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ON THE COVERChildren compete in the foot races in Yorkville’s Town Square Park Monday. The annual races are a longtime tradi-tion that spans generations.

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Yorkville sets referendum on clerk, treasurer positions

By SUSAN THANEPOHN [email protected]

The Yorkville City Council unan-imously approved a resolution last week calling for a binding referendum to be placed on the Nov. 8 ballot that – if approved by voters – would elimi-nate the currently elected positions of city clerk and treasurer.

City voters rejected a similar refer-endum in April of 2013.

Council members emphasized that the purpose of the referendum is to save money, to let the city set specific job requirements for the positions and to have more performance account-ability for the positions.

Both positions can be covered by

in-house staff, resulting in a savings of around $10,000 per year. Currently both elected positions are considered part-time and have a base salary of $3,600 a year with a $100 per meeting stipend ($6,000 annual maximum).

Council members noted that in-dividuals appointed to the positions would have to meet specific job re-quirements pertaining to qualifi-cations, education and experience. They would also be held accountable through personnel procedures and policies.

Alderman Joel Frieders explained that the primary difference between having elected positions and appoint-ed positions is accountability.

“If you have a problem with an

elected [office holder], it’s like ‘Oh well,’ but if they are appointed and there are problems you can throw them out.”

He and the rest of the council em-phasized that this does not in any way reflect on past or present officials, but just shows what could be done.

Currently, the treasurer position has been vacant since January 2013 with city Finance Director Rob Fred-rickson serving as deputy city treasur-er. If the referendum receives a ma-jority of yes votes from city residents, current City Clerk Beth Warren would serve out her term through 2019.

Residents with questions or con-cerns about the referendum are en-couraged to contact their aldermen.

School board OKs personnel changesBy KATHY FARREN

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Several personnel changes were ap-proved by the Yorkville School Board last week.

Board members hired Jill Zapata as the assistant principal for bilingual and English Language Learners (ELL) services.

Her salary was set at $66,905 plus administrative benefits.

They also hired Alisia Bara and Dawn Loos as summer principal sec-retaries at Yorkville High School; Jeannie Keisler, sixth-grade teacher at Bristol Bay Elementary School; Brit-tney Hutchinson, first-grade teacher at Bristol Bay; Charles Brooks, social worker at Circle Center Grade School; Lynne Campbell and Jazmin Zepeda, paraprofessionals at Autumn Creek El-ementary School; and Michelle Hettel, special education teacher at Yorkville Intermediate School.

They also increased Laura Tuma’s hours as physical education teacher at Grande Reserve Elementary School.

They accepted the resignations of Kelly Kramer, special education co-

ordinator; Kris Van Loon, school psy-chologist; Allison Veltman, speech language pathologist; Benny Graham and Luke Engelhardt, Yorkville High School physical education teachers; Suzanne Galmarini, student services secretary at YHS; Brian Severson, head night custodian at Yorkville Mid-dle School; and Tina Lindstrand and Deborah Halstead, paraprofessionals at Autumn Creek Elementary School.

Resignations were also accepted from Luke Engelhardt as physical ed-ucation department chair, assistant athletic director and head girls’ bas-ketball coach; James Higgins as sev-enth-grade girls’ basketball coach at YMS; Zack Price as freshmen baseball coach; and Katherine Calder as YHS newspaper adviser.

The board hired Julie Renda as YHS Educators Rising Club sponsor; Amy Hurt, YHS Spanish Club sponsor; Kurt Holubetz, YHS Student Ambassador Club co-sponsor; Maxzine Rossler, YHS assistant girls’ basketball coach; Connor Loerhke and Kevin Caine, YHS assistant football coaches; Chris Palmisano, YHS assistant boys’ soccer coach; Nate Campbell and Jaci Body,

YHS football coaches; and increased the stipend for Dan McGuire, head football coach, to match his experi-ence.

Hired for summer school at Grande Reserve Elementary School were: Hai-ley Plum, early childhood and kinder-garten; Tracey Jackson, kindergarten; Susanne Pratt, Bridget Winz and An-nette Spino for first grade; Tracey Dar-nell and Rhonda McKeever for second grade; Noelle Williams, Kathryn Dil-lon and Michael Dillon for third grade; Laura Garbe for fourth and fifth grade; Heather Diverde, secretary; Audrey Sinning and Tamie Holste, special ed-ucation teachers; and Patricia Orvis and Taylor Teckenbrock, paraprofes-sionals.

Also hired were Sandra Gerlinger for the YHS summer program and Mor-gan Brown as an Extended School Year teacher at Autumn Creek.

Jennifer Thill was transferred to the position of library media specialist at Bristol Bay Elementary School and the board approved Tiffany Shue’s vol-untary reduction from full to half-time kindergarten teacher at Bristol Grade School.

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Budget fix gets mixed reviews from lawmakers

By TONY SCOTT [email protected]

Local state legislators gave mixed reviews to the stopgap budget ap-proved by the General Assembly on June 30.

Lawmakers adopted the $50.6 bil-lion budget measure on the deadline of the state’s fiscal year, which began July 1. The plan includes funding for K-12 and higher education, transpor-tation and infrastructure projects and human services programs.

State Rep. Mark Batinick, R-Plain-field, said he wasn’t happy with the stopgap budget, but that the alterna-tive would have been worse.

“It keeps us in purgatory but it keeps us out of hell,” he said.

“There is something to hate about every one of those bills, but the alter-native would have been much worse if

some of that stuff didn’t pass.”State Rep. Stephanie Kifowit, D-Os-

wego, said she was glad that funding was approved for schools, human ser-vices and road projects, but was dis-appointed that the state still does not have a full-year budget.

“While I am pleased we were able to provide emergency funding to agen-cies and organizations, I am frustrated Illinois still does not have a complete, balanced and responsible full-year budget,” he said. “I encourage the leg-islative leaders and the governor to continue working towards a balanced and responsible full-year budget.”

State Sen. Linda Holmes, D-Auro-ra, said the stopgap budget “produced very mixed feelings for many of us.”

“This stopgap measure is not ideal, and it’s going to be small comfort to college students who couldn’t go back to school because of a lack of MAP

grants, or the social services that laid off staff or closed their doors because the state simply didn’t pay them for the humanitarian work they did,” she said.

“Yet, once Gov. Rauner laid aside an unpopular, unrelated agenda and negotiated a compromise in good faith, we were able to ensure our schools and universities stay open, adequate funding will be provided to IMSA, our most vulnerable citizens are cared for, and much-needed construction proj-ects won’t see costly interruptions.”

Holmes added, “Let’s do as our friends and neighbors have demand-ed, and set aside ego to keep seeking compromise as we move forward.”

