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M I N O O K A – A i d e n Mlyniec’s eyes widened with surprise, and then a smile of joy spread across his face as he spotted Santa Claus sitting across the room.
Taken in by the unexpected appearance of Santa, Aiden – accompanied by his 2-year-old brother Zachary, who was nes-tled in his mother Malorie’s arms after a nap in the car – slowly approached the jolly man from the North Pole and eventually settled on his lap.
The 4-year-old talked with Santa about elves, reindeer and Christmas hopes before Santa invited both boys to reach into his toy bag, where they found presents with their names on them.
“Do you want to stand up and give Santa a hug and say thank you?” Malorie asked after Aiden opened a football and Zachary received a plastic bat and ball.
Taking it in was Jessica Gordon, the Crest Hill woman responsible for this moment of holiday joy.
If life were different, Jes-sica would be watching her 4-year-old son Payton on San-ta’s lap confiding his wishes for Christmas gifts, instead of missing the son who died in 2011 of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.
Aiden and Zachary, along with parents Malorie and Mi-chael, have lived a life of con-stant uncertainty since the night of June 22 when a tor-nado tore through Coal City and left them with nothing but each other.
But in that moment Tues-day, the separate paths of loss these two families had been traveling became a shared journey of hope.
Honoring PaytonPayton Burke was 10 weeks
old in 2011 when he woke in the middle of the night. Jessi-ca brought her baby into bed to feed and they both fell asleep. When Jessica woke, Payton had fallen onto her chest, un-able to breathe. The cause of death was ruled to be SIDS.
“I was educated and knew steps on how to prevent SIDS and it still happened,” Jessica said. “I didn’t sleep with him in bed, but the one time I did fall asleep with him in bed is all it took to lose him.”
A couple of months after his death, Jessica received a letter in the mail from SIDS of Illinois, which expressed con-dolences and offered counsel-ing. Jessica called because she wanted to share her story and have an outlet for her grief.
“I thought Payton was tell-ing me, ‘Here mom, this is what you have been looking for,’”
she said in an interview last week.
Jessica has spoken at Plain-field high schools, as well as at SIDS of Illinois conferences and to staff at Chicago Depart-ment of Children and Family Services.
The first Christmas after Payton’s death, Jessica felt empty and craved a way to honor her son’s memory, as well as an act of goodness that would brighten her day. She or-ganized a small toy drive and hosted a candlelight vigil out-side the Plainfield home of her parents.
The next two years she do-nated a toy, but tried a different approach in 2014. She posted her story on a Facebook page called FREEcycle Will County and said she wanted to bless a family with a boy the same age her son would have been that year. She had three responses and picked a family.
This year she did the same, seeking a family with a 4-year-old. Ten families replied – in-cluding the Mlyniecs.
Winds of destructionThe Mlyniecs had been liv-
ing in their Coal City apart-ment on Elm Street for just three weeks on June 22. The last box had been unpacked the Friday before and on that Mon-day, Malorie said it was finally starting to feel like home.
They were watching the lightning from the storm that eventually would bring winds as fast as 160 mph. They decid-ed, just to be safe, to go into the bathroom.
The lights flickered off, on, off. They heard what sound-ed like a nail scraping across glass. And then, after silence, “all we heard was a freight train,” Malorie said.
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ON THE COVERKim DesLauriers sets out luminaries on Christmas Eve around Chapin Park in Morris.See story on page 3 Photo by Heidi Litchfield – [email protected]
CORRECTIONSIn the article, “The Old Guard” that was on page 3 of the
Sunday, Dec. 6, 2015, edition of The Morris Herald-News, World War II veteran Allen Querciagrossa’s name was incorrectly spelled.
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MORRIS – As Andrea Gus-tafson of Morris drives to her mother’s house on Christmas Eve, she passes Chapin Park, where she spent countless hours with her grandparents, Frank and Margie Welch.
It’s been six years since they died, and Christmas is a time when the emotion of los-ing them is heightened.
As she passes the park each Christmas Eve she also feels a sense of honor. Her grandpar-ents’ names are just two of the names written on luminaries that sit along the curb that sur-rounds the park.
“It’s kind of sweet to see the luminaries and know my grandparents are honored there,” Gustafson said.
The luminaries are the re-sult of the hard work of Kim DesLauriers and his family.
It started in the 1990s when DesLauriers lined North Street in front of Immaculate Conception School, where he has served as principal for more than 30 years, with lumi-naries made from milk jugs.
At the time the jugs had no names on them.
As the years have gone on, so has the tradition – and it grows each year.
After a few years, the tra-dition moved to Fulton Street, where the DesLauriers family lives, and eventually it ended up circling Chapin Park across the street from their home.
DesLauriers said one year a snowplow came by and wiped out some of the luminaries.
He began asking residents and the students at his school to bring in the empty plastic containers.
“I asked the kids to bring in milk jugs, and one girl put on one of the jugs she brought in ‘In memory of my dad.’ It gave me the idea that we could add names to them,” DesLauriers said. “We added our family
members’ names, including our dogs.”
The entire DesLauriers family is involved: Kim’s wife, Trudy; their daughter, Jackie, and son, Marc, spend Christ-mas Eve preparing more than 200 lighted milk jugs to place around the park.
Three years ago, they took the tradition a step further and DesLauriers posted a message on Facebook, asking if anyone wanted their loved ones hon-ored with a luminary. He in-vited everyone to drive by the park to see the results of the Christmas Eve tradition.
Before long he was getting messages from friends to add
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DesLauriers family sets out luminaries to honor memories of loved ones
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ABOVE: Kim DesLauriers and his daughter, Jackie, get the candles ready to be lit. BELOW: Luminaries line the street in front of the DesLauriers’ home on Fulton Street in Morris.
Different Christmas lights
See LUMINARIES, page 12
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C O A L C I T Y – C u r t i s Greene and his wife Tabatha were trying to figure out how to pay for a playground in the backyard of their Coal City home.
Then Operation St. Nick came along.
Curtis, Tabatha and chil-dren Beth, 10, Bailee, 8, Den-ny, 5, and Danielle, 3, were among those chosen this year by Operation St. Nick’s 12 Days of Christmas program, which grants the Christmas wishes of select military fam-ilies in Grundy County.
Now in its 33rd year, Oper-ation St. Nick and the Morris Herald-News partnered in the program to make Christmas brighter for those who have served the country through the military.
Wishes were granted Dec. 12 to Dec. 23.
Curtis Greene said he had kind of forgotten they ap-plied.
“I was really surprised,” he said. “Our kids brought home the paperwork to apply one day and my wife filled it out. I guess we were lucky
enough to be picked.”Curtis Greene said the
playgrounds the family was looking at cost anywhere from $1,000 to $3,000.
“The grant is a tremen-dous help,” he said.
The Greenes intend to tell their kids about the present on Christmas Day. He expects to have the playground in-stalled in the spring.
