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Taking stock Officials review
staffing, operations, more with
environmental scan, Page 4
Flower power Florist in Homer Glen stays
busy keeping up with demand for orders throughout
Valentine’s Day, Page 6
No charges filed Police do
not charge former Provi president who
refused to give up cellphone, Page 7
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The Finnegan
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Chris and Mike
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Homer Glen, at a
2017 ALS Walk.
A benefit will be
held Sunday,
Feb. 25, for Chris,
who has ALS.
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Homer woman to have benefit to help with costs for modifications
needed with her amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Page 3

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Homer Glen Junior Woman’s
Club Bingo Fundraiser
5:30 p.m. Feb. 24, Moose
Lodge, 118 E. 10th St.,
Lockport. The fourth annual
Take a Chance for Change
Bingo FUNdraiser is now
accepting reservations for
the event. There is a $25
non-refundable donation
per person, which includes
10 bingo games and entry
tickets for door prizes. Participants
must be 18 or older
to play. There will be a cap
of 200 reservations sold.
To save a spot, visit www.
homerglenjuniors.org and
fill out the form. A portion
of the proceeds will benefit
To Write Love On Her Arms
and Homer Glen’s own Kidz
Play.
SUNDAY
LTHS Foundation Presents:
Sixth Annual Wild Fest
10 a.m.-4 p.m. Feb. 25,
LTHS East Campus, 1333
E. 7th St., Lockport. Experience
wildlife like never
before with educational presentations,
vendors, photo
and petting opportunities.
There will be a wolf, alligator,
porcupine, kangaroo,
skunks and more. The proceeds
benefit student scholarships
and animal rescue
programs. Admission is $8
for adults, $5 for kids 12
and under and $5 for high
school/college students with
school ID.
Chris Posen Finnegan Benefit
3-9 p.m. Feb. 25, Chicago
Gaelic Park, 6119 W. 147th
St., Oak Forest. Friends and
family of Chris Finnegan are
hosting a benefit to support
Chris and her family as she
lives with ALS. Her family
have been residents of
Homer Glen for more than
26 years. The money raised
will help alleviate the cost
of medical expenses, caretakers,
technology and other
equipment that is not covered
by insurance. Checks
can be made out to Chris
Posen Finnegan Benefit,
U.S. Bank, 11901 W. 143rd
St., Orland Park. 60467.
Admission to the benefit is
free. There is a free buffet
dinner, dessert, live and silent
auctions, live entertainment
and raffles. For more
information, contact Eileen
Finnegan at (312) 520-6608
or chrisposenfinneganben
efit@gmail.com.
TUESDAY
Bill Cook’s Magic Show
6:30-7:30 p.m. Feb. 27,
Homer Township Public Library,
Community Meeting
Room, 14320 W. 151st St.,
Homer Glen. This evening
will be full of wonder and
magic. Come watch a thrilling
and entertaining magic
show. The show combines
comedy, drama and interactive
audience participation.
All ages welcome, children
6 and under must be with
an adult. No registration is
required. For more information,
call (708) 301-7908.
WEDNESDAY
Introduction to PowerPoint
6-7 p.m. Feb. 28, Homer
Township Public Library,
Community Meeting Room,
14320 W. 151st St., Homer
Glen. Attendees will learn
about slides, clipart, themes
and transitions. Registration
is required. Formore information,
call (708) 301-7908.
LTHS Orchesis Dance Club
Performance
7 p.m. Feb. 28 and March
1, LTHS East Campus auditorium,
1333 E. 7th St.,
Lockport. Dancers will perform
original choreography
in the styles of lyrical, contemporary,
jazz, hip-hop,
Carribean, Latin and pointe
at their show Danceworks
2018. There will also be a
contemporary dance choreographed
by Orchesis alumna
Anna Volkman. Tickets are
$5 each and will be sold at
the door.
UPCOMING
Armchair Travelers: South
Africa
2-3 p.m. Friday, March
2, Homer Township Public
Library, Community Meeting
Room, 14320 W. 151st
St., Homer Glen. This event
focuses on South Africa, the
influence of Nelson Mandela
and Mahatma Gandhi, and a
grand train ride from Cape
Town to Johannesburg. No
registration is required. For
more information, call (708)
301-7908.
Boys Scout Troop 63
Pancake Breakfast
8-11 a.m. Sunday, March
4, American Legion Post 18,
15052 Archer Ave., Lockport.
Tickets are $8 for adults
and $6 for children ages 5 to
10, and can be purchased
at the door. Children 4 and
under are free. There will
be raffle items and a baked
goods sale. Proceeds from
the event help the scouts attend
summer camp and high
adventure trips, as well as
aid the troop in getting new
camping equipment and
covering other costs. For
more information, contact
scoutmaster Jim Zacharias at
(815) 838-0848.
Will County Division of
Transportation (WCDOT)
Meeting
4-7 p.m. Wednesday,
March 7, Hadley Middle
School, 15731 Bell Road,
Homer Glen. This meeting
will provide an update on
the improvements to 143rd
Street between Lemont Road
and Bell Road. Changes
made to the project will be
presented, and residents can
hear comments on the revised
proposed plan. Those
who attend can review maps,
plans and reports. If anyone
attending is in need of special
accommodations, contact
Christian Kupkowski at
(815) 727-8476.
Walsh School Full-Day
Kindergarten Registration
Wednesday March, 7 and
Thursday, March 8, Walsh
School, 514 N. MacGregor
Road, Lockport. Registration
will be held at the
school from 9:30 to 11 a.m.
Wednesday, March 7, for
morning registration hours;
from 1 to 2:30 p.m. Wednesday,
March 7, for afternoon
registration hours; and from
4:30 to 7 p.m. Thursday,
March 8, for evening registration
hours. Parents with
children who will be 5 years
old on or before Sept. 1, 2018
will need to bring the child’s
government-issued birth
certificate. In addition, there
will need to be three proofs
of residency, including one
of the following: a current
real estate tax bill, a signed
lease, a closing statement on
house (if home purchased
within one year) or a notarized
third-party (available
at school office if one lives
with the third party). Two
of the following will also be
needed: a driver’s license,
a public aid card, a utility
bill, automobile registration,
home/apartment insurance
certificate and a bank/credit
card statement. Parents will
be asked to complete registration
forms and pay a registration
fee. There is a $10
deduction given to students
who pay at registration or
before May 18, 2018.
ONGOING
Kindergarten Pre-
Registration in Homer 33C
Parents whose children
are turning 5 on or before
Sept. 1, 2018 are encouraged
to pre-register their child
for kindergarten online. The
pre-registration form can be
found on the district website
at www.homerschools.
org. Click on the “Parents
and Students” tab at the top
of the page, and then scroll
down to “Registration.” This
information will be used to
help expedite the formal registration
process on Thursday,
March 15, at Luther J.
Schilling School.
Healthy Kids Running Series
Registration
Parents can now register
their children for the spring
2018 series of Healthy Kids
Running Series. The series
is returning to Stonebridge
Park beginning April 8. It is
a five-week youth running
program designed to combat
childhood obesity, while
providing children with a
positive, educational, and
fun introduction in the world
of running. To register, volunteer
or become a sponsor,
go to www.healthykidsrun
ningseries.org.
Fish Fry
5-8 p.m. Fridays. John
Olson American Legion
Post 18, 15052 Archer Ave.,
Lockport. Dine in or carry
out. For more information,
call (815) 838-4515.
Citizens Against Ruining the
Environment
6-7:30 p.m. every third
Monday of the month,
White Oak Library, 121 E.
8th St., Lockport. CARE, a
nonprofit and all-volunteer
organization, will discuss
environmental and healthrelated
issues in Will County
and the surrounding areas.
Community service hours
also available.
Have an item for calendar?
Deadline is noon Thursdays
one week prior to publication.
To submit an item to the
calendar, contact Assistant
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Family, friends organize benefit for Homer mom with ALS
Event to be held Sunday,
Feb. 25, at Gaelic Park
Jacquelyn Schlabach
Assistant Editor
Chris Finnegan was an occupational
therapist for 30 years before
having to step away from the work
she loved most. In September
2016, she ended her career at University
of Illinois Chicago Hospital,
where she worked for eight
years in behavioral health.
“I absolutely loved my work,”
Chris said. “I loved working with
patients. I did a lot of group therapy
and individual assessments for
doctors, you know, helping them
decide where a patient might live
or what might be the best lifestyle
for them. And I absolutely loved
just working with my co-workers.”
Throughout all the years of helping
others and having an impact
on people’s lives, Chris is now the
one in need of help and support as
she fights living with amyotrophic
lateral sclerosis (ALS). There is
no cure for ALS, which is a neurodegenerative
disease that affects
nerve cells in the brain and spinal
cord, according to the ALS Association.
When the motor neurons
die, the brain can no longer control
muscle movement. Chris was diagnosed
with ALS in April 2015.
“I was noticing just muscle
cramps in my legs, in my arms
and even in my abdomen, which
seems unusual, and again they
tried to figure out what was going
on,” Chris said. “They thought it
could be a vitamin deficiency, or
maybe rheumatoid arthritis, but as
I saw more neurologists, they kept
saying that they felt like with the
weakness starting, and I would
have twitches in my arms and legs,
they said that that was a sign of a
motor neuron disease, which is
scary to hear.”
Family and friends of Chris and
her husband, Mike, and three children
— Michael, Brian and Lauren
— have rallied together to support
the Homer Glen residents by organizing
the Chris Posen Finnegan
Benefit, which will be held 3 to
9 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 25, at Gaelic
Park, 6119 W. 147th St., Oak Forest
in hopes of raising $180,000 to
help with medical expenses and
home modifications for Chris.
“There’s people helping with
this that I’ve never even met,”
Mike said. “It’s an incredibly humbling
thing to know that there’s are
people out there that are willing to
help other people.”
Mike’s younger sister, Maureen
Moran, helped bring the benefit to
life and is the secretary on the benefit
committee.
“Even if we didn’t have the
event on the 25th, the generosity
up to this point is so heartwarming,”
Moran said.
Learning to adapt
Insurance companies don’t always
fully cover the costs associated
with the things that people
with ALS need. Slowly, the family
has made modifications to their
home to help Chris get around
and do the things she always has.
Grab bars have been installed in
the bathrooms, a new vehicle will
need to be purchased to transfer
her in her electric wheelchair,
medications are needed and eventually
they will need a hospital
bed. The donations from the benefit
will go toward all of these items
for Chris.
“I’m lucky enough to be trying
a new medication that was FDAapproved
this past year that’s
an IV infusion, but it could cost
$145,000 per year, so I’m lucky
enough that my insurance did approve
that, but of course we had
to pay for part of that,” Chris said.
According to Chris, she believes
her disease has progressed slower
than the average person with ALS.
“Primarily, [ALS has] progressed
in a physical manner because
it is a neurodegenerative
disorder that affects the motor neurons
nerves, and that affects your
physical function,” Chris said.
“Some people do lose their speech
pretty early, or some people do
have some cognitive deficients. So
Homer Glen resident Chris
Finnegan was diagnosed with ALS
in April 2015. Photo submitted
far, I’ve been lucky in that primarily
I’ve just been affected physically,
but that’s very hard in that
I’m used to being a very kind of
outgoing, active person, and to not
be able to exercise, dance, do my
gardening, just do more physical
things is really, really difficult. But
I do the best I can.”
As of now, Chris’ hands are
“pretty much nonfunctional.” She
can still try to flip papers or read
magazines, but she said her hands
are the worst. She walks with the
assistance of a walker but cannot
go far distances. The family has
gotten an electric wheelchair, but
Chris tries not to use it unless it’s
necessary.
“She’s fighting for her independence,
she’s fighting using [the
wheelchair] until she absolutely
has to,” Mike said.
In October 2013, Chris was also
diagnosed with breast cancer. She
had a mastectomy, which required
about five surgeries until 2015 due
to infections and difficulties with
the reconstruction.
“I’ve had struggles since just
because of the reconstructive surgery,”
Chris said. “Unfortunately,
I got several infections and I’ve
had tightness. I still go to physical
therapy for deep-tissue massage,
so that’s still affecting me in some
way, but again it’s something that
you have to accept and just move
on. I feel as though with all of the
things that have happened over the
past several years, I’ve been pretty
strong. I feel like I am a strong
person, but mainly I want to be as
positive as possible for my kids
and for the family.”
First signs
Chris started having symptoms
of ALS in 2011 — not confirming
they were from the disease at the
time — but were put on the backburner
because of her breast cancer
diagnosis. After she went into
remission, Chris and her husband
began seeing doctors about her
symptoms of muscle weakness.
ALS is considered a diagnosis of
exclusion, meaning that the diagnosis
of a medical condition was
reached by process of elimination.
They saw several doctors before
receiving the news.
“In the back of your mind,
you’re always hopeful that it’s
wrong, the diagnosis is wrong,
that there are other diseases that
aren’t as bad and mimic the symptoms
of ALS, so that’s why they
call it a diagnosis of exclusion,”
Mike said.
Chris said even though hearing
the diagnosis was shocking, it has
brought her family closer together.
