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ON THE COVER Runners begin the PeppeRuni 5K Push for the Path run Saturday in Yorkville. The event was to raise funds for a recreational trail along Kennedy Road. See story on page 10. Photo by Eric Miller - emiller@shawmedia.com
By MATT SCHURY mschury@shawmedia.com Kendall County property owners should find their annual property tax bills in the mail this week, according to Jill Ferko, county treasurer. Ferko said Monday her office mailed the bills May 6. The bills will be due in two installment payments, June 7 and Sept. 7. Taxpayers can pay their bills online by going to illinoisepay.com, which charges a convenience fee for this service. Ferko says residents can also contact her office to sign up to have the two payments directly withdrawn from their bank accounts on the due dates. There is no cost for that option. Residents who have the time can also stop by the Treasurer’s Office to pay their bills. The treasurer’s office is located on the first floor of the County Office building 111 W. Fox St. in Yorkville. A majority of county taxpayers now pay their taxes through escrow accounts their banks set up with their monthly mortgage payments. Those escrowing their tax payments will still receive a bill in the mail that they should review. Ferko estimates that about 52,000
bills were sent out in Kendall County. Of those bills, the majority of property owners will see an increase due in part to rising property assessments. Assessments are based on a three-year average. This year’s property assessments are based on data collected by assessors in 2012, 2013 and 2014. Under state law, all properties with the exception of farmland must be assessed at one-third their fair market value. Assessments across the county have been trending upward in recent years after bottoming out in the wake of the 2008 recession. To determine how much is owed on each tax bill, county officials multiply the total tax rate of the appropriate local government agencies by the assessed value of each property, minus any exemptions. Tax bills will show an increase if the assessed value of the property has increased and the local tax rate either stays the same or also increases. Referring to this year’s tax bills, Ferko said, “For the most part I think that, yes, you will probably see your bill go up a little bit.” However, the size of the increase will vary, depending upon the location of the property in the county. A typical household in the city of
Yorkville man dies in DeKalb County car/truck crash SHAW MEDIA A Yorkville man was killed Friday in a collision at the intersection of Route 23 and Chicago Road, DeKalb County sheriff’s police said in a news release. Police said Javier A. Rangel, 34, of the 1200 block of Willow Way in Yorkville, was killed after the 1996 Honda Accord he was driving collided with a semitrailer in the intersection about 6:30 a.m. Police said Rangel’s vehicle was westbound on Chicago Road when it disobeyed the stop sign at the intersection and collided with a semitrailer that was southbound on Route 23 and driven by Jeffrey S. Brackmann, 59, of the 4500 block of East 18th Road, Leland. Rangel died of injuries he suffered from the crash, police said. Paramedics from the Somonauk Fire Department took Brackmann to Valley West Hospital for treatment of injuries that were not life-threatening, police said.
Plano saw their total tax rate decrease from 15.15 percent to 14.25 percent, while a village of Montgomery property owner in Yorkville School District 115 saw a total tax rate increase from 12.05 percent to 12.11 percent. In the city of Yorkville, the typical household saw an increase in their tax rate from 11.6 in 2014 to 11.7 percent in 2015, while in the village of Oswego there was a decrease in the total rate from 11.56 percent to 10.91 percent, according to information provided by the Kendall County Office of Assessments. Overall, tax rates were mostly likely the highest in the north and eastern incorporated areas of Kendall County while they tended to be lower in the southern and western potions of unincorporated Kendall County, according to Kendall County supervisor of assessments Andy Nicoletti. While people can’t appeal their new tax bills, Nicoletti says, they can become more involved in the process of determining those bills by attending public meetings and letting their voices be heard. “When 67 percent of your bill is going to the schools, that’s really where you need to start addressing things,” he said.
BRIEFS Mandatory meeting for dual language program
There will be a mandatory meeting for Yorkville School District 115 families interested in the district’s dual language program at Autumn Creek Elementary School for the 2016-17 school year will be from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 25, at the school at 2377 Autumn Creek Blvd. Call 630-553-4048. Parents must attend this meeting if they are considering dual language for their incoming kindergartner. Dual language is a program offered in the Yorkville School District where English-speaking students are integrated in the same classrooms with Spanish-speaking students, and their instruction is in Spanish for the majority of their day. More information can be found on the district website
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YMS S.T.E.P. fundraiser set at Culver’s tonight
The Yorkville Middle School S.T.E.P. Team qualified at the Youth Step USA Regional last month and is now raising money for their first ever trip to nationals in Harrisburg, PA Memorial Day Weekend. There are several ways the community can help these 20 students go on a fantastic trip. Visit their Edco fundraising page at yorkville-middle.ed.co/yms-stepteam, buy popcorn from a stepper or eat at Culver’s on North Bridge Street in Yorkville on Thursday, May 12. Certificates for Culver’s are available on the team’s Facebook site at YMS STEP Team.
