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Community morns sudden passing of Mokena<br />
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Souper Bowl Sunday<br />
Frankfort Township Food Pantry gets<br />
donations from KidsWorks, Page 6<br />
BBQ and bridges<br />
Doc’s Smokehouse scheduled to help benefit<br />
Chefs’ Auction for Bridge Teen Center, Page 7<br />
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THURSDAY<br />
Frankfort Square Park<br />
District Board Meeting<br />
7:30 p.m. Feb. 15, 7540 W.<br />
Braemar Lane, Frankfort. For<br />
more information and meeting<br />
agendas visit fspd.org.<br />
SATURDAY<br />
STRONG by Zumba Demo<br />
9-10 a.m. Feb. 17, The<br />
Oaks Recreation & Fitness<br />
Center, 10847 W. La Porte<br />
Road, Mokena. STRONG by<br />
Zumba is not a dance class.<br />
This new HIIT-style (high<br />
intensity interval training)<br />
class also uses the science of<br />
synced music motivation to<br />
improve all aspects of fitness<br />
including strength, stamina,<br />
cardio power, mobility and<br />
balance. Classes for ages 16<br />
and older. Space is limited,<br />
and preregistration is recommended.<br />
For more information<br />
and registration, call<br />
(708) 390-2343 or visit mokenapark.com.<br />
3D Printer Class<br />
10-11 a.m. Feb. 17, Mokena<br />
Community Public Library,<br />
11327 W. 195th St.,<br />
Mokena. Join the MCPL the<br />
third Saturday of each month<br />
in the YA Computer Lab to<br />
create 3D nameplates with<br />
the Makerbot 2X 3D Printer.<br />
Register online at mokenali<br />
brary.org.<br />
Mo’ Beat Blues<br />
1-2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 17,<br />
Mokena Community Public<br />
Library, 11327 W. 195th St.,<br />
Mokena. Join the MCPL for<br />
a Mardi Gras Party. Register<br />
online at mokenalibrary.org.<br />
SUNDAY<br />
Yoga Nidra Workshop<br />
11:45 a.m.–1:15 p.m. Feb.<br />
18, The Oaks Recreation &<br />
Fitness Center, 10847 La<br />
Porte Road, Mokena. Release<br />
the stress that accumulates<br />
during the hectic work<br />
week. Yoga Nidra or yogic<br />
sleep is a stage in which the<br />
body is completely relaxed,<br />
and the practitioner becomes<br />
increasingly aware of the inner<br />
world by following a set<br />
of verbal instructions. This is<br />
different than meditation. The<br />
workshop will start with gentle<br />
yin yoga poses followed<br />
by restorative poses leaving<br />
you full of peace and relaxed<br />
and ready for a restorative<br />
sleep. Essential oils will also<br />
be discussed. Participants<br />
should bring a blanket, small<br />
pillow and wear comfortable<br />
attire. Class is for ages 16<br />
and older. Registration cost is<br />
$21 before Feb. 15. For more<br />
information and registration,<br />
call (708) 390-2343 or visit<br />
mokenapark.com.<br />
MONDAY<br />
Township Office Closure<br />
The Frankfort Township<br />
office will be closed in observance<br />
of President’s Day.<br />
Village Board Work Session<br />
6 p.m. Monday Feb. 19,<br />
Mokena Village Hall, 11004<br />
Carpenter St., Mokena. The<br />
Mokena Village Board is<br />
scheduled to have a work session.<br />
For more information,<br />
meeting agendas and minutes<br />
visit mokena.org.<br />
TUESDAY<br />
Senior Driving Seminar<br />
10 a.m.-noon Feb. 20,<br />
New Lenox Library, 120<br />
Veterans Parkway, New<br />
Lenox. State Representative<br />
Margo McDermed will provide<br />
four senior driving seminars<br />
over the course of the<br />
year for older drivers looking<br />
to refresh their memory<br />
of the written driving test, a<br />
necessary step to renewing<br />
their license. Each two-hour<br />
seminar will be taught by an<br />
instructor from the Secretary<br />
of State’s Office. The seminar<br />
will cover an overview<br />
of the contents of the Rules<br />
of the Road booklet and<br />
include a sample test. The<br />
seminars are offered free of<br />
charge. For more information<br />
and to RSVP, call (815)<br />
277-2079.<br />
WEDNESDAY<br />
Design your own Scarf<br />
Trip will depart at 9 a.m.<br />
Feb. 21, from the Frankfort<br />
Township Office, 11000 W.<br />
Lincoln Highway, Frankfort.<br />
Design your own silk<br />
scarf at this event. Lunch is<br />
included. Cost is $45. For<br />
more information and registration,<br />
call (815) 806-2766.<br />
NOTE: There are stairs at<br />
this location with no elevator.<br />
Board of Education Meeting<br />
7-8:30 p.m. Feb. 21, Board<br />
Room, Mokena Elementary<br />
School, 11244 Willow Crest<br />
Lane, Mokena. The Mokena<br />
Board of Education meets<br />
the third Wednesday of each<br />
month. For more information<br />
and meeting agendas,<br />
visit mokena159.org.<br />
UPCOMING<br />
Parent Academy<br />
6:30-7:30 p.m. Thursday,<br />
Feb. 22, Mokena Elementary<br />
School, 11244 Willow<br />
Crest Lane, Mokena. Join<br />
Mokena District 159 student<br />
services for a parent academy<br />
focusing on practical<br />
solutions to tough childhood<br />
problems. The session will<br />
be held in the district board<br />
room adjoining the cafeteria.<br />
For more information, call<br />
(708) 342-4911.<br />
College Planning Workshop<br />
7-8:30 p.m. Thursday,<br />
Feb. 22, Mokena Community<br />
Public Library, 11327<br />
W. 195th St., Mokena. This<br />
workshop will cover the<br />
complex world of admissions<br />
and financial aid as well as<br />
how admissions decisions<br />
are made. The workshop will<br />
also unveil important strategies<br />
you can use to get into<br />
— and afford — the college<br />
of your choice. Both parents<br />
are encouraged to attend this<br />
free 90-minute seminar presented<br />
by My College Planning<br />
Team at the Mokena<br />
Community Public Library.<br />
To register, call (708) 479-<br />
9663 or online at mokenali<br />
brary.org.<br />
Candlelight Bowling<br />
Fundraiser<br />
7-10 p.m. Friday, March<br />
23, Thunder Bowl, 18700<br />
Old Lagrange Road, Mokena.<br />
Join the AshleyCan<br />
Pediatric Cancer Foundation<br />
for a candlelight bowling<br />
fundraiser. Cost is $40 for<br />
adults and $35 for children<br />
and includes three hours of<br />
bowling, shoes and a buffet<br />
dinner with fried chicken,<br />
Italian beef, baked rigatoni,<br />
salad, rolls, soft drinks<br />
and dessert. There will be a<br />
cash bar, raffles, 50/50 and<br />
a silent auction. To purchase<br />
tickets, visit ashleycan.org.<br />
Woodcock Walk<br />
6:30-8 p.m. Saturday,<br />
March 24, Hickory Creek<br />
Preserve-LaPorte Road Access,<br />
10537 W La Porte<br />
Road, Mokena. Search for<br />
the male woodcock as the<br />
sun sets, and watch as he<br />
makes his way to the edge<br />
of a field and prepares for<br />
his extraordinary courtship<br />
performance. For more program<br />
details, including registration<br />
deadlines, visit the<br />
event calendar at Reconnec<br />
tWithNature.org.<br />
ONGOING<br />
Mokena Woman’s Club<br />
Scholarships.<br />
Applications must be<br />
postmarked by March 15.<br />
Graduating Mokena high<br />
school students pursuing<br />
higher education are eligible<br />
to apply for the FRWC Mokena<br />
Woman’s Club Scholarships.<br />
The funds for the<br />
scholarships were raised<br />
at the Club’s 44th Annual<br />
Holli-Daze Arts and Crafts<br />
Show which is the Club’s<br />
major fund raiser and a<br />
year-round project. Over the<br />
past 55 years, the Club has<br />
awarded 210 scholarships<br />
totaling more than $143,000.<br />
The application is available<br />
at Lincoln-Way East High<br />
School, Lincoln-Way Central<br />
High School and Providence<br />
Catholic High School<br />
as well as at the Mokena and<br />
Frankfort Public Libraries<br />
for other students. Submit<br />
the completed application,<br />
an official transcript, a letter<br />
of career goals, and a<br />
letter of recommendation to<br />
GFWC Mokena Woman’s<br />
Club, Scholarship Committee,<br />
P.O. Box 1008, Mokena.<br />
Chorale Scholarships<br />
Applications must be submitted<br />
to the school counselor<br />
by March 8. To meet its mission<br />
of enriching and enhancing<br />
musical opportunities in<br />
the community, Lincoln-Way<br />
Area Chorale will be awarding<br />
a scholarship to one senior<br />
student from each of the<br />
Lincoln-Way High Schools.<br />
The student must be planning<br />
on majoring in vocal performance,<br />
vocal education,<br />
or musical theater in the fall<br />
semester of 2018. Qualifying<br />
students should see their<br />
school counselor or music<br />
teacher for the application.<br />
Lincoln-Way Half Marathon<br />
Registration is open for<br />
the 2nd Annual Lincoln-Way<br />
Half Marathon. Race will be<br />
at 7 a.m. Sunday, April 22 and<br />
will begin at Breidert Green,<br />
123 Kansas St., Frankfort.<br />
Current registration cost is<br />
$70. Volunteers are being<br />
sought for the race as well.<br />
For volunteer sign-up and<br />
race registration, visit lincol<br />
nwayhalfmarathon.com.<br />
To submit an item to the<br />
printed calendar, contact<br />
Amanda Stoll at (708)<br />
326-9170 ext. 34, or email<br />
a.stoll@22ndcenturymedia.<br />
com. Deadline is noon<br />
Thursdays one week prior to<br />
publication.
