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In the running The Bridge Teen Center 

seeking votes for $75,000 prize that comes with 

True Inspiration Award, Page 3 

Still running Family with Orland Park 

tie plans to Run Across Illinois once again to help 

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THURSDAY 

Stellwagen Farm Tours 

Sept. 21-14, 108th Avenue 

and Louetta Lane. Enjoy the 

beginning of fall in Orland 

Park, as the Stellwagen 

Family Farm Foundation 

hosts a weekend of tours 

of the historic Stellwagen 

Family Farm. Free tours are 

to take place from 10 a.m.- 

4 p.m. Sept. 21, 10 a.m.-4 

p.m. Sept. 22, 10 a.m.-4 

p.m. Sept. 23 and 1-5 p.m. 

Sept. 24. For any questions 

about the tours, contact 

the Development Services 

Department at (708) 403- 

5300. 

Horseback Riding (High 

School Only) 

4-6 p.m. Sept. 21, The 

Bridge Teen Center, 15555 

S. 71st Court. Students will 

take a trail ride on horseback. 

For this program, students 

will travel in The Bridge 

Bus to 16717 Lockwood 

Ave. in Tinley Park. This is a 

free event for teens in grades 

9-12. For more information, 

call (708) 532-0500 or visit 

www.thebridgeteencenter. 

org. 

DIY Denim Organizer 

4-6 p.m. Sept. 21, The 



design and sew a supercool 

jean-inspired creation 

that has practical uses, as 

well. This is a free event for 

teens in grades 7-12. For 

more information, call (708) 

532-0500 or visit www. 

thebridgeteencenter.org. 

Detailing a Sports Car 

4:30-5:30 p.m. Sept. 21, 

The Bridge Teen Center, 

15555 S. 71st Court. 

Students will learn about 

how to detail a sports car. 

This is a free event for teens 

in grades 7-12. For more 

information, call (708) 



FRIDAY 

Orland Park Police Conduct 

Child Safety Seat Inspections 

10-3 p.m. Sept. 22 and 

Sept. 30. The Orland Park 

Police Department is to 

conduct child passenger 

safety seat checks Sept. 22 at 

Buy Buy Baby, 290 Orland 

Park Place, and Sept. 30 at 

Babies R Us, 15820 94th 

Ave. 

Tailgate Party Night 

7:30-10:30 p.m. Sept. 22, 


15555 S. 71st Court. 

Students are invited to join 

us for a tailgate-themed 

night. Free food samples 

will be provided by Lou 

Malnati’s. This is a free 

event for teens in grades 


call (708) 532-0500 or visit 


org. 

SATURDAY 

Cemetery Symbolism & 

Preservation Guided Tour 

2-3 p.m. Sept. 23, Orland 

Park History Museum, 14415 

Beacon Ave. The museum 

invites the community to its 

guided tour through Orland 

Park Memorial Cemetery. 

The informational tour will 

provide an explanation of 

the different symbols and 

abbreviations on headstones, 

and the various preservation 

efforts used to save old 

cemeteries. The tour is open 

to guests ages 18 and older. 

Visitors are to meet at the 

cemetery, located at 153rd 

Street and West Avenue, 

and dress for the weather. 

Fee is $9 for residents; $14 

for non-residents. Discount 

for museum members. Preregistration 

for the tour 

is required at Recreation 

Administration, 14600 

S. Ravinia Ave) or at the 

Village’s Sportsplex, 11351 

West 159th Street. Day of 

registrations will not be 

accepted. 

Orland Park Police Afternoon 

Roll Call 

2:45 p.m. Sept. 23, 

Doogan Park, 14700 Park 

Lane. The Orland Park 

community is invited to 

watch as the Orland Park 

Police Department conducts 

its Saturday afternoon roll 

call. Residents will also 

have an opportunity to 

meet their neighborhood 

police officers. All are 

welcome to attend. Roll call 

is where supervisors take 

attendance, inspect uniform 

and equipment, inform 

the oncoming shift of any 

outstanding incidents that 

may have occurred, inform 

officers of suspects fro which 

to be looking, and share any 

law or procedural changes. 

This will be OPPD’s final 

public roll call for 2017. 

Annual Poetry Slam 

7-9:30 p.m. Sept. 23, 

Cultural Center, Exhibit 

Hall, 14760 Park Lane. 

The Orland Park Arts 

Commission is to host its 

annual event. It is $5 at the 

door or $3 to “spit.” Prizes 

to the Top 3 contestants. For 


403-7275. 

SUNDAY 

Sons of Italy Pasta Dinner 

1-5 p.m. Sept. 24, Tinley 

Park High School, 6111 W. 

175th St., Tinley Park. Order 

Songs of Italy in America 

Leone D’Oro Lodge 2700 

of Orland Park is sponsoring 

its annual pasta dinner. The 

event’s proceeds go towards 

The Lodge Memorial 

College 

Scholarship Fund, charity 

and general lodge activities. 

The pasta and meatballs are 

to be prepared by Barraco’s 

of Orland Park. Tickets are 

$12 in advance and $13 

at the door, and includes 

pasta and meatballs, 

salad, bread, desserts, and 

beverages. There will be 

live entertainment, raffles 

and door prizes. For more 

information, call (708) 560- 

0632. 

MONDAY 

Coffee with a Cop 

9-10:30 a.m. Sept. 25, 

Orland Park Barnes & 

Noble, 160 Orland Park 

Place. The community is 

invited to attend a morning 

of coffee and conversation 

to get to know members 

of the Orland Park Police 

Department in an informal 

and friendly setting. 

TUESDAY 

Behind the Scenes: 

Motorcycle Gear w/Cycle 

Gear 

4:15-5:45 p.m. Sept. 26, 


15555 S. 71st Court. 

Students will get an indepth 

look into parts and 

accessories for dirt bikes and 

street motorcycles. This is a 



call (708) 532-0500 or visit 


org. 

WEDNESDAY 

Orland Park Womens’ Day 

Event 

9 a.m.-2 p.m. Sept. 27, 

Orland Park Health & 

Fitness Center, 15430 West 

Ave. More than 20 local 

vendors and healthcare 

professionals will be featured 

in the main lobby. Special 

services include prizes, chair 

massages, fitness demos, 

women’s strength training, 

30-minute self-defense 

intros, refreshments, photo 

booth, prize wheel with 

prizes including a one year 

membership, massage, and 

personal training packages. 

New members who join 

during this event will receive 

free enrollment. Vendors 

will have samples, products 

and services available for 

purchase, and information 

about their companies. 

Knitting Hair Wraps 

4-6 p.m. Sept. 27, The 



knit their own custom hair 

wrap. This is a free event 

for teens in grades 7-12. For 




Djembe Drums 

4:30-6 p.m. Sept. 27, The 



learn how to play this West 

African drum. This is a free 

event for teens in grades 


call (708) 532-0500 or visit 


org. 

Substance Awareness Forum 

Movie Night 

6-8:30 p.m. Sept. 27, 

Marcus Theatres’ Orland 

Park Cinema, 16350 S. 

LaGrange Road. The 

Orland Park Substance 

Awareness Forum Treatment 

and Recovery Committee 

will mark September as 

National Recovery Month 

by hosting a free screening 

of the documentary, “The 

Anonymous People.” 

Admission is free. The 

evening also includes free 

popcorn and pop, raffle prizes 

and time for discussion. 

Learn more about OPSAF at 

www.opcares.net. 

UPCOMING 

Graphic Design & 

Advertising w/DLT Design & 

Photography 

5-6 p.m. Thursday, 

Sept. 28, The Bridge Teen 

Center, 15555 S. 71st 

Court. Students will learn 

how to develop an effective 

advertisement that grabs 

attention, communicates a 

clear message, and motivates 

an audience to act. This is a 



call (708) 532-0500 or visit 


org. 

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Deadline is noon Thursdays. To 

submit an item to the calendar, 

contact Editor Bill Jones at 

(708) 326-9170 ext. 20 or 

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Bridge Teen Center vies for votes to win $75K True Inspiration Award 

Meredith Dobes 

Freelance Reporter 

For the work it does to 

support junior high and high 

school students through a 

plethora of after-school activities, 

The Bridge Teen 

Center has been nominated 

to win Chick-fil-A Foundation’s 

True Inspiration 

Award for the Midwest Region. 

Winning the award would 

give The Bridge a $75,000 

grant — or, approximately 

10 percent of the nonprofit’s 

total budget for the year, according 

to Rob Steinmetz, 

co-founder of The Bridge. 

The Bridge is competing 

against three other nonprofit 

organizations from the Midwest. 

Through Oct. 21, supporters 

of The Bridge can 

cast votes for the Orland 

Park organization through 

Chick-fil-A’s One app. To 

“It could have the potential to provide the support 

we need to give students free access for a year.” 

Rob Steinmetz — Co-founder of The Bridge Teen Center in Orland Park, on 

the impact winning Chick-fil-A Foundation’s True Inspiration Award could 

have 

win, The Bridge must have 

the most votes at the end of 

the voting time period. 

Steinmetz explained that 

The Bridge has always had a 

strong relationship with the 

Orland Park Chick-fil-A and 

its owner, Kevin Bulmann. 

“They’ve been extremely 

generous with us, as it relates 

to donating food for 

Friday night events with students 

or for special events,” 

Steinmetz said. “They’ve 

always been there for us and 

have been very supportive of 

us since the beginning.” 

Peter Glanvill, owner of 

the Chicago Ridge Chick-fil- 

A, recently was introduced 

to The Bridge through its annual 

golf outing and worked 

with Bulmann to nominate 

The Bridge for the True Inspiration 

Award. 

Of roughly 160 organizations 

that were nominated, 

The Bridge was the only 

nonprofit that had two restaurants 

nominate it, Steinmetz 

said. 

To help encourage people 

to vote for The Bridge, both 

stores are running their own 

competitions on Facebook, 

though which voters can 

post a screenshot of their 

vote to the store’s Facebook 

pages. By doing so, voters 

are entered into a drawing to 

win Chick-fil-A food for one 

year. 

Steinmetz said winning 

the True Inspiration Award 

would allow The Bridge to 

provide approximately 300 

students with free, unlimited 

access to the center’s programs 

for a year. 

“This summer, we welcomed 

about 500 new students 

through our doors,” he 

said. “It could have the potential 

to provide the support 

we need to give students free 

access for a year. Three hundred 

students is huge for us.” 

Steinmetz added that 

the exposure The Bridge’s 

mission and programs are 

receiving through the competition 

is already providing 

value to the nonprofit, 

helping more people find out 

about the services the center 

offers. 

To vote for The Bridge 

Teen Center to win the True 

Inspiration Award, download 

Chick-fil-A’s One app 

on a mobile device, click on 

the True Inspiration Award 

section of the app, select 

“Midwest Region,” and 

choose The Bridge. 

For more information and 

instructions, visit thebridge 

teencenter.org/news/truein 

spirationaward. 

“I encourage everybody to 

share it on social media with 

friends and family, and ask 

others to vote,” Steinmetz 

said. “That’s how we’re going 

to pull ahead with this 

thing is to get everybody 

sharing it and passing it on.” 

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Orland Fire, Toy Box Connection 

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Collections at stations to 

take place until end of 

October 

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District 

The Orland Fire Protection District is 

teaming up with Toy Box Connection 

to collect cleaning items, water, personal 

care items and more for the people 

Coffee with a Cop comes 

to Barnes & Noble Sept. 25 

Submitted by Village of 

Orland Park 

The Orland Park Police 

Department is slated to host 

its next Coffee with a Cop 

from 9-10:30 a.m. Monday, 

Sept. 25, at the Orland Park 

Barnes & Noble, 160 Orland 

Park Place. 

The community is invited to 

attend a morning of coffee and 

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that lost everything during the two hurricanes 

that hit Texas and Florida. 

Toy Box Connection has found 

someone to drive items down to those 

in need. 

Orland Fire is going to collect at all 

six of our fire stations until the end of 

October or when the truck departs for 

these locations. 

Residents can drop items at the following 

places. 

conversation to get to know 

members of the OPPD in an 

informal and friendly setting. 

Coffee with a Cop is a 

national initiative supported 

by the United States Department 

of Justice and the Office 

of Community Oriented 

Policing Services. 

It was created in 2011 

in Hawthorne, California, 

when members of that city’s 

police department were 

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with the citizens they served. 

Since its inception, Coffee 

with a Cop is now held in all 

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• Station 1: 9790 W. 151st St. 

• Station 2: 15100 W. 80th Ave. 

• Station 3: 15101 S. Wolf Road 

• Station 4: 16515 S. 94th Ave. 

• Station 5: 8851 W. 143rd St. 

• Station 6: 17640 S. Wolf Road 

Items also can be dropped off at Toy 

Box Connection at 159th Street and 

LaGrange Road, behind the retail strip. 

Normal business hours are 10 a.m.-2 

p.m. Monday and Wednesday. 

Police offer two child safety 

seats checks in September 


Orland Park 


Department invites the community 

to attend one of its 

two free child safety seat 

checks scheduled for September 

in Orland Park. 

OPPD’s Traffic Unit will 

be out at Buy Buy Baby 

from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Friday, 

Sept. 22. The event will be 

held at the upper level parking, 

which faces 94th Avenue. 

The department store is 

located at 290 Orland Park 

Place. 

The unit will be out again 

from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, 

Sept. 30, at Babies R 

Us, 15820 94th Avenue. 

The officers conducting 

the checks are certified Illinois 

child passenger safety 

technicians. Officers will 

check to make sure car seats 

are properly installed and 

properly fitted to each child. 

Officers also will check seat 

belts and car seats. 

Both stores will offer a 

discount on new child safety 

seats to those turning in expired 

or unsafe car seats. 

Questions may be directed 

to the Orland Park Police Department’s 

non-emergency 

number at (708) 349-4111. 

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Residents also will have 

an opportunity to meet their 

neighborhood police officers. 

The OPPD will hold its afternoon 

shift roll call around 

2:45 p.m. at Doogan Park, 

14700 Park Lane, under the 

pavilion. 

All are welcome to attend. 

Roll call is when supervisors 

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Jane’s Warriors 5K going strong after three years 

Run and walk keeps 

memory of former 

Sandburg coach, 

teacher alive 

Randy Whalen 


As Jim Caliendo reflected 

on the third annual Jane’s 

Warriors 5K Run and Walk 

event, which is held in honor 

of his late wife, he knew 

why it once again took place 

on a gorgeous day. 

“It was a beautiful day, 

and everything went like 

clockwork,” he said. “It’s 

her job to give us the weather, 

and she’s 3-for-3. We do 

the rest.” 

Jane Caliendo certainly 

delivered with an amazing 

day. The community also 

delivered by showing up in 

droves for another event to 

honor her memory. 

Jane Caliendo, a 1986 

graduate of Sandburg, was 

an outstanding swimmer at 

the school. She later became 

a longtime teacher, as well 

as being a swimming and 

water polo coach at Sandburg. 

She died on Oct. 4, 

2014, after a long battle with 

colon cancer. 

With a lot of help from 

family and friends, Jim Caliendo 

launched the Jane’s 

Warriors 5K Run and Walk 

two years ago as a lasting 

tribute to his wife’s legacy. 

This year’s event was held 

the morning of Sept. 10 at 

the 153rd Street Metra train 

station in Orland Park. 

The proceeds from the 

event are used by the Jane 

Caliendo Memorial Foundation 

to provide college scholarships 

for student-athletes 

and aquatic improvements 

to the swimming facility 

at Sandburg, which is now 

named after her as the Jane 

Caliendo Aquatic Center. 

‘Everyone was here because they 

were touched by Jane in some way. 

The real reason everyone is here is 

to remember her, and after three 

years I’m still pleased that we can 

sustain this. 

Jim Caliendo — Former Sandburg teacher and 

coach, on the annual 5K to honor his late wife 

“Coming in, the numbers 

were down,” race director 

Jennifer Farley said of this 

year’s 5K. “But just before 

the race, there was this 

surge, and we still had a line 

of people here 15 minutes 

before the race started. We 

ended up with just about the 

same number of people as 

we had last year. 

“I believe this race is going 

to become more of a 

remembrance of Jane. We 

always have a lot of people 

donating, but it’s amazing 

the amount of people from 

the community that come 

out. Some of them might not 

even have known her, but 

they knew of her or knew 

someone that knew her and 

what she meant to the whole 

community.” 

Someone who knows the 

impact Jim and Jane Caliendo 

have made in not only 

the Orland Park community 

but also the surrounding area 

is Patrick Shaughnessy. A 

longtime teacher and aquatics 

coach who was at Lincoln-Way 

North, Shaughnessy 

now is the head girls 

swimming and boys water 

polo coach at Lincoln-Way 

Central. He was among the 

hundreds of participants at 

the event. 

“This was my third year 

doing the race,” Shaughnessy 

said. “Jane and Jim 

have done so much for 

swimming and water polo 

in Illinois, and as a coach I 

have a lot of respect for that 

and feel the need to support 

a great cause. 

“They were always very 

supportive of us when we 

were brand new coaches 

starting new programs at 

North, and I have never forgotten 

that. Jim continues to 

help me be a better coach, 

and participating in the event 

is a simple way for me to 

show my appreciation.” 

Shaughnessy placed in the 

Top 60 overall runners, as 

there were many different 

age groups in both male and 

female categories. Ethan Miranda-Gale 

(19 minutes and 

7.3 seconds) easily won the 

race portion of the event by 

40 seconds over Scott Plaisier 

(19:47.8). Two young 

runners were right behind in 

Grant Giblin (19:49.5) and 

Seth Mendoza (19:53.2), 

who were both in the men 

ages 12 and younger division. 

Alexandra Holdefer 

(20:52.4) rounded out the 

Top 5 and was the top female 

placer. 

But as is the case every 

year, the cause for the event 

was much more important 

than the results of the races. 

The main sponsor was Palos 

Jim and Maggie Caliendo, as well as their dog Trixie, pose for a photo Sept. 10 before the 

annual Jane’s Warriors 5K Run and Walk in Orland Park. Laurie Fanelli/22nd Century Media 

Orland Swim Association. 

The Papa Joe’s in Orland 

Park donated the food, and 

numerous other sponsors 

made many contributions. 

Laura Witt, who met Jane 

when the two entered high 

school together in the fall of 

1982, said she loved seeing 

the memories of her longtime 

friend kept alive. 

“We swam together at 

Sandburg for four years and 

were co-captains our junior 

and senior years,” Witt said. 

“I had come from a small 

grade school, and everyone 

knew Jane already when we 

got to high school. But she 

was a great encourager to me. 

When I first came to Sandburg, 

she encouraged me and 

helped me find success. 

“We later coached together 

at Sandburg and at POSA. 

Something that I thought 

was very cool was that there 

were lots of kids [at the 5K]. 

Jane would have loved to 

have seen the participation 

of all the young people. It 

was neat to see all the families 

with ties to Jane. People 

she coached now have families, 

and she was so important 

to them.” 

Witt also mentioned people 

like Farley, Kathy Lawlor 

and Tracy Sullivan as key 

contributors with their time 

and effort, along with Jim 

Caliendo — who just retired 

from Sandburg as a teacher 

and coach this past spring. 

As always, he said he was 

appreciative of the support 

and contributions from everyone 

involved on the day 

and leading up to it. 

“The high school kids 

were out here,” he said. 

“The cross country team, 

the swimmers, who helped 

in the setting up and taking 

down. It went great. We had 

over 600 runners and walkers 

here, and had about 100 

walk-ups in the morning. 

“We’re three years in, and 

things are just as emotional 

and rewarding as when we 

started. As I told the crowd, 

everyone was here because 

they were touched by Jane 

in some way. The real reason 

everyone is here is to remember 

her, and after three 

years I’m still pleased that 

we can sustain this.”

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Orland Park schools helping police name newest K-9 officer 

Community-wide 

voting to name 

department dog 

begins Sept. 22 


Orland Park 


Department has called 

upon Orland Park grammar 

school students to help 

name the newest addition to 

the department, a Hanover 

Hound. 

A hunting and tracking 

dog, the Hanover Hound 

(also known as the Hanoverian 

Hound), descends from 

the bloodhounds of medieval 

times. The breed first was 

introduced in the 1980s in 

France and is considered rare. 

The hound excels above 

almost all other breeds in 

its ability to track suspects 

and missing persons, as well 

as detect drugs, and Orland 

Park’s will be the first of its 

kind deployed in the State of 

Illinois. 

The dog’s name must 

be decided by the end of 

September, as that is when 

he will begin the yearlong 

training and must obey 

commands with his name. 