Operation St. Nick grants $2,500 worth of wishes to 12 Grundy County families with current military personnel of at least two years, or those honorably discharged.
Curtis Greene served in the Marines for 11 years and fought in Iraq.
He was stationed in San Diego, California, for five years, and later in Japan and Pensacola, Florida.
Tabatha Greene was hon-orably discharged after two years for medical reasons and is a disabled veteran, Curtis Greene said.
One of the Greenes’ kids was born in Okinawa, Japan.
In 2014, Curtis Greene de-cided to step away from the Marines and move home. He landed a job at LaSalle Gener-ating Station and the family
found a house.Then their house was hit
June 22 by the EF 3 tornado that swept through Coal City. They had to spend money on necessary repairs and stay with his parents for a while.
They moved back to their home just before Thanksgiv-ing, but there is nothing in their yard – yet.
“It’s a breath of fresh air that we don’t have to buy the whole playground structure now,” Curtis Greene said. “I want to get something perma-nent. We don’t plan on mov-ing again.”
The Greenes went on Christmas Eve to church and a big family party. On Christ-mas Day, they plan to watch Christmas movies together and lounge around before get-ting their own dinner ready – just the six of them.
“We set our tradition last year,” Curtis Greene said. “Christmas Day is ours, to be with our family.”
Earlier this month, Oper-ation St. Nick raised $100,000 in four hours during its annu-al auction.
The nonprofit uses the funds to finance its many philanthropic programs.
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The Greene family, of Coal City, was one of several military families recently chosen by Operation St. Nick’s 12 Days of Christmas program, which grants the Christmas wishes of military families in Grundy County.
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One of Joliet resident Mol-ly Razpotnik’s family’s main activities during the holiday season is snowmobiling.
They aren’t doing much of it this year.
“There’s obviously not a lot of Christmas spirit without the snow,” Razpotnik said.
According to the National Weather Service’s Thursday forecast, the high temperature Christmas Day in Morris will be 47 degrees, which would be the highest in the Chicago area since the needle hit 52 degrees in 1994.
The weather phenomenon known as El Niño is mostly to blame for the warmth, NWS meteorologist Charles Mott said.
“El Niño has been looked at for the last couple of months, when our average tempera-ture is higher than normal, in-
cluding December,” Mott said.Mott explained that winds
passing over a cycle of warm Pacific Ocean water causes the El Niño effect, which leads to warmer weather throughout the country.
Mott said this year it’s stronger.
The average monthly tem-perature for this December is about 40 degrees, 11.4 degrees above normal.
“We don’t want to talk re-cords yet,” Mott said. “But as far as this month goes at least since 1990, we are well on our way to have above-average temperature.”
The highest Christmas temperature on record in the Chicago area was 64 degrees in 1982, according to the NWS.
It dipped to a record low of minus 17 degrees the next year.
The warm weather doesn’t necessarily mean a karmic onslaught of extreme cold and
snow the rest of the winter.Mott said there may be days
that are colder than normal, but the average temperatures in the next three months are predicted to be warmer than usual, with average or less pre-cipitation.
“Usually with the warm, you think there would be more [precipitation],” Mott said.
Lukewarm feelings abound for mild holiday weather
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An illuminated sign displays warmer than average temperatures Thursday in Joliet.
Weather forecastn Christmas Day – Partly sunny, with a high near 47. East northeast wind 5 to 10 mph.n Saturday – Showers likely. Cloudy, with a high near 50. East wind 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70 percent.n Sunday – A 20 percent chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 39.n Monday – A chance of snow and sleet. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 36. Breezy.
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Morris police hire first of two new officersBy MIKE MALLORY
MORRIS – The Morris Po-lice Department welcomed a new officer this week.
Recruit officer Alexan-der Tourlakes was sworn in Monday by Mayor Richard Kopczick at the beginning of a City Council meeting. Tourlakes off icial ly was hired Dec. 14. He said he found out Dec. 4.
“Christmas did come ear-ly this year,” Tourlakes said Thursday.
Since Dec. 14, Tourlakes said he’s been working at the department and learning from experienced officers.
“It’s been great,” he said. “I’m learning a lot before I go to the academy.”
Tourlakes, 26, will be at-tending Basic Police Recruit Training class for 12 weeks at the Suburban Law En-forcement Academy at the College of DuPage, starting Jan. 4.
After successful comple-tion of the class, he will tran-sition into the Morris Police Department Field Training Program.
The Morris Police and Fire Commission performs the hiring process, but Police Chief Brent Dite said Tour-lakes struck him as smart, hard-working, polite and dedicated to public service.
“There’s been a lot of peo-ple who came to me, after in-teracting with him, and told me how respectful and polite he is,” Dite said.
Not only did Tourlakes’ exam scores stand out, he has training that will help him as an officer – he was a member of the Army Nation-al Guard for six years.
“I ’ve been trained as a military police officer, which allowed me to develop leadership skills and learn how to take charge,” he said.
He has committed to the Army National Guard for two more years.
Dite said, by law, the de-partment has to allow him to serve when necessary, whether it be a weekend ro-tation or a two-week duty period.
Tourlakes said he has no problem working an extend-ed string of consecutive days between the two jobs, but added that he doesn’t want to put the department in a bad spot.
“I wouldn’t want some-one else to have to come in and work for me,” Tourlakes said.
Tourlakes and the next hire by Morris police, expect-ed by March, will bring the department back to full staff-ing. The two new officers are filling gaps left when former Morris police Sgts. Scott
Henderson and Gregg Sager retired earlier this year after a combined 54 years of full-time service.
T o u r l a k e s g r a d u a t e d from Lincoln-Way East High School and has taken courses at Joliet Junior College.
He resides in unincorpo-rated Grundy County near
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especially downtown, com-pared to suburban commu-nities.
Also at the council meet-ing, alderman Julian Hous-ton thanked the Morris Po-
lice Department. He said the city is fortunate to have a group of young men who are happy to be in law enforce-ment with so much contro-versy going on nationwide.
Morris alderman: City is fortunate to have young men happy to be in law enforcement
Mike Mallory – [email protected]
Morris Police Department recruit officer Alexander Tourlakes (left) was sworn in Monday by Morris Mayor Richard Kopczick.
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The roof of their build-ing was lifted into the air and then slammed back onto the four walls. The tornado ripped through the apartment, destroy-ing the boys’ bedroom and the living room. They lost every-thing – even the new beds they had purchased the day before.
“We walked outside and tried to find help because we knew another cell was to come through. A random person a few blocks over took us into the basement to keep us safe,” Malorie said. “Then, my dad, who is a Joliet firefighter, came down to rescue us. Afterward, my husband took three days off of work to help us recover, and lost his job, so we are hurting.”
Coming togetherMalorie said her sons were
blessed to be chosen for gifts in Payton’s honor. She was shocked to get the call from Jes-sica, saying it was hard to un-derstand how out of all the wor-thy families, Jessica chose hers.