State Sen. Sue Rezin, R-Peru, said she was “ecstatic” to vote for the stop-gap measure.

“It is beyond refreshing to have finally reached a bipartisan compro-mise on this issue,” she said. “This was one of the most important ‘yes’ votes I have cast while representing

the 38th Senate District.”State Sen. Jim Oberweis, R-Sugar

Grove, praised the legislation as some-thing the state needed immediately.

“We worked for nearly a year to pass a balanced budget and meaning-ful economic reforms to expand job opportunities, fix a corrupt political system and mend a failing state econ-omy. The stop-gap budget passed June 30 is not what our state needs long-term, but it does provide what we need right now.

“It provides a temporary resolu-tion to the impasse,” Oberweis said.

State Rep. Keith Wheeler, R-Oswe-go, said the stopgap measure “isn’t perfect or complete.”

“It is the product of a negotiated, bipartisan compromise,” he said. “Ul-timately, there will be critical discus-sions this fall that will address needed reforms to grow the Illinois economy and to create jobs to reduce Illinois’ unemployment rate, which is current-ly the highest in the nation.”

Rep. Batinick says measure ‘keeps us out of hell’

Kendall County road officials breathe sigh of reliefBy TONY SCOTT

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State lawmakers’ approval of a stopgap budget measure has officials throughout the county breath-ing a collective sigh of relief, as it was possible that some major road projects would have been stalled had the measure failed.**8u

The Illinois Department of Transportation this month told state contractors that if a budget was not approved by July 1, the start of the state’s fiscal year, all road projects would come to a halt. Gov. Bruce Rauner and legislators negotiated all day June 29 and June 30 on a variety of budget issues, including IDOT funding.

“We have a standing directive from IDOT that all federally-funded projects will be shut down,” Fran Klaas, Kendall County Highway Engineer, said last week. “The way the money comes through Illinois, it goes through their state budget so essentially any-thing with federal money in it is shut down. So any work on a state highway is done as of Friday, unless something breaks loose in Springfield.”

On July 1, Klaas said the approval of stopgap fund-ing means officials are heaving a “big sigh of relief.”

“All projects can now move forward uninterrupt-ed … at least until the end of the year,” he said.

Projects funded with county motor fuel tax and transportation sales tax were not impacted, Klaas said. The only federally-funded project that is ongo-ing right now is Eldamain Road from the Menards Distribution Center north to Galena Road, he said.

In Oswego, where contractors are in the midst of working on Ill. Route 71, such a stoppage would

have halted that project and could have also affected the project to widen U.S. Route 34 between Orchard Road in Oswego and Ill. Route 47 in Yorkville, ac-cording to Oswego Public Works Director Jennifer Hughes. Hughes also said she was relieved that the stopgap budget was approved so as not to interrupt projects.

Montgomery Public Works Director Todd Hop-penstedt said while projects in the village would not have been directly affected by the shutdown, a stop-gap budget will help local agencies.

Yorkville City Administrator Bart Olson said the funding is “a relief.”

“It provides funding for the Route 34 expansion and Route 71 expansion to continue forward and has full funding for municipal revenues,” he said.

Plano Mayor Bob Hausler said he is concerned that the stopgap measure did not address the root of the state’s financial problems.

“I think it was a necessary piece of legislation and had to be passed to avoid really disastrous con-sequences for the state,” he said. “But it still doesn’t address the root problems of the budget, and when you talk about social service agencies, a lot of the damage has already been done.”

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Motorists travel through the construction zone on Route 71 in Oswego west of Forest Avenue on Tuesday.

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Food pantry board taking reassuring steps

“A dark time.” Those were the words that Jeff Young, acting director and chairman of the Kendall County Food Pantry’s governing board, used to describe the past several weeks for the pantry, its supporters, its many volunteers and patrons.

As we reported, the Yorkville police depart-ment is continuing its investigation regarding “suspicious transactions and possible theft of funds” from the pantry accounts that began in late May. Police Chief Rich Hart has said the re-sults of the investigation may go before a grand jury later this month.

Meanwhile, the pantry’s former longtime director and board chairman, Maria Spaeth, was found dead in her Lake Holiday vacation home June 21. She and her husband, Ken, the food pantry’s treasurer, resigned from their respective positions June 7, after the Yorkville police had begun their investigation.

In a statement, Young said the news of the police investigation and the Spaeths’ resigna-tions were “both hard to swallow and a com-plete surprise, was devastating to the other pantry volunteers, our clients and Kendall County community as a whole.” Young ac-knowledged the departure and subsequent death of Maria Spaeth thrust the pantry “into a darkness fueled by fear, speculation and a demand for answers.”

Nevertheless, we’re encouraged that Young, the remaining pantry board of directors and its volunteers have kept the pantry’s doors open at 208 Beaver St. in Yorkville to serve the many of our county in need.

Importantly, according to Young, the pantry board is confident the impropriety alleged in the police investigation is “isolated to two in-dividuals who are no longer affiliated with the pantry in any way” and the board has promised to put safeguards in place “to prevent any simi-lar breach of trust from ever happening again.”

Young’s words are reassuring to us and should be to the thousands of county residents who have supported the pantry and volun-teered their time there over the years. In order for the pantry to operate, it must enjoy the full trust and confidence of the community it serves. To rebuild that trust and confidence, the public needs to know that their donations of money, food and other items are indeed going to the members of our community who need it the most.

We believe the board has taken the first steps toward doing just that. For the thousands of individuals and families that rely on the pantry for meals, school supplies and other as-sistance, it is of vital importance that the board succeeds.

Old advertising campaigns tell us much about recent history

When it opened for business in 1960, Common-wealth Edison’s Dresden Atomic Power Station became the first privately-owned nuclear power gen-erating station in the nation. The facility was – and still is today – located on the Illinois River just south of Morris and was named for the old crossroads post office village of Dresden.

The plant was a technological marvel, and I remember Verne Killian inviting me to go down to visit it with a bunch of his fellow Oswego Lions Club members the year it opened when I was a freshman in high school.

For those of us who grew up in the 1950s, nuclear power was going to be the nation’s economic salva-tion. Nuclear power plants, we were told as kids, were going to make the generation of electrical power so cheap that electric meters would join buggy whips on the historical dust heap of once-common items no longer needed. The ComEd guy conducting our tour wasn’t quite that optimistic, but he suggested that Dresden and the other nuclear generating plants planned by other utility companies across the U.S. would make power extremely cheap.