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Bodybuilding a reputation for success<br />
T.J. Kremer III, Editor<br />
The world of bodybuilding<br />
might be foreign to most of<br />
us, but for three competitors<br />
who train out of Iron Warzone<br />
in Mokena, it’s a way<br />
of life.<br />
Bodybuilding is different<br />
than powerlifting, in that the<br />
top competitors, especially on<br />
the women’s side, are judged<br />
on their overall physique and<br />
appearance, and not necessarily<br />
on how many butts they<br />
look like they could kick.<br />
That desire to be in top<br />
physical fitness is what drove<br />
Carol Milkins, of Mokena,<br />
and Wendi O’Brien, of New<br />
Lenox, to team up with Iron<br />
Warzone owner Adrian Michalewicz,<br />
of Green Garden,<br />
to compete in this year’s Arnold<br />
Sports Festival in Columbus,<br />
Ohio, March 1-4.<br />
Building more than muscles<br />
“Over the course of the last<br />
15 years, you put on weight,<br />
you focus on the children,<br />
and I decided it was time for<br />
me to put myself first and<br />
live a healthier lifestyle,”<br />
O’Brien, who is a mother of<br />
four, said.<br />
O’Brien said she had no<br />
intention of ever doing bodybuilding,<br />
but now that she<br />
does it, she loves it.<br />
She said she lost about 25<br />
pounds working with a trainer,<br />
and in about nine months<br />
was ready to try getting on<br />
stage to compete in the master<br />
women’s bikini division.<br />
Yes, the competition takes<br />
her out of her comfort zone,<br />
but part of the trick to being<br />
successful is to have a mentality<br />
that you deserve to be<br />
there.<br />
“It does definitely give me<br />
a greater sense of self-confidence.<br />
I have really grown<br />
in that area,” O’Brien said.<br />
“It’s always something I’ve<br />
struggled with since childhood:<br />
I was always the tallest<br />
Wendi O’Brien, a 45-year-old mother of four from New<br />
Lenox, works her triceps and shoulders in preparation for<br />
the Arnold Sports Festival March 1-4 in Columbus, Ohio.<br />
Photos by T.J. Kremer III/22nd Century Media<br />
Carol Milkins, a 56-year-old grandmother of three, works on<br />
her biceps. Milkins is a former masters bikini champ, and<br />
is looking to repeat that success at her first Arnold Sports<br />
Festival.<br />
one, I was always the leanest<br />
one, and so got made fun of a<br />
lot for being real skinny and<br />
I was never really athletic, I<br />
never played sports, I was<br />
never part of a team. So this<br />
is really my opportunity now<br />
to be an athlete and be part of<br />
a team now, and it’s something<br />
I can do for myself.<br />
“When I’m up there, it’s not<br />
just about being up on a stage,<br />
because the stage kind of<br />
frightens me, but it’s the end<br />
of the journey and the goal<br />
that you’ve worked so hard<br />
and trained so hard and been<br />
so disciplined, to get up there<br />
and do that, it’s sort of the icing<br />
on the cake, so to speak.”<br />
Milkins, a 56-year-old<br />
grandmother of three, used<br />
to be an instructor in group<br />
exercises and a runner. After<br />
running her first marathon,<br />
she suffered an injury and<br />
went to the gym to rehab. She<br />
started hitting the weights<br />
harder because she couldn’t<br />
run and is now in her fourth<br />
competition, where she previously<br />
has won a master<br />
bikini division title, but this<br />
will be her first showing at<br />
the Arnold Sports Festival.<br />
“I love it,” Milkins said of<br />
the competition. “It’s sort of<br />
like soaring with the eagles.<br />
It’s hanging with the best<br />
of the best, and I like being<br />
part of that. It’s a tough road<br />
to go down. The discipline<br />
it teaches you is amazing. It<br />
makes you realize you have<br />
a lot more in you than you<br />
think you do, and it rolls over<br />
into every area of your life.<br />
So, you can just be stellar everywhere<br />
and not just in the<br />
gym.”<br />
She, too, gets taken a little<br />
out of her comfort zone on<br />
stage, but she said she hopes<br />
that by overcoming those jitters<br />
and showing what she’s<br />
able to do, that she’ll be able<br />
to help inspire other women.<br />
“It’s a little nerve wracking<br />
to get out there,” Milkins<br />
said. “But then something<br />
takes over, it’s just like I<br />
deserve to be here, just like<br />
everybody else. I’ve worked<br />
hard, I’ve earned this, and it’s<br />
the best I can be.”<br />
Putting in the work<br />
The women work with Michalewicz<br />
throughout most<br />
of the week, and what time<br />
they don’t spend in the gym<br />
training, they spend working<br />
out on their own and taking<br />
care of the rest of their normal<br />
daily functions.<br />
O’Brien trains five days a<br />
week, plus cardio workouts<br />
throughout the week; three<br />
days a week on legs and the<br />
rest on thighs, triceps and<br />
shoulders. During competition<br />
preparation, she gets up<br />
at 5:30 a.m. to do 30-45 minutes<br />
of cardio, lift for about<br />
an hour, then more cardio.<br />
“Get up early, get it done<br />
and then get back to family,<br />
to work,” O’Brien said of<br />
her regiment. “I could make<br />
excuses. I could say, ‘Oh, I<br />
couldn’t get here because of<br />
the snow,’ or whatever, but if<br />
it’s something that you really<br />
want to do and it’s a goal of<br />
yours, then you’ll get it done.”<br />
Michalewicz emphasized<br />
the point: “Not preparing is<br />
Please see bodybuilder, 7<br />
Mokena remembers Kozik,<br />
co-founder of Tinley Wish<br />
Cody Mroczka<br />
Contributing Editor<br />
Rich Kozik, 58, of Mokena,<br />
a co-founder of Tinley<br />
Wish and lieutenant with the<br />
Illinois State Police, died on<br />
Feb. 6.<br />
Illinois State<br />
Police Director<br />
Leo P. Schmitz<br />
announced<br />
Kozik had<br />
passed<br />
on duty in<br />
District 15<br />
while<br />
Rich Kozik<br />
(Downers Grove) at approximately<br />
11:01 a.m. after suffering<br />
a medical emergency.<br />
He later died at the hospital,<br />
according to a press release.<br />
“Rich was not only a<br />
great leader, but a personal<br />
friend. Rich was a dedicated<br />
19-year-veteran who was respected<br />
and revered by many<br />
both inside and outside our<br />
department,” Schmitz said.<br />
“Rich will be remembered<br />
for his dedication to the Illinois<br />
State Police and living<br />
up to our motto: ‘Integrity,<br />
service and pride.’”<br />
Prior to becoming the District<br />
15 Special Operations<br />
Lieutenant overseeing the<br />
Motorcycle Unit, Truck Enforcement<br />
Unit and the Criminal<br />
Patrol Team, Kozik spent<br />
several years as part-time<br />
police officer with the Tinley<br />
Park Police Department.<br />
In 1996, Kozik and friend<br />
Dennis Mahoney started Tinley<br />
Wish, a not-for-profit,<br />
community-based organization<br />
that raises money<br />
throughout the year to give<br />
back to Tinley Park families<br />
in need with the help of village<br />
employees, churches,<br />
schools and private citizens.<br />
“Rich Kozik was a genuine<br />
person with a heart of gold<br />
who wanted to make a difference,”<br />
Tinley Wish said in a<br />
statement. “Rich was an extraordinary<br />
human being who<br />
genuinely cared for people.<br />
He will be missed by so many.<br />
Please keep the Kozik family<br />
in your thoughts and prayers.”<br />
It was during his time as<br />
a part-time officer when he<br />
became friends with Rick<br />
Bruno, who retired from the<br />
force in 2010. Bruno said<br />
Kozik courageously battled<br />
cancer for many years, but always<br />
kept a smile on his face.<br />
“People say it’s a cliche<br />
when people say, ‘What<br />
a great guy.’ But he really<br />
was great with a capital ‘G.’<br />
He was such a gentle, quiet<br />
individual,” Bruno said. “I<br />
think one of the things he<br />
really loved was helping out<br />
the community. I was fortunate<br />
enough to meet a lot of<br />
good men and women, but I<br />
think he was the best. People<br />
like that, I don’t know if they<br />
come around everyday.”<br />
Visitation services were<br />
scheduled for Sunday, Feb.<br />
11, at the Robert J. Sheehy<br />
and Sons Funeral Home in<br />
Orland Park followed by a<br />
mass for family and friends<br />
on Monday, Feb. 12, at St.<br />
Francis of Assisi Church,<br />
also in Orland Park.<br />
The Illinois State Police<br />
also conducted an honorary<br />
procession route Feb. 12, departing<br />
from St. Francis of<br />
Assisi Church immediately<br />
following the funeral service<br />
on Monday. The procession<br />
departed the church at approximately<br />
noon following<br />
a designated route to the<br />
cemetery. Intersections along<br />
the route were blocked to allow<br />
the safe travel of the vehicles<br />
in the procession.<br />
Interment was private at<br />
Resurrection Cemetery. In<br />
lieu of flowers, donations to<br />
Illinois State Police Heritage<br />
Foundation, P.O. Box 8168,<br />
Springfield, IL, 64791, isphf.<br />
org/donations, or Tinley<br />
Wish, 7850 W. 183rd St., Tinley<br />
Park, 60477, tinleywish.<br />
org, would be appreciated.
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Volleying for a cure<br />
Submitted by Mokena<br />
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Mokena School staff vs<br />
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Pictured are teachers from Mokena School District 159 and members of Mokena Fire<br />
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Together, they were able to raise $2,045 for the Mokena Cancer Support Center.<br />
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Souper Bowl party gathers food for those in need<br />
Amanda Stoll, Assistant Editor<br />
On the one day in the<br />
United States where the<br />
majority of Americans are<br />
huddled around their TVs<br />
watching the big game, the<br />
commercials or the halftime<br />
show, a different kind of<br />
party was going on at KidsWork<br />
Children’s Museum.<br />
Before all the beer and<br />
wings, their first Souper<br />
Bowl party brought families<br />
together for hours of fun for<br />
a good cause.<br />
Each attendee at the<br />
party was asked to bring a<br />
non-perishable food donation<br />
to the museum to help<br />
stock the shelves at the<br />
Frankfort Township Food<br />
Pantry.<br />
Nicole Underwood, executive<br />
director of KidsWorks<br />
Children’s Museum,<br />
estimates 70 families<br />
stopped by the event, and<br />
some brought more than<br />
one item.<br />
For those who forgot or<br />
didn’t have a food item to<br />
bring, there were some prepurchased<br />
items available<br />
to “buy” for $3 and put in<br />
the donation bin.<br />
Underwood said the idea<br />
was popular with parents<br />
who had their hands full<br />
with children, strollers and<br />
diaper bags but still wanted<br />
to contribute to the cause.<br />
KidsWork Children’s<br />
Museum is a nonprofit organization,<br />
and Underwood<br />
said it is nice to see one<br />
nonprofit be able to help out<br />
another.<br />
“We feel so fortunate at<br />
the museum with people<br />
helping us out,” she said.<br />
“We get donations daily:<br />
craft stuff or toys or even<br />
monetary donations. We<br />
always feel so grateful<br />
for it.”<br />
Jeannine Hetfleisch, director<br />
of the Frankfort Township<br />
Food Pantry, said they receive<br />
their donations from a<br />
variety of sources, but much<br />
of the food on the shelves<br />
comes from citizens who<br />
drop off food once in a while,<br />
as well as scouts and other<br />
organizations, such as KidsWorks,<br />
who do food drives.<br />
During the growing season,<br />
she said many people<br />
bring in their extra produce<br />
from their gardens, which<br />
is always a nice treat for<br />
people who come to pick up<br />
food from the pantry.<br />
Still, others donate their<br />
time or their money to the<br />
pantry, which Hetfleisch said<br />
makes a difference because<br />
the pantry only has herself<br />
and Mike Hilton, the food<br />
harvester, as employees.<br />
Hilton visits area grocery<br />
stores each day to pick up<br />
food donations from them,<br />
and some of the volunteers<br />
spend their time shopping<br />
sales and picking up items<br />
that the pantry needs, as well.<br />
Hetfleisch said over the<br />
years she has seen a lot of<br />
faces come in and out of<br />
the food pantry, but certain<br />
cases seem to stick with her<br />
the most.<br />
She said she tries to talk<br />
to everyone who comes<br />
through the door personally<br />
to find out what<br />
they’re going through and<br />
how she and the pantry<br />
can help.<br />
“It’s hard to share that<br />
kind of information, too,<br />
because who wants to admit<br />
that?” Hetfleisch said.<br />
The people and families<br />
in the community who are in<br />
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Nicole Underwood, executive director of KidsWorks<br />
Children’s Museum, stands among the shelves of donated<br />
food at the Frankfort Township Food Pantry.<br />
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Police Reports<br />
Police: ‘Zero tolerance,’ wrecked vehicle leads to teen arrest<br />
Brooke E. Beveridge, 19,<br />
of 20141 S. Rosewood Drive<br />
in Frankfort, was charged<br />
Jan. 26 with causing an accident<br />
with property damage,<br />
failure to reduce speed to<br />
avoid an accident and illegal<br />
consumption of alcohol by a<br />
minor, which carries a separate<br />
charge of zero tolerance<br />
for underage drinking.<br />
According to the report, an<br />
officer responded to the 19300<br />
block of Beaver Creek Lane<br />
after 911 dispatchers received<br />
a call where a voice could be<br />
heard yelling for help and requesting<br />
an ambulance before<br />
hanging up the call. Upon arrival,<br />
the officer could see a<br />
male inside the residence and<br />
heard yelling coming from inside.<br />
Officers were able to get<br />
one of the subjects to answer<br />
the door, and Beveridge and<br />
two other subjects were found<br />
arguing about an accident<br />
Beveridge had been involved<br />
in, police said.<br />
The officer then asked to<br />
see the vehicle that was involved<br />
in the accident and reportedly<br />
found it in the grass<br />
15-20 feet from another residence.<br />
The vehicle allegedly<br />
had mud on the roof from being<br />
flipped over, all the airbags<br />
were deployed, the back<br />
windshield was shattered and<br />
a tree had been broken in half.<br />
The officer alleged he<br />
could smell alcohol on Beveridge’s<br />
breath and issued<br />
several field sobriety tests,<br />
all of which she reportedly<br />
passed, but she was placed<br />
under arrest for underage<br />
consumption under the zero<br />
tolerance law. Beveridge later<br />
was found to have a BAC<br />
of .071, police said.<br />
Jan. 29<br />
•Steven M. Ulman, 42, of<br />
1116 Loral Ave. in Joliet, was<br />
charged with possession of<br />
methamphetamine, operation<br />
of an uninsured motor vehicle,<br />
driving on a suspended/<br />
revoked driver’s license,<br />
speeding and failure to yield<br />
to a stop sign.<br />
According to police reports,<br />
an officer parked in a parking<br />
lot in the 11600 block of Francis<br />
Road running stationary<br />
radar observed Ulman driving<br />
45 mph in a 30 mph zone. The<br />
officer then got behind Ulman<br />
and allegedly observed him<br />
rool through a stop sign on<br />
Front Street, where the officer<br />
then initiated a traffic stop.<br />
Ulman reportedly gave the officer<br />
an Illinois I.D. and told<br />
the officer that he had an Indiana<br />
driver’s license. The officer<br />
ran the ID and discovered<br />
that Indiana had suspended<br />
Ulman’s driver’s license. He<br />
was then placed under arrest<br />
for driving on a suspended<br />
driver’s license.<br />
A search of Ulman’s vehicle<br />
allegedly resulted in the discovery<br />
of a clear plastic bag<br />
containing several white/<br />
clear chunks that were believed<br />
to be crystal meth.<br />
At test at Mokena Police<br />
Department later concluded<br />
the substance to be positive<br />
