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bearded brotherhood<br />

New Lenox Police Department competes with other<br />

departments in No Shave November fundraiser, Page 8<br />

One isn’t enough<br />

New Lenox native prepares for next cross-country<br />

bike ride fundraiser for veterans, Page 10<br />

Super-smart<br />

Latest Education Guide gives readers an informational<br />

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LEFT: Pictured is the oldest known<br />

photograph of Grace Episcopal<br />

Church in New Lenox, taken in<br />

1886 from the intersection of Pine<br />

and Hickory Streets.<br />

RIGHT: Pictured is a photo of the<br />

church in 2018. Photos Submitted<br />

Grace Episcopal Church hits milestone year of serving the community, Pages 4-5


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FRIDAY<br />

Santa’s Village<br />

5-7 p.m. Martino Jr. High,<br />

731 E. Joliet Highway, New<br />

Lenox. The school will host<br />

a holiday-themed event<br />

where children can take<br />

pictures with Santa, watch<br />

movies, make ornaments,<br />

enjoy snacks and more.<br />

Entry fee is an unwrapped,<br />

new toy or a monetary donation<br />

for families in need.<br />

Jingle and Mingle<br />

5:30-7:30 p.m. Dec. 7,<br />

The Atrium at Gatto’s Restaurant<br />

& Bar, 1938 E. Lincoln<br />

Highway, New Lenox.<br />

Join the New Lenox Chamber<br />

of Commerce for a festive<br />

night of networking,<br />

food and beverages, 50/50<br />

Merry Money Raffle and<br />

2018 award announcements<br />

— all while supporting a<br />

good cause. Cost is $25<br />

per person. To register, call<br />

(815) 485-4241.<br />

SATURDAY<br />

Schmuhl School Open House<br />

10 a.m.-2 p.m. Dec. 8,<br />

Schmuhl School, Hickory<br />

Creek Preserve, 20733 S.<br />

Schoolhouse Road, New<br />

Lenox. Experience what<br />

school was like in a oneroom<br />

school in the 1930s.<br />

Fun for all ages. At New<br />

Lenox Area Historical Society,<br />

history is fun. For more<br />

information, contact the office<br />

at (815) 485-5576.<br />

Polar Express Party<br />

10 a.m.-2 p.m. Dec. 8,<br />

Lincoln-Way West Cafeteria,<br />

21701 Gougar Road,<br />

New Lenox. All aboard the<br />

Polar Express! There will be<br />

train rides, activities and a<br />

visit from Santa. Cost is $5.<br />

Santa Neighborhood Visits<br />

by the <strong>NL</strong>FPD<br />

11 a.m. Dec. 8, Waterchase<br />

Estates, Bristol Park<br />

and Bluestone Bay neighborhoods,<br />

New Lenox. Santa<br />

will be riding around various<br />

neighborhoods in New<br />

Lenox in a fire engine. For<br />

more information, contact<br />

the New Lenox Fire Protection<br />

District at (815) 463-<br />

4500.<br />

SUNDAY<br />

Chorale Christmas Concert<br />

3 p.m. Dec. 9, Lincoln-<br />

Way East Performing Arts<br />

Center, 201 Colorado Ave.,<br />

Frankfort. “Sing We Now<br />

of Christmas” will be presented<br />

by the Lincoln-Way<br />

Area Chorale. Tickets may<br />

be purchased online at www.<br />

lwac.com, from any Chorale<br />

member, or by calling (708)<br />

479-1863 or (815) 469-<br />

1010. Cost is $18 for adults<br />

and $16 for seniors and students.<br />

MONDAY<br />

Holiday Lights Contest<br />

Deadline to register is<br />

Dec. 10. Contest will take<br />

place 6:30-10 p.m. Saturday,<br />

Dec. 15. Open to all<br />

homes in the New Lenox<br />

Community Park District<br />

boundaries. Judging will<br />

take place on the weekend of<br />

December 15 and 16 in the<br />

categories of: overall curb<br />

appeal, originality and use<br />

of theme, and creativity and<br />

design. Winners for 1st and<br />

2nd place will be notified<br />

on Wednesday, December<br />

19. To enter, email Tracy at<br />

twrase@newlenoxparks.org.<br />

Due to popularity of the contest<br />

last year, we have a maximum<br />

amount of 15 houses<br />

that can enter.<br />

UPCOMING<br />

Cookies with Mrs. Claus<br />

10:30-11:15 a.m. Saturday,<br />

Dec. 15, New Lenox<br />

Public Library, 120 Veterans<br />

Parkway, New Lenox.<br />

Join Mrs. Claus and some<br />

North Pole elves for festive<br />

stories, a craft, cookies, and<br />

elf games. To register, visit<br />

www.newlenoxlibrary.org.<br />

Lunch with the Grinch<br />

10 a.m. and noon Saturday,<br />

Dec. 15, Lincolnway<br />

Special Recreation Association,<br />

1900 Heatherglen<br />

Drive, New Lenox. Join the<br />

LWSRA for their third annual<br />

Lunch with the Grinch.<br />

There will be two, 2-hour<br />

sessions. This event is open<br />

to the public, and all children<br />

must be accompanied<br />

by an adult. Space is limited.<br />

Register at www.eventbrite.<br />

com and search for “Lunch<br />

with the Grinch” in New<br />

Lenox.<br />

Santa Neighborhood Visits<br />

by the <strong>NL</strong>FPD<br />

11 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 15,<br />

Laraway Ridege, Horizon<br />

Meadows and Taylor Glen<br />

neighborhoods, New Lenox.<br />

Santa will be riding around<br />

various neighborhoods in<br />

New Lenox in a fire engine.<br />

For more information, contact<br />

the New Lenox Fire<br />

Protection District at (815)<br />

463-4500.<br />

Santa Visit<br />

11 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday,<br />

Dec. 15, Raffy’s Candy<br />

Store, 2571 E. Lincoln Highway,<br />

New Lenox. For more<br />

information, call (815) 320-<br />

6152.<br />

Scooby-Doo Christmas<br />

6:30-7:30 p.m. Monday,<br />

Dec. 17, New Lenox<br />

Public Library, 120 Veterans<br />

Parkway, New Lenox.<br />

Watch the movie, “Scooby-Doo<br />

Christmas,” have<br />

some Scooby Snax, and<br />

take pictures in The Mystery<br />

Machine photo booth.<br />

To register, visit www.new<br />

lenoxlibrary.org.<br />

Flower Pot Ornaments<br />

6-7:15 p.m. Wednesday,<br />

Dec. 19, New Lenox Public<br />

Library, 120 Veterans Parkway,<br />

New Lenox. Create<br />

matching Mickey and Minnie<br />

flower pot ornaments for<br />

your tree. To register, visit<br />

www.newlenoxlibrary.org.<br />

Nothing Bundt Cakes<br />

Fundraiser<br />

10 a.m.-4 p.m. Thursday,<br />

Dec. 20 and 7 a.m.-1:30<br />

p.m. Friday, Dec. 21, outside<br />

of Silver Cross Hospital’s<br />

Seasons Dining Room, 1900<br />

Silver Cross Blvd., New<br />

Lenox. The Silver Cross<br />

Foundation has partnered<br />

with Nothing Bundt Cakes<br />

in Orland Park to raise funds<br />

to purchase new equipment<br />

and enhance the programs<br />

and services available at the<br />

hospital. For more information,<br />

or to make a donation<br />

to the Silver Cross Foundation,<br />

visit www.silvercross.<br />

org or call (815) 300-7105.<br />

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users by submitting your event at<br />

NewLenoxPatriot.com/calendar<br />

For just print*, email all information to<br />

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ONGOING<br />

Diaper Drive<br />

Ongoing through Wednesday,<br />

Dec. 19, Rep. Margo<br />

McDermed’s Office,<br />

11032 W. Lincoln Highway,<br />

Frankfort. Donations<br />

of diapers, baby wipes and<br />

diaper rash cream will be<br />

accepted and distributed to<br />

local nonprofits that help<br />

new mothers and families<br />

in need. Residents can also<br />

set up deliveries directly tot<br />

he office from online retailers.<br />

Poinsettia Sale<br />

Support the Lincoln-Way<br />

Transition program through<br />

their annual poinsettia sale.<br />

All of the plants are grown<br />

by students in the program.<br />

Plants cost $10 each, which<br />

includes a holiday planter<br />

decoration and decorative<br />

foil. Both white and red<br />

plants are available as supplies<br />

last. For more information<br />

or to order plants,<br />

call (815) 462-2229 or<br />

email lwtransition@lw210.<br />

org.<br />

Christmas in the Commons<br />

Saturdays and Sundays<br />

through Sunday, Jan. 6, Village<br />

Commons, 1 Veterans<br />

Parkway, New Lenox. Enjoy<br />

a full season of entertainment<br />

and activities in<br />

the commons and come see<br />

the largest illuminated Santa<br />

Claus in the United States.<br />

There will be a dazzling<br />

light display throughout the<br />

Commons, holiday markets<br />

and ice skating. For a full list<br />

of times, dates, events and<br />

activities, visit www.new<br />

lenox.net.


newlenoxpatriot.com NEWS<br />

the New Lenox Patriot | December 6, 2018 | 3<br />

New Lenox Village Board<br />

Officials talk infrastructure plans, rebates<br />

Megan Schuller<br />

Freelance Reporter<br />

A public hearing was<br />

held during the regular Nov.<br />

26 Village Board meeting<br />

regarding the annexation<br />

agreement of a more than<br />

half acre property at 340 E.<br />

Joliet Highway, which will<br />

be the future site of a singlefamily<br />

home. There were<br />

no public comments on the<br />

matter, so the board moved<br />

ahead to do first reads of the<br />

ordinances regarding the<br />

property.<br />

Property owner Frank<br />

Pretzel plans to relocate the<br />

historical barn currently on<br />

the annexing property to his<br />

adjacent property. The barn<br />

was built sometime between<br />

1840-1850 Pretzel estimates,<br />

with a timber frame and dirt<br />

floor. Because the foundation<br />

is not solid, the land<br />

owner agreed it will have a<br />

foundation and concrete put<br />

in before moving<br />

“It’s nice to see you keeping<br />

that and not tearing it<br />

down,” Mayor Tim Baldermann<br />

said. “It’s also nice<br />

that you are restoring it and<br />

keeping it on the property.”<br />

The Board also discussed<br />

the water and sewer connection<br />

fee analysis update and<br />

the sewer rate study update<br />

proposal, both of which<br />

were unanimously passed.<br />

“We did the sewer study<br />

a few years ago. It’s most<br />

definitely in need of a refresh<br />

to take a look at that,”<br />

Administrator Kurt Carroll<br />

said. “The water and sewer,<br />

we haven’t looked at that in<br />

a while.”<br />

Baldermann said the village<br />

has seen a lot of success<br />

because of moves made<br />

by the board several years<br />

ago.<br />

“When we get this analysis<br />

it will give us concrete<br />

data for us look at the Committee<br />

of the Whole Meeting,”<br />

Balderman said.<br />

Baldermann also said it’s<br />

the right time to reevaluate<br />

it after everything the village<br />

is doing to plan for a wastewater<br />

treatment plant, the redundant<br />

water line from Oak<br />

Lawn and the burden that the<br />

commercial and residential<br />

taxpayers have seen in their<br />

water and sewer bills.<br />

“It’s time for us to look<br />

at that and say we approved<br />

some increase two years<br />

back to get ready to cover<br />

the cost of what we were<br />

going to do with waste water,”<br />

Baldermann said. “But<br />

it gets to a point that if the<br />

costs go up and are justified<br />

for infrastructure then that’s<br />

what we have to do, we have<br />

to bite the bullet.”<br />

Baldermann said the load<br />

will not remain on current<br />

taxpayers because the Village’s<br />

future growth and new<br />

residents will help carry the<br />

burden.<br />

“We don’t have much<br />

choice, but we are building<br />

a water line for a couple<br />

decades out of growth and<br />

a regional waste treatment<br />

plant for a couple decades<br />

out of growth,” Baldermann<br />

said. “We don’t want to be<br />

burdening current residents<br />

more then we have to.”<br />

At the end of the meeting,<br />

the Board urged citizens to<br />

return their tax refund forms<br />

to receive a rebate of the village<br />

portion of their tax forms.<br />

It recently went out, and the<br />

deadline to complete the application<br />

is Monday, Dec. 31.<br />

“That’s your money, get<br />

it in,” Baldermann told the<br />

audience.<br />

According to the Finance<br />

Director Kim Auchstetter,<br />

the village has been issuing<br />

rebates for several years after<br />

having passed a referendum<br />

that promised an at least 33<br />

percent rebate. In past years<br />

it has been varying around<br />

a 40 percent rebate, but this<br />

year the village decided on<br />

rebating 50 percent.<br />

The next regularly scheduled<br />

meeting will be on<br />

Monday, Dec. 10.<br />

Featuring:<br />

• The largest illuminated Santa Claus in the United States<br />

• A dazzling light display throughout the Village Commons<br />

• The Holiday Market<br />

• Ice skating<br />

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4 | December 6, 2018 | The New Lenox Patriot NEWS<br />

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Grace Episcopal Church marks 150-year milestone<br />

Megan Schuller<br />

Freelance Reporter<br />

Brightly colored red doors<br />

mark the one of the historic<br />

religious pillars of the New<br />

Lenox community, Grace<br />

Episcopal Church. It’s a<br />

church that has served the<br />

New Lenox area for a milestone<br />

150 years after hitting<br />

its anniversary on Nov. 22.<br />

When the church began<br />

as a “mission” church more<br />

than a century and a half<br />

ago , it had about 20-30<br />

members in 1868. It was<br />

an branch of the St. Paul’s<br />

Episcopal Church in Manhattan<br />

before it was closed<br />

in the 1960s and their memberships<br />

merged together.<br />

Now, Grace Church now has<br />

nearly 150 members.<br />

“It is an amazing place,”<br />

Sue Sommer, the first female<br />

priest at Grace Episcopal<br />

Church, said. “It doesn’t<br />

surprise me that it has been<br />

here 150 years, and I won’t<br />

be surprised to see it have<br />

150 more years. It was a<br />

privilege to have formed my<br />

priesthood here.”<br />

The Rev. Greg Millikin<br />

was named the first openly<br />

gay priest at Grace Episcopal<br />

Church earlier this year.<br />

Millikin’s husband, is currently<br />

in seminary to become<br />

a priest, as well. Millikin<br />

said that Grace Episcopal<br />

Church is well-poised for a<br />

bright future looking down<br />

the road to the next 150<br />

years of worship.<br />

“It’s a huge testament to<br />

its endurance and the love<br />

its people that it is stood<br />

the test of time here in New<br />

Lenox, right in the heart of<br />

the village for a century and<br />

a half,” Millikin said.<br />

Grace Episcopal Church’s<br />

prairie-gothic sanctuary currently<br />

stands as the oldest<br />

worship space in continual<br />

use in New Lenox. Designed<br />

by New York’s Richard<br />

Upjohn, it was completed<br />

in 1871, although the congregation<br />

had already been<br />

worshipping in the original<br />

Methodist church building<br />

for two years prior on Hickory<br />

Street, which has since<br />

been demolished.<br />

The sanctuary was later<br />

restored to its original state<br />

in 2015. The parish hall was<br />

constructed in the 1970’s<br />

and now is a multipurpose<br />

space used for parties and<br />

community events, such as<br />

the gala.<br />

“I don’t think Grace<br />

- much less many other<br />

churches - would have accepted<br />

a queer priest even<br />

as recent as fifteen or twenty<br />

years ago, so I am indebted<br />

to someone like Sue - and all<br />

women clergy - for paving<br />

the way for the LGBT community,”<br />

Millikin said.<br />

Longtime church member<br />

and re-elected State Rep.<br />

Margo McDermed presented<br />

the church with a resolution<br />

from the House of Representatives<br />

to honor the historic<br />

milestone of the church.<br />

“Being here every Sunday,<br />

you don’t think of the<br />

lineage and tradition of the<br />

church within the community,”<br />

McDermed said.<br />

“This resolution refers to the<br />

long standing history of the<br />

church.”<br />

Mayor Tim Baldermann<br />

stopped by the gala to drop<br />

off a Village of New Lenox<br />

resolution to also nod to the<br />

significance of the church to<br />

the local community.<br />

As the village continues a<br />

trend of upward exponential<br />

growth, the church plans to<br />

also grow with and alongside<br />

the community.<br />

“Grace can really stand<br />

out in the community as a<br />

place that, like all Episcopal<br />

churches do at their best,<br />

holds together traditional<br />

Anglican worship with modern,<br />

progressive values and<br />

teaching,” Millikin said.<br />

“And Grace really stands<br />

on the shoulders of all the<br />

amazing people who have<br />

led and worshipped here for<br />

this past century and a half.”<br />

Millikin said the biggest<br />

thing that the church did this<br />

year was be present at Mokena’s<br />

first Pride Festival to<br />

send a positive message to<br />

the community.<br />

“It was a huge evangelical<br />

tool for us, and I was able<br />

to speak to the crowd and<br />

tell the LGBT community<br />

that they are welcome at our<br />

church, and that I will gladly<br />

perform same-sex marriages<br />

at Grace, too,” Millikin said.<br />

Bishop of Chicago Jeffery<br />

Lee said during his speech<br />

that the narrative of the past<br />

150 years is what stands out<br />

to him about the church.<br />

“What struck me is the<br />

story of the people here, the<br />

founding families and faithful<br />

parishioners,” Lee said.<br />

“A church is nothing more<br />

or less then the people a part<br />

of it.”<br />

Lee said the church parishioners<br />

embodied the definition<br />

of sacrament which he<br />

defined as an “outward and<br />

visible sign of inward spiritual<br />

grace” before giving a<br />

toast and reciting a prayer.<br />

“God has chosen us to be<br />

the agents of reconciliation<br />

and hope in this place,” Lee<br />

said.<br />

Parishioner and Church<br />

Historian Pam Bloom, of<br />

Frankfort, said that she<br />

hopes residents remember<br />

how the church dug its roots<br />

in the community through<br />

the St. Paul Church.<br />

“I’m very happy to be here<br />

tonight,” Bloom said during<br />

a gala event Nov. 10 celebrating<br />

the anniversary. “I<br />

hope as a church community<br />

we don’t forget about the<br />

Please see church, 5<br />

This photo was taken in time of the turn of the 20th century, where Grace New Lenox<br />

welcomed a priest and his family, the Rev. Charles R. Hodge (left), pictured in front of the<br />

sanctuary with his wife and three children. Photos Submitted<br />

Grace’s Sunday School program was in full swing in 1946 when this photograph of the<br />

church’s little worshippers was taken.


newlenoxpatriot.com NEWS<br />

the New Lenox Patriot | December 6, 2018 | 5<br />

church<br />

From Page 4<br />

St. Paul Church in Manhattan.<br />

We’re here because of<br />

them.”<br />

Grace Episcopal Church<br />

has had several major milestones<br />

in its history, besides<br />

Millikin being the first openly<br />

gay priest, The Rev. Sue<br />

Sommer was the first female<br />

priest at Grace from 1999 to<br />

2006.<br />

“There was concern back<br />

in the day, when it was still a<br />

novelty,” Sommer said. “The<br />

community really embraced<br />

me, though. I thought, well,<br />

if I am going to be the first<br />

woman vicar, then I better<br />

do a good job of it.”<br />

Grace Episcopal Church<br />

also became well- known for<br />

its “ham dinner” fundraisers<br />

for many decades into<br />

the 1990s, which became a<br />

community-wide event in<br />

New Lenox. Since that tradition<br />

ended, lobster dinners,<br />

barbecues and Italian Nights<br />

replaced it.<br />

The gala earlier this month<br />

was a chance for the community<br />

and church parishioners<br />

to not only look back<br />

at how far the church has<br />

come, but to look forward in<br />

how far the church can go in<br />

the future.<br />

“The next 150 years<br />

should begin, we hope, with<br />

an influx of new families<br />

hoping to make this faith<br />

community their new spiritual<br />

home,” Millikin said.<br />

From the top of the bell<br />

tower to the red wooden<br />

doors facing the street, these<br />

not only signify the church<br />

as episcopal, but as an inviting<br />

and historic part of the<br />

New Lenox and surrounding<br />

communities.<br />

Check out www.gracenew<br />

lenox.org/history for more<br />

information on the church.<br />

Sue Sommer, the first female priest of Grace Episcopal Church, sits in a pew admiring the<br />

restored church’s worship room during a gala event last month honoring the church’s<br />

anniversary. She was with Grace from 1999 to 2006. Photos by Megan Schuller/22nd<br />

Century media<br />

police reports<br />

Elwood man charged after allegedly hitting co-worker<br />

Danny R. Master, 51, of<br />

133 Nick Drive in Elwood,<br />

was charged with battery<br />

Nov. 21 during an incident<br />

at Valvoline Express Care,<br />

on the 300 block of Alana<br />

Drive, which is where he<br />

works.<br />

Police said Master struck<br />

a 34-year-old co-worker,<br />

causing minor injuries but<br />

refused to seek medical<br />

treatment. After the investigation,<br />

police reportedly arrested<br />

Master and transported<br />

him to the New Lenox<br />

Police Department.<br />

Nov. 26<br />

• A New Lenox resident’s<br />

Target credit card information<br />

reportedly was stolen<br />

and used to make a $1,800<br />

purchase at the store.<br />

Another New Lenox resident’s<br />

Target credit card<br />

information reportedly was<br />

stolen and used to make<br />

a $2,800 purchase at the<br />

store. Police said the resident<br />

used the Target card<br />

to make a purchase and<br />

noticed later that day of<br />

the added fraudulent purchase.<br />

Nov. 25<br />

• A New Lenox resident’s<br />

personal checking information<br />

reportedly was stolen<br />

and used to cash a fraudulent<br />

check.<br />

• Shayne C. Turner, 22, of<br />

9818 Bent Branch Lane,<br />

Dallas, Texas, was charged<br />

with driving under the influence<br />

of alcohol when he was<br />

stopped at Lincoln Highway<br />

and William Street for allegedly<br />

speeding. In addition,<br />

he did not have a valid driver’s<br />

license and the vehicle<br />

was uninsured.<br />

and make fraudulent purchases.<br />

Nov. 23<br />

• A New Lenox resident’s<br />

wallet reportedly was stolen<br />

and credit cards were used to<br />

make numerous fraudulent<br />

purchases.<br />

• About $300 worth of alcohol<br />

reportedly was stolen<br />

from Jewel, on the 400 block<br />

of Nelson Road.<br />

Nov. 21<br />

• A pair of eyeglasses worth<br />

about $400 reportedly was<br />

stolen at Anytime Fitness,<br />

on the 800 block of Laraway<br />

Road, while the person was<br />

working out.<br />

Nov. 12<br />

• A fraudulent $100 bill reportedly<br />

was used at IHOP,<br />

on the 400 block of East Lincoln<br />

Highway.<br />

Nov. 11<br />

• A person’s wallet reportedly<br />

was stolen at Bulldog’s<br />

Ale House, on the 2300<br />

block of East Joliet Highway,<br />

and the person’s credit<br />

card was used to pay for<br />

someone else’s bill.<br />

EDITOR’S NOTE: The New<br />

Lenox Patriot’s Police Reports<br />

are compiled from official<br />

reports found online on the<br />

New Lenox Police Department’s<br />

website or releases<br />

issued by the department and<br />

other agencies. Anyone listed<br />

in these reports is considered<br />

to be innocent of all charges<br />

until proven guilty in a court<br />

of law.<br />

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Grace Episcopal Church priest the Rev. Greg Millikin chats with parishioner Barb Plantz, of<br />

