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Native knowledge<br />
Midwest SOARRING event to teach importance of<br />
Native American history, Page 4<br />
Giving the go-ahead<br />
Proposals for several development projects approved<br />
at Lockport City Council meeting, Page 7<br />
The time is now<br />
Deadline is approaching for annual<br />
Holiday Card Contest, Page 9<br />
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Lockport group’s storytelling<br />
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Richard Pniewski , of Thornton, tells a story Dec. 4 during an (art) Inspired! live lit storytelling night inside the Gaylord Building. Mary Compton/22nd Century Media
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THURSDAY<br />
LTHS Choir Holiday Concert<br />
7 p.m. Dec. 13, Lockport<br />
Township High School, East<br />
Auditorium, 1323 E. 7th St.<br />
in Lockport.<br />
FRIDAY<br />
Dance Party<br />
10:30-11:15 a.m. Dec. 14,<br />
White Oak Library District<br />
Lockport Branch Library,<br />
121 E. 8th St., Lockport.<br />
This program is for children<br />
ages 6 and under with a<br />
caregiver. Come groove and<br />
move at the library while<br />
singing, dancing, playing<br />
and having fun. Registration<br />
is required. For more information,<br />
call (815) 552-4265.<br />
SATURDAY<br />
Midwest SOARRING<br />
Foundation’s Holiday Open<br />
House<br />
11 a.m.-5 p.m. Dec. 15,<br />
Native American Cultural<br />
Center, 1333 W. 13th St. in<br />
Lockport. Attendees can shop<br />
speciality vendors displaying<br />
unique handmade Native<br />
themed arts and crafts. People<br />
can also visit the Native<br />
American Cultural Center<br />
Gift Shop that includes a photo<br />
gallery exhibition on The<br />
Repatriation of Iron Tail’s<br />
Possessions: The Face on the<br />
Indian Nickel and the collection<br />
donated by Dr. Clifford<br />
Knapp. Enjoy a cup of coffee<br />
or hot chocolate with the<br />
members of Midwest SOAR-<br />
RING Foundation.<br />
MONDAY<br />
Movie Matinee: ‘It’s a<br />
Wonderful Life’<br />
12:30-3 p.m. Dec. 17,<br />
White Oak Library District<br />
Lockport Branch Library,<br />
121 E. 8th St., Lockport. Enjoy<br />
snacks and refreshments<br />
while watching “It’s a Wonderful<br />
Life,” based on the<br />
novel by Jeanine Basinger.<br />
For more information, call<br />
(815) 552-4260.<br />
Citizens Against Ruining the<br />
Environment Pizza Holiday<br />
Celebration<br />
6 p.m. Dec. 17. Family and<br />
friends are invited to enjoy a<br />
relaxing night. Feel free to<br />
bring an appetizer, desert or<br />
favorite beverage to share,<br />
as well as your musical instruments<br />
for a sing-along.<br />
This will be held at Ellen’s<br />
house. For directions, call<br />
(815) 834-1611 or Mary at<br />
(708) 204-6924.<br />
Tabletop Board Game Night<br />
6-8 p.m. Dec. 17, White<br />
Oak Library District Lockport<br />
Branch Library, 121<br />
E. 8th St., Lockport. Learn<br />
new games or break out old<br />
favorites. There is to be free<br />
snacks. This event is for<br />
teens. For more information<br />
or to register, call (815) 552-<br />
4260.<br />
Homer Jr. High Chorus<br />
Holiday Concert<br />
6:30-9 p.m. Dec. 17, Hadley<br />
Middle School gymnasium,<br />
15731 S. Bell Road.<br />
TUESDAY<br />
Candy House Creations<br />
2-4 p.m. Dec. 18, White<br />
Oak Library District Lockport<br />
Branch Library, 121<br />
E. 8th St., Lockport. Come<br />
design one’s very own candy<br />
house. This program is<br />
open to children of all ages.<br />
Registration is required. For<br />
more information or to register,<br />
call (815) 552-4265.<br />
WEDNESDAY<br />
Foodie Crafts<br />
4-4:45 p.m. Dec. 19,<br />
White Oak Library District<br />
Lockport Branch Library,<br />
121 E. 8th St., Lockport.<br />
This program is for children<br />
ages 8-12. Participants<br />
will create a piece of art this<br />
is good enough to eat. For<br />
more information, call (815)<br />
552-4265.<br />
UPCOMING<br />
Movie at the Roxy:<br />
“Frozen”<br />
2-4:30 p.m. Thursday,<br />
Dec. 27, Roxy Theatre, 1017<br />
S. State St. in Lockport.<br />
Doors open at 1:30 p.m.<br />
This is a dress-up event, so<br />
children of all ages are encouraged<br />
to dress like their<br />
favorite character from<br />
“Frozen”. Papa Joe’s will be<br />
selling pizza, hot dogs, popcorn,<br />
candy, pop and water.<br />
Tickets are on sale at www.<br />
lockport.org/frozen.<br />
Countdown to Noon Year<br />
11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Monday,<br />
Dec. 31. White Oak<br />
Library District Lockport<br />
Branch Library, 121 E. 8th<br />
St., Lockport. There is to be<br />
games, crafts, snacks and a<br />
loud celebration. Come join<br />
the library as we say goodbye<br />
to 2018. This event is for<br />
children, teens and families.<br />
Registration is required. For<br />
more information, call (815)<br />
552-4265.<br />
Intro to Bullet Journals<br />
6-7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 3,<br />
White Oak Library District<br />
Lockport Branch Library,<br />
121 E. 8th St., Lockport.<br />
Was your New Year’s resolution<br />
to be more organized?<br />
Attend this introduction to<br />
bullet journals and learn<br />
techniques to make planning<br />
functional and fun. This<br />
event is for teens. Registration<br />
is required. For more<br />
information, call (815) 552-<br />
4260.<br />
Healthy Living Expo<br />
9 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday,<br />
Jan. 19, Tinley Park Convention<br />
Center South Pavilion,<br />
18451 Convention<br />
Center Drive. Join more than<br />
50 vendors in health and<br />
wellness at the third annual<br />
expo, which includes speaker<br />
sessions, cooking demos,<br />
a Vitalant Blood Drive and<br />
more. Free admission and<br />
free parking. For more information,<br />
call (708) 326-9170<br />
ext. 16 or visit 22ndCentury<br />
Media.com/healthy.<br />
ONGOING<br />
Gallery Seven 2018 Holiday<br />
Gift Show<br />
Friday, Nov. 23 through<br />
Sunday, Dec. 30, Gaylord<br />
Building second floor, 200<br />
W 8th St. in Lockport. There<br />
is to be unique gift items by<br />
local artisans.<br />
Citizens Against Ruining the<br />
Environment<br />
6-7:30 p.m. every third<br />
Monday of the month, White<br />
Oak Library, 121 E. 8th St.,<br />
Lockport. CARE, a nonprofit<br />
all-volunteer organization,<br />
is to discuss environmental<br />
and health-related issues in<br />
Will County and the surrounding<br />
areas. Community<br />
service hours also available.<br />
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SilverSneakers<br />
Challenge Fitness, 2021<br />
S. Lawrence Ave., Lockport.<br />
Classic Fitness is offered on<br />
Mon-Thursday mornings<br />
which will increase muscle<br />
strength and range of movement<br />
with a variety of exercises,<br />
handheld weights,<br />
elastic tubing and a chair.<br />
Yoga Stretch is offered on<br />
Tuesday and Friday mornings<br />
and helps moves the<br />
body to increase flexibility<br />
balance and range of movement.<br />
SilverSneakers classes<br />
are free to SilverSneakers<br />
members and $4 per class<br />
for walk-ins. Visit www.<br />
lockportpark.org or call<br />
(815) 838-3621 ext. 0 for<br />
details.<br />
Vintage Hats, Will County in<br />
War exhibits<br />
Noon-4 p.m. Wednesdays<br />
through Sundays, Will<br />
County Historical Museum<br />
and Research Center, 803 S.<br />
State St., Lockport. A new<br />
exhibit “Vintage Hats” is on<br />
display as well as a 19th century<br />
Doctor’s Office, “Will<br />
County in War” and early<br />
textiles. It is open to the<br />
public and group tours are<br />
available by reservation. For<br />
more information, call (815)<br />
838-5080 or visit www.will<br />
cohistory.org<br />
Senior Cards<br />
1-3 p.m. Mondays and Fridays,<br />
Gladys Fox Museum,<br />
231 E. 9th St., Lockport. The<br />
senior Pinochle Club meets<br />
twice per week and does not<br />
require registration or fees.
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Lockport group dedicated to the art of storytelling<br />
Mary Compton, Freelance Reporter<br />
ASK<br />
YOUR<br />
LAWYER<br />
Everyone has a story to tell. Lisa<br />
Colleen and Barbara Eberhard, cohosts<br />
of the new storytelling group<br />
(art) Inspired! live lit, are well aware<br />
of this.<br />
The group gathers for storytelling<br />
nights the first Tuesday of each<br />
month, excluding holidays, at Public<br />
Landing Restaurant inside the<br />
Gaylord Building, 200 W. 8th St. in<br />
Lockport. Storytellers at the Dec. 4<br />
event were Colleen, Eunice Jarrett,<br />
Richard Pniewski, Mike Speller and<br />
Paul Teodo.<br />
“We started this in October,” Colleen<br />
said. “... We love everything<br />
about stories and how they connect<br />
people. Barbara runs Gallery Seven,<br />
so we’re banking on the local artists<br />
being interested in this.”<br />
Gallery Seven is also located in<br />
the Gaylord Building. Some of the<br />
artists have mixed their storytelling<br />
with various art mediums.<br />
“It’s art inspired, Gallery seven<br />
sponsors us,” Colleen explained.<br />
“For each performance, the storyteller<br />
picks a painting or photograph<br />
that connects or is inspired by their<br />
story. I love how stories help people<br />
heal, it also helps them connect with<br />
others. There are story telling events<br />
every night in Chicago, I wanted to<br />
bring it to Lockport so that the local<br />
community can experience this.”<br />
There is no cost to attend the storytelling<br />
shows. They begin with<br />
music at 6:30 p.m. and the storytelling<br />
begins at 7 p.m.. The show is<br />
geared for teens and adults.<br />
Lockport resident Michael Veltman<br />
has traveled around a few countries<br />
and has a few stories of his<br />
own. In Gallery Seven, Veltman has<br />
a collage of photographs of people<br />
from Chicago and Jakarta, Indonesia<br />
featuring people from Nashville,<br />
Liberia, Peru and Japan. He calls it<br />
“Peace Project.” Veltman is to be the<br />
storyteller in April.<br />
“I am part of Gallery Seven,” Veltman<br />
said. “I encouraged Barb and<br />
Lisa to bring the storytelling to the<br />
gallery here in Lockport. The Inspired!<br />
live lit is inspiring the stories<br />
being told. It’s something that<br />
happens in a lot of communities.<br />
Barbara Eberhard, co-host of (art) Inspired! live lit, speaks at one of the group’s storytelling events Dec. 4 at the<br />
Gaylord Building. Photos by Mary Compton/22nd Century Media<br />
It’s very popular in Chicago. These<br />
people are so talented, some of their<br />
stories are serious some are funny<br />
and they have one thing in common:<br />
they’re all moving.<br />
According to Veltman’s website<br />
on his “Peace Project,” he explains<br />
his art and his story.<br />
“The Peace Project stems from an<br />
article study bearing the same name<br />
that compares people and cultures<br />
from Chicago, Illinois and from the<br />
other side of the planet in Jakarta,<br />
Indonesia in the hope to understand<br />
and discover our similarities and our<br />
universal hope for peace,” the website<br />
states. “... Maybe someday we<br />
will figure out that we are all human<br />
and understand how much we actually<br />
have in common. That there is<br />
a oneness to mankind and we all, I<br />
hope, have peace somewhere in us.”<br />
There are to be upcoming storytelling<br />
classes at Gallery Seven in<br />
January and February. To enroll in<br />
the classes or for more information<br />
on (art) Inspired! live lit, visit www.<br />
inspiredlivelit.com.<br />
Lockport resident Michael Veltman shows his art project at Gallery Seven<br />
inside the Gaylord Building Dec. 4. Veltman is to be taking part in an (art)<br />
Inspired! live lit storytelling event in the near future.<br />
by T. Andrew Coyle<br />
Attorney at Law<br />
With winter here, it’s time to<br />
break out the shovels and salt.<br />
If your neighbor refuses to<br />
shovel their sidewalk, though,<br />
it may be because they believe<br />
that they could ‘get in trouble’<br />
if someone slips and falls on a<br />
sidewalk that they tried to clear.<br />
Fortunately, in Illinois we have the<br />
Snow and Ice Removal Act which<br />
shields property owners, tenants,<br />
and neighbors from liability for<br />
anyone who slips or falls on a<br />
sidewalk that they tried to clear<br />
of snow or ice. Basically, the<br />
law states that we want people<br />
to clear their sidewalks and we<br />
don’t want them scared to do so<br />
because they think they might get<br />
sued. If, however, your sidewalks<br />
are dangerous because of an<br />
unrelated issue (such as drain<br />
spouts pointed at the sidewalk<br />
that create an ice hazard), the<br />
Act would not protect you there.<br />
Other than that, feel free to shovel<br />
away and help out your elderly<br />
or disabled neighbors this winter<br />
without fear of liability!<br />
If you have legal questions<br />
associated to home ownership,<br />
real estate, business law, estate<br />
planning, or probate, please<br />
call THE COYLE LAW OFFICE at<br />
815-838-6199. We are located in<br />
downtown Lockport at 131 E. 9th<br />
Street.<br />
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Midwest SOARRING invites community to learn about Native Americans<br />
Jacquelyn Schlabach<br />
Assistant Editor<br />
Only 1.3 percent of people<br />
in the United States are<br />
American Indian or Alaska<br />
Native, according to the<br />
U.S. Census Bureau website.<br />
And although these<br />
people first settled in America<br />
at least 14,000 years<br />
ago, their culture provides<br />
the foundation for the United<br />
States.<br />
Lockport’s own Midwest<br />
SOARRING Foundation is<br />
inviting community members<br />
to its holiday open<br />
house to learn more about<br />
the Native American culture,<br />
visit with members of<br />
the organization, and peruse<br />
handmade Native American<br />
items and crafts from<br />
around the country from 11<br />
a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, Dec.<br />
15, at 133 W. 13th St. in<br />
Lockport.<br />
“We talk about ourselves<br />
as a nation of immigrants,<br />
but that isn’t entirely true,”<br />
said Dave Nardin, the special<br />
projects manager at<br />
Midwest SOARRING.<br />
“That’s true with respect to<br />
Europeans or Africans or<br />
Asians, whose history only<br />
goes back the thinnest sliver<br />
of our country’s history,<br />
no farther back than about<br />
1500. But it’s important to<br />
understand that there was a<br />
whole civilization that existed<br />
here for thousands and<br />
thousands of years.”<br />
According to Midwest<br />
SOARRING’s website,<br />
their mission is to “work<br />
toward repatriation, protect<br />
sacred sites, educate the<br />
public and promote community<br />
building among all<br />
people regarding indigenous<br />
lifeways.” The organization<br />
stands for Save<br />
Our Ancestor’s Remains<br />
“When a Native American person walks through a<br />
forest, they see it as themselves being surrounded by<br />
gifts and I find that a wonderful and refreshing way<br />
to look at things.”<br />
Dave Nardin — Midwest SOARRING special projects manager<br />
& Resources Indigeneous<br />
Network Group. Midwest<br />