The department has 

called upon local school 

children to submit potential 

names for the dog, with a 

community-wide vote being 

held online Sept. 22-29. 

Classrooms within each 

building are submitting 

their favorite names, and 

each school will submit one 

overall favorite from the 

building. If a classroom’s 

name is chosen during the 

community-wide vote, that 

classroom will be honored 

with a pizza party, invited 

to meet the dog and will be 

recognized at an upcoming 

Village Board meeting. 

Each building will submit 

one name for the public 

vote that will be held online 

from the evening of Sept. 22 

through 5 p.m. Sept. 29. 

Those wanting to participate 

in the community-wide 

vote should watch the Village’s 

website and social 

media outlets for the voting 

link. Details will appear at 

www.orlandpark.org, as well 

as on Facebook, Twitter and 

Instagram by searching Village 

of Orland Park, Illinois. 

Grammar schools in Orland Park have been invited to help name the Orland Park Police 

Department’s newest member, a Hanover Hound. The public will be invited to vote on the 

dog’s name from Sept. 22-29. Photo submitted 

Southwest Conference of Mayors to stage equipment auction 


Orland Park 

The Southwest Conference 

of Mayors is slated to 

hold its annual public auction 

at 11 a.m. Saturday, 

Sept. 30. 

The Orland Park Public 

Works Facility, the auction’s 

location, is located at 15655 

S. Ravinia Ave., one block 

west of LaGrange Road. 

Automobiles, trucks and 

Walk to End Alzheimer’s coming to Centennial Park Sept. 30 

Submitted by the 

Alzheimer’s Association 

The Alzheimer’s Association 

Walk to End Alzheimer’s 

is to take place Saturday, 

Sept. 30, at Centennial Park 

in Orland Park. 

Nearly 1,000 people from 

the Orland Park area are expected 

at this year’s event to 

raise awareness and funds to 

equipment from member 

municipalities are to be auctioned 

by American Auction 

Associates. 

A $200 deposit is required 

to obtain a bid paddle. All 

deposits and payments must 

be made in cash, credit cards 

or certified funds. Company 

checks will be accepted with 

a bank letter guaranteeing 

payment. All items are sold 

as-is, where-is, without warranty 

or guarantee. All assets 

must be removed by 4 p.m. 

that day. 

Those planning to bid 

should arrive at least 30 minutes 

before the start of the 

auction to register. Registration 

takes place at the registration 

table. A valid ID, 

business card and a suitable 

deposit will speed up registration. 

After registering, 

bidders receive a numbered 

bidder paddle, and an auction 

lot catalog detailing the 

fight Alzheimer’s disease. 

Walk participants are to 

complete a 2.11-mile walk 

and will learn about Alzheimer’s 

disease, advocacy 

opportunities, clinical studies 

enrollment, and support 

programs and services from 

the Alzheimer’s Association. 

Participants also will join 

in a meaningful tribute ceremony 

to honor those affected 

by Alzheimer’s disease. 

In Illinois alone, there are 

more than 220,000 people living 

with the disease and more 

than 588,000 caregivers. In 

the United States, more than 

5 million Americans are living 

with Alzheimer’s disease, 

the sixth-leading cause of 

death in and the only disease 

items being offered for sale. 

Announcements made the 

day of the auction supersede 

any and all printed materials. 

A public preview is to be 

held from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Friday, 

Sept. 29, and at 9 a.m. 

the morning of the auction. 

Auction requirements and 

vehicles and equipment for 

sale may be viewed online 

at amer-auction.com/eventpro/southwest-conferenceof-mayors-2017. 

among the Top 10 causes that 

cannot be cured, prevented or 

even slowed. Additionally, 

more than 15 million family 

and friends provide care to 

people with Alzheimer’s and 

other dementias. 

To sign up as a team captain, 

join a team or register 

to walk as an individual, 

visit alz.org/walk. 

Heartis Village to present free 

healthcare advocacy program 

Submitted by Heartis 

Village Orland Park 

Heartis Village Orland 

Park is to offer a free healthcare 

advocacy presentation 

from 5:30-7 p.m. Tuesday, 

Sept. 26, at Gatto’s, 8801 W. 

143rd St. in Orland Park. 

More than ever, people are 

worried about the quality of 

the healthcare they and their 

loved ones receive. That is 

why Heartis is to host the 

presentation “In Your Hands: 

How to Be Your Own Health 

Advocate.” 

The program is free and 

open to the public, and a free 

buffet dinner is included. 

The program will be presented 

by Maryellen Jachimowski, 

a nurse who is an 

expert in understanding 

and responding to complex 

patient and family healthcare 

needs. Jachimowski 

obtained her undergraduate 

nursing degree at Loyola 

University, followed by 

graduate studies in adult 

psychiatric nursing at Boston 

University. She has more 

than 30 years’ experience in 

clinical, administrative and 

teaching positions at nationally 

ranked medical centers 

in Boston and Chicago. 

She will explain how to 

identify qualified medical 

providers, track down accurate 

healthcare information 

and avoid medical errors. 

She will share tips for getting 

the best hospital care, as 

well as successfully navigating 

today’s complex healthcare 

system. 

Jachimowski is a patient 

advocate with NShore Patient 

Advocates, the Chicago 

area’s largest advocacy 

agency. 

For reservations, call 

(708) 998-4130.

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Family, friends to run across Illinois for Alzheimer’s research 

Orland Park runner’s 

fundraising efforts 

inspired event 

Jon DePaolis, Freelance Reporter 

What started as a conversation 

between brothers on the way back 

from a marathon has turned into a 

charitable effort that has spurred 

tens of thousands of dollars in donations 

toward finding a cure for 

Alzheimer’s disease. 

And for area residents Jeff and 

Brian Dryfhout, the effort is personal. 

Their family has been inextricably 

affected by Alzheimer’s. 

But together, along with friends, 

family and supporters, the brothers 

started the Run Across Illinois 

event to raise money for the Alzheimer’s 

Association in 2015. The 

third annual Run Across Illinois, 

a relay race which is to span 158 

miles, is scheduled to take place 

Sept. 23-24. 

Affected by Alzheimer’s 

The Dryfhouts have a long history 

with Alzheimer’s disease. 

“My mother, Jan, was diagnosed 

with it at 62,” said Brian, a Frankfort 

resident. “She had to retire early. 

She was an elementary school 

teacher. Her mother was diagnosed 

with it at the same age.” 

Brian remembers his grandmother 

moving in with the family when 

he was in kindergarten. 

“I saw her live with it all the way 

through eighth grade, when she 

passed,” he said. “But my grandmother 

had nine siblings. Seven of 

those siblings either had some form 

of dementia or Alzheimer’s. It’s 

something that was always in our 

family.” 

That family history led Jeff, an 

Orland Park resident, to run and 

raise money for the Alzheimer’s 

Association during the Chicago 

Marathon. On the way home from 

the 2014 marathon, Jeff remembers 

thinking about how many people 

donated to the cause. 

“And people wanted to do more 

than just give money,” Jeff said. 

“I kind of had the idea, literally, 

on the drive home. I wondered if 

there was a different way we could 

do something bigger. I came up 

with the idea of running across 

the whole state and did it as a relay. 

Not everyone can run or marathon 

— or even want to — but a lot 

of people can run 3, 4 or even 10 

miles. That was a great way to get 

a lot more people involved.” 

Thus, planning for the first event 

began. Goals were small at the beginning, 

but the reach kept getting 

bigger and bigger. 

“That first year, we just set a goal 

of $5,000, but it took off,” Brian 

said. “I think when we crossed the 

finish line ... that first year, we were 

at like $17,800. And right as we hit 

the finish line, we were at $18,000. 

We got some donations afterward, 

too.” 

Last year, they raised close to 

$21,000. 

“This year, we’re at $6,000 or 

$7,000 right now [in early September], 

but it normally kicks up that 

weekend of the run,” Brian said. 

“We get most of our donations 

[then].” 

Jeff said the response they have 

received for the race has been 

touching. 

“The story we have with how 

our family has been touched by 

Alzheimer’s is a story other people 

have, as well,” he said. “Almost 

everyone that is part of Run Across 

Illinois who runs or donates or 

helps in any way has a connection, 

a loved one, who has been touched 

by Alzheimer’s. It’s just really cool 

to see how everyone continues to 

rally around this [event].” 

Meeting new people 

Jeff and Brian both said they 

are always surprised by how many 

people support the race — even 

people they have never met. 

“Last year, we had a girl who ran 

30 miles, and that was somebody 

we had never met before in our 

lives,” Brian said. “It was someone 

who heard about [the event] 

through the Alzheimer’s group, 

and she signed up and ran the 30 

miles.” 

But the race also includes a lot 

of family and friends of the Dryfhouts, 

like Frankfort resident Joyce 

Przybylski, who worked with and 

became friends with Jill Dryfhout, 

of New Lenox. 

When the first Run Across Illinois 

took place, the two made a 

deal. Jill would run the Frankfort 

Half-Marathon with Joyce if she 

did the Run Across Illinois event 

with Jill and her family. 

“I was going to do 10 miles, and 

she was going to do 3,” Joyce said 

of that first race. “When I started 

to do fundraising, I then found 

out that my mother-in-law had Alzheimer’s.” 

Joyce’s mother-in-law is in an 

advanced stage of the disease now. 

With the news of the diagnosis, 

that first race became a much bigger 

deal to Joyce. 

“As I started to fundraise for the 

race, I found so many people, even 

at work, who are impacted [by 

the disease], who have parents or 

grandparents or aunts [who have 

been touched by it],” she said. 

Now, she has approximately 25 

names of people for whom she runs 

who have donated to the cause. The 

company for which she works also 

matches her donations raised. 

“I’m thankful that they started 

this [event],” Joyce said. “I’m very 

thankful to be part of this team 

and part of the fundraising. To see 

how much we’ve been able to accomplish, 

even as a small group. 

It gives a nice sense of pride and 

ownership to be part of what they 

created.” 

Still running 

This year, there are 20 people 

who signed up to run, which has 

booked all 158 miles, Brian said. 

“The age range throughout the 

years has been from 7 years old up 

to someone 59 years old running 

this year,” he said. “We run the 

same route every year. We drive 

out two weeks before and test it to 

make sure nothing is under construction.” 

One thing Jeff said he is looking 

forward to this year is the group’s 

run through Prophetstown. 

“Last year ... the mayor was out 

there, and he came and greeted us,” 

Jeff said. “He said the next time we 

were out there to let him know. So, 

we’re actually going to run through 

one of the local bars there, because 

Pictured is Jeff Dryfhout (left), of Orland Park, and Brian Dryfhout, of 

Frankfort, representing the Alzheimer’s Association during the 2016 

Chicago Marathon. Photo submitted 

they said they love what we’re all 

about. It’s neat little things like that.” 

And while running for the cause 

is one way of being on the Run 

Across Illinois team, for people 

whose purview does not involve 

racing around the state donating is 

just fine, too. 

“We’re not raising the money to 

cure my mom,” Brian said. “We’re 

raising the money because we want 

to find a cure for this disease. Everybody 

knows somebody who has 

been affected by this. 

“Watching my father now be 

a caregiver — I don’t want my 

wife to have to do this for me, or 

my sister-in-law to have to do this 

for Jeff,” Brian said. “Let’s get the 

research and the funding. I don’t 

want to see my kids have to go 

through what I had to go through 

with my mom and grandma. 

“It’s a slow, ugly ... death that is 

just sad. And there’s no cure. 

“We’re trying to do our part. I’m 

not a celebrity. I can’t be like J.J. 

Watt, who can raise [millions of 

dollars], but I can drive an RV and 

run a couple of miles and try to get 

some funds raised.” 

To learn more about the event 

or to donate, visit www.gofundme. 

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Police Reports 

Police: Teen had heroin, LSD and cannabis inside vehicle 

Kitra M. Gallagher, 19, 

of 11728 Brookside Drive 

in Palos Park, was charged 

Aug. 19 with two counts of 

possession of a controlled 

substance, as well as one 

count each of possession of 

cannabis, possession of drug 

paraphernalia, possession 

of hypodermic needles and 

following too closely after 

a 2014 Hyundai Elantra she 

allegedly was driving was 

stopped on 159th Street near 

94th Avenue. There was an 

odor of cannabis emanating 

from the vehicle and green, 

leafy flakes on the floor, police 

said. Upon searching the 

vehicle, police reportedly 

found four bags containing 

a substance suspected to be 

cannabis, four bags containing 

a powder suspected to be 

heroin, two bags containing 

a total of 19 squares of a substance 

suspected to be LSD, 

nine hypodermic syringes, 

a cannabis grinder, two 

glass pipes with burnt cannabis 

residue, a blunt splitter 

and a rubber container 

with cannabis residue. The 

green, leafy substance field 

tested positive for the presumptive 

presence of cannabis 

weighing 4.1 grams, 

while the powder field tested 

positive for the presumptive 

presence of heroin weighing 

1.5 grams, police said. The 

squares reportedly field tested 

positive for the presumptive 

presence of LSD. 

Aug. 26 

• Nicholas A. McArthur, 35, 

of 5731 Ridgemont Lane in 

Chicago Ridge, was charged 

with two counts of burglary 

to motor vehicle after he allegedly 

entered two vehicles 

on the lot of a dealership 

in the 8500 block of 159th 

Street. He reportedly took 

keys out of a Pontiac G6, as 

well as sunglasses valued at 

$150 with a case from a Nissan 

Xterra. 

Aug. 23 

• Audie V. Hill, 29, of 15729 

Centennial Drive in Orland 

Park, was charged with felony 

theft after he allegedly 

tried to take 65 items valued 

at a total of $3,510 over the 

course of three months while 

working at a department 

store at Orland Square. Over 

the course of three months, 

he reportedly moved items 

into the stock room, put them 

on a shelf, later returned, put 

them in a bag and left without 

paying for the items. The 

items were retrieved from a 

residence in the 7500 block 

of 159th Street, police said. 

• Terence J. Thompson, 18, 

of 1344 E. 156th St. in South 

Holland, was charged with 

retail theft after he allegedly 

deleted items from transactions 

he then gave to acquaintances, 

as well as created 

vouchers for himself, for 

a total loss of roughly $308 

at a store where he worked 

on Orland Park Place. The 

incidents took place between 

July 17 and Aug. 15, police 

said. On July 17, he allegedly 

scanned items while 

working as cashier, deleted 

them from the transaction, 

put the items in a bag for the 

customer, and the customer 

left without paying full price, 

costing the store $72.44. On 

July 17, he reportedly created 

a return voucher, printed 

it and kept it for himself. It 

was valued at $3.37, and he 

redeemed it for a transaction 

valued at $2.62, police 

said. On Aug. 2, he allegedly 

rang up items, deleted the 

transaction, placed the items 

in a bag and the customer 

left without paying for the 

items for a loss to the store 

of $147.90. On Aug. 14, he 

reportedly created a return 

voucher valued at $6.59 and 

kept it. And on Aug. 15, he 

allegedly created a return 

voucher valued at $77.76 

and kept it. 

Aug. 22 

• Matthew J. Duffy, 34, of 

15804 86th Ave. in Orland 

Park, was charged with criminal 

trespass to motor vehicle 

after he allegedly entered tool 

lockers on a 1998 Chevrolet 

C/K 3500 parked outside 

Home Depot, 7300 159th 

St. He reportedly arrived in 

a 2005 Chevrolet Cavalier, 

parked, opened the trunk 

and then walked to the other 

vehicle. He opened exterior 

tool lockers on the vehicle’s 

passenger’s side until he was 

spotted by a witness, got back 

into his own vehicle and left, 

police said. The witness reportedly 

provided a photo of 

the vehicle’s registration, and 

the address attached to it led 

police to Duffy’s residence. 

Nothing was missing from 

the lockers, but the owner did 

not give Duffy permission 

to access the vehicle, police 

said. Duffy was identified as 

the person who entered the 

lockers upon his arrest, police 

added. 

Aug. 21 

• Celso Silva, 20, of 706 

Douglas St. in Joliet, was 

charged with leaving the 

scene of a property damage 

accident, as well as failing 

to provide information or 

render aid, after he allegedly 

struck a motorcycle while 

driving a 2008 Mitsubishi 

Eclipse near the upper-level 

parking lot near JC Penney 

outside of Orland Square. 

The victim was sitting on 

the motorcycle in a parking 

spot, when the Eclipse struck 

it hard enough to knock the 

bike over and then fled toward 

LaGrange, police said. 

A witness wrote down the license 

plate number, and the 

vehicle was found parked in 

a lower-level parking lot near 

Cheesecake Factory, with 

damage to the front driver’s 

side bumper, as well as the 

headlamp casing. Pieces of 

from the Eclipse also were 

found on the ground near the 

motorcycle, police said. 

The driver of the motorcycle 

reportedly refused medical 

attention. 

Silva also received municipal 

citations for possession 

of cannabis and possession 

of drug equipment. Upon 

searching the Eclipse, police 

reportedly found an airdriven 

cannabis pipe in the 

center console and a grinder 

containing a “small amount” 

of cannabis and a clear plastic 

bag containing a “small 

amount” of a substance suspected 

to be cannabis. 

Aug. 16 

• Gerald C. Reid II, 38, of 

7622 Sprucewood Ave. in 

Woodridge, was charged 

with unlawful delivery of 

cannabis and speeding 11-14 

mph over posted limit after 

the 2002 Saturn L Series sedan 

he allegedly was driving 

was stopped on 153rd Street 

near La Reina Real Street. 

He was spotted driving 54 

mph in a 40 mph zone, police 

said. An odor of cannabis 

was coming from his 

vehicle, police added. Upon 

searching the vehicle, police 

reportedly found a plastic 

bag containing a substance 

presumed to be cannabis and 

a small pipe in the driver’s 

side door. In the trunk, police 

reportedly found a grocery 

bag containing seven 

bags containing a substance 

presumed to be cannabis. 

The substance weighed a 

total of 46.5 grams between 

the eight bags and was sent 

to the Illinois State Police 

lab for testing, police said. 

Editor’s note: The Orland Park 

Prairie’s police reports come 

from the Orland Park Police 

Department. Anyone listed in 

these reports is considered to 

be innocent of all charges until 

proven guilty in a court of law. 

Felonious amount 

of cocaine, cannabis 

discovered inside 

Orland home 

Bill Jones, Editor 

The South 

Suburban 

Emergency 

Response 

Team reportedly 

found 

a “felony 

amount” of Zamat 

cannabis, cocaine, 

scales and packaging 

materials upon executing a 

search warrant on an Orland 

Park residence. 

Belal A. Zamat, 18, of 

18029 Erickson Court in Orland 

Park, was charged with 

possession of cannabis with 

intent to deliver and possession 

of a controlled substance, 

both felonies, according 

to a press release issued 

Friday, Sept. 15, by the Orland 

Park Police Department. 

After Orland Park police 

received information regarding 

possible unlawful drug 

sales coming from the residence, 

detectives conducted 

an investigation, according 

to the press release. That investigation 

reportedly concluded 

the morning Sept. 15, 

when SSERT — of which 

the Orland Park Police Department 

is a member — entered 

the home on a search 

warrant. 

Cash also was seized from 

the home, police said. 

Zamat reportedly was being 

detained in Orland Park 

until he can attend a bond 

hearing scheduled for Saturday, 

Sept. 16, at the Cook 

County Courthouse for the 

Fifth Municipal District in 

Bridgeview. 

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Oralnd Fire commemorates 9/11 

Submitted by Orland Fire 

Protection District 

The Orland Fire Protection 

District held a Memorial 

Service Sept. 11 to commemorate 

and remember 

first responders and civilians 

who lost their lives during 

the terrorist attacks 16 years 

ago. 

The service was held at 

the OFPD’s Firefighter Memorial 

at its headquarters in 

Orland Park. 

Firefighters installed a 

From SEPT. 15 

memorial flag to remember 

the firefighters and victims 

who lost their lives or were 

injured that day. 

An honor guard raised the 

American flag, conducted a 

bell ceremony, and included 

remarks by Orland Fire 

Chief Michael Schofield and 

prayers from Fire Chaplain 

John Vogel. 

Each year, the district remembers 

their fellow firefighters 

who lost their lives 

in this tragic event. 

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Business Briefs 

Noodles & Company in 

Orland taking part in JDRF 

fundraiser 

Noodles & Company recently 

announced that 12 of 

its restaurants in the Chicago 

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night to support the Illinois 

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influence on the worldwide 

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Noodles & Company is to 

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Orland Carson’s launches 

mEYEwear prescription 

optical shops 

With the opening of mEYEwear 

Optical shops within 

seven Chicago area locations, 

Carson’s now offers a selection 

of more than 300 chic 

designer prescription frames 

for men and women. The 

shops are located adjacent to 

the accessories department 

at Orland Square. 

