Kane County CHRONICLE MONDAY, JUNE 10, 2013 | KCCHRONICLE.COM DRUM UP SUPPORT LOCALS EXCITED ABOUT ST. CHARLES RIVERFEST’S DRAGON BOAT RACES. PAGE 3 Shea Lazansky – [email protected]Ally Ferrandino, a member of Team Rookies, reaches off of her team’s dragon boat to grab the winning flag during their second heat against Team EC Sea~ers in the Dragon Boat Races on the Fox River during the city of St. Charles RiverFest on Saturday. Team Rookies defeated the EC Sea~ers in both heats, advancing them to the next round of races. LOOKING FORWARD THE WEATHER Priscilla Barnes among those at Mighty Con Convention ST. CHARLES – Actress Priscilla Barnes is scheduled to appear at the Mighty Con Comic Convention set for June 21 through June 23 at Pheasant Run Resort, 4051 E. Main St., St. Charles. She is expected to sign autographs and interact with fans. Tickets for Mighty Con are on sale. Visit www.comicconvention.mightycon.com for information. Wednesday Morning Movie Series to begin ST. CHARLES – The Charlestowne 18 theater will have its Wednes- day Morning Movie Series through Aug. 7. The cost is $1 a person. Movies will start at 10 a.m. at the theater, which is at 3740 E. Main St., St. Charles. “Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted” will be the first movie on Wednesday. Today Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Tuesday Mostly sunny with a slight chance of showers. High 76 Low 58 High 78 Low 59
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CHRONICLEMONDAY, JUNE 10, 2013 | KCCHRONICLE.COM
DRUMUP SUPPORTLOCALS EXCITED ABOUT ST. CHARLES RIVERFEST’SDRAGON BOAT RACES. PAGE 3
Ally Ferrandino, a member of Team Rookies, reaches off of her team’s dragon boat to grab the winning flag during their second heat against Team EC Sea~ers in the Dragon Boat Races on the Fox Riverduring the city of St. Charles RiverFest on Saturday. Team Rookies defeated the EC Sea~ers in both heats, advancing them to the next round of races.
LOOKING FORWARD THE WEATHER
Priscilla Barnes among those at Mighty Con ConventionST. CHARLES – Actress Priscilla Barnes is scheduled to appear at
the Mighty Con Comic Convention set for June 21 through June 23 at
Pheasant Run Resort, 4051 E. Main St., St. Charles. She is expected to
sign autographs and interact with fans. Tickets for Mighty Con are on
sale. Visit www.comicconvention.mightycon.com for information.
Wednesday Morning Movie Series to beginST. CHARLES – The Charlestowne 18 theater will have its Wednes-
day Morning Movie Series through Aug. 7. The cost is $1 a person.
Movies will start at 10 a.m. at the theater, which is at 3740 E. Main
St., St. Charles. “Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted” will be the
first movie on Wednesday.
Today
Partly sunny with a chance of
showers.
Tuesday
Mostly sunny with a slight
chance of showers.
High 76
Low 58
High 78
Low 59
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Kaneland Foundation plans 5K raceMAPLE PARK – The Kaneland Foundation will host its
second annual 5K Cross Country Race at 8 p.m. June 21at the Kaneland High School football stadium, 47W326Keslinger Road, Maple Park.There also will be a quarter-mile Kids’ Track Run at 7 p.m.
and a one-mile cross country fun run/walk at 7:30 p.m.The 5K will be timed, and awards will be offered in agegroups and overall categories.All runners will receive a T-shirt for participating provid-
ed they are registered by June 15.Packet pick-up begins at 5:30 p.m. une 21 near the track
at the high school campus. The cost for the kids track runis $5, for the one-mile fun run is $10, and for the 5K race is$20.Download the race applications at www.kaneland.org or
register and pay online from the website on its Webstore(click on Kaneland Foundation). For information, call 630-365-8295 or email [email protected].
