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THURSDAY 

Farmhouse Paint Class 

6-8 p.m. Oct. 4, Evilena’s 

Red Dresser, 20887 S. La- 

Grange Road, Frankfort. 

Jackie Hon of Sip & Stain 

Boards will be teaching how 

to stencil a fall-themed sign. 

Cost is $40. Register at the 

shop or call (815) 464-2668. 

FRIDAY 

Friends Book Sale 

Noon-4:30 p.m. Oct. 5; 

9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Saturday, 

Oct. 6; and 1:30-4:30 p.m. 

Sunday, Oct. 7, Frankfort 

Public Library, 21119 S. Pfeiffer 

Road, Frankfort. Join the 

Friends of the Frankfort Public 

Library for the sale, which 

will take place in the book 

garage on the library’s south 

side. On Friday, members 

can enjoy wine and cheese 

from 5-7 p.m. New members 

are always welcome. 

SATURDAY 

Old Plank Trail 5K 

8-11 a.m. Oct. 6, Kansas 

and White Streets, downtown 

Frankfort. The annual 5K run/ 

walk along Old Plank Road 

Trail will again take place in 

downtown Frankfort. Race 

will begin, rain or shine, at 

9:30 a.m. Registration is required 

and available online. 

To register, visit www.village 

offrankfort.com/calendar and 

click on the event. 

Pet Adoption Day 

Noon-2 p.m. Oct. 6, Baird 

& Warner, 21130 S. La- 

Grange Road, Frankfort. Join 

Baird & Warner as they partner 

with NAWS of Mokena, 

Cache Creek Animal Shelter 

of Frankfort and St. Sophia’s 

Forgotten Feline’s to help 

get some furry friends new 

homes. There will be giveaways, 

raffles, pet merchandise 

and refreshments. Donations 

from the organizations’ 

wish lists will be accepted at 

the event. For more information, 

call (708) 798-1855. 

MONDAY 

Story Time at Panera 

9:30-10 a.m. Oct. 8, Panera 

Bread, 11069 Lincoln Highway, 

Frankfort. Join the 

Frankfort Public Library for 

story time at Panera with stories, 

songs, a craft and a complimentary 

cookie and milk. 

This program is for children 

ages 2 and older. Register online 

at www.frankfortlibrary. 

org/calendar. 

Magic Workshops 

1:30-2:30 p.m. and 3-4 p.m. 

Oct. 8, Frankfort Public Library, 

21119 S. Pfeiffer Road, 

Frankfort. Join magician Gary 

Kantor to learn thrilling and 

entertaining tricks including 

card tricks, vanishing effects, 

and much more. Each participant 

will also receive a magic 

kit. The 1:30 p.m. session is 

for children in grades K-2, 

while the 3 p.m. session is 

for children in grads 3-5. For 

more information, call (815) 

534-6178 or email youthservices@frankfortlibrary.org. 

Register online at www.frank 

fortlibrary.org/calendar. 

Musical Monday 

4-5 p.m. Oct. 8, KidsWork 

Children’s Museum, 11 S. 

White St., Frankfort. Folksinger 

Anna Stange offers 

upbeat programs featuring 

traditional folk music to audiences 

across the U.S. She will 

be accompanying herself on 

guitar and banjo, mountain 

dulcimer and simple fold instruments. 

Anna’s easy going 

and welcoming style appeals 

to audiences of all ages. Cost 

is $2 for members and $4 for 

nonmembers. For more information, 

call (815) 469-1199. 

TUESDAY 

Electronics Recycling 

5-7 p.m. Oct. 9, Frankfort 

Township Office, 11000 W. 

Lincoln Highway, Frankfort. 

Frankfort Township 

has been added to the list 

of sites in Will County as a 

drop off location for electronic 

recycling. For more 

information and a list of 

what items can and cannot 

be recycled, visit www.will 

countygreen.com/green 

guide/electronic.aspx. 

WEDNESDAY 

Ribbon Cutting 

5-7 p.m. Oct. 10, Mathnasium, 

20245 S. LaGrange 

Road, Frankfort. Join the 

Frankfort Chamber of Commerce 

for a ribbon cutting 

and reception to celebrate 

the opening of Mathnasium. 

Know the 10 Signs 

7-8:30 p.m. Oct. 10, 

Frankfort Public Library, 


Frankfort. The warning 

signs of Alzheimer’s disease 

are often dismissed as 

side effects of normal aging. 

Topics covered in this 

program include how to tell 

the difference between Alzheimer’s 

and typical aging, 

steps to take if you recognize 

a warning sign in yourself or 

someone you know, and why 

early detection is crucial. 

This program is presented by 

the Alzheimer’s Association, 

Illinois Chapter. To register, 

call (815) 744-0804 or visit 

alz.org/illinois. 

Scarecrow Building Contest 

Entries are due by Oct. 

10. Join the seventh annual 

Scarecrow Building Contest. 

Scarecrows will be displayed 

outside the Founders Community 

Center, 140 Oak St. 

All entries are due by October 

10, and voting will run 

from October 12–31. For 


469-9400. 

UPCOMING 

Plan Commission Meeting 

6:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 

11, Village Administration 

Building, 432 W. Nebraska 

St., Frankfort. For the agenda 

or more information, visit 

www.villageoffrankfort. 

com, or call (815) 469-2177. 

Opiod Epidemic Education 

7-8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 

11, Frankfort Public Library, 


Frankfort. According to the 

Frankfort Fire Department, 

there were 31 opioid overdoses 

in Frankfort alone last 

year. Most of the overdoses 

come from people ages 15- 

34. What puts you at risk? 

What can you do to take care 

of yourself and your community? 

LTM, a group named 

after a young man who overdosed 

and died at the age 

of 24, will be coming to the 

library to speak to teens and 

their parents about the dangers 

of opioids, what risk 

factors are, misconceptions 

about drug addiction, and 

what to do if you, a friend, or 

your child are addicted. For 


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St. Anthony WOW 

7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 12, 

Frankfort Township Building, 

11000 W. Lincoln 

Highway, Frankfort. Join 

St. Anthony WOW, a nondenominational 

social group 

for widows and widowers, 

for a short meeting, entertainment 

and refreshments, 

New faces are welcome. For 

more information, call Mary 

at (815) 469-4351 or Bill at 

(708) 478-6118. 

ONGOING 

Frankfort Country Market 

9 a.m.-1 p.m. Sundays 

through Oct. 14, downtown 

Frankfort. The Village 

of Frankfort will host the 

Frankfort Country Market, 

where guests can enjoy a 

variety of fresh produce, 

prepared foods, plants and 

specialty products locally 

grown. There will be special 

events and demos throughout 

the season. For more 

information, call (815) 469- 

2177. 

Vendors Wanted 

Saturday, Dec. 8, Peotone 

High School, 605 W. North 

Street, Peotone. The annual 

Peotone Craft and Vendor 

Fair benefits Peotone Intermediate 

Center in Frankfort. 

Cost for a 10x8 is $25 each. 

Cost for a 10x8 booth with an 

electric outlet is $35 each. For 

an application, email peotone 

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Summit Hill D161 Board of Education 

Teacher gets surprise award for extra effort 

Megan Schuller 

Freelance Reporter 

Ashley Pickens, a teacher 

at Dr. Julian Rogus School, 

received an unexpected surprise 

at the Summit Hill 

School District 161 Board of 

Education meeting on Sept. 

26. Unaware of why she was 

invited to the meeting, she 

was awarded with a crystal 

teacher appreciation award 

and gift basket for winning a 

contest held by local plumber 

and business owner Kevin 

Szabo Jr. 

“It’s amazing,” Pickens 

said. “I love all my students 

and I love what I do. I will 

never forget this.” 

Parent Stephanie Phillips 

of Frankfort entered Pickens 

in the teacher appreciation 

contest as a way to thank her 

for the strides she has made 

with Phillips’ son. 

“My son has soared since 

he’s been with Ms. Pickens,” 

Phillips told the board. “Because 

of her my son is doing 

great. There are special 

teachers out there who don’t 

get recognized, but I wanted 

to make sure everyone knew 

how lucky I feel to have her 

as my son’s teacher.” 

Szabo said that he started 

the contest because of a few 

teachers in his life who not 

only believed in him but 

went the extra mile to ensure 

that he graduated on time. 

“When a teacher puts extra 

effort into a student, it 

shows in their progress,” 

Szabo said. “Stephanie Phillips 

emailed me about her 

son’s struggles in school 

and it touched me because 

I remember how I used to 

struggle in school. Ashley 

Pickens has taken Colton 

under her wing and it shows 

because he’s headed in the 

right direction.” 

Szabo told the board it 

was that very reason, that 

connection, which made 

Pickens stand out among 

the other nominations he received. 

“We’re expecting our students 

to become doctors, 

lawyers, teachers, plumbers 

and astronauts but we 

shouldn’t forget to thank 

their teachers along the 

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Dr. Julian Rogus School teacher Ashley Pickens receives a crystal teacher appreciation 

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A brief recap of other items discussed at 

the Sept. 26 D161 meeting 

• The board approved the fiscal year 

2019 budget after a brief public budget 

hearing. 

• Approved $1,000 per month increase 

for a Gig connection upgrade of internet 

service. 

• Summit Hill girls softball recognized for 

winning the IESA State Championship. 

• D843 is going to go out for bids to 

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purchasing a plow truck. 

• The next Board of Education meeting 

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Police reports 

Man cited for DUI 

An Elgin man was cited 

Sept. 23 for allegedly driving 

with a blood alcohol 

content above 0.08 and improper 

lane usage after he 

was discovered in a vehicle 

in a ditch in Frankfort. 

Frankfort Deputy Police 

Chief Kevin Keegan said 

officers responded to a report 

of a vehicle in a ditch 

in the area of Sauk Trail and 

80th Avenue and located a 

Ford Taurus in the northside 

ditch. The car’s occupants 

— Juvenal Bahena, 51, of 

65 Highbury Drive in Elgin, 

and a female passenger — 

were not injured and refused 

medical attention. 

Bahema failed sobriety 

testing and had blood alcohol 

content twice the legal 

limit, Keegan said. 

Sept. 20 

Miscellaneous items were 

reported stolen from an unsecured 

vehicle parked in 

a business parking lot in 

the 10000 block of Lincoln 

Highway. 

EDITOR’S NOTE: The 

Frankfort Station’s Police 

Reports are compiled from 

official reports found online 

on the Frankfort Police 

Department’s website or 

releases issued by the 

department and other 

agencies. Individuals 

named in these reports are 

considered innocent of all 

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Sheriff's office seeks help identifying suspects 

Nuria Mathog, Editor 

The investigation division 

of the Will County Sheriff’s 

Office is seeking the public’s 

help in identifying a man 

and a woman suspected of 

involvement in three recent 

armed robberies at Frankfort 

Township gas stations. 

Two of the robberies took 

place June 24 and Sept. 18 at 

the Speedway Gas Station at 

7218 W. Lincoln Highway, 

while the third occurred 

July 24 at the Gas N’Wash 

at 19420 S. Harlem Ave., 

according to a news release 

from the Will County Sheriff’s 

Office. 

Detectives believe two 

individuals were responsible 

for all three incidents: 

a black male in his late 30s 

with a medium build and a 

small beard and goatee, described 

as about five foot 

From Sept. 27 

A second image of the male 

individual is shown. 

seven inches tall, and a black 

woman in her early 30s with 

a slim build, described as 

about five foot eight inches 

tall, the release states. 

During each incident, the 

subjects reportedly arrived 

in a newer model cranberrycolored 

Cadillac. 

A video of the individuals 

can be reviewed at the Will 

County Sheriff’s Office 

Facebook page, www.face 

book.com/WillCountySher 

iff. Anyone able to identify 

the subjects is asked to call 

the Sheriff’s Office investigation 

division at (815) 

727-8574. 

D161 

From Page 3 

Pictured is an image of one of the individuals suspected of 

involvement in three robberies at gas stations in Frankfort 

Township. The Will County Sheriff’s Office is seeking help 

in identifying the two subjects. Photos courtesy of Will 

County Sheriff’s Office 

The board voted unanimously 

on both items. The 

first was a request to move 

forward with investigating 

a feasibility study through a 

Request for Proposal to find 

a consulting service at the 

lowest price. The other, a 

request to reach out to D210 

about the study. 

“It was identified that the 

next step in seeking information 

and fact finding would 

be a feasibility study,” Board 

President Rich Marron said. 

“A feasibility study is recognized 

by the Illinois School 

Board as a collection technique. 

It’s done by an outside 

vendor as a consulting 

service. And it’s something 

that the ISBE has funding 

for.” 

The catch is that in order 

to tap into the ISBE funding 

that is available, there 

has to be an agreement between 

all school districts 

impacted, which in this case 

is both D161 and D210. The 

estimate given during the 

ISBE presentation several 

weeks ago was that it would 

cost somewhere between 

$12,000 and $20,000. If both 

districts do agree on participating, 

the state will pay at 

least half of the bill. 

Marron said that issuing 

an RFP will get a scope 

and dollar amount for the 

project, and reaching out to 

D210 will decide the practicality 

of pursuing a feasibility 

study. 

The board will now reach 

out to D210 via a board-toboard 

letter on behalf of the 

D161 board and Unit District 

Committee to see if the Lincoln-Way 

district is willing 

to participate. Once the RFP 

comes back, the board will 

then review it along with the 

response from D210 to determine 

if it wants to move 

forward with a feasibility 

study, depending on the state 

funding available. 

The next committee meeting 

was scheduled for 6:30 

p.m. on Oct. 3 at the Mary 

Drew Administration Center.



Mother-son dance takes families out of this world 

Rochelle McAuliffe 


Stormtroopers, Imperial 

villains and rebel heroes 

don’t often get together on 

friendly terms, but when 

they do, it’s to get down and 

dance with their moms. 

Mothers and their sons 

may have arrived at the 

Frankfort Founders Center, 

but once inside, they were 

transported to a galaxy far, 

far away for the third mother-son 

dance. Hosted by the 

Frankfort Park District, the 

annual event brought together 

over 100 mothers and 

their sons on Friday, Sept. 

28, to celebrate the special 

bond with dancing, games, 

refreshments and fun for all. 

“It's just a fun night out for 

moms and sons, where they 

get to spend some quality 

time together” said Stacey 

Proper, superintendent of 

recreation for the Frankfort 

Park District. 

While many are familiar 

with the “Father-Daughter 

Dance,” the Mother-Son 

Dance adds a spin on the traditional 

event by making it 

an exclusive night for moms 

and their boys. 

“I don't know I don't 

know a whole lot of places 

do the mother-son dances, 

so it makes Frankfort pretty 

unique,” said Cali DeBella, 

special events coordinator 

for the Frankfort Park District. 

“We try to plan these 

events with themes that are 

‘in’ and ‘cool,’ but also get 

the kids and moms involved. 

Last year, we did a superhero 

theme, and the moms got 

all dressed up cute for it. I’m 

excited to see what costumes 

we have this year.” 

