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THURSDAY<br />
Finals Study Plan<br />
4-5 p.m. Dec. 6, The<br />
Bridge Teen Center, 15555<br />
S. 71st Court. Teens grades<br />
7-12 can learn some tips for<br />
final exam studying and design<br />
a personal studying plan<br />
for tackling exams. This is a<br />
free event. For more information,<br />
call (708) 532-0500<br />
or visit www.thebridgeteen<br />
center.org.<br />
Mason Jar Snow Globes<br />
5-6 p.m. Dec. 6, The<br />
Bridge Teen Center, 15555<br />
S. 71st Court. Teens grades<br />
7-12 can create a mini<br />
snow globe with a holiday<br />
scene that they can add<br />
to the family’s festivities<br />
each year. This is a free<br />
event. For more information,<br />
call (708) 532-0500<br />
or visit www.thebridge<br />
teencenter.org.<br />
Very Special Night Owls:<br />
Polar Express<br />
6:30 p.m. Dec. 6, Orland<br />
Park Public Library, 14921<br />
S. Ravinia Ave. This special<br />
presentation of “The Polar<br />
Express” by Chris Van Allsburg<br />
will take children 0-47<br />
months old on a magical<br />
journey. No registration is<br />
required, but space is limited.<br />
FRIDAY<br />
Baby Playtime<br />
10 a.m. Dec. 7, Orland<br />
Park Public Library, 14921<br />
S. Ravinia Ave. Children<br />
nirth-23 months with parent<br />
or caregiver can enjoy a<br />
space with sensory toys, interact<br />
with other babies and<br />
exercise motor skills.<br />
Meet the Artist: Nancie<br />
King Mertz<br />
5 p.m. Dec. 7, Orland<br />
Park Public Library, 14921<br />
S. Ravinia Ave. Awardwinning<br />
artist Nancie King<br />
Mertz will be giving a<br />
painting demonstration in<br />
Room 104 for two hours before<br />
discussing her display<br />
on the second floor at 7 p.m.<br />
Movement Fridays<br />
6:30 p.m. Dec. 7, Orland<br />
Park Public Library,<br />
14921 S. Ravinia Ave. Children<br />
ages 4 and older. The<br />
week is over, and it is time<br />
to move. Miss Fanny will<br />
showcase a different type<br />
of movement-based activity<br />
each week.<br />
‘Home Alone’ Building<br />
Challenger<br />
7:30-10:30 p.m. Dec. 7,<br />
The Bridge Teen Center,<br />
15555 S. 71st Court. Teens<br />
grades 7-12 can channel<br />
their inner “Home Alone”<br />
child in the Art Studio<br />
and create a wild contraption<br />
just like the ones in<br />
the movie. Acoustic performer<br />
A.J. Skrabis will be<br />
on stage in the Big Room,<br />
covering all of the favorite<br />
hits. Culver’s will be serving<br />
frozen custard. This is<br />
a free event. For more information,<br />
call (708) 532-<br />
0500 or visit www.theb<br />
ridgeteencenter.org.<br />
Orland Park Theatre Troupe<br />
presents ‘The Christmas<br />
Express’<br />
7:30 p.m. Dec. 7, and Saturday,<br />
Dec. 8; 2 p.m. Sunday,<br />
Dec. 9; Orland Park<br />
Civic Center, 14750 Ravinia<br />
Ave. Reserved seating<br />
is available at Recreation<br />
Administration, 14600 S.<br />
Ravinia Ave. For more information,<br />
visit orlandpark.<br />
org, or call (708) 403-7275<br />
and (708) 645-7529.<br />
SATURDAY<br />
Bingo!<br />
2 p.m. Dec. 8, Orland<br />
Park Public Library, 14921<br />
S. Ravinia Ave. Coffee and<br />
bingo. Seating limited.<br />
MONDAY<br />
Crafty Readers<br />
6:30 p.m. Dec. 10, Orland<br />
Park Public Library,<br />
14921 S. Ravinia Ave. Children<br />
grades K-3 can hear<br />
a story and show off crafty<br />
skills. No registration required.<br />
TUESDAY<br />
Gingerbread House<br />
Decorating Party<br />
4 p.m. Dec. 11, Orland<br />
Park Public Library, 14921<br />
S. Ravinia Ave. Family<br />
event. All ages can come<br />
and decorate a paper gingerbread<br />
house. Limited to<br />
15 families. Register with a<br />
Youth Services staff member<br />
in person.<br />
Gingerbread House<br />
Competition<br />
4-5:30 p.m. Dec. 11, The<br />
Bridge Teen Center, 15555<br />
S. 71st Court. Teens grades<br />
7-12 can join in on the annual<br />
competition, in which<br />
teams will be judged on creativity,<br />
neatness and stability<br />
of their sweet houses. This is<br />
a free event. For more information,<br />
call (708) 532-0500<br />
or visit www.thebridgeteen<br />
center.org.<br />
Natural Eye Makeup &<br />
Hairstyles<br />
4:15-5:30 p.m. Dec. 11,<br />
The Bridge Teen Center,<br />
15555 S. 71st Court. Teens<br />
grades 7-12 can gain eye<br />
makeup and hair styling tips<br />
from the professionals and<br />
see how “less is more” in<br />
enhancing natural beauty.<br />
This is a free event. For<br />
more information, call (708)<br />
532-0500 or visit www.the<br />
bridgeteencenter.org.<br />
Understanding the New<br />
Tax Law: Challenges and<br />
Opportunities<br />
7 p.m. Dec. 11, Orland<br />
Park Public Library, 14921<br />
S. Ravinia Ave. Judi Strauss<br />
will discuss the many<br />
changes for 2018 taxes,<br />
as well as some important<br />
things that tend to trip up<br />
people during tax time.<br />
WEDNESDAY<br />
Unwind: Knit, Crochet &<br />
Needlework Hangout<br />
10 a.m. Dec. 12, Orland<br />
Park Public Library, 14921<br />
S. Ravinia Ave. Adults can<br />
join fellow needlecrafters<br />
for an informal get-together<br />
to socialize and work on<br />
projects. No registration<br />
required. Instruction and<br />
supplies not provided by library.<br />
Family STEAM Challenge<br />
4 p.m. Dec. 12, Orland<br />
Park Public Library, 14921<br />
S. Ravinia Ave. Children 4<br />
years and older can bring<br />
the family to hands-on science<br />
stations and test different<br />
science concepts/experiments.<br />
Walk-in program.<br />
No registration required.<br />
Tone Your Muscles<br />
4-5 p.m. Dec. 12, The<br />
Bridge Teen Center, 15555<br />
S. 71st Court. Teens grades<br />
7-12 can try this total-body<br />
workout that will help tone<br />
various muscle groups and<br />
get participants feeling<br />
great. This is a free event.<br />
For more information, call<br />
(708) 532-0500.<br />
STEM: Web Development<br />
5-6 p.m. Dec. 12 and 13,<br />
The Bridge Teen Center,<br />
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15555 S. 71st Court. Teens<br />
grades 7-12 can learn all<br />
about the foundational pieces<br />
of what is takes to build a<br />
website, like coding, hosting<br />
and incorporating one’s own<br />
designs. This is a free event.<br />
For more information, call<br />
(708) 532-0500 or visit www.<br />
thebridgeteencenter.org.<br />
All Things Google<br />
6 p.m. Dec. 12, Orland<br />
Park Public Library, 14921<br />
S. Ravinia Ave. Adults can<br />
learn about all of the services<br />
offered in the Google<br />
Suite, from cloud storage to<br />
photo storing and sharing<br />
to calendar and scheduling<br />
integration, and then start<br />
using them. This class will<br />
begin with instructions, followed<br />
by free lab time to<br />
start exploring the other services<br />
by Google.<br />
Meet the Six Wives of<br />
Henry the 8th<br />
7 p.m. Dec. 12, Orland<br />
Park Public Library, 14921<br />
S. Ravinia Ave. Educational<br />
entertainer Martina<br />
Mathisen interweaves tales<br />
of power, personality and<br />
politics.<br />
ONGOING<br />
Orland Park Lions Club<br />
Christmas Tree & Wreath<br />
Sale<br />
Times vary, now through<br />
Sunday, Dec. 16, or until<br />
trees are sold out, Village<br />
Hall, 14700 S. Ravinia Ave.<br />
For more information, visit<br />
www.orlandparklionsclub.<br />
com.
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Carbon monoxide hospitalizes four,<br />
impacts two dozen at Red Robin<br />
Bill Jones, Editor<br />
From Dec. 1<br />
Four people were hospitalized,<br />
as two dozen customers<br />
reported headaches<br />
and feeling sick the evening<br />
of Friday, Nov. 30, when<br />
first responders found “high<br />
levels’ of carbon monoxide<br />
at an Orland Park restaurant.<br />
Red Robin, 15503 S. La-<br />
Grange Road, remained<br />
closed the morning of Saturday,<br />
Dec. 1, after it was shut<br />
down the night before, when<br />
24 customers reported the<br />
aforementioned symptoms<br />
while dining around 7:22<br />
p.m. that evening, according<br />
to a press release issued<br />
by Orland Fire Protection<br />
District spokesperson Ray<br />
Hanania.<br />
A testing of the atmosphere<br />
showed levels of carbon<br />
monoxide at 400 parts<br />
per million, according to<br />
the district. Customers and<br />
employees reportedly were<br />
evacuated. Firefighters monitored<br />
the HVAC units found<br />
to be causing the problem<br />
and the restaurant was ventilated,<br />
Hanania wrote.<br />
Hanania said 1-70 ppm<br />
is considered normal for<br />
carbon monoxide, “but a<br />
threshold for potential danger.”<br />
OSHA states an enclosed<br />
area for work needs<br />
to be below 50 ppm, but<br />
OFPD uses 35 ppm as a recommendation<br />
for residential<br />
occupancies, he added.<br />
“As PPM levels get higher,<br />
the impact depends on<br />
your health but worsens,” he<br />
wrote in an email to The Orland<br />
Park Prairie. “400 ppm<br />
is considered very high.”<br />
Twenty of the patients<br />
were evaluated by Emergency<br />
Medical Services, and<br />
four were taken to local hospitals<br />
for further treatment,<br />
according to the release.<br />
Nicor and Village of Orland<br />
Park personnel were<br />
called to scene, and the restaurant<br />
reportedly was shut<br />
down for the evening. It is<br />
to remain closed pending<br />
completion of repairs.<br />
The same business experienced<br />
a fire in February that<br />
forced the evacuation of customers.<br />
No one was reported<br />
injured in that incident, but<br />
the fire caused an estimated<br />
$100,000 in damages to the<br />
restaurant.<br />
For more on this and other<br />
Breaking News, visit <strong>OP</strong>Prai<br />
rie.com.<br />
GoFundMe started for woman hit in<br />
LaGrange Road crosswalk while on bike<br />
Bill Jones, Editor<br />
A bicyclist reportedly was<br />
in serious condition after she<br />
was hit by a vehicle the day<br />
after Thanksgiving in a La-<br />
Grange Road crosswalk.<br />
The incident occurred<br />
at 4:58 p.m. Nov. 23 when<br />
a 2017 Chevrolet Malibu<br />
driven by a 26-year-old Chicago<br />
resident was traveling<br />
northbound on LaGrange<br />
Road, according to an email<br />
to The Prairie from Orland<br />
Park Police Cmdr. Tony Farrell.<br />
At the intersection of<br />
144th Place, the bicyclist —<br />
a 44-year-old Orland Park<br />
resident — was traveling<br />
eastbound in the crosswalk<br />
on 144th Place when the<br />
Malibu struck her, Farrell<br />
said.<br />
The woman reportedly<br />
sustained serious injuries<br />
and was transported by Orland<br />
Fire Protection District<br />
personnel to Advocate<br />
Christ Medical Center in<br />
Oak Lawn. The driver of the<br />
Malibu received citations for<br />
a red light violation and failure<br />
to yield the right-of-way<br />
to a pedestrian in a crosswalk.<br />
The woman was identified<br />
by a GoFundMe post<br />
as Wendy Martin. The post<br />
on that page notes she broke<br />
her pelvis and sacrum, has<br />
a compound fracture in her<br />
leg, and has neck and brain<br />
trauma from the incident.<br />
The original post noted<br />
she had one surgery on her<br />
leg, was in a trauma unit and<br />
being evaluated daily. An<br />
update noted she was awake<br />
and stable, aware of the accident<br />
but with no memory<br />
of the incident.<br />
Later updates noted she<br />
had a successful surgery<br />
to put plates and screws in<br />
her leg, and was moved to<br />
a regular room. She was not<br />
allowed visitors, though, as<br />
of a Nov. 30 post.<br />
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Orland Park Village Board<br />
Residents to vote on term limits, eventually<br />
Jon DePaolis<br />
Freelance Reporter<br />
The question of whether<br />
to enact term limits for Village<br />
of Orland Park officials<br />
is now in the hands of the<br />
voters. It just will take some<br />
time to ask them.<br />
The Village Board of<br />
Trustees voted 4-3 Nov. 19<br />
to place the binding referendum<br />
on the November 2020<br />
general election ballot.<br />
Mayor Keith Pekau and<br />
Trustees Dan Calandriello,<br />
Carole Griffin Ruzich and<br />
Pat Gira voted for it. Trustees<br />
James Dodge, Michael<br />
Carroll and Kathleen Fenton<br />
voted against it.<br />
Per the ordinance, the<br />
referendum question to be<br />
added to the ballot is to ask:<br />
“Shall the terms of office for<br />
those persons elected to the<br />
offices of Village president,<br />
Village trustee and Village<br />
clerk in the Village of Orland<br />
Park at the April 6,<br />
2021 Consolidated Election<br />
and at each election for any<br />
of such offices thereafter, be<br />
limited such that no person<br />
elected may serve more than<br />
three (3) full four (4) year<br />
terms in the same office?”<br />
Under the terms of the<br />
ordinance, if voted affirmatively<br />
by the majority of the<br />
residents during that 2020<br />
election, it would set term<br />
limits on the mayor, trustee<br />
and clerk positions. The<br />
limits would apply not only<br />
consecutive terms but also<br />
to cumulative terms.<br />
According to Village<br />
documents, the term limits<br />
would take effect and<br />
essentially start the clock<br />
“after the passage of a public<br />
referendum [and] beginning<br />
with the Consolidated<br />
General Election on April 6,<br />
2021.”<br />
During the discussion,<br />
Village Attorney Kenneth<br />
Friker said the term limits<br />
question has to be done by<br />
referendum, meaning the<br />
trustees could not enact<br />
term limits by ordinance.<br />
Two ordinances were on<br />
the agenda related to the<br />
timing of the ballot question,<br />
including one that was<br />
tabled from a previous meeting.<br />
That item, which would<br />
have placed the question<br />
on the ballot for the April<br />
2019 election, was initially<br />
brought up by Mayor Keith<br />
Pekau. It was tabled again,<br />
as trustees instead opted to<br />
vote on the November 2020<br />
ordinance first.<br />
Pekau said he supports<br />
term limits, because when<br />
people are in positions too<br />
long they become “political<br />
power players.”<br />
“We see too much of that<br />
in the system, and we see<br />
too much of that locally,”<br />
Pekau said after the meeting.<br />
“I think we have a big<br />
town, and we need a variety<br />
of ideas. If you want to be a<br />
career local politician, then<br />
serve in three different offices<br />
for 36 years.”<br />
But during the meeting,<br />
Pekau explained why he<br />
thought April 2019 was a<br />
better election to ask the<br />
question.<br />
“I think the reason why<br />
the April election makes<br />
sense is that it is a local<br />
election for local officials,”<br />
he said. “This is only affecting<br />
local officials. It does<br />
not affect the president. It<br />
does not affect the senate.<br />
It does not affect the governor,<br />
the treasurer or any of<br />
the State offices whatsoever<br />
— which a November election<br />
does. Our April elections<br />
are strictly focused on<br />
our local elections, and this<br />
particular term limit question<br />
would just be for our<br />
local elections. Therefore, it<br />
makes sense, and my preference<br />
would be for it to be on<br />
April.”<br />
But he said he would vote<br />
for either to get it on the<br />
ballot.<br />
Trustee Carole Griffin<br />
Ruzich said she, too, was<br />
fine with whichever election<br />
having the question asked,<br />
so long as it was asked on<br />
one of the ballots.<br />
“Whether we take this<br />
vote in April of 2019 or<br />
November of 2020, I think<br />
we all know how this would<br />
turn out,” she said.<br />
“I’m in favor of letting<br />
the voters vote as to whether<br />
this should happen or not,<br />
but tying up one of the resolutions<br />
over a binding referenda<br />
that can be on a ballot<br />
at that time this early in the<br />
cycle when we have no idea<br />
what’s going to happen in<br />
the next two years seems<br />
premature.”<br />
Trustee Patricia Gira noted<br />
her preference was the<br />
November 2020 election,<br />
because she said more voters<br />
turn out for general elections.<br />
“Local elections just<br />
don’t seem to draw bigger<br />
crowds, so I think it should<br />
be in November,” she said.<br />
Meanwhile, Trustee<br />
James Dodge was strongly<br />
against the motion, citing<br />
philosophical differences<br />
with term limits at the local<br />
level.<br />
“I plan on voting no<br />
on all of these term limit<br />
questions,” he said during<br />
the meeting. “The system<br />
works perfectly. If I’m not<br />
mistaken, there used to<br />
be someone sitting in [the<br />
mayor’s chair] by a different<br />
last name. An election<br />
was held, voters cast their<br />
vote, and the system worked<br />
perfectly. Every term under<br />
the Illinois Constitution is<br />
limited by definition.”<br />
Dodge said the system<br />
works and that there was no<br />
need for term limits.<br />
“Terms are, by definition,<br />
limited,” he said. “It’s a<br />
matter of voter activity.”<br />
Trustee Michael Carroll<br />
said his opposition to the<br />
ordinance was more about<br />
how early it was being added<br />
to the ballot for the 2020<br />
election. Trustee Kathleen<br />
Fenton agreed, stating she<br />
too thought it was too soon<br />
to vote on a November 2020<br />
ballot question. Otherwise,<br />
she said she had no objection<br />
to term limits.<br />
After the meeting, Dodge<br />
said he also thought the ordinance<br />
did not adequately<br />
explain when the clock<br />
would start on the term<br />
limits — meaning after the<br />
April 2021 election or if<br />
past service would be included.<br />
“The way this ordinance<br />
is written, I’ve served for 32<br />
years … so, my choices are:<br />
I can run for re-election, I<br />
can run away or I can run<br />
for mayor,” he said.<br />
Pekau insisted that the<br />
clock would start at zero<br />
if the referendum passed,<br />
starting with the April 2021<br />
election.<br />
Pekau on Friday, Nov. 30,<br />
forwarded a letter to The Orland<br />
Park Prairie, offering<br />
the legal opinion of Village<br />
Attorney E. Kenneth Friker,<br />
who wrote that “such proposition<br />
will, if approved by<br />
the voters at the November<br />
3, 2020, Consolidated Election,<br />
not apply retroactively<br />
but will limit the number<br />
of terms of office for those<br />
elected to Village offices<br />
at the April 6, 2021, Consolidated<br />
Election and those<br />
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clothing items for Orland<br />
Township through Dec. 28.<br />
The public is invited to<br />
donate winter hats, gloves,<br />
scarves and coats to The<br />
Giving Tree, located on the<br />
first floor of the library at the<br />
bottom of the stairs. Patrons<br />
are invited to place their donations<br />
directly on or under<br />
the tree. Items will be distributed<br />
by Orland Township<br />
to families in the area. This<br />
service project was started a<br />
number of years ago by the<br />
Teen Inc. Service Club.<br />
The Orland Park Public<br />
Library is located at 14921<br />
Ravinia Ave. in Orland Park.<br />
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Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-5<br />
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Holiday Fest activities shine bright in Orland Park<br />
Laurie Fanelli<br />
Freelance Reporter<br />
Sleigh bells were jingling,<br />
voices were singing and twinkling<br />
lights adorned the tree outside of<br />
Village Hall.<br />
The Village of Orland Park<br />
welcomed in the season Nov. 25<br />
with its annual Holiday Festival<br />
& Tree Lighting Ceremony, held<br />
from 4:30-7:30 p.m. at the Civic<br />
Center. Along with witnessing Village<br />
Center transform into a winter<br />
wonderland, attendees were able to<br />
enjoy entertainment, crafts, visits<br />
with Santa Claus and much more.<br />
The forthcoming winter weather<br />
caused event organizers to<br />
move select outdoor elements indoors,<br />
including the Holiday Market,<br />
which opened at 3:30 p.m.,<br />
while the food trucks, Jingle Johns<br />
(lighted, singing portable toilets),<br />
live reindeer visits and the icesculpture<br />
demonstration — the<br />
last of which was new this year —<br />
offered exterior fun for families.<br />
“Tonight, we have a great cross<br />
section of families here, because<br />
we have things outdoors and our<br />
vendors inside,” explained Nancy<br />
Flores, Orland Park’s director of<br />
recreation. “The tree lighting puts<br />
everyone in the Christmas spirit.<br />
We have food trucks outside, and<br />
it’s a cool event that brings families<br />
together. There’s something<br />
for everybody.”<br />
Mayor Keith Pekau welcomed<br />
Santa Claus back to Orland Park<br />
at the start of the festivities. The<br />
pair then invited all of the children<br />
in attendance to join them in<br />
leading the countdown to the tree<br />
lighting, which culminated with<br />
the illumination of all of the holiday<br />
features displayed on the Village<br />
Center lawn.<br />
Tinley Park resident Paula Fittanto<br />
said she has enjoyed coming<br />
to the Holiday Festival & Tree<br />
Lighting Ceremony for years.<br />
“This is where I grew up,” Fittanto<br />
said. “Santa and the sleigh<br />
rides are the best, and it’s nice to<br />
see relatives. I have nieces and<br />
nephews who perform here.”<br />
Fittanto’s 10-year-old son Kenny<br />
added that his favorite thing<br />
about the event was “pretty much<br />
everything.”<br />
The Zuckert family, of Orland<br />
Park — Jay, Sue, Sydney, Simon<br />
and Adam — attended the Holiday<br />
Festival for the first time in 2018.<br />
Simon said he was most excited<br />
about seeing all the decorations<br />
outside light up, while Sydney enjoyed<br />
warming up with some delicious<br />
hot cocoa.<br />
“It’s really good,” Sydney<br />
Zuckert said. “And it was a good<br />
deal, because you get the mug and<br />
free refills.”<br />
Local organizations joined in on<br />
the Holiday Festival fun, as several<br />
Cub Scout packs, Girl Scout<br />
troops, schools, businesses and<br />
families participated in the Community<br />
Tree Trim outside, on<br />
the Village Center lawn. There<br />
also was a packed entertainment<br />
schedule inside of the Civic Center,<br />
featuring performances by the<br />
Sandburg Chamber Choir, Orland<br />
Park Junior & Senior Dance Company,<br />
Jerling Chorale and more.<br />
The Orland Park Lions Club<br />
also was on hand, selling Christmas<br />
trees in the Civic Center parking<br />
lot. The group will continue to<br />
do so throughout the season until<br />
it sells out.<br />
Orland Park Village Manager<br />
Joe La Margo said he appreciates<br />
how the sale adds to the “Norman<br />
Rockwell” or “Hallmark” feel of<br />
the festivities.<br />
“All the proceeds go toward<br />
helping different organizations<br />
and providing vouchers for the visually<br />
impaired,” La Margo said.<br />
“With all that, it’s so nice that we<br />
have a not-for-profit group here<br />
selling trees. You can come look<br />
at the lights, buy a Christmas tree<br />
and enjoy that small-town feeling<br />
in our big town.”<br />
Village Trustee Kathy Fenton<br />
said she also loves that the Holiday<br />
Festival & Tree Lighting Ceremony<br />
taps into the nostalgia of<br />
an old-fashioned Christmas in a<br />
tight-knit community.<br />
She said, “Even if it snows,<br />
that will just make it even more<br />
perfect. Just like I always say,<br />
Eli Stauffer looks at the Christmas tree at the Holiday Market on Nov. 25, during Orland Park’s annual Holiday<br />
Festival & Tree Lighting at the Village Center. Photos by Laurie Fanelli/22nd Century Media<br />
Ariana Golzar (left) and Lisa Brothen pose for a photo at their Home for the Holidays booth during the Holiday<br />
Festival.<br />
although its a large community,<br />
we’re trying to bring that smalltown<br />
feeling back. Happy holidays<br />
to everyone.”<br />
The Village of Orland Park has<br />
more in store this holiday season,<br />
The Orland Park Theatre Troupe<br />
is to present “The Christmas Express”<br />
on Dec. 7, 8 and 9.<br />
For more information about upcoming<br />
events, visit orlandpark.org.