Corn Boil plans ‘Chop Cooking Contest’SUGAR GROVE – The Sugar Grove Corn Boil is now ac-
cepting contestants for the new “Chop Cooking Contest.”Each contestant will be given five items that must be usedin a recipe.Other ingredients may be added to the dish as long as
the five selected ingredients are included. The contestantswill be given the five items at about 10 a.m. on July 27, theday of the event.They will take the ingredients home, prepare their own
dish, and return to the specified location by 2:30 p.m. Thenumber of contestants will be limited to 10.The sponsor fee is $100 and will cover the cost of the
food for a single contestant along with an apron imprintedwith the sponsor’s logo and information.Sponsors will be assigned to contestants in random or-
der. Contestants and sponsors may contact Dave Ritcheyat 630-913-9663.For information about the Corn Boil, visit www.sugar-
grovecornboil.org.The Corn Boil runs from July 26 to 28.
World of Faeries Festival in South ElginSOUTH ELGIN – The annual World of Faeries Festival
takes place Aug. 3 and 4 at Vasa Park, 35W217 Route 31,South Elgin. For information, visit www.theworldoffaeries.com.Airship Cloud 9 and Steampunk will perform. The event
includes fine art, fine crafts, sculpture, puppets, publishedfantasy books, handmade clothes, fantasy and fairy attire,aromatherapy products and more, as well as metaphysicalservice vendors offering aura readings, reiki and otherspecialties.Families are encouraged to dress in their best fantasy or
fairy outfit. All ages are welcome. The event runs from 10a.m. to 7 p.m. Aug. 3, and from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Aug. 4.The cost is $11 for adults, $8 for seniors and free for those12 and younger. Parking is free.
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BATAVIA – Sunday morn-ing, Carrie Homewood and herthree children – 3-year-old So-phia and 6-year-old twins Owenand Lila – stood alongside thestring of yellow and orangepennants that marked the finalyards of the ET Batavia Triath-lon and Duathlon, giving thema clear view of the participants.
They were clearly waitingfor one particular participant,Ted Homewood, who slapped hiswife’s and children’s hands ashe sprinted by.
“It’s important for them tosee that people should be outmoving,” Carrie Homewoodsaid of bringing her children tocheer.
Ted Homewood, of Geneva,was among hundreds of otherathletes who spent the first fewhours of daylight swimming 400meters at the outdoor, unheatedpool at Quarry Beach Park; bik-ing a 14.7-mile loop; and running4.1 miles along the Fox River.
The finish line was at the Bat-avia Riverwalk on North IslandAvenue and Houston Street.
Ted Homewood was partici-
pating in the triathlon with Chi-cago-based bike company SRAMas a tribute to a coworker whowas a big triathlete and died thisyear, Carrie Homewood said.She noted they were raisingmoney for World Bicycle Relief.
Another family, Patty Es-slinger and her three youngchildren, stood closer to the pe-destrian bridge, which was partof the course.
They traveled from Plainfieldto support husband and fatherChad Esslinger.
“We love cheering him on,”Patty Esslinger said. “My daugh-ter wants to run in races now.”
Her husband started doingtriathlons to get in shape, shesaid, calling the events a greatmotivation for him.
Sunday was his third triath-lon in Batavia and 12th total tri-athlon, Chad Esslinger said.
He noted the cold water atQuarry Beach Park was quite ashock.
GENEVA – Gary and CarolFranz said the annual MarklundSummer Games has become aspecial day for their son, GaryPaul Franz Jr., who is a residentat Marklund.
The West Chicago family,which also includes Gary Paul’ssister, Kaitlyn, has been attend-ing the Summer Games for thepast three years.
Saturday’s Summer Gameswere no exception. The day in-cluded sports activities such asbaseball, bowling, basketballand races at Marklund, which isa home for people with seriousand profound developmental dis-abilities and special health careneeds.
“It’s fantastic,” Carol Franzsaid. “It’s just done with such ex-cellence and enthusiasm.”
This year’s Summer Gamesalso included visit from former
Chicago White Sox third base-man Bill Melton, and the WhiteSox mascot, Southpaw.
The Miracle League ball fieldon Marklund’s Geneva campuswas funded a decade ago byWhite Sox Charities Foundation,which was tied into Marklund’s10-year anniversary since open-ing its Geneva campus. Meltonthrew out the first pitch of theSummer Games baseball gameSaturday.