Whether they came wearing 

their best formalwear or 

donning attire from across the 

stars, everyone in attendance 

was dressed to impress. From 

the forest moon of Endor to 

Five-year-olds Sten Fleck (left) and Kaivan Shah, of Frankfort, pose like Jedis. 

the deserts of Tatooine, characters 

from all over the universe 

came to boogie. 

Zachary Schmeier, of New 

Lenox, may be a human with 

his hood down, but when 

he reached his “final form” 

with his full-faced hood, the 

6-year-old transformed into 

a wookie – even sounding 

like Chewbacca. After both 

mom and son participated in 

the limbo contest, they took 

a break to eat some pizza before 

getting back up to dance. 

“We’ve never had a 

chance to come to a motherson 

dance before, so this is a 

really fun night for us,” said 

Erika Schmeier, Zachary’s 

mom. “There are so many 

father-daughter dances, but 

not many mother-son dances 

like this, so this is really 

special. We don’t get quality 

time just the two of us all the 

time.” 

“I love it,” Zachary cut in, 

referring to the time spend 

together for the duo. 

Coming with her best 

friend and her son, Amanda 

Freeman, of Tinley Park, and 

her son Connor were excited 

for the night out in good 

company and in good theme. 

After attending a vacation 

bible school at the Church of 

Mokena a few summers ago, 

Connor became infatuated 

with Star Wars, so spending 

time together and bonding 

over a mutual hobby was an 

easy choice for the pair to 

make. 

“I would much rather be 

doing something like this 

than sitting home watching 

a movie,” Amanda Freeman 

said. “It helps moms meet 

other moms, and it helps the 

kids find comfortability to 

play with kids of the same 

age that they don’t necessarily 

know.” 

As the song “Tough Little 

Boys” by Gary Allen played, 

moms swayed gently with 

their sons on the dance floor, 

with more than a few moms 

having to manage the slow 

dance with multiple boys. 

Although the song was only 

a few minutes long, the chorus 

served as a reminder to 

treasure the memories that 

were being made that evening, 

before the boys grow 

up to be dads themselves. 

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New Lenox, channel the dark side as Kylo Ren and Darth 

Vader on Friday, Sept. 28, at the Frankfort Park District's 

Star Wars-themed Mother-Son Dance. Photos by Rochelle 

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Halloween contests hit the fall 2018 menu 

Publisher’s costume, 

pumpkin carving 

contests open till Nov. 1 

Bill Jones, Managing Editor 

Fall is officially here, and that 

means there are plenty of things 

that are “back.” 

The children are back in school. 

PSLs (love ’em or hate ’em) are 

back on the menu at Starbucks. 

Real-deal gourds are on display 

at grocery stores and farmstands 

everywhere. Lawn decorations 

are creeping out from the dark 

places they hide the rest of the 

year. And Märzen flows from the 

taps, while the brats to wash it 

down come with your choice of 

sauerkraut or grilled onions (the 

latter, please). 

Oh, right, and 22nd Century 

Media’s Halloween contests 

have returned — less with a vengeance, 

more with a new slate of 

prizes. 

We’re once again offering five 

ways to win prizes this Halloween 

season with the return of both 

our costume and pumpkin carving 

contests. 

Details for each are below, but 

questions can be directed to Managing 

Editor Bill Jones at bill@ 

opprairie.com or (708) 326-9170 

ext. 20. 

The Costumes 

The Halloween Costume Contest 

for 2018 features a total of 

three categories. Adults 16 and 

older have two ways to win, with 

awards for scariest costume and 

most creative up for grabs. Children 

15 and younger, meanwhile, 

will compete in one category in 

which creativity is key. 

We’re going to pick just one 

winner across each category from 

all seven of our southwest suburban 

towns: Orland Park, Tinley 

Park, Frankfort, Mokena, New 

Lenox, Homer Glen and Lockport. 

So, your entries need to be 

good. 

We have just a few rules. 

1) You have to be the person in 

the costume. You cannot submit 

for anyone else, with the exception 

of parents who submit for 

their children. 

2) Each person can only submit 

one costume for an entry (basically, 

you cannot send yourself 

in multiple costumes — pick 

one), though families can send 

one entry per person from different 

members of the family (and 

they can be submitted together). 

A group also may enter one group 

costume, eligible for one prize, as 

a group. 

3) We understand there may be 

a bit in the way of scary imagery 

(such is the nature of the holiday), 

but the costumes have to be relatively 

family friendly to be considered 

and published. Nothing 

beyond PG-13. 

4) Entries must be submitted 

no later than 2 p.m. Thursday, 

Nov. 1, to bill@opprairie.com or 

22nd Century Media, c/o Managing 

Editor Bill Jones, at 11516 W. 

183rd St. Unit SW Office Condo 

3, Orland Park, IL, 60467 (physical 

entries cannot be returned), 

along with names, email addresses 

and/or phone numbers, and 

towns for each of the entrants. 

5) The entries will be judged by 

22nd Century Media’s editorial 

staff, with winners being chosen 

based on creativity, successful 

execution of an idea, quality of 

craftsmanship and consideration 

of the holiday/season. 

6) All entries are subject to being 

published. 

The prizes are detailed in the 

accompanying sidebar. 

The Pumpkins 

Our pumpkin carving contest 

returns in 2018 with a category 

for adults 16 and older, as well as 

one for children 15 and younger. 

In both categories, it is all about 

creativity and skill. 

We will pick just one winner 

across each category from all 

seven of our southwest suburban 

towns: Orland Park, Tinley Park, 

Frankfort, Mokena, New Lenox, 

Homer Glen and Lockport. 

We have just a few rules. 

1) You have to be the person 

who carved the pumpkin. You 

The Prizes 

A breakdown of the prizes available in 22nd Century Media’s 

2018 Halloween contests, by category. 

Best Adult Costume-Scary (16 and older) 

• A $25 gift certificate for Rubi Agave Latin Kitchen, Tequila & 

Whiskey Bar, 12622 W. 159th St. in Homer Glen 

• A $5 gift certificate for Whizzy Puffs, 106 MacGregor Road in 

Lockport 

Best Adult Costume-Creative (16 and older) 

• A $25 gift certificate for White Street Cafe, located inside the 

Trolley Barn in Frankfort 


Lockport 

Best Children’s Costume (15 and younger) 

• Two hours of free bowling for up to six people, including shoe 

rentals, along with a pizza and pitcher full of pop, at Laraway 

Lanes, 1009 West Laraway Road in New Lenox 

• A $25 gift card for Gizmos Fun Factory, 66 Orland Square 

Drive in Orland Park 

Best Adult-Crafted Pumpkin (16 and older) 

• A $25 gift certificate for Rubi Agave Latin Kitchen, Tequila & 

Whiskey Bar, 12622 W. 159th St. in Homer Glen 


Lockport 

Best Pumpkin Created by a Child (15 and younger) 

• Gift certificate valued at $25 from Odyssey Fun World, 19111 

Oak Park Ave. in Tinley Park 

• A $25 gift card for Gizmos Fun Factory, 66 Orland Square 

Drive in Orland Park 

cannot submit for anyone else, 

with the exception of parents who 

submit for their children. 

2) Each person can only submit 

one pumpkin photo (can feature 

multiple pumpkins if there is a 

theme) for an entry, though families 

can send one entry per person 

from different members of the 

family (and they can be submitted 

together). 

3) We understand there may be 

a bit in the way of scary imagery 

(such is the nature of the holiday), 

but the pumpkins have to be relatively 

family friendly to be considered 

and published. Nothing 

beyond PG-13. 

4) Entries must be submitted 

no later than 2 p.m. Thursday, 

Nov. 1, to bill@opprairie.com or 

22nd Century Media, c/o Managing 

Editor Bill Jones, at 11516 W. 

183rd St. Unit SW Office Condo 

3, Orland Park, IL, 60467 (physical 

entries cannot be returned), 

along with names, email addresses 

and/or phone numbers, and 

towns for each of the entrants. 

5) The entries will be judged by 

22nd Century Media’s editorial 

staff, with winners being chosen 

based on creativity, successful 

execution of an idea, quality of 

craftsmanship and consideration 

of the holiday/season. 

6) All entries are subject to being 

published. 

The prizes are detailed in the 

accompanying sidebar. 

Phillips Chevrolet 

Frankfort location 

celebrates 50 years 

Submitted by Phillips Chevrolet 

Phillips Chevrolet in Frankfort celebrated 

50 years in business on Oct. 1 

The dealership was founded in 1968 by 

Phil Pascarella in downtown Frankfort 

with a two-car showroom, 12 employees 

and an inventory of 40 cars. In the intervening 

years, Phillips has grown to encompass 

three locations of over 150,000 

total square feet, with more than 350 

employees and more than 1,600 cars and 

45 RVs in its inventory. 

In its 50-year history, Phillips Chevrolet 

has undergone several expansion 

projects, including the addition of two 

more locations in Lansing in 2013 and 

Bradley in 2017. Oct. 1 also marks the 

fifth anniversary of the Lansing location. 

Phillips Chevrolet has been the No. 

1-selling Chevy dealer in Illinois for 12 

years in a row and has earned dozens of 

awards for both sales volume and customer 

satisfaction from General Motors, 

as well as consumer advocate organizations 

like DealerRater and Edmunds. 

com. 

“We couldn’t have achieved our success 

and longevity without the hard 

work and dedication of every member 

of our team, as well as the support of 

our local communities,” said Curtis Pascarella, 

president of Phillips Chevrolet. 

Phillips Chevrolet is located at the 

corner of Routes 30 and 45 in Frankfort, 

in Lansing just south of U.S. Interstate 

80 on Torrence Avenue, and in Bradley 

at Interstate 57 and Route 50. 

The Phillips Chevrolet location in 

Frankfort turned 50 years old on Oct. 1. 

Photo submitted

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Frankfort EMTs to follow up with released hospital patients through new program 


The Frankfort Fire Protection 

District is participating 

in a pilot program recently 

launched by Silver Cross 

Hospital that encourages 

paramedics to make house 

calls to patients recently released 

from the hospital in 

an effort to reduce repeat 

hospital visits. 

The new mobile integrated 

health program debuted 

this week, said Lonnie Polhemus, 

Silver Cross EMS 

manager. Patients must sign 

up for the program to participate, 

and even if the patient 

lives in a community 

that is not provider-serviced, 

the hospital can still send 

a private ambulance to the 

patient's address through 

Kurtz Ambulance Service, 

he added. 

"We were kind of waiting 

for all of the ducks to get in 

a row before we started assigning 

patients to anyone, 

but the case managers are 

ready to go, the physicians 

are ready to go," he said. 

Polhemus said Silver 

Cross filled out an agreement 

with the Illinois Department 

of Public Health 

about two years ago, when 

the department was looking 

Elections 2018 

into launching pilot studies 

at hospitals around the state. 

Northwest Community Hospital 

in Arlington Heights is 

launching a similar program 

involving paramedics from 

the Rolling Meadows, Palatine 

and Palatine Rural fire 

departments, the Daily Herald 

reported in September. 

"In the last six months, 

it's really ramped up," 

Frankfort Fire Protection 

District Chief Bob Wilson 

said. "Silver Cross Hospital 

had training programs ... 

Frankfort had, I believe, six 

of us that attended the class. 

It was an eight-hour day 

over at the hospital and just 

talked about the program 

and the foundation of the 

program." 

Wilson said he sees the 

program as a tool that will 

help eliminate preventable 

hospital visits and give 

EMTs and the Frankfort 

Fire Protection District's 

ambulances greater availability 

to respond to serious 

health-related calls, such as 

a person going into cardiac 

arrest. 

"If someone just had 

a knee replacement, and 

you're sent home, they're 

trying to prevent the patient 

that just had surgery 

from returning back to the 

emergency room because 

'I'm still in pain' or 'I didn't 

take the proper medication 

or I wasn't able to get it' 

or 'I tripped on a rug in the 

house,'" Wilson said. 

Silver Cross will notify 

EMTs when patients enrolled 

in the program are 

released from the hospital 

and provide the patient's 

contact information, Wilson 

said. The EMT would then 

be responsible for scheduling 

an appointment with the 

patient and completing a 

health assessment, as well 

as a home safety assessment, 

which entails ensuring 

that the home is free 

of clutter and there are no 

loose cords that could endanger 

the patient, among 

other items. 

"Are the smoke detectors 

working, are the exits clear, 

are there any trip and fall 

hazards?" Wilson said. "We 

make recommendations if 

you have to get in and out of 

the bathroom; do you have a 

grab rail?" 

The program allows up 

to five total follow-up visits 

per individual following the 

patient's discharge from the 

hospital. Some patients may 

require more visits than others, 

Wilson said -- for example, 

a patient living alone 

versus a patient living with 

his or her family. 

"I think it's a little cuttingedge 

for our area, much like 

back in the heyday of the 

paramedic program," Wilson 

said of the program. 

Silver Cross is funding 

the pilot program through its 

insurance, and the hospital 

is also waiting to hear back 

regarding grant funding applications 

it has submitted, 

Polhemus said. 

"We're going to pay providers 

on a set fee schedule," 

he explained. "And that's 

part of a bundled care that 

we get from an insurance 

company, so we would be 

collecting that money and 

putting it back out into the 

community, but we can't bill 

specifically for this." 

Sixty-three paramedics 

completed training for the 

program and are now considered 

community paramedics, 

meaning they have 

been trained to look for 

chronic illnesses and assess 

patients for chronic illnesses 

rather than acute illnesses — 

for instance, asthma, heart 

Two referenda to appear on November ballot in Frankfort 


Frankfort residents will 

have two referenda to vote 

on in the Nov. 6 elections: 

a proposal to reduce the 

number of commissioners 

on the Frankfort Park District 

Board of Park Commissioners 

and a Village 

of Frankfort proposal to 

implement a 1 percent sales 

tax increase. 

Park district board 

downsizing 

The first referendum, submitted 

by the Frankfort Park 

District, proposes reducing 

the number of commissioners 

on the district’s Board of 

Park Commissioners from 

seven to five. Illinois’s Park 

District Code allows park 

districts with seven-member 

boards created through a 

referendum or resolution to 

change the number of commissioners 

through a referendum. 

According to the Frankfort 

Park District, the number 

of board members increased 

from five to seven 

in 1990 when the Village 

of Frankfort incorporated 

the Prestwick subdivision. 

Park district officials proposed 

returning to a fivecommissioner 

board because 

of difficulties finding 

candidates to fill all of the 

seats on the board. 

The ballot question states: 

“Shall the number of commissioners 

on the board of 

the Frankfort Park District 

be reduced from seven (7) 

to five (5)?” 

Sales tax increase 

On Aug. 6, the Frankfort 

Village Board unanimously 

approved a resolution placing 

a proposed 1 percent 

Please see elections, 16 

failure, diabetes and other 

conditions, Polhemus said. 

Ultimately, Polhemus 

said, the goal is to keep the 

community healthy and decrease 

the overall number of 

hospital visits. 

