

11-4 and 6-2, outscoring opponents 

32-6 on the final day. The 

final game was a hard-fought 

Flossmoor, 8 a.m. at Lincoln 

Oaks 

■Sept. ■ 6 host Lockport 

Triangular, 4 p.m. at Big Run 

Girls Golf 

■Sept. ■ 1 at Lincoln-Way 

Central, 4:30 p.m. at 

Sanctuary 


Flossmoor, 8 a.m. at Lincoln 

Oaks 

■Sept. ■ 5 at Lincoln-Way West, 

4:30 p.m. at Sanctuary 


Floosmoor, 4:30 p.m. at 

Lincoln Oaks 

Girls Volleyball 

■Sept. ■ 5 at Naperville North, 

6 p.m. 

Celtics Varsity 

Athletics 

Football 

■Sept. ■ 1 – hosts St. John 

Vianney, 7 p.m. 


■Aug. ■ 31 – at Marist, 6 p.m. 

■Sept. ■ 5 – at Lincoln-Way 

Central, 5:30 p.m. 

Boys Golf 

■Aug. ■ 31 – at Antigua 

National H.S. Invitational, TBA 

victory over Fury Baseball 

Gold from Downers Grove. 

The boys played great 

team baseball, with everyone 

contributing in the win. 

Members of the Homer 

Heat 10U include Malik 

■Sept. ■ 1 – at Antigua 


■Sept. ■ 2 – at Antigua 


■Sept. ■ 2 – at H-F Co-Ed 

Classic, 8 a.m. 

■Sept. ■ 6 – at Marian 

Catholic, Mt. Carmel, Fenwick, 

4 p.m. 

Girls Golf 

■Sept. ■ 2 – at H-F Co-Ed 

Classic, 8 a.m. 

Boys Soccer 

■Aug. ■ 31 – at Windy City 

Classic, TBA 

■Sept. ■ 1 – at Windy City 

Classic, TBA 

■Sept. ■ 2 – at Marian 

Catholic, noon 

■Sept. ■ 5 – hosts Brother 

Rice, 4:30 p.m. 

Girls Tennis 

■Sept. ■ 2 – at Benet Quad, 8 

a.m. 

■Sept. ■ 5 – at Loyola 

Academy, 4:30 a.m. 

Boys Cross Country 

■Sept. ■ 2 – at Plainfield 

Central Invitational, 9 a.m. 

Girls Cross Country 

■Sept. ■ 2 – at Plainfield 

Central Invitational, 9 a.m. 

The Homer Heat 10U team won the Brewtown Showdown at 

the end of July in Milwaukee. Photo submitteD 

Salah, Connor Cronin, Brad 

Soja, Luke Andretich, Nate 

Gorecki, Carter Kelso, Jake 

Soroko, Christian Flutman, 

Carlo Diorio, Anthony 

Batshon, Joey DalPonte and 

Jack LoPresti.



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Alumni Spotlight 

‘Sky is the limit’ for former Porters track star 

Derrius Rodgers 

shatters initial 

expectations in first 

year at Illinois State 

Randy Whalen 


A few years back, Derrius 

Rodgers decided to listen to 

the advice of his track coaches 

at Lockport Township. 

The results? How about 

earning All-American honors 

as a freshman at Illinois 

State University? 

That is the story for Rodgers, 

who headed back to ISU 

this month for his sophomore 

year. While track season is 

still some time away, there 

is no offseason for track and 

field. And there is no limit to 

what Rodgers can do. 

“I had a lot of hope that 

it would be good,” Rodgers 

said of his first college season. 

“But I admit I didn’t 

expect to be going for the 

Nationals right away. 

But that’s what Rodgers 

did as he broke the school 

record, which had stood 

for 21 years, in the indoor 

60-meter dash en route to 

becoming the Missouri Valley 

Conference champion 

in the event. That time was 

6.64 seconds and qualified 

him for the NCAA Division 

I Indoor Track & Field 

Championships. 

There he became ISU’s 

first male recipient of the 

MVC Freshman of the Year 

Award, as he placed 13th in 

the 60-meter dash prelims 

with a time of 6.77. This 

mark earned him Second- 

Team All-American honors. 

“Just being there was a 

great opportunity and a great 

blessing,” Rodgers said of 

competing at the NCAA 

Division I Indoor Track & 

Field Championships. “I 

was the only freshman in 

the country that was in the 

event. I went in seeded 13th, 

and I got 13th.” 

While the indoor season 

All-American honors did 

surprise Rodgers, Lockport 

assistant track coach Robert 

Beach knew he could do it. 

“I’m not surprised,” said 

Beach, a 2001 Lockport 

graduate, who saw Rodgers 

break his school record in the 

200-meter dash his senior 

year. “I went to watch him 

compete at ISU in an early 

season indoor meet, and he 

ran a 6.7 in the 60-meter 

dash. I told him that he could 

run a 6.6 and to stick with it. 

He had a great opportunity, 

and he did it.” 

Rodgers has had all this 

success after refusing to go 

out for track his freshman 

season at Lockport. Rodgers, 

who played football for four 

years and freshman basketball 

for the Porters, wouldn’t 

have any part of it. He wanted 

to be a football player and 

concentrate on that, but he 

relented his sophomore year, 

and the seeds of his current 

success were planted. 

“I think back, and his 

sophomore year was a struggle,” 

Lockport track coach 

Tom Razo said. “It was really 

a battle at first. He thought 

he’d be a football star. But I 

said, ‘OK, you’re fast. Maybe 

you can do both.’” 

