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Reacting to a tragedy<br />
Updates on investigation, reactions from community<br />
after 26-year-old killed in hit-and-run, Page 3<br />
Highlighting history<br />
Historic John Lane Days returns to educate, raise<br />
funds for barn renovation, Page 4<br />
Caught red-handed<br />
Residential burglary highlights this week’s<br />
police reports, Page 7<br />
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MONDAY<br />
Monday Movie Matinee:<br />
Under the Tuscan Sun<br />
12:30-3 p.m. July 9, White<br />
Oak Library Meeting Room<br />
A, 121 E. 8th St., Lockport.<br />
Enjoy snacks and refreshments<br />
while watching Under<br />
the Tuscan Sun, rated PG-<br />
13.<br />
TUESDAY<br />
Graphic Novel Workshop for<br />
Tweens<br />
1-2 p.m. White Oak Library<br />
Children’s Program<br />
Room, 121 E. 8th St., Lockport.<br />
Tweens will create a<br />
short form graphic novel<br />
after leanring how to create<br />
characters, a story arc and<br />
bind their finished books. A<br />
copy of the finished books<br />
will be on display in the<br />
library. Registration is required<br />
for this five-consecutive<br />
day program.<br />
Travel Photo Cards &<br />
Bookmarks<br />
6:30-8 p.m. July 10, White<br />
Oak Library Meeting Room<br />
A/B 121 E. 8th St., Lockport.<br />
Bring in one’s travel<br />
photos, or choose from an<br />
assortment of travel pictures<br />
to create travel photo cards<br />
and travel bookmarks. This<br />
is for adults and teens. Registration<br />
is required.<br />
UPCOMING<br />
Movies at The Roxy —<br />
Herbie the Love Bug<br />
6-9 p.m. Thursday, July<br />
12, The Roxy Theater, 1017<br />
S. State St. Enjoy this free,<br />
family movie night.<br />
John Lane Days<br />
11 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday,<br />
July 14 and Sunday, July 15,<br />
Historic John Lane Farm,<br />
16217 S. Gougar Road. There<br />
will be over 25 crafters and<br />
vendors, a children’s area,<br />
food, and a concert Saturday<br />
at 5 p.m. featuring singer/<br />
songwriter Elliot Sedgewick.<br />
Concert tickets can be purchased<br />
with a minimum $5<br />
donation ahead of time or on<br />
the day of the event. All money<br />
raised from this event will<br />
go toward renovating the barn<br />
which stands on the property<br />
where John Lane invented the<br />
first steel plow in 1833.<br />
Got Beer: Your Guide to<br />
Buying, Storing, Serving and<br />
Enjoying Beer<br />
6:30- 8 p.m. Wednesday,<br />
July 18, White Oak Library<br />
Meeting Room B 121 E. 8th<br />
St., Lockport. Former professional<br />
brewer and master<br />
beer judge Mike Pezan will<br />
take attendees on an adventure<br />
from selection, to storage,<br />
and consumption of<br />
beers. Samples will be provided.<br />
Participants must be<br />
21 or older. Registration is<br />
required. For more information,<br />
call (815) 552-4260.<br />
Park Party<br />
6-8 p.m. Tuesday, July<br />
24, Sunset Park, 729 Murphy<br />
Dr. Romeoville. Come<br />
enjoy a fun night out in the<br />
park with family and friends.<br />
There will be music, inflatables,<br />
face painting and more.<br />
This is a co-op event with<br />
the Lockport Township Park<br />
District and Romeoville<br />
Recreation.<br />
Movies at The Roxy- Wild<br />
Wild West<br />
6-9 p.m. Thursday, July<br />
26, 1017 S. State St. Enjoy<br />
this free, family movie<br />
night. Attendees are invited<br />
to dress up in the Steampunk<br />
theme.<br />
ONGOING<br />
Family Adventure Film Series<br />
6 p.m. Thursday nights.<br />
White Oak Library Children’s<br />
Program Room, 121<br />
E. 8th St., Lockport. Bring<br />
snacks and blankets to enjoy<br />
adventure movie classics<br />
with the family. For more<br />
information, call (815) 552-<br />
4260.<br />
Citizens Against Ruining the<br />
Environment<br />
6-7:30 p.m. every third<br />
Monday of the month, White<br />
Oak Library, 121 E. 8th St.,<br />
Lockport. CARE, a nonprofit<br />
all-volunteer organization,<br />
to discuss environmental<br />
and health related issues in<br />
Will County and the surrounding<br />
areas. Community<br />
service hours also available.<br />
Challenge Fitness Court<br />
Rentals<br />
Challenge Fitness, 2021<br />
S. Lawrence Ave., Lockport,<br />
offers court rentals for<br />
tennis and racquetball/wallyball<br />
courts when Lockport<br />
Township Park District programs<br />
are not running. Tennis<br />
courts are rented on a per<br />
hour basis, with rates beginning<br />
at $14 an hour during<br />
the summer. Racquetball/<br />
wallyball courts begin at $3<br />
an hour and have a two-hour<br />
limit. Individuals who are<br />
not members of Challenge<br />
Fitness are subject to guest<br />
fees. For more information<br />
on rates and court availability,<br />
please call (815) 838-<br />
3621, ext. 0 or visit www.<br />
lockportpark.org.<br />
Golf Lessons<br />
Tuesdays and Thursdays<br />
or Saturdays and Sundays,<br />
Prairie Bluff Golf Course,<br />
19433 Renwick Road, Crest<br />
Hill. The Lockport Township<br />
Park is offering junior and<br />
adult beginner golf lessons<br />
for ages 7 to 16 years and 18<br />
years and older, respectively.<br />
Students learn the basics of<br />
putting, chipping, pitching<br />
and full swing. Fee is $70/<br />
resident; $80/non-resident.<br />
Junior classes are offered<br />
from 4-5 p.m. on Tuesdays<br />
and Thursdays and 9-10<br />
a.m. Saturdays and Sundays.<br />
Adult lessons run from<br />
5:30-6:30 p.m. Tuesdays and<br />
Thursdays or 10:30-11:30<br />
a.m. Saturdays and Sundays.<br />
For more information, call<br />
(815) 838-3621, ext. 0.<br />
SilverSneakers<br />
Challenge Fitness, 2021<br />
S. Lawrence Ave., Lockport.<br />
offers SilverSneakers programs<br />
for seniors. Classic<br />
Fitness is offered on Mon-<br />
Thurs mornings which will<br />
increase muscle strength and<br />
range of movement with a<br />
variety of exercises, handheld<br />
weights, elastic tubing<br />
and a chair. Yoga Stretch<br />
is offered on Tuesday and<br />
Friday mornings and helps<br />
moves your body to increase<br />
flexibility balance and range<br />
of movement. SilverSneakers<br />
classes are free to Silver-<br />
Sneakers members and $4<br />
per class for walk-ins. Visit<br />
www.lockportpark.org or<br />
call (815) 838-3621, ext. 0<br />
for details.<br />
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War exhibits<br />
Noon-4 p.m. Wednesdays<br />
through Sundays, Will<br />
County Historical Museum<br />
and Research Center, 803 S.<br />
State St., Lockport. A new<br />
exhibit “Vintage Hats” is<br />
on display as well as a 19th<br />
century Doctor’s Office,<br />
“Will County in War” and<br />
early textiles. Open to the<br />
public; group tours available<br />
by reservation. For more information<br />
or tours call (815)<br />
838-5080 or visit www.wil<br />
lcohistory.org<br />
Senior Cards<br />
1-3 p.m. Mondays and Fridays,<br />
Gladys Fox Museum,<br />
231 E. 9th St., Lockport. The<br />
senior Pinochle Club meets<br />
twice per week and does not<br />
require registration or fees.<br />
Lockport Senior Men’s Club<br />
Meeting<br />
8:30 a.m. first Tuesday of<br />
the month, Gladys Fox Museum,<br />
231 E. 9th St., Lockport.<br />
The club meets from<br />
September to June beginning<br />
with a buffet breakfast<br />
at 8:30 a.m. followed by a<br />
speaker. For more information,<br />
visit www.lockportpark.org<br />
or call (815) 838-<br />
3621 ext. 0.<br />
Moose Lodge Bingo<br />
10 a.m. Mondays, 7 p.m.<br />
Wednesdays, Lockport<br />
Moose Lodge 118 E. 10th<br />
Street, Lockport. Raffles,<br />
jackpots and video gaming<br />
are scheduled to take place.<br />
For more information, visit<br />
www.lockportmoose.com.
lockportlegend.com news<br />
the Lockport Legend | July 5, 2018 | 3<br />
Man charged in Lockport<br />
resident’s hit-and-run death<br />
School districts<br />
remember Stanton,<br />
her impact on others<br />
Thomas Czaja<br />
Contributing Editor<br />
An Aurora man has been<br />
arrested in the hit-and-run<br />
death of Lockport resident<br />
Amanda Stanton, 26, according<br />
to a release from the Kendall<br />
County Sheriff’s Office.<br />
Nehemiah Williams, 38,<br />
was charged by the Kendall<br />
County Attorney’s Office<br />
for reckless homicide, leaving<br />
the scene of an accident<br />
involving death and driving<br />
with a revoked license.<br />
The arrest came one day<br />
after the sheriff’s office<br />
credited the community for<br />
locating the suspected vehicle<br />
involved, a silver 2006<br />
Chrysler Pacifica minivan.<br />
“The partnership between<br />
the Kendall County Sheriff’s<br />
Office and the community<br />
we serve has proven to be<br />
invaluable,” the release said.<br />
“When members of the public<br />
take the time to assist us<br />
and work with law enforcement,<br />
it enables us to provide<br />
better services and results to<br />
the community we serve.<br />
“We would like to thank<br />
the community for your vigilance<br />
and encourage you to<br />
continue your support of law<br />
enforcement in helping to<br />
keep our communities safe.”<br />
Stanton’s body was found<br />
Sunday, June 24, off Plainfield<br />
Road and Plainsman<br />
Court in Oswego, and the<br />
sheriff department’s initial<br />
investigation showed Stanton<br />
was struck and killed by a car,<br />
which then fled the scene.<br />
Kendall County Sheriff’s<br />
Office Detective Sgt. Mitch<br />
Hattan said police had heard<br />
reports that Stanton attended<br />
a wedding at Gaylord House<br />
& Gardens in Oswego on<br />
Saturday evening, June 23,<br />
the day before her body was<br />
found.<br />
Police also heard she left<br />
the wedding on foot, though<br />
it remains unclear why, according<br />
to Hattan.<br />
“We may never know exactly<br />
the reason why she<br />
left,” Hattan said, who noted<br />
police had more people to<br />
still track down in the pending<br />
investigation.<br />
Stanton was a 2010 graduate<br />
of Lockport Township<br />
High School, where she was<br />
a standout softball player.<br />
She went on to play the sport<br />
from 2011 to 2014 at Eastern<br />
Michigan University, where<br />
she was a two-time Academic<br />
All-Mid-American Conference<br />
selection.<br />
She was a math intervention<br />
specialist at Jefferson<br />
Junior High School in Naperville<br />
Community Unit<br />
School District 203, as well<br />
as the head coach for the<br />
varsity softball team at Oswego<br />
High School in Oswego<br />
Community Unit School<br />
District 308.<br />
Lockport Township High<br />
School gave its thoughts and<br />
prayers to the Stanton family<br />
in a statement, saying Stanton<br />
“was widely respected<br />
by our staff and her peers for<br />
her work ethic and determination<br />
to succeed.”<br />
“Amanda had a positive,<br />
uplifting attitude at all times<br />
and will be greatly missed<br />
by the LTHS community,”<br />
LTHS said in the release.<br />
Jefferson Junior High<br />
Principal Megan Ptak sent<br />
a statement out to families<br />
June 25 about Stanton’s<br />
death, stating the math intervention<br />
specialist was positive,<br />
energetic and would be<br />
greatly missed by all.<br />
Ptak added the school was<br />
to provide counseling services<br />
Tuesday and Wednesday,<br />
June 26 and 27, for students.<br />
Oswego Community Unit<br />
School District 308 likewise<br />
released a statement,<br />
in which it offered its deepest<br />
sympathies to the family<br />
and friends of Stanton. It said<br />
Stanton had been the head<br />
softball coach for three years.<br />
“She was a motivational<br />
leader, instilling her athletes<br />
with confidence and positivity,”<br />
the statement read.<br />
District 308 Athletic Director<br />
Darren Howard noted in<br />
the statement that Stanton’s<br />
work with the softball program<br />
had remarkable results.<br />
“As a coach, Amanda was<br />
a mentor and friend to many,<br />
and her untimely and tragic<br />
death certainly has a large<br />
impact on the school community,”<br />
he said in the statement.<br />
“The district has arranged for<br />
counselors to be available for<br />
any students, coaches or staff<br />
members needing support at<br />
this very difficult time.”<br />
Howard told The Homer<br />
Horizon that the district is<br />
establishing a scholarship<br />
fund in Stanton’s name that<br />
will be awarded annually to<br />
a senior softball player that<br />
shows “the traits and leadership<br />
we all saw in Amanda.”<br />
Anyone wishing to donate<br />
to the scholarship can send<br />
checks to Oswego HS, Attn.<br />
Athletic Dept., 4250 Route<br />
71, Oswego, IL 60543, placing<br />
“Stanton Scholarship<br />
Fund” in the memo section<br />
of the check. The district has<br />
other plans for the future to<br />
honor Stanton, though right<br />
now it is focused on giving<br />
everyone involved time to<br />
grieve and honor Stanton’s<br />
memory, Howard said.<br />
Stanton’s full obituary can be<br />
found on Page 12 of this week’s<br />
issue.<br />
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Historic John Lane Days to return with new lineup of activities<br />
Jacquelyn Schlabach<br />
Assistant Editor<br />
Lockport’s history dates<br />
back centuries, with many<br />
key figures making their<br />
marks not only on the city,<br />
but on the world.<br />
John Lane, who settled in<br />
Lockport, invented the firstever<br />
steel plow in 1833. Today,<br />
his contribution to the<br />
farming industry is still recognized<br />
at the third annual<br />
Historic John Lane Days.<br />
The Historic John Lane<br />
Farm, where the steel plow<br />
was invented, serves as an<br />
educational resource that<br />
will gather the community<br />
July 14 and 15 to help raise<br />
money for a renovation of<br />
the barn that stands on the<br />
property.<br />
“The reason we started<br />
having [John Lane Days]<br />
was to introduce to the public<br />
the farm, and the reason<br />
behind doing it was to promote<br />
the building that we<br />
have that has repurposed<br />
wood in it from the original<br />
John Lane building, and we<br />
want to save this barn and<br />
turn it into a community center<br />
and a museum for John<br />
Lane’s items and a meeting<br />
area for the public,” said<br />
Sylvia Zielke-Kuffel, president<br />
of the board of trustees<br />
at the farm.<br />
The barn has hand-cut and<br />
hewn boards from Lane’s<br />
original barn that were built<br />
into its structure, but has<br />
been in need of a new roof<br />
that is estimated to cost<br />
$250,000. Money raised<br />
from John Lane Days is to<br />
go directly toward the roof,<br />
as well as the overall restoration<br />
of the barn that was<br />
built in the 1920s, in hopes<br />
of making it into a museum<br />
