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City Council asks state to release funds
By LYLE R. ROLFE [email protected]
Plano City Council members Monday night unanimously approved a
reso-lution asking state officials to release non-general fund
revenues payable to local governments.
The resolution introduced by Mayor Bob Hausler notes that the
state has been operating without a Fiscal Year 2016 State budget
since July 1, which resulted in the state withholding more than
$150 million n revenue owed to municipal governments for lack of
appropriation authority.
Critical local services such as road construction, maintenance,
and repair will remain under-funded until state leaders take action
to release Motor Fuel Tax funds to municipalities, the resolu-tion
says.
Many municipalities rely on state distribution of local revenue
to fund their 9-1-1 service centers. Without these funds the
effectiveness of emergency ser-vices to reach citizens will be in
peril, it says.
Hausler noted in the resolution that municipal budgets and basic
services will be negatively impacted without the release of local
Use Tax, Video Gaming Fees and Casino Fees and revenues from the
Wireless Services Emergency Fund.
We call upon the governor and gener-al assembly to take action
to immediate-ly release all non-general fund revenue owed to local
governments, he said.
Hausler asked that copies of the resolution be forwarded to the
governor, comptroller, senate president, senate minority leader,
house speaker, house minority leader, local legislators and the
Illinois Municipal League.
Eric Miller - [email protected] work to clean up the
site of the old Monarch Foundry grounds on South Street in
Plano.
Plano hires attorney for foundry site case
By LYLE R. ROLFE [email protected]
Two weeks ago, Plano City Council mem-bers in a closed session,
discussed whether they should take legal action against a firm they
say contaminated the former Monarch Foundry site at 801 E. South
St.
After the closed session, City Attorney Tom Grant said there
would be litigation and Monday night council members unan-imously
accepted Grants recommenda-tion to hire a firm to file suit against
GnG
Demolition & Salvage, Inc.Grant recommended Julie
Cibulskis
from the law firm of Speers, Reuland & Cibulskis of Aurora,
be hired to represent the city to pursue legal action against GnG
Demolition and Salvage Inc., for its han-dling and removal of
asbestos material from the foundry site in 2010 and 2011.
Grant said the hourly rate for Cibulskis is $250 an hour. Rates
for others in the firm are $250 and $300 an hour, Grant said the
firm has worked for the city before and did a great job.
Sometime after the Monarch Foundry was closed, the city
purchased the property so the buildings could be razed and the land
sold for redevelopment as industrial.
John McGinnis, Plano public works di-rector and city engineer,
said at the earlier meeting that part of the 11-acre site is in a
flood plain, but there are still about six acres that can be
reused, when cleaned up.
It was noted at the earlier meeting that removing asbestos and
transite, a form of
School Board members get update on student progress
See FOUNDRY SITE, page 2
By LYLE R. ROLFE [email protected]
Plano School Board members received an update recently on the
progress being made by stu-dents in several key areas.
And they also learned about some of the problems the distinct
has and how they are being over-come.
You can see where weve been,
and look at where were headed for in the future, Eric Benson,
High School principal said.
The futures bright here in Plano. We feel like were making some
progress and today we can highlight some of those
opportu-nities.
The other piece we want to make sure were looking at is that as
we continue to work to improve our academic success-
es here at Plano High School we have to look at some of the
factors that we work through on a daily basis, he said.
Benson said there are the daily challenges they work with across
the district. Theyre challenges that are very real that we need to
take head-on. he said.
He said the target for the dis-trict is college readiness. Our
goal is to ensure that students
are college ready when they leave here. The better college
prepared they are when they leave here, they better they will do in
college and have a better chance to com-plete college.
Terri Hanrahan, assistant su-perintendent, noted that the me-dia
presents information about how schools are ranked, but often does
not compare funding be-tween schools.
There is a growing concern between the funding provided to
affluent vs. low-income districts, she said. Illinois ranks last in
the nation for funding the districts that have the fewest vs. the
most students in poverty, she noted.
It becomes unfair when you take a school like Stevenson which is
one of the wealthiest in
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A headline in last weeks Plano Record was incorrect. While the
ALR group participated in the Trunk or Treat event, it did not host
it. First Baptist, First Lutheran, and the United Methodist Church
of Plano in Plano host the annual Trunk or Treat event.
CORRECTION
SHAW MEDIA
Two Kendall County residents filed petitions this week to have
their names placed on the March 15, 2016, Republican Party prima-ry
election ballot as candidates for Kendall County coroner.
Filing petitions were current deputy coroner Jacquie Purcell of
458 Landmark Ave., Yorkville, and Chad Gutierrez of 62
Riverview
Court, Oswego.The two candidates are seeking
to succeed long-time incumbent cor-oner Ken Toftoy, who
announced earlier this year he would step down from the position
when his current term ends next year.
The one-week period for candi-dates to file petitions to have
their names placed on the March ballot began on Monday at the
county clerks office in Yorkville and con-
cludes Monday, Nov. 30.Also filing petitions Monday was
incumbent Kendall County States Attorney Eric Weis of 455 E.
Barber-ry Circle, Yorkville, also a Republi-can. As of press time
Weis was the only candidate to file a petition to run for states
attorney.
Republicans filing petitions to have their names placed on the
bal-lot as candidates for county board seats from the boards
District 1
were Todd Milliron of 61 Cotswold Drive, Yorkville, and John
Purcell of 458 Landmark Ave., Yorkville.
Republicans filing petitions to run as candidates for the boards
District 2 were Dan Koukol of 1690 Collins Road, Oswego, and Diane
Selmer, 568 Heritage Drive, Oswego.
Purcell and Koukol are incum-bents.
No Democratic Party candidates had filed petitions as of press
time.
asbestos sealed in concrete slabs, had become far more expensive
than anticipated.
McGinnis said the city told GnG they would have to remove the
asbestos pan-els from the roof and walls, with the asbestos
intact.
But on a three-story portion of the building his equipment would
not reach high enough, so the con-tractor knocked it down, causing
the panels to break apart releasing the asbes-tos, McGinnis said.
The contractor then took a bull dozer and spread the asbes-tos
across three-acres, Mc-Ginnis added.
Dynamic Contracting Services of Elgin has been doing the cleanup
work which consists of removing all of the asbestos, concrete and
dirt on the site.
McGinnis said the city will still have other costs af-ter the
asbestos is removed. To make the site buildable, officials are
saying the city must bring in three feet of fill to cover the
contaminat-ed soil, McGinnis said.
Monday night, council members approved the pay-ment of $444,478
to Dynam-ic Contracting Services of Elgin for removal of asbes-tos
from the site.
Alderman Bob Jones asked McGinnis how much they originally
estimated it would cost to remove the material and what they have
spent so far.