“I actually think my family, my
husband and the kids have handled
it very well,” she said. “I feel as
though they’ve been strong along
with me. However, I’m sure that
they never expected to be having
to help me in the ways that they
do.”
Chris said her children and
husband help her get dressed, do
self-care activities, walk and do
things around the house. During
the day and in the early evening, a
caregiver comes to their home and
helps Chris while her husband is
at work.
“I think it’s been a shock for [my
family] as far as helping in ways
they didn’t expect but they have
been; my kids have been beyond
belief strong and helpful and have
a lot of fun with me,” Chris said.
Positive no matter what
Throughout all the trials and
tribulation, Chris has remained as
positive as she can.
“I do feel as though it is devastating,
but why dwell on the
negative?” she said. “I have to just
enjoy my family and my friends
and still talking to so many people
and doing as much as I can, and
being positive and living as much
as I can and having fun and doing
things. That’s all you can do with
this kind of disease.”
Chris is looking forward to the
benefit on Feb. 25 and said she is
incredibly grateful and appreciative
of all the time and work that
people have put into it.
“My phrase for my own kids
and neighbors is, ‘it takes a village,’
and I think Mike and Chris
have touched people all over
Homer Glen, Lockport, the South
Side of Chicago and further into
Michigan with their work with
the Boys Scouts, and I just think
it’s just time for the community to
come together and give support,”
Moran said. “Everyone really isn’t
in a position to help financially,
and I think we all know that, so I
say to people first and foremost,
Chris needs prayers.”
The event will take place from
3-9 p.m. Donations will be accepted
at the door, and guests can enjoy
raffles, live and silent auctions,
live entertainment, a free buffet
dinner, a canvas artist and more.
“We think the goal [of $180,000]
is very ambitious, but we are hoping
to get there,” Moran said.
Those who would like to donate
can do so on the GoFundMe page
set up for Chris at www.gofundme.
com/chris-posen-finnegan-fund.

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Homer Glen Village Board
Trustees review environmental scan, prepare for strategic planning
Meredith Dobes
Freelance Reporter
Everything from the overarching
mission of the Village
of Homer Glen to the
small details of how the
Village may face challenges
that lie ahead was reviewed
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Village Manager Michael
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presented an environmental
scan to board members,
giving them an overview
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governmental services.
Mertens said the challenges
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discuss and plan for during
their strategic planning sessions,
which were scheduled
for Wednesday, Feb. 21 and
Thursday, Feb. 22.
He began by providing an
overview of some statistics
about the village, including
that it has grown by 175 people
from 2010-2015, with a
population density of 1,092
people per square mile; has
the second-highest median
age in the area; and has the
fifth-highest average household
income in the area.
Staffing
The Village has 13 fulltime
and eight part-time staff
members. It has a part-time
Emergency Management
Agency manager and volunteers
for the EMA.
Homer Glen’s intergovernmental
agreement with
the Will County Sheriff’s
Office makes up 46 percent
of its general fund, but
Mertens said the Village gets
the best value for police services
through this IGA compared
to neighboring communities.
The Village’s IGA with
Homer Township Road
District makes up 13 percent
of its general fund, and
Mertens said they have been
good partners, covering the
Village’s 127 miles of road.
Looking ahead, Mertens
recommended refreshing the
IGAs with the Sheriff’s Office
and the Road District.
He said succession planning
for Village staff may become
difficult because of the
small crew, as may staffing
and budgeting for some of
the Village’s larger special
events in the future.
As the Village develops
Heritage Park, it may need
more staff for park programming,
and it also may need
to consider hiring professional
staff for information
technology services,
Mertens said.
Operations
The Village has a number
of lots that are zoned for office
or business park space
that Mertens noted the
board may want to review.
“We need to look at what
the focus is and what the
community wants to be,”
he said. “Does it want to
evolve fast or slow?”
In terms of economic
development, there are
not many infill locations
— buildings already constructed
that have empty
storefronts — left in the
village. Most growth opportunities
are in undeveloped
lots.
Mertens said development
along the 159th Street
corridor is complicated by
ongoing Illinois Department
of Transportation
roadwork that is not expected
to be completed until
2020. He later noted that the
Village needs to increase
pressure on the State to finish
this work, as it is impacting
quality of life in the
village.
In recent years, no new
subdivisions have been
constructed in the village.
All residential permits have
been for infill in existing
subdivisions or redevelopment
on homes.
Mertens said it is great
that people are investing
in the community and that
vacant space is being filled,
but the Village also needs
developers to build on vacant
land.
He showed the board a
map of water service in the
village, including a service
gap area in the southwest
portion. The Village has
no set boundary agreement
with New Lenox in that
area, as whichever village
can provide water to the
area will obtain the property.
Mertens said the board
may want to consider how
to bring that property into
the community.
For facilities maintenance,
the Village has
roughly 22 miles of grass
along trails to maintain and
recently obtained Goodings
Grove and Evlyn’s Gate
Parks, potentially leading to
a greater need for seasonal
help in the future.
There are roughly 2,700
properties in the village
that need parkway trees
because of the emerald
ash borer or because trees
were never planted by the
developers.
Challenges that lie ahead
for operations include
aligning development goals
in the comprehensive plan
with market conditions and
the values of the community;
updating codes; tightening
boundary agreements
with neighboring communities;
evaluating what other
communities allow in their
codes in terms of building
materials and variances
to ensure Homer Glen is
able to attract the developers
it seeks; and maintaining
or expanding special
events.
Mayor George Yukich
agreed the Village needs to
update its codes.
“I want it to be easier for
someone to come in and
not have to go to five Plan
Commission meetings,”
he said.
He added that the Village
needs to ensure it has
enough money to do all of
the things it wants to do and
needs to identify potential
revenue sources for the future.
He noted he would not
be in favor of a municipal
tax.
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Flowers by Steen Productions delivers more than 100 orders on Valentine’s Day
Preparation begins
well in advance
to accommodate
demand for Feb. 14
Jacquelyn Schlabach
Assistant Editor
Feb. 14 is a day of love.
It’s a day for significant
others to celebrate each
other. It’s also a day when
an abundance of flowers are
seen in every corner of a
store, on desks of co-workers
and all over social media.
Last Wednesday, Flowers by
Steen Productions in Homer
Glen delivered over 100
flower orders after months
of planning for Valentine’s
Day.
“We generally will, weeks
ahead, we start to gather up
inventory; that’s the start
of it,” said Karen Steen,
owner of Flowers by Steen
Productions and a Lockport
resident. “Seeing how much
ribbon we have in stock,
how many vases we have
in stock, all the enclosure
cards, we take an inventory
of balloons and we also have
to grab candy at times, so
there’s just a lot going into
it.”
Steen orders the flowers
that she and her staff will
use to make arrangements at
Christmas time.
“It’s kind of hard to think
about Valentine’s Day when
you’re still in the midst of
the holiday,” she said.
Since Valentine’s Day fell
on a weekday this year, it was
busier than when the holiday
falls on a weekend because
most people don’t have time
to go out for dinner or shop
for their significant other, so
they order flowers. On any
given day, there are four fulltime
employees at the shop.
On Feb. 14, there were 12
people working to prepare
flower arrangements and deliver
the flowers.
Laurie Franze, a friend of Karen Steen, helps prepares
flowers by cleaning and wiring them to be used to create
arrangements.
“It’s very busy, but I love
it,” Lori Franze, a friend of
Steen who helped out at the
flower shop, said.
Franze was preparing
flowers by cutting and wiring
them so it prevents them
from drooping. Another
friend of Steen’s, Carole Rubens,
was delivering flowers
to neighboring towns such as
Joliet, New Lenox, Lockport
and Lemont.
“My favorite part is the
surprise at the door, when
they answer the door and
they’re so surprised — it’s
wonderful,” Rubens said.
The four drivers helping
Steen took a total of 38
deliveries in the afternoon
alone. Steen’s son, Christian,
had the opportunity
to witness the reactions of
those who received the
flowers and cards, in addition
to Rubens. Christian
said most of the deliveries
he had on Valentine’s Day
were to people’s work.
“I had [a delivery] today, I
walked in [the business] and
they were all talking, ‘who
got flowers?,’ and she’s like,
‘not me,’ and I said her name
and she’s like, ‘what?!,”
Christian said. “She was so
happy.”
When there are a lot of
deliveries during a weekday,
Karen said she has to factor
in time of when a person
receives the arrangement,
particularly if it’s being delivered
to a business.
“We also have to worry
about businesses, you know
making sure that we get
those for people that are ordering
flowers for business,
we don’t want them to get
them 10 minutes before they
leave, so we have to take that
into account, as well,” Karen
said.
While Rubens said it was
a busier day than last Valentine’s
Day, Karen said it isn’t
their busiest day of the year,
as most would expect.
“The saying is this, for
Valentine’s Day, not everyone
has a lover, but they
have a mother,” Karen said.
“Mother’s Day is much
more busier than Valentine’s
Day.”
However, Karen and her
staff still had a lot to accomplish.
Karen was in the shop
until 1 a.m. last Wednesday,
and one of her employees,
Nadia Obied, was there until
11:30 p.m. last Tuesday.
“It’s pretty normal, but we
didn’t anticipate it being that
late,” Obied said.
When everyone came in
last Wednesday morning, 19
new orders had been placed
through the wiring service
and were ready to start preparing.
Steen had run out
of certain flowers and other
Flowers by Steen Productions owner Karen Steen makes a floral arrangement Feb. 14 to
be delivered for Valentine’s Day. Photos by Jacquelyn Schlabach/22nd Century Media
Flowers are stored in the cooler at Flowers by Steen Productions, which is located in
Homer Glen.
essentials and had to order
more at 7 a.m. that morning.
Over the course of three
days, there were 125 orders
placed and counting.
As of noon on Valentine’s
Day, the most expensive
flower arrangement that
someone had purchased
was $300. Another special
woman was receiving an order
worth $297 to her work
consisting of two dozen
roses, balloons and a teddy
bear.
“This is a rose holiday,”
Steen said.
In addition to being a rose
holiday, it’s a holiday will
lots of romantic confessions
of love.
“I like reading all the
mushy cards,” Obied said.
“I like hearing all the nicknames
that people have.
They have ridiculous pet
names.”
Some notes that accompany
the flower arrangements
may sound strange,
but there’s also some that
make the employees stop in
their tracks.
“Like I can’t believe he sat
there and wrote that,” Obied
said.
People might have to wait
another year to receive those
mushy cards and colorful arrangements
for Valentine’s
Day, but one thing’s for sure:
Roses are red, violets are
blue and residents displayed
love with flowers, through
and through.

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the Homer Horizon | February 22, 2018 | 7
Provi ex-president not charged
after phone in question vanishes
Amanda Stoll, Assistant Editor
New Lenox police
declined to file
charges Thursday,
Feb. 15, after a
nearly two-month
investigation into
alleged inappropriate
content on McGrath
a cellphone used
by the Rev. Richard J. McGrath,
former president of Providence
Catholic High School.
McGrath resigned on Dec. 22
amid the investigation, which was
opened Dec. 8 and led by Sgt. Micah
Nuesse of the New Lenox Police
Department.
After McGrath refused multiple
times to surrender the phone
— which was the property of the
high school — to Providence officials
and police, McGrath’s lawyer,
Patrick Reardon, told police
Dec. 27 the phone “no longer
exists” and it would be a “huge
waste of time” to look for it, according
to the police reports.
Without the phone, police say
in the report they could not file
charges.
According to the report, the
Rev. John Merkelis, now acting
president at Providence Catholic,
met with police on behalf
of a female student who allegedly
saw “what she believed to
be a photo of a nude 13-year-old
male” on McGrath’s phone Dec.
8 during a wrestling meet at the
school.
The student reportedly told a
trusted employee, who informed
Providence Principal John Harper,
who then relayed the information
to Merkelis.
The trusted employee was interviewed
by police at the police
department on Dec. 11, and she
told police the female student witness
confided in her shortly after
seeing the image on McGrath’s
phone. According to the report,
From feb. 16
the individual said the witness
was “visibly shaking” and pale in
the face upon telling her what she
had seen.
On Dec. 12, Nuesse and
Merkelis met with McGrath in
McGrath’s office at the school,
according to the report. He was
asked by police and Merkelis to
hand over his cellphone, and he
reportedly refused to do so despite
Merkelis’ assertion that the device
was the property of Providence
Catholic.
At that time, New Lenox Police
Chief Brian Sterba said
police did not have enough evidence
to obtain a warrant for the
phone and therefore did not have
the authority to take it without
permission.
According to the report, Mc-
Grath “stood up and walked out of
the office, advising that he needed
to get to the theatre.”
“Unless Father Merkelis was
prepared to wrestle him for it, we
weren’t getting the phone,” Sterba
said.
After McGrath left, police
seized the computer on his desk,
which Merkelis confirmed was
McGrath’s exclusive computer.
The computer subsequently
was searched by the Computer
Crimes Unit of the Will County
State’s Attorney’s Office. No relevant
information was obtained,
according to the report.
