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OBITUARIES 6OPINION 7SCHOOLS 9A & E 11MARKETPLACE 12COMMUNITY 13

CALENDAR 18CLASSIFIEDS 20PUBLIC NOTICES 22PUZZLES 24SPORTS 25

NEWSMiniature horses rescued by HAHS are thriving

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SCHOOLSThe District 200 school board delays its vote on impact fees in Apple Creek

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A & EThe Don Stiernberg Trio performs March 26

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OBITUARIESEd Hall, HarvardLeo F. Carvis, Woodstock

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END QUOTE“We need to work everything play by play and pitch by pitch.”

—KOLTON ROMINSKI , PAGE 26

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Council will consider home-rule policy» CITY COUNCIL

By Katelyn StanekTHE INDEPENDENT

�e Woodstock City Council will discuss implementing a home-rule policy that could include a trigger

for advisory referendums on certain municipal tax ordinances.

�e discussion comes as the city of Woodstock looks poised to reach a population of at least 25,000, the min-imum necessary for towns in Illinois

to be granted automatic home-rule status.

“�e residents are saying … we want to have some input into additional

Plans could include notifications, advisory referendums on tax issues

Please see Home rule, Page 3

INDEPENDENT PHOTO BY KEN FARVER

Campaign signs line St. John’s Road just outside a polling place on election day March 15.

Tirio, aiming to cut position, wins GOP recorder primary

By Stephanie PriceTHE INDEPENDENT

Woodstock resident Joe Tirio defeated one well-known politician and a county employee to win the

Republican primary race for McHenry County Recorder.

Unofficial election results reported by the McHenry County Clerk’s Office

Please see Recorder, Page 4

Police say Woodstock men stole cash, liquor from Liquid Blues


Two Woodstock men were arrested following a break-in bur-glary at Liquid Blues bar March 10, wherein the offenders stole cash and numerous bottles of alcohol.

Wesley A. Feller, 20, 914 Irving Ave., was charged with two counts of burglary, a Class 2 felony; two counts criminal damage to prop-erty, a Class A misdemeanor; and theft under $500, a Class A misde-meanor, according to Woodstock Police Chief Robert Lowen.

Caleb M. Fringer, 21, 914 Irving Ave., was charged with criminal damage to property, a Class A mis-demeanor, Lowen said.

�e Woodstock Police Depart-ment initiated a burglary inves-tigation at the Liquid Blues bar and restaurant, located at 126 N. Benton St., after the owner of the establishment noticed one of his security cameras was stolen from the bar.

Police said surveillance footage

Two men arrested for bar break-in

Please see Break-in, Page 3

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captured by the camera showed two young men unlawfully entered the bar during the early morning hours of March 10.

�e two men entered through a window, which was subsequently damaged by one of them. Working with the owner, police determined numerous bot-tles of alcohol, an undisclosed amount of money and the security camera were missing.

“Previous to March 12, the burglary went unnoticed as there were min-imal nota-ble items miss-ing and the damaged window was assumed to have just fallen out of its frame due to the age of the build-ing structure,” Lowen said in a news release.

Woodstock Police Department issued a press release along with surveillance photographs of the suspects March 14, requesting the community’s assistance in identify-ing the two men.

“Numerous tips were received, which ultimately provided assis-tance in identifying the suspects later identified as being involved in this investigation,” Lowen said.

Woodstock detectives located Feller and Fringer, the two men who police said matched the descrip-tions of the suspects, March 16. �e men live in an apartment close to Liquid Blues, Lowen said.

�e two were transported to the W o o d s t o c k Police Depart-ment, where they were interviewed. At the comple-tion of the inter-views and after conferring with the McHenry County State’s Attorney’s Office, the suspects were charged.

Fringer was able to post the required 10 percent of his $1,500 bond. He is scheduled to appear in court at 9 a.m. April 21 at the McHenry County Government Cen-ter, 2200 N. Seminary Ave.

Feller was not able to post bond and was transported to the McHenry County Adult Correctional Facility, where he remained as of March 17, awaiting his appearance in Rights Court, Lowen said.

City OKs contract for architectural work at Courthouse» CITY COUNCIL

How They VotedTo approve a contract for architectural services with Gary W. Anderson Architects:YESDan HartMaureen LarsonMark SaladinJoe StarzynskiBrian Sager

NORB ThompsonABSENTMike Turner

By Katelyn StanekTHE INDEPENDENT

An architectural firm will examine the city-owned Old Courthouse and prepare specifications and cost esti-mates for bids on repairs to the historic building’s windows.

Gary W. Anderson Architects will inspect every window in the Old Court-house, 101 N. Johnson St., a step in the process toward eventually awarding window repair and replacement con-tracts, Woodstock City Planner Nancy Baker said.

�e City Council approved the $12,000 contract with Gary W.

Anderson Architects by a 5-1 vote, but not before Councilman RB �omp-son expressed concerns about the firm’s prior work for the city of Wood-stock. �e Rockford-based company has overseen all of the architectural work on the Courthouse and Sheriff’s House property since the city took ownership of it in 2011.

“He’s got a history of coming in dra-matically over deadline,” said �omp-son, who added he had concerns about the variety of artisans who issued bids to work on the property and about the number of change orders that have been issued for the project. �ompson voted against the contract.

In all, 22 change orders have been approved by the council for the res-toration of the Courthouse and Sher-iff’s House property, Baker said. �ose encompass deadline extensions and expenditure increases.

“�e Courthouse has been one of those things where every time you open something up, you find out it’s way worse than we thought it was ini-tially,” said Councilman Joe Starzynski, who voted in favor of the contract.

Gary W. Anderson Architects employees will photograph, measure and take note of the condition of each window. Without an analysis, Baker wrote in a memo, “bidders will assume

a worst-case scenario for every win-dow and bid accordingly.”

�e work also will include recom-mended solutions to any deteriora-tion, preparation of bid plans and help with the bidding process, Baker said.

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taxes that might — might — be consid-ered if the municipality gets home-rule status,” Mayor Brian Sager said. “Why would we not say we’re will-ing to discuss that? We think that’s appropriate.”

A group of residents led by citizens political organization Voters in Action has expressed alarm over the possi-bility that the city could attain home-rule status following a special census planned for this summer. Home-rule municipalities can implement more taxes and fees than those without home rule and generally have a greater degree of author-ity to pass ordi-nances on mat-ters impacting the community.

A potential blueprint for a home-rule pol-icy in Wood-stock was pre-sented to Sager by Scott Gessert, a Woodstock resident who actively opposes home rule and who even vowed to organize a boy-cott against participating in the spe-cial census in an effort to keep Wood-stock’s population count under the 25,000 threshold.

Gessert said his proposal comes from the village of Downers Grove, which has its own policy addressing tax increases allowed under home rule. Among the stipulations in Downers Grove’s policy are requirements that village officials publish notifications of their intent to impose home-rule taxes, that they allow time for residents to circulate and submit petitions oppos-ing those taxes and that they hold non-binding, advisory referendums on tax

ordinances in the event that canvass-ers collect enough signatures.

Sager said he supports parts of the Downers Grove policy, such as its noti-fication requirements. Other parts, he said, “would need to be fleshed out a bit more,” including the trigger for an advisory referendum.

In the proposal presented by Ges-sert, a number equal to 10 percent of the voters in the most recent may-oral election must sign a petition ask-ing for an advisory referendum on a home-rule tax, a total Sager believes is too low. He also questioned the tim-ing of such referendums and how they would fit into the council’s plans.

“�ese advisory referendums can only go onto the ballot, and that’s a

two-year cycle,” Sager said.

Gessert, too, takes issue with some of the details in Down-ers Grove’s policy, including its use of the term “taxes” when he would prefer it also

address added fees. But he called his conversation with Sager “construc-tive” and said he was pleased with the City Council’s consensus to discuss the policy at an upcoming meeting.

“�is [policy] would afford us more time to talk to our neighbors and to bounce it off each other, and, if there’s an objection, we can do some-thing about it,” Gessert said. “… If they ignore the advice of their constitu-ents, that leaves them to be voted out.”

Gessert would not reveal whether the implementation of a home-rule policy in Woodstock would lead him to call off his census boycott.

Sager said the council likely will discuss the policy at a meeting in late spring.

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“The residents are saying … we want to have some input into additional taxes that might — might — be consid-ered if the municipality gets home-rule status.”

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show Tirio won 17,553 votes, a 38.2 percent share, to win the Republican nod for candidate in the McHenry County Recorder race in the Nov. 8 general election.

Tirio, a leader of the local Voters in Action citizens group, defeated challenger Joni Smith, a Crystal Lake native and current employee at the Record-er’s office. Smith trailed in second place with 15,692 votes, at 34.1 percent.

Perhaps most surprising in the race was the placement of Woodstock res-ident Tina Hill, a sitting County Board member from District 5 and former County Board chairman. Hill finished in third place, hav-ing received 12,774 votes from con-stituents, a 27.7 percent share. Her County Board seat was up for re-election, so her loss in the Recorder contest means she will no longer serve on the County Board once her term is up.

Tirio ran his campaign on the message “I won’t hire my wife” and announced intentions to eliminate the Recorder position and consoli-date its services with the McHenry County Clerk’s Office.

Smith and Hill did not support eliminating the position.

�e Recorder’s Office stores more than 3.4 million documents includ-ing real estate records – deeds, mort-gages, judgements, foreclosures – and plats of subdivision in McHenry County.

Current Recorder Phyllis Walters chose not to seek re-election.