McGinnis said the origi-nal base bid was for the re-moval of
1,000 tons at a cost
of $189,465.As of this pay request,
they removed an addition-al 2,280 tons at a cost of $215 per ton
for a total of $490,284, he said. As of to-day, weve removed an
ad-ditional 3,686 tons at a cost of $776,981. Were estimat-
ing that our final number should be about $780,000.
The city will still have other costs after the asbes-tos is
removed.
To make the site build-able, officials are saying the city must
bring in three feet of fill to cover the con-
taminated soil, McGinnis said.
The parcel is east of Pla-no Molding. It is between Big Rock
Creek and the Pla-no Molding buildings north of Route 34 and south
of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad tracks.
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the country representing one of the wealthiest com-munities in
the country, and compare it to districts that have very different
funding and very different demo-graphics, Hanrahan said.
Looking at funding from a federal perspective, she said there is
a growing cri-sis in the country about how schools across the
country are funded, particularly what supports are provided to
communities that serve affluent vs. those who serve low-income
families.
She noted that the state spends $7,419 per pupil for instruction
compared to Plano spending $5,305. And on operational expenses the
state spends $12,521 per pupil compared to Planos $9,589.
She said Illinois ranks last in the U.S. ...and by quite a
margin, she added.
In fact in 2013, it was the first time in more than 50 years
that greater than 51 percent of the students in the public schools
came from low-income backgrounds, she said.
Hanrahan noted that between 2012 and 2015, the number of Planos
high school students coming from
low-income backgrounds increased by 28 percent. It went from 46
percent in 2012 to 59 percent in 2015.
I want to make clear something Mr. Benson said. We dont share
this data to make any excuses for our-selves. Its our job to serve
all students who walk through our doors, she said adding that the
students face some real challengesones stu-dents in an affluent
district rarely has to face.
They include food inse-curity, with officials won-dering how
many of these students will receive three meals a day, she said,
add-ing that many of them find school to be a place warmer than
being at home.
These students also have no or limited access to med-ical health
insurance. And those with medical insur-ance, rarely have access to
vision, dental or hearing care, she added.
These students also face instability in term of moving
frequently, she said.
So as we take a look at the challenges our students bring,
theres some things we have to address before we address their
academic issues, Hanrahan said re-ferring to international
com-parisons.
Hanrahan said Plano has been helping by focusing on
food for these students. They provide a quality breakfast and
lunch program during the school year and have expanded the food
program by providing summer lunch programs at the Communi-ty
Center, something which will be continued next sum-mer.
For health needs, the dis-trict has been working with local
hospital systems and medical providers and have helped with
services for checkups, immunizations, dental and vision care. And
they provide reasonably priced physicals for students wanting to
participate in sports, she added.
Benson said he noticed attendance was very import-ant when he
came to Plano five years ago.
We look today as an ad-ministrative team. Were at a 96 percent
average daily attendance which is terrific across the board. At the
high school were in the 94-95 per-cent range which for a high
school is very competitive. Right now, were second in the entire
county for our at-tendance rates.
Students want to be here on a daily basis. Thats one of the
first indicatorsgetting those kids here. And then on top of it,
getting them to par-ticipate.
You all know how much
our students are partici-pating on a regular basis. Theyre
involved in extra curricular activities and involved during the
school day.
We want them involved not only here, but out in the community,
Benson added.
Thats how students be-come part of the community and thats a
greater sense of belonging.
He said they have done a lot of work during his five years here
to see that stu-dents graduating from col-lege show the highest
level of rigor, whether its AP or Honors Level classes.
We would love for every Plano student to take at least one AP
class before they leave high school. We under-stand that this may
not be the right for every student, but were trying to create a
broad enough brush stroke so we can have something for every
student.
Were offering Comput-er Science Principals next year. The
prerequisite for it is to have some computer programming knowledge
and to have taken Algebra 1. Its important that we give students
opportunities in areas in which they feel strength, he said.
Benson noted that creat-ing a dual language program at P.H.
Miller School has
made students become pro-ficient in both Spanish and English at
a younger age. He said this gets the brain work-ing at a younger
age and in a different way.
Expanding the summer school program also has ex-panded the
opportunities for the students.
The district is carefully tracking how students are performing
in their classes through assessments and failure data to keep them
on track for graduation.
He added that attendance participation and gradua-tion rates are
improving, and they have significantly increased the number of
stu-dents taking their most rig-orous courses.
Planos high school grad-uation rate went from 88 per-cent in
2012-13 to 92 percent in 2014-15. And the number of AP tests taken
went from 51 to 256 over the same three years. They are
anticipating more than 400 AP tests will be taken this year.
Benson noted that the number of students pass-ing the AP tests
went from 16 to 73 over the same time three years, the passing rate
for the second semester in-creased from 79 percent to 88.75 percent
over the same time period and the ex-tra-curricular participation
increased from 64 percent to
76 percent he noted.His goal for this year is
that 92.5 percent of all stu-dents will pass all 8 classes for
the school year compared with 88.75 percent last year.
He said they will see an increase of 0.98 on the ACT Composition
Score for the class of 2017. The score for 2016 was 18.27; for 2017
it was 19.25, and he is predicting 20 for 2018 and 20.75 for
2019.
We have 45 percent of AP students scoring a pass-ing rate of 3
or higher on the AP exam, up from 30 percent last year. If theyre
passing those exams theyre getting full credit and theyre going to
an Illinois school which is important, he said.
We have an 80 percent participation rate and thats without the
rosters of five clubs or any of our spring sports. Last year we
finished the year with 76 per cent, he said adding that the juniors
are at 79 percent and the freshmen are at 78 percent.
A 96 percent attendance rate for a district that has the
low-income concentra-tion that we have is unheard of. And thats
because our teachers care so deeply for our kids and they and their
parents know it. They feel good about sending their kids to us,
Hanrahan said.
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Motoring in Plano was slow going on Route 34 Saturday morning
with blowing snow making it tough to see, as shown here at Mitchell
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Motorists deal with weekend snowstorm
Plano School Board adopts 2015 tax levyBy LYLE R. ROLFE
[email protected]
Plano School Board members on Nov. 16 approved a tentative tax
levy for the 2015 year, on recommendation of Superintendent Dr.
Hector Garcia.
By state law, the board must ap-prove a tentative levy not less
than 20 days prior to the adoption of the final levy.
The levy is the amount of taxes the district is asking the
county to levy
from taxpayers to fund the district for the coming year.
He asked that the tentative approval take place at Mondays board
meeting because he will ask for adoption of the final levy at the
December 14 board meeting.
State law says a public hearing must be held by the board before
adoption of the levy if it is more than 5 percent higher that the
previous year.