Mokena, before the gala began.<br />

Nov. 24<br />

• A New Lenox resident’s<br />

personal information reportedly<br />

was stolen and used to<br />

open multiple lines of credit<br />

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New Lenox, Lockport and<br />

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winners in print, along with<br />

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Mokena, <strong>NL</strong>,<br />

Manhattan raise<br />

over $2K for Cancer<br />

Support Center<br />

T.J. Kremer III<br />

Contributing Editor<br />

Area residents who<br />

thought that their local<br />

law enforcement officers<br />

were looking a little more<br />

scruffy than usual this past<br />

month were right; Mokena,<br />

New Lenox and Manhattan<br />

police participated in<br />

No Shave November to<br />

raise money for The Cancer<br />

Support Center, a nonprofit<br />

organization that offers services<br />

to people across the<br />

south suburbs with offices<br />

in Mokena and Homewood.<br />

“The way this started<br />

was my officers came to<br />

the commanders and asked<br />

if they could do No Shave<br />

November,” Mokena Police<br />

Chief Steven Vaccaro said.<br />

“...This year we decided<br />

we were going to move forward,<br />

and what we did is<br />

— we had a lot of our officers<br />

who were interested.<br />

I reached out to [Manhattan<br />

Police] Chief [Joe] Wazny<br />

and [New Lenox Police]<br />

Chief [Bob] Sterba asking<br />

if they wanted to make it a<br />

Lincoln Way public safety<br />

challenge.”<br />

All told, the three police<br />

departments combined to<br />

raise $2,600 — New Lenox<br />

with $1,600, Mokena with<br />

$760 and Manhattan with<br />

$240 — for The Center.<br />

“They outdid us, which is<br />

Members of the Mokena, New Lenox and Manhattan police<br />

departments, along with representatives from The Cancer<br />

Support Center, pose for a group photo Friday, Nov. 30, at<br />

The Center’s Mokena location. The three police departments<br />

raised a combined $2,600 for The Center as part of No Shave<br />

November. T.J. Kremer III/22nd Century Media<br />

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said. “It’s a friendly competition<br />

and there’s always<br />

next year.”<br />

New Lenox’s Chief Sterba<br />

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for the cause in<br />

raising the most of the three<br />

police departments.<br />

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Web Design, Statistics,<br />

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<strong>NL</strong> native plans second cross country ride to benefit veterans<br />

Sefcik aims to raise<br />

$50,000 to help<br />

wounded get active,<br />

involved again<br />

Amanda Villiger<br />

Assistant Editor<br />

New Lenox native Tracy<br />

Sefcik completed her crosscountry<br />

bike trip from California<br />

to Florida earlier this<br />

year and is already planning<br />

her next one.<br />

“Well, you know, I can’t<br />

just do this once. I’ve got to<br />

do it again, don’t I?” Sefcik<br />

said. “I guess it’s my calling.”<br />

During her first ride<br />

for charity, Sefcik raised<br />

more than $30,000 for the<br />

Gary Sinise Foundation in<br />

support of veterans. Her<br />

next endeavour is to raise<br />

$50,000 for a charity closer<br />

to home called the Oscar<br />

Mike Foundation.<br />

While the ride itself is<br />

still about two-and-a-half<br />

years down the road, Sefcik<br />

said it is important that she<br />

starts fundraising now so<br />

she can meet her goal.<br />

The fundraiser officially<br />

started Nov. 7 on her website<br />

www.crosscountrycyc<br />

le4vets.com. The day holds<br />

special meaning for Sefcik,<br />

a Navy veteran herself, because<br />

it is the anniversary<br />

of the day her uncle’s plane<br />

went down in Korea many<br />

years ago and he was determined<br />

to be Missing In<br />

Action.<br />

The Oscar Mike Foundation<br />

is located in Rockford,<br />

but serves veterans around<br />

the country through their<br />

programs, which are specifically<br />

aimed at getting<br />

wounded and disabled veterans<br />

active again through a<br />

variety of activities, including<br />

exercise, meal planning,<br />

flight lessons, shooting<br />

practice, kayaking, paddleboarding,<br />

fishing, horseback<br />

riding and skydiving.<br />

Participants are flown out<br />

to spend a week at the foundation’s<br />

compound, where<br />

Sefcik said the goal is to<br />

give them a new lease on<br />

life and a positive outlook<br />

for the future despite their<br />

limitations and injuries.<br />

“It’s just getting them<br />

back feeling like they’re<br />

alive again,” Sefcik said.<br />

“ ... A lot of people, when<br />

they come back from Afghanistan<br />

or war they don’t<br />

feel like they have anything<br />

left to live for.”<br />

She heard about the foundation<br />

through Facebook<br />

and said she knew very<br />

quickly that she wanted to<br />

do something to help out an<br />

organization located closer<br />

to home.<br />

What really inspired her<br />

though, was seeing their allveteran<br />

disabled rugby team<br />

in action.<br />

“I see some of these guys<br />

and they have no legs and<br />

one arm, and they’re out<br />

there in these wheelchairs<br />

banging into each other, and<br />

I’m like, ‘oh my gosh,’” she<br />

said. “But seeing these guys<br />

out there is truly amazing.”<br />

The name of the foundation<br />

is fitting because the<br />

term Oscar Mike is used by<br />

members of the military to<br />

mean “on the move,” with<br />

the letters “O” and “M” being<br />

Oscar and Mike in the<br />

NATO phonetic alphabet. In<br />

other words, keep moving.<br />

So to help them keep<br />

moving, that’s exactly what<br />

Sefcik will be doing on her<br />

planned 2,567 mile journey<br />

set to begin at the beginning<br />

of August 2021. Her path<br />

will take her from Lake Forest<br />

north through Wisconsin,<br />

Michigan and Canada,<br />

then down through New<br />

York state.<br />

She plans to be in New<br />

York City on the 20-year<br />

New Lenox native and Providence Catholic alumna Tracy Sefcik poses for a picture with Florida police officers who<br />

assisted her back in May when she completed her 3,000-mile bike ride to raise funds for veterans. Photos Submitted<br />

anniversary of 9/11, then<br />

continuing on through West<br />

Virginia, Pennsylvania,<br />

Ohio and Indiana before<br />

heading back to Chicago.<br />

When compared to her<br />

first trip, which took her 35<br />

days to bike but was 500<br />

miles longer, her 2021 trip<br />

will take her between 45<br />

and 50 days to complete.<br />

Sefcik said her “other<br />

half,” Martin Conlon, is<br />

planning to join her along<br />

the way again for the next<br />

ride.<br />

For now, it is training,<br />

fundraising and a bit of recovery<br />

still from her last<br />

ride, which left her with a<br />

torn MCL and PCL after she<br />

took a fall on some railroad<br />

tracks.<br />

She will also need to save<br />

up some of her own money<br />

to cover her costs while<br />

on the road and her bills at<br />

home while she is gone.<br />

“A lot of people are like,<br />

‘why are you trying to do<br />

this now?,’” Sefcik said.<br />

“People don’t realize it’s<br />

just me fundraising.<br />

“I’m trying to raise<br />

$50,000, and it takes a<br />

couple of years to do this.<br />

...I’ve got to work two jobs<br />

because I have to save up<br />

money to pay my bills and<br />

my way across because I’m<br />

going to be out of work for<br />

three months.”<br />

During her trip from San<br />

Diego to St. Augustine,<br />

Florida, Sefcik said her<br />

trip expenses were nearly<br />

$7,000, and that was not including<br />

the money she had<br />

to save up to pay her mortgage<br />

and other bills while<br />

she was away.<br />

To learn more about the<br />

Oscar Mike Foundation,<br />

visit www.oscarmike.org.<br />

And to donate and for more<br />

information on Sefcik’s<br />

journey, visit www.cross<br />

countrycycle4vets.com. She<br />

also has a Facebook page,<br />

Crosscountrycycle4vets,<br />

where she chronicles her<br />

rides.<br />

Tracy Sefcik poses during a pit stop in Florida during last<br />

year’s 3,000-mile bike ride, which started in Texas.


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New Lenox resident<br />

chosen for Silver Cross<br />

Board of Directors<br />

Current JJC<br />

president earns key<br />

role for hospital<br />

Submitted by Silver Cross<br />

Hospital<br />

Joliet Junior College<br />

President Dr. Judy Mitchell,<br />

of New Lenox, has been appointed<br />

to the Silver Cross<br />

Hospital Board of Directors.<br />

Mitchell is the ninth president<br />

of Joliet Junior College<br />

and previously served as<br />

the college’s interim president<br />

in March 2016 before<br />

the JJC Board of Trustees<br />

unanimously approved her<br />

as the president in September<br />

2016. She has worked<br />

at JJC for 22 years, and has<br />

held numerous positions<br />

during that time, starting as<br />

the administrative assistant<br />

in the Computer Information<br />

& Office Systems Department<br />

in 1996. She has<br />

also worked as the program<br />

management specialist in<br />

Adult and Family Services,<br />

assistant to the director of<br />

administrative services, interim<br />

director of administrative<br />

services, and director<br />

of business and auxiliary<br />

services. In 2012, she was<br />

appointed vice president of<br />

administrative services.<br />

Mitchell is a member of<br />

several boards throughout<br />

the area, including the Will<br />

County Workforce Investment<br />

Board, Habitat for Humanity,<br />

Will County Center<br />

for Economic Development,<br />

Grundy Economic Development<br />

Council, and nationally<br />

for E and I Cooperative<br />

Services.<br />

Mitchell recently served<br />

as the keynote speaker at<br />

the Joliet Central Fearless<br />

Females Z Club, the junior<br />

charter of the Zonta Club,<br />

Induction Ceremony, sharing<br />

her message of persistence<br />

and empowerment. In<br />

2018, Mitchell was honored<br />

with the Zonta Club of Joliet’s<br />

Woman of Distinction<br />

Award for her contributions<br />

to improving the status of<br />

women in the community.<br />

Additionally, she has led<br />

the college budgeting process<br />

through the State of<br />

Illinois’ fiscal crisis and<br />

helped the college reduce its<br />

operating costs by over $2<br />

million over four years, in<br />

addition to encouraging the<br />

pursuit of creative revenue<br />

sources like grant dollars to<br />

offset operational costs. In<br />

FY15, the college garnered<br />

more than $5.4 million in<br />

grants to offset operational<br />

costs.<br />

Under her leadership,<br />

the college’s financial team<br />

was awarded the Government<br />

Finance Officers<br />

Association’s (GFOA)<br />

Distinguished Budget<br />

Presentation Award for<br />

the FY2016 budget. This<br />

marked the 11th year in a<br />

row JJC had received the<br />

award for its budget, which<br />

is only given to government<br />

bodies that meet the highest<br />

principles of governmental<br />

budgeting and achieve standards<br />

of excellence in financial<br />

reporting.<br />

Mitchell earned an associate<br />

degree in microcomputers<br />

for business and computer<br />

programming from<br />

JJC; she also received her<br />

bachelor’s degree in business<br />

and technology and her<br />

master’s degree in business<br />

administration from Governors<br />

State University. She<br />

received her doctorate in<br />

community college leadership<br />

from National-Louis<br />

University in June 2012.<br />

Former staffer of Congressman Bill Foster<br />

earns new Will County public director role<br />

Submitted by Will County<br />

State’s Attorney James<br />

Glasgow<br />

Will County State’s Attorney<br />

James Glasgow announced<br />

that he has created<br />

a new position to assist him<br />

in advancing community<br />

crime prevention and justice<br />

initiatives, engaging<br />

with members of the community,<br />

creating partnerships,<br />

and communicating<br />

with the public and media.<br />

“The Director of Public<br />

Affairs, Community Engagement<br />

and Partnerships<br />

will aid in the important<br />

role of bringing together<br />

members of our community<br />

in my continuing efforts<br />

to serve the people of Will<br />

County,” Glasgow said.<br />

“We will expand on existing<br />

programs that utilize<br />

creative solutions that offer<br />

justice and compassion to<br />

crime victims, rehabilitation<br />

for non-violent offenders<br />

who seek a self-sustaining,<br />

law-abiding life, and a<br />

hand-up to those who need<br />

assistance in building their<br />

future as part of our community.”<br />

Glasgow has tapped highly<br />

skilled and respected attorney,<br />

Carole Cheney, to<br />

fill the newly created position.<br />

Cheney was a litigation<br />

partner at the acclaimed<br />

international law firm of<br />

Kirkland & Ellis LLP before<br />

leaving the firm for a<br />

position as District Chief of<br />

Staff to Congressman Bill<br />

Foster (IL-11). Previously,<br />

Cheney was a news director<br />

and anchored broadcasts at<br />

a national public radio affiliate,<br />

and served as press<br />

secretary for the Illinois<br />

Senate. She was also the national<br />

news media coordinator<br />

for the National Safety<br />

Council, a nationwide notfor-profit<br />

organization.<br />

She graduated from<br />

Northwestern University<br />

School of Law where she<br />

achieved the prestigious<br />

honor of being named Editor-in<br />

Chief of the Law<br />

Review and was accorded<br />

membership in the honorary<br />

scholastic society Order<br />

of the Coif. Thereafter, she<br />

was chosen for the position<br />

as judicial Clerk with<br />

the Seventh Circuit Court<br />

of Appeals. She previously<br />

received a master’s degree<br />

in Public Affairs Reporting<br />

from the University of Illinois<br />

in Springfield, and a<br />

bachelor’s degree in broadcast<br />

journalism from the<br />

University of Illinois, Urbana.<br />

According to Glasgow,<br />

“With her legal, communications,<br />

and government<br />

affairs background, as well<br />

as her genuine compassion<br />

for the human condition,<br />

Ms. Cheney brings to the<br />

table a skill set that will assist<br />

me in further enhancing<br />

the services I have worked<br />

diligently to provide for the<br />

people of Will County –<br />

whether it is taking care of<br />

our veterans, helping victims<br />

of abuse, drafting legislative<br />

initiatives to protect<br />

our citizens and animals, or<br />

working with the members<br />

of our non-profit organizations<br />

to assist the at-risk<br />

community.”<br />

“Through this new position,<br />

we will build upon the<br />

foundation I have already<br />

established in developing<br />

innovative programs and<br />

forming creative partnerships<br />

to protect and serve<br />

the people of Will County,”<br />

Glasgow said.<br />

The new position will<br />

replace the Director of the<br />

Bureau of Crime Prevention<br />

and Public Access post<br />

held by Chuck Pelkie, who<br />

next week will begin a position<br />

in the office of the Will<br />

County Clerk.<br />

As Will County’s longestserving<br />

State’s Attorney,<br />

Glasgow has implemented<br />

a variety of groundbreaking<br />

initiatives to investigate,<br />

prosecute, and prevent<br />

crime. Glasgow’s initiatives<br />

include having established a<br />

high technology crimes unit<br />

to identify internet child<br />

predators, the creation of<br />

the Will County Children’s<br />

Advocacy Center to protect<br />

child sexual abuse victims<br />

and prosecute their abusers,<br />

spearheading numerous innovative<br />

specialized courts<br />

including the Drug Court,<br />

Veterans Court, Domestic<br />

Violence Court, Mental<br />

Health Court, and Redeploy<br />

Court, and the creation of<br />

the Extraordinary League of<br />

Canines – an all-inclusive<br />

program to protect domestic<br />

animals in Will County.<br />

Under Glasgow’s leadership,<br />

the office has maintained<br />

a felony conviction<br />

rate 15 points higher than<br />

the state average while serving<br />

the public with innovative<br />

programs to address<br />

community justice needs.<br />

Silver Cross cake fundraiser to benefit new equipment, programs<br />

Submitted by Silver Cross<br />

Hospital<br />

The Silver Cross Foundation<br />

has partnered with<br />

Nothing Bundt Cakes’ Orland<br />

Park Store to raise<br />

funds to purchase new<br />

equipment and enhance<br />

the programs and services<br />

available at Silver Cross<br />

Hospital in New Lenox.<br />

The delicious treats will<br />

be sold just in time for the<br />

holidays on Thursday, Dec.<br />

20, from 10 a.m.-4 p.m.<br />

and Friday, Dec. 21, from 7<br />

a.m.-1:30 p.m. outside the<br />

Hospital’s Seasons Dining<br />

Room, 1900 Silver Cross<br />

Blvd. in New Lenox. Complimentary<br />

valet parking is<br />

available.<br />

Choose from a wide assortment<br />

of Bundtlets for $5<br />

each, Bundtlet 3-Tier Tower<br />

gift wrapped in cellophane<br />

for $18, a dozen Bundtinis<br />

for $22, and White Chocolate<br />

Popcorn at a cost of $8<br />

per bag – tax included. Patrons<br />

can also pre-order an 8-<br />

or 10-inch Bundt cake. Cake<br />

flavors include carrot, chocolate<br />

chocolate chip, classic<br />

vanilla, confetti, lemon,<br />

peppermint chocolate chip,<br />

red velvet, white chocolate<br />

raspberry, and gluten-free<br />

chocolate chip cookie bundt<br />

cake. The Bundlet Towers<br />

include peppermint chocolate<br />

chip, red velvet and<br />

confetti. As a special offer,<br />

individuals who purchase<br />

four bundtlets will receive<br />

a free cooler bag. Cash and<br />

credit cards will be accepted.<br />

For more information, or to<br />

make a donation to the Silver<br />

Cross Foundation, visit<br />

www.silvercross.org or call<br />

(815) 300-7105.


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On Saturday, Dec. 8, and<br />

Dec. 15, Santa will be riding<br />

through various neighborhoods<br />

throughout the New<br />

Lenox area in a fire engine.<br />

“We are always looking<br />

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and last year we had such<br />

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Clogging downtown<br />

Kidz Clog, Cloggin’ Craze show their skills at Chicago Thanksgiving<br />

Parade<br />

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708.326.9170 ext. 31 l.healy@22ndcenturymedia.com<br />

CONTACT<br />

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NOTICE OF PROPOSED PROPERTY TAX INCREASE FOR<br />

THE NEW LENOX FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT<br />

I. Apublic hearing to approve aproposed property tax levy increase<br />

for the NEW LENOX FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT for 2018<br />

will be held on December 17, 2018 at 7:00 p.m. at the District Fire<br />

Station, located at 261 E. Maple Street, New Lenox, Illinois.<br />

Any person desiring to appear at the public hearing and present testimony<br />

to the taxing district may contact President Roy (Skip) Minger<br />

c/o New Lenox Fire Protection District, 261 E. Maple Street, New<br />

Lenox, Illinois, telephone (815) 485-7121.<br />

New Lenox-based Kidz Clog and Cloggin’ Craze pose for a picture Nov. 22 during the<br />

televised Chicago Thanksgiving Parade. Photo Submitted<br />

II. The corporate and special purpose property taxes extended or<br />

abated for 2017 were $4,970,504.11.<br />

The proposed corporate and special purpose property taxes to be levied<br />

for 2018 are $7,653,600.00. This represents a53.98% increase<br />

over the previous year.<br />

III. The property taxes extended for debt service and public building<br />

commission leases for 2017 were $0.00.<br />

The estimated property taxes to be levied for debt service and public<br />

building commission leases for 2018 are $0.00. This represents a0%<br />

increase or decrease over the previous year.<br />

IV. The total property taxes extended orabated for 2017 were<br />

$4,970,504.11.<br />

The estimated total property taxes to be levied for 2018 are<br />

$7,653,600.00. This represents a53.98% increase over the previous<br />

year.<br />

Visit us online at www.newlenoxpatriot.com<br />

Mabel<br />

The Smith Family, of New Lenox<br />

Mabel is our 1-year-old Labrador that<br />

happily shares her home and toys with<br />

dogs who come for doggy day care.<br />

We were able to see her being born,<br />

and it’s been the happiest year having<br />

her in our family.<br />

Would you like to see your pet pictured as<br />

The New Lenox Patriot’s Pet of the Week?<br />

Send your pet’s photo and a few sentences<br />

explaining why your pet is outstanding to<br />

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newlenoxpatriot.com SCHOOL<br />