"It sounds like kind of a 

misnomer for hospitals to 

want to keep people in the 

community rather than coming 

to see us, but that's how 

you keep a healthy community," 

he said. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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CD&ME event helps accessible recreation nonprofit 

Fundraiser in Frankfort 

helps lift barriers to 

outdoor activities for 

people with disabilities 



Outdoor activities create challenges 

and barriers for handicapped 

individuals in wheelchairs 

that can often keep them being 

active outdoors. Mokena resident 

Brian Swift, founder of Swift Outdoor 

Accessible Recreation, has 

made it his goal to lessen these 

barriers and make the outdoors 

more accessible. 

Each year since founding 

SOAR, Swift has put on a fundraiser 

to help fund his non-profit 

effort. This year, it was held at 

CD&ME in Frankfort on Sept. 21 

to accommodate the growth of the 

annual fundraiser. Because of his 

vocation, local handicapped individuals 

can go hiking, fishing, 

cycling and even hunting with accommodations 

that make it easier 

for them. 

“Most people don’t have the 

ability, support or money for 

equipment,” Swift said. “There are 

people out there who don’t know 

what’s out there, what’s available 

for them. That’s what we’re trying 

to change.” 

Swift started SOAR three years 

ago because he had been confined 

to a wheelchair since the age of 

17 when he broke his neck. Since 

then, he has been a quadriplegic 

paralyzed from the chest down. 

Swift did not let his injury stop 

him from continuing an active, full 

lifestyle. He finished college and 

law school. He started driving, 

played wheelchair sports, coached 

football and basketball, got married, 

and adopted three children. 

He said that he hopes SOAR and 

the motivational books he has authored 

can inspire others to stay 

active, despite the obstacles. 

“Just because I’m in a wheelchair 

doesn’t mean I haven’t been 

blessed and fortunate. Helping others 

is just something we should do 

as people. It gives people a reason 

to expand their lives,” Swift said. 

The fundraiser is held annually 

to help get handicap individuals 

and their families outdoors, as 

well as to help them receive grants 

and equipment that will aid them. 

Swift said each fundraiser raises 

more than $10,000 between ticket 

and raffle sales. Many businesses 

from throughout the area donated 

baskets to raffle off. 

Grace Terbin, of Mokena, 

dropped several raffle tickets in 

different baskets. She said that 

attending and contributing to the 

fundraiser, even in little ways, allows 

people to give back to something 

bigger by helping others in 

need. 

“Brian is such an inspiration as 

he works to make things more accessible 

for people with disabilities,” 

Terbin said. “It’s not something 

that is really serviced a lot, 

and he takes the time to go out of 

his way to fundraise for people 

who need it.” 

Sabrina Velez, of Frankfort, 

came with her mother, Jeanette 

Mark, because they recently found 

out about Swift’s organization at a 

Lincoln-Way Area Business Women’s 

Organization meeting. It hit 

close to home for her family since 

her nephew suffered last summer 

a similar spinal cord injury as 

Swift’s. 

“We think it’s a great cause,” 

Velez said. “My nephew was a really 

big outdoor enthusiast before 

his injury. He was 27 years old. He 

was a huge cyclist. When I heard 

that Swift was promoting outdoor 

activities and recreational equipment 

for people with spinal cord 

injuries, I thought, ‘How cool 

would that be if my nephew had 

something like that.’” 

Mark said that she likes SOAR’s 

mission and hopes that SOAR will 

be able to help her grandson get 

out more since he has always enjoyed 

the outdoors. 

“We’re very close to the cause, 

so we’re here to support SOAR 

and learn more about it,” Mark 

said. 

Swift has also given back to the 

commuting by authoring two inspirational 

books, and co-authoring 

several others. 

Trevor Olsen (right), of Frankfort, who volunteers at SOAR chats with the organization’s founder, Brian Swift, 

at the fundraiser for SOAR Friday, Sept. 21, at CD&ME. Photos by Megan Schuller/22nd Century Media 

Frankfort residents Jeanette Mark and Sabrina Velez look at the wide variety of raffle baskets available during 

SOAR’s fundraiser. 

“I did it to help people so maybe 

someone can learn from what has 

helped me,” Swift said. 

According to Swift, his long 

term goal is to buy a piece of 

property and make it 100 percent 

handicap accessible, with cabins, a 

fishing pond and trails. 

“I want it to become somewhere 

where someone can go any time to 

just get away. To be able to do that 

without worrying if their wheelchair 

can fit through the door. I 

want to take some of those worries 

away,” Swift said.



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Students learn about 

human body systems 

Submitted by Frankfort 

Square School 

Megan Cullen’s fourthgrade 

students at Frankfort 

Square School are learning 

about the systems of the human 

body in science class. To 

gain firsthand experience of 

how these systems work and 

function together, students 

acted out the paths of oxygen 

and carbon dioxide and 

food and waste as they travel 

through the body. During 

this process, students learned 

about the circulatory system, 

respiratory system, digestive 

system, muscular system, excretory 

system, and nervous 

system. Students enjoyed 

acting out inhaling oxygen 

and exhaling carbon dioxide, 

eating food and eliminating 

waste and pumping blood to 

help all their organs. After 

this exciting activity, students 

have a much better understanding 

of the systems in 

their bodies and how they all 

work together. 

Indian Trail second-graders 

get hands-on look at plants 

Submitted by Indian Trail 

School 

Second-graders at Indian 

Trail Elementary School got 

busy right away this quarter 

with Science StemScopes. 

The first “scope” is all about 

plants: What makes them 

grow? What are their needs? 

What happens when those 

needs are not met? Students 

are engaged with drawing 

and labeling, measuring and 

classifying, and investigating 

the changes that happen 

to plants when their needs are 

not met. This leads right up to 

the next “scope,” which is all 

about plant and animal interdependence. 

Students (left to right) Mishella Breish, Josh Bulthuis, 

Madison Lorenz and Brody Larsen work with plants in 

teacher Lucy Rios's classroom. Photo submitted 

Students brainstorm ways to show patriotism 

Submitted by Indian Trail School 

The fourth-graders at Indian Trail 

School talked about Patriot Day and 

all the ways to show patriotism. Each 

class was able to watch a short video 

to explain why Sept. 11 is called Patriot 

Day. Students discussed what they 

think of when they think of America 

and then used those ideas to write a 

short paragraph about the things that 

make them think about our country. 

They then used their senses to think 

about different ways to represent 

their country such as barbecues, flags, 

swimming, happiness and many other 

great ideas. After completing their 

writing, the students were able to decorate 

a ribbon on their paper any way 

they wanted. Some students chose 

to honor family and friends that are 

serving or have served, while others 

chose to use colors and symbols that 

remind them of America. It was such 

a great way to honor and learn about 

the events that happened on that day. 

Anyone who stops by the fourth-grade 

wing can see all the ribbons hanging 

up in the hallways. 

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Hunt pose with projects they created for Patriot Day. Photo submitted 

New Little Free Libraries come to Frankfort 

Submitted by Friends of the 

Frankfort Library 

Frankfort is a beautiful 

community with homes 

and landscaping that many 

would dream about, as well 

as lots of organizations that 

give back and a small town 

feel that people seek out to 

set down their roots. One 

area Friends of the Frankfort 

Library is looking to grow is 

the presence of the arts. 

In conjunction with the 

newly formed Frankfort Art 

Association and Gina Barett’s 

vision of honor box 

libraries, the Friends were 

asked for a partnership. The 

Friends of the Frankfort Library 

now would have the 

ability to share more books 

with a group that would design 

some new Little Free 

Libraries with incredible 

artwork. 

The Friends of the Frankfort 

Library is an organization 

that collects, resells, 

repurposes and keeps books 

off the streets and in homes 

and schools where they 

belong. Local artists also 

use the overly-loved books 

for projects. All the funds 

raised by the Friends pick 

up where the library budget 

leaves off. There are many 

thing that would not be possible 

without the efforts of 

the Friends. 

A Little Free Library is 

just that: little and free. They 

are stand-alone boxes that 

tend to be self-sustaining by 

the community with their 

slogan “Take a book. Share 

a book.” Boxes can be found 

in 88 countries worldwide 

with more than 75,000 registered 

Little Free Libraries. 

For those that remember 

heading out for a newspaper 

and dropping in some 

change to retrieve the latest 

news, those receptacles are 

known as honor boxes. The 

Friends hope they serve to 

keep the contents dry and 

available 24 hours a day, 

as they will be used for the 

community’s latest Little 

Free Libraries. Local artist 

Gina Barrett, who spearheaded 

tracking down four 

boxes, along with Pamela 

Biesen, Tom Hamilton, 

Kristin Murphy and Lisa 

Podlesak took to transforming 

them into miniature 

works of art. Biesen’s creation 

currently resides in 

Main Park and the others 

will be unveiled the night 

of the Big Book Sale on 

Friday, Oct. 5, at the Frankfort 

Public Library District. 

Come shop, sip and see 

what the Friends are up to at 

the Wine and Cheese Gathering 

from 5-7 p.m. 

The mission of the Frankfort 

Arts Association is dedicated 

to enhancing the community 

through creation, 

education, promotion, and 

appreciation of the arts. The 

FAA is finding its vision to 

give artists need a space to 

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and to be inspired. The organization 

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plumbing and lighting supplies, 

as well select appliances, 

with 3,148 square feet of 

space utilized as a sales and 

will-call pickup center for its 

product lines. The remaining 

space is slated to be used as a 

warehouse and office. 

“I like to say, ‘We do everything 

but the floor up,’” 

said Devon Glenn, director 

of finance for Ferguson 

Enterprises. “The destination 

showroom is a model 

we’re following across the 

50 states, and we’re looking 

to expand that in our district 

here.” 

Located within three combined 

parcels housed inside a 

81,200-square foot light industrial 

building, the retailer 

would be open to the general 

public, but the Village’s planning 

department anticipates 

its primary usage would be 

by contractors, designers and 

other related professionals. 

“Ultimately our showroom 

is more of a selection center,” 

Glenn said. “Very rarely 

would we have customers 

take material from our location 

here.” 

The company’s warehouse 

in Addison serves as the distributor 

for its products, she 

said. 

Reporting by Cody Mroczka, 

Editor. For more, visit 

TinleyJunction.com. 

FROM THE NEW LENOX PATRIOT 

Fundraiser raises money for 

blind adoption 

The phrase “it takes a village” 

has a different meaning 

for Robert and Kelly 

Hickey, who are in the process 

of adopting a child with 

special needs from Eastern 

Europe. For the Hickey family, 

it means leaning on their 

community and family while 

dealing with the loss of one 

child, and their continued 

pursuit of another adoption. 

A lit candle was set beside 

a framed photograph of the 

couple’s first adopted son 

they never had the chance 

to meet before he died on 

Aug. 15 while waiting on the 

adoption process. 

The couple held a fundraiser 

Sept. 18 at Francis 

Youth Field to help with 

a blind adoption of an unknown 

child, who like their 

first is a special needs child 

halfway across the world. 

More than 140 admission 

tickets were sold prior to the 

event. 

“Even when we bring 

our other child home, he’ll 

still be considered our first 

child,” Kelly said of the prior 

adoption. “He was part of our 

story, and is why we made it 

this far. Now we’ll have the 

opportunity to save another 

child.” 

Reporting by Megan Schuller, 

Freelance Reporter. For more, 

visit NewLenoxPatriot.com. 

FROM THE MOKENA MESSENGER 

Students give toys the 

ultimate test 

It happens often enough 

that people joke about it: A 

child receives a gift only to 

play with the box in which is 

came. 

That was not the case with 

the toys presented to children 

at the Goddard School in Mokena 

on Sept. 26. Throughout 

the week, children ages 

6 months to 6 years old were 

given toys to play with and 

asked which ones they liked 

best. 

Each year, only 50 of Goddard’s 

nearly 500 schools 

are chosen for toy testing, 

and Dolon Saha, who owns 

the Mokena location with 

her husband, Neel, said they 

were excited to be selected. 

It sounds like all fun and 

games, but while the children 

were playing with the toys 

the teachers and staff were 

observing. 

“All our toys in our school 

are all educational, so it looks 

like a toy but there’s a purpose 

to it,” Dolon Saha said. 

Education Director Morgan 

Mrozik said she is interested 

in seeing which toys 

teachers might be able to 

incorporate into their classrooms. 

“I’m looking to see if it’s 

something that can hold [the 

children’s] interest for not 

necessarily a long amount 

of time but an appropriate 

amount of time,” Mrozik 

said. “To make sure that 

they’re engaged in it [and] 

it’s something that they want 

to do.” 

She said she expected there 

to be no shortage of feedback 

from the older students, who 

are usually more than willing 

to put in their 2 cents. 

Reporting by Amanda Stoll, 

Assistant Editor. For more, visit 

MokenaMessenger.com. 

FROM THE HOMER HORIZON 

Entire cheer squad votes 

Homer girl as homecoming 

queen 

It was hard to miss the 

bright smile that formed 

from ear to ear, teeth showing 

and her cheeks raised so 

high they almost closed her 

eyes. She stood in front of 

the crowd wearing a tiara, a 

sash and holding a bouquet 

of flowers. 

Audrey Chisholm was 

happy, and it is all because 

of the 24 girls on the Mokena 

Burros eighth-grade cheer 

squad. 

On Sept. 6, members of 

the squad cast their votes on 

who they wanted to represent 

them as their homecoming 

queen. The only ballot that 

did not have Audrey’s name 

circled as a contender was 

her own. 

“When you get to the 

eighth-grade level, this is it; 

this is like your final shot at 

[homecoming queen] and, 

just like in a high school environment, 

everybody’s kind 

of hoping that it’s them, and 

for all theses girls to put their 

dreams aside for one cheerleader 

was really emotional,” 

Audrey’s mom, Jody, said. 

Receiving this recognition 

for homecoming from her 

teammates means more to 

the Homer Jr. High eighthgrader 

than wearing a tiara 

and sash. 

“For her, she just wants 

to be included; she wants to 

have a lot of friends, and for 

her, it’s like the ultimate sign 

of acceptance,” Jody said. 

Audrey has Down syndrome, 

but her squad just 

sees a 13-year-old girl who 

loves to cheer. 

“I think that all the girls 

love having her on the team,” 

coach Christine O’Donnell 

said. 

Reporting by Jacquelyn 

Schlabach, Assistant Editor. 

For more, visit HomerHorizon. 

com. 

FROM THE LOCKPORT LEGEND 

Lockport Township man 

charged with robbing Dunkin’ 

Donuts 

A man has been arrested 

in connection with a robbery 

that reportedly occurred 

the morning of Sept. 24 at 

Dunkin’ Donuts in Lockport. 

Tyler J. Guenard, 25, 

of McCameron Avenue in 

Lockport Township, was 

charged with aggravated robbery 

after allegedly entering 

the Dunkin’ Donuts located 

at 1069 E. 9th St., demanding 

money and a doughnut, 

and threatening to harm an 

employee if they did not 

comply with his demands. 

The employee gave Guenard 

an undisclosed amount of 

money, according to an email 

from Lockport Police Chief 

Terry Lemming. 

Reporting by Max Lapthorne, 

Editor. For more, visit 

LockportLegend.com. 