And the district must publish a no-tice of he increase in the
local newspa-
per if the levy is more than 5 percent higher than the previous
year.
The levy proposed by Garcia for 2015, is 0.8 percent higher than
the pre-vious levy and the 2014 levy was only 1.5 percent higher
than the previous year. According to the resolution, the amount
levied for the 2014 year was $15,507,977.
And he said they will be asking the county to levy $5,754,963
for 2015.
He will present the levy for final adoption at the Dec. 14 board
meeting.
Architectural firm hired for facility audit
By LYLE R. ROLFE [email protected]
L a s t m o n t h , P l a n o School Board members de-cided to
see what a new ar-chitectural firm may have to offer the district,
so they asked for proposals from other area firms.
Bryan Appel, Director of Operations, said they began a search of
architectural firms in the area and had responses from nine.
Two of our primary criteria were in-house engi-neering and
proximity. In-house engineering allows us to work on a complete
solution with all parties under one roof. And the lo-cality of the
firm allows for quick face-to-face on-site meetings when questions
arise. One phone call starts and finishes the process, he said.
Appel said he narrowed the list down to two firms Kluber
Architects & En-gineers of Batavia and Cor-dogan, Clark &
Associates Inc., of Aurora.
He noted that both ap-pear to be very similar and said they
interviewed both
firms during the past facili-ty audit interviews.
Cordogan Clark was ultimately selected for the facility audit
and they per-formed well. We worked very closely with their
ar-chitects and engineers and it was a painless proce-dure, Appel
said.
The district also used Cordogan Clark for some preliminary
design work at the Administration Build-ing and at the Plano Middle
School and they did a great job at both sites, he said.
Since the two firms are very close, I dont see any reason to
select Kluber when weve been having such a wonderful relationship
with Cordo-gan Clark, Appel said. He introduced Craig Welter,
senior project manager for Cordogan Clark and asked him to address
the board.
Welter said his firm got to know the district and its buildings
when they worked on the facility audit.
He said the firm has about 40 architects, engineers and
construction managers.
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Kendall County Sheriff Dwight Baird made some inter-esting
comments concerning crime trends and gangs in the county during a
recent meeting of the Neighborhood Watch program in the
unincorporated Boulder Hill subdivision.
As we reported last week, Baird told an audience of more than 25
subdivision residents that crimes in the coun-ty are caused by both
county residents and those outside the county. He noted that this
has always been the case.
Concerning gang activity, Baird reminded the au-dience that it
is nothing new to the county. He recalled there was a gang presence
in Boulder Hill when he grew up there in the 1980s. However, what
is relatively new concerning gang crime in the county is its
location. According to Baird, there is now more gang activity in
residential developments between Yorkville and Plano than in
Boulder Hill or other areas of the county.
When questioned further, Baird noted that many of the people
involved with gangs came to the county due to changes in subsidized
housing rules in Chicago.
Bairds comments should serve as an unsettling reminder to all
Kendall County residents that we are in no way isolated or immune
from the effect of the carnage now taking place on the streets in
some Chicago neighbor-hoods. What happens in the city or other
communities in the suburbs has a ripple effect throughout the
region. As a result, the need to find solutions to the problems
that lead to the violence in the city should be a matter of concern
to us all not just those in the city.
OUR VIEW LETTER TO THE EDITOR
An opportunity to help those in need
Kendall County has grown and changed significantly over the past
many years, but its nice to see that so many county civic and
religious organizations continue to offer programs during the
Christmas holiday season to help out the many amongst us enduring
difficult times.
Just one example: the Oswego Fire Protection District, School
District 308 and the Oswego Optimist Club are team-ing up to
collect new toys and bicycles as part of the Toys for Tots program.
Those wishing to donate toys are invited to drop off new, unwrapped
toys and bicycles at any of the fire districts four station or at
District 308 junior high schools. Optimist Club members will later
help distribute the toys and bikes to needy county families before
Christmas.
There are many other food, clothing and toy drives underway
throughout the county. This week on page one of our Countywide
section weve published a listing of several of these and encourage
our readers to consider supporting at least one of them with a
donation. Please note: our list is in no way comprehensive and we
continue to welcome information concerning other charitable
programs. Please email the infor-mation to us at
[email protected]. Thank you!
Thanks to Trunk or Treat participants
To the Editor:The 12th annual Trunk or Treat spon-
sored by the First Baptist, First Lutheran and the United
Methodist Church of Plano was conducted on Sunday, Octo-ber 25.
This event was well attended by at least 350 children, and many
people came together to make this event a fun one for the kids.
Many thanks to the many business-es, organizations and
individuals who provided a decorated trunk packed full of treats,
goodies, games, and a person who was usually dressed in costume. A
big thanks to our local media Record Newspapers, Valley Free Press,
Fox Valley Shopping News, Beacon News,
DeKalb Chronicle, Ottawa Daily Times, Plano Chamber of Commerce,
WSPY Ra-dio, and the City of Plano for outstanding promotion of
this event. Thanks to the many businesses who allowed a flyer to be
placed in their window or bulletin board for promoting the event.
Thank you to Lauri Safford, Robin Ruman, Staci and Bradi Gann, and
members from the American Legion Riders Post #181 of Sandwich for
providing animals for children to pet.
Thanks to Pastor Kent Svendsen for the use of his grill and for
helping set up and tear down; Gerri Henze for manag-ing the
concession stand; Ted Oldeen, Clarence Holdiman, Matt Wyncoop, Tom
Mahoney, and Debbie LeGro for helping with the concession; Julie
and Dylan Jeffries and their helpers for conducting
the photo booth; Tony and Amy Curtis for managing the church
game and handing out Halloween bags to children; and members and
youth groups from the three churches who donated the concession
items and worked the event. And finally to YOU the community and
surrounding area who attended this event bringing your little
ghosts and goblins to this fun-filled event and for donating enough
canned goods and non-perishable items to overfill a gro-cery cart.
These items will be given to the Kendall County Food Pantry.
Thank you to everyone for another awesome event and for making a
differ-ence for the kids.
Linda OlesonTrunk or Treat ChairpersonPlano
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We all know the very first Thanksgiving dinner in the New World
was cooked up by the Pilgrims following their first suc-cessful
harvest in 1621. But then again, we probably think were actually
voting for president when we go to the polls every four years.
Neither, of course, is true.
In the case of the presi-dential election, we vote for electors,
who, in turn, cast their ballots in the Elector-al College. And as
we saw in the 2000 election, the candidate getting the most popular
votes isnt neces-sarily elected president.