and community center that<br />
shares the history of farming.<br />
“And of course, for us,<br />
saving it for that means to<br />
not only save it, but to make<br />
it useful so that everybody<br />
has an opportunity to come<br />
there and to see the items<br />
that John Lane used, as well<br />
as to learn about why he is<br />
so important,” Zielke-Kuffel<br />
said.<br />
Students from The Montessori<br />
School of Lemont<br />
have been the first to participate<br />
in a farming project<br />
held at the site, where they<br />
learn hands-on about organic<br />
farming.<br />
“Most of the kids we talk<br />
to [say], ‘Oh my folks just<br />
go to the store and get it,’<br />
I’m like yeah, but it has to<br />
come from somewhere,”<br />
Zielke-Kuffel said. “It has<br />
to come from a farmer first,<br />
then it goes to processors<br />
then it goes to the store. So<br />
we’re trying to retrain that<br />
thinking so they understand<br />
and have a better appreciation<br />
for it.”<br />
As part of the restoration,<br />
Zielke-Kuffel said they plan<br />
to have a section for children<br />
where they can learn,<br />
as well.<br />
During Historic John<br />
Lane Days, which runs from<br />
11 a.m.-5 p.m., families are<br />
welcome to come to the farm<br />
and experience a whole new<br />
line-up of activities as compared<br />
to the last two years.<br />
“This will be fun,” Zielke-<br />
Kuffel said. “It’s designed<br />
for families this year.”<br />
Children can enjoy a firstever<br />
train ride, experience a<br />
pedal car, play ring toss, participate<br />
in a bean bag competition,<br />
play Bozo buckets<br />
and more. This year, there<br />
are to be 30 vendors that<br />
are almost all brand new,<br />
according to Zielke-Kuffel.<br />
There is to be crafters, wood<br />
carvers, people who make<br />
handmade laptop cases, design<br />
hubcaps and others.<br />
“All the new vendors<br />
we’re going to have, I just<br />
think that’s going to be exciting<br />
because they’re going<br />
to bring so much new ideas,<br />
new things into the whole<br />
picture that it’s going to be<br />
fun for everybody to want to<br />
shop,” she said.<br />
Attendees can bring their<br />
lawn chairs and blankets<br />
for the first-ever fundraising<br />
concert on July 14 at 5 p.m.<br />
Musicians Marilea Zajec (left) and Neal Peck of the South<br />
Suburban Dulcimer and Folk Music Society chat with Kevin<br />
J. Wood, who was portraying Abraham Lincoln at last year’s<br />
Historic John Lane Days. 22nd Century Media File Photo<br />
Country artist Elliot Sedgiwck<br />
is donating his time and<br />
efforts to partner with the<br />
Historic John Lane Farm to<br />
raise money to fix the barn.<br />
Tickets are $5 a person and<br />
can be purchased by calling<br />
(815) 342-2656.<br />
Returning for another year<br />
is Kevin J. Woods who is to<br />
portray Abraham Lincoln<br />
and have presentations about<br />
the I&M Canal and John<br />
Lane.<br />
Admission is free of<br />
charge, however, donations<br />
are appreciated. Parking on<br />
the grounds is $1 per car<br />
and additional parking will<br />
be on Chancellor Drive and<br />
Regents Road. The farm is<br />
located at 16217 S. Gougar<br />
Road in Lockport.<br />
Homer Community Consolidated School D33C Board of Education<br />
Three assistant superintendents appointed at meeting<br />
Jessie Molloy<br />
Freelance Reporter<br />
The Homer Community<br />
Consolidated School District<br />
33C Board of Education<br />
continued with its<br />
appointments of new administrators<br />
at its June 26<br />
meeting, following the appointment<br />
of Craig Schoppe<br />
to replace outgoing Superintendent<br />
Kara Coglianese.<br />
Joining Schoppe for the<br />
first time in the administrative<br />
office effective Sunday,<br />
July 1, will be three new assistant<br />
superintendents: Assistant<br />
Superintendent for<br />
Instruction Michael Szopinski,<br />
Assistant Superintendent<br />
for Business Aleksas<br />
Kirkus and Assistant Superintendent<br />
for Human Resources<br />
Michael Portwood.<br />
Szopinski, like Schoppe,<br />
has a history with District<br />
33C, having served as the<br />
principal at Young School<br />
for the past eight years.<br />
While at Young, Szopinski<br />
introduced curricular initiatives,<br />
including mixed<br />
ability differentiation and<br />
circular feedback for teachers.<br />
Szopinski received his<br />
bachelor’s degree from the<br />
University of Illinois at<br />
Urbana-Champaign and his<br />
master’s from Loyola University<br />
Chicago. Szopinski<br />
is replacing outgoing Assistant<br />
Superintendent for<br />
Instruction Kathleen Robinson.<br />
Kirkus comes to District<br />
33C from LaGrange School<br />
District 102, where he spent<br />
21 years in the technology<br />
department, working his<br />
way up to director of technology<br />
and business operations.<br />
Kirkus, of Lemont, is<br />
moving closer to home by<br />
coming to 33C. He received<br />
his MBA and his Chief<br />
School Business Official<br />
licensure from Concordia<br />
University Chicago. Kirkus<br />
will take the place of Christi<br />
Tyler.<br />
Portwood has been with<br />
District 33C since 2015,<br />
when he was hired to create<br />
the previously nonexistent<br />
human resources department.<br />
His previous title was<br />
director of HR. Portwood<br />
earned his bachelor’s degree<br />
at Illinois Wesleyan<br />
University and received<br />
his master’s from National<br />
Louis University.<br />
Speaking on behalf of<br />
the Illinois Federation of<br />
Teachers Local 604, Tammie<br />
Ebel said the teachers<br />
are “excited to be working<br />
with four new upper administrators<br />
this year.”<br />
“We’re looking forward<br />
to getting started and to getting<br />
out of the hole we have<br />
fallen into recently,” Ebel<br />
said.<br />
Ebel commented that the<br />
teachers felt the previous<br />
administration had failed in<br />
effectively communicating<br />
with the teachers and building<br />
staff.<br />
“We had no communication,”<br />
she said. “Which<br />
makes it very hard to make<br />
choices as teachers. We’re<br />
looking forward to getting<br />
back on track.”<br />
Ross School update<br />
During the meeting, the<br />
board heard a presentation<br />
on the progress of preserving<br />
Ross School, the historic<br />
one-room, wooden<br />
schoolhouse which sits on<br />
the district’s property. Back<br />
in the fall, a group of parents,<br />
staff and community<br />
volunteers restored the roof<br />
on the building with help<br />
from donations from local<br />
businesses to save it from<br />
the harsh winter weather,<br />
but much remains to be<br />
done.<br />
Members of the Homer<br />
Glen Area Chamber of<br />
Commerce recently met to<br />
discuss creating a special<br />
subcommittee in conjunc-<br />
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LTHS teacher sails aboard exploration ship in Pacific Ocean<br />
Brown a guest on<br />
Nautilus vessel for fiveday<br />
expedition<br />
Jacquelyn Schlabach<br />
Assistant Editor<br />
It was the opportunity of a lifetime.<br />
Lockport Township High School<br />
teacher Jeff Brown was selected as<br />
one of four teachers from across<br />
the country to sail aboard Exploration<br />
Vessel Nautilus to sail June<br />
6-10 for five days at the launch<br />
of its six-month expedition in the<br />
Eastern Pacific Ocean.<br />
Last November, Brown was<br />
awarded CITGO STEM Teacher of<br />
the Year, which gave him the opportunity<br />
to be a CITGO Nautilus<br />
Ambassador and join the exploration.<br />
The ambassadors were selected<br />
for their “leadership in education<br />
and commitment to bringing<br />
unique science, technology, engineering<br />
and mathematics educational<br />
experience to their learners,”<br />
according to the Vessel Nautilus<br />
website.<br />
CITGO is a sponsor of Ocean<br />
Exploration Trust, which has programs<br />
that focus on scientific exploration,<br />
such as the one Brown<br />
was on last month. The ambassadors<br />
get to experience life aboard<br />
a research vessel and see firsthand<br />
how “deep sea exploration and research<br />
is conducted.”<br />
“When I was on, the main part<br />
of that particular crew was to do<br />
some floor mapping.” Brown said.<br />
“Sometimes, they put the [remote<br />
operated vehicle] robots underwater<br />
— they didn’t in this one. So really,<br />
we spent some time seeing and<br />
talking with the scientist that did<br />
the mapping and seeing the mapping<br />
system and how it works, and<br />
then we spent some time with the<br />
ROV engineer and talking about<br />
the ROVs that they use to go down<br />
and do the exploring, and taking<br />
samples and things like that.”<br />
Every day, Brown woke up<br />
around 6:30 a.m. to get ready for<br />
the new adventure that awaited,<br />
and ended his long days around 10<br />
p.m. He slept in a 10x10-foot cabin<br />
with two sets of bunk beds, sharing<br />
it with one of the teachers. When<br />
he got up, breakfast was waiting<br />
for him, made by chefs who were<br />
on board.<br />
“The food was phenomenal,”<br />
Brown said. “They cook up great<br />
meals and plenty of it. That was<br />
one thing, you certainly didn’t go<br />
hungry on there. If you did, it was<br />
your own fault.”<br />
He said at almost every meal,<br />
there were about three different<br />
types of meat, various potatoes and<br />
vegetables, as well as a mix of salads<br />
and fresh fruit.<br />
The first day he was aboard the<br />
ship, they were in port, preparing<br />
to depart Los Angeles. He got a<br />
tour of the ship and learned about<br />
all the safety policies and procedures.<br />
The following day prepared<br />
him and the approximately 25 other<br />
crew members for the event of<br />
an emergency.<br />
“The first day we were [in the<br />
ocean], they do kind of like we do<br />
in school earlier in the year, you<br />
have like fire drills and things like<br />
that, so we did have like an abandoned<br />
ship drill, and obviously we<br />
didn’t actually inflate the life boats<br />
and get in them, but [it was] right<br />
up to that point,” Brown said. “I<br />
mean, you grabbed your life preserver,<br />
you put it on, you went up<br />
to the deck up there with the crew,<br />
and they were all set to pop open<br />
the lifeboats and stuff. I thought<br />
that was kind of interesting.”<br />
After learning the basics of the<br />
ship, it was time to explore. The<br />
four teachers had the opportunity<br />
to job shadow different tasks that<br />
were being completed by the scientists<br />
and crew members on board.<br />
“We spent some time the one day<br />
with the head of navigation on the<br />
ship,” Brown said. “So, we didn’t<br />
have any one specific thing; we<br />
kind of did a little bit of everything<br />
and mostly kind of job shadowed,<br />
you could say, to learn about all the<br />
different technology and science<br />
that went on on the ship.”<br />
Brown, a college and career applications<br />
teacher, is also a sponsor of<br />
the LTHS Robotics Team. So, it was<br />
Lockport Township High School teacher Jeff Brown joined three other teachers from across the country to<br />
sail aboard Exploration Vessel Nautilus June 6-10 at the launch of its six-month expedition in the Eastern<br />
Pacific Ocean. Photo submitted<br />
no surprise that his favorite part of<br />
the experience was seeing the ROVs.<br />
“I think the biggest thing for me<br />
was the ROVs, the underwater robots<br />
that they have because, again,<br />
being the robotics sponsor, that<br />
was very interesting to me, but it’s<br />
completely different when you go<br />
underwater versus our robots that<br />
are always [on] land,” Brown said.<br />
The ROVS go 400 meters below<br />
the surface to gather information<br />
on the ocean floor.<br />
“I also like the other technology<br />
that they had,” he said. “Their sonar<br />
mapping and how they do it,<br />
and how they send out the beams<br />
to map what’s going on on the<br />
ocean floor, so most of the technology<br />
and the ROVs [was the most<br />
interesting].”<br />
On June 10, the ship went to<br />
San Francisco to drop off the four<br />
teachers and other crew members<br />
as they rotated in new people.<br />
Throughout the six-month journey,<br />
rotations are made with people<br />
coming and going on the ship. Because<br />
Nautilus is an exploration<br />
vessel and not a research one, they<br />
travel through the ocean not knowing<br />
what it is they’ll find.<br />
“They don’t necessarily know<br />
for sure they’re going to run into<br />
something, it’s more, ‘What are we<br />
going to run into?’” Brown said.<br />
Nautilus is currently on its fourth<br />
year of exploration in the Eastern<br />
Pacific Ocean. Sailing until November,<br />
it will travel through the<br />
regions of British Columbia, Canada,<br />
along the West Coast and the<br />
Hawaiian Islands, according to its<br />
website.<br />
“Personally, I’m just so thankful<br />
to CITGO, because obviously<br />
without them sponsoring and doing<br />
a CITGO Stem Teacher of the Year,<br />
I never would have had this opportunity,<br />
and also Ocean Exploration<br />
Trust, same thing,” Brown said. ”I<br />
mean the fact that they do this, and<br />
they allow teachers and whatever<br />
this opportunity, I think it’s phenomenal.”<br />
When school starts up again next<br />
month, Brown plans to bring back<br />
a lot of his personal experiences to<br />
share with his students.<br />
“I know for a fact even before I<br />
left, a lot of my students were really<br />
serious like, ‘We can’t wait to<br />
hear about it when you get back,’<br />
so I think it’ll be very valuable for<br />
them,” he said.<br />
Ocean Exploration Trust has an<br />
education website where teachers<br />
can use various lessons in the classroom,<br />
and, according to Brown, he<br />
plans to use just that.<br />
“But I think, too, just talking<br />
about my experiences and the technology<br />
that was on the ship, you<br />
know we don’t have that in the<br />
classroom, but certainly just explaining<br />
it, and I’ve got plenty of<br />
pictures, and then trying to incorporate<br />
that into the different lessons<br />
that they have, and even just<br />
adding it into some of the lessons I<br />
have,” he said.<br />
As of press time, Nautilus was<br />
along the U.S. Cascadia Margin<br />
located offshore of Washington,<br />
Oregon and northern California.<br />
Its task was to explore for methane<br />
seeps and hydrate sites and to<br />
“characterize their associated ecosystems<br />
along the U.S. Cascadia<br />
Margin,” according to the website.<br />
Its next expedition is to survey<br />
three offshore Pacific seamounts in<br />
Canada.