That claim was drummed into the heads of us and our parents along with all the other products and ideas being sold in commercials on our brand new television sets. Anyone who grew up during that era will likely never forget the annoying little cartoon bird, named “Little Bill” singing that catchy jingle: “Electricity costs less today, you know, than it did 25 years ago! A little birdie told me so – Little Bill!”

Thanks to financial manipulations, ComEd no lon-ger owns its own generating plants. That capability was spun off into a company named Exelon – another one of those corporate names that sound like a brand of asthma inhaler. The nation’s nuclear generating capacity, of course, is shrinking these days, and we unfortunately never got to the point where ComEd crews were going house to house removing electric meters. Instead, coal plants still predominate, spew-ing their greenhouse gases and, ironically, emitting more radiation than nuclear plants do, thanks to trace radioactive elements in the coal they burn.

So Little Bill and the whole concept of too-cheap-to-bill electricity is long gone. But the bird’s catchy jingle (which is now rattling around in my head, prob-ably for the rest of the day) is not the only advertising ploy progress has dumped into history’s dustbin.

Remember Esso Gasoline’s “Put a Tiger in Your Tank” campaign? Back in the ’60s, the company even manufactured little tiger tails customers hooked to the side of their gas tank filler door so it looked like they might really have a tiger lurking in their tank.

And while we’re on the topic of gasoline, the guys out there might remember the Sunoco stations with gas pumps that had dials allowing customers to select the octane level they wanted. Guys who went street racing usually filled up with 260 octane, the highest

the dials allowed (today’s regular gas is 87 octane), the next best thing to jet fuel.

Nor should we forget all those cereal ads aimed at kids. Back then, sugar was considered necessary to give kids sufficient energy to get through the day – lots of sugar.

Tony the Tiger used to plead with us to eat Kel-logg’s Sugar Frosted Flakes. Then sugar came into disrepute, and marketing required downplaying its presence. So Tony’s flakes became simply Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes.

Same goes for Kellogg’s Sugar Corn Pops. Wild Bill Hickok and his sidekick Jingles Jones hawked the cereal on their Western TV series because, as the jingle went, “Kellogg’s Sugar Corn Pops: Sugar Pops are tops!” And they were good, too. But we can’t buy Sugar Pops nowadays, although we can buy boxes of Corn Pops, which, except for excising the word “sug-ar,” are pretty much identical.

Remember Sugar Smacks? That was the puffed wheat cereal coated with a sugar glaze. Sugar having gotten a bad rap, the company decided to change the subject by touting the cereal’s sweetness while also wrapping themselves in “natural” food cloak by morphing Sugar Smacks into Honey Smacks. It’s a well-known “fact” that “natural” sugars are much better for us than bad old refined sugars. Which is pretty much hogwash (chemically, sugar is sugar), but giving consumers what they think they want is a grand old American business tradition.

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“Put a Tiger in Your Tank” was the slogan Esso Oil Co. used to sell gas in the 1960s, when muscle cars were in vogue.

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In other cases, new technology did away with perfectly good advertising ideas. Take Gillette Blue Blades for in-stance. Originally, the company’s razor blades were simple high-carbon steel. But then someone got the bright idea of bluing them like gun barrels to keep them from rusting so easily. Gillette

Blue Blades were an advertising staple of prizefight broadcasts on the radio and early television. But then the tech-nology became available to make razor blades out of stainless steel, so then we were treated to Wilkinson Sword Blades – an exciting macho product name if there ever was one.

In other cases, changing the way services are provided has eliminated advertising campaigns, not to mention whole brands. Cities Service gasoline

stations, for instance, would look pretty silly in this day and age of no service but self-service. And remember “The Man who Wears the Star, the Big Bright Texaco Star?” The motto was popular in the days when guys at gas stations wore crisp uniforms and would actually dash out like an Indy pit crew to fill your gas tank, wash your windows, check your oil and water, and provide...well...service at a service station. We were told we could

“Trust the Man who Wears the Star,” and lots of us did.

Old advertising slogans and ad campaigns can tell us a lot about recent history, and about the times in which they were hatched, just as today’s slogans and ad campaigns tell us a lot about how our world has changed.

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FORUMCollaborative approach needed

To the Editor:The June 27 Yorkville School Board

meeting was attended by several dozen parents of district students, there to voice concerns over the proposed changes to the district’s comprehensive grading plan. The tenor and outcome of the meeting revealed a deeply flawed communication process.

Dr. Lynn Burks admirably allowed a number of passionate speakers to make their opinions known. Somewhat shock-ing, however, was that when Dr. Burks announced the beginning of the public comment period, which was to pre-cede the board’s comments, one board member effectively hijacked the meeting, taking the opportunity out-of-turn to explain to the attendees that, in essence, there was nothing they would be saying to the board that he had not yet heard. He managed to shut down communica-tion before it even started. Another board member communicated the same, albeit more politely than the first.

There was no doubt that there would be little to no consideration given to the public’s viewpoints. Indeed, the first guest speaker confronted the entire board – and one board member in particular – on the poor communication and poor collaboration between the board and its committee and the parental community.

One thing was very apparent to me, and that is that the school board members, the committee that put together the grading plan proposal, and the parents all have the same goal: an improved, positive outcome for the students. It was shocking, therefore, to find that some board members were as unresponsive, and in one case, effectively closed off to, the input of the public as they were. Indeed, when Dr. Burks reopened the comment period for the board, not one of them had the courtesy to respond in even a general way to the input that had been offered by the public.

To be absolutely fair, some changes requested by district constituents were, in fact, incorporated into the final draft of the proposal. I am not naive enough to believe that all stakeholders are going to be 100 percent happy with the outcome. That said, I think it is incumbent upon the board to fully commit to a collaborative, respectful relationship with the district’s constituents, and to be willing to slow down and humbly and honestly consid-er opposing viewpoints, even when it means that a project may be delayed.

Ronald MattsonYorkville

Liberty, freedom at ArlingtonTo the Editor:Looking for unique encounters with

American heritage beyond Kendall County? Go explore precious history at Arlington National Cemetery, by USMC’s majestic Iwo Jima memorial, on the Poto-mac River, at Washington, DC.

Liberty and freedom still ride the winds there. 24/7 tributes to 400,000-plus interred honored military dead and other notables.

Arlington was established during Civil War years. 660 acres sit on Arlington House estate grounds once owned by Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s wife, Mary Anne Curtis. She was great-great-granddaughter of Martha Washington. Visitor-friendly tours help guests discover new meanings about an American birthright. Early on, you’ll be thunderstruck by thousands of stark white headstones lined up neatly beyond your eye’s horizon. A haunting energy surrounds them. I can’t explain it.