The mEYEwear Optical 

shops are a shop-in-store 

concept developed in partnership 

with Bon-Ton Stores 

Inc. and operated by V Optique 

LLC, a new fashion 

prescription eyewear company. 

Operating in approximately 

150 square feet, each 

shop is staffed by both opticians 

and stylists trained to 

assist customers in finding 

prescription frames or sunglasses 

for every lifestyle. 

The shop’s “Elite” eyewear 

collection is a designer 

brand from the internationally 

known Elite Model 

Agency. Designed in Italy, 

the prescription frames and 

sunglasses are contemporary, 

glamorous, and made 

of the finest quality materials. 

Styles feature stunning 

color combinations and 

shapes, ombre effects and 

vintage-inspired frames. 

Where vision insurance is 

applicable, associates will 

provide the necessary information 

for customers to submit 

claims to their providers. 

Orland Square names new 

director of marketing and 

business development 

Simon Property Group has 

named Cathy Mein as the 

new director of marketing 

and business development 

of Orland Square. 

This announcement coincides 

with a series of events 

at Orland Square, including 

the recently hosted Cirque 

Italia, as well as the Parade 

of Squads. 

A longtime resident of the 

southwest suburbs, Mein 

joins the Orland Square team 

with more than 15 years of 

marketing experience in Chicago-area 

businesses. With 

a marketing and retail background, 

Mein looks forward 

to applying her business 

savvy skills and creativity 

to cultivate shopper engagement; 

create signature, family-friendly 

events; and build 

community relationships. 

Mein’s duties at Orland 

Square include daily marketing 

management, driving 

business growth and spearheading 

the creation of longrange 

plans for the mall that 

will help increase traffic to 

further solidify the mall’s 

place in the community. 

For more information about 

Orland Square, visit www.simon.com/mall/orland-square. 

Compiled by Editor Bill Jones, 

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Orland veteran takes part in New Lenox 

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Krohn, of New Lenox; and Ed Selvas, of New Lenox; pose 

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and Recognition Day — a 9/11 memorial service — at 

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Announcements 

Getting married 

neighbors. Continued good health! 

Love your sister, Bernie 

And many more! 

Tyson 

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Orland Park residents 

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Courtney Cooper and Wayne Johnson 

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at the Danada House in Wheaton. 

Courtney is a resident of Orland Park 

and a graduate of University of Illinois 

at Champaign-Urbana. Dawn and Curtis 

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Park, who sent it by snail mail, noting they feature her 

dahlias. “Was hooked on my love of dahlias two years 

ago, when I met Art Morgan (my special friend). His 

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FROM THE MOKENA MESSENGER 

Hero 5K benefits education for 

vets, spouses 

The fourth annual Our Fallen 

Hero 5K in memory of Pfc. Aaron 

Toppen is scheduled for 8 a.m. 

Saturday, Sept. 23, at Willowview 

Park, 11420 197th St. in Mokena. 

The Hero 5K was started just 

months after the late Toppen, a 

Mokena resident, was killed in 

combat in Afghanistan in 2014. 

Registration for the event is $30 

for adults and $20 for those 18 and 

younger. People can register prior 

to the event from 4-7 p.m. Thursday, 

Sept. 21, and Friday, Sept. 

22, at the Mokena VFW Post 725, 

19852 Wolf Road. Registration at 

this location is cash only. 

People also can register on the 

morning of the event, but there will 

be an additional charge of $5. 

Proceeds from the event go to 

the Pat Tillman Foundation, which 

will use the money to help support 

the Tillman Military Scholars 

Program, a program that awards 

academic scholarships to military 

veterans and spouses. 

The Hero 5K has raised more 

than $70,000 over the past three 

years. Last year, more than 700 

people participated in the event. 

In addition to on-site raffle prizes, 

first-place winners in each of 

the 10 age divisions for men and 

women, as well as for first-place 

overall for men and women, will 

receive a special military challenge 

coin. Challenge coins are commonly 

carried by members of the 

military to show respect and pride 

for the units in which they serve. 

Reporting by T.J. Kremer III, Editor. 

For more, visit MokenaMessenger. 

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FROM THE LOCKPORT LEGEND 

Owner of Lockport Township car 

dealership arrested 

A Lockport Township car dealership 

owner was arrested Sept. 11 

by Secretary of State Police for a 

number of alleged misdemeanors 

related to his dealership. 

Joe Tessone, owner of Tessone 

Motors, 801 S. State St., was issued 

10 total violations after the 

Secretary of State Police received 

four complaints that the dealership 

had not issued titles to new car 

owners within 20 days of purchase, 

according to Lt. Elmer Garza, of 

the Secretary of State Police. After 

receiving the complaints about 

Tessone Motors, police launched a 

dealer inspection, Garza said. 

While conducting the dealer 

inspection Sept. 11, police found 

“numerous violations of the Illinois 

vehicle code,” Garza said. Tessone 

was issued four citations for failure 

to transfer title within 20 days. 

Police also charged Tessone with 

a Class A misdemeanor for failure 

to maintain a dealer plate record 

after it was discovered the dealership 

had no record of dealer plates 

and “had no idea where the dealer 

plates were,” Garza said. 

Tessone also was charged with 

one Class B misdemeanor and three 

Class A misdemeanors for failure 

to maintain records acquisition/ 

disposition after police reportedly 

found there were four missing entries 

in the dealer’s general bound 

ledger. Dealerships are required to 

maintain records about where they 

acquire cars and to whom they are 

sold, Garza said. 

Tessone also was charged with 

failure to maintain records of temporary 

registration permits, according 

to Garza. 

The Secretary of State Police 

also immediately revoked Tessone’s 

dealer license, Garza said. 

Reporting by Max Lapthorne, Editor. 

For more, visit LockportLegend.com. 

From THE FRANKFORT STATION 

Toy drive has record year 

In its ninth year, the Sean Duggan 

Foundation’s Never Back Down 

Toy Drive continues to grow. 

So much so, in fact, that this 

past August’s toy drive raised the 

most donations in the drive’s history 

— with more than 1,700 toys 

collected to be donated to children 

undergoing cancer treatment. 

“We had our biggest year yet, 

which was totally unexpected,” 

said John Duggan, whose son, 

Sean, died in 2009 after battling 

rhabdoid cancer. “... To have the 

highest year ever be nine years in 

is pretty amazing.” 

Duggan said he thinks this year’s 

success can be attributed to the 

word being out on the toy drive. 

“Every year now, people know 

the toy drive is coming around 

[this time of year],” he said. “So, 

between people that donate to it every 

year and the new people hearing 

about it and getting involved, it 

seems to be growing.” 

He said the experience is humbling. 

“Each one toy is going to make a 

child’s day better, with everything 

they are going through,” Duggan 

said. “To know that you can multiply 

that experience 1,700 times 

over from one event that was held 

in the community is amazing.” 

His wife, Jill, and his brother, 

Brian, delivered the toys to Ann & 

Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital 

of Chicago on Aug. 7, the date 

on which Sean would have turned 

19 years old. 

Reporting by Jon DePaolis, 

Freelance Reporter. For more, visit 

FrankfortStation.com. 

FROM THE TINLEY JUNCTION 

New executive director hopes to 

lead Tinley Park-Park District into 

‘21st Century’ 

Shawn Roby has one goal in 

mind for the Tinley Park-Park District. 

“I’m going to guide the [park 

district] — with the help of staff 

— to push our organization into 

the 21st century,” said Roby, who 

recently was named the park district’s 

executive director. “They’re 

already highly functional. Everyone’s 

eager and willing.” 

Roby officially took on the role 

in early June, bringing with him his 

experiences in the restaurant industry, 

as well as a decade-long career 

with the Village of Antioch’s Parks 

Department. 

John Curran recently held the 

Tinley executive director position 

and had dedicated nearly 20 years 

of service to the park district. But 

by the end of June, Curran stepped 

away to start his retirement. 

Roby said that the first couple of 

months on the job could not have 

gone any better. 

“I tell everybody I gained the 

keys to a sports car,” he said of 

joining the park district and becoming 

the executive director. 

“You can add new paint, wheels 

and surround-sound speakers; you 

can’t ask for a better position.” 

Roby said that in his limited time 

with the district, he has been impressed 

with the Tinley Park community, 

where he now resides. 

“My wife and I have two kids, 

and they’re in Tinley schools,” he 

said. “We hope to remain in the 

area for a long time.” 

Reporting by Megann Horstead, 


TinleyJunction.com. 

FROM THE HOMER HORIZON 

Porters’ Kovanda commits to 

West Florida, passing up Division I 

opportunities 

JoDee Kovanda had the opportunity 

to play volleyball at a Division 

I school, but she turned it down. 

Why? Her education. 

“A lot of the Division I’s that I 

was looking at, they wouldn’t let 

me take athletic training, which is 

something that I really want to do,” 

said Kovanda, a senior at Lockport 

Township High School. “They all 

were kind of telling me, like, it’s 

too challenging to manage volleyball 

and athletic training.” 

The 6-foot outside hitter for the 

Porters had offers from the University 

of West Virginia, the University 

of Dayton and one that fell through 

with Florida Atlantic University. As 

she thought more about what she 

wanted to do after college, she realized 

that the initial thrill of being 

called a D-I volleyball player would 

quickly fizzle when she was not doing 

what she wanted after those four 

years had passed. 

Kovanda also had some personal 

things for which she was looking 

in a college in addition to studying 

athletic training, including being in 

a warm climate and outside of Illinois. 

The University of West Florida 

provided her with all of those 

things, and a competitive volleyball 

program to boot. Kovanda 

was convinced after she visited the 

school and met the coaches and the 

current players on the team. 

“The coaches there are absolutely 

so nice,” she said. “I absolutely 

love them. They just really care for 

the girls, and they said that they 

want us players to experience college 

and not just be so focused on 

volleyball.” 

Reporting by Brittany Kapa, Assistant 

Editor. For more, visit HomerHorizon. 

com. 

FROM THE NEW LENOX PATRIOT 

Village reflects on 9/11 at 

memorial event 

Every year on 9/11, Americans 

gather to remember the tragedy 

that shook the nation. 

Yet, for all the talk about 9/11, 

elements of the attacks and the actions 

leading up to it have receded, 

in part, from public knowledge 16 

years later. The part of the tragedy 

that continues to ring true for many 

is the way people responded in the 

aftermath. 

That was the message captured 

during the Patriotic Day Remembrance 

and Recognition Day, held 

Sept. 11 at New Lenox Village 

Commons. 

The program began with a presentation 

of colors by American 

Legion Post 1977 and Veterans of 

Foreign Wars Post 9545. 

Sgt. Michael Nuesse, of the New 

Lenox Police Department, recounted 

the time he served in the Air 

Force the morning of 9/11. He said 

he was stationed in England at the 

time for routine training, preparation 

and normal assignment. 

“Everybody was in disbelief,” he 

said. “The base was on lockdown 

alert. The level went to high, and 

we took inventory of loved ones 

and came together.” 

Mayor Tim Baldermann took a 

moment to thank the many first responders 

and military members for 

their efforts the morning of 9/11. 

“We can never forget the horrific 

event,” he said. “We remember 

how our country came together, 

and now, more than ever, we need 

to focus on that despite our differences. 

We should be kinder, more 

passionate, and remember despite 

those differences we live in the 

greatest country in the world.” 

Reporting by Megann Horstead, 


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University of Illinois 

Four from Orland Park 

named Bronze Tablet 

honorees 

The University of Illinois 

recently announced 236 

Bronze Tablet honorees for 

the 2017 spring semester. 

Inclusion on the Bronze 

Tablet are the university’s 

highest honors for graduating 

students. Honorees, who 

are the top 3 percent from 

each college’s 2017 graduating 

class, must have a total 

grade-point average of at 

least 3.5 (out of a possible 

4.0), although in recent 

years an average as high as 

3.9 was needed to make the 

list in some colleges at Illinois. 

Among those named to 

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Kadolph, Applied Health 

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in Community Health; 

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Applied Health Sciences, 

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Tim Carroll 

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Like to watch the 

Cubs and White Sox 

play one another? 

Get a kick out of the Bears 

and Packers matchups? 

Find yourself muttering 

“Detroit sucks” the day after 

Blackhawks-Red Wings 

(or, as my dad used to call 

them, Dead Wings) games? 

Still hate the “Bad Boy” 

Pistons? 

If you answered “yes” 

to any of these questions, 

you are a person who 

likes rivalries. And guess 

what. This column is about 

rivalries. 

Rivalries at the highest 

levels are a lot of fun to 

watch. Blackhawks-Red 

Wings games were the 

first ones that I can really 

remember being a part of. 

At that time (mid- to late 

1990s), the Blackhawks 

were awful, but they still 

managed to beat Detroit 

every now and again, and I 

felt pure elation. Not knowing 

the history of the franchises, 

I guess I was just 

feeding off the energy I felt 

from other fans, especially 

my pops. 

But rivalries at the high 

school level are truly just as 

cool. The matchup between 

Sandburg and Lockport girls 

tennis (Page 54) is a lot of 

fun, because when we did 

our preview of the Eagles 

girls tennis team before the 

season, the players did not 

hold back. While we were 

discussing the upcoming 

season and the goals the 

players had, Konstance 

Delis, Mia Strolia, Agnes 

Florczyk, Anna Loureiro 

and Julia Canellis as a group 

said that one of their big 

aims for the season was to 

defeat Lockport. 

The Eagles were not 

able to get that win in the 

regular season Thursday, 

Sept. 14, but they’ll get 

their chance at the conference 

championship. 

And the great thing about 

rivalries is that they usually 

are long-term. If Sandburg 

were not able to beat 

Lockport in the SouthWest 

Suburban Conference 

Blue Division tournament, 

it would be tough 

for the players, sure. But 

the juniors, sophomores 

and freshmen on the team 

would have their chance 

again next year. 

But high school rivalries 

are long-term in another 

sense, too. For the sake of 

argument, let’s say Sandburg 

cannot get the win at 

the conference tournament 

this season, but they are 

able to topple the Porters 

next season. The players 

who will be there will still 

be happy, no doubt. But the 

players who came before 

and were not able to get 

over that hump while they 

were students would be 

very happy, too. Because 

high school rivalries, as far 

as I can tell, are for life. 

When I went to Mt. Carmel, 

my uncle was bound 

to give me grief. He is a 

Leo alumnus, and the two 

Chicago Catholic schools 

regularly competed against 

one another, albeit a little 

more competitively when 

he was a student. 

But the fact that he had 

not been a Leo student for, 

oh, about 50 years made no 

difference to him. No, his 

taunting was going to make 

an appearance, regardless. 

While I was enrolled at 

Mt. Carmel — an all-boys 

school — my uncle told 

me pretty much every 

time he saw me about how 

he would rib a Carmelite 

brother by asking if Mt. 

Carmel was still all-girls. 

While that joke is a little 

inappropriate, my uncle 

and I met for lunch last 

week, and I was just a little 

disappointed that he did not 

bring it up, because rivalries 

— and, by extension, 

good-natured smack talk — 

are fun. 

There are a couple of people 

around the office who 

are fans of teams I despise. 

I am (gulp! Big admission 

coming) a Notre Dame fan. 

And Lockport Editor Max 

Lapthorne is a Michigan 

State alumnus and fan. And 

those two do not mix. 

Homer Glen and Lockport 

Assistant Editor 

Brittany Kapa, who used 

to be the assistant editor in 

Orland and Tinley, purports 

to be a Michigan fan. As a 

result, I routinely remind 

her that you can’t spell 

“scum” without U-M. 

These rivalries based on 

college are fun, but I still 

think it is the high school 

rivalries that stick with me 

the most. Ever wonder why 

I pick against Providence 

Catholic in Pressbox Picks 

as often as possible? It’s 

because they beat Mt. Carmel 

in football in 2008 and 

2009, when I was a junior 

and senior. And I will never 

forgive the Celtics for that 

transgression. 

Whenever I meet someone 

who went to St. Rita, 

I immediately identify 

myself as a Mt. Carmel 

alumnus, so that either we 

can fight to the death or, 

more likely, just give each 

other some grief over our 

alma maters. 

I was talking about fighting 

to the death jokingly, 

but sometimes people take 

rivalries too seriously. Don’t 

be one of those people. Take 

rivalries for what they are 

— a fun opportunity to talk 

smack, not an invitation to 

shed all civility. 

The point of all this is 

simple: hold onto your high 

school rivalries. Not with 

clenched fists but with a 

sense of pride, and an even 

bigger sense of humor. Have 

fun with them while you are 

a student at your school, and 

have even more fun with 

them when you have graduated. 

Because high school 

rivalries are the best. 

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On top of the world! 

Joey’s Red Hots owners recount 

Rookie of the Year award, divulge 

future plans, Page 27 

Rack ‘em up! 

Outpost Bar and Grill’s new 

burger menu stacked with variety, 

creativity, Page 34 

Alden Estates’ Fall Fishing Fest 

serves as both fundraiser for 

causes and opportunity to bring 

community together, Page 23 

Nakesha Scott (right) helps Stephen Scott Sept. 

9 after he caught his first fish of the day at Alden 

Estates of Orland Park’s annual Fall Fishing 

Festival. Geoff Stellfox/22nd Century Media

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Pastor Column 

What this past month tells us about ourselves 

The Rev. Michael Foley 

Our Lady of the Woods 

In this past month, we 

witnessed a number of 

events that shine a light 

on human nature. 

In Charlottesville, we 

saw the raw power of racism 

and religious hatred. 

It was frightening to see 

a mob carrying torches 

shouting anti-Semitic and 

racist taunts. We witnessed 

the growing power of an 

evil man in North Korea 

to wreak havoc beyond the 

boundaries of his imprisoned 

nation. We experienced 

two hurricanes that 

remind us of the fragile 

nature of our lives and at 

the same time show us the 

resilience of the human 

spirit. 

All of this invites us to 

consider human nature. Are 

we weak or are we strong? 

Are we compassionate or 

are we indifferent? Are we 

wise or are we foolish? 

Let me share a perspective 

that is deeply rooted 

in traditional and Biblical 

Christianity and might 

point us to an answer to 

these questions. 

Even if you are not a 

Christian, it is critical to 

understand this worldview 

if you are going to understand 

Christianity. Sadly, 

many Christians do not 

understand this. Christianity 

has a view of a world 

that is fallen and redeemed. 

Another way to say it is 

that we believe that sin and 

grace are very real. 

This is why many 

churches have the title 

Holy Redeemer or Divine 

Savior; which are both references 

to Jesus. It is why 

the songs “Amazing Grace” 

or “Abide With Me” are 

so popular in church. It is 

belief that this world needs 

God’s grace. We cannot 

save ourselves. 

In our modern world, we 

have moved from this understanding. 

We tend to see 

with what some would call 

a therapeutic lens. Instead 

of sin, we have imperfection. 

Instead of grace, we 

have knowledge. 

In this worldview, it is 

through the hard sciences 

— such as medicine, engineering, 

physics — as well 

as the social sciences, like 

psychology, that a better 

world is built. 

This as an attractive 

view, and at many levels is 

quite true. The sciences are 

integral to many aspects of 

human advancement. Many 

of us are alive because of 

medical advances. More 

people survive disasters 

because of improvements in 

communication and mobility. 

Psychology can assist many 

people in their struggles. 

People of any faith who 

deny the truth of science 

deny part of God’s plan. 

As a believer, however, I 

also must hold to the truth 

of sin and grace. Arguably, 

Germany was the most 

literate nation in Europe in 

the early 20th century. Yet, 

one of the greatest evils 

in human history, Nazism, 

took root there. 

Advances in communication 

may mean that we can 

lie to others with greater 

sophistication. Advances in 

technology took us to the 

moon but also created the 

atom bomb. 

Jesus said, “For out 

of the heart come evil 

thoughts, murders, adulteries, 

fornications, thefts, 

false witness, slanders” 

(Matt 15:19). 

Sin is real. Grace is 

greater. 

Which brings us back 

to the events of the past 

month. Are we weak or are 

we strong? Are we compassionate 

or are we indifferent? 

Are we wise or are we 

foolish? 

Perhaps we need to look 

at this from a different lens. 

The opinions of this column are 

those of the writer. They do not 

necessarily reflect those of The 

Orland Park Prairie. 

FAITH BRIEFS 

St. Michael Church (14327 Highland Ave., 

Orland Park) 

Bingo and 50/50 Raffle 

Event 

7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 21. 

