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14 | April 26, 2018 | The Lockport Legend news lockportlegend.com Police Reports Traffic violations dominate reports Lockport Police Department April 13 • Mark Drodwell, 61, of the 10000 block of Keating Avenue in Oak Lawn, was charged with improper cellphone usage in a construction zone, operating an uninsured motor vehicle and driving with a suspended driver’s license after being stopped for using a cellphone in a construction zone. April 12 • Donnie Jones, 18, of the 400 block of Siegmund Street in Joliet, was charged with disobeying a stop sign and driving without a valid driver’s license after being stopped for disobeying a stop sign. • Michaelene Patitucci, 35, of the 24000 block of Leski Drive in Plainfield, was charged with driving with a suspended license after being stopped for going 55 mph in a 40 mph zone. Will County Sheriff’s Office April 13 • Robert M. Tortorello Sr., 44, of 530 E. 5th St. in Lockport, was charged with driving with a suspended license after being stopped in the area of S. State and W. 10th streets. April 10 • Ariana M. Munguia, 23, of 501 Harvard St. in Lockport, was charged with driving without registration lights, driving with an obstructed driver’s view, driving with a suspended license and operating an uninsured motor vehicle after being stopped in the area of S. State and Harvard streets. EDITOR’S NOTE: The Lockport Legend’s Police Reports are compiled from official reports found online on the Will County Sheriff’s Office or Lockport Police Department’s website or releases issued by the department and other agencies. Individuals named in these reports are considered innocent of all charges until proven guilty in a court of law. FROM THE MOKENA MESSENGER Mokena resident paints firefighting, 911 children’s exhibit “Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!” And perhaps now, with KidsWork Children’s Museum’s updated 911 exhibit, children will be doing more of what Dr. Seuss thought up in “Oh, the Things you can Think!” so many years ago. Nicole Underwood, executive director at the Frankfort museum, said the new exhibit was made possible through donations from the museum’s annual dinner. For the grand opening of the exhibit April 12, may of those donors were there to celebrate and investigate the new features on their own. The walls were a creation of mural artist Brian Turnbough, of Mokena. In one corner is a fire truck mural that looks as if it is parked in a three-dimensional garage just off the exhibit. Nearby, the dressup coats, helmets and boots from the old 911 exhibit hang in lockers constructed by Turnbough. His wall paintings transform the exhibit into one cohesive section of the museum. Turnbough said he was familiar with the space before he was commissioned to work on the new exhibit and combined some of the ideas the staff had for the exhibit with his own to create something he said he hopes will inspire imagination and play for the children there. Reporting by Amanda Stoll, Assistant Editor. For more, visit MokenaMessenger.com. FROM THE TINLEY JUNCTION Former Andrew running back hopes to have name called for NFL draft Tinley Park native Jarvion Franklin plans to don his cap and gown, and head to Miller Auditorium on the campus of Western Michigan University on April 28. In the near future, he hopes to don a helmet and pads at an NFL camp. The former Andrew running back could find out about his football future while he is in Kalamazoo graduating with a university studies degree. The NFL Draft opens for business on April 26 with the first round. The next day is the second and third round. It is to wrap up April 28 with the final four rounds. It appears Franklin will not go in the first three rounds. And if that is the case, he could find out if he is one of 256 drafted athletes before, during or after his “Pomp and Circumstance” ceremony. “That could be great news,” Franklin said. “I could get a double-dose of great news.” One projection is that he will be drafted 197th by Carolina. Another thinks he will be undrafted and latch onto a team via free agency. Franklin, who plans on coming back to Tinley Park on April 27 for a graduation/NFL party, is grateful to be in this position. “My thinking is just that I am blessed to be in this situation,” Franklin said. “You can work as hard as you can to get to this point, but there are a lot of factors that our out of our control.” Reporting by Jeff Vorva, Sports Editor. For more, visit TinleyJunction. com. FROM THE ORLAND PARK PRAIRIE Bedroom damaged but no one injured during apartment fire A fire reportedly damaged a bedroom the morning of April 17 in an apartment building in the 15700 block of 86th Avenue, but no one was injured. The