Wander among the rows. Reflect on names. Ponder about those buried in honor below your feet. Witness a preci-sion Changing-of-the-Guard ceremony at the Unknown Soldier’s tomb. Dignity and nobility will greet you. Stroll through Memorial Arboretum’s natural wonder-land. Stand in poignant silence at John F. Kennedy’s revered eternal flame grave-

side.I always choke up at Arlington, prodded

to never forget who we are, what we have, plus who and what made America possible.

Across the river, however, feelings are different. Those in power don’t share my love of country. Sedition and subversion ride foul winds there. As you read these words, traitors wage a 24/7 radical, anti-American siege against liberty and freedom. I’m convinced that treason is happening in the White House, Congress, throughout the beltway. Anti-American minions are growing government into a behemoth with monstrous size, power and control. Control is what radical government is all about.

Our liberty and freedoms are the targets. What a reprehensible affront to the greatest country on earth. Spirits of our war dead at Arlington – and every-where – must be wailing. “We died for this?” Perhaps Arlington’s patriotic force will enlist visitors to reverse America’s dismantling. Whether at Arlington or not, it’s time to derail Obama’s Red Express hurtling down the tracks to hell.

Let’s wreck it. We’ll be successful if we replace traitors in present government with authentic American loyalists. Cer-tainly not with Hillary Clinton. November is weeks away.

Do your share: think, know, care, find time, read and get involved.

Harry HendersonYorkville

Bring the familyTo the Editor:Families are invited to bring the kids to

River Night and Ribs on the River, hosted by the Yorkville Area Chamber of Com-merce and United City of Yorkville, and sponsored by Midland States Bank.

In the Family Area, sponsored by Rush-Copley, the Fox River Academy of Music and Art will return to offer a fun assortment of free activities and crafts for children. Additionally there will be

bounce houses and, new this year, a “Touch-a-School Bus” hosted by Septran. Demo performances by local community groups continue to be confirmed, but will include BH Martial Arts, Fox River Academy of Music and Art, Taekwondo Korea Center, YMS and YHS Step Team, YHS Robotics Team, YPAC and more. Featured on Friday only will be Samantha Brown with SB Face Painting, as well as the cardboard canoe races.

Come hungry and thirsty to sample the variety offered by food vendors and beer and beverage tent, these being spon-sored by Manus Dental and Brenart Eye Clinic. This year a beer garden tent with seating will be added for a shaded place to enjoy refreshments while listening to music that includes the popular rock cov-er band Red Woody on Friday. Saturday features a country line-up with County Line Brothers, Whiskey Romance and Back Country Roads.

Free admission along with free family activities are made possible by the above sponsoring businesses, plus others including FNBC Bank and Trust, Meadow-vale, and Morris Hospital Yorkville Cam-pus. Stop by their booths to visit them at the festival.

Visit yorkvillechamber.org or yorkville.il.us for the schedule of activities.

Sherri FarleyExecutive DirectorYorkville Area Chamber of CommerceYorkville

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9U July 31st from 9:00am – 11:00am10U July 31st from 11:00am – 1:00pm12U July 31st from 1:00pm – 3:00pm14U July 31st from 3:00pm – 5:00pm16U August 6th from 9:00am – 11:00am

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July 25th from 5:00pm – 8:00pm there will be an open house for our indoor training facility.

The Yorkville Public Library has announced the following upcoming programs. The library is located at 902 Game Farm Road in Yorkville. For information, call 630-553-4354 or visit yorkville.lib.il.us.

Creative Coloring for Grown-Ups: Wednesday, July 20, 10:30 a.m. to noon. Ex-plore your creativity and let your inner artist reign during this stress-free and relaxing time

of coloring designs from the popular coloring books for grown-ups. You are welcome to bring your own supplies if preferred. This program is intended for adults 18 and older and no registration is required.

Men’s Book Club: Thursday, July 21, 7 p.m. This group of men meet on the third Thursday of each month. They will be dis-cussing “Memory Man” by David Baldacci.

Creative Writing Group: Tuesday, July

26, 7 p.m. Whether you are looking to write the next thriller, your biography, a short sto-ry, or even develop your professional writing skills, this program may be for you. This group is for all people who are passionate about words. Its intent is to create a positive, encouraging, honest, and fun atmosphere that will support and motivate each other to achieve excellence in writing. Meetings are held on the fourth Tuesday of the Month. No

registration is required.Recycled Book Art Hands-On Work-

shop: Wednesday, July 27, 7 p.m. If you have old books in your collection and don’t like the idea of sending them to the landfill, this program might be for you. Come for a hands-on crafting workshop where you will learn how to turn those old books into beautiful works of art. Space is limited so registration is required. Sign up at the Adult Service Desk.

YORKVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY PROGRAMS

The Charles B. Phillips Library has announced the following upcoming programs. The library is located at 6 N. Jackson St. in Newark.

Adult Matinée: Friday, July 8, 2 p.m. Join us for a movie matinée featuring “My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2.” Back with the original cast, the Portokalos family plans an even bigger wedding than before. Popcorn and refreshments will be provided.

Youth Summer Reading Activities: Charles B. Phillips Library will be packed with fun activities starting at 1 p.m. for the kids all week including Movie Monday on July 11 featuring “Zootopia,” Magic Balloon Dude Dale on Activity Tuesday on July 12, and football helmet craft on

Thursday, July 14.The Art of Inflation: Tuesday,

July 12, 1 p.m. Join us for a balloon crazy family fun event. Magical Balloon Dude Dale will perform his Art of Inflation performance. Open to all ages and the public.

Eleanor Roosevelt presented by Leslie Goddard: Thursday, July 14, 6:30 p.m. Meet the shy orphan who grew up into a confident champion of human rights, Eleanor Roosevelt. Actress and historian Les-lie Goddard will portray Roosevelt. As Roosevelt she will tell stories from her childhood, her marriage to Franklin D. Roosevelt, handling his polio and death, her work during the war, and coming into the White House in 1933.

CHARLES B. PHILLIPS LIBRARY PROGRAMS

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The new Yorkville Education Foundation is currently accepting applications for direc-tors.

Founded last July 2015, the YEF is a Illi-nois nonprofit organization that seeks to fos-ter partnerships between local businesses, the community and schools to develop new resources for students and teachers.

Comprised of educators, community lead-ers, business stakeholders and parents, the Yorkville Education Foundation is led by four executive directors and ten directors who began meeting in May 2015. The YEF mission statement, “inspiring excellence, celebrating achievement and nurturing po-tential,” captures the organization’s commit-ment to establishing a shared community enterprise dedicated to supporting Yorkville

schools. The foundation’s goals focus on en-couraging excellence in teaching, recogniz-ing student achievement, enriching teaching and learning opportunities and creating an endowment for long-term sustainability.