McHenry County Clerk Mary McClellan said as of March 18 her office was still combing through 364 provisional ballots, about 106 of which were ballots cast by newly registered voters. �e ballots hailed from all parts of the county and weren’t expected to greatly impact the unofficial results, McClellan said.

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McHenry County residents tapped current County Board member Michael Walkup as the Republican candidate for County Board chairman in a pri-mary election that drew three times more voters than any prior primary in the county.

�e March 15 primary election was the first time voters selected the chair-man. Historically, McHenry County Board members, once elected, chose their chairman.

When election polls closed at 8:30 p.m., 43.1 percent of 205,178 regis-tered voters in McHenry County exer-cised their right to vote, according to

unofficial election results reported by the McHenry County Clerk’s Office. �e turn-out was the high-est ever for a pri-mary election in the county.

“�is was three times higher in terms of voter turnout than this county has ever seen in a primary election,” McHenry County Clerk Mary McClellan said. “�e turnout numbers are equal to the 2008 presidential election, but in that instance we didn’t have same-day

voter registration and state-mandated poll books.”

Walkup, Crystal Lake, won the major-ity of votes in the Republican battle for chairman, collecting 24,153 votes for a 51.5 percent share to unseat current County Board Chairman Joseph Gotte-moller, also of Crystal Lake and a rep-resentative from District 3.

Gottemoller received 22,776 votes, a 48.5 percent share, according to the results.

In an unprecedented race, Walkup also won re-election to his County Board District 3 seat, receiving the most votes at 4,927, a 32.3-percent share. Incumbent County Board mem-ber Nick Provenzano finished second


�e race among five Republican candidates vying for two McHenry County Board District 6 seats widened as additional primary election results were added into the overall tally by the McHenry County Clerk’s Office.

As of March 18, only 24 votes sepa-rated incumbent County Board mem-ber Mary McCann, of rural Wood-stock, from challenger Ersel Schuster, Harvard, a former County Board member herself. �e two are bat-tling for second place in the race for two County Board seats, which carry

four-year terms. James Kearns, Huntley, continued

to hold his first-place lead with 3,889 votes and 24.5 percent of the vote as of March 18. McCann was second with 3,517 votes, a 22.2 percent share, and Schuster was not far behind with 3,493 votes, a 22.02 percent share.

�e McHenry County Clerk’s Office had posted unofficial election results from the county’s 212 precincts as of March 18, which included mail-in bal-lots, early-voting paper ballots and extended-hour provisional ballots.

However, staffers in the Clerk’s Office continued to comb through 364 provisional ballots as of that date.

About 106 of those ballots were from newly registered voters, and their reg-istrations needed to be confirmed before their votes were tallied. Other ballots were cast by voters who didn’t have proper identification with them at the polls, and their IDs needed ver-ification, said McHenry County Clerk Mary McClellan.

McClellan said it’s rare to see the provisional ballots change the out-come of a race, but with 364 ballots still waiting to be counted, the contest between McCann and Schuster was still too close to call.

“�ose typically don’t change the

Michael Walkup

Walkup wins chair race, voter turnout high

Kearns wins in District 6, tight race for second

Please see County Board, Page 5

Kenneally defeats Woodstock’s Regna


Assistant State’s Attorney Pat-rick Kenneally is well on his way to succeed his boss, Louis Bianchi, as McHenry County State’s Attorney.

Unofficial election results provided by the McHenry County Clerk’s Office as of March 18 showed Kenneally, Crystal Lake, defeating challenger, Daniel Regna, Woodstock, in the Republican primary race for McHenry

County State’s Attorney.

After an extremely conten-tious campaign season between the two men, Ken-neally staved off criticism lev-eled by Regna that he wasn’t a long-stand-ing resident of the county, among other allegations. Regna charged that Kenneally moved to Crystal Lake about six months ago, where he was only renting a home.

In the end, McHenry County voters sided with Kenneally, who received 30,733 votes for a 65.9 percent share. Regna trailed his opponent consid-erably, receiving 15,925 votes, nearly half that of Kenneally, for a 34.1 per-cent share.

Regna is a former assistant state’s

attorney for the county as well but left years ago to pursue private law practice. He failed to defeat sitting McHenry County State’s Attorney Louis Bianchi in the 2008 election primary.

Bianchi had initially filed election petition forms in November 2015 to run for his position again but later withdrew from the race. At that time, Kenneally threw his hat into the polit-ical ring.

No candidates ran for state’s attor-ney on the Democratic side; therefore, Kenneally could run unopposed in the Nov. 8 general election.

McHenry County Clerk Mary McClellan said as of March 18 her office was still combing through 364 provisional ballots, about 106 of which were ballots cast by newly reg-istered voters. �e ballots hailed from all parts of the county and weren’t expected to greatly impact the unoffi-cial results, McClellan said.

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SHumane society receives big help with small horsesThe first of 14 rescued miniature horses are ready to head to new homes

By Sandy KucharskiTHE INDEPENDENT

�e future looks bright for 14 min-iature horses that were rescued by the Hooved Animal Humane Society in December 2015.

In February, the Woodstock-based nonprofit animal welfare group announced that it received a $7,000 grant from the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Equine Fund to help with the con-tinued care and rehabilitation of the pint-sized pets.

�e equine branch of the ASPCA awards grants and resources to nonprofit equine welfare organiza-tions throughout the country. �e funds will continue to help provide feed and health care for the horses, including the extensive farrier care they require because of their severely overgrown hooves.

�e horses, from Central Illinois, were surrendered after the primary- care owner died and her spouse was experiencing health problems that prevented him from providing the care the horses required.

For the past three months the

SHAMROCKED ROCKS DOWNTOWNModern Day Romeos per-forms at Shamrocked Woodstock Streetfest March 19. The annual St. Patrick’s Day music festi-val near the intersection of Judd and Ben-ton streets featured live bands, green beer and food. Pictured, from left, are: Jus-tin Wojdyla, Mike Zaits, Steve Gill and Jim Wojdyla.

INDEPENDENT PHOTO BY WHITNEY RUPP

miniature horses have been living at the HAHS farm in Woodstock, continuing to receive regular hoof trimming to correct their neglected feet. Initial veterinarian evaluations have been done, and some of the horses are still undergoing dental work.

“All the minis are doing well,” said HAHS Executive Director Tracy McGonigle. She said their impound quarantine period is over, and the minis are enjoying the opportunity to roam more of the property now.

Since their arrival in December, one of the miniature horses, a stallion

they named PonyBoy, has been sepa-rated from the rest of the herd. As an uncastrated male, he has been con-fined in his own pen to avoid the pos-sibility of breeding with any of the mares.

In early March, HAHS received a $250 grant from One Horse at a Time Inc., covering the cost of castration for PonyBoy and allowing him to be turned out with the rest of the herd. �is procedure brings him one step closer to finding a forever home.

McGonigle said they have several strong applications for adoption on a number of the horses, and they have approved three of them so far. �ese three animals will go to their new homes over the next couple of weeks.

“We still have 11 left though,” McGo-nigle said.

She said they have enjoyed hav-ing the miniature horses at the farm. “It’s so much fun to watch them get active and used to their surround-ings. People stop by just to see them, and everybody loves them.”

HAHS staff will prepare the remain-ing animals for adoption by continu-ing corrective trimming, necessary dental work and reinforcing basic handling skills on some of the more skittish animals. �ey are currently accepting adoption applications on the remaining horses.

For information, visit hahs.org or call 815-337-5563.

INDEPENDENT PHOTO BY STEPHANIE PRICE

A pair of miniature horses hangs out in a barn at the Hooved Animal Humane Society in January. HAHS received a grant last month to help care for and rehabilitate the horses.

outcome of a race,” McClellan said. “It’s rare to see that because the pro-visional ballots are spread out among the county.”

�e Clerk’s Office has 14 days from the March 15 election date to finish counting the ballots.

Results for other candidates: Kelly Liebmann, Wonder Lake, was in fourth place with 3,113 votes, 19.6 percent; and Preston Rea, Harvard, trailed the pack with 1,854 votes, 11.7 percent.

McHenry County Board - District 5In the Republican primary race for

two McHenry County Board seats in District 5, incumbent County Board member Michael Skala, Huntley, won with 3,943 votes, a 40.3 percent share.

Crystal Lake resident Andrew Snar-ski claimed the second seat with 3,014 votes, a 30.8 percent share.

Joseph Calomino, Lake in the Hills, failed to earn a place on the board, fin-ishing in third with 2,820 votes, a 28.8 percent share.

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Vanessa A. Busse, 29, 1067 Greenwood Circle, Woodstock, was charged March 11

Chase P. Wiltse, 19, 12 Baldwin Court, Lake in the Hills, was charged March 12 with two

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A Woodstock-area juvenile, 17, was charged March 13 with obstructing justice

is to be set.

Any charges are merely accusations, and defendants or suspects are presumed innocent unless proven guilty.

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Ed Hall

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with 4,664 votes, 30.6 percent of the votes. �e pair defeated challengers Nancy Gonsiorek, who received 3,122 votes, a 20.5 percent share, and Cherie Rickert, who had 2,541 votes, a 16.7 per-cent share.

While no longer serving as County

Board chairman, Gottemoller will remain on the County Board as a mem-ber because his seat was not up for re-election.

Under the new structure, Walkup will serve as a leader of the County Board but will not have voting authority in that capacity. However, he is permitted to cast votes on issues before the board through his secondary position as a County Board member. It remains to be seen whether he will vacate that post.