FROM THE ORLAND PARK PRAIRIE 

Orland Park Police 

investigation leads to 

‘clandestine lab’ 

A drug investigation that 

began in Orland Park reportedly 

led police to discover a 

“clandestine lab” in Midlothian. 

Jacob Nelson, 26, of the 

rear unit at 14607 Knox 

Ave., was charged with one 

count each of possession 

of cannabis with intent to 

deliver, a Class 3 felony; 

unlawful manufacture of a 

controlled substance-DMT, 

a Class 3 felony; possession 

of a controlled substance- 

MDMA, a Class 4 felony; 

and permitting the unlawful 

use of a building (for manufacturing), 

a Class 4 felony; 

according to a press release 

issued Thursday, Sept. 27, 

by the Orland Park Police 

Department. 

Police had information 

regarding possible unlawful 

drug sales coming from 

the residence, according to 

the release. An investigation 

reportedly concluded Sept. 

26 with Orland Park police 

executing a search warrant at 

the home. 

The search led to a “felony 

amount” of cannabis 

weighing “nearly a pound,” 

a “small quantity” of Ecstasy 

(MDMA) and “numerous” 

items of drug paraphernalia, 

such as scales 

and packaging equipment, 

along with cash proceeds, 

police said. 

Police also reportedly 

found in a bedroom of the 

home a “clandestine lab” 

in which suspected DMT 

(N,N-Dimethyltryptamine, 

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From Page 9 

sales tax on the November 

ballot. Village officials estimate 

70 percent of Frankfort’s 

sales tax dollars come 

from individuals living outside 

the Village and believe 

Frankfort residents would 

benefit from the proposed 

sales tax increase. 

Funds from the tax would 

be used to support Frankfort’s 

municipal operations 

— specifically, to hire more 

police officers for crime 

prevention, special investigation 

and traffic units, as 

well as maintain Village’s 

corporate capital fund for 

future infrastructure improvements, 

such as matching 

grant funds for new bike 

trail installations, new sidewalk 

construction and roadway 

reconstructions. 

The ballot question 

states: “Shall the corporate 

authorities of the Village of 

Frankfort, Will and Cook 

Counties, Illinois, be authorized 

to levy a Non-Home 

Rule Retailers’ Occupation 

Tax and a Non-Home Rule 

Service Occupation Tax at 

the rate of one (1%) percent 

for expenditures on municipal 

operations, expenditures 

on public infrastructure, or 

property tax relief?”

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From the Assistant Editor 

Missing out while on our phones 

Amanda Stoll 


Modern technology 

provides us all 

with great tools. 

I use some form of it every 

single day both at work and 

at home. 

But how much is too 

much? 

This past week I’ve been 

noticing, more than usual, 

how much people are on 

their phones. Whether it’s 

talking, texting, Snapchatting, 

shopping or taking photos 

and videos, these devices 

have become our constant 

companions. 

Being able to so easily 

take photos to remember 

our friends, family and 

special moments is probably 

my favorite use of modern 

technology, but it should 

not come in the way of us 

experiencing those moments 

we are trying to capture with 

the people we love. 

While on assignment this 

week for The Station’s sister 

paper The Mokena Messenger 

at an event for children, 

I realized that almost every 

parent there was constantly 

on their phones. Although it 

didn’t appear that they were 

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substance) was in “various 

stages of manufacture and 

production,” according to the 

texting or even scrolling 

through their Facebook feed, 

they were taking pictures 

and video. 

Instead of taking a few 

photos and then putting 

away their phones, they were 

so caught up in capturing 

every single moment of the 

event that I doubt they had 

the same experience as if 

they had not been on their 

phones. 

The saddest part, though, 

was that they not even taking 

photos of their children. 

They were taking pictures of 

all the other things going on. 

Maybe it is FOMO — 

fear of missing out — but I 

would argue that, instead, it 

is causing us to miss out… 

on life. 

I remember seeing a lot of 

the same things last time I 

went to a concert. People all 

over the amphitheater were 

recording the singers on 

stage, watching through their 

phones the entire time. 

Phones do not generally 

capture that kind of audio 

well in my experience, and 

the video quality was so poor 

in the lighting that I cannot 

imagine the video was even 

worth watching afterward. 

So why do it then? 

The few photos I have on 

my phone from the concert 

were those of me, my sister 

and my best friend. There 

might be one or two of the 

stage, but we were so far 

away I can hardly even see 

the specks who were the 

people on the stage. 

I have great memories 

release. Twenty-two jars of 

the product and other chemicals 

used in manufacturing 

were removed from the 

home, police said. 

Nelson was to be held in 

Orland Park pending a bond 

“Instead of taking a few photos and 

then putting away their phones, 

they were so caught up in capturing 

every single moment of the 

event that I doubt they had the 

same experience as if they had not 

been on their phones.” 

from that night and a handful 

of photos from the event. 

That’s enough for me. 

It seems like more and 

more people fill their photo 

libraries with meaningless 

images, and, in the end, I 

think we are missing out on 

the most important parts of 

life. 

Watching a concert 

through a phone’s screen 

or camera lens is not the 

experience I want. I want to 

be involved, engaged and enjoying 

those moments with 

the people who are sharing 

them with me. 

I have made a habit of 

reminding myself to get off 

my phone — probably a 

little too much, as sometimes 

I forget to take photos for occasions 

I wish I had pictures 

of — but I would challenge 

everyone to think about the 

time spent on their phone 

and what you might be missing 

out on while staring at 

the screen. 

At first, it is hard to break 

the habit of pulling out your 

phone every time you have 

a spare 15 seconds waiting 

hearing later Sept. 27 at the 

Cook County Courthouse for 

the Fifth Municipal District 

in Bridgeview. 

Reporting by Bill Jones, Editor. 

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in line at the grocery store or 

sitting on the couch at home. 

You might even find yourself 

getting bored. 

It is OK to be bored, but 

that extra time spent in the 

present moment might lead 

you to have a meaningful 

conversation or experience 

you would have missed out 

on otherwise — probably 

without even knowing you 

missed out on it in the first 

place. 

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Faith Briefs 

St. Anthony Catholic Church (7659 Sauk 

Trail, Frankfort) 

Youth Essay Contest 

Essay deadline is Oct. 

15. All Catholic students 

in public, private, and parochial 

schools grades 8, 9, 

10, 11, and 12, are invited 

to participate in the 2018 

Knights of Columbus Catholic 

Citizenship Essay Contest. 

Students are encouraged 

to write a 500 to 750 

word essay on the theme of 

“How does your family keep 

its Catholic faith in action?” 

All contestants on the local 

level are recognized for the 

participation in the contest. 

A $50 prize will be awarded 

to the winner at each grade 

level. For more information, 

entry forms or to submit an 

essay, call (815) 462-4894 

or email richard.hoch1@ 

comcast.net. 

Mass Service 

5 p.m. Saturdays; 7:30 

a.m., 9 a.m., 10:30 a.m. and 

noon Sundays. 

Reconciliation 

4-4:50 p.m. Saturdays. 

Knights of Columbus 

Meetings 

7:30 p.m. every second 

and fourth Tuesday of the 

month in St. Anthony Hall. 

The Knights help at parish 

functions such as the church 

picnic and their annual pancake 

breakfast. 

Pro-Life Rosary Group 

7 p.m. every first Monday 

of the month in the Padua 

Center. This group prays for 

the Rosary of Life for the 

unborn. If interested in joining, 

call (815) 469-3750. 

Bereavement Support 

7 p.m. once a month at 

the Padua Center. For more 


3750. 

Tuesday Morning Rosary and 

Scripture Group 

9:30 a.m. Tuesdays at the 

Padua Center. To join, call 

the Parish Office at (815) 

469-3750. 

St. Anthony Seniors 

Wednesday afternoons 

monthly. Seniors gather for 

meetings, bingo and more. 

For more information, contact 

Pat Backus at (708) 720- 

9321. 

Sew ‘n’ Sews 

10 a.m. Tuesdays in 

Memenas Hall. Attendees 

make handmade crafts for 

the church. For more information, 

call (815) 469-3750. 

Holy Spirit Prayer Group 

7 p.m. Tuesdays at the 

Padua Center. Open to anyone 

who would like to join 

to grow spiritually through 

praise, prayer, scripture and 

music. For more information, 

call (815) 469-3750. 

St. Anthony Religious 

Education 

Faith formation Classes 

are Wednesdays or Sundays 

weekly beginning first 

through eighth grade. Please 

call (815) 469-3750 for more 

information. 

Good Shepherd Lutheran Church (177 

Luther Lane, Frankfort) 

Divine Worship Service 

8 a.m. Sundays. 

Adult Bible Class 

9:30 a.m. Sundays. 

Contemporary Worship 

Service 

10:46 a.m. Sundays. 

Weight Watchers 

9:30-10:30 a.m. Mondays. 

Alcoholics Anonymous 

10 a.m.-noon Saturdays. 

St. Peter’s United Church of Christ (12 W. 

Sauk Trail, Frankfort) 

Blessing of the Animals 

11 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 6. 

Meet at the prayer garden, at 

the south end of Ash Street 

for the ceremony. 

Sunday Worship with 

Communion 

9:30 a.m. every first Sunday 

of the month. 

Sunday School 

9:30-10:45 a.m. Sundays. 

Sew What? 

This is an ongoing gathering 

for beginning to advanced 

sewers that alternates 

on Fridays and Saturdays. 

For dates and more information, 

call (815) 469-2220. 

USO Drop-off 

The church serves as a dropoff 

location for donations to 

the USO from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. 

every weekday. The church accepts 

entertainment items such 

as movies and games; food including 

beef jerky, powdered 

drink mix and coffee; hygiene 

items such as baby wipes, 

shampoo and toothpaste; and 

miscellaneous items such as 

bug spray, sunscreen and fabric 

softener. For a list of things 

that can and cannot be donated, 

or for more information, 

call (815) 469-2220. 

Hickory Creek Community Church (10660 

W. Lincoln Highway, Frankfort) 

Worship Services 

5 p.m. Saturdays and 9 

a.m., 11 a.m. Sundays. For 


469-9496. 

Powerzone Kids Ministries 

During worship at 5 p.m. 

Saturday and 9 a.m., 11 a.m. 

Sundays. Children newborn 

to fifth grade will enjoy ageappropriate 

Bible lessons 

each week. For more information, 

call (815) 469-9496. 

Reach Student Ministries 

6:45-8:30 p.m. Wednesdays. 

Students from sixth 

grade through high school 

can worship, connect with 

other students, learn about 

God and his word, and enjoy 

high energy activities. For 


469-9496. 

Mixed Bible Studies 

We have many Bible studies 

that meet throughout the 

week in the evenings. Contact 

the church at (815) 469- 

9496 for a current schedule. 

Women’s Bible Study 

Gathering is typically on 

Mondays, Tuesdays and 

Fridays at various times 

throughout the year. Contact 

the church at (815) 469-9496 

for a current schedule. 

Men’s Bible Study 

7:30-9 a.m. Saturdays at 

the church. Session is off 

the last Saturday of every 

month. 

Amazing Love Lutheran Church (21301 S. 

Pfeiffer Road, Frankfort) 

Mornings with Mommy 

10–11 a.m. first and third 

Wednesdays of each month. 

The cost to attend the onehour 

session is $5 per child 

per session, and payments 

can be made by cash or 

check. Registration is required, 

and those interested 

may do so online. For more 

information, contact program 

director Marlena Spurbeck 

at marlenaspurbeck@ 

gmail.com or visit www. 

amazinglove.org/morningswith-mommy. 

Teen Group 

Teens in grades 6-12 are 

welcome to join. There will 

be a meeting with new activities 

every second Saturday 

of the month. For more 

information, visit www. 

amazinglove-ministries.org. 

Women’s Group 

9:30-11:30 a.m. every first 

and third Saturday of the 

month, at the church. This 

semester we will be studying 

“Uninvited” by Lysa Ter- 

Keurst. More information is 

available at the church. 

Men’s Group 

6:30-8 a.m. every second 

and fourth Saturday of the 

month, at the church. This 

group uses the Men’s Fraternity 

curriculum, which is 

currently focusing on “Winning 

at Work and Home.” 

Franciscan Sisters of the Sacred Heart (St. 

Francis Woods, 9201 W. St. Francis Road, 

Frankfort.) 

Scripture Reflection 

9-10:30 a.m. Thursdays in 

the Assisi Center. Sr. Marilyn 

Renninger, OSF, leads a 

reflection and sharing on the 

upcoming Sunday readings 

and how it applies to daily 

life. Participants may come 

to as many or as few as their 

schedules allow. No fee and 

no registration. Just sign in 

at the Front Desk. 

“Ordinary Saints, Canonized 

Saints and Me” 

9-11:00 a.m. Saturday, 

Oct. 13 in the Assisi Center. 

Sr. Marilyn Renninger, OSF, 

will talk about how one becomes 

a saint and the difference 

between an ordinary 

saint and a canonized saint. 

Breakfast and handouts are 

included in the $15 fee. Register 

online at www.fssh.net/ 

faith-enrichment-programs. 

Tau Singers Welcoming New 

Members 

6:30- 8 p.m. Tuesdays. Rehearsals 

begin Oct. 23 for the 

Tau Singers, a choral group 

of Sisters and lay women and 

men that is welcoming new 

members this fall. The group 

sings for various celebrations 

at St. Francis Woods. If interested, 

contact Sr. Kathleen 

at kathleen.hook@presencehealth.org. 

Breakfast with a Cup of 

Spirituality: “Nurturing Our 

Hunger for God” 

9-11 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 

17 in the Assisi Center. Sr. 

Marilyn Renninger, OSF, 

will talk about how we can 

center on God’s presence 

and walk daily with him. 

Breakfast and handouts are 

included in the $15 fee. Register 

online at www.fssh.net/ 

faith-enrichment-programs. 

Spiritual Direction 

By appointment, five Sisters 

at St. Francis Woods in 

Frankfort who are trained 

Spiritual Directors offer 

Spiritual Direction sessions 

at Franciscan Sisters of the 

Sacred Heart. The fee is $50. 

The Sisters are: Janice Keenan, 

OSF, (815) 469-4883; 

Norma Janssen, OSF, (815) 

464-3808; Mary Shinnick, 

OSF, (815) 464-3807; Joyce 

Shanabarger, OSF, (815) 

464-3803; and Sr. Nancy 

Roberta Schramm, OSF, 

(815) 464-3848. 

Lighthouse Fellowship (8128 W. Lincoln 

Highway, Frankfort) 

Group Prayer Meeting 

7 p.m. Wednesdays. All 

are welcome. 

Revolution Youth Group 

7-9 p.m. Wednesdays. 

This youth ministry is for 

those in grades 7-12. Meet 

for worship, games, food and 

Bible study. Enter through 

the upper-west doors. For 


469-0611. 

Men’s Prayer Group 

8-9 a.m. Saturdays. 

Bible Study 

9:30-10:30 a.m. Sundays. 

These small groups meet at 

the church and are open to 

anyone who wants to attend, 

offering a place to ask questions 

and get answers without 

being put on the spot. 

Coed groups for students 

and adults of all ages are offered 

along with men’s and 

women’s groups. For more 


0611. 