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tion with the district to work<br />
on restoring and re-purposing<br />
the building.<br />
Jodi Adelman, whose<br />
grandparents, Barney and<br />
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property the building was<br />
originally built on, also<br />
spoke at the meeting to encourage<br />
the saving of the<br />
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than 100 years old.<br />
“I would love to see it restored,<br />
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FROM THE FRANKFORT STATION<br />
Frankfort Culver’s employee<br />
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chain’s commercial<br />
Frankfort woman Brianna<br />
Alston, an employee of the<br />
Culver’s location in Frankfort,<br />
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commercial that aims to inform<br />
customers of the product’s<br />
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Culver’s invited members<br />
of their team to submit a picture<br />
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from a group of employees<br />
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Alston has worked at Culver’s<br />
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“It’s really who I am, not<br />
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FROM THE NEW LENOX PATRIOT<br />
LWSRA receives $1,161<br />
donation following NL family<br />
estate sale<br />
The Goes family hosted an<br />
estate sale at its New Lenox<br />
home June 23-24 in preparation<br />
for a permanent move to<br />
Naples, Florida.<br />
And the family could not<br />
leave without giving back<br />
to the Lincolnway Special<br />
Recreation Association, an<br />
organization that provided a<br />
number of helpful programs<br />
for their 11-year-old son,<br />
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adaptive services for<br />
individuals with disabilities.<br />
Noah has iatrogenic autism<br />
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Noah’s mother, Lisa, said<br />
the Lincolnway Special Recreation<br />
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“Other programs might<br />
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RA,” Lisa said. “They are<br />
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Over the course of the<br />
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made a profit of more than<br />
$2,300, of which half was<br />
donated to the LWSRA.<br />
LWSRA Executive Director<br />
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the money to help build a<br />
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Reporting by Analisa Trofimuk,<br />
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FROM THE ORLAND PARK PRAIRIE<br />
Police say man shot woman<br />
multiple times before<br />
killing himself outside P.F.<br />
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A preliminary police<br />
investigation revealed a<br />
59-year-old man likely shot<br />
a 43-year-old woman “numerous”<br />
times June 24 before<br />
shooting himself in the<br />
parking lot of an Orland<br />
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Police responded at 5:19<br />
p.m. June 24 to a report of<br />
gunshots in the parking lot<br />
of P.F. Chang’s, 14135 S.<br />
LaGrange Road, according<br />
to a press release issued the<br />
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Orland Park Police Department.<br />
Police reportedly arrived<br />
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Orland Park Police Chief<br />
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Shereyk knew she was going<br />
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as a result of a relationship<br />
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Page 3 of this week’s<br />
issue features the type<br />
of story we dread<br />
Letters to the Editor<br />
From the Editor<br />
A tragic loss<br />
reporting — the sudden<br />
and unexpected death of a<br />
Lockport resident. Amanda<br />
Stanton was a beloved<br />
26-year-old teacher and<br />
softball coach who had her<br />
life cut tragically short two<br />
weekends ago when she<br />
was struck by a driver in a<br />
hit-and-run.<br />
Since the news of her<br />
death, countless people and<br />
organizations have shared<br />
stories about how cheerful<br />
and positive she was. Stanton<br />
was an educator and coach,<br />
and it is evident she touched<br />
Beware of foxes<br />
My husband and I reside<br />
on Mary Ann Lane in Lockport.<br />
The past couple weeks<br />
(prior to the rainstorms), we<br />
have sighted several foxes.<br />
The first time we were sitting<br />
at the kitchen table,<br />
glanced out the patio door,<br />
and saw a fox in our fenced<br />
yard. It went up and over<br />
the fence. My husband and I<br />
were quite surprised, as this<br />
was quite unexpected.<br />
The next morning at<br />
about 6:30 a.m. when our<br />
son opened the big garage<br />
door to go to work, a dead<br />
rabbit with its innards eaten<br />
away was lying right on the<br />
garage apron. We assumed<br />
it had been put there by the<br />
fox.<br />
The next day, we once<br />
again spotted the fox outside<br />
the back of our fence<br />
and our neighbor’s garage.<br />
Several days passed with<br />
no sighting, but then, once<br />
again, while we sat at the<br />
table, the fox and a young<br />
one were in our next door<br />
neighbor’s yard. There have<br />
been five sightings in two<br />
weeks. We would suggest<br />
anyone in our area to be on<br />
the lookout for these foxes.<br />
If anyone has small children<br />
or animals they allow<br />
in their back yard, please<br />
watch them, as our thoughts<br />
were the foxes are apparently<br />
looking for food, based<br />
numerous lives in those roles,<br />
as well as in her personal life.<br />
Thanks to help from the<br />
community, the person<br />
thought to be responsible<br />
for Stanton’s death was apprehended<br />
last weekend.<br />
I’m not often at a loss for<br />
words, but that’s where I<br />
find myself now. My sincerest<br />
condolences go out to<br />
anyone who knew Stanton.<br />
Losing someone like her is<br />
a reminder to all of us to tell<br />
our family and friends we<br />
love them and make sure to<br />
take nothing for granted.<br />
on the rabbit at our garage<br />
door.<br />
Mary Kelly<br />
Lockport resident<br />
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In Memoriam<br />
Amanda Stanton<br />
Amanda Marie Stanton, 26, of Lockport,<br />
previously of Homer Glen, died suddenly<br />
June 24. She is survived by her parents,<br />
Lisa (nee Boscarino) and Jerry Stanton;<br />
her brothers, Joshua (Michelle) and Jacob;<br />
her grandparents, Carl Boscarino and Harry<br />
“Bud” and Georgianna Stanton; and her Stanton<br />
many aunts, uncles and cousins. She was a<br />
strategic math specialist at Jefferson Junior High School<br />
in Naperville Community Unit School District 203, head<br />
softball coach at Oswego High School, a 2014 graduate<br />
of Eastern Michigan University and a 2010 graduate of<br />
Lockport Township High School. Services were held at<br />
Richard J. Modell Funeral Home & Cremation Services<br />
and St. Bernard Parish in Homer Glen. Interment Resurrection<br />
Cemetery. The Oswego High School Athletic<br />
Department, along with the Stanton family, will create<br />
The Stanton Scholarship Fund in honor of coach Amanda<br />
Stanton. This scholarship will be awarded to an Oswego<br />
High School senior softball player each spring who demonstrates<br />
outstanding character and leadership on and off<br />
the field. All donations can be made to OHS Athletics and<br />
mailed to Oswego High School at 4250 State Route 71,<br />
Oswego, IL 60543. Include in the memo “Stanton Scholarship<br />
Fund.”<br />
Florence Viscum<br />
Florence M. Viscum, 101, of Lockport, died June 22. She<br />
was born in Lockport and was raised in the Fairmont area<br />
where she was a proud lifelong resident. During World War<br />
II, Florence worked in the Navy yards, also employed by<br />
United Gas & Electric, Stone and Webster Engineering and<br />
retired from Globe Aircraft. She was a member of St. John<br />
Vianney Church in Lockport, Lockport VFW Ladies Auxiliary<br />
#5788, where she was the Illinois District #18 Treasure<br />
for 17 years, and past president for two years, as well as the<br />
Lockport American Legion John Olson Post #18. She is survived<br />
by her daughters; Karen (Steve) Dobosz and Pamela<br />
(Howard “Robert”) Walker; five grandchildren, John and<br />
Jeanne Dobosz, Julie (Eric) Nibert, Howard “Bobby” (Samantha)<br />
Walker and Sabrina (Dan) Jones; nine great-grandchildren;<br />
and dear friend Peter Spagnola. Services were held<br />
June 28.<br />
John Scholten<br />
John A. Scholten, 64, of Lockport, died June 21. He was<br />
born in Chicago and was a lifelong resident of Lockport.<br />
He was a wonderful handyman who could fix anything. He<br />
will be deeply missed by all who knew and loved him. He is<br />
survived by his loving and devoted wife of 44 years, Diane<br />
(nee Wetstein); two sons, John (Brandy Miranda) and Jason<br />
(Ashley) Scholten; four adored grandchildren, Jack, Ruby,<br />
Andrew and Rex Scholten; two sisters, Judy (Russ) Mushro<br />
and Karen Rowe; mother-in-law, Irene; and numerous nieces<br />
and nephews. In lieu of flowers, memorials to any charity<br />
of donor’s choice in Jonh’s name would be appreciated. Per<br />
John’s wishes, cremation rites have been respectfully addressed.<br />
Have someone’s life you’d like to honor? Email<br />
j.schlabach@22ndcenturymedia.com with information about a<br />
loved one who was a part of the Lockport community.
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the Lockport Legend | July 5, 2018 | 13<br />
Poetry to be brought to life in Lockport<br />
Amanda Del Buono<br />
Freelance Reporter<br />
To many, poetry might<br />
seem like a lost art. But this<br />
art is coming back to the<br />
Lockport community and<br />
bringing community members<br />
together.<br />
“Lockport seems to me to<br />
be a pretty simple town with<br />
a rich history,” said Amy<br />
Curtis, a three-year Lockport<br />
resident who attended the<br />
Lockport Poetry Project’s<br />
third workshop on Saturday,<br />
June 30, at the White Oak<br />
Library District. “What I<br />
love about it is Lockport [is]<br />
an art center. This little town<br />
is bubbling over with art and<br />
community. This is making<br />
Lockport home to me, too.<br />
“It’s very inspiring and I<br />
don’t know where that leads<br />
and what it means, but Sam<br />
and the Gary Poetry Project<br />
are inspiring.”<br />
Amy Curtis and her<br />
daughter, Joanna Curtis, 24,<br />
have attended the workshops<br />
every week since they began.<br />
“[The workshops] make<br />
it less intimidating,” Joanna<br />
Curtis said. “It’s not just for<br />
poets, it’s for the community.<br />
It’s building community.”<br />
The Lockport Poetry Project<br />
is a part of the unLOCK<br />
Project, spearheaded by the<br />
City, the Gaylord Building<br />
and the Illinois State<br />
Museum Lockport Gallery,<br />
according to John Lustig,<br />
director of the Lockport Gallery,<br />
who was present at Saturday’s<br />
workshop.<br />
The unLOCK Project,<br />
titled “unLOCK: Merging<br />
Art and Industry in Downtown<br />
Lockport,” was created<br />
when the Gaylord Building<br />
received the Our Town grant<br />
from the National Endowment<br />
for the Arts (NEA),<br />
according to the Gaylord<br />
Building website. The project’s<br />
goal is to create citywide<br />
art experiences.<br />
“We want to make a certified<br />
district celebrating<br />
the arts next to the ecology<br />
of the canal that we want to<br />
maintain. … Working with<br />
the Gaylord Building and the<br />
City has allowed us to do it,”<br />
Lustig said.<br />
Saturday’s workshop was<br />
led by Sam Love, a Gary, Indiana<br />
artist; president of the<br />
Calumet Art Residency; and<br />
self-described “lazy poet.”<br />
Love is one of 10 artists coming<br />
to Lockport as part of the<br />
unLOCK Project. Last year,<br />
Love began the Gary Poetry<br />
Project in his hometown, embracing<br />
the Indiana city’s history<br />
of poetry and bringing<br />
poetry to the community in<br />
various ways, he said.<br />
After the success of the<br />
Gary Poetry Project, Love is<br />
now looking to create community<br />
poetry projects in<br />
other arts-loving cities, like<br />
Lockport.<br />
“Lockport had a lot of<br />
the qualities we look for.<br />
Lockport has a history of<br />
poems… it’s a community<br />
that supports the arts,” Love<br />
said. “… Gary and Lockport<br />
are both industrial cities, but<br />
Lockport is much older.”<br />
Similar to the Gary Poetry<br />
Project, the Lockport Poetry<br />
Project is not only writing<br />
poetry together, but also<br />
bringing that poetry to the<br />
community through installations<br />
in the city. Using lines<br />
Sam Love conducts a Lockport Poetry Project workshop Saturday, June 30, at the White<br />
Oak Library Lockport Branch Library. Bob Klein/22nd Century Media<br />
submitted by community<br />
members, Love is installing<br />
a word-magnet-style poem<br />
composed of the one-line<br />
submissions under the 9th<br />
Street bridge.<br />
The Lockport Poetry Project<br />
has collected about 100<br />
lines for this public art installation,<br />
Love said.<br />
“A lot of it is just putting<br />
poetry out there and making<br />
it more accessible,” he said.<br />
“De-mystifying it… We’re<br />
all capable of being poets.”<br />
During Saturday’s workshop,<br />