In the 63rd State Representative race, returning candidate Steven Reick, Har-vard, defeated Jeffrey Lichte, McHenry, to win the Republican nod. Reick won 8,786 votes for a 59.3 percent share. Lichte received 6,025 votes, a total of 40.7 percent share.

Incumbent State Rep. Jack Franks, Marengo, was unchallenged in the Democratic primary race and received 9,994 votes for a 100-percent share. Franks and Reick will face off again in

the Nov. 8 general election. McClellan said as of March 18 her

office was still combing through 364 provisional ballots, about 106 of which were ballots cast by newly registered voters. �e ballots hailed from all parts of the county and weren’t expected to greatly impact the unofficial results.

“It’s rare for these to change the outcome of any race because they are spread out through the county,” McClellan said.

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Happy birthday to the Woodstock Public Library

THE WOODSTOCK INDEPENDENT

Cheryl Wormley PUBLISHER, CO-OWNER

Paul Wormley CO-OWNER

Katelyn Stanek MANAGING EDITOR

THE EDITORIAL BOARD

Cheryl WormleyKatelyn StanekSandy KucharskiStephanie Price

�e Woodstock Public Library opened March 23, 1891, in what was then the brand-new Opera House on the Woodstock Square.

�e small community library shared the Opera House building with the city hall and fire station. Shelves packed with books filled the front room space in the Opera House, now known as the com-munity rooms where the annual Christmas tree walk is held.

�e library remained at the Opera House for 68 years until 1959 when it relocated to a stand-alone building at its current location at 414 Judd St. �e building has undergone two renovation and expan-sion projects since then.

�e library’s success and longevity is truly a testament to many volunteers and employees who maintained it for the past 125 years – from the part-time pages to the administrators to the Friends of the Woodstock Public Library, a non-profit that continuously raises money to purchase new equipment and materials for the library. It’s also a testament to everyone in the community who has utilized the library’s many services over the past century and more.

Now, 125 years later, the library continues to tally more than 325,000 individual visits by its patrons each year, according to Executive Director Nick Weber. While other library systems are witnessing a decline in patronage, due to the technology age where books are available online and magazines are folding, Woodstock’s has managed to stay rel-evant by offering the books, programs and services its users desire.

Congratulations to the library administrators, the city of Woodstock and the many staffers and volun-teers who gave their time, commitment and effort over the past 125 years to make the library what it is today.

To celebrate the library’s anniversary and heri-tage, the Woodstock Public Library has invited the community to join a special celebration from 6 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 23, to honor the precise date the library opened to the public 125 years ago. Library staffers will be dressed in period clothing from the late 1800s, and there will be complimen-tary cake, ice cream and door prizes.

An open letter to Joe TirioTo be honest with you, Joe, phasing out the

McHenry County Recorder’s Office was never a concern to me.

Given the horror story of the Mortgage Elec-tronic Registration Systems in 2008-2009, I sup-port an overlap of record-keeping for what is the most important investment in most people’s lives.

Let me quote from page 50 of a book I just started reading:

“�ere are tangible costs to corruption. It is estimated that corruption in Illinois costs tax-payers as much as $500 million a year.”

— “Corrupt Illinois: Patronage, Cronyism and Criminality,” by �omas J. Gradel and Dick Simpson.

Lidija (Lydia) Baltabols,Woodstock

More township scandalA township-sized scandal! With the usual

township arrogance, and with township govern-ment’s complete disregard on how public money is spent, �ornton Township in Cook County spent over $46,000 on a luxury trip to South Carolina.

�ornton Township officials spent $46,120 on a September fact-finding trip, where 15 officials campaigned for a Southern church to receive the

Nobel Peace Prize. �is trip had little to do with fact-finding. It was about a township photo-op, in addition to eating and drinking well on the tax-payers’ dime!

�e four-day trip was led by $178,000-per-year �ornton Township Supervisor Frank Zucca-relli. In addition to travel and food expenses, the township paid $1,000 honorariums for going and $1,000 and $600 for work.

Records released by the township show hotel lodging for 15 delegates, air travel, bus ser-vice and visits at restaurants. At one restaurant, the township spent over $1,000 for a meal that included octopus, flounder, rib-eye steak, scal-lops, crab cakes and ice cream. Another meal included Maine lobster, veal, lobster spaghetti, roasted beets, shrimp cocktails and wine. Offi-cials feasted while spending $1,261 at another restaurant, on shrimp and grits, halibut, short ribs, fried green tomatoes, fried oysters and key lime tarts in addition to Jack Daniel’s and Grand Marnier.

Supervisor Zuccarelli said, “�e trip was so rewarding we had tears in our eyes.” �ornton Township residents should have tears in their eyes!

Township government is the government of redundancy, nepotism, waste, fraud and abuse. Townships should be abolished!

Bob Anderson,Wonder Lake

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Just as a Chicago Bears fan would jump at the chance to meet Brian Urlacher or Jay Cutler or a symphony-goer would look forward to being in the same room with Riccardo Muti or people would have flocked to Wood-stock if Leonardo DiCaprio really was planning to move to Woodstock, I am drawn to people who report news.

So, at the editorial staff meet-ing March 15 when reporter Stepha-nie Price offered me the newspaper’s ticket to hear Phil Ponce speak March 17 as part of the Woodstock Fine Arts Association’s Creative Living Series, I enthusiastically accepted.

You see, I am in awe of his exper-tise and talent as the host and chief correspondent of WTTW’s “Chi-cago Tonight.” My routine on Mon-days after �e Independent is off to the printer is to unwind by taking my after-dinner cup of tea to the fam-ily room to watch Phil on “Chicago Tonight.” He isn’t the only “Chicago Tonight” interviewer I look forward to watching ply our trade. I admire Carol Marin’s skill in asking pointed ques-tions and her tenacity for keeping the people she’s interviewing on topic. And, I think of Geoffrey Baer’s tours of the city and suburbs as being to

“Chicago Tonight” what features are to �e Woodstock Inde-pendent – consid-erably lighter than the news and also intriguing.

To be in the nearly standing-room only audi-ence in the Opera House for Phil’s presentation made my day. His focus was on interview-ing, and his definition and steps are as true for newspaper journalists as they are for television hosts and corre-spondents. “An interview,” he said, “is a conversation designed to elicit (or exchange) information on behalf of an unseen audience.” �e goal always is to ask the questions the listeners or readers would ask.

He said calling forth a good anec-dote from the person being interviewed is “like gold.” Listeners, he added, will remember an anecdote days after an interview, implying answers may have faded from memory.

Phil shared anecdotes from his own life. He said he didn’t start out to be in television news. His first love was

stage acting. �at is until he and his wife were expecting their first child. His wife, he said, told him he could continue trying to make a life on stage, but she and their child would go else-where. He brought the curtain down on the anecdote with a bit of stage-like flourish and a smile that said he chose family and a new career. “You can switch from jazz to tap,” he quipped.

He was honest and often funny as he introduced, showed and summa-rized video clips of “Chicago Tonight” interviews: one with Gen. Michael Hayden that illustrated the value of anecdotes; one that was almost text-book and one that got out of hand.

When I attend a lecture, I like to identify one or two takeaways . I have two from Phil’s presentation. “Inter-view everyone the same way.” To make his point, he added, “whether they are Jesus, Muhammad or Buddha.”

And, “Don’t try to be great. Just be solid.” To which he added, “Don’t try to hit it out of the park. Just make contact.”

Phil made contact with the Creative Living audience. In fact, I’d say he hit it out of the park. Cheryl Wormley is publisher of �e Woodstock Independent.

Ponce hits it out of the park at Opera House lecture

Cheryl Wormley

Embracing diversi-ties

“It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.”

– Maya AngelouWhat do the �ree Stooges, Mickey

Mouse, Dilbert, Humphrey Bogart, Abraham Lincoln, Rush Limbaugh and Jerry Garcia have in common? Hint: they’re in my closet. Another hint? If I’m too “tight” with them, they can be a real pain in the neck. Yes, it’s my tie collection. I have ties that fea-ture images of the first five (Stooges through Lincoln – probably the only time you’ll ever read that), and I have extremely colorful ties from Lim-baugh’s and Garcia’s design lines.

I love having a wide variety that I can use to enliven a dress shirt or show my eclectic tastes. When I’m going somewhere that a shirt and tie (and yes, slacks) are appropriate, I smile as I sort through dozens of options. Ultimately, single-color ties are typically not my choice. No, it’s “the more colorful, the better.”

Is my collection diverse? Definitely. Does it accurately represent all tie designs? Nope. Take a quick glance at Ties.com. You’ll see ties of every color

and pattern, with skinny ties, bow ties and novelty ties all well-represented. Because I was born on March 14, known as Pi Day, it was a pleasant surprise to see Pi symbol ties; there’s even one with zombies, pirates, ninjas and robots on display.

What a novel idea that last tie rep-resents: four distinct creatures coming together to create a work of art. Sure, it’s not Monet, but it is unique. Pop cul-ture is still culture, after all.

In Hollywood, far more than four talented people come together to cre-ate movies. �e actors and actresses are just the ones we see on screen, but the writers, director, editor, etc., all play key roles, too.

When Oscar nominations were announced in January, the primary media focus was that – for the second straight year – all 20 lead and support-ing actor/actress nominees were white. Michael B. Jordan (“Creed”) is just one example of a highly praised black actor who wasn’t nominated. Chris Rock, the black comedian and actor hosting the 2016 Academy Awards joked, “If they nominated hosts, I wouldn’t even get this job – you’d be

watching Neil Patrick Harris.”�e lack of diversity in acting nomi-

nees is being addressed in ways that may or may not change things. But take a moment to consider diversity in Woodstock. �e U.S. census web-site provides a wealth of informa-tion about our 24,700-plus residents, including race. As of April 1, 2010, the data states that 83.5 percent of us are white, 2.3 percent are black, and 2.3 percent are Asian. �e number of resi-dents who identify as being Hispanic or Latino (“Hispanics may be of any race,” according to the data, so they’re represented in the applicable race cat-egories) is 23.6 percent.