As it turned out, Rodgers 

did both. He did well as a 

defensive back in football, 

but that was nothing compared 

to the success he garnered 

in track starting in his 

junior season. He medaled 

in both the 100-meter dash 

(6th, 10.78 seconds) and the 

200-meter dash (9th, 22.07) 

in the Class 3A finals at state. 

Senior year, he started off 

by winning the 60-meter 

dash (6.87 seconds) at the 

Class 3A Illinois Top Times 

Championships indoor meet 

Lockport Township alumnus Derrius Rodgers (second from left) was named the Missouri Valley Conference Male 

Outdoor Freshman of the Year for his performance at the conference championship meet earlier this year. 

Photo courtesy of ISU Athletics 

at Illinois Wesleyan University 

in Bloomington. 

That amounted to the unofficial 

indoor state meet. He 

capped his senior season by 

finishing in second place in 

both the 100- (10.66) and 

200- (22.13) meter dash in 

the Class 3A finals of the 

state meet. 

“Just thinking about how 

far I’ve come, I’m still fairly 

new to the sport,” Rodgers 

said. “I didn’t have the passion 

in it to start. But coach 

Razo, coach Beach, coach 

Hespell — as my freshman 

basketball coach, and also 

our jumps coach — Ryan 

Gold, all believed in me. 

“Coach Razo kept pushing 

me, and eventually I gave in. 

[The coaches at Lockport] 

saw the potential. It’s because 

of them and how much 

they cared that I made it a 

priority. Anytime they show 

that type of interest, it does a 

lot for a young guy like me. 

It’s awesome how far I’ve 

come in the sport and the 

passion I now have.” 

Beach, who was Rodgers’ 

defensive backs coach in 

football, as well as the sprint 

coach in track, saw it. 

“He was gung-ho about 

football, but he embraced 

what we were saying,” 

Beach said. “Myself and the 

other coaches felt he was 

special. Now the sky is the 

limit. He’s worked hard, and 

he loves it now.” 

Razo agreed. 

“It’s nice to see him pan 

out,” Razo said. “He took off 

even better than he thought. 

He’s great on and off the 

track and does well in the 

classroom, too. He’s shown 

great leadership, and the 

coaches at Illinois State love 

him. He’s even influenced 

others to go there.” 

Rodgers, who is majoring 

in public relations at ISU, 

also had an amazing outdoor 

freshman season this past 

spring. He placed in the Top 

3 of every event that he competed 

in all the way through 

MVC Championships. He 

won the 100-meter dash at 

the Lenny Lyles-Clark Wood 

Invitational (10.43) He 

placed first in the 200-meter 

dash and posted a personalrecord 

of 20.89 at the Ole 

Miss/Joe Walker Invitational. 

That mark currently 

stands as the fifth-fastest in 

ISU history. 

He finished second and 

earned All-MVC Honors in 

the 100-meter dash with a 

personal-best time of 10.26, 

which is tied for the secondfastest 

in ISU history. He 

placed third and earned All- 

MVC honors in the 200-meter 

dash. He was an MVC 

champion in the 400-meter 

relay with a time of 40.45. 

That mark is the third-fastest 

in Redbird Track and Field 

history. Rodgers placed second 

and earned All-MVC 

Honors in the 1600-meter 

relay with a time of 3:11.06, 

which stands ninth in the 

ISU record books. 

Last, but obviously not 

least, Rodgers was named 

MVC Male Outdoor Freshman 

of the Year for his efforts 

at the MVC Championships. 

He qualified for the 

NCAA Division I West Preliminary 

Round in Austin, 

Texas, which was the step 

before the outdoor Nationals. 

There, he finished 38th 

in the 100-meter dash and 

27th in the 200-meter dash, 

falling short of advancing. 

“I have to clean a few 

things up and do better next 

season,” Rodgers said. “My 

freshman year at ISU was a 

great opportunity, but there’s 

still a lot of things to get 

done. I want to get in the Top 

8 in the 60 at the Indoor Nationals. 

I also want to make 

it to the Outdoor Nationals 

in the 100 and the 200.” 

With the passion that is 

there for Rodgers in the sport, 

anything seems possible.

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New Cetlics coach transitions to high school level after years on club 

Provi falls in 

competitive match 

against strong Benet 

unit in New Lenox 

RANDY WHALEN 


When she was in high 

school at Sandburg and then 

at Andrew, Lisa Muys remembers 

playing Providence 

in girls volleyball. 

Now, she is coaching the 

Providence girls volleyball 

team. 

While the season is underway, 

Muys likes what 

she’s seen so far in the Celtics. 

She’s also glad to have 

the opportunity to coach the 

team, after spending a quarter 

of a century coaching on the 

club level. 

“One of my club kid’s dad 

told me the job was open,” 

she said of how she heard 

about the job as Providence 

coach. “That got the ball 

rolling. But it’s been a very 

smooth process. Everyone 

has been very welcoming. 

“Kyle Klaver [the Providence 

boys volleyball coach] 

is my assistant, and he’s 

great. I don’t have a lot of 

high school experience [only 

coaching on the lower levels 

at Andrew in 1988], but 

I have a lot of club experience.” 

Being in the area and currently 

living in Orland Park, 

Muys welcomed the opportunity. 