During its inaugural year, the founda-tion established four working committees to guide initial projects, including community outreach, community engagement and de-veloping a giving infrastructure. The orga-nization is currently accepting applications for additional directors to serve three-year terms.

Individuals interested in making a differ-ence in Yorkville schools for both students and teachers should complete an application by Sunday, July 10.

Questions related to the Yorkville Ed-ucation Foundation may be emailed to [email protected].

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By TONY SCOTT [email protected]

Local school district officials are happy that the state legislature ap-proved full appropriations for educa-tion following budget talks last week, but some say it doesn’t fix the underly-ing problem with school funding.

Dr. Hector Garcia, superintendent with Plano School District 88, said he appreciates the district’s approximate-ly $250,000 in increased state funding. However, he said the state hasn’t fully funded school dis-trict appropriations in

the four years that he has been super-intendent.

“For school districts like ours, it’s truly playing catch-up on a few issues,” he said. “So this money is welcome, at the same time we’ve been doing a great deal with a lot less every year.”

Garcia said the funding is based on a model that needs improvement.

“When we talk about fully funding

it, it’s taking a step in the right direc-tion,” he said. “It is not, by any means, resolving the issue.”

Kristine Liptrot, director of commu-nications and community engagement for Yorkville District 115, said the news was “extremely positive for us.” That district is set to receive approximately $4.6 million in new funding.

“Just being fully funded for the first time in years is wonderful and will do great things for our students, but on top of that being fully funded, there was also the equity grant. And out of that equity grant, our portion is $83,000. So we will have an extra $83,000 on top of being fully funded, so it’s tremendous for us.”

However, Dean Romano, chief op-erations officer for District 115, said the district is being “cautiously opti-mistic” when budgeting for state fund payments.

“While we anticipate to receive more in general state aid and state funding, we’re going to be cautious-ly optimistic with regards to how we actually expect the appropriations to come to us,” he said.

Ali Mehanti, assistant superinten-dent for business and operations for District 308, said the district is facing a $6 million budget deficit and the ap-proximately $4 million the district is set to receive should help the district “end up in the black next year.”

However, like Garcia, Mehanti lamented the state’s funding formula, which relies heavily on property tax revenue to fund local schools.

“It’s a blessing to our district, how-ever, there are still issues with the funding formula,” he said.

Mehanti said the state should have been funding school districts fully for the past four years.

“This is something we should have gotten to begin with – 100 percent fund-ing – because we lost around $21 mil-lion in the proration,” he said. “Now, this year we’re receiving 100 percent funding, which we should have gotten anyway, every year.”

Garcia said he supported the legis-lature’s action but there is more to do.

“It’s welcome and I’m glad they were able to resolve it; the alternative was going to be much worse,” he said. “There’s still some work to be done down in Springfield.”

Officials say funding formula still needs reform

Dr. Hector Garcia

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Kendall County sheriff’s deputies issued a littering citation, a Class B misdemeanor, to Eugene Brock, 55, of Aurora, June 22 following an investi-gation that involved personnel from the Bristol Township Highway De-partment, the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency and the Kendall County building and zoning depart-ment.

Police said they started the inves-tigation April 19 after taking a report of garbage being dumped in a creek on East Beecher Road south of Galena Road in Bristol Township.

Bristol Township Highway De-partment employees reported on three separate dates having to clean up black plastic trash bags contain-ing household garbage which had been dumped in the creek, according to police.

Police said the items dumped in-cluded pieces of mail, license plates, used motor oil and a used oil filter. The creek where the garbage was dumped feeds into the Rob Roy Creek, which flows into the Fox River.

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Motorcycle crashA couple from Gardener, Illinois, were

injured in a motorcycle crash on Route 52 and Lisbon Road in Big Grove Township at 1:50 p.m. July 4, according to county sheriff’s reports. Police said the driver of the motorcycle, Roger H. Holloway, 38, of the 400 block of Center Street, and his passen-ger, Kimberly S. Holloway, 38, of the same address, were injured when they lost control of their motorcycle in a curve and it left the roadway. The motorcycle went down on its side and Kimberly Holloway was thrown from the vehicle, according to police. Both were taken to Morris Hospital in Morris.

Boulder Hill arrestCounty sheriff’s police arrested Brent Allen

Erwin, 35, of the 100 block of Long Beach Road, on an outstanding body writ in the area of Long Beach and Surrey roads in Boulder Hill at 3:33 a.m. July 5. Police said Erwin was taken to the Kendall County jail in Yorkville.

Domestic arrestCounty sheriff’s deputies arrested Demetri-

us D. Link, 31, of the 1500 block of Light Road, Oswego, on a charge of domestic battery at his residence July 4 at 11:51 p.m. Police said the incident remains under investigation.

Battery among chargesCounty sheriff’s police arrested Ronald

Pryor Coleman, 64, of the 5400 block of South Wells Street, Chicago, at a residence in the 0-50 block of Afton Road in Boulder Hill at 10:30 p.m. July 3 on charges of domestic battery, criminal damage to property and interfering with the reporting of domestic violence.

Police said Coleman was taken to the Kendall County Jail in Yorkville pending court proceedings.

Warrant arrestCounty sheriff’s police arrested Thorston

Smith, 28, of the 8000 block of Van Emmon Road, Yorkville, at his residence July 2 at 11:17 a.m. on a Will County warrant for failure to appear in court on a charge of possession of a controlled substance.

Hit-and-run reportedCounty sheriff’s police took a report of a hit-

and-run crash that occurred in the 900 block of Wolf’s Crossing Road in Oswego Township at 6:55 p.m. June 30. Police said an unknown vehicle left the roadway and struck a sign.

Boulder Hill arrestCounty sheriff’s deputies reported that

while they were conducting a traffic stop on another vehicle July 2 at 11:27 p.m. on Fern-wood Road at Roulock Road in the Boulder Hill subdivision they were approached by Danielle Nicole Chavers, 38, of the 100 block

of Heathgate Road, Boulder Hill. Police said they arrested Chavers after they learned she was driving on a suspended license.

Warrant arrestCounty sheriff’s deputies arrested Dorian

Taylor Ainsworth, 24, of the 200 block of Georgeanna Street, Yorkville, at her residence July 1 at 12:19 a.m. Police said Ainsworth was wanted on a warrant and taken into custody without incident.

ID theft costs $940An Oswego Township resident told county

sheriff’s police that someone used her personal information to open a satellite TV account in her name and failed to pay a $940 bill charged to the account.