Love led a group<br />
discussion about poetry as<br />
public art, which is exactly<br />
what the group is looking to<br />
accomplish. After discussing<br />
some examples of poetry as<br />
public art, they turned to the<br />
goals and meaning of it.<br />
The Lockport Poetry Project<br />
will be meeting Saturdays<br />
through September,<br />
Love said.<br />
More information about<br />
the unLOCK Project and a<br />
schedule of arts programs<br />
is available on the Gaylord<br />
Building website.<br />
faith<br />
From Page 12<br />
Circle of Love<br />
9 a.m. Wednesdays. Circle<br />
of Love provides diapers,<br />
feminine and incontinence<br />
products to clients<br />
who are qualified to use the<br />
local FISH Food Pantry.<br />
For more information, call<br />
(815) 838-1017.<br />
Communion<br />
First Sunday of the month.<br />
Assumption Greek Orthodox Church<br />
(15625 S. Bell Road, Lockport)<br />
Sunday Services<br />
8:15 a.m. Orthros; 9:30<br />
a.m. Divine Liturgy; 10 a.m.<br />
Sunday School. For more<br />
information, call (708) 645-<br />
0652.<br />
THRIVE Church (1605 Washington St.,<br />
Lockport)<br />
Worship Services<br />
10 a.m. service; Meet and<br />
greet with coffee at 9:30 a.m.<br />
and Children’s Church — infant<br />
to fifth grade — also at<br />
10 a.m. New summer hours;<br />
all are welcome to join for<br />
coffee, fellowship, worship<br />
and the word.<br />
Thrive Youth<br />
7 p.m. Wednesdays night<br />
youth gatherings<br />
Thrive Small Groups<br />
6:30 p.m. Tuesdays night<br />
gatherings<br />
Shepherd of the Hill Lutheran Church (925<br />
E. 9th St., Lockport)<br />
Vacation Bible School: Splash<br />
Canyon God’s Promise on<br />
Life’s Wild Ride<br />
9 a.m.- noon, July 16-<br />
20. Registration is now<br />
open for children age 4<br />
through fifth grade. Cost<br />
is $15 per child, or $35 per<br />
family.<br />
Sundays Service<br />
9 a.m. and 10:35 a.m.<br />
Wednesday Service<br />
6:30 p.m.<br />
Weight Watchers<br />
5:30 p.m. Tuesdays<br />
weigh-in, meeting starts at<br />
6 p.m.<br />
Alcoholics Anonymous<br />
6:30 p.m. Wednesdays for<br />
beginners<br />
7:30 p.m. Wednesdays for<br />
established members<br />
All meetings are “closed<br />
door”<br />
First Baptist Church of Lockport (800<br />
Thornton St., Lockport)<br />
Angel Food House Food<br />
Pantry<br />
12:15-1:15 p.m. Sundays<br />
and 6-7 p.m. Wednesdays.<br />
Open to the public. First<br />
time users please bring two<br />
forms of identification.<br />
Summer Break Fun Nights<br />
6-7 p.m. Wednesday<br />
nights during months of<br />
June-August. This is an opportunity<br />
for children to<br />
come have fun and learn<br />
about God.<br />
MEGA Camp<br />
6-8:30 p.m. July 9-13.<br />
Children through sixth<br />
graders will have an opportunity<br />
to learn sport skills<br />
from soccer to basketball,<br />
and life skills from cooking<br />
and crafting. There will<br />
also be Bible stories, music,<br />
games, food and more<br />
fun. For more information,<br />
call (815) 838-4004.<br />
5-Day Club<br />
1-2:30 p.m. July 16-20.<br />
Children are welcome to<br />
enjoy an afternoon filled<br />
with games, stories, Bible<br />
lessons, food and more. For<br />
more information, call (815)<br />
838-4004.<br />
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crosstown CROSSWORD & Sudoku<br />
The crosstowns: Frankfort, Homer Glen, Lockport, Mokena, New Lenox, Orland Park, Tinley Park<br />
Crossword by Myles Mellor and Cindy LaFleur<br />
Across<br />
1. Thatcher and Blair,<br />
abbr.<br />
4. “Me, too!”<br />
9. Played in Vegas<br />
14. RSVP encl.<br />
15. Pitch-black<br />
16. Sharpened<br />
17. Plug<br />
19. Doesn’t like<br />
20. Wanton look<br />
21. United States Navy<br />
rank<br />
23. The “you have the<br />
right to remain silent”<br />
warning<br />
27. Ones that grasp suddenly<br />
32. A Cadillac model<br />
33. “That hurt!”<br />
35. “Aha!”<br />
36. New name for a<br />
Homer Glen Mexican<br />
restaurant, goes with<br />
44 across<br />
37. Warning float<br />
38. It drove early Americans<br />
out west<br />
43. Countertenor<br />
44. See 35 across<br />
45. Bring<br />
48. Bring along<br />
49. Little food measuring<br />
tool<br />
52. Homer Glen resident<br />
who appeared on<br />
Jeopardy!, John ____<br />
54. Suntan lotion, applier<br />
56. Laker, Lamar<br />
58. Fish magnet<br />
59. Partridge’s cousin<br />
63. Perseveres<br />
67. Author Zola<br />
68. Enjoyed immensely<br />
69. Sombrero, e.g.<br />
70. Challenged<br />
71. Crimean port<br />
72. Insidious<br />
Down<br />
1. Longest book of the<br />
Bible<br />
2. “Looks like we ___<br />
3. Cuts<br />
4. Charge lead-in<br />
5. Toronto’s prov.<br />
6. “Greatest” boxer<br />
7. Catchall abbr.<br />
8. Tickable things<br />
9. Yankee Hall of Famer<br />
10. Ohio university town<br />
11. Corp. leadership<br />
12. Shoe specification<br />
13. Dentist qualification<br />
18. Medieval perhaps<br />
22. ‘’Agnus _____’’<br />
24. You name it<br />
25. Mussolini title<br />
26. Tooth trouble<br />
28. Lion prey<br />
29. Pin holder<br />
30. Really funny joke<br />
31. Muddy home<br />
34. Inclement<br />
36. Emotional tones<br />
38. An appeal<br />
39. “Take ___ a sign”<br />
40. Software delivery<br />
model, abbr.<br />
41. Fruit<br />
42. Dot in the Pacific<br />
43. Sitcom extraterrestrial<br />
46. Drove, slangily<br />
47. Mature<br />
49. Realities<br />
50. Soap, e.g.<br />
51. Quite<br />
53. Excellent<br />
55. South of Tenn.<br />
57. Introduction to physics?<br />
59. Proof finale<br />
60. “Kill Bill” star, Uma<br />
61. Vacuum’s lack<br />
62. ___ de France cheese<br />
64. Apodal fish<br />
65. Accommodate, with<br />
“up”<br />
66. Week-end getaway<br />
How to play Sudoku<br />
Each sudoku puzzle consists of a 9x9 grid that<br />
has been subdivided into nine smaller grids of 3x3<br />
squares. To solve the puzzle, each row, column and<br />
box must contain each of the numbers 1 to 9.<br />
LEVEL: Medium<br />
Sudoku by Myles Mellor and Susan Flanagan<br />
answers<br />
LOCKPORT<br />
Port Noir<br />
(900 S. State St., Lockport;<br />
(815) 834-9463)<br />
■4-7 ■ p.m. Monday-Friday:<br />
Happy Hour<br />
■8-10 ■ p.m. Thursdays:<br />
Comedy Bingo<br />
■8-11 ■ p.m. Fridays and<br />
Saturdays: Live Band<br />
■7-11 ■ p.m. Sundays:<br />
Open Mic Night<br />
The Outpost Pub & Grill<br />
(14929 Archer Ave., Lockport;<br />
(815) 836-8893)<br />
■8 ■ p.m. Tuesdays and<br />
Thursdays: Live DJ and<br />
Karaoke<br />
Strike N Spare II<br />
(811 Northern Drive,<br />
Lockport; (708) 301-<br />
1477)<br />
■9:30 ■ p.m.-12:30 a.m.<br />
Mondays: Quartermania<br />
■10 ■ p.m.-midnight Saturdays:<br />
Cosmic Bowl<br />
ORLAND PARK<br />
The Brass Tap<br />
(14225 95th Ave. Suite<br />
400, Orland Park; (708)<br />
226-1827)<br />
■8 ■ p.m. Tuesdays: Trivia.<br />
Prizes awarded<br />
■9 ■ p.m. Fridays and Saturdays:<br />
Live music<br />
Dan ‘D’ Jac’s<br />
(9358 171st St., Orland<br />
Hills; (708) 460-8773<br />
■9 ■ p.m.-1 a.m. Wednesdays:<br />
acoustic open mic<br />
night<br />
■9:30 ■ p.m.-1:30 a.m.<br />
Thursdays: karaoke<br />
■9:30 ■ p.m.-2:30 a.m.<br />
Fridays and Saturdays:<br />
karaoke<br />
Traverso’s Restaurant<br />
(15601 S. Harlem Ave.,<br />
Orland Park; (708) 532-<br />
2220)<br />
■8 ■ p.m. Wednesdays and<br />
Saturdays: Karaoke<br />
TINLEY PARK<br />
350 Brewing<br />
(7144 W. 183rd St., Tinley<br />
Park (708) 825-7339)<br />
■6:30 ■ p.m. First Thursday<br />
of each month: Laugh<br />
Riot. Cost is $25 and<br />
includes dinner, two<br />
beers and a comedy<br />
show. For tickets, email<br />
todd@350brewing.com.<br />
To place an event in The<br />
Scene, email a.stoll@22<br />
ndcenturymedia.com.
16 | July 5, 2018 | The Lockport Legend dining out<br />
lockportlegend.com<br />
The Dish<br />
Pizza joint rebuilds brand under new owners<br />
Jacquelyn Schlabach<br />
Assistant Editor<br />
He lived down the street<br />
from B&V Pizza in Lockport<br />
growing up, and now he is<br />
running it.<br />
Vic Pellicano purchased<br />
the pizza joint that has been<br />
around for 31 years roughly<br />
a month ago with his godmother.<br />
The original owners,<br />
Bob and Vivian, opened<br />
B&V Pizza in 1987, passing<br />
the business down to their<br />
daughter a few years ago.<br />
“I came in here one day<br />
and ordered a pizza, and<br />
[the daughter] made a comment<br />
like, ‘Hey, do you still<br />
have that dream of owning a<br />
pizza place?’” Pellicano recalls.<br />
“Maybe when I was 10<br />
I had that dream, but I don’t<br />
remember having that dream<br />
recently. And then my godmother<br />
who’s running it now<br />
with me, she was like, ‘Yeah<br />
he wants to own a pizza<br />
place.’”<br />
It was not so much Pellicano’s<br />
dream as it was his<br />
father’s, who told him that he<br />
would love to own B&V.<br />
“We used to order from<br />
here all the time, and my<br />
dad would always say, ‘Oh,<br />
they’re sitting on a gold mine<br />
over there; we should buy<br />
that place,’ and this and that,”<br />
Pellicano said. “But I always<br />
rolled my eyes. I was in law<br />
school at the time. I didn’t<br />
want to buy this thing.”<br />
After completing law<br />
school at Loyola, Pellicano<br />
lived in Chicago for seven<br />
years with his wife, Becky,<br />
and three children. He moved<br />
to Homer Glen two-and-ahalf<br />
years ago to be back in<br />
his hometown.<br />
“When it came up, it just<br />
felt right,” Pellicano said.<br />
“So B&V, Bob and Vivian —<br />
my wife’s name is Becky and<br />
[my name’s] Vic so that kind<br />
of worked out. And my dad<br />
wanted to buy it and never<br />
had the chance. The owner<br />
was motivated to move it to<br />
somebody she knew would<br />
take care of it and the brand.<br />
Everything just seemed to<br />
line up. We were at a position<br />
where we could do it. It just<br />
kind of felt like fate was telling<br />
me to do it.”<br />
His godmother, Chris Peracki,<br />
is the president of B&V.<br />
His wife, Becky, is the marketing<br />
director. Vic is the<br />
CEO.<br />
Together, they see a lot<br />
of opportunity to spread the<br />
word about B&V and draw a<br />
B&V Pizza<br />
14508 Archer Ave. in<br />
Lockport<br />
Hours<br />
• 4-9 p.m. Tuesday-<br />
Thursday, Sunday<br />
• 4-10 p.m. Friday-<br />
Saturday<br />
For more information ...<br />
Web: www.bandvpizza.<br />
com<br />
Phone: (815) 838-8010<br />
bigger crowd.<br />
The previous owners never<br />
ran an ad or offered coupons<br />
in its 31 years of business. All<br />
that and more will change for<br />
B&V.<br />
“The first thing we need to<br />
do is rebuild it, right, because<br />
it’s just been so underappreciated<br />
for so long,” Pellicano<br />
said. “So, the first thing we<br />
need to do is take the customers,<br />
remind them that we’re<br />
here, you know, everybody<br />
who used to order.”<br />
There was a Facebook<br />
page run by the previous<br />
owners, but Pellicano plans<br />
to utilize it more to connect<br />
with customers, offering<br />
them coupons to those who<br />
comment on a post or share<br />
one, for example. An Instagram<br />
account recently was<br />
created that will be used to<br />
show customers the food being<br />
made and people enjoying<br />
it together.<br />
“The coolest part is the<br />
connection to the community,<br />
the way everybody’s engaging<br />
with us through Facebook,<br />
telling their stories,”<br />
Pellicano said. “It’s that kind<br />
of connection to the town. I<br />
don’t think any Domino’s<br />
or Pizza Hut or whatever,<br />
they’ll never have that.”<br />
In addition to advertising,<br />
Pellicano said there will be a<br />
loyalty program.<br />
“For us, it’s just so much<br />
about marketing the brand and<br />
J.J. Weinert prepares three different pies at B&V Pizza in<br />
Lockport. Photos by Thomas Czaja/22nd Century Media<br />
The most popular item on the menu at the Lockport spot is<br />
the B&V Special ($6.50), a sandwich made with homemade<br />
beef, melted mozzarella and the option of peppers.<br />
just telling people, ‘Hey you<br />
order from us, you spent this<br />
much, this year you get this<br />
much off,’” Pellicano said.<br />
“Just taking care of them,<br />
not making them keep track<br />
of menus, stuff like that. Just<br />
finding ways to make it easier<br />
for them to order from us.”<br />
By the end of the summer,<br />
Pellicano said the business<br />
also is to partner with Uber<br />
Eats and Grubhub to expand<br />
its delivery radius.<br />
“We want to make sure we<br />
can hit all of Lockport,” he<br />
said. “That’s been an issue<br />
and challenge in the past.”<br />
B&V Pizza is open starting<br />
at 4 p.m. Tuesday-Sunday.<br />
Pellicano said that by the end<br />
of the year the business will<br />
have a day shift starting at 11<br />
a.m. and be open for the first<br />
time on Mondays.<br />
As for now, the menu will<br />
stay the same as it always has<br />
been. Pellicano and his staff<br />
will observe which items are<br />
selling and which ones are<br />
not, and adjust accordingly.<br />
One of their top sellers has<br />
been the steak burrito ($8)<br />
which comes with beans,<br />
steak, cheese, tomato, lettuce<br />
and sour cream.<br />
“We sell so many burritos,<br />
like a Mexican restaurant,<br />
and they’re great,” Pellicano<br />
said.<br />
There are variations of<br />
pizza that customers can order,<br />
with toppings including<br />
sausage, mushroom, green<br />
pepper, Canadian bacon, hot<br />
giardiniera and more.<br />
“The food taste likes home,<br />
just feels like it’s always been<br />
here, [and] the food quality<br />
has always been amazing after<br />
all those years,” Pellicano<br />
said.