the New Lenox Patriot | December 6, 2018 | 17<br />

the new lenox patriot’s<br />

Standout Student<br />

Sponsored by Marquette Bank<br />

Jack Benzing,<br />

Lincoln-Way Central<br />

senior<br />

Jack Benzing was picked as<br />

this week’s Standout Student<br />

because of his academic<br />

performance.<br />

What is one essential you<br />

must have when studying<br />

and why?<br />

My music because it<br />

keeps me motivated and<br />

doesn’t distract me. It helps<br />

block out the world around<br />

me in order to focus on my<br />

homework and keeps me<br />

relaxed.<br />

What do you like to do when<br />

not in school or studying?<br />

Whenever I am not in<br />

school or studying, I would<br />

be with my friends. We<br />

would sometimes hangout<br />

or try to get a pickup game<br />

of football going.<br />

What is your dream job and<br />

why?<br />

To become an aerospace<br />

engineer for a company like<br />

SpaceX would be the ideal<br />

job for me. I have become<br />

super fascinated with aircrafts,<br />

engineering and suborbital<br />

spaceflight ever since<br />

my visit to the NASA facility<br />

in Baltimore. There I<br />

came to realize that with my<br />

love of math and science,<br />

becoming an engineer and<br />

working on aircrafts would<br />

be an amazing dream.<br />

What is one thing people<br />

don’t know about you?<br />

That I am a triathlete and<br />

have participated in the<br />

Chicago triathlon.<br />

Whom do you look up to and<br />

why?<br />

The people that I look up<br />

to are Mr. Drumheller and<br />

my family because I know<br />

my family will always support<br />

me no matter my career<br />

path, decisions and struggles.<br />

But for Mr. Drumheller, I<br />

have known him since my<br />

freshman year. He started off<br />

as my Science Club mentor<br />

and I learned from him about<br />

engineering and robotics.<br />

He has taught me many<br />

of things and helped me<br />

become who I am and strive<br />

to be a great engineer.<br />

Who is your favorite teacher<br />

and why?<br />

Mr. Drumheller, because<br />

he is funny, very brilliant<br />

with robotics and physics,<br />

and just a great teacher to<br />

talk to and get to throughout<br />

my four years of high<br />

school. My freshman year,<br />

I sometimes got a pass to<br />

go to Mr. Drumheller’s<br />

room for help with stuff<br />

for Science Club, but I just<br />

watched his honors physics<br />

class lectures.<br />

What’s your favorite class<br />

and why?<br />

My favorite class is Auto<br />

Mechanics because I enjoy<br />

learning about the mechanics<br />

behind a car and enjoy<br />

the hands-on work.<br />

What’s one thing that stands<br />

out about your school?<br />

The best thing that stands<br />

out about Lincoln-Way<br />

Central is the students and<br />

staff because everyone is so<br />

kind, welcoming, and full of<br />

school spirit.<br />

If you could change one thing<br />

about school, what would<br />

it be?<br />

When being at school<br />

from the first bell at 8:21<br />

a.m. to going home or going<br />

to an activity after the last<br />

bell at 2:52 p.m., I feel burnt<br />

out by the 6th and 7th hour<br />

class. If I had the ability to<br />

change the times, I would<br />

extend the time for lunch<br />

and advisory so students can<br />

recover and get mentally<br />

ready for their last hours of<br />

the day.<br />

What’s your best memory<br />

from school?<br />

Throughout my sophomore<br />

year I got to share<br />

many classes with one of<br />

my best friends’ Hector. We<br />

would always have competitions<br />

to see who the better<br />

student is, and we would<br />

joke around and have fun.<br />

We would have such a great<br />

time that our teachers would<br />

put us on the opposite side<br />

of the classroom. No way<br />

that would stop us. Also, before<br />

school, we try to meet<br />

up in the library around 7:30<br />

a.m. to compare test scores<br />

if we just took a test and<br />

hang out together.<br />

Also, over this past summer<br />

my brother Andrew got<br />

a job as an EMT at Elite<br />

Emergency Medical Service<br />

and he would occasionally<br />

ask me to drive him to work<br />

at 6 a.m. So, one day he<br />

woke me up to drive him<br />

to work. We were driving<br />

through our neighborhood<br />

and saw black smoke billowing<br />

up near some of the<br />

houses. As we got closer, we<br />

noticed that the fence going<br />

across the side of the house<br />

was on fire. My brother and<br />

I decided to pull up to their<br />

house and he called 911<br />

Photo Submitted<br />

while I went to wake the<br />

residence of the situation at<br />

hand. Once I felt that I woke<br />

the residents, Andrew and<br />

I ran into their back yard.<br />

He turned on the hose and<br />

made sure the family was<br />

OK while I put out the fire.<br />

The fire damaged roughly<br />

three sections of their fencing,<br />

and the neighbors shed<br />

with a propane tank in the<br />

corner could have gone off<br />

if nobody stopped it.<br />

Standout Student is a weekly<br />

feature for The New Lenox<br />

Patriot. Nominations come from<br />

New Lenox area schools.<br />

West student nominated for the Congress of Future Medical Leaders<br />

Submitted by Lincoln-Way<br />

Community High School<br />

District 210<br />

Samuel Duckworth, a junior<br />

at Lincoln-Way West,<br />

will be a Delegate to the<br />

Congress of Future Medical<br />

Leaders in Lowell, Massachusetts<br />

on June 23-25, 2019.<br />

The Congress is an honors-only<br />

program for high<br />

school students who want<br />

to become physicians or go<br />

into medical research fields.<br />

The purpose of this event is<br />

to honor, inspire, motivate<br />

and direct the top students<br />

in the country who aspire to<br />

be physicians or medical scientists,<br />

to stay true to their<br />

dream and, after the event,<br />

to provide a path, plan and<br />

resources to help them reach<br />

their goal.<br />

Duckworth’s nomination<br />

letter was signed by Dr. Mario<br />

Capecchi, winner of the<br />

Nobel Prize in Medicine and<br />

the Science Director of the<br />

National Academy of Future<br />

Physicians and Medical<br />

Scientists to represent Illinois<br />

based on his academic<br />

achievement, leadership potential<br />

and determination to<br />

serve humanity in the field<br />

of medicine.<br />

During the three-day Congress,<br />

Duckworth will join<br />

students from across the<br />

country and hear Nobel Laureates<br />

and National Medal of<br />

Science Winners talk about<br />

leading medical research; be<br />

given advice from Ivy League<br />

and top medical school deans<br />

on what to expect in medical<br />

school; witness stories<br />

told by patients who are living<br />

medical miracles; be inspired<br />

by fellow teen medical<br />

science prodigies; and learn<br />

about cutting edge advances<br />

and the future in medicine<br />

and medical technology.<br />

“This is a crucial time<br />

in America when we need<br />

more doctors and medical<br />

scientists who are even<br />

better prepared for a future<br />

that is changing exponentially,”<br />

said Richard Rossi,<br />

Executive Director, National<br />

Academy of Future Physicians<br />

and Medical Scientists.<br />

“Focused, bright and<br />

determined students, like<br />

Duckworth, are our future<br />

and he deserves all the mentoring<br />

and guidance we can<br />

give him.”<br />

The Academy offers free<br />

services and programs to students<br />

who want to be physicians<br />

or go into medical science.<br />

Some of the services<br />

and programs the Academy<br />

offers are online social networks<br />

through which future<br />

doctors and medical scientists<br />

can communicate; opportunities<br />

for students to<br />

be guided and mentored by<br />

physicians and medical students;<br />

and communications<br />

for parents and students on<br />

college acceptance and finances,<br />

skills acquisition,<br />

internships, career guidance<br />

and much more.<br />

The National Academy of<br />

Future Physicians and Medical<br />

Scientists was founded<br />

on the belief that we must<br />

identify prospective medical<br />

talent at the earliest possible<br />

age and help these students<br />

acquire the necessary experience<br />

and skills to take them<br />

to the doorstep of this vital<br />

career. Based in Washington,<br />

D.C. and with offices in<br />

Boston, MA, the Academy<br />

was chartered as a nonpartisan,<br />

taxpaying institution<br />

to help address this crisis by<br />

working to identify, encourage<br />

and mentor students who<br />

wish to devote their lives to<br />

the service of humanity as<br />

physicians, medical scientists.<br />

For more information visit<br />

www.FutureDocs.com or<br />

call (617) 307-7425.<br />

Lincoln-Way West junior<br />

Samuel Duckworth will join<br />

students from across the<br />

country at the Congress of<br />

Future Medical Leaders in<br />

Lowell, Massachusetts on<br />

June 23-25, 2019.<br />

Photo Submitted


18 | December 6, 2018 | The New Lenox Patriot NEWS<br />

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FROM THE TI<strong>NL</strong>EY 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 I’ve<br />

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 Mokena<br />

Messenger.com.<br />

FROM THE ORLAND PARK PRAIRIE<br />

Santa, shopping and sparkling<br />

lights shine bright at Holiday Fest<br />

& Tree Lighting<br />

Sleigh bells were jingling, voices<br />

were singing and twinkling lights<br />

adorned the tree outside of Village<br />

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 winter weather caused event<br />

organizers to move select outdoor<br />

elements indoors, including the<br />

Holiday Market, which opened at<br />

3:30 p.m., while the food trucks,<br />

Jingle Johns (lighted, singing portable<br />

toilets), live reindeer visits and<br />

the ice-sculpture demonstration —<br />

the 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 for<br />

everybody.”<br />

Mayor Keith Pekau welcomed<br />

Santa Claus back to Orland Park at<br />

the start of the festivities. The pair<br />

then invited all of the children in<br />

attendance to join them in leading<br />

the countdown to the tree lighting,<br />

which culminated with the illumination<br />

of all of the holiday features<br />

displayed on the Village Center<br />

lawn.<br />

Reporting by Laurie Fanelli, Freelance<br />

Reporter. For more, visit OP<br />

Prairie.com.


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New Lenox School District 122 posted this<br />

Nov. 27:<br />

“The Spencer Crossing Girls’ basketball<br />

team won the Des Plaines Valley Conference<br />

tournament. It is the first championship<br />

in Spencer Crossing history as well as the<br />

first undefeated season with a 15-0 record.<br />

Congratulations Spencer Crossing Girls and<br />

Coach Manzi!”<br />

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“New Varsity Comp Unis coming SOON!<br />

A huge thanks to Varsity for seeing our<br />

vision and making them come to life, and<br />

an even bigger thanks to our guy, Illinois<br />

Cheer for the inspiration! We cannot wait to<br />

show these off to the cheer world! #varsity<br />

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Megan Schuller<br />

m.schuller@22ndcm.com<br />

Some people want to be<br />

astronauts, teachers or<br />

mathematicians when<br />

they grow up. But me, I<br />

always said I wanted to be a<br />

newsperson.<br />

It was a promise I wrote<br />

many times over on school<br />

assignments when asked to<br />

hone in on a viable future<br />

career. I may not have<br />

known the full extent to<br />

which part of the profession<br />

I wanted to one day settle<br />

in on, but even back then I<br />

knew I wanted to be reporting<br />

the news. I wanted to<br />

be a voice, a mouthpiece of<br />

local news.<br />

It wasn’t a decision that<br />

came to me as an epiphany<br />

but, rather, a culmination<br />

of mornings reading<br />

Plainfield’s local newspaper<br />

every Sunday morning with<br />

my father over breakfast,<br />

watching the 6 p.m. news<br />

every night with my mother<br />

and realizing that at my core<br />

I was a wordsmith.<br />

Back then I never could<br />

have imagined myself<br />

where I am today. I had no<br />

inkling that, many years<br />

later, I would end up here at<br />

22nd Century Media as the<br />

new assistant editor.<br />

My journalism journey<br />

began long before I stepped<br />

foot at 22nd Century Media.<br />

I realized I had a knack for<br />

reporting and storytelling<br />

in high school, as I worked<br />

on my school’s newspaper.<br />

This solidified the thing that<br />

I had always known since<br />

the fifth grade: I wanted to<br />

be a reporter and, perhaps<br />

one day, an editor.<br />

I graduated with honors<br />

from Roosevelt University<br />

in Chicago, where studying<br />

journalism and running<br />

the college newspaper, The<br />

Torch refined my reporting<br />

skills and calibrated my<br />

news judgment.<br />

This led me to freelance<br />

for the U.S. Navy’s publication,<br />

All Hands Magazine,<br />

as well as the Herald News,<br />

the Morris Herald and most<br />

recently all of the 22nd Century<br />

Media publications. I<br />

have covered stories from<br />

as far away as Charleston,<br />

South Carolina, to as close<br />

to home as the Lincoln-Way<br />

community.<br />

If my byline seems familiar,<br />

well, that’s because<br />

you’re right: it is. I’m back<br />

in action. I have been freelancing<br />

with 22nd Century<br />

Media since April, covering<br />

homegrown stories across<br />

the local community. I have<br />

covered everything from<br />

village and board of education<br />

meetings, to features<br />

on locals making a difference<br />

in the community, and<br />

everything in between.<br />

Writing about the homegrown<br />

stories in our area is<br />

where my passion for journalism<br />

truly lies. Capturing<br />

the hyper-local stories that<br />

impact every aspect of the<br />

community, from local government<br />

to the person reading<br />

this now, is what makes<br />

me tick. I firmly believe that<br />

this kind of local journalism<br />

is impactful and needed<br />

now more than ever.<br />

A little known fact about<br />

me is one of my biggest<br />

supporters, my fiance, Justin,<br />

is an active-duty sailor<br />

and is currently deployed<br />

on the USS Greeneville.<br />

Right before he left, he sent<br />

me a package with a DSLR<br />

camera I had been saving up<br />

for to use for my freelancing.<br />

I always say, because<br />

of him, I continually look at<br />

the world around me with<br />

a new lens of gratitude and<br />

humbleness whenever I<br />

report.<br />

Early on, I was taught the<br />

mantra that, as a reporter,<br />

my first obligation is to the<br />

truth. I had many professors<br />

and mentors of the craft.<br />

But one in particular mentored<br />

me meticulously in<br />

feature writing. He always<br />

stressed the importance of<br />

scene reporting so that, in<br />

print, the story feels as real<br />

to the reader as it did when<br />

the reporter experienced it.<br />

He used to say that if there<br />

are tears in the writer, there<br />

will be tears in the reader.<br />

I hope that by working as<br />

the assistant editor for The<br />

Mokena Messenger, The<br />

Frankfort Station and The<br />

New Lenox Patriot I can<br />

work alongside my editors<br />

and the community members<br />

I have come to know<br />

well from the freelancing<br />

I’ve done across the area.<br />

Most importantly, I hope<br />

I can keep local journalism<br />

alive. They say knowledge<br />

is power, and if that’s true,<br />

then I’d say that local<br />

journalism has its own sense<br />

of power through education<br />

and access of information.<br />

I have had people tell me<br />

that print is dying and I’ll<br />

sink trying to stay afloat in<br />

the newspaper industry. I<br />

am, in fact, the opposite and<br />

keeping my head well above<br />

the water. I still believe in<br />

holding a newspaper — the<br />

feel of the lightweight, offcolored<br />

pages and the smell<br />

of the ink warm off the<br />

press. I believe there is still<br />

value in this, and that is why<br />

I dedicate myself tirelessly<br />

to my profession.<br />

The black cap I threw<br />

up in the air on my graduation<br />

day last December<br />

was decorated in newsprint<br />

to read: If you write like<br />

it matters, it will. As a<br />

reporter, and now assistant<br />

editor, I continue to live by<br />

these words and the many<br />

lessons my mentors have<br />

passed on to me.<br />

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A magical tree<br />

New Lenox resident brings back<br />

‘Wizard of Oz’-themed Christmas<br />

tree for holiday season, Page 26<br />

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Another one joins the club<br />

Cooper’s Hawk brings Wine Club, extensive menu to<br />

recently opened New Lenox location, Page 34<br />

Lincoln-Way Area Chorale preps for seasonal show, Page 24<br />

Lincoln-Way Area Chorale<br />

singers (left to right)<br />

Tasha Sailee, Donna<br />

Roesel, Karen Osuch,<br />

Andrea Thompson and<br />

Christen Hall rehearse<br />

Nov. 26 at Frankfort’s<br />

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22 | December 6, 2018 | The New Lenox Patriot LIFE & ARTS<br />

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In Memoriam<br />

Mary Sheehan<br />

Mary Sheehan, 70, of<br />

New Lenox, died Nov. 28.<br />

Mary is survived by her husband<br />

Thomas F. Sheehan;<br />

children Brandi (Howell) Li<br />

and Thomas J. (Jill) Sheehan;<br />

grandchild Sebastian;<br />

siblings Jean (Ervin) Marlin,<br />

Irene Campbell, Stella<br />

Smiecinski and Joseph (Pat)<br />

Smiecinski; and numerous<br />

nieces and nephews. Family<br />

received friends at Hickey<br />

Memorial Chapel.<br />

Ruth C. Jansma<br />

FUNERAL SERVICES DIRECTORY<br />

Kim O’Neil Golob<br />

Kelli Hartseil Mores<br />

Kelly Furlong Foresman, Secretary<br />

It was easy to<br />

decide on cremation.<br />

Now, what about the<br />

rest of the decisions?<br />

Colonial Chapel<br />

Funeral Home<br />

Private, On-site Crematory<br />

15525 S. 73rd Ave.<br />

(155th/Wheeler Dr. & Harlem)<br />

Orland Park, Illinois<br />

Family owned for 40 Years<br />

colonialchapel.com<br />

708-532-5400<br />

The Cremation Experts.<br />

Ruth C. Jansma, 97, of<br />

New Lenox, died Nov. 23.<br />

Ruth is survived by her children<br />

Daniel Jansma and Patti<br />

Wanderlich; and grandchildren<br />

Elyse Jansma, Kara<br />

(Robert) Wanderlich Turpin,<br />

Kristen (Carles Ferrando<br />

Valero) Wanderlich, She was<br />

a member of Frankfort United<br />

Methodist Church, Family<br />

received friends at Kurtz<br />

Memorial Chapel. Interment<br />

was at Oak Ridge Cemetery,<br />

Lansing. In lieu of memorials,<br />

donations to the Frankfort<br />

United Methodist Church<br />

2017 WINNER<br />

"BEST FUNERAL<br />

HOME"<br />

©2006 Copyrighted Material<br />

would be appreciated.<br />

Christopher John Brand<br />

Christopher John Brand,<br />

45, of New Lenox, died Nov.<br />

17. Christopher is survived<br />

by his dad Stuart Brand; siblings<br />

Mark Brand and Jeff<br />

Brand; nephews John Flanigan,<br />

Pat Flanigan and Terry<br />

(Dan) Rissler; and cousins<br />

Colleen and Megan. Family<br />

received friends at Kurtz<br />

Memorial Chapel.<br />

Edward B. Litke<br />

Edward B. Litke, 86, of<br />

New Lenox, died Nov. 16.<br />

Family received friends at<br />

Bolingbrook-McCauley Funeral<br />

Chapel & Crematorium.<br />

John Mayer<br />

John “Jack” Mayer, 73,<br />

of New Lenox, died Nov.<br />

14. Belo ved husband of<br />

Leslee (nee McCutcheon)<br />

for over 32 years; loving<br />

father of Daniel (Nonik)<br />

and the late Joseph Mayer.<br />

Dearest brother of Carroll<br />

Please see memoriam, 23<br />

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Pastor Column<br />

You’ve got<br />

10 tickets<br />

The Rev. Dave Hedlin<br />

Peace Lutheran Church<br />

When I was a kid<br />

and the annual<br />

Pope County Fair<br />

came to our county, for a<br />

few years there was a deal<br />

where you could buy in<br />

advance for riding the various<br />

rides.<br />

For $1, you could get<br />

10 tickets (I know, it was<br />

a long time ago!). To have<br />

those 10 tickets meant you<br />

could have a lot of fun, but<br />

you didn’t want to waste<br />

them. Today there is something<br />

even better. There<br />

are all kinds of “unlimited”<br />

deals. With many phone<br />

plans, for example, you can<br />

make as many calls and<br />

texts and even downloads<br />

as you want. No need to<br />

parcel them out or evaluate.<br />

Just go for it!<br />

Not everything is unlimited,<br />

however. Some of us<br />

bump into that reality every<br />

day. For example, each<br />

one has only 24 hours, and<br />

we have to make choices<br />

of what not to do because<br />

we’ve run out of time or<br />

energy. Or, if you have<br />

children who are involved<br />

in activities, in which ones<br />

will you involve yourself?<br />

Or, most of us do not have<br />

unlimited budgets and carefully<br />

make choices about<br />

where to spend our hardearned<br />

money.<br />

We also have limits and<br />

options when it comes to<br />

our orientation in life. Will<br />

we use up our lives on that<br />

which doesn’t matter? Are<br />

we consumed by worry and<br />

fear that we already have<br />

lost a part of our life spent<br />

for what turned out to be<br />

less than it was worth?<br />

God has great encouragement<br />

for us on how to use<br />

our “10 tickets.” Lifegiving<br />

words are found in<br />

“seek first the Kingdom<br />

of God and God’s ways.”<br />

“Consider the birds of the<br />

air, God cares for them.”<br />

“If you want to be first,<br />

then be last of all (a servant).”<br />

It has proven to be true<br />

over and over again that<br />

those who spend their lives<br />

living for themselves eventually<br />

come to a place of<br />

loneliness and regret. Those<br />

who spend their lives living<br />

for others and giving of<br />

themselves may have fewer<br />

marks of worldly success.<br />

Yet with it we can gain<br />

an inner peace that gives<br />

meaning to life, and helps<br />

direct how to spend our 24<br />

hours and how to spend our<br />

money and how to work on<br />

what really counts. Selfgiving<br />

love turns out to be<br />

the biggest bargain of all<br />

time.<br />

The thoughts and opinions<br />

expressed in this column are<br />

those of the author. They do<br />

not necessarily represent the<br />

thoughts of 22nd Century Media<br />

or its staff.


