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foster camp 

fundraiser 

Former foster child 

trying to raise money 

to send other foster 

children to summer 

camp, Page 5 

Storms are 

Brewin’ Three 

hundred people 

receive storm spotter 

training at safety 

expo, Page 9 

McDermott triplets 

(left to right) 

Alayna, Corina 

and Madeline 

scored high on 

their ACTs. The 

three also are 

heavily involved 

in activities and 

clubs at Lincoln- 

Way West. Photo 

courtesy of Burns 

Photography 

New Lenox 

triplets 

score high 

on ACT, 

Page 3 

A Day with 

Dad Local fathers 

and sons spend a day 

with LWC football 

coaches, players at 

camp, Page 12

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Thursday 

50th Anniversary 

Extravaganza 

5:30-7:30 p.m. Thursday, 

May 9, Firefighters Park/ 

LCC, 1 Manor Dr, New 

Lenox, The Park District 

is celebrating its’ 50th Anniversary 

on May 9. Join us 

for music, hot dogs, chips, 

lemonade and games. We 

will have giant Jenga and 

jumbo Connect Four available 

to play. Registration 

is now being taken. Registration 

Deadline is Friday, 

May 3. The registration fee 

is $.50 per person through 

May 3 and $1 per person 

walk-up. 

Saturday 

LWSRA Disability Fair 

10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, 

May 11, Lincolnway 

Special Recreation Association, 

1900 Heather Glen 

Drive, New Lenox. Join 

Lincolnway Special Recreation 

for a one stop spot 

to learn about disability 

services in the Lincoln-way 

area. This free resource fair 

is open to parents, guardians, 

family members, 

teachers and therapists 

looking for disability services 

in the Lincoln-Way 

area. For more information, 

visit LWSRA.org. 

Monday 

New Life for Old Bags 

5:30-7:30 p.m. Monday, 

May 13, New Lenox Public 

Library, 120 Veterans Parkway. 

New Lenox Join the 

local NLOB chapter as we 

make mats for the homeless 

from plastic grocery 

bags. This is a great opportunity 

for teens, grades 

7 -12, needing community 

service hours. No courtordered 

community service 

accepted. If you are bringing 

a group it is required 

you contact the Adult Services 

Department. 

AHA HeartSaver First Aid 

Participants will learn 

how to care for cuts, 

scrapes, bruises, burns, 

how to control bleeding, 

how to minimize the effects 

of shock, how to treat 

injuries to bones, muscles 

and joints: and caring for 

sudden illness including 

poison and heat and cold 

emergencies. This class is 

required for staff of day 

care homes and centers. 

Those who need CPR certification 

should also take 

HeartSaver CPR. American 

Heart Association certification 

is provided upon 

completion. Contact Neecie 

Jensen at djensen@ 

silvercross.org for more 

information. 

Village Board Meeting 

7 p.m. Monday, May 

13, Village Hall, 1 Veterans 

Parkway, New Lenox. 

The New Lenox Village 

Board meets the second 

and fourth Monday of 

each month. Meetings are 

open to the public and all 

citizens are invited to attend. 

For more information 

and meeting agendas, visit 

www.newlenox.net. 

Tuesday 

Trivia Night at Beggars 

Pizza 

7:15-9 p.m. Tuesday, 

May 14, Beggars Pizza, 

650 W Maple Street, New 

Lenox. Looking for something 

to do on a Tuesday 

night? Look no more. 

Join us for a brain-busting 

evening at Beggars Pizza. 

Enjoy pizza and drinks 

and answer questions on a 

multitude of topics. Form a 

powerhouse team or come 

alone, and we will find a 

group for you to join. You 

can register at https://newlenox.librarymarket.com/ 

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UPCOMING 

Friends of the Library 

Spring Gala 2019: 

Celebrating Sherlock 

Holmes 

7-11 p.m. Saturday, May 

18, New Lenox Public Library, 

120 Veterans Parkway, 

New Lenox. Join 

Us for Our 11th Annual 

Spring Gala 2019. Art & 

Silent Auctions, Raffles, 

Cash Bar, Gourmet Hors 

d’Oeuvres, Music, and Local 

Artisans. Tickets can be 

purchased in advance at the 

New Lenox Public Library 

or at the door. Ticket Prices: 

Adults: $30, seniors: 

$25, at the door: $40. Must 

be 21 or older to attend. All 

proceeds benefit the New 

Lenox Public Library. 

Teens Finals Study and 

Snacks 

2-8 p.m. Tuesday, May 

21, Wednesday, May 22, 

New Lenox Public Library, 

120 Veterans Parkway, 

New Lenox. Are you looking 

for a place to study for 

finals? Come into the Library 

and spread out in our 

Teen Scene. We will have 

drinks and snacks available 

to help you study through 

the night. 

First Time Home Buyer 

Seminar 

6-7 p.m. Thursday, 

May 23, New Lenox Public 

Library, 120 Veterans 

Parkway., New Lenox. 

This one hour informative 

seminar will provide an in 

depth explanation on the 

home buying process. Our 

team will provide insider 

tips and tricks to educate 

you and have you feeling 

empowered. Our team includes 

Real Estate Agent, 

Nancy Graham, Mortgage 

Lender, Audra Iori, Attorney, 

Theresa Berkey, and 

Insurance Agent, Maria 

Hohman. These ladies are 

experienced professionals 

ready to educate you from 

start to finish on the home 

buying process. For more 

information contact Nicole 

Degrave at (815) 464- 

6155 ext. 88533 or at NDE 

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Kids Lollipop Hunt 

11:30 a.m. Saturday, May 

25, Walker Country Estates 

Park Concession Stand, 

299 Lenox St, New Lenox. 

Join us for our Splash Pad 

opening weekend at Walker 

Country Estates Park! You 

and your little one(s) will 

hunt for special lollipops in 

hopes of winning a variety 

of prizes. The Kids Lollipop 

Hunt is at a new location 

this year, so come and 

stay afterwards (weather 

permitting; must be 74”) 

and play in the splash pad. 

The Lollipop Hunt is free, 

so no need to register for 

this event. Ages 3-6. 

Build a Rain Barrel 

6:30-7:30 p.m. Tuesday, 

June 4, Lions Community 

Center, Bicentennial 

Room, 1 Manor Drive, 

New Lenox. In this class, 

you will learn from experts 

at the Will County Conservation 

Foundation about 

the benefits of using rain 

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barrels and how to use them 

correctly. You will then assemble 

your own 55 gallon 

barrel to take home! All 

tools/supplies will be provided. 

Please have a way 

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Barrels fit in most vehicles 

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ONGOING 

Lincoln-Way Toastmasters 

7:30 p.m. Thursdays, 

Frankfort Village Hall, 432 

Nebraska Street, Frankfort. 

Meets the 1st and 3rd 

Thursday of each month. 

Toastmasters is a community 

based organization 

whose primarily goal is 

to help people overcome 

their fear of public speaking 

while also developing 

leadership skills. 

LWABWO Meetings 

6-8 p.m. on the third 

Tuesday of each month 

Sept. through June, Gatto’s 

Restaurant, Route 30 & 

Schoolhouse Road, New 

Lenox. The Lincoln-Way 

Area Business Women’s 

Organization is a non-profit 

club formed in 1971 to 

provide scholarship funds 

to graduating female high 

school seniors and adult 

women for the purpose of 

continuing education. We 

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New Lenox triplets put up 

big numbers on their ACT 

SEAN HASTINGS, Editor 

The McDermott sisters 

felt confident that they 

would score well on the 

ACT after all the practice 

tests they had done, but for 

all three to score near perfect 

was “insane.” 

Alayna, Corina and 

Madeline McDermott, triplet 

juniors at Lincoln-Way 

West, scored 36, 35, 35 on 

their ACT’s, respectively. 

The combined score of 106 

definitely puts them near 

the highest ever, as 108 is 

the maximum, but the ACT 

does not keep track of those 

statistics, Lincoln-Way 

spokeswoman Jennifer 

Hannon said. 

Alayna scored a 35 the 

first time she took the test 

and turned it into a 36 on 

the second try. 

“I was speechless for a 

while,” Alayna said. “But 

I knew once I saw that my 

scores were pretty good, I 

knew that my sisters would 

also have done pretty well 

because they’re pretty on 

par with me most of the 

time.” 

Corina, though, is her 

own worst critic, she said 

and while she knew her 

sisters were going to score 

well, she wondered if her 

scores would be up with 

her sisters. 

“When I got my score, 

I was thrilled and really 

proud of myself,” she said. 

“I put effort in too, I just 

don’t realize it as much. I 

was proud of them and it 

just shows that hard work 

pays off.” 

Madeline scored a 35 in 

all four sections the first 

time she took the test, with 

no preparation or studying, 

so she felt that with extra 

(From left to right) Corina, Alayna and Madeline 

McDermott hold their certificates for National Honor 

Society of Secondary Schools. Photo Submitted 

practice tests and studying, 

she could maintain or improve 

on her score. 

The key for her practice 

test taking was taking the 

tests with timing and learning 

to manage it throughout 

the test. 

“I didn’t really need to 

learn anything new, I just 

needed to see if I could 

apply it all in four hours 

because it does wear you 

down as you go,” Madeline 

said. 

The trio said they all 

learn differently and did not 

study together for the most 

part, but were supportive 

of each other through the 

study process. 

And while they are triplets, 

Madeline and Alayna 

being identical, they all 

have different strengths and 

passions. The passions they 

have for continuing their 

education and career paths 

they’d like to go down all 

stem from personal experiences. 

Alayna has always excelled 

in math; so much so 

that when she was in eighth 

grade, she took high school 

math and would shuttle 

back-and-forth between 

schools. Madeline was also 

taking the same class. 

She said it’s always just 

came naturally to her, but 

as of late, science has been 

a front runner for her, especially 

enjoying the STEM 

classes. 

“I’ve always been interested 

in math and engineering 

and I’ve always wanted 

to help people, almost [but 

not] medically,” Alayna 

said. “But I knew if I was 

ever a doctor, I couldn’t because 

I pass out at blood, so 

that was off the table, but 

that’s as close as I could 

get.” 

She said she has friends 

who have prosthetic limbs 

and was inspired by them 

to pursue a career where 

she could help people like 

in their situation. 

“Seeing what they can 

do and what they couldn’t 

do (inspired me),” Alayna 

said. “Like seeing them at a 

water park, they can’t take 

their prosthetic leg into 

a water park and they’ll 

have to crawl around on the 

gross water park ground. If 

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er or less of a problem.” 

Attending MIT is Alayna’s 

dream school. 

“Getting in and getting a 

scholarship will definitely 

be a bit dicier,” she said. 

“But I fell in love with the 

curriculum and the feel 

of the community and the 

campus.” 

And even more recently, 

Alayna found out she was 

two questions off from a 

perfect score on the SAT. 

For Madeline, her love 

for the sciences falls in 

chemistry and biology; 

environmental biology in 

particular. 

She wants to try to find 

ways to create more sustainable 

products and more 

sustainable ways to live in 

our planet, she said. 

Corina’s strongest subjects 

fall in the grammar 

and reading sections. 

“I find it really easy to 

interpret what writers are 

saying,” she said. “It’s the 

opposite of Alayna, but 

that’s OK because we’re all 

individuals in our special 

ways.” 

Corina’s passion and career 

path she hopes to go 

down will be one that leads 

her to being a psychiatrist. 

Her passion comes from 

knowing that there are people 

out there who deal with 

mental health issues and 

sometimes they are unable 

to get the help they need, 

such as help from a psychiatrist. 

She added that there are 

people close to her who 

have dealt with those experiences. 

“Because of what I’ve 

seen with [people close to 

me], I want to be able to 

help people and make mental 

health help more accessible 

for people.” 

And their mom, Holly, is 

excited for what doors this 

may open for her daughters. 

While she was in the 

same boat as her daughters 

thinking high scores were 

possible, it was not something 

she expected. 

“It opens a lot of opportunities 

with schools as far 

as getting in and making 

them affordable,” she said. 

“It’s really just the beginning.” 

Outside of “school 

work,” the triplets are involved 

in numerous activities 

and clubs, some together 

and some on their own. 

All three have been on 

West’s and dance team the 

last three years, Alayna and 

Madeline played soccer 

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“We keep ourselves pretty 

busy,” Madeline said. 

And with such an eyeopening 

achievement, it 

has drawn lots of local, 

even some from Ellen. The 

girls received a call from a 

producer for the show, but 

no appearances, have been 

scheduled but they could be 

on the radar. 

But of course there are 

the people who spit out 

comments like “they’re 

cheaters and “they don’t 

deserve those things,” but 

the McDermott family did 

not concern themselves 

with those comments on 

Facebook. 

The trio’s home life is 

fairly interesting as well. 

They are the oldest of six 

with the other three being 

adopted siblings. 

Wyatt (9), who came 

from foster care, and Beatrice 

(10) and Garry, who 

came home from Haiti two 

years ago. When Beatrice 

and Garry came home, they 

did not speak any English. 

Having the different cultures 

in their household has 

helped shape the triplets, 

Alayna said. 

“We’re seeing that 

some kids have different 

strengths and different 

talents and being able to 

connect with people with 

different backgrounds [is 

special],” she said. 

All of the girls’ dreams 

are just on the horizon as all 

they have left to complete 

is senior year at West. 

Paul McDermott, the 

girls’ father said he and his 

wife weren’t the type to always 

provide answers for 

their daughters. 

“We were the kind of 

parents that were there to 

support them and wanted 

them to discover answers 

on their own,” Paul said. 

“We gave them guidance, 

but we wanted them to be 

able to do some of that on 

their own as people.” 

Local teen raising money for camp 


Local teen Jacob Cope is 

one of the lucky ones. He 

got the chance lots of foster 

children may wait a while 

to get, or may never get. 

He was adopted. 

Which is why he holds 

the Royal Family Kids 

Camp so close to his heart, 

because that camp, even if 

it is just for one week, gives 

foster kids aged 7-11 a real 

reason to smile. 

The camp is entirely 

funded by donations and 

there have been years 

where there has not been 

enough funding to allow 

a number of kids into the 

camp, although there was 

space for them. 

So for the second year 

in a row, Cope is hosting 

a fundraising event Friday, 

May 10 from 7-10 p.m. at 

the Francis Field Building, 

801 East Francis Road, 

New Lenox to raise money 

to allow more kids to attend 

the camp. 

The event has a number 

of vendors, who have paid 

a $50 table fee, with raffle 

baskets are available. People 

can also make donations 

straight to the cause. 

A food truck, “Life’s a 

Slice” will be there as well. 

The Royal Family Kids 

Camp is a week-long camp 

(July 7-12) for foster children 

and the parents of the 

children do not have to pay 

anything out of pocket, 

Cope said. 

Cope attended the camp 

as a foster child for five 

years and has now been 

working as a counselor for 

three. 

“It’s really cool and nice 

to [be apart of the organization],” 

Cope said. “When 

these kids come, they’re 

really closed off and don’t 

really want to talk to anyone, 

but by the end of the 

week, they’re a completely 

Although last year’s camp raised a lot of money, Jacob 

Cope hopes to raise even more this year to send more 

foster children to the Royal Family Kids Camp. His goal 

is to send 55 children. Photo Submitted 

different kid that’s happy 

and joyful and glad to finally 

have a nice week to 

themself and actually be a 

kid for once.” 

One of the most exciting 

things that happens during 

the camp is a birthday celebration 

where everyone’s 

birthday is celebrated. 

“A lot of the kids in the 

foster care center system 

never even celebrated a 

birthday,” Cope’s, mother 

Laura Oresky said. “They 

get cupcakes and get treated 

like Kings and Queens, 

they get gifts, and they get 

treated as royalty throughout 

the whole week.” 

Oresky and Cope both 

said this camp is a chance 

to give the foster children 

some of their only photographs 

of their childhood. 

Each child goes home with 

a photo album and Cope 

still has his. 

The children learn how 

to swim, ride a bike, play 

baseball, archery; basically 

anything that people take 

for granted every single 

day of their life. 

This camp is also a 

chance for some brothers 

and sisters to be reunited 

if they live in different foster 

homes. Sometimes the 

camp can be the only time 

they see each other. 