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On Dec. 15, more than 20<br />
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Dance will donate a day of<br />
their time to dance, perform<br />
and visit with residents at<br />
four local senior centers.<br />
The Holiday Elves Performance<br />
Team are to dance<br />
and visit with residents at<br />
each center for roughly one<br />
hour. They will dance a special<br />
holiday routine they<br />
have dedicated six weeks to<br />
learning, followed by social<br />
dancing to several other holiday<br />
songs, to entertain and<br />
delight the senior residents.<br />
The Heart & Sole Dance’s<br />
Holiday Elves team will be<br />
donating their time on Dec.<br />
15 several locations, including<br />
Autumn Leaves in Orland<br />
Park, from 1:30-2:30 p.m.<br />
Heart & Sole Dance is a<br />
ballroom, Latin and swing<br />
dance studio that serves the<br />
south suburbs. For more information,<br />
call (708) 532-<br />
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Culver’s of Orland Park<br />
holding holiday toy drive<br />
According to Feeding<br />
America, 1 in 8 Americans<br />
struggles with hunger, leaving<br />
millions of people, including<br />
families living right<br />
here in the southwest suburbs,<br />
to seek assistance from<br />
their local food pantries.<br />
And while food has become<br />
an unaffordable luxury to<br />
many throughout our community,<br />
so, too, are toys during<br />
the upcoming holidays.<br />
This season, Culver’s of<br />
Orland Park has earmarked<br />
children of the Orland Park<br />
Food Pantry’s clientele as recipients<br />
of its annual holiday<br />
toy drive.<br />
Throughout the Chicago<br />
area, more than 30 Culver’s<br />
restaurant locations will be<br />
hosting toy drives for local<br />
food pantries, hospitals and<br />
organizations that support<br />
children in need.<br />
To donate, visit Culver’s<br />
of Orland Park at 9130 W.<br />
159th St.<br />
Hobby Lobby prepares to<br />
open Orland Park location<br />
Hobby Lobby Stores Inc.,<br />
a privately held national retail<br />
chain of craft and home<br />
decor stores, is set to open a<br />
new store in Orland Park.<br />
Construction is underway<br />
on this 44,000 square-foot<br />
building formerly occupied<br />
by HH Gregg at 151st Street<br />
and LaGrange Road.<br />
Hobby Lobby has 36 locations<br />
in Illinois. The Orland<br />
Park store is projected to<br />
open in late January 2019.<br />
The location is to bring<br />
35–50 jobs to the community,<br />
paying $15.70 per hour<br />
for full-time and $10.45 per<br />
hour for part-time associates.<br />
Hobby Lobby has more<br />
than 800 stores across the<br />
nation. Each store offers<br />
more than<br />
70,000 crafting and home<br />
decor products, including<br />
floral, fabric, needle art, custom<br />
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accents, wearable art, arts<br />
and crafts, jewelry making,<br />
scrapbooking, and paper<br />
crafting supplies.<br />
Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.,<br />
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Nonprofit partners with<br />
Ballet 5:8 to build new<br />
space on Orland Park<br />
Operation Nehemiah, a<br />
Mokena-based nonprofit<br />
dedicated to partnering with<br />
other nonprofits for building<br />
and rebuilding work,<br />
launched a major multiweek<br />
project for Ballet 5:8<br />
on Nov. 3. Operation Nehemiah<br />
volunteers are providing<br />
the labor to transform<br />
multiple warehouse units<br />
into office, dance studio<br />
and program space in Ballet<br />
5:8’s new home, 11545 W.<br />
183rd Place in Orland Park.<br />
Saturday work days are expected<br />
to continue through<br />
mid-December and additional<br />
volunteers are needed.<br />
Since 2010, Operation Nehemiah<br />
has been partnering<br />
with churches and nonprofits<br />
like Ballet 5:8 in the south<br />
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Contests<br />
Prizes announced for 22nd Century<br />
Media’s 2018 Holiday Card Contest<br />
Entrants have two<br />
opportunities to win:<br />
Best in Show, Funniest<br />
Bill Jones, Editor<br />
Oh, so you’re those kind of giftgivers,<br />
huh? Don’t want to send us<br />
a card until you know what you<br />
might get in return?<br />
That’s not exactly in the Christmas<br />
spirit, but we get it.<br />
The 2018 Holiday Card Contest<br />
is already underway, but this week<br />
we promised the announcement of<br />
prizes. And, as promised, you will<br />
find the full prize list for each category<br />
in the accompanying sidebar.<br />
As a recap, the contest asks you<br />
to send us your best homemade<br />
Christmas cards, the most boastful<br />
of year-end letters (snark the halls,<br />
if that’s your thing), children’s<br />
drawings to be left with cookies for<br />
Santa, photos of your co-workers<br />
in reindeer antlers and noses, crafty<br />
Kwanzaa greetings or Hanukkah<br />
Hallmarks — basically, whatever it<br />
is you send to your loved ones to<br />
make sure they get something in<br />
the mail around the holidays other<br />
than stale fruitcakes from distant<br />
relatives, magazine subscription renewal<br />
notices and Columbia House<br />
compact discs.<br />
Whatever it is you do for the<br />
people you love during the holidays<br />
(just the PG-13 stuff, please), simply<br />
address these things to Managing<br />
Editor Bill Jones, and mail them<br />
to 11516 W. 183rd St. Unit SW<br />
Office Condo 3, Orland Park, IL,<br />
60467. Make sure the items somewhere<br />
include a name and a phone<br />
number at which we can reach you,<br />
should you happen to win the contest,<br />
as well as your hometown.<br />
We will accept submissions<br />
through 5 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 20.<br />
They must be received (not postmarked)<br />
by that day, so make sure<br />
to give yourself enough time for<br />
holiday mail service.<br />
The entries will be evaluated<br />
by our editorial staff and judged<br />
in two categories: Best in Show<br />
and Funniest, so tell us in which<br />
category you’d like to be considered.<br />
We will pick one winner in<br />
each of the categories from across<br />
all seven of the towns covered by<br />
22nd Century Media’s Southwest<br />
office: Orland Park, Tinley Park,<br />
Frankfort, Mokena, New Lenox,<br />
Lockport and Homer Glen.<br />
In addition to awarding prizes,<br />
we plan to publish images or transcripts<br />
of our winners in print,<br />
along with a few of our other favorites.<br />
We do have three rules.<br />
• We are allowing only one entry<br />
per household for this contest.<br />
• The entry must be from this<br />
holiday season.<br />
• Electronic entries are accepted.<br />
They can be sent to bill@op<br />
prairie.com.<br />
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A look at what readers can<br />
win in this year’s Holiday Card<br />
Contest<br />
Best in Show<br />
• A $25 gift certificate for<br />
Rubi Agave, 12622 W. 159th<br />
St. in Homer Glen<br />
• Four play passes, each<br />
good for free admission to the<br />
KidsWork Children’s Museum,<br />
11 S. White Street, Frankfort<br />
• Three $5 gift certificates for<br />
Sizzles, 110 MacGregor Road<br />
in Lockport<br />
• Two gift certificates, each<br />
good for a free two-week<br />
individual trial membership<br />
for one adult, 18 and older,<br />
at The Oaks Recreation &<br />
Fitness Center, 10847 W. La<br />
Porte Road in Mokena<br />
Funniest<br />
• Two hours of free bowling<br />
for up to six people, including<br />
shoe rentals, along with a<br />
pizza and pitcher full of pop,<br />
at Laraway Lanes, 1009 W.<br />
Laraway Road in New Lenox<br />
• A $25 gift card to Gizmos<br />
Fun Factory, 66 Orland Square<br />
Drive, Suite D, in Orland Park<br />
• Four passes, each good<br />
for a free value basket at<br />
Culver’s, 18248 Sayre Ave. in<br />
Tinley Park<br />
• Four passes, each good<br />
for one free open gym entry<br />
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Fitness Center, 10847 W. La<br />
Porte Road in Mokena<br />
Police eying seat belt use, impaired drivers for holidays<br />
Submitted by Village of Orland<br />
Park<br />
The Orland Park Police Department<br />
is joining its counterparts<br />
throughout Illinois in encouraging<br />
motorists to celebrate safely this<br />
holiday season. Law enforcement<br />
will be working around the clock<br />
through the remainder of the year<br />
to be sure travelers are buckled up<br />
and driving sober.<br />
The Orland Park police will join<br />
their counterparts throughout the<br />
State of Illinois with increased<br />
patrols during the holiday season.<br />
Police will be watching for drivers<br />
and passengers traveling without<br />
seat belts or with an unbuckled<br />
child in the vehicle. Motorists are<br />
warned that driving after drinking<br />
or using drugs or other impairing<br />
substances will not be tolerated.<br />
Illinois motorists can expect to<br />
Orland Township’s 2018 Holiday<br />
Program now accepting donations<br />
Submitted by Orland Township<br />
The Orland Township Holiday<br />
Program has been assisting local<br />
families in need for more than 30<br />
years. The Township is preparing<br />
for the 2018 holiday season, and<br />
donations for the program are now<br />
being accepted.<br />
The majority of the Holiday<br />
Program recipients are clients of<br />
the Orland Township Food Pantry,<br />
which serves more than 300 families<br />
a month. Through the generosity<br />
of residents, civic groups and<br />
organizations, and local businesses,<br />
the Orland Township Holiday Program<br />
is able to provide a holiday<br />
meal, gifts and other personal items<br />
to more than 150 local families who<br />
are experiencing financial difficulties.<br />
There are several ways to participate<br />
in the Orland Township Holiday<br />
Program.<br />
• Culver’s Holiday Toy Drive:<br />
Orland Township is partnering<br />
with Culver’s of Orland Park to<br />
help provide toys to children in<br />
need. From now until Dec. 9,<br />
Culver’s will have a donation<br />
bin in their restaurant at 9130 W.<br />
159th St. for patrons to drop off<br />
new, unwrapped toys that will be<br />
delivered to the Township for distribution.<br />
• Giving Tree: For those who enjoy<br />
making the holidays special for<br />
children, the Giving Tree contains<br />
tags with wish lists for children<br />
from newborns to age 16.<br />
• Adopt-A-Family: People can<br />
make the holidays brighter for an<br />
entire family by filling their wish<br />
lists of toys, clothing and other<br />
items. This is a popular idea for<br />
work, church, school and social<br />
groups.<br />
People can visit the Township<br />
office, 14807 S. Ravinia Ave., to<br />
choose tags from the Giving Tree<br />
or to Adopt-A-Family.<br />
• Item Donations: Contributions<br />
of food, toys, clothing and<br />
personal items can be dropped off<br />
at the Township. See the Township<br />
website, orlandtownship.org,<br />
for a list of suggested items. Gift<br />
and clothing items for teenagers<br />
and adults are usually in short supply<br />
and greatly appreciated, as are<br />
monetary donations.<br />
Donations for the Holiday Program<br />
can be dropped off at the<br />
Township office during regular business<br />
hours: 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Monday<br />
through Friday, and until 6 p.m.<br />
Tuesdays. Deliver donations for the<br />
Holiday Program by Wednesday,<br />
Dec. 12, to give Township personnel<br />
time to sort and organize.<br />
For more information on the<br />
Orland Township Holiday Program,<br />
including suggested donation<br />
items, visit the website or call (708)<br />
403-4222.<br />
Cook County warming centers<br />
are open as temperatures drop<br />
Submitted by Cook County Orland Park, from 8 a.m.-4:30<br />
be ticketed if they are unbelted. Department of Homeland Security p.m. Monday-Friday, with hours<br />
Statistics show that nighttime and Emergency Management<br />
extended till 6 p.m. on Tuesdays.<br />
driving comes with increased risk<br />
It is closed Saturdays and Sundays.<br />
for injury or death. Evening hours Cold temperatures are expected<br />
to continue throughout Cook<br />
Transportation is available for<br />
account for a higher percentage of<br />
township seniors 55 and older.<br />
impaired driving crashes, a higher County. And municipalities around<br />
One-way rides within the township<br />
are $2. One-way rides outside<br />
percentage of fatalities and a lower the County have opened warming<br />
percentage of occupants wearing centers for area residents to safely<br />
of the township are $4.<br />
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cope with the winter weather.<br />
Orland Township can make financial<br />
accommodations for se-<br />
The enforcement effort is funded<br />
with federal highway safety ship, which operates a warming<br />
Among them is Orland Town-<br />
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The Orland Park Prairie’s<br />
Standout Student<br />
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Silvia Loza-Diaz, Meadow Ridge<br />
fourth-grader<br />
Silvia Loza-Diaz was chosen as The Orland<br />
Park Prairie’s Standout Student because of<br />
her academic accomplishments.<br />
What is one essential you must have when<br />
studying?<br />
IPad and pencil.<br />
What do you like to do when not in school or<br />
studying?<br />
Play with brothers, help my mom clean<br />
my room, help my mom with our baby and<br />
read.<br />
What is your dream job?<br />
I would be a fourth-grade teacher.<br />
What is one thing people don’t know about<br />
you?<br />
Sometimes, they spell my name wrong.<br />
(Not Sylvia!)<br />
Who do you look up to and why?<br />
My mom, because when I get hurt, she<br />
helps take care of me.<br />
What’s one thing that stands out about your<br />
photo submitted<br />
school?<br />
There are a lot of kind kids and teachers at<br />
Meadow Ridge.<br />
What extracurricular(s) do you wish your<br />
school had?<br />
I wish we had gymnastics.<br />
What’s your best memory from school?<br />
When my second-grade teacher taught me<br />
how to do division and multiplication facts at<br />
the end of the day.<br />
Standout Student is a weekly feature for The<br />
Orland Park Prairie. Nominations come from<br />
Orland Park area schools.<br />
D135, D230 plan for levy increases in line with CPI<br />
Bill Jones, Editor<br />
Both Orland School District<br />
135 and Consolidated<br />
High School District 230<br />
are planning to later this<br />
month increase their 2018<br />
tax levies over their 2017<br />
extensions, but neither by<br />
more than the Consumer<br />
Price Index for the year, at<br />
least directly.<br />
The D230 School Board<br />
on Nov. 29 voted unanimously<br />
to approve its estimated<br />
2018 levy at $113.87<br />
million, marking a 1.9 percent<br />
increase over the prior<br />
year’s extension of $111.75<br />
million.<br />
The D230 School Board<br />
is being asked to approve<br />
the 2018 levy at its Dec. 20<br />
meeting.<br />
During a Nov. 12 meeting,<br />
the D135 Board of Education<br />
voted 6-0 to approve<br />
resolution for a tentative tax<br />
levy for 2018 at $69.60 million.<br />
Board Member Sandra<br />
Kulak was absent from the<br />
meeting.<br />
It marks an increase of<br />
roughly 4.9 percent over last<br />
School News<br />
Noonan Elementary Academy<br />
Students from Orland Park<br />
named to Gold Honor Roll<br />
Noonan Elementary<br />
Academy recently congratulated<br />
the following students,<br />
grades 5-8, who made the<br />
first quarter honor roll and<br />
are Orland Park residents.<br />
Gold Honor Roll is held by<br />
those students who received<br />
all A’s, 93 percent or higher,<br />
in every subject. Fifth-grade<br />
Gold Honor Roll students<br />
are Steven Armbruster and<br />
Riyaa Jain. Seventh-grade<br />
Gold Honor Roll student is:<br />
Artur Krutul. Eighth-grade<br />
Gold Honor Roll students<br />
are: Charlie Armbruster and<br />
Sophia Wilko.<br />
Silver Honor Roll is held<br />
by those students who received<br />
more A’s than B’s.<br />
Sixth-grade Silver Honor<br />
Roll students are: Aleksander<br />
Aguilar and Grace<br />
Vrdolyak. Seventh-grade<br />
Silver Honor Roll student<br />
is: Joey Armbruster. Eighthgrade<br />
Silver Honor Roll student<br />
is: Eddie Vrdolyak.<br />
Mother McAuley Liberal Arts<br />
High School<br />
Orland Parkers among<br />
Illinois State Scholars<br />
Mother McAuley Liberal<br />
Arts High School recently<br />
announced that 57 students<br />
from the graduating class of<br />
2019 have been recognized<br />
as Illinois State Scholars.<br />
The Illinois Student Assistance<br />
Commission, the<br />
state agency committed to<br />
helping make college accessible<br />
and affordable for Illinois<br />
families, confers this<br />
recognition to top Illinois<br />
high school students. This<br />
year, more than 21,000 honorees<br />
join the other top state<br />
students honored for their<br />
academic achievements<br />
since the designation was<br />
first introduced in 1958.<br />
Illinois State Scholars<br />
represent approximately<br />
the top 10 percent of high<br />
school seniors from 757<br />
high schools across the<br />
state. Illinois State Scholars<br />
are chosen based on a combination<br />
of exemplary ACT<br />
or SAT test scores, and sixth<br />
semester class rank.<br />
The following Mother<br />
McAuley students from Orland<br />
Park were among those<br />
named 2019-2020 scholars:<br />
Mary Kate Gurka and Kathryn<br />
Pasquinelli.<br />
While the State Scholar<br />
recognition does not include<br />
a monetary prize, honorees<br />
received a congratulatory<br />
letter from ISAC and<br />
a personalized Certificate<br />
of Achievement. Honorees<br />
also can download a digital<br />
Illinois State Scholar<br />
badge that can be displayed<br />
on their online profiles and<br />
social media platforms, and<br />
shared with high school<br />
counselors, prospective colleges,<br />
employers, family<br />
members and others.<br />
Providence Catholic High<br />
School<br />
Three from Orland Park<br />
named ‘Students of the<br />
Month’<br />
Dr. John Harper, principal<br />
of Providence Catholic<br />
High School, recently announced<br />
the school’s “Students<br />
of the Month” for November.<br />
Every month, each academic<br />
department chairperson<br />
selects one student as<br />
its “Student of the Month”<br />
from a number of students<br />
nominated by faculty and<br />
staff. Students of the Month<br />
receive a certificate of recognition,<br />
have their photos<br />
displayed in Providence<br />
Catholic High School’s main<br />
hallway for the following<br />
month, and are invited as a<br />
group to have lunch with the<br />
principal and Assistant Principal<br />
Janlyn Auld.<br />
The Providence Catholic<br />
Students of the Month for<br />
November include the following<br />
Orland Park residents:<br />
Ella Coyle (Class<br />
of 2022, mathematics) Michael<br />
Perino (2019, technology)<br />
and Aidan Rayburn<br />
Bob Jones University<br />
Orland Parker named to<br />
symphonic wind band<br />
Ezra John Pio, of Orland<br />
Park, has been named to the<br />
Bob Jones University Symphonic<br />
Wind Band.<br />
Pio is a senior, majoring in<br />
engineering.<br />
The Symphonic Wind<br />
Band, BJU’s top performing<br />
instrumental ensemble,<br />
features 50 selected players.<br />
Each year, performers<br />
audition by playing a group<br />
of excerpts taken from band<br />
literature or study etudes,<br />
scales and sight reading unfamiliar<br />
music. Following<br />
that selection audition, a<br />
second audition is held for<br />
seating within the ensemble.<br />
Presenting four formal<br />
concerts each year, the Wind<br />
Band is noted for its refined<br />
performances of outstanding<br />
music. The group will<br />
present a concert featuring<br />
“Lauds” by composer Ron<br />
Nelson as well as “Symphony<br />
No. 3” by American<br />
composer Alfred Reed. Seasonal<br />
favorites will close the<br />
concert in Rodeheaver Auditorium<br />
on the BJU campus<br />
at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 30.<br />
The concert is free and open<br />
to the public.<br />
Carthage College<br />
Two from Orland Park<br />
graduate cum laude<br />
More than 75 students<br />
graduated from Carthage<br />
College by completing their<br />
studies between July and<br />
November 2018. The recent<br />
graduates include these students<br />
from Orland Park:<br />
Haley Tomchaney and Roxanne<br />
Balaskas, both cum<br />
laude with a Bachelor of<br />
Arts.<br />
year’s extention of $66.29<br />
million, but the district’s<br />
assistant superintendent of<br />
operations and director of<br />
finance, John Bryk, wrote<br />
in a memo to the board that<br />
the district is just seeking 2.1<br />
percent, in line with the CPI.<br />
But Cook County will seek<br />
Illinois State University<br />
roughly 3 percent over that<br />
Graduate student from<br />
but under a 5 percent total<br />
cap, to account for potential<br />
Orland Park earns<br />
contingencies, he wrote.<br />
scholarship<br />
The final approval of the<br />
Jessica Lucas-Nihei, a<br />
2018 levy is expected to appear<br />
on the Dec. 10 School<br />
fifth-year student in the doc-<br />
Board meeting agenda. (2022, physical education). Please see school, 14
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Newlyweds<br />
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Jim and Karen Binkowski, of Orland<br />
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Bill and Sara Sieczkowski, of Mokena;<br />
happily announce the marriage of Krystle<br />
Binkowski and William Sieczkowski III,<br />
both graduates of Sandburg High School,<br />
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University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in<br />
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well as throughout the Midwest.<br />
Whether it is improving<br />
the brick-and-mortar<br />
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or assisting their<br />
partners’ clients/recipients,<br />
Operation Nehemiah’s goal<br />
is to come alongside existing<br />
non-profits for building and<br />
rebuilding projects.<br />
Recent efforts include major<br />
interior renovations for<br />
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in Homewood, deck rebuilding<br />
for Camp Manitoqua<br />
in Frankfort, home repair/<br />
remodeling work for clients<br />
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in Harvey, interior storage<br />
space creation for the Overflow<br />
Ministry in Flossmoor<br />
and All God’s People in Orland<br />
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As a 501(c)3, Operation<br />
Nehemiah is run by a volunteer<br />
board and relies upon<br />
donations of labor, materials<br />
and money to complete the<br />
projects it takes on. While<br />
experienced tradespeople<br />
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success, the weekend<br />
do-it-yourself-er as well as<br />
school<br />
From Page 11<br />
toral program in school psychology<br />
and from Orland<br />
Park, is a 2018 recipient<br />
of the Ora Bretall Graduate<br />
Scholarship. In 2012,<br />
she graduated magma cum<br />
laude from DePaul University<br />
in Chicago with a major<br />
in psychology–human<br />
development concentration<br />
and a minor in game development.<br />
Once she has obtained her<br />
doctoral degree in school<br />
psychology, Lucas-Nihei<br />
plans to work in a public<br />
school system, serving prekindergarten<br />
through fifthgrade<br />
students to fulfill the<br />
school hours requirement<br />
those with no trades experience<br />
are all invited to serve<br />
(and learn) together.<br />
Projects are ongoing on<br />
Saturday mornings throughout<br />
the year, allowing volunteers<br />
to participate as<br />
their schedules allow. For<br />
more information or to sign<br />
up to volunteer, visit op<br />
erationnehemiahil.org. New<br />
volunteers should complete<br />
the registration form and<br />
waiver available on the<br />
website. Potential nonprofit/<br />
church partners can contact<br />
Operation Nehemiah Executive<br />
Director Rob Lach<br />
at rlach@operationnehemia<br />
hil.org.<br />
For more information on<br />
Ballet 5:8, contact Executive<br />
Director Amy Sanderson at<br />
asanderson@ballet58.org.<br />
Upcoming area performances<br />
include “Beyond the Nutcracker”<br />
from Dec. 15-16<br />
at Lincoln-Way West High<br />
School Performing Arts<br />
Center in New Lenox.<br />
SXU sells Orland Park<br />
campus<br />
Saint Xavier University<br />
recently confirmed that in<br />
October it sold its Orland<br />
Park campus to the Community<br />
Services Foundation for<br />
$4.5 million.<br />
for the Nationally Certified<br />
School Psychologist<br />
credential. She also wants<br />
to pursue a career in academia<br />
as a faculty member<br />
in a university’s department<br />
of psychology. Lucas-Nihei<br />
is interested in teaching at<br />
both the undergraduate and<br />
graduate levels, as well as<br />
continuing her research focusing<br />
on early childhood,<br />
self-regulation, parent-child<br />
relationships, and peer relationships.<br />
The Ora Bretall Graduate<br />
Scholarship is awarded<br />
on a one-time basis to persons<br />
enrolled in graduate<br />
programs at Illinois State<br />
whose proposal of master’s<br />
thesis or doctoral dissertation<br />
deals with issues of educational<br />
theory or religious<br />
Illinois American Water<br />
distributes grant to Orland<br />
Fire Protection District<br />
The Orland Fire Protection<br />
District will be purchasing<br />
Stop the Bleed kits for<br />
first aid community training,<br />
thanks to a grant from Illinois<br />
American Water.<br />
The IAW 2018 Firefighter<br />
Grant Program provides financial<br />
assistance to fire and<br />
emergency organizations<br />
serving communities in its<br />
service areas. This year, approximately<br />
$77,000 is to be<br />
awarded to 78 Illinois fire<br />
departments. Since the program<br />
was created in 2010,<br />
more than 500 grants totaling<br />
more than $493,000 has<br />
been awarded to fire and<br />
emergency organizations<br />
serving customers in Illinois<br />
American Water’s service<br />
area.<br />
Illinois American Water’s<br />
Firefighter Grant Program<br />
awards grants to provide<br />
personal protective gear,<br />
communications equipment,<br />
firefighting tools, water handling<br />
equipment, training<br />
materials and classroom programs.<br />
Compiled by Editor Bill Jones,<br />
bill@opprairie.com.<br />
thought. The recipient of an<br />
award shall be involved in<br />
study and research that adds<br />
to the existing knowledge<br />
base of the above fields of<br />
study.<br />
Palmer College of<br />
Chiropractic<br />
Orland Parker earns Doctor<br />
of Chiropractic degree<br />
Michael Kehoe, a 2011<br />
Sandburg High School<br />
graduate from Orland Park,<br />
graduated with a Doctor of<br />
Chiropratic degree from<br />
Palmer College of Chiropractic.<br />
He has returned to<br />
Orland Park to serve his<br />
home community.<br />
Compiled by Editor Bill Jones,<br />
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Police Reports<br />
Police find 33.8 grams of cannabis<br />
after approaching smoke-filled vehicle<br />
Christopher A. Serrato,<br />
22, of 5730 108th<br />
St. in Chicago Ridge, was<br />
charged with possession of<br />
cannabis with intent to deliver<br />
after police reportedly<br />
approached a 2007 Toyota<br />
Avalon he occupied while<br />
parked outside of Dave &<br />
Buster’s, 49 Orland Square<br />
Drive. The vehicle was<br />
filled with a smoky haze,<br />
and two occupants were<br />
seen passing a cigar back<br />
and forth inside of it, police<br />
said. When officers approached,<br />
they reportedly<br />
detected the odor of burnt<br />
cannabis. The cigar itself<br />
still had a “small amount”<br />
of cannabis in it, according<br />
to the report.<br />
Inside of the vehicle, police<br />
reportedly found a Mason<br />
jar containing cannabis<br />
and a bag containing cannabis<br />