Before we criticize Hollywood too much, here’s a question we may want to contemplate: whether Woodstock should be a work of art like that zom-bie/pirate/ninja/robot tie. Do we wel-come the diversity of our commu-nity the way I embrace my collection, appreciating each colorful individ-ual, or do we reject diversity, always choosing only the same color? I hope the first viewpoint has an edge over the second, but, if we’re honest, it may be closer to a tie.Paul Lockwood is an occasional commu-nity theater actor, active Grace Lutheran Church and Toastmasters member, and past president of TownSquare Players. He has lived in Woodstock for 15 years with his wife, Diane.

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March 23-29, 2016

SchoolsBoard delays vote on impact fees


Woodstock School District 200 Board of Education members held off voting on a request from the developer of Apple Creek subdivision to reduce the builder’s transition fees.

According to District 200 officials, the city of Woodstock asked the school board to consider reducing the tran-sition fees for future three- and four-bedroom houses the developer plans to build in the subdivision. Apple Creek is located on the city’s south side off Dean Street and near Creekside Middle and Prairiewood Elementary schools.

�e subdivision’s new developer, Cal-Atlantic, has requested transition fees be reduced, which “would allow him to build 106 three- and four-bed-room detached homes in the Apple Creek subdivision,” according to Dis-trict 200 agenda documents.

Apple Creek was intended to have a total of 854 single-family homes and 466 townhomes when its first phase was approved in late 2006, but, with the collapse of the housing market and the bankruptcy of its original devel-oper, the subdivision has only 127 sin-gle-family homes and 132 townhomes.

Transition fees, otherwise known as impact fees, are one-time charges lev-eled on housing developers to offset the lag in property taxes a school dis-trict or other taxing body receives from newly built homes within the district. �e current transition fees for Apple Creek subdivision were created as part of a 2005 annexation agreement with the subdivision that also carried flat fees paid by the developer to the city, a fee paid toward improvement of Route 47 and a fourth fee designated for the Woodstock Fire/Rescue District.

�e annexation agreement set tran-sition fees for new three- and four-bed-room homes in Apple Creek at $4,387 per unit. City officials have asked the school board to approve lowering that fee to $2,300 for a three-bedroom detached house and $2,500 for a four-bedroom detached house. �e reduc-tion would result in a loss of $208,422 in fees for District 200. Instead of col-lecting $465,022 from the developer, the district would get $256,600 under the proposal.

�e developer also intends to build

» SCHOOL BOARD HIGHLIGHTWoodstock, WL students place at speech competition

By Janet DovidioTHE INDEPENDENT

�e McHenry County College Forensics Team placed third in the overall team sweepstakes and third out of 19 colleges and universities in the individual sweepstakes at the Litrenta Triangle Tournament held in February at Harper College, Palatine.

Seven MCC competitors won a total of eight awards. �e students come from Woodstock, Wonder Lake, Huntley and Crystal Lake.

Liz Sullivan, Woodstock, won the Gold Award for Informative Speak-ing and the Silver Award for Prose Interpretation.

Dylan Eddy, Wonder Lake, won the Bronze Award for Dramatic Interpretation.

“�ese two students are a dynamic duo, consistently placing first or second at most tournaments with their scene from ‘Dancing Lessons’ by Mark St. Germain,” said Bonnie Gabel, an MCC speech instructor and the college’s director of foren-sics. “�ey delve into their charac-ters to find both the funny and the fear, and this has allowed them to present a real portrait of two com-pelling people who do the relation-ship dance.”

“�e quality of our talent is evi-dent,” she continued, “but all of the team members are success-ful because they work hard to be the best. As we enter the postseason of competition and head into state, regional and national level compe-tition, I am excited for how they will represent MCC.”

�e next competitions for the team are the Phi Rho Pi regional tourna-ment this month and the national tournament in April.News of recognitions, milestones and other community events can be sent to Janet Dovidio at [email protected].

44 two- and three-bedroom attached units, which require a $2,851 transi-tion fee per unit, sending the district $125,444.

School board members discussed the pros and cons of the request. Stim-ulating residential growth in the sub-division would bring in more taxpay-ers and could expand the district’s equalized assessed value, some sug-gested. Others worried the new houses wouldn’t be of the quality and value of the original homes built years earlier in Apple Creek, which sold for consider-ably more money years ago and have since dropped in value.

“When we talk about growth, we pre-fer commercial growth,” District 200 Superintendent Mike Moan said.

District 200 resident Susan Handels-man asked board members to deny the request, and said granting it would fur-ther burden the district’s remaining taxpayers.

“We will be subsidizing them,” Handelsman said. “When you [the board members] hit your point of pain, something will finally happen. We have hit our point of pain. I don’t understand your strategy.”

Later, Handelsman expressed con-cern that the houses for which the developer requested the transition fee decreases – larger three- and four-bedroom homes – were most likely to accommodate larger families, which could ultimately mean more students

and subsequent costs for District 200.“�e very housing units asking for a

discount are the extra bedroom homes more apt to produce the most stu-dents legally entitled to be educated at $9,000 per year, and rising every sin-gle year, at the expense of neighbors,” Handelsman said.

After a short discussion on the mat-ter, the school board members unani-mously voted to table the request to give them time to gather additional information and research on the issue.

Years ago, the original developer of Apple Creek donated land in lieu of paying the impact fees for the subdivi-sion. �e land was used to build Creek-side Middle and Prairiewood Elemen-tary schools.

In February, the Woodstock City Council approved waiving the city’s annexation fee charged to Cal-Atlantic, which was originally set at $1,096. �e council also voted to eliminate the $549 per unit fee for the Route 47 improve-ment fund. City officials said they would request reduction of the $274 fee paid to the Woodstock Fire/Rescue District and the aforementioned school district fees paid to District 200.

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A new developer is looking to build homes in Apple Creek on Wood-stock’s south side.

“When we talk about growth, we prefer commercial growth.”

- Superintendent Mike Moan

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March 23-29, 2016

A & EInternationally celebrated musician grew up in Wauconda

By Sandy KucharskiTHE INDEPENDENT

Off Square Music will kick off its 2016 concert series with a perfor-mance by world-class mandolin player Don Stiernberg, playing with Andy Brown and Jim Cox, who com-prise the Don Stiernberg Trio.

�e internationally recognized musician grew up in Wauconda and considers Woodstock as part of his musical roots, having played numer-ous concerts in the area with his mentor and teacher Jethro Burns.

�e first time Stiernberg picked up a mandolin, it was a good fit. He grew up during the heyday of folk music with an older brother who was a bud-ding musician, and he wanted to do what he was doing.

“He was learning guitar and banjo and someone gave him a mando-lin,” Stiernberg said of his brother. “He didn’t really have enough time to play it, so I stole it.”

When he was 15, his mother heard an ad on WFMT’s radio show “�e Midnight Special” offering a chance to study with the great mandolin player Jethro Burns, and she sug-gested that he take some lessons. It changed his life.

“I was a goner from the first time I

Mandolin master to open Off Square season

Jazz on the Square offers summer jazz camp scholarships

Jazz on the Square will offer a partial scholarship for summer jazz camp.

The scholarship is available to junior and senior high school students from

McHenry County and nearby community schools. Students can attend the camp of their choosing to enhance their skills on the primary instrument they play in their school’s music ensemble.

Scholarships up to $400 will be based on written replies from student applicants and their music teachers.

Jazz on the Square has selected sev-eral area camps that meet their criteria for jazz education, including Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp, Eastern Illinois Univer-sity Summer Jazz Instrumental Camp, Illinois Summer Youth Music at Univer-sity of Illinois, Midwest Young Artists Chi-cago Jazz Workshop, Northern Illinois

University Summer Jazz Camp and West-ern Illinois University Summer Jazz Combo Camp.

Jazz on the Square will consider other -

cations at jazzonthesquare.com. The scholarship application deadline is

Friday, April 1.

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met him. He was a great musician and a great teacher,” said Stiernberg.

Burns lived in Evanston, where he taught mandolin lessons out of a music store in the 1970s when he wasn’t performing. Stiernberg credits

Burns for hooking him on the instru-ment that he would earn his living on and also for his supportive teaching.

“I’ve been extremely lucky and had a great teacher,” Stiernberg said.

Following Burns’ model, teaching

is an important part of Stiernberg’s career. From spring to fall each year he travels to teach at mandolin camps where students come for a week or extended weekend of intensive study. He also offers private lessons.

“It’s really exciting times,” he said. “More and more young people are picking up the mandolin. It’s en vogue right now.”

He explained that current man-dolin virtuoso Chris �ile, the new host of “A Prairie Home Compan-ion,” has done much to popularize the instrument.

“It’s a good time to be a mandolin player,” said Stiernberg, who recently released two instructional videos.

While jazz is his wheelhouse, Sti-ernberg will focus a little more on folk music for the Off Square con-cert, as well as playing some swing and jazz standards. His trio consists of longtime friend and playing part-ner, Jim Cox, on bass, and Chicago jazz guitarist Andy Brown, who Sti-ernberg describes as “terrific, despite his youth.”