Police reportedly contacted
Providence’s attorneys at Kopon
Airdo law firm on Dec. 27, who
indicated that Reardon had told
them “no evidence exists.”
According to the report, the initial
witness’s testimony was then
subpoenaed, and she was interviewed
on Jan. 11 at the police
station in lieu of an appearance in
front of a grand jury.
The witness then told police
that she had approached McGrath
at the wrestling meet to greet him
because he was sitting alone on
the bleachers. According to the
report, as she approached from
behind, McGrath “‘freaked out
like when someone saw something
that you don’t want them to
see’ and pulled his phone close to
his body.”
During her interview with police,
the witness described the
photo as that of a male between
the ages of 12 and 15 who was
naked and standing with his arms
down at his sides.
The report states that the boy
was pictured from the shoulders
to the knees, but that the witness
was unsure whether she saw male
genitalia or not.
Further contact was made with
both McGrath and his attorney
between Jan. 16 and 17, in which
Reardon reportedly told police he
did not “believe that the cellular
phone exists,” according to the
report.
The case officially was closed
by the New Lenox Police Department
Feb. 15 “due to the absence
of cooperation and lack of further
leads.”
Police asked that anyone with
any information related to this
case contact Nuesse at (815) 462-
6100.
“If new evidence comes to
light, we will certainly evaluate
it,” Sterba told 22nd Century Media
via text message.
Police did not comment on if
there are any related ongoing investigations
involving McGrath,
who worked at Providence for
more than 30 years.
“It would be inappropriate to
comment on any investigation
that may or may not be happening,”
Sterba said.
Merkelis and Reardon did not
immediately respond to requests
for comment.
Additional reporting by Publisher
Joe Coughlin.
village
From Page 4
Finance
A majority of the Village’s revenue
comes from sales tax and State
income tax, according to Finance
Director John Sawyers.
The Top 3 sales tax producers in
the village make up 33 percent of the
sales tax received, meaning if one of
the stores left, the Village would feel
the absence, he said.
The Village had a $500,000 surplus
last year and is projecting the
same for this year.
Challenges that lie ahead include
uncertainty with State legislation; a
declining motor fuel tax revenue as
cars become more efficient on gas
and move to electric; and the need
for a five-year capital plan.
External governmental services
The Village communicates with
residents through its website, social
media and local media.
Special events continue to evolve
and grow.
Enrollment at school districts
within the Village boundaries, including
Homer Community Consolidated
School District 33C, is
growing, but the growth is mostly
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Mertens said the Village will need
to work with the school districts as
they grow.
Five fire protection districts serve
the community and are all highly
focused on specific areas.
Mertens added that the Homer
Township Public Library District
provides a great service to the community,
and his goal is to help people
walk or bike there.
In summary
The environmental scan set the
stage for Village Board members’ upcoming
discussion at their strategic
planning sessions.
“My hope is for the board to come
up with five to six key goals — bigticket
types, no ordinance or code issues,”
Mertens said.
He said an example would be to
have more diversified housing options
in Homer Glen in order to attract
younger people.
Mertens added that Village staff
will work to develop specific plans,
but the board’s job is to come up with
goals of where it wants to see the
community go.
The Feb. 21-22 sessions are open
to the public at the Village Hall. A
consultant will moderate discussion
for the board.
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New Lenox fire district referendum asks for tax increase to sustain service
Bobbie Noonan’s Child Care in
Homer Glen recently made a
heart-themed project based on
kindness and love as part of a
bigger Facebook competition
with its other Illinois and Florida
locations. Photo submitted
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in Homer Glen
takes part in heartthemed
project
Submitted by Bobbie Noonan’s
Child Care
The Bobbie Noonan’s Facebook
competition, which took
place last week, is an annual
friendly competition among its
eight Illinois and four Florida locations.
Each school was asked to
create a heart-themed (kindness
and love) project to contribute.
Each family at the school was
asked to decorate a puzzle piece,
which was then put together for
the heart-themed competition
to help kickoff 2018-2019 summer
and fall registration, which
opened on Feb. 12.
Each school displays their project
in the building and encourages
their staff and parents to vote
by liking and sharing the project
on Facebook. The Illinois and
Florida locations with the most
number of Facebook likes win a
special prize for the children at
their center.
The project can now be seen on
the local Bobbie Noonan’s Facebook
page.
For more information on programs
offered, visit the Facebook
page or www.bobbienoonans.
com.
Parts of Homer Glen
covered by department
Amanda Stoll, Assistant Editor
In 1989, the New Lenox Fire
Protection District passed a tax increase
to fund the formation of the
New Lenox ambulance district.
Since then, however, their current
tax rate of 0.3877 has remained
steady.
That, however, does not mean
that the dollar amount of the district’s
income has stayed the same
for the past 27 years. As the community
has grown, so has the income
from property taxes, but the
district said their demands have
outpaced that growth.
Without the 0.2023 percent increase
to their limiting tax rate,
New Lenox Fire Chief Adam Riegel
said the district would likely be
forced to make cuts in staffing, facilities
and/or equipment.
“At the rate we’re going, we just
can’t continue to go that way and
basically run in the red,” he said.
“So, to try to keep everything in
the black and operate a balanced
budget, we’re going to have to
make cuts. Exactly what that is, we
haven’t determined yet, but there
will have to be some sort of cuts to
manpower or staffing of facilities,
basically.”
Making those kinds of cuts will
in all likelihood lead to a decrease
in the level of service and an increase
in response time — something
Riegel said the district sorely
wants to avoid.
According to an informational
booklet created by the New Lenox
Fire Protection District, the district
had as many as 11 calls come in
simultaneously in 2016. In the last
10 years, call volume has increased
from 2,649 to more than 4,100 calls
per year.
To account for the steep increase
in call volume, the New Lenox Fire
Protection District has proposed
an increase from 0.3877 percent to
0.59 percent.
According to the booklet, the
increase would amount to an extra
$5.62 per month for the owner
of a $100,000 home; $11.24 per
month for the owner of a $200,000
home; and $16.96 for the owner of
a $300,000 home.
In comparison to surrounding
districts, Frankfort residents pay at
a rate of 0.80 percent and have five
fire stations; Homer Glen residents
pay at a rate of 1.07 percent and
have three fire stations; Manhattan
residents pay at a rate of 0.98
percent and have two fire stations;
and Mokena residents pay at a rate
of 1.001 percent and have three fire
stations.
Comparably, New Lenox has the
second highest call volume of those
towns at 4,252 calls last year, while
Frankfort had 4,377 calls in 2017.
Homer Glen had 1,956; Manhattan
had 1,124; and Mokena had 2,607.
With Frankfort’s tax rate, their
fire district’s income from their tax
levy last year was more than $10.6
million, while the New Lenox Fire
Protection District’s income from
taxes last year was $4.75 million.
Currently, Riegel and Fire Board
Trustee Tom Sauter said the district’s
income from taxes covers the
cost of labor, but not much else.
“Just the sheer volume of, quite
honestly, the salaries and upkeep on
all the vehicles from running that
many calls is just taking a toll on
the amount of money we bring in,
Riegel said.
Although the district receives
funding from donations, grants,
ambulance billing and fines, as well
as donations from the New Lenox
Fire Foundation and grants, Riegel
said it has not been enough to sustain
the district’s fund balance in
the last few years, and the department
will soon be in need of additional
funding.
Sauter said many people are under
the impression that the district
receives funding from Village taxes,
but they are a different taxing
body, and, therefore, do not.
The cost to replace a fire engine
is around $500,000, and Riegel
said three of the district’s five engines
have more than 115,000 miles
on them. Those engines were purchased
in 2001, 2003 and 2004, and
their life expectancy is about 16
years.
He said two of their ambulances
are eight years old and nearing the
end of their lifespan, as well. Industry
standard life expectancy for
those is seven years, and the cost is
$250,000 each to replace.
Last September, the foundation
asked residents to help fund the replacement
of extrication equipment
after a set of what are commonly
referred to as “jaws of life” failed
and were determined to be irreparable.
While raising the estimated
$23,000 for a new pair, if the equipment
was needed to extricate someone
from a vehicle, another pair
would need to have been brought
from across town.
Riegel said it took about three
months for the equipment to be replaced.
“It wouldn’t be like we wouldn’t
be completely unable to operate
without it — there would just be a
delay, which in our business time
means life, Riegel said. “Sometimes,
you just don’t have that time
to wait. That’s why you want all the
stuff there as soon as possible.”
Sauter stressed the importance of
what the fire district does — fight
fires and save lives.
“In a cardiac arrest situation, it
takes quite a bit of personnel because
studies have shown you can
only be effective for like two minutes
before you have to switch out,
so you have to have a lot of people,
so [the Cardiac Arrest Management
Program] might suffer,” Sauter
said. “It’s great that we’re saving
more people’s lives, but that effectiveness
may not be very long-lived
here.”
The Cardiac Arrest Management
Program was implemented by the
district in 2015, and, according to
the district, the rate paramedics are
able to save a life increased from
three percent to 25 percent since
then.
“Don’t get me wrong, it’s very
important to have properly trained
personnel, adequate number of personnel
[and] equipment that is reliable,
but the No. 1 thing is response
time,” Sauter said. “... If we get to
the individual five minutes later
than we could have, it could be a
matter of life and death, or it can
mean a difference of a total loss of
a piece of property.”
He said he wants residents to
consider the factors in their own
lives that could be impacted by
a reduction in the level of service
from the fire district before voting
against the increase.
“If you, a loved one or a neighbor
has a catastrophe that could be handled
by the fire department, would
you have been willing then to have
paid the extra $100 a year or $150
year?” Sauter asked. “It would have
been a small price to pay.
“...Myself, I’d rather be talking
about putting up another station to
get better service than cutting service.”
The New Lenox Fire Protection
District covers the New Lenox
Township, as well as some parts of
Homer Glen, and the district does
not just respond to calls from New
Lenox residents. They respond to a
large number of calls on Interstate
80 and transport both residents and
nonresidents to hospital facilities.
For more information, call the
New Lenox Fire Protection District
at (815) 463-4500 or visit www.nlfire.com.
The New Lenox Fire Protection
District’s website is currently being
updated, and both the district’s budget
and the informational booklet
about the referendum are expected
to be uploaded there prior to the
March 20 election.
“We’ve tried getting ahead of it
before in the past to not get to the
point where we have to make cuts,
but now we’re to the point where
we want to maintain the level of
service ... but we also want to be fiscally
responsible,” Riegel said. “So,
we’re at the point now where we’re
asking for help, and to maintain the
level of service we’re currently getting,
we need help to get there.”
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At the end of this school
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was a reading tutor for firstgraders.
As a teenager, she
coordinated a summer volleyball
program for children,
teens and adults that had
roughly 360 participants and
lasted for nearly 10 years in
Canaryville.
“To me, that was a form
of teaching, making sure
kids had something to do
and were active in a positive
way,” she said.
Reporting by Meredith Dobes,
Freelance Reporter. For more,
visit OPPrairie.com.
FROM THE TINLEY JUNCTION
Recreating a priceless winter
memory, 11 years later
This was not the first igloo
built in the Chicago suburbs
by members of the Steele
family.
No, that was 11 years
ago, when their two oldest
boys were ages 7 and 9 —
the same ages as their two
youngest boys are now — in
a different town, during a different
blizzard.
This time, during the
weekend of Feb. 10 and now
residing on Lilac Lane in
Tinley Park, Paul and Tammy
Steele enlisted the help
of Brandon, 9, and Aaron, 7,
to recreate a family tradition
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that made headlines nearly a
decade ago.
“You need the right kind of
snow and enough,” Tammy
said. “You can’t use the powdery
stuff.”
When the recent blizzard
dropped approximately a foot
of snow on the Steele’s front
lawn, Paul took out his snowblower
and began to form a
mound toward the entrance
of the house. He even plowed
the lawn to add to the pile.
After three separate ice
baths, a 10-foot-high-by-20-
foot-wide ice structure had
been formed — stable and
warm enough that four of
the Steeles spent the night inside,
where they slept on two
queen-size air mattresses.
“We made like an avalanche,”
Brandon explains.
Blocking off the entrances
from the wind “made a huge
difference,” Tammy added.
Reporting by Cody Mroczka,
Editor. For more, visit Tin
leyJunction.com.
FROM THE NEW LENOX PATRIOT
Valentine’s Day-themed
mystery solved at New
Lenox Lions Club event
Mysteries of the heart can
be complex, but members of
the New Lenox Lions Club
cracked the case of how to
have a wonderful Valentine’s
weekend with a first-of-itskind
event.
On Feb. 10, the organization
hosted a Live Mystery
Show & Dinner at Lions
Community Center and was
co-chaired by Lions Steve
Kuyawa and Dan Fremgen
that encouraged attendees to
put their heads and hearts together
to catch a jewel thief.
While it can be difficult to
solve a crime, the event uncovered
clear evidence that
community is key to hosting
a successful fundraiser.
Approximately 160 guests
came together for the event
— which replaced the Lions
Blizzard Dance fundraiser
— and Lincoln-Way Central
LEO (Leadership, Education
and Opportunity) Club volunteers
donated their time to
help with the set-up, serving,
clean-up and everything in
between.