“I don’t know how to de-scribe it,” Malorie said. “My boys just had one gift under the tree, a T-shirt, and unless fami-ly helped us, we wouldn’t have anything.”
Jessica said she helped in the cleanup efforts in the tornado’s aftermath, assisting a cousin who is a firefighter in Elwood. When she saw a message from a family who lost everything in the tornado, she knew that was who she wanted to help.
Jessica, who is unemployed, had to stick to a tight budget but was determined to help a family. She had three gifts for each boy but on Monday night, others dropped off donations of new and gently-used toys. She cried as she stayed up late wrapping the two dozen gifts Aiden and Zachary will now have under their tree on Christ-mas morning in the family’s new residence in Diamond.
The families came together Tuesday for a gift exchange at Minooka Village Hall, a midway point between their respective homes. Santa and Mrs. Claus made a special, pre-Christmas trip just to visit with Aiden and Zachary.
“Do you want to take these presents home and put them under your tree?” Jessica asked
the boys as she motioned to a mountain of gifts. “You guys are so special. Santa came here just for you. But you’ve got to wait for Christmas to open these.”
Jessica said being able to give gifts to a family in need is how she heals her heart.
“It’s so healing and thera-peutic to see the kids with the gifts. It makes me feel like a nor-mal mom and I don’t feel like I have to miss out on Christmas because my son is gone,” she said.
The generous heart of a mother who lost her son
brought these families together this year.
But they first crossed paths 20 years ago when Jessica’s mother, Launa Enix of Plain-field, and Malorie’s mother, Carol Perry of Godley, both worked at Silver Cross Hospi-tal. Launa worked in radiology and Carol was a CNA.
As their daughters looked with joy Tuesday at a pair of boys captivated by the magic of Christmas, the two marveled at how after two decades, a new connection was forged.
Some people, it seems, are just meant to be intertwined.
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Payton Burke as seen in an undated family photo.Eric Ginnard – [email protected]
Jessica Gordon looks on Tuesday as Aiden and Zachary Mlyniec get a Christmas surprise. Gordon has provided Christmas gifts for the past two years for a child who would have been the same age as her son, Payton, who died at 10 weeks old in 2011.
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JOLIET – The Illinois De-partment of Corrections has reached a settlement with lawyers representing 11,000 mentally ill inmates in a 2007 class action lawsuit alleging the state provided inadequate treatment.
The settlement in Ashoor Rasho vs. John Baldwin means there will be “very, very significant” changes to the way IDOC handles segre-gation of mentally ill prison-ers, said Harold Hirshman, an attorney with the Chica-go-based law firm Dentons who led the legal team repre-senting the plaintiffs in the lawsuit.
As part of the deal, IDOC will hire more than 700 clini-cal and security staff to work at new residential treatment units that are under construc-tion — one of which will be housed at the now-shuttered Illinois Youth Center on Mc-Donough Street in Joliet. The others will be housed at Lo-gan, Pontiac and Dixon cor-rectional centers.
A federal judge has prelimi-nary approved the settlement, concluding that “it is fair, rea-sonable, and adequate,” but the final deal still requires court approval, according to an IDOC news release. A full hearing is set for May.
Joliet renovationsHirshman said IDOC will
have 15 months following the judge’s final stamp of approv-
al in May to renovate and staff IYC Joliet, placing the comple-tion deadline in August 2017. The earlier expectation was that it would be open and oper-ational by spring 2016.
Nicole Wilson, spokeswom-an for IDOC, said Thursday she could not yet confirm Hirsh-man’s timeline. This summer, Wilson told The Herald-News the state agency was on track to finish the conversion of IYC Joliet by early 2016.
“I don’t think so,” Hirsh-man said, arguing that time frame is highly unlikely. “I’m sorry to say that but I don’t think so.”
State Sen. Pat McGuire, D-Joliet, said he would hope – given the progress made on construction at the Mc-Donough Street campus – the work will be completed sooner than mid-2017.
“Of course we want this done right. We want effective care of severely mentally ill offenders to be done right. We also don’t want this facility to sit idle once the work is com-pleted,” McGuire said. “The sooner the state of Illinois starts giving effective care to severely ill inmates, most of whom are going to be released, the safer our communities will be.”
Hirshman in an email said he hopes the governor and state lawmakers – now em-battled in a six-month budget impasse – will agree to provide the necessary dollars for the work.
“It would be a shame if this seriously disadvantaged group would become victims of some sort of political football,” he said.
The full annual operating
costs at IYC Joliet have been estimated at $30 million, so that money would be needed in future budgets going forward.
There is bipartisan support for the facility. About $8.6 mil-lion needed for IYC Joliet’s operational expenses for the last quarter of fiscal 2016 was included in the spending plan Gov. Bruce Rauner proposed in February. Budget talks, however, have since derailed.
Solitary confinementAs part of the settlement,
the state will provide both long-term and acute care for severe-ly mentally ill inmates who re-quire hospitalization.
Previously, such inmates were placed in solitary con-finement or left “for months” in crisis cells, where they were totally isolated from other pris-oners, according to a news re-lease from Dentons.
In a news release from IDOC, the state “does not ad-mit any liability regarding the allegations made in the suit,” but recognizes that adequately treating offenders with mental illnesses will require a shift in departmental operations.
“Illinois prisons were not intended to be psychiatric hos-pitals but the reality is, they have become holding places for people who suffer from serious mental illness,” John Baldwin, acting director for IDOC, said in the news release. “... This will improve correctional out-comes for those with mental illness and increase safety for our dedicated staff, all offend-ers, and the citizens we serve.”
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Dr. Robert B. Hayling, a den-tist and influential civil rights activist in Florida during the 1960s, has died.
He was 86.Hayling died Sunday at
home in Fort Lauderdale, his sister, Yvonne Hayling-Clarke, told The Associated Press. No cause of death has been deter-mined.
A member of a group known as “The St. Augustine Four,” Hayling spent six months in a Florida jail and reform school in 1964 after he and three other members of the NAACP Youth Council asked to be served at a Woolworth’s lunch counter.
They were released only af-ter protests by Martin Luther King Jr., Jackie Robinson and others popularized their pre-dicament, according to the AC-CORD Civil Rights Museum.
“He motivated us. He made us feel like we were do-ing something right, and he backed us up a hundred per-cent in that,” Audrey Nell Ed-wards, one of the St. Augustine Four, said in a museum news release.
Hayling also got the atten-tion of Vice President Lyndon Johnson in 1963. Hayling pro-tested St. Augustine’s plan to celebrate its 400th anniversa-ry and status as the oldest city in the U.S. with an all-white event.
Hayling’s objection opened the event, and resulted in two tables being set aside for black people, according to the muse-um.