SOARRING tries to do at<br />
least one event a month for<br />
the public, with a Native<br />
American drummer recently<br />
coming to visit Lockport in<br />
November.<br />
There are 50 active members<br />
of the organization,<br />
some with Native American<br />
ancestry, and others who<br />
just have an appreciation for<br />
and awareness of the culture<br />
and values, and want to<br />
share them, Nardin said.<br />
“A couple things really<br />
impressed me [about Native<br />
Americans], first of all, the<br />
very easy way in with Native<br />
American people are<br />
spiritual,” Nardin said. “I<br />
was raised in a Christian<br />
home, and I certainly consider<br />
myself a Christian,<br />
I try to live by Christian<br />
ways, but there’s always a<br />
certain awkwardness about<br />
praying, for example, with<br />
other people around unless<br />
they belong to your church.<br />
That’s not the same way<br />
with Native Americans,<br />
they’re very, very comfortable<br />
talking about spiritual<br />
things in a very prayerful<br />
and respectful kind of way.”<br />
He continued by noting<br />
that Native Americans also<br />
have a “wonderfully comfortable<br />
relationship” with<br />
the world around them.<br />
“When a Native American<br />
person walks through a<br />
forest, they see it as themselves<br />
being surrounded by<br />
gifts, and I find that a wonderful<br />
and refreshing way<br />
to look at things,” Nardin<br />
added.<br />
Nardin has been a member<br />
of Midwest SOAR-<br />
RING for four years and<br />
said he does as much as he<br />
can to spread appreciation<br />
of Native American culture.<br />
“I’m a passionate lover<br />
of history and when I was<br />
young, my father made it a<br />
point of taking me places,<br />
forest preserves and local<br />
areas, and telling me some<br />
stories about the people<br />
who used to live here that<br />
settled here,” he said.<br />
Nardin along with other<br />
members of the organization<br />
are to be at the annual<br />
holiday open house that will<br />
feature not only educational<br />
presentations but items for<br />
sale. For more information<br />
about the event and Midwest<br />
SOARRING, visit<br />
www.midwestsoarring.org.<br />
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Test in suspected mumps case at LTHS comes back negative<br />
Letter sent to district<br />
parents Thursday,<br />
Dec. 6<br />
Thomas Czaja<br />
Contributing Editor<br />
A person at Lockport<br />
Township High School has<br />
tested negative for mumps<br />
after a letter was sent out<br />
late last week warning parents<br />
someone at the school<br />
may have contracted the<br />
disease, according to Superintendent<br />
Todd Wernet.<br />
The letter, dated Thursday,<br />
Dec. 6, and signed by<br />
LTHS East Campus Principal<br />
Dennis Hicks and Central<br />
Campus Principal Kerri<br />
Green, said mumps is not<br />
common in children who<br />
are up-to-date with their<br />
vaccinations and had sought<br />
to raise awareness of symptoms<br />
of the disease and how<br />
it is transmitted to prevent<br />
further infection.<br />
In a Monday, Dec. 10<br />
phone interview with The<br />
Lockport Legend, Wernet<br />
said the person got tested<br />
and that the school was<br />
notified Dec. 10 it came<br />
back with a negative result.<br />
Wernet said, from his understanding,<br />
the person got<br />
swabbed, and it took several<br />
days for the test result<br />
to come back.<br />
The superintendent added<br />
that with a suspected case of<br />
mumps, they proceeded as<br />
though it were confirmed,<br />
communicating to families<br />
through the letter and asking<br />
anyone with symptoms<br />
to contact the school nurse<br />
and reach out to their child’s<br />
primary care advisor.<br />
“There were not any calls<br />
or communications indicating<br />
a parent with concern<br />
for their children,” Wernet<br />
said of response after the<br />
letter, noting the district had<br />
no one else come forward<br />
concerned they might have<br />
mumps.<br />
As of press time, Wernet<br />
said the district was still<br />
considering the information<br />
it learned Monday regarding<br />
the negative result and<br />
how it would proceed in its<br />
response to parents, declining<br />
to specify if it was a<br />
student or faculty member<br />
that had suspected they may<br />
have the disease.<br />
Mumps typically begins<br />
with symptoms including<br />
a fever, headache, muscle<br />
aches, tiredness, loss of appetite<br />
and is followed by the<br />
swelling of salivary glands,<br />
according to the letter. More<br />
serious symptoms that can<br />
result from mumps in rare<br />
cases are meningitis, swelling<br />
of the testes or ovaries<br />
and inflammation of joints.<br />
Lewis University in Romeoville<br />
recently had a<br />
mumps outbreak; the college<br />
said there were two<br />
confirmed cases, 10 probable<br />
cases and one suspected<br />
case, as of a Friday, Dec. 7<br />
update on its website.<br />
The Will County Health<br />
Department said more information<br />
on mumps can<br />
also be found at the Centers<br />
for Disease Control<br />
and Prevention website at<br />
www.cdc.gov/vaccines/<br />
pubs/surv-manual/chpt09-<br />
mumps.html.<br />
Something for everyone<br />
LTHS Winterfest provides an array of activities for students<br />
Gina Bielski (left) and Jessica Mueller test out their Pac Man skills.<br />
Thomas Abramite (left) and Adam Salton compete to reach their goal in a Moon Walker<br />
Joust Friday, Dec. 7, during Lockport Township High School’s Winterfest event.<br />
Photos by Bob Klein/22nd Century Media<br />
Travis Coleman fires a dodgeball during the event.<br />
Sisters Morgan (left) and Madison Kesteloot<br />
team up for dodgeball.<br />
Lilly Brock plays badminton during the event.
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Lockport City Council<br />
Board gives green light to property<br />
annexation, development projects<br />
Jessie Molloy<br />
Freelance Reporter<br />
The Lockport City Council<br />
approved a large property<br />
annexation at its Dec. 5<br />
meeting, while the Committee<br />
of the Whole moved forward<br />
plans for renovations<br />
on an existing industrial development.<br />
The City Council held<br />
a public hearing regarding<br />
the annexation of the<br />
4.02 acre property located<br />
on the Northeast corner of<br />
159th Street and Adelman<br />
Drive. The lot, which has<br />
two assigned addresses, is<br />
currently vacant and zoned<br />
R3 for residential property.<br />
As part of the annexation<br />
agreement, which was approved<br />
unanimously by the<br />
City Council and Mayor<br />
Steve Streit, the zoning was<br />
changed to C3, Highway<br />
Commercial.<br />
City Administrator Ben<br />
Benson said the hope of<br />
the board is that the property<br />
will eventually draw<br />
commercial development,<br />
possibly including a<br />
restaurant.<br />
No comments were made<br />
by any residents or affected<br />
parties at the public<br />
hearing and the annexation<br />
was approved without<br />
objection.<br />
In addition to the annexation,<br />
the board also voted<br />
unanimously to approve a<br />
spring construction project<br />
at the Dellwood Park Community<br />
Center. The project<br />
plans to expand the facility’s<br />
existing parking lot<br />
by adding 74 new spaces in<br />
what is currently a grassy<br />
lawn abutting the lot. The<br />
facility is located at 1811 S.<br />
Lawrence Ave. The project<br />
is to be paid for by the park<br />
district and only needed<br />
City approval to move forward.<br />
The Committee of the<br />
Whole also advanced a large<br />
development project, approving<br />
the Final Development<br />
Plan for an industrial<br />
office project.<br />
The development is being<br />
proposed by J.P. Mc-<br />
Mahon Petro-Chem Transport<br />
Group and includes a<br />
12,967-square-foot, singlestory<br />
office building and a<br />
95,000-square-foot storage<br />
lot for petroleum transport<br />
vehicles on its 14835<br />
New Avenue property.<br />
The 4.37 acre lot currently<br />
includes a gravel storage<br />
area, a well and septic<br />
system, and two mobile<br />
structures.<br />
According to Community<br />
and Economic Development<br />
Director Pam Hirth,<br />
the company moved to the<br />
space “about a year ago”<br />
but found that “the current<br />
facility didn’t fit their<br />
needs.”<br />
The renovation to the<br />
space would include replacing<br />
the well and septic facilities<br />
with new ones and<br />
demolishing the mobile facilities.<br />
The development<br />
is to also introduce a new<br />
driveway to the property,<br />
removed from the existing<br />
driveway which is shared<br />
with the adjacent property to<br />
the north.<br />
IDOT has already approved<br />
the addition of the<br />
driveway on the condition<br />
that the developer sees to<br />
the installation of proper<br />
storm water detention systems.<br />
The company has also<br />
received approval from the<br />
three petroleum companies<br />
with pipelines under the<br />
land.<br />
The building, which is to<br />
include office space and a<br />
service area including four<br />
vehicle bays, is to be located<br />
on the rear, eastern portion of<br />
the property with the lot being<br />
the central and western<br />
portions. The detention area<br />
and additional landscaping<br />
are to be installed along New<br />
Avenue at the “front” of the<br />
property to screen the vehicle<br />
storage area from public<br />
view.<br />
The Plan Committee approved<br />
the development<br />
unanimously last month<br />
after no objections were<br />
raised. With the Committee<br />
of the Whole’s vote it will<br />
move onto the City Council<br />
on Dec. 19.<br />
Finally, the committee<br />
also approved a new ordinance<br />
allowing the City<br />
to seek harsher penalties<br />
against the owners of vacant<br />
or abandoned properties in<br />
the city.<br />
“We have certain appearance<br />
standards for property<br />
in the city,” Benson said.<br />
“Currently we have a few,<br />
no more than a dozen, properties<br />
that are unoccupied<br />
and are not meeting those<br />
standards.”<br />
Benson said the new ordinance<br />
will allow the City<br />
to bring owners of violating<br />
properties before the City<br />
Council for a hearing to resolve<br />
outstanding issues, and<br />
provide a system for fining<br />
violators who continue to<br />
leave property in a state of<br />
disrepair.<br />
The committee passed the<br />
measure unanimously and it<br />
is to be voted on at the City<br />
Council’s next meeting.<br />
NOTICE OF PROPOSED PROPERTY TAX INCREASE FOR<br />
FAIRMONT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLDISTRICT NO. 89,<br />
COUNTY OF WILL, STATE OF ILLINOIS<br />
I. Apublic hearing to approve aproposed property tax levy increase<br />
for Fairmont Elementary School District #89 for 2018 will be<br />
held on December 19, 2018 at 5:30 p.m. in the Boardroom of the<br />
District Offices at Fairmont Elementary School. Any person desiring<br />
to appear at the public hearing and present testimony to the taxing<br />
district may contact Dr. Diane Cepela, Superintendent, Administrative<br />
Offices, 735 Green Garden Place, Lockport, IL 60441, (815)<br />
726-6156.<br />
II. The corporate and special purpose property taxes extended or<br />
abated for 2017 were $3,147,058. The proposed corporate and special<br />
purpose property taxes to be levied for 2018 are $3,304,096.<br />
This represents a4.99% increase over the previous year.<br />
III. The property taxes extended for debt service and public building<br />
commission leases for 2017 were $0. The estimated property<br />
taxes to be levied for debt service and public building commission<br />
leases for 2018 are $0.<br />
IV. The total property taxes extended or abated for 2017 were<br />
$3,147,058. The estimated total property taxes to be levied for 2018<br />
are $3,304,096. This represents a4.99% increase over the previous<br />
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Contests<br />
Just one week left to enter 2018 Holiday Card Contest<br />
Deadline for<br />
submissions is 5 p.m.<br />
Thursday, Dec. 20<br />
Bill Jones, Managing Editor<br />
The Prizes<br />
A look at what readers can win in this year’s Holiday<br />
Card Contest<br />
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• Three $5 gift certificates for Sizzles, 110 MacGregor<br />
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• Two gift certificates, each good for a free two-week<br />
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Funniest<br />
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but thankfully you have us<br />
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2018 Holiday Card Contest.<br />
As a recap, the contest<br />
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the best or funniest year-end<br />
letters, children’s sketches<br />
of reindeer, photos of your<br />
winter bowling league team<br />
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Whatever it is you do for<br />
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Announcements<br />
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Police Reports<br />
Lockport<br />
woman<br />
cited for<br />
driving with<br />
suspended<br />
license<br />
Stacy Collier, 50, of the<br />
400 block of Nobes Avenue<br />
in Lockport, was charged by<br />
Lockport police with driving<br />
with a suspended license<br />
and loud exhaust Dec. 5 after<br />
being stopped for an equipment<br />
violation while driving<br />
on State Street.<br />
Lockport Police Department<br />
Nov. 30<br />
Luis Rodriguez, 43, of the<br />
1000 block of Rooney Drive<br />
in Joliet, was charged with<br />
driving with a revoked license,<br />
speeding and operating<br />
an uninsured motor vehicle<br />
after being stopped for<br />
going 48 MPH in a 35 MPH<br />
zone on State Street.<br />
Nov. 28<br />
Sinnitra Winston, 52, of<br />
the 600 block of Lakewood<br />
Farm in Bolingbrook, was<br />
charged with driving with a<br />
revoked license and speeding<br />
after being stopped for<br />
going 57 MPH in a 40 MPH<br />
zone on State Street.<br />
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Lockport<br />
Legend’s Police Reports<br />
are compiled from official<br />
reports found online on the<br />
Will County Sheriff’s Office or<br />
Lockport Police Department’s<br />
website or releases issued<br />
by the department and other<br />
agencies. Individuals named<br />
in these reports are considered<br />
innocent of all charges until<br />
proven guilty in a court of law.<br />
From THE FRANKFORT STATION<br />
Frankfort feeds hungry<br />
across the world<br />
The basement of Camp<br />
Manitoqua was filled to the<br />
capacity of the assembly<br />
lines that lined the room, all<br />
manned by volunteers of all<br />
ages who measured, packaged,<br />
sealed and labeled individual<br />
meal packets.<br />
These Frankfort-area residents<br />
are feeding children<br />
in poverty-stricken areas<br />
across the world, one packaged<br />
meal at a time.<br />
The annual food packaging<br />
event raised enough<br />
money to send 108,000 nutritional<br />
meals to children in<br />
Haiti and Peru.<br />