for methamphetamine in the<br />
amount of 1.5 grams.<br />
Jan. 27<br />
•Justin C. Berndt, 21, of<br />
11510 Francis Road in Mokena,<br />
was charged with DUIalcohol,<br />
DUI with a BAC<br />
over .08, improper lane usage<br />
and driving off the roadway.<br />
According to police reports, an<br />
officer responded to a call for<br />
assistance at the intersection<br />
of South Wolf Road and Old<br />
Wolf Road. Upon arrival, the<br />
officer reportedly found Berndt<br />
in his vehicle with an open<br />
12-pack of beer behind the<br />
front passenger seat. Berndt<br />
was asked to perform several<br />
field sobriety tests, all of which<br />
he reportedly failed. Berndt<br />
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for DUI. He later was discovered<br />
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Milkins follows a similar<br />
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“This time around, I’m<br />
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days a week,” Milkin said.<br />
“Roughly hitting lower body<br />
twice a week. Upper body, I<br />
do my own training for upper<br />
body and arms two days<br />
a week. So, I’m five days of<br />
weights, probably six days of<br />
cardio … I’m usually in the<br />
gym for about two hours per<br />
day. I start usually around 6<br />
a.m., and I’m home around<br />
8:30 a.m., and I start work<br />
later in the afternoon, so I<br />
meal prep and my house always<br />
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Both women and Michalewicz<br />
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Michalewicz, who was active<br />
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He said he started training<br />
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Michalewicz manages<br />
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Both women and Michalewicz<br />
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friends who support them in<br />
their endeavors.<br />
The sport is inherently<br />
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But, for those who dedicate<br />
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O’Brien said that she<br />
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Mokena business set to participate<br />
in Chefs’ Auction benefit<br />
Submitted by The Bridge<br />
Teen Center<br />
For the fourth consecutive<br />
year, the long-running<br />
Chefs’ Auction fundraiser<br />
will support the mission of<br />
the Bridge Teen Center in<br />
Orland Park.<br />
One of this year’s featured<br />
restaurants is Doc’s<br />
Smokehouse in Mokena.<br />
This will be the first-ever<br />
appearance by Doc’s at this<br />
fundraiser, and the first time<br />
a traditional barbeque restaurant<br />
has ever participated.<br />
In addition to sampling<br />
some of their creations to<br />
an expected more than 300<br />
event attendees, the restaurant<br />
will auction off a oneof-a-kind<br />
dining experience<br />
during the live auction.<br />
“The Bridge is thrilled<br />
to get a Mokena restaurant<br />
pantry<br />
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the most need of basic food<br />
and supplies are not always<br />
the people some might expect,<br />
and she said it just goes<br />
to show that you can never<br />
be sure what someone is going<br />
through.<br />
The pantry serves 325<br />
families per month, which<br />
each of those families eligible<br />
to come in once a week<br />
for staples like meat, milk,<br />
fresh produce, refrigerated<br />
items and bakery items, as<br />
well as once a month to shop<br />
for non-perishable foods.<br />
Underwood said the food<br />
drive at KidsWork was a<br />
great learning opportunity<br />
for many of the children<br />
and an opportunity to learn<br />
about having empathy for<br />
others who don’t have as<br />
much as others might have.<br />
Many of the parents got on<br />
board with the message as<br />
engaged in this community<br />
fundraiser, and we couldn’t<br />
be more excited about Doc’s<br />
being involved,” said Rob<br />
Steinmetz, founder and director<br />
of marketing for The<br />
Bridge Teen Center. “We’re<br />
big barbeque fans, and we<br />
are certain this will be a<br />
welcome addition for our<br />
guests.”<br />
This year’s Chefs’ Auction<br />
event is scheduled to be<br />
held March 8 at a brand new<br />
location: Silver Lake Country<br />
Club. Featured restaurants<br />
include “veteran” participants,<br />
such as Cooper’s<br />
Hawk, Wooden Paddle and<br />
Rocco Vino’s, as well as<br />
newcomers, such as Doc’s<br />
Smokehouse, Houlihan’s<br />
and Smallcakes.<br />
Due to cuts to the Village<br />
of Orland Park’s recentlypassed<br />
budget, the popular<br />
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“You heard the parents<br />
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of The Bridge Teen<br />
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Parks and Recreation<br />
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“Over the last 3 years,<br />
the Village of Orland<br />
Park has helped raise over<br />
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Teen Center through this<br />
highly-anticipated event,”<br />
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grateful for the opportunity<br />
to carry on this tradition in<br />
the community, to continue<br />
raising much-needed support<br />
for The Bridge’s free<br />
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FROM THE TINLEY JUNCTION<br />
Love in the air (and on the walls)<br />
at Vogt Visual Arts Center<br />
Amour. Amore. Liebe.<br />
Across the globe, there are many<br />
words for love, but nothing quite<br />
captures the concept like a picture<br />
or paintings, jewelry and sculptures.<br />
Through Feb. 24, the walls of the<br />
Tinley Park-Park District’s Vogt Visual<br />
Arts Center are to be adorned<br />
with images of endearment for<br />
its display called “What Do You<br />
Love?” The opening reception the<br />
afternoon of Feb. 3 gave art fans<br />
the chance to see the show and chat<br />
with local artists about their inspirations.<br />
Vogt Center instructor Carol Chirafisi<br />
said she loves sharing the joy<br />
of art through her paintings and as<br />
a teacher.<br />
“I mostly love working in oils<br />
and depicting concepts that relate to<br />
people, so it’s portraiture but it’s not<br />
in the traditional sense,” she said.<br />
For gallery director Julie Dekker,<br />
this show has special meaning. She<br />
not only does she love art in all of<br />
its forms but also has a deep love for<br />
the center itself. She even included<br />
the gallery in her wedding when she<br />
married her husband, Kurt, on the<br />
grounds in 2010.<br />
Gallery hours and additional information<br />
can be found at tinleyp<br />
arkdistrict.org/vvac.<br />
Reporting by Laurie Fanelli, Freelance<br />
Reporter. For more, visit Tin<br />
leyJunction.com.<br />
FROM THE NEW LENOX PATRIOT<br />
Pair teams up to take over<br />
longstanding eatery, expects to<br />
reopen in March<br />
Ranch Frostie has been delighting<br />
New Lenox residents for nearly<br />
50 years with soft-serve ice cream,<br />
hot dogs and more. And while this<br />
spring will usher in some changes,<br />
new owners John Sestak and Jackie<br />
Potocki want to make one thing<br />
clear.<br />
“We’re not changing anything,”<br />
Sestak said. “Everything is going to<br />
stay close to the same.”<br />
Sestak said he and Potocki have<br />
lived in the area for close to 44<br />
years. While taking over the New<br />
Lenox cultural hotspot will require<br />
a learning curve, he said they are<br />
going to be ready for it.<br />
“It’s honestly an honor for her<br />
and I to keep this place open,” Sestak<br />
said. “And the support [from the<br />
community] is unbelievable.”<br />
More than 45 years ago, Harold<br />
and Teri Hoyt purchased what<br />
would become Ranch Frostie and<br />
moved it to the other side of Route<br />
30, located at 1259 N. Cedar Road.<br />
In late 2017, Teri decided it was<br />
time to move on to the next stage<br />
of her life. But while her time with<br />
Ranch Frostie was nearing its end,<br />
she wanted to ensure the business<br />
would live on.<br />
When Sestak and Potocki approached<br />
Hoyt about taking over,<br />
she said she felt good about it.<br />
“I knew him and his connection<br />
with New Lenox and Frostie,” Hoyt<br />
said about John. “With his business<br />
in New Lenox and having known<br />
him as a child, I had really good<br />
feelings.”<br />
Reporting by Jon DePaolis, Freelance<br />
Reporter. For more, visit NewLenox<br />
Patriot.com.<br />
FROM THE ORLAND PARK PRAIRIE<br />
Orland Park police officer praised<br />
for going ‘above and beyond’<br />
An Orland Park police officer<br />
was recognized Feb. 5 at the Village<br />
of Orland Park Board of Trustees<br />
meeting for going above and<br />
beyond the call of duty in order to<br />
help a resident.<br />
During the recognition portion<br />
of the meeting, Orland Park Police<br />
Chief Tim McCarthy presented Officer<br />
Phillip Glecier to the board<br />
members.<br />
McCarthy said around 9 a.m. on<br />
a January morning, Orland Park<br />
police received a call from a senior<br />
citizen about a “possible suspicious<br />
person near her home … because<br />
she saw some tracks in the snow.”<br />
McCarthy said Glecier was dispatched<br />
to the home, did an investigation<br />
and checked the area. While<br />
he did not find any signs that would<br />
indicate criminal activity, Glecier<br />
listened to the woman’s concerns<br />
about the lock on her storm door<br />
being broken.<br />
“Officer Glecier said he might be<br />
able to come by after work to fix<br />
that,” McCarthy recounted. “After<br />
work, he did. He went out and<br />
bought a lock for the door and new<br />
parts at the Home Depot. He came<br />
back and repaired the door for [the<br />
woman].”<br />
The resident wound up writing<br />
a letter thanking the police department<br />
and Glecier.<br />
“We don’t pat our officers on<br />
the backs enough for those types<br />
of things, for which we really do<br />
receive a lot of letters,” McCarthy<br />
said.<br />
Mayor Keith Pekau said he receives<br />
several of these types of letters,<br />
but he noted that this instance<br />
was “above and beyond.”<br />
Reporting by Jon DePaolis, Freelance<br />
Reporter. For more, visit OPPrairie.<br />
com.<br />
From THE FRANKFORT STATION<br />
East falls to Bolingbrook in last<br />
game of regular season<br />
The stage was simple enough,<br />
when Lincoln-Way East faced<br />
Bolingbrook in a big girls basketball<br />
tussle last week.<br />
In the final regular season game<br />
for both teams, whoever won was<br />
the outright Blue Division champion<br />
in the SouthWest Suburban<br />
Conference.<br />
Unfortunately for the Griffins, it<br />
was not them. Bolingbrook made<br />
too many big shots and pulled down<br />
many more second-half rebounds to<br />
pull away for a 56-46 victory over<br />
East Feb. 6 at Bolingbrook.<br />
With the victory, the Raiders (21-<br />
4, 9-1) won at least a share of the<br />
SWSC Blue for the 10th time in the<br />
13 seasons since it formed in 2005-<br />
2006. East (25-4, 8-2) tied Bolingbrook<br />
for the SWSC Blue title in<br />
the 2013-2014 season. But that was<br />
because of Homewood-Flossmoor<br />
forfeiting all of its wins that season.<br />
H-F, which would have won it<br />
except for the forfeits four years<br />
ago, captured the conference title<br />
the past three seasons. This season,<br />
H-F, now coached by former<br />
Bolingbrook coach Tony Smith,<br />
knocked off the Raiders 60-59 in<br />
double overtime Feb. 1 in Flossmoor.<br />
That set up the winner-takeall<br />
meeting between East and the<br />
Raiders last week.<br />
But it was not to be in the end for<br />
the Griffins, who defeated H-F in a<br />
pair of close games this season but<br />
lost the previous meeting to Bolingbrook<br />
47-46 on Jan. 18 in Frankfort.<br />
“I feel as a team we didn’t bring<br />
forth what we know we can,” East<br />
senior guard Delani Grayer said.<br />
“We got nervous that we would<br />
have made school history [as outright<br />
SWSC Blue champions for the<br />
first time] if we would have won.”<br />
Reporting by Randy Whalen, Freelance<br />
Reporter. For more, visit Frank<br />
fortStation.com.<br />
FROM THE HOMER HORIZON<br />
Platinum Cheer Association looks<br />
to empower youth cheerleaders<br />
Encouraging young athletes to<br />
“Be Fierce. Be Brilliant. Be Platinum,”<br />
Platinum Cheer Association<br />
is gearing up for its first year of<br />
competitive cheerleading.<br />
All eight board members met at<br />
Front Row in Homer Glen for their<br />
last meeting before registration<br />
opened Jan. 30.<br />
Last year, the women embarked<br />
on the opportunity to create a new<br />
cheerleading program that was not<br />
connected to a football program.<br />
Having an independent program<br />
will allow for a stronger focus on<br />
cheerleading as a sport, giving PCA<br />
athletes an edge as they move into<br />
high school cheerleading, the board<br />
members said.<br />
“We’re the first in the area to do<br />
cheer on a recreational level not<br />
connected to a football program,”<br />
Homer Glen resident Jen Wirth said.<br />
The board members and founders<br />
all have children who were previously<br />
involved with another cheer<br />
program. After discussing the benefits<br />
their children would receive<br />
from a cheer-centric program, they<br />
decided to create their own.<br />
“We knew we wanted cheer to<br />
stand alone as a sport,” board member<br />
and Homer Glen resident Jill<br />
Roberson said. “We had a really<br />
strong program before, but we saw<br />
athletes looking to move to All-Star<br />
levels, so we wanted to create a program<br />
at the All-Star level without<br />
the All-Star price.”<br />
PCA accepts cheerleaders from<br />
anywhere in the area.<br />
“We don’t want anyone to feel excluded<br />
based on what town they’re<br />
from,” Roberson said.<br />
For more information on programs,<br />
events, pricing options and<br />
fundraising, visit platinumcheer<br />
association.com or the program’s<br />
Facebook page at facebook.com/<br />
platinumcheerassociation.<br />
Reporting by Amanda Del Buono,<br />
Freelance Reporter. For more, visit<br />
HomerHorizon.com.<br />
FROM THE LOCKPORT LEGEND<br />
Lockport resident’s impact on<br />
community lives on after passing<br />
The three ways Dan Niehaus<br />
would best describe his late father,<br />
Gary, are: role model, cheerleader<br />
and loving father.<br />
“Gary was the dad who, after<br />
coaching our basketball team,<br />
would throw a pizza party in celebration<br />
of the year and give out<br />
personalized awards to all of the<br />
team members to recognize their<br />
strengths and make us feel great<br />
about the season,” Dan said while<br />
giving his father’s eulogy Jan. 29.<br />
The 68-year-old Lockport resident<br />
died suddenly Jan. 27.<br />
Gary lived in Lockport for 13<br />
years after moving from Orland<br />
Park. He became heavily involved<br />
in the Lockport and Homer Glen<br />
communities almost immediately<br />
upon moving. He was involved in<br />
11 different organizations over the<br />
period of time from when he lived<br />
in Orland Park to the time he died.<br />
Gary was a retired police commissioner<br />
of Lockport, chairman of the<br />
Lockport Veterans Commission and<br />
a member of the chambers of commerce<br />
in both Lockport and Homer<br />
Glen. In addition, he won numerous<br />
awards including “2014 Person<br />
You Should Know,” presented by<br />
Lockport Mayor Steve Streit; “2012<br />
Senior Citizen of the Year Award,”<br />
presented by Congressmen Daniel<br />
Lipinski; and “2012 Volunteer<br />
of the Year,” presented by former<br />
Lockport Mayor Dev Trivedi.<br />
“Gary was just one of those tireless<br />
volunteers in the community,”<br />
Streit said of giving Gary the “2014<br />
Person You Should Know” award.<br />
“He worked hard for a number of<br />
organizations, put his time and his<br />
talents to making the community<br />
better, and it’s just very appreciated.”<br />
Reporting by Jacquelyn Schlabach, Assistant<br />
Editor. For more, visit Lock<br />
portLegend.com.