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Yorkville’s director of teaching and learning accepts position in Hinsdale By KATHY FARREN news@kendallcountynow.com
lee Entas, Maureen Boylan, Michele Brown, Laura Bell, Illir Imini, Roya Rasti, Suzanne Roark, Laura Hilliard, Audrey Matysek, Pamela Hansen and Victoria Espinoza. Board members also approved some additional positions at Yorkville High School – three more campus monitors, two summer school secretaries, one full-time math teacher, and additional time for a Project Lead The Way teacher. Human Resources Director Troy Courtney presented information, which was not voted on, recommending an additional fifth-grade teacher at Autumn Creek Elementary School and an additional third-grade teacher at Circle Center Grade School because of large class sizes. He also mentioned additional staffing needs at Yorkville Middle School, including a part-time German teacher as 41 students enrolled for that class next fall; more time for the family and consumer science, business basics and computer science teachers; a full-time physical education/health teacher, and an additional half-time orchestra teacher. Enrollment in orchestra at YMS has grown from 146 in 2012 to 220 now, Courtney said, with no additional teachers. The Building and Grounds Department will need 21 summer workers to do grounds work, waxing floors, painting, moving, etc. Building and Grounds Director Brian DeBolt noted that the summer helpers – usually high school and college students – don’t work full-time as most will be gone part of the time for classes, athletic practices and family vacations.
Cross Lutheran enrolling students for 2016-17 school year for 2 year-olds. The 3 year-old and 4 year-old programs offer a variety of morning options, as well as Cross Lutheran School in Yorkville is now enroll- an extended day program. The preschool uses the ing for the 2016-17 school year. project approach and “Handwriting Without Tears” The school offers a faith-based approach to learn- curriculum. ing. In addition to preschool, Cross offers a full-day Cross Preschool offers morning preschool classes kindergarten program continuing through eighth
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grade. The school also offers before-school care beginning at 6:30 a.m. and after-school care until 5:30 p.m. Cross Lutheran School is at 8535 Route 47, Yorkville. For more information and a tour, call the school office at 630-553-7861 or email us at schoolinfo@hiscross.org.
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A top administrator in the Yorkville School District has resigned to take a position with Community Consolidated School District 181 serving Hinsdale and Clarendon Hills. Kelley Gallt, Yorkville’s director of teaching and learning, was hired by District 181, a prekindergarten to eighth-grade district, as the assistant superintendent of learning (curriculum and instruction) effective July 1. Gallt has worked here for three years and said, “I really love this district.” Board member Dr. Robert Brenart said she would be “sorely missed.” “Very few people put in the amount of work she has,” he added. The board also hired the first teachers to teach blended (part classroom, part online) classes this summer. Rachel Juarez will teach the high school government class and Mickey Nauman the consumer management course. Special education staffing levels for each school were approved for next year, after the June 30 dissolution of the Kendall County Special Education Cooperative. Three full-time staff will serve the entire district – one for hearing-impaired students, an adaptive physical education teacher, and a music therapist. Staffing levels at each school will
vary depending on which programs are housed in each building. There will be 10.5 full-time equivalent staff members at Autumn Creek Elementary School, four at Bristol Bay Elementary School, 6.5 at Bristol Grade School, six at Circle Center Grade School, seven at Grande Reserve Elementary School, six at Yorkville Grade School, nine at Yorkville Intermediate School, 13 at Yorkville Middle School, and 18 at Yorkville High School/Yorkville High School Academy. In addition, the board accepted resignations from computer technician Timothy Connolly and special education teacher Laura Machuca, and from Joe Fornell as Yorkville High School wrestling coach, and Kevin Cain as Yorkville Middle School eighth-grade boys basketball coach. They granted an unpaid leave of absence to Melissa Hardecopf for the remainder of this school year and next year. They hired five special education paraprofessionals for next year – Julia Wiewiora, Melissa Davis, Kristin Mukuta, Jessica Wright and Bonny Mattison; hired Holly Garton as a learning disabilities teacher for the remainder of this school year; and moved Jill Harker from part-time copy aide to full-time clerical secretary. Kevin Cain was hired as YHS assistant boys basketball coach, Caitlin Graff as YHS head winter cheerleading coach, Jon Calder as YHS head