Gil Fonger, president andCEO of Marklund, said theSummer Games are Marklund’sversion of the Special Olympicsbecause many residents don’tfunction high enough to partici-pate in Special Olympics.
He said 140 volunteers fromChrist Community Churchcampuses throughout the areahelped with the summer games,along with a slew of parents andother volunteers, and 96 resi-dents participated.
“Our vision is to make ev-
eryday life possible for individ-uals with profound disabilities,”Fonger said. “Sports are justpart of everyday life.”
Vicki Beckmann of Genoa,a member of Christ Communi-ty Church in St. Charles, saidSaturday was the first time shehad volunteered for the Sum-mer Games. She spent Satur-day morning accompanying aMarklund resident to varioussports activities, including abean-bag toss game.
She said her church encour-ages its members to do volunteerwork on the second Saturday ofevery month.
“This a super second Satur-day,” she said.
Beckmann said she decidedto volunteer because that’s whatChrist does.
“It’s kind of a mandate ofChrist followers to live like helived and show God’s love tomore people and hopefully leadmore people to Christ,” she said.
ST. CHARLES – At 94years old, Edward Goreckiof St. Charles for the secondyear in a row climbed aboarda dragon boat and beatthe drum for his team, theKnights of Columbus, duringRiverFest in St. Charles onSaturday.
Gorecki, a World War IIveteran who served in theArmy, said he has becomethe “honorary drummer”for the Knights of Columbusteam.
He said while his team fin-ished in third place last year,he didn’t think they did aswell Saturday.
But for Gorecki, winningisn’t the highest priority.
“I’m out here for the funof it,” he said. “I just drumand cheer them on. Whetherwe win or lose, it doesn’t mat-ter.”
The Knights of Columbusteam was one of 27 teams thatwere part of the weekend’sannual Dragon Boat Races.
Paul Wasylyszyn said inhis six years as race coordi-nator, this year’s RiverFesthad the most dragon boatteams. Fourteen teams com-peted Saturday and another13 are scheduled to competeSunday.
Josh Corn, who lives nearMaple Park, competed withthe Paddlin’ for MB team – ateam that raced Saturday inhonor of Marybeth McGill,who Corn said died in March2012 from lung cancer.
He said McGill had com-peted with the Flying Earsdragon boat team in previ-ous years, and the two teamshave competed together forthe past two years.
Corn said about 50 peoplemake up the two teams.
Instead of beating a drum,the team tapes a picture ofMcGill on a dragon boat tothe top of the drum and theteam uses their voices tokeep a beat. He said McGillwas a lifelong non-smokerwho was very athletic.
“She was such an amazingperson and we don’t want herto be forgotten,” Corn said.
“Marybeth is with us everytime we’re on the boat.”
Unlike Paddlin’ for MB’steam, St. Charles couple Ra-chel and Bruce Harps fromthe Dragon @ 55 team saidthey depend most on theirdrummer to guide them inthe race.
Bruce Harps said the keyto the race is teamwork, tim-ing and rhythm.
The Dragon Boat Race has
become a tradition for theteam, which is made up of 20people.
“We’ve been looking for-ward to it since March,”Bruce Harps said.
Corn shared their enthusi-asm for the annual race.
“Once you’re in the boat,you find out how fun it is,”Corn said. “It’s all about ca-maraderie and having a goodtime.”
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CHEERS FORTHEDRAGONSDragon boats race down the Fox River at RiverFest in St. Charles
More online
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ABOVE: Cris Anderson, a St. Charles resident and co-owner of Colo-nial Cafe in St. Charles, keeps her hula hoop up during the hula hoop-ing contest at the Gazebo Stage in Lincoln Park during the city of St.Charles RiverFest on Friday. Anderson’s granddaughter, whom shetaught how to hula hoop, took home first prize in one of the hula hoop-ing contests for younger children. RIGHT: John Lim, 15, a student withBill Cho’s United Tae Kwon Do in St. Charles, kicks through a boardduring a presentation at the MainStage in Lincoln Park at RiverFest indowntown St. Charles.