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From the assistant editor<br />
Thank you for your Valentines cards<br />
Amanda Stoll<br />
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As the Valentine’s<br />
Coloring Contest<br />
came to a close and<br />
the editorial staff began<br />
selecting the winners, it is<br />
just a reminder of the power<br />
Weathering the Storm<br />
Extreme cold gives way to normal temperatures<br />
Mark T. Carroll<br />
Contributing Columnist<br />
December-January<br />
weather in review<br />
The beginning of January<br />
started the same<br />
way December ended:<br />
very cold. The Christmas<br />
Day to New Year Day sevenday<br />
period was the second<br />
coldest Dec.25-Jan. 1 on<br />
record for the area. The high<br />
temperature Jan. 1 was 1 degree,<br />
which was the coldest<br />
maximum temperature for<br />
that date. The temperature<br />
remained below 20 degrees<br />
from Dec. 26 through Jan. 6<br />
a simple act can have on<br />
another person’s life.<br />
Yes, winners are selected<br />
and not everyone can win.<br />
The 623 entries we received<br />
won’t be judged on their<br />
creativity or neatness by<br />
their recipients.<br />
Some of those entries can<br />
be seen in today’s paper, but<br />
many of them will never<br />
reach the pages of our paper<br />
or the eyes of our readers.<br />
Instead, they will be reaching<br />
the hearts of our veterans.<br />
This year, they will be<br />
making their way to the men<br />
and women at Hines VA<br />
Hospital, who no doubt will<br />
love them regardless of if<br />
which tied the record of 12<br />
consecutive days below 20<br />
degrees.<br />
High winds from Dec.<br />
31 through Jan. 2 produced<br />
wind chills of -25 to -40<br />
degrees.<br />
A brief warmup occurred<br />
on Jan. 10 and 11, with the<br />
high temperature of 59 degrees<br />
on Jan. 11, which was<br />
2 degrees below the record<br />
of 61 for that date.<br />
Below normal snowfall for<br />
the winter season continued<br />
through January.<br />
A light freezing drizzle<br />
and rain event began during<br />
the afternoon of Jan. 7 and<br />
continued until changing to<br />
light snow with generally<br />
less than a half-inch of snow<br />
accumulation. Because of<br />
the extreme cold in the two<br />
weeks prior to Jan. 7, the<br />
pavement was very cold,<br />
causing the rain and drizzle<br />
to freeze on contact, producing<br />
slick roads.<br />
A freezing drizzle event<br />
Jan. 24 produced hazardous<br />
driving conditions. During<br />
they are colored in the lines.<br />
They might be surprised,<br />
as I was, by the obvious<br />
amount of time put in by so<br />
many of the youngsters who<br />
sent in their coloring pages,<br />
or by the talent and attention<br />
to detail of others.<br />
Valentine’s Day is such<br />
a special time, but this<br />
coloring contest is a great<br />
example of how it doesn’t<br />
have to be reserved for romantic<br />
relationships. These<br />
Valentines will be tacked up<br />
on the walls or placed at the<br />
bedsides of veterans who<br />
have served our country<br />
and, I hope, will put a smile<br />
on their faces every time<br />
the early morning hours, a<br />
truck collided with a car near<br />
175th Street and LaGrange<br />
Road in Tinley Park, killing<br />
the driver of the car.<br />
The most significant<br />
snowfall of January began<br />
around 8 p.m. on Jan. 14 and<br />
continued until the morning<br />
of Jan. 16.<br />
February and beyond<br />
The forecast from the<br />
National Centers for Environmental<br />
Prediction called<br />
for below-normal temps and<br />
they look at it.<br />
I think this is a great opportunity<br />
to remember that<br />
so often it is the little things<br />
in life that have the biggest<br />
impact.<br />
So, why not do the same<br />
for a friend, neighbor, coworker<br />
or teacher?<br />
Little things like taking<br />
someone out for a coffee or<br />
dropping off a kind note can<br />
make all the difference in<br />
someone’s day.<br />
It might be a Hallmark<br />
holiday, but I think Valentine’s<br />
Day is a great<br />
reminder for all of us to<br />
spread some love in a world<br />
that has far too much hate.<br />
above-normal precipitation,<br />
which suggests abovenormal<br />
snowfall for February<br />
(the normal snowfall<br />
for the month of February<br />
is 9 inches). NCEP also is<br />
predicting continued below<br />
normal temperatures and<br />
above normal precipitation<br />
through April.<br />
Mark T. Carroll is the president<br />
of CALM Weather LLC, a meteorological<br />
consulting service<br />
based in Oak Forest. For more<br />
information, visit calmwx.com.<br />
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Taste of Thai<br />
Flavor, quality ingredients key<br />
at Oy’s Thai Cuisine, Page 19<br />
Spitting image Despite<br />
change in ownership, family keeping<br />
Kismet traditions strong, Page 21<br />
Winners of Valentine’s Day Coloring<br />
Contest announced, Page 17<br />
Some of<br />
the nearly<br />
100 entries<br />
from 22CM’s<br />
Valentine’s<br />
Day Card<br />
Contest<br />
cover our<br />
conference<br />
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Faith Briefs<br />
Victory Baptist Church (13550 US Route<br />
6, Mokena)<br />
Morning Worship<br />
10:45 a.m. Sundays.<br />
Evening Worship<br />
6 p.m. Sundays.<br />
Weekday Worship<br />
7 p.m. Wednesdays.<br />
St. John’s United Church of Christ (11100<br />
Second St., Mokena)<br />
Traditional Service<br />
8 a.m. traditional mass,<br />
9:45 a.m. contemporary &<br />
traditional music.<br />
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Mokena United Methodist Church (10901<br />
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Service and Sunday School<br />
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more information, call (708)<br />
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Sunday Services<br />
11 a.m. and 5 p.m. For<br />
more information, call (312)<br />
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In Memoriam<br />
Wayne LaBotz<br />
Wayne LaBotz, 64, of<br />
Mokena, died Jan. 24.<br />
With saddened hearts<br />
we say goodbye to Wayne.<br />
Passing away much too<br />
young, we lost a close<br />
friend and beloved family<br />
member. He enjoyed his retirement<br />
from a long career<br />
as a state correctional officer.<br />
Wayne will be missed<br />
by many and forever in our<br />
hearts.<br />
Alfred L. Trawczynski<br />
Alfred L. Trawczynski,<br />
92, of Mokena, died Feb. 4.<br />
Traxczynski was born in<br />
Chicago to the late Ignac<br />
and Josephine (Staczak)<br />
Trawczynski; he was the<br />
beloved husband of the late<br />
Therese A. (Stachura); loving<br />
father of Deborah (J.<br />
Patrick) Freeman; cherished<br />
grandfather of Christopher<br />
Patrick “Chris” (Katie) Freeman,<br />
Kathryn Marie “Katie”<br />
(Brad) Millar, Kevin Patrick<br />
(Val) Freeman and Cara<br />
Marie (Jon) Beach; proud<br />
great-grandfather of Kristen,<br />
Collin and Connor Freeman,<br />
and Victoria, Landon and Alexander<br />
Millar; dear brother<br />
of Frances (Joe) Jasniecki,<br />
Elizabeth (Walter) Haczynski,<br />
Edwin (Lorraine) Trawczynski,<br />
Henry Trawczynski,<br />
Alfred (Therese) Trawczynski<br />
and Stanley (Marian)<br />
Trawczynski; and dear uncle<br />
of numerous nieces and<br />
nephews.<br />
Richard Kozik<br />
Richard Kozik, 58, of<br />
Mokena, died Feb. 6.<br />
Kozik was a member<br />
of Illinois State Police<br />
#4929, Cadet Class ‘96.<br />
He was the devoted son of<br />
the late Adolph and Helen<br />
(Jachimiec) Kozik; cherished<br />
brother of Mary Ann<br />
(Wayne) Draudt, Gregory<br />
(Sandy) Kozik and Camille<br />
(John) Murray; and loving<br />
uncle of Donald (Amy)<br />
Draudt, James Draudt, Jennifer<br />
(Brian) Draudt-Scully,<br />
Anthony Kozik and Jessica<br />
Kozik.<br />
In lieu of flowers, donations<br />
to Illinois State Police<br />
Heritage Foundation,<br />
P.O. Box 8168, Springfield,<br />
64791, isphf.org/<br />
donations, or Tinley Wish,<br />
7850 W. 183rd St., Tinley<br />
Park, 60477, tinleywish.org<br />
would be appreciated.<br />
Edwina M. Murray<br />
Edwina M. Murray, 98, of<br />
Mokena, died Feb. 3.<br />
She was born in New<br />
York City to parents Otto<br />
and Edith Listen; married<br />
43 years to her late husband<br />
Bernard Murray and lived<br />
the majority of her life on<br />
the south side of Chicago;<br />
she was a mother of Paul<br />
(JoAnn), Wayne (Nancy),<br />
Glen, Pamela and Gayle<br />
(Michael); proud grandmother<br />
to Edward, Jennifer<br />
(Kirk), Renee (Michael),<br />
Craig, Chad (Christina),<br />
Melissa, Michael (Danielle),<br />
Patrick, Kyle (Emily)<br />
and John; she was a greatgrandmother<br />
to 10; aunt<br />
to many nieces and nephews.<br />
The family wishes to<br />
express their gratitude to<br />
daughter Gayle and her husband<br />
Michael who, along<br />
with their sons, took such<br />
wonderful care of our mother<br />
in her final years.<br />
In lieu of flowers, donations<br />
to Aspire Social Services<br />
are appreciated; 1815<br />
S. Wolf Road, Hillside,<br />
60162 or aspirechicago.<br />
com/donate/.<br />
Do you have someone’s life<br />
you’d like to honor? Email<br />
Editor T.J. Kremer III at tj@<br />
mokenamessenger.com with<br />
information about a loved one<br />
who was a part of the Mokena<br />
community.<br />
Visit us online at<br />
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Publisher announces winners of 2018<br />
Valentine’s Day Coloring Contest<br />
Creativity, compassion on<br />
display across 623 total entries<br />
Bill Jones, Managing Editor<br />
Proving once again to be one of the most<br />
popular annual contests run by 22nd Century<br />
Media, the 2018 Valentine’s Day Coloring<br />
Contest saw 623 total entries across three<br />
age groups and seven towns.<br />
And while a lucky nine have been chosen<br />
(see accompanying images and awards) as<br />
winners, the gigantic collection of entries<br />
was to be delivered to area veterans with<br />
the help of a local organization. With that<br />
in mind, 22nd Century Media would like to<br />
thank everyone who took the time to enter<br />
and spread the love this Valentine’s Day.<br />
As for the contest, this year we picked first,<br />
second and third in each of the age groups.<br />
Winners were chosen based on creativity and<br />
neatness.<br />
All three of the 9- to 12-year-old winners<br />
are to receive two hours of free bowling<br />
for up to six people, including shoe rentals,<br />
along with a pizza and pitcher of pop, at<br />
Laraway Lanes, 1009 W. Laraway Road in<br />
New Lenox. The three 6- to 8-year-old winners<br />
will get a multi-use pass for the Splash<br />
Park run by the Mokena Community Park<br />
District. And the 3- to 5-year-old winning<br />
entrants will take home a $5 gift certificate<br />
to Dairy Queen, 950 E. 9th St. in Lockport.<br />
Publisher 22nd Century Media also would<br />
like to thank the contest’s generous sponsors.<br />
Ages 3-5 Ages 6-8 Ages 9-12<br />
1st Place<br />
1st Place<br />
1st Place<br />
Peter Tadros, Orland Park Rania Siddiqui, Frankfort Gabriella Escobedo, Orland Park<br />
2nd Place<br />
3rd Place<br />
2nd Place<br />
3rd Place<br />
2nd Place<br />
3rd Place<br />
Lily Kudla, New Lenox<br />
Ivee Aftanas, New Lenox<br />
Angelina Tadros<br />
Orland Park<br />
Audriana Lang, Lockport<br />
Emma Vogler, New Lenox<br />
Maddie Giampaolo<br />
Frankfort
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Motherly<br />
love bowl<br />
More than 40<br />
people turn out at<br />
annual Mother and<br />
Son Valentine Bowl<br />
T.J. Kremer III, Editor<br />
On Saturday, Feb. 10,<br />
more than 40 mothers<br />
and sons braved the snow<br />
and cold to bowl unlimited<br />
games for two hours,<br />
while being treated to<br />
pizza, pop and cake. The<br />
event was hosted by Mokena<br />
Community Park<br />
District.<br />
Amy Ambrose, of Mokena, does her best to get a strike.<br />
A makeshift photo booth greets participants at the annual Mother and Son Valentine Bowl<br />
at Morgan’s Thunder Bowl in Mokena Saturday, Feb. 10.<br />
Photos by T.J. Kremer III/22nd Century Media
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The Dish<br />
A culinary adventure comes to New Lenox<br />
Oy’s Thai Cuisine<br />
offers classic Thai<br />
staples at affordable<br />
prices<br />
Nuria Mathog<br />
Contributing Editor<br />
Long before they<br />
launched their new restaurant,<br />
co-owners Bryan and<br />
Churairut “Oy” Hunsaker<br />
had a single goal in mind:<br />
to bring the flavors of Thai<br />
food to the southwest suburbs<br />
in a convenient, accessible<br />
way.<br />
For the New Lenox couple,<br />
the opening of Oy’s<br />
Thai Cuisine in January was<br />
the culmination of a longtime<br />
dream.<br />
“Oy has been cooking<br />
her whole life,” Bryan said.<br />
“She’s been cooking for<br />
friends and neighbors for<br />
the past 27 years, and everybody<br />