newlenoxpatriot.com FAITH<br />

the New Lenox Patriot | December 6, 2018 | 23<br />

FAITH BRIEFS<br />

United Methodist Church of New Lenox (339 W.<br />

Haven Ave, New Lenox)<br />

Christmas Cantata<br />

9 a.m. and 10:45 a.m. Sunday,<br />

Dec. 9. Come hear the beautiful<br />

Christmas Cantata titled “Let There<br />

Be Christmas” presented by Chancel<br />

Choir with a live 24 piece orchestra.<br />

The cantata will also feature<br />

liturgical dancers and the Davidsmeier<br />

String Ensemble. For more<br />

information call (815) 485-8271.<br />

Concert Band<br />

5 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 15. Amp<br />

up your holiday spirits with The<br />

Southwest Community Concert<br />

Band, which will be playing a variety<br />

of holiday favorites including a<br />

sing-a-long medley of carols in the<br />

sanctuary. Admission is free with a<br />

canned food donation to the Orland<br />

Township Food Pantry. Come early<br />

to enjoy pre-concert music beginning<br />

at 4:30 p.m. For more information<br />

call (815) 485-8271.<br />

Living Nativity<br />

4-7 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 16. Drive<br />

through the beautiful grounds to experience<br />

a retelling of Christ’s birth.<br />

Come inside for refreshments, music,<br />

and communion. For more information<br />

call (815) 485-8271.<br />

Worship Schedule<br />

memoriam<br />

From Page 22<br />

(Mike) Bourrillion, the late Michael<br />

(Linda), Mary (Dennis) MacKenzie<br />

and Thomas. Dear brother-in-law of<br />

the McCutcheon family and crazy,<br />

fun, loving Uncle Jack to many<br />

nieces and nephews. John was the<br />

proud founder and owner of Jack<br />

Mayer & Assoc. Family received<br />

friends at Kurtz Memorial Chapel.<br />

Mass took place at St. Jude Church.<br />

Interment was at Abraham Lincoln<br />

National Cemetery. In lieu of<br />

memorials, donations to Cystic Fibrosis<br />

Foundation, Greater Illinois<br />

Chapter-Chicago, would be appreciated.<br />

St. Jude Catholic Church (241 W. Second Ave., New<br />

Lenox)<br />

Mass Schedule<br />

7 a.m., 9 a.m., 11 a.m. and 6:30<br />

p.m. Sundays; 7:30 a.m. Monday-<br />

Saturday; 5 p.m. Saturdays and<br />

8:30 a.m. Wednesdays.<br />

Called To Holiness<br />

7-8:30 p.m. every first Monday<br />

of the month. This is a new young<br />

adult faith-sharing group for Catholics<br />

in their 20s or 30s in the Chicago<br />

Southland area. Its purpose is<br />

to grow in our faith through scripture,<br />

discussion and prayer. For directions<br />

to the meeting location and<br />

more information, contact Jennifer<br />

at calledtoholinessgroup@gmail.<br />

com.<br />

Lincolnway Christian Church (690 E. Illinois<br />

Highway, New Lenox)<br />

Worship Services<br />

9 and 10:30 a.m. Sundays.<br />

HERO Family Support Group<br />

7-8:30 p.m. every Tuesday. This<br />

group is open to anyone with a<br />

family member currently struggling<br />

with addiction, suspected<br />

addiction, or currently in recovery.<br />

Family support meetings provide<br />

helpful tools and information to<br />

better equip people to help their<br />

Clarence L. Kranich<br />

Clarence L. Kranich, 88, of New<br />

Lenox, died Nov. 13. Clarence is<br />

survived by his children Laurene<br />

Labriola, Christina Walsh; sister<br />

Mary Therese Pienkowski; grandchildren<br />

Tommy Steinfatt, Kelli<br />

Dionne Smith, Adam Kranich, Nicole<br />

Labriola, Tracie Finley, Todd<br />

Heveran, Tawny Jacqueline, Kayla<br />

Woods; and great-grandchildren,<br />

Ashton Steinfatt, Tori Steinfatt,<br />

Lola Kranich, Zoe Kranich, Alesia<br />

Labriola, Isabella Hoch, Casey<br />

Hoch and Saige Finley. Services<br />

were private.<br />

Helen Frances Townley<br />

Helen Frances Townley (Houser),<br />

90, of New Lenox, died Nov.<br />

7. Helen is survived by her children<br />

Mary (Duane) Ullrich, Carol<br />

(Richard) Talaga, Melody (the late<br />

Eugene) Payne and Donna (David)<br />

Butler; eight grandchildren; 19 great<br />

grandchildren; and seven great-great<br />

grandchildren. Helen was a devout<br />

Christian who stayed active in her<br />

church and with world missions.<br />

She even traveled to Mexico in her<br />

later years to help build a school. She<br />

was the organizer and a member of<br />

loved ones through their struggle.<br />

This group provides a supportive<br />

environment with others who have<br />

had similar experiences and an opportunity<br />

to meet and network with<br />

others.<br />

Central Presbyterian Church (1101 S. Gougar Road,<br />

New Lenox)<br />

Church Service<br />

10:30 Sundays. For more information,<br />

call the church at (815)<br />

485-5152.<br />

Bible Study<br />

7 p.m. Tuesdays<br />

Trinity Lutheran Church (508 N. Cedar Road, New<br />

Lenox)<br />

Worship Services<br />

5 p.m. Saturdays; 8 a.m. and<br />

10:30 a.m. Sundays.<br />

Adult Bible Study<br />

8:30 a.m. Wednesdays<br />

Teen Catechesis<br />

6 p.m. Wednesdays<br />

Christ Mission Church (22811 S. Cedar Road, New<br />

Lenox)<br />

Celebrate Recovery<br />

7-9 p.m. every Tuesday. For anyone<br />

struggling with hurts, habits, or<br />

Please see FAith, 28<br />

Theos Women’s Group in Mattoon<br />

for several years before returning to<br />

the New Lenox area. Always putting<br />

the needs of others before her own,<br />

she was a caregiver to those in need.<br />

When she wasn’t taking care of those<br />

around her, she enjoyed crocheting<br />

and quilting. She was a very talented<br />

seamstress and had the honor of making<br />

one of her daughter’s wedding<br />

gowns, along with all of the dresses<br />

in the bridal party. Helen was a devoted<br />

and loving mother and grandmother<br />

who always put her family<br />

first. Funeral services were arranged<br />

by Fred C. Dames Funeral Home. Interment<br />

was at Woodlawn Memorial<br />

Park. In lieu of memorials, donations<br />

in her name to Joliet Area Community<br />

Hospice would be appreciated.<br />

Have someone’s life you’d like to<br />

honor? Email Editor James Sanchez at<br />

james@newlenoxpatriot.com with information<br />

about a loved one who was<br />

a part of the New Lenox community.<br />

Poetry Corner<br />

Julie Sanders<br />

New Lenox resident<br />

The Reluctant Poet<br />

Word of the Lord came to Jonah<br />

Arise, go to Ninevah, proclaim<br />

Their wickedness comes before<br />

me<br />

Without repentance, guilt or<br />

shame.<br />

Jonah turns from God’s calling<br />

Heads to Tarshish instead<br />

Paid the fare, boarded a ship<br />

From the Lord’s presence, fled.<br />

Lord sends a great wind on the sea<br />

A mighty tempest arose<br />

The ship, about to break up<br />

Jonah’s sleepy eyes would close.<br />

The mariners were afraid<br />

Each one prayed to his god<br />

Threw the cargo overboard<br />

This trial in which they trod.<br />

The captain awoke him saying<br />

“What do you mean, sleeper?”<br />

Arise, call on your God<br />

He’ll save us, or will sink deeper.<br />

Come let us cast lots to see<br />

Who caused this trouble for us<br />

The lot fell onto Jonah<br />

They questioned him and discussed.<br />

Jonah said, “I am a Hebrew,<br />

I fear the Lord, God of Heaven<br />

He made the sea and the land<br />

In 6 days, rested on the seventh.<br />

The men, exceedingly afraid<br />

Why have you done this?<br />

What shall we do to calm the sea?<br />

Becoming a tempest’s abyss.<br />

Pick me up and throw me in<br />

Jonah said, the sea will be calm<br />

This great tempest, because of me<br />

Shouldn’t be your dying song.<br />

Therefore, they cried out to the<br />

Lord<br />

Let us not perish for this man’s<br />

life<br />

Don’t charge us with innocent<br />

blood<br />

Or bring on us such damning<br />

strife.<br />

They picked him up and tossed<br />

him in<br />

The sea ceased from raging<br />

Men feared the Lord, offered<br />

sacrifice<br />

They took vows that were engaging.<br />

A great fish swallowed Jonah<br />

The Lord had prepared it that way<br />

For 3 days and 3 nights<br />

In the belly of the fish, he prayed.<br />

After Jonah’s lengthy prayers<br />

The Lord had spoken to the fish<br />

It vomited Jonah on dry land<br />

Answered his prayer wish.<br />

Word comes to Jonah a second<br />

time<br />

“Go to Ninevah, preach what I<br />

say”<br />

Jonah obeyed God, and went<br />

Would enter Ninevah’s gates.<br />

He preached and warned the<br />

people<br />

From the greatest to the small<br />

In 40 days, you’ll be overthrown<br />

Judgment will come to all.<br />

The people believed God’s word<br />

And called for a public fast<br />

From the greatest to the smallest<br />

Dressed in sackcloth and ash.<br />

God saw they had turned from<br />

evil<br />

In His great mercy He relented<br />

From disaster that He would bring<br />

Saw that the whole city had<br />

repented.<br />

Jonah greatly displeased and<br />

angered<br />

That God would be gracious like<br />

this<br />

Prayed to God, “Please take my<br />

life”<br />

Better to die, than live to witness.<br />

God questioned Jonah of his anger<br />

“Have you no pity on them that<br />

repent?”<br />

Is it My loving kindness, mercy,<br />

grace<br />

Or Me or My salvation that you<br />

resent?<br />

To submit a poem to Poetry Corner,<br />

email james@newlenoxpatriot.com.


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Chorale to perform Christmas show under new director<br />

Amanda Villiger<br />

Assistant Editor<br />

What began as a small<br />

advertisement for singers to<br />

join a community choir has<br />

grown and endured the years<br />

to become a distinguished<br />

group of dedicated vocalists.<br />

The Lincoln-Way Area<br />

Chorale’s annual holiday<br />

concert has become a community<br />

tradition, with many<br />

of the same favorite pieces<br />

being revisited year after<br />

year.<br />

Along with the classics,<br />

this year’s “Sing we now<br />

of Christmas” show will include<br />

a variety of new songs<br />

and feature the group’s<br />

new artistic director: Elise<br />

Greene.<br />

Greene was a guest conductor<br />

for one song during<br />

the group’s spring concert,<br />

but officially took over as<br />

the group’s artistic director<br />

after Greg Day’s retirement.<br />

One of the group’s biggest<br />

challenges as a community<br />

choir is that they only practice<br />

once per week, but take<br />

the same amount of music<br />

for a concert that a professional<br />

organization might.<br />

“We do a lot of music,”<br />

Greene said about the<br />

group’s upcoming concert.<br />

“We have 22 pieces of music<br />

on this concert.”<br />

With such a lengthy concert<br />

planned, individual and<br />

sectional practices outside<br />

of the weekly Monday night<br />

rehearsals have been crucial<br />

for the singers. Greene has<br />

even hosted sectional practices<br />

at her own home in recent<br />

weeks leading up to the<br />

concert.<br />

“She is such an enjoyable<br />

person to be singing under.<br />

She’s just wonderful,” said<br />

Ken Reed, bass singer and<br />

member of the chorale’s<br />

board. “... We’re real excited<br />

to be singing this under her.<br />

It’s her first concert.<br />

Andrea Thompson, who<br />

has also been with the chorale<br />

since the beginning, said<br />

Green brings a lot of energy<br />

to the group..<br />

“She really keeps everybody<br />

focused and has<br />

worked very hard at doing<br />

things to prepare the chorale,”<br />

said Thompson, who<br />

sings alto in the group.<br />

The work required to put<br />

together a concert makes<br />

for a lot of work for everyone<br />

involved, but Reed said<br />

the group is extremely dedicated<br />

to what they do, which<br />

is what makes their level of<br />

performances possible.<br />

“It’s really a neat organization.<br />

It’s an organization<br />

that you can really believe in<br />

because it’s so much fun, it’s<br />

so good to do,” Reed said.<br />

“And it feels so good when<br />

you perform. It’s such a high<br />

when you get done with a<br />

concert.”<br />

While the chorale will certainly<br />

be singing some difficult<br />

and classical pieces during<br />

their concert, many of<br />

the songs are classic carols<br />

and fun pieces that everyone<br />

will enjoy.<br />

“We have a really wide<br />

variety of different genres of<br />

songs we’re going to do, so<br />

anything from really, really<br />

traditional things — we’re<br />

doing the first movement<br />

of Ruttar’s ‘Gloria,’ we’re<br />

doing the ‘Hallelujah Chorus,’”<br />

Greene said, “We’re<br />

doing some novelty pieces<br />

like ‘Sleigh Ride’ and ‘Twas<br />

the Night Before Christmas,’<br />

and we’re doing some others<br />

that are some softer lullabytype<br />

pieces and everything<br />

in between.”<br />

One of the more unique<br />

pieces the group will be<br />

singing is a new take on an<br />

old favorite: “The 12 Days<br />

of Christmas.” The Canadian<br />

Brass rendition will feature<br />

a different composer on<br />

each day accompanied by a<br />

The Lincoln-Way Area Chorale’s winter performance will be under the guidance of new director Elise Green. Photos by<br />

Amanda villiger/22nd Century Media<br />

“Sing We Now of<br />

Christmas”<br />

Presented by the<br />

Lincoln-Way Chorale<br />

When: 3 p.m. Sunday,<br />

Dec. 9<br />

Where: Lincoln-Way East<br />

Performing Arts Center,<br />

201 Colorado Ave. in<br />

Frankfort.<br />

Cost: $18 for adults<br />

and $16 for seniors and<br />

students<br />

Tickets: www.lwac.com<br />

or call (708) 479-1863<br />

snippet of music written by<br />

them.<br />

For the pieces involving<br />

brass players, the group will<br />

employ the talents of five<br />

professional players, as well<br />

as high school students from<br />

Andrew High School in Tinley<br />

Park and Marian Catholic<br />

High School in Chicago<br />

Heights.<br />

The upcoming “Sing we<br />

now of Christmas” show<br />

Chorale members (left to right) Gordon Greene, Ken Reed and Mike Buchannan sing<br />

during a rehearsal in Frankfort on Nov. 26.<br />

will also feature a children’s<br />

choir from Fernway Park Elementary<br />

School, which will<br />

join the Lincoln-Way Area<br />

chorale for the final two<br />

pieces of the concert.<br />

“Holiday concerts are<br />

feel-good concerts. I think<br />

they’re feel-good concerts<br />

for the audience [and] for<br />

the performers, too,” Greene<br />

said. “I think it’s just a whole<br />

spirit that goes with it, and I<br />

think it’s very joyous.”<br />

The chorale will perform<br />

“Sing we now of Christmas”<br />

at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 9<br />

at Lincoln-Way East High<br />

School. For tickets, visit<br />

www.lwac.com or call (708)<br />

479-1863 or (815) 469-1010.


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Lincoln-Way Madrigals celebrate 49 years of tradition<br />

Analisa Trofimuk<br />

Freelance Reporter<br />

Despite Lincoln-Way<br />

Community High School<br />

District 210’s decision to<br />

no longer allow the Lincoln-Way<br />

Madrigals to<br />

perform at local churches<br />

after receiving a letter<br />

from an organization called<br />

The Freedom from Religion<br />

Foundation warning<br />

the district that such a practice<br />

violated the Constitution,<br />

the high school singers<br />

did not lose their holiday<br />

spirit.<br />

The district eventually<br />

changed its tune after impassioned<br />

pleas from area<br />

residents and the Madrigals’<br />

founder, Charles Stark, to support<br />

the longstanding tradition,<br />

and now the 2018 Madrigal<br />

season is fully underway.<br />

More than fifty community<br />

members gathered for the<br />

Lincoln-Way Central Madrigals<br />

opening performance<br />

at the Mokena Community<br />

Public Library District on<br />

the evening of Nov. 28, and<br />

hundreds more are expected<br />

to attend the dinner performances<br />

scheduled for this<br />

week.<br />

The LWC Madrigals,<br />

made up of several chorus<br />

groups, opened the evening<br />

with a Christmas classic,<br />

“We Wish You a Merry<br />

Christmas.”<br />

“This is my favorite performance<br />

of the school year<br />

because it gets me in the<br />

holiday spirit,” Dan Lewis,<br />

17-year-old senior tenor said.<br />

Throughout the evening,<br />

the students performed a variety<br />

of traditional holiday<br />

songs and hymns, including<br />

some in other languages.<br />

Louis Baser, 16-year-old<br />

junior bass, said his personal<br />

favorite song in the Madrigal’s<br />

repertoire is, “S’vivon<br />

Sov Sov Sov,” (Dreidel Spin,<br />

Spin, Spin) which the group<br />

sings entirely in Hebrew.<br />

Baser is the student class<br />

The Lincoln-Way Central Madrigals open their performance Nov. 28 as they sing and walk among the crowd at the Mokena<br />

Community Public Library District. Photos by Analisa Trofimuk/22nd Century Media<br />

A traditional Madrigal dress is made with intricately<br />

embroidered brown fabric. The LW music parents assist in<br />

putting together the outfits every year.<br />

president and is involved in<br />

several other extracurricular<br />

activities, including National<br />

Honors Society, Spanish National<br />

Honor Society, speech<br />

team, and he participates in<br />

the school’s plays and musicals.<br />

He said being able to<br />

perform with the Madrigals<br />

is something he enjoys most<br />

because it gives him a break<br />

from the school day.<br />

“I think it’s really fun to<br />

learn all the music, especially<br />

in other languages,”<br />

Baser said. “Plus, most of<br />

the students in choir are also<br />

in Madrigals and we are all<br />

close friends.”<br />

The students were decked<br />

out from head to toe in renaissance<br />

attire. The girls<br />

wore intricately embroidered<br />

gowns and headpieces<br />

with veils to match. Each of<br />

the boys wore hats decorated<br />

with feathers, velvet uniform-like<br />

outfits and stockings.<br />

Most of the costumes<br />

were either purchased or<br />

handmade with the help of<br />

Lincoln-Way music parents.<br />

LWC Choir Director Mike<br />

Bultman has directed the<br />

chorus groups for the past<br />

24 years, and said it is not<br />

difficult to get the students<br />

excited to participate in this<br />

group because they appreciate<br />

the tradition.<br />

“It’s worked into our culture.<br />

This is important to the<br />

kids and they want to be a<br />

part of it,” Bultman said.<br />

The students begin rehearsing<br />

for the holiday<br />

performance in the summer.<br />

Throughout the first half of<br />

the school year, they practice<br />

during the school day<br />

at sixth hour. Each of the<br />

students are assigned parts<br />

based on their vocal range.<br />

Opening performances typically<br />

take place in late November<br />

and early December.<br />

Allison Genardo, 17-yearold<br />

alto, said the Madrigals<br />

dinner performances are on<br />

another level. Guests experience<br />

a full range of entertainment<br />

from singing to acting.<br />

The dinner performances are<br />

scheduled to take place at<br />

Lincoln-Way Central, located<br />

at 1801 E. Lincoln Highway<br />

in New Lenox, at 6 p.m. on<br />

Thursday, Dec. 6 through<br />

Saturday, Dec. 8. Tickets are<br />

Louis Baser, a 16-year-old bass, announces the last<br />

number for the evening, “Silent Night.”<br />

on sale at the Lincoln-Way<br />

Central website at lwcmusic.<br />

org.<br />

The Madrigals closed their<br />

performance with, “Silent<br />

Night,” which earned them<br />

a standing ovation from the<br />

crowd.


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Resident’s ‘Wizard of Oz’ collection takes on a life of its own<br />

Elizabeth Lysik<br />

brings back “Oz”<br />

Tree to show to<br />

neighborhood<br />

Megan Schuller<br />

Freelance Reporter<br />

The neighborhood at the<br />

corner of Hickory Creek<br />

Drive and Francis Road is<br />

the yellow brick road that<br />

leads to the “Wizard of Oz”-<br />

themed Christmas tree inside<br />

the front-room window<br />

of Elizabeth Lysik’s home<br />

in New Lenox.<br />

Lysik used to annually<br />

put up the tree, known as<br />

the “Oz Tree” throughout<br />

the neighborhood, in October<br />

but has not in the past<br />

few years. When she heard<br />

that her daughter’s high<br />

school, Lincoln-Way West,<br />

was having a “Wizard of<br />

Oz”-themed homecoming<br />

this year, Lysik decided to<br />

bring the tradition back.<br />

“When I heard that was<br />

the theme I thought, ‘how<br />

perfect?’ So I had to bring it<br />

back this year,” Lysik said.<br />

Lysik has been collecting<br />

“Wizard of Oz” merchandise<br />

since 2001. What started<br />

as a figurine collection<br />

passed down to her from<br />

her mother, led to Lysik collecting<br />

a whole room full<br />

of fragile Oz-themed ornaments<br />

and novelty items.<br />

The spinning “Oz Tree”<br />

is covered with green lights,<br />

collectable ornaments and<br />

symbols of the movie. Yellow<br />

ribbon is wrapped<br />

around the tree to represent<br />

the yellow brick road. Silver<br />

spiral picks represent<br />

mini twisters, while obvious<br />

symbols, like red poppies,<br />

lollipops, apples and<br />

hearts are dispersed across<br />

the tree. Glinda the Good<br />

Witch even tops her creation,<br />

looking down on the<br />

more than 100 collectable<br />

ornaments beneath her.<br />

“My favorite part is sharing<br />

this,” Lysik said. “I hated<br />

that it hadn’t been up in<br />

a few years. It’s very time<br />

consuming to put together.”<br />

Since last being featured<br />

in The New Lenox Patriot<br />

several years ago, Lysik has<br />

several additions to her collection,<br />

including a several<br />

foot metal hot air balloon<br />

light hanging on her back<br />

porch, a lighted witch foot<br />

she calls her Oz version of<br />

the “Christmas Story” leg<br />

lamp, and several small<br />

ornaments and novelty<br />

items.<br />

“I’m running out of<br />

space,” Lysik said. “The<br />

collection has grown a lot<br />

over the years.”<br />

Lysik said that since she<br />

had not put the tree up for<br />

three years, she forgot just<br />

how large her collection<br />

was.<br />

“The ornaments do no<br />

good in a box,” Lysik said.<br />

“People love to see the<br />

green lights from the window.”<br />

Lysik’s mother may have<br />

started her “Oz” collection<br />

with the “Wizard of Oz”<br />

figurines, but she said that<br />

the collection has since<br />

taken on a life of its own<br />

out of a love for the “Oz”<br />

story and in memory of her<br />

mother.<br />

“She has since passed<br />

away, but I’m sure she<br />

would want me to carry this<br />

on and share it with many<br />

people,” Lysik said. “This is<br />

my prized possession.”<br />

While her neighbors and<br />

family support her collecting,<br />

Lysik said that few<br />

people share the same passion<br />

that she possesses for<br />

collecting the “Wizard of<br />

Oz” memorabilia.<br />

“I like the ‘Oz’ decorations<br />

in her collection because<br />

they’re really pretty<br />

New Lenox resident Elizabeth Lysik holds up what she calls her “Wizard of Oz” equivalent of “A Christmas Story” Leg<br />

Lamp, which is a new addition to her collection. Photos by Megan Schuller/22nd Century Media<br />

Elizabeth Lysik delicately thumbs through a vintage<br />

“Wizard of Oz” pop-up book.<br />

with the tree up,” one of her<br />

daughters, 12-year-old Allison<br />

Lysik said.<br />

There may be more than<br />

a hundred ornaments in her<br />

collection, but Lysik says<br />

that her favorite is a hand<br />

blown glass ornament of<br />

the Cowardly Lion, which<br />

is a character she once portrayed<br />

as a child.<br />

“The collection started<br />

out really small,” Lysik<br />

said. “I didn’t envision it<br />

Elizabeth Lysik adjusts her “Oz”-themed tree, which she was<br />

inspired to put up after she found out Lincoln-Way West,<br />

where her daughter attends, announced its homecoming<br />

theme was “Wizard of Oz.”<br />

would be a collection until<br />

it was. Each year I would<br />

set up the tree and think of<br />

something different.”<br />

Now that she has rekindled<br />

the tradition, Lysik<br />

said she will continue to<br />

put the tree up from October<br />

through the New Years’<br />

holiday.