in the center console<br />
storage area. Police also<br />
found bags containing cannabis<br />
in the spare tire well<br />
of the vehicle, according<br />
to the report. The cannabis<br />
field tested positive at a total<br />
weight of 33.8 grams,<br />
police said.<br />
Nov. 18<br />
• Vieshena W. Drain, 36,<br />
of 4838 Summerhill Drive<br />
in Country Club Hills, was<br />
charged with retail theft<br />
and resisting/obstructing a<br />
police officer after she allegedly<br />
tried to take four<br />
small pillows and a clock<br />
radio valued at a total of<br />
$214 from a department<br />
store at Orland Square. She<br />
reportedly concealed them<br />
and left without paying for<br />
them. A loss prevention officer<br />
tried to stop her, but<br />
she got in a 2004 Ford Expedition<br />
and fled the scene,<br />
police said. She was stopped<br />
around 159th Street and Orlan<br />
Brook Drive, according<br />
to the report.<br />
Nov. 17<br />
• Tammy Ann Valadez, 54,<br />
of 6918 W. 65th St. in Chicago,<br />
was charged with retail<br />
theft after she allegedly<br />
tried to take five items valued<br />
at a total of $66.96 from<br />
a store at Orland Square.<br />
She reportedly concealed<br />
the items in her purse and<br />
tried to leave without paying<br />
for them.<br />
Nov. 16<br />
• Richard Bedolla, 56, of<br />
8200 Paloma Drive in Orland<br />
Park, was charged with<br />
aggravated assault after he<br />
allegedly used a long piece<br />
of wood with duct tape at<br />
one end to swing at the window<br />
of a 2013 work van<br />
occupied by a 44-year-old<br />
New Lenox man in the 9300<br />
block of 139th Street. The<br />
victim, while in the van,<br />
was approached by Bedolla,<br />
who banged on the window<br />
and asked the driver to roll<br />
it down, police said. When<br />
he cracked it open, Bedolla<br />
reportedly began yelling at<br />
him, accusing the worker of<br />
harassing and stalking him.<br />
Bedolla then allegedly went<br />
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wood and started swinging<br />
it at the work van. When police<br />
arrived, the found a 3-<br />
to 4-foot piece of wood with<br />
duct tape on one end lying<br />
across the passenger’s side<br />
of the vehicle, according to<br />
the report. The worker was<br />
in the area for a service call,<br />
police added. He reportedly<br />
moved the vehicle down<br />
the road to get away from<br />
Bedolla.<br />
Nov. 9<br />
• April N. Williams, 40, of<br />
18854 Maple Ave. in Country<br />
Club Hills, was charged<br />
with retail theft after she allegedly<br />
tried to take items<br />
valued at $1,245 from a<br />
department store at Orland<br />
Square. She reportedly put<br />
the items in a cart, took<br />
them to a dressing room,<br />
concealed them in bags<br />
and left the store without<br />
paying for them. She was<br />
approached in the lot, but<br />
threw the bags at the person<br />
who approached her, got<br />
into a 2013 Buick Enclave<br />
and fled the scene, police<br />
said. The vehicle reportedly<br />
was stopped near Regent<br />
Drive.<br />
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FROM THE NEW LENOX PATRIOT<br />
NL native plans second cross<br />
country ride to benefit veterans<br />
New Lenox native Tracy Sefcik<br />
completed her cross-country bike<br />
trip from California to Florida earlier<br />
this year and is already planning<br />
her next one.<br />
“Well, you know, I can’t just do<br />
this once; I’ve got to do it again,<br />
don’t I?” Sefcik said. “I guess it’s<br />
my calling.”<br />
During her first ride for charity,<br />
Sefcik raised more than $30,000<br />
for the Gary Sinise Foundation in<br />
support of veterans. Her next endeavour<br />
is to raise $50,000 for a<br />
charity closer to home called the<br />
Oscar Mike Foundation.<br />
While the ride itself is still<br />
roughly two-and-a-half years down<br />
the road, Sefcik said it is important<br />
that she starts fundraising now, so<br />
she can meet her goal.<br />
The fundraiser officially started<br />
Nov. 7 on her website, www.crosscountrycycle4vets.com.<br />
The day<br />
holds special meaning for Sefcik,<br />
a Navy veteran, because it is the<br />
anniversary of the day her uncle’s<br />
plane went down in Korea many<br />
years ago and he was determined<br />
to be Missing In Action.<br />
The Oscar Mike Foundation is<br />
located in Rockford but serves veterans<br />
around the country through<br />
its programs, which are aimed at<br />
getting wounded and disabled veterans<br />
active again through a variety<br />
of activities, including exercise,<br />
flight lessons, shooting practice,<br />
kayaking, paddleboarding, fishing,<br />
horseback riding and skydiving.<br />
Participants are flown out to<br />
spend a week at the foundation’s<br />
compound, where Sefcik said the<br />
goal is to give them a new lease on<br />
life and a positive outlook for the<br />
future despite their limitations and<br />
injuries.<br />
Reporting by Amanda Villiger, Assistant<br />
Editor. For more, visit NewLenox<br />
Patriot.com.<br />
FROM THE TINLEY JUNCTION<br />
Andrew senior wrestler fueled by<br />
tough loss<br />
Andrew senior wrestler Luc<br />
Valdez suffered last year, losing<br />
a 1-point sectional decision in a<br />
match that would have sent him<br />
downstate to compete in the Class<br />
3A individual state finals.<br />
Worse yet, it was a 1-point decision<br />
loss to Marmion’s Michael<br />
Jaffe, who went on to place fourth<br />
in Illinois at 113 pounds.<br />
Valdez could have put the pain of<br />
that loss behind him and moved on,<br />
but the best wrestlers don not move<br />
on easily. What they do is use that<br />
pain as motivation, like a shovelful<br />
of coal thrown into a blast furnace.<br />
“That loss motivates me every<br />
single day,” Valdez said. “I look<br />
at it and think about what I should<br />
have done different, and I want<br />
to do everything right this year to<br />
make sure I don’t have that feeling<br />
again.”<br />
Three additional Andrew wrestlers<br />
came within one win of<br />
advancing downstate last year,<br />
including varsity returnees J.P.<br />
Migawa and Ameer Aqel. Thunderbolts<br />
coach Mike Pila knows<br />
that none of them are about to let<br />
those losses go.<br />
“That sour taste is something<br />
that doesn’t go away,” Pila said.<br />
“They think about it when they’re<br />
summer wrestling, lifting, in the<br />
preseason, in the practice room —<br />
it’s always there in the back of their<br />
minds.”<br />
In his fourth season as a varsity<br />
wrestler, Valdez entered his senior<br />
year with more than 100 wins to<br />
his name. He won 29 matches as a<br />
freshman, 35 as a sophomore and<br />
37 matches last year.<br />
Reporting by Gary Larsen, Freelance<br />
Reporter. For more, visit TinleyJunc<br />
tion.com.<br />
FROM THE FRANKFORT STATION<br />
Frankfort Falcons win Super Bowl<br />
championships<br />
The Frankfort Falcons varsity<br />
and junior varsity teams capped<br />
successful 2018 seasons by clinching<br />
River Valley Super Bowl championship<br />
Nov. 11 at the ATI Field at<br />
Joliet Memorial Stadium.<br />
The No. 2-seeded varsity team<br />
defeated the No. 1 Morris Warriors<br />
20-6 in the championship game,<br />
while the No. 1- ranked junior varsity<br />
team secured a 25-6 title victory<br />
over the No. 3 Frankfort Square<br />
Wildcats.<br />
Falcons varsity head coach Matthew<br />
Straight attributed the team’s<br />
success this season to his players’<br />
sense of brotherhood and their ability<br />
to focus on “the momentum of<br />
the season itself.”<br />
“What was great was that we had<br />
some returning varsity players, as<br />
well as a JV team that was in the<br />
Super Bowl last year that was able<br />
to contribute,” he added.<br />
After finishing the regular season<br />
with a 7-1 record, the varsity team<br />
entered the first round of the playoffs<br />
with a bye and went on to shut<br />
out the Tinley Park Bulldogs 28-0<br />
on Oct. 28. In the Nov. 4 semifinal<br />
game, the team clinched a second<br />
postseason shutout, defeating the<br />
Homer Stallions 31-0.<br />
Straight said he anticipated the<br />
majority of the players would continue<br />
their football careers at Lincoln-Way<br />
East High School.<br />
“We expect great things from<br />
them at the freshmen level next<br />
year,” he said. “[Lincoln-Way East<br />
football Coach Rob Zvonar] has<br />
been a big part of the organization,<br />
and his kids are coming up through<br />
the Falcons, as well.”<br />
Reporting by Nuria Mathog, Editor.<br />
For more, visit FrankfortStation.com.<br />
FROM THE HOMER HORIZON<br />
Homer woman works with<br />
nonprofit to provide solar lights<br />
for poverty-stricken areas<br />
Beth Sadler, 25, of Homer Glen,<br />
is currently enrolled at Adler University<br />
in Chicago, working on her<br />
master’s degree in counseling with<br />
art therapy. And as part of her global<br />
outreach practicum, she needed<br />
to find an organization working to<br />
help people in need.<br />
Given that broad guideline, she<br />
went on Google and swiftly found<br />
a path illuminated for her.<br />
Sadler came upon the website<br />
for Watts of Love, a nonprofit organization<br />
that provides clean and<br />
renewable light sources to families<br />
living in cases of extreme poverty<br />
without access to electricity in<br />
more than 30 countries, she said.<br />
“[The Watts of Love] website<br />
seemed so welcoming and friendly,<br />
the layout modern, not sugarcoating<br />
anything,” Sadler recalled. “People<br />
really benefit [from the lights]. The<br />
photos it has are incredible — of<br />
the smiles on these kids’ faces, the<br />
mothers in tears [because] kids can<br />
now go to school, study at night<br />
and have a light source.”<br />
The Go Dark, Give Light campaign<br />
started by Watts of Love<br />
invites organizations across the<br />
country to voluntarily “go dark”<br />
and give up their cellphones and<br />
social media for an agreed upon<br />
period of time while raising funds<br />
from friends and family for the solar<br />
lights, according to Sadler. The<br />
nonprofit then provides funds globally<br />
to “give light” to those who<br />
need it most.<br />
Materials needed to launch and<br />
run a Go Dark, Give Light campaign<br />
are at www.wattsoflove.org/<br />
godarkgivelight.<br />
Reporting by Thomas Czaja, Editor.<br />
For more, visit HomerHorizon.com.<br />
FROM THE LOCKPORT LEGEND<br />
Lockport Woman’s Club ramping up<br />
local work<br />
Jane Passaglia, the president<br />
of the Lockport Woman’s Club,<br />
knows what most people think of<br />
when they hear about a woman’s<br />
club.<br />
She thought the same thing when<br />
she was asked to join years ago.<br />
“I had the same stereotype that<br />
anyone … would have about women’s<br />
club, that it’s a ladies who<br />
lunch club, and that it’s not that<br />
well adapted to the modem woman,<br />
with her schedule and life,”<br />
Passaglia said. “But I have to say,<br />
I owe a lot to the Woman’s Club of<br />
Lockport.”<br />
Now, as president of the club,<br />
Passaglia hopes other area women<br />
come to discover the same things<br />
she has learned from the it.<br />
Passaglia moved to Lockport<br />
nine years ago to be closer to her<br />
daughter, and when she moved, she<br />
wanted to get involved in her new<br />
community.<br />
“I have always been engaged in<br />
my community,” Passaglia said.<br />
“I’ve been an activist wherever<br />
I’ve lived.”<br />
The then-president of the Lockport<br />
Woman’s Club reached out to<br />
her and asked her to get involved<br />
but, of course, Passaglia assumed<br />
the woman’s club would be less<br />
active and more social. Then, Passaglia<br />
looked into the it and discovered<br />
she was wrong.<br />
In the six months since she has<br />
been at the helm, Passaglia said she<br />
has turned the club’s focus toward<br />
the community.<br />
“I think we can do more in the<br />
community together,” she said.<br />
Reporting by Jesse Wright, Freelance<br />
Reporter. For more, visit LockportLe<br />
gend.com.<br />
FROM THE MOKENA MESSENGER<br />
My Joyful Heart brings Christmas<br />
cheer to children<br />
When providing food and shelter<br />
are the biggest financial concerns a<br />
family faces, the extra things such<br />
as new clothing or Christmas presents<br />
often can fall by the wayside.<br />
Each year around Christmastime,<br />
My Joyful Heart provides<br />
Christmas gift bags to children in<br />
the south suburbs. This year, they<br />
are to reach almost 1,000 children.<br />
Founder and Executive Director<br />
Diane Carroll said many of those<br />
children are part of families with a<br />
single mom, who is just trying to<br />
make ends meet and provide for<br />
their children.<br />
“I was a single mom. I raised<br />
my three kids. Believe me, I know<br />
the challenges,” Carroll said, “So,<br />
I have great compassion for these<br />
single moms, which make up most<br />
of the program kids.”<br />
Children in the program are enrolled<br />
mainly by a social worker<br />
from their school, who then fills<br />
out a profile on each child, including<br />
their ages, favorite colors, interests,<br />
reading levels and school<br />
grade levels.<br />
In addition to toys and clothing,<br />
Carroll said books always are included<br />
in the gifts, which she said<br />
has helped many of them with their<br />
reading skills.<br />
After receiving a gift from My<br />
Joyful Heart, children are asked to<br />
write a “thank you” letter as part of<br />
the process, and Carroll said many<br />
of them do.<br />
“It’s part of the education process,<br />
is the way I look at it,” she<br />
said. “We get such heartwarming<br />
thank you notes.”<br />
Reporting by Amanda Villiger, Assistant<br />
Editor. For more, visit Moke<br />
naMessenger.com.
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BILL JONES<br />
bill@opprairie.com<br />
I<br />
get a lot of calls from<br />
people with ideas for<br />
the paper. The quality of<br />
those ideas varies.<br />
But I got a rare one a<br />
couple of weeks ago: An<br />
idea that wasn’t self-serving,<br />
was something we had<br />
not thought much about but<br />
warranted more consideration.<br />
You may have heard that<br />
a roundabout was coming<br />
to 147th Street and Ravinia<br />
Avenue. You may have been<br />
frustrated by the construction.<br />
You may know it’s<br />
open for business.<br />
What you may not know<br />
is what to do when you<br />
encounter it. There are not<br />
many in the area, as the<br />
caller pointed out, and in<br />
her experience people seem<br />
to be confused, causing<br />
near-misses and endangering<br />
other motorists when<br />
they enter it. She told us we<br />
should explain to people<br />
what to do at roundabouts.<br />
She had a point. So, here<br />
it goes.<br />
First of all, if you have<br />
seen “Mission: Impossible<br />
— Fallout” (which,<br />
I highly recommend), you<br />
witnessed Tom Cruise as<br />
Ethan Hunt travel clockwise<br />
in the roundabout that<br />
circles the Arc de Triomphe<br />
in Paris. You also may have<br />
noticed he had a bunch of<br />
near-misses, as he worked<br />
against the grain of traffic.<br />
That might be good for<br />
evading international villains.<br />
It’s not good if you’re<br />
the average driver in Orland<br />
Park.<br />
Roundabouts, in countries<br />
that drive on the right side<br />
of the road, typically move<br />
counterclockwise. That’s<br />
so anyone entering them is<br />
turning right to do so, and<br />
everyone exiting them is<br />
doing the same.<br />
But, before you do any of<br />
that, you need to yield (or, if<br />
the sign indicates, come to<br />
a complete stop), typically<br />
at a specified line. Traffic<br />
already in the roundabout<br />
always has the right-of-way<br />
(as do bicyclists and pedestrians<br />
in crosswalks), and<br />
motorists entering it must<br />
yield to those already in it,<br />
looking to the left for traffic<br />
circulating the roundabout.<br />
Only when traffic is clear<br />
can they (after signalling<br />
properly), enter the roundabout<br />
and travel in a counterclockwise<br />
motion.<br />
Once in the roundabout,<br />
drivers can continue circulating<br />
until they get to the<br />
exit they need, signal and<br />
turn to the right to exit. People<br />
in the roundabout should<br />
not exceed the posted speed<br />
limit for the roundabout but<br />
also not stop moving while<br />
in it, watching for pedestrians<br />
upon exiting.<br />
Pedestrians should only<br />
cross roundabouts at designated<br />
crosswalks, try to<br />
wait for gaps in traffic and<br />
indicate to nearby drivers<br />
their intent to cross, to be<br />
completely safe. Bicyclists<br />
should dismount and<br />
navigate the crosswalks as a<br />
pedestrian when on the sidewalk.<br />
Those on the roadway<br />
should observe rules similar<br />
to motorists.<br />
In bigger roundabouts that<br />
have multiple lanes, there<br />
should be indicators upon<br />
approaching the roundabout<br />
Tom Cruise might take this roundabout clockwise to get<br />
away from international villains, but you aren’t Tom Cruise.<br />
Don’t try to be. Circulate counterclockwise.<br />
showing motorists in which<br />
lane they need to be to exit<br />
on the proper street. Typically,<br />
to go right or straight,<br />
one would stay in the right<br />
lane; and to go straight or<br />
left, one would enter into<br />
the left lane. But drivers<br />
should always adhere to the<br />
posted restrictions when<br />
approaching a roundabout.<br />
In multi-laned roundabouts,<br />
drivers entering the roundabout<br />
need to yield to traffic<br />
in both lanes circulating it.<br />
Drivers should not change<br />
lanes while in a roundabout.<br />
Drivers also should exercise<br />
caution and stay clear<br />
of oversized vehicles when<br />
in a roundabout, as they<br />
may require more space<br />
to navigate. In the event<br />
that an emergency vehicle<br />
is approaching, motorists<br />
should clear the roundabout<br />
and move to the side of the<br />
road upon exiting. People<br />
should not stop if already in<br />
the roundabout until exiting,<br />
because it may impede the<br />
emergency vehicle. Those<br />
who have not entered a<br />
roundabout should not if<br />
they see an emergency<br />
vehicle approaching and<br />
instead move to the side of<br />
the road.<br />
And when in doubt, both<br />
at roundabouts and life at<br />
large: If it seems like something<br />
Tom Cruise might<br />
do, don’t. (And if you’re<br />
truly still confused, do some<br />
research online. There are<br />
some great diagrams explaining<br />
roundabouts better<br />
than I).<br />
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20 | December 6, 2018 | The orland park prairie faith<br />
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Pastor Column<br />
What is the purpose of your life? Part II<br />
The Rev. Caleb Hong<br />
Faith United Methodist Church<br />
King Solomon, who<br />
is considered the<br />
wisest man in the<br />
world, is thought to have<br />
written these words in the<br />
FAITH BRIEFS<br />
Faith United Methodist Church (15101 S. 80th Ave.,<br />
Orland Park)<br />
Christmas Celebration Concert<br />
3 p.m. Dec. 16. Christmas concert<br />
featuring the Chancel Choir, with<br />
brass and string quartets from local<br />
high schools. A reception will follow.<br />
Santa’s Breakfast & Jamboree<br />
9 a.m.-noon Saturday, Dec. 8. Attendees<br />
can visit with Santa, receive<br />
a free photo and gift from Santa<br />
(pre-registration required), as well<br />
as see an interactive puppet show,<br />
make crafts, play games and much<br />
more. A pancake breakfast will be<br />
offered for a small cost. To register<br />
call (708) 444-8560 or email kids@<br />
faithumc.org.<br />
St. Elizabeth Seton Catholic Church (9300 W. 167th<br />
St., Orland Hills)<br />
Choir Christmas Gala<br />
3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 9. Singing<br />
of Pepper Choplin’s “Christmas<br />
Presence” and “Come Emmanuel,”<br />
which the choir sang in Carnegie<br />
Hall on Nov. 18, along with 250<br />
voices from the United States and<br />
Canada, with Pepper Choplin as<br />
director. Dessert and refreshments<br />
afterwards. Approximately 1 hour.<br />
Free, but a free will offering will be<br />
accepted during the performance.<br />
Our Lady of the Woods Church (10731 W. 131st,<br />
book of Ecclesiastes.<br />
“I have seen all the things<br />
that are done under the sun;<br />
all of them are meaningless,<br />
a chasing after the wind.”<br />
(Ecclesiastes 1:14)<br />
Solomon goes on to<br />
explain how (in the course<br />
of his life) he pursued<br />
everything under the sun.<br />
He pursued knowledge and<br />
understanding. He built<br />
great monuments and accumulated<br />
great wealth. He<br />
pursued pleasure and withheld<br />
nothing from himself.<br />
He did it all, experienced<br />
it all, learned it all, accomplished<br />
it all.<br />
Orland Park)<br />
KCs Salute to Vets Pancake<br />
Breakfast<br />
Sunday, Dec. 9. Knights of Columbus<br />
Council 10151 is to host its<br />
annual St. Nicholas Pancake Breakfast<br />
from 8 a.m.-12:30 p.m. at the<br />
Finnegan Center. Breakfast buffet<br />
includes pancakes (gluten-free available),<br />
ham, sausage, tater tots, juice<br />
and coffee. Adults $9, seniors $6,<br />
children younger than 12 are $4.<br />
Special invited guests are 20 visually<br />
impaired veterans from Hines<br />
VA Hospital. Stop by to thank them<br />
for their service and wish them a<br />
Merry Christmas. There will be a<br />
Split the Pot & Kincaid Collector<br />
Plate raffle. Take your photo with<br />
Santa too.<br />
Eucharistic Adoration<br />
9 a.m.-7 p.m. Thursdays. The<br />
church invites all to spend some<br />
quiet time with the Lord. Eucharistic<br />
adoration will be held in the Day<br />
Chapel. First hour is vocal prayer,<br />
followed by silence. For more information,<br />
contact the front office at<br />
(708) 361-4754.<br />
Southwest Seventh Day Adventist Church (15760 Wolf<br />
Road, Orland Park)<br />
Bible Study<br />
10 a.m. Monday, 7 p.m. Tuesday,<br />
10 a.m. Saturday. Attendees can<br />
And his conclusion is<br />
this: Life is meaningless.<br />
Everything is vanity, a chasing<br />
after the wind.<br />
Rather than experiencing<br />
fulfillment, Solomon experienced<br />
emptiness. Rather<br />
than feeling satisfaction,<br />
Solomon experienced frustration,<br />
regret and remorse.<br />
Here’s how Solomon closed<br />
his book, “Now all has been<br />
heard, here is the conclusion<br />
of the matter: Fear God and<br />
keep His commandments,<br />
for this is the whole duty of<br />
man.” (Ecclesiastes 12:13)<br />
“Fearing God” is not the<br />
same as living in fear of<br />
God. Solomon is not telling<br />
us that life should be like<br />
an ongoing horror movie.<br />
Rather, Solomon’s point is<br />
that we need to live with a<br />
holy Fear (a humble reverence,<br />
an honest humility)<br />
before our Creator. We are<br />
to live ever-mindful<br />
of God’s power and purposes<br />
at the forefront of our<br />
lives.<br />
So, what is the greatest<br />
pursuit of life?<br />
First and foremost, it’s<br />
knowing and loving God.<br />
It’s seeking to love God<br />
with every part of every<br />
day — in our waking and<br />
learn about Jesus. For more information,<br />
call (630) 708-0234.<br />
Orland Park Christian Reformed Church (7500 W.<br />
Sycamore Drive, Orland Park)<br />
Christmas Choral Cantata ‘The Glory<br />
of Christmas’<br />
6 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 16. A choirled<br />
service celebrating the coming<br />
of Christ. There is no cost to attend.<br />
For more information, contact the<br />
church at (708) 532-4900 or email<br />
opcrc@opcrc.org.<br />
Hope Covenant Church (14401 West Ave., Orland Park<br />
Alzheimer’s Support Group<br />
7:30-8:30 p.m. second Monday<br />
of each month. Aishling Companion<br />
Home Care, a support group facilitator,<br />
hosts monthly meetings to<br />
provide emotional, educational and<br />
social support for family and friends<br />
of individuals with Alzheimer’s Disease<br />
or related dementia. For more<br />
information, visit www.alz.org.<br />
Christ Lutheran Church (14700 S. 94th Ave., Orland<br />
Park)<br />
NAMI Support Groups<br />
2-4 p.m. fourth Thursday of the<br />
month. Family support group meetings<br />
provide an opportunity to meet<br />
with others who have relatives and<br />
friends of individuals living with<br />
a mental illness. Feelings can be<br />
shared and issues discussed under<br />
sleeping, in our working and<br />
playing.<br />
When we’re clear that<br />
this is our primary purpose<br />
in life, we’ll gain a healthy<br />
perspective on every other<br />
pursuit in life. If we’re not<br />
clear on this divine purpose,<br />
our life will be full of anxiety<br />
and a constant battle. If<br />
we’re unclear about this, life<br />
truly will be a chasing after<br />
the Wind.<br />
The opinions of this column are<br />
that of the writer. They do not<br />
necessarily reflect those of The<br />
Orland Park Prairie.<br />
the guidance of a trained facilitator.<br />
These meetings are free.<br />
St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church (15050 S. Wolf<br />
Road, Orland Park)<br />
‘Rejoice! Advent Meditations with<br />
Mary’ Journal<br />
The “Rejoice! Advent Meditations<br />
with Mary” journal, is available for<br />
$3 after Masses in the Narthex or in<br />
the Parish office. People can follow<br />
the journal on their own at home or<br />
sign up for the evening (Monday) or<br />
morning (Friday) sessions at church.<br />
For more information, visit shop.<br />
ascensionpress.com/collections/rejoice.<br />
St. Michael Church (14327 Highland Ave., Orland Park<br />
Shawl Ministry<br />
9-10:30 a.m. second and fourth<br />
Tuesdays of the month. The group<br />
crochets and knits hats, shawls,<br />
scarves for adults and children, and<br />
donates those to neighbors, friends,<br />
cancer units, hospice, the food pantry<br />
and neonatal units. The group<br />
also meets six times a year in the<br />
evening. For more information, contact<br />
Donna at (708) 403-2122.<br />
Have something for Faith Briefs? Contact<br />
Editor Bill Jones at bill@opprairie.<br />
com or call (708) 326-9170 ext. 20. Information<br />
is due by noon on Thursdays<br />
one week prior to publication.<br />
In Memoriam<br />
Gayle Roe<br />
Gayle L. Roe (nee Fisler),<br />
73, of Orland Park, died<br />
Nov. 26.<br />
Wife for 50 years to Ronald<br />
R. Sr.; mother of Nancy<br />
(Joe) Krutilla and Ron Roe<br />
Jr.; grandmother of Joey<br />
Krutilla; sister-in-law of<br />
John (Marie) Breese and<br />
Ruth (Ken) Harden; aunt and<br />
friend of many.<br />
Visitation was held at Colonial<br />
Chapel. Interment private.<br />
Jerome Taylor<br />
Jerome F.<br />
“Jerry” Taylor,<br />
95, of Orland Park, died<br />
Nov. 20.<br />
He was a United States<br />
Navy lieutenant who served<br />
during World War II.<br />
Husband for 72 years to<br />
the late Iva Lee; father of<br />
Stephen W. (Ellen) and Jeffery<br />
D. (Nancy); grandfather<br />
of Christopher W. Taylor,<br />
Katherine E. Taylor Meister<br />
(David), Emily A. Brown<br />
(Matthew) and Dr. Lindsay<br />
Taylor; and great-grandfather<br />
of Bennett, Ruby and<br />
Elizabeth “Ellie.” Preceded<br />
in death by his siblings,<br />
Betty Lou Uhl, Frederick<br />
Taylor, Patty Wilson and<br />
William Taylor. Uncle and<br />
friend to many.<br />
Raised in Sioux City,<br />
Iowa, and Los Angeles,<br />
California. A graduate of<br />
University of Iowa, special<br />
agent in the FBI and retired<br />
from AT&T. Longtime resident<br />
of Morgan Park community<br />
in Chicago and active<br />
member of Morgan Park<br />
Methodist Church.<br />
Visitation and a funeral<br />
service were held at Colonial<br />
Chapel. Interment Chapel<br />
Hill Gardens South. Memorials<br />
to your favorite charity<br />
preferred.<br />
Have someone’s life you’d<br />
like to honor? Email Editor<br />
Bill Jones at bill@opprairie.<br />
com with information about a<br />
loved one who was a part of the<br />
Orland Park community.