To have your church’s events 

included in Faith Briefs, 

email them to Assistant Editor 

Amanda Stoll at a.stoll@ 

22ndcenturymedia.com or 

call (708) 326-9179 ext. 34. 

Deadline is noon Thursdays 

one week prior to publication.

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LWE student creates life-size checkerboard at Chelsea 



The Scouts of Frankfort 

Boy Scout Troop 270 gathered 

at Chelsea Intermediate 

School the morning of 

Sept. 22 to shovel gravel 

into a square hole they had 

dug near the school playground. 

Each member of the 

troop carefully laid a large 

black or white square stone 

in a checkerboard pattern 

and pounded it into place in 

the gravel. 

Within a few hours, the 

stones had transformed into 

a playable giant checkerboard 

in the school’s backyard. 

The checkerboard was the 

brainchild and Eagle Scout 

project of 17-year-old Cole 

Chojnacki. After seeing a 

similar life-size checkerboard 

while on vacation, 

the Lincoln-Way East senior 

wanted to bring the game to 

Frankfort, so the local community 

and children could 

enjoy it. 

“I wanted to do something 

a little outside the box,” 

Chojnacki said. “Now, a 

little part of me is here. I’m 

proud of it. I’ve worked for a 

long time on it.” 

Chojnacki was responsible 

for developing the concept 

for the project, pitching it to 

the school, and coordinating 

the labor and resources 

to complete it. More than 14 

members of his troop helped 

make his vision possible. 

Troop 270 Committee 

Chairman Chuck Rudy said 

Eagle Scout projects such as 

Chojnacki’s instill a sense of 

pride and community into 

the Scouts. 

“I think it’s a tremendous 

project,” Rudy said. “The 

Eagle project is a way for 

the Eagle candidate to provide 

something back to the 

community that showcases 

the aspects of Scouting.” 

Mike Bonifacio (left), owner of Elemental Landscapes, and Lincoln-Way East student Cole Chojnacki lay the stones for a 

giant checkerboard Sept. 22 at Chelsea Intermediate School in Frankfort. Photos by Megan Schuller/22nd Century Media 

Mike Bonifacio (left) and Cole Chojnacki shake hands and 

pose with a plaque Bonifacio received for donating his 

supplies and labor for the Eagle Scout project. 

Elemental Landscapes donated 

all the materials needed 

for the landscaping of 

the project, as well as labor 

to ensure it was safely installed. 

Owner Mike Bonifacio 

said he was eager to help 

the Eagle Scouts because he 

was a Cub Scout when he 

was younger. 

“It’s something I really 

support,” Bonifacio said. 

“When this project came up, 

I wanted to help since I’m 

in the industry. It’s nice to 

get the younger generation 

involved in manual labor 

because it’s kind of a lost art 

with the new generations. It 

organizes them as a group 

and teaches teamwork.” 

The Scouts installed the 

stone checker board alongside 

Bonifacio, as well as 

a storage bench to keep 

the pieces in. The checker 

pieces also have a metal 

pole so when the player 

kings his or her piece, the 

pieces can be stacked just 

as they would be on a real 

game board. 

“I’m very proud of him,” 

Cole’s mother Cori Chojnacki 

said. “He’s been 

working hard on the project. 

Cole has really enjoyed 

being a part of the Eagle 

Scouts.” 

Assistant Scout Master 

Paul Herbst said that the Eagle 

Scout projects teach the 

young Scouts valuable lessons 

in real-world situations. 

“It gives them a sense of 

ownership in the community,” 

Herbst said. “ It gives 

them a sense of how things 

really work in the world. It’s 

a great environment to make 

mistakes. They now know 

how to get projects done and 

how they can benefit the 

community.” 

Months of working and 

planning came to a head 

once the final stone was laid 

by Cole and the sod was 

replaced around the checkerboard. 

To celebrate their 

work, Cole played a game 

of checkers with his fellow 

Scouts when the project was 

complete. 

“Now that it’s come together 

its kind of a closure 

for me," Cole Chojnacki 

said. "I hope it lasts a long 

time and kids will get to enjoy 

it for longer then I’ll be 

here." 

Frankfort Boy Scout Troop 270 members Quinn 

Hickling (left), 13, and Alec O’Connor, 16, load sod into 

a wheelbarrow to lay around the stones that were set in 

place.



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Frankfort girl raises tens of thousands of dollars for type 1 diabetes research 


At just 10 years old, Teagan 

Murphy has made it her personal 

mission to help spread 

awareness and raise money to 

fight a disease that affects an 

estimated 1.25 million people 

in the U.S. 

The Hilda Walker fifthgrader 

was diagnosed with 

type 1 diabetes in 2014, when 

she was 6 years old. Prior to 

her diagnosis, she displayed 

many of the common symptoms 

of the disease, such as 

losing a lot of weight. 

One day, she went to a party 

and ended up with a "really 

dry mouth," she said. 

"After that we came home, 

I went to bed, then my parents 

woke me up about 10 minutes 

later and said, 'We're going to 

the emergency room,'" Teagan 

said. "Once we got there, 

I got an IV and they tested my 

blood sugar and it was over 

700 [milligrams per decilter]." 

Susie Murphy, Teagan's 

mother, and her husband 

Mike have both coached students 

and athletes with a type 

1 diagnosis, but helping their 

daughter navigate the condition 

proved to be a much 

more challenging experience. 

"Until you're in the middle 

of it, you don't know how 

consuming it is," Susie Murphy 

said. "Like, you think, 

'oh, you've just got to look out 

for her.' You don't realize, she 

can't even eat a pea without 

insulin. You don't even realize, 

in the middle of the night, 

that she could go so low that 

she could go into a coma ... it's 

24/7. So, that was a change, 

but our biggest goal was that 

we try to change nothing." 

In 2015, Teagan decided to 

begin volunteering for JDRF 

Illinois, formerly known as 

the Juvenile Diabetes Research 

Foundation, after 

learning about the nonprofit 

organization and its goal of 

raising money to fund research 

for a cure for type 1 

diabetes. 

"When I heard about JDRF, 

I thought that it sounded fun 

and I wondered what it was, 

so then I started getting involved 

in fundraising, and 

now I'm a Youth Ambassador," 

she said. "You help with 

events and fundraising, and 

you're basically one of 20 to 

25 people." 

Throughout her time with 

JDRF, Teagan has helped 

raise money for a variety of 

events, including the annual 

JDRF Illinois gala held at the 

McCormick Place Convention 

Center in Chicago, the 

JDRF One Walk in Orland 

Park, where she assisted with 

the Kids Zone, and a May fundraiser 

at her former school, 

Dr. Julian Rogus School, that 

raised more than $5,600. She 

plans to go to Walt Disney 

World in Orlando, Flo., in 

January to run in the 5K and 

10K races and continue raising 

money for the cause. 

In total, Teagan has raised 

more than $32,000 through 

her fundraising efforts. She 

said she enjoys getting the 

chance to meet other diabetics 

who have recently been 

diagnosed. 

"I had a pen pal who was 

diagnosed and I got her to go 

to camp with me," she said. 

This summer has been especially 

eventful for Teagan. 

She received JDRF Illinois's 

Youth Ambassador of the 

Year award and had a unique 

opportunity Aug. 28 to speak 

to game day security staff at 

Wrigley Field — and meet 

Chicago Cubs relief pitcher 

Brandon Morrow, who also 

has a type 1 diabetes diagnosis. 

"It was really fun," Teagan 

said. "I had him sign my Cubs 

jersey, and my sister got him 

to sign a ball." 

Since her diagnosis, Teagan 

said, there have been 

several changes in her day-today 

routine. For instance, she 

said, she used to get school 

lunches but had to start bringing 

her own lunches to make 

sure she only ate a limited 

number of carbohydrates. 

Teagan Murphy (right) and sister Logan (left) meet Chicago 

Cubs relief pitcher Brandon Morrow on Aug. 28. Teagan 

spoke to game day security staff at Wrigley Field about 

type 1 diabetes prior to the game. 

"I also started to have to go 

to the nurse they had so they 

could dose, and I would have 

to do finger pricks daily," she 

added. 

However, Teagan said, 

having diabetes hasn't prevented 

her from doing any 

of the activities she enjoys 

— including running crosscountry, 

playing soccer for 

the Tinley-Frankfort Soccer 

Club, practicing her dancing 

skills with The Dance Company 

and swimming at the 

North Aquatics Club. 

"There's nothing that I can't 

do," she said. "It's just that 

sometimes I have to take an 

extra step to do it." 

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where they worked at an aid station for JDRF runners. 

Photos submitted 

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Fitness for the ages 

Ageless Grace 

incorporates chair 

exercises for older 

adults, seniors 

Amanda Stoll, Assistant Editor 

They may not be running 

marathons or benching their 

body weight anymore, but 

seniors were definitely getting 

their move on at the 

Ageless Grace class hosted 

at the Frankfort Public Library 

last month. 

Although the classes are 

not limited to just seniors, 

Instructor Colette Gallian, of 

Lockport, said the activities, 

stretches and light exercise 

is a great way for seniors to 

stay active and keep their 

minds engaged. 

Between stretching and 

exploring their range of 

movement with simple chair 

exercises, participants got a 

little silly with songs like the 

“Y.M.C.A.” and the “Baby 

Shark Song” where they 

laughed and followed along 

in the choreography with 

Gallian. 

“It gets them out of the 

house. They get to have fun 

[and] do things, like when 

I have them do things like 

“The Hokey Pokey” they 

think it’s a riot,” Gallian 

said. “... They laugh and 

have a good time. They get 

to feel silly without any 

judgement because I’m up 

there being the most silly.” 

Staying social and active 

can be a challenge for older 

adults when they experience 

mobility challenges or need 

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research suggests that those 

things are important for seniors 

to continue to live 

healthy, fulfilled lives. 

Actions like drawing a 

name or word backwards 

with a nondominant hand 

are small — and seemingly 

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Ageless Grace Instructor Colette Gallian, of Lockport, leads 

class participants in a series of gentle stretches for the 

entire body including stretching out the wrists and palms 

of the hands. 

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7-8:30 p.m. Wednesday, 

Oct. 10. The warning 

signs of Alzheimer’s 

disease are often 

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of normal aging. Topics 

challenged participants to 

do during the class. Changing 

the way people do things 

causes the brain to have to 

work differently to perform 

the motions, a value at the 

core of the Ageless Grace 

program. 

“You’re making changes 

to the cells in your brain 

[and] increasing neuroplasticity, 

which affects the neuropathways, 

and you become 

more efficient,” Gallian said. 

Gallian taught water aerobics 

before she began teaching 

Ageless Grace classes in 

the area, and said she was 

drawn to the program because 

of its focus on activities 

that stimulate both the 

body and the brain. 

While there is no cure or 

scientifically-proven way 

to prevent Alzheimer’s or 

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there is research being done 

covered in this program 

include how to tell the 

difference between 

Alzheimer’s and typical 

aging, steps to take after 

recognizing a warning 

sign and why early 

detection is crucial. This 

program is presented 

by the Alzheimer’s 

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alz.org/illinois. 

to explore how changes in 

diet, exercise and cognitive 

functioning can affect the 

disease. 

“I had lost my mom and 

my grandma to Alzheimer’s, 

so I’m always interested in 

what I can do myself because 

I really don’t want that 

disease,” Gallian said, “and 

then to incorporate in my fitness 

classes.” 

She said regular exercise 

and things such as reading 

and crosswords puzzles are 

still great options to people 

to do to stay active and engaged, 

but activities and 

exercises done in programs 

like Ageless Grace are another 

option for something 

different seniors can add to 

their daily routine. 

“[There are] little things 

we can do at home to really 

help our brain health,” she 

said. 

Frankfort residents Jean (left) and Jim Keeney take part in a seated dance exercise to 

“Y.M.C.A.” during the Ageless Grace program at the Frankfort Public Library on Sept. 19. 

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Distinctive Home Builders Introduces New Craftsman Homes 

In Manhattan and Peotone – From the mid-$200’s 

New designs are a result of buyer feedback 

Two refreshing designs mark 

the beginning of a new series 

of Craftsman-style homes 

available from Distinctive Home 

Builders at its latest new home 

communities: Prairie Trails; 

located in Manhattan within the 

highly-regarded Lincoln-Way 

School District and at WestGate 

Manor in Peotone within 

the desirable Peotone School 

District. 

“Craftsman homes were 

introduced in the early 1900s 

in California with designs 

based on a simpler, functional 

aesthetic using a higher level 

of craftsmanship and natural 

materials. These homes were a 

departure from homes that were 

mass produced from that era, 

“according to Bryan Nooner, 

president of Distinctive Home 

Builders. 

“The Craftsman design has 

made a comeback today for 

many of the same reasons it 

started over a century ago. Our 

customers want to live in a home 

that gets away from the “mass 

produced” look and live in a 

home that has more character. As 

a result of our daily interaction 

with our homeowners and their 

input, we are excited to introduce 

these two homes, with additional 

designs in the works.” 

Nooner, who meets with 

each homeowner prior to 

construction, has been working 

on these plans for a while and felt 

that the timing was ideal for the 

debut. “Customers were asking 

for something different and 

simple with less monotony and 

higher architectural standards.” 

The result was the Craftsman 

ranch and the Prairie twostory, 

now available at Prairie 

Trails and WestGate Manor. 

The Craftsman ranch features 

an open floor plan with Great 

Room, three bedrooms, two 

baths and a two-car (optional 

three-car) garage. The Prairie 

features a two-story foyer and 

Great Room, three bedrooms 

and one and one-half baths, a 

convenient Flex Room space 

on the main level and a two-car 

(optional three-car) garage. The 

Craftsman architectural elements 

on both homes include brick and 

stone exteriors with cedar shake 

accent siding, low-pitched gabled 

bracket roofs, front porches with 

tapered columns and stone piers, 

partially paned windows, and a 

standard panel front entry door. 

Distinctive Home Builders 

offers a Craftsman-style trim 

package offering trim without 

ornate profiles and routers. The 

trim features simplicity in design 

with rectangles, straight lines and 

layered look trims over doors for 

example. The front entry door 

will have the standard Craftsman 

panel style door. Distinctive has 

also created a Craftsman color 

palate to assist buyers in making 

coordinated choices for the 

interior of their new Craftsman 

home. Colors, cabinet styles and 

flooring choices blend seamlessly 

with the Craftsman trim package 

and are available in gray tones 

package and earth tones. 

Distinctive offers custom maple 

kitchen cabinets featuring solid 

wood construction (no particle 

board), have solid wood drawers 

with dove tail joints, which is 

very rare in the marketplace. 

“When you buy a new home 

from Distinctive, you truly are 

receiving custom made cabinets 

in every home we sell no matter 

what the price range,” noted 

Nooner. 


works to achieve a delivery goal 

of 90 days with zero punch list 

items for its homeowners. “Our 

three decades building homes 

provides an efficient construction 

system,” said Nooner. “Many of 

our skilled craftsmen have been 

working with our company 

for over 20 years. We also 

take pride on having excellent 

communicators throughout our 

organization. This translates into 

a positive buying and building 

experience for our homeowners 

and one of the highest referral 

rates in the industry.” 