always tells me she<br />
should start a restaurant. ...<br />
We’ve talked about it for a<br />
long time, but we realized it<br />
was very demanding, so we<br />
didn’t want to do it until our<br />
kids were older.”<br />
Now that the couple’s<br />
youngest child is to graduate<br />
from Lincoln-Way West<br />
in the spring, the Hunsakers<br />
are investing their time and<br />
effort into their new business.<br />
“We want it to be a destination<br />
where you’d be comfortable<br />
bringing a friend or<br />
family member, but we want<br />
to have the convenience, as<br />
well,” Bryan said. “And I<br />
would say it’s authentic.<br />
It’s fresh food — we’re not<br />
pulling it out of the freezer<br />
and putting in the microwave.<br />
The preparation process<br />
is quite detailed.”<br />
The restaurant’s topselling<br />
dish is Oy’s Famous<br />
Pad Thai (prices vary by<br />
protein), which features<br />
rice noodles stir-fried with<br />
green onion, bean sprouts,<br />
egg, crushed peanuts and<br />
Oy’s special sauce, which<br />
contains six different ingredients.<br />
“Her sauce is different,”<br />
Bryan said. “You won’t find<br />
her pad thai anywhere else.<br />
It is a different flavor, and<br />
people seem to like that.”<br />
Another popular dish is<br />
the stir-fried cashew plate,<br />
which comes with stir-fried<br />
meat, cashew nuts, white<br />
onion, green onion, water<br />
chestnuts, bell pepper and<br />
chili peppers, and is served<br />
with a side of white rice.<br />
“It’s really a lot better<br />
when you make it hot,” Bryan<br />
said. “You tell us you’re<br />
Level 1, Level 2 or Level 3.<br />
... We might put in one more<br />
pepper Level 2 or 3, and the<br />
sky’s the limit for the rest.”<br />
He also recommends<br />
the tom yum soup — a hot<br />
and sour soup that contains<br />
mushroom, tomato, white<br />
onion, green tomato, cilantro,<br />
lemongrass and lime<br />
juice — can be served with<br />
either a clear broth or a<br />
creamy coconut milk broth.<br />
As far as appetizers are<br />
concerned, the fresh spring<br />
rolls ($5.95) — which<br />
can come with or without<br />
shrimp — are another top<br />
item on the menu. The rolls<br />
— made with rice noodles,<br />
carrots, lettuce, bean sprouts<br />
and cilantro wrapped in rice<br />
paper — are served with<br />
a sweet and sour dipping<br />
sauce made in house and<br />
filled crushed peanuts.<br />
Hunsaker said he enjoys<br />
all of the dishes served at<br />
the restaurant, but he is<br />
particularly fond of the pad<br />
ped — a “reasonably spicy”<br />
dish involving meat marinated<br />
in a curry paste and<br />
fresh green beans — as well<br />
as the red and green curries.<br />
Oy’s Thai Cuisine<br />
1880 E. Lincoln Highway,<br />
New Lenox<br />
Hours<br />
• 11 a.m.-8 p.m.<br />
Monday-Thursday<br />
• 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Friday-<br />
Saturday<br />
Closed Sunday<br />
For more information ...<br />
Phone: (815) 462-9000<br />
Web: oysthaicuisine.com<br />
Happy hour for<br />
Lincoln-Way students<br />
From 3-4 p.m. Monday-<br />
Wednesday, Lincoln-Way<br />
students can pay $5.99<br />
and get and entrée<br />
(choice of chicken<br />
pad thai, chicken fried<br />
rice, egg rolls or crab<br />
rangoon) and a soft<br />
drink in a can.<br />
He said he also would like<br />
to add a Thai version of a<br />
dish similar to pho, a Vietnamese<br />
noodle dish, to the<br />
menu someday.<br />
“The Thai [version] has<br />
a larger variance of vegetables,”<br />
Bryan said. “You<br />
have bean sprouts, sometimes<br />
carrots, a lot of cilantro,<br />
chopped onions.”<br />
For diners looking to pick<br />
up a quick meal during their<br />
lunch breaks, the restaurant<br />
offers a $7.99 lunch special,<br />
served daily until 3 p.m.<br />
The specials, served daily<br />
until 3 p.m., come with an<br />
entrée, steamed rice, two<br />
fried wontons and the soup<br />
of the day. Customers can<br />
choose to substitute beef for<br />
chicken for an additional<br />
$1, or add $2 for shrimp.<br />
Lincoln-Way students can<br />
take advantage of a special<br />
happy hour offer, available<br />
from 3-4 p.m. Monday<br />
The stir-fried cashew chicken ($10.95) dish at Oy’s Thai Cuisine contains stir-fried chicken,<br />
cashew nuts, white onion, green onion, water chestnuts, bell pepper and chili pepper, and<br />
comes with a side of white rice. Photos by Nuria Mathog/22nd Century Media<br />
The tom yum soup includes mushroom, tomato, white onion, green tomato, cilantro,<br />
lemongrass and lime juice, and can be served with a clear or creamy broth.<br />
through Wednesday that includes<br />
an entrée and a soft<br />
drink for $5.99.<br />
Ultimately, Bryan said he<br />
hopes customers will get a<br />
quality introduction to Thai<br />
cuisine — and keep coming<br />
back for more.<br />
“We’re here for at least<br />
five years — we’re on a<br />
five-year lease — and beyond<br />
that we just hope that<br />
people will come and that<br />
we serve food that they<br />
like,” he said.
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the Mokena Messenger | February 15, 2018 | 21<br />
The DIsh<br />
Kismet carries on as family business of destiny<br />
Orland Park eatery<br />
now run by former<br />
owner’s nephew<br />
Thomas Czaja<br />
Contributing Editor<br />
Kismet means destiny or<br />
faith in Turkish.<br />
When the Kismet restaurant<br />
was first opened in Orland<br />
Park in 1977 by Roy<br />
Tufekcioglu, it was an act<br />
of faith — one that materialized<br />
in four decades and<br />
counting of selling its signature<br />
gyros and other food<br />
items.<br />
Last April, Tufekcioglu<br />
decided to retire and hand<br />
the reins of the business<br />
over to his nephew Ervin<br />
Ramazanoski, who now<br />
heads the day-to-day operations,<br />
though he owns it<br />
with his mother, father and<br />
brothers. For Ramazanoski,<br />
keeping the business in the<br />
family and leading it was a<br />
destiny he knew he wanted<br />
to fulfill.<br />
“It was destiny for us to<br />
be here,” Ramazanoski said.<br />
“We plan on keeping it going<br />
for another 40 years.”<br />
Since acquiring ownership,<br />
Ramazanoski has<br />
kept the menu largely the<br />
same, with the aforementioned<br />
gyros — as well as<br />
the burgers, beef, chicken,<br />
hot dogs, soup and salads<br />
— but he also made a few<br />
tweaks.<br />
He introduced delivery<br />
service for the first time as<br />
an added convenience for<br />
customers. He made the<br />
catering more extensive,<br />
utilizing a simple menu, so<br />
customers can easily pick<br />
up the phone and get what<br />
they want, while still being<br />
able to customize different<br />
orders, he said.<br />
Another thing Ramazanoski<br />
did is add a number<br />
of items. They decided to<br />
add a number of wraps, including<br />
a gyro wrap. They<br />
also added a honey mustard<br />
chicken sandwich, beef roll<br />
and chicken Parmesan that<br />
all cost $6.99 each.<br />
He even has eggs and will<br />
sometimes make a breakfast<br />
dish for customers, if they<br />
ask for them, though those<br />
and none of the other new<br />
things are officially listed<br />
on the menu. The owner<br />
said he plans to have all<br />
them remain available but<br />
not list them to keep things<br />
simple.<br />
But Ramazanoski knows<br />
what will always be No. 1.<br />
“The gyros were on the<br />
menu and will always be<br />
on the menu,” Ramazanoski<br />
said. “It’s what we’re<br />
known for. When I took<br />
over, I had nothing but gyros<br />
for a month.”<br />
The gyros are cut fresh<br />
off the spit, right in front<br />
of customers. Kismet uses<br />
Kronos gyro meat — a seasoned<br />
blend of selected beef<br />
and lamb — and adds its<br />
personalized touch.<br />
“We have a special blend<br />
of seasonings that we use,,”<br />
Ramazanoski said. “It’s like<br />
a Mediterranean, Turkish<br />
blend.”<br />
The gyro dinner and<br />
grilled chicken gyro dinner<br />
(both feed two and are<br />
$12.75) are popular choices,<br />
with the former coming<br />
with extra meat, extra pita,<br />
tomato, onion, olives, feta<br />
cheese and homemade cucumber<br />
sauce, and the latter<br />
the same extras and ingredients<br />
plus lettuce.<br />
“Everything is fresh ingredients,”<br />
Ramazanoski<br />
said. “While other people<br />
cut corners, we sharpen our<br />
edges. We do not skimp<br />
on anything. Everything is<br />
brought in pretty much daily<br />
... whatever doesn’t get<br />
used is thrown out.”<br />
To completely summarize<br />
or sample Kismet, a patron<br />
needs to save room for dessert,<br />
as 16 different flavors<br />
of ice cream are available<br />
year-round, not to mention<br />
shakes, malts and other desserts,<br />
such as Oreo cookie<br />
balls ($1.78) and baklava<br />
($1.99).<br />
“Our ice cream comes<br />
from Wisconsin and is Cedar<br />
Crest,” Ramazanoski<br />
said. “People love the flavors.<br />
I got birthday cake,<br />
butter pecan or chocolate<br />
vanilla, strawberry, if you<br />
want to keep it simple. ...<br />
On top of that, you can<br />
make any shake out of my<br />
ice cream. ... Make it how<br />
you like it.”<br />
Those who venture into<br />
Kismet Monday through<br />
Friday can try a daily special<br />
each day for $4.99.<br />
Ramazanoski also began<br />
serving quesadillas —<br />
again, not on the menu —<br />
and said they have become<br />
a Friday special.<br />
“We have the flour tortillas,<br />
and we already use<br />
cheddar cheese, so we just<br />
put them together,” Ramazanoski<br />
said of the quesadillas.<br />
“It came out phenomenal.<br />
... It just makes sense.”<br />
No matter what patrons<br />
get, they keep coming out.<br />
When Ramazanoski’s uncle<br />
first opened the establishment,<br />
he decided to pay<br />
homage and show appreciation<br />
to his customers by<br />
putting up a collage of their<br />
photographs on the wall.<br />
It eventually extended and<br />
“blew up” to the many photos<br />
that still adorn the interior<br />
of Kismet, according to<br />
Ramazanoski.<br />
The current owner plans<br />
to sustain that tradition.<br />
“We are in the works of<br />
getting another [collage<br />
of photos of customers]<br />
Kismet<br />
9931 W. 151st St. in<br />
Orland Park<br />
Hours<br />
• 10:30 a.m.-9 p.m.<br />
Monday-Saturday<br />
• 10:30 a.m.-8 p.m.<br />
Sunday<br />
For more information ...<br />
Web: kismetorlandpark.<br />
com<br />
Phone: (708) 349-2205<br />
made,” he said. “We’re going<br />
to keep it going.”<br />
Ramazanoski added he<br />
“stepped in with wet feet”<br />
for knowing how to run<br />
things with 13 years of experience<br />
in the restaurant<br />
industry. He has thoroughly<br />
enjoyed getting to know<br />
customers both old and new.<br />
SINGLE FAMILY •815.462.0242<br />
Immediate occupancy available.<br />
Kismet owner Ervin Ramazanoski holds the gyro dinner<br />
($12.75), which feeds two and comes with extra meat, extra<br />
pita, tomato, onion, olives, Feta cheese and homemade<br />
cucumber sauce. James Sanchez/22nd Century Media<br />
“I love it,” Ramazanoski<br />
said. “I love my customers.<br />
They’re great. They<br />
work with me, and I work<br />
with them. If they want to<br />
try something different, I’ll<br />
always help them out. ... I<br />
love them all.”<br />
TOWN HOMES •815.680.5037<br />
First floor master bedrooms &ranches available.<br />
Immediate occupancy available.<br />
Model open 11:00-3:00 Friday, Saturday and Sunday
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2. Jimmy Carter product<br />
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House<br />
(18700 S. Old LaGrange<br />
Road, Mokena; (708) 478-<br />
3610)<br />
■9 ■ p.m. Tuesdays: Karaoke<br />
Fox’s Restaurant and Pub<br />
(11247 W. 187th St.,<br />
Mokena; (708) 478-8888)<br />
■6 ■ p.m. Thursdays,<br />
Fridays and Saturdays:<br />
Performance by Jerry<br />
Eadie<br />
Jenny’s Southside Tap<br />
(10160 191st St.,<br />
Mokena; (708) 479-6873)<br />
■6 ■ p.m. Tuesdays: Acoustic<br />
Avenue<br />
NEW LENOX<br />
Little Joe’s Restaurant<br />
(1300 N. Cedar Road,<br />
New Lenox; (815) 463-<br />
1099)<br />
■5-8 ■ p.m. Tuesdays:<br />
Piano Styles by Joe<br />
HOMER GLEN<br />
Front Row<br />
(14903 S. Bell Road,<br />
Homer Glen; (708) 645-<br />
7000)<br />
■7 ■ p.m. Wednesdays:<br />
Trivia<br />
FRANKFORT<br />
Pete Mitchell’s Bar & Grill<br />
(21000 Frankfort Square<br />
Road, Frankfort; (815)<br />
464-8100)<br />
■6-8 ■ p.m. Wednesdays:<br />
Free N’ Fun Bar Game.<br />
Free to play.<br />
LOCKPORT<br />
Port Noir<br />
(900 S. State St.,<br />
Lockport; (815) 834-<br />
9463)<br />
■4-7 ■ p.m. Monday-Friday:<br />
Happy Hour<br />
The Outpost Pub & Grill<br />
(14929 Archer Ave.,<br />
Lockport; (815) 836-<br />
8893)<br />
■8 ■ p.m. Tuesdays and<br />
Thursdays: Live DJ and<br />
Karaoke<br />
Strike N Spare II<br />
(811 Northern Drive,<br />
Lockport; (708) 301-<br />
1477)<br />
■9:30 ■ p.m.-12:30 a.m.<br />