And the children can return 

the following years as 

well. 

One child stands out in 

Cope’s mind from previous 

camps. 

“There was this kid when 

he was first able to when he 

was 7 years old and by the 

time he was aging out, it was 

crazy to see [him change],” 

Cope said. “He was really 

hyper, wasn’t really listening 

to anyone at the camp, 

but by the end of the couple 

years he came, he was a 

completely different kid. 

He respected people, was 

listening, still a little hyper, 

but better than what was. “ 

Cope added that a lot of 

the children are that way, 

but seeing the change is really 

nice. 

Which is why it is so 

important to him that they 

can raise enough money to 

get every child who wants 

to be in the camp, actually 

in it. 

His goal to have 55 

children attend this year’s 

camp and it costs $700 per 

kid to attend. Last year the 

camp had to turn away 16 

kids and Cope was really 

sad about that, Oresky said. 

This is Cope’s own fundraising 

effort for the camp. 

“I feel like every kid 

in the foster care system 

should get to experience 

something like this,” Cope 

said. “We’ve just been doing 

these fundraisers to 

make sure we meet that fundraising 

goal so we can send 

all the campers to camp.”



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Library card sign up project a success 


National library week 

was April 22-26, but due 

to some poor weather, employees 

of the New Lenox 

Public Library took to the 

streets the following week 

trying to get people to sign 

up for library cards. 

The employees went 

door-to-door throughout 

different neighborhoods in 

hopes to get people to sign 

up for library cards. 

The library staff members 

split up into six different 

shifts throughout the 

week where two are three 

members of the library 

went door to door. 

The village and the police 

department were both 

made aware that there were 

going to be small groups 

of people going around 

neighborhoods knocking 

on doors and that residents 

should not be alarmed. 

They visited 171 homes, 

had 14 people sign up for 

new cards, 45 already had 

cards, 12 were not interested 

and 107 had no answer. 

For the homes that had 

no answer, a hanger was 

left that described how 

they can sign up for a digital 

card online for 30 days 

and come in and replace it 

with a real card. 

Michelle Krooswyk, 

library director and planner 

for the library card 

event, said they have seen 

a decline in cards. And last 

year they went around doing 

a survey asking residents 

what they thought 

the library was doing right 

and what it was doing 

wrong. 

“People are so busy 

nowadays and we’re competing 

for attention,” she 

said. “This is one way to 

do that.” 

And the input they get 

from each type of person: 

card holder, non-card 

holder, but wanting one, 

and the non-card holders 

who don’t want them, is 

valuable information. 

“The nice thing is that if 

we do talk to people that 

are card holders, it’s nice 

to talk to them and ask how 

they are doing,” Krooswyk 

said. “There’s some people 

who say ‘I just don’t like 

the library, which is fine. 

But the non-users are the 

perfect people to talk to 

and get feedback.” 

She said it was good 

that they were able to add 

a personal touch into getting 

people to sign up for 

the library. 

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It made it easier for people 

to do so that wanted to, 

rather than possibly having 

them drag their feet in going 

into the library themselves. 

“The families who did 

sign said they were thinking 

about coming in to do 

it,” Krooswyk said. “It was 

a pleasant surprise that we 

could come to them rather 

than force them into the library.” 

Adults and children 

each made up half of the 

sign-ups from that week. 

Krooswyk did not use 

her library much growing 

up, but on a fluke applied 

for a job at the library and 

got “bit by the bug and the 

rest is history,” she said. 

“It melts my heart [to 

have people sign up],” she 

said. 

Krooswyk also mentioned 

how she hears people 

say that the internet is 

replacing libraries. But she 

is not buying into that. 

There is a tool on the library’s 

website that calculates 

and estimate of how 

much money residents can 

personally save just by using 

the library. 

If people are homebound, 

they are still able 

to access the resources online. 

She just wants the residents 

of New Lenox to use 

the library for the books 

and everything else that it 

has to offer. 

“A little card can do so 

much,” she said. 

Other news 

The New Lenox Public 

Library will be paid off 

in December, Krooswyk 

said. 

The library opened in 

December of 2001 and today 

houses over 130,000 

books, over 180 magazines, 

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Hundreds attend severe weather spotter training 


New Lenox has dodged 

more than one bullet in 

the past few years where 

highly severe weather has 

just missed the town. 

But severe weather 

can happen anywhere at 

any time and New Lenox 

Village Safe Community 

Coordinator, Dan Martin, 

built off what Mike 

Bardou of the National 

Weather Service Chicago 

said that “it’s not a question 

of if, but when.” 

Three hundred people 

showed up at Lincoln- 

Way West High School 

to receive severe weather 

spotter training. About 

600 were registered but 

were unable to make it, 

with one reason being... 

severe weather in the area 

with flooding. 

The event followed a 

Health and Safety expo 

also held at West, which 

included 50 organizations. 

“There’s always the 

regulars and that’s what’s 

nice about the National 

Weather Service; they 

tweak the presentations 

from year-to-year,” Martin 

said. “So if someone 

came last year, they’re 

seeing different videos 

and different slides and 

we appreciate that they do 

that.” 

Martin also expressed 

his gratitude to the people 

who came out. 

“It only helps them, 

their families and their 

neighbors,” he said. “The 

nice thing about it is 

that this is actually spotter 

training, so the more 

people we can put through 

this training is the more 

eyes that we have out in 

the community and more 

people spotting for us.” 

The presentation, which 

was led by Bardou, took 

residents slide-by-slide 

on how to recognize certain 

storm aspects such as 

updrafts and downdrafts, 

and different types of 

storm cells they may encounter. 

An updraft is an area 

where warm, moist air 

rises into the storm and is 

identified by a dark, rainfree 

cloud base under the 

cloud towers potentially 

with a wall cloud. The 

downdraft is identified by 

heavy rain/hail and have 

dark murky appearance in 

the distance with a shelf 

cloud. 

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spotter on the ground so 

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vital to the community? 

Radars cannot pick up 

what is happening on the 

ground as their detection 

angle goes upward into 

the sky, sometimes above 

different storm systems. 

And those spotter reports 

are also used to confirm 

what is seen on the 

radar. 

Residents were also 

taught how and what to 

report to the National 

Weather Service. The report 

should say who you 

are, where you are, where 

the weather occurred and 

what was observed, and 

reported through your local 

spotter network. 

As much as it is encouraged 

for severe weather 

spotters to report what 

they see, safety should always 

be the No. 1 priority, 

Bardou said. 

The attendees were 

taught the “right hand 

rule,” which means when 

spotting a supercell, try 

to position oneself with 

heavy rain and hail to 

one’s right and the updraft 

to the left. 

And when spotting a 

tornado, only spot where 

you have a good view of 

the sky and do not try to 

outrun a tornado. 

Martin added after the 

presentation that the outdoor 

siren systems should 

not be the sole thing a 

community relies on. 

While they are great assets, 

it cannot give the 

same information as a 

weather spotter. The sirens 

typically go off prior 

to anything happening. 

“Like Mike said, it’s 

all about monitoring the 

weather,” Martin said. 

“Paying attention to it 

three days in advance, 

two days in advance, one 

day in advance and then 

the day of. When it really 

rolls in, you’ve got your 

television on and [check 

social media].” 

New Lenox Community 

Television was at the 

event taping and it will be 

on channel 6 for anyone 

who missed the event, but 

would like to watch it. 

“It’s about educating 

yourself,” Martin said. 

“Take advantage of the 

opportunities like [severe 

weather spotter training]. 

If you missed this 

one, there are other spotter 

training classes that 

are running in the next 

few weeks. Look for the 

sources of information 

about severe weather and 

start taking the classes, 

the seminars and the 

workshops. There’s a lot 

of them out there that people 

can go to and learn on 

their own.” 

New Lenox is a stormready 

community, Martin 

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on a football field. Local 

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of the organization’s 

mission to help people with 

developmental disabilities 

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they may flourish and live 

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Marian Catholic High 

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New Lenox students 

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Andrew Felder and 

Nora Felder earned Honor 

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third quarter at Marian 

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Congratulations, grad 

Victoria Jane Horak 

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the degree of Bachelor 

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The University of Notre 

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She attended St. Judes 

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studying? 

When I study, I need music. It helps me 

a ton. 

What do you like to do when not in school 

or studying? 

Playing sports with my friends and eating 

any kind of food. 

What are some of your most played songs 

on your iPod? 

Some of the most played songs on my 

phone are, “God” by Kendrick Lamar, 

“Therapy” by Khalid and I can’t go anywhere 

without my girl Taylor Swift. 

What is one thing people don’t know 

about you? 

Most people don’t know that I am a good 

singer in the car 

Whom do you look up to and why? 

My parents. They are two of the most 

hard working people I know and they never 

back down from a challenge or a hard 

time. 

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abilities; the expansion of Trinity’s Medical 

Clinic, which provides basic medical 

care to people Trinity supports; the opening 

of the Technology Enhancing Capabilities 

(TEC) Lab, which provides assistive 

technology solutions to people with disabilities; 

and more. 

Through all of these advances, Trinity 

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each of the people it supports flourish. 

Trinity prides itself on employing staff 

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What do you keep under your bed? 

For the most part, there are a lot of socks, 

baseballs and books. 

Who is your favorite teacher and why? 

My favorite teacher is Ms. Baya. She is 

a great teacher and she connects with the 

students very well. She makes class fun. 

What stands out to you about your school? 

One of the main things that stands out is 

how all of the students get along with each 

other throughout all four grade levels. 

What extracurricular(s) do you wish your 

school had? 

I wish our school had a dodgeball team. 

It would be fun to play other schools. 

What’s your best memory from school? 

My best memory from school is the football 

Friday night lights. There is no better 

feeling than Friday night lights. 

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FROM THE ORLAND PARK 

PRAIRIE 

Celebrating 50: Orland 

Fire dedication paves way 

for open house in July 

Throughout the past 

50 years, the Orland Fire 

Protection District has 

grown from a volunteer 

fire department into a fulltime 

district with high accolades. 

And with its 50th anniversary 

upon it, Orland 

Fire is focusing on its beginnings. 

To begin its 50th anniversary 

festivities, Orland 

Fire hosted a dedication 

ceremony April 27, honoring 

past members. 

“Each vehicle has a 

plaque on the side, and 

our goal here is to remember 

our history,” Fire 

Chief Michael Schofield 

said prior to the event. 

Several past members 

were honored April 27. 

Among them was Art 

Granat Jr., who accepted 

the honor for himself and 

his late father, Art Granat 

Sr. OFPD dedicated its 

newest fire truck to the 

father and son. Granat Sr. 

was the first elected fire 

chief when it was a volunteer 

department. And 

Granat Jr. spent 38 years 

as a firefighter for Orland 

Fire. 

The department also 

dedicated a new ambulance 

to Donald Piscitello, 

who served Orland Fire 

from 1994-2011. He died 

in 2016. 

Finally, Orland Fire 

dedicated its new Legacy 

Lane, a wall within the administrative 

building that 

features images of all the 

retired OFPD firefighters. 

The wall was dedicated to 

the two retired firefighters 

who made it possible: 

Dan Schloegel and Dan 

Smith. 

Orland Fire is to continue 

to celebrate its anniversary 

with an open 

house on July 20. The 

open house is to be held 

from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. at 

the Orland Fire Protection 

District Training Academy, 

10728 W. 163rd Place 

in Orland Park. 

Reporting by Amanda Del 

Buono, Freelance Reporter. 

For more, visit OPPrairie. 

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FROM THE LOCKPORT LEGEND 

Tragedy begets comedy 

during Limestone Stage’s 

‘I Hate Shakespeare’ 

The histories, tragedies 

and comedies of William 

Shakespeare have caused 

countless theatergoers to 

contemplate the meaning 

of life and love. Limestone 

Stage added laughter 

to that list with its 

latest production, “I Hate 

Shakespeare.” 

The Steph DeFeriepenned 

play found the 

works of The Bard reimagined 

and mined for 

humor during a series of 

performances held April 

25-28 at the Lockport 

Township Building. A texting 

Juliet, zombie-hunted 

Richard III and more had 

fans in tears as a result of 

laughing, from start to finish. 

First-time Limestone 

Stage cast member Josh 

Funneman played Hamlet 

throughout the night both 

in the traditional sense and 

as Shakespeare’s greatest 

defender against the harsh 

criticism of an Unhappy 

Person played by Sabrina 

Mangan. He served as a 

narrator of sorts, introducing 

scenes while illustrating 

the many ways Shakespearean 

themes are still 

relevant today. 

Limestone Stage Artistic 

Director Kit Lindblom 

explained that each 

year the group presents a 

“spring classic.” Past performances 

have included 

“The Taming of the 

Shrew,” “The Importance 

of Being Earnest” and 

“The Seagull.” 

“This is a newer show, 

but because it deals with 

Shakespeare we are considering 

it under the classic 

theme,” Lindblom 

said. “It very much has 

a sense of irony because, 

while it’s titled ‘I Hate 

Shakespeare,’ it shows the 

audience that you can still 

like the guy. It pokes fun 

at him, but by the time the 

show is over I think people 

will think that Shakespeare 

isn’t too bad.” 

Reporting by Laurie Fanelli, 

Freelance Reporter. For 

more, visit LockportLegend. 

com. 

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giving for more than 20 

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Meyers — a 30-year-old 

English teacher these 

days — painted a pot, 

put a plant in it and gave 

it to her mother, Trish, 

as a Mother’s Day present. 

The plant is still going 

and bringing smiles to 

the family all these years 

later. 

The Meyers family is 

not 100 percent sure when 

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Police Reports 

Three unlocked cars on same street entered in one night 

A resident in the 700 

block of Central Road 

reportedly had their unlocked 

vehicle entered 

while it was parked in their 

driveway overnight. Nothing 

reportedly was stolen 

from the vehicle. A resident 

in the 300 block of 

Central Road also reportedly 

had their unlocked 

vehicle entered while it 

was parked in their driveway 

overnight. Nothing 

reportedly was stolen from 

the vehicle either. A resident 

in the 600 block of 

Central Road reportedly 

had their unlocked vehicle 

entered while it was 

parked in their driveway 

overnight as well. Nothing 

reportedly was stolen from 

the vehicle. 

April 28 

• A resident in the 900 

block of Grand Mesa Ave. 

reportedly had their identity 

stolen. The resident 

reportedly had someone 

gain access to their debit 

card information and made 

fraudulent withdrawals 

and purchases. 


block of Gifford Place 

reportedly had their unlocked 



driveway overnight. A 

wallet containing cash and 

credit cards was reportedly 

stolen. 

April 27 

•A resident in the 500 

block of Kingston Drive 

reportedly had their vehicle 

criminally damaged. 

Police said the officer met 

with the complainant who 

said someone deflated 

tires on two cars that were 

parked in the driveway. 

April 25 

• A deceptive practice was 

reported from a resident in 

the 1700 block of Heather 

Glen Drive. The resident 

reportedly received an 

email from someone who 

appeared to be their boss. 

The email instructed the 

complainant to purchase 

$300 in Walmart gift 

cards and provide the pin 

numbers for the cards. 

The resident reportedly 

followed the instructions 

they presumed to be from 

their boss. Police said the 

complainant spoke with 

their boss and learned that 

the boss had not sent the 

email. 

April 25 


block of Joela Drive reportedly 

had their unlocked 



driveway overnight. The 

offender reportedly used 

the garage door opener 

found in the vehicle and 

opened the complainants 

garage. Nothing appeared 

to be missing from the vehicle 

or the garage, police 

said. 

April 24 

• Courtney N. Ende, 22, 

3618 Wimbourne Ave. was 

charged with retail theft 

after reportedly stealing 

several items of clothing 

valued at $34 from TJ- 

MAXX, 485 East Lincoln 

Highway. 

• Andrew T. Stege, 35, 

19717 South Skidmore 

Court, Frankfort, was 

charged with DUI. An officer 

was reportedly running 

radar and observed a 

vehicle speeding. The officer 

reportedly conducted 

a traffic stop on the vehicle 

and met with the driver, 

Stege, and learned he was 

driving under the influence 

of alcohol. 

• A gym member reportedly 

had their vehicle entered 

while they were inside 

working out at LA Fitness, 

2431 East Lincoln Highway. 

Cash was reportedly 

taken from the vehicle, 

but there were no signs of 

forced entry to the vehicle, 

police said. 