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Performance of a lifetime in New York City<br />
St. Elizabeth Seton choir<br />
takes the stage at the<br />
famed Carnegie Hall<br />
Will O’Brien<br />
Freelance Reporter<br />
Roughly 30 years ago, when<br />
Linda McKeague became the director<br />
of music at St. Elizabeth Seton<br />
Catholic Church in Orland Hills,<br />
the parish was new, the surroundings<br />
were still farmland, and the<br />
church choir did not do much beyond<br />
weekly rehearsals and Sunday<br />
Mass.<br />
No holiday concerts. No special<br />
ensembles. Certainly no thought<br />
that they would one day sing at<br />
Carnegie Hall.<br />
But that is exactly what happened<br />
Nov. 18, when the choir joined others<br />
in performing an hour-long<br />
show in Carnegie’s biggest and<br />
grandest space: the 2,800-seat, fivetiered<br />
Isaac Stern Auditorium.<br />
“We’re still walking on air, really,”<br />
said McKeague, a day after<br />
the group returned from New York<br />
City. “The history of the building,<br />
all the great performers who have<br />
performed there and the fact that<br />
you’re able to stand on that same<br />
stage and sing — it’s just a very<br />
special feeling, beyond our wildest<br />
dreams.”<br />
The concert, called “Symphony<br />
of Carols,” featured more than a<br />
dozen choirs from the United States<br />
and Canada, a full orchestra, and<br />
the world premiere performance of<br />
a new Christmas cantata by Pepper<br />
Choplin, a conductor and composer<br />
much-beloved by the St. Elizabeth<br />
Seton singers.<br />
Even better? The performance,<br />
featuring nearly 500 musicians, was<br />
led by the man himself.<br />
Based in Raleigh, North Carolina,<br />
Choplin is a prodigious composer<br />
who has written hundreds of<br />
works and sold millions of recordings.<br />
The St. Elizabeth Seton choir<br />
has long enjoyed his music, which<br />
McKeague describes as “uplifting,<br />
joyous, spiritual and fun to do.”<br />
In fact, a YouTube recording of<br />
the group singing one of his songs is<br />
what led to the Carnegie Hall show.<br />
The clip was spotted by a development<br />
director at Distinguished<br />
Concerts International New York,<br />
a company that connects groups<br />
like St. Elizabeth’s with prestigious<br />
venues like Carnegie, and produces<br />
the shows.<br />
“The quality and high level of<br />
musicianship demonstrated by the<br />
singers, as well as the exceptional<br />
quality of their audition recording”<br />
won over the Distinguished<br />
Concerts staff, according to an<br />
event press release. And in November<br />
2017, the invite was extended.<br />
Clearly, a lot has changed in the<br />
three decades since McKeague’s arrival<br />
at the church.<br />
These days, St. Elizabeth Seton<br />
has approximately 50 members in<br />
its adult choir, roughly a dozen in<br />
its teenage choir, and its special<br />
seasonal concerts are accompanied<br />
by a full orchestra, made up<br />
of music instructors, performers,<br />
and former pupils McKeague and<br />
others have met over the years.<br />
The music groups’ members hail<br />
from Orland Park, Tinley Park and<br />
other towns throughout the southwest<br />
suburbs.<br />
Many of the choir members also<br />
Pictured is the St. Elizabeth Seton choir on Nov. 18, shortly before their performance at Carnegie Hall in New<br />
York City. Photo submitted<br />
are involved in other church activities,<br />
such as Eucharistic ministry,<br />
the women’s club, Knights of Columbus<br />
and more. Many have been<br />
with the group since it started.<br />
“We call ourselves the choir family,<br />
because we’re there for everything<br />
for each other — the good, the<br />
bad and the ugly,” McKeague said.<br />
“Sometimes, they even ask to rehearse<br />
in summer, because they just<br />
miss one another.”<br />
The choir performs music one<br />
would typically hear in a Catholic<br />
church but also mixes in more progressive<br />
and modern church music,<br />
such as Choplin’s. They were the<br />
only Catholic and only Midwestern<br />
choir involved in the Carnegie performance.<br />
Preparing for the trip out east required<br />
figuring out travel logistics<br />
and lots of details, such as meal preferences.<br />
Rehearsals began in June.<br />
And after many months of practice,<br />
the big week finally arrived.<br />
Approximately 30 members of the<br />
choir — not all were able to attend<br />
— along with friends and family<br />
took an early morning bus ride to<br />
Chicago O’Hare International Airport.<br />
Their flight, though threatened<br />
by inclement weather, went<br />
smoothly. And upon touching down<br />
in the Big Apple, they took in the<br />
city — some going shopping, some<br />
skating at Rockefeller Center, some<br />
touring Times Square.<br />
The following morning, it was<br />
back to business, with a five-hour,<br />
lesson-packed rehearsal led by Choplin.<br />
“Meeting him in person was just<br />
the highlight of our lives,” McKeague<br />
said. “We all couldn’t wait<br />
until the next day for the next rehearsal.”<br />
After another rehearsal and some<br />
more sightseeing, it was time to<br />
perform.<br />
It was not the first time the group<br />
has taken to a big stage — they also<br />
have done shows for the Chicago<br />
White Sox — but it was the first<br />
time they performed on a stage like<br />
this.<br />
Built in 1891, Carnegie Hall is<br />
a world-renowned venue that has<br />
hosted the likes of Judy Garland,<br />
Billie Holiday, The Beatles and the<br />
legendary Russian composer Pyotr<br />
Ilyich Tchaikovsky, among many<br />
others, said Malcom Moon, a marketing<br />
assistant with Distinguished<br />
Concerts.<br />
Performing there is something<br />
McKeague said she and the choir<br />
members will not soon forget.<br />
But it is not the last time the<br />
group will perform Choplin’s new<br />
Christmas music. The group’s annual<br />
Christmas gala, featuring music,<br />
dance and post-performance<br />
food, drink and entertainment, is<br />
scheduled for 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec.<br />
9, at the church. All are welcome,<br />
and admission is free.<br />
McKeague said the gala is great<br />
opportunity for the community to<br />
hear the choir firsthand and for the<br />
choir to showcase its talents for its<br />
hometown community.<br />
“They are the greatest choir in the<br />
world to me,” she said. “They put<br />
their whole heart and soul into what<br />
they do. And when you hear them<br />
sing, you hear it. You know it.”<br />
Sandburg Music Boosters seek crafters and vendors for Spring Craft Show<br />
Submitted by CSHS Music Boosters<br />
Crafters and vendors are invited<br />
to apply to be a part of the 2019<br />
Sandburg Music Boosters’ Spring<br />
Craft Show. The craft show committee<br />
is now accepting applications<br />
for the show’s 30th year.<br />
The event is to take place from 9<br />
a.m.-4 p.m. March 9. And 10 a.m.-<br />
3 p.m. March 10 at Sandburg High<br />
School, 13300 S. LaGrange Road<br />
in Orland Park.<br />
The cost for a two-day booth<br />
rental is $115, with 100 percent of<br />
the proceeds benefiting the music<br />
students at Sandburg High School.<br />
Booth size is approximately 10 feet<br />
wide by 8 feet deep.<br />
Applications and payment can<br />
be mailed to Sandburg Spring Craft<br />
Show, P.O. Box 1066, Orland Park,<br />
IL 60462. Checks can be made<br />
payable to Carl Sandburg Music<br />
Boosters.<br />
Requests for applications and<br />
further questions should be directed<br />
to CSHS Music Boosters Craft<br />
Show Committee at springcrafts<br />
howcshs@gmail.com.
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get out of town!<br />
Chicago a winter wonderland with the right perspective<br />
Or, how I learned to<br />
stop worrying and<br />
love the snow<br />
Bill Jones, Editor<br />
Ride or drive<br />
One of the most surreal<br />
days I spent in Chicago was<br />
a Christmas Eve two years<br />
back. I was off work, and I,<br />
on a whim, drove alone to<br />
the Fulton-Randolph Market<br />
neighborhood early that<br />
morning.<br />
I figured I might stop by<br />
Publican Quality Meats to<br />
get a few extra things for our<br />
Christmas dinner (and a couple<br />
of Slagel Family Farms<br />
dry-aged rib-eyes). I thought<br />
maybe I would swing by Perman<br />
Wine Selections to see<br />
what was among their wine<br />
club offerings for the month,<br />
the now-defunct West Loop<br />
Salumi for some good charcuterie.<br />
I did no research, and most<br />
of the neighborhood was<br />
closed for an extended holiday.<br />
I accomplished nothing,<br />
but the experience was wonderful.<br />
As I wandered the desolate<br />
streets, devoid of both people<br />
and somehow less vehicles<br />
than usual, it could have had<br />
the eerie feeling of a ghost<br />
town, with little sound but<br />
the winds. But somehow the<br />
remainder of some melting<br />
snow and the brick of the<br />
old meat-packing-districtturned-restaurant<br />
hot spot<br />
made it feel more like a living<br />
postcard.<br />
And so, I just walked. I<br />
walked in the middle of side<br />
streets with no traffic to impede<br />
me. I crossed Randolph<br />
without hassle. I peeked into<br />
numerous storefronts I’d<br />
passed countless times before.<br />
And it solidified just<br />
how much I love visiting<br />
Chicago in the winter.<br />
Christmas Eve in 2016: The streets of the West Loop/Fulton Market are largely empty.<br />
The only thing that could make it more enjoyable are some snowflakes.<br />
Bill Jones/22nd Century Media<br />
It seems counterintuitive<br />
to enjoy a city more when its<br />
winters make travel a nightmare,<br />
when its windchills<br />
provide an extreme endurance<br />
challenge as good as<br />
any and when, at its worst,<br />
most of its outdoor attractions<br />
are off limits. But those<br />
are the types of things that<br />
discourage normal folks, and<br />
for me that means an opportunity<br />
to explore a usually<br />
bustling cityscape without as<br />
much of the bustle.<br />
Sure, Michigan Avenue<br />
draws a crowd for the holidays.<br />
Yes, the shirtless maniacs<br />
will still load up on brews<br />
and pack Soldier Field (maybe<br />
this year into the playoffs).<br />
And rush hour traffic does not<br />
stop because of the change in<br />
the seasons. But I generally<br />
find it easier to get around.<br />
And Chicago, already a<br />
beautiful city, takes on an<br />
extra-special vibe around this<br />
time of year. From the way<br />
snow changes the landscape<br />
to the skyscrapers lighting it<br />
up for the season to the winter<br />
coats and scarves, Chicago<br />
simply looks right in<br />
winter.<br />
And the cold has a way of<br />
Another Perspective<br />
We asked readers on social media about their favorite<br />
things to do in the city during the winter. They said…<br />
“Museum of Science and Industry,<br />
Christmas Around the World!”<br />
—Jason Matthew<br />
“MSI to visit the trees! My maiden<br />
name is on the Austria tree. Walnut<br />
Room, my Granny worked for<br />
Macy’s. Memories of the holiday<br />
party back then I share with my<br />
daughter.”<br />
—Michele Overstreet<br />
making you appreciate the<br />
warmth of the destinations<br />
even more. It encourages you<br />
to duck into new spots (stop<br />
in for a blast of heat, stay for<br />
the things). It makes that hot<br />
chocolate (or hot toddy) that<br />
much more special.<br />
Plus, from afternoon tea<br />
at The Drake’s Palm Court<br />
to that classic buffet around<br />
the Walnut Room tree to<br />
the displays at Macy’s or<br />
ice skating in Millennium<br />
Park, there is no shortage of<br />
seasonal activities designed<br />
to warm the heart.<br />
But we’ll get to some more<br />
Assistant Editor<br />
Amanda Villiger<br />
makes a case for<br />
taking the train<br />
Amanda Villiger<br />
Assistant Editor<br />
Going downtown in<br />
Chicago can be tricky. Between<br />
traffic, parking and<br />
the fear of being involved<br />
in a collision, it is enough<br />
to scare away people who<br />
are not used to driving in<br />
the city.<br />
Luckily, for people in<br />
the suburbs there is another<br />
option: train.<br />
When comparing prices,<br />
riding the train generally<br />
seems less expensive.<br />
A one-way ticket from Orland<br />
Park to Union Station<br />
will cost $6.75 or $7.25,<br />
depending on the station.<br />
A round-trip makes<br />
it roughly $15 to take the<br />
Metra. Add in a couple of<br />
dollars for parking, and<br />
the trip downtown likely<br />
will still cost you less than<br />
$20.<br />
Planning to go downtown<br />
Saturday and/or<br />
Sunday? Metra’s weekend<br />
pass is $10, and you<br />
can ride as much as you<br />
want all weekend. Some<br />
stations even have free<br />
parking on the weekends,<br />
of what I like to do in Chicago<br />
in the next column.<br />
Get out of Town! is a monthly<br />
travel column focusing on<br />
taking that cost out of the<br />
equation altogether.<br />
That brings us to the<br />
topic of parking, which<br />
in downtown Chicago can<br />
put a hurt on your wallet.<br />
According to SpotHero,<br />
a phone app that helps<br />
people find parking spaces,<br />
parking can cost $50 or<br />
more for 24 hours in some<br />
garages, with the average<br />
rate across the city still<br />
being nearly $35.<br />
Even if you are staying<br />
at a hotel overnight, the<br />
hotel may charge you a<br />
pretty penny to park there,<br />
as well.<br />
So, how do you decide<br />
whether to take the<br />
train or drive when going<br />
downtown?<br />
A few things to consider<br />
when deciding whether to<br />
drive or take the train are:<br />
the size of your group,<br />
weather conditions, final<br />
destination, amount of<br />
luggage and time constraints.<br />
Personally, I almost<br />
always elect to take the<br />
train, since I hate traffic<br />
and I am usually traveling<br />
in a small enough group<br />
that carpooling does not<br />
defray the cost of parking<br />
enough to make it worth it.<br />
Plus, I don’t mind walking<br />
downtown and taking the<br />
CTA, which makes my<br />
decision easy.<br />
relatively local destinations<br />
and activities, with helpful tips,<br />
readers’ stories and more. This<br />
is Part I of a two-part winter<br />
fun in Chicago entry.
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Orland church to celebrate its<br />
annual Swedish Christmas meal<br />
LTHS senior chosen<br />
to be Lucia Queen<br />
Submitted by Hope Covenant<br />
Church<br />
Sankta Lucia is a longheld<br />
tradition in Sweden,<br />
recognizing the return of<br />
light after the dark winter.<br />
Hope Covenant Church,<br />
at 14401 W. Ave. in Orland<br />
Park, has been carrying on<br />
this tradition for more than 20<br />
years with its annual Swedish<br />
Christmas Breakfast, which<br />
is slated to be held this year<br />
at 10 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 8.<br />
Traditional Swedish foods<br />
will be served, such as cardamom<br />
coffee cake, sweet rye,<br />
hardtack, bond-ost cheese,<br />
pickled herring, rice pudding<br />
and lingonberry, and<br />
potato sausage. The pageant<br />
will include the Lucia Queen<br />
wearing the traditional<br />
crown of candles, along with<br />
her attendants, who also are<br />
to serve breakfast.<br />
Rachel Hampton has been<br />
chosen Lucia Queen for this<br />
year’s pageant. Hampton is<br />
the daughter of Charlotte and<br />
Boyd, and the granddaughter<br />
of James and Edith Ware, all<br />
of Lockport. She is a senior<br />
at Lockport Township High<br />
School and a member of the<br />
drama club and choir there.<br />
A program is also planned,<br />
featuring a musical guest,<br />
as well as Christmas carols<br />
with pianist Beverly Bovard.<br />
Tickets are $15 for adults<br />
and must be reserved in advance.<br />
For more information and<br />
to purchase tickets, email<br />
Heather at Lucia@Orland<br />
Hope.org or call Lorri at<br />
(708) 448-3579 or visit<br />
www.orlandhope.org.<br />
‘The Christmas Express’ slated to close<br />
Orland Park Theatre Troupe’s 25th year<br />
Submitted by Village of Orland Park<br />
The Orland Park Theatre Troupe will<br />
close its 25th anniversary season with<br />
its annual holiday show, “The Christmas<br />
Express,” written by Pat Cook and<br />
directed by Frann Carnivele.<br />
In “The Christmas Express,” magical<br />
things begin to happen when the mysterious<br />
Leo Tannebaum, portrayed by Orland<br />
Park’s Bill Kubiak, arrives at the<br />
Holly Railway Station. Orland Park’s<br />
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Performances are scheduled for 7:30<br />
p.m. Friday, Dec. 7, and Saturday, Dec.<br />
8, as well as 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 9, at<br />
the Orland Park Civic Center, 14750 S.<br />
Ravinia Ave.<br />
Orland Park residents appearing in<br />
the show include Heather Ancel, Vanessa<br />
Annel, Annie Burns, Brady Dahl,<br />
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Advance reserved seat tickets are<br />
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Criterion gives ‘The Princess Bride’ a wealth of enjoyable extras with one hitch<br />
Bill Jones, Editor<br />
When I got my copy of the<br />
Criterion Collection’s Bluray<br />
release of “The Princess<br />
Bride,” I was sorely disappointed.<br />
Right on the front<br />
of a beautiful purple and<br />
yellow cover by Angela<br />
Rizza, designed to look like<br />
a hardcover book, is where<br />
the production company<br />
decided to stamp “Made in<br />
Mexico.” Not on the shrink<br />
wrap. Not discreetly in a<br />
corner. Right on top of the<br />
artwork.<br />
I don’t mind that it was<br />
made there, but it makes<br />
little sense to put it there,<br />
marring an otherwise beautiful<br />
set, containing disc and<br />
booklet. That said, it was a<br />
small problem and the last<br />
time I was disappointed by<br />
this collection.<br />
“The Princess Bride,”<br />
for those already not in<br />
the know, is a 1987 classic,<br />
which, on the outer<br />
layer, is about a grandfather<br />
(Peter Falk) reading a<br />
story to his sick grandson<br />
(Fred Savage). But within<br />
that story is a timeless tale<br />
of love, spun more to comedic<br />
ends, in which Westley<br />
(Cary Elwes) tries to track<br />
down his long-lost love,<br />
Buttercup (Robin Wright).<br />
On his journey, he must face<br />
down the nefarious Count<br />
Rugen (Christopher Guest)<br />
and Prince Humperdinck<br />
(Chris Sarandon), crosses<br />
paths with the revengeobsessed<br />
Inigo Montoya<br />
(Mandy Patinkin), the notso-genius<br />
Vizzini (Wallace<br />
Shawn) and Fezzik (Andre<br />
the Giant). The film also<br />
features guest spots by Billy<br />
Crystal and Carol Kane as<br />
Miracle Max and Valerie,<br />
respectively.<br />
It is a pure joy from start<br />
to finish, with lines viewers<br />
have been quoting for<br />
years. And the Criterion<br />
disc shows nothing but love<br />
for the film, starting with<br />
the aptly named extra “True<br />
Love.” It’s a program from<br />
a few years back, featuring<br />
director Rob Reiner, Elwes<br />
and Wright, telling stories<br />
from their time making the<br />
movie together.<br />
“Pure Enchantment” offers<br />
an adjunct professor’s<br />
take on the recently deceased<br />
William Goldman’s<br />
novel “The Princess Bride”<br />
and the screenplay he adapted<br />
from it, while another<br />
looks at an artist’s tapestry<br />
interpretation of the film.<br />
There is also a scholarly extra<br />
examining the place of<br />
“The Princess Bride” in the<br />
realm of fairy tales, and a<br />
quick look into the motivations<br />
and work behind some<br />
of the film’s sword fighting<br />
sequences.<br />
Then, there is a multipart<br />
“making of” collection<br />
that’s mostly enjoyable.<br />
But the behind-the-scenes<br />
videos are really only<br />
worth watching with the<br />
commentaries. And some<br />
publicity materials round<br />
out the stand-alone extras,<br />
with trailers and television<br />
spots.<br />
But one of the most enjoyable<br />
extras is one of two<br />
alternative audio tracks,<br />
which presents excerpts of<br />
an audiobook of the novel<br />
alongside scenes from the<br />
film, so viewers can see how<br />
it compares and contrasts<br />
to the source material. The<br />
other alternate audio track<br />
— also enjoyable — is an<br />
old commentary featuring<br />
Reiner, Goldman, Crystal,<br />
Falk and producer Andrew<br />
Scheinman.<br />
The aforementioned<br />
booklet includes an essay<br />
by author Sloane Crosley<br />
and Goldman’s introduction<br />
to the “Princess Bride”<br />
script from his collection<br />
“Four Screenplays.”<br />
MPAA Rating: PG | Genres: Adventure, Family, Fantasy | running time: 98 minutes<br />
Films Files<br />
A recap of recent home video releases<br />
Crazy Rich Asians (Blu-ray + DVD +<br />
Digital)<br />
“Crazy Rich Asians” offers overthe-top<br />
fun. It offers a great riff<br />
on the romantic-comedy formula<br />
that infuses a great deal of culture<br />
into the mix. But maybe at the top<br />
of its offerings are its spectacular<br />
visuals. The film, directed by Jon<br />
M. Chu, is constantly engaging,<br />
putting every dollar on the screen,<br />
with gorgeous surroundings, lavish<br />
parties, wonderful costumes and<br />
much more. It is a welcome visual<br />
overload that pleases at every turn.<br />
In “Crazy Rich Asians,” Rachel<br />
Chu (Constance Wu) follows her<br />
boyfriend, Nick Young (Henry<br />
Golding), to Singapore for a<br />
wedding, where she starts to<br />
realize just what kind of money he<br />
comes from. She also meets up<br />
with an eccentric old college friend,<br />
Peik Lin Goh (Awkwafina), and finds<br />
that the money around her leads<br />
to extravagant fun but also major<br />
problems.<br />
That is all fairly standard for a<br />
rom-com. But the cultural element<br />
of “Crazy Rich Asians” elevates the<br />
story. And it is more than just a<br />
Chinese take on the rom-com. It is<br />
a look at traditional versus modern<br />
culture, and how where someone<br />
grew up can be as important as<br />
ancestry to the way people look at<br />
one another. Class plays a role, too,<br />
but it is examined through the light<br />
of a shifting global dynamic.<br />
The film has its flaws — mostly<br />
notably in how hard its comedy<br />
tries at times. But performances<br />
like that of Michelle Yeoh help<br />
ground “Crazy Rich Asians” when<br />
it needs that most. And more than<br />
anything, it remains an enjoyable<br />
viewing from start to finish.<br />
MPAA Rating: PG-13 || Genres:<br />
Comedy, Romance || Running<br />
Time: 120 minutes<br />
Pixar Short Films Collection: Volume<br />
3 (Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Code)<br />
While most of Pixar’s home video<br />
releases already include the shorts<br />
that accompanied their features<br />
in theaters, only the most die-hard<br />
of fanatics likely own them all. So,<br />
Disney has been filling the gap<br />
with its Pixar Short Films Collection<br />
volumes on home video, packaging<br />
the shorts together for those<br />
who might be interested in those<br />
films without their accompanying<br />
features, as well as getting a<br />
glimpse of a few other things on<br />
which the studio has worked.<br />
Volume 3 collects 11 true shorts<br />
—”Bao,” “LOU,” “Piper,” “Lava,”<br />
“Sanjay’s Super Team,” “Riley’s<br />
First Date,” “The Radiator Springs<br />
500 1/2,” “Party Central,” “The<br />
Blue Umbrella,” “The Legend Of<br />
Mor’du” and “Partysaurus Rex” —<br />
and two bonus “mini-movies” called<br />
“Marine Life Interviews” and “Miss<br />
Fritter’s Racing Skoool.”<br />
“Piper” and “The Blue Umbrella”<br />
are both visually astounding, while<br />
“Bao” is delightfully strange and<br />
“Partysaurus Rex” is simply a lot<br />
of fun. Meanwhile, “The Legend<br />
Of Mor’du” is the weak link of the<br />
collection, outside of the extras. A<br />
collection like this, using a lot of<br />
recycled content, could use some<br />
support. And the introductions<br />
from creators and optional<br />
commentaries are a good start.<br />
But “Making Bao,” as good as it<br />
is, is another item recycled from<br />
the recent “Incredibles 2” release.<br />
And “Caricature: A Horrible Way of<br />
Saying ‘I Love You’” is lackluster.<br />
The biggest disappointment,<br />
though, may be on the Movies<br />
Anywhere side of things. While<br />
the disc allows viewers to pick<br />
individual films, the digital copy<br />
presents it all as one film, making it<br />
harder to skip around to favorites.<br />
Still, fans of Volumes 1 and 2<br />
undoubtedly will find more to love<br />