All money raised will go
toward funding the many
service projects of the Lions
Club, such as its hearing and
sight initiatives.
Later in the night, House of
Fools led attendees through
a mystery that involved a
church fundraiser, a curious
cast of characters and $1.5
million in missing jewels.
The troop’s director, Frann
Carnivele, said she enjoys
the collaboration fostered
through live mystery shows.
Reporting by Laurie Fanelli,
Freelance Reporter. For more,
visit NewLenoxPatriot.com.
FROM THE MOKENA MESSENGER
STEM students study laws of
motion on Mokena track
Isaac Newton’s first law of
motion states that an object
at rest stays at rest, but who
cares about that when you
can study his second law instead?
Force equals mass times
acceleration is Newton’s
second law of motion, and a
racetrack seems like the ideal
to study such things — with a
helmet, of course.
On Feb. 13, students from
Chicago Heights School
District 170 got to test out
what they have been learning
about physics, friction, momentum
and speed during a
field trip to Accelerate Indoor
Speedway in Mokena.
“Rather than just coming
in and getting into a go
kart and racing with no base
knowledge, no background
knowledge, we gave them a
presentation to show all of
the science and math that’s
actually involved in the go
karts: the momentum that
they should be trying to apply
at the turns, even the degrees
of angles in each turn,
while looking at the track
map,” said Stephanie Cryer,
a foreign language and writing
teacher at D170’s STEM
Academy.
Fifty-three seventh- and
eighth-grade students attended
the pilot program at Accelerate,
which was developed
by D170 teachers, including
Cryer, who incorporated
both Common Core and Next
Generation Science standards
into the classroom portion of
the day. Those concepts had
been tackled during the normal
school day, and were reinforced
at Accelerate before
the students even set foot —
or tire — on the track.
Reporting by Amanda Stoll,
Assistant Editor. For more, visit
MokenaMessenger.com.
FROM THE FRANKFORT STATION
Seniors share special
moments at Valentine
Luncheon
For area seniors, the Senior
Valentine Luncheon is an opportunity
to celebrate Valentine’s
Day with style.
The annual Frankfort Park
District event, which has
been held each year since
2001, brought roughly 60
residents of Frankfort and
surrounding areas to the
Founders Community Center
on Feb. 14 for an afternoon
filled with friends, food and
live music.
Seniors chatted at tables
decorated with red and pink
balloons, while singer Mike
Valentine made the rounds,
performing classic oldies
tunes.
“They’re just out to enjoy
time with their friends, some
music from the past and just
enjoy getting ready for Valentine’s
Day,” said Cali DeBella,
Frankfort Park District’s
special events coordinator.
“Depending on the time restrictions
and when we have
room, I like when they get up
and start dancing,” she said.
Reporting by Nuria Mathog,
Editor. For more, visit Frank
fortStation.com.

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We have a lot in
common.
We both want
and believe we deserve information
that impacts the
livelihood of our community.
That includes everything
from the reputation
of our hometown and its
institutions to, much more
importantly, the safety of
our children — our future.
Over the past two
months, a person of power
and influence decided to
put those things at risk
when he chose to protect
himself above the rest.
The Rev. Richard Mc-
Grath, longtime and former
president of Providence
Catholic High School,
refused to surrender a cellphone
that did not belong
to him.
The phone, which under
his control was alleged to
contain a lewd photo of a
juvenile, belonged to Providence
Catholic. But when
police asked for it and the
school demanded it, he
walked out of the room.
The cellphone has not
been seen since. McGrath’s
lawyer even told police not
to bother looking for it; that
would be a “huge waste of
time,” he reportedly said.
There is a lot to unwrap
with this case, most
contained within a police
report released Friday,
Feb. 16, that announced
no charges would be filed
against McGrath. There is
a lot we just do not know at
this point, and it would not
be fair to any party to levy
accusations without more
information.
That being said, we deserve
more information.
It appears it will not be
coming from the longtime,
entrusted leader in question,
McGrath.
So, from where will it
come?
How about from the New
Lenox Police Department,
which needs to answer
questions about the disappearance
of the phone and
why it cannot do more?
Or from Providence
Catholic and the diocese,
McGrath’s employer for
30 years, on why it did
not or could not attain the
cellphone and on if there
have ever been any other
concerns about McGrath’s
behavior over the past three
decades.
This information has
been sought by us, and I’m
sure by other outlets, to
little avail so far. Not that
we are giving in by any
means, but there is another
group from which information
can come.
You, the public.
Maybe this story is over,
and there is no more to say
— an allegation was levied,
but no evidence exists to
back it up, and there are no
more allegations. That’s
certainly possible.
Then again, maybe the
story is just beginning.
No charges now does not
mean no charges ever. New
Lenox Police Chief Bob
Sterba assured us that if
new information came to
light, it would be properly
evaluated.
If that information is out
there, we challenge you to
help us bring it forward.
Our institutions — from
schools to police departments
— are used to handling
aggressive reporters
who request information.
(Note: That will not tame
our responsibility. We hope
you can trust us to keep
asking tough questions.)
Historically, though,
a passionate, concerned
and courageous populace
has been the backbone of
innumerable light-shining
crusades.
While much easier said
than done, the responsibility
is on us all to hold the
powerful accountable for
their actions.
If anyone has any information
related to the Rev.
Richard McGrath and the
alleged illicit photo, call the
New Lenox Police Department
(Sgt. Micah Nuesse)
at (815) 462-6100.
We urge you to go to
police with any information
related to McGrath; however,
if you would like to
speak with anyone at 22nd
Century Media, please feel
free to call our lead reporter
Amanda Stoll or myself at
(708) 326-9170.
You may not have information,
but you should still
be concerned — about the
derailed investigation and
about the disrespect elicited
by McGrath. If you are,
question police, question
the school and the diocese,
question us.
McGrath is out at Providence,
but if there’s more,
it is up to us as a community
to unite and say: We will
not accept disappearing
evidence. We do not condone
a trusted leader who
ducks his responsibilities.
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Woman originally from Homer Glen pens latest young adult fantasy novel, Page 17
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16 | February 22, 2018 | The Homer Horizon FAITH
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FAITH BRIEFS
Cross of Glory Lutheran Church (14719 W.
163rd St., Homer Glen)
Cereal Food Drive
The church is collecting
boxes of cereal for the local
food pantry. Drop off
donations at the church. The
church is also accepting nonperishable
food items.
Welcome Place Preschool
Openings are currently
available for the fall program.
For more information,
call the preschool at (708)
301-3883
Worship Service
9:30 a.m. Sundays, 6:30
p.m. Wednesday.
Parishioners may use the
nursery for their children
up to age 3 during services.
There is a Kids Klub for
children in grades 4-5 during
the service.
Bible Study
7:30 p.m. Wednesdays.
Open to anyone ready to
discuss the Bible.
Teen Education for Lifelong
Leadership (T.E.L.L)
6:30-8 p.m. Mondays.
T.E.L.L. is an educational
program for sixth- through
12th-graders. The teens
spend time interacting with
each other to experience
God through games, food
and conversation. There is
no fee, but the church will
accept a free will donation
towards its Children’s Ministry.
Christian Life Church (15609 W. 159th St.,
Homer Glen)
Sunday Service
10 a.m.
Thursday Service
7:30 p.m.
EDGE Youth Service
7:30-9:30 p.m. Thursdays.
Our Mother of Good Counsel Parish
(16043 S. Bell Road, Homer Glen)
REDISCOVER the Mass
7-8:15 p.m. Monday, Feb.
26 and Monday, March 12,
March 19. These will be led
by Father Joseph Broudou,
OSA.
St. Augustine and the
Christian Journey
7 p.m. March 6 and 7. Father
Richie Mercardo, OSA,
will lead this two-day mission
about St. Augustine and
the Christian journey today.
Lenten Penance Service
7 p.m. March 22.
Soup Suppers
6 p.m. Every Friday
throughout Lent followed
by Stations of the Cross at 7
p.m.
The Choice Wine: 7 Steps to
a Superabundant Marriage
6-7:30 p.m. Feb. 28,
March 7, 14, 21, 28 and
April 11. This free program
will put couples on a path
to superabundance through
seven simple yet effective
steps. Register online at
www.omgcc.org or call Janet
at (708) 301-0214.
‘That Man is You’
7 p.m. Mondays. This
talk is for men 21 years old
and older. The talk will address
the pressure and temptations
that men face in a
modern culture, especially
those relating to husbands
and fathers. The program
harmonizes current social
and medical science with the
teaching of the Church and
the wisdom of the saints to
develop the vision of man
fully alive. For more information,
visit www.omgccc.
org.
Daily Mass
8 a.m. Monday-Saturday
Weekend Mass
5 p.m. Saturday
8:30 a.m., 10:30 a.m. Sunday
Bible Study
7 p.m. Mondays. Books of
the Bible are read and discussed
to develop a deeper
understanding of Scripture.
For more information, contact
Mati Principe at (708)
301-6246.
Confessions
4-4:45 p.m. Saturdays;
9:30-10:15 a.m. Sundays;
8:30 a.m. every first Friday
Council of Catholic Women
7 p.m. Second Tuesday of
the month.
Women of the parish meet
to discuss its needs. The
group also hosts a monthly
charity bake sale.
St. Bernard Parish (13030 W. 143rd St.,
Homer Glen)
Weekday Worship
9:30 a.m. weekdays. Communion
Service on Thursdays.
Weekend Worship
4:30 p.m. Saturdays. 8:30
a.m., 10 a.m., and 11:30 a.m.
every Sunday.
Confession
3:30-4:15 p.m. First and
third Saturday of the month.
Confessions are also available
upon request at any
time.
Annunciation Byzantine Catholic Church
(14610 S. Will Cook Road, Homer Glen)
Transgenderism: A
Compassionate Approach
7 p.m. Thursday, March
15. The Rev. Thomas Loya
will speak on the “Theology
of the Body” to discuss
the issue of transgenderism.
This presentation is part of
the Knowledge and Prayer
series and is sponsored by
the Multi-Parish Respect
Life Ministries.
Have something for Faith
Briefs? Contact Assistant
Editor Jacquelyn Schlabach at
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ext. 15. Information is due by
noon Thursday one week prior
to publication.
Pastor Column
Thoughts and prayers ... and action
Pastor Dana O’Brien
Cross of Glory Lutheran Church
As I was preparing for
our Ash Wednesday
service last week,
I heard the news of yet
another tragic massacre at
a high school in Parkland,
Florida — this time, it was a
former student who fired his
AR-15 rifle, killing at least
17 students and staff. And
as the horrific news spread,
countless people (including
my own congregation)
responded with prayers for
the families and all those
affected.
And yet, we hear from
so many that “thoughts and
prayers” are not enough.
Particularly over these last
few years, in the wake of
the increasing number of
tragic acts of gun violence
in the United States, people
are asking for more. They
are asking for action.
As Christians, we ask
In Memoriam
Annette A. Hulford (nee Vis)
Annette A. Hulford (nee
Vis), 89, of Homer Glen,
died Feb. 11. She is survived
by her son, Allen; her daughter,
Carole (Bruce) Roon;
her six grandchildren; her
14 great-grandchildren; her
brother, Marv Vis; and her
many nieces and nephews.
The funeral service was held
Feb. 17 at Colonial Chapel
in Orland Park.
ourselves how God is calling
us to respond to these tragic
acts of violence in our country.
I’m guessing that most
of us have not experienced
anything like this firsthand;
however, God calls all people
of faith to respond. And while
I certainly don’t have all, or
even most, of the answers,
here is what I do know:
First, prayer is appropriate
and essential in the wake
of any tragedy. Our prayers
express empathy and solidarity
with those suffering.
More importantly, we have
a powerful God who walks
with those in the midst of
sorrow and tragedy, and
anyone who has lost a loved
one or is otherwise affected
by a tragedy can benefit
from God’s presence and
comfort (and even though
it will be very challenging,
we recognize that we are all
broken, and we are called to
pray also for those involved
in the commission of these
senseless acts).
However, prayer not only
asks God to act in a situation,
it also asks God to create
opportunities for us to
act. Indeed, quite often, God
acts through people — people
just like us. Pope Francis
was quoted as saying,
“You pray for the hungry.
Then you feed them. That’s
how prayer works.”
Viola J. Zaagman (nee DeBoer)
Viola J. Zaagman (nee De-
Boer), 84, of Homer Glen,
died Feb. 15. She is survived
by her daughters, Carolyn
Sales, Wilma (Jerry) Jager
and Bettie (John) Geertsma;
her sons, Richard Zaagman
and Raymond J. (Jolee)
Zaagman; her 13 grandchildren,
her 15 great-grandchildren;
her sister, Betty
(Albert) Bolhuis; and her
So, when you pray, be
prepared to be one of the
agents through which God
will act. If you are praying
for these victims and families,
consider how you can
personally support them and
reflect God’s loving care.