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Distinctive Home Builders Introduces New Craftsman Home Series<br />
At Prairie Trails in Manhattan and WestGate Manor in Peotone!<br />
Two new designs (with more to follow) are a direct result of buyer feedback<br />
Two refreshing designs mark<br />
the beginning of a new series<br />
of Craftsman-style homes<br />
available from Distinctive Home<br />
Builders at its latest new home<br />
communities: Prairie Trails;<br />
located in Manhattan within the<br />
highly-regarded Lincoln-Way<br />
School District and at WestGate<br />
Manor in Peotone within<br />
the desirable Peotone School<br />
District.<br />
“Craftsman homes were<br />
introduced in the early 1900s<br />
in California with designs<br />
based on a simpler, functional<br />
aesthetic using a higher level<br />
of craftsmanship and natural<br />
materials. These homes were a<br />
departure from homes that were<br />
mass produced from that era,<br />
“according to Bryan Nooner,<br />
president of Distinctive Home<br />
Builders.<br />
“The Craftsman design has<br />
made a comeback today for<br />
many of the same reasons it<br />
started over a century ago. Our<br />
customers want to live in a home<br />
that gets away from the “mass<br />
produced” look and live in a<br />
home that has more character. As<br />
a result of our daily interaction<br />
with our homeowners and their<br />
input, we are excited to introduce<br />
these two homes, with additional<br />
designs in the works.”<br />
Nooner, who meets with<br />
each homeowner prior to<br />
construction, has been working<br />
on these plans for a while and felt<br />
that the timing was ideal for the<br />
debut. “Customers were asking<br />
for something different and<br />
simple with less monotony and<br />
higher architectural standards.”<br />
The result was the Craftsman<br />
ranch and the Prairie twostory,<br />
now available at Prairie<br />
Trails and WestGate Manor.<br />
The Craftsman ranch features<br />
an open floor plan with Great<br />
Room, three bedrooms, two<br />
baths and a two-car (optional<br />
three-car) garage. The Prairie<br />
features a two-story foyer and<br />
Great Room, three bedrooms<br />
and one and one-half baths, a<br />
convenient Flex Room space<br />
on the main level and a two-car<br />
(optional three-car) garage. The<br />
Craftsman architectural elements<br />
on both homes include brick and<br />
stone exteriors with cedar shake<br />
accent siding, low-pitched gabled<br />
bracket roofs, front porches with<br />
tapered columns and stone piers,<br />
partially paned windows, and a<br />
standard panel front entry door.<br />
Distinctive Home Builders<br />
offers a Craftsman-style trim<br />
package offering trim without<br />
ornate profiles and routers. The<br />
trim features simplicity in design<br />
with rectangles, straight lines and<br />
layered look trims over doors for<br />
example. The front entry door<br />
will have the standard Craftsman<br />
panel style door. Distinctive has<br />
also created a Craftsman color<br />
palate to assist buyers in making<br />
coordinated choices for the<br />
interior of their new Craftsman<br />
home. Colors, cabinet styles and<br />
flooring choices blend seamlessly<br />
with the Craftsman trim package<br />
and are available in gray tones<br />
package and earth tones.<br />
Distinctive offers custom maple<br />
kitchen cabinets featuring solid<br />
wood construction (no particle<br />
board), have solid wood drawers<br />
with dove tail joints, which is<br />
very rare in the marketplace.<br />
“When you buy a new home<br />
from Distinctive, you truly are<br />
receiving custom made cabinets<br />
in every home we sell no matter<br />
what the price range,” noted<br />
Nooner.<br />
Distinctive Home Builders<br />
works to achieve a delivery goal<br />
of 90 days with zero punch list<br />
items for its homeowners. “Our<br />
three decades building homes<br />
provides an efficient construction<br />
system,” said Nooner. “Many of<br />
our skilled craftsmen have been<br />
working with our company<br />
for over 20 years. We also<br />
take pride on having excellent<br />
communicators throughout our<br />
organization. This translates into<br />
a positive buying and building<br />
experience for our homeowners<br />
and one of the highest referral<br />
rates in the industry.”<br />
Nooner added that all homes<br />
are highly energy efficient. Every<br />
home built will have upgraded<br />
wall and ceiling insulation<br />
values with energy efficient<br />
windows and high efficiency<br />
furnaces. Before homeowners<br />
move into their new home,<br />
Distinctive Home Builders<br />
conducts a blower door test that<br />
pressurizes the home to ensure<br />
that each home passes a set of<br />
very stringent Energy Efficiency<br />
guidelines.<br />
With the addition of these two<br />
new designs, there are now 15<br />
ranch, split-level and six twostory<br />
single-family home styles to<br />
choose from each offering from<br />
three to eight different exterior<br />
elevations at both communities.<br />
The three- to four-bedroom<br />
homes feature one and one-half<br />
to two-and-one-half baths, twoto<br />
three-car garages and a family<br />
room, all in approximately 1,600<br />
to over 3,000 square feet of living<br />
space. Basements are included in<br />
most models as well. Distinctive<br />
also encourages customization<br />
to make your new home truly<br />
personalized to suit your lifestyle.<br />
Oversize home sites; brick<br />
exteriors on all four sides of the<br />
first floor; custom maple cabinets;<br />
ceramic tile or hardwood<br />
floors in the kitchen, baths and<br />
foyer; genuine wood trim and<br />
doors and concrete driveways<br />
can all be yours at Prairie<br />
Trails and WestGate Manor.<br />
Most all home sites at Prairie<br />
Trails and WestGate Manor<br />
can accommodate a three-car<br />
garage; a very important amenity<br />
to the Manhattan homebuyer,<br />
said Nooner.<br />
“When we opened Prairie<br />
Trails and WestGate Manor we<br />
wanted to provide the best new<br />
home value for the dollar and<br />
we feel with offering Premium<br />
Standard Features that we do<br />
just that. So why wait? This is<br />
truly the best time to build your<br />
dream home!”<br />
Prairie Trails is also a beautiful<br />
place to live and raise a family<br />
featuring a 20-acre lake on site,<br />
as well as direct access to the 22-<br />
mile Wauponsee Glacial Prairie<br />
Path that borders the community<br />
and meanders through many<br />
neighboring communities and<br />
links to many other popular<br />
trails. The Manhattan Metra<br />
station is less than a mile away.<br />
Besides Prairie Trails,<br />
Distinctive Home Builders<br />
has built homes throughout<br />
Manhattan in the Butternut<br />
Ridge and Leighlinbridge<br />
developments, as well as in the<br />
Will and south Cook county<br />
areas over the past 30 years.<br />
Distinctive Home Builders<br />
chose the Will County village<br />
of Peotone for its newest<br />
community of 38 single-family<br />
homes at WestGate Manor<br />
within walking distance of the<br />
esteemed Peotone High School.<br />
Its convenient location between<br />
Interstate 57 and Illinois Route<br />
50 provide easy access to I-80<br />
and commuters enjoy several<br />
nearby train stations and a<br />
35-minute drive to Chicago.<br />
Visit the on-site sales<br />
information center for<br />
unadvertised specials and view<br />
the numerous styles of homes<br />
being offered and the available<br />
lots. Call Lynne Rinck at (708)<br />
737-9142 or (708) 479-7700 for<br />
more information or visit www.<br />
distinctivehomebuilders.com.<br />
The Prairie Trails and WestGate<br />
Manor new home information<br />
center is located three miles<br />
south of Laraway Rd. on Rt.<br />
52. The address is 24458 S.<br />
Rt. 52, Manhattan, IL. 60422.<br />
Open Daily 10:00 a.m. – 5:00<br />
p.m. Closed Wednesday and<br />
Thursday and always available<br />
by appointment.<br />
Specials, prices, specifications,<br />
standard features, model<br />
offerings, build times and lot<br />
availability are subject to change<br />
without notice. Please contact<br />
a Distinctive representative for<br />
current pricing and complete<br />
details.<br />
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12:00 noon, at the Will County Courthouse<br />
Annex, 57 N. Ottawa Street,<br />
Room 201, Joliet, IL 60432, under Case<br />
Title: CitiMortgage, Inc. Plaintiff V.<br />
Martin Quezada; et. al. Defendant.<br />
Case No. 17CH 1034 in the Circuit<br />
Court of the Twelfth Judicial Circuit,<br />
Will County, Illinois.<br />
Terms of Sale: ten percent (10%) at the<br />
time of sale and the balance within<br />
twenty-four (24) hours. Nojudicial sale<br />
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to its credit bid at the sale or by any<br />
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lienor acquiring the residential real estate<br />
whose rights in and tothe residential<br />
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County.<br />
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ium, in accordance with 735 ILCS<br />
5/15-1507(c)(1)(H-1) and (H-2), 765<br />
ILCS 605/9(g)(5), and 765 ILCS<br />
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and legal fees required bysubdivisions<br />
(g)(1) and (g)(4) of Section 9and the assessments<br />
required by subsection (g-1)<br />
of Section 18.5 of the Illinois Condominium<br />
Property Act.<br />
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if there is asurplus following application<br />
ofthe proceeds of sale, then the<br />
plaintiff shall send written notice pursuant<br />
to 735 ILCS 5/15-1512(d) to all parties<br />
to the proceeding advising them of<br />
the amount ofthe surplus and that the<br />
surplus will beheld until aparty obtains<br />
acourt order for its distribution or, in<br />
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PURSUANT TO THE FAIR DEBT<br />
COLLECTION PRACTICES ACT<br />
YOU ARE ADVISED THAT THIS<br />
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STATE OF ILLINOIS )<br />
) SS.<br />
COUNTY OF WILL )<br />
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OFTHE<br />
TWELFTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT<br />
WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS<br />
CitiMortgage, Inc.<br />
Plaintiff,<br />
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Martin Quezada; et. al.<br />
Defendant. No. 17 CH 1034<br />
NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE<br />
Public notice ishereby given that pursuant<br />
toajudgment entered in the above<br />
cause on the 6th day of December,<br />
2017, MIKE KELLEY, Sheriff of Will<br />
County, Illinois, will on Thursday, the<br />
8th day of March, 2018 ,commencing<br />
at 12:00 o'clock noon, at the Will<br />
County Courthouse Annex, 57 N. Ottawa<br />
Street, Room 201, Joliet, IL 60432,<br />
sell at public auction tothe highest and<br />
best bidder orbidders the following-described<br />
real estate:<br />
LOT 13, IN CREEKVIEW UNIT ONE,<br />
BEING A SUBDIVISION IN THE<br />
SOUTH 1/2 OF SECTION 6, TOWN-<br />
SHIP 35NORTH, RANGE 12, EAST<br />
OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERID-<br />
IAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT<br />
THEREOF RECORDED MARCH 2,<br />
1988, AS DOCUMENT NO.<br />
R88-08174 IN WILL COUNTY, ILLI-<br />
NOIS, AND CERTIFICATE OFCOR-<br />
RECTION RECORDED JUNE 22,<br />
1988 AS DOCUMENT NO. R88-27145<br />
Commonly known as: 18812<br />
Creekview Lane, Mokena, IL 60448<br />
Description of Improvements:<br />
Single Family Home<br />
P.I.N.: 19-09-06-312-017-0000<br />
Terms of Sale: ten percent (10%) at the<br />
time of sale and the balance within<br />
twenty-four (24) hours. No judicial sale<br />
fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring<br />
the residential real estate pursuant<br />
to its credit bid at the sale or by any<br />
mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other<br />
lienor acquiring the residential real estate<br />
whose rights inand to the residential<br />
real estate arose prior to the sale. All<br />
payments shall be made in cash or certified<br />
funds payable tothe Sheriff of Will<br />
County.<br />
In the event the property is acondomin-<br />
ium, in accordance with 735 ILCS<br />
5/15-1507(c)(1)(H-1) and (H-2), 765<br />
ILCS 605/9(g)(5), and 765 ILCS<br />
605/18.5(g-1), you are hereby notified<br />
that the purchaser of the unit, other than<br />
amortgagee, shall pay the assessments<br />
and legal fees required bysubdivisions<br />
(g)(1) and (g)(4) of Section 9and the assessments<br />
required by subsection (g-1)<br />
of Section 18.5 of the Illinois Condominium<br />
Property Act.<br />
Pursuant to Local Court Rule 11.03 (J)<br />
if there is asurplus following application<br />
ofthe proceeds of sale, then the<br />
plaintiff shall send written notice pursuant<br />
to 735 ILCS 5/15-1512(d) to all parties<br />
to the proceeding advising them of<br />