The Women’s Club of St. 

Michael’s will be sponsoring 

its Bingo and 50/50 Raffle 

Event in the Commons. 

Fun, prizes and homemade 

refreshments will be on 

tap. Annual membership 

enrollment will be handled 

that evening. Everyone is 

welcome. Non-members 

will pay a $5 fee and $1 per 

bingo card. Paid members 

are free to play, and will 

receive two bingo cards. 

SVdP Conference 

The SVdP Conference 

will be the benefactor of the 

sale of notecards presented 

by Da’s Printshop NFP. 

They will be on display at 

Arts & Drafts from 10 a.m.- 

6 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 30, 

and Sun. Oct. 1. The fair is 

located at 143rd Street and 

94th Avenue in Orland Park. 

All proceeds from the fair 

will be donated to SVdP. 

Women’s retreat 

8 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 14. 

The women of St. Michael’s 

Parish is to host a fall retreat 

at Our Lady of the Angels 

Retreat Center, 13820 Main 

St. in Lemont. The theme is 

“Finding Joy on the Journey,” 

and the retreat leader will be 

Dr. Mary Amore. The retreat 

will begin with a continental 

breakfast and gathering from 

8-9 a.m. There will be four 

sessions, with a break for 

lunch, and it concludes with 

a Mass at 4:30 p.m. The 

cost is $45 and can be paid 

at registration at the parish 

office. 

Christ Lutheran Church (14700 S. 94th 

Ave., Orland Park) 

Rummage & Bake Sale 

9 a.m.-3 p.m. Friday, 

Sept. 22, and 9 a.m.-1 p.m. 

Saturday, Sept. 23. The sale 

is to feature baby clothes, 

household appliances, tools, 

books and much more. The 

rummage sale is sponsored 

by the congregation’s OWLS 

Seniors Group and the bake 

sale by the Ladies Aid. 

500th Anniversary of the 

Reformation Event 

10 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 10. 

A special 500th Anniversary 

of the Reformation is to 

feature renowned composer 

and Lutheran musician Carl 

Schalk, who will make a 

presentation on his newly 

published “A Lutheran 

Catechism: Understanding 

Church Music in the 

Lutheran Tradition.” 

His presentation is to be 

followed by a Communion 

service and luncheon. 

Participants will receive 

complimentary copies of his 

booklet. The event is open to 

the public and provided free 

of charge. Preregistration 

is appreciated by calling 

(708) 349-0431 or emailing 

Julie@Christlutheranorland. 

com. 

AA Meetings 

7 p.m. Every Thursday 

Faith United Methodist Church (15101 S. 

80th Ave., Orland Park) 

Power Fitness 

7-8 p.m. Mondays and 

Thursdays. This free event 

is a 60-minute class that will 

strengthen and tone your 

muscles from head to toe 

for adult men and women. 

Class will include a warmup 

segment, muscle-specific 

exercises, abdominal work, 

balancing and stretching. 

All exercises will have 

modifications for different 

fitness levels. 

Have something for Faith 

Briefs? Contact Editor Bill 

Jones at bill@opprairie.com 

or call (708) 326-9170 ext. 20. 

Information is due by noon on 

Thursdays one week prior to 

publication. 

In Memoriam 

Lillina Hofferica 

Lillian D. Hofferica (nee 

Kosnar), 94, formerly of Orland 

Park, died Sept. 9. She 

is survived by her children, 

John Jr. (Kathleen) and Linda; 

grandchildren, Hillary 

(Richard) Vaccaro, Michael 

(Evelyn), Bryan (Edeana), 

Jason (Jennefer), Jonathan 

(Jillian), Adam (Allison) and 

Jessica (Ed Esparza) Stovall; 

15 great-grandchildren; and 

many nieces and nephews. 

Visitation was held at Modell 

Funeral Home & Cremation 

Services in Homer 

Glen. Interment Abraham 

Lincoln National Cemetery. 

In lieu of flowers, donations 

to Alvernia Manor, www. 

alverniamanor.org, appreciated. 

Charles Petrak 

Charles J. Petrak Sr., 71, of 

Orland Park, died Sept. 11. 

He is survived by his daughters, 

Annamarie Ragan and 

Dawn Dudek; grandchildren, 

Alex Dudek, Andrew 

and Abbey Ragan, Logan 

and David Petrak; greatgrandson, 

Carter Ragan; sister, 

Carole Vondergeest; and 

his faithful dog, Otto. 

Charles was a 1963 

graduate of Sandburg High 

School. He farmed most of 

his life in Orland Park and 

was a 37-year employee of 

the Village of Tinley Park. 

Lifelong honorary member 

of VFW Post 2791. 

Visitation and a Funeral 

Mass were held at Heartland 

Memorial Center. Interment 

will follow at Resurrection 

Cemetery in Justice. 

Memorials may be directed 

to St. Jude Children’s Research 

Hospital, 501 St. Jude 

Place, Memphis, TN, 38105. 

Have someone’s life you’d 

like to honor? Email Editor 

Bill Jones at bill@opprairie. 

com with information about a 

loved one who was a part of the 

Orland Park community.

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Annual fishing derby a combination of cause, community 

Amanda Del Buono 


After experiencing for 

themselves the impact leukemia 

can have on a family 

several years ago, the Alden 

family, owners of The Alden 

Network, made a conscious 

effort to support the 

Leukemia Research Foundation, 

according to Christina 

Murdoch, administrator 

at Alden Estates of Orland 

Park. 

On Sept. 9, Alden Estates 

of Orland Park, a short-term 

rehabilitation and healthcare 

center specializing in 

transitional care and postacute 

services, hosted its 

annual Fall Fishing Festival 

to benefit the foundation 

and Together We Cope. 

Community members, 

residents and their families, 

as well as employees, were 

invited to spend a day fishing 

in the location’s fully 

stocked pond at 16450 S. 

97th Ave., in Orland Park. 

All of the proceeds from the 

event were split evenly and 

donated to two nonprofit organizations. 

Each year, the event attracts 

approximately 200 

people and provides between 

$1,000 and $2,000 in 

donations to the two organizations, 

Murdoch said. 

Carl F. Alston, director 

of communications for the 

Leukemia Research Foundation, 

said that Alden Estates 

has been a great supporter 

of the foundation’s 

cause throughout the years. 

“We certainly appreciate 

everything that The Alden 

Network has done for 

us over the years,” he said. 

“This is just one example of 

the philanthropic work this 

organization has done for 

us.” 

Along with fishing for 

bass and catfish, games, 

pony rides, face painting, a 

balloonist, a bounce house, 

Adrianne and Matt McAdams fish Sept. 9 with their daughters Avery (right) and Caroline 

during Alden Estates of Orland Park’s annual Fall Fishing Festival. Photos be Geoff 

Stellfox/22nd Century Media 

raffles, food and a DJ also 

were offered for entertainment. 

Additionally, prizes 

were awarded for the largest 

fish caught. 

While the event offers 

support to two nonprofit organizations, 

it also benefits 

the residents of the Alden 

Estates community, Murdoch 

said. 

“We just hope for the 

community to come together 

and for the residents 

who are here for rehab or 

long-term care, that it gives 

them a sense of community 

and being able to share in 

the community,” she said. 

“They live here, too, and we 

want them to feel like a part 

of the community.” 

Families embraced the 

opportunity for outdoor activities 

while benefitting a 

good cause. Orland Park 

residents Adrianne and Matt 

McAdams, and their three 

daughters — Eleonore, 15 

months; Avery, 3; and Caroline, 

4 — participated in every 

activity available. 

“We came because Matt 

and Caroline came last year 

and had a good time, and 

the money goes to a good 

cause, so that’s even better,” 

Adrianne said. “It’s good 

family time together. 

“They were excited for 

the fishing, excited for the 

bounce house, and they’re 

going to go get their faces 

painted,” she added. 

Several Alden Estates 

employees also attended the 

Fishing Festival Saturday. 

Ronald Bacon, a resident of 

Glenwood, is an eight-year 

employee of Alden Estates. 

An avid fisher, Bacon attends 

the event each year 

and said he appreciates the 

company’s support of nonprofit 

organizations. 

“I love it. I bring residents 

here from the location 

I work at and take them to 

fish,” he said. “It’s good 

that Alden does this, and 

[the residents] look for it 

every year. ... It’s good for 

the people, good for the 

residents, and for people to 

learn that it’s here and that 

they do rehab.” 

Patty Recio, a Chicago 

resident who has worked 

at Alden Estates corporate 

headquarters for 20 years, 

also said she appreciates the 

event and the support it offers 

to a good cause. 

“Alden has been like 

working with family,” she 

said. “It’s amazing all of the 

things they’ve done over the 

years. Alden is like my second 

family.” 

RIGHT: Ed Churin shows 

off his prize-winning catfish 

during Alden Estates’ Fall 

Fishing Festival. 

Roberta Anderson, a resident of Alden Estates, takes a look 

at a balloon heart created for her during the event.

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Stellwagen Foundation offers autumn tours of family farm 


Orland Park 

Area residents can enjoy 

the beginning of fall in Orland 

Park, as the Stellwagen 

Family Farm Foundation 

hosts a weekend of tours of 

the historic Stellwagen Family 

Farm. 

The Stellwagen Farm has 

been located at Louetta Lane 

and 108th Avenue since 1860. 

The 2017 tour dates are 

from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sept. 

21-23; and from 1-5 p.m. 

Sunday, Sept. 24. 

Tours include seeing inside 

the buildings, asking 

questions of the Stellwagen 

family and learning about 

the agricultural heritage of 

the area and more. 

Visitors also will be able 

to enjoy the newly completed 

walking and bike path 

connecting the farm to Eagle 

Ridge Park, Old Mille and 

Mission Hills Park. 

The farm buildings stand 

after several years of renovation 

and preservation. The 

Stellwagen Farm was purchased 

by the Orland Park 

Open Lands Program in 2002. 

Former Mayor Dan 

McLaughlin created the village’s 

Open Lands Program 

in November, 1995 to preserve 

open space throughout 

the village. Through its various 

fundraisers, the Open 

Lands Commission has preserved 

hundreds of acres of 

open space in Orland Park. 

For more information, contact 

the Village of Orland Park 

Development Services Department 

at (708) 403-5300. 

Arts & Drafts event to debut 

in Orland Park Sept. 30 

Creepy and crawly 

The Bridge welcomes teens to Exotic & Unusual Pets program 

Two-day event to 

take place at Orland 

Park Crossing 

Submitted by OPACC 

Craft breweries. Local 

dining. Live music. Unique 

art. All gathered together to 

create a memorable experience 

called Arts & Drafts. 

The Orland Park Area 

Chamber of Commerce 

plans to hold a fun-filled 

weekend from 11 a.m. 6 

p.m. Saturday Sept. 30 and 

Oct. 1. 

The chamber has assembled 

drafts from select local 

breweries, eats from specialty 

restaurants, one-of-a-kind 

art, live entertainment and so 

much more. 

The event is slated to be 

held on the grounds of Orland 

Park Crossing, located 

on the northeast corner of 

143rd Street and LaGrange 

Road. 

As guests savor their culinary 

favorites, sip specialty 

brews and view the collections 

of exceptional local 

artists, they also might enjoy 

an afternoon shopping 

among specialty shops, such 

as Soft Surroundings, Talbots, 

Chico’s, White House 

Black Market and Charming 

Charlie. 

For more information, 

visit www.orlandparkchamber.org, 

and look under 

“Events.” 

The event is to be held 

rain or shine. 

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advertising cool 

down this summer. 

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ABOVE: Joel 

Melidona, of Oak 

Forest, reacts 

during a recent 

Exotic & Unusual 

Pets event at 

The Bridge Teen 

Center in Orland 

Park. Photos 

submitted 

RIGHT: Nathan 

Phillips, of Oak 

Forest, takes 

part in the Exotic 

& Unusual Pets 

program.



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Bridge Songwriting program 

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Orland Park. Photo submitted 

Guessing game 

The Bridge asks teens to ‘Guess Your Spices’ during recent program 

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Awareness 

Forum to 

offer free 

movie viewing 


Orland Park 

A nationally recognized 

Orland Park community 

awareness organization is 

holding a public event to observe 

September as National 

Recovery Month. 

The Orland Park Substance 

Awareness Forum 

was created to convene a 

multi-disciplinary group of 

community stakeholders to 

initiate, develop and establish 

sustainable resources 

and support for persons and 

their families dealing with 

substance abuse. The group’s 

goal is to create awareness, 

provide resources and information 

in support of the Orland 

Park community. 

The group’s Treatment 

and Recovery Committee is 

to mark September as National 

Recovery Month and 

host a free screening of the 

documentary, “The Anonymous 

People.” 

The screening is scheduled 

to be held from 6-8:30 p.m. 

Wednesday, Sept. 27, at Orland 

Park’s Marcus Theatres, 

16350 S. LaGrange Road. 

In June, the Orland Park 

Substance Awareness Forum 

received national recognition 

for its efforts, receiving 

the City Livability Award 

from the United States Conference 

of Mayors. 

Admission is free for the 

Sept. 27 movie. The evening 

also includes free popcorn 

and pop, raffle prizes and 

time for discussion. 

For more information on 

OPSAF, visit www.opcares. 

net. 

Joey’s Red Hots talks Vienna Beef’s Rookie of the Year Award 

Restaurant plans to 

expand, open Joey’s 

Pizzeria in early 

2018 

Meredith Dobes 


For the past year, Joey’s 

Red Hots has brought the 

taste of Chicago neighborhood 

hot dog stands to the 

people of Orland Park. 

Recently, Vienna Beef itself 

honored the business by 

naming it Rookie of the Year 

for its success in quickly 

making itself a staple of the 

Orland Park community. 

On its opening date in 

May 2016, the old-schoolstyle 

hot dog stand drew a 

line into the parking lot, and 

since that day business has 

continued to grow through 

word of mouth, according to 

co-owner Anthony Nardo. 

Nardo, a Midway-area native, 

and his business partner, 

Nick Iozzo, a Bridgeport 

native, sought to bring 

the southwest suburbs the 

beloved Vienna Beef products 

that grace the streets 

of many Chicago neighborhoods. 

“All the people from the 

city who live out here, the 

restaurant reminds them of 

their old neighborhood, no 

matter which part of the city 

they’re from,” Nardo said. 

“That’s why our theme here 

is just like the old neighborhood. 

When people ask us 

which neighborhood our 

stand is modeled from, we 

say, ‘The neighborhood that 

you guys grew up in.’” 

Nardo and Iozzo, now 

both Mokena residents, aim 

to provide customers with 

high-quality, affordable 

meals, and they each work 

at the restaurant seven days 

a week. They also try to 

give back to the community 

by sponsoring local sports 

teams, Nardo said. 

In their year in Orland, the 

Joey’s Red Hots, owned by Mokena residents Anthony Nardo and Nick Iozzo, is located at 

17400 Wolf Road in Orland Park. Photo submitted 

partners have not changed 

their menu, keeping Joey’s 

Red Hots true to its classic 

offerings, but they have introduced 

catering services 

and three food trucks to the 

community. 

The restaurant’s food 

trucks travel to neighborhood 

events, corporate picnics 

and parties, and they all 

have the same kitchen inside 

the truck that Joey’s works 

with in its stationary restaurant, 

Nardo said. 

“The response from that 

has been huge,” Nardo said. 

“We do see it growing more 

and more every day. More 

people are still finding out 

about us. 

“They all hear about the 

good food, the good prices 

and the service. We like to 

treat all of our customers 

like family.” 

Nardo and Iozzo said they 

enjoy coming to work each 

day and view every day as 

a new opportunity to make 

new memories with customers, 

who may eventually become 

friends. 

When the restaurant received 

Vienna Beef’s Rookie 

of the Year Award, Bob 

Schwartz, vice president of 

Vienna Beef, came to Joey’s 

to honor the staff. 

“It’s a true honor,” Nardo 

said. “It made us feel that all 

the work we put into it paid 

off, and we’re very grateful 

for that.” 

The Joey’s team is not 

planning to stop putting 

that work in anytime soon. 

It now has plans to expand 

into a building next door that 

once housed a gas station. 

The shop is tentatively set to 

open in early 2018 and will 

be known as Joey’s Pizzeria. 

The second restaurant will 

sell pizza, pasta, homemade 

gelato, ice cream, shakes and 

salads, and will follow the 

same affordable, counterservice 

style that Joey’s Red 

Hots offers. 

Nardo said the business is 

also working with an architect 

to plan an enclosed pavilion 

walkway between the 

two buildings, to eventually 

offer indoor seating, following 

a drive installation and 

lot repaving. 

“We think it’s going to 

be awesome,” Nardo said. 

“The area needs it. There’s 

not true Chicago food out 

here. We want to bring to 

the south suburbs food, like 

what I remember eating as a 

kid when we’d go to the city 

and eat pizza at the ballpark. 

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St. Michael School teacher revisits NASA LiftOff Institute experience 

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“When parents are supportive and 

encourage their children to explore 

science, anything is possible.” 

Nancy Ramig — St. Michael School teacher and 

Homer Glen resident 

Saying Nancy Ramig is 

passionate about science is 

an understatement. 

“It never gets old,” said 

Ramig, a science teacher at 

St. Michael School in Orland 

Park. “There’s so much 

science that’s out there that I 

just try to expose myself to 

as much as possible.” 

Ramig has over the past 

decade embarked on a mission 

of self-education and 

scientific discover, and has 

had the honor of attending 

several conferences at NA- 

SA’s Johnson Space Center 

in Houston; NASA’s Space 

Camp at the Marshall Space 

Center in Huntsville, Alabama; 

and a CSI forensics 

summer camp at Arkansas 

State University. 

In June, the Homer Glen 

woman and admitted space 

geek trumped those with the 

experience of a lifetime as a 

member of the 2017 class at 

the NASA LiftOff Institute. 

The weeklong institute at the 

Johnson Space Center featured 

workshops, hands-on 

activities, breakout sessions, 

presentations by NASA scientists 

and engineers, and 

meetings with astronauts Fred 

Haise and Clayton Anderson. 

“It was definitely a fabulous 

week,” Ramig said. “I 

don’t know what else to say.” 

NASA chooses a mere 50 

educators from across the 

United States each year to 

attend the institute, which 

ran from June 25-30. Ramig 

was the only teacher from Illinois 

in this year’s class. 

Now, she can hardly wait 

to share with her students 

the lessons she brought back 

from Texas. Each teacher at 

the institute was required to 

present to the group a lesson, 

and that provided Ramig with 

a suitcase full of educational 

resources for her own classroom. 

She also will share 

what she learned during her 

time at the institute with other 

science teachers from across 

the southwest suburbs. 

Ramig has, since attending 

Space Camp several 

years ago, made it a point to 

share her educational experiences 

with her students. 

“That started me on the 

road to thinking, ‘What 

more can I find to bring to 

my classes, what information 

can I incorporate,’” she 

said of Space Camp. “The 

more things I study, the 

more opportunities I have to 

try to expose my kids — the 

school’s kids — to science.” 

Among the most important 

truths Ramig learned at 

NASA is that the agency’s 

efforts go beyond studying 

outer space. Engineers at 

NASA are utilizing the concepts 

of aerospace engineering 

to look into everything 

from creating a better flusher 

for toilets to how to extract 

water from soil and get it to 

people in drought-stricken 

parts of the Earth. 

“It’s not just about outer 

space; it’s about problem 

solving, and I think that’s 

something I’d like to share 

with and encourage my students 

to do — to become 

better problem solvers.” 

The institute also featured 

its share of both fun and inspiring 

moments. Ramig saw 

the James Webb Space Telescope, 

which is scheduled 

to launch in October 2018; 

viewed a collection of lunar 

rocks and became a certified 

lunar rock educator; and had 

the rare good fortune of being 

on the floor of mission 

control, which is typically 

of-limits to visitors — even 

those in the LiftOff program. 

The people she met — 

from astronauts to college 

interns working there for the 

summer — were the most 

inspiring aspect of the visit. 

“Hearing from the astronauts 

and their passion 

for science and the different 

speakers — even an intern 

on the robotics floor, 

St. Micahel School teacher Nancy Ramig, of Homer Glen, 

recently attended the NASA LiftOff Institute. Photo submitted 

a 22-year-old student, just 

hearing how passionate he 

is about working with one 

of the robots there,” Ramig 

said. “Seeing the excitement 

it generates in the people 

that work there makes it an 

unbelievable experience.” 