And if you are praying for
this violence to stop; if you
are praying for our kids to
be safe in school, and for all
people to be safe where they
shop and work and recreate,
then be prepared to do
something about it. I suspect
you can come up with other
ideas, but here are a few:
support gun control measures
to reduce the likelihood
of future incidences
of this type of carnage;
encourage the establishment
of mental health and
other community programs
to address the origins of
this behavior; and reach out
with God’s love to people in
your own social circles (and
local schools) who may
need positive ways to vent
frustration and anger.
As God’s church, we are
certainly called to pray.
And then we are called to
let God use us to help those
prayers become reality.
The opinions of this column are
that of the writer. They do not
necessarily reflect those of The
Homer Horizon.
many nieces and nephews.
The funeral service was held
Feb. 20 at Colonial Chapel
in Orland Park.
Have someone’s life you’d
like to honor? Email
j.schlabach@22ndcentury
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about a loved one who was a
part of the Homer Glen community.

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Homer Glen native, young adult novelist’s latest book now available
‘Cross’ inspired by
Roach’s son, Soren
Thomas Czaja, Editor
Deborah Roach is an experienced
novelist.
She has written a number
of standalone titles and anthologies.
She is a consistent
writer that enjoys the process
and has her habits for
working on her craft down at
this point.
The Homer Glen native
and Lockport Township
High School graduate, who
now lives in the Indianapolis
area, had her latest young
adult novel, “Cross,” come
out Monday, Feb. 19. It is
unique in that it does not involve
Homer Glen as a setting
or hometown for one of
the characters, like some of
her past work, but that the
main character was inspired
by her son, Soren, 9.
“My own son has a rare
medical condition that I
gave the main character,”
Roach said, noting Soren
has Vascular Ehlers-Danlos
syndrome, which is caused
by defects in the protein collagen.
“His body is really
fragile. ... He can bust his
blood vessels, can get aneurysms.
He has to live very
carefully.”
The disorder causes a number
of complications, also
including fragile arteries,
muscles and internal organs,
along with being prone to
bruising. Roach said science
is coming along on improving
treatment for the syndrome,
but she is not sure it
will progress enough to have
a cure in her son’s lifetime.
Nonetheless, she got to
thinking — if the disorder
did ever go away, would
that get rid of the anxieties
that come with it and idea of
living carefully that is now
Homer Glen native Deborah Roach released her latest
young adult novel, “Cross,” on Monday, Feb. 19. The story
was inspired by her son, Soren. Photo submitted
so ingrained?
With that, she blended the
syndrome with her literature,
crafting another fantasy
theme with the titular character
of “Cross,” Ray Cross.
He was born with the same
genetic disorder as her son,
resulting in the same fragile
body.
“I advocate for [VEDS],”
Roach said. “I know the
downside of the disorder. I
am huge you have to hold on
to hope and don’t give up on
it.”
The contemporary modern
teenager in the novel, who
lives in Michigan, finds out
his parents are not his biological
parents, and that his
father is a king in northern
Canada from a secret land
who is dying and wants to
meet his son. Cross eventually
travels to a forgotten
village, learns the truth of
his past, reconnects with his
father and discovers an evil
force threatening the king
and village.
Finding friendship with
brothers who are part witch,
dragon and healer — and
with newfound abilities —
Cross internally debates
playing it safe or risking it
all to save the ones he loves
in a magical land that could
possibly cure his disorder,
even if temporarily.
“... My way of spinning
the sucky disorder is still
to have the strong core of
“Cross” follows the titular character, Ray Cross, whose life gets turned upside down upon
realizing some truths about his family and traveling to a forgotten village. Redbird Designs
the character; he still has
love and has fighting within
him,” Roach said. “He has
anxieties trying to be safe
[with his disorder]. It had a
more personal tone.”
For her works, Roach has
self-published some and had
a publisher for others called
Limitless Publishing. One
thing she loves is expanding
on her characters.
“What makes you want to
keep turning the page once a
chapter ends?” Roach said.
“I love character depth in
stories. I think about who
they are, what they look
like.”
Roach is a stay-at-home
mom that went to school to
become a pharmacist, was a
teacher for a bit but found
her true calling and passion
through her writing. Writing
for her is a great outlet
to get out emotions from
her own life. It has become
routine.
“I did not wait for anybody
to tell me I was good
enough,” Roach said of becoming
an author. “I never
thought I’d be a writer.”
For other aspiring scribes,
she would also add advice
of reading a lot, having a
good editor, look into selfpublishing
and to “write the
story you would want to read
yourself.”
With “Cross” all wrapped
up and out, Roach is now
hard at work on Book 3 of
her Demon Hunter trilogy,
which does incorporate the
Homer Glen elements and
Bachelor’s Grove Cemetery
in Midlothian. That series
follows the story of 18-yearold
Cassidy, who hops between
realms with the help
of a mystical ring.
“Beneath the Sinister
Moon,” the final installment
in the series, is halfway done
and will be out later this
year after it finishes going
through editing.
For more information on
Roach, including “Cross”
and her other literary pieces,
visit www.daroachbooks.
blogspot.com or www.ama
zon.com/D.A.-Roach/e/
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The Dish
A culinary adventure comes to New Lenox
Nuria Mathog
Contributing Editor
Long before they launched
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Oy’s Thai Cuisine
1880 E. Lincoln Highway,
New Lenox
Hours
• 11 a.m.-8 p.m.
Monday-Thursday
• 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Friday-
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For more information ...
Phone: (815) 462-9000
Web: www.
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Happy hour for
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From 3-4 p.m. Monday-
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didn’t want to do it until our
kids were older.”
Now that the couple’s
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bringing a friend or
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The preparation process is
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The stir-fried cashew chicken ($10.95) dish at Oy’s Thai
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The restaurant’s topselling
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sky’s the limit for the rest.”
Bryan said he hopes customers
will get a quality
introduction to Thai cuisine
— and keep coming back for
more.
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The crosstowns: Frankfort, Homer Glen, Lockport, Mokena, New Lenox, Orland Park, Tinley Park
Crossword by Myles Mellor and Cindy LaFleur
Across
1. Acceptances
5. Scottish slope
9. Frankfort’s ___ Reservoir
Visitor Center
14. “Mi chiamano
Mimi,” e.g.
15. Not imaginary
16. Asian film genre
17. Spotted
18. Disgusted comments
19. Baseball’s Bud
20. Magic man
22. Basketball stat
24. Classical start
25. Lubrication
26. Dozing
31. Inc. tax rate, e.g.
34. Seasoned rice
35. Coastline protector
36. It has banks in Switzerland
37. Byzantine images
38. Schtick
39. They have caps
40. Fraternity party
attire
41. It’s kept in a pen
42. Dawning
43. “___ luck?”
44. Park in Tinley Park
with baseball fields and
large walking and play
areas
47. CEO’s deg., perhaps
48. Emirates, for short
49. Scram
53. “The Silence of the
Lambs” role
58. Clumsy owl in the
Harry Potter books
59. Drummer’s feat
61. 1995 hurricane
62. Red carpet goers
63. __ bit (slightly)
64. Certain reptiles
65. Gets licked
66. Tried to get home,
maybe
67. Stood, as in court
Down
1. Crosby, Stills, ___ and
Young
2. Snack
3. “Mon ___!”
4. Cape Cod sight
5. Borneo sultanate
6. Area
7. Back rub response
8. “Indiana Jones and the
Last Crusade” role
9. Group of mountains
10. Baseball great Buck
11. Guitarist Lofgren
12. Give off, as light
13. Brain activity monitors
21. Pakistan’s river
23. Chesterfield, e.g.
26. Olympus competitor
27. Branch of knowledge
28. Comic Carvey
29. Insurance promoter
30. Make a selection
31. Bel ___
32. Rural swimming spot
33. Dry run
34. Type of bread
36. Numerous Queens
38. First thing an Indiana
cheerleader calls for
39. A country divided
41. Actresses Balin and
Claire
44. Heavy steel holders
45. Cores
46. “A Man ___ Horse”
47. Lodge member
49. Meat department
purchase
50. “City of New Orleans”
singer Guthrie
51. CT scan alternatives
52. Memorable times
54. Laugh heartily
55. ___ facto
56. Tooth tops
57. “Who ___?”
60. Hooter
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answers
How to play Sudoku
Each sudoku puzzle consists of a 9x9 grid that
has been subdivided into nine smaller grids of 3x3
squares. To solve the puzzle, each row, column and
box must contain each of the numbers 1 to 9.
LEVEL: Medium
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Award-Winning Tinley Park: The Perfect Home for Brookside Meadows
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CLASSIFIEDS
Help Wanted · Garage Sales · Automotive
Real Estate · Rentals · Merchandise
Growing Media Company
Seeks Sales Directors
Position Overview:
22nd Century Media, a media
publishing company based in
Orland Park, is seeking Sales
Directors to join their team.
Responsibilities Include:
Proactively prospecting and
qualifying potential new
advertising accounts; handling
incoming leads; guiding ad
copy for clients; identifying
business opportunities and
working with decision makers
to obtain customer
commitment; and achieving
weekly revenue targets.
Qualifications:
Ideal candidates will possess
1–3 years of experience in
local/retail advertising sales
and/or media environment.
Must have a strong work ethic
and ability to work
independently as well as with
a team. Excellent
communication skills,
time-management and
interpersonal skills required.
Next Steps:
For more information or to be
considered for this
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resume to:
careers@22ndcenturymedia.com
No phone calls please. EOE
Immediate openings
for house cleaners in
SW suburbs.
P/T wkdays. No
evenings/weekends.
815.464.1988
Hiring Desk Clerk
(must be flexible w/
shifts) & Housekeeping
(Morning) Needed at
Super 8 Motel
Apply within:
9485 W. 191st St, Mokena
No Phone Calls
Help
Wanted
1003 Help Wanted
INDUSTRIAL SALES
SW Suburban (Tinley Park)
Manufacturing Company
seeks a person with
experience in B2B Sales of
industrial products
(non-chemical).
This is an inside,
consultative Sales position
which will focus on new
product sales development and
existing product sales.
This sales/marketing
function selects and targets
decision makers to discuss the
product features relative
to the prospect’s existing &
potential needs.
Successful candidates
should be proactive and have
strong sales experience.
Excellent salary and fringe
benefits.
Annual performance bonus
potential.
It is NOT an outside sales,
telemarketing, nor a
commission paid position.
Send resume to:
AERO Rubber Company, Inc.
bschatte@aerorubber.com
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Apply within: Hair Trenz
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Tinley Park
(708)429-0055
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Licensed Insurance Sales
Representative wanted
IMMEDIATELY FULL-
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located at 17121 88th Ave,
Tinley Park, IL 60487. If
interested, call The Ken
Anderson State Farm
Agency at 708.407.8000 to
schedule an interview.
1003 Help
Wanted
Lawn Care Service
Looking for responsible,
motivated with driver’s
license. Pay comensurate w/
exp. Paid training.
708.226.9322
Lawn Technician Wanted
F/T exp preferred, valid
driver’s license req.
$14-16/hr. Healt
h insurance avail. Office &
routes in south suburbs.
Call 708.995.5549.
Mokena School District
Bus Driver
$14.50/hr; 4.25 hrs/day
Submit completed
application to Rachael
Aguirre, Lead Bus
Driver. Mokena School
District 159, 11244
Willowcrest Ln, Mokena,
IL 60448 or email
employment@mokena159.org
Outdoor work: F/T
year-round & seasonal
Employment
Potential for paid winters
off. Benefits incl. health,
dental, IRA. Clean driving
record a MUST. Starting
rate: $14/hr. Time and 1/2
over 40 hrs. Apply
in-person 7320 Duvan Dr,
Tinley Park Tu-F 8a-2p or
email resume to
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P/T Associate for Travel
Agency in Orland Park.
Exp. and open availability
required. Approx. 16-24
hrs/weekly. Send
resume to:
travel@goodbuytravel.com
Part-time Telephone Work
calling from home for
AMVETS. Ideal for
homemakers and retirees.
Must be reliable and have
morning &evening hours
available for calling.
If interested,
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Charge It
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1003 Help
Wanted
Automotive
$52
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Safety Assistant
Tinley Park Safety Dept.
looking for individuals for
full-time office positions at
transportation company.
Multiple positions available.
Candidates must be proficient
with Microsoft Office and
possess good commuication
skills. Will train the right
candidates. Please forward
resume to
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SALES ASSISTANT
Due to our rapid growth and
expansion, Tinley Park
industrial mfg. Sales office
seeks exp’d, detail-oriented
Sales Assistant for full-time
position. A Sales Assistant at
ARC does both sales,
secretarial & customer service
functions. This is a very
diversified position in our
FAST-PACED office. The
ideal candidate must be
HIGHLY MOTIVATED and
needs to possess strong
organizational &
communication skills.
Excellent computer literacy
needed, including MS Word &
Excel. Industrial cust. service
exp. req’d. Repeat customer
& supplier contact. No
telemarketing, no cold calling
req’d. Competitive salary &
benefit pkg incl. 401K. Send
letter & resume to:
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Sales, canvassers, and
installers needed. Call Trela
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SHERIFF'S SALE OF REAL ESTATE
of 14050 S. Cokes Road, Homer Glen,
IL 60491 (Residential). Onthe 8th day
of March, 2018 to be held at 12:00
noon, at the Will County Courthouse
Annex, 57 N. Ottawa Street, Room 201,
Joliet, IL 60432, under Case Title: U.S.