April 22 

• A suspicious incident was 

reported in the 1500 block 

of Ginger Lane when a 

male subject reportedly 

came to the complainants 

door wearing a work hat 

and an orange vest. The 

subject reportedly claimed 

to be with NICOR and indicated 

that he needed to 

be let into the complainants’ 

backyard. Police 

said when the complainant 

asked for the ID, the 

subject could not provide 

one and eventually left in 

a white work van without 

getting into the backyard. 

EDITOR’S NOTE: The 

New Lenox Patriot’s Police 

Reports are compiled from 

official reports found online 

on the New Lenox Police 

Department’s website or 

releases issued by the 

department and other agencies. 

Anyone listed in these 

reports is considered to be 

innocent of all charges until 

proven guilty in a court of 

law. 

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grade year is their best 

bet. But Trish fondly recalls 

receiving it. 

“She came home and 

was all excited but had to 

CONTACT 

wait to give me it,” Trish 

said. “She was wondering 

what my reaction would 

be. I was over the moon, 

of course, and she broke 

out in the biggest, proudest 

smile.” 

In the years since, the 

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plant — still in its original 

pot, with a young 

Amanda’s handwriting 

etched on its side — has 

been a continuous presence 

on their kitchen sink 

windowsill, a reminder 

of their bond and what 

they’ve meant to each 

other. 

“My mom is the strongest 

woman I know,” 

Amanda said. “My mom 

puts family before anything 

else. Growing up, 

she never missed anything 

— and I mean anything.” 

Reporting by Will O’Brien, 

Freelance Reporter. For 

more, visit TinleyJunction. 

com. 

FROM THE HOMER HORIZON 

Homer man charged with 

DUI, reckless homicide, 

leaving scene in fatal I-55 

crash 

A Homer Glen man was 

charged April 30 for his 

involvement in a two-car 

crash with one fatality 

April 28 on Interstate 55 

at the Damen Avenue exit 

in Chicago, according to 

Illinois State Police. 

Rami Matariyeh, 22, 

was charged by the Cook 

County State’s Attorney’s 

Office with leaving the 

scene of a crash-death, 

leaving the scene of a 

crash-great bodily harm, 

aggravated DUI-death, 

aggravated DUI-great 

bodily harm and reckless 

homicide. 

At 3:19 a.m. April 28, 

Matariyeh was driving a 

2015 Infiniti sedan southbound 

on I-55 at Damen 

when his vehicle struck 

the rear end of a 2011 

Hyundai sedan, ISP said. 

The Hyundai was an onduty 

Uber that held a 

driver and three passengers, 

including Jamie A. 

Poulos, 23, of Berwyn, 

who was in the backseat 

and unable to be extricated 

from the car before it 

became fully engulfed in 

flames after being hit. 

Poulos died from the 

extent of her injuries, police 

said. 

All three of the remaining 

occupants of the Uber 

reportedly were removed 

from the vehicle, with 

two transported to an area 

hospital in stable condition. 

Also in Matariyeh’s car 

was a 24-year-old Bolingbrook 

woman, police said. 

She reportedly was transported 

to an area hospital 

in serious condition. 

Matariyeh left the crash 

site but was later apprehended 

at his home, police 

said. He was transported 

to an area hospital for injuries 

from the crash. 

Reporting by Thomas 

Czaja, Editor. For more, visit 

HomerHorizon.com.

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from the editor 

Be happy with what you can do; 

don’t worry about what you can’t 

Sean Hastings 

sean@newlenoxpatriot.com 

By now, I’m sure 

you’ve heard 

about the Lincoln- 

Way West triplets who 

dominated the ACT. One 

day they were three high 

school students who did 

well on the ACT and 

the next they’re doing 

interviews, getting calls 

from Ellen and Facebook 

sensations. 

The only problem that 

came out of that was people 

calling them cheaters, 

using their twin telepathy 

and don’t deserve the 

praise. Of course they do. 

Two 35s and a perfect 36 

deserve recognition. 

But that’s how the 

world works. Some 

people, when they can’t 

do something, like to 

bring down the people 

who can. What’s the use 

in doing that? 

The problem is comparing 

yourself to others. I 

used to do it. Growing up 

and still now, my brother 

has always naturally been 

smarter than me. Not that 

I was a bad student. My 

brother was always just 

a step above me gradewise. 

And as we went 

through high school 

together, I just wished 

things clicked for me as 

easily as they did for him. 

But thinking like that gets 

you nowhere. 

I went to college with 

minimal scholarships, and 

even when I was in school 

and having my own success 

writing for my school 

paper, I always thought 

what if I was as smart 

as my brother, maybe I 

would be saving money. 

It took me time to 

finally figure it out, and it 

was one of the best things 

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I have done. And the 

triplets also touched on 

this, as well. They used to 

compete with each other, 

but now they realize they 

are their own individuals 

and take pride in their 

strengths and work on 

their weaknesses. 

Our goals should not 

be to constantly compete 

with others and compare, 

because that is not 

healthy. Take pride in your 

strengths and respect other 

people’s, as well, rather 

than trying to measure 

yours to others. Compete 

with yourself and get 

better. 

My brother is in engineering 

with all kinds 

of math and physics I 

couldn’t even begin to 

explain, and so I always 

looked at him as being 

supreme and “smart.” But 

when he told me how he 

respected what I did with 

writing, photography and 

other journalistic work, 

I finally realized we all 

need to be proud to be 

good at what we are. 

There’s always going to 

be someone who is way 

better at certain things 

than you. Whether that 

is with other professions 

or even inside your own, 

there’s always room to 

grow. 

To tie this back to the 

triplets and their high 

ACT scores, why can’t we 

let others enjoy their successes 

and we enjoy our 

own, as well. 

The negative comments 

are not going to change 

their ACT scores or the 

fact that they are happy 

for scoring so well. 

I know I can’t put up 

ACT numbers like that, 

and I’m totally fine with 

it. I’m happy being a 

writer and editor. 

Try to be the best at 

what you do; don’t worry 

about what others can or 

can’t do. 

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In Memoriam 

Sheryl Sievert 

Sheryl J. “Sheri” Sievert 

(nee Bachmann), 48, 

New Lenox, died Sunday, 

April 28, surrounded by 

her family, after a fierce 

four-month battle with 

pancreatic cancer. She attended 

New Lenox grade 

schools, was a 1989 graduate 

of Lincoln-Way Central 

High School, and a 1990 

graduate of Professional’s 

Choice Hair Design Academy. 

She was employed for 

many years by the Barber’s 

Chair of Morris and New 

Lenox. Sheri is survived 

by her husband, Frank 

Sievert, her daughter, 

Lexie Sievert, her parents, 

Duncan and Allene Bachmann, 

her sister Kimberly 

(Matthew) Bachmann- 

LeBeau. Also surviving is 

her mother-in-law, Tonya 

(Ray) Olson, her father-inlaw, 

Dan (Connie) Sievert, 

her sister-in-law, Tracey 

(Ritchie) Walls, her niece 

Makenzie (Nathan) Taylor, 

and her grandmotherin-law, 

Bev Sievert. Numerous 

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her maternal grandparents, 

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and her paternal grandparents, 

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Blevins. Per Sheri’s wishes 

no funeral services will be 

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been accorded and interment 

will be private. A celebration 

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Mary Ellen Welker, 91, 

New Lenox, died Friday, 

April 19. Mary was formerly 

employed for Old Country 

Buffet and retired from 

McDonald’s in New Lenox. 

Surviving are two children, 

Michele (Rick) Tomlinson 

of New Lenox and Steven 

Knize; three grandchildren, 

MaryJo (Michael) Elkins, 

Shannon (Rob) Tomlinson, 

and Domineec (Collin) 

Tomlinson; five greatgrandchildren, 

Dominnic 

Brandt, Diamond and Danay 

Buchanan, Thomas 

and Trenton Schoenbeck; 

two sisters, Betty and Lily; 

many nieces, nephews, and 

cousins; and her fur babies: 

her deer, Patty; her pony; 

Candy; and her beloved 

dogs, Baby, Marshall, Ryder, 

Duke, Ave, and Tucker. 

Preceding her in death were 

her parents the James and 

Mary (nee Poreca) Welker; 

former husband, Vernon 

“Snuffy”; and six siblings, 

Harold, Jerome, Alice, 

Bobby, Leonard, and Jimmy. 

Cremation rites have 

been accorded. 

Mary Ellen Scarpaci 

Mary Ellen Scarpaci 

(nee Stewart), 82, of New 

Lenox, died Wednesday, 

May 1. Wife for 63 years to 

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great-grandmother of 

Addyson, William, Matthew, 

Angelina, Tristan, 

Rosie and Madelyn; sister 

of Carol Stewart, Lois (late 

Leo) Kohs, the late William 

Stewart and the late Wayne 

Stewart; aunt of many nieces 

and nephews. Visitation, 

a memorial service and 

funeral service were held 

at Colonial Chapel. Interment 

Abraham Lincoln National 

Cemetery. 

Memorials to Alzheimer’s 

Association, Greater 

Illinois Chapter, 8430 W. 

Bryn Mawr, Suite 800, 

Chicago, IL, 60631, or 

The American Society for 

the Prevention of Cruelty 

to Animals, Special Giving 

- Attn: Linda Tiramani, 

520 8th Ave., 7th Floor, 

New York, NY, 10018, preferred. 

Have someone’s life you’d 

like to honor? Email Editor 

Sean Hastings at sean@ 

newlenoxpatriot.com with 

information about a loved 

one who was a part of the 

New Lenox community. 

for $15 per person. To 

register visit events.rightnowmedia.org/attendee/ 

site/1312 

Revolution Church (24520 South U.S. 

Highway 52, Manhattan) 

More Faith Less Fret Study 

6:30 p.m. Mondays. 

Held at the house of a 

parishioner. Contact the 

church for more information 

at (815) 418-6555. 

United Methodist Church of New Lenox 

(339 W. Haven Ave, New Lenox) 

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Toddler able to spend first holiday with family after transplant 

JESSIE MOLLOY 

Freelance Reporter 

While family holiday celebrations 

are usually happy 

occasions, one New Lenox 

family had extra reason to 

celebrate this Easter. For 

Kristen and Kevin Moran, 

Easter Sunday was the first 

time they were able to celebrate 

a holiday with their 

whole family since the birth 

of their son Eamonn in October 

2017. 

Eamonn was born with 

Hypoplastic Left Heart 

Syndrome (HLHS), a rare 

defect in which the left 

side of the heart does not 

develop fully in the womb 

and cannot function correctly. 

In addition to HLHS 

he was also born with an 

intact atrial septum. While 

most babies are born with a 

small hole in their hearts in 

the wall separating the left 

and right chambers, which 

closes in the first months 

of life, Eamonn was born 

without that opening, making 

his initial defect harder 

to correct. 

Although there was no diagnosis 

of a problem before 

he was born, within minutes 

of his birth and Silver Cross 

hospital Eamonn’s doctors 

determined something was 

wrong and he needed to 

be rushed by ambulance to 

Lurie Children’s Hospital 

in Chicago. Kevin and his 

father John accompanied 

Eamonn to the hospital 

where he underwent his first 

of five surgeries. 

“A heart transplant is 

always on the table with 

HLHS, but doctors don’t 

want to list kids for transplants 

unless they really 

need them,” Kristen noted. 

“The first thing they try to 

do is use a series of three 

surgeries to kind of rework 

the plumbing in their hearts 

so the right side can function 

on its own.” 

Eamonn spent 12 of his 

first 14 months of life in 

the hospital. After two surgeries 

and in three months, 

Kristen and Kevin brought 

him home in January 2018 

where he stayed for about a 

month. 

“We brought him in for 

a routine procedure in February 

to determine if he 

was a good candidate for 

the second in the three surgery 

series and it was they 

weren’t sure right away,” 

said Kristen. “He stayed in 

the hospital for nine days, 

but when we brought him 

home we discovered he was 

having labored breathing so 

we had to bring him right 

back. I called it our three 

hour tour.” 

Eamonn spent several 

weeks on and off a respirator 

and undergoing tests. 

By April his doctors determined 

that he could not 

undergo the second surgery 

and recommended him for a 

heart transplant. 

Two months later 

Eamonn received his heart. 

“We got the call on June 

23, his eight-month birthday, 

that there was a heart 

available,” Kristen recalls. 

“It really came in the nick 

of time, since he was getting 

less and less oxygen 

and two weeks before we 

got the call they had told us 

there was good chance he 

wouldn’t live long enough 

to get a donor. 

“I think all the time that 

this bright moment in our 

lives came at a very dark 

moment for another family, 

and we’re very thankful for 

that family’s decision to donate 

their child’s organs so 

that Eamonn could have a 

new lot in life,” she added. 

Even after his transplant 

Eamonn still had a long 

road to recovery. Due to the 

damage his lungs sustained 

the day he was born, he 

needed to stay in the hospital 

on oxygen, and he needed 

two follow-up surgeries 

in August and October. 

The first was to correct 

a connection to the donor 

heart which had started to 

close up, and the second was 

to rewire his sternum, which 

had failed to heal properly 

when two of the three wires 

holding it together broke. 

Eamonn went home on 

December 23. 

“Twenty-three must be 

his lucky number,” said 

Kevin’s aunt, Marlene Nelson. 

“He was born on the 

23rd of October, they found 

out he was getting a heart 

on the 23rd of June, and he 

came home on December 

23rd.” 

The family was able to 

spend Easter together for 

the first time. 

“It was nice to get to celebrate 

with everyone,” said 

Kristen. “They have a fairly 

strict visitation policy at Lurie 

for kids. Only siblings 

are allowed to come up, so 

this was the first time he got 

to meet one of his cousins, 

and the first time the other 

two got to spend any quality 

time with him. I think he enjoyed 

that. He hasn’t had a 

lot of exposure to other kids 

or teenagers.” 

Eamonn is still recovering 

from everything he’s 

been through, but according 

to his mom, “he’s finally on 

a path where everything is 

healing.” 

Another support system 

Kevin and Kristen hope 

Eamonn will be off soon is 

his g-tube, a feeding tube 

that goes directly into the 

stomach. 

While he was in the hospital 

Eamonn had needed to 

be on a feeding tube down 

Eamonn Moran was able to celebrate a major holiday 

at home this past Easter after spending all others in 

the hospital. It was the first time his family, and aunts 

and uncles were all together since he was born. Photo 

Submitted 

his nose and throat, however, 

as he got bigger and more 

active, the Morans feared he 

would knock it out. 

Kristen has never stopped 

thinking of the future for her 

son, and how she could explain 

to him everything he’s 

been through when he gets 

older. 

After giving birth, Kristen, 

former art teacher and 

current English teacher at 

Thornton Township High 

School, took the rest of the 

school year off, using up all 

her sick and vacation time 

to stay with Eamonn in the 

hospital. 

“One of them had to keep 

working, so Kevin continued 

going to his job as a 

Will County Corrections 

Officer and she stayed by 

Eamonn’s side the whole 

time,” Nelson noted. 

Although Kristen has resumed 

work part-time this 

year, thanks to a provision 

which allows employees 

to switch to part-time for 

a year in case of a family 

emergency, while she was 

at the hospital and staying at 

Ronald McDonald House, 

Kristen says she spent a lot 

of time reading and trying 

to find books for children 

with heart defects and their 

parents. 

“There are some good 

books, but not a lot of what 

I was looking for,” she explained. 

“Some of the books 

could explain things well 

medically, but I wanted 

something a little more fictionalized 

that could be read 

to a toddler to explain why 

they have a scar on their 

chest or need to take so 

much medicine.” 

In her time at the hospital 

Kristen proceeded to write 

and illustrate her own children’s 

book, drawing on the 

knowledge she’d gained 

through Eamonn’s experience 

and her family’s Irish 

roots. 

“Obviously we’re very 

Irish, if you look at our family’s 

names,” Kristen said. 

“So I decided to draw on 

that create kind of Celtic 

warrior story.” 

In her book a young warrior 

named Eamonn needs 

to defeat a Cold Hearted 

Dragon, or CHD (the common 

abbreviation for Congenital 

Heart Defects). 

