Kane County CHRONICLE MONDAY, JUNE 3, 2013 | KCCHRONICLE.COM FORGING AHEAD EAST BASEBALL AWAKENING THE ECHOES OF A WIN AT STATE. PAGE 5 Jeff Krage for Shaw Media St. Charles East’s Nick Huskisson pitches during Saturday’s IHSA Class 4A St. Charles East Sectional championship against Wheaton North at St. Charles East High School. LOOKING FORWARD THE WEATHER Chop Around the Clock at Foltos in Batavia BATAVIA – The 24th annual Chop Around the Clock event is set for Friday and Saturday at Foltos Tonsorial Parlor, 7 E. Wilson St., Batavia. For information, call 630-879-5253. The event starts at 4 p.m. Friday and ends at 4 p.m. Saturday, and it includes haircuts, with all pro- ceeds donated to Ronald McDonald’s Children’s Charities. Grand opening event set at Creek Bend Nature Center ST. CHARLES – The Charlestowne 18 theater will have its Wednes- day Morning Movie Series from June 12 to Aug. 7. The cost is $1 per 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 June 12. Today Mostly sunny during the day and mostly cloudy at night. Tuesday Sunny during the day, chance of showers at night. High 67 Low 48 High 70 Low 52
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CHRONICLEMONDAY, JUNE 3, 2013 | KCCHRONICLE.COM
FORGING AHEADEAST BASEBALL AWAKENING THE ECHOES OF AWIN AT STATE. PAGE 5
Jeff Krage for Shaw Media
St. Charles East’s Nick Huskisson pitches during Saturday’s IHSA Class 4A St. Charles East Sectional championship against Wheaton North at St. Charles East High School.
LOOKING FORWARD THE WEATHER
Chop Around the Clock at Foltos in BataviaBATAVIA – The 24th annual Chop Around the Clock event is set for
Friday and Saturday at Foltos Tonsorial Parlor, 7 E. Wilson St., Batavia.
For information, call 630-879-5253. The event starts at 4 p.m. Friday
and ends at 4 p.m. Saturday, and it includes haircuts, with all pro-
ceeds donated to Ronald McDonald’s Children’s Charities.
Grand opening event set at Creek Bend Nature CenterST. CHARLES – The Charlestowne 18 theater will have its Wednes-
day Morning Movie Series from June 12 to Aug. 7. The cost is $1 per
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 June 12.
Today
Mostly sunny during the day
and mostly cloudy at night.
Tuesday
Sunny during the day, chance
of showers at night.
High 67
Low 48
High 70
Low 52
Kane
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Family Outdoor Fair at FermilabBATAVIA – For the sixth year, Fermi National Accelerator
Laboratory is inviting families and Scout troops to attendthe Family Outdoor Fair from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday, outsidethe Lederman Science Center.Fermilab is at Pine Street and Kirk Road in Batavia. The
event highlights the plant and animal life found on the6,800-acre Fermilab site in Batavia.More than a dozen outdoor activities are planned for
the fair, including a prairie scavenger hunt, a visit withFermilab’s herd of bison and a chance to check out someturtles and tortoises up close. Once again, the NorthernIllinois Raptor Rehabilitation and Education Center, alongwith local raptor trainers, will be on hand with live hawks,falcons and owls, as well as a collection of bird bones,feathers and hunting gear.The event is geared toward first- through seventh-grade
students. The fair is free and will take place rain or shine.No registration is required. For information, call 630-840-5588 or email [email protected].
Geneva Garden Club walk setGENEVA – The annual Geneva Garden Club walk, “Reflex-
ions de Monet,” is set for June 14 and 15.The walk will include a self-guided tour through five
residential gardens staffed by the garden club and MasterGardeners from the University of Illinois Extension Service.The walks are from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., with lunch from 11a.m. to 2:30 p.m.Reserved tickets are $16, and reserved lunch tickets are
$12. The cost on the day of the event is $18, and day-oflunch tickets are $14.Tickets can be purchased at the Geneva Chamber of
Commerce, 8 S. Third St., Geneva; the Geneva Park Dis-trict, 710 Western Ave., Geneva; the Geneva History Cen-ter, 113 S. Third St., Geneva; Geneva Ace Hardware, 617 W.State St., Geneva; Chez Moi Cafe, 415 W. State St., Geneva;Country Naturals, 316 Campbell St., Geneva; Gibby’s WineDen, 1772 S. Randall Road, Geneva; and Heinz BrothersGreenhouse Garden Center, 2010 E. Main St., St. Charles.