fire was reported around 8:19 a.m., according to a press release issued the same day by the Orland Fire Protection District. A resident was in the apartment at the time but closed the door to the bedroom and evacuated the building safely, according to the press release. Orland Fire Protection District firefighters reportedly arrived to find smoke in the apartment. The fire was contained to the back bedroom of the apartment, according to the release. The fire was extinguished “quickly,” and one resident was checked for smoke inhalation but declined transportation to a hospital, according to fire officials. Fire damage was limited to the one unit, but some smoke and water damage was sustained in the surrounding units, according to the release. No cause was determined as of the afternoon of April 17, and it remained under investigation, according to district spokesperson Ray Hanania. Reporting by Bill Jones, Editor. For more, visit OPPrairie.com. FROM THE NEW LENOX PATRIOT New Lenox arcade brings virtual reality to life Josh Schoeling is living the dream. After an unfruitful stint in college, the New Lenox resident set his sights on a new reality — a virtual reality. Schoeling, 22, is the owner of Genesis VR, a new arcade in town with a 21st century twist. “We are a virtual reality arcade,” said Schoeling, who graduated from Lincoln-Way West High School in 2013. “We have four rooms dedicated to virtual reality, and we have two coin-operated arcade machines and four retro consoles.” The retro consoles line the sleek main room of Genesis VR, located at 416 Nelson Road. There, gamers can play childhood favorites before stepping it up to virtual reality games, like “Metal Assault” and “Battle of Kings.” Genesis VR offers more than 40 games or, as Schoeling calls them, “experiences” to players of all ages. “There are so many different things we can offer,” he said. “Not all of them are games. Some of them are experiences, so to speak. We have things like height experiences, downhill skiing, haunted houses, escape rooms. There are tons of different things you can do inside these games.” It costs $25 per hour to rent one of the four VR rooms, which can accommodate groups of up to four people. Each room has one gaming headset and a monitor showing others in the group what’s going on inside the headset. Reporting by Jonathan Samples, Freelance Reporter. For more, visit NewLenoxPatriot.com. FROM THE FRANKFORT STATION Local athlete recognized by Frankfort Village Board During its April 16 meeting, the Frankfort Village Board presented a proclamation honoring Hickory Creek Middle School eighth-grader Dominic Adamo, who made school history this year by winning Hickory Creek’s first state wrestling title. In March, Adamo wrapped up an undefeated 37-0 season by winning the 155-pound title at the 2018 Illinois Elementary School Association state wrestling tournament at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb. His state tournament record was 4-0. “You’ve brought great credit to the Village of Frankfort,” Mayor Jim Holland said. Several Village trustees offered their congratulations to Adamo, as well, and Trustee Cindy Heath called Adamo’s championship an “outstanding achievement.” “My husband wrestled all through high school and college, and so I know how hard it is always trying to make weight,” she said. “You’re out there by yourself. … When I heard that you’re never nervous, that’s really statement of your character, that you can just go out there and do that.” Adamo said he was honored, and thanked his family, Hickory Creek coach Josh Napier, Hickory Creek Principal Will Seidelmann and Frankfort School District 157- C Superintendent Maura Zinni for their support throughout the year. “I was in fifth grade when they started a wrestling program at Hickory Creek Middle School, and since that day I imagined myself on the top of the podium,” he said. “On March 10, I wasn’t imagining; I was on the podium receiving my medal.” Reporting by Nuria Mathog, Editor. For more, visit FrankfortStation.com.