Likewise, the Pilgrims did indeed celebrate a Thanksgiving in
1621, but it wasnt the first in what would one day become the
United States. Actually, 30 vastly relieved Englishmen who had
sailed to the new colony of Virginia in 1619 aboard the rickety
ship Margaret thanked their lucky stars and God during a heartfelt
Thanks-giving service on Nov. 30 of that year. They then upped
anchor and sailed up the James River into history.
A year later, in the au-tumn of 1620, the Pilgrims a grim group
of Puritans who fled what they believed to be a thoroughly God-less
society sailed west across the Atlantic hoping to find the same
Virginia colony the passengers of the Margaret reached the year
before. But the Mayflower and its 102 passengers landed much
farther north due to a combination of stormy weather and bad
navigation.
So, instead of finding Virginias sunny clime, the Pilgrims and
their May-flower compatriots struck land at Cape Cod, anchoring
off what today is Province-town, Mass. After exploring the
vicinity for several weeks, the party decided to settle around what
even-tually became Plymouth Plantation, the first colony in New
England.
That first winter proved fatal for many of the Pil-grims who had
no real expe-rience with winter weather in the northern New World.
And the ones who survived made it through thanks mostly to the
generosity of the local Native Ameri-cans. The survivors planted
crops the next spring, again with the assistance of local members
of the Wampano-ag Tribe under their leader, Massasoit. In
particular, the Indians taught the En-glish how to plant corn by
including a codfish in each hill of corn that acted as fertilizer.
Corn, beans, and squash were staples of the Native American diet,
and quickly became the same for the new arrivals.
After the successful harvest of 1621, Massachu-setts Gov.
William Brad-ford decreed that a day of thanksgiving be set aside
to thank God for the Puritans survival. Bradford and the Pilgrims
invited their Wampanoag benefactors, including Massasoit and 92 of
his people, to the feast.
The meal included wild turkeys shot by the Pil-grims and food
the English had raised, including popcorn. It must have been an
interesting meal for both sides.
The Pilgrims remained
friendly with the Wampano-ag while Massasoit and his eldest son,
Wamsutta, lived. But following Wamsuttas death, Massasoits other
son, Philip, assumed lead-ership of the Wampanoag. Growing friction
with the Pilgrims eventually led to war. Called King Philips War
after the Wampanoag leader, the Indians who had helped the Pilgrims
survive those first terrible years were virtually annihilated in a
pattern followed for two and a half centuries until the Native
American tribes that inhabited North America were either sub-dued
or exterminated.
The Pilgrims continued to celebrate Thanksgiving even after they
had eradi-cated the Indians who had helped them survive during
those first terrible years. Through the years, that first
Thanksgiving was both remembered and embel-lished, even though some
of the reasons the Pilgrims were around to celebrate it at all were
conveniently forgotten.
In fact, it remained a mostly New England holi-day for the next
200 years, although transplanted Yan-kees took the celebration with
them as they headed west, settling other areas of the growing
country.
Then in 1863 during the depths of the Civil War, President
Abraham Lincoln proclaimed the first nation-al Thanksgiving Day to
be held on the last Thursday in November. The president acted, at
least in part, in response to Sarah Josepha Hale, the editor of
Godeys Ladys Book, a popular magazine of the era.
Hale had begun cam-paigning for a national Thanksgiving Day in
1846,
and by 1852 she had per-suaded people to celebrate a
Thanksgiving Day on the same date in 30 of the nations 32 states.
But it was far from an official celebra-tion.
With President Lincolns declaration, the celebration became
national at least in the states still loyal to the Union. Following
the war, most states passed laws making the last Thursday in
November the official Thanksgiving Day. Then, since this is the
United States, the commercializa-tion of the holiday surfaced and
began to accelerate.
The nation was just starting to crawl out of the Great
Depression triggered by the stock market crash of October 1929 when
Pres-ident Franklin Roosevelts 1937 tax increase, approved in a
misguided effort to bal-
ance the national budget in a time of depression, threw the
nation back into reces-sion. But by 1939, its effects were
beginning to wear off. That year, Federated Department Stores
chief, Fred Lazarus Jr., persuad-ed Roosevelt that a longer
Christmas shopping season would greatly help the nations flagging
economy not to mention Federated Department Stores bottom line.
Roosevelt then pro-claimed Thanksgiving would henceforth be
cele-brated on the fourth Thurs-day of November instead of the
last, thus in many years adding another week to the Christmas
shopping season. Within a few years. most states fell into line,
passing laws making Novembers fourth Thursday Thanks-giving
Day.
From that year on, Thanksgiving has become more and more a
com-mercial holiday marking the start of the Christmas shopping
season rather than a true day of thanks-giving for a bountiful
harvest and survival in a harsh world.
In more ways than one, the celebration of Thanks-giving Day has
symbolized the change of the nations economy from a rural-based
farm economy to one based on consumerism. Depend-ing on your point
of view, that may be either bad or good, but I think we all have to
admit the meaning behind the holiday has cer-tainly changed during
the past 152 years.
Looking for more local history? Visit
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I like a good fightTo the Editor:Profit is very simply revenue
above expens-
es. Carla Taylors Nov. 19 letter reflects her belief that
Planned Parenthood is not profit generating. She calls Planned
Parenthood a charitable organization, defined in the dictio-nary as
one set up to provide help and raise money. This describes many
for-profit and non-profits alike. The difference is what they do
with that money that exceeds expenses. A non profit must plow the
money back into their work rather than provide it for
share-holders. Though Planned Parenthood has been designated as a
non-profit by the IRS, it is not necessarily a charity. The word
does, though, nicely deflect the truth about their monetary
situation.
From 2005 to 2009, Planned Parenthood, in their own documents,
made about $319 million. It likely is more now, but thats not the
point. They state that $78 million should be deducted for
investment losses but the resulting net is still a paltry $240
million. Of course, they choose not to use the word profit but
prefer to use the revenue over expenses terminology. It sounds
nicer. The real question is how they can even begin to defend that
we taxpayers apparently should continue to choose to give so much
money in our governmental budget to their wonderful charity.
As far as government shutdowns blamed on that awful radical
right wing contingent, it
seems an oversimplification the media would love us to embrace.
Possibly many do. But when you resort to calling names, Im sure it
makes you feel better. Its sad.
Yes, abortion is legal. It has long been known that just because
someone has a right to do something does not make it right. On the
GOP website, they state this: a culture should respect and protect
life. Unfortunately for us, we have some confused Republican
repre-sentatives and senators that subscribe to the Democrats
ideals of family, life and marriage. I wish they would just become
Democrats, but we can vote them out when they cant defend the GOP
platform. Its simple: just look for the conservative candidate.