She went to Sandburg 

her freshman year and then 

was at Andrew. She played 

volleyball all four years in 

high school and graduated 

in 1982. She then embarked 

on an outstanding volleyball 

career at DePaul University, 

where she still holds 

records and was inducted in 

the schools Hall of Fame in 

2006. 

Muys, who worked as a 

pediatric nurse for many 

Providence head coach Lisa Muys encourages her team Aug. 22 during a match against Class 

4A powerhouse Benet Academy in New Lenox. Photos by Amanda Stoll/22nd Century Media 

years, has four children who 

all played volleyball at Sandburg, 

as well as the club and 

collegiate levels. They have 

also gone into coaching. 

“Just to see a team go from 

the first level to the next is 

the rewarding part of coaching,” 

she said. “We did a lot 

of work this summer on technique, 

and a lot of the girls 

have really come around. I 

can see the difference in their 

demeanor coming in from 

when we started in July. It’s 

been fun so far to see what 

they can actually accomplish 

as a group. We have a lot of 

defense, and, for me, defense 

wins the games. We have a 

lot of nice setters and hitters, 

so it’s putting it together 

and seeing what they can execute.” 

Muys got her first taste 

of being a coach at the high 

school level Aug. 21 as the 

Celtics opened up as the 

first opponent for the newly 

formed Laurence team. 

There, Providence won 25- 

11, 25-17 before a large 

crowd that came out to support 

the first girls team event 

at the school in Burbank. 

But the next night, Aug. 

22, was a better test for Providence, 

as it hosted Benet 

Academy at Sacred Heart 

Gym. Although the Celtics 

lost 25-23, 25-18, Muys was 

very happy with how the Celtics 

played. After all, Benet is 

a program that has captured 

Class 4A state titles in 2011, 

2012, 2014 as well as finishing 

second in 2008 and 2013. 

“I was very pleased with 

how we played against a very 

talented Benet team,” Muys 

said. “In the first set we were 

up 14-8 and 23-22. We just 

had a couple of errors and 

didn’t close it out. But we 

still did well, and we played 

them tough on the freshman 

and sophomore levels too.” 

There are five seniors on 

this season’s squad. A key 

one is setter/right side hitter 

Keely Tess, who had 11 assists 

and two aces in helping 

to run the 6-2 offense against 

Benet. It’s her first season as 

a setter. 

“Coming into the season I 

was like, ‘I’ve got to take that 

leadership role,’” Tess said. 

“I’ve got to keep that positive 

energy. 

“This year [in order to be 

successful], we have to get 

out of our own heads. All the 

girls work so hard and we’ve 

got a lot of defensive players. 

When we have fun is when 

we play our best.” 

The rest of the seniors to 

watch are middle hitter Rachael 

Dion, libero Megan 

Kulpinski, defensive specialist 

Olivia Smagala, and 

outside hitter Emma Urchell. 

Sophomore outside hitter 

Izabela Gorys, who Muys 

said “had a very sold first two 

matches” will also be looked 

to. 

“We have big teams,” 

Muys said. “We have 30 total 

on our freshmen level, as 

well as 15 on the sophomore 

level and 16 on the varsity. As 

we play, I will get a lot better 

understanding of everyone’s 

ability and what other competition 

is out there.” 

Muys said that playing in 

the Metea Valley Mustang 

Volleyball Invitational Friday, 

Aug. 25 and Saturday, 

Aug. 26 at Metea Valley and 

Oswego East would “tell us 

more about the team.” This 

week, the Celtics hosted 

Lincoln-Way West on Tuesday, 

Aug. 29, as Thursday, 

Aug. 31, brings a 6 p.m. varsity 

match at Marist, and next 

week there’s another local 

matchup on tap at 5:30 p.m. 

Tuesday, Sept. 5 matchup at 

Lincoln-Way Central. 

Keely Tess sets the ball. She finished with 11 assists in the 

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Lockport tops Lemont in 

straight sets to start season 

Brittany Kapa, Assistant Editor 

One down, 24 to go. 

Lockport marked their first 

“W” of the season during the 

team’s opener. 

In the nonconference 

game, the team won against 

Lemont in two straight sets. 

The Porters beat the Indians 

25-18 in both sets Aug. 22. 

Despite both of the wins, 

the Porters came out shaky 

at first but soon found a solid 

footing. 

The Porters struggled during 

the first half of the first 

set to keep spikes within 

bounds, and a few balls were 

served out of bounds. The 

Porters remained calm and 

pulled away when the teams 

were tied 8-8, with a 10-4 

run putting them up 17-11. 

“In the beginning, I didn’t 

feel too good because I hit 

two out, and I was kind of 

down about that,” JoDee 

Kovanda said. “Afterwards, 

everyone else was doing really 

good, and that’s all that 

really matters. Once I got a 

few tips going, and I got a 

few kills, then I really started 

getting into it, and that really 

helped.” 

The senior setter, like 

the rest of her team, gained 

confidence as the game progressed 

and finished with 

eight kills, 11 assists and two 

aces. 

“There are obviously 

things we need to fix, but I’ll 

take that for Aug. 22,” coach 

Nick Mraz said. “Overall, it 

was up and down, but that’s 

how a first night goes.” 

Mraz’s confidence with 

his team never wavered 

,though, and as the night 

progressed, the Porters became 

more confidence and 

showed how well they could 

work together. 

The second set almost 

mirrored the first, but this 

time the turning point for the 

Porters was when the teams 

were tied 10-10. Senior setter 

Shae O’Neil came up to 

serve at when the Porters 

were leading 11-10. She had 

seven serves in a row with 

two aces. 