Bank National Association as successor
by merger of U.S. Bank National Association
NDPlaintiff V.Ludwik Zubek;
et. al. Defendant.
Case No. 15CH 1744 in the Circuit
Court of the Twelfth Judicial Circuit,
Will County, Illinois.
Terms of Sale: ten percent (10%) at the
time of sale and the balance within
twenty-four (24) hours. Nojudicial sale
fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring
the residential real estate pursuant
to its credit bid at the sale or by any
mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other
lienor acquiring the residential real estate
whose rights in and tothe residential
real estate arose prior to the sale. All
payments shall be made in cash or certified
funds payable tothe Sheriff of Will
County.
In the event the property is acondomin-
ium, in accordance with 735 ILCS
5/15-1507(c)(1)(H-1) and (H-2), 765
ILCS 605/9(g)(5), and 765 ILCS
605/18.5(g-1), you are hereby notified
that the purchaser of the unit, other than
amortgagee, shall pay the assessments
and legal fees required by subdivisions
(g)(1) and (g)(4) of Section 9and the assessments
required by subsection (g-1)
of Section 18.5 of the Illinois Condominium
Property Act.
Pursuant to Local Court Rule 11.03 (J)
if there is asurplus following application
ofthe proceeds of sale, then the
plaintiff shall send written notice pursuant
to 735 ILCS 5/15-1512(d) to all parties
to the proceeding advising them of
the amount ofthe surplus and that the
surplus will beheld until aparty obtains
acourt order for its distribution or, in
the absence of an order, until the surplus
is forfeited to the State.
For Information Please Contact:
Codilis & Associates, P.C.
15W030 N. Frontage Road Suite 100
Burr Ridge, Illinois 60527
P: 630-794-5300
F: 630-794-9090
PURSUANT TO THE FAIR DEBT
COLLECTION PRACTICES ACT
YOU ARE ADVISED THAT THIS
LAW FIRM ISDEEMED TO BE A
DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING
TO COLLECT ADEBT AND ANY
INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL
BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE.
SHERIFF'S SALE OF REAL ESTATE
of 14533 Palomino Court, Homer Glen,
IL 60491 (Single Family Home). On the
1st day of March, 2018 to be held at
12:00 noon, at the Will County Courthouse
Annex, 57 N. Ottawa Street,
Room 201, Joliet, IL 60432, under Case
Title: Deutsche Bank National Trust
Company, As Trustee for Bravo Mortgage
Asset Trust 2006-1, Bravo Mortgage
Asset Backed Pass-Through Certificates,
Series 2006-1 Plaintiff V. Maciej
Jachymiak; Katarzyna Jachymiak;
Beneficial Illinois Inc., d/b/a Beneficial
Mortgage, Co. of Illinois; Unknown
Heirs and Legatees of Maciej
Jachymiak, if any; Unknown Heirs and
Legatees of Katarzyna Jachymiak, if
any; Unknown Owners and Non Record
Claimants Defendant.
Case No. 15CH 1965 in the Circuit
Court of the Twelfth Judicial Circuit,
Will County, Illinois.
Terms of Sale: ten percent (10%) at the
time of sale and the balance within
twenty-four (24) hours. Nojudicial sale
fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring
the residential real estate pursuant
to its credit bid at the sale or by any
mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other
lienor acquiring the residential real estate
whose rights in and tothe residential
real estate arose prior to the sale. All
payments shall be made in cash or certified
funds payable tothe Sheriff of Will
County.
In the event the property is acondomin-
ium, in accordance with 735 ILCS
5/15-1507(c)(1)(H-1) and (H-2), 765
ILCS 605/9(g)(5), and 765 ILCS
605/18.5(g-1), you are hereby notified
that the purchaser of the unit, other than
amortgagee, shall pay the assessments
and legal fees required by subdivisions
(g)(1) and (g)(4) of Section 9and the assessments
required by subsection (g-1)
of Section 18.5 of the Illinois Condominium
Property Act.
Pursuant to Local Court Rule 11.03 (J)
if there is asurplus following application
ofthe proceeds of sale, then the
plaintiff shall send written notice pursuant
to 735 ILCS 5/15-1512(d) to all parties
to the proceeding advising them of
the amount ofthe surplus and that the
surplus will beheld until aparty obtains
acourt order for its distribution or, in
the absence of an order, until the surplus
is forfeited to the State.
For Information Please Contact:
THE WIRBICKI LAW GROUP
33 W. Monroe St. Suite 1140
Chicago, Illinois 60603
P: 312-360-9455
F: 312-572-7823
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COLLECTION PRACTICES ACT
YOU ARE ADVISED THAT THIS
LAW FIRM ISDEEMED TO BE A
DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING
TO COLLECT ADEBT AND ANY
INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL
BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE.
2702 Public
Notices
Certificate No. 32063 was filed in
the office of the County Clerk of
Will onFebruary 7, 2018 wherein
the business firm of Infuego Furnishings
located at 14240 SBell
Road, Homer Glen, IL 60491 is
registered and a certificate notice
setting forth the following:
Angel Shake, 14605 S Bridle
Court, Homer Glen, IL 60491
708-227-5980
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have
hereunto set my hand and Official
Seal at my office in Joliet; Illinois
this 7th day of February, 2018
Nancy Schultz Voots
Will County Clerk
DRIVE CAR BUYERS
TO YOUR DOOR WITH
A CLASSIFIED AUTO AD
CALL US TODAY at 708.326.9170
PURSUANT TO THE FAIR DEBT
COLLECTION PRACTICES ACT
YOU ARE ADVISED THAT THIS
LAW FIRM ISDEEMED TO BE A
DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING
TO COLLECT ADEBT AND ANY
INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL
BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE.
STATE OF ILLINOIS )
) SS.
COUNTY OF WILL )
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OFTHE
TWELFTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS
U.S. Bank National Association as successor
by merger ofU.S. Bank National
Association ND
Plaintiff,
vs.
Ludwik Zubek; et. al.
Defendant. No. 15 CH 1744
NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE
Public notice ishereby given that pursuant
toajudgment entered in the above
cause on the 21st day of June, 2017,
MIKE KELLEY, Sheriff of Will
County, Illinois, will on Thursday, the
8th day of March, 2018 ,commencing
at 12:00 o'clock noon, at the Will
County Courthouse Annex, 57 N. Ottawa
Street, Room 201, Joliet, IL 60432,
sell at public auction tothe highest and
best bidder orbidders the following-described
real estate:
THE NORTH 100.0 FEET OF THE
SOUTH 300.0 FEET OF LOT 34 IN
COUNTY CLERKS SUBDIVISION
OF THE EAST 1/2 OF THE NORTH-
WEST 1/4, THE SOUTHWEST 1/4 OF
THE NORTHWEST 1/4, THE
NORTHWEST 1/4 OFTHE SOUTH-
WEST 1/4 AND THE NORTHWEST
1/4 OF THE NORTHWEST 1/4 OF
SECTION 5, AND THE EAST 3/4 OF
THE NORTHEAST 1/4 OFSECTION
6, TOWNSHIP 36 NORTH, RANGE
11, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCI-
PAL MERIDIAN, IN WILL COUNTY,
ILLINOIS
Commonly known as: 14050 S.
Cokes Road, Homer Glen, IL 60491
Description of Improvements:
Residential
P.I.N.: 16-05-05-300-011-0000
Terms of Sale: ten percent (10%) at the
time of sale and the balance within
twenty-four (24) hours. Nojudicial sale
fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring
the residential real estate pursuant
to its credit bid at the sale or by any
mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other
lienor acquiring the residential real estate
whose rights in and tothe residential
real estate arose prior to the sale. All
payments shall be made in cash or certified
funds payable tothe Sheriff of Will
County.
In the event the property is acondomin-
ium, in accordance with 735 ILCS
5/15-1507(c)(1)(H-1) and (H-2), 765
ILCS 605/9(g)(5), and 765 ILCS
605/18.5(g-1), you are hereby notified
that the purchaser of the unit, other than
amortgagee, shall pay the assessments
and legal fees required by subdivisions
(g)(1) and (g)(4) of Section 9and the assessments
required by subsection (g-1)
of Section 18.5 of the Illinois Condominium
Property Act.
Pursuant to Local Court Rule 11.03 (J)
if there is asurplus following application
ofthe proceeds of sale, then the
plaintiff shall send written notice pursuant
to 735 ILCS 5/15-1512(d) to all parties
to the proceeding advising them of
the amount ofthe surplus and that the
surplus will beheld until aparty obtains
acourt order for its distribution or, in
the absence of an order, until the surplus
is forfeited to the State.
FOR INFORMATION PLEASE CON-
TACT:
Codilis & Associates, P.C.
15W030 N. Frontage Road Suite 100
Burr Ridge, Illinois 60527
P: 630-794-5300
F: 630-794-9090
Plaintiff's Attorney
MIKE KELLEY
Sheriff of Will County
PURSUANT TO THE FAIR DEBT
COLLECTION PRACTICES ACT
YOU ARE ADVISED THAT THIS
LAW FIRM ISDEEMED TO BE A
DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING
TO COLLECT ADEBT AND ANY
INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL
BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE.
STATE OF ILLINOIS )
) SS.
COUNTY OF WILL )
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OFTHE
TWELFTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS
Deutsche Bank National Trust Company,
As Trustee for Bravo Mortgage
Asset Trust 2006-1, Bravo Mortgage
Asset Backed Pass-Through Certificates,
Series 2006-1
Plaintiff,
vs.
Maciej Jachymiak; Katarzyna
Jachymiak; Beneficial Illinois Inc., d/b/a
Beneficial Mortgage, Co. of Illinois;
Unknown Heirs and Legatees of Maciej
Jachymiak, if any; Unknown Heirs and
Legatees of Katarzyna Jachymiak, if
any; Unknown Owners and Non Record
Claimants
Defendant. No. 15 CH 1965
NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE
Public notice ishereby given that pursuant
toajudgment entered in the above
cause on the 15th day of December,
2016, MIKE KELLEY, Sheriff of Will
County, Illinois, will on Thursday, the
1st day of March, 2018 ,commencing at
12:00 o'clock noon, at the Will County
Courthouse Annex, 57 N. Ottawa Street,
Room 201, Joliet, IL 60432, sell at public
auction to the highest and best bidder
or bidders the following-described real
estate:
LOT 105 IN DERBY HILLS SUBDI-
VISION UNIT NO. 2, BEING A SUB-
DIVISION IN THE NORTHEAST
QUARTER AND THE NORTHWEST
QUARTER OFSECTION 12, TOWN-
SHIP 36 NORTH, RANGE 11 EAST
OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERID-
IAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT
THEREOF RECORDED MAY 26,
1978 AS DOCUMENT NO. R78-19448
AND AMENDED BY LETTER OF
CORRECTION RECORDED ON NO-
VEMBER 14, 1978 AS DOCUMENT
NO. R78-45512, IN WILL COUNTY,
ILLINOIS
Commonly known as: 14533 Palomino
Court, Homer Glen, IL 60491
Description of Improvements:
Single Family Home
P.I.N.: 16-05-12-104-016-0000
Terms of Sale: ten percent (10%) at the
time of sale and the balance within
twenty-four (24) hours. Nojudicial sale
fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring
the residential real estate pursuant
to its credit bid at the sale or by any
mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other
lienor acquiring the residential real es-
tate whose rights inand to the residential
real estate arose prior to the sale. All
payments shall be made in cash or certified
funds payable tothe Sheriff of Will
County.
In the event the property is acondomin-
ium, in accordance with 735 ILCS
5/15-1507(c)(1)(H-1) and (H-2), 765
ILCS 605/9(g)(5), and 765 ILCS
605/18.5(g-1), you are hereby notified
that the purchaser of the unit, other than
amortgagee, shall pay the assessments
and legal fees required by subdivisions
(g)(1) and (g)(4) of Section 9and the assessments
required by subsection (g-1)
of Section 18.5 of the Illinois Condominium
Property Act.
Pursuant to Local Court Rule 11.03 (J)
if there is asurplus following application
ofthe proceeds of sale, then the
plaintiff shall send written notice pursuant
to 735 ILCS 5/15-1512(d) to all parties
to the proceeding advising them of
the amount ofthe surplus and that the
surplus will beheld until aparty obtains
acourt order for its distribution or, in
the absence of an order, until the surplus
is forfeited to the State.
FOR INFORMATION PLEASE CON-
TACT:
THE WIRBICKI LAW GROUP
33 W. Monroe St. Suite 1140
Chicago, Illinois 60603
P: 312-360-9455
F: 312-572-7823
Plaintiff's Attorney
MIKE KELLEY
Sheriff of Will County
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Circle One:
Athlete of the Week
10 Questions
with Yousif Salah
Yousif Salah is a senior at Lockport Township.