Its also a laugh to know Carlas definition for my life as a
conservative is that my life is good and that the status quo works
best for me. Poppycock. If I wanted to leave things the way they
are right now, I would shut up and call myself a Democrat. It is my
percep-tion that, when listening to the liberal ideas spewed by our
media, they are the ones who do not want to listen to the ideas of
others. As my grampa would say, they reside in the land where the
motto is Its my way or the highway.
Whether you call it pro-abortion or the sug-ary term pro-choice,
I would say we should choose. Choose life. Someone asked, Why fight
a battle you cant win? to which we must respond, These are exactly
the battles we should fight; if you knew you could win, it
wouldnt be a fight, and I like a good fight.
Cindy AkrePlano
Support is appreciatedTo the Editor:This past Monday, Nov. 23, I
had the privi-
lege to submit my petitions to run for Kendall County Coroner. I
have spent the past couple of months gathering signatures at
various events, booths and by simply walking door-to-door. I have
met many wonderful people, and I am truly grateful for the support
I have received.
One common theme I noticed was the number of people not
realizing the coroner is elected. The primary election for
president, federal, state and county officials, including coroner,
is March 15, 2016.
A summary of my experience and training for Coroner is as
follows: Over 20 years of experi-ence as a death investigator;
Kendall Countys only nationally board certified death
investi-gator; Kendall Countys only full-time Deputy Coroner for
over 12 years; Worsham College of Mortuary Science graduate;
nationally board certified funeral director and embalmer.
If you would like more information, please visit my website at
electpurcell.org or contact me at: PO Box 90, Yorkville, IL 60560.
Your support is greatly appreciated.
Jacquie PurcellCandidate for Kendall County CoronerYorkville
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Illinois State Police have announced the appearance of a new
drug in the area.
In August, three peo-ple were arrested during traffic stops in
the Grun-dy County area while they were attempting to deliver
shatter, District 5 Safety Education Officer DeAnn Falat said in a
statement, and 105 pounds of shatter was seized during the
stops.
Shatter is extracted from cannabis plant resin and can be six
times stron-ger than the average joint, Falat said in the
statement. This high concentration is extremely poisonous and
destroys nerve tissue.
When the resin dries it looks like a brown or amber sheet of
glass, Falat said.
According to police, shatter is most commonly used by heating
and inhal-ing the smoke, but has also been eaten or injected.
Shatter causes a mental disorder characterized by disconnection
from reali-ty, Falat said.
The process to make shatter uses gases and chemicals that have
caused explosions in illegal labora-tories, according to
police.
State Police warn public of new drug
By LYLE R. ROLFE [email protected]
The Kendall County Farm Bu-reau Foundation was given the OK to
plant and harvest crops next year in the 13-acre field west of the
Plano High School.
This fall a group of volunteers planted, raised, harvested and
sold 2,400 bushels of corn from the field, which is owned by Plano
School District 88.
Superintendent Dr. Hector Gar-cia told school board members at
Mondays meeting that they had a successful year and made a profit
of $9,000, because of manpower and machines donated by the Kendall
County Farm Bureau Young Lead-ers, headed by Kurt Schobert, who
organized the program.
The $9,000 was split three ways
$3,000 to the Kendall County Food Pantry and the Rockin
Christmas program to help fill food baskets for needy families and
senior citizens in Plano; $3,000 to the Farm Bureau for its Ag in
the Classroom pro-gram, which teaches agriculture, farming and
related items to chil-dren in elementary school through-out the
county; and $3,000 to the high school for a newly-formed sci-ence
club.
Garcia said they want to start dreaming big and one of the first
things hed like to see purchased would be a drone.
More and more farmers are us-ing them to survey their fields and
that will be something to attract more and more kids to the science
club. It can generate more interest and one day we can have a
science lab out there in the field, he said.
But, he said the first thing is to continue this great
partnership and develop more academic oppor-tunities for our
students in the up-coming years.
Without the donated equip-ment and manpower, the school district
may have realized only about $200 profit, Garcia said.
The small field (13 acres) has contributed to the greater
under-standing of the various agricultur-al opportunities available
to stu-dents and directly helping some of Planos most vulnerable
families, Garcia noted in a memo to the school board.
He recommended, in light of this success, that the school
district enter into the agreement with the Foundation for the
coming year, from Feb. 1, 2016, to Jan 31, 2017.
Its a really good partnership.
In past years we used to make next to nothing, he said referring
to when a farmer would plant the field, and pay the district a
portion of his profit. The district was then required to pay taxes
on the profit, leaving them with little left.
Board member Shalley Wake-man said they should send letters of
thanks to the people and orga-nizations that made the donations
possible.
I agree with you and I think it would be terrific to have them
here to be recognized for Plano Premier awards as a teen-community
part-nership. I think its great that all that money will be staying
here in our community.
Acceptance of the lease at this time will give the Young Leaders
Group the approval to go ahead and prepare the land for the 2016
grow-ing season, Garcia said.
Approval of the agreement was unanimous.
Farming of field by high school OKd13-acre site will be learning
opportunity for Plano students
County expecting deficit of $1.4M
By MATT SCHURY [email protected]
The Kendall County Board approved a 2016 fis-cal year budget in
a 7-3 split vote Tuesday night that included a request to the
Kendall County Health for a $350,000 contribution to offset the
costs of benefits for health department em-ployees.
That budget also shows a deficit of about $1.4 million in the
general fund.
Board members Jeff Wehrli, Judy Gilmour and Elizabeth Flowers
cast the negative votes.
The County Board brief-ly discussed the merits of requesting the
money from the Health Department.
Wehrli and Flowers said they had problems with making the
request in light of the uncertainty with the state budget. Wehrli
also said he didnt know the mechanism the county would use if the
health de-partment decided not to comply with the request.
Last week the Board of Health voted to contribute $125,000 to
the countys gen-eral fund. The counter-of-fer came after the County
Board approved putting their budget on display with the $350,000
request to the health department.
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The Kendall County States Attorneys Office has charged Joseph
Wil-liams, 51, of the 1000 block of U.S. Route 30, Aurora, with one
count of unlaw-ful failure to register as a sex offender, a Class 2
felony, according to the Kendall County Sheriffs Office.
The Sheriffs Office re-ported that Aurora Police took Williams
into cus-tody on Nov. 18. He has
since been released on a $10,000 bond, pending a court
appearance early next month.
The charge against Williams, a registered sex offender, stem
from a Sheriffs Office inves-tigation. In seeking to verify
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the suspect had failed to notify the Sheriffs Office of an address
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Warrant arrest Paul G. Hayes, 32,
of the 1700 block of Doris Drive, Sand-wich, was found to be
wanted on a war-rant after a traffic stop at about 8 a.m. Nov. 19
at Route 34 and Mitchell Drive, Plano police said. According to
reports, Hayes is accused of failure to appear in Kendall County on
a charge of unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia.