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TRIAD Talk for Seniors<br />

Avoid charity fraud<br />

during the holiday season<br />

Kathie Johnson<br />

Director of Family Services for<br />

New Lenox Township<br />

During the holiday<br />

season many of us<br />

want to share our<br />

good fortune with those<br />

who are in need. The challenge<br />

is to avoid charities<br />

who waste donated money<br />

or even worse line their<br />

own pockets with it. Keep<br />

your money out of their<br />

hands by learning how to<br />

protect yourself against bad<br />

charities and scammers who<br />

want to take your money by<br />

taking advantage of you.<br />

Do your research! By<br />

doing research on the charity<br />

and following these<br />

tips you will have a much<br />

better chance of not being<br />

scammed. I found these<br />

suggestions at the Illinois<br />

Attorney General’s Office<br />

State of Illinois at website:<br />

www.ag.state.il.us/charities_faq.html.<br />

By finding out as much as<br />

you can about the charity,<br />

you can avoid fraudsters<br />

who try to take advantage of<br />

your generosity. For more<br />

information you can visit<br />

the Federal Trade Commission<br />

at their website: www.<br />

ftc.gov/charityfraud. By visiting<br />

these two websites you<br />

will find this information:<br />

• Signs of a charity scam,<br />

which explains charities you<br />

should avoid.<br />

• Charity checklist, which<br />

explains the precautions<br />

for you to make sure your<br />

donation benefits the people<br />

and organizations you want<br />

to help.<br />

• Investigating a charity:<br />

call the Charitable Trust<br />

Bureau at (312) 814-2595.<br />

• Get things in writing:<br />

the organization must send<br />

you written information regarding<br />

the charity like their<br />

name, address, telephone<br />

number and other financial<br />

information.<br />

• Don’t be rushed or<br />

pressured into making a<br />

decision<br />

• Pay close attention to<br />

group’s name: scammers<br />

may attempt to mislead you<br />

with similar names to bigger<br />

and more well-known<br />

charities.<br />

• If you get a call from<br />

a professional fund-raiser/<br />

solicitation business asking<br />

you to donate to your local<br />

police or fire departments,<br />

please tell the caller you<br />

will call them back. Next,<br />

call the police or fire department<br />

and inquire if they are<br />

indeed using this business<br />

to raise money for them.<br />

Chances are very strong you<br />

will get a big “NO” for an<br />

answer. One more thing, do<br />

not call them back.<br />

• How to report charity<br />

fraud. Call (312) 814-2595.<br />

As you begin your research<br />

into the charity that<br />

you wish to make a contribution<br />

to you can use these<br />

groups to help you gather<br />

that information.<br />

• Better Business Bureau<br />

Wise Giving Alliance at:<br />

www.give.org<br />

• Charity Navigator at:<br />

www.charitynavigator.org<br />

• Charity Watch at: www.<br />

charitywatch.org<br />

• GuideStar at: www.<br />

guidestar.org<br />

• IRS Search for Tax<br />

Exempt Organizations at:<br />

www.irs.gov/charities-nonprofits/exempt-organizations-select-check<br />

• National Association of<br />

State Charity Officials at:<br />

www.nasconet.org<br />

I would like to take the<br />

time to invite you all to our<br />

annual TRIAD Christmas<br />

Party on Wednesday, Dec.<br />

12 at 1 p.m. at the New<br />

Lenox VFW located at 323<br />

Old Hickory Road in New<br />

Lenox. We have no membership<br />

or registration or<br />

admission costs.<br />

Please consider attending<br />

and sharing some Christmas<br />

Cheer the friendliest people<br />

you will ever meet. We will<br />

have door prizes, Christmas<br />

caroling, M&M bingo and<br />

last but not least, wonderful<br />

tasty Christmas desserts.<br />

Those interested are encouraged<br />

to bring two or three<br />

dozen cookies for our “Annual<br />

Cookie Exchange.”<br />

In closing I want to wish<br />

everyone a very Merry<br />

Christmas. I hope Santa is<br />

good to all of you. Let the<br />

new year be the one where<br />

all your dreams come true.<br />

Wishing you a happy and<br />

prosperous new year.<br />

Visit us online at www.newlenoxpatriot.com<br />

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Jan. 19, 2019<br />

9am - 1pm<br />

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• FREE 30-minute<br />

workout sessions!<br />

• Speaker sessions<br />

• Healthy cooking<br />

demos<br />

• Vitalant Blood Drive<br />

AND MORE TO COME!


28 | December 6, 2018 | The New Lenox Patriot LIFE & ARTS<br />

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West student wins Illinois Tollway art contest<br />

Artwork is to be displayed<br />

online, tollway oases<br />

Submitted by Illinois Tollway<br />

The Illinois Tollway today announced<br />

that Courtney Kurtz, a<br />

junior at Lincoln- Way West High<br />

School, is the grand prize winner<br />

of the 2019 Illinois Tollway Map<br />

Cover Art Contest celebrating the<br />

importance of diversity and inclusion.<br />

The annual contest is sponsored<br />

by the Illinois Tollway, Blick Art<br />

Materials and MB Real Estate<br />

Services Inc. (MBRE). Students<br />

selected as runners-up in the contest<br />

include: first runner-up Caden<br />

Elliott, from Bolingbrook High<br />

School; second runner-up Kathleen<br />

Lucchesi, also from Bolingbrook<br />

High School; and third<br />

runner-up was another Lincoln-<br />

Way student, Angela Farkic, from<br />

Lincoln-Way East.<br />

“We thank the talented students<br />

and their teachers for participating<br />

in our annual competition, as<br />

well as members of our community<br />

who voted to help select the<br />

finalists,” said Tollway Executive<br />

Director Liz Gorman. “Courtney’s<br />

winning artwork will serve as a<br />

public reminder that the Tollway<br />

embraces diversity and inclusion<br />

in everything we do.”<br />

More than 30,000 votes by<br />

members of the general public<br />

were cast online to identify<br />

the four finalists, and the overall<br />

winner and runners-up were determined<br />

by a panel of judges including<br />

the Illinois Tollway Board<br />

of Directors and representatives<br />

from MBRE.<br />

“Winning the 2019 Tollway Art<br />

Contest is an honor and a great<br />

addition to my resume as I focus<br />

on graphic design in my future,”<br />

Kurtz said. “Being part of the Illinois<br />

Tollway’s art contest has<br />

been a very fulfilling experience<br />

and one that I will always remember.”<br />

The 2019 Tollway Map Cover<br />

Art Contest theme encouraged<br />

students to recognize the Illinois<br />

Tollway’s commitment to diversity.<br />

The Illinois Tollway is a driving<br />

force for increasing economic<br />

opportunities in the diverse communities<br />

the agency serves in 12<br />

counties throughout Northern Illinois.<br />

The Tollway has continued<br />

to strengthen its investments in diversity<br />

and has made it a priority<br />

to create greater opportunities for<br />

small, diverse and veteran-owned<br />

firms, as well as a diverse workforce.<br />

Students from schools throughout<br />

the Tollway system were<br />

invited to participate in the art<br />

contest, with 36 entries submitted<br />

and 10 semi-finalists selected for<br />

public voting. The artwork of the<br />

10 semi- finalists, including the<br />

winning entries, is currently on<br />

display on the Illinois Tollway’s<br />

website illinoistollway.com and at<br />

five Illinois Tollway oases.<br />

“Blick is pleased to continue its<br />

support of the Illinois Tollway’s<br />

annual art contest,” said Blick Art<br />

Materials Chief Executive Bob<br />

Buchsbaum. “There are too few<br />

opportunities for visual artists to<br />

gain the recognition they deserve,<br />

and this contest is a great way to<br />

encourage and support the efforts<br />

of young artists. We congratulate<br />

Courtney Kurtz and wish her great<br />

success as she continues to develop<br />

her artistic skills.”<br />

Another Lincoln-Way student,<br />

East’s Angela Farkic, earned third<br />

runner-up with this piece. Photos<br />

Submitted<br />

Pictured is Lincoln-Way West<br />

student’s winning artwork in<br />

the 2019 Illinois Tollway art<br />

contest. This year’s theme was<br />

the importance of diversity and<br />

inclusion.<br />

FAITH<br />

From Page 23<br />

hang-ups. For more information,<br />

call Deb at (708) 516-<br />

6318.<br />

St. John of Chicago Chapel (112 Church<br />

Street, New Lenox)<br />

Orthodox Divine Liturgy<br />

10-11:30 a.m. Sundays.<br />

Journey to Fullness<br />

7 p.m. Wednesdays. This<br />

is a ten-part video introduction<br />

to the Orthodox Church.<br />

There will be an open discussion<br />

with refreshments<br />

after. Seekers are welcome.<br />

Missio Dei Church (123 W. Wood St., New<br />

Lenox)<br />

Women’s Study<br />

6:30-8 p.m. Tuesdays<br />

and 9-10:30 a.m. Saturdays.<br />

Study materials will cost<br />

$10.50, and books will be<br />

distributed before the study<br />

begins. Payments will be collected<br />

on the first class. Pay<br />

by cash or make checks payable<br />

to Missio Dei Church.<br />

Elder-led Prayer<br />

7-8 p.m. second Tuesday<br />

of every month, 123 W.<br />

Wood St., New Lenox. For<br />

more information, visit mdchurch.us.<br />

Gathered Worship<br />

9:30-11 a.m. every Sunday.<br />

New Life Church (500 Gougar Road, New<br />

Lenox)<br />

Worship Services<br />

10 a.m. Sundays. For<br />

more information, call (815)<br />

462-0202.<br />

Intro to New Life<br />

Church staff offers a oneday<br />

Intro to New Life workshop,<br />

which will provide the<br />

opportunity for attendees<br />

to engage in an in-depth<br />

dialogue about the church’s<br />

mission, beliefs and approach<br />

to ministry. To register,<br />

sign up at newlifenewlenox.org<br />

or call the church<br />

office at (815) 462-0202.<br />

Cherry Hill Church of Christ (2749<br />

Lancaster Drive, Joliet)<br />

Sunday Services<br />

10:30 a.m. every Sunday;<br />

1 p.m. on the first Sunday of<br />

each month and 6 p.m. every<br />

Sunday except the first Sunday<br />

of each month.<br />

Worship and Bible Service<br />

7 p.m. every Wednesday.<br />

Bible Study<br />

9:30 a.m. Sundays.<br />

Grace Episcopal Church (209 N. Pine St.,<br />

New Lenox)<br />

Sunday Services<br />

8 a.m. Holy Eucharist Rite<br />

II. 10 a.m. Holy Eucharist<br />

Rite II with music, followed<br />

by coffee hour. For more<br />

information, call (815) 485-<br />

6596.<br />

Saturday Service<br />

5 p.m. the first, third and<br />

fifth Saturday of each month.<br />

Cornerstone Church (1501 S. Gougar<br />

Road, New Lenox)<br />

Men’s Bible Study<br />

6-7:30 a.m. every Friday.<br />

For more information,<br />

call (815) 462-7700.<br />

Junior and Senior High Bible<br />

Study<br />

6:30-8:30 p.m. every<br />

Wednesday. For more information,<br />

call (815) 462-7700.<br />

Sunday School<br />

9-10 a.m. every Sunday.<br />

Christian education classes<br />

are available for all ages. A<br />

nursery is also available. For<br />

more information, call (815)<br />

462-7700.<br />

Worship Service<br />

8:30 a.m. and 10:45 a.m.<br />

every Sunday.<br />

Parkview Christian Church (2121 S.<br />

Schoolhouse Road, New Lenox)<br />

Worship Services<br />

4 p.m. Saturdays; 8:30<br />

a.m., 10 a.m. and 11:30 a.m.<br />

Sundays.<br />

Peace Lutheran Church (1900 E. Lincoln<br />

Highway, New Lenox)<br />

Church Services<br />

5 p.m. Saturdays; 8:30<br />

a.m. and 11 a.m. Sundays.<br />

Adult Class<br />

9:55 a.m. Sundays. The<br />

adult class usually meets in<br />

the back of the sanctuary to<br />

discuss a different topic each<br />

week.<br />

The Journey Church (14414 W. Ford Drive,<br />

New Lenox)<br />

Worship Service<br />

10 a.m. Sundays.<br />

Have something for Faith<br />

Briefs? Contact Assistant<br />

Editor Megan Schuller at<br />

m.schuller@22ndcm.com or<br />

call (708) 326-9170 ext. 34.<br />

Information is due by noon on<br />

Thursdays one week prior to<br />

publication.


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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. Bill Jones/22nd<br />

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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The Dish<br />

Tropical Smoothie Cafe branching out to south suburbs<br />

Tinley Park couple<br />

opens spot in<br />

hometown<br />

Cody Mroczka<br />

Contributing Editor<br />

More than three decades<br />

ago, Phil and Theresa Knippen<br />

were merely co-workers<br />

at a Brown’s Chicken<br />

fast food restaurant on the<br />

South Side of Chicago.<br />

“I was young, and it was<br />

fun,” Theresa said, “[Phil]<br />

was into the food business.”<br />

Now, the married couple<br />

of the last 31 years have<br />

three Tropical Smoothie Cafes<br />

spread across the south<br />

suburbs, with plans to add<br />

more. The Knippens’ first<br />

fast-casual eatery — which<br />

specializes in healthy meal<br />

and snack options in the<br />

form of smoothies, sandwiches,<br />

wraps and bowls —<br />

opened in New Lenox back<br />

in 2012. Another location<br />

was opened in Lockport<br />

in March, followed by the<br />

most recent opening in Tinley<br />

Park in October.<br />

“Eight years ago, [Theresa]<br />

and I went to a franchise<br />

show,” Phil recalled.<br />

“We tried their products —<br />

their smoothies and their<br />

food. We really fell in love,<br />

and then I learned the area<br />

was available to develop.<br />

That’s what interested me<br />

the most.”<br />

Around the time the<br />

couple got married, they<br />

also settled in Tinley Park,<br />

where they would raise<br />

three children. Phil owned<br />

multiple Brown’s Chicken<br />

franchises as well as a<br />

plumbing business before<br />

selling those to concentrate<br />

on Tropical Smoothie. The<br />

investment paid off, as Phil<br />

was named the area developer<br />

for the south suburban<br />

Chicago area, making him<br />

responsible for planning<br />

The chicken caprese pressed sandwich ($7.49) features grilled chicken, fresh mozzarella<br />

and tomato, with a pesto and balsamic glaze, served with a side of kale and apple slaw.<br />

Photos by Cody Mrozcka/22nd Century Media<br />

and ensuring future site developments<br />

and operations.<br />

“It’s kind of like a master<br />

franchise,” Phil said. “So<br />

people that are interested<br />

in purchasing a Tropical<br />

Smoothie Cafe, I would assist<br />

them in finding sites;<br />

I would assist them in the<br />

construction process; I<br />

would give them training at<br />

my store, and then continue<br />

to inspect their stores on a<br />

monthly or quarterly basis.”<br />

Where Phil concentrates<br />

on the big-picture items,<br />

Theresa is more detailorientated<br />

and makes sure<br />

the three locations are all<br />

running smoothly and efficiently.<br />

Though she was<br />

not involved in Phil’s other<br />

franchises, Theresa is now<br />

fully invested as a co-owner<br />

and manager.<br />

“When we opened our<br />

first one in New Lenox,<br />

people were asking for it in<br />

other areas,” Theresa said.<br />

“Then, it was Lockport, and<br />

we were hearing the same<br />

thing in Tinley Park. Once<br />

they come in and they try it,<br />

they’re hooked.”<br />

Phil said he believes in the<br />

franchise system, because<br />

“you don’t have to reinvent<br />

the wheel.” When the Knippens<br />

first started, there were<br />

260 Tropical Smoothie locations<br />

in the country. It has<br />

since grown to more than<br />

700, and the Knippens think<br />

the Chicago area is “wide<br />

open” for more expansion.<br />

A part of the challenge is<br />

overcoming the idea that a<br />

place with smoothie in its<br />

name has more to offer than<br />

just blended drinks.<br />

“We don’t have fryers,”<br />

Phil said. “It’s an easier<br />

operation. It’s cleaner, and<br />

we’re using real fruit, bananas,<br />

strawberries, mangos,<br />

fresh spinach and kale.<br />

There’s over a dozen supplements<br />

you can put into<br />

it, and three different kids<br />

of whey protein. We’re talking<br />

22-26 grams of protein<br />

in one drink. It’s a healthier<br />

concept. ‘Eat better, feel<br />

better’ is kind of our main<br />

theme.”<br />

Some local favorites in<br />

the south suburbs include<br />

the Island Green superfood<br />

smoothie ($5.49 for 24<br />

ounces) — made with spinach,<br />

kale, mango, pineapple<br />

and banana — as well as the<br />

Bahama Mama ($5.29, 24<br />

ounces) classic smoothie, a<br />

mix of strawberries, pineapples,<br />

white chocolate<br />

and coconut. Available now<br />

are two holiday specialty<br />

smoothies, known as Very<br />

Berry Cranberry and Cranberry<br />

Truffle.<br />

Theresa points to the Supergreen<br />

chicken Caesar<br />

wrap or Buffalo chicken<br />

wrap, both $6.99 and also<br />

available in bowls, as two<br />

common orders. But she<br />

Phil Knippen, of Tinley Park, owns all three south suburban<br />

Tropical Smoothie Cafes and also serves as the Chicago<br />

area developer for the franchise.<br />

Tropical Smoothie Cafe<br />

• 7101 W. 183rd St. in Tinley Park<br />

• 1872 E. Lincoln Highway in New Lenox<br />

• 16105 Farrell Road in Lockport<br />

Hours<br />

• 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Monday-Saturday<br />

• 9 a.m.-8 p.m. Sunday<br />

For more information ...<br />

Phone: (708) 468-8456 for Tinley Park, (815) 717-<br />

8095 for New Lenox, (815) 524-4647 for Lockport<br />

Web: www.tropicalsmoothiecafe.com<br />

encourages patrons try the<br />

Cuban pressed sandwich<br />

($7.49) or the chipotle<br />

chicken club ($5.49) if they<br />

like a little spice. The locations<br />

also offer catering for<br />

businesses or family parties.<br />

“Spicy or regular, whatever<br />

your taste, the food<br />

is phenomenal,” Theresa<br />

said. “The flatbreads with<br />

chipotle mayo are so tasty.<br />

The Island Green [has] five<br />

servings of fruits and vegetables,<br />

but you would never<br />

know. It’s something different.<br />

It’s a healthier, better<br />

option.”


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The Dish<br />

Cooper’s Hawk brings upscale cooking, abundance of wine to New Lenox<br />

James Sanchez, Editor<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 />

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 manager<br />

of the New Lenox location,<br />

said people thought it<br />

was crazy to open another<br />

location so close, but when<br />

considering Orland Park<br />

Cooper’s Hawk has more<br />

than 30,000 Wine Club<br />

members — the most of all<br />

33 locations across the country<br />

— opening another location<br />

in the south suburbs was<br />

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 said<br />

it took a new location in<br />

Michigan more than a month<br />

to hit that milestone.<br />

“Everybody’s been ecstatic<br />

so far,” Hammer said. “It’s<br />

been very welcoming to the<br />

community. So far, everyone<br />

has embraced what we bring<br />

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 flavors<br />

from around the 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 white<br />

truffle oil. Or customers can<br />

have a taste of France, with<br />

the red wine braised short<br />

ribs ($26.99), which is Hammer’s<br />

favorite. That has been<br />

on the menu since the franchise<br />

first opened in 2005.<br />

The braising technique adds<br />

a 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 crispy onion<br />

strings.<br />

Flavors from Asia can<br />

be found in the ginger soy<br />

glazed NY strip ($33.99),<br />

accompanied by wasabi-buttered<br />

mashed potatoes and<br />

oven-roasted vegetables.<br />

The Cooper’s Hawk calamari<br />

($13.99) is glazed with<br />

a sweet chili-ponzu sauce<br />

mixture and served with<br />

sesame-sriracha sauce. And<br />

the pan-roasted barramundi<br />

($25.99) is served with ginger<br />

rice, a Thai lemongrass<br />

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 most<br />

popular dish is an appetizer<br />

inspired by south of the<br />

border: Mexican drunken<br />

shrimp ($13.99). The dish<br />

features numerous shrimp<br />

wrapped in bacon, doused<br />

in a tequila lime butter sauce<br />

and served with fresh guacamole.<br />

“It’s been the No. 1-selling<br />

item forever, and it will continue<br />

to be No. 1,” Hammer<br />

said. “We’re going through<br />

an extraordinary amount of<br />

this dish.”<br />

Each dish on the menu has<br />

a wine pairing, suggested<br />

by the winemaker. Cooper’s<br />

Hawk has wines to please<br />

those new to wine or seasoned<br />

drinkers, with more<br />

than 50 wine selections that<br />

are all produced with grapes<br />

imported from all over the<br />

world by its winery in Woodridge.<br />

For the wines alone,<br />

Cooper’s Hawk has received<br />

more than 500 awards, most<br />

recently 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 />

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 />

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 />

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<br />

just what you know,” Hammer<br />

said. “With what Emily<br />

implemented, it makes you<br />

experiment with your palate<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 />

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 />

other gift items. Combine all<br />

those elements, and the restaurant<br />

becomes more than<br />

just a place to have a nice<br />

dinner.<br />

“With Cooper’s Hawk, we<br />

want to offer customers an<br />

experience,” Hammer said.


newlenoxpatriot.com puzzles<br />

the New Lenox Patriot | December 6, 2018 | 35<br />

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 Millennium<br />

in Tinley 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 />

How to play Sudoku<br />

Each sudoku puzzle consists of a 9x9 grid that<br />

has been subdivided into nine smaller grids of 3x3<br />

squares. To solve the puzzle, each row, column and<br />

box must contain each of the numbers 1 to 9.<br />

LEVEL: Medium<br />

Sudoku by Myles Mellor and Susan Flanagan<br />

answers<br />

NEW LENOX<br />

Little Joe’s Restaurant<br />

(1300 N. Cedar Road,<br />

New Lenox; (815) 463-<br />

1099)<br />

■5-8 ■ p.m. Tuesdays:<br />

Piano Styles by Joe<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 />

TI<strong>NL</strong>EY PARK<br />

Ed & Joe’s Restaurant &<br />

Pizzeria<br />

(17332 S. Oak Park Ave.,<br />

Tinley Park; (708) 532-<br />

3051)<br />

■7:30 ■ p.m. Tuesdays:<br />

Team Trivia<br />

Hailstorm Brewing<br />

(8060 186th St., Tinley<br />

Park); (708) 480-2268)<br />

■Thursdays: ■ Open mic<br />

night<br />

Tribes Beer Company<br />

(9501 W. 171st St., Tinley<br />

Park (708) 966-2051)<br />

■Noon-2 ■ p.m. Sundays:<br />

Sunday Bloody Funday<br />

■7 ■ p.m. Mondays: Open<br />

Bluegrass Jam Session<br />

■8 ■ p.m. Tuesdays: Trivia<br />

night<br />

HOMER GLEN<br />

Front Row<br />

(14903 S. Bell Road,<br />

Homer Glen; (708) 645-<br />

7000)<br />

■7 ■ p.m. Wednesdays:<br />

Trivia<br />

To place an event<br />

in The Scene, email<br />

m.schuller@22ndcm.com.