Weathering the Storm<br />
Looking back at a cold and snowy November<br />
Mark T. Carroll<br />
Contributing Columnist<br />
November weather<br />
in review<br />
November temperatures<br />
were<br />
well below normal.<br />
The highest temperature<br />
for Chicago for November<br />
was 52 degrees, which was<br />
reached on Nov. 1 and 4.<br />
The highest temperature of<br />
52 degrees for the month<br />
was record setting, as it<br />
was the lowest maximum<br />
temperature for November<br />
dating back to the 1870s,<br />
Jeff and Kari Kemerer<br />
started this event several<br />
years ago, after realizing<br />
that there are limited volunteer<br />
opportunities that<br />
invite all ages to participate.<br />
The couple partnered with<br />
Kids Around The World<br />
to create this now annual<br />
tradition. Money is raised<br />
to purchase the ingredients<br />
from Kids Around The<br />
World. After those ingredients<br />
are packaged, they are<br />
sent to poverty-stricken areas<br />
across the world.<br />
“We wanted our kids to<br />
learn that there’s more to<br />
this then Frankfort,” Jeff<br />
said. “Many kids around the<br />
world don’t have the same<br />
when official records began<br />
for Chicago. The average<br />
temperature for November<br />
was 34.6, which was 5.7<br />
degrees below the normal<br />
average.<br />
November snowfall was<br />
well above normal, especially<br />
in locations north and<br />
northwest. O’Hare International<br />
Airport recorded<br />
12.7 inches of snow in<br />
November, which was the<br />
fourth-highest November<br />
total for Chicago dating<br />
back to the 1870s. The<br />
normal November snowfall<br />
for Chicago is 1.2 inches.<br />
The following are November<br />
snowfall totals for<br />
our area.<br />
• Midway: 9.2 inches<br />
• New Lenox: 4.6 inches<br />
• Homer Glen: 4.4 inches<br />
• Lockport: 3.9 inches<br />
The heaviest snowfall<br />
event began during the<br />
night of Nov. 25 and ended<br />
on Nov. 26. The greatest<br />
snowfall totals were<br />
recorded to the north and<br />
northwest of our area.<br />
opportunities as they do.”<br />
In its first year, the fundraising<br />
effort hit its goal<br />
of $10,000. As the event<br />
grew and gained more<br />
sponsorship, it raised nearly<br />
$27,000 and surpassed its<br />
goal this year of $25,000.<br />
Reporting by Megan Schuller,<br />
Assistant Editor. For more, visit<br />
FrankfortStation.com.<br />
FROM THE TINLEY JUNCTION<br />
‘Trains & Miniatures’<br />
Christmas gallery runs<br />
through January<br />
To Sheila Lorence, of Tinley<br />
Park, it is not Christmas<br />
unless there is a train under<br />
the tree.<br />
O’Hare recorded a total<br />
of 8.4 inches of snow on<br />
the 25 and 26. This was<br />
the fifth highest November<br />
snowstorm total in Chicago<br />
history.<br />
Local snowfall amounts<br />
are listed below.<br />
• Homer Glen: 3.4 inches<br />
• New Lenox: 3.1 inches<br />
• Lockport: 2.4 inches<br />
• Mokena: 2.4 inches<br />
The storm also produced<br />
strong winds and icing<br />
conditions, as rain changed<br />
to snow during the storm.<br />
Wet heavy snow caused<br />
damage from falling trees<br />
and power lines, which lead<br />
to homes and traffic signals<br />
losing power.<br />
Peak wind speeds from<br />
the storm were 47 mph at<br />
Chicago Midway International<br />
Airport.<br />
Winter weather<br />
preparedness<br />
Rely on a dependable<br />
source for weather information.<br />
Many sources are<br />
available, including the<br />
Her husband Bruce, who<br />
has three layouts on display<br />
at the Vogt Visual Arts Center<br />
for its “Trains & Miniatures”<br />
Christmas exhibit<br />
running until Jan. 26, has<br />
been fascinated with miniature<br />
locomotives since he<br />
was 5 years old.<br />
On Dec. 1, an artists reception<br />
was held in conjunction<br />
with the Village of<br />
Tinley Park’s Holiday Happenings.<br />
The first person<br />
in line was former Tinley<br />
Park Mayor Ed Zabrocki,<br />
who has a running Marklin<br />
Mini Club 8130 set up for<br />
the exhibit. A total of seven<br />
indoor and outdoor train<br />
configurations are available<br />
to admire.<br />
Internet, television and<br />
radio. Winter forecasts can<br />
change quickly, so closely<br />
monitor available forecast<br />
information.<br />
Remember that snow and<br />
ice totals can vary greatly<br />
over a short distance. Large<br />
snowfall differences across<br />
our region were evident<br />
during our late November<br />
snowstorm. Because of the<br />
influence of Lake Michigan,<br />
snow totals can vary<br />
greatly in northeast Illinois,<br />
northwest Indiana and<br />
southwest Michigan.<br />
If a winter weather watch<br />
is issued, get prepared for<br />
hazardous weather.<br />
If a winter weather warning<br />
or advisory is issued,<br />
take action — hazardous<br />
weather is occurring or will<br />
occur soon.<br />
For example, if a windchill<br />
warning is issued,<br />
dangerous cold is expected.<br />
If a windchill advisory is<br />
issued, cold weather is expected.<br />
If a watch is issued,<br />
cold weather is possible.<br />
“There is something about<br />
trains,” said Julie Dekker,<br />
VVAC gallery director. “The<br />
men are passionate about it,<br />
along with the itty bitty children.<br />
It’s universal. Maybe<br />
because it moves, the doll<br />
houses just don’t move.”<br />
The gallery’s regular<br />
hours are from 7-9 p.m.<br />
Tuesdays, 4-7 p.m. Wednesdays,<br />
11 a.m.-2 p.m. and 7-9<br />
p.m. Thursdays, 11 a.m.-3<br />
p.m. Fridays, and 11 a.m.-4<br />
p.m. Saturdays. It is located<br />
at 17420 S. 67th Court in<br />
Tinley Park.<br />
Reporting by Mary Compton,<br />
Freelance Reporter. For more,<br />
Please see NFYN, 13<br />
The weather for December<br />
and beyond<br />
The temperature forecast<br />
from the National<br />
Centers for Environmental<br />
Prediction for Chicago for<br />
November was for belownormal<br />
temperatures. Temperatures<br />
were well below<br />
normal in November. The<br />
NCEP precipitation forecast<br />
for November was for<br />
above-normal precipitation,<br />
and we were just slightly<br />
above normal.<br />
The Centers’ forecast for<br />
December is for abovenormal<br />
temperature and<br />
below-normal precipitation.<br />
The prediction for<br />
the months of January and<br />
February is for belownormal<br />
temperature and<br />
near-normal precipitation.<br />
Mark T. Carroll is the president<br />
of CALM Weather LLC, a<br />
meteorological consulting<br />
service based in Oak Forest.<br />
For more information, visit<br />
calmwx.com.
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From the Editor<br />
Christmas card conundrum<br />
Max Lapthorne<br />
max@lockportlegend.com<br />
My family is in a<br />
transitional stage<br />
when it comes to<br />
our Christmas card.<br />
That’s how I like to think<br />
of the situation, but the reality<br />
is that my sister and her<br />
husband are starting their<br />
own family and therefore<br />
splitting off from our usual<br />
family card that has featured<br />
myself and my sister for the<br />
last 25 years or so, while I<br />
am … in no such position.<br />
For the last number of<br />
years, my mom has simply<br />
chosen a picture of myself<br />
and my sister taken sometime<br />
that year and used that<br />
for the card. I’ve suggested<br />
that we should simply use<br />
one of the roughly 2.2 million<br />
photos of our family<br />
dog that we have, because<br />
if we’re all being honest<br />
with ourselves, the best part<br />
about receiving Christmas<br />
cards is looking at other<br />
people’s dogs. But, even<br />
though my sister and I are<br />
now adults, featuring us on<br />
the Christmas card gives<br />
some extended family and<br />
friends who we do not see<br />
often the opportunity to look<br />
at the picture of us and say<br />
something along the lines of<br />
“these two whippersnappers<br />
were this tall the last time I<br />
saw them.”<br />
We still haven’t quite<br />
figured things out yet for<br />
this year, but if it were up<br />
to me, I would vote to use a<br />
photo I recently took of our<br />
dog, which is accompanying<br />
Lockport Legend Editor Max Lapthorne’s dog Tonto isn’t<br />
eligible to enter the Holiday Card Contest, but this is the<br />
photo he would choose if he could enter.<br />
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this column.<br />
As cute and whimsical as<br />
my dog’s wreath photo is, it<br />
is unfortunately not eligible<br />
to be submitted in our annual<br />
Holiday Card Contest,<br />
which is going on now. You<br />
can read all about it on Page<br />
9 of this week’s issue, but<br />
the most important nugget<br />
of information is that entries<br />
are due by 5 p.m. Thursday,<br />
Dec. 20. The entries seem to<br />
be getting better every year,<br />
and believe me when I say<br />
it’s no easy task to make the<br />
determination as to which<br />
cards are the cream of the<br />
crop.<br />
The good news for all of<br />
you is that I am not eligible<br />
to enter the contest, so you<br />
don’t have to compete with<br />
my wreath-dog card.<br />
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FROM THE MOKENA MESSENGER<br />
Village issues home<br />
burglary advisory<br />
There have been several<br />
home burglaries in Mokena<br />
over the past few weeks,<br />
and it appears these burglaries<br />
may be related. Mokena<br />
Police are asking residents<br />
to be extra-vigilant as they<br />
come and go from their<br />
places of residence.<br />
The home burglaries were<br />
reported in the Tara Hills,<br />
Grasmere and Forestview<br />
subdivisions, according to<br />
Mokena Police Chief Steven<br />
Vaccaro.<br />
In each of these recent<br />
residential burglaries, no<br />
one was present at the home<br />
CONTACT<br />
at the time of the burglary,<br />
and jewelry and/or cash was<br />
taken. Activity has generally<br />
taken place between<br />
the hours of 10 a.m. and 3<br />
p.m. A common denominator<br />
associated with each of<br />
these burglaries appears to<br />
be a white, newer model<br />
Ford crew cab pick-up truck<br />
with a yellow light on top.<br />
Two male subjects reportedly<br />
have been seen with<br />
the vehicle<br />
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FAITH BRIEFS<br />
St. Paul’s Lutheran Church (1500 S. Briggs St.,<br />
Lockport)<br />
Divine Worship<br />
9 a.m. Sundays with Fellowship<br />
to follow at 10 a.m. For more information,<br />
call (815) 838-1832.<br />
First Congregational United Church of Christ (700 E.<br />
9th St., Lockport)<br />
Sunday Worship<br />
9:30 a.m.<br />
Children & Nursery<br />
9:30 a.m. Sundays. There are<br />
programs for toddlers through<br />
eighth grade.<br />
Ladies Craft & Chat<br />
4:30 p.m. every third Friday.<br />
Please bring craft projects, sewing,<br />
etc. or just come to chat. Dinner is<br />
at 6:30 p.m.<br />
Confirmation<br />
Open to high school age. Please<br />
contact Rev. Eric Quinney-Burnard<br />
to participate.<br />
Communion<br />
First Sunday of the month.<br />
Alcoholics-Anonymous<br />
6 p.m. Saturdays. Enter through<br />
the door closest to the side parking<br />
lot. There will be a sign in front for<br />
the meeting.<br />
First United Methodist Church of Lockport (1000 S.<br />
Washington St., Lockport)<br />
Cookies by the Pound<br />
9 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 15.<br />
The annual Cookies by the Pound<br />
sale features homemade cookies<br />
for $7 per pound. For more information,<br />
call (815) 838-1017.<br />
Christmas Eve Worship<br />
10:30 p.m. Dec. 24.<br />
Sunday Worship<br />
10:30 a.m.<br />
Circle of Love<br />
9 a.m. Wednesdays. Circle of<br />
Love provides diapers, feminine<br />
and incontinence products to clients<br />
who are qualified to use the<br />
local FISH Food Pantry. For more<br />
information, call (815) 838-1017.<br />
Communion<br />
First Sunday of the month.<br />
Joliet Seventh-Day Adventist Church (21514 W.<br />
Division St., Lockport)<br />
Saturday Services<br />
9:30 a.m. Sabbath school; 10:45<br />
a.m. Worship Hour.<br />
Prayer Meeting<br />
7:30 p.m. Wednesdays. Attendees<br />
can share their praise reports<br />
and prayer requests. The call-in<br />
number is (530) 881-1200. When<br />
prompted enter the access code:<br />
761835 then the # key. The prayer<br />
line is free, and there is no additional<br />
cost beyond regular phone<br />
charges.<br />
St. Dennis Church (1214 S. Hamilton St., Lockport)<br />
Christmas Family Movie Night:<br />
‘The Star’<br />
6 p.m. Friday, Dec. 14, in the<br />
Parish Center. Admission is $3 per<br />
person or $10 per family, which includes<br />
cocoa, cookies and popcorn.<br />
Other concessions will be available<br />
for purchase. Pay at the door.<br />
Shepherd of the Hill Lutheran Church (925 E. 9th<br />
St., Lockport)<br />
Christmas Eve Candlelight Services<br />
5 p.m.<br />
10:30 p.m.<br />
Saturday Service<br />
5 p.m.<br />
Have something for Faith<br />
Briefs? Contact Assistant<br />
Editor Jacquelyn Schlabach at<br />
j.schlabach@22ndcenturymedia.<br />
com or call (708) 326-9170 ext. 15.<br />
Information is due by noon Thursday<br />
one week prior to publication.<br />
In Memoriam<br />
Dorothy Joyce Ramos<br />
Dorothy Joyce Ramos (nee<br />
Skeldon), 83, of Lockport, died<br />
Nov. 22. Joyce married Richard<br />
Ramos in 1954. She was a graduate<br />
of Lockport Township High<br />
School where she was awarded<br />
many honors. After high school,<br />
she worked as a secretary at Texaco<br />
Inc. in Lockport. Following<br />
her marriage and births of her five<br />
children, she began taking courses<br />
to receive a college degree. She<br />
graduated from Lewis University<br />
in 1971 with high honors, having<br />
received the Academic Achievement<br />
Award. Joyce loved reading<br />
and learning, and spent countless<br />
hours at the old Lockport library<br />
as a youth and adult. It was at the<br />
Lockport library that the seeds of<br />
becoming a librarian took root. She<br />
was emplyed as a school librarian<br />
at Richland Grade School and Hufford<br />
Junior High School, retiring<br />
from Joliet District 86. Later, Joyce<br />
worked in the Education Division<br />
of ARgonne National Laboratory<br />
and received the Laboratory Director’s<br />
Award for her work on a<br />
collaborative project, The New Explorers,<br />
which involved the laboratory,<br />
Kurtis Productions, WTTW<br />
and others. Joyce and Rich married<br />
while he was playing professional<br />
baseball in the White Sox<br />
minor league system. Through this<br />
experience, they learned to love<br />
traveling, meeting new people, and<br />
were fortunate in life to fulfull the<br />
dream of visiting 48 states, and<br />
make several trips abroad. Joyce<br />
enjoyed making a home for her<br />
family, attending their activities,<br />
cooking, making friends, and welcoming<br />
new babies into the family.<br />
Joyce has been a devoted member<br />
of St. Dennis Church since she was<br />
5 days old, and was a member of<br />
the Altar and Rosary Society. She<br />
is survived by her loving husband<br />
of 64 years, Richard; five children,<br />
Rick (Denise), Beverly (Charles)<br />
Prodehl, Barbara (David) Stengele,<br />