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Youth center renovation part of plan for mentally ill inmates
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The Illinois Youth Center in Joliet is scheduled to be done by August 2017 to house new residential treatment units for mentally ill Illinois Department of Corrections inmates.
OBITUARIES Family effort prepares, distributes more than 200 luminaries this year• LUMINARIESContinued from page 3
the names of their loved ones.
By the time he was ready to get them set out he had g a t h e r e d m o r e t h a n 7 0 names.
Last year, he posted the message again to his Face-book wall and received 80 new names to add to the jugs.
“ W e c o n t i n u e t o a d d names,” he said.
On Christmas Eve this year, the DesLauriers fami-ly went into their basement where the floors were cov-ered with milk jugs filled
with sand. They set out lighting can-
dles and placed one in each jug before taking them to the
awaiting trucks.The process has become
streamlined over the years, and they can now light up the entire city block in just over an hour.
Trudy lights the candles, Jackie passes them to her dad, Kim and Marc load them in the trucks, and then Marc and Jackie set out driving while Kim places them along the curb of the park and Marc places them across the street.
With the exception of a snowstorm a few years ago, which saw the milk jugs wiped out by a snowplow, the jugs continue to burn brightly throughout the night.
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Marc DesLauriers and his father, Kim, place luminaries on the curb around Chapin Park in Morris on Thursday.
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MORRIS – Fifty-four Im-maculate Conception School students in fifth through eighth grades participated Nov. 14 in the Illinois Ele-mentary School Association Speech Contest. ICS. served as the host for the 11-school contest.
The students had the option of presenting their speech as solo acting, reg-ular duet, improv duet, or small group.
Regular duets earning f irst -place ratings were done by: Brooklyn Boykins and Grace Lines, Isabelle Hess and Sydney Thuente, Jada Less and Macy Rodg-ers, Finley Johnston and Keira Kjellesvik, Mac John-ston and Jeffrey Thiers, and Stephanie Kruse and Tori Pellegrini.
Regular duets receiving a second-place rating were done by Emily Ammer and Gia Valentin and by Jeffrey Bzdill and Jackson Chris-tensen.
Improv duets judged as first place were done by the following: Brooklyn Boy-kins and Grace Lines, Finn Paulson and Alma Repond, Emily Reppy and Sydney Reppy, Mac Johnston and Jeffrey Thiers, Molly Gus-tafson and Sydney Safarcyk, and Emily Ammer and Cole Jirgl.
An improv duet done by Maddy Castillo and Hannah McGhee received a second place rating.
A small group composed of Shaelee Ferrari, Lydia Gile, Molly Gustafson, Kait-lyn Jenkins, and Cole Jirgl received a first-place rating.
Also receiving a first-place rating was the group of Tessa Johnson, Kaylee Ra-mos, and Gretchen Zarbock.
A third group composed of Nick Cook, Christian Del-gado, Mason Kitchell, Ben Resar and Jacob Witthuhn
was awarded a first-place rating.
A fourth small group of Alexa Edwards, Hannah Mc-Ghee and Alma Repond re-ceived a first-place rating.
The group of Rhett Bar-kley, Duncan Collard, and Finn Paulson was awarded a first. Emily Reppy, Syd-ney Reppy, and Zachary Zarbock received a first. Also receiving a first-place rating was the group of Isa-belle Horkey, Sydney Safa-rcyk, Kate Steed and Emily Wilson.
A group composed of Emma Cook, Kyla Kjelles-vik, Kellianne Latta and Elizabeth Resar was award-ed first, as was the group of Maddy Castillo, Brianna Funk, and Kylie Villarreal.
Also among the 10 small groups receiving first-place awards was the group of Felicity Emmerich, Chris Harris and Megan Wein-stock.
Four students received first-place awards in the solo acting category. They are Sydney Reppy, Emily Reppy, Molly Gustafson, and Brady Danek. Contest rules allow judges to award a Judge’ s Choice Award to either one or two of the en-tries that they judge.
Molly Gustafson was awarded a Judge’s Choice Award for solo acting, and Isabelle Hess and Sydney Thuente received the award for their performance of a regular duet.
Two groups received Judge’s Choice Awards. These are the group of Fe-l icity Emmerich, Chris Harris, and Megan Wein-stock as well as the group of Isabelle Horkey, Sydney Safarcyk, Kate Steed and Emily Wilson.
The contest was coordi-nated by ICS teacher Rhon-da Johnson with the help of several ICS staff members.
The students were pre-
pared for the contest by Mrs. Johnson and several ICS teachers.
Students were awarded
certificates and medals for their efforts.
An assembly to honor the students was held Nov. 23.
Immaculate Conception School in Morris hosts speech contest; winners announced
BRIEFSJoliet Jewish Congregation to hold weekend services
JOLIET – Saturday services will be held at 9 a.m. Saturday. Sun-day School will be held at 9 a.m. at Joliet Jewish Congregation, 250 N. Midland Ave., Joliet. For information, call 815-741-4600 or visit www.jolietjewishcongre-gation.com.
First Presbyterian to hold weekend lessons, carols
MORRIS – Lessons and Carols will be held during worship services at 5:30 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. Sunday at First Presbyterian Church of Morris, 200 E. Jackson St., Morris. For information, call 815-258-9259.
Coal City United Methodist to hold soup supper
COAL CITY – Coal City Unit-ed Methodist Church, 6805 E. McArdle Road in Coal City, invites the community to its first “Hallelujah” Soup Supper of 2016 from 4 to 7 p.m. Jan. 9. Soups will be cheesy potato and stuffed green pepper. Cost will be $8 for those 13 years old and older; $4 for children ages 6 to 12; $2 for children ages 3 to 5; and children 2 and younger eat free. All proceeds will go to the church’s building fund. Tickets will be sold at the door.
Helmar Lutheran to hold January fundraiser
NEWARK – Helmar Lutheran Church will have an all-you-can-eat Kumla Dinner from 4:30 to 7 p.m. Jan. 16. The proceeds are to support the HLC Food Pantry which has grown from serving 10 to 120 families, twice a month, in eight years of operation. The dinner includes ham, Kumla (like a dumpling), applesauce, dessert and beverage. A baked potato also can be substituted for Kumla if preferred. The church is at 11935 Lisbon Road, Newark. It is a free donation dinner. For information or questions, call 815-695-5489
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Sun. broadcast 95.7FM, 11amwww.morrisumc.com
FIRST UNITED METHODISTCHURCH (Seneca)
121 W. Lincoln Street.Pastor Kihwan ChoiPh.: 815-357-8340.
Each Sunday:9:00 a.m. Worship Service
FREEDOM BAPTISTCHURCH
(Independent-Fundamental)5140 Nettle School Rd. Pastor
Joel Robertson. Ph.: 942-0494. SundaySchool, 10 a.m.; Morning Worship,11 a.m.; Sun. Eve. Worship, 6 p.m.;Wed. Night Prayer Service, 7 p.m.