Kovanda kept the team 

going with two well-placed 

kills. O’Neil’s final served 

landed out of bounds to end 

her run and give Lemont a 

point, but Mraz said he was 

happy with her performance. 

“She is like our Jay Cutler 

on the team,” Mraz said 

of O’Neil. “It doesn’t matter 

what she does, she is straightfaced 

and moves on to the 

next point. The girls need to 

learn from that. You’ll never 

read it on her, good or bad. 

She is one of the people that I 

know can hit any zone. 

“She was following every 

single zone I gave her and 

hit them. So, we’re going 

deep five, dropping to three, 

deep five, deep one and just 

like that and easy, too. When 

I have a server that can do 

that, I get to start having fun 

with it because I know I can 

count on her to keep it in.” 

O’Neil’s run gave the team 

a healthy 16-10 cushion. 

Lemont fought back to close 

the gap and went on a 9-7 

run to get as close as 22-17 

before a serve run by Hannah 

Pacheco gave Lockport their 

23rd and 24th points and an 

eventual game win. 

“They got the run first, 

and they got ahead and then 

we were playing catch-up,” 

said Chris Zogata, Lemont’s 

coach. “So even when you 

get ahead and you’re trying 

to play catch-up, that’s difficult. 

That is a hard situation 

Lockport senior setter Shae 

O’Neil prepares to strike 

a serve Aug. 22 during 

the Porters opening night 

victory against Lemont 

at LTHS’s East Campus. 

Brittany Kapa/22nd Century 

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to be in. We either just have 

to stay with them or get those 

runs first and have the other 

team play catch-up, which is 

just what I think happened in 

that match.” 

Overall, Kovanda, O’Neil 

and senior libero Emma 

Sweeney agreed that while 

there was room for improvement 

during the game that 

the team as a whole was happy 

with their performance in 

the team’s first outing this 

season. 

“I was proud of us,” Sweeney 

said. “I think that just 

starting, six [returning players] 

and six [new players] 

we all came together really 

well. Obviously, there are 

things that we can improve 

on. Serve receive is always 

something that can get better.” 

Girls Swimming 

Expectations remain high for Porters 

Randy Whalen 


A glance at the seasonopening 

results for the 

Lockport Township girls 

swimming team might have 

shown a third-place varsity 

finish at its own triangular, 

but the expectations are still 

there for the Porters. 

Those expectations are 

centered mainly around another 

sectional championship. 

Lockport will be aiming 

for its third straight sectional 

title and fourth in five years 

this November. In the meantime, 

the Porters were excited 

to get the season going 

as they hosted the Plainfield 

Co-op and Wheaton Co-op 

teams on Aug. 22 in a triangular 

meet. There, Plainfield 

(149.2 points) won, while 

Wheaton (91.3) edged Lockport 

(89) for second. 

“Plainfield has all four 

schools in one and is really 

a strong program,” Lockport 

coach Grant Ferkaluk said. 

“Wheaton has both of its 

schools together, too, with 

a co-op in their district, too. 

So [in last week’s meet], we 

swam OK. Our team was 

beat up pretty good going in 

with a lot of workouts. 

“We did some different 

things. We’re looking for 

girls to step up and replace 

the key people we graduated 

from last year.” 

Lauren Estes, Kamryn 

Fields, Makayla Kraus and 

Brittney O’Neill were some 

of the key seniors that graduated 

from last year’s Lockport 

team, which qualified 

all three relays plus in four 

individual events for state. 

But the good news for the 

Porters is that the trio of girls 

that qualified in the four individual 

swimming events 

are all back this season. In 

fact, none of them are seniors. 

They are junior Emily 

“We hope to win the sectional 

again and get a lot of girls to 

state.” 

Emily Johnson — junior swimmer, on the team’s 

goals for the season 

Johnson, sophomore Lindsey 

Merk, and junior Oliwia 

Wolek — who was held out 

of the season-opening meet. 

The Porters had no individual 

or relay winners in 

the triangular. Plainfield had 

nine, while Wheaton had 

three. Lockport did place 

second to Plainfield in a pair 

of relays. In the 200-yard 

freestyle, it was the foursome 

of sophomore Maddie 

Odeen, senior Molly 

Gerches, sophomore Alexis 

Webb and senior Kayley Uy 

with a runner-up time of 1 

minute 48.63 seconds. In 

the 400-yard freestyle relay 

it was Merk, Gerches, Webb 

and Johnson placing second 

(3:51.94). 

Merk placed second in the 

100-yard freestyle (54.89) 

and the 100-yard breaststroke 

(1:12.68), while Johnson was 

second in the 500-yard freestyle 

(5:26.62). Webb was 

third in the 200-yard freestyle 

(2:12.54), and the Porter 

200-yard medley relay 

team of Merk, sophomore 

Emma Estes, Johnson and 

Uy (1:58.32) placed third, as 

Wheaton won that event. 

“I think we did pretty 

good,” Johnson said of the 

first meet. “I did some different 

events. I usually do the 

100 and 200 freestyle, as well 

as the medley relay. We’re 

really tired. We’ve had some 

tough practices, but it will all 

pay off at the end.” 

Johnson was sectional 

champion in the 100-yard 

freestyle last fall. 

“We hope to win the sectional 

again and get a lot of 

girls to state,” said Johnson, 

who is in her third varsity 

season. “It’s fun. But 

we know we need to work 

hard, push through the tough 

events and stay positive.” 