Janet (late Michael) Lyons (fiance,<br />
Donald Winterstein) and Diane<br />
(John) Meyer; grandchildren,<br />
Zoey Prodehl, Charlie Prodehl,<br />
Sonia Szewczyk, Genevieve Underwood,<br />
Thomas Underwood and<br />
Benjamin Sinner; sisters, Georgene<br />
(late Jack) Garson, Jane (late Ray)<br />
Reardon; and numerous nieces<br />
and nephews survive. In lieu of<br />
flowers, memorials to St. Dennis<br />
Church improvement fund, Catholic<br />
Charities, Catholic Relief or a<br />
charity of donor’s choice would<br />
be appreciated. Per Joyce’s wishes,<br />
cremation rites have been respectfully<br />
addressed.<br />
Raymond A. Porto<br />
Raymond “Ray” A Porto, 74,<br />
formerly of Lockport, died Nov.<br />
26, at his daughter and son-inlaw’s<br />
home, surrounded by family.<br />
He was born in Chicago and lived<br />
in Lockport for 20 years, before<br />
moving to Wilmington Twp. and<br />
Florida. Ray owned and operated<br />
Philbin’s Deluxe Decorating for<br />
40 years, before retiring in 2005.<br />
He was a former member of the<br />
Lockport Chamber of Commerce,<br />
Lockport Lions Club, Lockport<br />
Old Canal Days Committee,<br />
LADC, District 92 School Board,<br />
and presently a member of the First<br />
Church of God in Florida and the<br />
Inverness Moose Club. Ray was a<br />
devoted supporter of both Lockport<br />
and Coal City sports, loved to<br />
travel and spend time boating on<br />
the Kankakee River, dancing with<br />
his wife and friends, and through<br />
the Church Without Walls in Florida,<br />
he and his family volunteered<br />
serving meals to the needy. But<br />
his greatest joy in life was spending<br />
time with his family. He is<br />
survived by his wife of four years,<br />
Jamie Porto; children, Tony Porto,<br />
Pamela (Paul) McMurtrey and Michael<br />
(Tracey) Porto; grandchildren,<br />
Haley and Aaron McMurtrey,<br />
Alexandra, Dylan, Hayley and<br />
Michael Porto; step-grandson,<br />
Josesph Furbeck; mother, Eileen<br />
(Mandel) Porto; and numerous<br />
nieces and nephews survive. In lieu<br />
of flowers, memorials to the Joliet<br />
Area Community Hospice Home<br />
would be appreciated.<br />
Jacquelyn Dzak<br />
Jacquelyn Dzak (nee Hagelshaw),<br />
91, of Lockport, died<br />
Nov. 27, with her family by her<br />
side. Jackie was a longtime resident<br />
of Lockport and resided in<br />
Crest Hill at Willow Falls for the<br />
last four years. She was born in Seattle<br />
and worked at Ludwig School<br />
for 15 years as a baker. She loved<br />
to play canasta, enjoyed painting<br />
ceramics and was an avid gardener.<br />
Jackie was an excellent cook<br />
and baker. She is survived by her<br />
son, Bill (Jodi); daughters, Sandi<br />
(the late Lou) Terzick and Nancy<br />
(Ken) Shepherd; 16 grandchildren;<br />
14 great-grandchildren; two greatgreat<br />
grandchildren; and numerous<br />
nieces and nephews survive. Jackie<br />
loved her Willow Falls family and<br />
her family appreciates the loving<br />
and nurturing care the staff provided.<br />
A memorial service was held<br />
Dec. 2 at Prairie Bluff Golf Club.<br />
Inurnment will be held at a later<br />
date at Bay Pines Cemetery in St.<br />
Petersburg, Florida.<br />
Andrew T. Imrisek<br />
Andrew “Sonny” T. Imrisek, 81,<br />
of Lockport, died Dec. 2. Andrew<br />
was born in Argo, Illinois and resided<br />
in Lockport for the last 10<br />
years. He was emmployed at Johnson<br />
& Johnson for 23 years. He was<br />
an avid golfer and had many wonderful<br />
friends. Andrew is survived<br />
by his loving wife, Marian (nee<br />
Jaskowiak) of 53 years; daughter,<br />
Susan (Michael) Wick; son, Tony<br />
(Carmen); grandchildren, Alex,<br />
Chloe, Loradana and Alina; brothers,<br />
Dan and Fred (Diane); and<br />
many nieces and nephews survive.<br />
Funeral services were held Dec. 6<br />
at St. Dennis Church in Lockport.<br />
Salvatore N. D’Arpa<br />
Salvatore “Sal” N. D’Arpa, 82, of<br />
Lockport, died Dec. 6. He was born<br />
in Palermo, Sicily “Italy” and was<br />
a current resident of Lockport. Sal<br />
was an amazing cook, enjoyed visiting<br />
family and friends in Italy, loved<br />
the ocean, and most of all cherished<br />
his family. He is survived by his<br />
loving and devoted wife of 55 years,<br />
Marie (nee Cirrincione); three children,<br />
Bijou (Alan Asper) D’Arpa,<br />
Jamie D’Arpa and Sara D’Arpa;<br />
grandchildren, Giampaolo Asper,<br />
Noah and Elizabeth D’Arpa; two<br />
cherished sisters and one brother in<br />
Italy. In lieu of flowers, memorials<br />
to a charity of donor’s choice in Salvatore’s<br />
name would be greatly appreciated.<br />
A mass of Christian burial<br />
celebrating his life was held Dec.<br />
8. Cremation rites were respectfully<br />
addressed.<br />
Have someone’s life you’d like to<br />
honor? Email j.schlabach@<br />
22ndcenturymedia.com with<br />
information about a loved one who<br />
was a part of the Lockport community.
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the Lockport Legend | December 13, 2018 | 17<br />
Sounds of the season delight at LTHS Holiday Band Concert<br />
Laurie Fanelli<br />
Freelance Reporter<br />
Music lovers heard those<br />
sleigh bells jingle-ing, ringting<br />
tingle-ing, too, at the<br />
Lockport Township High<br />
School East Campus auditorium<br />
on Thursday, Dec.<br />
6, during the Holiday Band<br />
Concert.<br />
The comprehensive program<br />
— featuring Concert<br />
Band A and Concert Band<br />
B, both led by Associate<br />
Director of Bands Andrew<br />
Beckwith, and the LTHS<br />
Wind Symphony, led by Director<br />
of Bands Brian Covey<br />
— celebrated the sounds of<br />
the season with such festive<br />
favorites as “All I Want for<br />
Christmas Is You” (Concert<br />
Band B) and “Feliz Navidad”<br />
(Concert Band A).<br />
There was something for<br />
fans of all musical genres to<br />
enjoy at the concert.<br />
“Literature is selected to<br />
expose our students and audience<br />
to a wide breadth of<br />
musical genres,” Covey explained.<br />
“Included in these<br />
genres is the pop genre, so<br />
each ensemble will perform<br />
at least one selection in the<br />
holiday fashion. This year,<br />
the Wind Symphony will<br />
be performing two holiday<br />
selections, concluding with<br />
Leroy Anderson’s ‘Sleigh<br />
Ride,’ which has concluded<br />
our concerts for the past<br />
eight years.”<br />
Anderson’s light and<br />
bouncy composition is always<br />
a treat for audience<br />
members, but it’s even more<br />
fun to play, explained senior<br />
clarinetist Alyson Matushek.<br />
“It’s just so fun to play because<br />
we [the clarinets] have<br />
the melody, and it’s so fun<br />
to be in it and play it instead<br />
of just listening to it,” Matushek<br />
said. “And, it’s fun<br />
because we’re allowed to put<br />
Santa hats on and be really<br />
festive for the holidays.”<br />
Senior Joey Cryer — who<br />
plays the trombone — counts<br />
the Holiday Band Concert<br />
as one of his favorites every<br />
year. At last Thursday<br />
night’s event, he was especially<br />
looking forward to<br />
narrating the Wind Symphony’s<br />
performance of “The<br />
Night Before Christmas,”<br />
during which he donned a<br />
festive robe over his suit<br />
while reciting the tale of St.<br />
Nick, his miniature sleigh<br />
and eight tiny reindeer.<br />
“The Holiday Concert is<br />
a favorite around here because<br />
usually we do more<br />
formal events, and this is<br />
a time to cut loose,” Cryer<br />
said. “It’s a great community<br />
of kids. I haven’t really been<br />
in any other groups where<br />
people are so close together<br />
and people work so hard to<br />
achieve something and put<br />
something like this together.”<br />
Penelope Simon and Alison<br />
Reum — both of whom<br />
have children in the band<br />
program — love watching<br />
the individual musicians<br />
come together in camaraderie<br />
as a “band family” to create<br />
something special.<br />
“Just the fact of knowing<br />
that my daughters can make<br />
such beautiful music out of<br />
a piece of metal blows my<br />
mind,” Simon said. “I get so<br />
much joy out of seeing them<br />
translate into something so<br />
beautiful. It gets me every<br />
time.”<br />
Much like the musicians,<br />
Reum appreciates how the<br />
Holiday Concert showcases<br />
the talents of the members<br />
of the band program, while<br />
also highlighting their holiday<br />
cheer.<br />
“The serious pieces are<br />
beautiful,” Reum said.<br />
“They will always have a<br />
piece that will get you in the<br />
heartstrings, and then when<br />
they’re having fun, you get<br />
to enjoy that, too. They take<br />
Concert Band A stands for a round of applause after performing “Feliz Navidad” during the Holiday Band Concert on Thursday,<br />
Dec. 6, at the Lockport Township High School East Campus auditorium. Photos by Laurie Fanelli/22nd Century Media<br />
their music seriously, but<br />
they don’t take themselves<br />
so seriously.”<br />
Earlier in the week, on<br />
Dec. 4, the two LTHS Freshman<br />
Bands and the LTHS<br />
Symphonic Band performed<br />
a concert featuring such<br />
pieces as “Holiday Carol<br />
Collage,” “Christmas at the<br />
Movies” and “Winter on<br />
Emerald Bay.” Students in<br />
each of the ensembles across<br />
both performance nights prepared<br />
with group rehearsals<br />
and individual practice for<br />
approximately two months<br />
to bring the music to life.<br />
Covey noted that the<br />
band program would like to<br />
“thank the community for<br />
their continued support of<br />
our students.”<br />
“Our concerts are a wonderful<br />
place that family and<br />
friends come together to<br />
support and enjoy each other’s<br />
company,” Covey said.<br />
“There is no competition or<br />
Senior Jacqueline Ryan, of Lockport, and Junior Hannah Compton, of Homer Glen, decorate<br />
their euphoniums at the Holiday Band Concert.<br />
judgement; instead, it’s a<br />
wonderful place to come and<br />
share an evening with others.”<br />
The next formal concert<br />
will be held at the East Campus<br />
auditorium on Feb. 12<br />
and 14. Like all LTHS Band<br />
concerts, admission is free,<br />
and more information can<br />
be found at www.lockport<br />
bands.org.
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creative chat<br />
Q&A WITH LOCKPORT’S UNIQUE AND TALENTED CULTURE<br />
creative chat<br />
Getting to know Laura Wellman<br />
Q&A WITH LOCKPORT’S UNIQUE AND TALENTED CULTURE<br />
Laura Wellman<br />
has been a<br />
member of The<br />
Artist Guild of<br />
Lockport for<br />
about a year<br />
Wellman<br />
What media do<br />
you work with the most?<br />
The only way I can answer<br />
is that right now, what<br />
I’m working with are melted<br />
crayons. The reason is I’m<br />
also a musician and I used to<br />
own a jewelry company, and<br />
I have a degree in theater, so<br />
I don’t just stick with one<br />
medium.<br />
How long have you been<br />
working with melted<br />
crayons?<br />
For the last five or six<br />
years, that’s primarily what<br />
I’ve been doing.<br />
Why did you decide to start<br />
creating art with melted<br />
crayons?<br />
Years ago, I home<br />
schooled my kids and we<br />
had a bucket of crayons in<br />
an art cabinet in the room in<br />
our house where we had the<br />
home-school room. Every<br />
year there would be broken<br />
crayons and everything and<br />
I would throw them in this<br />
big bucket, and for whatever<br />
reason I felt like “there’s<br />
got to be something to do<br />
with these crayons.” So carried<br />
this bucket around with<br />
me for a little while and I’m<br />
not exactly sure how I came<br />
up with the idea, but I think I<br />
found out that you can light<br />
a crayon on fire and create a<br />
candle that way, so I started<br />
just playing with some of<br />
these broken crayons and<br />
lighting them on fire. I realized<br />
that they melted at<br />
a really low temperature,<br />
and so I tried a hair dryer<br />
and realized I could melt<br />
the crayons with a hair<br />
dryer.<br />
Do you do art full time, or is<br />
it more of a hobby?<br />
Any form of artwork that<br />
I’ve ever been involved<br />
with comes from a very<br />
selfish position. It’s never<br />
been intended to make<br />
money or really be in the<br />
public eye. I do art because<br />
that’s who I am, that’s how<br />
I express myself, that’s<br />
how I give gifts… When I<br />
started using the melted<br />
crayons, I was going through<br />
a divorce and it was literal<br />
therapy for me. When I<br />
didn’t have my kids, which<br />
was a very hard thing for<br />
me, I would do artwork for<br />
days on end. It helped me get<br />
through a lot.<br />
What is the toughest part of<br />
doing art for you?<br />
The toughest part for me,<br />
because I don’t do it professionally<br />
and I’m just a busy<br />
person because I’m the single<br />
parent of three kids, and<br />
I’m an insurance broker,<br />
is to find the time and the<br />
emotional space to do my<br />
art. I live in a really small<br />
apartment. I don’t have studio<br />
space, so literally my<br />
kitchen, dining room, office<br />
and studio is all one room.<br />
I don’t have a place where<br />
I could just leave the stuff<br />
out. If I could leave it out, I<br />
would accomplish more, so<br />
I struggle with getting into<br />
shows for TAGOL because<br />
it takes me months to prepare<br />
to gather the materials<br />
that I need and then to work<br />
on a piece. It takes a lot of<br />
emotional space to express<br />
yourself artistically, and<br />
that’s probably the biggest<br />
challenge I face at this time.<br />
Do you have any future<br />
goals for your art?<br />
Yeah, I would love to<br />
be a little more serious,<br />
a little bit more focused<br />
about it. And I think as my<br />
kids get older and as I get<br />
a little more stable in my<br />
career, I can foresee myself<br />
having the physical space<br />
and the emotional space<br />
more available so I can be<br />
more prolific and kind of<br />
seek it out a little bit more<br />
intentionally.<br />
How would you describe<br />
your own artistic style?<br />
I would call it more expressionistic,<br />
more abstract.<br />
Where do you get your<br />
inspiration from?<br />
I get it from everywhere.<br />
In fact I’m working on a<br />
piece right now and I was<br />
inspired to do the piece<br />
I’m working on right now<br />
because in my bathroom<br />
there’s a tile that’s cracked<br />
and it formed what I saw<br />
was a little image. And I literally<br />
looked at this tile for<br />
the last two and a half years<br />
and kept seeing the same<br />
image over and over and<br />
I’m using that as the inspiration<br />
for my next piece.<br />
What are your favorite<br />
pieces you’ve done?<br />
One of my favorite pieces<br />
hangs in a friend of mine’s<br />
house. Another one is here<br />
on the top of my bookshelf<br />
and it’s actually a cross. It<br />
was one of the first pieces<br />
that I made. Every time I<br />
look at it, I just feel really<br />
appreciative.<br />
Interview by Editor Max Lapthorne<br />
Laura Wellman’s piece titled “Mosaic” is an example of the work she does with melted<br />
crayons. Photos submitted<br />
Laura Wellman has been using melted crayons to create art for more than five years.