FRIENDS IN CHRIST LUTHERAN CHURCH1338 Clay St.,Morris, IL (LC-MS)815-941-1255 www.ficlc.orgWorship:Sat 5:30pm; Sun 8:15 & 10:45am
Sunday School: (Sept.-May) 9:30amBible Study:Sun 9:30am
Pastor MarkWillig
GRACE LUTHERAN(Rt. 47 at Airport Rd.)
Pastor Steven HeilmannChurch Ph.: 942-2252
www.glcmorris.net SundayWorship 9:30 a.m. Sunday School
for all ages 10:45 a.m.
HELMAR LUTHERAN(A.F.L.C.)
11935 Lisbon Rd., Ph.: 695-5489Pastor James Mostre
Sun: Worship Service 9:00am,Sunday School for all ages 10:15am
HOUSE OF GLORYA Spirit-Filled Church 815-651-8564Pastor Esther Holiday – Called to the
Prophetess Office, she has been a Pastorin the Morris area for 4 years.
Meeting at the Quality Inn,200 Gore Rd., Morris
Sunday Morning: 10:15amYouth ministry – ages 5-12
IMMACULATE CONCEPTIONCATHOLIC (Braidwood)
Rev. Show Reddy Allam, Pastor,Rectory: 458-2125 Mass: Sat, 5:30 pm;
Sun, 7:30 & 11 am; St. Lawrence O’toole,Essex, IL Sun: 9:15 am;
Weekday Daily Masses Tuesday – Friday8 am in the Adoration Chapel;
Communion Service: Monday 8 am.
IMMACULATE CONCEPTIONCATHOLIC CHURCH (MORRIS)
516 E. Jackson St. Father Edward Howe, Pastor.Confession Saturday, 4 - 4:30 p.m., Saturday
Mass 5 p.m.: Sunday Masses 7, 9 and 11 a.m.,Spanish Mass 2 p.m. Weekday Mass 7 a.m.,Wed., Thurs., Fri. Mass on Fri. at 8:15 a.m.
when school is in session. Scripture &Communion Serv. 7 a.m. Mon., Tues.
KINGDOM HALL OFJEHOVAH’S WITNESSES
Rt. 47, 1-1/2 miles south.Public Talk, 9:30 a.m.;
Watchtower Study, 10:20 a.m.
LIVING WATER CHURCHOF THE NAZARENE
Rev. Steve Cook: 815-942-2000Email: [email protected]
118 East Jefferson St., MorrisSun: Christian Education/All Ages: 9:45am
Worship Service: 10:45amWednesday Study and Prayer 7:00pm
For Church Page listings& advertising call
815-942-3221
JOLIET JEWISHCONGREGATION SHABBAT
(SABBATH)250 N. Midland Ave, Joliet. 815-741-4600
Friday evening: 7:00pmSaturday: 9:00am • Sun School: 10:00am
Led by Rabbi Charles Rubovitswww.jolietjewishcongregation.com
CHURCH OF THENAZARENE (Marseilles)
1292 Morris Rd, Marseilles. Churchphone: 795-4896. Pastor Bill Clark.
Sun.: Sunday School 9:45 a.m.,Worship 10:45 a.m. & 6 p.m.;Wed.: Prayer Meeting 7 p.m.
CROSS LUTHERAN(Yorkville)
On Rt. 47, about 15 miles N. of Morris.PH: 630-553-7335, www.hiscross.org
Saturday: 5 pm (Casual)Sunday: 7:45 am (Organ)
9:15 am (Praise Team)10:45 am (Praise Team)Nursery Care Available.
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH(Channahon)
24466 W. Eames St., Ph.: 467-6846.Pastor Randy Blan
Sun.: Worship 10:30 am; Bible Study 9:15 am;Wed.: Bible Study (All ages) 7:00pm
Thurs.: Midweek Connections, 1:30pm;More info: www.fbcchannahon.org
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LIFE CHURCH MORRIS508 W. Illinois Ave., Morris, IL
815-942-0800www.morris.gotlifechurch.com
Pastor Jonathan Horsfall
Sunday Prayer 9amFellowship & Worship 10am
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MINOOKA BIBLE CHURCH412 N. Wabena.
467-2205 • minookabible.orgSaturday: Service 5:30 pm,
Master’s Men 6:30 am;Sunday: Worship 8, 9:30 and 11 am
MINOOKA UNITEDMETHODISTPastor Sarah Hong
205 Church St. • 815-467-23222 blocks north of Minooka Post Office
www.minookaumc.comSun Worship 9am and 10:30am
Sunday School 10:30am
MORRIS CHURCH OF CHRIST1330 Old Pine Bluff
Sunday: Bible Study 10 a.m.Worship 11 a.m.815-942-0422
www.morrischurchofchrist.orgEmail: [email protected]
NEW COMMUNITYCHRISTIAN CHURCH705 E. Washington St., Morris,
815-942-4255 Pastor Kevin YandellYouth Pastor: Jake Raymer
Sunday Worship at: 9:00am & 10:45amNursery and Children’s programs offered.“You’ve got a Friend at New Community”
NEW HARVEST WORSHIPCENTER CHURCH OF
GOD(Wilmington)1200 Sunset Drive • 815-476-9036.
Pastor Shirley McClainSun: Worship, 10:30am; Thu: Bible Study, 7:00pm.
Food distribution: 2nd & 4th Tues. of the month,10am – 3pm. Mens fellowship breakfast: 2nd
& 4th Sat. of the month, 9 am.
NEWARK LUTHERAN(A.F.L.C.)
101 E. Liberty Ph.: 695-5251Pastor Luke Emerson
Sun: 8:45 Meet and GreetWorship 9:30am
NEW HOPEPRESBYTERIAN (COAL CITY)
80 N. Garfield. Ph.: 634-8332.E-Mail: [email protected]
Pastor: Rev. Nate ManzoSun.: Adult Bible Study 9am
Sun School 9:15am, Worship 10:30am;Wed.: Choir Practice 5:45pm
NEW LIFE CHURCH(Coal City)
495 E. 1st St., Coal City815-634-4133.
Larry Garcia, Pastor.Sun.: Sunday School 10:00am,
Worship 10:00amWed.: Worship at 7:00pm
OUR SAVIOR’SEVANGELICAL LUTHERAN
Rt. 47 & DuPont Rd.Pastor Dale SchillingPh.: 708-212-4323.
Sun. Worship Service, 9:30 a.m.;Sun. School, 10:30 a.m.
OUR SAVIOR’S LUTHERAN(Seneca, IL)
300 East Union StreetPastor Kris Ann Zierke
Phone: 815-357-6128Sun: Sun. School & Confirmation
Class: 8:45 am;Worship: 10:00 am;
PEACE CHAPELASSEMBLY OF GOD
852 School St., 815-942-4462Pastor Bob Hahn
Sun: Sunday School 10:30 amWorship 10:30 am; Youth 6 pm
Wed: Family Night 6:30 pm
PEACE LUTHERANCHURCH E.L.C.A.