Looking forward to returning to the countryside where he learned to drive, Stiernberg said, “�e whole place is close to my heart. I hope everyone comes out to the show. I know we’re going to have a good time.”

�e Don Stiernberg Trio will per-form at 8 p.m. Saturday, March 26, at Unity Spiritual Center, 225 W. Calhoun St. Tickets are $15 each. Doors will open at 7:30 p.m. For reservations, call Keith Johnson at 815-338-5164 or email [email protected].

The Don Stiernberg TrioWhen: 8 p.m. Saturday, March 26Where: Unity Spiritual Center, 225 W. Calhoun St.Tickets: $15Website: www.offsquaremusic.org

“It’s really exciting times. More and more young people are picking up the mandolin. It’s en vogue right now.”

- Don Stiernberg, musician

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The Don Stiernberg Trio will open the Off Square Music season at 8 p.m. Saturday, March 26. Pictured is Stiernberg with his mandolin.

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REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONSFiled in the McHenry County Recorder’s Office Feb. 29 to March 9:

Residence at 2457 Bridgewater Drive, Woodstock, was sold by Home State Bank under a trust agreement, Crys-tal Lake, to Julia Kieta, Woodstock, for $83,500.

Residence at 7609 North Drive, Wonder Lake, was sold by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Atlanta, to Wil-liam Stromback, Wonder Lake, for $55,800.

Residence at 5230 E. Lake Shore Drive, Wonder Lake, was sold by The Abra-ham Lincoln Building LLC, Woodstock, to Samantha Sebba, Wonder Lake, for $140,500.

Residence at 1932 Sheila St., Wood-stock, was sold by U.S. Bank N.A. as trustee, Salt Lake City, to Deborah Ser-vantes, Lake in the Hills, for $57,500.

Residence at 7425 Center Drive, Wonder Lake, was sold by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Atlanta, to Thad Smith, Wonder Lake, for $120,000.

Residence at 1036 Rose Court, Wood-stock, was sold by Sharon Donnelly, Twin Lakes, Wis., to Andreas Edmondson, Woodstock, for $130,000.

Residence at 7910 Island Lane, Wonder Lake, was sold by the Chicago Title Land

Trust Company as trustee, Chicago, to Gregory French and Ann Freeman, Kildeer, for $185,000.

Residence at 6212 Mason Hill Road, Bull Valley, was sold by Jill Hill, Algonquin, to Rita and Gundlin Kelley, Bull Valley, for $205,000.

Residence at 1694 Poplar Lane, Wood-stock, was sold by U.S. Bank N.A., Armonk, N.Y., to Gabriella Cruz and Jorge Castenada, Woodstock, for $87,000.

Residence at 330 Leah Lane, Unit 1F, Woodstock, was sold by Gary Lechner, Woodstock, to Rick Budmayr, Woodstock, for $61,500.

Residence at 3920 Marengo Lane, Won-der Lake, was sold by U.S. Bank N.A., Salt Lake City, to Express Restoration Inc., Deer Park, for $72,000.

Residence at 965 Greta Ave., Wood-stock, was sold by Brian Shanahan, Wood-stock, to Lisa Ertmann, Woodstock, for $230,000.

Residence at 9218 Shadow Lane, Bull Valley, was sold by Thomas Peterson and Deborah Witntczak as successor trust-ees of the Julie Ann Petersen Declaration of Trust, Bozeman, Mont., to Thomas and Shelby Krzyzak, Bull Valley, for $315,000.

Residence at 7417 Mohawk, Wonder

Lake, was sold by Robert Gavers, Wood-stock, to Samantha Campo, Wonder Lake, for $93,000.

Residence at 2125 Fairview Lane, Wood-stock, was sold by Ronald and Donna McCarty to John and Kevin Hill and Debra Hill, Woodstock, for $209,900.

Residence at 9712 McConnell Road, Woodstock, was sold by Daniel Charewicz, Woodstock, to Irina Strelchenko, Wood-stock, for $255,000.

Apartment building at 500 to 504 N. Madison St., Woodstock, was sold by the Robert F. and Gail S. Sankey family trust, Woodstock, to Chicago Title Land Trust Company under provisions of Trust Agree-ment 5259, for $152,000.

Residence at 7710 Beach Drive, Won-der Lake, was sold by the Federal National Mortgage Association, Dallas, to Joan Lila, Wonder Lake, for $32,000.

Residence at 4920 Craig Drive, Wonder Lake, was sold by Lawrence and Ruthann Kuhn, Chicago, to Steve Conaghan, Won-der Lake, for $27,500.

Residence at 8812 Pebble Creek Court, Wonder Lake, was sold by Custom Devel-opment LLC, Richmond, to Aaron and Jes-sica Eddy, Wonder Lake, for $215,000.

Residence at 4619 W. Wonder Lake

Road, Wonder Lake, was sold by Christ the King Mission of Wonder Lake, Wonder Lake, to Robert and Anne Marie Anderson, Wonder Lake, for $75,000.

Residence at 2044 Woodside Drive, Woodstock, was sold by Custom Develop-ment LLC, Richmond, to Isaias and Eren-dyra Alanis, Woodstock, for $187,000.

Residence at 810 Dean St., Woodstock, was sold by Housemart.Biz Inc., Highland, Ind., to Dale Schultz, Wonder Lake, for $67,000.

Residence at 7722 Gene St., Wonder Lake, was sold by Eva Gausselin, Lees Summit, Mo., to Robert Gavers, Wood-stock, for $36,000.


�e new owner of the former Wood-stock Chamber of Commerce and Industry building on the Square said he will announce plans for the site soon.

Mike Levitan’s company, Viking Dog Woodstock Square LLC, pur-chased the two-story brick building at 136 Cass St. Dec. 1 for approximately $175,000. Levitan, a longtime member of the Woodstock Chamber of Com-merce, previously owned and man-aged Waverly House Tavern and the Gold Note Lounge, 214 Main St. He sold the business in 2010.

Levitan said he is considering many options for the building. While he has several potential business ideas of his own for the property, he also has been approached by individuals seeking to lease the space. Levitan plans to meet with city officials to discuss the possi-bilities for the property.

“I haven’t actually come to a decision about what’s going in there,” Levitan said. “I plan to know more by the end of the month or beginning of April.”

�e building’s main floor space is about 1,300 square feet in size, Lev-itan said. �e second floor is leased to a tenant, ESC! Technologies. �e building also has a basement for storage.

In October 2015, members of the Woodstock Chamber of Commerce and Industry voted to sell the building in order to free the organization of the responsibilities and costs that go along with building ownership. About 25 members attended the special meeting to cast a vote. �e chamber has an esti-mated 300 members. Chamber leaders said they intended to use the money from the building’s sale to help bolster the chamber’s financial state.

In January, the chamber moved its offices to space in the basement of Woodstock City Hall, 121 W. Calhoun St. �e space was previously utilized by the city’s 911 services. �e Woodstock City Council agreed to lease the space for no charge in an effort to help pro-mote the city’s economic growth.

�e new accommodations are con-ducive for an office and separate meet-ing room.

The former Woodstock Chamber building on Cass Street sold Dec. 1 for about $175,000. Its new owner says he is still decid-ing what to do with the property.

Owner of former chamber building is considering options

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March 23-29, 2016

CommunityLibrary to celebrate 125th anniversary


�e Woodstock Public Library is welcoming everyone in the commu-nity to join a special celebration from 6 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 23, to honor the precise date the library opened to the public 125 years ago.

“We have invited all the dignitaries – the mayor, the city manager, Gov. Rauner and even [Illinois Secretary of State] Jesse White because he was here a couple years ago,” said refer-ence librarian Beth Ryan, who is also head of adult programming.

To be clear, Ryan hadn’t received responses from Rauner or White, but she’s confident local govern-ment leaders and many Woodstock Public Library supporters will be on hand to commemorate its long his-tory and enjoy complimentary cake, ice cream and a chance to win door prizes.

Former library staffers, pages, cir-culation employees and shelvers who devoted many hours of labor to the library also have been invited. Library staffers will be dressed in period clothing from the late 1800s to coin-cide with the library’s opening date, Ryan said.

For the past week, a faux birthday cake has been on display at the library, and patrons have been making hand-crafted candles from construction paper and tissue to attach them to the cake. In another area, librarian Julie Fee created an anniversary exhibit, “125 Reasons to Love the Library.” Patrons have been writing their own notes about why they love the library on paper-heart cutouts and adding them to the display.

Over in the art gallery, historic photographs of the library and other Woodstock landmarks hang to recall

the past 125 years. �e library also began hosting special programs, such as a recent children’s story hour at the Opera House, where the library first was housed, to mark the anniversary. Many more programs are planned for the upcoming year.

“We’re going to celebrate with pro-grams and activities throughout the whole year,” Ryan said.

“Our summer reading program is going to focus on the library’s history and the different decades over the years.”

�e Woodstock Public Library opened March 23, 1891, in the then brand-new Opera House on the Square. �e building also housed the

city hall and fire station. Eventually, in 1959, the library moved into a small but stand-alone building at its current location, 414 W. Judd St.

�ree decades later, in 1987, the library was expanded and the split-level upper and lower floors located at its north end were built. A major reno-vation project in 2001 led to construc-tion of the main level located by the main entrance.

In all, the library has more than 43,000 square feet filled with books, magazines, CDs, movies, computers, resource materials and much more. While some libraries have seen a decline in users over the past several years due to the technology age, the Woodstock Public Library continues to welcome more than 325,000 visi-tors each year, according to Executive Director Nick Weber.

“Our circulation has remained rel-atively steady over the years,” Weber said.