the amount ofthe surplus and that the<br />
surplus will beheld until aparty obtains<br />
acourt order for its distribution or, in<br />
the absence of an order, until the surplus<br />
is forfeited to the State.<br />
FOR INFORMATION PLEASE CON-<br />
TACT:<br />
Codilis & Associates, P.C.<br />
15W030 N. Frontage Road Suite 100<br />
Burr Ridge, Illinois 60527<br />
P: 630-794-5300<br />
F: 630-794-9090<br />
Plaintiff's Attorney<br />
MIKE KELLEY<br />
Sheriff of Will County<br />
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TO:<br />
OCCUPANT;<br />
LAPORTE DEVELOPERS, LLC;<br />
DJ FAMILY LLC;<br />
CHESTER PASCUAL;<br />
WILL COUNTY CLERK;<br />
AND ALL UNKNOWN OWNERS<br />
AND PARTIES INTERESTED.<br />
TAX DEED NO.: 17TX300<br />
FILED: 12/13/2017<br />
TAKE NOTICE<br />
County of Will<br />
Date Premises Sold 12/03/2015<br />
Certificate No. 14-02437<br />
Sold for General Taxes of (year) 2014<br />
Sold for Special Assessment of(Municipality)<br />
and special assessment number Not Applicable<br />
Warrant No. Not Applicable<br />
Inst. No. Not Applicable<br />
THIS PROPERTY HAS BEEN SOLD<br />
FOR DELINQUENT TAXES<br />
Property located at 10508 W LA<br />
PORTE RD., MOKENA, IL 60448<br />
Legal Description orProperty Index No.<br />
09-17-201-019-0000<br />
This notice istoadvise you that the<br />
above property has been sold for<br />
delinquent taxes and that the period of<br />
redemption from the sale will<br />
expire on 06/07/2018.<br />
The amount toredeem is subject toincrease<br />
at 6 month intervals from<br />
the date ofsale and may be further increased<br />
if the purchaser at the tax<br />
sale or his orher assignee pays any subsequently<br />
accruing taxes or special<br />
assessments to redeem the property<br />
from subsequent forfeitures or<br />
tax sales. Check with the county clerk as<br />
to the exact amount you owe<br />
before redeeming.<br />
This notice is also to advise you that a<br />
petition has been filed for a<br />
tax deed which will transfer title and the<br />
right to possession of this<br />
property ifredemption is not made onor<br />
before 06/07/2018.<br />
This matter is set for hearing inthe Circuit<br />
Court ofthis county inthe Will<br />
County Court Annex , 57 N.<br />
Ottawa St., Courtroom 236, Joliet, Illinois<br />
on 07/12/2018 at 9:00 a.m.<br />
You may be present at this hearing but<br />
your right to redeem will already<br />
have expired at that time.<br />
YOU ARE URGED TO REDEEM IM-<br />
MEDIATELY<br />
TO PREVENT LOSS OF PROPERTY<br />
Redemption can be made atany time on<br />
or before 06/07/2018 by applying to the<br />
County Clerk of Will<br />
County, Illinois at the Office of the<br />
County Clerk in Joliet, Illinois.<br />
ADDRESS: Office of the Will County<br />
Clerk, 302 North Chicago St., Joliet, IL<br />
60432<br />
For further information contact the<br />
County Clerk<br />
TELEPHONE: 815.740.4623<br />
American Tax Lien, LLC Purchaser or<br />
Assignee.<br />
Dated this 24th day of January, 2018.<br />
14-14-02437
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Knights varsity<br />
athletics<br />
Boys basketball<br />
■Feb. ■ 16 - at Thornwood,<br />
6:30 p.m.<br />
■Feb. ■ 20 - host Thornridge,<br />
6 p.m.<br />
■Feb. ■ 22 - host Lincoln-Way<br />
West (Senior Night), 6 p.m.<br />
Girls basketball<br />
■Feb. ■ 19 - at IHSA Sectionals,<br />
TBA<br />
Girls bowling<br />
■Feb. ■ 16 - at IHSA State<br />
Final, TBD<br />
■Feb. ■ 17 - at IHSA State<br />
Final, TBD<br />
Wrestling<br />
■Feb. ■ 16 - at IHSA State<br />
Final, TBD<br />
■Feb. ■ 17 - at IHSA State<br />
Final, TBD<br />
Boys swimming and<br />
diving<br />
■Feb. ■ 17 - IHSA Sectional,<br />
TBA<br />
Boys track and field<br />
■Feb. ■ 17 - at Proviso East<br />
Invitational, 9 a.m.<br />
Girls track and field<br />
■Feb. ■ 19 - host Crete-Monee/<br />
Providence/Andrew, 5 p.m.<br />
Griffins varsity<br />
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Boys basketball<br />
■Feb. ■ 16 - at Stagg, 5 p.m.<br />
■Feb. ■ 20 - host Bolingbrook,<br />
6:30 p.m.<br />
Girls basketball<br />
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TBA<br />
Girls bowling<br />
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Finals, TBA<br />
■Feb. ■ 17 - at IHSA State<br />
Finals, TBA<br />
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■Feb. ■ 16 - at IHSA State<br />
Finals, TBA<br />
■Feb. ■ 17 - at IHSA State<br />
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Feb. 6.<br />
hockey<br />
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high school highlights<br />
The rest of the week in high school sports<br />
Girls Basketball<br />
Lincoln-Way Central 54,<br />
Thornridge 27<br />
Abi Baumgartner (17<br />
points, 5 rebounds), Haley<br />
Ragland (11 points, 5 assists,<br />
9 steals) and Natalie<br />
Spudic (8 points, 17 rebounds)<br />
led the way for the<br />
Knights Feb. 5.<br />
Lincoln-Way East 46,<br />
Bolingbrook 56<br />
Carolyn Waleski (14<br />
points) and Lauren Hunter<br />
(14 points) led the way for<br />
the Griffins Feb. 6.<br />
ada,” said defenseman Nathan<br />
Purpura, of Mokena.<br />
“It was probably the best<br />
time I ever had playing<br />
hockey. Overall playing for<br />
team USA versus Canada<br />
was amazing. The experience<br />
to play with a team and<br />
trying to win a championship<br />
for USA is incredible,”,<br />
said Orland Park native and<br />
team forward Nathan Petrusevski.<br />
“It was pretty cool representing<br />
our country. I think<br />
we all felt pretty excited<br />
that we were able to pull off<br />
the win,” said Grant Illsley,<br />
of Orland Park, who was the<br />
team Goalie for the championship<br />
game.<br />
“It was a great experience<br />
when we won it [Nations<br />
Cup] and all the USA kids<br />
came on the ice and were<br />
all cheering ‘USA! USA!’”<br />
said defenseman Nick Mistro,<br />
of Mokena.<br />
The players received<br />
medals for their win against<br />
Canada and guaranteed a return<br />
to the tournament this<br />
year, according to Holke.<br />
With this season now<br />
winding down it’s no time<br />
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Vikings have to keep up<br />
the intensity if they want to<br />
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playoffs and the NIHL tournament.<br />
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month for its upcoming<br />
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Athlete of the week<br />
10 Questions<br />
with Allie Reis<br />
Allie Reis is a sophomore<br />
at Lincoln-Way East on the<br />
girls Lincoln-Way co-op<br />
gymnastics team.<br />
How’d you get started<br />
in gymnastics?<br />
My mom signed me up for<br />
the Mommy and Me classes<br />
when I was, like, 1 year old.<br />
It’s pretty much been my<br />
whole life.<br />
What’s your favorite<br />
event?<br />
Floor, for sure. I just love<br />
tumbling. It’s always been<br />
my favorite event. It’s something<br />
where you can express<br />
yourself.<br />
If you won the lottery,<br />
what would be the first<br />
thing you would buy?<br />
Definitely plane tickets for<br />
around the world. I love traveling.<br />
[First i’d go to] Bora<br />
Bora. It’s on my bucket list.<br />
Who or what is your<br />
inspiration?<br />
Pretty much all the Olympians<br />
because they dedicate<br />
their whole life to gymnastics<br />
and I admire that so<br />
much. And they put in so<br />
much effort, and I love how<br />
it pays off for them.<br />
What’s your favorite<br />
part about gymnastics?<br />
Definitely, for high school,<br />
it’s just being part of a team<br />
and everyone’s so supportive.<br />
And it’s so much fun to<br />
support my teammates and<br />
it’s great to see it all pay off<br />
for all of us, especially when<br />
we win a meet.<br />
What’s the most<br />
challenging part of<br />
gymnastics?<br />
I would have to say when<br />
you see one of your teammates<br />
mess up, or you mess<br />
up yourself, because you<br />
see them work everyday.<br />
Obviously, everyone works<br />
so hard, and it’s just really<br />
hard to see someone disappointed.<br />
If you could own any<br />
exotic pet, what would<br />
it be?<br />
I would say a monkey,<br />
because I love monkeys and<br />
over the summer I went to<br />
Europe and saw a lot of live<br />
monkey in Great Britain. I<br />
just really love them. [I’d<br />
probably name the monkey]<br />
George, of the show, “Curious<br />
George.”<br />
Do you have any plans<br />
for college?<br />
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I do not. I know I want<br />
to do something pre-med,<br />
probably something in the<br />
medical field, but I’m not<br />
sure about a college yet. I’ll<br />
probably go looking this<br />
summer.<br />
If you could add a new<br />
event in gymnastics,<br />
what would it be?<br />
I would probably want to<br />
add the rings, like the guys<br />
gymnastics, for the girls because<br />
they look really fun.<br />
What’s one life lesson<br />
you’ve learned from<br />
gymnastics?<br />
I think the No. 1 thing that<br />
I’ve learned is to not let anything<br />
bring you down. You<br />
need to learn resilience in<br />
life because, obviously, the<br />
world will keep moving on<br />
and you just need to bounce<br />
back.<br />
Interview conducted by Editor<br />
T.J. Kremer III<br />
basketball<br />
From Page 36<br />
63-57 on Nov. 21 in the title<br />
game of the Lincoln-Way<br />
Central/West Thanksgiving<br />
Tournament at Central.<br />
But in the SWSC Red game<br />
Jan. 16 at Central, the Warriors<br />
turned the tables and<br />
emerged with a 58-37 victory.<br />
When the Knights won<br />
the game back in November,<br />
they went on an 18-0 blitz<br />
to start the scoring. Against<br />
West, Reagan LoConte hit<br />
back-to-back 3-pointers to<br />
open the game for Central<br />
and it looked like a repeat<br />
feat of a large game-opening<br />
run was possible. But<br />
the six points would be all<br />
the sophomore guard would<br />
score in the contest.<br />
West quickly scored six<br />
straight to tie the game<br />
at 6-6. A couple of baskets<br />
by junior forward Abi<br />
Baumgartner (13 points, 7<br />
rebounds) put the Knights<br />
back ahead 10-6. West answered<br />
with seven straight<br />
points, but Central scored<br />
the last three points of the<br />
quarter, including a layup<br />
by senior forward Natalie<br />
Spudic (6 points, 6 rebounds)<br />
right before the<br />
buzzer to knot the game at<br />
13-13 after one quarter.<br />
“When they made those,<br />
we knew we had to pick it<br />
up,” Tara Gugliuzza said of<br />
the Knights hitting the early<br />
3-pointers. “We picked it<br />
up, made more shots and<br />
worked on defense. We<br />
knew if we hit our shots that<br />
we’d be OK.”<br />
Sure enough Tara Gugliuzza<br />
scored eight points,<br />
including hitting a pair<br />
of 3-pointers, as the Warriors<br />
went on a 14-2 burst<br />
to open the second quarter.<br />
Tara Gugliuzza, who had 11<br />
points at halftime, capped<br />
the burst on a 3-pointer for<br />
a 27-15 lead with 2:39 left<br />
in the first half. Sophomore<br />
guard Sydney Swanberg<br />
swooshed a 3-pointer at the<br />
buzzer to give West a 34-<br />
20 lead at halftime. Taylor<br />
Gugliuzza had seven points<br />
in the first quarter and had<br />
12 at halftime.<br />
Baumgartner scored four<br />
points to open the third<br />
quarter and cut the lead to<br />
10. That gave the Knights a<br />
glimmer of hope, but it was<br />
soon closed as West connected<br />
on 5-of-10 3-pointers<br />
in the game in the final<br />
five minutes of the quarter.<br />
Hastings, who had 12 second<br />
half points, popped in a<br />
pair of treys and had eight<br />
points in the third quarter.<br />
The Warriors led 51-34<br />
after three, and if there was<br />
any doubt at that point, it<br />
was soon gone as they embarked<br />
on a 10-0 run to open<br />
the fourth quarter. Swanberg<br />
(6 points) and senior<br />
guard Rachel Chavez (5<br />
points) each added 3-pointers<br />
in that spurt.<br />
“As the season went on<br />
I’ve seen us step up and hit<br />
shots,” White said. “Plus<br />
we’ve become more active<br />
and are moving our feet on<br />
defense. The crowd here was<br />
awesome. Central did a good<br />
job guarding us to start,<br />
but then, all of the sudden,<br />
things opened up for us.”<br />
Junior guard Corryn Mejdrich<br />
also added six points<br />
for Central. The Knights<br />
have been hampered in the<br />
second half of the season as<br />
senior post player Lauren<br />
Kraft, who had 20 points<br />
and 16 rebounds when Central<br />
defeated the Warriors,<br />
tore her ACL in the Medieval<br />
Classic Christmas<br />
Tournament and was lost<br />
for the rest of the season.<br />
“With West it’s pick your<br />
poison,” Campanile said.<br />
“Do you try to take away<br />
their dribble penetration, or<br />
do you help too much and<br />
give them the open looks?<br />
They hit 10 threes and we<br />
didn’t pass the ball too well<br />
(22 turnovers).”