101 Candlelight Lane • [email protected]
Pr. Luanne BettischSunday Worship - 9:00am,
Sunday Education Hour 10:15am,
PARK ST. CONGREGATIONAL(United Church of Christ)
806 Park St., Mazon • 815-448-5514Tyler Carrell, Pastor
Sun: Worship: 9:00amSunday School: 10:15 am; Fellowship
Hour immediately after worship
PEACEFUL WATER ASSEMBLYOF GOD (Channahon)
Middle School, Sage St. (S. entrance):Pastor Frank Snook. Ph.: 467-9754.
Sunday School, 9:00am;Worship, 10:00am & 6:30pm
Wed. Prayer Mtg., 7:00pm
PHELAN ACRES BIBLE(WILMINGTON)
R.R.#1. Pastor Rodney Chappel.Ph.: 476-7818.
Sun. School, 9:45am; Worship, 11:00amEve. Worship, 6:00pm
Wed.: Children’s Groups &Adult Bible Study.
PLATTVILLE LUTHERAN5475 Bell Road, Minooka.
(4 miles north & 4 miles west) Office,475-7220, Parsonage,
475-4127. Pastor Bret L. Reedy.Worship Service, 9:15am;Sunday School, 10:30am
RIVER OF LIFE LUTHERANCHURCH (Channahon)
Pastor Hans Fiene24901 S. Sage St., Channahon
815-467-6401Sunday Worship Service 9am
Sunday School & Bible Study 10:15am
RIVERSIDE CHURCH OFCHRIST (Minooka)Meeting in The Crossing
Business Center, 111 W. Wapella.467-9513
Sunday: Bible Study 9:30am,Worship 10:30am & 6pm;Wed.: Bible Study 7:30pm
ROSE OF SHARONMINISTRY(Coal City)
315 N. Daley 815-634-4148Rev. Jan Quiett. Sun:
Praise & Worship 6 p.m.;Tues: Kids Club 6 p.m.
Counseling by appointment.
RESURRECTION LUTHERAN(Channahon) ELCA25050 W. Eames (Rt. 6)Phone: (815) 467-6875
Pastor Ben IngelsonSun: Worship: 9:30 am
Sunday School: 10:45 amwww.resurrectionchannahon.org
MAZON UNITEDMETHODIST
509 7th Street • Ph.: 448-5677www.mazonmethodist.comMorning Worship, 9:00 amSunday School/Adult Bible
Study, 10:15 am
SACRED HEARTCATHOLIC (Kinsman)
392-4245 or 237-2230Fr. Stanley Drewniak
Sunday Mass 8:00amWednesday 8:30am
SENECA EVANGELICAL130 W. Scott St. • 357-6879
Pastor Rick Mitchell.
Sun. School, 10:00amPraise & Worship Service, 11:00am
EYF, 7:00pm Thursday.
STANDING IN THE WORDMINISTRIES
Establishing foundations for lives to be built uponR. Giovannetti, Pastor • 815.942.3758
Sun: 10:00am & 6:30pmKids Church: 10am, Nursery Provided
Wed: 7:15pmstandingintheword.org
STAVANGER LUTHERAN(North of Seneca)
Rev. Philip Peterson, PastorPh: 357-6302 Church Office,
815-357-6514Confirmation: 8:30 a.m.
Sunday School: 9:15 a.m.Worship: 10:30 a.m.
ST. MARY CATHOLIC(Minooka)
303 W. St. Mary St. 467-2233.Father Tuan Van Nguyen
Sat. Mass, 5:30 p.m. Sun. Mass,7:30, 9:00 & 11:00 a.m.
Confessions Sat. 4:30-5:00 p.m.
ST. THOMAS EPISCOPAL(Anglican)
317 Goold Park Drive(Chapin St. West)
James Steele, Pastor815-942-1380
Sun: Holy Communion at 8 & 10 amChurch School at 9 am
TRINITY LUTHERAN (LCMS)(Dwight)
1.5 miles N. of I-55, 1/2 mile E. of Rt. 47515 Stonewall Rd.
Rev. William Mitschke, Pastor815-584-3407
Sunday School & Adult Bible Class 9amChurch Worship 10am
THE VILLAGE CHRISTIAN(Minooka)
Meeting at Minooka Jr. High, 333 W. McEvilly,Minooka, Nate Ferguson, Lead Pastor,
Jared Baker, Worship & Arts Pastor, (815)467-2265thevillagechristianchurch.com
Sun.: 2 Services 9:00 & 10:30 a.m. (Kid’sprogram ages birth-5th grade during service)
Adult Small Groups Meet Weekly
TURNING POINTEAPOSTOLIC CHURCH
85 S. Broadway, Suite C • P.o. Box 254Coal City • 815-342-0652
Email: [email protected]: Ida M. Nelson
Sun: Worship Service: 10:00 amTues: Worship Service: 7 pm
UNITED LUTHERANCHURCH ELCA
Gardner - Pine & Jefferson,One Block N. of High School 237-2227
Pastor Jana HowsonSun.: Worship 10 a.m.
Women’s Bible Study - Third Wed.of the month at 1pm
VERONA UNITEDMETHODIST
Pastor Mary McQuilkinChurch phone 815-287-2491
Sunday School 9:45 a.m.Morning Worship: 8:30-9:30 a.m.
WEST LISBON CHURCH14381 Joliet Rd., Newark, IL
815/736-6331 • westlisbon.comPastor Rex J. Howe
[email protected]: Sun. School (all ages, nursery provided) 9-10am
Worship Service 10:30-12pmWed: AWANA (ages 3yrs old through 5th grade) 6pm-7:30pm
Jr High Youth Group (6th through 8th grade) 6pm-7:30pmHigh School Youth Group 7:15pm-9pm
For Church Page listings& advertising call
815-942-3221
JERRI’S HAIR COMPANY108 W. Main Street, Morris815-942-6440
KENTUCKY FRIED CHICKENWe Do Chicken Right1806 Division Street • 815-942-6676
MAZON STATE BANKMazon: 606 Depot Street815-448-2102Diamond: Rt. 113 - 815-634-2777
MIKE’S PAINT, PAPER & FRAMESQuality Custom Framing525 Liberty Street - 815-942-3133
NORTHERN INSURANCE GROUP114 W. North St. Morris - 815-942-0017
REEVES FUNERAL HOMEMorris: 408 E. Washington Street815-942-2500Coal City: 815-634-2125
RE/MAX TOP PROPERTYMorris Location - 815-942-1133Available 7 days a week in Supportof our community
R-PLACE FAMILY EATERY21 Romines Drive - 815-942-5690
STEVE’S TIRE & SERVICE CENTER“Quality Goodyear Tires at Competitive Prices”514 Liberty St. • 815-942-5080PRIDE & PERFORMANCE
U.C. DAVIS-CALLAHANFUNERAL HOME301 W. Washington Street815-942-0084
LISBON BETHLEHEMLUTHERAN CHURCH
Pastor Larry Jacobsgaard
108 E. Woodman St.,815-736-6271
Sun Worship, 9:30 amSunday School 10:45 a.m.