Ferkaluk, who is in his 

12th season as the girls 

coach, agrees. 

“We have a lot of real good 

underclassmen like Lindsey 

Merk, who finished third in 

the state in the 100-yard butterfly 

last year,” Ferkaluk 

said. “But we also have key 

seniors like Molly Gerches 

and Kayley Uy. We will look 

for them to finish their high 

school career strong. 

“We’ve set a precedent 

of winning, and the girls 

are working hard. They see 

what’s in front. We host the 

sectional this year [on Saturday, 

Nov. 11], and that’s 

exciting.” 

The Porters resumed their 

schedule this week with a 

dual meet on Tuesday, Aug. 

29, against Lincoln-Way 

Central. This Saturday, Sept. 

2, brings the Lockport Invitational 

starting at 10 a.m. 

Next week brings another 

home meet, on Wednesday, 

Sept. 6, at 5 p.m. against 

Hinsdale South. The Porters 

then turn around and travel 

right back to Hinsdale South 

over the weekend for an invite. 

The diving is held on 

Friday, Sept. 8, at 5 p.m., 

while the swimming is on 

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Football 

Celtics give defending 7A 

champs a battle on the road 

Chris Walker 


Providence was beaten not 

long after it had started when 

it played East St. Louis a season 

ago in New Lenox. 

On the road on Saturday, 

Aug. 26, the Celtics gave the 

defending Class 7A champs 

quite the fight before falling 

40-28. 

“They’re a great team,” 

Celtics coach Mark Coglianese 

said. “We knew that 

coming in, but I’m very proud 

of the way we played, the effort 

our guys gave. We kept 

fighting. We were down early 

and kept battling back.” 

The Celtics (0-1) seemingly 

shocked the Flyers when they 

jumped ahead 21-18 after a 

66-yard touchdown pass from 

quarterback Caden Kalinowski 

to Nico Planeta with 7 

minutes 54 seconds left in the 

third quarter in the contest. 

“It took us awhile to adjust 

to them, and eventually we 

were able to give Caden time 

to make some plays,” Planeta 

said. “Our line did their job 

and gave DeShon [Gavin] 

some room to run.” 

Planeta said it was impossible 

to simulate the speed of 

the Flyers in practice, so that 

was why it took awhile for the 

Celtics to adjust. 

“After the first quarter, you 

can see we were ready,” he 

said. “I thought we fought 

them pretty well. They’re the 

defending Class 7A champs 

and one of the best teams in 

the state again, and we were 

right there with them.” 

East St. Louis running back 

Jigg Brown’s 11-yard touchdown 

run put the Flyers up 

27-21, and they extended it 

to 34-21 on Christian Perez’s 

5-yard touchdown pass to 

Lauwaun Powell, Jr., who 

would finish with three touchdown 

receptions. 

The Celtics displayed some 

resiliency, though, as Kalinowski 

found Gavin for a 

2-yard touchdown to make it a 

34-28 game. That would be as 

close as the Celtics would get, 

as the Flyers sealed the game 

on another Perez-to-Powell 

touchdown pass with only 

1:38 remaining. 

“This game, even with the 

loss, feels like a confidence 

booster for the team,” Kalinowski 

said. “As a team, we 

played well. We made some 

mistakes, so it wasn’t the most 

perfectly played game, but we 

felt like we should have won, 

and that it’ll help us in the 

long run.” 

Last year, the game was 

seemingly over at halftime, 

with the Flyers jumping ahead 

28-0. This time, the Celtics 

proved to be a handful, and 

they’re hopeful that it’s going 

to result in a winning record, 

something that’s eluded them 

these past two seasons. 

“It felt like there wasn’t 

any time where we weren’t in 

the game,” Kalinowski said. 

“There were lead changes 

late, and it was a great game.” 

Now, the Celtics find themselves 

just like they were a 

season ago, with a must-wintype 

game against St. John 

Vianney from Missouri. The 

Griffins are the defending 

Class 5A state champions in 

Missouri, and the Celtics beat 

them a season ago. 

“It’s almost a must-win 

game to give us momentum 

and get us ready for conference” 

Planeta said. “East St. 

Louis is probably the toughest 

team we’ll see all season long, 

so were not too down. We’re 

confident. If anything, we’re 

more motivated, and if we are 

able to win on Friday, maybe 

that gets us going, and we go 

8-1 or 7-2 this year.” 

Cross country 

LTHS girls dominate, boys get solid results at preseason meet 

Randy Whalen 


Lockport Township boys cross 

country coach Tom Razo is a Cubs 

fan. So he knows that a rebuild project 

can work. 

He hopes the one for the Porters 

does now. 

Despite having their top boys varsity 

runner out, the Porters had some 

good performances last week at the 

SouthWest Suburban Conference preseason 

cross country meet Aug. 22 at 

Dellwood Park in Lockport. 

Cade Musich led the way for Lockport 

with a ninth-place overall finish in 

a time of 17 minutes 41.9 seconds. Junior 

teammate Marc Schelli (18:05.2) 

was 13th overall and the next highest 

placer for the Porters, who are excited 

about their underclassmen. 

“It’s a slower course,” said Musich, 

a senior and four-year varsity runner, 

of the home course at Dellwood Park. 

“I should be a little faster, but I’ll take 

it for the first race. We could be better, 

but our freshman/sophomore team 

had a lot of good times.” 