Ride and Rally against Cancer starts in ElburnELBURN – Motorcyclists are invited to the fifth annual
Ride and Rally Against Cancer event, starting with abreakfast at 9 a.m. June 23 at Knucklehead’s Tavern, 108 E.North Ave., Elburn.The first bikes will leave Knucklehead’s at 11 a.m. and the
ride will end at Fatsoz, 959 Villa St., Elgin.The event, which benefits the Andrea Lynn Cancer Fund,
will include all types of motorcycles – supporters in carsare welcome, too.Details are available online at www.rideandrally.org.
Registration fees for this event are $25 a bike and $15an additional passenger. Registration is available on theRide and Rally website – riders can save $5 by registeringonline by June 21.For information about the organization, visit the Andrea
Lynn Cancer Fund website at www.andrealynn.org.
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BATAVIA – Heidi Clinardand her four children are regu-lar users of Memorial Park.
“I like that it is convenient,”said Clinard, who lives near thepark. “We can walk to it. It hasa nice playground for the kids.”
Clinard and her childrenwere among those attendingSunday’s rededication celebra-tion at the park.
Recent renovations includenew tennis courts, an upgradedlighting system, new backstopsand an updated walking paththat is now fully accessible.
Clinard is appreciative ofthe improvements, which in-cluded removal and replace-ment of the fencing and back-stops on all three ballfields andregrading of all three ballfields.
“My son just started base-ball this year and some of thegames will be at the park,” shesaid.
The 13-acre park is one ofthe most heavily used parks inBatavia, park district officials
said. The improvements, whichcost slightly more than $700,000,were done in two phases over atwo-year period of time.
Memorial Park was pur-chased by the Batavia Park Dis-trict in 1976 from the BataviaSchool District. Batavia MayorJeff Schielke took note of thepark’s rich history.
Schielke said the park’stennis courts were started by
former school teacher GraceMcWayne, who also has GraceMcWayne Elementary Schoolnamed after her.
“After receiving $2,000 forteaching for 59 years in Bata-via, she gave the money backto the community to build thetennis courts,” he said. “Thelongevity of this park is some-thing that Batavia should re-member.”
ST. CHARLES – Jim Gill’sfingers flew over the strings ofhis banjo, and accordionist DonStille’s hands were a blur, asthey played a high-speed chil-dren’s song for a packed house.
“I’m hoping to get everyonesinging together,” Gill said,once the laughter died downand he prepared for the nextsong. “I would even like to geteverybody dancing together.”
Before long, the singing,clapping and dancing rockedthe house, as nearly 400 peopleattended the Saturday grandopening of the new Creek BendNature Center in the KaneCounty LeRoy Oakes ForestPreserve, 37W700 Dean St., St.Charles.
The new nature center drewchildren and parents to tour in-teractive displays, view photosand dioramas of wildlife, makecrafts, and take hikes and car-riage rides. The nature center
area featured photos of localwildlife, including deer, bison,eastern cottontail rabbit, a bad-ger, 13-striped ground squirreland an argiope spider and web.
Several attendees said howmuch they liked the new facili-
ty and all that it offered.“It’s a really nice building,”
said David King of Batavia, ashe walked through.
Josh Libman, a staff natural-ist, had captured some inverte-brates, or animals and insectswith no spine, from BrewsterCreek and set them up in littledishes of water so visitors couldsee them under the microscope.
“I was pretty excited to gogather any kind of macro in-vertebrates I could find – smallbut not too small that you can’tsee them with the naked eye ...”Libman said.
A steady procession of chil-dren stepped up to examinethe insects. Among them wereLiam, 2, Caellum, 4, and EvelynMajka, 6, of Geneva, who werefascinated by the tiny crea-tures, as their parents Bobbyand Sarah Majka watched.
“The bugs are pretty awe-some,” Bobby Majka said. “Ithink [the nature center] is gor-geous, and I think we will spenda lot of time here.”
Liam Majka, 2, his brother Callum,4, and sister Evelyn, 6, all of Ge-neva, study invertebrate insectscaptured from Brewster Creek atthe grand opening Saturday of theCreek Bend Nature Center in theKane County LeRoy Oakes ForestPreserve in St. Charles.