He qualified for the individual state
finals and wrestled there at 182 pounds this
past weekend. He hoped to help the Porters
to another state finals appearance in the
dual team tournament this weekend.
What did it mean for you to get to
state for the first time ever as an
individual?
It was a dream come true. It’s always been
a dream of mine to qualify and get to state
and be one of the top competitors.
You missed half of this season with
an injury. What was that?
I was in a car accident right around the second
week of the football season and hurt my
hand. I tore ligaments in my right thumb and
had surgery on that. It was a heartbreak to miss
my senior season [of football], but I was able
to come back and wrestle at the Cheesehead
Tournament [on Jan. 5 and 6 in Kaukauna,
Wisconsin]. I want to thank all my family,
coaches and teammates for all the support.
How did you get involved in
wrestling?
I started wrestling when I was 4 or 5. My
uncle, Jehad Hamdan [wrestled] for the University
of Michigan, and he was like, “You’re
going to wrestle.” Another uncle, Sameen
Khalil, also worked with me wrestling. I’ve
got a younger brother, Jameel, wrestling on
the sophomore team at Lockport, and many
of my cousins and relatives wrestle, too.
Last year, the Porters won the dual
team state tournament. What was it
like to win that?
Words can’t describe what it was like. Payton
Fernandes (in 1:45 at 195 pounds), myself
(in 2:38 at 220) and Ronald Tucker (in 2:50 at
285) got a trio of pins in a row in the title match
[a 33-20 win against Montini]. If we don’t get
those, we might not have won the state title. It
was great for our seniors to end that way.
What would it mean for the Porters
to take home a fourth-straight state
trophy?
We hope to [win the state title] again. Just
22nd Century Media File Photo
to get back down and get another trophy
would be great, since it would be the first
time that Lockport has done that.
You’ve been at some different
weights during you career as a
Porter. How difficult has that been?
I started at 170 pounds as a freshman, then
went to 182 as a sophomore. Last season, I
was at 220, and there were a lot of bigger
guys there. After the car accident, I lost some
weight and was down to 190, so we decided
for me to get back down to 182 and wrestle
there. There’s a lot of good competition here,
too, but it’s worked out well for me, and I
know I just want to finish strong.
What do you do to motivate yourself
before a match?
I just put my headphones in and think
about myself at the top of the podium. I don’t
have a favorite song, but I have a playlist,
and that gets my chills going.
What have you learned from Lockport
wrestling coach Josh Oster?
Josh has been a huge inspiration for me.
He talks everyday before and after practice
about pushing ourselves to be the best
we can be. Also, our assistant coach Matt
Barkley and [former Porter state champion
wrestler] Brad Johnson have also been very
instrumental in helping me out, too.
Do you plan to wrestle in college?
Yes, that’s the plan. I just don’t know
where yet. Wisconsin-Whitewater is a possibility,
but so is Joliet Junior College. JJC just
started their program, and they have a real
good fire science curriculum there. I hope to
be a paramedic/fireman.
What is the best thing about being an
athlete at Lockport?
Lockport has a great tradition of good athletes.
But No. 1, there is always academics,
and No. 2 is athletics The coaches not only
want the best of you on the team, they want
the best of you academically.
Interview by Freelance Reporter Randy Whalen

36 | February 22, 2018 | The Homer Horizon SPORTS
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Hockey
Providence regroups after early exit in Kennedy Cup
Celtics hope to again
reach Blackhawk Cup in
upcoming state playoffs
Steve Millar, Freelance Reporter
After his team’s disappointing
early exit in the Kennedy
Cup playoffs, Providence hockey
coach Nick Iaciancio looked hit to
reset button before heading into
the state playoffs.
“I know it was a crushing blow
for our kids,” he said. “After that
loss, I gave them a whole week
off, just to get away from hockey. I
wanted them to be able to put that
behind them and have a chance to
kind of recharge their batteries,
get the juices flowing and the desire
back.
“I definitely think that desire to
go out there and get some redemption
is brewing in them now.”
The Celtics (24-16-7) were
two-time defending champions
of the Kennedy Cup, awarded to
the winner of the Catholic League
playoffs, but were bounced in the
quarterfinals by Benet in late January.
After earning a 6-2 win in the
opener of the three-game series,
Providence dropped consecutive
4-1 decisions.
“It was really tough, especially
after winning the first game,” Iaciancio
said. “Our kids had high
expectations for the Kennedy
Cup, they expect to win it.
“Mental discipline is what really
hurt us. The last game of the
series, we had 23 penalty minutes
in a 51-minute game. That killed
us. Going into the state playoffs,
we have to do a better job controlling
our emotions and not taking
penalties.”
Jack McConnell has 26 goals and 18 assists this season for Providence,
helping lead the team’s offensive attack.
Providence will open the state
playoffs with a game against
Neuqua Valley at 8:40 p.m. Friday,
Feb. 23, at Arctic Ice Arena.
The Celtics are seeded sixth in
the 32-team red varsity division,
the state’s top division. Neuqua is
the No. 27 seed. The ultimate goal
is to win four-straight games and
reach the Blackhawk Cup championship
game March 24 at the
United Center.
Providence has played in the
Blackhawk Cup each of the last
two seasons, finishing as staterunner
up both years.
This season, Iaciancio’s team
has experienced ups and downs.
The Celtics got off to a solid
11-5-2 start before experiencing
a tough 2-4-3 stretch in early
December. They seemingly had
things back on track late in the
regular season before the setback
against Benet.
“It’s been a challenging season,”
Iaciancio said. “We struggled to
find chemistry and had some trouble
finding the right combinations
with our lines and defensive combos.
What I liked, though, is our
kids never quit. They kept fighting
hard even when we were struggling
a bit.”
Sophomore forward Tommy
Davis had a huge season for Providence,
leading the team in goals
with 32 and assists with 29.
Seniors Jack McConnell and
Dylan Gorski have also been
strong offensive contributors. Mc-
Connell has 26 goals and 18 assists,
while Gorski has 23 goals
and 23 assists.
Senior defensive Ryan Kaup
was an All-State selection.
“Our seniors have really done
a nice job,” Iaciancio said. “Their
leadership has been big. We know
what we’re getting from Jack and
Dylan on offense, and Ryan has
been really solid on defense.”
Jake Olinger, of Homer Glen, skates in a game from this season. The
Celtics look to make some noise in the upcoming state playoffs.
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Junior Colin Ries (20 goals, 21
assists) and senior Shane Horan
(16 goals, 19 assists) are also
among Providence’s leading scorers.
Kameron Bustos and Jack Pavlis
have handled most of the goalkeeper
duties, with Bustos posting
a 12-7-7 record and a 2.30 goals
against average and Pavlis a 9-7-
3 mark with a 2.54 goals against
average.
Ben Monsivas has also spent
time in the net.
Throughout the season, Iaciancio
says the one constant has been
his team’s work ethic.
“This is a very hard-working
team,” he said. “The effort has
been there all season. Sometimes,
when you’re not playing as well as
you want to, that effort is the first
thing to go, but it hasn’t with these
kids. I’m very proud of that.
“For us, it really just comes
down to cleaning some things up.
Penalties have been a problem all
year. If we cut those down, we can
have success.”
Iaciancio is hoping the state
playoffs can be a fresh start for his
team.
“We’ve just got to put the Kennedy
Cup behind us, get our focus
back and get back to how we were
playing before the Benet series,”
he said. “We were playing pretty
well at the end of the regular season.”
He’s still confident the Celtics
can still be a contender for the
Blackhawk Cup.
“There’s no question the talent
is there,” he said. “Our kids know
we have enough talent and we’re
good enough. If we can have that
mental discipline and play smarter
hockey, make the right decisions,
we’ve still got a shot to do some
good things.”
This Week In...
Lockport Township High
School Varsity Athletics
Wrestling
■Feb. ■ 24 at IHSA Team State Finals,
TBD at Grossinger Motors Arena in
Bloomington
Boys Basketball
■Feb. ■ 22 host Homewood-
Flossmoor, 6:30 p.m.
Boys Swimming and Diving
■Feb. ■ 23 at IHSA State Finals, TBA
at Evanston High School
■Feb. ■ 24 at IHSA State Finals, TBA
at Evanston High School
Girls Track and Field
■Feb. ■ 24 host Lockport Invitational,
9 a.m.
Boys Track and Field
■Feb. ■ 24 at Olivet Nazarene Invite,
10 a.m.

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Girls Basketball
Lockport finds its groove en
route to regional championship
Randy Whalen
Freelance Reporter
The Lockport Township
girls basketball team has arrived.
When Dan Kelly was
hired as the Lockport Township
girls basketball coach in
2014, he had a goal to help
transform the team into a
successful one. That transformation
took a big step last
week, as the Porters are now
regional champions.
Lockport, which is seeded
13th in the Class 4A Neuqua
Valley Sectional, stunned
No. 3-seed Plainfield East
and then defeated another
surprise team, the host No.
11-seeded Wolves, 52-47 on
their home court on Thursday,
Feb. 15, to capture the
title of the Oswego East Regional.
It was the first regional
championship for the Porters
since 2007, as well as
the first time they played in
a regional title game since
that year. They faced either
No. 2-seeded Naperville
Central or No. 7-seeded Naperville
North on Tuesday,
Feb. 20, in the semifinals of
the Neuqua Valley Sectional.
Coincidentally, in 2007 they
were also seeded No. 13 in
the Neuqua Valley Sectional
and defeated No. 12 seed
Plainfield Central to capture
the regional title.
Seven summers later, Kelley
was hired as head coach.
He saw something right
away in the incoming freshmen.
“I came in and saw the
freshmen we had at the summer
league that year,” Kelly
said. “I told them by the time
you are seniors, you’re going
to do something special
at Lockport. I saw that potential.”
All four of the Porter seniors
— Destiny Davis, Taylor
Hopkins, Megan James
and Taylor Shingler — were
among those incoming
freshmen. They all played a
role in propelling the Porters
(16-13) to not only their first
regional title in 11 years, but
to their fifth-straight win,
which guaranteed their first
back-to-back winning seasons
since the 2006-2007
and 2007-2008 teams accomplished
that.
No one had a greater impact
in the last two games
than Hopkins. She was sidelined
for about three weeks
during the season with a hip
flexor injury, but after giving
it rest, she’s been on fire
in the postseason with 44
points in the two regional
games.
“This means everything,
especially since we were
underdogs,” Hopkins said.
“Everyone doubted us, but
we put in our time and our
work and it paid off.”
Kelly has seen that in
Hopkins, who along with
Davis has been a four-year
varsity player.
“Taylor had some struggles
early in [this] season,”
Kelly said. “But that time
off healing really helped her.
Her leadership on the court
has just shown [in the postseason].
All our seniors have
played heavy minutes, and
to do what they’ve done is a
credit to them.
“Oswego East is a tough
team, and we knew we’d
have our hands full. But I
saw the potential in our team
all season long. We tried
some different combos and
lineups and had our struggles.
But this [postseason]
is a credit to these girls and
their focus on executing.”
The Porters led most of
the way in the regional title
game. But Oswego East
(15-15) took its second and
last lead of the game at 37-
35 on a 3-pointer by junior
guard Kaili Chval (7 points)
with 35 seconds to play in
the third quarter. Hopkins
responded with a 3-pointer
of her own 11 seconds later
to restore Lockport’s lead at
38-37.
That was the score at the
end of three. The Porters led
41-40 midway through the
fourth quarter and then went
on an 8-0 run. Hopkins had
five points in the burst and
capped that off by hitting
a 3-pointer from the right
baseline for a 49-40 lead
with 2:27 left to play in the
game.
“I have the confidence,
and my teammates were
looking to me,” Hopkins
said of hitting the big shots.
“They would all yell, ‘Taylor,
shoot the ball.’ Even
with the injury, this has been
the perfect senior year.”
Sophomore forward Treasure
Thompson had her second-straight
monster game
for the Porters with 17 points
and 15 rebounds.
“We just put our minds
together and said we’re going
to do something that
hasn’t been done in a while,”
Thompson said. “You have
to believe it before you can
do it.”
Lockport got to the title
game by virtue of a 62-
55 upset victory over No.
3-seeded Plainfield East on
Feb. 14 in the first semifinal
of the Oswego East
Regional. The team opened
the postseason Feb. 12 with
a 35-22 victory over Metea
Valley in a regional quarterfinal
at Oswego East.
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Molton makes improbable run to state title
Two other LTHS
wrestlers place in
Top 5 at state finals
Steve Millar
Freelance Reporter
Lockport junior Anthony
Molton believed he could be
a state champion wrestler,
but standing in his way in the
Class 3A 120-pound bracket
were two wrestlers ranked in
the Top 6 in the country, both
of whom had already been
state champions.
“I knew how tough of a
bracket it was and that it was
going to be a challenge,”
Molton said.
Molton answered the challenge
in astoundingly impressive
fashion. After stunning
two-time defending state
champion Joey Melendez,
of Montini, 11-2 in Friday’s
semifinals, he pulled off a
7-4 overtime win over Marian
Catholic’s Travis Ford-
Melton in Saturday’s state
championship match at the
State Farm Center.