Eamonn fights the dragon 

with his entire village, and 

they are victorious but before 

being vanquished the 

dragon slashes them and 

leaves Eamonn with a long 

scar down his chest. 

“It’s obviously not completely 

historically or medically 

accurate,” Kristen 

laughed, “But it explains 

that chest scar in an empowering 

way. A lot of books 

had the medical side covered 

but I wanted to tell a 

heroic tale about overcoming 

this illness so kids could 

feel empowered by what 

they’ve gone through.” 

Kristen also noted that 

she wanted to emphasize in 

the book “that it takes a village” 

to overcome this challenge. 

“He wouldn’t be here 

today without the support of 

his doctors, and the amazing 

nurses at Lurie, and our 

family, and all the other 

kids struggling with heart 

defects too,” she said. “You 

truly can’t do it without the 

rest of this tribe.” 

Kristen self published the 

book, “Eamonn the Mighty, 

Zipper Club Warrior,” on 

Amazon, and, thanks to the 

help of a Physician’s Assistant 

at Lurie, is now also 

available in the hospital’s 

gift shop. 

“Obviously, she was 

working with Eamonn and 

other kids with HLHS, but 

she also lost a brother to 

heart defect as an adult, so 

she really cares about raising 

awareness of this issue, 

and wanted to help with 

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Memorial bench, garden created for ‘New Lenox Angels’ in Commons 


A new memorial bench 

and garden now has its 

place in the New Lenox 

Commons forever to remember 

students and 

faculty who died while 

in school or shortly after 

graduation. 

It is located on the opposite 

side of the Commons 

as the library. It was 

finished last fall. 

The memorial and past 

balloon events were headed 

by Kim Phillips with 

the help of Stacy Gilbert, 

who are former Lincoln- 

Way Central students. 

Phillips was in the class 

of 2009. 

The new garden memorial 

includes a bench with 

a plaque that says “New 

Lenox Schools’ Angels; 

June 24, 2012.” And in 

the garden is a statue of an 

angel sleeping on a pile of 

books, a concrete plaque 

with lyrics to “Train’s,” 

“When I Look to the Sky,” 

and a concrete heart that 

says, “If I listen closely, 

I can hear the rustle of 

Angel wings and I know 

you’re still here with us.” 

As summer weather 

continues to roll in, it will 

be surrounded by vibrant 

flowers. There is also a 

pear tree planted, which 

was chosen because it 

blooms white and when 

Phillips thinks of white, 

she thinks of angels, she 

said. 

The first balloon memorial 

was June, 2012 where 

colored balloons representing 

each school’s colors 

were released into the 

sky. Mayor Baldermann 

has been a huge help in 

setting up the memorial 

and with the balloon memorial 

as well, Phillips 

said. 

“When I Look to the 

Sky” was sung by Central 

grads Danny Fox and 

Makena Hartlin at the 

event as members of the 

community let go of their 

school-color-related balloons 

into the sky, which 

had messages written on 

them. 

Phillips also deals with 

her own health issues, and 

even almost lost her own 

life. Which is why the memorial 

means so much to 

her because she is able to 

honor those who were not 

as lucky. 

She was a member of 

student council and knew 

a lot of the people who 

lost their lives during 

school or shortly after. 

“I just thought that I’m 

so grateful for my life that 

I just want to celebrate 

everyone’s life,” Phillips 

said. “When I talked to 

Baldermann about it, he 

said let’s include all the 

schools in New Lenox so 

no one feels left out.” 

The balloon memorial 

happened again two years 

later and they sold t-shirts 

to raise money for the 

bench and garden that are 

now in the Commons. 

It took a few extra years 

to complete because of 

Phillips’ personal medical 

issues, but it turned out 

exactly how she wanted it. 

“It came out great and I 

couldn’t ask for anything 

better,” she said. 

Phillips also thanked 

Gina Blaha from Cornerstone 

Jewelry, who 

donated the plaques on 

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the bench and in the garden. 

Phillips also thanked 

Matt Prynn, facilities 

and grounds supervisor, 

who planted the flowers. 

The shirts were designed 

by EmbroidMe of New 

Lenox. 

“It’s everybody pitching 

in,” Baldermann said. 

“It’s what’s so great about 

this community to make 

it such a great place (to 

live). Thousands of people 

throughout the year 

will come by here and see 

what (Phillips) created 

and ask questions and 

want to know more about 

it. This will go on and on 

and on.” 

“People will come and 

sit on this bench and look 

at the memorial. I can assure 

you, thousands of 

eyes will see this and 

we’re all so proud of 

(Phillips) for sticking with 

it and remembering the 

people we lost.” 

Faith 

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Chapel Bible Study 

7 p.m. every Monday. 

St. Jude Catholic Church (241 W. Second 

Ave., New Lenox) 

Stations of the Cross 

2:30 and 7:00 p.m. and 

April 5, 12. 

Lincoln-Way Christian Church (690 E. 

Illinois Highway, New Lenox) 

Worship Services 

9 and 10:30 a.m. Sundays. 

Central Presbyterian Church (1101 S. 

Gougar Road, New Lenox) 

Church Service 

10:30 Sundays. For 

more information, call the 

church at (815) 485-5152. 

Bible Study 

7 p.m. Tuesdays 

Trinity Lutheran Church (508 N. Cedar 

Road, New Lenox) 

Teen Catechesis 

6 p.m. Wednesdays 

Christ Mission Church (22811 S. Cedar 


Celebrate Recovery 

7-9 p.m. every Tuesday. 

For anyone struggling 

with hurts, habits, or 

hang-ups. For more information, 

call Deb at (708) 

516-6318. 

St. John Orthodox Chapel (112 Church 

Street, New Lenox) 

Sunday Services 

10 a.m. Sundays. After 

the service is Introduction 

to Orthodoxy. Refreshments 

served, Seekers are 

welcome. 

New Life Church (500 Gougar Road, New 

Lenox) 


10 a.m. Sundays. For 

more information, call 

(815) 462-0202. 

The Hub (1303 S. Schoolhouse Road, 

New Lenox) 

The Landing 

6:30-8:30 p.m. every 

Wednesday. This is a 

group to help teens break 

free from hurts, hang-ups 

and addictions. There 

is no charge. For more 

information, search for 

Freedom Haus on Facebook. 

Cherry Hill Church of Christ (2749 

Lancaster Drive, Joliet) 

Bible Study 

9:30 a.m. Sundays. 

Grace Episcopal Church (209 N. Pine St., 

New Lenox) 

Saturday Service 

5 p.m. the first, third 

and fifth Saturday of each 

month. 

Cornerstone Church (1501 S. Gougar 


Men’s Bible Study 

6-7:30 a.m. every Friday. 


call (815) 462-7700. 

Parkview Christian Church (2121 S. 

Schoolhouse Road, New Lenox) 


4 p.m. Saturdays; 8:30 

a.m., 10 a.m. and 11:30 

a.m. Sundays. 

Peace Lutheran Church (1900 E. Lincoln 

Highway, New Lenox) 

Church Services 

5 p.m. Saturdays; 

8:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. 

Sundays. 

The Journey Church (14414 W. Ford 

Drive, New Lenox) 

Worship Service 

10 a.m. Sundays. 

Reverberate Youth Group 

1-3 p.m. Every first 

Sunday of the month. 

The group meets to discuss 

a message geared 

toward junior and senior 

high school students. 


email youth@our 

journey.cc. 

Have something for Faith 

Briefs? Contact Editor 

Sean Hastings at sean@ 

newlenoxpatriot.com or call 

(708) 326-9170 ext. 48. Information 

is due by noon on 

Thursdays one week prior 

to publication.

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Patriotism, veterans and community celebrated at 41st annual Loyalty Day Parade 

LAURIE FANELLI 


The streets were lined 

with red, white and blue 

as the New Lenox Community 

came together 

for the 41 st Annual William 

A. Athans 18 th District 

VFW Posts’ Loyalty 

Day Parade. The patriotic 

May 5 festivities began at 

the Lions Den where the 

parade kicked-off. The 

procession then traveled 

north on Cedar Road to 

Haven Avenue to Veterans 

Parkway where over 

50 floats, marching bands, 

community groups and 

organizations – as well as 

spectators - converged at 

the Veterans’ Memorial in 

The Commons. VFW Post 

9545 served as the local 

sponsors bonding with the 

community in a to show of 

support for the men and 

women of the armed services. 

Robert Adame, 18 th 

District VFW Posts Commander 

said that he enjoys 

seeing the community 

come together each year at 

the parade. 

“It’s very supportive 

here in New Lenox for 

veterans organizations and 

the veterans here reach 

out to families in need,” 

said Adame. “The youth 

here today gets to know 

about us and if you talk 

to some of these veterans 

– especially the older veterans 

– there’s a lot they 

can tell you. These kids 

can learn about the liberty 

that men gave up for free 

speech and everything in 

the constitution. Patriotism 

is very important for 

our country. I’m happy to 

be here.” 

Adame added that it’s 

the family of the parade’s 

namesake William A. 

Athans that deserves much 

of the credit for the event’s 

continued success. 

Bridget Stratton, 

Athans’ granddaughter, 

helped to organize the 

Loyalty Day Parade with 

her mother, co-chair Sharon 

Athans Stratton, and 

other volunteers. She explained 

that her grandfather 

dedicated his life to 

service as a member of 

the military, veteran and 

volunteer with Meals on 

Wheels. 

“It’s really great to see 

how the community continues 

to embrace the parade 

and the spirit of what 

it represents,” said Bridget 

Stratton. “And there are 

some people in this parade 

– World War II veterans 

and some of the women 

in the Auxiliary – who 

have been in it since the 

beginning. It’s special to 

see that everyone is continuing 

to embrace what 

is best about America, enjoying 

the community.” 

Combat Veterans Motorcycle 

Club, Disabled 

American Veterans, USS 

Chicago Base Submarine 

Veterans and 18 th District 

VFW Posts were among 

the military groups participating 

in the parade. 

New Life Church Cadet 

Corp 2717 handed out 

American flags to spectators 

and several organizations 

– including the Boy 

Scouts, Girl Scouts, New 

Lenox Community Park 

District, New Lenox Girls 

Softball Association and 

more – passed out candy 

and other goodies. 

Marching bands from 

Liberty Junior High, Martino 

Junior High and the 

combined group from 

Lincoln- Way provided 

the event’s patriotic 

soundtrack. Ranch Frostie, 

MVP Chiropractic and 

Old Plank Trail Community 

Bank were among the 

many local businesses on 

hand for the fun. 

Members of Harry E. Anderson VFW Post 9545 leading the Loyalty day Parade along the route. Photos by Laurie 

Fanelli/22ndcenturymedia 

Naperville resident Jeff 

Jankowski, along with his 

wife Melissa and 12-yearold 

son Ethan, has been 

attending the parade with 

his in-laws – New Lenox 

residents Joyce and Dave 

Davis – for over a decade. 

“It’s a right of passage 

to spring and summer. 

The Loyalty Day 

Parade means it’s May. 

It’s summer. The weather’s 

getting nice so let’s 

get outside and celebrate 

community,” said Jeff 

Jankowski recalling family 

memories. “When my 

son was young he got a 

big delight out of getting 

the candy thrown at him 

and collecting the candy.” 

Ethan Jankowski added 

with smile, “I still like the 

candy.” 

After walking in the parade, 

Members of Harry E. 

Anderson VFW Post 9545 

Nicholas Lask (right) of New Life Church Cadet Corp 2717 giving a flag to New Lenox 

resident Brennan McGarry. 

invited folks to stop by 

their post for hot dogs and 

refreshments. VFW Post 

9545 Commander Paul 

Barclay noted that veterans 

and the New Lenox 

community go hand-inhand. 

“We love our community 

and they love us. We’ve 

always supported them 

and they’ve always supported 

us,” said Barclay. 

“New Lenox is a wonderful 

place – I’ve lived here 

since 1986 – and the Loyalty 

Day Parade couldn’t 

be in a better town.”

26 | May 9, 2019 | the new lenox patriot life & arts 


Poetry Corner 

PERIOD OF 

ADJUSTMENT 

Julie Sanders 

New Lenox resident 

Once I fell off the 

wagon of life 

A detour into oblivion 

Following a multitude 

of loss 

My vision clouded by 

drugs and alcohol.... 

numbing 

Like crossing a speed 

bump 

going a 100 mph 

Hitting bottom with 

impact 

God opened my eyes, 

His Light 

I begged for mercy 

I lay at His feet, recognizing 

the cross 

And cried out, “Be merciful 

to me a sinner” 

“Apply that atoning 

sacrifice to me” 

Surviving the bumps 

A rocky road to salvation 

I’m HERE!!! Set free 

Riding the smooth road 

of peace of Christ in 

Him. 

Moran 

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what I was doing,” Kristen 

said. 

“We’re very lucky for the 

whole team at Lurie,” she 

said. “They’re hands down 

phenomenal, and we’re fortunate 

to have a hospital like 

that right in our backyard.” 

Eamonn still has a long 

way to go. He will be on 

anti-rejection medication 

his whole life and could 

still need further surgeries 

or even a second transplant 

once he reaches adulthood, 

but today his parents are 

relishing every moment and 

small milestone. 

Local children tour vehicles at Park District’s Touch-a-Truck event 

LAURIE FANELLI 


Bright red firetrucks, 

police cars and larger than 

life construction equipment 

– complete with loud 

horns –were among the 

vehicles capturing the attention 

and imagination of 

children during the New 


District’s Touch-a-Truck 

event. 

Held on Saturday, May 

4 at Walker Country Estates 

Park, the two-hour 

long showcase also found 

families meeting hometown 

heroes as several first 

responders were on hand to 

give vehicle tours and answer 

questions about their 

jobs. 

“People enjoy that they 

can see trucks up-close and 

in-person that they haven’t 

seen before,” explained 

Recreation Supervisor Tracy 

Wrase. “Most families 

don’t have a cement truck 

coming every day and 

some kids don’t ride the 

school bus so it’s neat that 

kids can get an up-close 

look at the big trucks that 

they see on the road.” 

A ready mix truck from 

Ozinga, giant equipment 

from Quality Crane, a Pace 

bus, and several park district 

vehicles were among 

those on display as were 

a New Lenox Fire Protection 

District engine, New 

Lenox Police car, Will 

County Emergency Services 

truck and more. 

New this year, the New 


District partnered with the 

New Lenox Safe Communities 

America Coalition to 

provide parents with driving 

tips, motorcycle awareness 

advice and car seat 

safety checks. 

“We figured why not 

have car seat safety 

checks,” said Wrase. “It’s 

something everybody 

needs checked that maybe 

they don’t think about doing. 

There’s high statistics 

that car seats are installed 

wrong so we thought – 

since we have a good population 

that comes to this 

event – let’s offer something 

different for families.” 

NLFPD’s Fire and Life 

Safety Educator Marisa 

Schrieber was one of the 

experts on hand checking 

visitors’ car seats. 

“Over 95 percent of car 

seats are installed incorrectly 

so we are here looking 

at different car seats,” 

said Schrieber. “The 

Touch-a-Truck is a perfect 

opportunity to be in front 

of parents who have children 

of the ages of car seat 

users. We’re making sure 

that they’re installed correctly 

and if anyone has 

any questions we’re here 

to help them make sure 

their kids are as safe as 

possible,” 

She noted that car seat 

checks can also be done at 

the fire station and police 

department all year round.” 

Dan Martin, safe community 

coordinator for the 

Village of New Lenox, was 

enthusiastic about having 

an opportunity to connect 

with families about tips 

for safer driving and road 

awareness. 

“The Park District puts 

on this event every year 

and they were kind enough 

to collaborate with us and 

get some of our organizations 

out here including the 

motorcycle rights organization 

ABATE [A Brotherhood 

Aimed Toward Education] 

and the Secretary 

of State. Touch-a-Truck 

is a great event and we 

wanted to add elements of 

safety,” said Martin. “Now 

that the weather is getting 

warmer, there is going to 

be more motorcycles on 

the road and we’re really 

trying to increase awareness 

about that.” 