with Volume 3.<br />
MPAA Rating: NR || Genres:<br />
Animation || Running Time: 76<br />
minutes<br />
The Meg (Blu-ray + DVD + Digital)<br />
There is a scene in The Meg in<br />
which Meiying, a child, is wandering<br />
the hallway made of reinforced<br />
windows in an underwater research<br />
center. She is wearing a ridiculous<br />
outfit and playing with a robotic<br />
toy when she is scared by the<br />
film’s monster, a megalodon that<br />
has resurfaced from a long-lost<br />
depth of the ocean. It’s a bit silly,<br />
wonderfully shot and the film’s only<br />
real moment of joy. The premise<br />
— Jason Statham fights gigantic<br />
shark — starts at a point of B horror<br />
movie, but instead of utilizing it<br />
to make some campy fun, it takes<br />
itself too seriously. And on that end<br />
of the spectrum, it fails to deliver<br />
any real thrills, so what we’re left<br />
with is a mostly joyless journey<br />
into the deep blue sea that riffs on<br />
virtually every cliche in the action<br />
canon. The Blu-ray extras do little<br />
to elevate it. There is a run-of-themill<br />
“making of” featurette, a bonus<br />
feature on making the shark that’s<br />
about as exciting as a CGI shark<br />
and some promotional business.<br />
None of it is worth the time.<br />
MPAA Rating: PG-13 || Genres:<br />
Action, Horror, Sci-Fi || Running<br />
Time: 113 minutes
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the orland park prairie | December 6, 2018 | 27<br />
The Dish<br />
Cooper’s Hawk brings upscale cooking,<br />
abundance of wine to New Lenox spot<br />
James Sanchez<br />
Contributing Editor<br />
Cooper’s Hawk recently<br />
opened its 11th Chicagoarea<br />
location in New Lenox,<br />
only 14 miles apart from its<br />
first location in Orland Park.<br />
Ed Hammer, general<br />
manager of the New<br />
Lenox location, said people<br />
thought it was crazy to open<br />
another location so close,<br />
but when considering Orland<br />
Park Cooper’s Hawk<br />
has more than 30,000 Wine<br />
Club members — the most<br />
of all 33 locations across the<br />
country — opening another<br />
location in the south suburbs<br />
was a no-brainer.<br />
The move is already paying<br />
dividends, as it has created<br />
a buzz within the community.<br />
In just a few weeks<br />
after its grand opening, it<br />
has eclipsed 1,000 Wine<br />
Club members. To put that<br />
in perspective, Hammer<br />
said it took a new location<br />
in Michigan more than a<br />
month to hit that milestone.<br />
“Everybody’s been ecstatic<br />
so far,” Hammer said.<br />
“It’s been very welcoming<br />
to the community. So<br />
far, everyone has embraced<br />
what we bring to the table.”<br />
But guests don’t have<br />
to be Wine Club members<br />
to enjoy the offerings the<br />
winery and restaurant has.<br />
Cooper’s Hawk features a<br />
110-item menu, featuring<br />
scratch-made, contemporary<br />
American dishes, with<br />
flavors from around the<br />
world.<br />
There is the Italian flair<br />
with the shrimp and scallop<br />
risotto ($26.99), in which<br />
the seafood and rich, creamy<br />
Carnaroli rice is mixed with<br />
sweet corn, asparagus, peas,<br />
spinach, Parmesan and<br />
white truffle oil. Or customers<br />
can have a taste of<br />
France, with the red wine<br />
braised short ribs ($26.99),<br />
which is Hammer’s favorite.<br />
That has been on the<br />
menu since the franchise<br />
first opened in 2005. The<br />
braising technique adds a<br />
depth of flavor to the beef,<br />
and it is served with Mary’s<br />
potatoes (whipped potatoes),<br />
mustard sauce, oven-roasted<br />
vegetables and<br />
crispy onion strings.<br />
Flavors from Asia can<br />
be found in the ginger soy<br />
glazed NY strip ($33.99),<br />
accompanied by wasabibuttered<br />
mashed potatoes<br />
and oven-roasted vegetables.<br />
The Cooper’s Hawk<br />
calamari ($13.99) is glazed<br />
with a sweet chili-ponzu<br />
sauce mixture and served<br />
with sesame-sriracha sauce.<br />
And the pan-roasted barramundi<br />
($25.99) is served<br />
with ginger rice, a Thai<br />
lemongrass sauce and vegetables.<br />
The menu also features<br />
South American cuisine<br />
with the churrasco grilled<br />
steak ($27.99), which is a<br />
chimichurri-rubbed skirt<br />
steak, alongside a cilantrolime<br />
aioli, Parmesan fries<br />
and vegetables.<br />
But Hammer said the<br />
most popular dish is an appetizer<br />
inspired by south<br />
of the border: Mexican<br />
drunken shrimp ($13.99).<br />
The dish features numerous<br />
shrimp wrapped in bacon,<br />
doused in a tequila lime<br />
butter sauce and served with<br />
fresh guacamole.<br />
“It’s been the No. 1-selling<br />
item forever, and it<br />
will continue to be No. 1,”<br />
Hammer said. “We’re going<br />
through an extraordinary<br />
amount of this dish.”<br />
Each dish on the menu<br />
has a wine pairing, suggested<br />
by the winemaker.<br />
Cooper’s Hawk has wines<br />
to please those new to wine<br />
or seasoned drinkers, with<br />
more than 50 wine selections<br />
that are all produced<br />
with grapes imported from<br />
all over the world by its<br />
winery in Woodridge. For<br />
the wines alone, Cooper’s<br />
Hawk has received more<br />
than 500 awards, most recently<br />
winning Best of<br />
Class at the International<br />
Eastern Wine Competition<br />
and Best of Show at the San<br />
Francisco Chronicle Wine<br />
Competition in 2017.<br />
The Napa-style tasting<br />
room is what guests first experience<br />
when entering the<br />
restaurant. There, they can<br />
explore and learn about different<br />
wines through a wine<br />
tasting and expand their<br />
palates. For $7, guests can<br />
do a variety tasting (eight<br />
samples) of white and red<br />
wines, from fruity to dark<br />
and bold flavors, or a tasting<br />
of all sweet wines. For $10,<br />
the tasting includes a souvenir<br />
wine glass. A Lux Tasting<br />
($12) provides samples<br />
of Cooper’s Hawk’s valued<br />
wines. The selections in all<br />
of the tastings rotate every<br />
month and always includes<br />
a sample of the Wine of the<br />
Month.<br />
December’s Wine of the<br />
Month is Barbera Barbera.<br />
The blend brings together<br />
Cooper’s Hawk’s traditional<br />
Barbera — a red wine grape<br />
— it has used out of California<br />
with another Barbera<br />
produced in Northern Italy.<br />
For January, it is slated to<br />
be the Artist’s Red Blend,<br />
which is the official wine<br />
for the 2019 Screen Actors<br />
Guild award ceremony.<br />
Cooper’s Hawk’s Master<br />
Sommelier Emily Wines<br />
tweaked the tastings to<br />
The pan-roasted barramundi ($25.99) is one of the top dishes at Cooper’s Hawk. The fish<br />
sits atop a bed of ginger rice and is surrounded by blistered green beans, grape tomatoes<br />
and a Thai lemongrass sauce. James Sanchez/22nd Century Media<br />
Wine Club Memberships<br />
Guests have four different Wine Club options: Variety,<br />
Red Club, White Club and Sweet Club<br />
Pricing<br />
• Red, White or Variety: $19.99 monthly for one bottle<br />
a month, or $37.99 monthly for two bottles<br />
• Sweet: $17.99 monthly for one bottle, or $33.99 for<br />
two bottles<br />
Other benefits<br />
• Discounts on retail wines sold at Cooper’s Hawk: 10<br />
percent off purchasing 1-5 bottles, 15 percent off for<br />
6-11 bottles, 20 percent off for 12 bottles<br />
• 10 percent off on all carryout orders and featured<br />
retail products<br />
• Exclusive promotions for members<br />
• Complimentary entrée during birthday month<br />
• Access to member-only events<br />
make wine more approachable.<br />
Years back, there used<br />
to be only tasting notes on<br />
the wine sheet, but Wines<br />
incorporated a graph that<br />
shows how much sweetness,<br />
tannin, acidity, body<br />
and alcohol is prevalent in<br />
each drink. It also lists the<br />
flavors, scents, origin and<br />
the type of food with which<br />
it pairs.<br />
“When I go into another<br />
restaurant and look at a wine<br />
list, you kind of go with just<br />
what you know,” Hammer<br />
said. “With what Emily<br />
implemented, it makes you<br />
experiment with your palate<br />
a little bit more.”<br />
While having a drink or<br />
waiting for a reservation,<br />
guests can check out the artisanal<br />
market that features<br />
decanters, wine accessories,<br />
gourmet chocolates among<br />
Cooper’s Hawk<br />
2307 E. Lincoln Highway<br />
in New Lenox<br />
Restaurant and Tasting<br />
Room Hours<br />
• 11 a.m.-9:30 p.m.<br />
Monday-Thursday<br />
• 11 a.m.-10:30 p.m.<br />
Friday-Saturday<br />
• 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Sunday<br />
Bar Hours<br />
• 11 a.m.-10:30 p.m.<br />
Monday-Thursday<br />
• 11 a.m.-11:30 p.m.<br />
Friday-Saturday<br />
• 11 a.m.-10 p.m.<br />
Sunday<br />
For more information ...<br />
Web: chwinery.com<br />
Phone: (815) 320-7500<br />
other gift items. Combine<br />
all those elements, and the<br />
restaurant becomes more<br />
than just a place to have a<br />
nice dinner.<br />
“With Cooper’s Hawk,<br />
we want to offer customers<br />
an experience,” Hammer<br />
said.
28 | December 6, 2018 | The orland park prairie puzzles<br />
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crosstown CROSSWORD & Sudoku<br />
The crosstowns: Frankfort, Homer Glen, Lockport, Mokena, New Lenox, Orland Park, Tinley Park<br />
Crossword by Myles Mellor and Cindy LaFleur<br />
Across<br />
1. End of the week,<br />
briefly<br />
4. Maui neighbor<br />
9. More reserved<br />
14. Jogged<br />
15. Corrective eye<br />
surgery<br />
16. Person with a mike<br />
17. Banners, text<br />
links, e.g.<br />
18. Use the remote<br />
20. Nations’ org.<br />
22. Heavy reading<br />
23. Wrinkled<br />
27. Tinley Park’s<br />
____ by Wyndham<br />
32. Plugs<br />
34. Latin dances<br />
35. Island nation near<br />
Tonga<br />
36. Relative<br />
37. Bangladesh city<br />
41. Authorized<br />
43. Harris ____<br />
44. Great report card<br />
entries<br />
45. “Very funny!”<br />
47. High School District<br />
covering Tinley<br />
Park<br />
50. Acted in place<br />
53. 2018 World Cup<br />
team<br />
55. Bedchamber<br />
58. Bakery selections<br />
60. Bond opponent<br />
61. Memorial or<br />
Millennium in Tinley<br />
Park<br />
68. “___ Woman”<br />
(Reddy tune)<br />
69. GPA part<br />
70. Cement<br />
71. Leave dumbstruck<br />
72. Map collection<br />
73. Destines to a tragic<br />
fate<br />
74. Character in “The<br />
Matrix”<br />
Down<br />
1. Swiss capital<br />
2. Object location system<br />
3. Arched foot part<br />
4. Corporation type<br />
5. Word to a doctor<br />
6. Government security<br />
agency, abbr.<br />
7. “If it ___ broke ...”<br />
8. “No kidding”<br />
9. 1997 Jennifer Lopez biopic<br />
10. Pinafore letters<br />
11. Hosp. area<br />
12. Ballad’s end?<br />
13. Arbiter, for short<br />
19. Release<br />
21. Row boat propeller<br />
24. Divan<br />
25. Longtime record label<br />
26. Karate school<br />
28. Use the teeth on<br />
29. A fit of fever<br />
30. Sound quality<br />
31. Cornerstone abbr.<br />
33. Many Punjab natives<br />
37. Small amounts<br />
38. Bern’s river<br />
39. French city near the English<br />
Channel<br />
40. Arrived<br />
42. Slap on<br />
43. Popular cologne<br />
46. TV network<br />
48. Marsh birds<br />
49. Those opposed<br />
51. Dean’s deg.<br />
52. “The Picture of ___ Gray”<br />
54. Massenet opera<br />
56. Wide-eyed<br />
57. Famed lover<br />
59. Not a nice guy<br />
61. Student score (abbr.)<br />
62. “Hogwash!”<br />
63. Be indisposed<br />
64. CSI evidence<br />
65. Sale clause, abbr.<br />
66. Original manufacturer’s<br />
item<br />
67. Mormons: Abbr.<br />
ORLAND PARK<br />
Girl in the Park<br />
(11265 W. 159th St.,<br />
Orland Park, IL; (708)<br />
226-0042)<br />
■■8 p.m. Thursdays:<br />
Bingo<br />
■■8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays:<br />
Live Music<br />
The Brass Tap<br />
(14225 95th Ave. Suite<br />
400, Orland Park; (708)<br />
226-1827)<br />
■■8 p.m. Tuesdays: Trivia.<br />
Prizes awarded<br />
■■9 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays:<br />
Live music<br />
Dan ‘D’ Jac’s<br />
(9358 171st St., Orland<br />
Hills; (708) 460-8773<br />
■■9 p.m.-1 a.m. Wednesdays:<br />
acoustic open<br />
mic night<br />
■■9:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m.<br />
Thursdays: karaoke<br />
■■9:30 p.m.-2:30 a.m.<br />
Fridays and Saturdays:<br />
karaoke<br />
Fox’s Restaurant and Pub<br />
(9655 W. 143rd St.,<br />
Orland Park; (708) 349-<br />
2111)<br />
■■6-9 p.m. Thursday,<br />
Friday, and Saturday:<br />
Eman<br />
Papa Joe’s<br />
(14459 S. LaGrange<br />
Road, Orland Park; (708)<br />
403-9099)<br />
■5-9 ■ p.m. Thursdays:<br />
Gene Infelise and Francesca<br />
■■6-10 p.m. Fridays: The<br />
keyboard stylings of<br />
Roger Pampel<br />
Square Celt Ale House &<br />
Grill<br />
(39 Orland Square Drive,<br />
Orland Park; (708) 226-<br />
9600)<br />
■8 ■ p.m. Tuesdays: Free<br />
Bar Bingo<br />
■8 ■ p.m. Wednesdays:<br />
Free Trivia<br />
■9 ■ p.m. Fridays or Saturdays:<br />
Live Music<br />
■10 ■ p.m. Sundays: Karaoke<br />
Traverso’s Restaurant<br />
(15601 S. Harlem Ave.,<br />
Orland Park; (708) 532-<br />
2220)<br />
■8 ■ p.m. Wednesdays and<br />
Saturdays: Karaoke<br />
To place an event<br />
in The Scene, email<br />
a.stoll@22ndcenturymedia.<br />
com.<br />
answers<br />
How to play Sudoku<br />
Each sudoku puzzle consists of a 9x9 grid that<br />
has been subdivided into nine smaller grids of 3x3<br />
squares. To solve the puzzle, each row, column and<br />
box must contain each of the numbers 1 to 9.<br />
LEVEL: Medium<br />
Sudoku by Myles Mellor and Susan Flanagan
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Distinctive Home Builders Introduces New Craftsman Homes<br />
In Manhattan and Peotone – From the mid-$200’s<br />
New designs are a result of buyer feedback<br />
Two refreshing designs mark<br />
the beginning of a new series<br />
of Craftsman-style homes<br />
available from Distinctive Home<br />
Builders at its latest new home<br />
communities: Prairie Trails;<br />
located in Manhattan within the<br />
highly-regarded Lincoln-Way<br />
School District and at WestGate<br />
Manor in Peotone within<br />
the desirable Peotone School<br />
District.<br />
“Craftsman homes were<br />
introduced in the early 1900s<br />
in California with designs<br />
based on a simpler, functional<br />
aesthetic using a higher level<br />
of craftsmanship and natural<br />
materials. These homes were a<br />
departure from homes that were<br />
mass produced from that era,<br />
“according to Bryan Nooner,<br />
president of Distinctive Home<br />
Builders.<br />
“The Craftsman design has<br />
made a comeback today for<br />
many of the same reasons it<br />
started over a century ago. Our<br />
customers want to live in a home<br />
that gets away from the “mass<br />
produced” look and live in a<br />
home that has more character. As<br />
a result of our daily interaction<br />
with our homeowners and their<br />
input, we are excited to introduce<br />
these two homes, with additional<br />
designs in the works.”<br />
Nooner, who meets with<br />
each homeowner prior to<br />
construction, has been working<br />
on these plans for a while and felt<br />
that the timing was ideal for the<br />
debut. “Customers were asking<br />
for something different and<br />
simple with less monotony and<br />
higher architectural standards.”<br />
The result was the Craftsman<br />
ranch and the Prairie twostory,<br />
now available at Prairie<br />
Trails and WestGate Manor.<br />
The Craftsman ranch features<br />
an open floor plan with Great<br />
Room, three bedrooms, two<br />
baths and a two-car (optional<br />
three-car) garage. The Prairie<br />
features a two-story foyer and<br />
Great Room, three bedrooms<br />
and one and one-half baths, a<br />
convenient Flex Room space<br />
on the main level and a two-car<br />
(optional three-car) garage. The<br />
Craftsman architectural elements<br />
on both homes include brick and<br />
stone exteriors with cedar shake<br />
accent siding, low-pitched gabled<br />
bracket roofs, front porches with<br />
tapered columns and stone piers,<br />
partially paned windows, and a<br />
standard panel front entry door.<br />
Distinctive Home Builders<br />
offers a Craftsman-style trim<br />
package offering trim without<br />
ornate profiles and routers. The<br />
trim features simplicity in design<br />
with rectangles, straight lines and<br />
layered look trims over doors for<br />
example. The front entry door<br />
will have the standard Craftsman<br />
panel style door. Distinctive has<br />
also created a Craftsman color<br />
palate to assist buyers in making<br />
coordinated choices for the<br />
interior of their new Craftsman<br />
home. Colors, cabinet styles and<br />
flooring choices blend seamlessly<br />
with the Craftsman trim package<br />
and are available in gray tones<br />
package and earth tones.<br />
Distinctive offers custom maple<br />
kitchen cabinets featuring solid<br />
wood construction (no particle<br />
board), have solid wood drawers<br />
with dove tail joints, which is<br />
very rare in the marketplace.<br />
“When you buy a new home<br />
from Distinctive, you truly are<br />
receiving custom made cabinets<br />
in every home we sell no matter<br />
what the price range,” noted<br />
Nooner.<br />
Distinctive Home Builders<br />
works to achieve a delivery goal<br />
of 90 days with zero punch list<br />
items for its homeowners. “Our<br />
three decades building homes<br />
provides an efficient construction<br />
system,” said Nooner. “Many of<br />
our skilled craftsmen have been<br />
working with our company<br />
for over 20 years. We also<br />
take pride on having excellent<br />
communicators throughout our<br />
organization. This translates into<br />
a positive buying and building<br />
experience for our homeowners<br />
and one of the highest referral<br />
rates in the industry.”<br />
Nooner added that all homes<br />
are highly energy efficient. Every<br />
home built will have upgraded<br />
wall and ceiling insulation<br />
values with energy efficient<br />
windows and high efficiency<br />
furnaces. Before homeowners<br />
move into their new home,<br />
Distinctive Home Builders<br />
conducts a blower door test that<br />
pressurizes the home to ensure<br />
that each home passes a set of<br />
very stringent Energy Efficiency<br />
guidelines.<br />
With the addition of these two<br />
new designs, there are now 15<br />
ranch, split-level and six twostory<br />
single-family home styles to<br />
choose from each offering from<br />
three to eight different exterior<br />
elevations at both communities.<br />
The three- to four-bedroom<br />
homes feature one and one-half<br />
to two-and-one-half baths, twoto<br />
three-car garages and a family<br />
room, all in approximately 1,600<br />
to over 3,000 square feet of living<br />
space. Basements are included in<br />
most models as well. Distinctive<br />
also encourages customization<br />
to make your new home truly<br />
personalized to suit your lifestyle.<br />
Oversize home sites; brick<br />
exteriors on all four sides of the<br />
first floor; custom maple cabinets;<br />
ceramic tile or hardwood<br />
floors in the kitchen, baths and<br />
foyer; genuine wood trim and<br />
doors and concrete driveways<br />
can all be yours at Prairie<br />
Trails and WestGate Manor.<br />
Most all home sites at Prairie<br />
Trails and WestGate Manor<br />
can accommodate a three-car<br />
garage; a very important amenity<br />
to the Manhattan homebuyer,<br />
said Nooner.<br />
“When we opened Prairie<br />
Trails and WestGate Manor we<br />
wanted to provide the best new<br />
home value for the dollar and<br />
we feel with offering Premium<br />
Standard Features that we do<br />
just that. So why wait? This is<br />
truly the best time to build your<br />
dream home!”<br />
Prairie Trails is also a beautiful<br />
place to live and raise a family<br />
featuring a 20-acre lake on site,<br />
as well as direct access to the 22-<br />
mile Wauponsee Glacial Prairie<br />
Path that borders the community<br />
and meanders through many<br />
neighboring communities and<br />
links to many other popular<br />
trails. The Manhattan Metra<br />
station is less than a mile away.<br />
Besides Prairie Trails,<br />
Distinctive Home Builders<br />
has built homes throughout<br />
Manhattan in the Butternut<br />
Ridge and Leighlinbridge<br />
developments, as well as in the<br />
Will and south Cook county<br />
areas over the past 30 years.<br />
Distinctive Home Builders<br />
chose the Will County village<br />
of Peotone for its newest<br />
community of 38 single-family<br />
homes at WestGate Manor<br />
within walking distance of the<br />
esteemed Peotone High School.<br />
Its convenient location between<br />
Interstate 57 and Illinois Route<br />
50 provide easy access to I-80<br />
and commuters enjoy several<br />
nearby train stations and a<br />
35-minute drive to Chicago.<br />
Visit the on-site sales<br />
information center for<br />
unadvertised specials and view<br />
the numerous styles of homes<br />
being offered and the available<br />
lots. Call Lynne Rinck at (708)<br />
737-9142 or (708) 479-7700 for<br />
more information or visit www.<br />
distinctivehomebuilders.com.<br />
The Prairie Trails and WestGate<br />
Manor new home information<br />
center is located three miles<br />
south of Laraway Rd. on Rt.<br />
52. The address is 24458 S.<br />
Rt. 52, Manhattan, IL. 60422.<br />
Open Daily 10:00 a.m. – 5:00<br />
p.m. Closed Wednesday and<br />
Thursday and always available<br />
by appointment.<br />
Specials, prices, specifications,<br />
standard features, model<br />
offerings, build times and lot<br />
availability are subject to change<br />
without notice. Please contact<br />
a Distinctive representative for<br />
current pricing and complete<br />
details.
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door to screened-in patio;<br />
kitchen with oak cabinets,<br />
all appliances, gleaming<br />
wood laminate flooring,<br />
breakfast area with<br />
second door to patio that<br />
offers a storage room;<br />
dining area overlooking<br />
the spacious living room;<br />
master suite with double<br />
closets and private bath<br />
with shower; in-unit<br />
laundry; one-car garage,<br />
too! Water and scavenger<br />
service included in<br />
homeowners association<br />
fee. Building has flexicore<br />
construction for noise<br />
reduction, and a new roof<br />
was installed in 2014.<br />
Asking Price: $152,000<br />
Listing Agent: Kim Wirtz,<br />
(708) 516-3050, www.<br />
kimwirtz.com<br />
Listing Brokerage: Century<br />
21 Affiliated<br />
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Oct. 24<br />
• 9143 Sandpiper Court,<br />
Orland Park, 60462-3277<br />
- William Apostolos to<br />
Cheryl R. Wyatt, $65,800<br />
• 9240 Cliffside Lane,<br />
Orland Park, 60462-<br />
7790 - Breanne Snoreck<br />
to Steven Snoreck,<br />
$180,000<br />
• 13956 Berkhansted<br />
Court, Orland Park,<br />
60462-1779 - Joan M.<br />
Bigane to Ricardo Nieves,<br />
Adela Nieves, $204,500<br />
• 15159 Hilltop Court,<br />
Orland Park, 60462-<br />
3548 - Max Remodelers<br />
Inc. to Sharon K. Louder,<br />
$260,000<br />
• 10032 Franchesca<br />
Lane, Orland Park,<br />
60462-3601 - Beechen &<br />
Dill Homes Inc. to Dustin<br />
Difilippo, Melissa Difilippo,<br />
$517,000<br />
Oct. 25<br />
• 9164 Clairmont Court,<br />
Orland Park, 60462-<br />
6532 - Terica Ketchum to<br />
Lawrence Bradford, Toni<br />
Bradford, $170,000<br />
• 14956 Hopkins Court,<br />
Orland Park, 60462-3131<br />
- Bechtold Family Trust to<br />
Mary Rafacz, $205,000<br />
• 15329 Oxford Drive,<br />
Orland Park, 60462-<br />
6775 - James B. Labarge<br />
to Milena A. Solis,<br />
$295,000<br />
• 14801 Oakcreek Court,<br />
Orland Park, 60467-<br />
7192 - First Midwest<br />
Bank Trustee to Cesar<br />
A. Jimenez, Teresa M.<br />
Jimenez, $350,000<br />
Oct. 26<br />
• 8916 W. 140th St.,<br />
Orland Park, 60462-2270<br />
- JP Morgan Chase Bank<br />
to Abel Ernesto Manrique,<br />
$80,500<br />
• 15050 Holiday Court,<br />
Orland Park, 60462-<br />
3141 - Michelle Gonzalez<br />
Trustee To Robert Hagy,<br />
$115,000<br />
• 8706 Adria Court,<br />
Orland Park, 60462 - Dl3<br />
Sons Properties Inc. to<br />
Paul Tomchaney, Linda E.<br />
Tomchaney, $150,000<br />
• 15229 S. 74th Court,<br />
Orland Park, 60462-<br />
6605 - Ruth Espinos Trust<br />
to James M. Stedman,<br />
$160,000<br />
• 15722 S. Sunset Ridge<br />
Court 2E, Orland Park,<br />
60462-5982 - Duaa<br />
Almashriqi to Victor L.<br />
Jones, Kathy R. Jones,<br />
$174,000<br />
• 11901 Windemere<br />
Court 203, Orland Park,<br />
60467-1465 - Maryjo<br />
Pope to Michael W.<br />
Schultz, $215,000<br />
The Going Rate is provided by<br />
Record Information Services<br />
Inc. For more information,<br />
visit www.public-record.com<br />
or call (630) 557-1000.