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the Lockport Legend | July 5, 2018 | 17<br />
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18 | July 5, 2018 | The Lockport Legend classifieds<br />
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Village of Homer Glen,<br />
P/T Development Services Inspector<br />
The Village of Homer Glen is seeking a part-time<br />
Development Services Inspector to perform site<br />
development and municipal construction field inspections,<br />
plan reviews and drainage, traffic and safety complaint<br />
reviews and follow-up, utility permits and other tasks as<br />
required. The position will work approximately 18 hours<br />
per week. Minimum Qualifications: Requires HS diploma<br />
or GED, excellent communication skills, ability to read and<br />
comprehend plans, perform general math calculations,<br />
calculate basic algebra and geometry formulas and possess<br />
a valid driver's license. At least 5 yrs. experience in<br />
construction or engineering services related to municipal<br />
construction inspection and moderate level of drainage<br />
concepts and design. Pay Rate: $26.00/hr, with no fringe<br />
benefits. Application Process: Interested candidates must<br />
email a cover letter, resume and completed job application<br />
to hkokodynsky@homerglenil.org or mail to<br />
Village of Homer Glen, Attn: Heather Kokodynsky, 14240<br />
W. 151st St., Homer Glen, IL 60491.<br />
Further details and job application are available at<br />
www.homerglenil.org<br />
Position open until filled.<br />
PRODUCTION WORKER<br />
Specialty Plastic Fabricators located in Mokena, IL<br />
Summary: Responsible for performing production work on a team<br />
or individual assignment in aflexible plastic fabrication shop.<br />
Assembles, cleans, folds, inspects and packages final products.<br />
Safety and quality are of utmost importance. Hours are<br />
7am–3:30pm Monday-Friday. Current SUMMER HOURS are<br />
6am-3:30pm Monday-Wednesday, 6am-1:30pm Thursday, and<br />
6am-12pm Friday. Overtime, when needed, will be offered inthe<br />
remaining hours on Thursday and Friday.<br />
Job Criteria:<br />
– Eager to learn<br />
– Works well in a team environment<br />
– Conscientious and dependable<br />
– Strong attention to detail<br />
– Ability to read a tape measure and use basic math skills<br />
– Ability to stand and maneuver around a production facility<br />
for up to 9 hours/day.<br />
– Able to lift up to 50 pounds<br />
– High school diploma or GED<br />
Benefits:<br />
– 401K with company match<br />
– Paid Holidays<br />
– Paid Vacation<br />
Position starts at $10/hour. Any interested applicants please send<br />
your resume and cover letter to HR@SPFINC.COM<br />
Part-Time Building Inspector<br />
The Village of Mokena has an opening in the Community<br />
Development Department for a Part-Time Building<br />
Inspector. The successful candidate will have a background<br />
in construction and building code administration, excellent<br />
interpersonal and communication skills, and the ability to<br />
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performing field inspections as needed. Municipal<br />
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required. Starting pay $30.00 to $40.00 per hour depending<br />
on qualifications. Interested candidates can apply by<br />
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Department, 11004 Carpenter Street, Mokena, IL 60448<br />
or electronically to mziska@mokena.org.<br />
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HIRING EVENT<br />
We are looking for<br />
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and Casual Store<br />
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(starting wage)<br />
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Please visit one of the<br />
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Homer Glen, IL 60491<br />
between the hours of<br />
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or Wednesday, July 11th<br />
at ALDI,<br />
1237 S State St<br />
Lemont IL 60439<br />
between the hours of<br />
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INDUSTRIAL QUALITY<br />
MANAGER<br />
SW Suburb of Chicago<br />
manufacturing company is<br />
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Required qualifications<br />
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Knowledge and experience in<br />
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Send resume to<br />
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Growing Residential<br />
Cleaning Co. has openings<br />
for Cleaning Pros<br />
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815-464-1988<br />
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SALES ENGINEER<br />
SW Suburb of Chicago<br />
manufacturing company seeks<br />
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Send resume to:<br />
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CNA/Caregiver for a<br />
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Evening, weekend &<br />
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Call 815-485-5860<br />
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Call 312-823-6785<br />
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SHERIFF'S SALE OF REAL ESTATE<br />
of 511 Ames Street, Lockport, IL 60441<br />
(Single Family Residence ). On the 12th<br />
day ofJuly, 2018 to be held at 12:00<br />
noon, at the Will County Courthouse<br />
Annex, 57 N. Ottawa Street, Room 201,<br />
Joliet, IL 60432, under Case Title: U.S.<br />
Bank National Association, as Trustee<br />
for Asset Backed Funding Corporation<br />
Asset Backed Certificates, Series<br />
2006-HE1 Plaintiff V.Joseph R.Fracaro,<br />
AKA Joseph Fracaro; Jennifer K.<br />
Fracaro, AKA Jennifer Fracaro; First<br />
Midwest Bank; Lloyd M. Flatt, III; Ford<br />
Motor Credit Company LLC Defendant.<br />
Case No. 16CH 1198 in the Circuit<br />
Court of the Twelfth Judicial Circuit,<br />
Will County, Illinois.<br />
Terms of Sale: ten percent (10%) at the<br />
time of sale and the balance within<br />
twenty-four (24) hours. No judicial sale<br />
fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring<br />
the residential real estate pursuant<br />
to its credit bid at the sale or by any<br />
mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other<br />
lienor acquiring the residential real estate<br />
whose rights inand to the residential<br />
real estate arose prior to the sale. All<br />
payments shall be made in cash or certified<br />
funds payable tothe Sheriff of Will<br />
County.<br />
In the event the property is acondomin-<br />
ium, in accordance with 735 ILCS<br />
5/15-1507(c)(1)(H-1) and (H-2), 765<br />
ILCS 605/9(g)(5), and 765 ILCS<br />
605/18.5(g-1), you are hereby notified<br />
that the purchaser of the unit, other than<br />
amortgagee, shall pay the assessments<br />
and legal fees required bysubdivisions<br />
(g)(1) and (g)(4) of Section 9and the assessments<br />
required by subsection (g-1)<br />
of Section 18.5 of the Illinois Condominium<br />
Property Act.<br />
Pursuant to Local Court Rule 11.03 (J)<br />
if there is asurplus following application<br />
ofthe proceeds of sale, then the<br />
plaintiff shall send written notice pursuant<br />
to 735 ILCS 5/15-1512(d) to all parties<br />
to the proceeding advising them of<br />
the amount ofthe surplus and that the<br />
surplus will beheld until aparty obtains<br />
acourt order for its distribution or, in<br />
the absence of an order, until the surplus<br />
is forfeited to the State.<br />
For Information Please Contact:<br />
Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC<br />
One East Wacker Suite 1250<br />
Chicago, IL 60601<br />
P: 1-614-220-5611<br />
F:<br />
PURSUANT TO THE FAIR DEBT<br />
COLLECTION PRACTICES ACT<br />
YOU ARE ADVISED THAT THIS<br />
LAW FIRM ISDEEMED TO BE A<br />
DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING<br />
TO COLLECT ADEBT AND ANY<br />
INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL<br />
BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE.<br />
SHERIFF'S SALE OF REAL ESTATE<br />
of 14649 South 135th Avenue, LOCK-<br />
PORT, IL 60441 (SINGLE FAMILY).<br />
On the 19th day of July, 2018 to be held<br />
at 12:00 noon, at the Will County Courthouse<br />
Annex, 57 N. Ottawa Street,<br />
Room 201, Joliet, IL 60432, under Case<br />
Title: Nationstar Mortgage LLC Plaintiff<br />
V. JAMES F.KING; PNC BANK,<br />
N.A., SUCCESSOR ININTEREST TO<br />
NATIONAL CITY BANK; CITI-<br />
BANK, N.A., SUCCESSOR IN IN-<br />
TEREST TO CITIBANK (SOUTH DA-<br />
KOTA), N.A.; Defendant.<br />
Case No. 17CH 0367 in the Circuit<br />
Court of the Twelfth Judicial Circuit,<br />
Will County, Illinois.<br />
Terms of Sale: ten percent (10%) at the<br />
time of sale and the balance within<br />
twenty-four (24) hours. No judicial sale<br />
fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring<br />
the residential real estate pursuant<br />
to its credit bid at the sale or by any<br />
mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other<br />
lienor acquiring the residential real estate<br />
whose rights inand to the residential<br />
real estate arose prior to the sale. All<br />
payments shall be made in cash or certi-<br />
2701 Property for<br />
Sale<br />
fied funds payable tothe Sheriff of Will<br />
County.<br />
In the event the property is acondomin-<br />
ium, in accordance with 735 ILCS<br />
5/15-1507(c)(1)(H-1) and (H-2), 765<br />
ILCS 605/9(g)(5), and 765 ILCS<br />
605/18.5(g-1), you are hereby notified<br />
that the purchaser of the unit, other than<br />
amortgagee, shall pay the assessments<br />
and legal fees required bysubdivisions<br />
(g)(1) and (g)(4) of Section 9and the assessments<br />
required by subsection (g-1)<br />
of Section 18.5 of the Illinois Condominium<br />
Property Act.<br />
Pursuant to Local Court Rule 11.03 (J)<br />
if there is asurplus following application<br />
ofthe proceeds of sale, then the<br />
plaintiff shall send written notice pursuant<br />
to 735 ILCS 5/15-1512(d) to all parties<br />
to the proceeding advising them of<br />
the amount ofthe surplus and that the<br />
surplus will beheld until aparty obtains<br />
acourt order for its distribution or, in<br />
the absence of an order, until the surplus<br />
is forfeited to the State.<br />
For Information Please Contact:<br />
SHAPIRO KREISMAN AND ASSO-<br />
CIATES, LLC.<br />
2121 Waukegan Rd, Suite 301<br />
Bannockburn, Illinois 60015<br />
P: 847-770-4348<br />
F: 847-291-3434<br />
PURSUANT TO THE FAIR DEBT<br />
COLLECTION PRACTICES ACT<br />
YOU ARE ADVISED THAT THIS<br />
LAW FIRM ISDEEMED TO BE A<br />
DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING<br />
TO COLLECT ADEBT AND ANY<br />
INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL<br />
BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE.<br />
SHERIFF'S SALE OF REAL ESTATE<br />
of 487 Oak St, Lockport, IL 60441<br />
(Multi-Family Unit). Onthe 19th day of<br />
July, 2018 to be held at 12:00 noon, at<br />
the Will County Courthouse Annex, 57<br />
N. Ottawa Street, Room 201, Joliet, IL<br />
60432, under Case Title: Ditech Financial<br />
LLC f/k/a Green Tree Servicing<br />
LLC Plaintiff V. Rodd A. Rupslauk; et.<br />
al. Defendant.<br />
Case No. 17CH 2221 in the Circuit<br />
Court of the Twelfth Judicial Circuit,<br />
Will County, Illinois.<br />
Terms ofSale: ten percent (10%) at the<br />
time of sale and the balance within<br />
twenty-four (24) hours. No judicial sale<br />
fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring<br />
the residential real estate pursuant<br />
to its credit bid at the sale or by any<br />
mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other<br />
lienor acquiring the residential real estate<br />
whose rights inand to the residential<br />
real estate arose prior to the sale. All<br />
payments shall be made in cash or certified<br />
funds payable tothe Sheriff of Will<br />
County.<br />
In the event the property is acondomin-<br />
ium, in accordance with 735 ILCS<br />
5/15-1507(c)(1)(H-1) and (H-2), 765<br />
ILCS 605/9(g)(5), and 765 ILCS<br />
605/18.5(g-1), you are hereby notified<br />
that the purchaser of the unit, other than<br />
amortgagee, shall pay the assessments<br />
and legal fees required bysubdivisions<br />
(g)(1) and (g)(4) of Section 9and the assessments<br />
required by subsection (g-1)<br />
of Section 18.5 of the Illinois Condominium<br />
Property Act.<br />
Pursuant to Local Court Rule 11.03 (J)<br />
if there is asurplus following application<br />
ofthe proceeds of sale, then the<br />
plaintiff shall send written notice pursuant<br />
to 735 ILCS 5/15-1512(d) to all parties<br />
to the proceeding advising them of<br />
the amount ofthe surplus and that the<br />
surplus will beheld until aparty obtains<br />
acourt order for its distribution or, in<br />
the absence of an order, until the surplus<br />
is forfeited to the State.<br />
For Information Please Contact:<br />
Codilis & Associates, P.C.<br />
15W030 N. Frontage Road Suite 100
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P: 630-794-5300<br />
F: 630-794-9090<br />
PURSUANT TO THE FAIR DEBT<br />
COLLECTION PRACTICES ACT<br />
YOU ARE ADVISED THAT THIS<br />
LAW FIRM ISDEEMED TO BE A<br />
DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING<br />
TO COLLECT ADEBT AND ANY<br />
INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL<br />
BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE.<br />
2703 Legal<br />
Notices<br />
PURSUANT TO THE FAIR DEBT<br />
COLLECTION PRACTICES ACT<br />
YOU ARE ADVISED THAT THIS<br />
LAW FIRM ISDEEMED TO BE A<br />
DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING<br />
TO COLLECT ADEBT AND ANY<br />
INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL<br />
BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE.<br />
STATE OF ILLINOIS )<br />
) SS.<br />
COUNTY OF WILL )<br />
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OFTHE<br />
TWELFTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT<br />
WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS<br />
U.S. Bank National Association, as<br />