Warmer weather also 

means trips to local parks, 

forest preserves, malls and 

more. New Lenox Police 

Department’s Community 

Policing and School Resource 

Officer, Paul Simon 

encouraged drivers to keep 

their vehicles locked even 

on local trips. 

“The number one thing 

from my department is for 

people to please lock their 

vehicles,” said Simon. 

“It is a safe community – 

we’re very proud of that 

fact – however that reputation 

brings a certain degree 

of public awareness. Even 

as people feel comfortable 

in their surroundings, we 

simply ask that they always 

lock their cars.” 

While parents received 

a variety of helpful information, 

kids enjoyed the 

simple pleasure that comes 

from – well-supervised – 

climbing on giant trucks. 

Eight-year-old New 

Lenox resident Rowen 

Hunley-Lorkovich – who 

was attending with his 

mother Pat Hunley – said 

that he would definitely 

recommend the event to 

his friends. 

“I don’t think any of 

them have seen trucks like 

this before,” said Hunley- 

Lorkovich. “The weather 

vehicle was the coolest because 

of the things coming 

off the back.” 

The New Lenox Community 

Park District is 

gearing up for a great 

summer in honor of its 

50 th Anniversary. Following 

a celebratory event at 

Firefighters Park on May 

9, select programs will be 

offered with a discount this 

summer. 

“We’ve got specials running 

on some of our summer 

programs to get $5 off 

New Lenox residents Jack (left) and Kendall Rakowski 

sit in a Quality Crane vehicle at the Touch-a-Truck 

event. Photos by Laurie Fanelli/22ndcenturymedia 

New Lenox residents Gavin (left) and Roman Docherty 

enjoying a summer day during the Touch-a-Truck event. 

NL residents Ryan Hartigan (left) and Edward 

Doughtery explore a truck bed at Touch-a-Truck. 

for our 50 th so if people pay 

attention to the book and 

pay attention online, we’ll 

be throwing those up,” said 

Wrase. “We’re looking to 

celebrate all summer long 

because we’re all about the 

community.”



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28 | May 9, 2019 | the new lenox patriot dining out 


The Dish 

The Irish Patriot: a taste of Ireland in Orland Park 

Alex Ivanisevic 

Assistant Editor 

Rather than travel the 

3,600 miles across the Atlantic, 

one needs only to 

head to the Historic District 

of Orland Park to get a 

taste of Ireland at The Irish 

Patriot. 

Owners Vincent and 

Fiona Tuohy came to 

America from Ireland 

roughly 10 years ago and 

purchased the building at 

9875 W. 143rd St. in 2010. 

Today, they are serving 

classic Irish and American 

food to locals in a traditional 

pub atmosphere. 

“It’s a historical building 

here; it is the first brick 

building ever built here 

in Orland Park,” Vincent 

said. “When we bought 

it, it was crumbling down 

and the roof was caving in 

and the walls were falling 

down. It was a little piece 

of history falling apart. 

We’ve left this place in 

good shape for another 

100 years, I hope.” 

After two years of remodeling 

and much-needed 

repairs, The Irish Patriot 

opened in March of 

2012. 

“We tried to use the classical 

Irish pub look, like 

you’d see in small villages 

in Dublin,” he said. 

At the center of the dining 

room is a large, stone 

fireplace. 

“Wouldn’t be an Irish 

pub without one,” Vincent 

said. 

The pub is open from 

11-2 a.m. Sunday through 

Saturday, and serves “a 

pretty extensive menu of 

American and Irish fare,” 

Vincent said. “Since we 

opened in 2012, our three 

top sellers are our fish and 

chips ($14). They’re really 

famous here. We use 

The Irish Patriot Pub 

9875 W. 143rd St. in 

Orland Park 

Hours 

• 11 a.m.-2 a.m. daily 

For more information ... 

www.theirishpatriot. 

com 

North Atlantic cod, and we 

make our own batter with 

a secret ingredient, and 

then our burger ($12) is 

hugely popular as well as 

our Reuben ($13). They’re 

always in our Top 3.” 

Also on the menu are 

traditional Irish dishes, 

such as corned beef and 

shepherd’s pie, among 

other options. 

In addition to serving 

guests at the hardwood bar 

in the pub section and in 

the dining room throughout 

the week, The Irish Patriot 

allows its dining area 

to be booked for parties. 

Vincent said the restaurant 

sees a lot of wedding 

parties, communion 

and confirmation parties, 

“as we’re quite close to 

St. Michael’s Catholic 

Church here. ...We got a 

church down the street and 

a funeral home across the 

street, so we do some funeral 

work, too.” 

The Tuohys also own 

The Irish Legend in Willow 

Springs and the Burbank 

Pub in its namesake 

town. They take pride in 

the connection they have 

made to the communities 

around their pubs. 

“We see a lot of regulars 

here,” Vincent said. “We 

are classically a neighborhood 

bar. It is something 

like ‘Cheers’ with the characters 

that are in here.” 

Fiona said the time commitment 

to running the 

pub is “completely 24/7,” 

and she also remarked on 

The Irish Patriot owner Vincent Tuohy was sure to include a fireplace in the pub, something he says no pub is 

complete without. Photos by Alex Ivanisevic/22nd Century Media 

One of the Top 3 items on The Irish Patriot’s menu is its Kinsale Fish & Chips ($14), 

made with North Atlantic cod. 

the regulars they see come 

to The Irish Patriot. 

“I love it, because we 

get to know so many people 

here, and I call them 

regulars but they are actually 

friends,” she said. 

Similar to the way 

Vincent described their 

“neighborhood-bar vibe,” 

Fiona said, “There’s a lot 

of people who came here 

on their own and just became 

best friends.” 

She said she appreciates 

how friendly and outgoing 

people are, and it creates 

a “family atmosphere, 

which is really nice.” 

There are a few special 

events The Irish Patriot 

enjoys celebrating with its 

guests — one of them being 

St. Patrick’s Day. 

“We have a very special 

party here for St. Patrick’s 

Day,” Vincent said. “It’s 

basically a week here. The 

weekend before [the holiday], 

we have a trolley bus 

and work with all the fellow 

pubs in the area and 

have a trolley bus crawl, 

and then I fly in musicians 

from Ireland every year for 

the holiday, and they stay 

a few days. We have a lot 

of fun.” 

Vincent said they are 

looking forward to opening 

the pub’s patio for the 

summer, which he said 

can get crowded in those 

months but provides a fun 

atmosphere for patrons. 

“You got to love this 

business,” Vincent said. 

“It’s the long days I don’t 

love; they’re a bit daunting. 

But I love the people, 

and every day is different. 

When people are in a pub, 

you know they’re relaxing. 

You’re getting people at 

their best who are coming 

here to enjoy themselves.”

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crosstown CROSSWORD & Sudoku The crosstowns: Frankfort, Homer Glen, Lockport, Mokena, New Lenox, Orland Park, Tinley Park 

Across 

Down 

Crossword by Myles Mellor and Cindy LaFleur 

1. Medical diagnostic 

procedures 

5. Very bright light 

9. A sacred song 

14. River to the Rhine 

15. Annexes 

16. Skylit courts 

17. “Saving Private 

___” 

18. Hindu writings 

19. Sublease 

20. Where New 

Lenox village governmental 

operations 

are based, goes 

with 9 down 

22. Survive, barely 

23. Interior design 

24. Hooter 

25. Bitterly pungent 

28. Attached with a 

hammer 

32. Eat 

35. Middle East snack 

37. Kind of question 

38. Tommie of the 

Miracle Mets 

40. Rage 

41. Tease 

42. Amazon’s talking 

assistant 

44. ___ stone; final 

47. Frisbee or Slinky 

48. Informal eatery 

50. Capital near 

Casablanca 

52. Unburdened 

53. Lucy’s best friend 

56. New Lenox 

middle school 

59. Frequent flier 

62. Too proper and 

modest 

63. Moore of “G.I. 

Jane” 

64. Do followers 

65. Gofers 

66. Major or Minor 

Bear 

67. Hoity-toity 

68. Henhouse 

69. Benefit 

70. Top model, 

Banks 

1. Sportscaster Albert 

2. Having spokes 

3. About to explode, 

maybe 

4. Five Nations tribe 

5. Ancient Spanish 

kingdom 

6. Well known garden 

7. 15 and 23, e.g. 

8. Government security 

agency, abbr. 

9. See 20 across 

10. More resolute 

11. “Alice’s Restaurant” 

singer ___ 

Guthrie 

12. In ___ of (instead) 

13. First name in the 

“Ocean’s Thirteen” cast 

21. Gibraltar feature 

22. Eternity, almost 

26. Wading bird 

27. Evel Knievel, for 

one 

29. Aspiring atty.’s exam 

30. Ferrari founder 

31. Nodding 

32. Car from Sweden 

33. Tangelo 

34. Mind your ____ 

and Q’s 

36. Phi__ Kappa 

39. Squeezes out 

43. Least damp 

45. Person from the 

Spanish peninsula 

46. Abbr. in many org. 

names 

49. Flowery verse 

51. Water need 

54. “Behind __ Lines,” 

2001 Hackman film 

55. Madagascan 

monkey 

56. Train 

57. The Supremes or 

Cream 

58. Kind of chop 

59. Sleekly designed 

60. “Ooooh, ___ 

scared!” 

61. Baltic capital 

63. Bestow a knighthood 

How to play Sudoku 

Each Sudoku puzzle consists of a 9x9 grid that 

has been subdivided into nine smaller grids of 

3x3 squares. To solve the puzzle each row, column 

and box must contain each of the numbers 

1 to 9. 

LEVEL: Medium 

Crossword by Myles Mellor and Susan Flanagan 

answers 

NEW LENOX 

Little Joe’s Restaurant 

(1300 N. Cedar Road, 

New Lenox; (815) 463- 

1099) 

■5-8 ■ p.m. Tuesdays: 

Piano Styles by Joe 

Williamson’s Restaurant 

and Pub 

(1490 W. Maple St. New 

Lenox, (815) 485-8585) 

■Wednesdays: ■ 

$5 

House Wine Wednesdays 

■Sundays: ■ Spicy 

Bloody Marys $5 

Hickory Creek Brewing 

Company 

(1005 W Laraway Rd, 

New Lenox. (779) 803- 

3974) 

■3 ■ p.m. -close Fridays: 

Happy Hour from 3 

to 6 p.m. followed by 

Smokin’ Z BBQ food 

truck from 5:30 to 

8:30 p.m. and live 

music. 

FRANKFORT 

Pete Mitchell’s Bar & 

Grill 

(21000 Frankfort 

Square Road, Frankfort; 

(815) 464-8100) 

■6-8 ■ p.m. Wednesdays: 

Free N’ Fun Bar 

Game. Free to play. 

MOKENA 

The Alley Grill and Tap 

House 

(18700 S. Old La- 

Grange Road, Mokena; 

(708) 478-3610) 

■9 ■ p.m. Tuesdays: 

Karaoke 

Fox’s Restaurant and Pub 

(11247 W. 187th St., 

Mokena; (708) 478- 

8888) 

■6 ■ p.m. Thursdays, Fridays 

and Saturdays: 

Performance by Jerry 

Eadie 

HOMER GLEN 

Front Row 

(14903 S. Bell Road, 

Homer Glen; (708) 645- 

7000) 

■7 ■ p.m. Wednesdays: 

Trivia 

To place an event 

in The Scene, email 

a.ivanisevic@22ndcentury 

media.com

30 | May 9, 2019 | the new lenox patriot local living 


Distinctive Home Builders Introduces New Craftsman Homes 

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

New designs are a result of buyer feedback 

Two refreshing designs mark 

the beginning of a new series 

of Craftsman-style homes 

available from Distinctive Home 

Builders at its latest new home 

communities: Prairie Trails; 

located in Manhattan within the 

highly-regarded Lincoln-Way 

School District and at WestGate 

Manor in Peotone within 

the desirable Peotone School 

District. 

“Craftsman homes were 

introduced in the early 1900s 

in California with designs 

based on a simpler, functional 

aesthetic using a higher level 

of craftsmanship and natural 

materials. These homes were a 

departure from homes that were 

mass produced from that era, 

“according to Bryan Nooner, 

president of Distinctive Home 

Builders. 

“The Craftsman design has 

made a comeback today for 

many of the same reasons it 

started over a century ago. Our 

customers want to live in a home 

that gets away from the “mass 

produced” look and live in a 

home that has more character. As 

a result of our daily interaction 

with our homeowners and their 

input, we are excited to introduce 

these two homes, with additional 

designs in the works.” 

Nooner, who meets with 

each homeowner prior to 

construction, has been working 

on these plans for a while and felt 

that the timing was ideal for the 

debut. “Customers were asking 

for something different and 

simple with less monotony and 

higher architectural standards.” 

The result was the Craftsman 

ranch and the Prairie twostory, 

now available at Prairie 

Trails and WestGate Manor. 

The Craftsman ranch features 

an open floor plan with Great 

Room, three bedrooms, two 

baths and a two-car (optional 

three-car) garage. The Prairie 

features a two-story foyer and 

Great Room, three bedrooms 

and one and one-half baths, a 

convenient Flex Room space 

on the main level and a two-car 

(optional three-car) garage. The 

Craftsman architectural elements 

on both homes include brick and 

stone exteriors with cedar shake 

accent siding, low-pitched gabled 

bracket roofs, front porches with 

tapered columns and stone piers, 

partially paned windows, and a 

standard panel front entry door. 

Distinctive Home Builders 

offers a Craftsman-style trim 

package offering trim without 

ornate profiles and routers. The 

trim features simplicity in design 

with rectangles, straight lines and 

layered look trims over doors for 

example. The front entry door 

will have the standard Craftsman 

panel style door. Distinctive has 

also created a Craftsman color 

palate to assist buyers in making 

coordinated choices for the 

interior of their new Craftsman 

home. Colors, cabinet styles and 

flooring choices blend seamlessly 

with the Craftsman trim package 

and are available in gray tones 

package and earth tones. 

Distinctive offers custom maple 

kitchen cabinets featuring solid 

wood construction (no particle 

board), have solid wood drawers 

with dove tail joints, which is 

very rare in the marketplace. 

“When you buy a new home 

from Distinctive, you truly are 

receiving custom made cabinets 

in every home we sell no matter 

what the price range,” noted 

Nooner. 


works to achieve a delivery goal 

of 90 days with zero punch list 

items for its homeowners. “Our 

three decades building homes 

provides an efficient construction 

system,” said Nooner. “Many of 

our skilled craftsmen have been 

working with our company 

for over 20 years. We also 

take pride on having excellent 

communicators throughout our 

organization. This translates into 

a positive buying and building 

experience for our homeowners 

and one of the highest referral 

rates in the industry.” 

Nooner added that all homes 

are highly energy efficient. Every 

home built will have upgraded 

wall and ceiling insulation 

values with energy efficient 

windows and high efficiency 

furnaces. Before homeowners 

move into their new home, 


conducts a blower door test that 

pressurizes the home to ensure 

that each home passes a set of 

very stringent Energy Efficiency 

guidelines. 

With the addition of these two 

new designs, there are now 15 

ranch, split-level and six twostory 

single-family home styles to 

choose from each offering from 

three to eight different exterior 

elevations at both communities. 

The three- to four-bedroom 

homes feature one and one-half 

to two-and-one-half baths, twoto 

three-car garages and a family 

room, all in approximately 1,600 

to over 3,000 square feet of living 

space. Basements are included in 

most models as well. Distinctive 

also encourages customization 

to make your new home truly 

personalized to suit your lifestyle. 

Oversize home sites; brick 

exteriors on all four sides of the 

first floor; custom maple cabinets; 

ceramic tile or hardwood 

floors in the kitchen, baths and 

foyer; genuine wood trim and 

doors and concrete driveways 

can all be yours at Prairie 

Trails and WestGate Manor. 

Most all home sites at Prairie 

Trails and WestGate Manor 

can accommodate a three-car 

garage; a very important amenity 

to the Manhattan homebuyer, 

said Nooner. 

“When we opened Prairie 

Trails and WestGate Manor we 

wanted to provide the best new 

home value for the dollar and 

we feel with offering Premium 

Standard Features that we do 

just that. So why wait? This is 

truly the best time to build your 

dream home!” 