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E*TRADE BANK<br />
Plaintiff,<br />
-v.-<br />
BETH WOYTEK VIBERG A/K/A<br />
BETH WOYTEK-VIBERG, JON<br />
VIBERG, ALPINE HEIGHTS HOME-<br />
OWNERS ASSOCIATION, UN-<br />
KNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RE-<br />
CORD CLAIMANTS<br />
Defendants<br />
16 CH 11535<br />
16444 S PAW PAW AVE ORLAND<br />
PARK, IL 60467<br />
NOTICE OF SALE<br />
PUBLIC NOTICE ISHEREBY GIVEN<br />
that pursuant to aJudgment ofForeclosure<br />
and Sale entered in the above cause<br />
on October 2, 2018, an agent for The Judicial<br />
Sales Corporation, will at 10:30<br />
AM on January 3, 2019, at The Judicial<br />
Sales Corporation, One South Wacker<br />
Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at<br />
public auction to the highest bidder, as<br />
set forth below, the following described<br />
real estate:<br />
Commonly known as 16444 S PAW<br />
PAW AVE, ORLAND PARK, IL<br />
60467<br />
Property Index No.<br />
27-20-304-060-0000.<br />
The real estate is improved with ared<br />
brick, two story single family home<br />
with attached two car garage.<br />
Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid<br />
by certified funds at the close of the sale<br />
payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation.<br />
No third party checks will beaccepted.<br />
The balance in certified funds/or<br />
wire transfer, is due within twenty-four<br />
(24) hours. The subject property issubject<br />
to general real estate taxes, special<br />
assessments, or special taxes levied<br />
against said real estate and is offered for<br />
sale without any representation asto<br />
quality or quantity of title and without<br />
recourse toPlaintiff and in "AS IS" condition.<br />
The sale is further subject to confirmation<br />
by the court.<br />
Upon payment in full ofthe amount bid,<br />
the purchaser will receive aCertificate<br />
of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to<br />
adeed to the real estate after confirmation<br />
of the sale.<br />
The property will NOT be open for inspection<br />
and plaintiff makes no representation<br />
astothe condition ofthe property.<br />
Prospective bidders are admonished<br />
to check the court file to verify all<br />
information.<br />
If this property isacondominium unit,<br />
the purchaser ofthe unit atthe foreclosure<br />
sale, other than amortgagee, shall<br />
pay the assessments and the legal fees<br />
required by The Condominium Property<br />
Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If<br />
this property is a condominium unit<br />
which ispart ofacommon interest community,<br />
the purchaser ofthe unit atthe<br />
foreclosure sale other than amortgagee<br />
shall pay the assessments required by<br />
The Condominium Property Act, 765<br />
ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).<br />
IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR<br />
(HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE<br />
RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION<br />
FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF<br />
AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN AC-<br />
CORDANCE WITH SECTION<br />
15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS<br />
MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW.<br />
You will need a photo identification issued<br />
by a government agency (driver's<br />
license, passport, etc.) in order togain<br />
entry into our building and the foreclosure<br />
sale room in Cook County and the<br />
same identification for sales held at<br />
other county venues where The Judicial<br />
Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure<br />
sales.<br />
McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLC,<br />
Plaintiff's Attorneys, One North Dearborn<br />
Street, Suite 1200, Chicago, IL<br />
60602. Tel No. (312) 346-9088. Please<br />
refer to file number 260382.<br />
THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORA-<br />
TION<br />
One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor,<br />
Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312)<br />
236-SALE<br />
You can also visit The Judicial Sales<br />
Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a7<br />
day status report of pending sales.<br />
McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLC<br />
One North Dearborn Street, Suite 1200<br />
Chicago, IL 60602<br />
(312) 346-9088<br />
E-Mail: pleadings@mccalla.com<br />
Attorney File No. 260382<br />
Attorney ARDC No. 61256<br />
Attorney Code. 61256<br />
Case Number: 16 CH 11535<br />
TJSC#: 38-7964<br />
I3104117<br />
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OFCOOK<br />
COUNTY, ILLINOIS<br />
COUNTY DEPARTMENT -CHAN-<br />
CERY DIVISION<br />
BMO HARRIS BANK N.A. F/K/A<br />
HARRIS N.A.<br />
Plaintiff,<br />
-v.-<br />
MARIUS G. KASNIUNAS, RASA V.<br />
KASNIUNAS, UNITED STATES OF<br />
AMERICA<br />
Defendants<br />
18 CH 04499<br />
8321 LEGEND LANE ORLAND<br />
PARK, IL 60462<br />
NOTICE OF SALE<br />
PUBLIC NOTICE ISHEREBY GIVEN<br />
that pursuant to aJudgment ofForeclosure<br />
and Sale entered in the above cause<br />
on August 27, 2018, an agent for The<br />
Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30<br />
AM on January 7, 2019, at The Judicial<br />
Sales Corporation, One South Wacker<br />
Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at<br />
public auction to the highest bidder, as<br />
set forth below, the following described<br />
real estate:<br />
Commonly known as 8321 LEGEND<br />
LANE, ORLAND PARK, IL 60462<br />
Property Index No.<br />
27-02-204-008-0000.<br />
The real estate is improved with a residence.<br />
Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid<br />
by certified funds at the close of the sale<br />
payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation.<br />
No third party checks will beaccepted.<br />
The balance in certified funds/or<br />
wire transfer, is due within twenty-four<br />
(24) hours. The subject property issubject<br />
to general real estate taxes, special<br />
assessments, or special taxes levied<br />
against said real estate and is offered for<br />
sale without any representation asto<br />
quality or quantity of title and without<br />
recourse toPlaintiff and in "AS IS" condition.<br />
The sale is further subject to confirmation<br />
by the court.<br />
Upon payment in full ofthe amount bid,<br />
the purchaser will receive aCertificate<br />
of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to<br />
adeed to the real estate after confirmation<br />
of the sale.<br />
Where asale of real estate is made to<br />
satisfy alien prior to that of the United<br />
States, the United States shall have one<br />
year from the date of sale within which<br />
to redeem, except that with respect to a<br />
lien arising under the internal revenue<br />
laws the period shall be 120 days or the<br />
period allowable for redemption under<br />
State law, whichever is longer, and in<br />
any case inwhich, under the provisions<br />
of section 505 of the Housing Act of<br />
1950, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1701k),<br />
and subsection (d) of section 3720 of title<br />
38 of the United States Code, the<br />
right toredeem does not arise, there<br />
shall be no right of redemption.<br />
The property will NOT be open for inspection<br />
and plaintiff makes no representation<br />
astothe condition ofthe property.<br />
Prospective bidders are admonished<br />
to check the court file to verify all<br />
information.<br />
If this property isacondominium unit,<br />
the purchaser ofthe unit atthe foreclosure<br />
sale, other than amortgagee, shall<br />
pay the assessments and the legal fees<br />
required by The Condominium Property<br />
Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If<br />
this property is a condominium unit<br />
which ispart ofacommon interest community,<br />
the purchaser ofthe unit atthe<br />
foreclosure sale other than amortgagee<br />
shall pay the assessments required by<br />
The Condominium Property Act, 765<br />
ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).<br />
IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR<br />
(HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE<br />
RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION<br />
FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF<br />
AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN AC-<br />
CORDANCE WITH SECTION<br />
15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS<br />
MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW.<br />
You will need a photo identification issued<br />
by a government agency (driver's<br />
license, passport, etc.) in order togain<br />
entry into our building and the foreclosure<br />
sale room in Cook County and the<br />
same identification for sales held at<br />
other county venues where The Judicial<br />
Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure<br />
sales.<br />
For information, examine the court file<br />
or contact Plaintiff's attorney: CODILIS<br />
& ASSOCIATES, P.C., 15W030<br />
NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE<br />
100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630)<br />
794-9876 Please refer tofile number<br />
14-18-03775.<br />
THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORA-<br />
TION<br />
One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor,<br />
Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312)<br />
236-SALE<br />
You can also visit The Judicial Sales<br />
Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a7<br />
day status report of pending sales.<br />
CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C.<br />
15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD,<br />
SUITE 100<br />
BURR RIDGE, IL 60527<br />
(630) 794-5300<br />
E-Mail: pleadings@il.cslegal.com<br />
Attorney File No. 14-18-03775<br />
Attorney ARDC No. 00468002<br />
Attorney Code. 21762<br />
Case Number: 18 CH 04499<br />
TJSC#: 38-7103<br />
NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection<br />
Practices Act, you are advised<br />
that Plaintiff's attorney is deemed to be<br />
adebt collector attempting tocollect a<br />
debt and any information obtained will<br />
be used for that purpose.<br />
I3104403<br />
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OFCOOK<br />
COUNTY, ILLINOIS<br />
COUNTY DEPARTMENT -CHAN-<br />
CERY DIVISION<br />
U.S. BANK N.A., SUCCESSOR<br />
TRUSTEE TOBANK OF AMERICA,<br />
N.A., SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO<br />
LASALLE BANK N.A., ONBEHALF<br />
OF THE REGISTERED HOLDERS OF<br />
BEAR STEARNS ASSET BACKED<br />
SECURITIES ITRUST 2006-HE5, AS-<br />
SET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SE-<br />
RIES 2006-HE5<br />
Plaintiff,<br />
-v.-<br />
EDGARDO CALUNGCAGUIN,<br />
MARIA LUISA CALUNGCAGUIN<br />
Defendants<br />
16 CH 1969<br />
8837 W 170TH STORLAND HILLS,<br />
IL 60487<br />
NOTICE OF SALE<br />
PUBLIC NOTICE ISHEREBY GIVEN<br />
that pursuant to aJudgment ofForeclosure<br />
and Sale entered in the above cause<br />
on May 30, 2017, an agent for The Judicial<br />
Sales Corporation, will at 10:30<br />
AM on January 3, 2019, at The Judicial<br />
Sales Corporation, One South Wacker<br />
Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at<br />
public auction to the highest bidder, as<br />
set forth below, the following described<br />
real estate:<br />
Commonly known as 8837 W 170TH<br />
ST, ORLAND HILLS, IL 60487<br />
Property Index No.<br />
27-27-217-006-0000.<br />
The real estate is improved with asingle<br />
family home with an attached two car<br />
garage.<br />
Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid<br />
by certified funds at the close of the sale<br />
payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation.<br />
No third party checks will beaccepted.<br />
The balance in certified funds/or<br />
wire transfer, is due within twenty-four<br />
(24) hours. The subject property issubject<br />
to general real estate taxes, special<br />
assessments, or special taxes levied<br />
against said real estate and is offered for<br />
sale without any representation as to<br />
quality or quantity of title and without<br />
recourse toPlaintiff and in "AS IS" condition.<br />
The sale is further subject to confirmation<br />
by the court.<br />
Upon payment in full ofthe amount bid,<br />
the purchaser will receive aCertificate<br />
of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to<br />
adeed to the real estate after confirmation<br />
of the sale.<br />
The property will NOT be open for inspection<br />
and plaintiff makes no representation<br />
astothe condition ofthe property.<br />
Prospective bidders are admonished<br />
to check the court file to verify all<br />
information.<br />
If this property isacondominium unit,<br />
the purchaser ofthe unit atthe foreclosure<br />
sale, other than amortgagee, shall<br />
pay the assessments and the legal fees<br />
required by The Condominium Property<br />
Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If<br />
this property is a condominium unit<br />
which ispart ofacommon interest community,<br />
the purchaser ofthe unit atthe<br />
foreclosure sale other than amortgagee<br />
shall pay the assessments required by<br />
The Condominium Property Act, 765<br />
ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).<br />
IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR<br />
(HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE<br />
RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION<br />
FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF<br />
AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN AC-<br />
CORDANCE WITH SECTION<br />
15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS<br />
MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW.<br />
You will need a photo identification issued<br />
by a government agency (driver's<br />
license, passport, etc.) in order togain<br />
entry into our building and the foreclosure<br />
sale room in Cook County and the<br />
same identification for sales held at<br />
other county venues where The Judicial<br />
Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure<br />
sales.<br />
McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLC,<br />
Plaintiff's Attorneys, One North Dearborn<br />
Street, Suite 1200, Chicago, IL<br />
60602. Tel No. (312) 346-9088. Please<br />
refer to file number 252835.<br />
THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORA-<br />
TION<br />
One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor,<br />
Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312)<br />
236-SALE<br />
You can also visit The Judicial Sales<br />
Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a7<br />
day status report of pending sales.<br />
McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLC<br />
One North Dearborn Street, Suite 1200<br />
Chicago, IL 60602<br />
(312) 346-9088<br />
E-Mail: pleadings@mccalla.com<br />
Attorney File No. 252835<br />
Attorney ARDC No. 61256<br />
Attorney Code. 61256<br />
Case Number: 16 CH 1969<br />
TJSC#: 38-3942<br />
I3104675<br />
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OFCOOK<br />
COUNTY, ILLINOIS<br />
COUNTY DEPARTMENT -CHAN-<br />
CERY DIVISION<br />
HSBC BANK USA, NATIONAL AS-<br />
SOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR ACE<br />
SECURITIES CORP. HOME EQUITY<br />
LOAN TRUST, SERIES 2005-WF1,<br />
ASSET BACKED PASS-THROUGH<br />
CERTIFICATES<br />
Plaintiff,<br />
-v.-<br />
CHARLES C.ASKEW A/K/A CHAR-<br />
LES ASKEW, KACHEE D ASKEW<br />
A/K/A KACHEE ASKNEW, BETTER<br />
BUILT LUMBER AND SUPPLY,<br />
INC., CAPITAL ONE BANK (USA),<br />
N.A. S/I/I TO CAPITAL ONE BANK,<br />
BENEFICIAL ILLINOIS INC. D/B/A<br />
BENEFICIAL MORTGAGE CO. OF<br />
ILLINOIS<br />
Defendants<br />
13 CH 19057<br />
4702 NEWBERRY AVENUE OAK<br />
FOREST, IL 60452<br />
NOTICE OF SALE<br />
PUBLIC NOTICE ISHEREBY GIVEN<br />
that pursuant to aJudgment ofForeclosure<br />
and Sale entered in the above cause<br />
on May 2, 2018, an agent for The Judicial<br />
Sales Corporation, will at 10:30<br />
AM on January 2, 2019, at The Judicial<br />
Sales Corporation, One South Wacker<br />
Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at<br />
public auction to the highest bidder, as<br />
set forth below, the following described<br />
real estate:<br />
Commonly known as 4702 NEW-<br />
BERRY AVENUE, OAK FOREST, IL<br />
60452<br />
Property Index No.<br />
28-22-318-019-0000.<br />
The real estate is improved with asingle<br />
family home with an attached two car<br />
garage.<br />
Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid<br />
by certified funds at the close of the sale<br />
payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation.<br />
No third party checks will beaccepted.<br />
The balance in certified funds/or<br />
wire transfer, is due within twenty-four<br />
(24) hours. The subject property issubject<br />
to general real estate taxes, special<br />
assessments, or special taxes levied<br />
against said real estate and is offered for<br />
sale without any representation asto<br />
quality or quantity of title and without<br />
recourse toPlaintiff and in "AS IS" condition.<br />
The sale is further subject to confirmation<br />
by the court.<br />
Upon payment in full ofthe amount bid,<br />
the purchaser will receive aCertificate<br />
of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to<br />
adeed to the real estate after confirmation<br />
of the sale.<br />
The property will NOT be open for inspection<br />
and plaintiff makes no representation<br />
astothe condition ofthe property.<br />
Prospective bidders are admonished<br />
to check the court file to verify all<br />
information.<br />
If this property isacondominium unit,<br />
the purchaser ofthe unit atthe foreclosure<br />
sale, other than amortgagee, shall<br />
pay the assessments and the legal fees<br />
required by The Condominium Property<br />
Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If<br />
this property is a condominium unit<br />
which is part of acommon interest community,<br />
the purchaser ofthe unit atthe<br />
foreclosure sale other than amortgagee<br />
shall pay the assessments required by<br />
The Condominium Property Act, 765<br />
ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).<br />
IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR<br />
(HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE<br />
RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION<br />
FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF<br />
AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN AC-<br />
CORDANCE WITH SECTION<br />
15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS<br />
MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW.<br />
You will need a photo identification issued<br />
by a government agency (driver's<br />
license, passport, etc.) in order togain<br />
entry into our building and the foreclo-<br />
sure sale room in Cook County and the<br />
same identification for sales held at<br />
other county venues where The Judicial<br />
Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure<br />
sales.<br />
McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLC,<br />
Plaintiff's Attorneys, One North Dearborn<br />
Street, Suite 1200, Chicago, IL<br />
60602. Tel No. (312) 346-9088. Please<br />
refer to file number 9851.<br />
THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORA-<br />
TION<br />
One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor,<br />
Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312)<br />
236-SALE<br />
You can also visit The Judicial Sales<br />
Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a7<br />
day status report of pending sales.<br />
McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLC<br />
One North Dearborn Street, Suite 1200<br />
Chicago, IL 60602<br />
(312) 346-9088<br />
E-Mail: pleadings@mccalla.com<br />
Attorney File No. 9851<br />
Attorney ARDC No. 61256<br />
Attorney Code. 61256<br />
Case Number: 13 CH 19057<br />
TJSC#: 38-8982<br />
I3105014<br />
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OFCOOK<br />
COUNTY, ILLINOIS<br />
COUNTY DEPARTMENT -CHAN-<br />
CERY DIVISION<br />
BAYVIEW LOAN SERVICING LLC;<br />
Plaintiff,<br />
vs.<br />
AFRICA CERVANTES; JOSE LUCI-<br />
ANO; ILLINOIS<br />
HOUSING DEVEL<strong>OP</strong>MENT<br />
AUTHORITY; UNKNOWN<br />
TENANTS; UNKNOWN OWNERS<br />
AND NONRECORD<br />
CLAIMANTS;<br />
Defendants,<br />
18 CH 4769<br />
NOTICE OF SALE<br />
PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that<br />
pursuant to aJudgment ofForeclosure<br />
entered in the above entitled cause, Intercounty<br />
Judicial Sales Corporation<br />
will on Friday, January 4, 2019, at the<br />
hour of 11 a.m. in their office at 120<br />
West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago,<br />
Illinois, sell to the highest bidder<br />
for cash, the following described mortgaged<br />
real estate:<br />
P.I.N. 28-28-203-024.<br />
Commonly known as 5155 WEST<br />
167TH STREET, OAK FOREST, IL<br />
60452.<br />
The mortgaged real estate is improved<br />
with asingle family residence. If the<br />
subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of<br />
acommon interest community, the purchaser<br />
of the unit other than amortgagee<br />
shall pay the assessments required<br />
by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of<br />
the Condominium Property Act.<br />
Sale terms: 10% down by certified<br />
funds, balance within 24 hours, by certified<br />
funds. No refunds. The property<br />
will NOT be open for inspection.<br />
For information call Mr. Ira T. Nevel at<br />
Plaintiff's Attorney, Law Offices of Ira<br />
T. Nevel, 175 North Franklin Street,<br />
Chicago, Illinois 60606. (312)<br />
357-1125. Ref. No. 18-00464<br />
INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES<br />
CORPORATION<br />
Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122<br />
I3105278<br />
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OFCOOK<br />
COUNTY, ILLINOIS<br />
COUNTY DEPARTMENT -CHAN-<br />
CERY DIVISION<br />
FIFTH THIRD MORTGAGE COM-<br />
PANY<br />
Plaintiff,<br />
vs.<br />
RAYMOND J. FOWLER JR. AKA<br />
RAYMOND FOWLER;<br />
FOREST TRAILS OF OAK FOREST<br />
CONDOMINIUM<br />
ASSOCIATION; UNKNOWN AND<br />
NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS
opprairie.com classifieds<br />
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2701 Property for<br />
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2701 Property for<br />
Sale<br />
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Sale<br />
2701 Property for<br />
Sale<br />
2701 Property for<br />
Sale<br />
2701 Property for<br />
Sale<br />
Defendants,<br />
18 ch 6231<br />
NOTICE OF SALE<br />
PUBLIC NOTICE ISHEREBY GIVEN<br />
that pursuant to aJudgment ofForeclosure<br />
and Sale entered in the above entitled<br />
cause Intercounty Judicial Sales<br />
Corporation will on Friday, January 4,<br />
2019 at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office<br />
at 120 West Madison Street, Suite<br />
718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell at public<br />
auction to the highest bidder for cash, as<br />
set forth below, the following described<br />
mortgaged real estate:<br />
P.I.N. 28-18-101-067-1200 (New);<br />
28-18-101-067-1207 (New);<br />
28-18-101-065-1200 (Old);<br />
28-18-101-065-1207 (Old).<br />
Commonly known as 6870 West Winding<br />
Trail # 403 and G4, Oak Forest, Illinois<br />
60452.<br />
The mortgaged real estate is improved<br />
with acondominium residence. The purchaser<br />
of the unit other than amortgagee<br />
shall pay the assessments and the legal<br />
fees required by subdivisions (g)(1)<br />
and (g)(4) of Section 9ofthe Condominium<br />
Property Act<br />
Sale terms: 10% down by certified<br />
funds, balance, by certified funds,<br />
within 24 hours. Norefunds. The property<br />
will NOT be open for inspection.<br />
For information call The Sales Department<br />
atPlaintiff's Attorney, Anselmo<br />
Lindberg & Associates, LLC, 1771<br />
West Diehl Road, Naperville, Illinois<br />
60563-1890. (630) 453-6960. For Bidding<br />
instructions visit www.alolawgroup.com<br />
24 hours prior to sale.<br />
F18030062<br />
INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES<br />
CORPORATION<br />
Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122<br />
I3105283<br />
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OFCOOK<br />
COUNTY, ILLINOIS<br />
COUNTY DEPARTMENT -CHAN-<br />
CERY DIVISION<br />
WELLS FARGO BANK, NA<br />
Plaintiff,<br />
vs.<br />
JEFF M. MADDEN; THE UNITED<br />
STATES OF AMERICA,<br />
SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND<br />
URBAN DEVEL<strong>OP</strong>MENT;<br />
UNIFUND CCR PARTNERS AS-<br />
SIGNEE OF PALISADES<br />
COLLECTION, LLC; HOLLY MAD-<br />
DEN<br />
Defendants,<br />
16 CH 8217<br />
NOTICE OF SALE<br />
PUBLIC NOTICE ISHEREBY GIVEN<br />
that pursuant to aJudgment ofForeclosure<br />
and Sale entered in the above entitled<br />
cause Intercounty Judicial Sales<br />
Corporation will on Monday, January 7,<br />
2019 at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office<br />
at 120 West Madison Street, Suite<br />
718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell at public<br />
auction to the highest bidder for cash, as<br />
set forth below, the following described<br />
mortgaged real estate:<br />
P.I.N. 27-13-110-007-0000.<br />
Commonly known as 15155 Larkspur<br />
Lane, Orland Park, IL 60462.<br />
The mortgaged real estate is improved<br />
with asingle family residence. If the<br />
subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of<br />
acommon interest community, the purchaser<br />
of the unit other than amortgagee<br />
shall pay the assessments required<br />
by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of<br />
the Condominium Property Act.<br />
Sale terms: 10% down by certified<br />
funds, balance, by certified funds,<br />
within 24 hours. Norefunds. The property<br />
will NOT be open for inspection.<br />
For information call Sales Department<br />
at Plaintiff's Attorney, Manley Deas Kochalski,<br />
LLC, One East Wacker Drive,<br />
Chicago, Illinois 60601. (614)<br />
220-5611. 16-015057 F2<br />
INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES<br />
CORPORATION<br />
Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122<br />
I3105427<br />
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OFCOOK<br />
COUNTY, ILLINOIS<br />
COUNTY DEPARTMENT -CHAN-<br />
CERY DIVISION<br />
US BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIA-<br />
TION AS TRUSTEE FOR<br />
CMALT REMIC SERIES<br />
2006-A4-REMIC PASS-THROUGH<br />
CERTIFICATES SERIES 2006-A4,<br />
Plaintiff,<br />
vs.<br />
MALIKA SHIRAZEE A/K/A<br />
MALIKA SHRAZEE, AHSIN<br />
SHAMSI, LIBERTY SQUARE OF OR-<br />
LAND HILLS<br />
CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION,<br />
Defendants,<br />
18 CH 434<br />
NOTICE OF SALE<br />
PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that<br />
pursuant to aJudgment ofForeclosure<br />
entered in the above entitled cause, Intercounty<br />
Judicial Sales Corporation<br />
will on Monday, January 7, 2019, at the<br />
hour of 11 a.m. in their office at 120<br />
West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago,<br />
Illinois, sell to the highest bidder<br />
for cash, the following described mortgaged<br />
real estate:<br />
P.I.N. 27-21-402-030-1063<br />
(27-21-402-004-0000 AND<br />
27-21-402-005-0000 UNDERLYING<br />
PINS).<br />
Commonly known as 16671 LIBERTY<br />
CIRCLE, UNIT 7GC, ORLAND<br />
HILLS, IL 60477.<br />
The mortgaged real estate is improved<br />
with acondominium residence. The purchaser<br />
of the unit other than amortgagee<br />
shall pay the assessments and the legal<br />
fees required by subdivisions (g)(1)<br />
and (g)(4) of Section 9ofthe Condominium<br />
Property Act<br />
Sale terms: 10% down by certified<br />
funds, balance within 24 hours, by certified<br />
funds. No refunds. The property<br />
will NOT be open for inspection.<br />
For information call Mr. Ira T. Nevel at<br />