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The Woodstock Public Library opened 125 years ago in the Wood-stock Opera House. The original library is pictured.

Scrapbooking fundraiser benefits D.A.R.E.

By Janet DovidioTHE INDEPENDENT

Woodstock Police Department telecommunicator Robin Karole-wicz hosted a fundraiser Feb. 24 to benefit the Woodstock Police Department Drug Abuse Resistance Education Program.

Karolewicz is an independent Stampin’UP! scrapbooking demon-strator who shared her expertise for the event, which cost $25, with $20 of each registration going to the D.A.R.E. program. Seventeen par-ticipants met in the department’s training room to each assemble two of three different cards and a 3-D project.

Woodstock City Manager Ros-coe Stelford included this event in the city of Woodstock’s “City Scene” publication. Woodstock Recreation Department employees Mary Lynn Lisk and Renee Torres assisted with registration.

Swiss Maid Bakery provided refreshments. Fourteen businesses who generously donated raffle prizes were Jewel, Walmart, Sub-way, McDonald’s, Nailcessity, Pizza Hut, Rosati’s, Niko’s Red Mill Tav-ern, Coleman & Co., Public House, Napoli’s, Read Between the Lynes, Lorenn’s Hallmark and Culvers. Most of the prizes were gift certifi-cates ranging from $15 to $50.

“D.A.R.E. Officer Michael Gus-tis was very happy with the suc-cess of the fundraiser,” said Karolewicz.“Along with the raffle tickets that I sold at the door, I was able to present a check of $642.84 to Officer Gustis for his D.A.R.E. pro-gram. We were a small but mighty group. Friendships were made and a good time was had by all.”

News of recognitions, milestones and other community events can be sent to Janet Dovidio at [email protected].

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Woodstock Public Library annniversary celebrationWhen: 6 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 23Where: Woodstock Public Library, 414 W. Judd St.

Dept. of health seeks nominations for Green Awards

The McHenry County Department of Health is accepting nominations from the public for the 2015 McHenry County Green Awards.

Each year, the McHenry County Green

Awards recognize the waste reduction, recy-cling and conservation efforts of businesses, institutions, organizations and residents in the county.

Entries will be considered based on environmentally sound waste reduction or recycling efforts, innovation and edu-cation. Award winners will be selected by the McHenry County Solid Waste Advisory

Committee and will be formally recognized and posted on the department’s Solid Waste Program web page. One award will be cho-sen for each of three categories: business, institution and organization.

Nomination forms are available at www.mcdh.info. Forms can be submitted to Kristy Hecke at [email protected]. For information, call 815-334-4585.

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gentle inclines, and the course weaves its way through the woods.”

Starzynski has been helping Molly Oakford, a Woodstock Morning Rotary Club member, prepare for the 5K. Starzynski and local dentist Bruce Farris recently finished map-ping the course at Silver Creek. Far-ris is an accomplished runner and previously coached the Woodstock North cross-country team and was an assistant coach for area track and field teams, Starzynski said.

“�ere are two nice things about this event,” Starzynski said. “First, it’s in a beautiful place. And second, it’s a chip-timed certified event.”

�e Woodstock Morning Rotary Club conceived the idea for the 5K while searching for a way to raise money for area recycling programs.

“We were brainstorming and came up with this idea,” Oakford said. “We wanted to partner with organiza-tions for the purpose of holding an event that would benefit recycling efforts in Woodstock. We held it on April 23 to correlate with Earth Day.”

Organizers are aiming to attract 50 to 100 runners/walkers to the EcoRun for its first year. �ey are

trying to spread the word to poten-tial racers.

�e EcoRun’s starting line will be at the conservation district’s Prai-rieview Education Center, 2112 Behan Road, Crystal Lake. �e entrance fee is $25 for runners who register online before April 20. Admission includes a T-shirt. Participants can register by visiting www.RotaryEcoRun.org.

Awards will be given in eight age bands immediately following the race. Day of the event check-in will be from 8:15 to 9:30 a.m. �e 5K will be held rain or shine. Parking and free shuttle to the event will be staged at Faith Community United Church of Christ, 2023 Highway 176, Crystal Lake.

Proceeds from the race will bene-fit the three organizations’ conserva-tion efforts.


�e Woodstock Morning Rotary Club is teaming up with the McHenry County Conservation District and the McHenry County Defenders to host the first-ever 5K EcoRun in the natural surroundings of Silver Creek Conservation Area.

�e new 5K EcoRun – or walk, for

those who prefer – will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, April 23, at Silver Creek Conservation Area, which is located east of Crystal Lake and north of Cary near Chalet Hills Golf Club.

“�e course is beautiful,” said Joe Starzynski, a member of the Wood-stock Noon Rotary Club and City Council member. “�e entire course is off-road. It doesn’t even go through a parking lot. �ere are a couple of

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Rotary, MCCD, Defenders team up for run5K EcoRunWhen: 10 a.m. Saturday, April 23Where: Silver Creek Conservation Area, 1009 Rawson Bridge Road, CaryEntrance fee: $25 for registration online before April 20Website: www.RotaryEcoRun.org

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UNITYJoanne Hill Tarbox Styles: a son’s remembrance

Joanne Grace Hill Tarbox Styles, distinguished educator, writer, arti-san, and philanthropist, died at age 98 Saturday, March 5, in Mount Mor-ris, where she and her first husband, Hascy Tarbox, bought a farm in 1962.

In 2012, she donated 50 acres of her farm to the Northern Illinois Audu-bon Society, which is now known as the Silver Creek Biodiversity Preserve.

Born Jan. 3, 1918, in Chicago, she was the first of Roger and Hortense Hill’s three children. �e Hills owned and operated for more than three decades the Todd School for Boys, the internationally celebrated board-ing school in Woodstock, until it closed in 1954. In addition to her sib-lings, Bette and Roger II, she shared her formative years with a Todd classmate, Orson Welles, whom her parents came to regard as their fos-ter son.

After graduating from Todd and achieving stratospheric success on stage, radio and screen, during a visit to his alma mater, Welles brought with him the film actress Dolores Del Rio, who upon meeting Joanne observed, “You are one of the most beautiful women I’ve ever seen.”

Joanne’s beauty wasn’t merely skin deep. Her commitment to social jus-tice and contributing to the welfare of others was lifelong — a dedication she inherited from her parents and extended family, including her cousin Edwin Embree, an international champion of civil rights and the pres-ident of the Rosenwald Foundation.

In 1939, she married Hascy Tar-box. She first met Hascy the day he enrolled at the Todd School when both were 12 years old. �ey were married for 52 years. �eir artistic

natures — she a writer, he an art-ist — coupled with myriad shared tastes provided them decades of happiness until his death in 1991. �ey are the parents of Melinda (Alfred) Reitman and me, Todd (Shirley), who brought them 10 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.

She married Lee Styles in 1994. He died in 2004.

Another of her passions was edu-cation. She began her career as an elementary teacher at Todd, later she taught at Milwaukee County Day School, and her last 20 years in the classroom were in Leaf River. A testa-ment to her effectiveness as a teacher is the lifetime relationships she devel-oped with many of her students.

Progressive politics was another of her passions. Over the decades, she unstintingly contributed her time and resources to politicians who shared her opinions on how best to bring about a more just and livable world.

To many she remained ageless over the decades. In a speech to col-lege students on aging, 65-year-old Joanne observed, “To me the answer to keeping pace with the clock is simple: keep moving. Like Peter Pan, keep flitting. It’s not your doing that you showed up when you did between two eternities of time, before you were you and after you were not. Rejoice in that reality. ... Better to nourish and keep green that remark-able inner you, which doesn’t have to contend with time.”

Joanne spent an expansive lifetime keeping green her remarkable “inner you” that never contended with time.

In a letter to her parents on her 50th birthday, she wrote:

“Fifty is surely a time for taking stock, for deciding if your direction is straight and true, what things are most important to get done in the

Todd TarboxGuest Column

This Christ-mas card from the Hill family features a young Joanne Hill Tar-box Styles.

allotted time. It was a lovely time of love and laughter last week when we were all together. �e thing that can be carved on my tombstone is ‘She had it so good and she knew it.”

Last week, 48 years later, she shared with family members the same sentiment. She forgot to add that those who were touched by her “had it so good” and “knew it.”

Her life was celebrated often while she was alive, the last being her 98th birthday. At her request, there will be no formal service for Joanne, “Instead,” she suggested, “plant a tree.”

Todd Tarbox was born in Chicago and

attended the Todd School for Boys in Woodstock until it closed. He gradu-ated from the University of the Ameri-cas, Mexico City, and received a mas-ter’s degree from Harvard University. He is the author of “Orson Welles and Roger Hill: A Friendship in �ree Acts,” which chronicles the seven-decade relation-ship between Orson Welles and his men-tor, Roger Hill. Additionally, he authored “�e Animated Animal” and “Make Up Your Own Book” (illustrated by his father, Hascy Tarbox), “Imagine,” “See the World,” and co-authored with his wife, Shirley Tarbox, “Footprints of Young Explorers.” Tarbox is the father of Hascy Tarbox II, grandfather of Charles Tarbox, and lives in Barrington Hills.

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6IN BRIEFAvalanche announces 2016 baseball season and tournament

The Woodstock Avalanche Youth Travel Baseball will enter their fourth year, playing home games at Merryman Fields. The 2016 season will kick off in

under, 10 and under, 11 and under, 12 and under and 14 and under.

The Woodstock-based Avalanche teams will participate in the McHenry County Baseball League, playing other area travel teams from communities around McHenry County.