Motorist arrestedCounty sheriff’s police arrested Robert

Charles Burisek, 44, of the 1300 block of Mabel Lane, Sandwich, after they stopped his vehicle for having an expired registration June 29 at 12:01 a.m. on Eldamain Road at Galena Road in Bristol Township. Police said Burisek was arrested on charges of operating a vehicle with a revoked registration, driving on a suspended license and unlawful use of a driver’s license.

Warrant arrestCounty sheriff’s police arrested Roger L. Gil-

bert, 45, of the 8000 block of East Highpoint

Road, Yorkville, at his residence June 30 at 6:45 p.m. on a warrant for domestic battery. Police said Gilbert was taken to the Kendall County jail in Yorkville.

Facing multiple chargesCounty sheriff’s police arrested Donovan

Andrew Nieves, 20, of the 6800 block of Orchard Lane, Hanover Park, after stopping his vehicle for driving 26 mph over the posted speed limit on Eldamain Road at Corneils Road in Bristol Township at 9:01 a.m. June 29. Police said Nieves faces charges of driving on a suspended license, speeding 26 mph over the posted speed limit and unlawful use of a driver’s license.

Ticketed for 35 mph overCounty sheriff’s police ticketed Israel

Mendez, 18, of the 500 block of East Church Street, Plano, after they stopped his motorcy-cle for traveling at 95 mph in a 45 mph zone on Little Rock Road at Miller Road in Little Rock Township at 8:32 p.m. July 3. Police said Mendez was cited for speeding 35 mph over the posted speed limit.

Traffic violationsTara L. Saltzmann, 33, of the 300 block

of Church Street, Minooka, driving on a suspended license.

Brooke Elizabeth Mol, 35, of the 100 block of Appletree Court, Yorkville, driving on a suspended license.

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Three hurt in motorcycle crashYorkville police responded to a crash

involving two motorcycles on Route 71 and Highpoint Road on July 4 at 5:03 p.m.

Police said three people were injured in the crash. The names of the victims were not available as of press time.

Police said the driver of one of the motorcycles was transported by helicopter to Good Samaritan Hospital in Downers Grove, while the driver and passenger of the other motorcycle were taken to Morris Hospital.

Police said the crash occurred when one of the motorcycles attempted to pass another vehicle and swerved into the other motorcycle. One of the mo-torcycles then veered off the highway and the other slid on the highway.

Seeking informationYorkville police took a report of a

criminal damage to a vehicle in the 700 block of South Main Street on July 4 at 5:48 p.m. Police ask that anyone with information concerning the incident to contact them at 630-553-4340.

Turns himself inYorkville police arrested Nicholas J.

Craft, 21, of the 12000 block of Grand Pines Boulevard, Plainfield, after he turned himself in at the police station

July 3 at 7:09 p.m. Police said Craft has been charged with battery and criminal damage to property relating to an inci-dent at a residence in the 3700 block of Bailey Road. Police said Craft was transported to the Kendall County Jail in Yorkville pending court proceedings.

Disorderly arrestYorkville police arrested Kevin C.

Thomas, 45, of the 400 block of Elm Street, Yorkville, on July 4 at 12:50 p.m. on charges of disorderly conduct and criminal damage to property at his residence. Police said Thomas forced entry to the residence by kicking the door until it broke open.

Cannabis arrestYorkville police arrested Laura D.

Stewart, 35, of the 10-20 block of Fieldcrest Drive, Columbia after stop-ping her vehicle on Route 47 and Main Street on July 2 at 12:08 a.m. Police said Stewart faces charges of unlawful possession of cannabis and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Two juveniles citedYorkville police cited one juvenile for

unlawful possession of drug parapher-nalia and another for driving without a front license plate after stopping their vehicle on Mill Street at Orange Street

on July 1 at 7:59 p.m.

Passenger injuredAn Aurora resident, Esteban

Flores-Gadna, 50, of the 700 block of View Street, was injured July 1 at 4:05 p.m. when the vehicle he was a pas-senger in was involved in a three-vehi-cle crash on Route 47 north of Galena Road, Yorkville police reported. Police said Flores-Gadna was transported to Rush-Copley Medical Center in Aurora after complaining of back pain.

Expired registrationYorkville police ticketed Kyle J.

Denboer, 30, of the 300 block of East Kendall Drive, Yorkville, after he lost control of his vehicle while driving westbound on Kennedy Road east of Bristol Bridge Road on June 30 at 12:05 a.m. Police said Denboer’s vehicle left the roadway and then struck a tree. Police said Denboer was ticketed for driving on an expired registration.

Traffic violationsGage Estremera, 17, of the 500 block

of West Barberry Circle, Yorkville, no valid driver’s license and loud muffler.

Jason Teske, no age given, of the 100 block of Laurel Street, Reedsburg, failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident.

YORKVILLE POLICE REPORTS Traffic plan in place for rodeo at Kendall County Fairgrounds


The Kendall County Sheriff’s Office and Kendall County Fair Association have announced a tempo-rary road/traffic flow change near Yorkville for this Friday and Saturday, July 8 and July 9.

On July 8 starting at 5 p.m. until approximately 10 p.m. and on July 9 starting at 5 p.m. until approx-imately midnight, Highpoint Road in Kendall Town-ship between Route 71 and Legion Road will have a temporary traffic flow change to facilitate expected heavy traffic congestion and safety concerns due to attendance expected at the Fox Valley Pro Rodeo as presented by the Kendall County Fair Association.

At about 5 p.m. July 8, all fairground traffic will be detoured to Legion Road and enter the fair-grounds off Highpoint Road. Any traffic traveling southbound on Routes 71 and 47 will be detoured south to Legion Road, west to Highpoint Road, north to the fairgrounds. All northbound traffic on Route 47 will turn west on Legion Road and enter the fair-grounds in the same manner.

All northbound traffic on Route 71 will be de-toured to turn east on Legion Road then north on Highpoint to the fairgrounds. No traffic will be al-lowed to enter Highpoint Road from Route 71 while the rodeo is in operation. Highpoint Road at Route 71 will be exit only. Signs will be posted and sheriff’s deputies will be in the area.



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Blythe Nelson & Robert PoglianoEngagement

Gregory and Deborah Nelson of Montgomery, IL are pleased toannounce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughterBlythe Nelson to Robert Pogliano, son of Robert and Linda Poglianoof Coal City, IL.

Blythe is a graduate of Aurora Central Catholic High Schooland attended Rockford University, where she earned her bachelor’sdegree in Elementary Education in 2014. She is currently employed inMorris, Illinois as an English teacher.

Robert is a graduate of Coal City High School. He is a Local 150member and is currently employed at United Rentals.