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7:18 a.m. 300 block of East Cro-foot Street, Sandwich, ambulance
request
8:04 a.m., 300 block of East Railroad Street, Sandwich, change
of quarters
4:41 p.m., 300 block of East Railroad Street, Sandwich,
structure fire
Nov. 191:08 p.m., 0-99 block of Hudson
Street, Millbrook, fire alarm1:11 p.m., 700 block of East
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Nov. 208:01 a.m., 300 block of East
Railroad Street, Sandwich, change of quarters
8:28 a.m., 900 block of Wilbe Street, Plano, ambulance
request
4:17 p.m., Route 34 and Eldamain Road, Little Rock Township,
acci-dent with injuries
5:20 p.m., 300 block of East Prai-rie Street, Plano, ambulance
request
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West Street, Sandwich, ambulance request
3:26 p.m., 400 block of East Jones Street, Plano, medical
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0-99 block of Circle Drive East, Boulder Hill, was charged with
driving while license suspended, suspended registration and having
no vehicle insurance after a traffic stop at about 10:55 a.m. Nov.
17 at Long Beach and Winrock roads in Boulder Hill, Kendall County
sheriffs police said.
Possession chargePeter M. Konigsfeld, 21, of
Plainfield, was charged with illegal possession of cannabis
after a traffic stop at about 1:25 a.m. Nov. 17 at Cherry and Grove
roads in Na-Au-Say Township, Kendall County sheriffs police
said.
Hit-and-run crashErin Summerson, 25, of
Sheridan, was charged with failure to reduce speed to avoid an
accident after a two-vehicle crash at about 8:10 a.m. Nov. 17 at
Route 71 and Reservation Road in Oswego Township, Ken-dall County
sheriffs police said. The other driver left the scene in a silver
Chevrolet Tahoe without providing any information for
the accident report, deputies said.
Warrant arrestJoseph H. Villagrana, 35, of the
500 block of Ashland Avenue, Aurora, was charged with driv-ing
while license revoked and expired registration at about 9:20 p.m.
Nov. 18 at Douglas Road and Seasons Ridge Bou-levard in Montgomery,
Kendall County sheriffs police said. Villagrana also was found to
be wanted on a warrant from Kane County, reports said.
License violationRobert L. Beasley Jr., 42, of the
100 block of Circle Drive West, Boulder Hill, was charged with
driving while license revoked at about 11:20 p.m. Nov. 19 at
Ashlawn and Circle Drive West in Boulder Hill, Kendall County
sheriffs police said.
License violationJuan Rodriguez III, 18 of the
800 block of South Fourth Street, Aurora, was charged with
having no valid drivers license after a traffic stop at about 11:50
p.m. Nov. 10 in the 2000 block of Baseline Road
in Oswego Township, Kendall County sheriffs police said.
Rodriguez also was cited for speeding, reports said.
Warrant arrestBrian Frank Oliver Castle, 26,
of the 300 block of Boulder Hill Pass, Boulder Hill, was found
to be wanted on a warrant for fail-ure to appear in DuPage County
at about 2:10 p.m. Nov. 19, Kend-all County sheriffs police
said.
Body writDanielle Penge, 37, of the 1700
block of Holiday Drive, Sand-wich, was taken into custody on an
active body writ from Kendall County at about 2:25 p.m. Nov. 19 in
the 0-99 block of West Countryside Parkway in Bristol Township,
Kendall County
sheriffs police said.
Car damagedVandals caused about $500 in
damage to a car parked Nov. 20 in the 1300 block of Light Road
in Oswego Township, Kendall County sheriffs police said.
TheftA Toshiba laptop computer,
silver chain and clothing were taken sometime before 12:45 p.m.
Nov. 21 in the 2200 block of Light Road in Oswego Township, Kendall
County sheriffs police said.
BurglaryAn air rifle, a camera and sev-
eral tools were taken between 4 p.m. Nov. 20 and noon Nov. 21
from a detached garage in the
0-99 block of Curtmar Court, Os-wego Township, the owner told
Kendall County sheriffs police.
Suspicious firesKendall County sheriffs police
are investigating two fires at abandoned residences on Nov. 21
near Whitewillow and Church roads in Lisbon Township. Both
residences had utilities shut off and both fires appear to have
been intentionally set, reports said.
License violationJose L. Galindo, 49, of the 500
block of Liberty Street, Aurora, was charged with driving while
license suspended at about 8:45 p.m. Nov. 21 at Ridge and Walker
roads in Na-Au-Say Township, Kendall County sheriffs police
said. According to the report, Galindo was operating a
private-ly owned snowplow truck at the time. An 18-year-old driver
involved in the collision was tak-en to St. Joseph Hospital in
Joliet for treatment, reports said.
Three-car crashCassie McDonald, 30, of
the 2000 block of Rosemont Avenue, Aurora, was charged with
failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident at about 4:05 p.m.
Nov. 21 at Galena and Rock Creek roads in Little Rock Town-ship,
Kendall County sheriffs police said. Inclement weather conditions
contributed to the collision, reports said. One wom-an was taken to
Rush-Copley Hospital in Aurora for treatment, report said.
KENDALL COUNTY SHERIFFS REPORTS
He said the firm started in 1951 and added that the education
business has been an integral part of the firm and what they
do.
But we are very diverse as well, he said, noting that they have
worked for Auro-ra University and Waubon-see Community College.
We bring some of those higher education ideas to the education
of K-12
schools and look forward to working with the district. It has
been a very enjoyable time getting to know the district and were
looking forward to more of it, Wel-ter said.
After having multiple sessions interviewing dif-ferent firms and
having board members in on some of those sessions, this is our
recommendation, Super-intendent Dr. Hector Gar-cia told the
board.
The vote to hire Cordo-gan Clark was unanimous.
FIRMContinued from page 3
Plano School District worked with firm in past
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Plano Community Library District offers a number of programs in
the coming weeks. The library is at 15 W. North St., Plano, IL
60545; the phone number is 630-552-2030. Learn more at
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Writers Group: Come join other writers to discuss your work.
Meets on the second and fourth Thursdays of each month in the
Library Board Room. No registration required. Open to adults and
high school students. Program meets from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Thursday,
Dec. 10.
New Life for Old Bags: Help making sleeping mats for the
homeless. Volunteers will meet at the library on the second
Saturday of every month to make plarn (discarded plastic shopping
bags cut into strips for crocheting). Volunteers are also needed to
crochet mats at home.