Each age level also will participate in weekend tournaments around the region.

A full schedule for each age level can be found on the team’s website.

More than 50 teams will travel to Woodstock to play in the third annual Woodstock Summer Slam Tournament Friday to Sunday, June 10 to 12.

A home-run derby will start the event June 10 at Emricson Park with games played June 11 and 12 at Merryman Fields, Emricson Park and Bates Park. Championship games will be held the afternoon of June 12.

Entry to games is free, and conces-sions will be available.

Avalanche is currently interviewing for the 9U manager and coaching posi-tions for the 2017 season. For informa-tion, visit woodstockavalanche.atomi-cleagues.com.

Defenders to collect political signs for renewable energy

The Environmental Defenders of McHenry County is collecting political signs and sending them to New Vision

-nization based in Philippi, W. Va., that distributes solar LED lights in more than 28 countries around the world.

The light panel is created, in part, from recycled political signs and assembled by disadvantaged students in West Virginia.

People who do not plan to reuse the signs following the election are urged to donate them. Signs can be brought to the Defenders Recycling Drive in Woodstock from 9 a.m. to noon Sat-urday, April 9, at the Soil and Water Conservation District building, 2222 S. Dean St.; or to Chicago Logistic Ser-vice, 501 Davis Road, Elgin, at the back of the building.

For information, visit www.mcdef.org or call 815-338-0393.

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A 2008 Lamborghini Gallardo Superleggera sits in front of the Woodstock Opera House March 24. Only 172 Superleggeras were manufactured in 2008.

EGG HUNT RETURNS FOR 52ND YEAR


Isabella Jaimes, 2, and Damian Jaimes, 3, are bundled up for the 52nd annual Woodstock Easter Egg Hunt March 19 at Emricson Park. The event was organized by the Woodstock Jaycees and the Kiwanis Club of Woodstock.

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BLUE LOTUS TEMPLE & MEDITATION CENTER

Meditation: 10 a.m. Tuesday, Saturday;

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The Stage Leftovers, consisting of Rich Prezioso, Joe Pesz, Brian Murphy, Laurel Palma, Pete Jons-son and Les Urban, will perform.

LIVE MUSIC AT EXPRESSLY LESLIE’SMarch 25, 6 p.m.Woodstock Square Mall110 Johnson St.FreeMarch 25: Jay Einhorn will perform.

OPEN MIC NIGHTMarch 25, April 8, 7 p.m.Stage Left Café

125 Van Buren St. $3 donationoffsquaremusic.org815-338-5164Open Mic is sponsored by Off Square Music. Various artists will perform in 15-minute slots.

THE DON STIERNBERG TRIOMarch 26, 8 p.m.Unity Spiritual Center of Woodstock225 W. Calhoun$15 donation815-338-5164Don Stiernberg, called “the fore-most jazz mandolinist in America today,” will bring his gypsy-jazz trio to Woodstock.

JAZZ JAMApril 1, 15, 8 p.m.Stage Left Café125 Van Buren St.815-337-1395$5 donationJazz Jam is sponsored by Jazz on the Square. Artists will per-form jazz music.

WOODSTOCK FARMERS MARKETApril 2, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.McHenry County Fairgrounds Building DFreewoodstockfarmersmarket.org.Performers: 9 a.m. Suzy Schwartz and Cheryl Niemo11 a.m. Mark Hobbs

FIRST SATURDAY MUSIC

April 2, 7 p.m.Unity Spiritual Center of Woodstock225 W. Calhoun St.$3 donation815-382-5264Visitors can participate in the open mic night or enjoy the show. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m.

EMERGING ARTIST SHOWCASEApril 2, 7 p.m.Woodstock Opera House121 Van Buren St.$30The Gigable showcase series will feature three emerging musical artists: Kevin Presbrey and the Midwest, Bridget Davis and the Viking Kings, and Devin Dawson.

WOODSTOCK FOLK FEST

INVITATIONAL CONCERTApril 10, 2 p.m.Unity Spiritual Center225 W. Calhoun St.$10 donation815-338-2080woodstockfolkfestival.orgThe concert will feature songs

the Woodstock Folk Fest.

THEATER‘INTO THE WOODS’April 8, 9, 15, 16, 22, 23, 8 p.m.April 10, 17, 24, 3 p.m.Woodstock Opera House121 Van Buren St.$24 adults, $21 senior citizens and studentsWoodstock Musical Theatre Company will present a musical inspired by fairytales.

Children’s stories will be read

every child will receive a free chil-dren’s hot cocoa.

31 THURSDAYLEGO NIGHTWoodstock Public Library414 W. Judd St.6:30 p.m.815-338-0542LEGOs and Duplos are available for builders ages 2 years and older.

FAMILY DISCOVERY DAYRyder’s Woods651 Kimball Ave.9 a.m.The Land Conservancy will lead a guided hike discussing what’s happening at Ryder’s Woods.

DAR GENEALOGY WORKSHOPWoodstock Public Library414 W. Judd St.10 a.m. to noon815-338-0542Volunteer genealogists from the Kishwaukee Trail Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, will help people trace their American ancestors.

SENIOR EXERCISE CLASS

Dorr Township1039 Lake Ave.9 a.m.$10 monthly exercise class fee, $2 lunch815-344-3555Senior citizens are invited to exercise, followed by coffee, pro-gram, lunch and bingo.

2 SATURDAYWOODSTOCK FARMERS MARKETMcHenry County FairgroundsBuilding D9 a.m. to 1 p.m.The market will feature a variety of food and craft items produced directly by the vendors.

5 TUESDAYWOODSTOCK CITY COUNCIL MEETINGCity Hall121 W. Calhoun St.7 p.m.

8 FRIDAYMASTERS-FULL VIEWING EVENTBull Valley Golf Club1 to 5 p.m.$75 A viewing party for the Masters will include drinks and lunch.

COMMUNITY DRUM CIRCLEPotts & Pans Building1039 Wanda Lane7:30 p.m.

$10 suggested donation815-814-8360See March 25.

9 SATURDAYHABITAT RESTORATION

11418 McConnell Road9 a.m. to noon815-337-9315Individuals, students, small groups and families with children older than age 6 can participate in restoring native habitat for this McHenry County Conservation District site.

BOOK SIGNINGRead Between the Lynes111 E. Van Buren St.6 to 8 p.m.A signing party for “The Dolphin” by Craig Hallenstein will be held.

11 MONDAYSPOUSAL CAREGIVER SUPPORT GROUPFamily Alliance2028 N. Seminary Ave.10:30 a.m. to noon815-338-3590An open support group meeting will be offered for individuals car-ing for a spouse.

MCHENRY COUNTY HORSE CLUB MEETINGHooved Animal Humane Society10804 McConnell Road7 p.m.847-366-1315The general meeting of the club

is open to everyone. Meetings will have various speakers and exhibits.

COFFEE WITH THE CHIEFWoodstock Police Department656 Lake Ave.7 p.m.

Freund will attend and introduce her K-9 partner, Blue, and talk about their activities since begin-ning their assignment.

12 TUESDAYALZHEIMER’S DEMENTIA SUPPORT GROUPValley Hi Nursing Home2406 Hartland Road815-334-2817A monthly meeting will offer sup-port for caregivers of individuals with Alzheimer’s and dementia.

DISTRICT 200 BOARD OF EDUCATION MEETINGClay Professional Development Center112 Grove St.7 p.m.woodstockschools.org

NORTHLAND AREA ART LEAGUE MEETINGOpera House Community Room121 Van Buren St.7 p.m.815-337-2027The art league will host a meet-ing and demonstration by Gabriel Karagianis. Walk-ins and guests are welcome.

15 FRIDAYCAREGIVERS SUPPORT GROUPFamily Alliance2028 N. Seminary Ave.1 to 2:30 p.m.815-338-3590An open support group meeting will be offered for anyone giving care to an older person.

16 SATURDAYWOODSTOCK FARMERS MARKETMcHenry County FairgroundsBuilding D9 a.m. to 1 p.m.See April 2.

BARK FOR BOOKSWoodstock Public Library414 W. Judd St.10 a.m.Children can practice reading to Kalani, the therapy dog.

17 SUNDAYHELPING PAWS NEW VOLUNTEER ORIENTATIONHelping Paws Shelter2500 Harding Lane1 p.m.815-338-4400helpingpaws.netHelping Paws will offer a monthly orientation to new volunteers.Open to the public. Prospective members are welcome.

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Walsh finishes in third place at conference finals

, a Woodstock North graduate, was less than 4 inches from a Missouri Valley Conference track title.

At the indoor conference finals, the Southern Illinois University-Carbon-dale vaulter finished with a leap of 16 feet, 9.25 inches. He finished third overall. �e winning vault of 17-1 was jumped by Indiana State Uni-versity’s Connor Curley. Walsh tied the second-place competitor, SIUC’s Nathan Schuck, but Schuck was given second place on fewer misses.

As a team, SIUC finished second with 132.5 points. Wichita State Uni-versity won the team title with 141.5 points.

(Woodstock) took fifth in the high jump at the College Confer-ence of Illinois and Wisconsin Indoor Track and Field Championships. �e outing was held at Al B. Carius Track at the Residential/Recreation Center at North Central College. �e NCC junior recorded a leap of 6 feet, 3.25 inches. North Central College took second with 175.5 points. Augustana College took first with 189.50 points.

(Woodstock North) worked 1 2/3 innings as his team, Beloit College, defeated Milwaukee School of Engineering 10-5. Huntley, who did not get a decision, allowed one hit. He fanned one. �e game was held at Strong Stadium in Beloit, Wis. Beloit is 7-3.