MAIN ST. BAPTIST CHURCH(Braidwood)
Pastor George A. Hendricks.458-6211. Sun. School, 9:45am;Fellowship Break, 10:45-11:00am
Worship Service, 11:00am; Eve. Serv., 7pm;Wed. Prayer Mtg., 7:00pm
MAZON BAPTIST CHURCH708 North 7th St.
Pastor Andrew Wzorek.Parsonage Ph.: 448-2327;
Church Ph.: 448-5545.Sun School, 9:30am; Worship: 9:30am,10:30am & 6 pm; Wed. Service 7pm
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LIVING WORD BIBLECHURCH (Morris)
Dedicated to proclaiming the Word of God.304 E. Jackson St. • 815-521-1990
Pastor Timothy Greene.livingwordbible.org
Sunday: Sunday School Hour 9 a.m.;Worship Serv. 10:15 a.m.
ST. LAWRENCE CATHOLIC(South Wilmington)
135 Rice Rd. • [email protected]
Fr. Stanley DrewniakSaturday Mass 4pm,Sunday Mass 10am
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 7:30am
ST. PATRICK CATHOLIC(Seneca)
176 W. Union St. 357-6239.Saturday Mass, 5:15 p.m.;
Sunday Masses,8:00 & 10:00 a.m.
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Morris graduate Jeff Perry (left) will start at middle linebacker for Central Michigan University in the Detroit Quick Lane Bowl against University of Minnesota on Monday.
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By ROB OESTERLE [email protected]
This is a Christmas tradi-tion that everyone could get used to.
For the second straight year, a Morris Community High School graduate will be starting for the Central Michi-gan University football team in a bowl game.
Last season, Kevin Hen-ry was a starter on the offen-sive line when the Chippewas played Western Kentucky in the inaugural Bahamas Bowl on Christmas Day.
On Monday Jeff Perry will be starting his seventh straight game at middle linebacker for the Chippewas in the Detroit Quick Lane Bowl against Uni-versity of Minnesota.
The game will be played at Ford Field, home of the NFL’s Detroit Lions, and televised on ESPN2, with kickoff slated for 4 p.m.
Perry, a 6 - foot-2-inch, 228-pound sophomore, has 17 solo tackles and 11 assists so far this year, including one for loss and has recovered a fumble.
Perry, who wears No. 32, not only helps the Chippewas defense with his physical tal-ents, but also with his brain. He is one of 15 Central Michigan
players to have been named Ac-ademic All-Mid-American Con-ference, which was the highest number in the conference.
He is sporting a 3.62 grade-point average in mechanical engineering to go with his excellent performance on the field. Central Michigan is 5-1 in the previous six games that Perry has started at middle linebacker.
The bowl will be the ninth in school history for Central Michigan, and the Chippewas are 3-5 all-time in bowl games.
It also is the ninth time they have played at Ford Field, where they have a 5-3 all-time mark.
Another Morris graduate, Danny Friend, will be taking the field as a member of the In-diana Hoosiers when they take on Duke in the Pinstripe Bowl on Saturday at Yankee Stadi-um in New York.
Friend wears No. 84 for In-diana and is a tight end on the high-powered Hoosier offense.
The 6-foot-5-inch, 261-pound sophomore has caught three passes for 39 yards this season, including a game against West-ern Kentucky in which he had two catches for 30 yards.
He also sees time on some of the Hoosiers’ special teams units.
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Perry, Friend former Redskins in bowl games
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Jeff Perry (32), a Morris Community High School graduate, is one of 15 Academic All-MAC performers for the Central Michigan University football team. Perry will start at middle linebacker for the Chippewas at 4 p.m. Monday in the Detroit Quick Lane Bowl. The game will be televised on ESPN2.
AREA ROUNDUP
Minooka girls defeat Lincoln-Way North STAFF REPORTS
FRANKFORT – With strong play at the start and finish Wednesday, the Minooka girls basketball team improved to 2-1 in the Lincoln-Way East Tour-nament and 8-4 overall with a 41-35 win over Lincoln-Way North.
Minooka got out to an 11-7 lead at the end of the first quar-ter and never trailed again the rest of the way. Part of that was because of freshman center Sa-vannah Johnson scoring six of her nine points in the fourth quarter. Senior Sydney Arlis had a team-leading 18 points for Minooka, while junior Brook-lyn Bachmann scored 13 to com-plement the nine points tossed
in by Johnson.“Our defense was excellent
today against an excellent Lin-coln Way North team,” Minoo-ka coach Ray Liberatore said.
St. Bede Tournament: Seneca concluded the St. Bede Tour-nament with a 46-38 loss to Fieldcrest on Wednesday. Kar-lie Cade led the Lady Irish (5-11) with 11 points, while Paige Hacker scored 10.
Ottawa Sophomore Tourna-ment: The Morris girls (4-8) finished 2-2 in the Ottawa Hol-iday Tournament after a 24-23 in overtime win over St. Bede on Wednesday. Madi Mayber-ry scored six points and had a team-high 10 rebounds, while Amanda Schmidt scored seven points.
BOYS BASKETBALLPlano Tournament: Coal City
opened play in the 53rd Annu-al Plano Holiday Classic with a 53-29 loss to Yorkville on Wednesday. Keegan Clampitt led the Coalers with 11 points.
Coal City resumes tourney action Saturday night at 8 against Fenton.
Morris sophomores 58, El-gin St. Edward 41: At the Pla-no Sophomore Tournament, Payton Voitik led Morris (6-5) with 19 points, while Blake Breyman scored 12 and Kameron Dransfeldt scored eight. A 20-6 third quarter helped the Redskins to the vic-tory, as well as the defensive work of Breyman and Danny Borgstrom.
SATURDAY’S EVENTSBOYS BASKETBALL9 a.m. – Gardner-South Wilm-
ington vs. Spring Valley Hall at
Marseilles Holiday Tournament
10:30 a.m. – Newark vs. Stre-
ator at Plano Holiday Classic
11:30 a.m.– Minooka vs.McHen-
ry at York Tournament
5 p.m. – Seneca vs. Chicago St.
Benedict at Marseilles Holiday
Tournament
6:30 p.m. – Morris vs. So-
monauk at Plano Holiday Classic
8 p.m. – Coal City vs. Fenton at
Plano Holiday Classic
GIRLS BASKETBALL1:30 p.m. – Minooka vs. Lin-
coln-Way Central at Lincoln-Way
East Tournament
5 p.m. – Coal City vs. Illiana
Christian at Lisle Holiday Classic
8 p.m. – Newark vs. Lisle at Lisle
Holiday Classic
GIRLS BOWLING9 a.m. – Morris at Plainfield
South Cougar Invite at Town &
Country Lanes in Joliet
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Since we are approach-ing the time of year when families and friends gather together, I thought it would be appropriate to try and find some things to possibly stir up the conversation.