In the freshman/sophomore race, 

Lockport sophomores Brendan Diamond 

(18:34.7) and Aidan Pajeau 

(18:38.4) were the top two finishers as 

the Porters placed five in the Top 10. 

“We’ve got some younger guys 

that are going to be good,” Razo said. 

“We’re not rushing them. We’re going 

to get them some confidence and then 

move them up.” 

Rounding out the Top 7 on the 

varsity for Lockport were seniors 

George Kosmowski (19:07.8), David 

Krzysiak (19:37.4), Nick Sulich 

(19:40.2), junior Alex Kistinger 

(19:42.4) and senior Dylan McCarthy 

(19:57.1). 

Donovan Paske is expected to be 

the Porters’ top runner this season. 

The junior, however, is currently out 

with a stress fracture behind his right 

knee. 

“I felt a pop during a run at Dellwood,” 

Paske said of the injury, which 

occurred in the second week of August. 

“The doctor actually said I could 

come back to running now, but the 

coaches want to wait to make sure on 

it. The team is doing well without me, 

but I’d love to be back out there.” 

Musich is looking forward to having 

his teammate back and to the Porters 

improving throughout the season. 

“We have to work hard on the distance 

runs, and we have to pack it in 

better,” Musich said. “We’ve got to 

be more aggressive. But the goal is to 

get to state as a team. I’ve wanted that 

since freshman year.” 

The Lockport boys haven’t been to 

state since the fall of 2009, but Razo 

cautioned that there’s a long way to go 

until this postseason. 

“State would be nice, but it will depend 

on where we go for the sectional,” 

he said. “In the meantime, Donovan 

has to train smart. It’s frustrating 

for him to be out, but at least it’s at the 

start of the season.” 

Sandburg senior Dylan Jacobs 

(15:53.2) was the individual winner 

by nearly a minute and 17 seconds 

over Lincoln-Way Central sophomore 

Jared Kreis (17:10). Sandburg, which 

won the Class 3A state tile in 2015, 

would have easily won the team title, 

as it had five of the Top 12 runners. 

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Lockport girls dominate 

On the girls side, Lockport is off to 

an outstanding start to the season. At 

the preseason meet, the Porters placed 

six of the Top 9 runners and seven of 

the Top 12. Plus, only one of the runners 

in that group is a senior. 

The top finishers were sophomore 

Madison Polinski (20:58.4, 

3rd), freshman Elizabeth Bollinger 

(21:07.2, 4th), junior Kate Wojcikiewicz 

(21:09.1, 5th), senior Aubrey 

Friedrich (21:16.7, 7th) and sophomores 

Alexandra Skibicki (21:21.4, 

8th), Abbey Kozak (21:32.9, 9th) and 

Anna Kozak (21:46.7, 12th). 

“The girls came up with that idea 

for the pack in the first race, and they 

did it really well,” Lockport girls 

cross country coach Erin Truesdale 

said. “They set out to pack run, and it 

worked well for us. It was a good start 

to the season, and, as we move forward, 

we will keep this plan in mind. 

Now our focus will be to move that 

pack up.” 

Bollinger is the younger sister of 

two-time Porter state medalist Morgan 

Bollinger, who graduated this 

spring. 

“Elizabeth trained with us in the 

summer and did really well,” Truesdale 

said of Bollinger. “She’s fit real 

well into the team, and it’s nice to 

have her in the top group. We had a 

good summer of training, and we will 

be concentrating on keeping everyone 

healthy. This team is a wonderful 

combination of experienced girls and 

newcomers with great potential. We 

are excited to see where the season 

takes us. 

“We’re hoping to make it back to 

state and place a little higher.” 

Last year, Lockport, which was 

making its eighth straight state appearance 

and 12th in 13 seasons, 

placed 17th in Class 3A. 

The SWSC preseason meets were 

not officially scored team-wise. Lincoln-Way 

Central had the Top 2 runners, 

as junior Mackenzie Brownrigg 

(20:43) was first, and sophomore Rachel 

Baumgartner (20:45.3) placed 

second. Lockport would have easily 

won the team title, as the Porters had 

six of the next seven top finishers, so 

they had six of the Top 9 placers. 

This weekend, both the Porter boys 

and girls teams are at the Plainfield 

Central Invite, which starts at 9 a.m. 

on Saturday, Sept. 2, right on the 

Plainfield Central Campus.



Lockport defense notches several turnovers in season-opening win 

Porters beat 

Downers Grove 

North for second 

straight year 

Randy Whalen 


The Lockport Township 

football team could not be 

caught. 

Neither could Gabriel 

Amegatcher. 

Amegatcher returned a 

fumble 95 yards for the 

clinching touchdown as the 

Porters held off Downers 

Grove North for a 14-0 victory 

in the season-opening 

game for both teams Friday, 

Aug. 25, at Lockport’s East 

Campus. 

The second straight season-opening 

win is also a 

good sign, as Lockport is 

now 5-4 against the Trojans 

in the past nine openers. 

Each year the Porters 

have won that matchup with 

Downers North, they have 

made the playoffs. 

It was also the first time 

the Porters (1-0) have registered 

a shutout in the season 

opener since they blanked 

Chicago Vocational 26-0 to 

kick off the 2007 season. 

“This was just a great 

team win and a great team 

effort,” Lockport coach Dan 

Starkey said. “We did a lot 

of things well. The team put 

in the time and effort in the 

offseason workouts, and I’m 

so happy that these kids got 

rewarded.” 