Ramig met astronauts 

Haise, the lunar module pilot 

of the Apollo 13 mission, and 

Anderson, who has worked 

aboard the International 

Space Station. Anderson applied 

to and was rejected by 

NASA 15 times before being 

accepted in 1998, and 

both astronauts talked with 

Ramig’s group about perseverance 

and striving toward 

attaining goals, despite the 

challenges that may arise. 

“They talked about how 

many times they applied to 

NASA and how they didn’t 

give up,” she said. “They had 

a plan, and they had a dream, 

and they wanted to continue 

aiming for their goals. 

“They were very humble 

and very giving. I’m just so 

humbled that they shared 

their experiences with us, 

because they certainly went 

out of their way.” 

Anderson, who grew up in 

Nebraska, provided Ramig 

an autographed copy of his 

book, “The Ordinary Spaceman: 

From Boyhood Dreams 

to Astronaut,” to give to her 

son, who is a doctor in the 

Cornhusker state. 

Ramig also learned even 

more than she already did 

about the solar eclipse that 

passed over the United 

States Aug. 21. Ramig said 

she had hoped to get authorization 

to invite St. Michael 

students and their parents to 

the school that day to experience 

the event with her. 

“Knowing our parents and 

the kind of reception we’ve 

had with different science 

things we’ve done, I think 

they’d come; I think the parents 

will come, but the kids, 

too,” she said. “When parents 

are supportive and encourage 

their children to explore science, 

anything is possible.” 

Ramig said she hopes that 

by sharing her passion for 

science with her students, 

she might be a source of inspiration. 

She noted one of 

her former students recently 

graduated from MIT, and his 

family invited her to Boston 

to attend his graduation. 

“They just want to thank 

you because it started in 

your class,” she said. “If I 

get a kid interested in science, 

that’s the kind of thing 

I hope to inspire.” 

Arts Commission’s second annual Poetry Slam slated for Sept. 23 


Orland Park 

Calling all bards, lyricists 

and modern day beatniks! 

Orland Park’s Poetry Slam 

is back and set for 7 p.m. 

Saturday, Sept. 23. 

Poets of all ages and skills 

are invited to bring their best 

original imagery and rhymes 

to the Village’s Cultural 

Center, 14760 S. Park Lane. 

The cost is $5 to get in or 

$3 for those participating. 

Tickets are available at the 

door. 

Patti Brucki, an Orland 

Park resident and seasoned 

“slammer,” will once again 

be hosting the all-ages event. 

Brucki teaches, runs many 

poetry and speech events, 

and was named Coach of the 

Year for coaching various 

speech and poetry events. 

There are no age restrictions, 

but all poetry must 

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Orland’s Jose Torres executive chef by day, homebrewer by night 

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“It’s the combination of the enjoyment of doing it, 

actually drinking it, and seeing your friends and 

family try it out, too. I like it because it gives me a 

chance to create a beer that’s my own.” 

Jose Torres — Orland Park resident and chef, on homebrewing 

Longtime Orland Park 

resident Jose Torres’ homebrewed 

beers have opened 

new doors in his life both 

personally and professionally 

in ways he could not 

have seen coming when he 

first began. 

Torres’ journey to become 

a brewer began several years 

ago, when he was asked to 

judge a competition for a 

local home brewery club, 

Brewers of South Suburbia. 

He said seven years ago, after 

judging a BOSS competition, 

he asked his wife to 

purchase him a home brewery 

starter kit. 

The brewing kit would 

then sit untouched at his 

home for nearly a year until 

he spoke with someone 

who encouraged him to try 

his hand at brewing. He said 

he first began brewing beer 

not listed as one of the recommended 

recipes listed in 

the kit. 

“Experimenting with the 

home brewing, that’s what 

I like about it,” said Torres, 

who stated he has a few original 

recipes, like his seasonal 

pumpkin ale. “It’s kept me 

busy with it. I really don’t 

have an idea of what I’m 

doing sometimes, I’m just 

going to throw some stuff in 

there and see what happens.” 

Torres said he does not 

have a specific style he likes 

more than another; however, 

he’s willing to attempt 

new recipes and seasonal 

favorites. He claims he has 

dabbled in making all kinds 

of beer, from wheat ales to 

stouts to IPA and more. 

Recently, he said his favorite 

beer homemade beer is his 

raspberry chipotle wheat. He 

described the flavor of the 

concoction as a hint of raspberry 

with a bit of heat. 

Over the years, Torres 

noticed that his beers were 

starting to positively resonate 

with those closest to 

him. He said during family 

holidays he would bring 

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a few samples that were so 

well received it gave him a 

new energy about his efforts. 

“It’s the combination of 

the enjoyment of doing it, 

actually drinking it, and seeing 

your friends and family 

try it out, too,” Torres said. 

“I like it because it gives 

me a chance to create a beer 

that’s my own.” 

Torres, who is the executive 

chef at Italian Village 

in downtown Chicago, 

mentioned the possibility 

of brewing his beers for inhouse 

consumption sooner, 

rather than later. But he said 

at the moment he has no intention 

of filing the necessary 

paperwork to officially 

sell his products for revenue. 

“When I’m downtown at 

the restaurant, my job is to 

create dishes that the guest 

is going to enjoy,” he said. 

“When I create a beer, I’m 

trying to do something that 

I will enjoy that I can share 

with friends, immediate 

family.” 

We Got Games 

‘Mario + Rabbids’ a superior strategy game for the whole family 


On paper, “Mario + Rabbids 

Kingdom Battle” 

sounds like something that 

has no business working. 

Mario and the Raving Rabbids 

don’t even belong in the 

same universe together, let 

alone a in a turn-based strategy 

title. 

Ubisoft’s Nintendo Switch 

game not only works but 

also serves as a great example 

of how to make a strategy 

game both challenging 

and approachable, how to 

combine the best elements of 

two distinct franchises, how 

to scale difficulty in a game, 

and how to do it all with a 

sense of humor. 

An experimental device 

that combines any two 

things gets in the hands of 

the time-traveling Rabbids 

— the non-verbal, slapsticky 

rabbit-like characters Ubisoft 

unleashed on the world 

well before the Minions 

stole their shtick — who 

predictably use it with reckless 

abandon. They wind up 

in the Mushroom Kingdom, 

first creating a new cast 

of half-Mario/half-Rabbid 

characters, and then letting 

it fall into the wrong hands 

(i.e. those of Bowser’s cronies). 

What follows is a strategy 

game reminiscent of “X- 

COM.” But in many ways 

“Mario + Rabbids” is an easier 

came to start. Part of that 

is the attraction of its characters; 

part of it is simply its 

great design. 

Players run around levels 

inspired by the familiar environs 

of the Mario games. 

But they will find Rabbids 

in zany situations throughout. 

And two flags across an 

upcoming entryway means a 

battle is about to take place. 

Gamers get to pick their 

team of three from a cast 

of characters that expands 

throughout the game. Likewise, 

progression and ingame 

currency allow players 

to upgrade weapons, 

add abilities and otherwise 

branch out across a skill tree. 

These upgrades are key to 

the progression of “Kingdom 

Battle.” Players have options 

when it comes to progressing 

through new levels, or going 

back to complete challenges 

and open new paths with 

acquired skills. So hitting 

a wall in one spot might be 

cause to explore some other 

options, upgrade characters 

and equipment, and then get 

back to the main story. (The 

game also offers and “easy” 

mode to those looking to 

tone things down.) 

The characters work surprisingly 

well together, and 

that comes across most in 

the creativity of the villains. 

The first boss, for instance, 

presents gamers with Rabbid 

Kong — an amalgamation of 

a Rabbid and Donkey Kong. 

There’s a goofy humor to be 

found in everything and no 

shortage of creativity to it. 

But the strategy is what 

will keep players coming 

back to “Mario + Rabbids.” 

There is, undeniably, quite 

a bit to figure out. “Kingdom 

Battle” is not easy, in 

that sense, but Ubisoft does 

a good job of easing players 

into it, explaining the 

mechanics and laying the 

groundwork for what is to 

come. It teaches players 

how to engage in the backand-forth 

battles, and then 

it starts asking them to occasionally 

think outside the 

box to get through levels. 

And it tosses in some world 

puzzles between those battles 

for good measure, while 

tapping into a desire to collect 

everything and perfect 

battle execution, adding to 

replayability. 

For good measure, “Mario 

+ Rabbids” offers a twoplayer 

mode with its own 

puzzles. While it does not 

do anything specifically that 

requires two players (it simply 

splits four turns between 

two people against a common 

enemy), it is a good 

opportunity to grab a second 

controller and get a friend 

involved. 

New worlds present new 

enemies, and new enemies 

and worlds force new strategies 

throughout “Mario + 

Rabbids.” In short, “Kingdom 

Battle” stays fresh. But 

most importantly, it manages 

the feat of catering to gamers 

new to the genre — and in 

family-friendly fashion — 

while not going easy on the 

strategy to accommodate. It 

welcomes and then it challenges. 

And it’s just a lot of 

fun. 

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‘Wonder Woman’ tops Snyder’s DCU, but it’s only raising a low bar 


The goals of “Wonder 

Woman” are lofty — almost 

unattainable. At the 

same time, it is trying to 

relaunch a long-standing 

franchise, while also playing 

to the overarching DC Universe’s 

build toward “Justice 

League,” all while making a 

case for its female heroine in 

a male-dominated genre. 

The results are mixed. 

“Wonder Woman” is saddled 

with the necessary but 

dreaded origin story, the 

bane of existence for most 

first-in-a-series superhero 

films. But director Patty Jenkins 

and writer Allan Heinberg 

make the most of it. 

Diana (Gal Gadot) lives on 

a women-only island, where 

all of its Amazonian inhabitants 

but her constantly train 

for a war with the possibly 

only theoretical threat of 

the Greek God of War Ares 

looming. The women are 

strong, and they are led by 

Diana’s mother, who prohibits 

her daughter as long 

as possible from learning the 

arts of battle. Diana is somehow 

different, though how is 

not immediately known. 

But reality comes crashing 

into the island in the form of 

a pilot named Steve Trevor 

(Chris Pine), who brings 

the conflicts of the outside 

world with him. Though her 

people show little interest in 

getting involved in the matters 

of men, Diana — whose 

origin may be pure myth — 

believes the First World War 

to be the work of Ares and 

it her duty to get involved. 

And so the mythical warrior 

enters the real world. 

It is actually a great vehicle 

for the film’s major messages. 

It allows Diana to enter 

a male-dominated world 

from a place of innocence 

and comment on the things 

that make little sense to 

her. That is done from such 

a place of simply honesty. 

“Wonder Woman” isn’t empowering 

women at the expense 

of men. Pine remains 

integral to the heroism of the 

flick, but Diana takes center 

stage. And her worldview is 

one of spreading love, despite 

her ability to fight. 

Gadot is integral to the 

success here. As Diana she 

brings to the film both an incredible 

strength and charm. 

She can be downright mesmerizing 

at times, in her fascination 

with the new world 

she is encountering. But 

there is never a question of 

her moral authority or ability 

to get the job done. 

But its origin nature — 

even if it doesn’t quite go 

there in the same way as 

“Captain America: The First 

Avenger” — leaves “Wonder 

Woman” feeling at times 

like a feature-length trailer 

for “Justice League.” It is 

bookended by her looking at 

a photograph given to her by 

Bruce Wayne, who is trying 

to recruit her, and that leaves 

it feeling like an opportunity 

to better introduce a character 

we’re going to need to 

know later. 

As part of the DCU, it 

also suffers from absolutely 

terrible special effects, 

which rear their head most 

prominently in the climactic 

sequences. They reek of 

bad green screen work, terrible 

explosions and just too 

much everything, along with 

a weak villain. And it has the 

same, random guitar music 

during action scenes that 

doesn’t really fit the vibe 

but simply makes the viewer 

think a Doof Warrior must 

be looming around every 

corner in the DCU. 

That said, “Wonder Woman” 

is entertaining, along 

with the good points it is out 

to make. It is, unquestionably, 

the best DC Universe 

Film Files 

A recap of recent releases 

Jerry Before Seinfeld 

(Netflix) 

Jerry Seinfeld’s latest standup 

special is a bit more than that. The 

iconic performer returns to The 

Comic Strip, where he got his start 

in the 1970s. In addition to the 

segments that see him revisiting 

some iconic jokes and performing 

once again on that stage, the 

special sources old clips of Seinfeld, 

and gets the comedian talking 

about his early days. In addition to 

proving Seinfeld is still very funny, 

and many of his early concepts 

still work today, it’s a surprisingly 

touching look back with a legend. 

Rating: N/A || Genres: Comedy || 

Running Time: 62 minutes 

Baywatch 

(Blu-ray + DVD + Digital HD) 

“Baywatch” was bound to be 

terrible. And it lives up to that 

expectation. Despite the dynamic 

that Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson 

and Zac Efron bring to the table — 

which sees Efron playing the pretty 

boy to Johnson’s authoritative 

insults — everything about the film 

film since Zack Synder took 

the reins. But that’s a low bar 

to surpass, and for as much 

as it gets right it is still saddled 

with many of the same 

shortcomings. 

That’s unfortunate, because 

“Wonder Woman” 

shows the ability to be a lot 

more than its counterparts. 

And it’s hard not to think, 

as empowered as she is, Diana 

is still being held back 

by some of the men in her 

world. 

Blu-ray Release 

The Blu-ray release — in 

addition to DVD and digital 

is just too dumb to be enjoyable. A 

running gag about the lifeguards 

getting involved with things that 

should be handled by the police 

could have been good, but it never 

seems to land, no matter how many 

times the film brings it back. And 

“Baywatch” mostly relies on raunchy 

and over-the-top, rather than wellcrafted 

jokes. The special features 

also are lackluster, but the “Stunts 

& Training” sequence is worth the 

watch, if only to learn about what 

Efron and Johnson were actually 

able to do themselves on the 

movie’s ridiculous training course. 

But that would require buying this 

terrible movie, and it’s just not worth 

it. 

Rating: R || Genres: Action, 

Comedy, Crime || Running Time: 

116 minutes 

Sid & Nancy 

(Criterion Collection Blu-ray) 

“Sid & Nancy” isn’t an easy movie 

to digest. The 1986 Alex Ross film 

focuses on Sid Vicious, bassist for 

The Sex Pistols, and his girlfriend 

Nancy Spungen. Their relationship 

culminated in a mysterious, 

brutal death for Spungen and an 

overdose for Vicious. “Sid & Nancy” 

doesn’t treat Spungen’s death 

copies — comes packed with 

roughly two hours of bonus 

features. Some of them, like 

the epilogue and blooper 

reel, aren’t worth the time. 

But the behind-the-scenes 

featurettes are fairly in depth 

and fun to watch. A feature 

on the training the women 

endured for their Amazonian 

roles is at the top of the list. 

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like a mystery, though. Instead, its 

focus turns to the self-destructive 

nature of both individuals, and 

how they fed into each other’s 

worst qualities. It delves into the 

nature of being an anarchic punk 

in Britain at the time, while also 

being treated as a commodity in 

the sellable world of punk rock. 

And it tackles the drug culture that 

helped fuel their collision course. 

It’s not a particularly pleasant 

movie to watch. And it isn’t so much 

about answers or making a point 

as it is simply portraying this side of 

culture. It is a trainwreck that dares 

us to look away. And in large part 

thanks to an early standout role by 

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to do so. Everything about it is just 

so raw and open, and it asks its 

audience to simply feed off the 

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much more. 

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Drama, Music || Running Time: 

112 minutes 

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Outpost unveils new, diverse burger menu 

Max Lapthorne 

Contributing Editor 

Outpost Bar and Grill 

owner Patty Gerny planned 

on taking a backseat to her 

granddaughter when it came 

to the food at her bar/restaurant. 

But that is not quite 

how things worked out. 

Patty’s granddaughter 

Morgan studied culinary arts 

in college, and the 28-yearold 

had big plans for the 

menu at Outpost. 

“She was revamping everything, 

restarting everything; 

she said, ‘Grandma 

you don’t have to worry 

about a thing; I’m going to 

handle this,’” Patty said. 

But Morgan never got 

the chance to take the reins 

at Outpost, as she died unexpectedly 

during a trip to 

Colorado with friends last 

August. 

“You don’t ever expect to 

get a phone call like that,” 

Patty said. “It was just terrible. 

After that happened, we 

almost shut down. We closed 

for a long time.” 

Outpost reopened its doors 

near the start of 2017 and 

decided to revamp the menu 

approximately two months 

ago — just how Morgan 

had planned. And Morgan’s 

brother Brandon, who Morgan 

trained in the kitchen, 

will be the one executing the 

new menu, as he is the chef 

at Outpost. 

“She always said, ‘You’ve 

got to make it smaller [and], 

whatever you do, you’ve 

got to do it good,’” Patty 

said. “Everybody has always 

loved our burgers, so that’s 

what we started with.” 

The new burger menu is 

not set in stone, but as of 

now it contains 11 different 

offerings, all of which start 

with Outpost’s signature 

half-pound burger patty and 

are served with french fries 

The Buffalo burger ($9) combines a Buffalo breaded 

chicken breast with a half-pound burger and comes 

complete with blue cheese crumbles on top. 

or coleslaw and a dill pickle. 

From there, the burger 

can go a number of different 

ways. Those looking for 

a burger with a kick can opt 

for the aptly named smokin 

burger ($9), which is topped 

with fried jalapeño, pepper 

jack cheese and hot sauce, 

and grilled with cream 

cheese. 

One of the most iconic 

items on the menu is geared 

toward patrons who may 

still be feeling the effects of 

their previous night out — 

the hangover burger ($9). It 

is a more breakfast-oriented 

offering, complete with a 

fried egg, bacon, American 

cheese and shredded hash 

browns. 

“We want to get them 

down,” Patty said of the new 

burgers on the menu. “We 

tried to hit the different areas, 

depending on what you like.” 

For those with larger appetites, 

the Buffalo burger 

($9) is the way to go, as it 

features a Buffalo breaded 

chicken breast on top of the 

half-pound burger patty, and 

is topped with blue cheese 

crumbles. 

The peanut butter pieces 

burger ($9) has surprised 

Outpost Bar and Grill 

14929 Archer Ave. in 

Lockport 

Hours 

• 11 a.m.–1 a.m. 

Sunday–Thursday 

• 11 a.m.–2 a.m. 

Friday–Saturday 

• Kitchen open 2-8 p.m. 

everyday 

For more information ... 

Phone: (815) 836-8893 

Patty with its popularity. The 

Reese’s-inspired creation 

is stuffed with peanut butter 

pieces and topped with 

creamy peanut butter and 

bacon. 

“We’re trying to tweak 

it,” Patty said of the menu. 

“We’re trying to really get 

what the people want.” 

While the burgers have 

been the main focus recently, 

patrons will have 

more options in the coming 

months. Patty makes homemade 

soups, which will be 

served in bread bowls and 

available as soup-of-theday 

options. She also enjoys 

whipping up home-cooked 

meals, such as lasagna and 

meatloaf, and serving them 

The BBQ cheddar burger ($9) comes topped with an onion ring, cheddar cheese and 

barbecue sauce. Photos by Max Lapthorne/22nd Century Media 

The stuffed green pepper soup ($6.50) is one of the daily homemade soup offerings that 

are served in a bread bowl. 

during halftime of all Chicago 

Bears games. 

“It’s something we’ve 

done since Day 1,” Patty 

said. “We always have food 

for the Bears games.” 

Another constant at Outpost 

Bar and Grill since it 

opened in 2005 has been 

a focus on family. Patty 

owns the bar, along with 

her daughter Lisa Gerny. 

Lori Thompson, Morgan 

and Brandon’s mother, is 

the general manager. And 

their support of each other is 

what has kept Outpost going 

through thick and thin. 

“It’s all been in the family,” 

Patty said. “It’s always 

stayed in the family.”