The Illinois RepublicanState Central Committeeselected campaign veteranJohn “Jack” Dorgan of Rose-mont to lead the GOP in theupcoming election cycle af-ter a Springfield meeting toconsider various candidates.
“I thank the Republicanleadership for their confi-dence and trust, and am ex-cited for the opportunity togrow our Party by talking tovoters about our qualifiedslate of candidates for 2014,”Dorgan said in a preparedstatement.
The dysfunction in stategovernment “is a direct re-sult of one-party Democratrule,” according to Dorgan’sstatement.
He promised that if vot-ers give GOP candidates achance, “we’ll give them areal choice. Illinoisans de-serve strong leadership, andthat will come from the Re-publican Party,” accordingto the statement.
Dorgan is a 12-year mem-ber of the Illinois RepublicanState Central Committee,a village trustee in Rose-mont and partner at Dor-gan-McPike & Associates,according to a statementfrom the central committee.
Dorgan-McPike is a lob-byist firm with an office inSpringfield. He also workedin the administrations ofGovernors Thompson andEdgar, as well as on numer-ous presidential, state andlocal campaigns.
Dorgan is married withthree daughters.
The announcement of anew party chairman followsthe resignation of Pat Bradyof St. Charles, who steppeddown May 7 after four years.Brady said he stepped downbecause he had other profes-sional and political goals, aswell as he wanted to focus onhis wife’s health, as she hasbeen fighting cancer the pasttwo years.
The effort to oust Bradywas led, in part, by new stateSen. Jim Oberweis, R-Sug-ar Grove. A key issue wasBrady’s support of same-sexmarriage, which Oberweishad said was contrary to theparty line.
Mark Guethle, chairmanof the Kane County Demo-cratic Central Committee,said he knows Dorgan andhis partner in the lobbyistfirm.
“I know John; I have methim in my trips to Spring-field,” Guethle said. “Goodluck to John in his newpost.”
NORTH AURORA – KellyBrizzolara of North Auroraand her 3-year-old daughter,Brooklyn, wanted to catch allof the fire engines and floatsin Sunday’s North AuroraCommunity Parade.
So they staked out a primespot at the corner of Lincoln-way and State Street to watchthe parade.
“My sister just lives aroundthe corner,” Brizzolara said.
Brooklyn liked seeing thedancers from North Auro-ra-based Moves Dance Studio.
“We saw some of her sis-ter’s friends there,” Briz-zolara said.
The theme of this year’sparade, hosted by the NorthAurora Mothers Club, was“One Village, Many Faces.”For Randy Olson, the paradecreated a sense of community.
“You see a lot of people youknow,” Olson said.
He and his two children,Haley, 7, and Daniel, 6, didn’tmind the cool temperatures as
they waited for the parade tobegin.
The fun didn’t stop withthe parade. The North AuroraRiver District Alliance spon-sored a post-parade party atIsland Park featuring a pet-ting zoo, rubber duck race andother activities.
Jennifer Duncan, of NOAR-DA, said the group is tryingto bring attention to the riv-erfront. Last year, the groupcompleted a project to build
an interactive stream alongthe village’s riverfront.
The 125-foot artificialstream reuses rainwater col-lected from the roof of NorthAurora Village Hall to displayseveral aquatic ecosystems.Interpretive signs explain theecological significance of eachsection.
Native plantings and localstone connect the artificialstream with the natural envi-ronment of northern Illinois.
Members of North Aurora-based Moves Dance Studio participate inSunday’s North Aurora Community Parade, hosted by the North AuroraMothers Club.
North Aurora moms host parade
Kaneland High School graduates (left)Kaitlyn Wendling, Sarah Grams, ErinKettlekamp and Kathryn Kenkel talk
Saturday before commencement at NorthernIllinois University’s Convocation Center inDeKalb. RIGHT: Kaneland High School graduate(left) Alicia Williams helps fellow graduate Ka-lani Tovar with her cap Saturday before com-mencement at the Northern Illinois UniversityConvocation Center in DeKalb.
Photos by Sean King for Shaw Media
Caps off to Kaneland High School grads
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St. Charles East players celebrate their IHSA Class 4A St. Charles East Sectional title Saturday after defeating Glenbard North, 7-6.
Collalti clear-headed in clutch for EastBy KEVIN DRULEY
ST. CHARLES – Sarah Collaltistarred in the most dizzying inningof the St. Charles East softball seasonSaturday, delivering a bases-clearingdouble to help the Saints win the 4A sec-tional title on their home field.