Blythe and Robert will be married this July at Saint Patrick’sCatholic Church in Seneca, Illinois.

Weber-PawlowskiEngagement

Mark and Debbie Weber of Oswe-go announce the engagement and up-coming wedding of their son MatthewWeber to Leanne Pawlowski both ofPlano. Leanne is the daughter of Jodiand Rod Fisher of Yorkville and DavePawlowski of Tennessee. TheWeddingwill be August 6th in Lisle.

Yorkville celebrates Independence DayThe community was out in droves for Yorkville’s an-

nual Fourth of July festivities Monday. From the parade that kicked off at 9 a.m. from Yorkville High School, to the post-parade activities in Town Square Park, visitors enjoyed unseasonably cool conditions. In the evening, the Yorkville Big Band performed prior to the annual fire-works, which began at dusk. Activities were organized by the city of Yorkville’s Parks and Recreation department and the Fourth of July committee.

Photos by Eric Miller - [email protected]

ABOVE: Yorkville American Legion Post 489 color guard leads the annual Yorkville Fourth of July parade Monday.ABOVE, LEFT: A future fireman waves from a Bristol-Kendall Fire Department truck.LEFT: Post-parade activities at Town Square Park in Yorkville included a Fun Slide – which was fun for almost everyone.BELOW, LEFT: A fireworks display capped off the Fourth of July celebration in Yorkville on Monday night.

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The Yorkville Fury Red 12U travel baseball team won the Belvidere Diamond Clas-sic on June 24-26 in Belvidere. The team went 6-0 during the tournament. Pic-tured are (front row, from left) Colby Stuercke, Ryan Bohr, Ty Kukielka, Max Moga, Brandon Johnson, (back row) Tristen Liaromatis, Robert Barnes, Matthew Bivens, Connor Corrigan and Luke Fisher. Not pictured: Dominick Kramer.

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Yorkville to host River Night, Ribs on the River weekend

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The smell of BBQ ribs will be waft-ing through Bicentennial Riverfront Park as the city of Yorkville and the Yorkville Area Chamber of Commerce join forces to host the family-friendly River Night and Ribs on the River fes-tivals on July 15-16.

River Night: The Chamber’s River Night festival celebrates its 10th anni-versary this year. The festival opens on Friday at 5 p.m. with free family area activities, food vendors, beer tent, and cardboard boat races, along with live music by Red Woody from 7 to 10 p.m.

Ribs on the River: Come all day Sat-urday for delicious food, homebrew tasting, children’s activities, and live entertainment including Country Line Brothers from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., Whiskey Romance from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m., and Back Country Roads from 7:30 to 10:30 p.m.

Illinois Whitewater Festival: Also on Saturday, the Chicago Whitewater As-sociation hosts the Buttercup Series kayak races on the Marge Cline White-water Course.

Admission is free for the festival, at Riverfront Park, 131 E. Hydraulic St., Yorkville. For details, visit yorkville-chamber.org or yorkville.il.us.

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Yorkville High School music teach-er and band director Victor Anderson received the 2016 Chicagoland Out-standing Music Educator Award on June 14.

The award, given by Quinlan and Fabish Music Company, has been presented to exceptional teachers an-nually since 1989. Nominations are accepted from throughout the music education community and are voted on by a committee comprised of all of the previous award recipients.

Each year three educators are se-lected in the Elementary/Junior High Division and three are selected in the High School/Collegiate Division. An-derson was among the high school re-cipients.

The awards were presented in a cer-emony at Quinlan and Fabish’s Burr Ridge location.

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14 Saluting a colleague who’s on the mend and back on the diamond

I may not be Juan Uribe, but when I took a pitch off the groin recently, I became an unwanted member of his prestigious club.

Unlike Uribe, I was wearing protection, but I still found myself writhing in pain.

What I didn’t expect was the reac-tion from the pitcher, and especially the catcher who missed the pitch – a fastball that one-hopped off the ground and nailed me square. Rather than ask if I was all right (I wasn’t), they were chuckling about what happened.

Down on both knees near the backstop with my eyes tightly squeezed shut, I took deep breaths as the pain slowly subsided. Mean-while, my partner chastised the pitcher and catcher for laughing about my injury. He especially lectured the catcher for his pathetic effort. I wasn’t surprised that my partner had my back.

Not every ball is going to be caught, but the catcher, who is a high school player, made a horribly lazy attempt to block it, and that’s what particularly irked my partner, Yorkville resident Ruben Rodriguez.

While he gave the two players an earful, I finally made my way to my feet. Some parents barked back at Ruben for yelling at the kids, but that didn’t slow him as he continued to scold them. I didn’t hear a single word from the coaching staff.

If you know anything about area high school baseball, then you prob-ably know Ruben. He’s been around the game for quite some time. He stood up for me, which I’m thankful for, but I’m far more grateful that he was on a baseball field with me this summer, because that meant that he was alive and well.

We almost lost him.Last December, Ruben suffered

an aortic dissection. Brushing his teeth and getting ready for bed, he suddenly was overcome with pain and thought he was having a heart attack. Luckily, the emergency staff that treated him didn’t share the same feeling.

An aortic dissection occurs when one suffers a tear of the aorta, which then causes blood to flow between the walls of the aorta, thus forcing the layers to break apart. It can be rapidly fatal, as many who suffer from it have died at home or en route to the emergency room. Making it even more difficult is the fact there isn’t a single sign or symptom that makes it easy for doctors to de-

termine that it’s aortic dissection rather than the more common heart attack.

It’s what caused the death of John Ritter, best known for his role as Jack on the sitcom “Three’s Company.” Ritter became ill and complained of chest pains just days before his 55th birthday. He was rushed to a medical center, but was misdiagnosed for a heart attack. His condition worsened, and by the time doctors rediagnosed him with an aortic dissection, it was too late and he died during emergency surgery.

Thankfully, Ruben, who is 63, was diagnosed correctly and able to be saved.

“I was very fortunate they caught it, because they told me the percent-age of them catching it is real low and even if you catch it, the survival rate isn’t that high,” he said. “I’m very fortunate to be here today.”

Ruben was hurried to Rush-Cop-ley Medical Center in Aurora. While in the back of the ambulance, Ruben did what you’d least expect some-one to do when they’re battling for their life – he dialed his officiating assignor.

“I called my volleyball assignor because I was supposed to be doing games the following day and I didn’t think I’d be able to work,” he said. “I said I won’t be able to make it to-morrow because I’m going to the ER because I think I’m having a heart attack.”