Trustee for Asset Backed Funding Corporation<br />
Asset Backed Certificates, Series<br />
2006-HE1<br />
Plaintiff,<br />
vs.<br />
Joseph R. Fracaro, AKA Joseph Fracaro;<br />
Jennifer K.Fracaro, AKA Jennifer<br />
Fracaro; First Midwest Bank; Lloyd M.<br />
Flatt, III; Ford Motor Credit Company<br />
LLC<br />
Defendant. No. 16 CH 1198<br />
NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE<br />
Public notice ishereby given that pursuant<br />
toajudgment entered in the above<br />
cause on the 14th day of August, 2017,<br />
MIKE KELLEY, Sheriff of Will<br />
County, Illinois, will on Thursday, the<br />
12th day of July, 2018 ,commencing at<br />
12:00 o'clock noon, at the Will County<br />
Courthouse Annex, 57 N. Ottawa Street,<br />
Room 201, Joliet, IL 60432, sell at public<br />
auction to the highest and best bidder<br />
or bidders the following-described real<br />
estate:<br />
PARCEL 1:That part ofLot 4, in Block<br />
37, in the Town (Now City) of Lockport,<br />
lying Easterly of a Line 150 feet<br />
Easterly of, Normally Distant from and<br />
Parallel with the Centerline of the Original,<br />
Now Eastbound Main Tract of the<br />
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad,<br />
in Will County, Illinois. PARCEL<br />
2: That part of Lot 1, in Block 37, in the<br />
Town (Now City) ofLockport, Lying<br />
Easterly of the Easterly Line of Atchison,<br />
Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, in<br />
Will County, Illinois.<br />
Commonly known as: 511 Ames<br />
Street, Lockport, IL 60441<br />
Description of Improvements:<br />
Single Family Residence<br />
P.I.N.: 11-04-23-111-004-0000<br />
Terms of Sale: ten percent (10%) at the<br />
time of sale and the balance within<br />
twenty-four (24) hours. Nojudicial sale<br />
fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring<br />
the residential real estate pursuant<br />
to its credit bid at the sale or by any<br />
mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other<br />
lienor acquiring the residential real estate<br />
whose rights in and tothe residential<br />
real estate arose prior to the sale. All<br />
payments shall be made in cash or certified<br />
funds payable tothe Sheriff of Will<br />
County.<br />
In the event the property is acondomin-<br />
ium, in accordance with 735 ILCS<br />
5/15-1507(c)(1)(H-1) and (H-2), 765<br />
ILCS 605/9(g)(5), and 765 ILCS<br />
605/18.5(g-1), you are hereby notified<br />
that the purchaser of the unit, other than<br />
amortgagee, shall pay the assessments<br />
and legal fees required by subdivisions<br />
(g)(1) and (g)(4) of Section 9and the assessments<br />
required by subsection (g-1)<br />
of Section 18.5 of the Illinois Condominium<br />
Property Act.<br />
Pursuant to Local Court Rule 11.03 (J)<br />
if there is asurplus following application<br />
ofthe proceeds of sale, then the<br />
plaintiff shall send written notice pursuant<br />
to 735 ILCS 5/15-1512(d) to all parties<br />
to the proceeding advising them of<br />
the amount ofthe surplus and that the<br />
surplus will beheld until aparty obtains<br />
acourt order for its distribution or, in<br />
the absence of an order, until the surplus<br />
is forfeited to the State.<br />
FOR INFORMATION PLEASE CON-<br />
TACT:<br />
Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC<br />
One East Wacker Suite 1250<br />
Chicago, IL 60601<br />
P: 1-614-220-5611<br />
F:<br />
Plaintiff's Attorney<br />
MIKE KELLEY<br />
Sheriff of Will County<br />
PURSUANT TO THE FAIR DEBT<br />
COLLECTION PRACTICES ACT<br />
YOU ARE ADVISED THAT THIS<br />
LAW FIRM ISDEEMED TO BE A<br />
DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING<br />
TO COLLECT ADEBT AND ANY<br />
INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL<br />
BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE.<br />
STATE OF ILLINOIS )<br />
) SS.<br />
COUNTY OF WILL )<br />
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OFTHE<br />
TWELFTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT<br />
WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS<br />
Nationstar Mortgage LLC<br />
Plaintiff,<br />
vs.<br />
JAMES F. KING; PNC BANK, N.A.,<br />
SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TONA-<br />
TIONAL CITY BANK; CITIBANK,<br />
N.A., SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO<br />
CITIBANK (SOUTH DAKOTA), N.A.;<br />
Defendant. No. 17 CH 0367<br />
NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE<br />
Public notice ishereby given that pursuant<br />
toajudgment entered in the above<br />
cause on the 17th day of April, 2018,<br />
MIKE KELLEY, Sheriff of Will<br />
County, Illinois, will on Thursday, the<br />
19th day of July, 2018 ,commencing at<br />
12:00 o'clock noon, at the Will County<br />
Courthouse Annex, 57 N. Ottawa Street,<br />
Room 201, Joliet, IL 60432, sell at public<br />
auction tothe highest and best bidder<br />
or bidders the following-described real<br />
estate:<br />
LOT 297 IN LOCKPORT HEIGHTS<br />
ADDITION TO UNIT NO. 3, ASUB-<br />
DIVISION OF THE WEST HALF EX-<br />
CEPT THE EAST 175 FEET OF THE<br />
SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF THE<br />
NORTHEAST QUARTER OF SEC-<br />
TION 7, TOWNSHIP 36 NORTH,<br />
RANGE 11, EAST OF THE THIRD<br />
PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORD-<br />
ING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RE-<br />
CORDED MAY 18, 1973, AS DOCU-<br />
MENT R73-14094, IN WILL<br />
COUNTY, ILLINOIS.<br />
Commonly known as: 14649 South<br />
135th Avenue, LOCKPORT, IL 60441<br />
Description of Improvements:<br />
SINGLE FAMILY<br />
P.I.N.: 16-05-07-203-006-0000<br />
Terms of Sale: ten percent (10%) at the<br />
time of sale and the balance within<br />
twenty-four (24) hours. Nojudicial sale<br />
fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring<br />
the residential real estate pursuant<br />
to its credit bid at the sale or by any<br />
mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other<br />
lienor acquiring the residential real estate<br />
whose rights in and tothe residential<br />
real estate arose prior to the sale. All<br />
payments shall be made in cash or certified<br />
funds payable tothe Sheriff of Will<br />
County.<br />
In the event the property is acondomin-<br />
ium, in accordance with 735 ILCS<br />
5/15-1507(c)(1)(H-1) and (H-2), 765<br />
ILCS 605/9(g)(5), and 765 ILCS<br />
605/18.5(g-1), you are hereby notified<br />
that the purchaser of the unit, other than<br />
amortgagee, shall pay the assessments<br />
and legal fees required by subdivisions<br />
(g)(1) and (g)(4) of Section 9and the assessments<br />
required by subsection (g-1)<br />
of Section 18.5 of the Illinois Condominium<br />
Property Act.<br />
Pursuant to Local Court Rule 11.03 (J)<br />
if there is asurplus following application<br />
ofthe proceeds of sale, then the<br />
plaintiff shall send written notice pursuant<br />
to 735 ILCS 5/15-1512(d) to all parties<br />
to the proceeding advising them of<br />
the amount ofthe surplus and that the<br />
surplus will beheld until aparty obtains<br />
acourt order for its distribution or, in<br />
the absence of an order, until the surplus<br />
is forfeited to the State.<br />
FOR INFORMATION PLEASE CON-<br />
TACT:<br />
SHAPIRO KREISMAN AND ASSO-<br />
CIATES, LLC.<br />
2121 Waukegan Rd, Suite 301<br />
Bannockburn, Illinois 60015<br />
P: 847-770-4348<br />
F: 847-291-3434<br />
Plaintiff's Attorney<br />
MIKE KELLEY<br />
Sheriff of Will County<br />
PURSUANT TO THE FAIR DEBT<br />
COLLECTION PRACTICES ACT<br />
YOU ARE ADVISED THAT THIS<br />
LAW FIRM ISDEEMED TO BE A<br />
DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING<br />
TO COLLECT ADEBT AND ANY<br />
INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL<br />
BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE.<br />
STATE OF ILLINOIS )<br />
) SS.<br />
COUNTY OF WILL )<br />
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OFTHE<br />
TWELFTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT<br />
WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS<br />
Ditech Financial LLC f/k/a Green Tree<br />
Servicing LLC<br />
Plaintiff,<br />
vs.<br />
Rodd A. Rupslauk; et. al.<br />
Defendant. No. 17 CH 2221<br />
NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE<br />
Public notice ishereby given that pursuant<br />
toajudgment entered in the above<br />
cause on the 7th day of March, 2018,<br />
MIKE KELLEY, Sheriff of Will<br />
County, Illinois, will on Thursday, the<br />
19th day of July, 2018 ,commencing at<br />
12:00 o'clock noon, at the Will County<br />
Courthouse Annex, 57 N. Ottawa Street,<br />
Room 201, Joliet, IL 60432, sell at public<br />
auction to the highest and best bidder<br />
or bidders the following-described real<br />
estate:<br />
THE SOUTH 60 FEET OF LOT 87<br />
(MEASURED ALONG THE EAST<br />
LINE OF SAID LOT) INARTHUR T.<br />
MCINTOSH AND COMPANY'S<br />
LOCKPORT FARMS, BEING A SUB-<br />
DIVISION OF PARTS OF SECTIONS<br />
13 AND 14, TOWNSHIP 36 NORTH,<br />
RANGE 10, EAST OF THE THIRD<br />
PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORD-<br />
ING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RE-<br />
CORDED NOVEMBER 2, 1942 AS<br />
DOCUMENT NUMBER 560978, IN<br />
WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS.<br />
Commonly known as: 487 Oak St,<br />
Lockport, IL 60441<br />
Description of Improvements:<br />
Multi-Family Unit<br />
P.I.N.: 11-04-13-303-010-0000<br />
Terms of Sale: ten percent (10%) at the<br />
time of sale and the balance within<br />
twenty-four (24) hours. Nojudicial sale<br />
fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring<br />
the residential real estate pursuant<br />
to its credit bid at the sale or by any<br />
mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other<br />
lienor acquiring the residential real estate<br />
whose rights in and tothe residential<br />
real estate arose prior to the sale. All<br />
payments shall be made in cash or certified<br />
funds payable tothe Sheriff of Will<br />
County.<br />
In the event the property is acondomin-<br />
ium, in accordance with 735 ILCS<br />
5/15-1507(c)(1)(H-1) and (H-2), 765<br />
ILCS 605/9(g)(5), and 765 ILCS<br />
605/18.5(g-1), you are hereby notified<br />
that the purchaser of the unit, other than<br />
amortgagee, shall pay the assessments<br />
and legal fees required by subdivisions<br />
(g)(1) and (g)(4) of Section 9and the assessments<br />
required by subsection (g-1)<br />
of Section 18.5 of the Illinois Condominium<br />
Property Act.<br />
Pursuant to Local Court Rule 11.03 (J)<br />
if there is asurplus following application<br />
ofthe proceeds of sale, then the<br />
plaintiff shall send written notice pursuant<br />
to 735 ILCS 5/15-1512(d) to all parties<br />
to the proceeding advising them of<br />
the amount ofthe surplus and that the<br />
surplus will beheld until aparty obtains<br />
acourt order for its distribution or, in<br />
the absence of an order, until the surplus<br />
is forfeited to the State.<br />
FOR INFORMATION PLEASE CON-<br />
TACT:<br />
Codilis & Associates, P.C.<br />
15W030 N. Frontage Road Suite 100<br />
Burr Ridge, Illinois 60527<br />
P: 630-794-5300<br />
F: 630-794-9090<br />
Plaintiff's Attorney<br />
MIKE KELLEY<br />
Sheriff of Will County<br />
Taft School District 90<br />
Board of Education Vacancy<br />
Due tothe resignation of Board<br />
Member James Calabrese, there is<br />
avacant seat onthe Taft School<br />
District 90 Board of Education.<br />
The seat is open for Board appointment<br />
immediately and will expire<br />
in April 2019 pending election.<br />
Please submit letter ofapplication<br />
and current résumé to:<br />
Dr. Griff Powell – Interim Superintendent<br />
Taft School District 90<br />
g.powell@taftsd90.org<br />
2900 Merchandise<br />
Under $100<br />
1Bean Bag Toss Lawn Game<br />
$13. 1 Box Fan $10. 1Floor<br />
Fan $10. 1Floor Fan Oscalting<br />
Fan $13. 1Sleeping Cot $12. 1<br />
Lg. Soft Pak Zippered Luggage/Wheels<br />
$10. 1Med. Luggage<br />
on Wheels w/ Zippers<br />
$12. 815-838-0239<br />
2 26” Huffy bikes, like new<br />
$40. Samsonite, leather, 15.6<br />
laptop case, new $25.<br />
708.599.6796<br />
4LLBean Magnum Cork Mallard<br />
Decoys $80. Craftsman<br />
Commercial 1/2 inch drill $35.<br />
Like new Craftsman 1/2 inch<br />
electric impact tool $55. Bosch<br />
Extra Heavy Duty Hand<br />
Grinder $75. Complete Badger<br />
Air Brush System - Kit and<br />
Compressor $75.<br />
708-479-5203<br />
4 Tires 195/75/14<br />
Lemans-Champion, like new.<br />
9/32 Tread Left $50.00 or best.<br />
815-838-2344<br />
4x4 cu ft wine &beverage center,<br />
like new $60.<br />
708.599.6796<br />
Big Bird Talking Toy w/ cassettes,<br />
works well, VGC,<br />
$45.00, Board games, Risk,<br />
new still wrapped, $10.00,<br />
Backgammon w/ leather case,<br />
$20.00, Wii Fit Plus game for<br />
Wii, used once, $20.00.<br />
708-822-8119.<br />
Black &Decker 22 Inch Hedge<br />
Trimmer Auto Shut Off,<br />
$30.00. Car cover, $25.00.<br />
Dishes set for 8, $15.00.<br />
815-463-0282<br />
Craftsman Drill $20, Black &<br />
Decker Circular Saw $20. Both<br />
in Excellent condition. Call<br />
708-601-1947.<br />
Curtains, 3sets in Earthtone<br />
color, 80 in long w/ rods,<br />
VGC, $35.00, Ocean Wave<br />
Print, 42W x 31H, w/ frame,<br />
good condition, $35.00, Ladies<br />
Timex Watch, new in box,<br />
$20.00. 708-822-8119.<br />
Eight Foot Step Ladder $60.00<br />
Antique 6’ Wooden Ladder<br />
$10.00 No calls after 6:00pm -<br />
708-403-1561<br />
G.E. 8,000 BTU Room Air<br />
Conditioner Digital w/ Remote<br />
$100. 815-588-0301<br />
Hummer H2 driver side steel<br />
roof rail for luggage rack<br />
(new). Plastic over cover not<br />
included. Misc mounts included.<br />
$100 obo.<br />
224.805.7465<br />
Large wall mirror, frameless,<br />
73 inches by 42 inches. Cost<br />
$25. Call 708-349-3524<br />
Lava lamp $2. Ladies golf<br />
clubs and blue bag $10. Minolta<br />
X9-X9SLR camera $50.<br />
Digital camera $5.<br />
773.552.7850<br />
Lawn Roller 18” x 24” Made<br />
in the U.S.A. by Brinly Hardy<br />
Co. $75.00 Ph 708-479-0015<br />
Local Wildflower Honey from<br />