Team Paddlin’ for MB turns their dragon boat around after defeating Team Dragon @ 55 in their second heat during the Dragon Boat Races duringRiverFest on Saturday.
St. Francis second baseman Jack Ciombor to tag Joliet Catholic’s Ryan Peter’s attempted steal in the IHSA Class 3A state championship game Saturday on Silver Cross Field in Joliet.
Stranded runners burn Spartans in title gameBy IAN MATTHEWS
JOLIET – There weren’t manysmiles on the faces of St. Francis base-ball players after dropping Saturday’sIHSA Class 3A state championshipgame to Joliet Catholic, 5-0, at Joliet’sSilver Cross Stadium.
A glance at two critical stats wouldprovide the reason for the long faces.
The Hilltoppers scored five runs inthe fourth of St. Francis starter JasonSullivan (8-2), only two of which wereearned. The Spartans also left 10 run-ners on base against JCA starter NickDalesandro (7-2).
It all added up to a tough final day ofthe season for the Spartans, who weregracious in defeat despite the loss.
“We really did a great job but we justfell apart in that one inning,” St. Fran-cis catcher Brett Jungles said. “We hadto come in and play good, clean defenseto win a state title. We had a little lapse– four errors – but we’re all happy tobe in this position. It’s a lot better thanlosing in the regional semifinal orsomething.”
The inning that Jungles alluded towas the Hilltoppers’ fourth, in whicha harmless bunt opened up the flood-gates for JCA (25-14).
Sullivan opened the fourth by per-mitting a leadoff single to Aaron Mark-ley before Chris Tschida walked to setup a sacrifice bunt situation for Dale-sandro. Dalensandro did his job, butthe ball was close enough to home platethat Jungles ran into the JCA pitchergoing after the ball.
After getting untangled, Junglesunsuccessfully tried to tag Dalesandrobefore uncorking his throw to first thatsailed into right field. Markley racedaround to score from second for thegame’s first run.
“First I thought the ball hit himout of the box because he wasn’t run-ning. Then I got up to get the ball andhe ran into me, which I thought wouldbe interference,” Jungles said. “ThenI thought I got him in the back of thejersey, which I guess I missed. Then Itook a bad angle – mental error – and Imade a bad throw. I knew it opened upthe inning but I had to forget about itand move on.”
The play scored the first of fiveruns in the inning, only one of whichcame via a hit. Sullivan uncorked awild pitch that scored Tschida beforeDalesandro beat Tim Zettinger’s throwhome that gave the Hilltoppers a 4-0lead. One batter later, John Kalisikripped an opposite field, RBI triple thatplated the final run of the inning.
“We made a couple of defensive mis-takes, those things happen,” St. Fran-cis coach Rich Janor said. “Obviouslytheir only scoring all game came inthat inning. It was a bad inning, andwe never recovered from it.”
What may have hurt worse for St.Francis (25-12) was leaving 10 runnerson base. Right before the Hilltoppers’explosion, the Spartans had runners atsecond and third with just one out. But,as he did on four other occasions, Dale-sandro worked out of the jam, strikingout Chris Smith and pinch hitter T.J.Jackson to end the threat.
In all, Dalesandro scattered sevenhits in the complete game effort whilestriking out nine Spartans. The sopho-more mixed an 86-89 mph fastball witha curveball and changeup that had St.
Francis off balance for much of thegame.
Dalesandro struck out the side inthe final frame to set off a raucous cel-ebration in front of 2,891 fans – manyof whom made the short trip to see theHilltoppers claim their third state titlein program history.
“I just tried to gain momentum– and that goes to my defense,” Dale-sandro said. “Sometimes I pitchedbackwards and would start with twocurveballs in a row. Sometimes I wouldthrow two fastballs in a row. I neverplayed in front of this big a crowd be-fore and they gave me all the power inthe world.”
Jungles had two doubles on the dayfor St. Francis – both of which led offinnings for the Spartans, who made thefirst title game appearance in programhistory.
“Last game as a high school playerand I thought I stepped up pretty bigwith two doubles,” Jungles said. “Tostrand runners, we just need guys tostep up in the moment and be big. Wejust couldn’t find ways to get guys intoday.”