Nobody likes to be in the midst of a group of people with nothing to talk about.
The following tidbits of ridiculous and strange facts might just help break the ice at your next get together.
All of the information for this article was taken from a book I just received as a present from a colleague.
It is entitled, The Book of Useless Information by Noel Botham and The Useless Information Society.
It is published by Penguin Publishers. I really found some of this stuff fascinating and I hope that you do to. Here goes:
• A baby gray whale drinks enough milk to fill more than two thousand bottles a day.
• The female oyster lays an average of 500 million eggs a year. Usually, only one oyster out of the bunch reaches maturity.
• An estimated 80 percent of creatures on Earth have six legs.
• The first medical use of leeches dates back to ap-proximately 2,500 years ago. The leech’s saliva contains a property that acts as an anti-coagulant for human blood.
• A square mile of fertile earth has 32 million earth-worms in it.
• The nematode Caenor-habditis elegans ages the equivalent of five human years for every day they live, usually expiring after fourteen days. However,
when stressed, the worm goes into a state of suspend-ed animation that can last for two months or more. The human equivalent would be to sleep for about 200 years.
• There is an average of 50,000 spiders an acre in green acres.
• Spider silk is an ex-tremely strong material, and its on-weight basis has been proven to be stronger than steel. Experts suggest that a pencil-thick strand of silk could stop a Boeing 747 in flight.
• Toads only eat moving prey.
• Each eye of the chame-leon is independent of the other. The lizard can watch and study two totally dif-ferent pictures at the same time.
• More people are killed in Africa by crocodiles than lions.
• Rattlesnakes gather in groups to sleep through the winter. Sometimes up to 1,000 of them coil up togeth-er to keep warm.
• The howler monkey is the loudest animal living in the rain forest of South America. Their voices can be heard up to five miles away.
• It is physically impossi-ble for pigs to look up at the sky.
• Scientists say that pigs, unlike all other domestic an-imals, arrive at solution by thinking them through. Pigs can be – and have been – taught to accomplish almost any feat a dog can master, and usually in a shorter period of time.
• Despite its reputation for being finicky, the av-erage cat consumes about
130,000 calories a year, near-ly 20 times its own weight in food and the same amount again in liquids.
• In case you were won-dering, cats cannot survive on a vegetarian diet.
• Eleven chinchillas were brought from the Andes
Mountains in South Amer-ica in the 1930s. All chin-chillas presently in North America are descended from these 11 chinchillas.
• The five fastest birds are: the peregrine falcon that can fly up to 175 miles an hour, the spine-tailed swift that can go 106 miles an hour, the frigate bird at 95 miles an hour, the spur-winged goose at 88 miles an hour, and the red-breasted merganser at 80 miles an
hour.Is any of this useful?
Probably not. Is it interest-ing?
For sure. This is just a small sam-
ple of some of the crazy facts that lie between the pages of this book. I hope that you enjoy.
Have a great Christmas.
• Steve Rogers can be reached at [email protected].
Nature facts to chew on over the holidaysSteve Rogers
INTO THEOUTDOORS
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Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of
speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.THE FIRST AMENDMENT
Note to readers: In cele-bration of Christmas Day, we reprint this passage from the Book of Luke.
In those days Caesar Au-gustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. (This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.)
And everyone went to his own town to register.
So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Beth-lehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David.
He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child.
While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son.
She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.
And there were shepherds living out in the fields near-by, keeping watch over their flocks at night.
An angel of the Lord ap-peared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified.
But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid. I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people.
Today in the town of David a Saviour has been born to you; he is Christ the Lord. This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger.”
Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying, “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men on whom his
favour rests.”When the angels had left
them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one an-other, “Let’s go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has told us about.”
So they hurried off and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby, who was lying in the manger.
When they had seen him, they spread the word con-cerning what had been told them about this child, and all who heard it were amazed at what the shepherds said to them.
But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart.
The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things they had heard and seen, which were just as they had been told
– Luke 2:1-20
‘On this day in Bethlehem’A Christmas to remember
Mistletoe hung in doorway and Christmas tree decorated and bright.
I sit here looking back at my first Christmas night.
Although I was too young to remember,
I’m sure that you do,For that Christmas, Mother,
would never have been mineExcept for you.I try to picture the way it must
have been,Lying in a hospital bed,Away from all kin.The long countless hours of
the pain you had to endure;Wondering and waiting long
into the night,Will this be a Christmas babe,But not knowing for sure.Before the night had endedI took my first breath.You laid back your head, and
took a little rest.Today is a very special dayThat’s celebrated far and wideBut there is a more love-filled
meaningThat I carry deep inside.I remember the stories you
told me,In my childhood, of how I
came to be.“A present” dropped off by
Santa Claus,Hanging by diaper from our
Christmas tree.Each night when I would say
my,“Now I lay he down to sleep”I would close with, “Please,
dear Lord, let thisLoving woman Santa’s present
keep.”As I grew, I knewThere was more than the fairy
tale you told,To the making of this now
27-year-old.There was time, patience, pain
and despair,And through all there was the
loving tendernessOf a mother who cared.
Janice GastElwood
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CROSSWORD SUDOKU BRIDGE by Phillip Alder
CELEBRITY CIPHER
First of all, I wish all of my read-ers a very happy holiday season.
When you have a few minutes – or more? – to spare, enter my annual Christmas Competition.
1. South is in four hearts. West leads the diamond 10. How should South plan the play? Do not be in-fluenced by these East-West hands. When the answer is given on January 22, they will change.
2. After East opens one diamond, suggest a bidding sequence.
3. Look only at the East hand. After opening one diamond, what should he rebid when West responds (a) one heart; (b) one spade; (c) one no-trump; (d) two clubs; (e) two no-trump, balanced, no four-card major, game-invitational; (f) three spades, a splinter bid showing good diamond support, at least game-going values and a singleton or void in spades.
4. Look only at the South hand. North opens one club, South re-sponds one heart, and North rebids (a) one spade; (b) two diamonds; (c) two no-trump. What should South do now?
5. Look only at the West hand. South opens one no-trump (15-17), and North raises to three no-trump. What should West lead?
6. Look only at the North hand. South opens two hearts, a sane weak two-bid. What should North do?
Mail your entry to Phillip Alder, c/o Universal Uclick, 1130 Walnut Street, Kansas City, MO 64106 to arrive by January 20, 2016. Or e-mail it to [email protected].
Please take as read all of the usual disclaimers, and remember that this is primarily for fun.
Questions come over the holiday
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