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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. Quench one’s thirst 

6. Mil. defense grp. 

9. Seed again 

14. Cashew family 

tree 

15. “Kill Bill” star, 

Thurman 

16. Host 

17. Explosive liquid 

18. H+, e.g. 

19. “On Golden Pond” 

birds 

20. New Lenox golf 

course 

23. Crawler 

24. They’re quite 

lenient 

26. Foreboding atmosphere 

29. State bird of 

Hawaii 

30. Quirky 

31. Chicago’s University 

Apartments 

designer 

34. A breeze 

38. Michigan city, 

with Grand 

40. Breakfast fare 

41. They parallel radii 

42. Interstate hauler 

43. Bow’s opposite 

45. ___ whim 

46. Software delivery 

model 

49. Music downloader 

51. Book starters 

54. __ de-toilette 

56. Chinese restaurant 

in Mokena 

58. Furnished patio 

60. Get wet 

61. Put to the test 

64. Whale show 

65. Compass point 

66. Conger catcher 

67. Indian state 

68. Rapid connector to 

an ISP 

69. Bottom of the 

barrel 

Down 

1. Fig. in identity theft 

2. George Sand’s “Elle et 

___” 

3. Recipe info, abbr. 

4. Goldsmith’s units 

5. Concerning finance 

6. Hotel offering 

7. French love 

8. Member of a Biblical 

people 

9. Use for support 

10. Whiny music genre 

11. Sean Connery and 

others 

12. Wine: Prefix 

13. Miss Mae 

21. Go silent (up) 

22. Rd. or hwy. 

25. Fishing rod attachment 

26. Uncontrollable 

masses 

27. Eric who wrote the 

book for “Spamalot” 

28. Husband of the first 

lady 

32. Spellbound 

33. Bother, with “at” 

35. Most quoted author 

36. Healthy mind 

37. Affirmative votes 

39. “Not yet final,” 

legally 

41. Brand-new 

44. Actress Diana 

47. Church courtyard 

48. The “greatest” boxer 

50. Loan shark? 

51. Aquatic cracker toppings 

52. Certain subatomic 

particles 

53. Sweetheart 

54. Literary lioness 

55. Sounds of relief 

57. “Death on the ___” 

mystery thriller 

59. U.S. med. group 

62. Neurology abbreviation 

63. E.R. figures 

How to play Sudoku 

Each sudoku puzzle consists of a 9x9 grid that 

has been subdivided into nine smaller grids of 3x3 

squares. To solve the puzzle, each row, column and 

box must contain each of the numbers 1 to 9. 

LEVEL: Medium 

Sudoku by Myles Mellor and Susan Flanagan 

answers 

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 


Live music 

Dan ‘D’ Jac’s 

(9358 171st St., Orland 

Hills; (708) 460-8773) 

■Thursdays: ■ Friday and 

Saturday: Whirlwind 

karaoke 

Fox’s Restaurant and Pub 

(9655 W. 143rd St., 

Orland Park; (708) 349- 

2111) 

■6 ■ p.m. Tuesdays, 

Wednesdays and Thursdays: 

Live entertainment 


Live entertainment 

and face painter 

Papa Joe’s 

(14459 S. LaGrange 

Road, Orland Park; (708) 

403-9099) 

■5-9 ■ p.m. Thursdays: 

Gene Infelise and Francesca 

■6-10 ■ p.m. Fridays: The 

keyboard stylings of 

Roger Pampel 

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 

To place an event 

in The Scene, email 

b.kapa@22ndcenturymedia. 

com.

36 | September 21, 2017 | The orland park prairie Real Estate 

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July 17 

• 11731 Waters Edge Trail, Orland 

Park, 60467 - Richard Macarol to 

Wade Watson, Patrice L. Shelton, 

$112,500 

• 15702 Brassie Court 2n, Orland 

Park, 60462-4961 - Diane C. 

Sharley to Michael G. Galvin, 

$150,000 

• 15339 Devonshire Lane, Orland 

Park, 60462-6768 - Patricia 

L. Dewindt to Nehad Zayyad, 

$220,000 

• 8565 Cedar St., Orland Park, 

60462-1619 - William Stefanu to 

Mary Stefanu, $220,000 

• 8565 Cedar St, Orland Park, 

60462-1619 - Mary Stefanu to Fadi 

Al Nadi, $220,000 

• 11130 Alpine Lane, Orland 

Park, 60467-6200 - Chicago Title 

Land Trust Co Tr to David B. Hayes, 

$342,000 

• 8755 Butterfield Lane, Orland 

Park, 60462-1495 - William 

Frances Elwood to Robert 

Wieczorek, Kristen Wieczorek, 

$460,000 

• 14034 Persimmon Drive, Orland 

Park, 60467-8608 - Daniel J. Horn 

to Aaron K. Bonnel, Samantha 

Bonnel, $531,000 

• 10442 Stone Hill Drive, Orland 

Park, 60467-8246 - Hjh Homes 

Inc. to Mark A. Lavin, Yvonne M. 

O’Cannel Lavin, $615,000 

July 18 


Park, 60462-4957 - Erin K. Smith 

to Karam Al Rafati, $152,000 

• 14601 Birch St., Orland Park, 

60462-2619 - Kenneth E. Sanders 

to Kelly Kalker, $235,000 

• 7855 Silver Court, Orland Park, 

60462-2949 - Scott M. Kranz to 

Michael J. Schnyders, $279,000 

• 15318 Regent Drive, Orland 

Park, 60462-3836 - Kimberly S. 

Jachowicz Revocable to Lisa M. 

Vondrak, $286,000 

• 17322 Grange Drive, Orland 

Park, 60467-7592 - Bernas Joint 

Trust to Tyler J. Stoub, Laura F. 

Stoub, $374,000 

July 19 

• 9925 Shady Lane 3NW, Orland 

Park, 60462-4673 - Terry C. 

Becker to Kelly Boone, Christopher 

Shockey, $117,500 

• 15721 Lake Hills Court 1n, 

Orland Park, 60462-7922 - James 

W. Rader to Thabet Aljoainat, 

$146,000 

• 17809 Missouri Court 106, 

Orland Park, 60467-9339 - Robert 

A. Ruglio to Betty A. Lis, Steven R. 

Lis, $211,500 

• 18124 Lake Shore Drive, Orland 

Park, 60467-5225 - Christopher J. 

Sobaszek to Marion J. Wildermuth, 

Frederick Wildermuth, $300,000 

• 14655 Golf Road, Orland Park, 

60462-7433 - Lester J. Zmolek Ttee 

to Meredith M. Marran, $400,000 

• 11260 Pinecrest Court, Orland 

Park, 60467-5808 - Marth 

Enterprises Inc. to Barbara Bruce, 

Katie Bruce, $425,500 

July 20 

• 11113 Wisconsin Court 1D, 

Orland Park, 60467-9379 - Dominic 

A. Regan to Sylvia J. Adasiewicz, 

$137,000 


Park, 60462-4963 - Margaret M. 

Gill to Frank Traina, $152,500 

• 17927 Arkansas Court 35, Orland 

Park, 60467-8923 - Bonnie L. 

Dunne Trustee to Roy A. Cotterman, 

$175,000 

• 8750 W. 168th St., Orland Park, 

60462-5726 - Baumgardner Trust 

to Dennis P. Hasty, $215,000 

• 14316 S. 87th Ave., Orland Park, 

60462-2730 - Steven G. Volz to 

David M. Jenen, Jaclyn Nickerson, 

$307,500 

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or call (630) 557-1000.

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Southwest Suburban Home Builders Association 

Launches 2017 Tour Of Homes September 22. 

Friday, September 22 

marks the start of the 

2017 Tour Of Homes presented 

by the Southwest 

Suburban Home Builders 

Association (SSHBA). The 

Tour Of Homes runs for two 

consecutive weekends with 

builder model homes on 

display from noon until 5 

p.m. Friday, Saturday and 

Sunday. Admission is free. 

“The Tour Of Homes gives 

home shoppers an unprecedented 

opportunity to see 

some of the best new housing 

options in the south and 

southwest suburbs,” said 

Shannon Rocha, SSHBA 

executive officer. “The 

models represent designs 

that are available in each 

neighborhood…and some 

are even ready for sale now 

with quick move-in.” 

In all, 20 homes will be 

available for the public to 

tour in communities spanning 

from Palos Park to 

Manhattan and from Plainfield 

to Frankfort. They 

range in size from 1,692 

to more than 8,000 square 

feet and in price from the 

$300,000s to more than 

$1 million. 

The 2017 Tour Of Homes 

showcase builders include: 

• T.J. Cachey Builders, 

Inc.—25532 Riley Erin 

Road in Leighlinbridge 

in Manhattan 

• J. Michael Builders—25913 

West Canyon 

Boulevard in The Preserve 

in Plainfield 

• Gallagher & Henry 

—9041 Gloucester Road 

in Farmingdale Village in 

Woodridge 

• Ascend Real Estate 

Group—12895 Rosa Lane 

in Estates of Montefiori in 

Lemont 

• Ascend Real Estate 

Group—12894 Rosa Lane 

in Estates of Montefiori 

Lemont 

• A & J Construction—15310 

S. Oak Run Court in 

Creekside Estates South 

in Lockport 

• M/I Homes—16015 W. 

Pennyroyal Lane in Sagebrook 

in Lockport 

• Riverview Builders, Inc.— 

16936 Lilac Lane in Parkside 

Estates in Lockport 

• M.C. Custom Homes 

—16735 Deerwood Drive 

in Oak Creek in Lockport 

• Brian Wille Construction—15810 

Mueller Way 

in Prairie Ridge in New 

Lenox 

• PDH Builders, Inc.— 

13905 Breanne Lane in 

Stonebridge Woods in 

Homer Glen 

• M/I Homes—13651 Amelia 

Drive in Kettering Estates 

in Lemont 

• Beechen & Dill Homes, 

Inc.—13889 Creek Crossing 

Drive in Greystone 

Ridge in Orland Park 

• D.B De Paulo Construction—12413 

S. Hobart Ave. 

in Palos Park 

• Flaherty Builders, Inc. 

—14342 Fawn View Circle 

in Deer Haven in Orland 

Park 

• Beechen & Dill Homes, 

Inc.—10022 Franchesca 

Lane in Parkside Square 

in Orland Park 

• Charleton Highlands Development, 

LLC—16331 

Emerson Drive in Charleton 

Highlands in Orland 

Park 

• Gallagher & Henry— 17531 

Humber Lane in Radcliffe 

Place in Tinley Park 

• Crana Homes, Inc.—19839 

Mulroy Circle in Brookside 

Meadows in Tinley Park 

• Flaherty Builders, Inc. 

—8483 Dungarven Road 

in Frankfort Meadows in 

Frankfort 

According to Rocha, models 

in the Tour Of Homes 

run the gamut from elegant 

ranches to classic two-story 

designs to a one-of- a-kind 

custom residence. Those 

who walk through all of the 

homes can experience the 

variety of floor plans and 

housing styles that make 

Chicago’s southwest suburbs 

a popular choice for 

today’s homebuyers. They 

can see what’s in fashion for 

finishes and features, check 

out the latest products and 

trends, and feel the building 

quality. 

They also can learn about 

all the advantages of new 

construction—such as energy 

efficiency, flexible floor 

plans, personalization options, 

fewer repairs and less 

maintenance, advanced 

technology, and overall 

comfort. 

For more information on 

each of the models and 

builders in the 2017 Tour 

Of Homes, visit www.SSH- 

BATourOfHomes.com. 

SSHBA is a professional 

organization that supports 

the American dream of 

home ownership and promotes 

high standards, professionalism 

and service 

within the building industry. 

SSHBA builders also 

are members of the Home 

Builders Association of Illinois 

(HBAI) and the National 

Association of Home 

Builders (NAHB). 

The group is proud to 

sponsor the 2017 Tour Of 

Homes, which is being held 

September 22nd through 

24th and September 29th 

through October 1st. Models 

will be open from noon 

to 5 p.m. each weekend. 

For an interactive map 

that can guide you to all 

communities and home 

locations, log onto www. 

SSHBATourOfHomes.com.

38 | September 21, 2017 | The orland park prairie Local Living 

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Customer Satisfaction through the Roof at Prairie Trails in Manhattan 

Excellent Communications translates into positive home buying and building experience 

Distinctive Home Builders continues 

to add high quality homes 

to Manhattan at Prairie Trails; 

its latest new home community, 

located within the highly-regarded 

Lincoln-Way School District. 

Many families are thrilled to call 

Prairie Trails home and couldn’t 

be happier. 

“Homes are one of the last truly 

hand made major purchase there 

is,” said Bryan Nooner, president 

of Distinctive Home Builders. 

“Many of our skilled craftsmen 

have been working with our company 

for over 20 years. We also 

take pride on having excellent 

communicators throughout our 

organization. This translates into 

a positive buying and building 

experience for our homeowners 

giving us one of the highest referral 

rates in the industry.” 

“But don’t take our word for it ask 

our homeowners,” urges Nooner. 

Nancy Schueler and her husband 

Jim purchased an Ashley ranch at 

Prairie Trails last year. “We raised 

four sons in a large five-bedroom 

home in Mokena. We knew and 

liked the area but could not find 

what we were looking for in New 

Lenox or Mokena. We went a little 

further to Manhattan and saw 

this home on an oversize lot with 

pond views, met with Bryan and 

Lynne and liked what we heard. 

Bryan sat down with us and allowed 

us to make changes we 

thought we might like such as 

enlarging the width of the home 

to accommodate a larger kitchen 

and we bumped out a three car 

garage because my husband likes 

to woodwork and needed the extra 

space,” said Nancy Schueler. 

“The building process was 

great,” continued Schueler. “We 

had a picture of a home we wanted 

to buy in Colorado and Bryan 

customized the facade of our new 

home to replicate it. We also liked 

the fact that Bryan lived locally 

and that we worked with a family 

company. He had a good handle 

on what we were looking for even 

making suggestions about things 

that we didn’t even think of. It was 

overwhelming but we would do it 

all over again. Everything Distinctive 

said they would do they did. 

If anything wasn’t kosher with us, 

they changed it. Distinctive was 

so willing to make us happy, was 

always present to walk us through 

our home under construction and 

answer any questions.” 

Karie and Jason Emerson recently 

built a Prairie model at 

Prairie Trails. “Our experience 

with Distinctive Home Builders 

could not have gone more 

smoothly,” said Karie Emerson. 

“Everyone says building a home is 

one of the most stressful experiences 

but ours could not have been 

better. Our initial home search 

was for a resale home with not 

much luck, then we saw an article 

in the newspaper for new homes 

in Manhattan. We went there and 

met Lynne and we were SOLD. 

“We found a great lot, a perfect 

model for us and worked closely 

with Lynne and Bryan on the 

design and without their help we 

would not have been able to build 

such a beautiful home,” continued 

Emerson. “We made a lot of modifications 

to the standard Prairie 

model which was never a problem. 

We loved that we were able to see 

the progress on their client portal 

and Distinctive delivered our 

home in the time frame promised. 

All of the subcontractors treated 

the building of our home as if it 

was their own. Thank you Bryan, 

Josh, Lynne, Jeff and everyone 

that we came into contact with 

at Distinctive Home Builders you 

gave us our Dream Home.” 

Tony and Nikki Uranin lived on 

the other side of Manhattan and 

wanted a new home they could 

grow into with their two young 

children ages 2 and 4 – with more 

space and new trees. Nikki was 

born and raised in Manhattan 

and was previously a teacher in 

the Manhattan school system. 

They also have a lot of family 

living nearby. 

“We checked out many builders 

in the area and Distinctive 

had the floor plan and upgrades 

we were looking for within our 

price range,” said Nikki Uranin. 

“From the moment we met with 

Lynne we were connected - our 

kids loved her and she was not 

pushy. The key decision were the 

layouts compared to what else was 

out there. We even had a home to 

sell and they held our lot for us.” 

“There was also great communication 

throughout the process,” 

she added. We met with Bryan, 

the owner, and reviewed designs 

and wanted to extend our loft 

upstairs. Bryan worked on the 

floor plan with us and we were 

able to do it! 

“There is even an App on your 

phone where they posted building 

progress. Everything went 

smoothly. It was a breeze making 

selections with the vendors - they 

told us that Distinctive was great 

to build with. Distinctive was very 

responsive after we moved in 

when we had a leak from a storm. 

They came out the next day and 

took care of the issue right away.” 

Harold and Molly Hewitt lived in 

New Lenox the last 20 years and 

initially had no interest in building. 

“We then put a deposit down 

with another builder and soon 

after had to cancel,” explained 

Harold Hewitt. “When we came 

back to them we lost all of our 

incentives. We found out that 

Distinctive Home Builders offered 

incentives and after meeting with 

Lynne; who took us through many 

different homes, we put down a 

deposit.” 

The Hewitts built a Foxgrove 

model and took advantage of the 

customization from Distinctive 

Home Builders. “We did three 

custom changes: We moved the 

master suite from the front of 

the house to the back so we could 

enjoy the lake views, made the 

loft bigger and added a bathroom 

downstairs. Our old house lacked 

natural light so we added additional 

larger windows throughout 

our new home,” said Hewitt. 

“The building process went 

fast for us because the weather 

was on our side and we moved 

in last May,” Harold continued. 

“Lynne explained all of our options 

and she and Bryan went 

over everything at a later date 

pretty much seamlessly. We knew 

what we wanted and appreciated 

Lynne’s suggestions and accessed 

the online portal for construction 

updates and pictures. We have one 

child, age 16 still living at home 

currently attending Lincoln Way 

West, a fine school.” 

Frazer and Linda Gulli closed 

eight months ago on an Arbor 

ranch. Two of their grown children 

live across the street in another 

subdivision and a third not 

too far from there. “When Distinctive 

opened up we were curious,” 

said Linda Gulli. “We wanted to 

be close enough to help with the 

kids but not too close. We built 

a ranch, made custom changes 

and have plenty of room for us. 

We modified the master bath and 

replaced the second closet with 

a walk-in shower. We also added 

a lot of canned lighting; so far 

we have been told that we have 

the most canned lighting in the 

subdivision! 

“We previously built a townhome 

so we were familiar with building,” 

Gulli continued. The process 

was fine with Distinctive, they 

were accommodating and willing 

to meet us after work. Distinctive 

also has a web site where we 

logged in to check progress and 

pictures as our home was being 

built. Even though we drove by 

often it was a nice convenience 

and understand how some people 

who live further away can appreciate 

it. Lynne and Josh are so nice 

and helpful! We appreciate all the 

help throughout the whole process 

from both of them! Everyone at 

Distinctive is nice and even now 

that we are moved in they still 

wave to us when they drive by! We 

can see the lake from our home, 

the neighbors are very friendly 

and we absolutely love the fact 

that the Wauponsee Glacial Trail 

is so close for us to just hop on 

with our bikes.” 

There are 13 ranch, split-level 

and six two-story single-family 

home styles to choose from each 

offering three to eight different 

exterior elevations. The three- to 

four-bedroom homes feature two 

to two-and-one-half baths, twoto 

three-car garages and a family 

room, all in approximately 1,600 

to over 3,000 square feet of living 

space. Basements are included in 

most models as well. Distinctive 

also encourages customization 

to make your new home truly 

personalized to suit your lifestyle. 

Oversize home sites; brick exteriors 

on all four sides of the first 

floor; custom maple cabinets; 

ceramic tile or hardwood floors 

in the kitchen, baths and foyer; 

genuine wood trim and doors 

and concrete driveways can all 

be yours at Prairie Trails. All 

home sites at Prairie Trails can 

accommodate a three-car garage; 

a very important amenity to the 

Manhattan homebuyer, according 

to Nooner. 

Prairie Trails is also a beautiful 

place to live and raise a family 

featuring a 20-acre lake on site, as 

well as direct access to the 22-mile 

Wauponsee Glacial Prairie Path 

that borders the community and 

meanders through many neighboring 

communities and links to 

many other popular trails. The 

Manhattan Metra station is less 

than a mile away. 

Besides Prairie Trails, Distinctive 

Home Builders has built 

homes throughout Manhattan 

in the Butternut Ridge and Leighlinbridge 

developments, as well as 

in the Will and south Cook county 

areas over the past 30 years. 

Visit the on-site sales information 

center for unadvertised 

specials and view the numerous 

styles of homes being offered 

and the available lots. Call 

Lynne Rinck at (708) 737-9142 for 

more information or visit www. 

distinctivehomebuilders.com. 

The Prairie Trails new home information 

center is located three 

miles south of Laraway Rd. on 

Rt. 52. The address is 24458 S. 

Rt. 52, Manhattan, IL. 60422. 

Open Daily 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. 

Closed Wednesday and Thursday 

and always available by appointment. 

Specials, prices, specifications, 

standard features, model 

offerings, build times and lot 

availability are subject to change 

without notice. Please contact a 

Distinctive representative for current 

pricing and complete details.

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Exp. Legal Secretary 

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or visit homerschools.org & 

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18420 Spring Creek Dr. 

Tinley Park 

1004 Employment 

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Live-in/ Come & go. 

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23, 8-5. Tools, antiques, welders, 

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New Lenox 1055 Southgate Rd 

9/22-23, 9-3. Huge sale. Too 

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Dr 9/23 9-3pm Black amethyst 

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Rd. 9/21 -9/23, 8-2p. Bikes, 

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wicker, table cloths, tools, furnace, 

Chevy parts, 80 gal. compressor, 

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Orland Park 14700 S. 94th 

Ave. Christ Lutheran Church 

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Tinley Park 7421 W. 161st St. 