36 | December 6, 2018 | The New Lenox Patriot LOCAL LIVING<br />

newlenoxpatriot.com<br />

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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Properties Inc to Zachary<br />

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• 2203 Heron Lane, New<br />

Lenox, 60451-3240 -<br />

Roger S. Wandersee to<br />

David E. Hunt, Kelly L.<br />

Hunt $280,000<br />

• 679 Turtledove Lane,<br />

New Lenox, 60451-8301<br />

- Daniel J. Peterson to<br />

Andrew Gallik, Marta<br />

Bednarz Gallik $350,000<br />

Oct. 9<br />

• 921 S. Bentley Road,<br />

New Lenox, 60451-3622<br />

- David A. Rodriguez to<br />

Barry S. Healy, Judy B.<br />

Healy $260,000<br />

• 2809 Leven Ave., New<br />

Lenox, 60451-2714 -<br />

Anthony W. Degrassi<br />

to Joel R. Gorniak,<br />

$230,000<br />

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38 | December 6, 2018 | The New Lenox Patriot classifieds<br />

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CLASSIFIEDS<br />

Help Wanted · Garage Sales · Automotive<br />

Real Estate · Rentals · Merchandise<br />

Help<br />

Wanted<br />

1003 Help<br />

Wanted<br />

CONSULTATIVE SALES<br />

ENGINEER<br />

SW Suburb of Chicago<br />

manufacturing company seeks<br />

sales professional with min. 5<br />

years B2B Sales experience.<br />

This is an inside sales,<br />

non-commissioned position,<br />

with salary and potential<br />

bonuses. No telemarketing!<br />

This position will focus on<br />

new & existing customers to<br />

understand their needs &<br />

quote to their requirements.<br />

ISO & QS quality system<br />

experience a plus! Medical,<br />

Dental/Vision and 401k<br />

included. Send cover letter<br />

and resume to:<br />

jkasman@aerorubber.com<br />

AERO Rubber Company, Inc<br />

Tinley Park Park District seeks<br />

Part-Time Laborer<br />

demonstrating general park<br />

maintenance skills.<br />

Responsibilities include:<br />

Park, Field & Custodial<br />

Maintenance, Site Clean Up,<br />

Snow Removal,<br />

Routine Tasks & Projects<br />

Required Hours:<br />

7:00am-12:00pm Sat-Sun<br />

Weekday Winter Hours:<br />

10-25/week (not incl. 10<br />

weekend hours)<br />

Weekday Summer Hours:<br />

average 35/week (not incl. 5<br />

weekend hours)<br />

Application can be found<br />

online at tinleyparkdistrict.org<br />

Please submit completed<br />

application in person or via<br />

email: employment@<br />

tinleyparkdistrict.org<br />

Holiday Help<br />

Mon-Fri 8:30-5pm. Job can<br />

turn into permanent<br />

full-time position, apply in<br />

person: Same Day Tees<br />

9525 W Laraway Rd<br />

Frankfort, IL 60423<br />

Looking to hire<br />

Construction Laborer with<br />

Remodeling Experience<br />

Call 815.412.4705<br />

1003 Help<br />

Wanted<br />

Part-time Telephone Work<br />

calling from home for<br />

AMVETS. Ideal for<br />

homemakers and retirees.<br />

Must be reliable and have<br />

morning &evening hours<br />

available for calling.<br />

If interested,<br />

Call 708 429 6477<br />

M-F, 10am - 1pm Only!<br />

Hiring Desk Clerk<br />

(must be flexible w/ shifts)<br />

& Housekeeping (Morning)<br />

Needed at<br />

Super 8 Motel<br />

Apply within:<br />

9485 W. 191st St, Mokena<br />

No Phone Calls<br />

Lighthouse Fellowship<br />

Church in Frankfort is<br />

seeking a P/T Worship<br />

Leader. Must be able to<br />

lead and direct worship<br />

service. Send resume to<br />

pastorsearchLHF@gmail.com<br />

Medical Transportation<br />

Drivers Wanted. Call or<br />

email: 815.464.9600<br />

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1004 Employment<br />

Opportunities<br />

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SHERIFF'S SALE OF REAL ESTATE<br />

of 21 Wildwood Drive, New Lenox, IL<br />

60451 (Brown brick, two story single<br />

family home, attached two car garage).<br />

On the 13th day of December, 2018 to<br />

be held at 12:00 noon, at the Will<br />

County Courthouse Annex, 57 N. Ottawa<br />

Street, Room 201, Joliet, IL 60432,<br />

under Case Title: LAKEVIEW LOAN<br />

SERVICING LLC Plaintiff V. JOSE F<br />

CERVANTES; UNKNOWN OWNERS<br />

AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS<br />

Defendant.<br />

Case No. 18CH 0147 in the Circuit<br />

Court of the Twelfth Judicial Circuit,<br />

Will County, Illinois.<br />

Terms of Sale: ten percent (10%) at the<br />

time of sale and the balance within<br />

twenty-four (24) hours. Nojudicial sale<br />

fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring<br />

the residential real estate pursuant<br />

to its credit bid at the sale or by any<br />

mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other<br />

lienor acquiring the residential real estate<br />

whose rights in and tothe residential<br />

real estate arose prior to the sale. All<br />

payments shall be made in cash or certified<br />

funds payable tothe Sheriff of Will<br />

County. Judgment amount is<br />

$290,257.91 plus interest, cost and post<br />

judgment advances, if any.<br />

In the event the property is acondomin-<br />

ium, in accordance with 735 ILCS<br />

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

ILCS 605/9(g)(5), and 765 ILCS<br />

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

that the purchaser of the unit, other than<br />

amortgagee, shall pay the assessments<br />

and legal fees required by subdivisions<br />

(g)(1) and (g)(4) of Section 9and the assessments<br />

required by subsection (g-1)<br />

of Section 18.5 of the Illinois Condominium<br />

Property Act.<br />

Pursuant to Local Court Rule 11.03 (J)<br />

if there is asurplus following application<br />

ofthe proceeds of sale, then the<br />

plaintiff shall send written notice pursuant<br />

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

to the proceeding advising them of<br />

the amount ofthe surplus and that the<br />

surplus will beheld until aparty obtains<br />

acourt order for its distribution or, in<br />

the absence of an order, until the surplus<br />

is forfeited to the State.<br />

For Information Please Contact:<br />

PIERCE AND ASSOCIATES<br />

1 N. Dearborn Suite 1300<br />

Chicago, Illinois 60602<br />

P: 312-346-9088<br />

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PURSUANT TO THE FAIR DEBT<br />

COLLECTION PRACTICES ACT<br />

YOU ARE ADVISED THAT THIS<br />

LAW FIRM ISDEEMED TO BE A<br />

DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING<br />

TO COLLECT ADEBT AND ANY<br />

INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL<br />

BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE.<br />

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Notices<br />

Certificate No. 32556 was filed in<br />

the office of the County Clerk of<br />

Will County on November 16,<br />

2018 wherein the business firm of<br />

Tall Pines Camp located at 315<br />

Rossford Lane, New Lenox, IL<br />

60451 is registered and acertificate<br />

notice setting forth the following:<br />

Ryan J. Taylor, 315 Rossford<br />

Lane, New Lenox, IL 60451<br />

708-602-1806<br />

Bridget D. Taylor, 315 Rossford<br />

Lane, New Lenox, IL 64051<br />

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have<br />

hereunto set my hand and Official<br />

Seal at my office in Joliet; Illinois,<br />

this 16th day of November, 2018<br />

Nancy Schultz Voots<br />

Will County Clerk<br />

2703 Legal<br />

Notices<br />

PURSUANT TO THE FAIR DEBT<br />

COLLECTION PRACTICES ACT<br />

YOU ARE ADVISED THAT THIS<br />

LAW FIRM ISDEEMED TO BE A<br />

DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING<br />

TO COLLECT ADEBT AND ANY<br />

INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL<br />

BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE.<br />

STATE OF ILLINOIS )<br />

) SS.<br />

COUNTY OF WILL )<br />

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OFTHE<br />

TWELFTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT<br />

WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS<br />

LAKEVIEW LOAN SERVICING LLC<br />

Plaintiff,<br />

vs.<br />

JOSE F CERVANTES; UNKNOWN<br />

OWNERS AND NON-RECORD<br />

CLAIMANTS<br />

Defendant. No. 18 CH 0147<br />

NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE<br />

Public notice ishereby given that pursuant<br />

toajudgment entered in the above<br />

cause on the 31st day of July, 2018,<br />

MIKE KELLEY, Sheriff of Will<br />

County, Illinois, will on Thursday, the<br />

13th day of December, 2018 , commencing<br />

at 12:00 o'clock noon, at the<br />

Will County Courthouse Annex, 57 N.<br />

Ottawa Street, Room 201, Joliet, IL<br />

60432, sell at public auction to the highest<br />

and best bidder orbidders the following-described<br />

real estate:<br />

LOT 10, IN UNIT 1 OF WARREN<br />

WOODS SUBDIVISION, OF THAT<br />

PART OFTHE WEST 1/2 OF THE<br />

NORTHEAST 1/4 AND ALSO THAT<br />

PART OF THE EAST 1/2 OF THE<br />

NORTHWEST 1/4 OFSECTION 21,<br />

IN TOWNSHIP 35 NORTH, AND IN<br />

RANGE 11, EAST OF THE THIRD<br />

PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORD-<br />

ING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RE-<br />

CORDED SEPTEMBER 24, 1975, AS<br />

DOCUMENT NUMBER R75-25665,<br />

AND AMENDED BYCERTIFICATE<br />

OF CORRECTION RECORDED OC-<br />

TOBER 14, 1975, AS DOCUMENT<br />

NUMBER R75-27715, IN WILL<br />

COUNTY, ILLINOIS.<br />

Commonly known as: 21 Wildwood<br />

Drive, New Lenox, IL 60451<br />

Description of Improvements:<br />

Brown brick, two story single family<br />

home, attached two car garage<br />

P.I.N.: 15-08-21-217-006-0000<br />

Terms of Sale: ten percent (10%) at the<br />

time of sale and the balance within<br />

twenty-four (24) hours. Nojudicial sale<br />

fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring<br />

the residential real estate pursuant<br />

to its credit bid at the sale or by any<br />

mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other<br />

lienor acquiring the residential real estate<br />

whose rights in and tothe residential<br />

real estate arose prior to the sale. All<br />

payments shall be made in cash or certi-<br />

fied funds payable tothe Sheriff of Will<br />

County. Judgment amount is<br />

$290,257.91 plus interest, cost and post<br />

judgment advances, if any.<br />

In the event the property is acondomin-<br />

ium, in accordance with 735 ILCS<br />

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

ILCS 605/9(g)(5), and 765 ILCS<br />

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

that the purchaser of the unit, other than<br />

amortgagee, shall pay the assessments<br />

and legal fees required bysubdivisions<br />

(g)(1) and (g)(4) of Section 9and the assessments<br />

required by subsection (g-1)<br />

of Section 18.5 of the Illinois Condominium<br />

Property Act.<br />

Pursuant to Local Court Rule 11.03 (J)<br />

if there is asurplus following application<br />

ofthe proceeds of sale, then the<br />

plaintiff shall send written notice pursuant<br />

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

to the proceeding advising them of<br />

the amount ofthe surplus and that the<br />

surplus will beheld until aparty obtains<br />

acourt order for its distribution or, in<br />

the absence of an order, until the surplus<br />

is forfeited to the State.<br />

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ORDINANCE 260<br />

ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR BUDGET AND APPROPRIATION<br />

OF THE NEW LENOX FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT<br />

WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS FOR THE FISCAL YEAR BEGINNING<br />

JANUARY 1, 2019, AND ENDING DECEMBER 31, 2019<br />

WHEREAS, the Board of Trustees of the New Lenox Fire Protection District,<br />

Will County, Illinois, cause to be prepared in tentative form a Budget<br />

and the Secretary of this Board has made the same conveniently available<br />

for public inspection for at least thirty (30) days prior to final action<br />

thereon; and<br />

WHEREAS, a public hearing was held as to such Budget on the 19th day<br />

of November, 2018, and Notice of said hearing was given at least thirty<br />

(30) days prior thereto as required by law.<br />

NOW, THEREFORE, BEITORDAINED bythe Board of Trustees of the<br />

New Lenox Fire Protection District, Will County, Illinois, as follows:<br />

Section 1: That the fiscal year of this Fire Protection District ishereby<br />

fixed to begin on January 1, 2019, and to end on December 31, 2019<br />

Section 2:That the following budget containing anestimate of the revenues<br />

available and expenditures and the appropriations contained therein<br />

be and the same ishereby adopted as the budget and appropriations for this<br />

Fire Protection District for said fiscal year; and the following sums of<br />

money:<br />

APPROPRIATION<br />

GENERAL FUND $4,015,128<br />

AMBULANCE FUND $5,031,238<br />

PENSION FUND $540,801<br />

CAPITAL FUND $1,415,505<br />

TORT IMMUNITY FUND $285,863<br />

GRAND TOTAL $11,288,534<br />

or as much thereof as may be authorized by law is hereby appropriated to<br />

defray the necessary expenses and liabilities of the Carol Stream Fire Protection<br />

District for the fiscal year of said District beginning January 1,<br />

2019 and ending December 31, 2019, for the respective objects and purposes,<br />

as set forth namely:<br />

Part I<br />

General Fund<br />

Estimate Revenue Available - General Fund<br />

Opening Cash on Hand $327,271<br />

Real Estate General Tax $4,189,817<br />

Foreign Fire Insurance $24,750<br />

Replacement Tax $10,500<br />

Interest Income $7,500<br />

Land Exaction $30,000<br />

Other Income $31,500<br />

Transfer-In $-<br />

TOTAL ESTIMATED AMOUNT<br />

AVAILABLE $4,660,888<br />

Estimated Expenditures - General Fund<br />

BUDGET APPROPRIATION<br />

Administrative Expense $300,700 $315,805<br />

Salaries and Benefits Expense $1,283,586 $1,347,765<br />

Contract Fees Expense $26,000 $27,300<br />

Equipment Expense $252,329 $264,945<br />

Utilities Expense $63,500 $66,675<br />

Buildings Expense $99,350 $104,318<br />

Capital Expense $44,400 $46,620<br />

Debt Service Expense $563,520 $591,696<br />

Transfer-Out $1,250,000 $1,250,000<br />

TOTAL ESTIMATED GENERAL FUND<br />

EXPENDITURES/<br />

APPROPRIATIONS: $3,883,455 $4,015,128<br />

The foregoing appropriations are appropriated from the above revenue<br />

sources including the general property tax for general purposes:<br />

Estimated Balance on Hand as of December 31, 2019: $777,433<br />

Part II<br />

AMBULANCE FUND<br />

Estimated Revenue Available - Ambulance Fund<br />

Opening Cash on Hand Balance as of Jan $1,742,312<br />

Real Estate Tax Ambulance $2,692,070<br />

Foreign Fire Insurance $24,750<br />

Replacement Tax $10,500<br />

Ambulance User Fees $1,600,000<br />

Grants $30,000<br />

Interest Income $7,500<br />

Land Extaction $30,000<br />

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Miscellaneous Income $8,250<br />

TOTAL ESTIMATED AMOUNT AVAILABLE $6,178,457<br />

Estimated Expenditures - Ambulance Fund<br />

BUDGET APPROPRIATION<br />

Administrative Expense $197,120 $206,976<br />

Salaries and Benefits Expense $1,281,586 $1,345,665<br />

Contract Fees Expense $2,771,720 $2,910,306<br />

Equipment Expense $270,129 $283,635<br />

Utilities Expense $63,500 $66,675<br />

Buildings Expense $92,600 $97,320<br />

Capital Expense $- $-<br />

Debt Service Expense $115,000 $120,750<br />

Transfer-Out $- $-<br />

TOTAL ESTIMATED AMBULANCE FUND<br />

EXPENDITURES/<br />

APPROPRIATIONS $4,791,655 $5,031,238<br />

The foregoing appropriations are appropriated from the proceeds of aspecial<br />

tax for ambulance service purposes and are in addition to all other Fire<br />

Protection District taxes as provided by law.<br />

Estimated Balance on Hand as of December 31, 2019: $1,386,802<br />

Part III<br />

PENSION FUND<br />

Estimated Revenue Available - Pension Fund<br />

Opening Cash on Hand Balance as of January 1, 2019 $0<br />

Real Estate Tax Pension $515,049<br />

Transfer-In $-<br />

TOTAL ESTIMATED AMOUNT AVAILABLE $515,049<br />

Estimated Expenditures - Pension Fund<br />

BUDGET APPROPRIATION<br />

Pension Expense $515,049 $515,049<br />

Transfer-Out $- $-<br />

TOTAL ESTIMATED PENSION FUND<br />

EXPENDITURES/<br />

APPROPRIATION $515,049 $515,049<br />

The foregoing appropriation ishereby appropriated from the proceeds of a<br />

special tax for pension purposes and is in addition to all other Fire Protection<br />

District taxes as provided by law.<br />

Estimated Balance on Hand as of May 31, 2019: $(0)<br />

Part IV<br />

CAPITAL FUND<br />

Estimated Revenue Available - Tort Immunity Fund<br />

Opening Cash on Hand Balance as of January 1, 2019: $-<br />

Loan Proceeds $600,000<br />

Transfer-In $1,250,000<br />

TOTAL ESTIMATED AMOUNT AVAILABLE $1,850,000<br />

Estimated Expenditures - Capital Fund<br />

BUDGET APPROPRIATION<br />

Capital Expense $1,223,100 $1,284,255<br />

Debt Service Expense $125,000 $131,250<br />

TOTAL ESTIMATED TORT IMMUNITY<br />

EXPENDITURES/<br />

APPROPRIATIONS $1,348,100 $1,415,505<br />

The foregoing appropriation ishereby appropriated from the proceeds of a<br />

special tax for tort immunity expense purposes and isinaddition to all<br />

other Fire Protection District taxes as provided by law.<br />

Estimated Balance on Hand as of December 31, 2019 $501,900<br />

Part V<br />

TORT IMMUNITY FUND<br />

Estimated Revenue Available - Tort Immunity Fund<br />

Opening Cash on Hand Balance as of January 1, 2019 $73,932<br />

Real Estate Taxes Tort Immunity $209,569<br />

Transfer-In $-<br />

TOTAL ESTIMATED AMOUNT AVAILABLE $283,501<br />

Estimated Expenditures - Tort Immunity Fund<br />

BUDGET APPROPRIATION<br />

Tort Insurance Expense $272,250 $285,863<br />

TOTAL ESTIMATED TORT IMMUNITY<br />

EXPENDITURES/<br />

APPROPRIATIONS $272,250 $285,863<br />

The foregoing appropriation ishereby appropriated from the proceeds of a<br />

special tax for tort immunity expense purposes and isinaddition to all<br />

other Fire Protection District taxes as provided by law.<br />

Estimated Balance on Hand as of December 31, 2019 $11,251<br />

TOTAL APPROPRIATION FOR GENERAL FUND $4,015,128<br />

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other Fire Protection District taxes as provided by law.<br />

Estimated Balance on Hand as of December 31, 2019 $11,251<br />

TOTAL APPROPRIATION FOR GENERAL FUND $4,015,128<br />

TOTAL APPROPRIATION FOR AMBULANCE FUND $5,031,238<br />

TOTAL APPROPRIATION FOR PENSION FUND $540,801<br />

TOTAL APPROPRIATION FOR CAPITAL FUND $1,415,505<br />

TOTAL APPROPRIATION FOR<br />

TORT IMMUNITY FUND $285,863<br />

GRAND TOTAL $11,288,534<br />

Section 2: That all unexpended balances of any item or items of any general<br />

appropriation inthe Ordinance be expended in making upany insufficiency<br />

in any other item or items in the same general appropriation and for<br />

the same general purpose of any like appropriation made bythis Ordinance.<br />

Section 3:That the invalidity ofany item or Section ofthis Ordinance<br />

shall not effect the validity of the whole or part hereof.<br />

Section 4: That this Ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and af -<br />