Nooner added that all homes 

are highly energy efficient. Every 

home built will have upgraded 

wall and ceiling insulation 

values with energy efficient 

windows and high efficiency 

furnaces. Before homeowners 

move into their new home, 


conducts a blower door test that 

pressurizes the home to ensure 

that each home passes a set of 

very stringent Energy Efficiency 

guidelines. 

With the addition of these two 

new designs, there are now 15 

ranch, split-level and six twostory 

single-family home styles to 

choose from each offering from 

three to eight different exterior 

elevations at both communities. 

The three- to four-bedroom 

homes feature one and one-half 

to two-and-one-half baths, twoto 

three-car garages and a family 

room, all in approximately 1,600 

to over 3,000 square feet of living 

space. Basements are included in 

most models as well. Distinctive 

also encourages customization 

to make your new home truly 

personalized to suit your lifestyle. 

Oversize home sites; brick 

exteriors on all four sides of the 

first floor; custom maple cabinets; 

ceramic tile or hardwood 

floors in the kitchen, baths and 

foyer; genuine wood trim and 

doors and concrete driveways 

can all be yours at Prairie 

Trails and WestGate Manor. 

Most all home sites at Prairie 

Trails and WestGate Manor 

can accommodate a three-car 

garage; a very important amenity 

to the Manhattan homebuyer, 

said Nooner. 

“When we opened Prairie 

Trails and WestGate Manor we 

wanted to provide the best new 

home value for the dollar and 

we feel with offering Premium 

Standard Features that we do 

just that. So why wait? This is 

truly the best time to build your 

dream home!” 

Prairie Trails is also a beautiful 

place to live and raise a family 

featuring a 20-acre lake on site, 

as well as direct access to the 22- 

mile Wauponsee Glacial Prairie 

Path that borders the community 

and meanders through many 

neighboring communities and 

links to many other popular 

trails. The Manhattan Metra 

station is less than a mile away. 

Besides Prairie Trails, 


has built homes throughout 

Manhattan in the Butternut 

Ridge and Leighlinbridge 

developments, as well as in the 

Will and south Cook county 

areas over the past 30 years. 


chose the Will County village 

of Peotone for its newest 

community of 38 single-family 

homes at WestGate Manor 

within walking distance of the 

esteemed Peotone High School. 

Its convenient location between 

Interstate 57 and Illinois Route 

50 provide easy access to I-80 

and commuters enjoy several 

nearby train stations and a 

35-minute drive to Chicago. 

Visit the on-site sales 

information center for 

unadvertised specials and view 

the numerous styles of homes 

being offered and the available 

lots. Call Lynne Rinck at (708) 

737-9142 or (708) 479-7700 for 

more information or visit www. 

distinctivehomebuilders.com. 

The Prairie Trails and WestGate 

Manor new home information 

center is located three miles 

south of Laraway Rd. on Rt. 

52. The address is 24458 S. 

Rt. 52, Manhattan, IL. 60422. 

Open Daily 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 

p.m. Closed Wednesday and 

Thursday and always available 

by appointment. 

Specials, prices, specifications, 

standard features, model 

offerings, build times and lot 

availability are subject to change 

without notice. Please contact 

a Distinctive representative for 

current pricing and complete 

details.

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N V , NOS60563 

P: 630-453-6960 

F: 630-428-4620 

PURSUANT TO THE FAIR DEBT 

COLLECTION PRACTICES ACT 

YOU ARE ADVISED THAT THIS 

LAW FIRM ISDEEMED TO BE A 

DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING 

TO COLLECT ADEBT AND ANY 

INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL 

BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. 

SHERIFF'S SALE OF REAL ESTATE 

of 8316 Brookhaven Drive, Frankfort, 

IL 60423 (Single Family Home). On the 

18th day of October, 2018 to be held at 

12:00 noon, at the Will County Courthouse 

Annex, 57 N. Ottawa Street, 

Room 201, Joliet, IL 60432, under Case 

Title: Bank of America, N.A. Plaintiff 

V. Dorathea Wolford, AKA Dorathea 

K. Wolford; Mark Wolford; JPMorgan 

Chase Bank, N.A.; Lakeview Estates 

Homeowners Common Areas Maintenance 

Association Defendant. 

Case No. 18CH 0388 in the Circuit 

Court of the Twelfth Judicial Circuit, 

Will County, Illinois. 

Terms of Sale: ten percent (10%) at the 

time of sale and the balance within 

twenty-four (24) hours. Nojudicial sale 

fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring 

the residential real estate pursuant 

to its credit bid at the sale or by any 

mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other 

lienor acquiring the residential real estate 

whose rights in and tothe residential 

real estate arose prior to the sale. All 

payments shall be made in cash or certified 

funds payable tothe Sheriff of Will 

County. 

In the event the property is acondomin- 

ium, in accordance with 735 ILCS 

5/15-1507(c)(1)(H-1) and (H-2), 765 

ILCS 605/9(g)(5), and 765 ILCS 

605/18.5(g-1), you are hereby notified 

that the purchaser of the unit, other than 

amortgagee, shall pay the assessments 

and legal fees required by subdivisions 

(g)(1) and (g)(4) of Section 9and the assessments 

required by subsection (g-1) 

of Section 18.5 of the Illinois Condominium 

Property Act. 

Pursuant to Local Court Rule 11.03 (J) 

if there is asurplus following application 

ofthe proceeds of sale, then the 

plaintiff shall send written notice pursuant 

to 735 ILCS 5/15-1512(d) to all parties 

to the proceeding advising them of 

the amount ofthe surplus and that the 

surplus will beheld until aparty obtains 

acourt order for its distribution or, in 

the absence of an order, until the surplus 

is forfeited to the State. 

For Information Please Contact: 

Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC 

One East Wacker Suite 1250 

Chicago, IL 60601 

P: 1-614-220-5611 

F: 









SHERIFF'S SALE OF REAL ESTATE 

of 7704 West Frankfort Square Road, 

Frankfort, IL 60423 (SINGLE FAM- 

ILY). Onthe 11th day of October, 2018 

to be held at 12:00 noon, at the Will 

County Courthouse Annex, 57 N. Ottawa 

Street, Room 201, Joliet, IL 60432, 

under Case Title: Wells Fargo Bank, 

N.A., as Trustee for Stanwich Mortgage 

Loan Trust, Series 2009-2 Asset-Backed 

Pass-Through Certificates Plaintiff V. 

LISA M. BOWE A/K/A LISA BOWE; 

MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGIS- 

TRATION SYSTEMS, INC.; Defendant. 

Case No. 16CH 0480 in the Circuit 

Court of the Twelfth Judicial Circuit, 

Will County, Illinois. 


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County. 



5/15-1507(c)(1)(H-1) and (H-2), 765 

ILCS 605/9(g)(5), and 765 ILCS 








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For Information Please Contact: 

SHAPIRO KREISMAN AND ASSO- 

CIATES, LLC. 

2121 Waukegan Rd, Suite 301 

Bannockburn, Illinois 60015 

P: 847-770-4348 

F: 847-291-3434 









2702 Public 

Notices 

Certificate No. 32479 was filed in 

the office of the County Clerk of 

Will County on September 25, 

2018 wherein the business firm of 

Peaceful Wellness Journey located 

at 20280 S LaGrange Rd, Frankfort, 

IL 60423 is registered and a 

certificate notice setting forth the 

following: 

Melissa CLaMargo, 16817 Sheridans 

Trail, Orland Park, IL 60467 

708-945-5664 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have 

hereunto set my hand and Official 

Seal at my office in Joliet; Illinois, 

this 25th day of September, 2018 

Nancy Schultz Voots 

Will County Clerk 

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Notices 









STATE OF ILLINOIS ) 

) SS. 

COUNTY OF WILL ) 

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OFTHE 

TWELFTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT 

WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS 

Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as Trustee for 

Stanwich Mortgage Loan Trust, Series 

2009-2 Asset-Backed Pass-Through 

Certificates 

Plaintiff, 

vs. 

LISA M. BOWE A/K/A LISA BOWE; 

MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGIS- 

TRATION SYSTEMS, INC.; 

Defendant. No. 16 CH 0480 

NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE 

Public notice ishereby given that pursuant 

toajudgment entered in the above 

cause on the 19th day of May, 2016, 

MIKE KELLEY, Sheriff of Will 

County, Illinois, will on Thursday, the 

11th day of October, 2018 ,commencing 

at 12:00 o'clock noon, at the Will 



sell at public auction tothe highest and 

best bidder orbidders the following-described 

real estate: 

LOT 25INBLOCK 43 IN FRANK- 

FORT SQUARE UNIT NO. 16, BEING 

A SUBDIVISION OF THE SOUTH- 

WEST 1/4 OF SECTION 12, AND 

PART OFTHE NORTHWEST 1/4 OF 

SECTION 13, TOWNSHIP 35 

NORTH, RANGE 12, EAST OF THE 

THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, LY- 

ING NORTH AND SOUTH OF THE 

INDIAN BOUNDARY LINE AC- 

CORDING TOTHE PLAT THEREOF 

RECORDED OCTOBER 25, 1978 AS 

DOCUMENT NO. R73-42509, IN 

WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS. 

Commonly known as: 7704 West 

Frankfort Square Road, Frankfort, IL 

60423 

Description of Improvements: 

SINGLE FAMILY 

P.I.N.: 19-09-12-301-025-0000 













County. 



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FOR INFORMATION PLEASE CON- 

TACT: 

SHAPIRO KREISMAN AND ASSO- 

CIATES, LLC. 

2121 Waukegan Rd, Suite 301 

Bannockburn, Illinois 60015 

P: 847-770-4348 

F: 847-291-3434 

Plaintiff's Attorney 

MIKE KELLEY 

Sheriff of Will County 










) SS. 





CITIMORTGAGE, INC., 

Plaintiff, 

vs. 

JANET E. HARDY A/K/A JANET 

HARDY, CITIMORTGAGE, INC., 





cause on the 13th day of February, 

2018, MIKE KELLEY, Sheriff of Will 








real estate: 

LOT 19, IN UNIT NO. 2 FARM 

BROOK TERRACE, BEING A SUB- 

DIVISION OF PART OF THE WEST 

60 ACRES OF THE SOUTHEAST 

QUARTER OFSECTION 13, TOWN- 

SHIP 35NORTH, RANGE 12 EAST 

OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERID- 

IAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT 

THEREOF RECORDED AUGUST 7, 

1987, AS DOCUMENT NO. 

R87-44058 AND CERTIFICATE OF 

CORRECTION RECORDED JUNE 17, 

1988, AS DOCUMENT NO. 

R88-26429 AND RECORDED JANU- 

ARY 11, 1991 AS DOCUMENT NO. 

R91-1765, IN WILL COUNTY, ILLI- 

NOIS. 

Commonly known as: 7449 W. 

WISHING WELL DR., , FRANK- 

FORT, IL 60423 


Single Family Residence 

P.I.N.: 19-09-13-405-013-0000 













County. 



5/15-1507(c)(1)(H-1) and (H-2), 765 

ILCS 605/9(g)(5), and 765 ILCS 








Property Act. 













TACT: 

Law Offices of Ira T. Nevel LLC 

175 N Franklin Suite 201 

Chi Illi i 60606 

Chicago, Illinois 60606 

P: 312-357-1125 

F: 312-357-1140 


MIKE KELLEY 











) SS. 





HomeStar Bank and Financial Services, 

an Illinois Banking Corporation 

Plaintiff, 

vs. 

Daniel J. Smith, Mary C. Smith, United 

State's Attorney's Office, Beneficial Illinois, 

Inc., Unknown Owners and 

Non-Record Claimants 





cause on the 18th day of July, 2018, 









real estate: 

LOT 23, IN ARTHUR T. MCINTOSH 

AND COMPANY'S PRESTWICK 

UNIT SEVEN, BEING A SUBDIVI- 

SION OF APART OFTHE NORTH- 

EAST QUARTER OFSECTION 25, 

TOWNSHIP 35 NORTH, RANGE 12 

EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL 

MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE 

PLAT THEREOF RECORDED 

AUGUST 31, 1973 AS DOCUMENT 

NUMBER R73-26695, IN WILL 

COUNTY, ILLINOIS. 

Commonly known as: 1023 Prestwick 

Drive, Frankfort, IL 60423 


Residence Dwelling 

P.I.N.: 19-09-25-206-013-0000 

Terms ofSale: ten percent (10%) at the 


twenty-four (24) hours. No judicial sale 






whose rights inand to the residential 




County. 



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TACT: 

CLAIRE CHAPLINSKI LAW OFFICE 

200 E Court St Suite 212 

Kankakee, Illinois 60901 

P: 18159397155 

F: 


MIKE KELLEY 











) SS. 





Wells Fargo Bank, NA 

Plaintiff, 

vs. 

Dennis Ash aka Dennis K. Ash; Portfolio 

Recovery Associates, LLC; Capital 

One Bank (USA), N.A., Successor in 

Interest toCapital One Bank; CitiBank, 

N.A.; Barclays Bank Delaware; Midland 

Funding LLC; Unknown Owners 

and Non-Record Claimants 





cause on the 6th day of July, 2018, 









real estate: 

PARCEL 1:LOT 204 (EXCEPTING 

THEREFROM THE NORTH 300 

FEET) AND LOT 205, (EXCEPTING 

THEREFROM THE NORTH 300 

FEET) INARTHUR T.MCINTOSH 

AND COMPANY'S SECOND ADDI- 

TION TO LINCOLN ESTATES, A 

SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE 

EAST 1/2 OFSECTION 23, TOWN- 

SHIP 35 NORTH, RANGE 12, EAST 

OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERID- 

IAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT 

THEREOF RECORDED MAY 20, 

1930 AS DOCUMENT 441155, IN 


Commonly known as: 21122 South 

Hillside Road, Frankfort, IL 60423 


Single Family 

P.I.N.: 19-09-23-401-021-0000 

PARCEL 2: LOT 214 (EXCEPT THE 

SOUTH 100 FEET), IN ARTHUR T. 

MCINTOSH AND COMPANY'S SEC- 

OND ADDITION TO LINCOLN ES- 

TATES, A SUBDIVISION OF PART 

OF THE EAST 1/2 OF SECTION 23, 

TOWNSHIP 35 NORTH, RANGE 12, 

EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL 

MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE 

PLAT THEREOF RECORDED MAY 

20, 1930 AS DOCUMENT 441155, IN 


P.I.N.: 19-09-23-401-036-0000 

Terms ofSale: ten percent (10%) at the 


twenty-four (24) hours. No judicial sale 






whose rights inand to the residential 




County. 

In the event the property is a condominium, 

in accordance with 735 ILCS



2703 Legal 

Notices 

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TACT: 

ANSELMO LINDBERG OLIVER 

LLC. 

1771 W. Diehl Rd. Suite 120 

NAPERVILLE, ILLINOIS 60563 

P: 630-453-6960 

F: 630-428-4620 


MIKE KELLEY 











) SS. 





Bank of America, N.A. 

Plaintiff, 

vs. 