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the Lockport Legend | December 13, 2018 | 19<br />
Hemp Oil is Legal<br />
Across the Nation<br />
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to millions of Americans; no prescription necessary.<br />
M. A. Boswell<br />
Health News Syndicate<br />
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20 | December 13, 2018 | The Lockport Legend dining out<br />
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The Dish<br />
Cacao Cafe serves up Latin dishes, pastries and drinks<br />
Amanda Villiger, Assistant Editor<br />
Making chocolate is a process<br />
that takes a not-so-extraordinary<br />
bean, the cacao bean, and turns it<br />
into something delicious.<br />
The transformation takes the bitter,<br />
earthy seed and — after a long<br />
process of roasting and grinding and<br />
mixing — makes it a sweet treat<br />
people around the world love to eat.<br />
When Linda Aceves, of Tinley<br />
Park, started her journey to open<br />
Cacao Cafe, she was presented<br />
with a similar challenge in the form<br />
of a space that did not look like<br />
much on the outside or the inside.<br />
Located at 9111 W. 151st St. in<br />
Orland Park, Cacao Cafe now fills<br />
what was once an empty space<br />
with no guts, so to speak. With a<br />
little creativity and a lot of hard<br />
work, Aceves turned it into a modern<br />
internet cafe.<br />
Aceves, who graduated from<br />
Tinley Park High School in 2009,<br />
fell in love with baking during a<br />
class she took there but ultimately<br />
decided to pursue premed in college.<br />
Soon into her studies to become<br />
a doctor, she said she took a step<br />
back because she just knew it was<br />
not the right path for her. While<br />
taking some time off from school,<br />
she saw an advertisement for a culinary<br />
school.<br />
She took the plunge and applied,<br />
finding herself enrolled and taking<br />
classes at Le Cordon Bleu College<br />
of Culinary Arts in Chicago before<br />
she knew it.<br />
“I wasn’t really sure what I even<br />
wanted to do; I just know I just love<br />
to bake, I like to cook and I really<br />
like to people’s face and emotions<br />
when they see something beautiful,<br />
like a cake or something,” Aceves<br />
said. “So, that’s my whole inspiration.<br />
Having this big place now, I<br />
have so many ideas.”<br />
Baking was something Aceves<br />
said came naturally to her, and she<br />
has chosen to use her talents in the<br />
kitchen to get back to her roots<br />
with Cacao Cafe, which specializes<br />
in Latin pastries and drinks,<br />
and has light breakfast and lunch<br />
items as well.<br />
Cacao Cafe<br />
9111 W. 151st St. in Orland<br />
Park<br />
Hours<br />
• 6 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-<br />
Saturday<br />
• 6 a.m.-2 p.m. Sunday<br />
For more information ...<br />
Web: cacaocafeorland.com<br />
Email: cacaocafe@yahoo.com<br />
Having free wireless internet<br />
makes the space great for people<br />
who are working remotely, but<br />
Aceves said she also hopes to see<br />
the space become a “community<br />
cafe” where people want to attend<br />
private or public events and even<br />
host their own.<br />
The cafe just opened in early<br />
November, but Aceves said she already<br />
has a few regulars.<br />
“We are a scratch kitchen, so we<br />
prepare everything in house,” said<br />
Aceves, who has partnered with<br />
Back of the Yards Coffee Co. in<br />
Chicago.<br />
As a result, Cacao Cafe is able<br />
to serve a variety of Latin-infused<br />
coffees, including a traditional<br />
drink called cafe de olla. The drink<br />
is served in an earthen clay pot,<br />
similar to terracotta, which gives<br />
the drink its own unique flavor.<br />
“Coffee, it’s a big thing in our<br />
culture,” Aceves said. “I think I<br />
started drinking coffee since I was<br />
5 years old.”<br />
Aceves parents both immigrated<br />
to the United States from Mexico,<br />
and she and her two younger brothers<br />
were born in the U.S. As the<br />
oldest of her siblings, she is also<br />
the first one in her family to graduate<br />
from high school and college<br />
— and to own her own business.<br />
“I’m also the first to actually live<br />
my dream and live that so-called<br />
American dream that every immigrant<br />
parent has for their child,”<br />
she said. “I’m very proud.”<br />
The cafe is to have a set menu<br />
with popular Latin staples soon.<br />
And Aceves said she likes to have<br />
a variety of rotating, daily specials.<br />
In 2019, she said she plans to get<br />
a liquor license, which will allow<br />
A variety of Latin pastries tempt customers at the counter of Cacao Cafe in Orland Park. Photos by Amanda<br />
Villiger/22nd Century Media<br />
One of the lunch options at Cacao Cafe are the sopes ($8.89), which are<br />
made with fried corn discs topped with refried beans, steak, lettuce,<br />
pico de gallo, queso fresco and sour cream. They are served with a side<br />
of refried beans and rice.<br />
the business to create liquor-infused<br />
pastries and espresso drinks.<br />
While many of the drinks may be<br />
geared toward an adult clientele,<br />
Aceves said the cafe is certainly a<br />
family-friendly place with options<br />
for youngsters, as well.<br />
She said she also plans to grow<br />
the menu over time to incorporate<br />
more options for vegetarian, vegan<br />
and gluten-free patrons.<br />
One of the breakfast favorites at<br />
Cacao Cafe is the huevos rancheros<br />
($6.99), made with two sunny<br />
side up eggs atop fried tortillas and<br />
topped with cheese and homemade<br />
salsa. The dish comes with a side<br />
of refried beans and rice.<br />
Sopes ($8.89) are on the lunch<br />
menu and feature fried corn discs<br />
topped with refried beans, steak,<br />
lettuce, pico de gallo, queso fresco<br />
and sour cream.<br />
The counter at Cacao Cafe presents<br />
an enticing array of Latin<br />
baked goods, including various<br />
flavors of crumbly sugar cookies<br />
called polvorones ($.90 each);<br />
seashell-shaped sweet breads<br />
called conchas ($1.05); empanadas<br />
de fresa and empanadas de<br />
piña ($.95), which feature a sweet<br />
dough wrapped around a strawberry<br />
or pineapple fruit filling; molasses<br />
cookies in the shape of a small<br />
pig, called puerquitos ($.80); and<br />
jalapeno queso bread ($1.25).<br />
Coffee can be served to go in<br />
three sizes: 12 ounces ($1.99),<br />
16 ounces ($2.29) or 20 ounces<br />
($2.59). It also can be enjoyed in a<br />
mug in house ($2.59). Coffees can<br />
be made as specialty Latin drinks,<br />
as well (add $.50).
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crosstown CROSSWORD & Sudoku<br />
The crosstowns: Frankfort, Homer Glen, Lockport, Mokena, New Lenox, Orland Park, Tinley Park<br />
Crossword by Myles Mellor and Cindy LaFleur<br />
Across<br />
1. Attention-getter<br />
5. Swill<br />
9. Living room musts<br />
14. Record<br />
15. Get wind of<br />
16. Chicago’s University<br />
Apartments architect<br />
17. Out on a boat<br />
18. “Beetle Bailey” dog<br />
19. Party clothes, for<br />
some<br />
20. Homer Glen ____<br />
Trail<br />
22. The cord in a candle<br />
24. Nabokov heroine and<br />
others<br />
25. ___-di-dah<br />
26. Tuba note?<br />
29. “Otra” Spanish<br />
32. Kidman of “The Stepford<br />
Wives”<br />
34. Leg’s partner<br />
36. Shady recess<br />
39. SALT treaty subject<br />
40. Song for two<br />
42. A rechargeable battery<br />
44. Big furniture retailer<br />
45. Selects<br />
46. Stuffs<br />
48. Hallow ending<br />
49. Alerter<br />
52. Showy display<br />
54. Ending for “market”<br />
or “profit”<br />
55. Dodgers catcher Campanella<br />
57. ___-Seltzer<br />
59. Grandeur<br />
60. Homer Glen neighbor<br />
62. Goes with oohed<br />
65. Bring in<br />
67. Bolted<br />
69. “___ Jacques” (song)<br />
70. Raison d’ ___<br />
71. Off in the distance<br />
72. In a tough spot<br />
73. “Game of Thrones”<br />
character<br />
74. Adjusts, as a clock<br />
Down<br />
1. Educ. group<br />
2. Figure skater Cohen<br />
3. Mph gauge<br />
4. Treat roughly<br />
5. Sole supporter?<br />
6. Sanctions<br />
7. Horse feed<br />
8. Loiter about, with no<br />
apparent aim<br />
9. Often-dried fruit<br />
10. Berserk<br />
11. Automobile sticker<br />
fig.<br />
12. Shade of green<br />
13. Relative, for short<br />
21. Government safety<br />
org.<br />
23. 007 creator Fleming<br />
26. Swiss army gadget<br />
27. “Seascape” playwright<br />
28. Macho sort<br />
30. Ending for west or<br />
south<br />
31. Sluggers’ stats<br />
33. 102, in old Rome<br />
34. Hacienda brick<br />
35. Indian coin<br />
37. Peruvian plant<br />
38. Bank posting<br />
41. Food measurement<br />
43. End of the year<br />
month, for short<br />
47. Dis<br />
50. Worn away<br />
51. CD-___<br />
53. Warm welcomes<br />
56. WWI battle<br />
58. Troubled<br />
59. French father<br />
60. Pasternak heroine<br />
61. Bladed weapon<br />
62. Rearward<br />
63. Opposite of dep.<br />
64. Part of a giggle<br />
66. Biblical verb suffix<br />
68. ER personnel<br />
LOCKPORT<br />
Port Noir<br />
(900 S. State St., Lockport;<br />
(815) 834-9463)<br />
■■4-7 p.m. Monday-Friday:<br />
Happy Hour<br />
■■8-10 p.m. Thursdays:<br />
Comedy Bingo<br />
■■8-11 p.m. Fridays and<br />
Saturdays: Live Band<br />
■■7-11 p.m. Sundays:<br />
Open Mic Night<br />
Strike N Spare II<br />
(811 Northern Drive,<br />
Lockport; (708) 301-<br />
1477)<br />
■■9:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.<br />
Mondays: Quartermania<br />
■■10 p.m.-midnight Saturdays:<br />
Cosmic Bowl<br />
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 />
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 />
TINLEY PARK<br />
The Whistle Sports Bar &<br />
Grill<br />
(7537 W. 159th St.,<br />
Tinley Park; (708) 904-<br />
4990)<br />
■■6-8 p.m. Tuesdays: Bar<br />
Bingo<br />
■■2-5 p.m. Wednesdays:<br />
Happy Hour<br />
■■3-5 p.m. Fridays:<br />
Teacher Appreciation<br />
■■3-5 p.m. Saturdays and<br />
Sundays:<br />
Happy Hour<br />
NEW LENOX<br />
Hickory Creek Brewing<br />
Company<br />
(1005 W Laraway Rd,<br />
New Lenox, IL 60451<br />
(779) 803-3974)<br />
■■3 close Fridays: Happy<br />
Hour from 3 to 6 p.m.<br />
followed by Smokin’ Z<br />
BBQ food truck from<br />
5:30 to 8:30 p.m. and<br />
live music.<br />
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in The Scene, email<br />
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answers<br />
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the Lockport Legend | December 13, 2018 | 23<br />
Impressive Luxury Townhomes are<br />
Closing Fast at Brookside Meadows<br />
This is it! One of the best<br />
values in a new home will soon<br />
be gone forever. Brookside<br />
Meadows, Crana Homes’<br />
community of award-winning<br />
luxury townhomes in Tinley<br />
Park, is nearly complete. These<br />
attractive luxury townhomes<br />
range from the lower-$300s<br />
– including site - so demand is<br />
high and buyers are advised<br />
to act now while some choice<br />
sites are still available. Ideal<br />
location. Beautiful designs.<br />
Quality construction. Great<br />
value. When shoppers review<br />
their new home ‘wish list’ it’s<br />
clear that Brookside Meadows<br />
is perfect for first time buyers,<br />
last time buyers or those<br />
who want a great place to<br />
raise a family. These energyefficient<br />
luxury townhomes<br />
are impressively designed and<br />
set apart in a quiet section of<br />
Tinley Park. But Brookside<br />
Meadows is over 75% sold<br />
out so now is the time to select<br />
a site and create a home from<br />
the award-winning floorplans<br />
of the Fahan II, the Lennan<br />
II and the latest design, the<br />
Dunree II.<br />
Need to stretch out? The<br />
Fahan II is a beautiful 3,303<br />
total square foot luxury<br />
townhome (including a 1,216<br />
sq.’ basement) with an attached<br />
two-car, dry-walled garage and<br />
cement driveway. The twostory<br />
stately entrance foyer<br />
opens up to a split level floor<br />
plan that has three bedrooms<br />
(fourth bedroom optional)<br />
and two and a half baths. A<br />
large open kitchen design with<br />
stunning granite countertops<br />
is surrounded by generous<br />
custom maple cabinets and<br />
a ceramic tile floor. The 1st<br />
floor master bedroom offers an<br />
optional coffered ceiling and<br />
the optional master bath plan<br />
includes a soothing soaker tub.<br />
An elegant loft overlooks<br />
a great room adjacent to<br />
the kitchen. Beautiful oak is<br />
selected for doors, railings and<br />
trim. Ceramic tile covers the<br />
floors in the foyer as well as the<br />
bathrooms - which also feature<br />
granite vanity tops. A full<br />
lookout basement and a patio<br />
are included in the Fahan II.<br />
The Lennan II is a<br />
comfortable two/three<br />
bedroom split level home<br />
with two and a half baths,<br />
and includes most of the<br />
outstanding features and<br />
options of the Fahan II with<br />
the spacious master suite<br />
relocated to the upper level and<br />
the addition of an impressive<br />
dining/family room. With<br />
3,167 square feet of total<br />
space (including a 1,049 sq.’<br />
basement), there is plenty of<br />
room to entertain family and<br />
friends in comfort and style.<br />
The Dunree II is a sharp<br />
three bedroom, two and a<br />
half bath home with 3,194<br />
total square feet (including<br />
a large 1,226 sq.’ basement)<br />
with a master suite on the<br />
first floor. The foyer, powder<br />
room, kitchen and living room<br />
all have stunning hardwood<br />
oak floors. Attached is a twocar,<br />
dry walled garage with a<br />
cement driveway. The home<br />
also includes a 12’ x 12’ deck.<br />
All homes have deluxe<br />
landscaping, underground<br />
utilities and a first floor laundry<br />
room. Where available, buyers<br />
can select options like an<br />
impressive fireplace, walkout<br />
basement, coffered ceilings,<br />
skylights and a soaker tub in the<br />
master bath.<br />
Brookside Meadows includes<br />
sprinkler systems, smoke<br />
detectors and Lake Michigan<br />
water in all homes. Energysaving<br />
features like a highefficiency<br />
furnace and Lo-E<br />
glass, Energy Miser hot water<br />
heater, vented soffits, 1.75”<br />
insulated entrance doors,<br />
energy efficient appliances and<br />
Tuff-R insulated wall sheathing<br />
are all standard.<br />
Brookside Meadows is close<br />
to everything: retail, dining,<br />
transportation routes, Metra<br />
rail station and airports. The<br />
school system is among the<br />
best in the state and Tinley<br />