Her afternoon culminated with avictory lap around the field as playershailed a 7-6 victory against GlenbardNorth. The trot ended near the front ofthe East dugout, the same place whereCollalti’s season became blurry sixweeks ago.
Collalti took a bat above the left eyebefore batting practice April 16 whilewalking behind an unknowing team-mate, who was stretching out her swing.
“I just fell on the ground,” Collaltisaid, “and that was that.”
Her recovery and the Saints’ surgehave been much more. Collalti’s eye,once swollen shut, now is sharp enoughto discern pitches from some of thestate’s top remaining aces.
East, long on the cusp of postseasonsuccess under cheerful coach KellyHoran, happily has played into the fi-nal eight for the first time in nearly 20years. This one took some moxie, as theSaints (31-5) faced deficits of 2-0 in the
third inning and 5-2 in the fifth to ad-vance to Monday’s 4:30 p.m. RosemontSupersectional against Downers GroveSouth.
“We’re definitely a very fun team,”said Collalti, a junior who has settled inat designated player since her late Mayreturn. “I mean, losing isn’t fun, but weknew that we had what it takes to beatthis team. And so we kept upbeat andkept pushing to get those extra runs.”
Before addressing East’s break-through bottom of the fifth – which in-cluded run-scoring hit-by-pitches fromAlex Latoria and Kate Peterburs aheadof Collalti’s heroics – Panthers coachJosh Sanew lamented lost chances tostagger the Saints.
“Put their heads down a little bitmore for them,” he said.
Glenbard North (26-5) left two run-ners in scoring position in its three-runfifth, as No. 2 hitter Alex Caliva fliedout to Saints right fielder Olivia Loren-zini to end the inning.
East capitalized quickly, loading thebases with no outs on nine-hitter Shel-by Holt’s opposite field single to rightand a pair of would-be sacrifices gonebetter. Lexi Perez beat out her bunt foran infield hit. Tess Hupe (three hits)reached on her bunt when Caliva didnot get over from second base to cover
first in time.Collalti ultimately shrugged her
shoulders at her double, which came ona 1-2 pitch from Lafayette-bound Pan-thers ace Lindsey Cherry.
After flying out to center field in herfirst at-bat and smacking an RBI sacri-fice fly there to tie the game at 2-all inthe fourth, Collalti jumped on a highoutside pitch her third time up. Withthe bases loaded and the Saints trail-ing, 5-4, Collalti was “totally surprised”when she sent the ball over the head ofPanthers center fielder Sarah Petzoldand to the wall.
“I like to think I’m a consistent con-tact hitter,” Collalti said. “I wasn’t orig-inally getting on. I was having a lot offlyouts to center, and I was hoping thatI could get just one that was right overenough. And that finally happened.”
Equally sudden was her injury,which Collalti described as “one out of athousand.” Assistant coach Jared Gute-sha called East trainers right away, andCollalti, who never lost consciousness,was taken to the emergency room.
“It just kind of happened. It hap-pened so fast. It was rough,” Holt said.“It wasn’t a good thing, but she cameback well from it, obviously. She deliv-ered today, clearing the bases, so thatwas awesome.”
Coach Sly gives major kudos tothe local athletes that are still tear-ing it up in the last week of May or,better yet, first week of June.It can’t be easy to stay focused
as a high school athlete onceschool is out, the seniors have allgraduated and it’s 80, 85 degreesand humid outside (or worse yet,inside a gym).Some of your friends are already
trekking up to the lake house, andyou’re still expected to be lockedin, just like always, in practices andgames at the end of a long season.Then again, when you’re playing
this late in the school year (orafter the school year, Sly shouldsay), that means a team is doingsomething special, and that’s defi-nitely been the case for St. CharlesNorth boys volleyball, St. CharlesEast baseball and softball and St.Francis baseball.If there was a more exciting
game than the North boys volley-ball team’s three-game, back-and-forth rumble with Oak Park-RiverForest on Friday, Sly’d like to hearabout it.Even if boys volleyball isn’t your
thing, any sports fan can appreci-ate the drama, competitivenessand emotion that was on displayduring the North Stars’ triumph inHoffman Estates.A Tri-Cities boys volleyball team
playing in June … who’d have thunkit? Always thought that was thedomain of the big boys in DuPageCounty.You know what stinks, though?