But last week’s outcome 

was certainly in doubt until 

the final minutes. Starting 

at their own 11, the Trojans 

drove to the Lockport 6-yard 

line. From there, they faced 

a third-and-1, and their 13th 

play of the drive proved unlucky 

for them. 

That’s because senior 

quarterback Jack Carr rolled 

to his left and proceeded to 

lose the ball on a possible 

pitch out. The ball went forward 

a couple of yards and 

took a perfect bounce to 

Amegatcher, and the senior 

defensive back sprinted 95 

yards down the right sideline 

for the touchdown with 2:10 

left in the game. 

“I think the quarterback 

was trying to pitch the ball, 

but he lost it and it took 

a perfect bounce right to 

me,” Amegatcher said. “I 

just grabbed it and started 

running down the sideline 

as fast as I could. I’ve seen 

that happen before, and then 

the guy [who recovers the 

fumble] gets caught. So all 

I kept thinking was, ‘Don’t 

get caught, don’t get caught.’ 

“It was the first time I’ve 

ever scored a touchdown on 

defense. It was a good win. 

We just kept holding them 

all night. We had good coverage, 

and the defensive line 

held them.” 

That was definitely a game 

changer. 

“A scoop and score,” Starkey 

said of Amegatcher’s 

play. “As a defensive coach, 

that’s what you dream 

about.” 

Downers coach John Wander, 

who guided the Trojans 

to the 2004 Class 8A state 

championship, was dreaming 

about what could have 

been but was not to be for 

his team. 

“I was thinking about 

whether or not we’d go 

for the win or the tie,” said 

Wander, believing his team 

would score a TD in the final 

minutes of regulation. “But 

then the ball just popped 

up [on the fumble]; it was 

a fluke. But that’s what I 

get for thinking ahead. Bad 

things happened.” 

Downers Grove North 

reached the Lockport 42 on 

the opening possession of 

the season but had to punt, 

and the ball and was downed 

at the Lockport 3. From 

there, the Porters embarked 

on a 97-yard, 15-play drive 

that took 6:20 off the clock. 

The march was aided by a 

pair of personal foul penalties 

on the Trojans, including 

one that nullified a Lockport 

punt from its own 19. 

Junior quarterback Jake 

Karli (4-for-9, 25 yards passing) 

had the longest play of the 

drive, a 16-yard run. Senior 

running back Tavares Moore, 

who carried the ball eight 

times in the drive, capped it 

off by diving in from a yard 

out with 1:32 left in the first 

quarter. Junior Ryan Barth 

added the extra point kick. 

Moore, who gained over 

1,200 yards last year, finished 

with 25 carries for 88 

yards. He would have had 

over 100 yards, but he lost 

18 yards on a play early in 

the fourth quarter. Because 

of the penalties, the Porters 

had 67 total yards in offense 

on their opening drive. That 

was more than half of the 

132 total yards they had in 

the game. 

Downers North had 231 

total yards, with 67 of those 

coming on the ensuing drive 

after the Lockport touchdown. 

The Trojans drove 

for a first and goal at the 

Lockport 7. But Carr (9-of- 

17 passing for 89 yards, 15 

carries for 59 yards) lost two 

yards on a first-down play, 

and his next two passes were 

both broken up by senior defensive 

back Tim Surin. 

“After the first one, I was 

pretty pumped up,” said Surin, 

who broke up a trio of 

passes total on that drive. 

“We always practice that 

goal-line scenario, so I was 

ready when the ball came 

my way. We wanted to make 

a play and get momentum. 

“Defensively, we looked 

good. It’s fun playing, and I 

was ready.” 

Porters quarterback Jake Karli breaks away from a defender and looks downfield Friday, 

Aug. 25, in the game against Downers Grove North played at home at East Campus. 

Photos by Mark Korosa/22nd Century Media 

Tim Surin breaks up a pass in the end zone for Lockport. 

When the march, which 

took 6:08 off the clock, 

stalled, the Trojans tried a 

26-yard field goal. But the 

13th play of that drive was 

unlucky, as senior Benjamin 

Johnson saw his kick 

fall short and drift right with 

7:24 left in the first half. 

Lockport got to the Trojans 

29 early in the fourth 

quarter, but Moore lost the 

18 yards shortly thereafter, 

and the Porters had to punt. 

The Trojans held the ball for 

over seven minutes before 

Amegatcher was in the right 

place at the right time for the 

huge touchdown return. 

Senior linebacker Austin 

Hoffman added an interception 

for Lockport with 1:46 to 

play in the game to clinch the 

win. Junior linebacker Will 

Cichowski also had a fumble 

recovery at his own 43 with 

3:49 to play in the third quarter. 

The fumble was forced 

by senior defensive end Haleem 

Ajibola, who was in on 

numerous tackles throughout 

the evening. 

“Haleem had a lot of tackles 

and stuffed the run,” 

Starkey said. “We have 40 

seniors out here, and a lot 

of senior leadership that 

showed.” 

The Porters hope to start 

2-0 for the second straight 

season when they travel to 

South Elgin on Saturday, 

Sept. 2, with the varsity 

game slated for a 1:30 p.m. 

start time.



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LTHS running back Moore looks to cement his legacy 

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Century Media 

Lockport football 

comes out victorious 

over Downers Grove 

North 

1. Securing a shutout 

The Porters blanked 

Downers Grove 

North 14-0 on 

Friday, Aug. 25, at 

Lockport Township 

High School’s 

East Campus. 