Prairie Trails is also a beautiful 

place to live and raise a family 

featuring a 20-acre lake on site, 

as well as direct access to the 22- 

mile Wauponsee Glacial Prairie 

Path that borders the community 

and meanders through many 

neighboring communities and 

links to many other popular 

trails. The Manhattan Metra 

station is less than a mile away. 

Besides Prairie Trails, 


has built homes throughout 

Manhattan in the Butternut 

Ridge and Leighlinbridge 

developments, as well as in the 

Will and south Cook county 

areas over the past 30 years. 


chose the Will County village 

of Peotone for its newest 

community of 38 single-family 

homes at WestGate Manor 

within walking distance of the 

esteemed Peotone High School. 

Its convenient location between 

Interstate 57 and Illinois Route 

50 provide easy access to I-80 

and commuters enjoy several 

nearby train stations and a 

35-minute drive to Chicago. 

Visit the on-site sales 

information center for 

unadvertised specials and view 

the numerous styles of homes 

being offered and the available 

lots. Call Lynne Rinck at (708) 

737-9142 or (708) 479-7700 for 

more information or visit www. 

distinctivehomebuilders.com. 

The Prairie Trails and WestGate 

Manor new home information 

center is located three miles 

south of Laraway Rd. on Rt. 

52. The address is 24458 S. 

Rt. 52, Manhattan, IL. 60422. 

Open Daily 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 

p.m. Closed Wednesday and 

Thursday and always available 

by appointment. 

Specials, prices, specifications, 

standard features, model 

offerings, build times and lot 

availability are subject to change 

without notice. Please contact 

a Distinctive representative for 

current pricing and complete 

details.

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The New Lenox Patriot’s 

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Living will be easy in this ranch home located in Taylor Glen 

Where: 541 Northern Lights Way, New Lenox 

Amenities: Beautiful hardwood floors flow throughout the main living space 

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private backyard. The floor plan incorporates three bedrooms 

upstairs and the fourth bedroom is in the finished English 

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living room and a family room open to the dining area. The master 

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The stunning kitchen has maple cabinets and stainless steel 

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2198 Bristol Park 

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60451-3041 - Dr. 

Horton Inc. to Janice 

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April 11 

911 South Prairie 

Road, New Lenox, 

60451-2247 - Richard 

Leiva to Christopher J. 

Godfrey, $262,500 

April 11 

787 Amanda Road, 

New Lenox, 60451- 

9588 - Edward R. 

Olson to Kevin Hogan, 

Jennifer Hogan 

$284,000 

April 12 

2645 Schooner Drive, 


9234 - First Bank of 

Manhattan Trustee 

to Tracy A. Miletic, 

$227,500 

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2828 Northwind 

Drive, New Lenox, 

60451-9279 - Jeffrey 

W. Ogrodnik to Brian 

Gibson, Nicole Gibson 

$325,000 

April 12 

929 Somerset Street, 


2050 - Kimberly M. 

Gottberg to Thomas 

J. Mandernach, Julie 

Mandernach $266,000 

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Unit C C, New Lenox, 

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1003 Help Wanted 

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SHERIFF'S SALE OF REAL ESTATE 

of 800 Belot Lane, New Lenox, IL 

60451 (Single Family). On the 16th day 

of May, 2019 to be held at 12:00 noon, 

at the Will County Courthouse Annex, 

57 N. Ottawa Street, Room 201, Joliet, 

IL 60432, under Case Title: U.S. Bank 

National Association, as Trustee for the 

Structured Asset Investment Loan Trust, 

Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, 

Series 2005-10 Plaintiff V. SCOTT E. 

KLEPSER; SHARON M.KLEPSER; 

BLUE STONE BAY COMMUNITY 

ASSOCIATION, INC.; UNITED 

STATES OF AMERICA; Defendant. 

Case No. 17CH 0304 in the Circuit 

Court of the Twelfth Judicial Circuit, 

Will County, Illinois. 

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

time of sale and the balance within 

twenty-four (24) hours. Nojudicial sale 

fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring 

the residential real estate pursuant 

to its credit bid at the sale or by any 

mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other 

lienor acquiring the residential real estate 

whose rights in and tothe residential 

real estate arose prior to the sale. All 

payments shall be made in cash or certified 

funds payable tothe Sheriff of Will 

County. 

In the event the property is acondomin- 

ium, in accordance with 735 ILCS 

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

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

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

that the purchaser of the unit, other than 

amortgagee, shall pay the assessments 

and legal fees required bysubdivisions 

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

required by subsection (g-1) 

of Section 18.5 of the Illinois Condominium 

Property Act. 

Pursuant to Local Court Rule 11.03 (J) 

if there is asurplus following application 

ofthe proceeds of sale, then the 

plaintiff shall send written notice pursuant 

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

to the proceeding advising them of 

the amount ofthe surplus and that the 

surplus will beheld until aparty obtains 

acourt order for its distribution or, in 

the absence of an order, until the surplus 

is forfeited to the State. 

For Information Please Contact: 

SHAPIRO KREISMAN AND ASSO- 

CIATES, LLC. 

2121 Waukegan Rd, Suite 301 

Bannockburn, Illinois 60015 

P: 847-770-4348 

F: 847-291-3434 

PURSUANT TO THE FAIR DEBT 

COLLECTION PRACTICES ACT 

YOU ARE ADVISED THAT THIS 

LAW FIRM ISDEEMED TO BE A 

DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING 

TO COLLECT ADEBT AND ANY 

INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL 

BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. 

SHERIFF'S SALE OF REAL ESTATE 

of 767 BON TERRE ROAD, NEW LE- 

NOX, IL 60451 (Brown brick, two story 

townhouse, detached one car garage). 

On the 30th day of May, 2019 to be held 

at 12:00 noon, at the Will County Courthouse 

Annex, 57 N. Ottawa Street, 

Room 201, Joliet, IL 60432, under Case 

Title: REGIONS BANK D/B/A RE- 

GIONS MORTGAGE Plaintiff V. 

JOHN R MORRISSEY; WINDER- 

MERE EAST ICONDOMINIUM AS- 

SOCIATION, UNKNOWN OWNERS 

AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS 

Defendant. 

Case No. 18CH 1990 in the Circuit 

Court of the Twelfth Judicial Circuit, 

Will County, Illinois. 



twenty-four (24) hours. Nojudicial sale 






whose rights in and tothe residential 




County. Judgment amount is 

$ 

2701 Property for 

Sale 

$137,618.22 plus interest, cost and post 

judgment advances, if any. 



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








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2703 Legal 

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STATE OF ILLINOIS 

) 

) SS. 

COUNTY OF WILL 

) 

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OFTHE 

TWELFTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT 

WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS 

U.S. Bank National Association, as 

Trustee for the Structured Asset Investment 

Loan Trust, Mortgage 

Pass-Through Certificates, Series 

2005-10 

Plaintiff, 

vs. 

SCOTT E. KLEPSER; SHARON M. 

KLEPSER; BLUE STONE BAY COM- 

MUNITY ASSOCIATION, INC.; 

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; 

Defendant. 

No. 17 CH 0304 

NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE 

Public notice ishereby given that pursuant 

toajudgment entered in the above 

cause on the 13th day of February, 

2018, MIKE KELLEY, Sheriff of Will 

County, Illinois, will on Thursday, the 

16th day of May, 2019 ,commencing at 

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

Courthouse Annex, 57 N. Ottawa Street, 

Room 201, Joliet, IL 60432, sell at public 

auction to the highest and best bidder 

or bidders the following-described real 

estate: 

LOT 220 IN BLUESTONE BAY UNIT 

FOUR, BEING A SUBDIVISION OF 

PART OF THE SOUTHEAST QUAR- 

TER OF SECTION 24 AND PART OF 

THE NORTHEAST QUARTER OF 

SECTION 25, TOWNSHIP 35 

NORTH, RANGE 11, EAST OF THE 

THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, AC- 

CORDING TOTHE PLAT THEREOF 

RECORDED AUGUST 27, 1998 AS 

DOCUMENT NO. R98-100554 AND 

CERTIFICATE OF CORRECTION 

RECORDED MAY 25, 1999 AS 

2703 Legal 

Notices 

DOCUMENT NO. R99-65452, IN 

WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS. 

Commonly known as: 

800 Belot Lane, New Lenox, IL 60451 

Description of Improvements: 

Single Family 

P.I.N.: 

15-08-24-413-008-0000 



twenty-four (24) hours. No judicial sale 






whose rights inand to the residential 




County. 



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

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








Property Act. 












FOR INFORMATION PLEASE CON- 

TACT: 

SHAPIRO KREISMAN AND ASSO- 

CIATES, LLC. 

2121 Waukegan Rd, Suite 301 

Bannockburn, Illinois 60015 

P: 847-770-4348 

F: 847-291-3434 

Plaintiff's Attorney 

MIKE KELLEY 

Sheriff of Will County 









STATE OF ILLINOIS 

) 

) SS. 

COUNTY OF WILL 

) 

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OFTHE 

TWELFTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT 

WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS 

REGIONS BANK D/B/A REGIONS 

MORTGAGE 

Plaintiff, 

vs. 

JOHN R MORRISSEY; WINDER- 

MERE EAST ICONDOMINIUM AS- 

SOCIATION, UNKNOWN OWNERS 

AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS 

Defendant. No. 18 CH 1990 

NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE 

Public notice ishereby given that pursuant 

toajudgment entered in the above 

cause on the 19th day of March, 2019, 

MIKE KELLEY, Sheriff of Will 

County, Illinois, will on Thursday, the 

30th day of May, 2019 ,commencing at 

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

Courthouse Annex, 57 N. Ottawa Street, 

Room 201, Joliet, IL 60432, sell at public 

auction to the highest and best bidder 

or bidders the following-described real 

estate: 

LOT 128, UNIT 4,INWINDERMERE 

EAST 1, CONDOMINIUM, AS DE- 

LINEATED ON A SURVEY OFTHE 

FOLLOWING DESCRIBED REAL 

ESTATE: CERTAIN LOTS IN WIN- 

DERMERE EAST UNIT 5,ASUBDI- 

VISION OF PART OF THE SOUTH- 

2703 Legal 

Notices 

EAST 1/4 OFSECTION 22, TOWN- 

SHIP 35 NORTH, RANGE 11, EAST 

OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERID- 

IAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT 

THEREOF RECORDED APRIL 9, 

1991, AS DOCUMENT NUMBER 

R91-16993, IN WILL COUNTY, ILLI- 

NOIS, WHICH SURVEY IS AT- 

TACHED AS EXHIBIT "A" TO THE 

DECLARATION OF CONDOMINI- 

UMS RECORDED AS DOCUMENT 

NUMBER R91-39350, AS AMENDED 

FROM TIME TO TIME TOGETHER 

WITH ITS UNDIVIDED PERCENT- 

AGE INTEREST INTHE COMMON 

ELEMENTS. 

Commonly known as: 767 BON 

TERRE ROAD, NEW LENOX, IL 

60451 

Description of Improvements: 

Brown brick, two story townhouse, detached 

one car garage 

P.I.N.: 15-08-22-426-011-1004 

Terms ofSale: ten percent (10%) at the 


twenty-four (24) hours. No judicial sale 






whose rights inand to the residential 




County. Judgment amount is 

$137,618.22 plus interest, cost and post 

judgment advances, if any. 



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

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








Property Act. 












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TACT: 

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1 N. Dearborn Suite 1300 

Chicago, Illinois 60602 

P: 312-346-9088 

F: MIKE KELLEY 

Plaintiff's Attorney 

Sheriff of Will County 

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Athlete of the Week 

10 Questions 

with Carly Alvers 

Carly Alvers is a sophomore 

infielder on the 

Lincoln-Way Central 

softball team. 

How long have you 

played softball and 

how did you get 

started? 

I started playing softball 

when I was 7 years 

old at the Mokena Park 

District. I played there for 

two years and then I got 

into travel ball with the 

Mokena Blast and then 

the Blue Wave. Now, I’m 

on the Sparks. 

What do you like 

most about the sport? 

The challenges and the 

competition I get to face 

along the way. Also, making 

friendships that will 

last a lifetime. 

What’s your favorite 

softball memory so 

far? 

Making the varsity team 

at Lincoln-Way Central as 

a freshman. There are so 

many talented players at 

our school, so just to make 

the team as a freshman 

was a huge accomplishment. 

Then making allconference 

and all-state 

were huge honors, too. 

What was like it 

playing right away as 

a freshman? 

To be honest, I was really 

nervous in the beginning, 

but all the girls were 

so welcoming, and they 

boosted my confidence. 

What advice would 

you give to current 

freshmen? 

I’d say cherish every 

moment you have because 

you’ll never play with that 

exact same team again. 

Never take softball for 

granted. It could end any 

time, so play your heart 

out every game. 

Do you have any 

superstitions? 

Before every game, I 

have to put on the same 

perfume. I’ve been doing 

this since I was 12 years 

old and I feel like if I 

don’t have it, I’m not going 

to do well. I also have 

to wear the same headband 

and my lucky bow. 

If you could be 

anyone else for a day, 

who would you want 

to be? 

Definitely Kris Bryant. 

I’d want to see how 

he works every day. He’s 

such a good baseball 

player and I love watching 

him play every game. 

It’d be cool to put myself 

in his shoes. 

Do you have a 

favorite TV show? 

Definitely “Grey’s 

Anatomy.” The show 

Photo submitted. 

keeps me guessing and I 

learn a lesson about anatomy 

every single episode. 

I can’t go a day without 

watching it. 

Who would you pay 

to see in concert? 

I really like Taylor 

Swift. I went to her concert 

last year and it was 

such an amazing experience. 

I’d definitely see her 

again. 

Do you have any 

hidden talents? 

I can guess the title of 

any song within like five 

seconds. When me and 

my friends are in the car, 

we play a game to see who 

can guess the song and I 

win every time. 

Interview conducted by 

Sports Editor Steve Millar

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Badminton 

Warriors win another sectional for Thompson; 

Central’s Underhill takes singles title at H-F 

STEVE MILLAR 

Sports Editor 

In her final season after 

25 years as a badminton 

coach, Lincoln-Way 

West’s Donna Thompson 

saw another first on May 2. 

Both Warriors’ doubles 

team advanced to the 

championship match of the 

Lincoln-Way West Sectional 

to face off with each 

other for the title. 

“That’s the first time in 

10 years at West we had a 

West-West final,” Thompson 

said. “I had that a few 

times at Lincoln-Way Central, 

but never here, so that 

was fantastic to see. It was 

great to see Emilia and 

Kayla be competitive but 

have the one doubles team 

hold their position.” 

West’s No. 1 team of 

senior Shaunna O’Malley 

and junior Allison Hullinger 

topped their teammates, 

senior Emilia Evans 

and Kayla Wojcik, 

23-21, 21-17 in a highlycompetitive 

final to win 

the sectional doubles title. 

The success of both 

teams led the Warriors to 

the team title, their 12.5 

points enough to hold off 

Joliet Central and Oswego 

East, which tied for second 

with 11 each. 

It’s Lincoln-Way West’s 

second sectional title in as 

many years and fourth under 

Thompson, who also 

won five sectional titles at 

Lincoln-Way Central. 

“I knew I was in for a 

dogfight,” Thompson said. 

“There were three teams I 

didn’t want to be matched 

up with: Joliet Central, 

Oswego East and Romeoville. 

I knew they had really 

strong singles player 

and they showed it tonight. 

Behind a 1-2 finish from its doubles teams, Lincoln-Way 

West won its second consecutive sectional title on May 

2. Steve Millar/22nd Century Media. 

It was a fight to the end. 

“Our girls have done a 

great job of stepping up 

where we needed them to 

and continuing the tradition. 

Hopefully we can 

continue on.” 

Both of West’s doubles 

team advanced to the state 

finals, beginning Friday. 

May 10 at Eastern Illinois 

University. 

O’Malley and Hullinger 

said it was fun, but challenging, 

to play their teammates 

in the finals. 

“The problem is we 

know each other’s weaknesses, 

so it’s kind of hard 

to play your own team 

some time,” Hullinger 

said. “We play a lot in 

practice and we go back 

and forth. They’re really 

good players. It was an 

intense match, but it was a 

lot of fun.” 