IHSA: CLASS 3A STATE CHAMPIONSHIP: JOLIET CATHOLIC 5, ST. FRANCIS 0
EAST PEORIA – St. CharlesEast softball coach KellyHoran expected Saturday’sstate championship game tohave a much different com-plexion than East’s 3-2 thrillerover Barrington in Friday’sIHSA Class 4A state semifinal.
Not like this, though.Minooka slugged the Saints
out of EastSide Centre with arecord-setting offensive dis-play, ending the champion-ship showdown early with a14-3, mercy rule triumph in sixinnings.
“I thought [Friday] wasgoing to be low scoring likeit was, and I thought [Satur-day] was going to be a slug-fest based on what they haddone and who they had beat,”Horan said.
The Indians, it turned out,did enough slugging for bothteams.
Minooka (23-8) establishednew Class 4A state title gamebenchmarks for runs, hits (19)and home runs (three). The fi-nal homer, a three-run shot byleadoff hitter Rachel May inthe bottom of the sixth, endedthe game.
Both teams’ starting pitch-ers struggled early, but thesimilarities stopped there.
Minooka regularly rotatestwo pitchers, and Indianscoach Mark Brown replacedstarter Jackie Lilek with SaraNovak to start the third inningafter the Saints evened thescore at 3 with a three-run, topof the second.
Novak retired all 12 Saintsshe faced on the evening.
“Every time you get a newpitcher, it’s a different swingon it,” said East shortstop LexiPerez, whose RBI single tiedthe score in the second inning.“I could see the girls were get-ting a little bit too out in frontof it. She was pitching insideinstead of outside, which wewere having before, so we justhad to switch and make the ad-justment.”
There was no relief forstruggling Saints junior pitch-er Haley Beno. Beno (22-5),who limited powerhouse Bar-rington to five singles in thestate semifinal, couldn’t rep-
licate her form against the In-dians.
Mark Brown said he was“shocked” the Saints didn’tchange pitchers. Horan said“we just didn’t have Alex (La-toria) warmed up.”
“Probably would have goneto her, but hey, Haley broughtus here,” Horan said. “She wasgoing to finish this.”
Beno acknowledged shedidn’t feel strong in the circlebut said it was just normalsoreness pitching back-to-back games.
“I knew coming into thisgame it wasn’t going to be aneasy game,” said Beno, one ofseveral teary Saints duringthe postgame ceremony. “Itried my best to stay focusedand hit my spots.”
Beno’s teammates werequick to support their belea-guered pitcher.
“Haley’s had an excellentseason,” East junior SarahCollalti said. “We could nothave even made it to statewithout her. We couldn’t haveeven won any games withouther, to be honest. She’s beenthe best pitcher we’ve had fora long time.”
As thunderously as Mi-nooka’s lineup performed,the Indians could have donetheir damage even more effi-ciently. East left fielder KatieKolb made an inning-ending,diving catch to save two runsin the fifth inning, and the In-dians made a few other outs onhard-hit liners.
“They were just hittingballs at their eyes and at theirshoelaces,” Horan said. “Wecouldn’t throw it anywhere.”
Minooka’s state champion-ship run is remarkable con-
sidering the Indians trailedLockport, 13-4, in the fourthinning of a sectional semifinalbefore storming back for a 15-14 victory.
“I told them, don’t let thatbe the highlight of the play-offs,” Brown said. “Let’s lookback on that as a catalyst, notthe highlight of the season. Atthat moment, they started tobelieve.”
Not only did Novak dom-inate East from a pitchingstandpoint, but the Wisconsinrecruit also went 4 for 4 with ahomer and three RBIs. Team-mates Jordyn Larsen and Mayadded three hits apiece andcombined for five RBIs.
East (33-6) had only threehits, one of which was a two-run triple in the second by Col-lalti that made it 3-2 Minookabefore Perez tied the score.
“I had two strikes on meso I was really just trying tomake contact,” Collalti said.“It was an inside pitch thatI just got in front of and wasable to drive it just over theright fielder’s head, so thatwas awesome.”