Plaintiff's Attorney, Law Offices of Ira<br />
T. Nevel, 175 North Franklin Street,<br />
Chicago, Illinois 60606. (312)<br />
357-1125. Ref. No. 18-04326<br />
INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES<br />
CORPORATION<br />
Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122<br />
I3105434<br />
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OFCOOK<br />
COUNTY, ILLINOIS<br />
COUNTY DEPARTMENT -CHAN-<br />
CERY DIVISION<br />
WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SO-<br />
CIETY FSB DBA<br />
CHRISTIANA TRUST NOT INDI-<br />
VIDUALLY BUT AS<br />
TRUSTEE FOR PRETIUM MORT-<br />
GAGE ACQUISITION<br />
TRUST;<br />
Plaintiff,<br />
vs.<br />
JAMES DUDCZYK; MONIQUE<br />
DUDCZYK; BMO HARRIS<br />
BANK, NASBM HARRIS NA; UN-<br />
KNOWN OWNERS AND<br />
NONRECORD CLAIMANTS;<br />
Defendants,<br />
17 CH 16642<br />
NOTICE OF SALE<br />
PUBLIC NOTICE ISHEREBY GIVEN<br />
that pursuant to aJudgment ofForeclosure<br />
and Sale entered in the above entitled<br />
cause Intercounty Judicial Sales<br />
Corporation will on Monday, January 7,<br />
2019 at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office<br />
at 120 West Madison Street, Suite<br />
718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell at public<br />
auction to the highest bidder for cash, as<br />
set forth below, the following described<br />
mortgaged real estate:<br />
P.I.N. 27-07-203-019-0000.<br />
Commonly known as 11453 Fenview<br />
Court, Orland Park, IL 60467.<br />
The mortgaged real estate is improved<br />
with asingle family residence. If the<br />
subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of<br />
acommon interest community, the purchaser<br />
of the unit other than amortgagee<br />
shall pay the assessments required<br />
by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of<br />
the Condominium Property Act.<br />
Sale terms: 10% down by certified<br />
funds, balance, by certified funds,<br />
within 24 hours. Norefunds. The property<br />
will NOT be open for inspection.<br />
For information call Sales Department<br />
at Plaintiff's Attorney, Manley Deas Kochalski,<br />
LLC, One East Wacker Drive,<br />
Chicago, Illinois 60601. (614)<br />
220-5611. 17-041000 F2<br />
INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES<br />
CORPORATION<br />
Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122<br />
I3105439<br />
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OFCOOK<br />
COUNTY, ILLINOIS<br />
COUNTY DEPARTMENT -CHAN-<br />
CERY DIVISION<br />
BAYVIEW LOAN SERVICING, LLC;<br />
Plaintiff,<br />
vs.<br />
UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES<br />
OF MICHAEL E.<br />
COLLINS; SCARBOROUGH FARE<br />
CONDOMINIUM<br />
ASSOCIATION; MEGAN BALABON;<br />
JENNIFER COLLINS;<br />
MICHAEL COLLINS, JR.; MARJO-<br />
RIE COLLINS A/K/A<br />
MARJORIE CAMPBELL; JULIE FOX,<br />
AS SPECIAL<br />
REPRESENTATIVE FOR MICHAEL<br />
E. COLLINS;<br />
UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON<br />
RECORD CLAIMANTS;<br />
Defendants,<br />
18 CH 2850<br />
NOTICE OF SALE<br />
PUBLIC NOTICE ISHEREBY GIVEN<br />
that pursuant to aJudgment ofForeclosure<br />
and Sale entered in the above entitled<br />
cause Intercounty Judicial Sales<br />
Corporation will on Tuesday, January 8,<br />
2019 at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office<br />
at 120 West Madison Street, Suite<br />
718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell at public<br />
auction to the highest bidder for cash, as<br />
set forth below, the following described<br />
mortgaged real estate:<br />
P.I.N. 28-09-100-138-1304 &<br />
28-09-100-138-1341.<br />
Commonly known as 14524 Walden<br />
Court, Unit M-2 and GJ7, Oak Forest,<br />
IL 60452.<br />
The mortgaged real estate is improved<br />
with acondominium residence. The purchaser<br />
of the unit other than amortgagee<br />
shall pay the assessments and the legal<br />
fees required by subdivisions (g)(1)<br />
and (g)(4) of Section 9ofthe Condominium<br />
Property Act<br />
Sale terms: 10% down by certified<br />
funds, balance, by certified funds,<br />
within 24 hours. Norefunds. The property<br />
will NOT be open for inspection<br />
For information call the Sales Clerk at<br />
Plaintiff's Attorney, The Wirbicki Law<br />
Group, 33 West Monroe Street, Chicago,<br />
Illinois 60603. (312) 360-9455<br />
W18-0223.<br />
INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES<br />
CORPORATION<br />
Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122<br />
I3105465<br />
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OFCOOK<br />
COUNTY, ILLINOIS<br />
COUNTY DEPARTMENT -CHAN-<br />
CERY DIVISION<br />
U.S. BANK TRUST, N.A., ASTRUS-<br />
TEE FOR LSF9 MASTER PARTICI-<br />
PATION TRUST<br />
Plaintiff,<br />
-v.-<br />
JERRY HOLT A/K/A JERRY E.<br />
HOLT, ARLEE T. HOLT, BMO HAR-<br />
RIS BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIA-<br />
TION, UNITED STATES OF AMER-<br />
ICA, STATE OF ILLINOIS - DE-<br />
PARTMENT OFREVENUE, CRYS-<br />
TAL TREE HOMEOWNER'S ASSO-<br />
CIATION<br />
Defendants<br />
17 CH 12462<br />
10645 VALLEY CT ORLAND PARK,<br />
IL 60462<br />
NOTICE OF SALE<br />
PUBLIC NOTICE ISHEREBY GIVEN<br />
that pursuant to aJudgment ofForeclosure<br />
and Sale entered in the above cause<br />
on June 22, 2018, an agent for The Judicial<br />
Sales Corporation, will at 10:30<br />
AM on January 16, 2019, at The Judicial<br />
Sales Corporation, One South<br />
Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606,<br />
sell at public auction tothe highest bidder,<br />
as set forth below, the following described<br />
real estate:<br />
Commonly known as 10645 VALLEY<br />
CT, ORLAND PARK, IL 60462<br />
Property Index No.<br />
27-08-402-032-0000.<br />
The real estate is improved with asingle<br />
family residence.<br />
Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid<br />
by certified funds at the close of the sale<br />
payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation.<br />
No third party checks will beaccepted.<br />
The balance in certified funds/or<br />
wire transfer, is due within twenty-four<br />
(24) hours. The subject property issubject<br />
to general real estate taxes, special<br />
assessments, or special taxes levied<br />
against said real estate and is offered for<br />
sale without any representation as to<br />
quality or quantity of title and without<br />
recourse toPlaintiff and in "AS IS" condition.<br />
The sale is further subject to confirmation<br />
by the court.<br />
Upon payment in full ofthe amount bid,<br />
the purchaser will receive aCertificate<br />
of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to<br />
adeed to the real estate after confirmation<br />
of the sale.<br />
Where asale of real estate is made to<br />
satisfy alien prior to that of the United<br />
States, the United States shall have one<br />
year from the date of sale within which<br />
to redeem, except that with respect to a<br />
lien arising under the internal revenue<br />
laws the period shall be 120 days or the<br />
period allowable for redemption under<br />
State law, whichever is longer, and in<br />
any case inwhich, under the provisions<br />
of section 505 of the Housing Act of<br />
1950, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1701k),<br />
and subsection (d) of section 3720 of title<br />
38 of the United States Code, the<br />
right toredeem does not arise, there<br />
shall be no right of redemption.<br />
The property will NOT be open for inspection<br />
and plaintiff makes no representation<br />
astothe condition ofthe property.<br />
Prospective bidders are admonished<br />
to check the court file to verify all<br />
information.<br />
If this property isacondominium unit,<br />
the purchaser ofthe unit atthe foreclosure<br />
sale, other than amortgagee, shall<br />
pay the assessments and the legal fees<br />
required by The Condominium Property<br />
Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If<br />
this property is a condominium unit<br />
which ispart ofacommon interest community,<br />
the purchaser ofthe unit atthe<br />
foreclosure sale other than amortgagee<br />
shall pay the assessments required by<br />
The Condominium Property Act, 765<br />
ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).<br />
IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR<br />
(HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE<br />
RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION<br />
FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF<br />
AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN AC-<br />
CORDANCE WITH SECTION<br />
15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS<br />
MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW.<br />
You will need a photo identification issued<br />
by a government agency (driver's<br />
license, passport, etc.) in order togain<br />
entry into our building and the foreclosure<br />
sale room in Cook County and the<br />
same identification for sales held at<br />
other county venues where The Judicial<br />
Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure<br />
sales.<br />
For information, examine the court file<br />
or contact Plaintiff's attorney: CODILIS<br />
& ASSOCIATES, P.C., 15W030<br />
NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE<br />
100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630)<br />
794-9876 Please refer tofile number<br />
14-17-13694.<br />
THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORA-<br />
TION<br />
One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor,<br />
Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312)<br />
236-SALE<br />
You can also visit The Judicial Sales<br />
Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a7<br />
day status report of pending sales.<br />
CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C.<br />
15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD,<br />
SUITE 100<br />
BURR RIDGE, IL 60527<br />
(630) 794-5300<br />
E-Mail: pleadings@il.cslegal.com<br />
Attorney File No. 14-17-13694<br />
Attorney ARDC No. 00468002<br />
Attorney Code. 21762<br />
Case Number: 17 CH 12462<br />
TJSC#: 38-9111<br />
NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection<br />
Practices Act, you are advised<br />
that Plaintiff's attorney is deemed to be<br />
adebt collector attempting tocollect a<br />
debt and any information obtained will<br />
be used for that purpose.<br />
I3105759<br />
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OFCOOK<br />
COUNTY, ILLINOIS<br />
COUNTY DEPARTMENT -CHAN-<br />
CERY DIVISION<br />
BAYVIEW LOAN SERVICING LLC;<br />
Plaintiff,<br />
vs.<br />
JANET M. AGATE; JOSEPH J. AG-<br />
ATE; CAPITAL ONE<br />
BANK (USA) NA; ILLINOIS DE-<br />
PARTMENT OF<br />
REVENUE; JPMORGAN CHASE<br />
BANK NA; UNITED<br />
STATES OF AMERICA; UNKNOWN<br />
HEIRS AND LEGATEES<br />
OF JANET M. AGATE, IF ANY; UN-<br />
KNOWN HEIRS AND<br />
LEGATEES OF JOSEPH J. AGATE,<br />
IF ANY; UNKNOWN<br />
OWNERS AND NONRECORD<br />
CLAIMANTS;<br />
Defendants,<br />
17 CH 14459<br />
NOTICE OF SALE<br />
PUBLIC NOTICE ISHEREBY GIVEN<br />
that pursuant to aJudgment ofForeclosure<br />
and Sale entered in the above entitled<br />
cause Intercounty Judicial Sales<br />
Corporation will onFriday, January 11,<br />
2019 at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office<br />
at 120 West Madison Street, Suite<br />
718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell at public<br />
auction to the highest bidder for cash, as<br />
set forth below, the following described<br />
mortgaged real estate:<br />
P.I.N. 27-11-209-016-0000.<br />
Commonly known as 8020 Revell<br />
Court, Orland Park, IL 60462.<br />
The mortgaged real estate is improved<br />
with asingle family residence. If the<br />
subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of<br />
acommon interest community, the purchaser<br />
of the unit other than amortgagee<br />
shall pay the assessments required<br />
by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of<br />
the Condominium Property Act.<br />
Sale terms: 10% down by certified<br />
funds, balance, by certified funds,<br />
within 24 hours. Norefunds. The property<br />
will NOT be open for inspection<br />
For information call the Sales Clerk at<br />
Plaintiff's Attorney, The Wirbicki Law<br />
Group, 33 West Monroe Street, Chicago,<br />
Illinois 60603. (312) 360-9455<br />
W17-0959.<br />
INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES<br />
CORPORATION<br />
Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122<br />
I3105895<br />
2900 Merchandise<br />
Under $100<br />
12 piece China set, soft pattern,<br />
extra pieces, padded covers to<br />
avoid breakage, great Holiday<br />
gift! $100. Must be seen.<br />
708.429.5296.<br />
2pcXLPepsi cola world tournament<br />
green lounge set $25.<br />
708.301.5136<br />
8 drawer tool chest, good condition,<br />
needs key $75 obo.<br />
815.258.7763<br />
Antique vintage GENEVA ILL<br />
#8 star black flat cast iron $25.<br />
708.466.9907<br />
Apple fireplace logs $100.<br />
815.485.4331<br />
Black IKEA leather chair, perfect<br />
condition $50. Entertainment<br />
center, black w/ glass<br />
doors $50. Call Debbie<br />
815.534.5273<br />
Brand new Hunter mid-calf<br />
boots. Black, size 8, never<br />
worn. Original box with receipt<br />
from Nordstrom $100.<br />
773.655.8820<br />
Christmas Anna-Lee dolls 9-16<br />
inches tall, entire set of 6for<br />
$20. Sunbeam deluxe mixmaster,<br />
standing varying speed,<br />
chrome, like new $20.<br />
708.301.3924<br />
Classic oak framed mirror to<br />
sit 29x24” above dresser. 2<br />
braces tosupport mirror. Ornate<br />
carved oak $100 Call<br />
815.464.8866 or<br />
rayandmaryanne@att.net<br />
Construction scaffolding 5x5,<br />
stored inside, good condition<br />
$75. 815.592.9474<br />
Cross Country ski boots &<br />
poles. Boots Wsz 8.5, Msz<br />
11, good condition $35 each.<br />
Men’s ice skates sz 10.5 $40.<br />
815.463.0282<br />
Earings, clip style $1 pair. Also<br />
ice machine for sports injury<br />
$15. Fishing reels $15 ea.<br />
Johnson outboard gastank $25.<br />
708.214.4022<br />
Fisher Price Disney Pixar<br />
Lightening McQueen battery<br />
powered car $50. 708.403.2473<br />
GE dishwasher, stainless exterior<br />
skin, slightly used $100.<br />
708.785.0987
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GIRLS BASKETBALL<br />
Sandburg star<br />
Stavropoulos injured<br />
in LW West battle<br />
JEFF VORVA, Sports Editor<br />
Players, coaches and fans of<br />
Sandburg’s girls basketball team<br />
were holding their breaths and<br />
crossing their fingers over the<br />
weekend.<br />
The Eagles’ top player, senior<br />
Natalie Stavropoulos, suffered<br />
what looked like a serious left knee<br />
injury in the third quarter of a 61-47<br />
loss to Lincoln-Way West on Thursday,<br />
Nov. 29, in New Lenox.<br />
The 5-foot-8 guard had an MRI<br />
exam the following day and the<br />
results were not expected to be revealed<br />
to her until Monday, Dec.<br />
3, after The Orland Park Prairie’s<br />
deadline.<br />
While the worst fear would be a<br />
torn ACL, Eagles coach Nick Fotopoulos<br />
said there was a small hint<br />
that it might not be as severe.<br />
“There is no pain on each side or<br />
the back of the knee,” he said. “Everything<br />
is on the outside. So, we’ll<br />
see what comes back with the MRI.<br />
There could be multiple things. We<br />
just don’t know yet.”<br />
Heading into the West game,<br />
she led the team in scoring with 71<br />
points in five games, and also led the<br />
team with 20 assists and 19 steals.<br />
Over the summer, she was hit in<br />
the nose during a game and needed<br />
surgery. Her sister, Victoria, suffered<br />
a knee injury in 2014-2015<br />
and missed significant time her senior<br />
year.<br />
Ironically, there were two published<br />
reports in a 24-hour period,<br />
including one in The Prairie, highlighting<br />
the fact that she was healthy<br />
the first few weeks of the season.<br />
Sandburg had a 37-33 lead in the<br />
West when the injury occurred.<br />
“I thought we were playing well<br />
and I thought we were going to<br />
win,” Fotopoulos said. “That would<br />
have been a big win for us. After it<br />
happened, you literally could have<br />
heard a pin drop in the gym. We<br />
were shocked after that. Natalie is<br />
the sweetest kid in the world and<br />
we’re hoping for the best.”<br />
Sandburg’s Natalie Stavropoulos,<br />
shown in the first quarter against<br />
Lincoln-Way West on Thursday,<br />
Nov. 29, suffered a knee injury later<br />
in the game.<br />
JEFF VORVA/22ND CENTURY MEDIA<br />
Not again!<br />
Last season, the Eagles lost<br />
shooting guard Morgan McAuliffe<br />
the first game of the season with a<br />
torn ACL and she missed most of<br />
the season.<br />
While Stavropoulos’s injury<br />
hasn’t been diagnosed yet, she will<br />
miss some time and the Eagles will<br />
have to play on without her.<br />
“We had a team meeting on Friday<br />
and now everyone has to step up,”<br />
Fotopoulos said. “We need someone<br />
to fill that void and it’s definitely not<br />
going to be one person. It will have<br />
to be multiple players.’’<br />
There was good news<br />
Two days before the West loss<br />
and injury, the Eagles beat Lemont,<br />
59-27, on the road as junior Kayla<br />
Snaidoff had 14 points, Stavropoulos<br />
had 10 and Stephanie Faro<br />
added seven.<br />
Up next<br />
The Eagles face District 230<br />
foe Stagg on Thursday, Dec. 6, in<br />
Palos Hills and finally make their<br />
home debut against Argo at 6 p.m.<br />
on Tuesday, Dec. 11. That halts<br />
a streak of eight games that were<br />
either on an opponent’s court or a<br />
neutral court.<br />
BOYS BASKETBALL<br />
Eagles ‘hit in mouth’ by lack of communication<br />
TIM CRONIN, Freelance Reporter<br />
As a veteran coach is wont to<br />
do, Todd Allen put a 75-49 thumping<br />
of his Sandburg boys basketball<br />
team by Thornton Township<br />
on himself on Friday, Nov. 30.<br />
“I don’t think I had our guys<br />
very ready to play tonight,” Allen<br />
said as the triumphant Wildcats<br />
walked toward their bus outside<br />
the Sandburg gym. “That’s on me.<br />
I thought our effort and intensity<br />
wasn’t what it had been previous<br />
to this. I thought we were lacking<br />
a little bit in defensive intensity.”<br />
It didn’t start out that way. Sandburg<br />
led in the early minutes and<br />
trailed 15-14 after a quarter, but<br />
Thornton tightened defensively in<br />
each subsequent quarter, the margins<br />
in the final three by four, eight<br />
and 13 points. The Wildcats held<br />
Sandburg to 39 percent shooting,<br />
outrebounded the hosts 24-18 and<br />
ran wild themselves, going 16-of-<br />
22 from the floor in the second<br />
half, when they doubled up on<br />
Sandburg, 42-21.<br />
The Wildcats, led by Ari<br />
Brown’s 21 points, went for the<br />
kill in the first four minutes of<br />
the second half, expanding a fivepoint<br />
intermission margin to 15<br />
through a pair of three-pointers by<br />
DeMarco Minor, who tallied 17<br />
points – the Wildcats had 10 threepointers<br />
in all – and midrange<br />
jumpers the Eagles couldn’t stop.<br />
Sandburg cut the gap to 11 points,<br />
but no closer.<br />
“That was a pretty quick turnaround<br />
in a pretty short time<br />
frame,” Allen said. “We had two<br />
open threes we missed and they<br />
had two open threes they hit.<br />
We never really recovered from<br />
there.”<br />
Kevin Agwomoh led Sandburg<br />
with 15 points, and put his finger<br />
on a lack of communication.<br />
“We came into the second half<br />
looking for a stop, and we weren’t<br />
talking a lot; the whole game, actually,”<br />
Agwomoh said. “That just<br />
hit us in the mouth. We folded under<br />
pressure, I guess. Individually,<br />
we were trying to get that going<br />
in practice. Some guys do it and<br />
Sandburg’s Kevin Agwomoh (left) gets a shot off against Thornton’s<br />
Brandon Hall in an Eagles home-opening loss on Friday, Nov. 30.<br />
JEFF VORVA/22ND CENTURY MEDIA<br />
some guys just feel they don’t<br />
have to. We keep preaching it in<br />
practice, but I don’t know, sometimes<br />
it goes away.”<br />
A work in progress<br />
The outcome was Sandburg’s<br />
third defeat in succession and<br />
dropped the Eagles to 3-3.<br />
What kind of a team does Allen<br />
have after six games – about<br />
20 percent of the regular-season<br />
schedule?<br />
It is one learning how to play<br />
together.<br />
“We’ve got a long ways to go,”<br />
Allen said. “I love coaching them.<br />
They’re great kids. They work really<br />
hard. But we’re 13 juniors and<br />
three seniors, so we’ve got to find<br />
some guys as the year goes who<br />
are going to get better and step up<br />
and give us a lift. We’re searching<br />
for those guys.”<br />
For the most part, Allen has a<br />
six-man rotation, with sub Leo<br />
Serdar seeing significant minutes<br />
along with seniors Kevin Agwomoh,<br />
Marvin Agwomoh, Ian<br />
Sanders and juniors Khaled Salah<br />
and Atharva Atreya. In comparison,<br />
Thornton rotated eight<br />
men through the game, and their<br />
relative freshness translated into<br />
quickness as the game went on.<br />
Rocky road<br />
Three days before Thornton<br />
came calling, Sandburg traveled to<br />
Lemont and hung with the talented<br />
Indians, trailing by three points in<br />
the final quarter before dropping a<br />
55-46 decision.<br />
“Lemont made 10 threes and we<br />
made two,” Allen said.<br />
Kevin Agwomoh tallied 15<br />
points and five rebounds while<br />
Marvin Agwomoh scored 14<br />
points and grabbed 13 rebounds.<br />
But the Eagles garnered only five<br />
points off the bench, compared to<br />
six against Thornton.<br />
Up next<br />
The Friday, Dec. 7 game at<br />
Stagg opens the SouthWest Suburban<br />
Blue slate, it’s also the first of<br />
four games in eight days and six<br />
in 12, making the practices prior to<br />
playing the Chargers critical. The<br />
Eagles host St. Ignatius the following<br />
day, then play three straight at<br />
Oak Forest, Lincoln-Way East and<br />
Crete-Monee.
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ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT<br />
Lucky 13th season nets <strong>OP</strong> native<br />
Fitzgerald Big Ten Coach of Year<br />
Also, a look at<br />
Schofield’s new kicks<br />
and Klein’s big punts<br />
JEFF VORVA, Sports Editor<br />
The 13th time was the charm.<br />
Orland Park native Pat Fitzgerald<br />
was unanimously named Big<br />
Ten Conference Coach of the<br />
Year as the Northwestern boss<br />
won honors from both the media<br />
and coaches on Nov. 27.<br />
He led the Wildcats to an 8-1<br />
mark in the Big Ten Conference<br />
and won the West Division, where<br />
it went on to lose to Ohio State<br />
University, 45-24, in the Big Ten<br />
Conference title game on Saturday,<br />
Dec. 1 in Indianapolis.<br />
The former Sandburg standout<br />
is the first NU coach to take the<br />
honor since Randy Walker won it<br />
in 2000.<br />
“It starts and ends in our locker<br />
room,” Fitzgerald told the Big Ten<br />
Network. “Our young men have<br />
been incredibly resilient. We’ve<br />
had an amazing brotherhood all<br />
year and I’m just so thankful for<br />
all that they do. This is a program<br />
award. This isn’t about me. It takes<br />
everyone.”<br />
What most amazing about the<br />
accomplishment is that the Wildcats<br />
went into the Big Ten season<br />
1-2 in non-conference action, including<br />
a 39-34 home loss to Akron,<br />
in which the Zips came back<br />
from a 21-3 halftime deficit to beat<br />
a Big Ten team for the first time<br />
since 1894.<br />
But in the league, the Cats lost<br />
to Michigan, 20-17 and racked<br />
up wins over Michigan State, Nebraska,<br />
Rutgers, Wisconsin, Iowa,<br />
Minnesota and Illinois.<br />
Special cleats for Schofield<br />
When the Los Angeles Chargers<br />
face Cincinnati on Sunday, Dec. 9,<br />
Orland Park native Michael Schofield<br />
will be one of close to 40<br />
Orland Park native Pat Fitzgerald earned Big Ten Conference Coach<br />
of the Year honors in his 13th season as Northwestern’s head coach.<br />
PHOTO COURTESY OF NORTHWESTERN ATHLETICS<br />
Ricky Klein<br />
players on his team winning special<br />
cleats for the My Cause, My<br />
Cleats program for causes that are<br />
important to them.<br />
After the game, the cleats will<br />
be available for bidding on NFL<br />
Auctions with proceeds going to<br />
the players’ causes.<br />
Schofield’s cleats will feature<br />
Jane’s Warriors, in honor of his<br />
aunt, Jane Caliendo, a Sandburg<br />
teacher and coach who died in<br />
2014. Her foundation helps raise<br />
money for cancer research.<br />
Schofield and Dan Feeney, another<br />
Sandburg grad, are starting<br />
offensive linemen for the Chargers,<br />
who have a 9-3 record after<br />
Michael Schofield<br />
a 33-30 victory over Pittsburgh on<br />
Sunday, Dec. 2.<br />
Klein has huge senior year<br />
Sandburg graduate Ricky Klein,<br />
who had two varsity punts as a<br />
freshman and none as a sophomore<br />
or junior for Carthage College, had<br />
a huge senior season as he booted<br />
the ball 41 times for 1,633 yards (a<br />
39.8 average) including a 65-yard<br />
bomb against Wheaton in the 2018<br />
season. He was named to the All-<br />
College of Illinois and Wisconsin<br />
first team.<br />
Klein’s average was 14th in the<br />
nation among NCAA Division III<br />
kickers.<br />
Athlete of the Month<br />
Lincoln-Way Central volleyball player<br />
spikes the November competition<br />
Bill Jones, Editor<br />
After a junior year ACL injury,<br />
Lincoln-Way Central senior Dani<br />
Lauer bounced back to find herself<br />
on the Team 22: Girls Volleyball<br />
roster this season.<br />
Now, the Knight is Athlete of the<br />
Month.<br />
Lauer garnered the most votes in<br />
22nd Century Media’s November<br />
contest to earn that title.<br />
The Athlete of the Month competition<br />
pits featured Athlete of the<br />
Week selections from our south<br />
suburban newspapers against one<br />
another in an online voting contest.<br />
The next contest is to begin Monday,<br />
Dec. 10.<br />
To vote, visit <strong>OP</strong>Prairie.com,<br />
hover over the “Sports” menu tab<br />
and click “Athlete of the Month.”<br />
Readers can vote once per session<br />
per valid email address. Voting ends<br />
at 5 p.m. Dec. 25.<br />
All athletes featured in the November<br />
Athlete of the Week sports<br />
interviews are automatically entered<br />
into the contest.<br />
this week in...<br />
EAGLES VARSITY ATHLETICS<br />
BOYS BASKETBALL<br />
■Dec. ■ 7 – at Stagg, 6 p.m.<br />
■Dec. ■ 8 – hosts St. Ignatius, 2 p.m.<br />
■Dec. ■ 11 – at Oak Forest, 7 p.m.<br />
BOYS BOWLING<br />
■Dec. ■ 6 – at Lincoln-Way Central,<br />
4:30 p.m.<br />
■Dec. ■ 8 – hosts Carl Sandburg Invite,<br />
8 a.m.<br />
■Dec. ■ 11 – hosts hosts Lincoln-Way<br />
East, 4:30 p.m.<br />
■Dec. ■ 12 – at Chicago Christian,<br />
4:15 p.m.<br />
BOYS SWIMMING<br />
■Dec. ■ 7 – hosts Fenwick, 5 p.m.<br />
■Dec. ■ 11 – hosts Stagg, 5 p.m.<br />
WRESTLING<br />
■Dec. ■ 6 – hosts Lincoln-Way Central,<br />
5 p.m.<br />
Dani Lauer — a Lincoln-Way<br />
Central volleyball player — won<br />
the November Athlete of the<br />
Month competition for publisher<br />
22nd Century Media’s Southwest<br />
Chicago branch. 22nd Century<br />
Media File Photo<br />
■Dec. ■ 7 – hosts Bolingbrook, 5:30<br />
p.m.<br />
■Dec. ■ 8 – at Wheeling Quad-<br />
Stevenson-Lemont, 9 a.m.<br />
■Dec. ■ 13 – at Lincoln-Way East, 5<br />
p.m.<br />
GIRLS BASKETBALL<br />
■Dec. ■ 6 – at Stagg, 6 p.m.<br />
■Dec. ■ 11 – hosts Argo Community,<br />
6 p.m.<br />
GIRLS BOWLING<br />
■Dec. ■ 6 – at Lincoln-Way West, 4:30<br />
p.m.<br />
■Dec. ■ 8 – at Plainfield North<br />
Strikefest Invite, 9 a.m.<br />
■Dec. ■ 11 – hosts Stagg, 4:30 p.m.<br />
■Dec. ■ 13 – at Thornridge, 4:30 p.m.<br />
GIRLS GYMNASTICS<br />
■Dec. ■ 8 – at Hinsdale Central Invite,<br />
10 a.m.<br />
■Dec. ■ 15 – at Homewood-Flossmoor<br />
Invite, 11 a.m.