Donated plastic bags for the project can be dropped off at the
library. For more infor-mation, contact Ceil Carey at
[email protected] or 708-846-1704. Meets from 10:30 a.m. to noon
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MORRIS Five years ago, Ray Smiths son, Shane, started playing
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With a business back-ground and an eagerness to move away from
truck driv-ing, Smith said he looked into paintball as a business
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I thought, This is some-thing I could get into, said Smith,
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For the last two-and-a-half years its been a long haul, he said,
but Midwest Paintball is nearing its de-but in Morris. The past
week, finishing touches were underway on the in-door facility, a
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The course is laid out
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Smith said competitors enjoy playing on indoor courses that mir-ror
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year be-cause it allows them to be as prepared as possible.
Soon, players from Grundy County and poten-tially all over the
Midwest will duck under and behind 50 inflatable bunkers set up on
the course, as they try to dodge paintballs flying through the air
at 100 mph. Groups can reserve time at the course, which actual-ly
resembles a smiley face from an aerial view, Smith said.
Smith said he started looking three years ago for properties
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capable of supplying air to nearly 2,000 players.
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We want to do it the right way, he said.
He even looked into the science of picking a name. A marketing
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al-low the business to reach its full potential.
Smith realized how a re-gional name could attract many people.
The name Midwest Paintball has a broader appeal, he said.
We can have people from five different states driving here in
four hours or less, he said.
Though he hopes to get visits from the Illinois State Redbirds
Paintball Team and a professional team called the Houston Heat,
Smith was able to ac-quire an experienced and knowledgeable staff
mem-ber from nearby.
Stefi Barnes, who has managed Chicago Damage Inc. and 665 Almost
Evil competitive teams with her husband who is known in the
industry as Q Ball will be running the retail desk. Shes not your
aver-age front desk person, how-ever.
Since beginning in 2006 as a supportive mom to her three
paintball-play-ing kids, who are now ages 24, 22 and 18, Barnes
said paintball is the familys life-style. For weekend practic-es,
they had to drive at least an hour to indoor facilities amid winter
cold or sum-mer heat until now.
They travel with their teams across the nation to
compete.I love the camarade-
rie of it, Barnes said. It draws people from all walks of life.
From emer-gency room technicians to high school students. From our
oldest player being 47, to our youngest being 15.
Barnes and her husband have enough gear at their house along
Ashley Road to outfit a five-person team. Its catching on
throughout Grundy County, as well.
Ill go to [Grundy Coun-ty] Corn Fest and Morris Cruise Nights
and see fac-es of people Ive seen on a paintball field, Barnes
said.
Within days, many of those familiar faces and plenty of new ones
could be coming into Midwest Paintball. Smith said the opening date
and time will soon be announced on Mid-west Paintballs Facebook
page and MidwestPaint-ballInc.com.
Photos by Mike Mallory - [email protected]
Midwest Paintball owner Ray Smith lays down a piece of
paint-ball course flooring Thursday. Midwest Paintball in Morris
will announce its opening date and time soon on Facebook.
Paintball compressor tanks sit Thursday in a room at Midwest
Paintball while finishing touches are put on the new indoor
paintball facility in Morris.
I love the camaraderie of it. It draws people from all walks of
life.
From emergency room technicians to high
school students. From our oldest player
being 47, to our youngest being 15.
Stefi Barnespaintball team manager
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SPORTS Thursday, November 26, 2015Plano Record Page 12BOYS
BASKETBALL
By CHRISTINE BOLIN DASCHER [email protected]
The Plano boys basketball team isnt panicking just yet.
Despite starting the season with a pair of losses at
LaSalle-Perus Cavalier Classic, the Reapers know there is plen-ty
of time to make the right adjustments to get that first win of the
year.
In the first game on Monday, LaSal-le-Peru topped the Reapers,
77-44, and on Tuesday, Dunlap won, 47-39. Plano will play again at
2 p.m. on Friday.
We are struggling to find what we are, Plano head coach Kyle Kee
said. Guys have new roles, and a lot of guys are playing in their
first-ever varsity games we are still searching, [but] we are 0-2,
and thats never good. We are not going to be 0-30. We will get some
wins, but its important we learn from the losses.
Were improving, Plano junior Eli-jah Maisonet added. Its a long
season. We have places to improve and ways to win.
Against Dunlap, there was just one tie the entire game at 7
points after Matt Suttons basket started a 6-0 run for the Eagles,
who led 12-7 at the end of the first.
Three points from senior Marcus Ramirez was how the Reapers
started the second quarter, but five straight points from Jon
Aguirre pushed the Ea-gles ahead 17-10. By the break, Dunlap led
22-15.
Dunlap took its first double-digit lead of the game, 25-15,
after a bucket from Evan Fairfield.
That was a part of an 8-0 run as the Eagles pushed ahead, 30-15,
with 4:52 left in the third quarter.
After a Plano timeout with 3:30 left in the third, the Reapers
capped the quar-ter on an 11-4 run, including a 7-0 spurt
that included points from Maisonet, Ramirez and Anthony
Martinez.
Dunlap led 36-28 entering the final frame. The closest the
Reapers came to catching up was 43-39 after a bucket from Marcus
McKinney and three-point-er from Maisonet with one minute left in
the game.
The Eagles followed that with a
timeout and a turnover, but the Reap-ers couldnt produce any
more points after that. Plano was led by Maisonets 19 points and
Ramirez finished with 10 points.
Against LaSalle-Peru, the Cavaliers led 43-26 at halftime after
a 27-point sec-ond quarter. Plano was led by McKin-ney (12 points,
eight rebounds).
By CHRISTINE BOLIN DASCHER [email protected]
The Plano girls basketball team earned its first win of the
season against Newark in the Reapers third game of Somonauks Tim
Humes Breakout Tournament last Thursday.
The Reapers shot out to a fast start and led by double-digits
ear-ly, en route to their 44-41 victory over the Norsemen. Plano
then turned around the next day and topped Somonauk, 47-37, for a
2-2 finish in the tournament, which was won by Wheaton Academy
(4-0).
We jumped on [Newark] ear-ly and gained confidence, which we
needed, Plano head coach John Chernick said. When you lose two
close ones [to Serena and Hinckley-Big Rock], you start to doubt
and you start to question. But I have to give the girls cred-it.
They had a real good attitude in practice and they came out
in-spired [against Newark].
Plano scored the first 11 points
against Newark behind points from Bradi Gann (10 points, four
rebounds), Khiyanna Magee and Shannon Tierney. The Reapers capped
the first quarter with a 13-7 advantage.
The Reapers were able to keep the lead for the rest of the first
half and owned the 23-17 advantage at the break. The Norsemen,
how-ever, started the second half on a 7-0 run behind Kelsea Zitts
five points and took the lead (24-23) for the first time.
The only tie of the contest was on the next point, when Planos
Ashontik Jones (eight points, sev-en rebounds) hit a free throw.