9/22-23, 10-3. Tools, woodworking 

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2701 Property for 

Sale 

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OFCOOK 

COUNTY, ILLINOIS 

COUNTY DEPARTMENT -CHAN- 

CERY DIVISION 

PINGORA LOAN SERVICING, LLC 

Plaintiff, 

-v.- 

UNKNOWN HEIRS AND/OR LEGA- 

TEES OF PATRICIA M. BEEMSTER- 

BOER, DECEASED, JULIE E. FOX, 

AS SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE 

FOR PATRICIA M. BEEMSTER- 

BOER, DECEASED, ROBERT M. 

HOFFMAN, TERRI KARNOWSKI, 

CHRISTINE SKIRHA, UNKNOWN 

OWNERS AND NON-RECORD 

CLAIMANTS, UNKNOWN OCCU- 

PANTS 

Defendants 

16 CH 16153 

15435 BETTY ANN LANE 

Oak Forest, IL 60452 

NOTICE OF SALE 

PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN 

that pursuant to aJudgment ofForeclosure 

and Sale entered in the above cause 

on September 6, 2017, an agent for The 

Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 

AM on October 17, 2017, at The Judicial 

Sales Corporation, One South 

Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, 

sell at public auction to the highest bidder, 

as set forth below, the following described 

real estate: 

Commonly known as 15435 BETTY 

ANN LANE, Oak Forest, IL 60452 

Property Index No. 

28-16-107-012-0000. 

The real estate is improved with asingle 

family residence. 

The judgment amount was $142,888.24. 

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid 

by certified funds at the close of the sale 

payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. 

No third party checks will beaccepted. 

The balance in certified funds/or 

wire transfer, is due within twenty-four 

(24) hours. Nofee shall bepaid bythe 

mortgagee acquiring the residential real 

estate pursuant to its credit bid at the 

sale or by any mortgagee, judgment 

creditor, or other lienor acquiring the 

residential real estate whose rights in 

and tothe residential real estate arose 

prior to the sale. The subject property is 

subject togeneral real estate taxes, special 

assessments, or special taxes levied 

against said real estate and is offered for 

sale without any representation asto 

quality or quantity of title and without 

recourse toPlaintiff and in "AS IS" condition. 

The sale is further subject to confirmation 

by the court. 

Upon payment in full ofthe amount bid, 

the purchaser will receive aCertificate 

of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to 

adeed to the real estate after confirmation 

of the sale. 

The property will NOT be open for inspection 

and plaintiff makes no representation 

astothe condition ofthe property. 

Prospective bidders are admonished 

to check the court file to verify all 

information. 

If this property isacondominium unit, 

the purchaser ofthe unit atthe foreclosure 

sale, other than amortgagee, shall 

pay the assessments and the legal fees 

required by The Condominium Property 

Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If 

this property is a condominium unit 

which is part of acommon interest community, 

the purchaser ofthe unit atthe 

foreclosure sale other than amortgagee 

shall pay the assessments required by 


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The Condominium Property Act, 765 

ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). 

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR 

(HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE 

RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION 

FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF 

AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN AC- 

CORDANCE WITH SECTION 

15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS 

MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. 

You will need a photo identification issued 

by a government agency (driver's 

license, passport, etc.) in order togain 

entry into our building and the foreclosure 

sale room in Cook County and the 

same identification for sales held at 

other county venues where The Judicial 

Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure 

sales. 

For information, contact The sales clerk, 

SHAPIRO KREISMAN & ASSOCI- 

ATES, LLC, 2121 WAUKEGAN RD., 

SUITE 301, Bannockburn, IL 60015, 

(847) 291-1717 For information call between 

the hours of 1pm - 3pm. 

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORA- 

TION 

One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, 

Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 

236-SALE 

You can also visit The Judicial Sales 

Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a7 

day status report of pending sales. 

SHAPIRO KREISMAN & ASSOCI- 

ATES, LLC 

2121 WAUKEGAN RD., SUITE 301 

Bannockburn, IL 60015 

(847) 291-1717 

E-Mail: ILNotices@logs.com 

Attorney Code. 42168 

Case Number: 16 CH 16153 

TJSC#: 37-8319 

NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection 

Practices Act, you are advised 

that Plaintiff's attorney is deemed to be 

adebt collector attempting tocollect a 

debt and any information obtained will 

be used for that purpose. 

I3061892 

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OFCOOK 

COUNTY, ILLINOIS 

COUNTY DEPARTMENT -CHAN- 

CERY DIVISION 

US BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIA- 

TION AS TRUSTEE SUCCESSOR IN 

INTEREST TOBANK OF AMERICA, 

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AS 

TRUSTEE SUCCESSOR BY LA- 

SALLE BANK NATIONAL ASSO- 

CIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR RESI- 

DENTIAL ASSET MORTGAGE 

PRODUCTS, INC. 

MORTGAGE ASSET BACKED PASS 

THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 

2007-RP3; 

Plaintiff, 

vs. 

NIAMBI RIGGINS-THOMAS; WIL- 

LIE JAMES THOMAS III; UN- 

KNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF 

NIAMBI 

RIGGINS-THOMAS, IF ANY; UN- 

KNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF 

WILLIE JAMES THOMAS III; UN- 

KNOWN OWNERS AND NONRE- 

CORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 

16 CH 1199 

NOTICE OF SALE 

PUBLIC NOTICE ISHEREBY GIVEN 

that pursuant to aJudgment ofForeclosure 

and Sale entered in the above entitled 

cause Intercounty Judicial Sales 

Corporation will onTuesday, October 

24, 2017 at the hour of 11 a.m. in their 

Automotive 

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24, 2017 at the hour of 11 a.m. in their 

office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 

718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell at public 

auction to the highest bidder for cash, as 

set forth below, the following described 

mortgaged real estate: 

P.I.N. 28-22-317-007-0000. 

Commonly known as 16551 Lockridge 

Avenue, Oak Forest, IL 60452. 

The mortgaged real estate is improved 

with asingle family residence. If the 

subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of 

acommon interest community, the purchaser 

of the unit other than amortgagee 

shall pay the assessments required 

by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of 

the Condominium Property Act. 

Sale terms: 10% down by certified 

funds, balance, by certified funds, 

within 24 hours. Norefunds. The property 

will NOT be open for inspection 

For information call the Sales Clerk at 

Plaintiff's Attorney, The Wirbicki Law 

Group, 33 West Monroe Street, Chicago, 

Illinois 60603. (312) 360-9455 

WA16-0031. 

INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES 

CORPORATION 

Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 

I3061527 

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Rubbermaid (yellow ) commercial 

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$40. Rare CJ vintage gasoline 

can, 5gal &spout byJayes 

Can Co. $30. 708.466.9907 

Shimano Symetre 3000 FL 

spinning reel, new in box. Cost 

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dining room chandelier $5. 

Globes, nice $35. Portable new 

Sears halagen lamp $20. 

708.460.8308 

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template kit $18. 

815.463.0282 

Sunbeam bread maker, new 

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Mattell Elvis Barbie, new $20. 

1970 Pachinko game, like new 

$20. 708.301.0519 

Toy collectors 5pc Hess 2pc 

ERTL trucks $50. Automotive 

collectors AP muffler clock 

$30. Golf club collectors 

Macgrejur set 12 pc $20. 

815.838.7898 

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1960’s pen light $3. 12 pack 40 

watt bulbs $8. Duracell copper 

top batteries $10. Photo storage 

bozes $3. 708.460.8308 

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metal cabinet, 5’x2’, 

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Microwave shelf unit with 

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stand, jungle wood, 3.5 ft tall 

$50. 708.479.7480 

All wood blanket holder, quilts 

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New, in box, black Jumbo Joe 

premium Weber, paid $70, asking 

$40, cash or offer. Lockport. 

815.588.1214 

Petite wedding dress with 

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suede girls jacket, size S $25. 

3/4 length black coat $12. 

Long black coat with hood 

$25. 708.460.8308 

Power strip with circuit breaker 

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Dimmer switch floor lamp $12. 

Small LED flashlight $2. 

White metal floor lamp $10. 

708.460.8308 

Quality wooden high chair, 

freshly decorated. Great for 

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$60. 815.464.2270 

Rain barrel, 55 gallon, filtered 

for washing pets, car, gardening 

$30. New electric skillet 

$15. New electric griddle $15. 

708.210.1542 

Mens stuff: yellow sport 

jacket, 38L $30. Dark pink 

jacket 40R $40. Bears XL 

blue/orange jacket $35. Ski 

gloves XL $5. 708.460.8308 

Beautiful schnading loveseat. 

Excellent condition! Perfect for 

condo, apartment $50. Oval 

coffee table w/heavy beveled 

glass top $35. 708.301.0249. 

Leave message for Sharon. 

Burgundy queen size duel control 

electric blanket, $30. Powder 

blue full size single control 

electric blanket $25. 

708.429.3291 

DP 500 rowing exerciser G.C. 

with manual $45. Royal typewriter 

G.C. $15. 708.710.0170 

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Circle One: 

Lauren Mizera is a junior at Sandburg. She 

plays middle hitter on the Eagles girls volleyball 

team. 

How did you get started playing 

volleyball? 

I started playing for [Orland Youth Association]. 

My friends got me into it, and I 

actually started playing all different sports. 

... Over time, I eventually picked volleyball 

to be my favorite, and so now it’s the only 

one I do. 

Do you have any rituals or 

superstitions? 

A weird thing we do, in the middle of the 

huddle, the starters on the court will all say, 

“1-2-3, chocolate milk.” It’s a weird thing 

we do. Usually, at out past parties we have 

chocolate milk, so it’s kind of an inside joke. 

What are your goals for this season? 

My main goal is I really want to go to 

state. We have 17 players deep this year, so 

we have a lot of talent. And I think if everyone 

has the right mindset and everyone really 

wants it as much as I do, we could all 

go down to state. And I think that would be a 

super-cool experience. 

What do you like the most about 

volleyball? 

Two things: first, I like the competitiveness 

and the intensity. So, I like the superclose 

games. That makes it more fun. Also, 

all my best friends are on volleyball, and I 

always hang out with my teammates. 

What is the hardest part of volleyball? 

Probably tough losses, because there’s 

a lot of games that come so close, and you 

could’ve won. ... Knowing that you could’ve 

done better, but somewhere you fell through. 

If you won the lottery, what would 

you buy first? 

I think first I would book a vacation with 

all my friends and family. Somewhere like 

a tropical island or somewhere warm. And 

then, [I would] use that time to decide what 

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else I’m going to do with [the money]. And 

probably put some aside for college and invest 

for the future. 

Who is your favorite professional 

athlete? 

I’d have to go with Kris Bryant with the 

Cubs, because growing up, I was always a 

Cubs fan, my dad was always a Cubs fan, 

and everyone loves Kris Bryant. All the girls 

do, because he’s cute. 

If you had to replace a player on the 

team with a celebrity, who would you 

choose? 

I definitely would not want to replace anyone. 

I would say Zac Efron, because everyone 

thinks he’s so cute. He probably would 

be distracting, but I’m sure everyone would 

love me if I brought Zac Efron. 

What is your favorite school subject? 

Math, definitely math. I’ve always liked 

math, and I’ve always been good at it. ... And 

my coach for Sandburg, coach Vales, [last 

year] was my math teacher, so it was always 

a fun class to go to. 

What is your dream job? 

I definitely want to run my own business 

one day, so definitely something with entrepreneurship. 

And I want to have my own 

company so I can meet people or travel or 

kind of make it big some day. 

Interview by Sports Editor Tim Carroll

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high school highlights 

The rest of the week in high school sports 

Girls volleyball 

Sandburg 25-25, Lincoln- 

Way Central 16-17 

Abbie Stefanon and Erica 

Staunton each contributed 

eight kills in the Eagles’ win 

over SouthWest Suburban 

Conference foe Lincoln-Way 

Central Thursday, Sept. 14. 

Sports Briefs 

University of Wisconsin- 

Whitewater football gets 

boost from Orland native 

Graham Hevel, a native of 

Orland Park and graduate of 

Sandburg High School, will 

compete for the University 

of Wisconsin-Whitewater 

football team during the 

2017 season, which began 

last Sept. 2. 

Hevel, a sophomore at 

UW-Whitewater, is majoring 

in Physical Education. 

Setter Maureen Imrie had 24 

assists, and Rachel Krasowski 

chipped in eight digs. 

Boys soccer 

Sandburg 1, Bloom 1 

Charlie Gainer had the lone 

goal for the Eagles boys soccer 

team against Bloom Sept. 

The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater 

football 

team enters the 2017 season 

with experience and talent 

on offense, defense and 

special teams, a combination 

it hopes to ride to the 

program’s 36th Wisconsin 

Intercollegiate Athletic Conference 

championship and 

12th in the last 13 years. 

Sportsplex to host senior 

week 

Area seniors are invited 

Authentic German Food & Oktoberfest Beers 

Carnival & Vendor Fair 

Traditional German Entertainment 

7. The game was part of the 

Lansing Sports Shop Invite. 

Girls tennis 

Sandburg 5, Downers Grove 

South 2 

Agnes Florczyk helped 

Sandburg girls tennis win its 

meet against Downers Grove 

South, earning her victory in 

No. 2 singles in three sets 

Sept. 13. 

to senior week Oct. 16-19. 

There, they can participate 

in a number of classes, 

screenings and programs at 

the Village of Orland Park 

Sportsplex, 11351 W. 159th 

Street, Orland Park. Preregistration 

is required for 

some of the screenings. Call 

the Sportsplex for details at 

(708) 645-7529. 

Compiled by Sports Editor Tim 

Carroll, t.carroll@22ndcm. 

com. 

This Week In ... 

Eagles Varsity Athletics 

Football 

■Sept. ■ 22 - hosts Thornton, 

7:30 p.m. 

Girls Volleyball 

■Sept. ■ 21 - hosts Andrew, 

5:30 p.m. 

■Sept. ■ 26 - at Thornton, 5:45 

p.m. 

Boys Soccer 

■Sept. ■ 21 - at Andrew, 6:15 

p.m. 

■Sept. ■ 23 - hosts Lincoln-Way 

Central, 11 a.m. 


East, 6:30 p.m. 

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eyes my way, so I just broke 

on the ball.” 

He also knew that the 

quarterback targeted Shelton 

a lot during the game. 

“That’s their main receiver, 

and so I just broke on the 

ball and made a play,” Appiah 

said. 

Zvonar credited the talented 

two-way player after 

the game. 

“I think you saw the emergence 

of Kwaku Appiah 

tonight on both sides of the 

ball,” Zvonar said. “Great 

plays. Big plays. We knew 

he was a big playmaker. 

We’ve seen it in practice.” 

East had another chance 

to score before halftime, but 

after a 16-yard reception by 

tight end Turner Pallissard at 

the Sandburg 2, the Eagles 

defense forced a fumble 

that was recovered by Sandburg’s 

Anthony Hansler. 

Then, to start the third 

quarter, on a second-and-12, 

Morrissey was picked off by 

Sandburg’s Jaimie Marines. 

Also stepping up on defense 

for the Eagles during the 

game was Alex Hirschfield, 

who had two sacks. 

“Truthfully, I thought we 

played relatively well defensively,” 

Peters said. “I know 

the score doesn’t necessarily 

reflect that. But we gave up 

Boys Golf 

■Sept. ■ 26 - at SWSC 

Conference Tournament, 8 

a.m. 

Girls Golf 

■Sept. ■ 21 - at Lincoln-Way 

West, 4 p.m. 

■Sept. ■ 27 - at SWSC 

Conference Tournament, 8 

a.m. 

Girls Tennis 

■Sept. ■ 21 - at Bolingbrook, 

4:30 p.m. 

■Sept. ■ 23 - at Lincoln-Way 

West Invite, 8:30 a.m. 

a special teams touchdown 

and a touchdown on a picksix 

on offense. Defensively, 

we were working with a 

short field most of the day. 

“Alex is a junior and a 

two-year starter now for us. 

Our expectations for him are 

high. He keeps getting better 

every week, and he’s very 

coachable. He’s a nice kid to 

have on your team.” 

Later in the third quarter, 

East sophomore kicker 

Dominic Dzioban booted 

a 23-yard field goal. Then, 

after a combination sack by 

East’s O’Rourke and Jaden 

Hacha — followed by a 

wayward punt by the Eagles 

— Corbett scored on a 15- 

yard run up the middle to 

make it 39-7. 

Corbett (9 rushes for 84 total 

yards) scored again to open 

the fourth quarter, getting in 

on a 14-yard run to cap the 

game’s scoring at 46-7. 

“I saw exactly what I saw 

on film,” Corbett said. “We 

went over it the entire week 

— a lot of cutbacks, and if 

they see one play, they liked 

to keep following it.” 

Much of the fourth quarter 

was devoted to a more 

than 8-minute drive by the 

Eagles that eventually made 

it to the East 2-yard line. But 

a fourth-and-goal run play 

from the 2 was snuffed out 

by the Griffins defense to 

turn the ball over on downs 

■Sept. ■ 25 - at Shepard, 4:30 

p.m. 


East, 4:30 p.m. 

■Sept. ■ 27 - hosts Lyons 

Township, 4:30 p.m. 

Girls Swimming 


East, 5 p.m. 

■Sept. ■ 23 - at Fenwick Invite, 

10 a.m. 

■Sept. ■ 27 - at Stagg, 5 p.m. 

Girls Cross Country 

■Sept. ■ 22 - at Naperville 

Central Invite, 5 p.m. 

with 2:41 remaining. The 

Griffins offense ran out the 

clock from there to end it. 

For the Eagles, the loss 

wasn’t without its merits, 

and Peters said the goal that 

he tells the team every week 

is to get better every day. 

“I think there are some 

positives that we can take 

from this game,” Peters 

said. “I don’t really believe 

in moral victories, but there 

are definitely some positives 

we can take. Our biggest 

thing moving forward 

is, let’s learn from this and 

focus on our next opponent. 

Try to win one [game] at a 

time and get ourselves into 

the playoffs. We’re going to 

probably end up with about 

65 playoff points. So, if we 

get in, we might have a decent 

seed.” 

Meanwhile, the Griffins 

continued their early season 

domination. And for Appiah 

and Corbett, the performance 

once again showed 

that the state ranking the 

team has earned through 

four weeks of play isn’t by 

accident. 

“It means that No. 1 isn’t 

a joke,” Corbett said of the 

team’s performance so far 

this season. “We’re here to 

play.” 

“It’s not easy being No. 

1, but we’ve just got to live 

up to it and keep going forward,” 

Appiah added.



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Boys Golf 

Young, talented SWSC teams go low 

Lockport edges 

Sandburg on Eagles’ 

senior night 

Brittany Kapa, Assistant Editor 

Lockport just edged out 

Sandburg at the Eagles’ 

home course, Silver Lake 

Country Club’s South 

Course in Orland Park, and 

the deciding factors came 

down to the two youngest 

players on each varsity 

squad. 

Lockport freshman Ben 

Sluzas had the best score 

of the Sept. 12 matchup. 

He shot a 2-under-par 33 

through nine holes. 

“I’d say my best hole was 

8, because I had a good drive 

[and] a good wedge shot to 6 

feet [from the pin],” he said. 

“I had a tough putt, downhill, 

left to right, and made 

that for a birdie.” 

Sluzas said he had prior 

experience on the course, as 

he played a tournament there 

earlier in the summer. 

“I think we played well,” 

said Matt Eber, Lockport’s 

coach. “Ben, our No. 1, 

played really well again. 

He’s a freshman and solid, 

like [Sandburg sophomore] 

Max [Farley]. 

“You expect him to come 

in with a really good score. 

Nolan [Weis], our No. 2 

player, played really well. 

… A couple breaks didn’t go 

his way out there, but they 

played well.” 

Despite it being Sanburg’s 

senior night, Lockport edged 

out the home team by just 

two strokes. Lockport shot a 

combined 151 to Sandburg’s 

153. 

Like Lockport, it was one 

of Sandburg’s younger players, 

Farley, who finished 

with the best score for his 

team. He ended the match 

just one stroke back of Sluzas 

with a 34. Farley recorded 

two birdies in nine holes. 

“The first two holes were 

a little windier, but by the 

end of the round it died 

down a little,” Farley said 

of the playing conditions. “I 

don’t think it affected me too 

much. 