Park, named “The Best Place<br />
In America to Raise a Family”<br />
by Bloomberg’s BusinessWeek<br />
maintains 40 parks and the<br />
huge Bettenhausen indoor<br />
recreational center.<br />
It’s easy to see why this<br />
community is nearly sold<br />
out. The sales center, with<br />
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decorated models, is open<br />
Monday through Thursday<br />
10:00am to 4:00pm; Saturday<br />
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Distinctive Home Builders Introduces New Craftsman Homes<br />
In Manhattan and Peotone – From the mid-$200’s<br />
New designs are a result of buyer feedback<br />
Two refreshing designs mark<br />
the beginning of a new series<br />
of Craftsman-style homes<br />
available from Distinctive Home<br />
Builders at its latest new home<br />
communities: Prairie Trails;<br />
located in Manhattan within the<br />
highly-regarded Lincoln-Way<br />
School District and at WestGate<br />
Manor in Peotone within<br />
the desirable Peotone School<br />
District.<br />
“Craftsman homes were<br />
introduced in the early 1900s<br />
in California with designs<br />
based on a simpler, functional<br />
aesthetic using a higher level<br />
of craftsmanship and natural<br />
materials. These homes were a<br />
departure from homes that were<br />
mass produced from that era,<br />
“according to Bryan Nooner,<br />
president of Distinctive Home<br />
Builders.<br />
“The Craftsman design has<br />
made a comeback today for<br />
many of the same reasons it<br />
started over a century ago. Our<br />
customers want to live in a home<br />
that gets away from the “mass<br />
produced” look and live in a<br />
home that has more character. As<br />
a result of our daily interaction<br />
with our homeowners and their<br />
input, we are excited to introduce<br />
these two homes, with additional<br />
designs in the works.”<br />
Nooner, who meets with<br />
each homeowner prior to<br />
construction, has been working<br />
on these plans forawhile 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 />
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Ridge and Leighlinbridge<br />
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2008 Honda Element 57k<br />
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2007 Lincoln Town Car 80k<br />
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1998 Lincoln Continental 1<br />
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2010 Subaru Legacy awd 111k<br />
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2004 Mercury grand marquis<br />
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1999 Chevy corvette 15k<br />
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2013 Tesla S60 ELECTRIC<br />
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• 1517 Johnson St.,<br />
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Dinolfo Trust to Jessica Y.<br />
McCalla, $125,000<br />
• 16106 Golfview Drive,<br />
Lockport, 60441-4662<br />
- Melissa E. McKinney<br />
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$195,000<br />
• 16128 Bent Grass<br />
Drive, Lockport, 60441-<br />
4651 - John A. Keefe to<br />
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$182,000<br />
• 16400 Teton Drive,<br />
Lockport, 60441-7693 -<br />
Jeremy T. Barnes to Dawn<br />
Pedicini, $178,500<br />
• 16618 W. 147th Place,<br />
Lockport, 60441-2354<br />
- Lawrence E. Miller to<br />
Thomas L. Hill, $70,000<br />
• 810 Cove Ave.,<br />
Lockport, 60441-2268<br />
- Steven M. Hupke<br />
to Mateusz Gawel,<br />
Katarzyna Gawel<br />
$238,000<br />
Oct. 17<br />
• 14216 W. Melbourne<br />
Place, Lockport, 60441-<br />
6024 - William J. Muhr to<br />
Kristopher W. Muhr, Dena<br />
M. Muhr $209,000<br />
• 16059 W. Pennyroyal<br />
Lane, Lockport, 60441-<br />
4134 - MI Homes of<br />
Chicago LLC to Michael<br />
A. Rodgers, Cassandra A.<br />
Rodgers $388,000<br />
• 1610 Grove Court,<br />
Lockport, 60441-4799 -<br />
Brian T. Stack to Jason R.<br />
Wallenberg, $188,000<br />
• 16137 W. High Meadow<br />
Drive, Lockport, 60441-<br />
4121 - MI Homes of<br />
Chicago LLC to Luis<br />
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Oct. 18<br />
• 14319 High Road,<br />
Lockport, 60441-7418<br />
- Janusz Parzuch to<br />
Mariusz Wyszynski,<br />
$300,000<br />
• 1492 S. Jefferson St.,<br />
Lockport, 60441-3565 -<br />
Better Than New Homes<br />
LLC to Joshua Michael<br />
Rutz, Chelsea Shankland<br />
$190,500<br />
• 2116 S. Austrian Pine<br />
St., Lockport, 60441-<br />
3874 - Nicholas A. Smith<br />
to Donald Salvino, Denise<br />
Salvino $173,000<br />
Oct. 19<br />
• 16856 Ivy Lane,<br />
Lockport, 60441-1318<br />
- Vivian Stranski to Zofia<br />
Osinski, $213,000<br />
Oct. 23<br />
• 1228 Newbridge Ave.,<br />
Lockport, 60441-2782 -<br />
Pacione Trust to Nicholas<br />
Martin Pacione, Nicole<br />
Marie Pacione $250,000<br />
• 14513 Archer Ave.,<br />
Lockport, 60441-2274<br />
- James E. Bumber<br />
to James R. Latham,<br />
Shannon Lowery Latham<br />
$213,500<br />
• 16714 Placid Court,<br />
Lockport, 60441-3115<br />
- First Midwest Bank<br />
Trustee to Michael<br />
P. Ambrose, Carol J.<br />
Ambrose $296,500<br />
• 2105 S. Austrian Pine<br />
St., Lockport, 60441-<br />
3880 - Brandon N.<br />
Young to Gayle Soulides,<br />
$167,000<br />
• 17638 S. Alta Drive,<br />
Lockport, 60441-4781 -<br />
Donna Bustami to Charles<br />
Phelan, $176,500<br />
• 1823 S. Washington<br />
St., Lockport, 60441-<br />
4337 - First Bank Of<br />
Manhattan Trustee<br />
to Antonio Chavez,<br />
Lizeth Martinez Chavez<br />
$225,000<br />
• 219 E. 11th St.,<br />
Lockport, 60441-3418 -<br />
4438 Grove LLC to Steven<br />
W. Fitzmaurice, $136,000<br />
Oct. 24<br />
• 16864 W. Alpine St.,<br />
Lockport, 60441-8108 -<br />
Hawthorne Rfs IV LLC to<br />
Mike Prorok, Joann Prorok<br />
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2701 Property for<br />
Sale<br />
SHERIFF'S SALE OF REAL ESTATE<br />
of 1309 EAST NORTH STREET,<br />
LOCKPORT, IL 60441 (single family<br />
home with attached 2 car garage.). On<br />
the 3rd day of January, 2019 to be held<br />
at 12:00 noon, at the Will County Courthouse<br />
Annex, 57 N. Ottawa Street,<br />
Room 201, Joliet, IL 60432, under Case<br />
Title: DITECH FINANCIAL LLC<br />
Plaintiff V. RYAN J ANDERSEN<br />
A/K/A RYAN JANDERSON, A/K/A<br />
RYAN ANDERSON; ABCD HOLD-<br />
INGS LLC, Defendant.<br />
Case No. 17CH 0199 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 />
$246,229.52 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 />
For Information Please Contact:<br />
PIERCE AND ASSOCIATES<br />
1 N. Dearborn Suite 1300<br />
Chicago, Illinois 60602<br />
P: 312-346-9088<br />
F:<br />
PURSUANT TO THE FAIR DEBT<br />
COLLECTION PRACTICES ACT<br />
YOU ARE ADVISED THAT THIS<br />
LAW FIRM ISDEEMED TO BE A<br />
DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING<br />
TO COLLECT ADEBT AND ANY<br />
INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL<br />
BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE.<br />
SHERIFF'S SALE OF REAL ESTATE<br />
of 225 East 13th Street, Lockport, IL<br />
60441 (Single Family Home). Onthe<br />
3rd day ofJanuary, 2019 to be held at<br />
12:00 noon, at the Will County Courthouse<br />
Annex, 57 N. Ottawa Street,<br />
Room 201, Joliet, IL 60432, under Case<br />
Title: Bayview Loan Servicing, LLC<br />
Plaintiff V.Marc Costa; Candice Costa;<br />
Popular Bank; Unknown Heirs and<br />
Legatees of Marc Costa, if any; Unknown<br />
Heirs and Legatees of Candice<br />
Costa, ifany;; Unknown Owners and<br />
Non Record Claimants Defendant.<br />
Case No. 17CH 1612 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 certi-<br />
2701 Property for<br />
Sale<br />
fied funds payable tothe Sheriff of Will<br />
County.<br />
In the event the property is acondomin-<br />
ium, in accordance with 735 ILCS<br />
5/15-1507(c)(1)(H-1) and (H-2), 765<br />
ILCS 605/9(g)(5), and 765 ILCS<br />
605/18.5(g-1), you are hereby notified<br />
that the purchaser of the unit, other than<br />
amortgagee, shall pay the assessments<br />
and legal fees required bysubdivisions<br />
(g)(1) and (g)(4) of Section 9and the assessments<br />
required by subsection (g-1)<br />
of Section 18.5 of the Illinois Condominium<br />
Property Act.<br />
Pursuant to Local Court Rule 11.03 (J)<br />
if there is asurplus following application<br />
ofthe proceeds of sale, then the<br />
plaintiff shall send written notice pursuant<br />
to 735 ILCS 5/15-1512(d) to all parties<br />
to the proceeding advising them of<br />
the amount ofthe surplus and that the<br />
surplus will beheld until aparty obtains<br />
acourt order for its distribution or, in<br />
the absence of an order, until the surplus<br />
is forfeited to the State.<br />
For Information Please Contact:<br />
THE WIRBICKI LAW GROUP<br />
33 W. Monroe St. Suite 1140<br />
Chicago, Illinois 60603<br />
P: 312-360-9455<br />
F: 312-572-7823<br />
PURSUANT TO THE FAIR DEBT<br />
COLLECTION PRACTICES ACT<br />
YOU ARE ADVISED THAT THIS<br />
LAW FIRM ISDEEMED TO BE A<br />
DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING<br />
TO COLLECT ADEBT AND ANY<br />
INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL<br />
BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE.<br />
2703 Legal<br />
Notices<br />
PURSUANT TO THE FAIR DEBT<br />
COLLECTION PRACTICES ACT<br />
YOU ARE ADVISED THAT THIS<br />
LAW FIRM ISDEEMED TO BE A<br />
DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING<br />
TO COLLECT ADEBT AND ANY<br />
INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL<br />
BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE.<br />
STATE OF ILLINOIS )<br />
) SS.<br />
COUNTY OF WILL )<br />
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OFTHE<br />
TWELFTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT<br />
WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS<br />
DITECH FINANCIAL LLC<br />
Plaintiff,<br />
vs.<br />
RYAN J ANDERSEN A/K/A RYAN J<br />
ANDERSON, A/K/A RYAN ANDER-<br />
SON; ABCD HOLDINGS LLC,<br />
Defendant. No. 17 CH 0199<br />
NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE<br />
Public notice ishereby given that pursuant<br />
toajudgment entered in the above<br />
cause on the 27th day of February,<br />
2018, MIKE KELLEY, Sheriff of Will<br />
County, Illinois, will on Thursday, the<br />
3rd day ofJanuary, 2019 ,commencing<br />
at 12:00 o'clock noon, at the Will<br />
County Courthouse Annex, 57 N. Ottawa<br />
Street, Room 201, Joliet, IL 60432,<br />
sell at public auction tothe highest and<br />
best bidder orbidders the following-described<br />
real estate:<br />
LOT 3, IN ABBEY GLEN ESTATES<br />
UNIT 1, BEING A SUBDIVISION IN<br />
THE NORTHEAST 1/4 OFSECTION<br />
13, TOWNSHIP 36 NORTH, RANGE<br />
10, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCI-<br />
PAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO<br />
THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED<br />
OCTOBER 28, 1992 AS DOCUMENT<br />
NO. R92-85348, IN WILL COUNTY,<br />
ILLINOIS.<br />
Commonly known as: 1309 EAST<br />
NORTH STREET, LOCKPORT, IL<br />
60441<br />
Description of Improvements:<br />
single family home with attached 2 car<br />
garage.<br />
2703 Legal<br />
Notices<br />
P.I.N.: 11-04-13-216-003-0000<br />
Terms of Sale: ten percent (10%) at the<br />
time of sale and the balance within<br />
twenty-four (24) hours. No judicial sale<br />
fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring<br />
the residential real estate pursuant<br />
to its credit bid at the sale or by any<br />
mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other<br />
lienor acquiring the residential real estate<br />
whose rights inand to the residential<br />
real estate arose prior to the sale. All<br />
payments shall be made in cash or certified<br />
funds payable tothe Sheriff of Will<br />
County. Judgment amount is<br />
$246,229.52 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 />
FOR INFORMATION PLEASE CON-<br />
TACT:<br />
PIERCE AND ASSOCIATES<br />
1 N. Dearborn Suite 1300<br />
Chicago, Illinois 60602<br />
P: 312-346-9088<br />
F:<br />
Plaintiff's Attorney<br />
MIKE KELLEY<br />
Sheriff of Will County<br />
PURSUANT TO THE FAIR DEBT<br />
COLLECTION PRACTICES ACT<br />
YOU ARE ADVISED THAT THIS<br />
LAW FIRM ISDEEMED TO BE A<br />
DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING<br />
TO COLLECT ADEBT AND ANY<br />
INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL<br />
BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE.<br />
STATE OF ILLINOIS )<br />
) SS.<br />
COUNTY OF WILL )<br />
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OFTHE<br />
TWELFTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT<br />
WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS<br />
Bayview Loan Servicing, LLC<br />
Plaintiff,<br />
vs.<br />
Marc Costa; Candice Costa; Popular<br />
Bank; Unknown Heirs and Legatees of<br />
Marc Costa, ifany; Unknown Heirs and<br />
Legatees of Candice Costa, ifany;; Unknown<br />
Owners and Non Record Claimants<br />
Defendant. No. 17 CH 1612<br />
NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE<br />
Public notice ishereby given that pursuant<br />
toajudgment entered in the above<br />
cause on the 24th day of May, 2018,<br />
MIKE KELLEY, Sheriff of Will<br />
County, Illinois, will on Thursday, the<br />
3rd day ofJanuary, 2019 ,commencing<br />
at 12:00 o'clock noon, at the Will<br />
County Courthouse Annex, 57 N. Ottawa<br />
Street, Room 201, Joliet, IL 60432,<br />
sell at public auction tothe highest and<br />
best bidder orbidders the following-described<br />
real estate:<br />
THE WEST 50 FEET OF THE EAST<br />
118 FEET OF LOT 1IN BLOCK 106<br />
IN THE VILLAGE (NOW CITY) OF<br />
LOCKPORT, A SUBDIVISION IN<br />
SECTION 23TOWNSHIP 36 NORTH<br />
AND IN RANGE 10, EAST OF THE<br />
THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN IN<br />
WILL COUNTY ILLINOIS.<br />
Commonly known as: 225 East 13th<br />
Street, Lockport, IL 60441<br />
2703 Legal<br />
Notices<br />
Description of Improvements:<br />
Single Family Home<br />
P.I.N.: 11-04-23-337-010-0000<br />
Terms ofSale: ten percent (10%) at the<br />
time of sale and the balance within<br />
twenty-four (24) hours. No judicial sale<br />
fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring<br />
the residential real estate pursuant<br />
to its credit bid at the sale or by any<br />
mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other<br />
lienor acquiring the residential real estate<br />
whose rights inand to the residential<br />
real estate arose prior to the sale. All<br />
payments shall be made in cash or certified<br />
funds payable tothe Sheriff of Will<br />
County.<br />
In the event the property is acondomin-<br />