Backyard. No sugar added. Organic.<br />
$15 per quart.<br />
708-466-9809<br />
Mahogany hall table $100.<br />
408.489.2669<br />
New hardside luggage 3pieces<br />
spinner $100. 815.463.1448<br />
New Igloo Cooler, 56Quart,<br />
$28.00. Golf Balls like new<br />
$4.00. Tilest gold bag, brand<br />
new, $45.00. 708-478-8976<br />
Outdoor canopy swing, excellent<br />
condition $50.<br />
708.478.5252 Orland Park.<br />
Perlick Draft Beer Dispenser,<br />
use with half barrel keg. Have<br />
operating instructions cabinet,<br />
40” Hx23 7/8” W. $99.00.<br />
708-558-0012<br />
Perlick Draft Beer Dispenser,<br />
use with half barrel keg. Have<br />
operating instructions cabinet,<br />
40” H x 23 7/8” W.<br />
708-558-0012<br />
Red Wing Heritage collection<br />
mens shoft toe shoes 8.5 $55<br />
each. 708.798.9755<br />
Rollator $25. Cabinet & VCR<br />
$10. Kohler bisque kitchen<br />
sink $10. 2 brown cedar tellis<br />
$17 ea. Leaf clower $20.<br />
708.226.0521<br />
Rug Shampooer - Retracks<br />
Water. $75. 708-478-5338<br />
Rug shampooer, 4 brush, retracks<br />
water $75 obo.<br />
708.478.5338 LM<br />
Solid Oak Console for Flat<br />
Screen TV’s. 60” Lx27” Hx<br />
17” D. Like Brand New. $100<br />
Firm. 708-995-7223<br />
Solid Oak Console for Flat<br />
Screen TV’s. 60” Lx27” Hx<br />
17” D. Like Brand New.<br />
$100.00 Firm. 708-995-7223<br />
Sony Camera case w/ Picture<br />
Station Digital Photo Printer,<br />
$35.00, Hanging Light Fixture,<br />
Silver w/5lights, $20.00, Aerus<br />
Carpet Shampoo Machine,<br />
GC, w/ 3 brushes, $25.00., Big<br />
Mouth Billy Bass, works,<br />
$10.00. 708-822-8199.<br />
Titleist golf bad like new $45.<br />
Pro golf bag Lynx $30. Golf<br />
balls $5 doz. Bullseye golf putter<br />
$30. 708.478.8976<br />
TV Antennae, new in box,<br />
Xtreme HD Amplified, outdoor,<br />
$35.00, Clearstream Indoor<br />
TV Antennae, $10.00,<br />
RCA Flat indoor antannae,<br />
$10.00, Cooler, on wheels,<br />
new, $5.00, Skill Router, GC,<br />
$10.00. 708-822-8119<br />
TV Cabinet 3’ x5’ dk. wood<br />
$20; Baker’s rack $25, lt. wood<br />
headboard 58” wide $55.<br />
708-226-0521<br />
Vintage Solid Steel Body Wizard<br />
Electric Variable Speed Saber<br />
Saw Model 4403A $35.<br />
Vintage Hanson Viking JR<br />
Hanging Scale 890 Model 25<br />
LB USA Made, Northbrook IL<br />
$15. New Deluxe 5 Piece Barbecue<br />
Tool Set Stainless Steel<br />
with Solid Oak Wood Handles<br />
$30. 708-466-9907<br />
Wagon Wheel, 35” in diameter,<br />
16 spokes $45.00, water<br />
aerobic dumb bells $8.00.<br />
708-280-7857.<br />
WD-40 smart straw bonus PK<br />
$6. 20W-50 racing motor oil<br />
$5 ea. QT graphite low-40 motor<br />
oil $2 ea. 2gal steel gas can<br />
$4. 708.460.8308<br />
Werner 40ft aluminum extension<br />
ladder for sale. $100. Call<br />
Sue 708-403-9949
28 | July 5, 2018 | The Lockport Legend sports<br />
lockportlegend.com<br />
Athlete of the Week<br />
10 Questions<br />
with Luke Bentley<br />
Luke Bentley will be a senior at Lockport<br />
Township this fall and is expected to be a<br />
pitcher for the Porters baseball team next<br />
spring.<br />
What is your personal goal in playing<br />
summer league baseball for the<br />
Porters?<br />
I didn’t get to pitch on the varsity at all this<br />
past spring. We just had a lot of senior pitchers<br />
who were better, but I’m glad for the summer<br />
and an opportunity to show what I have.<br />
You allowed no earned runs in three<br />
innings of work as the Porters<br />
defeated Lincoln-Way West to win<br />
the title game of the Lockport Porter<br />
Wood Bat Summer Classic. How did it<br />
feel to win that?<br />
It felt really good, especially the way the<br />
young guys performed. I’ve got a feeling<br />
that we’re going to be really good next year.<br />
How did you get involved playing<br />
baseball?<br />
I first started playing T-ball when I was 3<br />
at First Church of the Nazarene in Lemont.<br />
My brother, Josh, and I both started there,<br />
and we have been playing ever since. He<br />
plays middle infield and has been on the varsity<br />
since he was a freshman.<br />
How is it playing alongside your twin<br />
brother?<br />
It has its moments. We’ve always played<br />
on the same team, except for one summer<br />
[2012] when we were 11, and we played on<br />
separate teams. It’s a family thing, and that<br />
wasn’t fun.<br />
How long have you been pitching?<br />
Since I was 11. I had played third base,<br />
and I wanted to do something new, so I tried<br />
it and enjoyed it.<br />
Do you play any other sports?<br />
Randy Whalen/22nd Century Media<br />
I played basketball from fifth grade<br />
through freshman year of high school. Then<br />
I concentrated more on baseball, but I still<br />
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What have you learned from Lockport<br />
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Youth Baseball<br />
Triple play caps off wild tourney win for Cobras<br />
Lockport Cobras use<br />
blow torches to dry field,<br />
take home tourney title<br />
Max Lapthorne, Editor<br />
It took a few blow torches, a<br />
game-ending triple play and numerous<br />
hours of field maintenance, but<br />
at the end of it all, the 10U Lockport<br />
Cobras were the champions of the<br />
Lockport Lockdown tournament.<br />
This year’s Lockport Lockdown<br />
tournament — hosted by the Cobras<br />
— started out smoothly on<br />
Monday, June 18, with the opening<br />
festivities and several skills competitions.<br />
The host Lockport Cobras<br />
even had players win two of the<br />
contests, with Jeffrey Bruining winning<br />
the home run derby and Sean<br />
Goacher taking home the title of<br />
fastest man.<br />
Then came the rain.<br />
The downpour washed out all the<br />
games on Tuesday, Thursday and<br />
Friday, and only a few games were<br />
squeezed in on Wednesday, according<br />
to Bryon Mane, the 10U Lockport<br />
Cobras head coach and tournament<br />
director. After several days of<br />
rain pounded the field, the prospect<br />
of finishing the tournament was<br />
looking bleak.<br />
“It was a lake,” Mane said of the<br />
field. “You could have fished in this<br />
thing.”<br />
But even though the field looked<br />
more like a retention pond than a<br />
baseball diamond, Mane and the<br />
other team dads were determined to<br />
get the field into a playable condition.<br />
No matter what it took, they<br />
were going to make the Lockport<br />
Lockdown happen. In this case,<br />
it meant working on the fields for<br />
three days and coming up with an<br />
unconventional method of drying<br />
off the playing surface.<br />
“Once we got the water off, we<br />
said, ‘that’s great, but this field is<br />
never going to dry,’” Mane said.<br />
“So, we came up with the brilliant<br />
idea of renting roofers blow torches.”<br />
Mane and a number of dads took<br />
the torches to the diamond for hours<br />
before it was dry enough to be able<br />
Lockport Cobras coaches and parents use roofers blow torches to dry out<br />
the field June 22 in preparation for the Lockport Lockdown tournament.<br />
Photo submitted<br />
to host games. The time and effort<br />
put in by Mane and the parents who<br />
volunteered was driven simply by<br />
an obligation they felt to put on the<br />
best tournament possible for everyone<br />
involved, Mane said, noting<br />
that many youth baseball tournaments<br />
are now held by large companies<br />
that will cancel tournaments<br />
after a game or two without giving<br />
a refund.<br />
“We did not want to see that happen<br />
to any of the teams that were<br />
coming out,” Mane said. “We care<br />
a lot about the boys; we wanted the<br />
boys to play and get their tournaments<br />
in, and we wanted the other<br />
teams to get their money’s worth<br />
and to have a worthwhile experience.”<br />
The Cobras may have been gracious<br />
tournament hosts, but they<br />
were anything but pleasant to their<br />
opponents on the diamond. They<br />
stormed their way to the championship<br />
game of the six-team bracket,<br />
beating the neighboring Homer<br />
Heat in the semifinal. But it was the<br />
championship game that produced<br />
the highlight of the tournament.<br />
The Orland Park Warriors stood<br />
between the Cobras and the top<br />
spot in their own tournament. The<br />
Warriors were the higher seed, so<br />
they assumed the role of the home<br />
team; but they wanted more than<br />
just the last at-bat.<br />
“They were the higher seed, so<br />
even though we were on our home<br />
field, we were the visitors, and they<br />
asked us — or told us basically —<br />
at the beginning of the game they<br />
wanted our dugout,” Mane said.<br />
“So basically they threw us out of<br />
our own dugout.”<br />
Using their relegation to the visitor’s<br />
dugout as motivation, the Cobras<br />
built a semi-comfortable lead<br />
going into the final inning of play.<br />
But trouble started brewing quickly<br />
as the Warriors loaded up the bases<br />
with nobody out.<br />
“As the boy came up with the<br />
bases loaded, I was thinking we<br />
might need to make a pitching<br />
change; we might need to make a<br />
couple adjustments here,” Mane<br />
said. “And then everything happened<br />
so fast.”<br />
What happened was a laser line<br />
drive up the middle that pitcher<br />
Jack Schiek snagged, recording<br />
the first out. He quickly noticed the<br />
runner on third base had strayed<br />
too far from the bag, so he fired<br />
the ball to third baseman Michael<br />
Mane who stepped on the bag for<br />
the second out. That is when things<br />
got strange.<br />
The ball was hit so hard that<br />
Mane thought it was a one-hopper,<br />
so he attempted to make a play on<br />
the runner going home — who was<br />
already out after being doubled off<br />
third base — by tossing the ball to<br />
catcher Jonathan Schlender. Instead<br />
of being confused by the decision<br />
to throw the ball home, Schlender<br />
alertly noticed the runner on second<br />
base was caught in no-mans-land<br />
and chucked the ball to his shortstop,<br />
Ethan Bielski. From there,<br />
Bielski and Michael Mane executed<br />
a good old-fashioned pickle to<br />
complete the triple play.<br />
“I caught it and I looked immediately<br />
to second base and just threw<br />
it,” Schlender said of his role in the<br />
wild play. “The runner at second<br />
was just standing there, so I just<br />
threw it to [Bielski].”<br />
Bryon Mane has been coaching<br />
for a quarter-century at all levels<br />
ranging from high school to T-<br />
ball, but he has never witnessed<br />
something like the final play of this<br />
year’s Lockport Lockdown.<br />
“It was crazy,” he said. “I don’t<br />
think I’ve ever seen a triple play<br />
live in my life… My adrenaline was<br />
going so high, that after it was over,<br />
I knew we won, because I knew we<br />
got the third out, but it took me a<br />
few moments to recollect how that<br />
triple play unfolded because it happened<br />
so fast.”<br />
Jonathan Lopez, a second baseman<br />
and right fielder for the Cobras,<br />
wasn’t on the field when it<br />
happened, and he had his doubts<br />
that his teammates would pull off<br />
the triple play. But when the tag<br />
was applied to end the game, all<br />
those doubts were quickly erased.<br />
“I just ran out of the dugout and it<br />
was a big surprise,” Lopez said. “It<br />
was amazing.”<br />
The celebration that ensued<br />
looked more like it belonged on a<br />
Major League Baseball diamond<br />
in October than a blow-dried little<br />
league field in mid-June.<br />
“It was an amazing celebration,<br />
[like] the kids just won the World<br />
Series,” Bryon Mane said. “... The<br />
kids knew that they had it, because<br />
they all threw their mitts up in the<br />
air and all charged into a little huddle<br />
around each other, and that’s all<br />
she wrote.”<br />
The championship game was the<br />
last time those 10U Lockport Cobras<br />
will take that field together, so<br />
it was only fitting that the coaches,<br />
parents and players combined to<br />
make it such a special ending.<br />
“I had some tears in my eyes before<br />
I spoke to the boys at the end,”<br />
Bryon Mane said. “I don’t know<br />
that there was a dry eye in the house<br />
to be honest with you.”<br />
Athlete of the Month<br />
Lincoln-Way East<br />
senior water<br />
polo player wins<br />
June honor<br />
Bill Jones, Managing Editor<br />
For Jared Bruni, water polo is in<br />
the family.<br />
Following in the footsteps of his<br />
mother, who played the sport in college,<br />
Bruni got started in the pool<br />
roughly eight years ago and was a<br />
big part of the Griffins’ success last<br />
season.<br />
His dedication — he plans to continue<br />
with a club team in college<br />
— recently earned him the attention<br />
of area voters, as he claimed 22nd<br />
Century Media’s Southwest Chicago<br />
Athlete of the Month crown for June.<br />
The Athlete of the Month competition<br />
pits featured Athlete of the<br />
Week selections from our south<br />
suburban newspapers against one<br />
another in an online voting contest.<br />
The next contest is to begin Tuesday,<br />
July 10.<br />
To vote, visit LockportLegend.<br />
com, hover over the “Sports” menu<br />
tab and click “Athlete of the Month.”<br />
Readers can vote once per session<br />
per valid email address. Voting ends<br />
at 5 p.m. July 25.<br />
All athletes featured in the June<br />
Athlete of the Week sports interviews<br />
are automatically entered into<br />
the contest.<br />
Jared Bruni — a senior on the<br />
Lincoln-Way East water polo team<br />
— won the June Athlete of the<br />
Month competition for publisher<br />
22nd Century Media’s Southwest<br />
Chicago branch. Photo Submitted
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NBA player returns to LTHS for two-day basketball camp<br />
Holmes relishes<br />
teaching children, teens<br />
the fundamentals of<br />
basketball<br />
Randy Whalen<br />
Freelance Reporter<br />