(Woodstock) has an 0-1 record thus far. �e Univer-sity of Minnesota-Duluth pitcher has worked 7 1/3 innings in the first 12 games. He has allowed six earned runs on eight hits. He has fanned eight and walked six. �e NCAA Divi-sion II team will start Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference games this

The College Report

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Host Huntley wins in new indoor fieldhouse

THE INDEPENDENT

�e boys track and field teams from Woodstock and Woodstock North high schools each got their first taste of competition for the 2016 season when they traveled to Huntley High School for the boys Fox Valley Con-ference Indoor Invite March 15.

�ey competed against teams from Huntley, McHenry, Grayslake North, Grayslake Central, Crystal Lake South, Crystal Lake Central, Jacobs, Cary-Grove, Dundee-Crown, Hampshire and Prairie Ridge.

�e event was held in Huntley’s new indoor athletic fieldhouse featuring a six-lane, 200-meter running track. �e Huntley boy’s team won the meet,

scoring 131 points. WNHS took 12th place and WHS

finished 13th overall out of 13 teams.WNHS head coach John Fred-

ericks commented that both teams from Woodstock are at a disadvan-tage at the beginning of the season because of limited practice facilities.

“We start out behind, but by the end of the season, we catch up,” he said, noting that the teams with indoor facilities like Huntley are five to six weeks ahead in training. Last year, he had his athletes running in the long hallways at WNHS, but found the concrete slab surfaces to be too rough on runners, resulting in a high incidence of injuries such as shin splints.

�e top finisher for WNHS was senior thrower Jacob Varys, who placed third in the shot put with a throw of 48 feet, 10.25 inches. WNHS sprinter Travis Busch ran 7.36 seconds

Boys track teams kick off new season at invite» BOYS TRACK WHS & WNHS

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COVERING THE BASES

INDEPENDENT PHOTO BY SANDY KUCHARSKI

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COLLEGE REPORT(Continued from page 25)

» BASEBALL Marian Central Marian Central’s Jordan Rodriguez pitches March 19 against Hon-onegah. The ’Canes lost 2-0.


’Canes baseball will rely on leadership, coach says

By Megan IversTHE INDEPENDENT

�e Marian Central Catholic High School baseball team is looking to improve on last year’s 12-22 record this spring.

Behind the leadership of 10 seniors, the team will rely on all players to be ready to assume the role of captain as the team works through a tough sched-ule, including competing in the East Suburban Catholic Conference.

“All 24 of us have a role,” said first-year head coach Tom Kruse. “We’re a team, and it could be a kid that’s not playing who’s ready to pinch run, and that’s where we may need a kid.”

�rough a balanced contribution from all players, Kruse is looking to build the team’s victories and advance in the postseason.

“Pitching and good defense is always important,” added Kruse. “If you don’t let them score, you got a real good

chance to win. [At] any level, if you have pitching [and] good defense, you always have a chance.”

While Kruse will expect every player to step up to the leadership challenge, he will rely on third-year varsity starter and senior Kolton Rominski to provide consistency. Rominski knows the team has a lot that they can do if everyone comes at competition with the right attitude.

“We need to work everything play by play and pitch by pitch,” said Rominski, who plays pitcher and infield. “We all need to know our roles and contribute any way we can.”

�e Hurricanes’ outfield will be supported by seniors Aaron Kurcz and Emitt Peisert (pitcher and out-field), and juniors Bobby Bannon, Jus-tin Carlton, Ricky Monbrod (pitcher and outfield), Caleb Reuter and Zach Teegen.

Seniors Marc Miguel (pitcher and infield), Michael Gross (first base) and

Peter Kolner (catcher and third base), and juniors Carlton, Elias Edmondson, Ritchie Hoover, James Raffauf (pitcher and infield), Colin Rebenstrof (catcher and infield) Dan Rochette (first base), and Brett Seegers (pitcher and infield) will drive infield strength.

�e pitching mound will addition-ally benefit from seniors Matt Crook, Gavin Dineen and Tommy Mueller, and junior Jordan Rodriguez. Juniors Jack Schneider and Matt Schneider have the

potential to fill a variety of roles. Senior Shamus Segersten will be key

to the Hurricanes’ defense at catcher. �e Hurricanes (0-3) will host

Christian Liberty Academy Tuesday, March 22, and Christian Crossroads Academy �ursday, March 24, before traveling to compete against Rock-ford East Monday, March 28. East Suburban Catholic Conference action begins with a doubleheader at Marian Catholic Saturday, April 16.

week. �e team is 7-5 overall.Mike Koscielniak (Marian Cen-

tral) has one walk in the first nine Vassar College baseball games. He has played in one game. On the hill, Koscielniak has worked one inning and walked two batters. Vassar is 3-6.

Be included in the College ReportNames, names, names! As every-

one can plainly see, winter sports are very quickly ending. We are look-ing for names of spring athletes to write about. If anyone wants to add a name, please email me at [email protected]. Please put “Woodstock Independent” in the subject line of the email.

To qualify to be included in �e Woodstock Independent’s College Report, the athlete must hail from Woodstock or be a graduate of Wood-stock, Woodstock North or Marian Central Catholic high schools. Athletes must be members of an intercollegiate team at a college or university, mean-ing their teams compete against teams from other schools.Dan Chamness covers the college careers of Woodstock-area athletes.

STREAKS FACE HORNETSGirls soccer

Woodstock High School fell 4-0 at Wauconda in their season opener March 14. They lost 4-1 to Crystal Lake South March 16.

The Streaks beat Rockford East 5-0 March 19. The Streaks junior varsity team matched the varsity score against Rockford East, winning 5-0.

The Woodstock North High School JV team drew with Belvidere by a score of 1-1 March 17.

Softball WNHS fell to Belvidere North in their sea-

son-opener March 17 by a score of 7-1. The JV team lost 15-5.

season against Harvard, beating the Hor-nets 18-1 March 18. The frosh-soph team

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son at Indian Creek, winning 14-5 March 18. The Streaks lost to Richmond-Burton 11-1 March 19.

Baseball WHS defeated Richmond-Burton 4-0 in

their season-opener March 17. The Streaks fell in a back-and-forth game against Har-vard 5-4 March 18.

WHS lost 7-0 to Wauconda March 19.

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Woodstock High School's Justyn Eisen-menger makes a

base in the Blue Streaks' home game against Har-vard March 18. The Streaks fell to the Hornets 5-4.

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in the 60-meter dash for a seventh-place finish. His teammate, �ery Sims, ran the 200-meter dash in 24.33 seconds for a seventh-place finish.

Early in the season, Fredericks foresees strong performances com-ing from senior Jacob Varys in the shot put, senior distance runner Jesse Long in the 1,600-meter run and junior high jumper Matthew Haynes. He also is working on find-ing a fourth sprinter to round out a solid relay team. He’s looking at building for next year with his strong field of freshmen and sophomores.

WHS junior Will Maidment medaled for the Blue Streaks, clear-ing 6 feet, 1 inch in the high jump, enough for second place in the event.

WHS head coach Tommy �omp-son called the meet a good start considering that they were compet-ing with bigger schools.

“My philosophy with the boys is

to keep improving, focusing on get-ting a [personal record] every time out,” he said.

�ompson noted his team is young, with freshmen representing more than half the total roster. He consid-ers the distance runners – 800 meters and longer – to be one of his team’s strengths this season, and he’s looking to senior runners from cross-country, including Luke Beattie and Donovan Chambers, to be leaders for the team this spring. He’s also expecting that the veteran leadership in jumps will help strengthen the younger athletes.

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“We start out behind, but by the end of the season, we catch up.”

- John Fredericks, WNHS coach

INDEPENDENT PHOTO BY MICHELLE KRENGER

Woodstock North’s Anicca Mackay-Slavin swipes the ball from Bel-videre in the Thunder’s home opener March 17.

By Liz StrohTHE INDEPENDENT

Woodstock North varsity girls soc-cer is back on its home turf this spring for the first time in two years.

�e team had been transplanted onto the fields behind Mary Endres Elemen-tary School for a couple of seasons due to varsity soccer pitch renovations and drainage improvements.

“It’s great to be back home, and we should have a scoreboard up soon to complete our varsity field,” said �un-der head coach Lauren Farley.

Money for the soccer scoreboard has been raised from tournament fees paid to WNHS, and installation of the scoreboard will be covered by the John Swanson Fund.

�e �under traveled to Round Lake for their first game of the season March 15 and were shutout 1-0. �e loss to Round Lake was followed by their

home opener March 17 against Belvi-dere. �e �under goal was battered by the Bucs, who won 5-0.

“Juniors Annie Velasco and Daniela Miranda did a great job of controlling the middle of the field in both games,” Farley said. “�ey fought for every ball and tried their best to get an attack going.”

Much of the �under’s attack came through freshman Lauren Kunke.

“Kunke put a lot of pressure up top, getting a few shots on goal,” Farley said.

With this being the �under’s last year competing in the Fox Valley Con-ference, the biggest goal for the team this year is to be competitive in the Fox Division games, Farley said.

“We look forward to playing against small schools with whom we will be more competitive,” Farley added.

�e �under travel to Zion-Benton to take on the Zee-Bees Wednesday, March 23.

» GIRLS SOCCER WNHS

Thunder soccer team back on home turf this season

INDEPENDENT PHOTO BY SANDY KUCHARSKI

WNHS senior Jesse Long com-petes in the 1,600-meter run.

THE WOODSTOCK INDEPENDENT 28March 23-29, 2016

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