The shutout was 

the result of a 

stellar effort of the 

defense, which 

tallied multiple 

turnovers. 

2. Limiting yardage 

Collectively, the 

defense of the 

Porters held Trojans 

quarterback Ben 

Carr to 89 yards 

passing and 

Downers Grove 

North to 231 yards 

total. 

3. Leading the offense 

Lockport running 

back Tavares Moore 

finished with 88 

yards on 25 carries 

in the game. 

Randy Whalen 


Throughout its history, the 

Lockport football team has 

been blessed with some excellent 

running backs. 

John Handy earned All- 

American status in the 1960s. 

Craig Duppong ran for 456 

yards and eight touchdowns 

in a single game and also 

carried the Porters to a trio 

of playoff wins at the end 

of the 1990s. Anthony Hawthorne 

speared the rushing 

attack on the first state title 

team in 2002, and Dan “The 

Tank” Holman had back-toback 

1,000-yard seasons at 

the end of last decade. 

This season, Tavares 

Moore wants to solidify his 

spot on that list. 

Moore broke out last year 

by literally coming out of nowhere 

to rush 220 times for 

1,240 yards in nine games. 

He had six games of over 

100 yards, scored eight rushing 

touchdowns and added 

13 receptions for 174 yards 

PRESSBOX PICKS 

Our staff’s predictions for 

the top games in Week 2 

Sandburg (0-1) hosts Curie (1-0) 

Lincoln-Way West (1-0) hosts Lincoln-Way Central (1-0) 

Lincoln-Way East (1-0) at Maine South (1-0) 

Tinley Park (0-1) hosts Rich East (0-1) 

Lockport (1-0) at South Elgin (1-0) 

LISTEN UP 

“A scoop and score. As a defensive coach, that’s what you 

dream about.” 

Dan Starkey — Lockport football coach, on the decisive fumble recovery 

and score by Gabriel Amegatcher in the team’s season-opening win 

“I want to have more yards with 

fewer carries.” 

Tavares Moore — Lockport Township senior running 

back, on his personal goal for the season 

and a trio of touchdowns. 

Now a senior, Moore — 

who is 5-foot-7 and weighs 

160 pounds — has a simple 

personal goal for this season. 

“I want to have more yards 

with fewer carries,” he said. 

Moore got off on the right 

foot during the Porters’ 

opening-night victory over 

Downers Grove North, running 

for 88 yards on 25 carries 

and accounting for about 

two-thirds of Lockport’s total 

offense. 

Last fall, he burst on the 

scene in a 17-15 Week 2 win 

over South Elgin. There, he 

got 40 touches [34 carries for 

169 yards and six receptions 

for 57 yards] in substituting 

for senior John Snidanko, 

who was injured, to help the 

Tim Carroll | Contributing 

Editor 

• Sandburg 27, Curie 20. The Condors 

are a very cool mascot. But I still 

like the Eagles. 

• LW Central 

• Maine South 

• Tinley Park 

• Lockport 

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Porters pull out the win. The 

week before, in the seasonopening 

20-9 win at Downers 

Grove North, he had a 

few carries for minus-1 yard. 

“I was really nervous,” 

Moore said about being 

called on last year in the 

Week 2 victory. “But I got 

in the zone, everything was 

gone and it was football.” 

“We like to run the football, 

and Tavares is a talented 

young man,” Starkey 

said. “He just keeps his legs 

going at all times. He loves 

football. We just have to 

build around him and be able 

to make plays.” 

Junior quarterback Jake 

Karli agreed. 

“Having Tavares is definitely 

a big boost,” Karli 

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• Sandburg 20, Curie 10. The 

Eagles fly past the visitors in 

Orland Park. 




• South Elgin 

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Joe Coughlin | Publisher 




• Lockport 

Football 

Afternoon pigskin — 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 

2, at South Elgin 

• The Porters play their first road contest of 

the year in Week 2, hoping to silence the 

storm for the second straight year. 

Senior Tavares Moore will be the workhorse-tailback for the 

Porters this season after rushing for more than 1,200 yards 

last year. Brittany Kapa/22nd Century Media 

said. “Once he gets outside, 

he’s gone and he’s a huge 

factor for us.” 

Leslie Nartey, a 5-foot-8, 

175-pound junior who transferred 

in from Romeoville, 

will be the backup to Moore. 

“I have confidence with 

him,” Moore said of Nartey. 

• Sandburg 42, Curie 35. Crowd 

aids Eagles in suburbs versus city 

shootout. 

4-1 

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Operating Officer 

• Sandburg 21, Curie 19. The 

Eagles bring home a win in 

Week 2. 

• LW West 



• Lockport 

Index 

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“I just have to work hard, 

harder than last year. But 

once we get in a rhythm, 

we’re going to be able to 

beat anyone we face. Our 

defense is set. Once we get 

our offense confident and 

set, we can go further than 

last year.” 

Max Lapthorne | 

Contributing Editor 

• Sandburg 18, Curie 16. Experienced 

Eagles secondary locks up 

Condors offense. 

• LW West 

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• Lockport 

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tom@homerhorizon.com. 

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Lockport football starts 1-0 after shutting out Trojans, Page 46 

Lockport’s Haleem 

Ajibola (middle) tackles 

Downers Grove North’s 

Jordan Byers Friday, 

Aug. 25, in the season 

opener played at 

LTHS’s East Campus. 

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Century Media 

More for 

Moore Lockport’s 

standout running 

back plans to help pace 

the offense this season, 

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