That these teams can’t strutaround the hallways at school andboast about their big postseasonwins with all their classmates,since school’s out for the summer.Oh well. Guess that’s what Face-
book, Twitter and text messagingis for.
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IHSA CLASS 4A ST. CHARLES EAST SECTIONAL: ST. CHARLES EAST 7, GLENBARD NORTH 6
ST. CHARLES – St. CharlesEast baseball coach Len As-quini knows what it’s like towin a state championship.
His second stint as Saintscoach is about trying to rep-licate those feelings for a newcrop of Saints ballplayers, andEast is starting to flirt withmaking that a realistic sce-nario.
East defeated WheatonNorth, 5-3, in Saturday’s IHSAClass 4A St. Charles East Base-ball Sectional championshipgame, pulling off its secondstraight seeding upset in sec-tionals. The triumph markedthe Saints’ first sectional titlesince 2004 under former headcoach and current assistantMark Foulkes, and East’s firstsectional crown under thefour-class system.
“You want to keep movingforward, another game, anoth-er game, another game for thekids,” said Asquini, in the sec-ond season of his second tourof duty with the program. “It’sa great experience for them,it’s a great experience for thecommunity and the school.You want that for them, to letthem experience it and feel it,
because it is a lot of fun. Thisis a wonderful moment.”
East (26-11) advances tobattle Jacobs (25-11) in today’s7 p.m. supersectional at theRockford Aviators’ stadium.
The fourth-seeded Saints,the visiting team on theirhome field, spotted third-seed-ed Wheaton North a 3-0 leadafter the bottom of the first,but the Saints soon pulledeven.
East starting pitcher NickHuskisson and first basemanBrian Sobieski notched con-secutive doubles off Falconsstarting pitcher Lake Bachar(8-1) to open the top of the sec-ond.
Sobieski scored on a throw-ing error to cut the Falcons’lead to 3-2 before an RBIfielder’s choice chopper bycenter fielder Anthony Sciar-rino closed the scoring in theinning with the game tied at3.
Sciarrino, East’s No. 9 hit-ter, again played a role as theSaints took the lead in the topof the fifth. He led off the in-ning with a single, then wassacrificed to second base byNicholas Erickson. Thirdbaseman Sean Dunne drew awalk, making it first and sec-ond with one out, when left
fielder Joe Hoscheit pulled agrounder to the left side of theinfield that paid dividends.
The ball skimmed off Scia-rrino, but the umpires ruledthat Wheaton North thirdbaseman Greg Scandora hada play on the ball first, so Sci-arrino was allowed to scorethe go-ahead run once the ballbounded away.
“That third baseman hadan opportunity to field theball, and when he didn’t fieldthat ball, if it hits our guy, ithits our guy,” Asquini said.“The gate’s open. He had anopportunity to field it so, byrule, they made the right call.That’s what I saw at thirdbase. I saw Anthony behindhim, not in front. If he was infront, then it’s a different sto-ry, and then he should be out.”
Sciarrino was especiallygratified to play a part in bothof East’s run-scoring inningsin light of an offensive tailspinthis spring.
“I had a pretty good junioryear and coming in, I thoughtI’d have a good senior yearbut unfortunately that’s notthe case,” Sciarrino said. “Itfeels great to finally contrib-ute to the team [offensively]and help us win a huge gamehere.”
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Wednesday through SaturdayThe Kane County Chronicle begins its spring sports athlete of
the year postseason awards packages, choosing an athlete of
the year, coach of the year and all-area teams for the various
spring sports.The Chronicle’s awards packages will run this week for girls
track and field (Wednesday), boys track and field (Thursday),
boys tennis (Friday) and girls soccer (Saturday).
Some of the other spring sports awards packages, including
baseball and softball, will publish the next week.
FridayThe Kane County Chronicle will localize the first day of this
year’s Major League Baseball draft, which will begin on Thurs-
day.
In addition to spotlighting any local players that could be on
teams’ draft radars this week, we will take a look at some of the
Cubs’ early draft choices that could make their way to the Kane
County Cougars in the near future.
LOOKING FORWARD: THE WEEK AHEAD
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St. Charles East’s Joe Hoscheit dives back into first base during Saturday’s IHSA Class 4A St. Charles EastSectional championship.