lockportlegend.com sound off the Lockport Legend | April 26, 2018 | 15 Social snapshot Top Web Stories From LockportLegend.com from Monday, April 23 1. City Council: Plans for new post office approved 2. 9th Street to be closed this weekend 3. Veterans paired with service dogs at ceremony 4. The Dish: College town favorite McAlister’s opens in Orland Park 5. Limestone Stage to perform Chekhov classic Become a member: LockportLegend.com/plus “Lockport Township High School put on another amazing Road to Reality skit last night. This event portrays a fatal traffic crash involving teenagers after a night of partying and underage drinking. The following photos are from one of the scenes in this tragic incident. District 5 Trooper’s are honored each year to be asked to play a role in this event. Although this is one of the hardest parts of our job, (handling a fatal crash), we feel it is important to be involved while educating the students and the parents on how one bad decision could change your life forever.” Illinois State Police District 5 Lockport, from April 20. Like The Lockport Legend: facebook.com/LockportLegend “Today was a great day as Hadley Middle School and Homer Jr. High had their last classes at #TransitionTown. Family of students came out to see what they have learned, tasted some homemade pizza and got a tour of the program. @Homer33c @ LtKennedySchool” @StColettasIL, St. Coletta’s, a nonprofit organization in Tinley Park that provides support and services for special needs individuals, from April 18. Follow The Lockport Legend: @LockportLegend From the Editor The boys of … winter? Max Lapthorne max@lockportlegend.com How about this spring weather? Usually, a question like that would be a forced conversation starter when trying to have awkward small talk, but this year, it’s a more substantive topic of conversation. Winter just hasn’t gotten the hint and continues to hang around, bothering all of us as we attempt to go about our usual late-April business. In these parts, we’re used to seemingly endless winters, but this year has taken it to the extreme. And no one has felt the wrath more than baseball players. More than 25 Major League Baseball games have been postponed already, including a number of Cubs and White Sox games. But unlike the professionals, the local high school teams don’t share the luxury of simply rescheduling the game for a mutual off day in mid-July. The high school baseball regular season only lasts a couple of months, so the weather being mostly unplayable for about a month of it poses some serious problems. Coaches have to weigh the desire to get the games in with field conditions and player safety, while players are forced to play in football weather, making it nearly impossible to grip the ball and often extremely unpleasant to hit it. I played in my fair share of cold weather games in high school, but one game stands above the rest as being the coldest in which I ever participated. It was during my sophomore year, the temperature couldn’t have been much above 30 degrees and the wind was whipping relentlessly. I usually only wore batting gloves as a hitter in the most extreme conditions to avoid my sweat from causing the bat to come out of my hands on hot days and to soften the inevitable sting of the ball making contact on cold ones. But this day, not only did I wear my batting gloves NEED at the plate, I (shamelessly) kept them both on throughout the game, playing second base with a glove on my throwing hand. Like almost every baseball player I know, I was more of a warm weather kind of guy. But, unlike myself, who waited until the weather heated up to reach my potential, the Lockport Township baseball team seems to already be in midsummer form. The Porters are off to a strong start, including a thrilling walk-off win against conference rival and one of the top teams in the area, Lincoln-Way East, which you can read about on Page 46. A balanced roster, some strong pitching, and a ton of experience have made the Porters a force to be reckoned with early on this season. And they have done it all playing almost exclusively in less-thanideal conditions. When playing in suboptimal conditions, it can feel like you not only have to overcome your opponent, but also Mother Nature. It is as much a mental task as a physical one. And it doesn’t surprise me to see that Lockport coach Andy Satunas has kept his team sharp mentally and playing so well. When/if the weather ever breaks, baseball fans and players around the country will finally rejoice. But while most teams will be looking to finally get their footing, the Porters will already be in mid-season form. Sound Off Policy Editorials and columns are the opinions of the author. Pieces from 22nd Century Media are the thoughts of the company as a whole. The Lockport Legend encourages readers to write letters to Sound Off. All letters must be signed, and names and hometowns will be published. We also ask that writers include their address and phone number for verification, not publication. Letters should be limited to 400 words. The Lockport Legend reserves the right to edit letters. Letters become property of The Lockport Legend. Letters that are published do not reflect the thoughts and views of The Lockport Legend. Letters can be mailed to: The Lockport Legend, 11516 West 183rd Street, Unit SW Office Condo #3, Orland Park, Illinois, 60467. 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