Richaun Holmes always believed.<br />
The 2011 Lockport Township<br />
graduate was a shot-blocking specialist<br />
as a senior on the basketball<br />
court for the Porters, with 121<br />
blocks for a 4.0 per game average,<br />
and he also averaged 7.4 points and<br />
6.4 boards per game, but he had no<br />
college offers out of high school.<br />
At that time, perhaps no one but<br />
Holmes knew what was in store for<br />
him down the road. He just completed<br />
his third season as a forward<br />
with the Philadelphia 76ers.<br />
And last weekend, Holmes was<br />
back home, as he held his second<br />
annual basketball camp on Friday,<br />
June 29, and Saturday, June 30, at<br />
Lockport Township High School.<br />
He held a single-day camp last year<br />
at Romeoville High School and<br />
also back in Philadelphia, but this<br />
was the first time he got to put one<br />
on at his high school alma mater.<br />
So, a little more than seven years<br />
after he last played on the court,<br />
and a decade after starting out his<br />
career as a Porter on the freshmen<br />
“B” team, did Holmes ever believe<br />
that him hosting a basketball camp<br />
as an NBA player at the school was<br />
possible?<br />
Yes, he did.<br />
“When I was here working, I<br />
always thought I had a chance,”<br />
Holmes said of playing pro basketball.<br />
“Even when I was on the<br />
freshman “B” team, I told myself<br />
that. It was just a feeling I had.<br />
Then ever since I played AAU ball<br />
for coach [David Dortch] on the Illinois<br />
Raptors, he helped teach me<br />
that I had to work hard, and I knew<br />
I could make it.<br />
“It’s been great to come back<br />
out here for the camp and work out<br />
with the kids.”<br />
The camp was open to boys and<br />
girls ages 7 to 18. The opening day<br />
went from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. with<br />
lunch and snacks included, along<br />
with a picture with Holmes. The<br />
second day was between 9 a.m. and<br />
1 p.m. There were a few more in<br />
attendance the first day, but in all,<br />
it was a solid turnout.<br />
Holmes still thinks enough of<br />
Dortch that he has him help run the<br />
camp. Dortch played in Chicago<br />
at Providence St. Mel and later at<br />
Steinmetz during his high school<br />
career. He currently lives in Romeoville<br />
and has been a coach with<br />
the Illinois Raptors for 12 years.<br />
“I love what I’m doing, and I<br />
love the game,” Dortch said. “I<br />
want to give back and help to make<br />
sure that kids don’t miss out on opportunities.”<br />
Holmes didn’t miss out on his.<br />
“We have a saying with the Raptors,<br />
‘If we don’t believe, we [eventually]<br />
will,’” Dortch said. “I saw it<br />
with Richaun from the early stages.<br />
He never had his head down. He’s<br />
just a hard worker. He never was<br />
the best player on the team, but he<br />
was the hardest worker, and hard<br />
work pays off.”<br />
Lockport basketball coach Brett<br />
Hespell, who was an assistant<br />
coach when Holmes played, agreed<br />
wholeheartedly.<br />
“It’s great to have him bring his<br />
camp to Lockport,” Hespell said.<br />
“The path he took to get where he<br />
is tremendous. He’s had that drive<br />
since freshman year, and it’s largely<br />
due to his work ethic. It resonates<br />
with our community that no<br />
matter what, if you put your mind<br />
to it, you can usually accomplish it.<br />
“He believed it, and he went<br />
after it. In the offseason, he still<br />
comes back to Lockport two or<br />
three times per month to work out.”<br />
Out of high school, Holmes<br />
played a season at Moraine Valley<br />
Community College. He then<br />
played three seasons at Bowling<br />
Green before being drafted 37th<br />
overall by the Sixers in the second<br />
round of the 2015 NBA Draft.<br />
Sure, being 6-foot-9 is a big<br />
plus for Holmes, but it’s his work<br />
ethic and commitment that got him<br />
Former Porters basketball player Richaun Holmes (left), who now plays for the Philadelphia 76ers in the NBA,<br />
works with Derrien Porter at his two-day camp, which was held June 29 and 30 at LTHS’s East Campus.<br />
Photos by Adam Jomant/22nd Century Media<br />
where he is today.<br />
“Whether he’s playing five minutes<br />
or 20 minutes, he goes in and<br />
makes an impact whenever he’s<br />
needed,” said Pedro Power, his<br />
agent of the past three seasons, who<br />
was there helping with the camp.<br />
“Richaun and I hit it off right away.<br />
We’re both family-orientated.<br />
“As a youth, he attended a lot of<br />
the camps in the area, and he wanted<br />
the kids to have these same opportunities.<br />
He wants to give back<br />
to the kids and the area. We work<br />
on a lot of development, a lot of<br />
skillsets at these camps. We stress<br />
that you have to continue to work<br />
on your own.”<br />
Earlier in June, the 76ers exercised<br />
the team options for Holmes<br />
and backup point guard TJ Mc-<br />
Connell for the 2018-2019 season.<br />
The players will each earn a $1.6<br />
million non-guaranteed salary next<br />
season. They will become unrestricted<br />
free agents after next season<br />
if the Sixers don’t extend their<br />
contracts. Holmes averaged 6.5<br />
points, 4.4 rebounds and 1.3 assists<br />
in 48 appearances, including two<br />
Nojus Indrusaitis dribbles a basketball along with Richaun Holmes<br />
while taking part in the camp.<br />
starts this season, and saw limited<br />
action in three of the Sixers’ 10<br />
playoff games.<br />
“You’ve got to prove yourself<br />
every time you’re on the court,”<br />
Holmes said of the NBA. “There’s<br />
always somebody wanting to take<br />
your spot.”<br />
While Holmes will continue to<br />
work for his role with the Sixers,<br />
his focus last weekend was on being<br />
back in the area for the camp.<br />
“It’s just great to see the kids<br />
play,” Holmes said. “For the kids<br />
to come here is a chance to build<br />
something. We start from the bottom<br />
level and keep on growing to<br />
get better.”<br />
Just like he’s always done and<br />
continues to do.
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fastbreak<br />
Baseball<br />
Porters triumph at own summer tourney for second straight year<br />
22nd Century Media File Photo<br />
1st and 3<br />
LTHS baseball claims<br />
title in its summer<br />
tourney<br />
1. Securing a championship<br />
The Porters baseball<br />
team beat Lincoln-<br />
Way West by a final<br />
of 9-4 June 27 to win<br />
the Lockport Wood<br />
Bat Summer Classic.<br />
Lockport has a 7-2<br />
summer record.<br />
2. Strong in semifinal<br />
The Porters were<br />
victorious by a score<br />
of 10-2 over Lincoln-<br />
Way East in the<br />
semifinal game of the<br />
tournament. LTHS<br />
scored seven runs<br />
in the bottom of the<br />
first to jump out to an<br />
early start and cruise<br />
to the win.<br />
3. Powerful pitching<br />
In the title game of<br />
the tourney, Lockport<br />
hurlers combined<br />
to allow one earned<br />
run on two hits with<br />
eight walks and 13<br />
strikeouts.<br />
Randy Whalen<br />
Freelance Reporter<br />
When Jack Mladic<br />
stepped to the plate with the<br />
bases loaded in the top of<br />
the seventh in the title game<br />
of the Lockport Wood Bat<br />
Summer Classic, he knew a<br />
big hit would break the game<br />
wide open.<br />
So the Lockport Township<br />
senior left fielder promptly<br />
swung at the first pitch he<br />
saw and put it into orbit, far<br />
over the left field fence. The<br />
only problem was that it was<br />
foul by about five feet.<br />
Undaunted at just missing<br />
a grand slam, Mladic<br />
mashed an 0-2 pitch moments<br />
later to deep left center.<br />
While this hit didn’t have<br />
home run distance, it was in<br />
the gap and one-hopped off<br />
the fence to clear the bases<br />
to give the Porters a sevenrun<br />
lead. They would go on<br />
to win 9-4 over Lincoln-Way<br />
West on June 27 to clinch the<br />
championship of their own<br />
tournament for the second<br />
straight season.<br />
As soon as Mladic got to<br />
second base after his booming<br />
double, he pointed toward<br />
the Porter dugout in a<br />
moment of gratitude.<br />
“I had been struggling<br />
and that was my first hit of<br />
the day,” Mladic said. “But<br />
everyone, all my teammates,<br />
supported me. It was fun<br />
to get the win and win the<br />
tournament. I have a feeling<br />
we’re going to do that a lot<br />
next spring.”<br />
The Porters (7-2 this summer)<br />
had some success during<br />
the spring season this<br />
year. They went 22-15 and<br />
advanced to the regional<br />
championship game before<br />
losing to 6-3 to a 30-win Andrew<br />
team. Their lower levels<br />
also performed well, and<br />
the summer is further proof<br />
that the future looks bright.<br />
“It is always great to<br />
watch your team compete<br />
with something at stake,”<br />
Lockport coach Andy Satunas<br />
said. “Not only do our<br />
kids enjoy it, so do the other<br />
teams here. It’s nice to win,<br />
but we learned a lot about<br />
ourselves and learned a lot<br />
about the team we are going<br />
to have next year.”<br />
The Porters actually lost<br />
the opening pool play game<br />
of the tourney, on June 25,<br />
4-2 to Marist. But they<br />
bounced back to defeat Palatine<br />
4-3 later that day. Their<br />
Tuesday matchup against<br />
Andrew (0-6-2 in the summer)<br />
was rained out. So, although<br />
they didn’t have the<br />
normal three games in and<br />
were 1-1 in pool play, they<br />
advanced to the winners<br />
bracket because of a better<br />
overall summer record.<br />
In the semifinal game,<br />
which took place right before<br />
the championship on<br />
June 27, Lockport knocked<br />
off Lincoln-Way East 10-2.<br />
The Griffins (6-2) scored<br />
a run in the top of the first<br />
on an RBI triple by senior<br />
first baseman Casey Schilf.<br />
But Lockport answered with<br />
The LTHS baseball team celebrates after winning the Lockport Wood Bat Summer Classic<br />
for the second consecutive year. Photo submitted<br />
seven runs in the bottom of<br />
the inning an added three<br />
more in the fourth for a 10-1<br />
lead. The big batters for the<br />
Porters, who had 10 hits in<br />
the game, were senior Collin<br />
Woulfe (3-for-4, 2 R), junior<br />
Zach Murray (2-for-2, 2<br />
RBI, R , BB) and senior John<br />
Weis (2-for-3, 2 R, RBI).<br />
Pitching wise, the trio<br />
of seniors Jack Vrba, Zach<br />
Wehrman and Jake Kundrat<br />
combined to hold the Griffins<br />
to one earned run on<br />
four hits with two walks and<br />
three strikeouts.<br />
“We had three teams that<br />
were in our [spring Class 4A]<br />
sectional here for the wood<br />
bat league,” Satunas said of<br />
Andrew, East and Marist.<br />
“Those are very good programs,<br />
and we had 25 kids<br />
step up and contribute to us<br />
putting up some crooked<br />
numbers in these games.”<br />
The Porter pitching was<br />
even better against West in<br />
the title game. There, seniors<br />
John Gallet, Luke Bentley,<br />
along with junior Bryon<br />
Mane and Tony Blazekovich,<br />
combined to allow one<br />
earned run on two hits with<br />
eight walks and 13 strikeouts.<br />
Trailing 3-0, the Warriors<br />
scored two runs in the bottom<br />
of the sixth on a wild<br />
pitch and a bases loaded<br />
walk to senior Robert Jackman.<br />
But Mane came back<br />
with a strikeout to end the<br />
inning. Lockport, which was<br />
batting as the visitors, scored<br />
six runs in the top of the seventh<br />
to put the game away.<br />
Lockport had 11 hits in the<br />
game. In addition to Mladic,<br />
senior Josh Bentley (2-for-<br />
3, 2 R, 2 RBI, BB) also<br />
knocked in multiple runs.<br />
Junior Timmy Hoak added<br />
two hits for the Porters.<br />
“This is a big learning<br />
experience and it shows the<br />
younger kids the ropes,”<br />
Mladic said of the summer.<br />
“It’s exciting to see the positive<br />
things we can do for the<br />
future.”<br />
After taking this week off<br />
from games, the Porters look<br />
forward to next week as the<br />
Illinois High School Baseball<br />
Coaches Association<br />
Summer Baseball Tournament<br />
gets underway. Between<br />
July 10-12 they will<br />
once again host the regional<br />
tournament from the quarterfinal<br />
round and beyond at<br />
Flink Field.<br />
Whoever wins that regional<br />
will advance to the IHSB-<br />
CA Phil Lawler Summer<br />
Classic State Tournament<br />
at North Central College in<br />
Naperville and Benedictine<br />
University in Lisle.<br />
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“This is a big learning experience, and it shows the younger<br />
kids the ropes. It’s exciting to see the positive things we<br />
can do for the future.”<br />
Jack Mladic — Lockport baseball player, on his team winning the<br />
Lockport Wood Bat Summer Classic<br />
Baseball<br />
More summer competition — July 10-12<br />
• The Porters host the regional Illinois High School<br />
Baseball Coaches Association Summer Baseball<br />
Tournament from the quarterfinal round on at Flink Field.<br />
29 - Athlete of the Month<br />
28 - Athlete of the Week<br />
FASTBREAK is compiled by Contributing<br />
Editor Thomas Czaja, tom@homerhorizon.<br />
com.
lockport’s Hometown Newspaper | www.lockportlegend.com | July 5, 2018<br />
Protecting<br />
home turf<br />
Lockport baseball team<br />
wins Lockport Wood<br />
Bat Summer Classic,<br />
Page 31<br />
Lockport Township High School alum and Philadelphia 76ers basketball player Richaun<br />
Holmes (right) instructs Lily Guerra during a drill at his two-day basketball camp held<br />
June 29 and 30 at the school’s East Campus. Adam Jomant/22nd Century Media<br />
What a week<br />
Lockport 10U<br />
Cobras baseball team<br />
caps off wild tourney<br />
win with triple play,<br />
Page 29<br />
Former Porters basketball player, current Philadelphia 76ers forward returns to<br />
Lockport to host camp for local players, Page 30