IHSA CLASS 4A STC EAST SECTIONAL: STC EAST 5, WHEATON NORTH 3
East awakening the echoes
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Big Nate
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Stone Soup
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Daughter is tired ofcaring for sick relatives
Dear Abby: I took careof my grandmother untilher death a few years ago,and now my mother is verysick. I feel angry becauseI’m only 23, and it seemsall I have ever done is takecare of sick people. I sit atthe hospital sometimes justfuming.
Mom was a smokerand now she has cancer. Ikeep thinking if she hadn’tsmoked, she wouldn’t be inthis fix, and neither wouldI.
I always visit her andtry to do everything sheasks of me, and yet I thinkI’m starting to hate her. Idread going to the hospital,sitting there and waitingfor test results, etc.
What kind of daughterhas feelings like this? –Worst Daughter On Earth
Dear Daughter: Pleasestop beating yourself up.Your feelings are normal.You have a right to beangry that your mother issick.
At 23, you have had anunusual amount of respon-sibility thrust upon you forsomeone your age. That herdisease has taken over yourlife is also a reason to beangry.
However, please stopblaming her for her illness.Right now, you need eachother. And nonsmokers getcancer, too.
The American CancerSociety has support groupswhere family members cansafely share their feelings.Please check them out.
Dear Abby: I’m 43 andwent back to school thenontraditional way. I willgraduate soon with mymaster of human servicesdegree.
I will be the first personin my immediate family tohave a degree.
My best friend thinksI’m foolish because I posedfor graduation photosand ordered a class ring.She said I am too old to behaving graduation picturesand a ring.
I was thrilled to havethem, but now I’m won-dering if I really am being
foolish. Am I trying torecapture the “would have/could have/should have”years? – Ed In Louisiana
Dear Ed: Shame on yourfriend for raining on yourparade. With a best friendlike this, you should neverforget to bring an umbrella.
You’re celebrating thefact that as a nontradition-al student you have earnedyour master’s degree.
That’s a laudable accom-plishment and deserves tobe celebrated in any wayyou would like. Pleaseaccept my sincere congrat-ulations, graduate!
Dear Abby: I love to read.I have kept every book Ihave read, so I probablyhave close to 600 books inmy library, which is actual-ly a small room, overflow-ing with books and nothingelse.
Why do you think I can’tlet go of them?
I lend them out to onlya select few, and I alwaysmake sure they are re-turned.
I could do lovely thingswith this room if my booksweren’t in the way, butI can’t seem to part withthem. – Bookworm In NewYork
Dear Bookworm: It’s prob-ably because your bookshave become an extensionof yourself.
Because you would liketo do something else withthe space they occupy, sortthrough them and keeponly the most preciousones.
If there are titles youwould like to read againone day, do as many othersare doing – read them on ane-reader.
• Dear Abby is writtenby Abigail Van Buren, alsoknown as Jeanne Phillips,and was founded by hermother, Pauline Phillips.Write Dear Abby at www.dearabby.com.
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Sydney J. Harris, a newspaperjournalist from Chicago who diedin 1986, said: “An idealist believesthe short run doesn’t count.A cynic believes the long rundoesn’t matter. A realist believesthat what is done or left undonein the short run determines thelong run.”
A bridge player knows thatcounting is important in the longrun – the 13 tricks of a deal. Here,how should South play in threeno-trump after West leads theclub 10?
If you were sitting South,would you have opened one dia-mond or one club, or passed?
With ace-king, ace, you shouldalmost always open the bidding.It is textbook to bid one diamondbecause if West overcalls onespade and North makes a nega-tive double, you can rebid twoclubs. Note also that after youopen one diamond, if West passesand North responds one heart,it is better to rebid two hearts(missing a fourth trump) thanone no-trump (with no spadestopper) or two clubs (whichpromises five diamonds andrisks ending in a 4-2 diamond fit).
In the given auction, twoclubs was New Minor Forcing,asking opener to describe hishand further. Two diamondsdenied both three spades andfour hearts.
South has seven top tricks:one spade, two hearts and fourclubs. If an idealist crosses tohis hand with a heart to take adiamond or spade finesse, he willgo down with this layout.
However, a realist would takethe first trick on the board andplay a diamond. He would be hap-py to sacrifice two tricks in thesuit to establish two winners.
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end tables, drop-leaf, chinacabinet, chairs & much more!
817-313-5351
3 piece oak wall unit, glass doors,shelves, drawers & cabinets. Greatstorage, excellent condition. Pic online. $350 (630) 809-4234