Dorathea Wolford, AKA Dorathea K. 

Wolford; Mark Wolford; JPMorgan 

Chase Bank, N.A.; Lakeview Estates 

Homeowners Common Areas Maintenance 

Association 





cause on the 7th day of May, 2018, 







sell at public auction to the highest and 


real estate: 

Lot 143 in Lakeview Estates Unit 2, Being 

aSubdivision inthe Northeast 1/4 of 

Section 35, Township 35 North, Range 

12, East ofthe Third Principal Meridian, 

According to the Plat Thereof Recorded 

November 21, 2002 as Document No. 

R2002-203305, in Will County, Illinois. 

Commonly known as: 8316 Brookhaven 

Drive, Frankfort, IL 60423 


Single Family Home 

P.I.N.: 19-09-35-208-016-0000 













County. 



5/15-1507(c)(1)(H-1) and (H-2), 765 

2703 Legal 

Notices 

y 



5/15-1507(c)(1)(H-1) and (H-2), 765 

ILCS 605/9(g)(5), and 765 ILCS 








Property Act. 













TACT: 

Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC 

One East Wacker Suite 1250 

Chicago, IL 60601 

P: 1-614-220-5611 

F: 


MIKE KELLEY 


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Athlete of the Week 

10 Questions 

with Jenna Couwenhoven 

Jenna Couwenhoven is a 

senior on the Griffins girls 

varsity cross-country team. 

How long have you 

been involved with 

cross-country and how 

did you get started? 

I’ve been involved in 

cross-country since sixth 

grade, and I started because 

my parents were runners and 

both of my older sisters were 

runners, so I thought, “I’ll 

try it too.” 

What do you most enjoy 

about running? 

I enjoy running because 

you get close to all the girls 

and I just like being around 

all those people all the time. 

What are your biggest 

strengths as a runner? 

My biggest strength is that 

I’m very competitive, so that 

helps me a lot during races. 

What are you most 

looking forward to this 

season? 

I am looking forward to 

the meets that are farther 

away because we can take 

time off from school and we 

stay in hotels and it’s always 

very fun. 

What accomplishment 

are you most proud of? 

I am proud that I’ve made 

it down to state. 

What advice would 

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I would say to not give up 

because it’s easier in the beginning 

to give up because 

it’s a lot of work, but the 

hard work does pay off. 

Do you have a role 

model? 

My older sisters [Erin and 

Abby] are my role models. 

Outside of crosscountry, 

are you 

involved with any other 

sports or activities? 

I do track as well. 

What are your plans for 

after high school? 

After high school, I know 

I want to run in college but 

I’m not sure where I want to 

go yet. 

If you could travel 

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I would go to Bora Bora 

because it’s very beautiful. 

I’ve seen pictures and it’s an 

amazing place. 

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44 | October 4, 2018 | The frankfort station sports 


Athlete of the Month 

Sandburg volleyball player 

wins September recognition 

Bill Jones, Managing Editor 

Before school even started 

this year, Sandburg’s Rachel 

Krasowski already earned 

some bragging rights on the 

volleyball court. 

As part of the Eagles’ 

Blue team, the junior libero 

helped beat the school’s 

White team in the Sandburgheavy 

tournament title game 

for the Palos Courts Summer 

League. 

Krasowski just claimed 

another bragging right by 

winning 22nd Century Media’s 

Southwest Chicago 

Athlete of the Month contest 

for September. 

The Athlete of the Month 

competition pits featured 

Athlete of the Week selections 

from our south suburban 

newspapers against one 

another in an online voting 

contest. 

The next contest is to begin 

Wednesday, Oct. 10. 

To vote, visit Frankfort 

Station.com, hover over the 

“Sports” menu tab and click 

“Athlete of the Month.” 

Readers can vote once per 

session per valid email address. 

Voting ends at 5 p.m. 

Oct. 25. 

All athletes featured in 

the September Athlete of the 

Week sports interviews are 

automatically entered into 

the contest. 

Girls tennis 

LWE finished second at 

the Lincoln-Way West 

tournament 

Sara Cooley and Camryn 

Mitchell took first place at 

second doubles, while Maddie 

Harper and Ellie Marion 

took second place at first 

doubles at the Sept. 22 tournament. 

Boys soccer 

LWE 1, Whitney Young 1 

This Week In... 

Griffins varsity athletics 

Football 

■Oct. ■ 5 - at Lockport, 7:15 p.m. 

■Oct. ■ 11 - at Thornwood, 7 p.m. 

Girls volleyball 

■Oct. ■ 5 - host Downers Grove North, 

5:30 p.m. 

■Oct. ■ 10 - at Autumn Knight 

Tournament, 5 p.m. 

high school highlights 

The rest of the week in high school sports 

Jackson Seida scored a 

goal, and penalty kicks determined 

Whitney young 

was the tournament champion 

at the Sept. 23 game. 

LWE 6, Bradley 3 

Cory Pitlik. Matthew Chay, 

Alex Glass and Chris Buck 

each scored one goal during 

the Sept. 24 game, while Bill 

Hajjar scored two goals. 

LWE 2, HF 1 

Cory Pitlik scored two 

Boys soccer 

■Oct. ■ 6 - host Stagg, 10 a.m. 

■Oct. ■ 11 - at Andrew, 6:45 p.m. 

goals during the Sept. 27 

game. 

Boys golf 

LWE finished fourth at the 

HF tournament 

Matt Kelley shot a 75 during 

the Sept. 25 tournament. 

Boys cross country 

■Oct. ■ 6 - at Joe Fedenic-Benet Invite, 10 

a.m. 

Girls cross country 

■Oct. ■ 6 - at Joe Fedenic-Benet Invite, 

10:30 a.m. 

■Oct. ■ 8 - at IHSA Sectionals, TBA 

LWE finished third at the 

Schuman Cup tournament 

Scott Schipiour led the 

Griffins with a 42 at Prestwick 

on Sept. 27. Sean Curran 

was the medalist for 

Lincoln-Way Central, shooting 

38. 


LWE: 25, 25; Stagg 10, 16 

Jess Pappas had five kills, 

Megan Walsh had four kills 

and Hannah Kowalczyk had 

nine assists during the Sept. 

27 game. 

High School Highlights is compiled 

by Editor Nuria Mathog, 

nuria@frankfortstation.com 

Girls tennis 

■Oct. ■ 6 - host SWSC Conference Meet, 

8:30 a.m. 

■Oct. ■ 9 - at Mother McAuley, 4:30 p.m. 

■Girls ■ swimming and diving 

■Oct. ■ 6 - at Glenbrook South Titan Diving 

Invite, 9 a.m. 

■Oct. ■ 6 - at St. Charles North Swimming 

and Diving Invite, 10 a.m. 

■Oct. ■ 11 - at Lockport, 5 p.m. 

Rachel Krasowski — a Sandburg junior who serves as 

a libero on the school’s girls volleyball team — won the 

September Athlete of the Month competition for publisher 

22nd Century Media’s Southwest Chicago branch. 

22nd Century Media File Photo 

softball 

From Page 47 

my back," Hickey said of 

the end of the game. "I didn't 

expect to get it [the last hit], 

and the play at first was 

close, but she was out. It was 

just a relief. Our school has 

never won it before. We got 

fourth in 2004, but this says 

we're the best team in the 

state." 

Kelly Raslavicz, an 

eighth-grade shortstop, was 

2-for-4 with a run scored in 

the game. 

"We always back her up" 

Raslavicz said of the Spartans 

playing error free ball in 

the title game behind Hickey. 

"When we won, it felt 

awesome. We were jumping 

everywhere and it was exciting." 

Addi Fischer, an eighthgrade 

left fielder, was also 

caught up in the excitement. 

"It all happened so quick," 

Fischer said of the final play. 

"She [Hickey] threw it so 

quick and it was just exciting. 

I'll just remember all the 

memories we made and everyone 

on the team." 

Maddy Raske, an eighthgrade 

third baseman who 

was 1-for-3 with an RBI, 

was glad to be part of the 

history. 

"It's like crazy that we're 

part of the first team that 

won it from Summit Hill," 

Raske said. "As soon as the 

last out was made, we all 

went crazy. We just kept going 

all season." 

Amanda Martineck (2-for- 

3, R, 2 RBI), Brooke Imhof 

(2-for-2), Brianna Haggerty 

(1-for-4 R), and Jessica 

Tadevich (1-for-2) all 

added hits for the Spartans, 

who finished with 10 hits in 

the game and also saw cocaptain 

Aubrey O'Neil score 

a run. The rest of the team 

includes Maddalyn Alford, 

Angelina Ellis, Lea Herkel, 

Kate Hickey, Brooke Kelley, 

Stephanie Lohman, 

Amber Magdziasz, Rachel 

Overocker and Mackenzie 

Ramos, and the team manager 

was Alexis Ortiz. 

While Hagen is the head 

coach, he credits third year 

assistant Scott Chromcak for 

much of the team's success. 

"Big credit to Scott and 

this wouldn't be possible 

without each other," Hagen 

said. "While I make out the 

lineup and everything, he 

coaches third. That just allows 

me to see the game in 

a different way. We had 27 

wins and 14 of those were 

come-from-behind." 

When it was all said and 

done, Hagen, a seventhgrade 

math teacher who also 

coaches chess and track and 

field at the school, sat back 

and reflected on how he and 

the team got here. 

"I was at Summit Hill, but 

then left for a year to go to 

Central Middle School in 

Tinley Park. But our principal 

at the time, Beth Lind, 

got me back to Summit Hill 

and pushed me to coach the 

girls. ... In my first year [fall 

of 2010] I remember Haley 

Rusch (2015 Lincoln-Way 

North grad), who is now a 

senior and has been an All- 

Conference second baseman 

at Augustana, got a double. 

Then she asked me to come 

out there to tie her shoe." 

Now, Hagen is tied to a 

state championship. 

"I'm just so happy for these 

kids," Hagen said of this 

year's title team. "They're a 

great bunch of girls and really 

good kids. They're the 

best unit I've ever coached in 

any sport."




Storm surge powers Griffins to victory over D210 rivals 

East rallies over 

West after match 

moved because of 

leaking roof 

Sean Hastings 


Lincoln-Way East did not 

like the intensity it came out 

with in the first set against 

Lincoln-Way West when 

the teams clashed Thursday, 

Sept. 25. 

But there was something 

about playing in the Field 

House that sparked something 

for the Griffins. 

The match was moved 

from the Main Gym to the 

Field House after the first set 

due to a leaky roof from a 

storm. The Griffins cranked 

up their intensity and strung 

together two straight wins to 

win the match 2-1 (20-25, 

25-20, 26-24) over the Warriors. 

The match moved East up 

3-2 in the SWSC Blue division, 

and while the mistakes 

still piled up early on for the 

Griffins, there was a new 

storm that started brewing. 

“We said it to the girls in 

our meeting: ‘Is playing in 

the Field House what you 

need to pump yourself up 

and get you energized?’” 

East head coach Kris Fiore 

said with a smile. “Maybe 

something about moving 

venues mean something different 

that gave us a kick in 

the pants that got us motivated.” 

Still, nothing was easy 

about the match for either 

team. The largest lead either 

team had in the final two sets 

was five, when East won the 

second set 25-20. West had a 

seven-point lead in the first 

set, but could never pull 

away in the final two sets in 

what Fiore called a “chess 

match.” 

And in the third set, the 

largest lead was when West 

was up 24-21. 

The match was riddled 

with errors on both sides. 

Whether it was illegal hits, 

miscommunication leading 

to the ball dropping or hitting 

the ball out, East found 

a way to make two less mistakes 

down the stretch. 

“We knew a lot about 

the other team and tried to 

put our girls in positions to 

be successful,” Fiore said. 

“Ultimately we played a 

few plays at the end and we 

got lucky with them hitting 

some balls out of bounds and 

that was the end of it.” 

With a 24-21 in the third 

set and just one point from 

the match win, West had a 

chance to put it away, but 

four straight balls dropped 

out of bounds for the Warriors, 

including two huge attempts 

at finishing the game 

on kills by two of West’s top 

killers. 

Fiore admitted, too, that it 

is not everyday that you see 

players of that caliber hit the 

balls out of bounds. 

“We made a few pretty 

bad errors inside 20 and to 

fight back after that says a 

lot about our kids,” Fiore 

said. 

Junior middle hitter Jessica 

Pappas led the Griffins 

with eight kills, while senior 

setter Hannah Kowalczyk 

racked up 11 assists. 

A jarring stat for the Griffins 

was the 12 kills it had as 

a team. 

After a 25-20 first set win, 

the Warriors had every reason 

to be confident going 

into sets two and three looking 

to close it out. For every 

time that East scored, West 

and an answer and more 

times than not, it was junior 

outside hitter Kirsten Leitshuh 

answering the bell. 

Leitshuh led all players 

with 17 kills and nearly all 

players with 13 digs. Leitshuh 

scored four of the Warriors’ 

final six points on what 

appeared to a clear road to 

the win, but West still came 

up short. 

The final two balls that 

were hit out of bounds giving 

East the win were aggressive 

attempts to score, 

which is what head coach 

Matt Lawrence liked to see. 

“When you go up and 

swing hard at the ball, a lot 

of the times, for those girls it 

works out most of the time, 

but it just didn’t work out at 

the end of that [third set],” 

Lawrence said. “Both Briana 

[Knezz, senior outside hitter] 

and Kirsten swung hard 

and they took good swings, 

it just didn’t go our way.” 

Knezz had 10 kills for the 

Warriors and Lawrence liked 

the “big day” that her and 

Leitshuh had. 

One little bump in the road 

that West had to get over was 

using senior Caroline Ahern 

as the setter, when she usually 

is relied on as the middle. 

Ahern, for the most part, 

did not skip a beat as she led 

all players with 29 assists. 

“I really liked how our 

girls handled adversity,” 

Lawrence said. “Caroline 

Ahern set for us today. She 

usually plays middle for us 

and she set the whole match 

and I thought she did a heck 

of a job.” 

Lawrence was uncertain 

if they would have to keep 

Ahern at the setting spot, 

but if that is the case, that is 

something they will have to 

work on moving forward. 

West’s first-set win showcased 

the only time a team 

could go on a run. West put 

together a 7-1 run in the first 

set that forced Fiore to call 

timeout. 

In the midst of that 7-1 

run, three of the points were 

mistakes made by the Griffins 

And later in the first set, 

Lincoln-Way East’s Nicki Bechtold attempts to spike the ball past Lincoln-Way West’s Jess 

Polka (left) and Caroline Ahern Tuesday, Sept. 25. The Griffins took a tight match 20-25, 25- 

20, 26-24. Photos by Julie McMann/22nd Century Media 

The Warriors’ Kirsten Leitshuh attempts to smash one in between the Griffins’ Jessica 

Pappas (left) and Ali Sorenson. 

when East started to crawl its 

way back in, senior middle 

hitter Sophia Wilkes helped 

West to its seven-point lead. 

Wilkes picked up a kill 

then had back-to-back aces 

to make it 22-15. 