She then went on to score the next five points to push the Reapers
ahead, 29-24, with 3:20 left in the third quarter. Entering the
final frame, they led 37-32.
In the middle of the fourth, Newark went on a 7-0 run, and when
Megan DiClementi (eight points, five rebounds) scored a bucket with
2:25 left in the game, the Norsemen led 41-39.
That was the last time Newark
scored, as Tierney (nine points, eight rebounds) responded with
a huge three-pointer that gave Plano the 42-41 lead. Four timeouts
later, Magee (nine points, six rebounds) connected on a pair of
free throws for the final points of the contest.
They could have folded and it could have been over, but they
fought back, Newark head coach Barb Scott said. Im proud of the
fact they kept fighting.
Prior to Newark, Hinckley-Big Rock defeated Plano, 46-44.
The
Royals led 30-25 at halftime and ended up outscoring the Reapers
17-11 in the fourth quarter.
Plano was led by Jones, Magee and Rylie Loux, who each scored
nine points.
It was close the whole way, Chernick said. We had two lousy
quarters. We gave up 18 in the first and 17 in the fourth, and you
just cant do that. Its just a matter of executing, and offensively,
we just didnt shoot well.
Against Somonauk after a slow first quarter, Plano produced a
solid second quarter after hold-ing the Bobcats to two points. The
Reapers then scored 20 points in the third. They were led by
Tier-neys 15 points. Loux posted nine points.
Plano will host Peotone in an Interstate Eight Conference
con-test next Monday.
Plano drops 2 at tournamentPlano junior forward Elijah Maisonet
pulls down a rebound against Dunlap at LaSal-le-Perus Cavalier
Classic. Maisonet led the Reapers with 19 points in the game, which
Pla-no lost, 47-39.
Eric Miller - [email protected]
GIRLS BASKETBALL
Early lead nets close win over Norsemen
Eric Miller - [email protected]
Plano junior Demetra Phylactos keeps her eye on the ball while
defending Newarks Kelsea Zitt at Somonauk on Thursday.
Victory is first of the season, quickly followed by another vs.
Somonauk
Reapers prep for final day at LaSalle-Peru
I have to give the girls credit. They had a real good attitude
in practice and they came out
inspired [against Newark].
John ChernickPlano head coach
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The season of giving
How you can help others
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By JOHN ETHEREDGE [email protected]
The Christmas holiday season of giving has ar-rived and there
are a wide variety of ways Kendall County residents can help their
neighbors in need. Here is a listing of just a few of the many
charitable drives and programs now underway:
Operation Santa is a program run by the Yorkville Junior Womens
Club that collects gifts for children in need in the Ken-dall
County area. This program has run in conjunction with the Kendall
County Food Pantry for over 20 years. Last year, gifts were
provided to almost 1,400 children.
Gifts are needed for children ages newborn to 13 years old. It
is requested that gifts have a minimum value of $10. The club also
accept gift cards, batteries and wrapping paper.
Items should be turned in by Thursday, Dec. 11. There are
several area businesses serving as collection sites. In Yorkville,
Club 47 and Advanced Physical Medicine. In Oswego, any Os-wegoland
Park District location and Keiths Car Care. In Plano, Possibilities
Hair Salon.
For more information, contact Teresa at 630-605-1546 or
[email protected].
The School District 308 Transportation Department and the Oswego
Transportation As-sociation are collecting winter ac-
cessories including hats, scarves, gloves, ear muffs, mittens
and any other winter weather gear from Nov. 30 to Dec. 15. The
donations will be given to the Brokaw Early Learning Center in
Oswego.
Donations may be given to any school district bus driver bus, or
dropped off at the districts Transportation Center, located at 55
Stonehill Road in Oswego.
The Oswego Fire Protection District is collecting toys for this
years Toys For Tots program. Ev-ery year the fire district, School
District 308 junior high schools, United Stated Marine Corps and
the Oswego Optimist Club team up to collect toys for families in
need during the holiday season.
The fire district, the junior highs and Marine Corps collect the
toys and the Oswego Optimist Club distributes the toys just before
Christmas.
Anyone wishing to partici-pate and help out local families in
need may drop off a new, unwrapped toy at any of the fire district
stations in Oswego, Mont-gomery and Plainfield.
More importantly, the fire dis-trict would like to make everyone
aware that if you are a family in need or you know a family in
need, contact them at 630-554-2110. You may also go to the Oswego
Optimist Club website directly at oswegooptimists.com.
Last year the fire district col-lected over 4,000 toys that were
distributed in the Kendall County area. In addition, the fire
district
collected 44 bicycles as part of its bicycle drive that were
also distributed.
If you have any questions, contact Capt. John Cornish at
630-554-2110.
The Optimist Club of Os-wegoland is preparing for their Family
Christmas Project. The club works with School District 308 to find
families in need. The club sets up a sponsor for each needy family
who puts together gifts and clothing for the children and groceries
for the holiday.
The number of families and children increases every year and the
Optimist Club works very hard to provide for all of them. The
committee that oversees this project begins months in advance to
assure that as much as possible is done for as many as possible.
There are fundraisers in place throughout the year that raise funds
and canned goods.
For many years, businesses and individuals in the commu-nity
have participated in this project. Whether it is by pur-chasing
gifts for the children and families, donating cash (which
the club uses to purchase the food), donating hats and mittens
at the local schools, or helping distribute the items to the
fam-ilies, there is always a way for someone to take part and give
back within the community. In addition, the club has been work-ing
with the Toys For Tots program in conjunction with the Oswego Fire
Protection. (See previous listing)
To be a part of the Oswegoland Optimist Club Family Christ-mas
Project, visit the clubs web-site at oswegooptimists.com, or email
Bryan Noble at [email protected].
The Oswego Fire Protection District will hold its annual meat
and cash raffle on Saturday, Dec. 5, at 5 p.m. at Prohibition
Junction Sports Bar & Grill. Pro-ceeds from the raffle will
benefit the fire districts Christmas Gift program. The public is
welcome to attend.
Oswego Firefighters Local 4773 will oversee the raffle. For more
information call 630-554-2110.
The 2015 Franklin Mall Christ-mas Project is now underway in
Sandwich. This annual holi-day food drive, directed by the Sandwich
Lions Club, has been a community tradition for over 60 years. It
originated in 1954 when the late Franklin Red Mall and his wife,
Peg, began taking groceries for holiday dinners to folks who were
having a tough time of it.
In recent years more than 200
food boxes plus grocery gift cards have been delivered to
families within the Sandwich School District. In addition, over 400
Christmas Cheer Boxes are taken to homes and care facilities on
Christmas Eve by teams of Lion Santas and their helpers.
Donations of nonperishable foods are needed. In addition to
canned goods, d