ter passage, approval and publication as provided by law.<br />

ADOPTED this 19th day of November, 2018, pursuant to a roll call vote<br />

as follows:<br />

AYES: 4<br />

NAYS: 0<br />

ABSENT:1<br />

APPROVED by me this 19th day of November, 2018.<br />

/s/ Joseph M. Levey<br />

President, Board of Trustees<br />

New Lenox Fire Protection District<br />

ATTEST:<br />

/s/ Thomas DiFiori<br />

Secretary, Board of Trustees<br />

New Lenox Fire Protection District<br />

NEW LENOX FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT<br />

FY January 1, 2019 thru December 31, 2019<br />

Certification of Estimated Revenues<br />

In Accordance with Public Act 83-881<br />

General Fund:<br />

Estimated Beginning Balance $327,271<br />

Revenues:<br />

Real Estate Tax General 4,189,817<br />

Foreign Fire Insurance 24,750<br />

Replacement Tax 10,500<br />

Interest Income 7,500<br />

Land Extaction 30,000<br />

Other Income 31,500<br />

TOTAL REVENUES: 4,333,617<br />

Ambulance Fund:<br />

Estimated Beginning Balance 1,742,312<br />

Revenues:<br />

Real Estate Tax Ambulance 2,692,070<br />

Foreign Fire Insurance 24,750<br />

Replacement Tax 10,500<br />

Ambulance User Fees 1,600,000<br />

Grants 30,000<br />

Interest Income 7,500<br />

Land Extaction 30,000<br />

Other Income 33,075<br />

Miscellaneous Income 8,250<br />

TOTAL REVENUES: $4,436,145<br />

Pension Fund:<br />

Estimated Beginning Balance 0<br />

Revenues:<br />

Real Estate Tax Pension 515,049<br />

TOTAL REVENUES: $515,049<br />

Tort Immunity Fund:<br />

Estimated Beginning Balance 73,932<br />

Revenues:<br />

Real Estate Taxes Tort Immunity 209,569<br />

TOTAL REVENUES: $209,569<br />

Capital Fund:<br />

Estimated Beginning Balance -<br />

Revenues:<br />

Transfer In 1,250,000<br />

TOTAL REVENUES: $-<br />

I, do hereby certify that Iamthe Treasurer ofthe New Lenox Fire Protection<br />

District, County of Will, State of Illinois, and do hereby certify the<br />

above isanestimate the revenues, and their sources, to be received by the<br />

District during the fiscal year ending December 31, 2019.<br />

Given under my hand, this 19th day of November, 2018.<br />

/s/ Thomas E. Sauter<br />

Treasurer, Board of Trustees<br />

New Lenox Fire Protection District


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Athlete of the Week<br />

10 Questions<br />

with Conor Smetana<br />

Conor Smetana is a freshman<br />

on the Lincoln-Way<br />

Central wrestling team<br />

How’d you get started<br />

in Wrestling?<br />

When I was 5 my parents<br />

put me in it to find leadership<br />

and just to be busy with<br />

sports and for discipline.<br />

Do you have any rituals<br />

or superstitions before<br />

a match?<br />

Not really. I just warm up<br />

with music. I don’t really do<br />

good without music. [I listen<br />

to] rap.<br />

What’s your favorite<br />

memory of wrestling?<br />

Probably eighth grade<br />

year when I went to state<br />

and did pretty good and got<br />

fourth place.<br />

What would be the first<br />

thing you’d buy if you<br />

own the lottery?<br />

Probably a house in California<br />

or Florida.<br />

What’s your spirit<br />

animal?<br />

A lone wolf. I like to do<br />

things on my own in wrestling<br />

and I want to work as<br />

hard as I can.<br />

What’s your favorite<br />

movie?<br />

“The Little Rascals.” It’s<br />

funny and I don’t really like<br />

any other movies other than<br />

comedies.<br />

Who would you choose<br />

as a tag-team partner?<br />

[Olympic wrestler] Jordan<br />

Burroughs because he’s<br />

a hard worker and succeeds<br />

in a lot.<br />

If you could have dinner<br />

with anyone living or<br />

dead, then who would it<br />

be and why?<br />

Michael Jordan. It just<br />

looks like he has so much<br />

fun out on the court and he<br />

just looks like a cool dude.<br />

What are your goals for<br />

Photo submitted<br />

your freshman season?<br />

My first thing is to try to<br />

make it down to state. If I<br />

listen to my coaches just<br />

work as hard as I can, then<br />

I probably will be able to<br />

achieve that.<br />

What’s one thing you<br />

own that you couldn’t<br />

live without?<br />

My TV. I don’t really<br />

watch it a lot. I just play<br />

Xbox on it.<br />

Interview by Contributing Editor<br />

T.J. Kremer III<br />

This Week In…<br />

Lincoln-Way Co-op Athletics<br />

Gymnastics<br />

■Dec. ■ 8 - at Conant Invite, 11 a.m.<br />

■Dec. ■ 11 - at Naperville Central, 6 p.m.<br />

Warriors Varsity Athletics<br />

■Boys ■ Basketball<br />

■Dec. ■ 11 - hosts Bradley-Bourbonnais, 6:30<br />

p.m.<br />

Girls Basketball<br />

■Dec. ■ 6 - hosts Thornwood, 6:30 p.m.<br />

■Dec. ■ 13 - hosts Bradley-Bourbonnais, 6:30<br />

p.m.<br />

Wrestling<br />

■Dec. ■ 7 - at Bradley-Bourbonnais, 5:30 p.m.<br />

■Dec. ■ 8 - at Downers Grove South Invite, 9<br />

a.m.<br />

■Dec. ■ 13 - hosts Lockport, 5:30 p.m.<br />

Girls Bowling<br />

■Dec. ■ 6 - hosts Sandburg, 4:30 p.m.<br />

■Dec. ■ 8 - at Plainfield North Strikefest (at<br />

Town and Country Lanes), 9 a.m.<br />

■Dec. ■ 11 - hosts Plainfield East, 4:30 p.m.<br />

■Dec. ■ 13 - hosts Stagg, 4:30 p.m.<br />

Boys Bowling<br />

■Dec. ■ 6 - hosts Andrew, 4:30 p.m.<br />

■Dec. ■ 8 - at Sandburg Invite (at Orland Bowl),<br />

8 a.m.<br />

■Dec. ■ 10 - at Lockport (at Strike and Spare),<br />

4:30 p.m.<br />

■Dec. ■ 13 - at Joliet West (at Town and<br />

Country Lanes), 4:30 p.m.<br />

Boys Swimming and Diving<br />

■Dec. ■ 6 - hosts Homewood-Flossmoor,<br />

Lemont, 5 p.m.<br />

■Dec. ■ 11 - hosts Andrew, 5 p.m.<br />

Competitive Cheerleading<br />

■Dec. ■ 9 - at North Pole Invitational (at<br />

Lincoln-Way East), TBA<br />

Competitive Dance<br />

■Dec. ■ 9 - at Waubonsie Valley Invite, TBA<br />

Knights Varsity Athletics<br />

Boys Basketball<br />

■Dec. ■ 7 - at Bradley-Bourbonnais, 7 p.m.<br />

■Dec. ■ 11 - hosts Andrew, 6 p.m.<br />

■Dec. ■ 13 - at Stagg, 6:15 p.m.<br />

Girls Basketball<br />

■Dec. ■ 11 - at Bradley-Bourbonnais, 7 p.m.<br />

■Dec. ■ 13 - hosts Andrew, 6 p.m.<br />

Wrestling<br />

■Dec. ■ 6 - at Sandburg, 5 p.m.<br />

■Dec. ■ 7 - hosts Andrew, 5 p.m.<br />

■Dec. ■ 8 - at Batavia Quad, 9 a.m.<br />

■Dec. ■ 12 - at Thornton, 5 p.m.<br />

Girls Bowling<br />

■Dec. ■ 6 - at Andrew (at Orland Bowl), 4:30<br />

p.m.<br />

■Dec. ■ 8 - at Plainfield North Strikefest (at<br />

Town and Country Lanes), 9 a.m.<br />

■Dec. ■ 11 - hosts Bolingbrook<br />

Boys Bowling<br />

■Dec. ■ 6 - hosts Sandburg (Senior Night),<br />

4:30 p.m.<br />

■Dec. ■ 8 - at Sandburg Invite (at Orland Bowl),<br />

8 a.m.<br />

■Dec. ■ 11 - at Stagg (at Palos Lanes), 4:30<br />

p.m.<br />

Boys Swimming and Diving<br />

■Dec. ■ 6 - hosts Lincoln-Way East, 5 p.m.<br />

Competitive Cheerleading<br />

■Dec. ■ 9 - at Stevenson Invitational, TBA<br />

Competitive Dance<br />

■Dec. ■ 9 - at Stevenson Invitational, TBA<br />

Celtics Varsity Athletics<br />

Boys Basketball<br />

■Dec. ■ 7 - at St. Joseph, 7 p.m.<br />

Girls Basketball<br />

■Dec. ■ 6 - hosts Loyola Academy, 7 p.m.<br />

■Dec. ■ 10 - at Coal City, 6:45 p.m.<br />

■Dec. ■ 11 - hosts St. Laurence, 7 p.m.<br />

■Dec. ■ 13 - at De La Salle, 7 p.m.<br />

Wrestling<br />

■Dec. ■ 6 - at Marist, 5 p.m.<br />

■Dec. ■ 7 - at St. Rita, 6 p.m.<br />

■Dec. ■ 8 - at Oak Park-River Forest Duals, 8<br />

a.m.<br />

Boys Bowling<br />

■Dec. ■ 6 - at Mt. Carmel (at AMF Forest<br />

Lanes), 4 p.m.<br />

■Dec. ■ 8 - at Sandburg Invite (at Orland Bowl),<br />

8 a.m.<br />

■Dec. ■ 11 - at St. Rita (at Centennial Lanes -<br />

Tinley Park), 4 p.m.<br />

This Week In is compiled by editor James Sanchez,<br />

james@newlenoxpatriot.com.<br />

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Girls Basketball<br />

Celtics suffer first loss to highly ranked Mighty Macs<br />

Providence still<br />

rolling with 6-1<br />

record<br />

Steve Millar<br />

Freelance Reporter<br />

Junior guard Claire Mc-<br />

Grath likes the way Providence’s<br />

girls basketball team<br />

is clicking. The Celtics won<br />

their first six games before<br />

dropping a contest at Mother<br />

McAuley on Thursday, Nov.<br />

29.<br />

“We’re playing much<br />

more as a team this year than<br />

we did last year,” McGrath<br />

said. “Our ball movement<br />

has gotten a lot better.<br />

“Our chemistry is really<br />

good this year. We all trust<br />

each other and work well on<br />

the court, so I think that’s<br />

going to help us.”<br />

The Celtics opened the season<br />

by winning the Beecher<br />

Fall Classic, going 5-0 in the<br />

event. Providence rolled in<br />

its first four games, topping<br />

Beecher 69-32, Tinley Park<br />

63-32, Illiana Christian 54-26<br />

and Peotone 58-22.<br />

In the championship game<br />

of the tournament, the Celtics<br />

outlasted Bradley-Bourbonnais<br />

76-66.<br />

“We beat a really good<br />

Bradley-Bourbonnais team,”<br />

Providence coach Eileen<br />

Copenhaver said. “That was<br />

a shootout, back and forth,<br />

and we pulled it out. We take<br />

a lot of positives from that<br />

and the whole tournament.<br />

“It was a great start to the<br />

season for us. The team is<br />

jelling pretty good and we<br />

like the pieces we have to<br />

work with.”<br />

Junior guard Lauren<br />

Knight was named MVP of<br />

the Beecher Fall Classic, averaging<br />

19 points a game in<br />

the tournament.<br />

“I was named a captain<br />

this year, so I really wanted<br />

Junior guard Lauren Knight is off to a hot start to the season winning Tournament MVP in the Beecher Classic to open the season, averaging 19 points<br />

along the way. She scored seven points in a recent loss at Mother McAuley Thursday, Nov. 29. 22nd Century Media File Photo<br />

to lead the team and talk<br />

more,” Knight said. “I’m<br />

honored to take that role.”<br />

Senior guard/forward Ryann<br />

Ogarek also showcased<br />

her skills in the tournament,<br />

averaging 16.8 points and 10<br />

rebounds and being named<br />

to the All-Tournament team.<br />

Both players rose to the<br />

occasion in the championship<br />

game, Knight scoring<br />

25 points and Ogarek adding<br />

20.<br />

“Those two are both playing<br />

great for us,” Copenhaver<br />

said. “Lauren’s shooting<br />

has really been on point.”<br />

The Celtics improved to<br />

6-0 by routing Regina 72-20<br />

in their home opener on Nov.<br />

27.<br />

Even in their first loss,<br />

there were some positives to<br />

take away.<br />

An undefeated Mother<br />

McAuley team, coming off<br />

a sectional title last season,<br />

provided a very tough test<br />

for Providence.<br />

The Celtics lost 66-31 but<br />

outscored the Mighty Macs<br />

in the second half.<br />

“We won the second half,”<br />

Knight said. “That was our<br />

goal. At halftime, we felt<br />

like we really needed to pick<br />

it up. Even though we were<br />

down big, we wanted to<br />

keep playing hard and play<br />

better in the second half.”<br />

McGrath led the Celtics<br />

with 12 points. Knight and<br />

Ogarek added seven points<br />

each, with Ogarek chipping<br />

in six rebounds.<br />

Junior center Jenna Spreitzer<br />

came off the bench to<br />

finish with six rebounds, and<br />

sophomore guard Ashley<br />

Raymer scored four points.<br />

“Our energy was better in<br />

the second half,” McGrath<br />

said. “We communicated<br />

better. We were happy with<br />

that.”<br />

Mother McAuley’s highpressure<br />

defense forced<br />

Providence into 23 first-half<br />

turnovers, but the Celtics<br />

turned it over just three times<br />

in the second half, despite<br />

the Mighty Macs’ starters<br />

playing for a good portion of<br />

the third quarter.<br />

“They did some things that<br />

got us off track in the first<br />

half and got our confidence<br />

down, but in the second half<br />

we handled things much better,”<br />

Copenhaver said. “I<br />

liked the kids’ response and<br />

the way they came back and<br />

competed.”<br />

Copenhaver was glad her<br />

team got to play a team of<br />

Mother McAuley’s caliber<br />

early in the season.<br />

“This is perfect,” she said.<br />

“Sometimes you get a false<br />

sense of security of how<br />

good you are. A game like<br />

this gives us a lot to work<br />

on. You have to be positive,<br />

learn from it and move forward.”<br />

McGrath shared similar<br />

sentiments.<br />

“We have a lot of games<br />

coming up against good<br />

teams so this showed us<br />

what we need to do and how<br />

we need to step up to our<br />

competition,” she said.<br />

Going forward, Copenhaver<br />

feels she has a team<br />

that can put together a successful<br />

season.<br />

In addition to Knight and<br />

Ogarek’s scoring abilities<br />

and strong outside shooting,<br />

Raymer and McGrath are capable<br />

ballhandlers who can<br />

also score.<br />

Senior 5-foot-10 center<br />

Maddy Bear provides an inside<br />

presence.<br />

Providence hopes to get<br />

a boost later in the season<br />

when junior Katie Rost returns<br />

from a broken hand.<br />

“Katie is our best defender<br />

and sort of our glue,” Copenhaver<br />

said. “We’re in a<br />

bit of a transition now where<br />

people have to do different<br />

roles.<br />

“That’s a good thing. It’ll<br />

make everyone stronger<br />

when everyone is back.”<br />

Copenhaver is confident<br />

the Celtics can continue to<br />

score points the way they did<br />

in their first six games, when<br />

they averaged 65.<br />

“Our biggest strength<br />

could be our offense,” she<br />

said. “We have good shooters.<br />

We just need to work on<br />

making those extra passes to<br />

get a better shot. If we take<br />

care of the basketball and<br />

don’t turn it over like we did<br />

(against Mother McAuley),<br />

we’ll be all right.”


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Athlete of the Month<br />

Lincoln-Way Central volleyball<br />

player spikes November competition<br />

Bill Jones, Managing Editor<br />

After a junior year ACL<br />

injury, Lincoln-Way Central<br />

senior Dani Lauer bounced<br />

back to find herself on the<br />

Team 22: Girls Volleyball<br />

roster this season.<br />

Now, the Knight is Athlete<br />

of the Month.<br />

Lauer garnered the most<br />

votes in 22nd Century Media’s<br />

November contest to<br />

earn that title.<br />

The Athlete of the Month<br />

competition pits featured<br />

Athlete of the Week selections<br />

from our south suburban<br />

newspapers against one<br />

another in an online voting<br />

contest.<br />

The next contest is to begin<br />

Monday, Dec. 10.<br />

To vote, visit NewLenox<br />

Patriot.com, hover over the<br />

“Sports” menu tab and click<br />

NATE<br />

From Page 54<br />

your team like Colin was,<br />

do what he did, it became<br />

contagious, I think in our<br />

program more often than<br />

not play injured.”<br />

Mahoney was never 100<br />

percent but there was no<br />

way he was going to stay<br />

off the field, especially in<br />

his senior season.<br />

He recently had surgery<br />

to repair his leg, a surgery<br />

that was a long-time coming<br />

and if gotten during the<br />

season, would have likely<br />

ended it so Mahoney waited<br />

until he physically could not<br />

play. He missed both playoff<br />

games this season.<br />

Ernst said he was a guy<br />

that fought through adversity<br />

and was “all-day tough.”<br />

“He’s guy that would<br />

Dani Lauer — a Lincoln-Way Central volleyball player<br />

— won the November Athlete of the Month competition<br />

for publisher 22nd Century Media’s Southwest Chicago<br />

branch. 22nd Century Media File Photo<br />

“Athlete of the Month.”<br />

Readers can vote once per<br />

session per valid email address.<br />

Voting ends at 5 p.m.<br />

Dec. 25.<br />

fight through adversity. His<br />

dad had a heart attack over<br />

the summer and I don’t<br />

think he missed a practice.<br />

He was maybe late a couple<br />

days for meetings because<br />

he was at the hospital seeing<br />

his dad. There’s an old<br />

saying “he’s all-day tough”<br />

and that’s Nate. That is what<br />

I’ll remember of Nate.”<br />

The thing that motivated<br />

Mahoney the most and may<br />

be his greatest memory<br />

from this team is his teammate<br />

Brett Dobczyk, who<br />

almost lost his life in a freak<br />

accident.<br />

Before the game against<br />

Harlem, for the first time all<br />

season, Dobczyk suited up<br />

with his Warrior teammates<br />

for warm-ups. He was not<br />

going to play in the game,<br />

but seeing that was enough<br />

for Mahoney and the rest of<br />

the Warriors.<br />

All athletes featured in<br />

the November Athlete of the<br />

Week sports interviews are<br />

automatically entered into<br />

the contest.<br />

“Brett Dobczyk, he was<br />

supposed to die and he<br />

fought through all the odds<br />

and against Harlem he<br />

dressed and was back on<br />

the field with us and that’s a<br />

miracle story and something<br />

you hear about in the book,”<br />

Mahoney said. “That was<br />

my favorite moment of the<br />

season”<br />

Mahoney shrugged off his<br />

injury saying, if “Dobs” can<br />

come out of that, I’m not<br />

going to sit out over a leg<br />

injury. Guys I played next to<br />

were playing through way<br />

more stuff.”<br />

And at the end of the day,<br />

Mahoney ended his high<br />

school career as an All-State<br />

lineman.<br />

Now it’s time to get ready<br />

for college. Mahoney has an<br />

offer from West Point, and<br />

that school is at the top of<br />

his list.<br />

Wrestling<br />

Knights climb back to .500 record after busy week<br />

Staff Report<br />

Lincoln-Way Central<br />

wrestling went 3-2 at the<br />

Plainfield North Mega Duals<br />

on Saturday, Dec. 1 to finish<br />

this week with a season record<br />

of 5-5.<br />

Central beat Plainfield<br />

North (47-24), Crete-Monee<br />

(72-9) and Harlem (42-27)<br />

and lost to Dundee-Crown<br />

(28-49) and York (28-40).<br />

Top performances on Saturday<br />

came from 195-pounder<br />

Mason Sargent, who went<br />

an undefeated 5-0. Mike<br />

McCormack went 4-0 at 220<br />

pounds, and 113-pounder<br />

Conor Smetana went 4-1 on<br />

the day.<br />

The day before, on Friday,<br />

Nov. 30, the Knights<br />

suffered a narrow loss to<br />

Naperville North 33-38.<br />

Hooray<br />

for<br />

Hastings!<br />

West basketball<br />

player eclipses<br />

1,000 career<br />

varsity points<br />

Boys Basketball<br />

Homewood-Flossmoor 57,<br />

Lincoln-Way Central 25<br />

Sharpshooter Matt Maloney<br />

scored 6 points for the<br />

Knights, and Nick Tingley<br />

was right behind with 5<br />

points in tough loss on<br />

Friday, Nov. 30, giving<br />

them a record of 2-3.<br />

Lincoln-Way Central’s Mason Sargeant went an undefeated<br />

5-0 Saturday, Dec. 1 at the Plainfield North Mega Duals in<br />

Plainfield. 22nd Century Media File Photo<br />

Smetana (113), Justin Brauer<br />

(126), Mitchell Rudsinski<br />

(138), Sargent (195) and<br />

Chris Pasowisty (285) all<br />

won by pin.<br />

On Thursday, Nov. 29,<br />

the Knights lost to Bradley-<br />

Bourbonnais 24-42, but<br />

beat Thornridge 12-0 in a<br />

Four-year varsity player Tara Hastings surpassed 1,000 career<br />

points Thursday, Nov. 29, during the Warriors’ win over Sandburg.<br />

22nd Century Media File Photo<br />

high school highlights<br />

The rest of the week in high school sports<br />

Boys Swimming and Diving<br />

Knights, Warriors go first<br />

and second at Warrior<br />

Pentathalon<br />

Lincoln-Way Central’s<br />

Danny O’Brien won the 100<br />

yard butterfly, the 100 backstroke,<br />

the 200 individual<br />

medley and was second in<br />

the 100 freestyle. Teammate<br />

Tommy Kirk was second<br />

triangular meet. Against the<br />

Boilermakers, 170-pounder<br />

TJ Hinks, Sargent and Mc-<br />

Cormack all pinned their<br />

opponents. Against Thornridge,<br />

160-pounder Jackson<br />

Hosman won by pin and<br />

195-pounder Mike Detella<br />

won by forfeit.<br />

to O’Brien in the butterfly<br />

event. For Lincoln-Way<br />

West, Sean Finley won the<br />

100 breaststroke. He was<br />

second in the 100 backstroke<br />

and the 200 IM. Sophomore<br />

Gavin Boomsma took fourth<br />

in the 100 freestyle.<br />

High School Highlights is compiled<br />

by Editor James Sanchez,<br />

james@newlenoxpatriot.com.


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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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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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Boys Basketball<br />

Warriors’ late 19-3 run not enough against Porters<br />

RANDY WHALEN<br />

Freelance Reporter<br />

The Lockport Township<br />

boys basketball team celebrated<br />

Senior Night last<br />

weekend.<br />

Then when things weren’t<br />

going their way in the second<br />

half, the Porters stepped<br />

up and played like seniors.<br />

Lockport regrouped in the<br />

fourth quarter and pulled<br />

away from an ultra-close<br />

game to defeat Lincoln-Way<br />

West 56-45 in a SouthWest<br />

Suburban Conference crossover<br />

clash on Friday, Nov.<br />

30 at Lockport East.<br />

With the victory, the Porters<br />

(4-1) continued their<br />

early season resurgence.<br />

West (1-5) lost to Lockport<br />

by almost the exact same<br />

score, 57-46, on Friday,<br />

Nov. 23 in the final pool<br />

play game at the 23rd annual<br />

WJOL Thanksgiving Classic<br />

at the University of St. Francis<br />

in Joliet.<br />

But last weekend’s game<br />

was a little closer in the second<br />

half than the previous<br />

one. That’s because the Warriors<br />

went on a huge burst<br />

and cut a 17-point deficit to<br />

a single point on four occasions<br />

in the second half. But<br />

they could never tie it or take<br />

the lead. Although his team<br />

was getting blitzed in that<br />

time, Hespell never called a<br />

timeout.<br />

“We’ve got a lot of seniors<br />

and they’re supposed to<br />

know what to do in difficult<br />

times,” Hespell explained.<br />

“You can’t spoon feed life<br />

to them. They did what they<br />

needed to do. We’re learning<br />

how to win and knowing<br />

that it’s not just scoring, it’s<br />

defense.”<br />

Matt Hatzopoulos, a guard<br />

and one of the Porters nine<br />

seniors, showed that. He<br />

finished with a game-high<br />

22-points, but 17 of them<br />

Warriors forward Andrew Pyles goes for a tough shot<br />

inside.<br />

came in the first half.<br />

“It’s hard to play the same<br />

team twice in a week, but<br />

even after they got close, we<br />

pushed through,” Hatzopoulos<br />

said. “We are a different<br />

team this season. We’re<br />

playing for each other.”<br />

That showed when the<br />

Warriors cut it to 1-point for<br />

the last time. That was at 42-<br />

41 on a pair of free throws<br />

by sophomore guard Jacob<br />

Vassalla with 6:04 to play in<br />

the game. West then had two<br />

possessions to take the lead<br />

but turned it over each time.<br />

In the meantime, Lockport<br />

scored nine straight points<br />

in a three-minute span, to<br />

go up. 51-41 with 1:22 to<br />

play in the game. The Warriors<br />

finally ended a nearly<br />

five-minute scoring drought<br />

when junior guard Jackson<br />

Ferree (5 points) scored on<br />

a driving layup with 1:07 remaining.<br />

But it was too little,<br />

too late at that point.<br />

Senior forward Blake Sartin<br />

(11 points, 4 assists, 3<br />

steals) scored eight points,<br />

including going 6-of-6 from<br />

the line, in the fourth quarter<br />

for the Porters.<br />

“When I step to the line I<br />

have a feeling I’m going to<br />

make them, I clear my head<br />

and relax,” Sartin said. “I<br />

practice free throws all the<br />

time, and I will stay after<br />

practice just to work on them<br />

more.<br />

“This team has a bunch of<br />

seniors and we have a different<br />

mindset this year. We<br />

want to prove people wrong<br />

and bring Lockport back to<br />

a winning program. We all<br />

have worked on our game<br />

since the season ended last<br />

year. Coach Hespell always<br />

talks about winning is hard,<br />

and we just need to keep our<br />

composure. We lost a little<br />

of that in the third quarter,<br />

and we would not have won<br />

this game last year. But this<br />

is a different team this year.”<br />

Seniors Tommy Halatek<br />

(10 points, 9 rebounds) at<br />

center, and guards Ioannis<br />

Vassilakis (6 points) and<br />

Jake Karli (7 assists, 3 steals,<br />

Lincoln-Way West starting point guard Nate Clendenning goes for an acrobatic layup Friday,<br />