Hullinger and O’Malley 

won all three of their 

matches in two games to 

take the title. 

The pair went to state 

last season, barely sneaking 

in with a fourth-place 

finish at sectionals. 

“I was just glad to make 

it to state and then to take 

that next step and win it 

is great,” O’Malley said. 

“It’s a lot better than fourth 

last year. 

“I feel like we move a lot 

better and we know each 

other better now. We know 

where each other’s going to 

be and that helps a lot.” 

The Warriors all said 

their desire to win for 

Thompson is giving them 

an extra push. 

“I just want to win for 

her, especially with how 

much she did for every 

team she’s coached over 

the years,” O’Malley said. 

“I just want to make her 

happy, and I feel like we 

have.” 

Knights’ Underhill wins 

singles title 


senior Gillian Underhill 

won the singles title at the 

Homewood-Flossmoor 

Sectional and will be the 

Knights’ lone representative 

at state. 

Underhill beat Stagg’s 

Nikki Marsh 22-20, 21- 

12 in the championship 

match. She had to rally 

from a first-game loss 

in her semifinal against 

Homewood-Flossmoor’s 

Serena Webster, pulling 

out an 18-21, 23-21, 21-11 

victory. 

The Knights (10) were 

second in the team race 

behind H-F (14). 

This Week In 

Knights Varsity 

Athletics 

Badminton 

■May ■ 10 - at State 

Tournament at Eastern 

Illinois U., 9:30 a.m. 




Baseball 

■May ■ 9 - at Thornridge, 

4:30 p.m. 

■May ■ 14 - hosts Joliet West, 

4:30 p.m. 

Girls Soccer 

■May ■ 14 - hosts LW Central 

Regional semifinal vs. 

Thornwood, 4:30 p.m. 

Softball 

■May ■ 10 - hosts Thornwood, 

4:30 p.m. 

■May ■ 14 - at Plainfield 

North, 4:30 p.m. 

Boys Tennis 

■May ■ 9 - at SWSC Meet at 

Bradley-Bourbonnais, 4:30 

p.m. 


Bradley-Bourbonnais, 8 a.m. 

Boys Track and Field 


Thornridge, 4:30 p.m. 

■May ■ 15 - at Bloom 

Sectional, 1 p.m. 

Girls Track and Field 

■May ■ 10 - at Homewood- 

Flossmoor Sectional, 2 p.m. 

Boys Volleyball 

■May ■ 9 - hosts LW West, 

5:30 p.m. 

■May ■ 14 - at Sandburg, 

5:30 p.m. 

Boys Water Polo 

■May ■ 9 - vs. Bradley- 

Bourbonnais at LW West 


■May ■ 10-11 - at LW West 

Sectional, TBA 

Girls Water Polo 

■May ■ 10-11 - at LW West 


Warriors Varsity 

Athletics 

Badminton 







Baseball 

■May ■ 10 - at Andrew, 4:30 

p.m. 

■May ■ 11 - hosts Richards, 

10 a.m. 

■May ■ 13 - hosts Thornwood, 

4:30 p.m. 

■May ■ 14 - at Minooka, 4:30 

p.m. 

■May ■ 15 - hosts 

Willowbrook, 4:30 p.m. 

Girls Soccer 

■May ■ 14 - vs. Reavis at 

Bloom Regional semifinal, 

6 p.m. 

Softball 

■May ■ 9 - at Glenbard West, 

5 p.m. 

■May ■ 10 - hosts Thornton, 

4:30 p.m. 

■May ■ 11 - hosts Plainfield 

South, 10 a.m. 

■May ■ 14 - at Andrew, 4:30 

p.m. 


Flossmoor, 4:30 p.m. 

Boys Tennis 


Bradley-Bourbonnais, 4:30 

p.m. 


Bradley-Bourbonnais, 8 a.m. 



Thornridge, 4:30 p.m. 

■May ■ 15 - at Bloom 


Girls Track and Field 


Flossmoor Sectional, 2 p.m. 


■May ■ 9 - at LW Central, 

5:30 p.m. 

■May ■ 14 - hosts LW East, 

5:30 p.m. 

Boys Water Polo 

■May ■ 9-11 - hosts LW West 


Girls Water Polo 

■May ■ 10-11 - hosts LW 

West Sectiomal, TBA 

Lincoln-Way co-op 

Athletics 

Boys Lacrosse 

■May ■ 9 - hosts Downers 

Grove South, 7:30 p.m. 

■May ■ 11 - at Dunlap, 10:30 

a.m. 

■May ■ 13 - at Hinsdale 

Central, 7 p.m. 

Girls Lacrosse 

■May ■ 13 - hosts Wheaton- 

Warrenville South, 7:30 p.m. 

■May ■ 14 - at Naperville 

North, 7:30 p.m. 

Celtics Varsity 

Athletics 

Baseball 

■May ■ 9 - at Marmion, 4:30 

p.m. 

■May ■ 11 - at Joliet West, 

10 a.m. 

■May ■ 13 - at Benet, 4:30 

p.m. 

Boys Lacrosse 

■May ■ 9 - at Lockport, 6 p.m. 


Flossmoor, 10 a.m. 

■May ■ 13 - hosts Lane Tech, 

7 p.m. 

Girls Soccer 

■May ■ 14 - hosts Providence 

Regional semifinal vs. Rich 

South, 4 p.m. 

Softball 

■May ■ 9 - hosts Illinois 

Lutheran, 4:30 p.m. 

■May ■ 10 - hosts Downers 

Grove North, 4:30 p.m. 

■May ■ 13 - at Nazareth, 4:30 

p.m. 

■May ■ 14 - hosts Plainfield 

Central, 4:30 p.m. 

Boys Tennis 

■May ■ 10 - at CCL Meet at 

Loyola, TBA 


■May ■ 11 - at CCL Meet at 

Loyola, 9 a.m. 

■May ■ 15 - at Plano 

Sectional, 3:45 p.m. 


■May ■ 9 - at De La Salle, 6 

p.m. 

■May ■ 14 - at Mount Carmel, 

6 p.m.



Volleyball 

West celebrates huge senior class in win over Lockport 

RANDY WHALEN 


When you have 11 seniors 

on a team, the Senior 

Night celebrations aren’t 

only big, they’re special. 

Especially for a group 

like the Lincoln-Way West 

boys volleyball team. 

The Warriors celebrated 

Senior Night on April 30 

with a 25-18, 25-27, 25- 

16 victory over Lockport 

in a SouthWest Suburban 

match in New Lenox. 

“It was a lot of fun and 

a great atmosphere,” West 

senior right side hitter Tyler 

Holubek said. “Our JV 

team did a great job setting 

up everything for us.” 

There were a lot of orange 

balloons and banners 

in the gym for the special 

evening. 

“This is a great group 

and a lot of them have been 

with me since I got here,” 

said West coach Jodi Frigo, 

who is in her third season 

as Warriors coach. “It 

hasn’t sunk in yet that these 

guys are seniors, maybe 

since it’s not our last home 

match.” 

The Warriors have one 

more home match next 

week against Lincoln-Way 

East. But with that matchup 

likely being for the conference 

title, they decided to 

hold Senior Night last week. 

While West utilized an 

all-senior lineup for the first 

two sets, that wasn’t too far 

off its regular lineup. There 

are only two juniors on the 

team: libero Tyler Vedder 

and right side/outside hitter 

Shane Wegrzyn. 

Against Lockport, most 

of the West seniors got in 

on the stat line. The seniors 

are outside hitter/defensive 

specialist Travis Bernhard 

(two kills), libero Jason 

Cler, middle hitter Chris 

Dargan (seven kills), setter 

David Flores (26 assists, 

eight digs), Holubek (five 

kills, nine assists), middle 

hitter Jack Hrvatin (two 

kills, four blocks), outside/ 

middle hitter Alex Mc- 

Donald (three kills, three 

blocks), setter/right side 

hitter Louden Moran (eight 

kills), outside hitter Ben 

Pluskota (nine kills), right 

side/middle hitter Drew 

Shingler (six kills), and 

outside/ right side hitter 

Nico Studer. 

There were three early 

ties in the first set. Then 

Pluskota pounded an ace 

and Dargan dinged a kill 

in a 3-0 run to put the Warriors 

ahead for good at 5-3. 

Ahead 11-8, West went on 

a 5-0 burst, where Shingler 

smacked a kill and a block, 

to pull away. 

In the second set, there 

were nine ties and five 

lead changes. Hrvatin had 

another block and a kill in 

another 5-0 spurt that gave 

the Warriors a 12-10 lead. 

They looked like they were 

going to close it out but 

Lockport rallied from 24- 

21 down to steal the set. 

“We’re really good when 

we communicate well,” 

McDonald said. “With Senior 

Night we were having 

a lot of fun. But when it 

went to the third set we had 

to be serious.” 

The Warriors were as 

they never trailed in the 

final set. There was one 

tie, at 2-2. Then Moran 

tipped a kill to give them 

the lead for good. Ahead 

12-10, West went on a 12-2 

blitz. Lockport (16-10, 0-4 

SWSC) saved four match 

points, but Holubek hammered 

a kill to end it. 

West closed last week 

with a 25-14, 25-20 victory 

over host Homewood- 

Flossmoor on May 2 in 

another SWSC clash. The 

Warriors improved to 28-3 

and 4-0 in the conference. 

Flores found his way to 

19 assists and six kills to 

lead the way. Pluskota (six 

kills, six digs), Dargan (six 

kills), Moran (six kills, five 

aces) and Vedder (six digs) 

also contributed. 

“We just have to take 

them one at a time,” Holubek 

said. “When we play 

to our potential, we can be 

really good.” 

Youth Sports 

Martino wrestler Knowlton excited for future after back-to-back state titles 

Steve Millar 

Sports Editor 

Nathan Knowlton was 

already a state wrestling 

champion, but still felt like 

he had something to prove. 

The eighth grader at 

Martino Junior High wanted 

to show that his 2017- 

2018 title was no fluke. 

On March 9, at Northern 

Illinois University’s 

Convocation Center in 

DeKalb, Knowlton made 

his mission of going backto-back 

a reality, pinning 

DeKalb-Huntley’s Hudson 

Ikens in the Illinois 

Elementary School Association 

Class AA 75-pound 

state championship match. 

“It was definitely a 

little different this year,” 

Knowlton said. “It was 

even better because I knew 

everybody wanted to beat 

me. 

“I had to keep proving 

myself. Winning it a second 

time shows that I’m 

the best and I’m on top 

right now.” 

Knowlton said he wasn’t 

thrilled with how he wrestled 

in the semifinals, beating 

Mahomet-Seymour’s 

Caden Hatton 3-0. 

He went into the championship 

match looking 

to dominate, and pinned 

Ikens in just 2 minutes, 4 

seconds. 

“In the championship 

match, I just kept telling 

myself that I’m the best,” 

Knowlton said. “I told myself 

that I’ve been wrestling 

for all these years 

and it all came down to 

this and I just had to go out 

there and do my job.” 

Knowlton has been 

wrestling since he was 5 

years old, and he caught on 

quickly. He won his first 

state title, in the bantam 

division, in just his second 

year in the sport. 

“My older brothers, Ron 

and Nigel, were already in 

the sport, so my dad [Ron] 

put me into it. I was just 

naturally good at it. I was 

good right away.” 

Knowlton now has four 

state titles, two at the bantam 

level in addition to his 

championships the past 

two seasons. 

Still, he went into the 

state meet this year not 

feeling like he was the favorite. 

“I felt like people were 

doubting me,” Knowlton 

said. “I didn’t wrestle as 

much this year, because I 

had an arm injury. It felt 

good to prove everyone 

wrong. 

“I wanted to make my 

family proud and my 

school proud and it was 

great to be able to do that.” 

Knowlton finished the 

season with a 26-1 record. 

He said he’s continued 

to progress in wrestling by 

following his dad’s advice. 

“I listen to my dad and 

he’s pushed me to do my 

best and keep working 

hard,” Knowlton said. 

“Whatever he tells me to 

do, I’ll go do it. He knows 

how to be the best. He used 

to be a really good martial 

arts fighter.” 

Knowlton plans to wrestle 

at Lincoln-Way Central 

next season. 

With the lowest high 

school weight class being 

106 pounds, his first objective 

is to put on some 

weight. 

“I’m already starting 

to lift more weights and 

trying to get a little bigger,” 

he said. “I’m excited 

to learn more stuff from 

Martino Junior High eighth grader Nathan Knowlton 

won his second straight state wrestling title in March. 

Photo submitted 

people who are more advanced 

than I am now. I’m 

hoping to get to state and 

get more great experience 

with wrestling.” 

His future goals are big. 

“I’d like to wrestle in 

college, win a couple national 

titles in college, and 

then go on and try to make 

a name for myself at the 

Olympic level,” he said.



Baseball 

Providence alum Anderson has day to remember 

Steve Millar, Sports Editor 

Steve Ruzich has 

coached the South Suburban 

College baseball team 

for over 30 years, but he 

said he’s never seen anything 

like the performance 

Providence graduate Logan 

Anderson delivered in 

an April 7 doubleheader 

against Elgin. 

Anderson, a freshman 

infielder, became the first 

player in Bulldogs history 

to hit four home runs in 

one day, doing it in just 14 

innings as both games of 

the twin bill were seveninning 

affairs. 

“I’ve never experienced 

anything like that,” Anderson 

said. “The most home 

runs I’d ever hit was two 

in a game. 

“We came in early that 

day for batting practice, 

like normal, and I went 

through my normal routine 

in the cage, hitting 

off the tee and then off the 

machine. I was just feeling 

it that day. The games 

started and I was getting 

pitches I liked and hitting 

them. When I kept seeing 

fastballs, I knew I wasn’t 

going to miss them.” 

Anderson hit two home 

runs in the first game. After 

he went deep again 

early in the second game, 

everyone in the South Suburban 

dugout started realizing 

it was going to be a 

special day. 

“It’s kind of like a nohitter,” 

Anderson said. 

“You don’t talk about it. I 

was just like, ‘I’m going 

to go out there and play 

baseball and if it happens, 

it happens.’” 

It happened. 

Anderson crushed his 

fourth home run of the day, 

the dugout went nuts, and 

he enjoyed his run around 

the bases. 

“Rounding the bases, I 

couldn’t help but smile a 

little bit,” Anderson said. 

“It was crazy. I was like, 

‘That’s four?’” 

Ruzich couldn’t believe 

what he was seeing, either. 

“That was unreal,” Ruzich 

said. “He had one of 

those days. In all my years, 

I’ve never seen anyone do 

that. I told him he better 

eat the same thing and 

wear the same clothes for 

the next game.” 

Even crazier is that Anderson 

nearly made it five. 

He came up in the seventh 

inning of game two and hit 

a ball that had home-run 

distance, but was just foul. 

“I came up with the 

bases loaded and everyone 

was expecting me to hit 

one,” Anderson said. “I got 

a fastball on the first pitch 

and I turned on it, hit it out 

but it was a couple feet 

foul. I was like, ‘Wow.’ I 

ended up with a sacrifice 

fly.” 

In high school, Anderson 

was a three-sport 

standout at Providence, 

also starring in football 

and wrestling. Baseball, 

though, was his choice to 

pursue in college. 

“My heart wasn’t in 

the sport of wrestling,” 

he said. “I stayed with it 

because I had the most utmost 

respect for my coach, 

Keith Healy. Football, I 

was thinking I could go 

somewhere and not play or 

get hurt and be done. Head 

injuries are always something 

that could happen in 

football, too. 

“Baseball’s had my heart 

since I was a little kid. 

When you have a good day 

on the baseball field, there’s 

nothing like it.” 

Through 45 games, 

Anderson led South Suburban 

in home runs with 

six, ranked second in RBIs 

with 37, and was hitting 

.277. 

He quickly earned a 

place in the middle of the 

lineup. 

“We expected him to be 

able to give some thump to 

the middle of our lineup,” 

Ruzich said. “He bats in 

our fourth spot, where 

there can be a lot of pressure 

on a hitter, especially 

a freshman, but he’s handling 

it well.” 

Providence graduate Logan Anderson hit four home runs 

for South Suburban College in an April 7 doubleheader. 