ium, in accordance with 735 ILCS<br />
5/15-1507(c)(1)(H-1) and (H-2), 765<br />
ILCS 605/9(g)(5), and 765 ILCS<br />
605/18.5(g-1), you are hereby notified<br />
that the purchaser of the unit, other than<br />
amortgagee, shall pay the assessments<br />
and legal fees required bysubdivisions<br />
(g)(1) and (g)(4) of Section 9and the assessments<br />
required by subsection (g-1)<br />
of Section 18.5 of the Illinois Condominium<br />
Property Act.<br />
Pursuant to Local Court Rule 11.03 (J)<br />
if there is asurplus following application<br />
ofthe proceeds of sale, then the<br />
plaintiff shall send written notice pursuant<br />
to 735 ILCS 5/15-1512(d) to all parties<br />
to the proceeding advising them of<br />
the amount ofthe surplus and that the<br />
surplus will beheld until aparty obtains<br />
acourt order for its distribution or, in<br />
the absence of an order, until the surplus<br />
is forfeited to the State.<br />
FOR INFORMATION PLEASE CON-<br />
TACT:<br />
THE WIRBICKI LAW GROUP<br />
33 W. Monroe St. Suite 1140<br />
Chicago, Illinois 60603<br />
P: 312-360-9455<br />
F: 312-572-7823<br />
Plaintiff's Attorney<br />
MIKE KELLEY<br />
Sheriff of Will County<br />
2900 Merchandise<br />
Under $100<br />
16 speed ladies bike, still in<br />
box, brand new! $75 or best offer.<br />
815.838.3932<br />
1970s bumper pool table, nice<br />
shape, balls, sticks, needs refelt<br />
$100. 708.479.7706<br />
4antique dining room chairs<br />
$100. 815.485.6008<br />
5piece entertainment center,<br />
solid oak, smoked glass doors,<br />
fully lighted, lots ofstorage.<br />
Excellent condition $100.<br />
708.532.4044<br />
A Westo Momentum CT 3.8<br />
elliptical exerciser with manual<br />
$85 best offer. 708.269.9414<br />
Antique vintage GENEVA ILL<br />
#8 star black flat cast iron $25.<br />
708.466.9907<br />
Barbie Doll in Nascar racing<br />
uniform, new, prestine $25.<br />
Little wizard red glass kerosene<br />
lantern $65 ea.<br />
708.460.8308<br />
Black IKEA leather chair, perfect<br />
condition $50. Entertainment<br />
center w/ glass dorrs $50.<br />
Call Debbie 815.534.5273
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CLASSIFIEDS<br />
Help Wanted · Garage Sales · Automotive<br />
Real Estate · Rentals · Merchandise<br />
Sell It 708.326.9170<br />
Fax It 708.326.9179<br />
Charge It<br />
DEADLINE -<br />
Friday at 3pm<br />
Automotive<br />
$52<br />
4 lines/<br />
7 papers<br />
Help Wanted<br />
per line $13<br />
4 lines/<br />
7 papers<br />
Real Estate<br />
$50<br />
7 lines/<br />
7 papers<br />
Merchandise<br />
$30<br />
4 lines/<br />
7 papers<br />
2900 Merchandise<br />
Under $100<br />
16 speed ladies bike, still in<br />
box, brand new! $75 or best offer.<br />
815.838.3932<br />
1970s bumper pool table, nice<br />
shape, balls, sticks, needs refelt<br />
$100. 708.479.7706<br />
4antique dining room chairs<br />
$100. 815.485.6008<br />
5piece entertainment center,<br />
solid oak, smoked glass doors,<br />
fully lighted, lots ofstorage.<br />
Excellent condition $100.<br />
708.532.4044<br />
A Westo Momentum CT 3.8<br />
elliptical exerciser with manual<br />
$85 best offer. 708.269.9414<br />
Antique vintage GENEVA ILL<br />
#8 star black flat cast iron $25.<br />
708.466.9907<br />
Barbie Doll in Nascar racing<br />
uniform, new, prestine $25.<br />
Little wizard red glass kerosene<br />
lantern $65 ea.<br />
708.460.8308<br />
Black IKEA leather chair, perfect<br />
condition $50. Entertainment<br />
center, black w/ glass<br />
doors $50. Call Debbie<br />
815.534.5273<br />
Black IKEA leather chair, perfect<br />
condition $50. Entertainment<br />
center w/ glass dorrs $50.<br />
Call Debbie 815.534.5273<br />
Collection of 60 unique shot<br />
glasses. Varied sizes, shapes,<br />
each with adifferent design.<br />
Great for man cave, bar display<br />
or gifts. $40 for whole collection.<br />
Call 708.642.9019<br />
Cross Country ski boots &<br />
poles. Boots Wsz 8.5, Msz<br />
11, good condition $35 each.<br />
Men’s ice skates sz 10.5 $40.<br />
815.463.0282<br />
Dewalt Hammer Drill 18V<br />
with STS bits, 2batteries with<br />
charger $95. 708.785.3085<br />
Fun - Fun: 2 sturdy wood sleds<br />
38” $5 48” $6 or 2 for $10.<br />
708.301.8880<br />
GE dishwasher, stainless exterior<br />
skin, slightly used $100.<br />
708.785.0987<br />
GE dishwasher, stainless exterior<br />
sink, slightly used $100.<br />
708.785.0987<br />
GE dryer $99. 708.262.0821 or<br />
312.519.5786<br />
Give your Grandma &<br />
Grandpa agift they will appreciate<br />
-an antique rocking chair,<br />
very good condition, with blue<br />
cover $100. 708.250.9583<br />
2900 Merchandise<br />
Under $100<br />
Mendini 5piece drum set, plus<br />
stool, pedal and cymbal $65<br />
FIRM. 708.633.1978<br />
Metal detector auto calibrating,<br />
digital. Never used $75. Mens<br />
ring, Sterling silver and turquoise<br />
&mother ofpearl $25.<br />
708.530.9354<br />
Need aset of luggage? 3piece<br />
set with wheels, new. Bought<br />
for trip, never taken $85 or best<br />
offer. Call 815.469.4525<br />
New 3fttree with stand $10.<br />
New fresh tree, large tree stand<br />
$15. Dozen pink non-break<br />
tree ornaments, USA made $5<br />
ea. 708.460.8308<br />
Novelty musical & motion<br />
houseplant, 9inches tall, plays<br />
“Let’s Dance” $15. Steve<br />
708.403.2525<br />
Nurses uniforms, top & bottoms,<br />
1X & 2X $5 a piece.<br />
708.262.0821 ot 312.519.5786<br />
Samsung Galaxy phone, 4G<br />
LTE, 5.0 HD, 5MP camera, 1<br />
year old $45. iPhone 4m works<br />
great $40. 815.469.5295<br />
Showtime Rotisserie & BBQ<br />
$50 obo. 708.478.5338<br />
Solar AA/AAA rechargeable<br />
batteries $4 ea. 5 WAT ceramic<br />
white bulbs $3 ea. 2PK<br />
appliance bulbs $4, 12 PK 40<br />
wat soft white bulbs $12.<br />
708.460.8308<br />
SUV jumbo sun shade $10, car<br />
shade $8, XL car cover 17ft<br />
long $29. 15 qts graphite oil $1<br />
ea. 708.460.8308<br />
Toro snowblower S-200 electric<br />
start $95. 708.785.3085<br />
Twelve ceramic Christmas<br />
houses, lighted in original<br />
boxes $90 or best offer.<br />
815.409.2605<br />
Vintage machinist/mechanics<br />
small ball peen hammer with<br />
wooden handle $40. New SuperMat<br />
treadmat size (36x78)<br />
durable super tough construction<br />
lightweight $55.<br />
708.466.9907<br />
Heavy duty engine hoist/tow<br />
bar! Red arrow model 1100.<br />
Needs hydraulic piston $50.<br />
Call Dave for pictures<br />
708.203.9272<br />
Long dining room table $99<br />
(cherry wood) & leaf.<br />
312.519.5786<br />
2900 Merchandise<br />
Under $100<br />
Christmas Anna-Lee dolls 9-16<br />
inches tall, entire set of6for<br />
$20. Sunbeam deluxe mixmaster,<br />
standing varying speed,<br />
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Athlete of the Week<br />
10 Questions<br />
with Andrew Bean<br />
Andrew Bean is a senior at<br />
Lockport Township and one<br />
of the top bowlers on the<br />
Porters team.<br />
It’s now over halfway<br />
through the boys bowling<br />
season. How do you<br />
think it’s gone?<br />
It’s gone pretty good. We<br />
had a little rocky start because<br />
we didn’t have a set<br />
lineup, but we’ve figured<br />
out who can score on what<br />
lanes.<br />
How did you get started<br />
in bowling?<br />
When I was 4 [or] 5, both<br />
of my parents [Alan and<br />
Kimberly] bowled. So they<br />
were like, ‘Let’s introduce<br />
him to this.’ They did, and I<br />
liked it.<br />
Your dad is the Porter<br />
JV coach. Although<br />
you’ve been bowling<br />
varsity since you were<br />
a sophomore, you were<br />
coached by him. What’s<br />
that been like?<br />
Well, he’s been coaching<br />
me since I started competitively<br />
in junior high. So it’s<br />
been no different. But yes,<br />
we do discuss bowling at the<br />
dinner table.<br />
Do you play any other<br />
sports?<br />
I did golf freshman year,<br />
and I’ve played on the tennis<br />
team the past three years,<br />
but I’m not sure about tennis<br />
yet this coming spring. But<br />
bowling is my favorite.<br />
What is it about the<br />
game of bowling that<br />
makes it the sport for<br />
you?<br />
It’s the hand-eye coordination.<br />
But also the fact that<br />
my height (5-foot-3) has<br />
nothing to do with it. Playing<br />
defense isn’t a part of<br />
bowling. It’s just as long as<br />
you can get the ball in the<br />
pocket.<br />
Have you ever bowled<br />
a 300?<br />
No. My highest ever was<br />
a 278. That was against Andrew<br />
on Nov. 20 of this season<br />
at Orland Bowl. I left a<br />
seven pin early and a 10 pin<br />
on my last throw, but that’s<br />
OK. My dad didn’t get his<br />
first 300 until he was in college.<br />
What’s something about<br />
bowling that the average<br />
person doesn’t<br />
know?<br />
They don’t know about<br />
the lane conditions. That the<br />
oil on the lanes is a big thing.<br />
Also, that there are different<br />
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types of bowling balls. Different<br />
ones are made to hook<br />
more or less.<br />
What have you learned<br />
from Lockport bowling<br />
coach Ron Davis?<br />
One of the things he’s<br />
helped me with is ball rotation.<br />
That helps on the different<br />
lane conditions. He’s<br />
a very technical coach.<br />
Do you plan to bowl in<br />
college?<br />
Yes, but I don’t know<br />
where yet. But every college<br />
that I’ve looked at has at<br />
least club bowling. I’m planning<br />
to major in electrical or<br />
mechanical engineering.<br />
What’s the best thing<br />
about being an athlete<br />
at Lockport?<br />
I’ve had the most fun with<br />
all my teammates throughout<br />
high school. These are<br />
guys like me, and I think<br />
every one of the guys I hang<br />
out with has been a teammate<br />
at one time or another.<br />
Interview by Freelance Reporter<br />
Randy Whalen<br />
This Week In...<br />
Lockport Township<br />
High School Varsity<br />
Athletics<br />
Wrestling<br />
■Dec. ■ 13 at Lincoln-Way<br />
West, 5:30 p.m.<br />
■Dec. ■ 14 host Lincoln-Way<br />
East, 5 p.m.<br />
■Dec. ■ 15 at Marmion Military<br />
Academy, 10 a.m.<br />
Boys Basketball<br />
■Dec. ■ 15 host Joliet Catholic<br />
Academy, 7 p.m.<br />
■Dec. ■ 17 host Reavis, 6:30<br />
p.m.<br />
porters<br />
From Page 39<br />
up.”<br />
Things started out well for<br />
the Porters as they led 14-8<br />
after the first quarter and by<br />
11 points at 20-9 with 5:36<br />
left to play in the first half.<br />
Karli had 11 points in the<br />
second quarter, but Thurman<br />
scored nine points to<br />
help rally the Tigers. The<br />
half ended with junior guard<br />
Cooper Bridges (11 points)<br />
banging home a shot from<br />
just inside the half-court line<br />
as the buzzer went off to<br />
bring North within 27-26 at<br />
halftime.<br />
“We got sloppy with the<br />
ball to end the first half,”<br />
Hespell said. “We had double-digit<br />
leads a couple of<br />
different times, and you<br />
have to continue doing what<br />
got you there. We were supposed<br />
to hold the ball at the<br />
basketball<br />
From Page 36<br />
Girls Basketball<br />
■Dec. ■ 14 at Bolingbrook,<br />
6:30 p.m.<br />
■Dec. ■ 15 at Spartan Holiday<br />
Tournament, TBD at Oak Lawn<br />
Girls Bowling<br />
■Dec. ■ 15 host Lockport<br />
Invitational, 9 a.m. at Strike<br />
and Spare<br />
Boys Bowling<br />
■Dec. ■ 13 host Fenton, 4:30<br />
p.m. at Strike and Spare<br />
■Dec. ■ 17 at Romeoville, 4:30<br />
p.m. at Bowlero Bowl<br />
end of the half, but instead<br />
we gave them time, and they<br />
made a big shot. That’s part<br />
of the learning process, and<br />
we have to get better.”<br />
In that second quarter,<br />
North was 9-of-12 from the<br />
free-throw line and finished<br />
the game 19-of-28. The Porters<br />
never attempted a free<br />
throw until the 6:38 mark of<br />
the fourth quarter and finished<br />
making 3-of-5 for the<br />
game.<br />
“We knew we wanted to<br />
attack the middle of their<br />
zone, and we finally did a<br />
good job of doing that in<br />
the second quarter,” North<br />
coach Bob Krahulik said.<br />
“It seemed like [the Porters]<br />
were settling for the 3-point<br />
shot, and we did a good job<br />
of attacking and getting to<br />
the free-throw line. We were<br />
pretty aggressive in the first<br />
half, and this was the first<br />
game we faced a big man<br />
play in the first half, but that<br />
was as close as they would<br />
get.<br />
Gugliuzza (9 points) and<br />
junior guard Sydney Swanberg<br />
(3 points, 8 rebounds)<br />
also hit 3-pointers for West.<br />
The Warriors did have 19<br />
turnovers, 11 of them in the<br />
first half, which was concerning<br />
to veteran coach<br />
Ryan White.<br />
“It felt like we shot the ball<br />
fairly decent,” White said.<br />
“But for me, there were still<br />
many turnovers for us, and<br />
that’s taking opportunities<br />
away. When we shoot the<br />
ball like we can and don’t<br />
get a shot at the basket, it’s<br />
costing us a lot of points.”<br />
The Porters concluded<br />
last week with a game on<br />
Saturday, Dec. 8, as they<br />
Boys Swimming<br />
■Dec. ■ 13 host Joliet Central,<br />
5 p.m.<br />
■Dec. ■ 14 at Neuqua Valley<br />
Invite (Diving), 5:30 p.m.<br />
■Dec. ■ 15 at Neuqua Valley<br />
Invite, 10 a.m.<br />
Cheerleading<br />
■Dec. ■ 15 at Rolling Meadows<br />
Invite, 8 a.m.<br />
■Dec. ■ 16 at Joliet West Invite,<br />
8 a.m.<br />
Competitive Dance<br />
■Dec. ■ 15 at Stagg Invite, 7<br />
a.m.<br />
in the middle [Halatek],<br />
but we didn’t change<br />
anything.”<br />
Bridges hit a jumper to<br />
give the Tigers the lead to<br />
open the second half, and<br />
they extended to a 35-30 advantage.<br />
Lockport, however,<br />
answered with an 11-0 run to<br />
lead 41-35 with 1:36 to play<br />
in the third. But back came<br />
North with five points in the<br />
final 1:14 of the half to trim<br />
the deficit to 41-40.<br />
The Porters were to travel<br />
to Yorkville for a nonconference<br />
game on Tuesday, Dec.<br />
11. This Saturday, Dec. 15,<br />
at 7 p.m. brings a special<br />
alumni night game against<br />
Joliet Catholic Academy at<br />
the old “pit” at Lockport’s<br />
Central Campus.<br />
Another game at the “pit”<br />
will take place on Monday,<br />
Dec. 17, at 6:30 p.m. against<br />
Reavis.<br />
opened play in the Oak<br />
Lawn Spartan Holiday<br />
Tournament. That tournament<br />
continued this Monday,<br />
Dec. 10, Wednesday,<br />
Dec. 12, and is to conclude<br />
on Saturday, Dec. 15. They<br />
also have an SWSC Blue<br />
game at 6:30 p.m. on Friday,<br />
Dec. 14, at Bolingbrook.<br />
Lockport hosts Joliet<br />
West at 1:30 p.m. on Dec.<br />
21 at its East Campus.