Nov. 30, during a road matchup at Lockport. Photos by Adam Jomant/22nd Century Media<br />

2 points) also contributed for<br />

Lockport. The rest of the<br />

Porter seniors are Emmanuel<br />

Allen, Quinn Gardner, Aaron<br />

Grcevic, and Eric Keta.<br />

The Porters led the whole<br />

game, jumping out to a 7-0<br />

advantage and leading 10-5<br />

after one quarter. Hatzopoulos,<br />

who was 6-of-10 on<br />

3-pointers in the game, hit<br />

four of them in the second<br />

quarter as they extended to a<br />

28-14 halftime lead.<br />

“It was just a team effort,”<br />

Hatzopoulos said. “We<br />

moved the ball well, and my<br />

teammates found me when I<br />

was open, and I hit the shots.<br />

I had been struggling a little<br />

with 3-pointers, but when I<br />

hit that first one to open the<br />

game, I felt really good.”<br />

A 3-pointer by Vassilakis<br />

just over a minute into the<br />

third quarter gave Lockport<br />

a 31-14 lead. The Warriors,<br />

however, embarked on a<br />

19-3 blitz over the next 3:34<br />

to close within 34-33 on a<br />

3-pointer by junior guard<br />

Micah Schnyders (team-high<br />

14 points) with 2:49 to play<br />

in the third quarter. Lockport<br />

led 38-35 after three.<br />

Junior forward Andrew<br />

Pyles (12 points) and senior<br />

guard Nate Clendenning (9<br />

points) also contributed for<br />

West.<br />

“We were tentative and<br />

we weren’t attacking so we<br />

tweaked some of our movement<br />

that we were lacking<br />

to start the game, and that<br />

got us going,” West coach<br />

Brian Flaherty said. “We<br />

came back to make it a onepossession<br />

game, but we<br />

weren’t ready to play in the<br />

first half.<br />

“One of our assistant<br />

coaches told me that this season,<br />

we have been outscored<br />

by 50 points in the second<br />

quarter [including the Lockport<br />

game]. When our backs<br />

are against the wall, we play<br />

well, we play with energy<br />

and were fun to watch. It’s<br />

just that somehow, we have<br />

to figure out how to play that<br />

way at the start of the game.”<br />

Eric Lantero, one of the<br />

West varsity assistants, is a<br />

2010 Lockport graduate and<br />

played point guard for the<br />

Porters. A previous assistant<br />

coach at Plainfield South,<br />

it was his first trip back to<br />

Lockport as a coach for a<br />

varsity game.<br />

Earlier in the week, on<br />

Nov. 27, the Warriors hosted<br />

Joliet West lost by a score of<br />

49-42. The Tigers led 24-18<br />

at halftime, and once again<br />

the Warriors couldn’t catchup.<br />

Schnyders led West with<br />

13 points.<br />

The Warriors will look<br />

to increase their win total<br />

with a trio of 6:30 p.m.<br />

home games in the next two<br />

weeks. The first of those<br />

was the SWSC Red opener<br />

on Tuesday, Dec. 4, against<br />

Thornwood. After being off<br />

this Friday, West is back in<br />

action next Tuesday, Dec.<br />

11 as Bradley-Bourbonnais<br />

comes to town for another<br />

SWSC Red battle. Then on<br />

Friday, Dec. 14, Tinley Park<br />

comes to New Lenox for a<br />

nonconference matchup.


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Boys Bowling<br />

Knights sweep both Lincoln-Ways in same week<br />

RANDY WHALEN<br />

Freelance Reporter<br />

When the three Lincoln-<br />

Way boys bowling teams<br />

bowled against each other<br />

last week, it really didn’t<br />

matter.<br />

That’s because a new rule<br />

was enacted that made the<br />

SouthWest Suburban Conference<br />

matchups not factor<br />

into the standings. It used<br />

to be that the dual meets,<br />

coupled with the conference<br />

tournament at the end of the<br />

regular season, determined<br />

the conference champion.<br />

But a recent change means<br />

that now only the conference<br />

tourney will determine the<br />

champion.<br />

The SWSC tournament<br />

will be hosted by Andrew<br />

and won’t take place until<br />

Saturday, Jan. 5 at Orland<br />

Bowl. But if it were held<br />

last week one thing would<br />

have been for sure, at least<br />

in among the Lincoln-Way<br />

schools, Lincoln-Way Central<br />

is still the top team.<br />

The Knights showed that<br />

last week with a clean dual<br />

meet sweep of Lincoln-Way<br />

West and Lincoln-Way East.<br />

The score against East was<br />

1,949-1,786 on Thursday,<br />

Nov. 29 at Laraway Lanes in<br />

New Lenox.<br />

Central (6-2,4-2), which<br />

bowled a consistent 976 and<br />

973, actually hasn’t won<br />

the SWSC title since going<br />

back-to-back in the 2006-<br />

07 and 2007-2008 seasons.<br />

But coming off a third-place<br />

state finish last season, the<br />

Knights may have what it<br />

takes to pull out a league<br />

title next month.<br />

“We have three returners<br />

from our state roster,” Central<br />

coach Coley O’Connell<br />

said. “But only one of them,<br />

Alex Nolan, saw any action<br />

at state. Alex has done<br />

great this season. He was our<br />

leadoff bowler last year and<br />

is the anchor bowler this season.<br />

We can compete with<br />

the best of the teams. We<br />

build as the season goes on.<br />

“It [beating the other Lincoln-Way’s]<br />

is a confidence<br />

builder. We all know each<br />

other, so it’s a pride thing<br />

and definitely something we<br />

can build on.”<br />

Nolan led the way with a<br />

471 (256, 215) series against<br />

East. Senior Ryan Gamen<br />

got a 388 (200, 188) while<br />

senior Brian Triezenberg tallied<br />

364 (179, 185), and junior<br />

Austin Zaker registered<br />

a 334 total (182, 152). Tyler<br />

Misch (159) bowled the first<br />

game for the Knights, while<br />

fellow junior Tommy Martini<br />

(233) was in the lineup<br />

in the second game.<br />

“I’ve always wanted to<br />

lead this team and I love this<br />

sport,” said Nolan, of being<br />

the leader for the Knights.<br />

“Being with this team makes<br />

me love it even more. I want<br />

to be the energizer.<br />

“This is a confidence<br />

booster. I was in a little<br />

slump here at Laraway<br />

Lanes but got out of that<br />

[against East]. I believe this<br />

was the match where we<br />

will start seeing the scores<br />

go higher. I can’t wait to see<br />

what the future holds.”<br />

For East (6-4, 4-2), which<br />

had games of 914 and 872, it<br />

was junior Demitri Przybylinski<br />

leading the way with<br />

a 389 (193, 196) score. Senior<br />

DJ Armbrecht followed<br />

with a 377 (196, 187), Then<br />

it was junior Anthony Bria<br />

bringing a 357 (176, 181),<br />

followed by seniors Cole<br />

Emery with a 346 (181, 165)<br />

and Josh Edgin with a 327<br />

(184, 143).<br />

Despite the setback, the<br />

Griffins have shown promising<br />

signs this season.<br />

“We just have a lot more<br />

consistency,” Przybylinski<br />

said. “I’d say it’s going good<br />

and much better than last<br />

year. a year ago we didn’t<br />

have the communication onand-off<br />

the lanes as we do<br />

now.<br />

“But I do feel we were too<br />

stressed [against Central].<br />

We were too focused on trying<br />

to win rather than doing<br />

our best.”<br />

Still, second-year East<br />

coach Dan Galligan looked<br />

at it as a great opportunity.<br />

“I love it when our squad<br />

gets a chance to compete<br />

against Central,” he said.<br />

“Their success last year<br />

should be a huge motivator<br />

for us. There are a lot<br />

of good teams in this area,<br />

and we’re trying to build<br />

up our program so that we<br />

can be in that conversation<br />

too. Besides that, Coley<br />

[O’Connell] and his assistant<br />

Bob Clayton have been<br />

a huge help to me. This is<br />

my second year with our<br />

program, and those two guys<br />

have let me pick their brains<br />

and be a great resource.<br />

“[Against Central] wasn’t<br />

our best performance. Mentally,<br />

we weren’t where we<br />

needed to be. The good news<br />

is we’ve had some great performances<br />

recently that we<br />

can build on, and we’re going<br />

to be back at Laraway<br />

Lanes in a couple weeks for<br />

the Lincoln-Way Cup [on<br />

Saturday, Dec. 15] and that’s<br />

another opportunity to get<br />

better and compete against<br />

these guys.”<br />

East opened the week with<br />

a pair of dual meet wins. The<br />

first of those was on Monday,<br />

Nov. 26, where the Griffins<br />

toppled visiting Chicago<br />

Christian 1,880-1,589 as<br />

Przybylinski led the way<br />

with a 441 series (198, 243).<br />

Then the next day East defeated<br />

Bradley-Bourbonnais<br />

2,172-1,927 in an SWSC<br />

match as Armbrecht had a<br />

691 (245, 256, 190) total in<br />

Lincoln-Way Central bowler Tyler Misch eyes his shot in Game 1 Thursday, Nov. 29, during<br />

an intradistrict matchup against Lincoln-Way East at Laraway Lanes. Photos by James<br />

Sanchez/22nd Century Media<br />

Brian Triezenberg has some fun with his teammates after recording a strike.<br />

a 3-game format. Both were<br />

at ThunderBowl Lanes in<br />

Mokena.<br />

Earlier in the week, on<br />

Tuesday, Nov. 27, Central<br />

toppled Lincoln-Way West<br />

1,963-1,875 at Laraway<br />

Lanes. The Knights rolled<br />

games of 933 and 1,030 in<br />

the win. Zaker tallied an<br />

excellent 458 (222, 236)<br />

to lead the way. Nolan followed<br />

with a 422 (195, 227)<br />

and Misch added a 406 (166,<br />

240).


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Toughness earns Mahoney All-State recognition<br />

Senior O-lineman<br />

played through<br />

injuries entire threeyear<br />

varsity career<br />

Sean Hastings<br />

Freelance Reporter<br />

The first play on Lincoln-Way<br />

West senior right<br />

tackle Nate Mahoney’s<br />

highlight tape is him taking<br />

a linebacker, pushing him<br />

back 13 yards and burying<br />

him into the ground, popping<br />

his helmet off.<br />

It was plays like that, and<br />

as coach Dave Ernst put it,<br />

“playing through the echo<br />

of the whistle” that helped<br />

make Mahoney an All-State<br />

offensive lineman.<br />

“It’s fun when you do<br />

that kind of stuff. It makes<br />

the other team look at you<br />

a little funny because not<br />

a lot of people are doing<br />

that,” Mahoney said. “The<br />

offensive line I played with,<br />

every single kid was doing<br />

that, and we take a lot of<br />

pride in that.”<br />

Earning All-State was not<br />

something Mahoney worried<br />

about, but was happy<br />

that everything came together<br />

for him in the end.<br />

“It’s something that is<br />

really special. I’ve been<br />

playing since I was 5 years<br />

old and it’s something that<br />

I’ve been working at my<br />

entire life for and it finally<br />

paid off,” Mahoney said.<br />

“When I go out and play I<br />

have nothing on my mind<br />

but beating the other team.<br />

I never really thought about<br />

it, but it was really cool<br />

when I found out.”<br />

Mahoney helped lead the<br />

Warriors to an 8-3 record<br />

this season, including an<br />

upset win over Harlem High<br />

School in the first round of<br />

the IHSA Playoffs.<br />

The offensive line is one<br />

Nate Mahoney went to Champaign late last month during<br />

the IHSA football state finals games to receive his award.<br />

Photo Submitted<br />

of the most selfless positions<br />

on the field as players<br />

are putting their body on the<br />

line each play to make sure<br />

the other guys on the field<br />

stay safe.<br />

They do not get the same<br />

recognition as a wide receiver<br />

catching a touchdown<br />

pass, a running back<br />

breaking off a big run, a<br />

defensive back intercepting<br />

a pass or even a defensive<br />

lineman sacking the quarterback.<br />

But Mahoney is fine with<br />

that. He enjoys the selfless<br />

play he and his other linemen<br />

play with and get just<br />

as much excitement out of<br />

a big play or touchdown,<br />

because the offense is just<br />

one big machine with many<br />

working parts.<br />

He said he is going to do<br />

everything he can do to put<br />

a defender in the ground<br />

and make sure the offense<br />

is gaining yards and scoring<br />

touchdowns.<br />

“We’re putting everything<br />

on the line to make<br />

sure guys are getting into<br />

the end zone,” he said. “It’s<br />

an incredible feeling to see<br />

the guys scoring and knowing<br />

that you were a reason<br />

why.”<br />

One person who may be<br />

most grateful for Mahoney’s<br />

services throughout the season<br />

is senior quarterback<br />

Greyson Grimm. Mahoney<br />

literally and figuratively<br />

had his back every play.<br />

At right tackle, Mahoney<br />

was tasked with protecting<br />

Grimm’s blind side and<br />

Grimm never had to worry<br />

about anyone coming off<br />

the edge on that side, he<br />

said.<br />

Grimm said it made his<br />

job much easier with Mahoney<br />

there and senior Martin<br />

Bender at left tackle.<br />

Lincoln-Way West senior offensive lineman Nate Mahoney was one of only three<br />

offensive lineman named All-State by the Illinois Football Coaches Association.<br />

BURNS PHOTOGRAPHY<br />

“It gave me more of a personal<br />

clock,” Grimm said.<br />

“I didn’t have to get the ball<br />

out as fast I would have regular<br />

had to. It gave me a lot<br />

more opportunities to make<br />

a play.”<br />

Grimm earned first-team<br />

All-Conference this season,<br />

but credited Mahoney and<br />

the other guys in front of<br />

him for the honor.<br />

“It meant a lot this year<br />

because it shows that I was<br />

able to help the team,” he<br />

said. “We really had another<br />

impressive season being<br />

8-3. That’s another award<br />

that I like to thank the O-<br />

Line about because I never<br />

had to worry about protection.”<br />

Mahoney has aspirations<br />

to play at the next level,<br />

which is going to happen,<br />

the only question is where.<br />

But one thing is for sure; his<br />

speed has stood out.<br />

At 6-feet-3, 255 pounds,<br />

Mahoney is not quite as<br />

big as some of the successful<br />

lineman that have rolled<br />

through West such as Colin<br />

McGovern or Justin Witt,<br />

but he utilizes his speed better<br />

than anyone.<br />

“He’s a good-sized kid,<br />

but his speed [is what makes<br />

him special],” Ernst said. “I<br />

talked to a college coach<br />

who was looking at him and<br />

he even asked if we sped up<br />

the film a little bit to make<br />

him look quicker and I told<br />

him, ‘no, he’s that fast.’”<br />

Toughness; though, is the<br />

No. 1 thing that stood out to<br />

Ernst in how Mahoney was<br />

deserving of the All-State<br />

honor.<br />

“He has played hurt every<br />

year,” Ernst said. “Sophomore<br />

year broke his femur,<br />

junior year he was recovering<br />

from that and this year<br />

he tore his ACL, MCL and<br />

PCL and both meniscus.<br />

Most happened in one injury,<br />

but he tore his PCL early<br />

in the season and kept playing<br />

with it. He’s physically<br />

tough and even with all<br />

those injuries he was playing<br />

great.”<br />

Mahoney is not the first,<br />

nor will he be the last player<br />

to fight through, what are<br />

usually season-ending injuries,<br />

but that mindset has<br />

become a staple in the Warrior<br />

program. “To do whatever<br />

you have to do to get<br />

out there and be there with<br />

the guys.”<br />

“That type of attitude<br />

goes back to Colin McGovern<br />

and what he did to play<br />

that game against JCA with<br />

three torn ligaments and the<br />

cartilage being shredded,”<br />

Ernst said. “He braced it<br />

up and went. I think when<br />

you see the best player on<br />

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fastbreak<br />

Boys Bowling<br />

Warriors back on track with rally win over Thornridge<br />

1st and 3<br />

Photo Submitted<br />

Mahoney edition<br />

1. Amongst the<br />

best blockers<br />

Only two other OL<br />

were named All-State<br />

with Nate Mahoney<br />

(above) Those were<br />

Iowa State-commit<br />

Darrell Simmons,<br />

from East St. Louis,<br />

and U of I preferred<br />

walk-on Paul Fay,<br />

from Hononegah.<br />

2. Inspiration<br />

His motivation came<br />

from teammate Brett<br />

Dobczyk, who was<br />

told he would never<br />

play football after<br />

a life-threatening<br />

accident but came<br />

back for the playoffs.<br />

3. All toughness<br />

Mahoney broke his<br />

femur his sophomore<br />

year, played while<br />

recovering from<br />

that his junior year<br />

and played through<br />

a PCL tear early in<br />

the season and still<br />

performed at an All-<br />

State level.<br />

West responds after<br />

losing to Central<br />

days prior<br />

Randy Whalen<br />

Freelance Reporter<br />

West rallied to defeat<br />

Thornridge 1,867-1,862 in<br />

an SWSC matchup Thursday,<br />

Nov. 29, at Laraway<br />

Lanes.<br />

Senior leader Mike Nork<br />

knocked out a 422 (188, 234)<br />

to lead the way. Paul put up a<br />

403 (212, 191), senior Jeremy<br />

Sgarlata saw a 379 (171,<br />

208) score, Jablonski registered<br />

a 332 (153, 179), and<br />

senior Naythan McNally got<br />

a 331 (151, 180) score for<br />

the Warriors (6-1, 5-1), who<br />

followed an 875 opening<br />

game with a 992. Junior Earl<br />

Johnson scored a 417 (210,<br />

207) to lead Thornridge (3-<br />

4, 2-4), which bowled 1,011<br />

in the opener and fell off to<br />

851 in the second game.<br />

Two days earlier, however,<br />

Central toppled West in<br />

a crosstown matchup. West,<br />

which was the visiting team<br />

even though the two schools<br />

both bowl at Laraway Lanes,<br />

shot games of 881 and 994.<br />

There, Jablonski led the way<br />

with a 424 (215, 209), fellow<br />

junior Tony Paul got a<br />

394 (179, 215), and Nork<br />

followed with a 393 (193,<br />

200) for the Warriors, who<br />

entered the matchup undefeated.<br />

However, the Warriors<br />

were pleased to finish<br />

off the school week with a<br />

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“I talked to a college coach who was looking at him, and<br />

he even asked if we sped up the film a little bit to make<br />

him look quicker and I told him, ‘no, he’s that fast.’”<br />

Dave Ernst – West football coach, on Nate Mahoney<br />

Lincoln-Way West junior Tony Paul is welcomed with high-fives after knocking down a strike Thursday, Nov. 29, during a<br />

match against Thornridge at Laraway Lanes. James Sanchez/22nd Century Media<br />

SWSC win.<br />

“It’s our chemistry, we<br />

work well as a team,” Nork<br />

said of the Warriors success.<br />

“That showed in our last<br />

game against Thornridge.<br />

We were down 136 pins after<br />

the first game and came<br />

back to win. Our goal is to<br />

try to make it back to state<br />

again.”<br />

Last year, West finished<br />

11th at state. This season,<br />

Scott Jablonski has taken<br />

over as head coach, switching<br />

positions with Scott Ullian,<br />

who moved from boys<br />

coach to girls bowling coach<br />

for the Warriors.<br />

“My first year with boys<br />

is going great,” Scott said.<br />

“We are a very close team,<br />

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Boys Basketball<br />

6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 11<br />

• Lincoln-Way West basketball hosts Bradley-<br />

Bourbonnais in a SouthWest Suburban Red<br />

clash.<br />

and that is paying dividends.<br />

So far we are 6-1 on both<br />

levels with our only loss was<br />

to Central. Then, we were<br />

down 136 pins after game<br />

one to Thornridge, but some<br />

things were said and the<br />

team had a little meeting and<br />

found some great motivation.<br />

We pulled together and<br />

won by 141 pins in the second<br />

game to take the match.<br />

“I know matches don’t<br />

mean as much this year, but<br />

it’s still time for our team to<br />

learn and grow together; see<br />

where our positives and to<br />

find the things we need to<br />

work on together. We are<br />

in a small rebuild this year.<br />

We have more freshman and<br />

sophomores than we do juniors<br />

and seniors. With new<br />

coaches this year, everyone<br />

is learning and growing together.<br />

My new assistant<br />

coach is Alan Castaneda.<br />

His son was on the team a<br />

few years ago and has been<br />

around for a few years.<br />

“With our first loss [last]<br />

week, that was a good thing.<br />

We now are aware that we<br />

have to keep working hard<br />

not expecting just to win,<br />

we have to work hard to<br />

get where we are and stay<br />

humble. Tournament wise<br />

we are still learning and relying<br />

on six bowlers. This is<br />

going well as we are trying<br />

to teach them to be comfortable<br />

on different parts of the<br />

lane. Not having depth is<br />

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47 – Athlete of the Week<br />

actually working well as we<br />

are able to teach and learn<br />

more, to make these bowlers<br />

stronger and more wellrounded<br />

athletes. There<br />

are more positive things to<br />

come. We have continued to<br />

show that we are competitors<br />

and a team to reckon<br />

with.”<br />

All three Lincoln-Way<br />

teams ended last week at<br />

the Oak Forest Boys Bengal<br />

Bowling Invite, on Saturday,<br />

Dec. 1, at Oak Forest<br />

Bowl. This Saturday, Dec. 8,<br />

Central is at the Tinley Park<br />

Invite, starting at 8 a.m. at<br />

Tinley Park Lanes. East and<br />

West are at Sandburg Invite,<br />

starting at 8 a.m. at Orland<br />

Park Bowl.<br />

FASTBREAK is compiled by Editor James Sanchez, james@<br />

newlenoxpatriot.com.


new lenox’s Hometown Newspaper | www.newlenoxpatriot.com | December 6, 2018<br />

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of Team 22: Football, Pages 50-51<br />

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girls volleyball player wins<br />

Athlete of the Month, Page 49<br />

Pictured is<br />

Lincoln-Way West<br />

offensive lineman<br />

Nate Mahoney<br />

running downfield<br />

looking to block<br />

earlier this<br />

season during<br />

a game against<br />

Thornton. BURNS<br />

PHOTOGRAPHY<br />

West senior is one of three<br />

offensive linemen across 7A<br />

to earn All-State, Page 54

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