Saints senior right fielderOlivia Lorenzini, whose two-out, two-run double againstBarrington won the statesemifinal in memorable fash-ion, was among six Saintsstarters to go hitless againstthe Indians.
Defensively, the Saintscommitted three errors whilethe Indians made none. Mi-nooka’s four-run fourth in-ning made it 8-3, and East’snight devolved from there.
Saturday marked the sec-ond time in three years thata St. Charles team lost in thestate championship game.
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IN KANE COUNTY CHRONICLE SPORTS
WednesdayThe Kane County Chronicle unveils its softball player of the
year and all-area teams.St. Charles North standouts Sabrina Rabin and Abby Howlett
were among the player of the year candidates, and crosstownSt. Charles East – which enjoyed its best season in programhistory – also has a strong candidate in Kate Peterburs. Class 3Apowers Burlington Central, Kaneland and St. Francis also figureto be well-represented on the all-area team.
ThursdayThe Chronicle’s baseball all-area team publishes.St. Charles East and St. Francis both advanced to the final
weekend of the season, with both teams leaning heavily on theirpitching.Upstate Eight Conference River co-champion Batavia also
enjoyed an excellent spring.
Friday and SaturdayWe’ll have profiles on the St. Charles Bank & Trust-Kane County
Chronicle male and female athletes of the year.In an awards ceremony Thursday at the Geneva History Center,
St. Charles East’s Amanda Hilton (soccer, basketball) was namedfemale athlete of the year for 2012-13, and Batavia’s MicahCoffey (football, basketball, baseball) was named male athlete ofthe year.
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St. Charles East first baseman Kate Peterburs makes a diving catch foran out along the first base line in Saturday’s 4A state championshipgame in East Peoria, won by Minooka, 14-3, in six innings.
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Big Nate
Crankshaft
Stone Soup
Dilbert
Garfield
Get Fuzzy is on vacation. Please enjoy this strip from March 31, 2008.
The Pajama Diaries
Pearls Before Swine
Rose Is Rose
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WornAmerican flags shouldbe disposed of with respect
Dear Abby: I was won-dering if you could printsomething about how toproperly dispose of Ameri-can flags.
I’m a garbage man innorthern Illinois, and I amsick of finding Americanflags in the trash.
Most of my co-workersand I pull them out andproperly dispose of them.Do people REALLY not re-alize what our flag means,and how many men andwomen have given theirlives for what it stands for?– Patriot Named Daniel
Dear Daniel: Your letteris timely. I’m sure thepeople you have describedare not being intentionallydisrespectful. I suspectthe flags are thrown outbecause of ignorance.
Readers: When an Amer-ican flag becomes soiled,faded and tattered, thereare better ways to disposeof it than tossing it in thegarbage.
According to the U.S.Flag Code, “When a flaghas served its usefulpurpose, it should be de-stroyed, PREFERABLY BYBURNING.”
The pamphlet “FlagEtiquette” published by theAmerican Legion states:“For individual citizensthis should be done dis-creetly, so that the act isnot perceived as a protestor desecration.”
Many American Legionposts conduct Disposal ofUnserviceable Flag ceremo-nies on June 14, Flag Day,each year.
The Boy and Girl Scoutsof America also are able toconduct these ceremonies.When you are ready todispose of yours, contactthe local Boy or Girl ScoutCouncil, or wait until theGirl Scout cookie salesstart locally and offer theflag to the troop during asale at a small business.
Dear Abby: I’m a 50ish,never-married bachelorwith a question aboutengagement rings. Do yourecommend that the mango out and purchase anengagement ring and thenpresent it to the woman
when he proposes, ordo you think he shouldpropose without a ring andthen let her choose the ringshe wants? – Old BachelorIn Ohio
Dear Bachelor: When aman is ready to propose, itwould be prudent for himto visit a jeweler and askthat some rings – or stones– in his price range be setaside.
Then he can pop thequestion, and IF the wom-an says yes, take her to thejeweler to select somethingshe would enjoy wearing.
This will prevent anunpleasant and expensivesurprise should the ladysay no.