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Girls basketball<br />
Warriors slam door on Knights’ win streak<br />
RANDY WHALEN<br />
Freelance Reporter<br />
There was more at stake<br />
for the Lincoln-Way West<br />
girls basketball team than<br />
just a victory over its crosstown<br />
rival in the rubber<br />
match of the season last<br />
week.<br />
Like an outright Red Division<br />
SouthWest Suburban<br />
Conference championship.<br />
Taylor Gugliuzza poured<br />
in a game-high 18 points as<br />
the Warriors got that with a<br />
63-39 victory over Lincoln-<br />
Way Central on Thursday,<br />
Feb. 8, at West.<br />
Not only did their 14th<br />
straight win give the Warriors<br />
(26-3, 11-1) their first<br />
outright SWSC Red title,<br />
the victory also establishes<br />
a new West school record<br />
for wins with 26. The old<br />
mark was 25, set with a 25-2<br />
record in the 2014-15 season.<br />
That was also the same<br />
season that the Warriors<br />
won their only other SWSC<br />
Red title, a shared one with<br />
Lincoln-Way North.<br />
Central (14-14, 7-5) saw<br />
its four game win streak<br />
snapped.<br />
“We looked at this game<br />
as a playoff game,” Central<br />
coach Dave Campanile said.<br />
“It was a great atmosphere<br />
and I wanted us to play a<br />
hard fought game. West<br />
won the conference championship<br />
and that’s good for<br />
them. But afterward I was<br />
completely positive. We all<br />
hit the reset button now and<br />
are 0-0 going into the postseason.”<br />
The door opened for West<br />
“With West it’s pick your poison. Do you try to take<br />
away their dribble penetration, or do you help too<br />
much and give them the open looks? They hit 10<br />
threes and we didn’t pass the ball too well.”<br />
Dave Campanile — Lincoln-Way Central head coach, on the loss to Lincoln-Way<br />
West<br />
to take the conference title<br />
outright when 2-time defending<br />
league champion<br />
Bradley-Bourbonnais was<br />
upset Feb. 6 in a 54-50<br />
loss to Thornwood. West<br />
had split its games with the<br />
Boilermakers (20-7, 10-2)<br />
this season.<br />
“Coach [Ryan White] told<br />
us at practice [on Wednesday,<br />
Feb. 7],” West freshman<br />
guard Tara Gugliuzza<br />
said of Bradley-Bourbonnais<br />
losing. “So we knew<br />
[what was at stake]. I’m<br />
really excited and it’s really<br />
good. All the hard work<br />
we’ve put into the season<br />
paid off.”<br />
As has been the case numerous<br />
times this season,<br />
Tara Gugliuzza (14 points)<br />
saw her older sister, sophomore<br />
guard Taylor Gugliuzza,<br />
lead the team in points.<br />
Junior guard Tara Hastings<br />
(16 points) also made big<br />
scoring contributions in the<br />
win.<br />
“No, honestly I didn’t<br />
think so,” Tara Gugliuzza<br />
said when asked if she<br />
thought she’d step into a<br />
team this good her freshman<br />
year. “I knew we’d be good,<br />
but not this good.”<br />
Neither did her coach,<br />
who has been the head<br />
coach at West for all of the<br />
nine seasons of its varsity<br />
existence.<br />
“We lost three seniors<br />
from last seasons team and<br />
two of them [Emily Atsinger<br />
and Courtney O’Donnell]<br />
were 4-year varsity kids,”<br />
said White of last years<br />
group, which finished with<br />
a record of 24-6. “So I’m<br />
just amazed how everyone<br />
on the team has stepped up<br />
to fill a role. I couldn’t be<br />
more pleased with everything.”<br />
Central and the Warriors<br />
split their previous two<br />
meeting this season. The<br />
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Lincoln-Way earns trip back to state<br />
Chris Walker<br />
Freelance Reporter<br />
Una Farrel performs on the beam, where she took third<br />
with a 9.3 score and automatically qualified for individual<br />
competition at state with a fourth-place finish.<br />
Lincoln-Way East sophomore Allie Reis performs her floor<br />
routine.<br />
And the seniors have led<br />
them back to Palatine.<br />
Lincoln-Way co-op seniors<br />
Madi Flondor, Erica<br />
Dice and Una Farrell each<br />
advanced to state in at least<br />
one event and those contributions<br />
boosted the team<br />
score, which proved to be<br />
plenty for the entire team to<br />
join them in Palatine for the<br />
state finals.<br />
At the Sandburg Sectional<br />
on Feb. 5, where all but two<br />
teams improved their scores<br />
from what they scored during<br />
each team’s respective<br />
regional the previous week,<br />
Lincoln-Way co-op collected<br />
143.275 points, easily in<br />
front of runner-up Downers<br />
Grove North’s 137.575,<br />
which entered as just the<br />
fifth-highest scoring team<br />
among the six-squad field.<br />
Dice was third on vault<br />
with a 9.25, Flondor tied for<br />
fifth on bars with a 9.025,<br />
and Farrell took third on<br />
beam with a 9.3, tied for fifth<br />
on the floor exercise with a<br />
9.025 and ensured she’d<br />
compete in all four events<br />
by earning fourth place in<br />
the all-around with a 36.125.<br />
The top five placers in each<br />
of the four events, as well as<br />
the all-around automatically<br />
qualify for state.<br />
“We definitely made a<br />
few mistakes, but the scoring<br />
was probably a little<br />
harder, so this will help us<br />
get ready for state,” Farrell<br />
said. “We knew we have a<br />
very good chance to win<br />
the sectional title, but at the<br />
same time, we didn’t want<br />
to let it get to our heads.<br />
We just came in not trying<br />
to be overconfident, which<br />
can throw you off.”<br />
Team depth once again<br />
was apparent for Lincoln-<br />
Way as eight gymnasts contributed<br />
to the team total.<br />
Farrell led the way in all four<br />
events, while Flondor and<br />
sophomore Korina Jarosz<br />
added three scores apiece.<br />
Jarosz also finished ninth in<br />
the all-around with a 34.725<br />
and was sixth on vault.<br />
Freshman Grace Kmak,<br />
who placed 11th in the allaround<br />
with a 34.5, saw her<br />
beam and floor routine lift<br />
the team’s final score, while<br />
Dice, sophomore Allie Reis<br />
and seniors Sabrina Wenk<br />
and Gabby DeVito delivered<br />
to that same total in one<br />
event each.<br />
Lincoln Way co-op took<br />
sixth in state last February.<br />
“We know we’re not going<br />
to be the highest-ranked<br />
team there, but we’re going<br />
to go there and have fun and<br />
enjoy the excitement,” Farrell<br />
said. “And we’ll show<br />
the younger girls the ropes.”<br />
The pressure is kind of off<br />
the team now that they’ve<br />
punched their ticket to Palatine.<br />
“I felt like there was more<br />
Lincoln-Way gymnast Korina Jarosz performs a flip during her floor routine Feb. 5 at the<br />
Sandburg Sectional in Orland Park. Photos by Julie McMann/22nd Century Media<br />
Madison Flonder is one of three Lincoln-Way co-op gymnasts to qualify for an individual<br />
event at the state championship.<br />
pressure this year with people<br />
expecting us to make it again,<br />
and we had to fight through<br />
some injuries,” Farrell said.<br />
“I kept thinking about what<br />
would happen if we didn’t<br />
make it and if we let anyone<br />
down. So now that we’ve did<br />
it, we’ll continue to push ourselves<br />
to get better because<br />
we know it’s not going to be<br />
easy competition.”
will never forget.<br />
“It is amazing because it’s<br />
like you’re actually in the<br />
Olympics playing for USA.<br />
Having all the other teams<br />
play together trying to win<br />
it [Nations Cup]. It was fun.<br />
I like playing against Can-<br />
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Youth hockey team prepares for national title defense<br />
22nd Century Media File<br />
Photo<br />
1st-and-3<br />
LW Central Nat’l<br />
Signing day (above)<br />
1. Football<br />
Mike Morgan, South<br />
Dakota State University;<br />
Peyton Nigro,<br />
Concordia University<br />
(Minnesota); and<br />
Brett Widule, University<br />
of Wisconsin-<br />
Platteville<br />
2. Baseball/Softball<br />
Ryan Vice, Western<br />
Michigan University;<br />
Andrew Hancock,<br />
University of Evansville<br />
(Indiana); Sarah<br />
Wilson, Cardinal<br />
Stritch University<br />
(Wisconsin); Trey Korbel,<br />
Triton College;<br />
and Matt Helwig,<br />
University of Wisconsin-Parkside.<br />
3. Volleyball<br />
Kylie Kulinski, University<br />
of Pennsylvania;<br />
Cassidy Wyman,<br />
St. Xavier University;<br />
Hannah Stacey,<br />
St. Mary’s College,<br />
Notre Dame.<br />
Craig McCarthy<br />
Freelance Reporter<br />
On Monday and Wednesday<br />
nights the Arctic Ice<br />
Arena in Orland Park is<br />
where you’ll find the Pee<br />
Wee hockey team known<br />
as the Vikings. This team<br />
of children aged 12 years<br />
and younger consists of 17<br />
players from the surrounding<br />
area.<br />
While the team is preparing<br />
for the end of their<br />
season, with the upcoming<br />
Northern Illinois Hockey<br />
League tournament and<br />
state playoffs, they’re still<br />
reveling in a win that goes<br />
back to Nov. 24-26. It was<br />
then that this group of<br />
young skaters were not only<br />
playing for themselves,<br />
their team and their families,<br />
but also playing for an<br />
entire nation.<br />
“It was just a bunch of<br />
little 11- and 12-year-olds<br />
chanting for their country.<br />
There were American flags<br />
going through [the arena]. It<br />
was crazy. Usually it’s just<br />
the parents that watch the<br />
game, but this game we had<br />
a crowd,” said team manager<br />
Kristen Bruns.<br />
Bruns, whose son is one<br />
of the goalies on the team,<br />
is referring to the final<br />
game of the annual Nations<br />
Cup. The tournament,<br />
held in Detroit, had teams<br />
from the U.S. and Canada<br />
competing not only for the<br />
cup but for national pride.<br />
The Vikings played in the<br />
championship game and<br />
beat Canada 4-1 to cap off<br />
an amazing run.<br />
Pictured are the members of the Orland Park Vikings 12-and-under youth hockey team. The team has its sights set on<br />
defending its Nations Cup title, which it won this past Thanksgiving 4-1 against Canada. Craig McCarthy/22nd Century Media<br />
“The last game came<br />
down to if we win the game<br />
we win the Nations Cup for<br />
all the teams in our division.<br />
The whole stadium was<br />
packed with USA fans,”<br />
said assistant coach Tim<br />
Rieman.<br />
“It was pretty rewarding<br />
to see them work as hard<br />
as they did and to win everything.<br />
To see them smiling<br />
and happy, it was pretty<br />
great,” said assistant coach<br />
John Gannon.<br />
“The experience can be<br />
summed up in two words:<br />
simply amazing. The kids<br />
had a blast, the coaches<br />
had a blast,” recalled head<br />
coach Ryan Holke.<br />
Approximately 300 people<br />
were in the arena during<br />
the championship game<br />
running around with flags,<br />
according to Holke. It’s<br />
something he and his coaches<br />
said they had never experienced<br />
at that level. For the<br />
players, it’s something they<br />
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“[N]ow that we’ve [made it to state] we’ll continue to push<br />
ourselves to get better, because we know it’s not going to<br />
be easy competition.”<br />
Una Farrell – Lincoln-Way co-op gymnast, on what to expect in state competition<br />
TUNE IN<br />
Girls Basketball<br />
6 p.m., Monday, Feb. 19<br />
Lincoln-Way East opens sectional title<br />
week.<br />
Index<br />
35 – Athlete of the Week<br />
34 – High School Highlights<br />
FASTBREAK is compiled by Editor T.J. Kremer III, tj@<br />
mokenamessenger.com.
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USA!<br />
Youth hockey team looks<br />
to build on championship<br />
run, Page 39<br />
Win streak<br />
stopped West<br />
over Central in girls<br />
basketball regular<br />
season finale, Page 36<br />
Lincoln-Way co-op<br />
gymnast Grace Kmak<br />
cartwheels toward the<br />
vault Feb. 5. The Lincoln-<br />
Way squad took the<br />
sectional title and moves<br />
on to the state playoffs.<br />
Julie McMann/22nd<br />
Century Media<br />
LW co-op gymnasts take sectional title,<br />
state up next, Page 38<br />
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