Photo courtesy of South Suburban College 

Any doubts Anderson 

had about his ability to hit 

in that spot as a freshman 

are gone now. 

“My confidence has definitely 

gone up,” he said. 

“I don’t want to toot my 

own horn, but when you 

have a day like that, how 

could it not go up?” 

Softball 

Providence win streak reaches school record 17 

STEVE MILLAR 

Sports Editor 

When Providence 

romped to a doubleheader 

sweep of Trinity on May 

1 with wins of 12-0 and 

19-2, the Celtics accomplished 

two things. 

Not only did they 

clinch at least a share of 

the GCAC Red title, they 

broke a school record with 

their 17th straight victory. 

“The girls obviously 

want to win every game,” 

Providence coach Jay Biesterfeld 

said. “We haven’t 

really set a goal for any 

kind of streak or anything, 

but the girls keep playing 

hard, they’re playing well 

every day, and, all of a 

sudden, it’s 17 straight.” 

Maggie Joutras had a 

huge game in the doubleheader 

finale - driving in 

five runs – while Shannon 

Smith had two home 

runs and four RBIs in the 

opener. 

Joutras was batting seventh 

in the Celtics’ lineup, 

while Smith hit third. 

Where someone is hitting 

hasn’t meant much 

for Providence this year, 

as the Celtics have gotten 

production throughout 

their lineup. 

“At any point, anyone 

in the order can do some 

damage,” Biesterfeld said. 

“That makes it a little 

easier for us to relax. If 

we don’t score with the 

top of our order in the first 

inning, we’re confident 

we can score lower in the 

lineup. There are no holes 

in our lineup.” 

The Celtics (21-3, 10-1 

GCAC Red through May 

5) have averaged 10 runs 

a game during the winning 

streak and have reached 

double digits seven times 

in the 17 games. 

Teagan Sopczak, Corey 

Maloney, Lex Leighton, 

Nicole Mucha, Maggie 

Hurley, Claudia Utz 

and Brittany Rabe have 

all been big contributors 

offensively, while Laila 

Summers and Mucha have 

handled much of the pitching 

duties. 

The Celtics had a chance 

to clinch the GCAC Red 

title outright with a win 

over Fenwick on May 8. 

Providence finished 

third in Class 3A last season 

but is up in 4A this 

season and will compete in 

the Thornwood Sectional. 

The win streak has 

boosted the team’s belief 

that it can make another 

deep postseason run. 

“It definitely helps our 

confidence,” Biesterfeld 

said. “We’ve had some 

close games during the 

streak that were tight late 

in the game and the girls 

never waiver, they just focus 

on what they need to 

do. 

“We’ve been in a lot of 

tight games the last couple 

years, a lot of these kids 

went to state last season 

and they want nothing 

more than to get back.”



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LW Central grad soaks up Team USA hockey experience 

STEVE MILLAR 

Sports Editor 


graduate and New Lenox 

native Jazmin Malinowski 

has played hockey nearly 

her entire life, and she 

grew up imagining herself 

one day playing for Team 

USA. 

“I used to always dream 

about playing for an Olympic 

team,” Malinowski 

said. “I grew up watching 

[Sandburg graduate and 

Olympic hockey player] 

Kendall Coyne [Schofield] 

and playing with her,” 

Malinowski said. “Then 

watching what she was 

able to accomplish, I was 

like, ‘Whoa, I want to do 

that.’ I made it a goal to 

work my hardest and get 

there.” 

Malinowski still has 

Olympic aspirations, but 

in March she got her first 

taste of what it’s like to 

represent her country in 

international competition. 

Now a junior goaltender 

at McKendree University 

in downstate Lebanon, 

Malinowski was chosen to 

play on the United States 

team in the World University 

Games in Krasnoyarsk, 

Russia. 

“The whole thing started 

to develop last year,” Malinowski 

said. “My dad 

[Rich] told me to make 

sure I was ready to play, 

make sure I hit the gym 

and was playing at my 

best, because they’d be 

picking players for the 

team. 

“In practice, I made sure 

I stopped like every single 

puck. I wanted to be at 

my best to have a chance 

to make the team. Waiting 

to see if I’d make the team 

was really nerve- wracking.” 

College coaches were 

able to nominate players 

for the team, and a selection 

committee then invited 

players based on their 

evaluations of their play 

with their college teams. 

Malinowski got the call 

in January informing her 

she was one of two goalies 

chosen. 

“When I got the confirmation, 

that was really 

cool,” she said. “My family 

was so excited for me.” 

Putting on a Team USA 

jersey for the first time was 

a moment Malinowski said 

she will never forget. 

“It was really cool to see 

my last name on the back 

and USA on the front,” 

she said. “It was such an 

honor.” 

The United States went 

2-5 at the tournament and 

finished fourth. Malinowski 

was in the net for at 

least part of both wins. She 

played the whole way in a 

5-2 win over Switzerland, 

making 19 saves, and split 

time with fellow goalie 

Hannah Stone in a 6-1 victory 

over China. 

She also played in a 

10-0 loss to a high-powered 

Russian team. 

“Playing against Switzerland, 

it was a little bit 

faster than what I was used 

to, and then going from 

that game to the Russia 

game, it was like a whole 

jump up to another level,” 

Malinowski said. “It was 

fun to play against those 

girls and get that experience. 

They were so fast, 

so skilled. It was like they 

were either going to score 

or I was going to have to 

make an amazing save.” 

Malinowski said the 

trip was her first time in a 

country besides the United 

States and Canada. 

“The whole experience 

was really cool,” she said. 

“Russia was really interesting 

to visit. The food was 

really different, the culture 

was like a shock for me. It 

was really fun getting to 

play there, though.” 

Malinowski was adopted 

when she was 3 years 

old. Her parents, Rich and 

Erin, were both hockey 

players and coaches. Rich 

played at Marquette and 

Erin at Illinois. 

Shortly after she was adopted, 

when she was only 

3 or 4, Malinowski began 

playing hockey. 

“I was kind of a natural 

when I learned how to 

skate, and then I wanted 

hockey gear right away,” 

she said. “I knew I wanted 

to be a goalie.” 

It wasn’t always easy 

carving out a path to be a 

women’s hockey player. 

Malinowski played on 

boys teams until she was 

12. After a couple years 

with the Chicago Mission 

girls team, she spent most 

of her high school years 

playing for the Milwaukee 

Junior Admirals girls 

team. 

“I’d have to leave 

school, do my homework 

in the car, sleep in the car,” 

she said. “It was different 

growing up than most people. 

I wouldn’t get home 

until maybe 10 every 

night. I’m glad I had those 

experiences, though. 

Lincoln-Way Central graduate Jazmin Malinowski and 

fellow goaltender Hannah Stone don their Team USA 

jerseys before a game at the World University Games in 

March in Krasnoyarsk, Russia. Photo submitted 

“Hockey was something 

that was always there for 

me. There was never a 

time when I didn’t want 

to play hockey. When one 

season ended, I couldn’t 

wait until the next one. It 

was tough, but it was definitely 

worth it in the end.” 

Malinowski was part 

of McKendree’s first 

women’s hockey team in 

2016-2017. This season, 

her junior year, the team 

qualified for the American 

Collegiate Hockey Association 

national tournament 

for the first time. 

She hopes for more big 

things at McKendree and 

beyond. 

“I’d love to play professional 

hockey,” she said. 

“And I definitely want to 

play for Team USA again. 

The next [World University 

Games] are in 2021 

and I plan to go to graduate 

school, so I’d be eligible 

for that team. I’d love to 

get another chance to put 

on that jersey.” 

high school highlights 

The rest of the week in high school sports 

Girls track and field 

Knights take SWSC Red 

title 

Jess LeVigni won the 

long jump (17 feet-11.5 

inches) and pole vault (10- 

3) to lead Lincoln-Way 

Central to its fourth conference 

title in program 

history. 

The Knights finished 

with 151 points to hold 

off Thornton (137), which 

had won the previous two 

titles. Lincoln-Way West 

(127.5) was third. 

Also winning for LW 

Central were Rachel 

Baumgartner in the 800 

meters (2:28.51), Mackenzie 

Brownrigg in the 1600 

(5:21.96) and Merrigan Allen 

in the 3200 (11:37.26). 

The Knights’ 3200 relay 

team of Baumgartner, 

Brownrigg, Samantha 

Waters and Lexie Kamp 

(10:12.22) also was victorious. 

LW West’s Mardi Lorenz 

(1:03.22) and Katie Schultz 

(1:04.01) produced a 1-2 

finish in the 400. 

Girls water polo 

LW Central clinches 

SWSC crown, unbeaten 

conference season 

Megan Cales and Madi 

Jager led the way as LW 

Central wrapped up an 8-0 

finish in SouthWest Suburban 

play with a 14-5 win 

over Stagg on May 2. 

The Knights also beat 

Sandburg 17-13 on April 

30. 

Softball 

Knights go 6-0 

Sydney Grein drove in 

three runs, Carly Alvers 

homered and Amanda 

Weyh threw a completegame 

shutout as LW Central 

beat LW West 8-0 on 

May 2 at the Rosemont 

Dome, highlighting a huge 

week for the Knights. 

The Knights also beat 

Thornwood 16-0 and 12-0 

on April 22, Sandburg 6-0 

on April 25, Joliet Catholic 

8-3 on April 26, and 

Bradley-Bourbonnais 3-1 

on Saturday, May 4. 

Lincoln-Way West 4, T.F. 

South 2 

Emma Young went 

2-for-4 with a double and 

an RBI for the Warriors on 

Friday, May 3. Allie Wondrasek 

tossed a complete 

game, allowing two runs 

and striking out 11. 

Baseball 

Lincoln-Way West 6, 

Waubonsie Valley 1 

Ben Gerl and Keagan 

Bobbitt each tossed two 

scoreless innings for the 

Warriors on Friday, May 

3. John Latek had an RBI 

double.



fastbreak 

Baseball 

Knights overcome rough start, roll past Providence 

1st and 3 

Steve Millar/22nd 

Century Media 

THREE LOCAL TEAMS 

ON LONG WINNING 

STREAKS 

1. LW co-op girls 

lacrosse 

Lincoln-Way remained 

undefeated 

and picked up its 

12th straight win, 

beating District 230 

16-13 on April 29. 

Caroline Behrens 

(above) scored seven 

goals. 

2. Providence softball 

The Celtics broke a 

school record with 

their 17th straight 

victory, a 19-2 rout 

of Trinity, on May 1. 

Maggie Joutras had 

five RBIs. Providence 

also clinched 

at least a share of the 

GCAC Red title with 

the win. 

3. LW Central softball 

The Knights extended 

their winning 

streak to 13 with 

an 8-0 shutout of 

crosstown rival LW 

West on May 2 at the 

Rosemont Dome. 

Amanda Weyh 

tossed a complete 

game shutout. 

Steve Millar, Sports Editor 

Just an inning into its 

May 1 game at crosstown 

rival Providence, Lincoln- 

Way Central found itself 

down five runs. 

Celtics ace and Arizona 

State recruit Bryce Barnett 

was on the mound. 

It was not an enviable 

position for the Knights 

to be in. In fact, it’s a spot 

junior catcher Liam Higgins 

doesn’t think Central 

could have dug itself out 

of earlier in the season. 

“Our biggest problem 

at the beginning of the 

year is when things went 

bad, we got down on ourselves,” 

Higgins said. 

“We’ve got a lot of leadership 

that’s developed 

since the beginning of the 

year and now we get down 

and we think, ‘We’re still 

in this game.’” 

The Knights were certainly 

still in it against the 

Celtics. They answered 

with nine runs in the second 

inning, knocking Barnett 

out early, and romped 

to a 16-6 win in five innings. 

“We go down five, 

they’ve got their ace going, 

we could’ve quit,” Central 

coach Mitch Nowicki said. 

“But we didn’t. We had the 

big second inning and just 

built from there.” 

It was a stunning turn 

of events for Providence 

coach Mark Smith. 

“We came out with 

five runs, felt really good 

about it, had our guy on 

the mound,” Smith said. 

“That’s the first time 

in four years I’ve seen 

(Barnett) struggle with 

his command, but he’ll 

bounce back and he’ll be 

fine. 

“It was just one of those 

games where we couldn’t 

get them out, and offensively 

we haven’t been 

putting up enough runs 

to be able to keep up in a 

game like this.” 

While the Knights’ offense 

caught fire, senior 

lefty Noah Cantleberry 

was brilliant in relief. 

Cantleberry came into 

the game with just one out 

recorded in the bottom of 

the first. The Celtics (13- 

11) led 5-0 and had the 

bases loaded for the top of 

its lineup. 

Cantleberry got a strikeout 

and a groundout to 

escape the jam and set the 

stage for the Knights (14- 

8) to come back. 

“My mindset was just 

to go in, throw strikes, get 

ahead of hitters,” Cantleberry 

said. “I feel like we 

got some momentum that 

did carry over a lot. After 

that inning, we really came 

together as a team, put up 

nine runs.” 

Cantleberry threw 3 2/3 

innings, allowing one run 

on two hits while striking 

out seven, to get the win. 

Central’s offense then 

exploded, with a big boost 

from the bottom of the 

lineup. 

The first seven Knights 

hitters of the second inning 

reached base against 

Barnett. Central had one 

run in and the bases loaded 

when Higgins, the No. 8 

hitter, came up. 

He smoked a 3-0 pitch 

down the right-field line to 

drive in two runs and make 

it 5-3. 

“At the beginning of 

the year, I was taking 3-0 

pitches, and (Nowicki) 

told me, ‘Liam, you’ve got 

to swing on 3-0,’” Higgins 

said. “That was my first 

swing of the year on 3-0. 

I knew he was struggling 

with his control on offspeed 

pitches, and I knew 

he was going to throw me 

a fastball for a strike because 

he didn’t want to 

load the bases.” 

Riley Murphy followed 

with a RBI single. 

“It was great,” Nowicki 

said. “Liam gets a 3-0 fastball, 

huge double. Riley 

gets another RBI. When 

you get production from 

the guys in 7-8-9 spots, it 

lights the fire for the rest of 

the team.” 

Kyle Labedz (3-for-4) 

tied the game with a single 

and the Knights jumped 

on top with RBI singles 

from Ryan Kraft and Johnny 

McGuire, and a tworun 

base hit from Turner 

Doran. 

The Knights put up another 

crooked number in 

the fifth inning, scoring six 

times to go up by 10. 

Doran drove in three 

Lincoln-Way Central’s Liam Higgins connects 

for a two-run double in the Knights’ 16-6 win over 

Providence on May 1. Photos by Steve Millar/22nd 

Century Media 

Lincoln-Way Central senior Noah Cantleberry 

earned the win in relief May 1 as the Knights topped 

Providence 16-6. 

runs, while Labedz, Kraft, 

McGuire, Higgins and 

Murphy each had two 

RBIs. Every batter in the 

Knights’ lineup had at 

least one hit. 

Barnett and Brennan 

Geers had two RBIs each 

to lead Providence, while 

Jake Messelmann and Jake 

Mucha each drove in one 

run. 

“Tip your cap to them,” 

Smith said. “They swung 

the bats, they hit the heck 

out of it, they came in here 

and kicked our butts.” 

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“It was really cool to see my last name on the back and USA 

on the front. It was such an honor.” 

Jazmin Malinowski - Lincoln-Way Central graduate, on playing for Team USA in the World 

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Index 

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41 - Athlete of the Week 

FASTBREAK is compiled by Sports Editor 

Steve Millar at s.millar@22ndcm.com.

new lenox’s Hometown Newspaper | May 9, 2019 

CONVINCING 

COMEBACK 

LW Central rallies 

to rout Providence, 

Page 47 

WARRIORS WIN 

AGAIN LW West badminton 

takes sectional title in coach 

Donna Thompson’s final 

season, Page 42 

Lincoln-Way Central graduate Jazmin Malinowski plays for the United 

States in the World University Games in Russia, Page 46 

LEFT: Lincoln-Way Central graduate Jazmin Malinowski represented the United States in the World University Games in March in Krasnoyarsk, Russia. Photo submitted 

RIGHT: Jazmin Malinowski, a Lincoln-Way Central graduate, is the star goaltender of McKendree University’s women’s hockey team. Photo courtesy of McKendree athletics

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