Dear Abby: Your re-sponse to “One-Way Tick-et’s” (5/11) question abouthis mother’s final triphome got me thinking, andI found a loophole they maybe able to use.
If their mother’s airmiles can be used by some-one else (like her grownkids), she would go ascargo, but her miles wouldpay for her escort to takeher home.
If there are any milesleft over after that, theycould be donated to variouscauses, like the Shriners,who sometimes need to geta child flown to anotherpart of the country fortreatment. Or the militarymay have a stranded sol-dier waiting to go home forthe holidays, etc.
My oldest flies using mymom’s air miles, and I flewmy youngest with mine,so if the mother of “One-Way” would like to put hermiles to use, this could behelpful. – Former FrequentFlier
Dear Former Frequent Fli-er: What great ideas! I lovethe suggestions my readerscome up with, and yoursare good ones.
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BRIDGE by Phillip Alder
Will Rogers said, “An econ-omist’s guess is liable to be asgood as anybody else’s.”
A bridge expert’s guess isliable to be better than a lesserplayer’s. In this deal, how shouldSouth plan the play in fourspades after West leads the clubqueen?
South’s jump to four spades isnormal, but he might guess to re-bid three no-trump. North wouldthen have to guess whether topass (he has 4-3-3-3 distribution)or to remove to four spades (hehas four trumps). Here, three no-trump has nine easy tricks.
South has four potentiallosers: three hearts and onediamond. In real life, he mightguess that either East hasthe heart ace or West has thediamond king. But in a lessonsetting or a newspaper column,declarer should know that Eastwill have the diamond king andWest the heart ace. How canSouth still survive?
If declarer wins the first trick,draws trumps, and takes thediamond finesse, East wins withhis king and shifts to the heartqueen – the contract is kaput.
Instead, South should duckthe first trick. He takes the clubcontinuation with his ace, drawstrumps ending on the board,throws a diamond on the clubking, cashes the diamond ace,and continues with the diamondjack.
If East plays low, declarerdiscards a heart and has 10tricks (six spades, two diamondsand two clubs), even if Westproduces the king. If East covers,declarer ruffs, returns to dummywith a trump, and cashes the lastdiamond. He is home with noguesswork.
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Truck / Trailer Repair Centerseeking experienced full-timeHeavy Duty Truck Technician.Successful applicant must beable to efficiently & accuratelydiagnose & repair all malfunc-tion breakdowns. 5+ years ex-perience in field, basic computerskills, Mack truck or additionalOEM certifications preferred.Valid drivers license, have owntools. Must be physically able tohandle heavy parts, tools. Weprovide competitive wage, vaca-tion, uniform, 401k, insurance.
Send resume to:AXLE & EQUIPMENT SALES CO
1049 Paramount ParkwayBatavia, IL 60510
MECHANICSIllinois Central School Bus Is Hir-ing Mechanics. Currently lookingfor a Tech in Charge, 4 SupportMechanics (West Chicago) and aApprentice Tech (St Charles)!Own tools required, able to passa DOT physical and become CDLlicensed within 90 days of hire!Pre-employment drug/ alcoholtest and background check. Com-petitive wages, paid holidays,sick, and vacation.
St. Charles - Busy Real EstateOffice FT & PT Openings.
Both Candidates must be: flexi-ble, detail oriented, able to workwell under pressure and be ateam player. Real Estate experi-ence, license and office experi-ence is helpful but not neces-sary. Part time assistant ~ 15 to20 hours a week. Please sendcover letter and resume to:[email protected]
Restaurant
Actively seeking ManagementPersonnel for our
West Suburban locations.
Must be able to lead and createa fun working environment for
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BATAVIA1 BR starting at $820-$8602 BR starting at $980-$10003 BR TH starting at $1275
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COUNTRY VIEW APARTMENTS1 & 2 bd apts available. $550-$625 Clean Quiet country setting,close to downtown Genoa. Lots ofupdates. Call 815-784-4606
GENEVA - 2 bedroom upperapartment / house with a deckoverlooking Fox River. Newcarpet, 1 block from town in agreat neighborhood. $750/moplus utilities. 847-652-4056
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