“It wasn’t until this year
that I finally believed in myself,
believed that I could be
a state champion,” Molton
said. “Accomplishing one of
my goals like this is a great
feeling. I know I have to keep
working hard and getting better,
though, so I can stay on
top next year.”
In the championship match,
Molton (46-7) and Ford-
Melton went to overtime tied
4-4. After there was no scoring
in the first two overtime
periods, Ford-Melton started
the third period on top and
chose to concede an escape
point to Molton.
That put Molton up 5-4,
and told the Lockport junior
that Ford-Melton, ranked No.
6 in the nation by InterMat,
was confident he could take
down Molton in the final 30
Lockport’s Anthony Molton (right) wrestles Montini’s Joey
Melendez in their Class 3A 120-pound division semifinal
match at the IHSA Individual Wrestling State Final Friday,
Feb. 16, at the State Farm Center in Champaign.
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seconds to win the match.
“It fired me up a lot,”
Molton said. “I’ve gotten a
lot better defending through
the year, and I was glad to
see I could defend him even
when he was desperate to get
a takedown.”
Not only did Molton fight
off Ford-Melton’s attempts,
he got a takedown of his own
to seal the state championship.
The victory came on the
heels of Molton stunning the
crowd in Champaign with
his dominant performance
against Melendez. Molton
jumped to a quick 4-0 lead
and rolled past Melendez,
who came in ranked No. 3 in
the nation.
Molton had suffered decisive
losses to Melendez
and Ford-Melton earlier in
the season, including a 16-5
defeat to Ford-Melton just a
week prior in the Alton Sectional
championship match.
“He lost to three kids in Illinois
this year, and he came
back and beat two of them
to win this,” Lockport coach
Josh Oster said. “Anthony’s
worked his tail off, and he
deserves this.”
Lockport junior Matt Ramos,
meanwhile, improved
on last season’s fifth-place
finish with a third-place
showing at 113.
After a 4-2 loss to Montini’s
Dylan Ragusin in the
quarterfinals, Ramos (48-6)
stormed back to win fourstraight
matches, capped by a
10-5 victory over Marmion’s
Michael Jaffe in the thirdplace
match.
“After I lost, I had to
keep my mind in it,” Ramos
said. “Anyone can beat anyone
down here, and if your
mind’s not right, you could
easily lose again.
“This feels better than
when I finished fifth last year,
and it shows that I’m ready to
keep working my way up and
win it all next year.”
Porters senior Zach Reese
(33-12) took fourth at 152.
“He’s a little disappointed
now, but it’s hard to be disappointed
when you win a
medal your senior year,” Oster
said. “It’ll fade, and he’ll
realize what a great accomplishment
he had.”
The Porters’ Mike Kaminski
(106) went 1-2 at state.
James Pierandozzi (138) and
Yousif Salah (182) were also
qualifiers but went winless.
Boys Swimming and Diving
Jack O’Connor, pair of divers qualify for state
Erin Redmond
Freelance Reporter
Home is where the heart is.
The Eagles brought their
heart — and the heat — as
they dominated the Orland
Park Sectional Saturday, Feb.
17, at Sandburg. The hosts
won the meet with a total
score of 302, more than 40
points ahead of runner-up
Stagg (260). Lockport finished
third with 224 points.
The Porters will send
swimmers and divers in four
events to the state finals.
Eagles’ swimmers Peter
Bukiri and Jacob Simonek
as well as sophomore diver
Cody Thill were the only
ones to qualify individually
for state. Burkiri will represent
the Eagles in two events:
the 200- and 500-yard freestyle
races.
The junior swimmer won
the 200 free with a time of
1:43.54, just ahead of Stagg’s
Sebastian Smolecki, who finished
in 1:43.75 to also punch
his ticket to state.
The gap was much wider in
the 500 free, however. Bukiri
easily cruised to a first place
finish with a time of 4:40.08
— more than 18 seconds faster
than the runner-up.
“We figured that [Bukiri]
would probably be the person
who wins both the 200 freestyle
and the 500 [freestyle],”
Sandburg coach Matthew
Neimeier said.
Lockport’s Jack O’Connor
also qualified for state in two
events, winning both the 100-
yard backstroke and 200-yard
individual medley.
O’Connor claimed the
100 back title with a time of
52.32, besting the runner-up
from Stagg by .69 seconds.
The Porters’ swimmer
won the 200 IM in a time
of 1:55.07 — a solid four
seconds faster than Stagg’s
James McCallion (1:59.39).
“Going into sectionals, we
knew Jack could make that
qualifying time, as he had
earlier in the season,” Lockport
coach Jason Ozbolt said.
“He’s not 100 percent rested
and tapered — we were eyeing
for state — so we’re
looking for some faster times
[at state].”
Lockport’s 200 and 400
freestyle relays just missed
the cut, which Ozbolt admitted
was a bit disappointing
for his seniors.
“That said, we can’t really
be too upset,” the Porters
coach said. “Everyone
dropped time, which is always
our goal. Almost everyone
had lifetime bests. Everyone
swam great, it’s just
not quite the way we wanted
it to end.”
Both Sandburg and Lockport
will be represented in the
Lockport’s Colin Onak competes in the 100-yard butterfly
Saturday, Feb. 17, during the Sandburg Sectional.
Julie mcmann/22nd Century Media
diving competition, too.
Sandburg’s Thill won the
diving title with a total score
of 454.30, while Lockport
junior Wrigley Fields was
the runner-up with a score of
442.75. Senior Logan Morgan
also made the cut for
state, finishing third with a
score of 397.50.
“I know our diving coach
is very excited to have two
divers qualify,” Ozbolt said.
“... It’s a very good [indication]
for our diving program
moving forward that we’re
moving in the right direction.”
The Eagles and Porters
will now prep for state, slated
for Friday and Saturday, Feb.
23 and 24, in Evanston.

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fastbreak
22nd Century Media File Photo
1st and 3
Lockport girls
bowling finishes
year in Top 10 at state
1. Taking eighth place
The Lockport girls
bowling team
competed at the Girls
State Bowling Finals,
which wrapped up
on Saturday, Feb. 17,
at The Cherry Bowl
in Rockford. There,
the team finished in
eighth place with a
cumulative score of
11,466.
2. Fitting farewell for
leader
Lockport’s Bailey
Delrose had a thirdplace
solo finish at
state with a score of
2,594. She became
just the third-ever
Porter girls bowler to
receive two medals
for All-State finishes.
3. Other leaders
Junior Erin Kleffman
(2,362 to finish
tied 34th) and
sophomore Jessica
Ramirez (2,257 to
finish 61st) were the
other LTHS bowlers
who participated in
every game.
Girls Bowling
LTHS concludes season with eighth-place finish at state
Delrose ends third
individually in finale
Randy Whalen
Freelance Reporter
The season was over, the
final totals were in. But
there was a final piece of
business for the Lockport
Township girls bowling
team.
That happened when senior
Bailey Delrose handed
off a team dog tag chain to
freshman Chloe Siezega.
The inscription on the tag
reads “We are the Force,
1999-2000,” and it’s in honor
of the late Ed Matesevac,
who coached the Porters
to the second of their four
state titles in 1999. He died
the following summer, and
a team leader has worn the
tag ever since.
Delrose had received
the tag from 2017 graduate
Paige Reiter. But this
season’s handoff was even
more symbolic, as this was
the end of a golden age era
in Lockport bowling. But
the there’s still a lot of excellent
talent, and the Porters
certainly aren’t done, as
they exceeded expectations
this season.
Lockport placed eighth
overall at last weekend’s
Girls State Bowling Finals,
which concluded on Saturday,
Feb. 17, at The Cherry
Bowl in Rockford.
Delrose fell short of her
goal to capture the individual
state title, finishing third
overall (2,594) with almost
the exact total she had the
previous season. Still, she
became just the third-ever
Porter girls bowler to receive
two medals for All-
State finishes. The others
were Stephanie Fedder (5th
in 1992-1993, 9th in 1993-
1994) and Mollie Sloyan
(3rd in 2007-2008, 8th in
2008-2009). Delrose had
placed seventh (2,597) last
year.
This season, it was junior
Rebecca Hagerman
from Harlem, who helped
the school from Machesney
Park to a state championship
repeat. Hagerman
(2,669) defeated runnerup
senior Kiana Krahulik
(2,602) from Oswego East
by 67 pins and Delrose by
75 pins.
“I have no regrets about
[the tournament],” Delrose
said. “The conditions
were tough, and the pins
just didn’t fall my way. My
hats off to Harlem. I want
to commend them for their
championship and how well
they bowled.
Delrose bowled an outstanding
216 average for
the tournament. She was 65
pins out of the lead going
into the final three games,
but she only gained three
pins in the first two afternoon
session games. Her
highest game was a 243 in
the third game of the final
day. Her last game was a
210, made possible by the
fact that she struck out for
a final turkey in the 10th
frame.
“I went out with a bang
and came out to do what I
could for the team,” Delrose
said of her final frame. “I’m
beyond grateful for this season
and my entire four years
as a Lockport bowler. It has
been a dream come true to
be a part of this program.
This entire experience has
meant so much to me. I’ve
improved every year, been
a part of great success and
want to thank everyone who
has been involved over the
years.”
In 12 tournaments this
season, Delrose won 10
of them with a second and
now a third in the other two.
In his nearly two decades
as Lockport coach, Delrose
is still the best bowler
that Art Cwudzinski has
seen.
“Bailey is still the best,
but in sports the best doesn’t
always win,” Cwudzinski
said. “She put some extra
pressure on herself [at the
state tournament]. She has
had a phenomenal career,
the best I have ever had or
seen.”
Junior Erin Kleffman
(2,362, tied 34th — high of
236 on in the opening game
on the opening day) and
sophomore Jessica Ramirez
(2,257, 61st — high of 234
in Game 6 on Day 1) were
the other bowlers that rolled
every game for Lockport.
“I feel like for being
a young team we did alright,”
Kleffman said. “But
I also feel like we made
stupid mistakes [at state],
and if we wouldn’t have,
we could have placed [in
the Top 3]. Next year, we’ll
have a lot more experience,
and I feel like I’ll be
more prepared mentally and
physically.”
Siezega (1,800 in 10
games — high of 214 in
Game 5 on Day 2), senior
Kaelin Miller (1,234
in 7 games — high of 223
in Game 6 on Day 1), and
sophomore Samantha
Traina (914 in 5 games —
high of 248 in Game 5 on
Day 2) were the other Porters
to bowl multiple games.
Freshman Meghan Bacys
(164 in Game 6 on Day 1)
and her sister, junior Katelyn
(141 in Game 5 on Day
1) also bowled a game each
for Lockport.
Harlem (12,111) won
not only its second-straight
state title, but it also added
to its state record with its
seventh overall. Hoffman
Estates (11,692) was a distant
second, and Schaumburg
(11,647) was third.
O’Fallon (11,633), Freeport
(11,579), Salem (11,566),
Minooka (11,549) and
Lockport (11,466) made
up the Top 8 teams. Guilford
(11,398), Joliet West
(11,238), Lincoln-Way West
(11,091) and Belleville East
(11,063) rounded out the
Top 12 teams that bowled
both days.
Local teams Andrew and
Sandburg finished 13th and
14th respectively on the
opening day Friday, Feb.
16, just missing the cut.
It’s a state record 20th
time the Porters have finished
in the Top 10, and this
was their 23rd time at the
state tournament finals since
they became a program in
1986. Lockport had placed
first, third and second the
past three seasons and was
trying for an unprecedented
fourth-consecutive state
trophy in any sport for
the school. But it wasn’t
to be.
“Our spare shooting was
as bad as it’s been all season,”
Cwudzinski said.
“We missed 48 one-pin
spares [25 on Day No. 1]
all weekend. If we make
half of those, we could have
had 240 extra pins and finished
in second place. Our
inexperience showed up
all weekend. We’d shoot in
the 1,050’s [including leading
after the opening game
of the opening day with a
1,059] and then shoot in the
850’s.
“But with only Bailey
back as an experienced
bowler from last season, I
can’t say enough about what
we’ve done and the things
we accomplished [South-
West Suburban Conference
champions, regional champions,
sectional champions]
this season.”
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“I’m beyond grateful for this season and my entire
four years as a Lockport bowler. It has been a
dream come true to be a part of this program. This
entire experience has meant so much to me.”
Bailey Delrose — Lockport senior girls bowler, after finishing third
at state and looking back on her time on the team
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Playing a makeup game — Thursday, Feb. 22, vs.
Homewood-Flossmoor
• The Lockport boys basketball team plays the Vikings
in a game that is rescheduled from Feb. 9.
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Making noise
Lockport girls basketball
goes on postseason
run, claiming regional
title,Page 39
On to state
Porters will send
swimmers, divers in
four events to Evanston,
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Anthony Molton takes title at 120 after
thrilling championship match, Page 38
Lockport’s Anthony
Molton is declared winner
after his 7-4 victory over
Marian’s Travis Ford-
Melton in their Class
3A 120-pound division
championship match
on Saturday, Feb. 17, at
the State Farm Center in
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