But any chance at a run 

was stopped by both teams 

in sets two and three. Lawrence 

would have liked to 

beat the Griffins, but was 

happy with how the Warriors 

fought. 

“There was a lot of good 

things,” he said. “I liked the 

way our girls competed. East 

is a good team and I would 

have liked to beat them, but 

they pulled through at the 

end.”

46 | October 4, 2018 | The frankfort station sports 


With confident defense, Griffins rout Vikings 48-6 

AREA FOOTBALL 

STANDINGS 

Jon DePaolis 


It wasn’t just the final score 

that left many of the Lincoln- 

Way East football players and 

coaches at a loss for words. 

It was the way the topranked 

Griffins did it — dominating 

the Associated Press's 

No. 2-ranked team in the state, 

Homewood-Flossmoor. 

After falling behind 6-0 in 

the first few minutes of the 

game, East put up 48 unanswered 

points to roll the Vikings 

48-6 Friday, Sept. 28, in 

Frankfort for a statement victory 

in Week 6. 

East coach Rob Zvonar admitted 

he was at “a little bit 

of a loss” for how the Griffins 

posted the 40-plus point victory 

over the Vikings. 

“Not only one of the best 

wins of the year, but I think 

in this history of the program, 

this one has got to go right up 

there,” he said. “To be able to 

finish with a score like that 

against such an elite squad in 

H-F is very satisfying." 

Leading the way for the 

Griffins was senior quarterback 

Jack Baltz, who finished 

8-of-12 passing for 185 yards. 

He threw four touchdowns to 

just one interception, and he 

also rushed for a 1-yard touchdown. 

Baltz connected with senior 

wide receiver Jackson Ritter 

three times during the game, 

with each catch going for a 

touchdown. The first came 

on an unguarded, 40-yard 

play over the middle to Ritter 

to make it 21-6 in the second 

quarter. The second came on 

the exact same play later in the 

third quarter, this time for a 29- 

yard score to make it 41-6. 

“There was just one safety, 

and Judd was on a post, and 

I just came right under wide 

open,” Ritter said of his second 

score. “It’s all about just like 

keeping your eyes on the ball. 

“The wide-open catches are 

the hardest sometimes, you 

Box score 

know,” he said, laughing. “You 

hate dropping them.” 

Baltz credited offensive coordinator 

and assistant head 

coach Joel Pallissard’s play 

calling and prep for the week 

for those plays. 

“Coach Pallissard had a really 

good play strategy, and we 

were scheming it up all week,” 

Baltz said. “We had a big feeling 

about it that it was going to 

be open. It worked. 

Baltz connected with Ritter 

one more time in the fourth 

quarter for a 10-yard touchdown 

in the corner of the end 

zone to cap the game’s scoring 

at 48-6. 

“He knows how to get open, 

and he’s one of my favorite receivers 

to throw to,” Baltz said 

of Ritter. 

Ritter finished with 79 receiving 

yards. East senior wide 

receiver Matt Judd had one 

reception for a 36-yard touchdown, 

and senior wide receiver 

Chase Anderson also hauled 

in one pass for 26 yards. 

“We have a great [position] 

coach who helps us out a lot 

in coach [Lance] Lokanc, and 

I feel like we have one of the 

best offseason conditioning 

programs,” Ritter said. “That 

really helps us out when it 

comes to games.” 

The Griffins also got contributions 

from their running 

backs, as Jordan Corbett 

gained 52 yards and a touchdown 

on 10 carries. East junior 

Devon Williams gained 86 

yards on seven carries, while 

1 2 3 4 F 

LW East 14 13 14 7 48 

H-F 6 0 0 0 6 

Top Performers: 

1. Jack Baltz, senior, LW East, quarterback: 8-of-12 passing, 

185 yards, 4 TDs, INT, 1 rushing TD 

2. Jackson Ritter, senior, LW East, wide receiver: 3 receptions, 

79 yards, 3 TDs 

3. Jordan Corbett, senior, LW East, running back: 10 runs, 52 

yards, TD 

junior AJ Henning had 33 

yards on nine carries. Henning 

also caught two passes for 34 

total yards. 

Dominic Dzioban also 

kicked two field goals — from 

25 yards and 29 yards out, respectively. 

It was the second week in a 

row that the Griffins had everyone 

back on offense. Baltz 

said he definitely noticed a difference 

from last week to this 

week. 

“A lot more consistent in 

practices,” he said. “I think we 

had a really good week of practice, 

and that was portrayed on 

the field [tonight].” 

But Baltz also felt there was 

more work to do. 

“We should have put at least 

two more touchdowns up on 

the board, we thought,” he 

said. “We definitely got some 

work [to do].” 

Defensively, the Griffins 

expertly handled Homewood- 

Flossmoor’s explosive offense 

— keeping talented senior running 

back Leon Tanna to just 

77 yards on 22 carries. 

“I can’t explain that, because 

he’s a great back — I 

think he was close to 1,000 

yards already for the season 

coming in,” Zvonar said of his 

defense keeping Tanna relatively 

quiet on the stat sheet. 

“You circle a few guys on their 

side that you’ve got to be concerned 

with, and we certainly 

had [him] circled near the top.” 

The only score of the game 

for the Vikings came after their 

The Griffins' Kenny Palmer (right) tackles the Vikings' 

Maurion Scott on Friday, Sept. 28, in Frankfort during the 

teams' Week 6 game. Photos by Julie McMann/22nd Century 

Media 

defense forced a fumble and 

recovered the loose ball at the 

East 35-yard line with 9:01 left 

in the opening quarter. On the 

next play, quarterback Dominick 

Jones found Maurion 

Scott for a 35-yard score. But 

the Vikings missed the extra 

point, making the lead just 6-0. 

On East’s next drive, Baltz 

hit Judd for a 36-yard score. 

The Griffins converted the extra 

point to take the lead and 

never looked back. 

The defense also buckled 

down after that, getting two 

sacks from Adrian Wilson and 

one from Mick Stewart. Jake 

Tomczak intercepted a pass 

from Jones in the third quarter, 

and East also got fumble recoveries 

from Danny Scianna 

and Nate Warning. 

In the first two games of 

the season, the defense had 

given up a total of 32 points. 

In the past four games, the 

East defense has given up just 

6 points. 

Zvonar pointed to the leadership 

on that unit, however, 

with three returning players 

from last year each bringing 

some stability to each area of 

the defense: Dylan Shelton on 

the defensive line; Gus Christensen 

for the linebackers; and 

Mike Manning in the secondary. 

“Each week, the defense 

gets more confident,” he said. 

“They start trusting each other 

more. That’s when you’ve get 

a team going — when they 

really start caring about each 

other and trusting each other.” 

He said he has seen the 

team’s growth over the past six 

weeks — as well as its determination 

during the week. 

“This group needed to 

show that it had leadership, 

they needed to show that they 

could be good teammates to 

each other, and then they had 

to improve their football IQ,” 

Zvonar said. “I think we’ve 

done that. A lot of it comes 

down to experience and work 

ethic, and I don’t want to dismiss 

that, because these guys 

aren’t just showing up on Friday 

nights. If you come out 

on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, 

and there is a toughness going 

on [at practices]." 

East improved to 6-0 with 

the win, while Homewood- 

Flossmoor dropped to 5-1. For 

the AP's No. 1-ranked team in 

the state in Class 8A, the win 

puts the Griffins in the driver’s 

seat when it comes to not only 

the SouthWest Suburban Conference 

championship but also 

a potential No. 1 seed in the 

playoffs — if East wins out. 

East travels to Lockport in 

Week 7, to take on the winless 

Porters. 

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Team, Conf. Record, Overall 

LW East 4-0 6-0 

Andrew 4-1 5-1 

H-F 3-1 5-1 

LW Central 3-1 4-2 

LW West 3-1 4-2 

Bolingbrook 3-1 5-1 

Thornton 3-1 4-2 

Stagg 2-2 2-4 

Thornridge 0-3 1-5 

Thornwood 0-3 1-5 

Brad. Bourb. 0-3 2-4 

Sandburg 0-4 2-4 

Lockport 0-4 0-6 

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Team, Conf. Record, 

Overall 

TF South 3-0 6-0 

Hillcrest 3-0 6-0 

Lemont 3-1 3-3 

TF North 2-2 3-3 

Bremen 1-2 1-5 

Oak Forest 0-4 0-6 

Tinley Park 0-4 2-4 

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Team, Conf. Record, 

Overall 

Brother Rice 3-0 6-0 

Montini 2-0 6-0 

Providence 1-1 5-1 

Loyola 0-2 3-3 

St. Rita 0-3 1-5 

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Summit Hill Junior High wins softball state championship 

22nd Century Media File 

Photo 

Three things to know 

about the LWE-HF 

football game 

1. Jack Baltz led the 

way once again 

The senior 

quarterback, who 

finished 8-of-12 

passing for 185 

yards, threw four 

touchdowns to just 

one interception. 

2. East's running 

backs made big 

contributions 

Jordan Corbett 

gained 52 yards 

and a touchdown 

on 10 carries, 

while teammate 

Devon Williams 

gained 86 yards on 

seven carries and 

AJ Henning had 

33 yards on nine 

carries. 

3. The defense came 

together 

The Griffins kept 

Homewood- 

Flossmoor's senior 

running back Leon 

Tanna to just 77 

yards on 22 carries. 

RANDY WHALEN 


When Ryan Hagen became 

head coach of the 

softball team at Summit 

Hill Junior High School, he 

had to tie his players' shoes. 

Now he's coach of the 2018 

Illinois Elementary School 

Association Class AA state 

softball champions. 

Summit Hill, located 

at 7260 W. North Ave. in 

Frankfort, recently won its 

first ever state softball championship 

with a 4-2 nail-biting 

win over Edwardsville 

Lincoln on Saturday, Sept. 

22, at Champions Field in 

Normal. 

It was the fourth straight 

IESA state softball championship 

for a Frankfort 

school. Hickory Creek had 

won the Class AA title the 

past three years. 

"One of our toughest 

games is always Hickory 

A very good showing by the class in Week 6. Maybe 

the games are too easy. Maybe we should throw in a 

few NFL games to spice things up. Maybe not… 

Game of the Week 

• Providence(5-1) at Mt. Carmel (6-0) 

Other Games to Watch 

• Lincoln-Way East (6-0) at Lockport (0-6) 

• Tinley Park (2-4) at Oak Forest (0-6) 

• Champaign Centennial (2-4) at LW Central (4-2) 

• Thornton (4-2) at Lincoln-Way West (4-2) 

• Thornwood (1-5) at Andrew (5-1) 

• Stagg (2-4) at Sandburg (2-4) 

Creek," Hagen said of the 

crosstown team, which the 

Spartans beat 4-1 in the regional 

title game this season. 

"We had to defeat Minooka 

(2-0), who we lost to last 

year, and Hickory Creek in 

the regional. It was the toughest 

regional in the state. 

"We lost to Bourbonnais 

early in the season, but then 

beat them (10-2) to win the 

sectional championship [on 

Sept. 15 in Manteno]. The 

girls had a chip on their 

shoulder and a lot to prove." 

That set up Summit Hill's 

first trip to state since losing 

in the quarterfinals in 2011. 

There the Spartans defeated 

a previously undefeated Barrington 

Station team (12-1) 

by a score of 7-1 in the quarterfinals 

and then knocked off 

eventual fourth place finisher 

East Peoria Central (18-4) by 

a 10-2 score in the semifinals. 

Edwardsville (19-3) scored 

OUR STAFF’S PREDICTIONS FOR THE AREA GAMES IN WEEK 7 

33-7 

Joe Coughlin | 

Publisher 

• Mt. Carmel 24, Providence 17. 

Caravan’s robust D slows young 

Celtics. 

• Lincoln-Way East 

• Tinley Park 

• Lincoln-Way Central 

• Lincoln-Way West 

• Andrew 

• Sandburg 

Members of the Summit Hill Junior High School softball 

team pose with a trophy after winning the Illinois 

Elementary School Association Class AA state softball 

champions Sept. 22. Photo submitted 

32-8 

Heather Warthen | 

Chief Operating Officer 

• Providence 24, Mt. Carmel 21. 

Celtics take their show on the road 

for a hard-fought win. 





• Thornwood 

• Sandburg 

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Jeff Vorva | 

Sports Editor 


Jordan and his Lynch mob will 

continue its dream season after a 

nightmarish off season with Frank 

Lenti’s ouster. 





• Andrew 

• Sandburg 

a pair of runs in the top of 

the second to take a 2-1 lead. 

But the Spartans (27-2) came 

back with two runs of their 

own in the bottom of the 

third to grab the lead back for 

good. They added another in 

the fourth and hung on, literally, 

at the end. 

"I actually felt bad for Edwardsville, 

since they lost 

to Hickory Creek (9-6) last 

year in the title game," Hagen 

said. "In the top of the 

seventh we got the first two 

batters out, but their number 

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Tom Czaja | 

Contributing Editor 

• Mt. Carmel 31, Providence 28. A 

back-and-forth game will end up 

landing in favor of the Caravan in a 

thrilling finish. 





• Andrew 

• Sandburg 

nine hitter got a base hit on 

a 1-2 pitch. The next girl got 

a single too and they both 

stole to move to second and 

third. Now a base hit ties it. 

"Their next batter hits 

a line drive right back up 

the middle, but our pitcher, 

Maddy Hickey, knocks it 

down and recovers to get 

the ball. She then throws a 

strike to first and just gets 

her by half a step. But that 

is the type of player Maddy 

is. She's a great pitcher, 

but she's a competitor, is as 

tough as nails and doesn't 

give up." 

Hickey, an eighth-grader 

and co-captain, went the 

distance in the game. She allowed 

the two runs on seven 

hits with one walk and four 

strikeouts. At the plate she 

was 1-for-3 with a double 

and an RBI. 

"I knew my defense had 

Please see softball, 44 

31-9 

James Sanchez | 

Contributing editor 


Caravan figures out how to slow 

down the Celtics’ run game and 

squeaks out a win. 





• Andrew 

• Sandburg 

Listen Up 

"This group needed to show that it had leadership, they 

needed to show that they could be good teammates to 

each other, and then they had to improve their football 

IQ. I think we’ve done that." 

Rob Zvonar — Lincoln-Way East football coach 

What 2 Watch 

Football 

7:15 p.m., Friday, Oct. 5, versus Lockport 

• The Griffins look to extend their winning streak with 

a game against Porters, who have yet to win a game. 

Index 

44 — This Week In... 

43 — Athlete of the Week 

FASTBREAK is compiled by Editor Nuria Mathog, 

nuria@frankfortstation.com.

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Griffins remain unbeaten with defeat of No. 2-ranked Vikings, Page 46 

Lincoln-Way East’s A.J. 

Henning (left) sprints 

across the field Friday, 

Sept. 28, in Frankfort 

as teammate Matt 

Judd (right) blocks 

Homewood-Flossmoor’s 

Xavier McKinney. Julie 

McMann/22nd Century 

Media 

Batter up 

Summit Hill Junior High 

School clinches state 

softball victory, Page 47 

District battle 

LW East girls volleyball 

meets LW West on the 

court, Page 45

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