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FooTball (oFFenSe)<br />
22nd Century Media chose the best football student-athletes based on coach recommendations<br />
and player statistics in its seven-town southwest suburban coverage area and placed them on<br />
one super team: Team 22. The team is made up of student-athletes from Lincoln-Way Central, LW<br />
East, LW West, Providence Catholic, Andrew, Lockport Township, Tinley Park and Sandburg high<br />
schools. This is its offensive squad.<br />
FirST Team<br />
Compiled by 22nd Century Media staff<br />
Second Team<br />
QB: Greyson Grimm, LW West<br />
1,261 total yards, 13 touchdowns. 264<br />
rushing for 6 touchdowns. All-SWSC.<br />
RB: Ronin Gilbert, senior, Tinley<br />
167 carries for 875 yards, 9 touchdowns, 5<br />
100-plus-yard games. All-SSC Blue.<br />
RB: Caleb Marconi, junior, LW West<br />
839 yards rushing for a 6.2 per carry average<br />
and 9 touchdowns.<br />
WR: Chase Anderson, senior, LW East<br />
18 receptions for 442 yards and 5<br />
touchdowns.<br />
WR: Billy Dozier, junior, LW West<br />
20 catches for 372 yards, 5 touchdowns and<br />
1 kickoff return for a touchdown.<br />
WR: Jerrell Wright, junior, Provi<br />
16 catches for 280 yards, with 3<br />
touchdowns, 5 rushes for 50 yards.<br />
OL: Adam Jumah, senior, Andrew<br />
35 pancakes. Offense had 1,821 rushing<br />
yards and 5 yards per carry.<br />
OL: T.J. Galligani, senior, Provi<br />
All-around athletic and All-CCL Blue.<br />
OL: Marty O’Brien, senior, LW East<br />
Another strength on an incredible Griffins’<br />
O line.<br />
QB: Jack Baltz, senior, LW East<br />
2,283 yards total yards, 133 of<br />
216 passing, with 31 touchdowns.<br />
All-SWSC. Baltz was the engine<br />
behind an incredibly explosive<br />
offense in the 2018 season.<br />
RB: Devon Williams, junior, LW<br />
East<br />
1,094 rushing yards on 146<br />
carries, 19 touchdowns. Williams’<br />
work on the ground not only led<br />
him to plenty of end zones but<br />
kept the Griffins a dual threat.<br />
RB: Justin Ellis, senior, LW Central<br />
950 rushing yards with 10<br />
touchdowns, 330 yards receiving,<br />
155 return yards. All-SWSC. Ellis<br />
was all over the field, with 1,435<br />
all-purpose yards.<br />
WR: Jackson Ritter, senior, LW<br />
East<br />
52 receptions for 977 yards,<br />
60 long, with 16 touchdowns, 4<br />
kickoff returns for 102 yards, 43<br />
long, 3 punt returns with 41 long.<br />
All-SWSC as a tight end.<br />
WR: Matt Judd, senior, LW East<br />
38 receptions for 517 yards,<br />
6 touchdowns. All-SWSC. Judd<br />
worked this season to rack up big<br />
yardage for East and found the<br />
end zone several times himself.<br />
WR: Conner McWilliams, senior,<br />
LW Central<br />
42 receptions for 525 yards, 2<br />
touchdowns. 69 rushes for 400<br />
yards, 5 touchdowns. McWilliams’<br />
resumes as a catcher and rusher<br />
were equally impressive.<br />
OL: Anthony Sottosanto, senior,<br />
LW East<br />
The SouthWest Suburban<br />
Conference Athlete of the Year for<br />
offense. Period.<br />
OL: Dane Eggert, senior, LW East<br />
Eggert has been a consistently<br />
tough presence on the Griffins’ O<br />
line. All-SWSC.<br />
OL: Brian White, senior, LW West<br />
An All-SWSC this season from the Warrior.<br />
OL: Martin Bender, senior, LW West<br />
Another standout on the Warriors’ O line.<br />
K: Dominic Dzioban, junior, LW East<br />
11 of 15 field goals, 37 long, 67 of 69 extra<br />
points.<br />
Burns phoTography<br />
Honorable mentions:<br />
OL: Nate Mahoney, senior, LW<br />
West<br />
All-SWSC is impressive enough.<br />
But Mahoney topped it with an<br />
All-State season.<br />
OL: Jake Renfro, junior, Provi<br />
All-CCL Blue. He also took on both<br />
long and short snapping duties for<br />
the Celtics.<br />
OL: Drew Parrish, senior, LW<br />
Central<br />
He could play center, guard and<br />
tackle as needed for the Knights.<br />
All-SWSC.<br />
K: Ryan Barth, senior, Lockport<br />
33 yards per punt, long of 60,<br />
15 of 16 on extra points, 5 of 6<br />
on field goals, with a long of 43<br />
yards. All-SWSC. He made a mark<br />
despite a struggling squad.<br />
QB: Tommy Schiller, senior, Andrew.<br />
RB: Brenden Martus, senior, Provi;<br />
Donte Barber, senior, LW West;<br />
John Bickel, junior, Andrew; Rocco<br />
Iannantone, junior, Andrew; Dylan<br />
Holstein, senior, LW West; De’Whon<br />
Gavin, senior, Provi.<br />
WR: Nick Gula, senior, LW West; A.J.<br />
Henning, junior, LW East.<br />
OL: Kadden Heatherwick, senior,<br />
Andrew; Raymond Pustelnik, senior,<br />
Lockport; Ryan Swims, senior, Andrew.
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FooTball (deFenSe)<br />
FirST Team<br />
DL: Dylan Shelton, senior, LW East<br />
89 tackles, 54 solo, 35 assists,<br />
7 sacks, 20 tackles for a loss,<br />
1 fumble recovery. All-SWSC.<br />
Helped the Griffins to a plethora of<br />
shutouts this season.<br />
LB: Jake Kramer, junior, LW East<br />
115 tackles, 59 solo, 56 assists,<br />
5 sacks, 14 tackles for a loss,<br />
1 fumble recovery. Those trying<br />
to work beyond the Griffins’ line<br />
often met Kramer.<br />
22nd Century Media chose the best football student-athletes based on coach recommendations<br />
and player statistics in its seven-town southwest suburban coverage area to place them on one<br />
super team: Team 22. The team features student-athletes from Lincoln-Way Central, LW East, LW<br />
West, Providence Catholic, Andrew, Lockport Township, Tinley Park and Sandburg high schools.<br />
This is the defensive squad.<br />
Compiled by 22nd Century Media staff<br />
DL: Jake Janeczko, senior,<br />
Lockport<br />
68 tackles, 2 tackles for a loss, 1<br />
sack, 2 forced fumbles, 2 blocked<br />
kicks. The defensive tackle was a<br />
standout on a Porters squad that<br />
needed more.<br />
LB: Dan Scianna, senior, LW East<br />
109 tackles, 70 solo, 39 assists,<br />
7 sacks, 18 tackles for a loss, 1<br />
fumble recovery. All-SWSC. Those<br />
who didn’t find Kramer likely ran<br />
into Scianna.<br />
Burns phoTography<br />
DL: Elias Valdez, junior, Provi<br />
59 tackles, 2 fumble recoveries,<br />
2 sacks, 2 passes knocked<br />
down. All-CCL Blue. The Celtics’<br />
nose guard was the team’s most<br />
valuable defensive player.<br />
LB: Gus Christensen, senior, LW<br />
East<br />
78 tackles, 39 solo, 39 assists,<br />
2 sacks, 26 tackles for a loss,<br />
1 defensive touchdown. The<br />
defensive SWSC Athlete of the Year<br />
rounds out the East linebackers.<br />
DL: Mick Stewart, senior, LW East<br />
45-plus tackles, 10-plus tackles<br />
for a loss, 8 sacks, 1 interception,<br />
fumble recovery. Stewart helped<br />
to make games miserable for<br />
opponents’ offenses.<br />
LB: Alex Hirschfield, senior,<br />
Sandburg<br />
249 career tackles, 100 tackles<br />
(season), 3 sacks, 4 tackles for a<br />
loss, 1 blocked kick. All-SWSC. The<br />
Eagles’ linebacker was a beast<br />
who earned All-State honors.<br />
Second Team<br />
DL: Sean McLaughlin, junior, LW East<br />
43 tackles, 4 sacks, 9 tackles for a loss,<br />
2 forced fumbles.<br />
DL: Ben Seeber, junior, Provi<br />
41 tackles, 2 sacks, 2 tackles for loss, 8<br />
QB pressures.<br />
DL: Marco Corsetti, senior, LW West<br />
40 tackles, 7 sacks, 12.5 tackles for a<br />
loss.<br />
DL: Kaidon Lingle, senior, LW West<br />
40 tackles, 2.5 sacks, 8 tackles for a<br />
loss, 1 fumble recovery. All-SWSC.<br />
LB: Will Cichowski, senior, Lockport<br />
105 tackles, 2 interceptions. All-SWSC.<br />
LB: Brett Carberry, junior, LW West<br />
65 tackles, .5 sacks, 6.5 tackles for a<br />
loss.<br />
LB: Kevin O’Boyle, senior, Providence<br />
79 tackles, 2 sacks, 1 fumble recovery.<br />
All-CCL.<br />
LB: Anthony Tuminello, senior, Provi<br />
62 tackles, 2 sacks, 2 tackles for loss.<br />
All-CCL.<br />
DB: Aidan Tyk, senior, LW West<br />
43 tackles, 2 forced fumbles, 2 fumble<br />
recoveries, much more. All-SWSC.<br />
DB: Joe Gonzalez, senior, LW West<br />
41 tackles, 2.5 tackles for a loss, 4 pass<br />
breakups.<br />
DB: Ryan Manikowski, junior, Provi<br />
33 tackles, 6 interceptions, 2 pass<br />
knockdowns.<br />
Honorable mentions:<br />
DB: Ken Palmer, senior, LW East<br />
73 tackles, 40 solo, 33 assists, 2<br />
tackles for a loss, 7 interceptions,<br />
1 forced fumble, 1 fumble<br />
recovery, 3 defensive touchdowns<br />
and All-SWSC.<br />
DB: Joe DeHaan, junior, Andrew<br />
55 tackles, 5 pass breakups, 1<br />
sack, 3 interceptions. The strong<br />
safety was one of the T-Bolts’<br />
biggest standouts on the season,<br />
and he’s got one more with them.<br />
DB: Andrew Sherry, senior, LW<br />
West<br />
37 tackles, 2.5 sacks, 5<br />
interceptions, 7 pass breakups.<br />
All-SWSC. The Warriors’ defensive<br />
back was a constant threat to<br />
opposing QBs looking to air it out.<br />
DL: Jeremiah Dawson, senior, LW East; Adrian Wilson, junior, LW East; Matt<br />
Nevin, junior, LW West; Jackson Kameron, senior, LW Central; Dykeil Stingley,<br />
senior, Andrew; Peyton Knepper, junior, LW West.<br />
LB: Ryan Garbrecht, senior, Andrew; Jackson Hosman, senior, LW Central;<br />
Aaron Marcotte, senior, LW Central; Griffin Ketelaar, junior, LW West; Ameer<br />
Aqel, senior, Andrew; Moe Abuzir, senior, Sandburg.<br />
DB: Ian Troester, junior, LW Central; Josh Heavrin, senior, Sandburg; Jake<br />
Tomczak, senior, LW East; Mike Manning, senior, LW East.
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Cousins set the tone for Sandburg, Andrew and JCA<br />
JEFF VORVA, Sports Editor<br />
Sandburg’s Dominic Iannantone (right) is one of three cousins who are making an impact at their three respective schools. PHOTO SUBMITTED<br />
Roughly 10 years ago, a<br />
group of cousins from the<br />
Iannantone family would<br />
run around, play football<br />
and splash each other in a<br />
swimming pool during family<br />
parties.<br />
Three of those kids are<br />
now high school age and<br />
making a big splash of<br />
their own at three different<br />
schools.<br />
Dominic is a junior wrestler<br />
at Sandburg who last<br />
year qualified for sectional<br />
in the 106-pound class and<br />
posted a 23-19 overall mark.<br />
He is hoping to elevate his<br />
game this year and help the<br />
Eagles make it back to the<br />
team state finals, where they<br />
have been absent for the<br />
past three seasons.<br />
Rocco is a junior running<br />
back/defensive back<br />
who was one of the keys<br />
in leading the Andrew’s<br />
football team to back-toback<br />
playoff appearances<br />
for the first time since 2012<br />
and 2013. He was also a regional<br />
wrestling champ as a<br />
sophomore but decided to<br />
concentrate on just football<br />
this school year.<br />
Nick is a senior running<br />
back at Joliet Catholic<br />
Academy, which won the Illinois<br />
High School Class 5A<br />
state championship game on<br />
Nov. 24 after an improbable<br />
run after a 5-4 regular season.<br />
Dominic credits Rocco<br />
for getting his career rolling.<br />
“Rocco got me into wrestling,”<br />
Dominic said. “I<br />
didn’t know anything about<br />
it. I thought I would play<br />
football. Then we all grew<br />
up, and I never saw us doing<br />
what we’re all doing<br />
right now.”<br />
“Dom and I used to wrestle,<br />
and he was a scrapper,”<br />
Rocco said. “He would always<br />
stick his nose in and<br />
was never afraid of anything<br />
when he wrestled. I<br />
just think it’s awesome.”<br />
Sandburg has been a perennial<br />
state power but in<br />
recent years has been denied<br />
state appearances because<br />
the Eagles keep running<br />
into Marmion in the<br />
sectional.<br />
Dominic is hoping for a<br />
breakthrough this season<br />
and wants to get the team<br />
back to Bloomington.<br />
“We’re strong in all of our<br />
weights,” he said.<br />
Dominic, wrestling up at<br />
120, went 0-2 at the Conant<br />
Invitational on Nov. 24 but<br />
went 4-0 in recent action<br />
againt Stagg, Fremd, Batavia<br />
and Lyons. Michiganbound<br />
Patrick Nolan won<br />
at Conant at 138, Alex<br />
Hirschfield was a runnerup<br />
at 220, Jimmy Ferguson<br />
(126), Tyler Villa (160) and<br />
freshman Kevin Zimmer<br />
(195) took third as the Eagles<br />
claimed second place.<br />
Hirschfield, Nolan, Matthew<br />
Parker, Zach Bateman,<br />
Zimmer and Mike Bosco<br />
each went 4-0 in action last<br />
week.<br />
A decade ago, the Iannantone<br />
cousins were having<br />
fun as children at parties.<br />
“It was like we were all<br />
brothers,” Rocco said.<br />
Now...<br />
“I would have never<br />
imagined something like<br />
this,” Rocco said. “It is super-cool<br />
to see family members<br />
succeed like that — especially<br />
seeing Nick going<br />
to the state championship.<br />
Nick entered the state<br />
title game with 1,297 yards<br />
and ran 40 times for 318<br />
yards and three touchdowns<br />
in a 34-27 win over Montini<br />
in the most important game<br />
of his career. And he is even<br />
better in baseball.<br />
“He played like a beast,”<br />
Rocco said. “He was amazing.<br />
Rocco and Nick used to<br />
mix it up on the gridiron.<br />
“I played youth football<br />
for Plainfield, and Rocco<br />
played for Orland Hills and<br />
his dad was the coach,”<br />
Nick said. “They would always<br />
win. Their team was<br />
always better than ours. Every<br />
year, his dad would say<br />
they would beat us. It was a<br />
family rivalry.”<br />
“It was a lot of fun,”<br />
Rocco said. “I only played<br />
defense, and I was a safety<br />
and he was the running back<br />
on offense. When I was in<br />
seventh grade and he was in<br />
eighth, I got to tackle him<br />
once or twice. He was a big<br />
kid as an eighth-grader.”<br />
Dominic remembers<br />
some of the games when<br />
they were ages 8 or 9 as being<br />
pretty physical.<br />
“We used to run around<br />
and play a lot of football together,”<br />
Dominic said. “We<br />
used to toughen each other<br />
up a little bit. They were always<br />
bigger than me.”<br />
Dominic and Rocco have<br />
some time to play with before<br />
they have to make a<br />
college decision, although<br />
Rocco is starting to get<br />
some interest from Cincinnati,<br />
Benedictine, North<br />
Central and Illinois Wesleyan.<br />
Nick is heading to Johnson<br />
County Community<br />
College in Kansas City for<br />
baseball.<br />
He still has to pinch himself<br />
with how this season<br />
has gone.<br />
“If you would have<br />
told me even before the<br />
season what we would be<br />
doing, I wouldn’t have believed<br />
it,” Nick said. “Obviously,<br />
Rocco is doing really<br />
well at Andrew, and that’s<br />
really awesome. I can believe<br />
that because he’s really<br />
a hard worker. Dom is<br />
a hard worker, too, with his<br />
wrestling. It’s pretty cool to<br />
see us all succeeding.”
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fastbreak<br />
JEFF VORVA/22ND CENTURY<br />
MEDIA<br />
1ST AND 3<br />
A FEW FACTS ABOUT<br />
SANDBURG’S BOYS<br />
BOWLING’S PROGRAM.<br />
1. Statement<br />
The Eagles qualified<br />
for state five times<br />
in the past nine<br />
years and this year’s<br />
squad (ABOVE)<br />
wants to return after<br />
missing out last<br />
season.<br />
2. Worth Crowe-ing<br />
about<br />
Senior Cameron<br />
Crowe didn’t make it<br />
to state last year but<br />
finished 39th as a<br />
freshman and 16th<br />
as a sophomore.<br />
3. One champ<br />
In the 16 years of<br />
the state tournament<br />
for boys, Sandburg<br />
had one state<br />
individual champ -<br />
Joey Kopera in 2012<br />
- in the middle of a<br />
five-season streak<br />
in which the state<br />
champ came from a<br />
SouthWest Suburban<br />
Conference<br />
school.<br />
THURSDAY MORNING QUARTERBACK<br />
Sandburg, Andrew<br />
bowlers look to<br />
re-rack this season<br />
Jeff Vorva<br />
j.vorva@22ndcm.com<br />
A<br />
funny thing happened<br />
on Jan. 20 at<br />
Laraway Lanes in<br />
New Lenox.<br />
By “funny” I mean odd<br />
or peculiar funny. Not ha-ha<br />
funny.<br />
Certainly, there weren’t<br />
any ha-ha yuk-em-ups as far<br />
as Sandburg’s or Andrew’s<br />
boys bowling teams were<br />
concerned.<br />
On that day, Andrew<br />
finished in eighth place in<br />
sectional action with a 5,641<br />
pinfall — 21 pins from<br />
tying Oswego East for the<br />
sixth and final spot for an<br />
appearance in the Illinois<br />
High School Association<br />
state meet. Sandburg, which<br />
killed it in its own regional<br />
at Orland Bowl a week before<br />
with a 6,445, struggled<br />
with a 5,405 and finished<br />
13th of 16 teams.<br />
Naah. Not ha-ha funny.<br />
But what was odd/<br />
peculiar funny was that<br />
it was the first time since<br />
2003-2004 that at least one<br />
of those two District 230<br />
powerhouses didn’t go to<br />
the Illinois High School<br />
Association state finals.<br />
Heck, neither team even<br />
sent an individual to state,<br />
which was even more eyepopping<br />
because then-junior<br />
Sandburg star Cameron<br />
Crowe had a stunning 254<br />
average in a dozen games<br />
at the Southwest Suburban<br />
Conference Blue meet and<br />
regional action. He finished<br />
with a 1,114 - a 186 average<br />
in the sectional.<br />
“I use it as motivation,”<br />
Crowe said of the sectional<br />
struggles. “The next day, I<br />
was at the bowling alley for<br />
a long time practicing. I was<br />
there for hours. My goal is<br />
to avenge that and make it<br />
back to state.”<br />
When he looks back on<br />
that disastrous day, he tries<br />
to put a nice spin on it, but<br />
during a recent interview<br />
with him after a win over<br />
Andrew, it seemed like the<br />
sting may not be completely<br />
gone.<br />
“It’s all right...I guess...I<br />
don’t know,” Crowe said.<br />
Crowe was just as disappointed<br />
the team didn’t<br />
Sandburg boys bowling coach Jeff Kwilose (left) and star senior Cameron Crowe share<br />
a laugh during a match against Andrew on Nov. 27 at Orland Bowl. The two hope to be<br />
yukking it up after sectional play in January. JEFF VORVA/22ND CENTURY MEDIA<br />
make it either. Sophomore<br />
Tim Novak was also<br />
bummed about that day.<br />
“I was a freshman and I<br />
didn’t step up,” he said.<br />
The Andrew athletes were<br />
all wondering what might<br />
have been.<br />
“It was upsetting because<br />
we were so close,” senior<br />
Jeff Serafini said. “We just<br />
couldn’t close out the deal.”<br />
“It was mainly the<br />
spares,” senior Rich Payton<br />
said. “It’s just a game of<br />
spares. People like to say<br />
in baseball that it’s a game<br />
of inches. It’s the same<br />
way in bowling. We were<br />
very, very close to making<br />
it to state. If we could have<br />
made a few more spares, we<br />
would have made it.”<br />
OK, enough about last<br />
year. The fellas from both<br />
squads figure they are not<br />
that far away from making<br />
the long trip to St. Clair<br />
Bowl in O’Fallon next Jan.<br />
25-26 for the state meet.<br />
Coach Jeff Kwilose’s<br />
Sandburg team also features<br />
Matthew Bartlett, Alexander<br />
Grezlovski and Marc Moll<br />
Jr.<br />
Mark Lobes’ Andrew<br />
squad also features John<br />
Malinowski, Jason Richmond<br />
and Trent Smith.<br />
Can Andrew get to state?<br />
“We need a little bit of<br />
practice, but yes,” Payton<br />
said.<br />
“If we do what we are<br />
capable of doing, we should<br />
be a shoo-in this year,”<br />
Serafini said.<br />
As for Sandburg, Crowe<br />
said it will be tough. While<br />
the IHSA hasn’t officially<br />
announced postseason<br />
assignments, the Eagles<br />
think the sectional will be at<br />
Orland Bowl.<br />
“Everyone’s scores are<br />
so close together,” Crowe<br />
said. “There are probably<br />
14 teams that could be good<br />
enough to make it to state<br />
from our sectional. We have<br />
to come back and work<br />
hard. We have an advantage<br />
that it will be held here.”<br />
LISTEN UP<br />
“I use it as motivation. The next day, I<br />
was at the bowling alley for a long time<br />
practicing. I was there for hours.”<br />
Cameron Crowe — Senior Sandburg bowler, on a rough<br />
performance in sectional play in January<br />
What 2 Watch<br />
Basketball, 6 p.m. Thursday Dec. 6 and Friday, Dec. 7<br />
• Sandburg’s girls visit Stagg in a District 230 battle on<br />
Thursday and the boys visit Stagg the next night.<br />
INDEX<br />
43 - Alumni Spotlight<br />
41 - Athlete of the Week<br />
Compiled by Sports Editor Jeff Vorva, J.Vorva@22NDCM.com
Orland Park’s Hometown Newspaper | www.opprairie.com | December 6, 2018<br />
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Sandburg’s Dominic Iannantone and cousins Rocco and Nick are creating a buzz at three different schools, Page 46<br />
GRIDIRON GREATS<br />
The All-Area football team is announced,<br />
Pages 44-45<br />
HO<strong>OP</strong>S HAPPENINGS<br />
A look at Sandburg’s boys and girls<br />
basketball teams, Page 42<br />
Andrew’s Rocco<br />
Iannantone (left photo)<br />
Sandburg’s Dominic<br />
Iannantone (middle) and<br />
Joliet Catholic Academy’s<br />
Nick Iannantone are<br />
cousins who are<br />
enjoying success at their<br />
respective schools.