Upon examining him, medical staff promptly decided to have him airlifted to Rush University in Chica-go to have open heart surgery. While Mother Nature has hampered Ruben in the past by dumping rain or illuminating the skies with lightning during ballgames, this time she was more than a party pooper, but simply detestable, delivering a dense fog which made such transportation by helicopter impossible.

“When all the stats came through, and they were monitoring downtown too, they decided they had no other option than to do the surgery right there and now in Aurora,” he said. “After that, it was just a blur.”

Ruben doesn’t remember what happened during the next week, and for good reason. He was put into a medically induced coma, a tactic that’s only done when a patient suf-

fers extreme trauma. He was put in one after he acquired pneumonia.

When he finally awoke five days later, Ruben found himself disillu-sioned, a common symptom for those who undergo complicated surgeries.

“I was imaging all kinds of crazy stuff, and then finally one day I asked where I was,” he said. “They told me that I was still in ICU and that I’ve always been there. I told them I didn’t remember coming in there and that I didn’t remember anything and then the nurse told me I was talking gibberish and that they were worried about me.”

They were far from the only ones. Along with his wife and seven kids, as well as the rest of his family, many of Ruben’s fellow umpiring colleagues were concerned about his condition, and many stopped by to visit him during his hospital stay or sent their best wishes for a speedy recovery.

Word spread that Ruben was finally on the mend when he attempt-ed to bribe several people to go to the hospital’s cafeteria and bring him back a large root beer with extra ice.

“The nurse would wet my lips with a sponge and maybe put a drop of water on my tongue,” he said. “I was dying for anything to break the thirst, so I was bribing the nurses, my brother, my daughter and anyone else I could.”

Ruben never got that root beer that day, but he got to live to see an-other day. Hopefully, he’ll see many more.

Of course, Susan, his wife of near-ly 30 years, wants Ruben to cut back a bit on his workload. So far, she’s not having much luck convincing him. In fact, Ruben and I recently spent most of a Saturday on the diamond, umpiring four tournament games.

“I told her that I love living life and that I just don’t want to slow down,” he said. “I told her that may-be I’ll slow down and not do as much of other things, maybe I’ll give up basketball, but I like working. I don’t like sitting. I know life is short and I don’t take anything for granted. I try to do good, to be conscientious of others and I’m very grateful for my family for being there for me.”

And we’re all thankful to still have Ruben with us.

• Sugar Grove resident Chris Rol-lin Walker is a baseball umpire with an eye for strikes, balls, gerunds and participles. Contact him at [email protected].

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Sandwich City Council allows residents to keep chickens

By PAT WALLIS [email protected]

SANDWICH – Backyard chickens will be allowed in Sandwich following action taken at the June 28 Sandwich City Council meeting.

Before the matter was brought to a vote, one individual spoke for her mother, saying her mother and several other older residents she named were opposed to having chickens in town be-cause “they are noisy, attract vermin, and if they are allowed, would it next be turkeys and ducks?”

A group of residents who asked that the city allow chickens about a month ago have regularly been attending council meetings.

They’ve stressed that they prefer raising their own food and getting eggs from their own chickens. Other bene-fits for both children and adults were mentioned.

Those voting against allowing back-yard chickens were Aldermen Dave Fraser, Cara Killey and Les Redden. Those voting for the issue were Alder-men Bill McMahon, Rich Robinson and Doug Schiedecker.

Mayor Rick Olson broke the tie by voting “yes.” The vote was followed by applause from the local group.

It’s been pointed out by the group that wants backyard chickens that only hens would be allowed, not roosters be-cause of their early morning crowing. The number could be limited to just a few, maybe eight to 12, and the coops, fences and care of the chickens would be tightly regulated by the ordinance written and approved by the council.

Rosary High School recently announced its second semester honor roll. Local students named to the list include Yorkville residents Sydney Drozdowski, Samantha Laurich, Lauren Zadorozny, Aubrey Fisher, Ashley McDermott, Taylor Drozdowski, Grace Fredstrom and Delaney Welter.

• • •Marella R. Raggs of Yorkville received

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• • •Julie A. Bonenberger of Yorkville, who

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STEPS TOWARD A GOALYorkville’s Kyle Domark takes part in Team USA basketball event

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

By KRISTIN SHARP [email protected]

A few weeks after his classes were dismissed for the sum-mer at Lakeland University, Kyle Domark found himself on a basketball court in Vienna, Austria.

The 2015 Yorkville alum was selected to play for Team USA through USA Athletes International and traveled through Austria, Slovenia and Italy playing six games over eight days in late May and early June.

“My goal in my basketball life is to play overseas,” Domark said. “I think it would be so interesting, and traveling is some-thing that I want to do with my future and with my job too.”

In the opening game with Team USA, Domark was called into the game from the bench and hit a three-pointer to add

an immediate spark in the game. Following that ex-plosive shooting display, Domark, a sophomore-to-be at Lakeland, located near Sheboygan, Wisconsin, started all ensuing five games of his team’s USAAI early summer European basketball tour. Team USA, coached by Westminster College (Missouri) assistant coach Andrew Green, went a respectable 4-2.

“Slovenia takes basket-ball very seriously there; almost as serious as they take soccer,” Domark said. “We played club teams in

Austria and won by 20 and thought it was easy, but we got to Slovenia and we played their junior pro team in a big stadium in Ljubljana and their team was amazing. The European guys can all shoot. Their plays are more difficult than ours; they have a lot more stuff going on.”

Domark, a 6-3, 180-pound shooting guard, was the youngest player and the only Division III player on a nine-player roster that included mostly NCAA Division II or NAIA basketball players from New York, Missouri and Louisiana. He was orig-inally invited to join a USAAI team bound for Italy, but due to some roster shuffling, he ended bound for Austria.

“I had to travel from Chicago to New York and everyone met in New York,” Domark said. “From there, we flew to Bar-celona and then to Vienna. On the way back, our last day we were in Venice, Italy and flew to Madrid, and then to London, and then back to New York. It was kind of crazy. I’ve never done anything like that. I’ve only been to Colorado.”

Domark is looking forward to his upcoming season with the Muskies. After missing the first half of last season due to an injury, he worked his way into the rotation the last month of his freshman season and averaged 6.8 points per game. He is studying business management.

“The first game I played of my college career was my best game and I started getting more time once I came back into the rotation,” Domark said. “I’m looking forward to the next year and hopefully it starts out where it left off.”

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Kyle Domark, a 2015 Yorkville graduate, spent 10 days with Team USA and traveling through Austria, Slovenia and Italy as part of the USA Athletes International (USAAI) early summer European basketball tour.

“My goal in my basketball life is to play overseas. I think it would be so interesting, and traveling is something that I want to do with my future and with my job too.”Kyle DomarkTeam USA member

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