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Fiscal hawk to aid board reform He joins Mental Health Board; seventh vacancy will be filled later this year By KEVIN P. CRAVER kcraver@shawmedia.com WOODSTOCK – The McHenry County Board appointed a past member who spearheaded a much-needed streamlining of its budget process to help ongoing reforms of the Mental Health
Scott Breeden
Board. Board members on Tuesday voted, 23-0, to appoint Scott Breeden to fill one of the latest vacancies on the Mental Health Board, created in July when former member Kathy Hinz stepped down to become interim superintendent of Crystal Lake Dis-
trict 47. The Mental Health Board, which has struggled over the past year with finances, controversies and an exodus of top staff, has lost seven members over the past year, most of whom either resigned or were ousted from office.
Breeden, a Lakewood businessman, beat three other candidates with business and financial backgrounds to fill the vacancy – the Public Health and Human Services Committee last month chose him on a 6-1 vote. The Mental Health Board has faced criticism over the years
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that it has become a top-heavy bureaucracy that spends too much property-tax revenue on administration that should be going to agencies working with the mentally ill and developmentally disabled.
See MENTAL HEALTH, page A5
Officials trading blame in crisis No shutdown end; GOP, Dems bicker By DAVID ESPO and DONNA CASSATA The Associated Press
Lathan Goumas – lgoumas@shawmedia.com
Diagnostic radiologist Dr. Christopher Goesel looks at a patient’s mammogram Tuesday in the Breast Care Unit at Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital in Barrington. October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
Recent advances give women more treatment options By LAWERENCE SYNETT lsynett@shawmedia.com
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ana Hartwigsen found a lump on her breast in August 2012. It was cancer. The Algonquin resident responded well to the 16 weeks of chemotherapy that followed, but a separate benign mass on her breast left her worried that the disease could return. She decided to have a double mastectomy and breast recon-
struction, the same procedures celebrity Angelina Jolie had earlier this year, which brought global awareness to the preventive surgery option. “It really wasn’t a tough decision,” Hartwigsen said. “I wanted to do what’s best for me and my family, and decrease my chances as much as possible. I wanted to eliminate any further chance of cancer.” Mastectomies are a growing choice among women worried
about breast cancer, local doctors agree, but preventive measures such as mammograms and self-examinations remain the difference between early detection and treatment or life-changing surgery. “More women have come forward since seeing [Angelina] Jolie in the news,” said Dr. Barry Rosen, general surgeon with a focus on breast cancer at Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital in Barrington.
See BREAST CANCER, page A3
Breast Cancer Awareness Month The Northwest Herald is proud to partner with Centegra Health System to bring you a pink special section inside Wednesday’s newspaper. A portion of the proceeds from the special section will go to the Centegra Foundation.
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WASHINGTON – First slowed, then stalled by political gridlock, the vast machinery of government clanged into partial shutdown mode on Tuesday and President Barack Obama warned that the longer it goes “the more families will be hurt.” Republicans said it was his fault, not theirs, and embarked on a strategy – o p p o s e d b y On the Democrats – of Net voting on bills to reopen individTo view ual agencies or more photos programs. from the Ominously, there were sug- government gestions from shutdown, leaders in both visit NWHerparties that the ald.com. shutdown, heading for its second day, could last for weeks and grow to encompass a possible default by the Treasury if Congress fails to raise the nation’s debt ceiling. The two issues are “now all together,” said Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill. Speaking at the White House, the president accused Republicans of causing the first partial closure in 17 years as part of a nonstop “ideological crusade” to wipe out his signature health care law. House Speaker John Boehner gave as good as he got. “The president isn’t telling the whole story,’ ” he said in an
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The village of Cary is set to begin a 10- to 12-month process of updating its comprehensive plan, which was last updated in 1992. Houseal Lavigne Associates of Chicago was hired Tuesday to complete the comprehensive plan at a cost of $99,612. Houseal recently completed the McHenry County comprehensive plan. For more, see page B1.
Columnist Joan Oliver finds herself confronted with her own version of “What Not to Wear” while doing her seasonal closet switch to get fall and winter wardrobe items out of storage. Decluttering may free up space in one’s home, but is that worth giving up that purple cardigan from that Elvis Costello concert? For more, see page A2.
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