“My best hole was probably 

No. 6. I made a par on 

it, but I hit it left off the tee; 

I hit it over the green on the 

second shot and I had a really 

difficult chip.” 

Last year, Farley made it 

to the state tournament as a 

freshman and tied for 32nd. 

He hopes this year to break 

into the Top 10, he said. 

“Max did really well. He 

shot [1-under 34], which is 

great, because he’s been under 

par six of his 12 rounds 

this year,” said Jeff Kwilose, 

Sandburg’s coach. “In years 

past, if you can get a kid to 

shoot under par a couple 

times a year, that is awesome. 

So, for him being under 

par every other match is 

really impressive.” 

Sandburg seniors (left to right) Brendan Begley, Tony Majchrowicz, Matt Sczurek and 

Casey Campagna celebrate senior night by posing for a photo. Senior Jake Pineda not 

pictured. Brittany Kapa/22nd Century Media 

Boys soccer 

Sandburg to play for pediatric cancer awareness 

Tim Carroll, Sports Editor 

For the second consecutive 

year, the Sandburg boys 

soccer team is playing for 

something more than just a 

win. 

The Eagles will be looking 

for a SouthWest Suburban 

Conference victory Sept. 26 

against Lincoln-Way East, 

for sure, but the game will 

double as a community night 

and pediatric cancer awareness 

game. Proceeds from 

the match are to be donated 

to the Super Jake Foundation, 

a 501(c)(3) organization 

headquartered near 

Chicago whose mission is to 

help children diagnosed with 

cancer. 

“We wanted to choose an 

organization that was local 

and [whose] funds were 

kept local,” Sandburg boys 

soccer coach Desi Vuillaume 

said. “... We checked 

into a few organizations. We 

wanted an organization that 

had low administrative costs 

so that the majority of the 

money we raised, we wanted 

that going back out to help 

in some way, and that organization 

has really low administrative 

costs, and it was 

all going back out to help in 

some way, through research 

or helping local families.” 

Vuillaume said that 

when he was the girls soccer 

coach, the team played 

a breast cancer awareness 

game every year. When he 

took over the boys team, he 

looked for a charitable organization 

that he and the team 

could support. 

“And a few years ago, we 

had a few students that were 

suffering from various types 

of pediatric cancers, and it 

kind of just struck me that 

this is something that’s hitting 

close to home with our 

team,” he said. “And then, 

everyone in the community 

either knows someone or 

is someone who’s being affected 

by it. So, it just seems 

like a great thing to jump on 

board and get kids behind.” 

And he said the players 

have, indeed, embraced the 

cause. 

“It’s great to see young 

athletes really take charge of 

this and help design the T- 

shirts and get out there and 

sell,” Vuillaume said. “They 

kind of started a competition 

amongst themselves to 

see who could sell the most 

shirts, which is always fun, 

to have a little competitive 

nature to it.” 

The T-shirt selling was 

competitive, and the game 

on the field should be a competitive 

one, as well. 

“It should be a great game 

every year, a close match,” 

Vuillaume said of facing the 

Griffins. “We didn’t want to 

pick a team that we could 

just easily beat; we wanted it 

to be a good showing.” 

In addition to raising 

funds for pediatric cancer 

research and helping those 

affected by it, the evening 

game will be a community 

night, so local youth soccer 

clubs have been invited to 

see what Sandburg soccer is 

about. And, hopefully, donate 

to the cause. 

Proceeds come from T- 

shirts that the soccer team 

collectively designed and that 

have been sold to students at 

Sandburg. In addition, splitthe-pot 

raffle tickets will be 

available during the game. 

Last year, the soccer team 

raised $2,000 to donate to 

Super Jake Foundation. And 

Vuillaume said he is hoping 

for even more this year. 

“If we get $2,500, I’d be 

happy,” the coach said. 

The game is scheduled for 

Tuesday, Sept. 26, at 6:30 

p.m. at Mike Navarro Stadium. 

Admission is free, but 

the team is requesting that 

spectators make a $1 donation 

to the Super Jake Foundation.

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Sandburg runs into buzzsaw in No. 1 LW East 

Jon DePaolis 


Sandburg quarterback Christian Shepherd (left) executes a handoff to junior running back Andrew Schab 

during the Eagles game against Lincoln-Way East Friday, Sept. 15. Julie McMann/22nd Century Media 

In a Week 4 contest between two 

SouthWest Suburban Conference 

teams Friday, Sept. 15, Lincoln- 

Way East showed no signs of slowing 

down anytime soon, as the No. 

1-ranked team in Class 8A steamrolled 

Sandburg 46-7 in Frankfort. 

The Griffins (4-0) relied on big 

plays in all three phases — including 

a 66-yard punt return 

touchdown by Mason Keenan, a 

33-yard interception returned for 

a touchdown by Kwaku Appiah, 

and a two-touchdown performance 

by Jordan Corbett — to upend the 

Eagles (1-3). 

“It seems like everywhere you 

look we’ve got another weapon,” 

East coach Rob Zvonar said. 

“You watch certain teams that are 

championship-level teams, like 

the Cubs, and it is somebody every 

night stepping up. If one guy is 

out or injured or not quite making 

plays, somebody else picks him up. 

That’s been fun to see in this group, 

as well.” 

East got started midway through 

the first quarter after senior defensive 

end Devin O’Rourke fell on 

top of a fumbled snap by Eagles 

quarterback Christian Shepherd to 

running back Andrew Schab. That 

gave the Griffins’ offense the ball 

at the Sandburg 22-yard line. After 

a few run plays got the Griffins to 

the 3-yard line, senior Ryan Scianna 

(13 total rushes for 42 yards) 

plowed through the middle for a 

touchdown. 

About three minutes later, Morrissey 

(6-of-11, 110 yards, 11 

rushes for 97 yards) and Appiah 

connected on three passes — the 

last of which resulted in a 30-yard 

bomb to the left front corner of the 

end zone. Appiah (3 receptions, 54 

yards) adjusted his route to come 

back to the ball, leaving a defensive 

back at his back, made the 

catch and fell backward into the 

end zone for the score. 

“That was my first time on offense 

this season, and coach called 

a play my way,” Appiah said. “I 

saw [Morrissey] look at me, and he 

gave me a chance to make a play. I 

went up and got it.” 

East converted on a two-point 

play to make it 15-0. 

On the very next series, Sandburg 

was forced to punt at its own 

40. But on the return, Keenan, a 

senior wide receiver on the Griffins, 

found the edge to his left after 

receiving the ball to his right. A 

few blocks came to his aid, and he 

burned past a defender on the sideline, 

cut back inside to the middle 

and took the ball to the house for 

a 66-yard score with 36.4 seconds 

remaining in the opening quarter. 

“Punt returns are nerve-racking, 

and I’m back there by myself,” 

Keenan said. “I saw an opportunity. 

I had good enough space, and 

I just took it left. I saw the guy inside, 

so I had to make one cut, and 

I found the end zone. 

“Once I saw one of my blockers 

downfield, trying the keep the 

play alive, he gave me just enough 

to make one cut, stick back in and 

find the corner of the end zone to 

celebrate with the team.” 

On the first drive of the second 

quarter, Sandburg scored what 

would be its only points of the 

game. Shepherd (13-of-26, 118 

yards) found senior wide receiver 

Nicky Shelton for two passes early 

in the drive for 11 and 17 yards, respectively. 

Then, on a fourth-and-2 

from the East 30, Shepherd threw 

a perfect spiral 30-yards in the air 

to the left sideline, where Shelton 

caught it in stride as he streaked 

into the end zone for the score. 

Shelton, who finished the game 

with 10 total receptions for 105 

yards, had burned by the defensive 

back on the play. 

“Nicky Shelton is a special receiver,” 

Sandburg coach Scott 

Peters said. “We’ll definitely take 

shots with him throughout the season. 

He is going to help any quarterback 

he’s with. 

“Nicky’s got some good speed 

and great hands. He’s 6-foot-4. 

He’s a very good receiver.” 

But the good times wouldn’t last 

for the Sandburg offense. On the 

Eagles’ next possession in the second 

quarter, on the first play of the 

drive, Shepherd was picked off by 

Appiah at the 33-yard line, and Appiah 

sprinted all the way to the end 

zone to make it 29-7. 

“We’ve been watching film all 

week and dissecting it,” Appiah 

said. “Coach [Matt] Mrozek told 

us to play the sticks, and we knew 

they liked to throw the hitch a lot, 

so I saw the quarterback flare his 

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‘It was an intense match’ 

Sandburg drops 

close road meet with 

rival Porters 

Randy Whalen 


The stakes were high 

when Sandburg and Lockport 

Township met in a girls 

tennis dual meet last week. 

Not only are the two teams 

traditionally at or near the 

top of the conference but a 

change in the way the league 

standings are done meant 

that whichever team won 

would get a point and a leg 

up in the conference race. 

In the end, that team was 

the host Porters, pulling out 

a second doubles match and 

squeezing past Sandburg 

with a 4-3 victory in a South- 

West Suburban Conference 

Blue Division matchup on 

Thursday, Sept. 14, at Lockport. 

The loss was the first of 

the season for Sandburg (5- 

1, 0-1), which has also won 

the Ottawa Invite and finished 

third at the Lincoln- 

Way East Invite. 

The Eagles had a pair 

of singles victories. Junior 

Anna Loureiro beat junior 

Cassidy Hillock 6-2, 6-1 at 

No. 1, and at No. 3, freshman 

Viyaleta Hordzich had 

a 6-1, 6-1 win over senior 

Jenna Frankowski. 

“It did feel good, because 

she’s a good player,” Loureiro 

said of defeating Hillock 

at top singles. “It was a 

good match. I made consistent 

shots and played well. 

“It was very close, and 

they have a great team,” 

Lockport coach Bob Champlin 

said of Sandburg. “It’s 

always close, and [Sandburg] 

is a good team to play 

against. As far as the conference 

standings go, we get an 

extra win for the dual meet, 

and that gives us a leg up.” 

That happened because 

the Porters’ second doubles 

team of junior Maddy 

Grcevic and senior Gabby 

Perillo rallied for a huge 

5-7, 7-5, (10-5) victory over 

sophomores Mia Strolia and 

Konstance Delis. 

“Maddy and Gabby really 

held their composure,” 

Champlin said. “They were 

down 1-4 in the first set, and 

then just started winning 

games and brought it back 

up.” 

Instead of playing out the 

third set, the teams played a 

super tiebreaker, which was 

completed long after everyone 

else was done. So, the 

match was not only the one 

to decide the meet but was 

spotlighted, as they were the 

only ones still playing. 

“It was a good meet; it 

had to end, and it ended with 

them winning the tiebreaker,” 

Sandburg coach Brian 

Ostrander said. “A tiebreaker 

is a strange creature in 

itself. But it was an intense 

match, and that made it more 

intense.” 

With the first two sets lasting 

beyond 6:10 p.m., the 

teams decided on a super 

tiebreaker to make sure the 

match was completed. 

“I was ready to play a third 

set, but the super tiebreaker 

is a lot faster,” Grcevic said. 

“It was 4-4 in the tiebreaker, 

and then Gabby and I started 

to pull away. We went up 7-4. 

It was 7-5, and we scored the 

final three points. I like the 

close matches. They are so 

much fun to play.” 

But the Lockport duo did 

not know the result of the 

entire match was on their 

shoulders. 

“The whole thing was 

nerve-wracking,” Grcevic 

said. “We didn’t know [that 

our match was the one to decide 

it]. Coach [Champlin] 

told us afterward. But I feel 

like it really wouldn’t have 

mattered.” 

Perillo agreed. 

“It was a very long, tough 

match, and we did it,” Perillo 

said. “Coach informed us 

at the end. He didn’t want to 

put the pressure on us. But it 

was a very big win, and we 

felt a lot of pressure. But it’s 

good to beat a big rival like 

Sandburg. 

“We made too many mistakes 

to start the match. We 

were passive and down 1-4 

and 2-5 in the first set. But 

we changed our strategy and 

became more aggressive. 

Going to state together is the 

big goal for Maddy and I.” 

Ostrander didn’t tell his 

doubles duo that the pressure 

of the match was on them, 

either. 

“I’ve done that in the 

past, but I didn’t tell them,” 

Ostrander said. “They’re a 

brand new team this year. In 

fact, all four of our doubles 

teams are new this season.” 

The Eagles won one doubles 

match. That was at No. 

4 doubles, where senior Angie 

Rooks and junior Celanie 

Peng defeated sophomore 

Jessica Polino and junior Avi 

Harris 6-2, 6-1. 

Lockport also captured 

the first doubles match. That 

was Bri Hillock and Kaitlyn 

Graves with a 6-3, 6-0 

win over sophomores Julia 

Canellis and Jayme Gross. 

The Porters won at No. 3 

doubles, too, as senior Katelyn 

Ullrich and freshman 

Kamila Kalinowska defeated 

seniors Maria Pappas and 

Sam Warchol 6-0, 6-3. 

In the singles matches, 

Lockport won at No. 2, as 

sophomore Natallie Barth 

defeated senior Agnes Florczyk 

6-0, 6-1. 

“It was our first loss of the 

year as a team,” Loureiro 

said. “But I think if we play 

Sandburg No. 1 singles player Anna Loureiro puts herself in position for a return during 

her match Thursday, Sept. 14, at Lockport. Photos by Julie McMann/22nd Century Media 

Konstance Delis follows through on a serve in her No. 2 doubles match. After splitting two 

long, hard-fought sets, she and teammate Mia Strolia fell in a super tiebreaker. 

hard and practice like we 

can, we can perform well under 

pressure and beat them at 

the conference tournament.” 

Ostrander, whose team 

won the first two SWSC 

Blue titles in 2005 and 2006 

but hasn’t captured one 

since, wants the Eagles to be 

in position to win come conference 

tournament time. 

“One thing we clearly 

have is the best player in the 

conference,” said Ostrander 

of Loureiro, who improved 

to 9-0 on the season with the 

victory over Lockport. “This 

is the first time that you get 

a point for winning the conference 

dual meet. It was a 

close contest, but Lockport 

is the team to beat.” 

Both teams were at the 

Lincoln-Way East Invite 

on Sept. 8. There, Lockport 

was first, and the Eagles 

were third. They will both 

see each other again at the 

Lockport Invite on Sept. 29 

and 30.

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1st and 3 

Top rivalry 

performances 

1. Anna Loureiro 

(above) 

The junior singles 

player showed why 

her coach called 

her “the best player 

in the conference,” 

defeating Lockport 

opponent Cassidy 

Hillock 6-2, 6-1 

Thursday, Sept. 14, 

in a matchup of the 

SWSC’s two best 

powerhouses. 

2. Angie Rooks and 

Celanie Peng 

The senior and 

junior, respectively, 

combined to take 

Sandburg’s only 

doubles match of 

the meet. They won 

6-2, 6-1. 

3. Viyaleta Hordzich 

Hordzich, a freshman, 

came on in a 

big way to win No. 3 

singles for Sandburg. 

She won 6-1, 6-1. 

Tim Carroll, Sports Editor 

Orland Park native Michael 

Schofield played all 16 

games in 2016 for the Denver 

Broncos. Despite that, 

the Broncos waived Schofield 

on Sept. 2. 

“Obviously, you never 

want to go through that process,” 

Schofield said. “But I 

kind of realized I was going 

to be in that situation early 

on in camp. So, my whole 

mindset was going into preseason 

games, just go out 

there and dominate.” 

Being placed on waivers 

was never going to be the end 

of the offensive lineman’s 

career. He showed enough 

on film that, on Sept. 3, he 

was claimed off waivers by 

another AFC west team, the 

Los Angeles Chargers. 

He did not have to wait 

very long, but there was 

no communication with 

any team allowed for the 

24 hours that came after 

he was waived. After those 

initial 24 hours, Schofield 

was claimed by a number 

of teams. But the team with 

the highest waiver claim, 

which was determined by 

2016-2017 record, picked up 

Schofield’s contract. After 

24 hours of silence, though, 

things moved very quickly. 

“After the 24 hours, it was 

like 10 minutes after, I got a 

call from my agent saying, 

‘Hey, the Chargers claimed 

you.’ And then, 10 minutes 

after that, the Chargers 

called me, and I was on a 

plane that night.” 

Since the Chargers picked 

him up, the transition has 

gone smoothly. 

“It’s going really well,” 

Schofield said of the change. 

“The offenses between [the 

Broncos] and the Chargers 

are pretty similar, so my 

transition has been pretty 

smooth so far. I’m kind of 

still playing both guards and 

everything, so I’m doing 

things I’ve been doing. Just 

minor details are changed, 

so I’m trying to get those 

down.” 

Making the transition a 

little smoother was the fact 

that Schofield played against 

the Chargers twice a season 

since he was a rookie 

in 2014, so there was some 

familiarity. In addition to 

knowing some of his new 

teammates as former opponents, 

he has some familiar 

faces of former teammates 

with him in Los Angeles. 

“[Offensive tackle] Russell 

Okung is here, [and 

I] played with him all last 

year with Denver,” Schofield 

said. “Then, obviously, 

[rookie backup center and 

right guard] Dan Feeney is 

here, too, another Orland 

Park kid, so that’s pretty 

cool. 

“It’s always nice to see familiar 

faces … and it makes 

[coming to a new team] that 

much easier.” 

And those new teammates 

that Schofield did not know 

have been hospitable, as 

well. 

“Everyone’s been really 

Orland Park native Michael Schofield practices with his 

new team, the Los Angeles Chargers, after being claimed 

off waivers Sept. 3. Courtesy Mike Nowak/Los Angeles 

Chargers 

nice,” he said. “Everyone’s 

been really open and welcoming 

to me.” 

Schofield said he was 

open to playing for whichever 

team acquired his rights, 

but being in Los Angeles — 

where the Chargers moved 

from San Diego this season 

— worked out quite well. 

“It’s kind of exciting to 

me, to be able to play for 

a whole new city,” he said. 

“I’ve got, actually, a bunch 

of family out here, too, 

which just makes the transition 

so much easier. All of a 

sudden, you’ve got people at 

home games and stuff. And 

it’s actually going to be nice, 

[because] I think we play on 

Thanksgiving and Christmas 

and stuff, and I’ll be able to 

go to my uncle’s house and 

everything.” 

As far as on-the-field 

work, Schofield is listed on 

the chargers.com depth chart 

as the backup left guard. But 

he said he has versatility to 

offer the team. 

“Kind of like my whole 

career, wherever they need 

me, I’ll play,” he said. “For 

right now, I’m mostly getting 

guard [reps]. But for 

emergency situations, I’m 

sure they’re not going to 

be afraid to throw me in at 

tackle.” 

Interestingly, Schofield’s 

first game in uniform for 

the Chargers was a Monday 

Night Football showdown 

Sept. 11 against his former 

team, the Broncos. 

“It’s definitely going to 

be weird being on the other 

sideline,” he said ahead of 

the game. “Obviously, I 

know the environment, and I 

know it’s loud. I know what 

it’s like. It’s just going to be 

different being in that visiting 

team locker room [and 

on] that visiting team sideline. 

It’s going to be different, 

for sure. I’m excited, 

though, to see what it’s like 

from the other side.” 

Not too surprisingly, Schofield 

hoped to make his former 

team regret waiving him. 

“It’s almost like a revenge 

game,” he said. “... I just got 

cut from them, so obviously, 

I want to prove they made a 

mistake.” 

Although the Chargers 

lost 24-21 in that first contest, 

one of the good things 

about staying in the AFC 

West is that Schofield will 

have another shot at his former 

team this season. 

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“One thing we clearly have is the best player in 

the conference.” 

Brian Ostrander — Sandburg girls tennis coach, on what his team’s 

close 4-3 loss to Lockport Thursday, Sept. 14, showed 

What 2 Watch 

Girls swimming — 5 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 21 

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Lincoln-Way East 

INDEX 

50 - High School Highlights 

49 - Athlete of the Week 

Compiled by Sports Editor Tim Carroll, t.carroll@22ndcm.com.

Orland Park’s Hometown Newspaper | www.opprairie.com | September 21, 2017 

Staying in the 

AFC West Orland Park 

native Michael Schofield 

finds new home with Los 

Angeles Chargers, Page 55 

Seniors begin 

goodbyes Sandburg 

boys golf starts farewells 

to 2018 graduates with 

senior night, Page 52 

Sandburg’s 

No. 1 singles 

tennis player 

Anna Loureiro 

comes in to 

make a return 

against Lockport 

Thursday, 

Sept. 14, at 

Lockport. Julie 

McMann/22nd 

Century Media 

Girls tennis puts up big fight against SWSC rival Lockport, Page 54

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