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Girls Basketball<br />
Porters unable to survive barrage of Warriors 3-pointers<br />
Lockport looks<br />
to play more<br />
consistently on both<br />
ends of the floor<br />
Randy Whalen<br />
Freelance Reporter<br />
In terms of the point total,<br />
the Lincoln-Way West girls<br />
basketball team’s output<br />
last week against Lockport<br />
Township was fairly low by<br />
its standards.<br />
But the Warriors still hit<br />
13 3-point shots, with senior<br />
guard Tara Hastings hitting<br />
seven of them in scoring a<br />
game-high 21 points.<br />
That shows how explosive<br />
they can be, as they jumped<br />
out to a comfortable early<br />
lead and cruised to a 53-40<br />
victory over the Porters Dec.<br />
4 in a SouthWest Suburban<br />
Conference crossover at<br />
Lockport.<br />
Fresh off a 17-point, 11<br />
rebound performance in the<br />
Porters previous game — a<br />
52-41 loss to Minooka on<br />
Dec. 1 — sophomore guard/<br />
forward Elena Knebel added<br />
six points against West. A<br />
year ago when the two teams<br />
met, it was a down-to-thewire<br />
affair, with the Warriors<br />
pulling out a 65-62 win.<br />
“I was watching that tape<br />
from last year, and it was a<br />
very entertaining game for<br />
the spectators,” Lockport<br />
coach Dan Kelly said. “This<br />
year, not so much. We have<br />
to get better at our offensive<br />
skills. We were just a bit off.<br />
We also struggled on the defensive<br />
end. Our girls don’t<br />
ever quit, we will play to the<br />
end. We just have to be more<br />
consistent.”<br />
It was the second lowest<br />
point output of the season for<br />
West (7-1), which has scored<br />
at least 61 points in five of<br />
its games. The Porters (4-5)<br />
received a strong game from<br />
junior center Jenna Cotter<br />
(13 points, 9 rebounds) but<br />
had no answer for the Warriors<br />
barrage from downtown.<br />
“Taylor did a good job of<br />
getting me the ball,” Hastings<br />
said of sophomore<br />
guard Taylor Gugliuzza. “I<br />
felt good in warmups, and I<br />
hoped that transitioned into<br />
the game. We just have to<br />
limit the turnovers, and we’ll<br />
start getting back as a team<br />
and get into a groove. I think<br />
that we’ll do pretty good<br />
once we clean it all up.”<br />
Hastings, a four-year varsity<br />
player, wasn’t sure if her<br />
seven treys were the most<br />
she’s made in a game. Her<br />
opening 3-pointer gave West<br />
a 5-0 lead with 6:40 to play<br />
in the first quarter. A minute<br />
later, senior guard Jackie<br />
Maka scored for the Porters.<br />
But Gugliuzza (16 points),<br />
who had four 3-pointers,<br />
made a pair of them in an<br />
11-0 run that put the Warriors<br />
ahead 16-2 with 3:15<br />
left in the first quarter.<br />
“It just makes it so much<br />
easier when everything is<br />
flowing, and when we have<br />
more energy than our opponent,”<br />
Gugliuzza said.<br />
“It also helps that [junior<br />
forward] Molly [Ryan] and<br />
[freshman forward] Evan<br />
[Pittman], our two tall girls,<br />
did a good job of hustling<br />
and really boxing out.”<br />
Lockport hit its only two<br />
3-pointers of the game, as<br />
junior guard Abby Pappagoerge<br />
and senior guard Kaeli<br />
Ford (7 points) connected on<br />
back-to-back ones to close<br />
the score to 16-8 with just<br />
under two minutes left in the<br />
first quarter. The Warriors<br />
led 20-8 after the first period.<br />
A basket by Cotter after<br />
a rebound closed the Porters<br />
to within 20-12 with 5:11 to<br />
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Lockport’s Elizabeth Sochacki (left) plays through contact Dec. 4 during the Porters’ loss to Lincoln-Way West in Lockport.<br />
Photos by Adam Jomant/22nd Century Media<br />
Lockport defenders (left to right) Payton Grcevic, Sydney Furr and Miranda Oesterreich attempt to corral a Warrior ballhandler.
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Lockport looking strong as postseason approaches<br />
Randy Whalen, Freelance Reporter<br />
Getting loud.<br />
That’s what the Lockport Township<br />
boys bowling team hopes to<br />
do in a few weeks when the postseason<br />
rolls around. In the meantime,<br />
the Porters had plenty of<br />
reasons to get loud last week as<br />
they swept a trio of dual meets and<br />
got some top-notch performances<br />
along the way.<br />
“I’ve got a great group of kids<br />
and a good chemistry, a better one<br />
than the last few years,” Lockport<br />
coach Ron Davis said. “I have kids<br />
that get loud, and I like that. I really<br />
haven’t had that. Hopefully,<br />
they give themselves reasons to get<br />
loud.”<br />
That wasn’t a problem last week<br />
as the Porters hosted Lincoln-Way<br />
Central on Dec. 3 in a SouthWest<br />
Suburban Conference crossover<br />
at Strike N’ Spare II in Lockport.<br />
There, the hosts defeated last season’s<br />
third-place team in the state<br />
2,134-1,894. Lockport had games<br />
of 1,000 and 1,134 while the<br />
Knights tallied games of 866 and<br />
1,028.<br />
“We’ve struggled in our tournament<br />
play and done well in our<br />
dual meets,” Davis said. “That<br />
was the case [seventh out of 16<br />
teams] at the Oak Forest Invite.<br />
We had three guys do well and<br />
three guys struggle. We’re still<br />
getting a feel for the team, but [in<br />
the dual meets] we’ve got guys<br />
starting to step up.”<br />
Against the Knights, it was sophomore<br />
Jim Kontos leading the way<br />
with a 490 (235, 255) series. Senior<br />
Andrew Bean followed with a 458<br />
(212, 246), senior Evan Pleshar,<br />
had a big performance with a 449<br />
(191, 258) and senior Jake Grau<br />
rolled a 366 (192, 174). Senior Caleb<br />
Derrig (170) bowled the first<br />
game, while junior Timmy Hoak<br />
(201) bowled the second game.<br />
Alex Nolan led Central with<br />
a 435 series (212, 223). Fellow<br />
junior Tommy Martini was next<br />
with a 411 (165, 246), junior Tyler<br />
Misch followed with a 359 (190,<br />
169), and junior Austin Zaker 307<br />
(141, 166) rounded out the bowlers<br />
who rolled two games for the<br />
Knights. Seniors Brian Triezenberg<br />
(158) bowled the first game<br />
and Ryan Gamen (224) came in for<br />
the second game.<br />
While the Lockport varsity team<br />
struggled some at the Oak Forest<br />
Invite, the Porters JV team was<br />
third (5,694). Kontos led the way<br />
as he was on the JV team that day,<br />
with an individual champion score<br />
of 1,351.<br />
“I’ve been more on the varsity<br />
this season and I like to contribute<br />
to the team,” Kontos said. “I was<br />
on my game [against Central] and<br />
able to navigate well.”<br />
Kontos agrees that more noise is<br />
better for the Porters.<br />
“I want our team to be louder<br />
and more excited,” he said. “We<br />
don’t need to be negative. We just<br />
need to pick up our spares and<br />
strikes and just keep up those positive<br />
vibes.”<br />
Those positive vibes continued<br />
for Kontos two days later when he<br />
bowled a 299, leaving the four pin<br />
and just missing a perfect game in<br />
the opener. He led the way with a<br />
705 (299, 216, 190) three-game<br />
series as the Porters toppled Yorkville<br />
3,000-2,806 in a three-game<br />
match on Dec. 5 in Lockport. Also<br />
in the opener, Pleshar had the front<br />
nine as strikes before fouling in the<br />
10th and finishing with a 268.<br />
Then, under the same threegame<br />
format, the Porters took<br />
2-of-3 and the series 3,062-2,923<br />
on Thursday, Dec. 6, in an SWSC<br />
matchup against Lincoln-Way East<br />
at Thunderbowl in Mokena. Senior<br />
Jimmy Rozhon led the Porters (10-<br />
3, 7-0) with a 637 series and a high<br />
game of 256.<br />
The SWSC meet is to be hosted<br />
by Andrew starting at 8 a.m. on<br />
Jan. 5 at Orland Bowl. The dual<br />
meets no longer factor into the<br />
conference scoring, so it’s all or<br />
nothing that day for the conference<br />
crown. So if the Porters want to repeat<br />
as conference champions and<br />
get a share of their 10th league title<br />
since the SWSC formed for the<br />
2005-2006 season, they will have<br />
to do it that day.<br />
Lockport’s Evan Pleshar fires a ball down the lane Dec. 5 during a match against Yorkville at Strike N’ Spare II<br />
in Lockport. Photos by Adam Jomant/22nd Century Media<br />
Jake Grau guides the ball down the lane for the Porters.
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fastbreak<br />
Boys Basketball<br />
Porters fall to Plainfield North by one point<br />
1st and 3<br />
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LTHS boys bowling in<br />
the midst of another<br />
superior season<br />
1. Getting into form<br />
The Lockport boys<br />
bowling team was<br />
10-3 and 7-0 in<br />
conference following<br />
a 3,062-2,923<br />
on Thursday, Dec.<br />
6, in a conference<br />
matchup versus the<br />
Griffins in Mokena.<br />
2. Plenty of scoring<br />
The day before the<br />
victory over Lincoln-<br />
Way East, the Porters<br />
beat Yorkville<br />
3,000-2,806 in a<br />
three-game match<br />
on Dec. 5 in Lockport.<br />
Sophomore Jim<br />
Kontos led the way<br />
with a 705 series,<br />
including a 299<br />
game.<br />
3. Knocking off the<br />
Knights<br />
In another win for<br />
the Porters, they<br />
beat Lincoln-Way<br />
Central on Dec. 3 by<br />
a final tally of 2,134-<br />
1,894 in Lockport.<br />
Team looks to grow<br />
from game in which<br />
it had double-digit<br />
leads<br />
Randy Whalen<br />
Freelance Reporter<br />
“Learning to win.”<br />
After some early season<br />
success, it appeared that the<br />
Lockport Township boys<br />
basketball team had learned<br />
to win.<br />
Last week’s result, however,<br />
showed that the Porters<br />
still have more work to do.<br />
Little things didn’t go<br />
Lockport’s way in a 55-54<br />
loss to Plainfield North on<br />
Dec. 4, in Lockport.<br />
Senior forward Carter<br />
Thuman scored all of his<br />
game-high 22 points from<br />
the second quarter on as the<br />
Tigers (3-3) rallied for their<br />
first victory over Lockport<br />
since a 57-52 win on Dec. 2,<br />
2014. The teams have met in<br />
the first week of December<br />
for six-straight seasons, each<br />
winning three.<br />
The Porters (4-2) were<br />
paced by 17 points from senior<br />
guard Jake Karli, but it<br />
wasn’t enough, as they saw<br />
their four-game win streak<br />
end.<br />
“I’ve been telling the<br />
kids all year that winning<br />
is hard,” Lockport coach<br />
Brett Hespell said. “These<br />
kids are still learning how to<br />
win. Yes, we have a veteran<br />
group, but they haven’t been<br />
Senior guard Jake Karli had 17 points for the Porters in the team’s 55-54 loss to Plainfield North on Dec. 4, in Lockport.<br />
22nd Century Media File Photo<br />
in these situations much.<br />
There were games this year<br />
that we did win down the<br />
stretch, but [this one] we let<br />
get away. Sometimes you<br />
have to go through this to<br />
get better, and I’m hoping<br />
we learn from this.”<br />
Lockport led 41-40 after<br />
three quarters and 44-41<br />
following a layup by senior<br />
center Tommy Halatek (10<br />
points) with 6:05 to play<br />
in the game. But the Tigers<br />
scored the next seven points,<br />
four of those by senior center<br />
Billy Connors (10 points),<br />
who had seven points in the<br />
fourth quarter. A 3-pointer<br />
by senior guard Matt Hatzopoulos<br />
(13 points) with 3:12<br />
to play brought the Porters<br />
within 48-47, but they didn’t<br />
score for more than two minutes<br />
after that.<br />
Ahead 50-47, North hit<br />
5-of-8 free throws in the<br />
final 1:05 to help seal it.<br />
Hatzopoulos made a final<br />
3-pointer with two seconds<br />
to play to account for the final<br />
score. The Porters were<br />
out of timeouts, but they did<br />
get whistled for a delay of<br />
game warning with just over<br />
a second to play.<br />
That meant the Tigers<br />
had to inbound the ball,<br />
and they threw it into half<br />
court, where Karli stole it.<br />
He got off a desperation<br />
shot before the buzzer, but<br />
it was way off to the left,<br />
and the Tigers celebrated<br />
the big win.<br />
“Plainfield North is a solid<br />
team, and we knew it would<br />
be tough, but we just didn’t<br />
play particularly well,” Hespell<br />
said. “We had too many<br />
errors that we have to clean<br />
Please see porters, 35<br />
LISTEN UP<br />
“I have kids that get loud, and I like that. I really haven’t had<br />
that. Hopefully, they give themselves reasons to get loud.”<br />
Ron Davis — Lockport boys bowling coach, on his team being<br />
more vocal this season<br />
Tune In<br />
Boys Basketball<br />
Trying to stay rolling — 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 13, vs.<br />
Fenton<br />
• The Porters play in their last home match of 2018.<br />
Index<br />
35 - This Week In<br />
35 - Athlete of the Week<br />
FASTBREAK is compiled by Contributing Editor<br />
Thomas Czaja, tom@homerhorizon.com.
lockport’s Hometown Newspaper | www.lockportlegend.com | December 13, 2018<br />
A learning<br />
experience<br />
Porters hope to learn<br />
from mistakes after<br />
close loss, Page 39<br />
Lockport boys bowling team hoping to ‘get<br />
loud’ during postseason play, Page 38<br />
Too many<br />
three’s Baker’s<br />
dozen 3-pointers sink<br />
LTHS girls basketball<br />
team against LWW, Page<br />
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Lockport’s Timmy Hoak follows through on a shot Dec. 5 during a match against Yorkville at Strike N’ Spare II in Lockport. Adam Jomant/22nd Century Media