golf coach, Amy McMahill as YHS head fall and winter pom coach, and Jacob Oster as YHS wrestling coach. Four YMS soccer coaches were switched from half-time to full-time stipends. They are Ben Rollins and Andrew Chilton, girls soccer coaches, and Nate Rahn and Chris Palmisano, boys soccer. Since the district will now be providing Extended School Year (ESY) summer school programs to special education students who need the service, the board hired staff members for that program. For the elementary school level, they hired certified staff members Traci Underwood, Kathleen Coffey, Kari Smith, Julie Pehlke, Anna Toth, Cady Hanson, Tracy Olson, Kimberly Minkler, Kristin Melick, Caitlin Graff, Lisa Deville and Bobby Speer; secretary Laura Barbante; and paraprofessionals Joan Sim, Patt Schaum, Barb Murphy, Clint Rocen, Dan Schultz, Jodi Bammer, Lesley Shanks, Beth Mack, Donna Rhode, Josie Holmes, Robin Blank, Carol Schuenemann, Vickie Berg, Robin Blank, Mindy Albrecht, Claudia Schneider, Heidi Dockstader, Lisa Friel, Ines Fenton, Deborah Lueck, Diane Cikauskas, Rachel Mateyka and Katelyn Bedford. Middle school ESY staff hired were: certified teachers Jana Ochoa, Sheri Rocen, Nathan Rahn, Amy McMahill, Tatum Diehl, Patrick Jeckman, May Sandgren, Alice Strobel, Sarah Burns, Emily Christian, Rosemary Kern and Brian Erjevec; psychologist Megan Yahle; administrative assistant Marisella Mendoza; and paraprofessionals Danine Polizza, Desiree Kice, Jessica Wright, Mary Najdzion, Ash-
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Freeze taxes? Why that’s not so simple We’ve noticed over the last few weeks area state lawmakers – both Republicans and Democrats – have been hosting seminars to explain the state’s property assessment and tax bills system to their constituents. We commend the lawmakers for hosting the informational sessions. Anything to improve the public’s understanding of Illinois’ confusing and often arcane method of taxing real estate has to be a positive. We are still baffled as to why a general explanation of the state’s property tax system is not part of the civics curriculum in the state’s public high schools. In announcing her May 19 seminar, State Rep. Stephanie Kifowit, D-Oswego, noted the area’s high property tax burden needs to be addressed “locally and legislatively.” She added, “My free seminar will give homeowners the information they need to appeal their property tax bill and possibly save money.” We would caution area residents, however, that it is months too late for them to appeal the property tax bill they may have just received or soon will receive in the mail. State law does not provide a mechanism for property owners to appeal their tax bills. Instead, it gives property owners the ability to appeal the assessment on which their property tax bills are based. Here in Kendall County, the county supervisor of assessment’s office usually notifies property owners by mail if their assessments have changed in the late summer or early fall. State law requires that all properties – with the exclusion of farm parcels – be assessed at one-third their fair market value, averaged over the previous three years. Property owners who believe their new assessments are in excess of that one-third value have a 30-day window after they receive their change notices to file an appeal with the county supervisor of assessments office. The county board of tax review considers the appeals during public hearings, usually held in the winter. Those property owners who file appeals and gain the board of review’s approval for an assessment reduction are then in a position to realize some savings on their next property tax bills. Current state politicians beginning with the Gov. Bruce Rauner all down the line are in favor of a property tax freeze, just like their predecessors decades ago. Who doesn’t want to pay less in property taxes? But the problem the politicians have always faced is that if they were to freeze property taxes without significantly increasing funding for education from another source – such as the income tax – local school systems would soon go broke. The ill effects of a property tax freeze without a corresponding increase in taxes from another source would be especially deleterious on school districts in growth communities like Oswego/Montgomery and Yorkville where enrollments and thereby operational expenses continue to climb.
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The interior of W.J. Morse’s general store at the northeast corner of Main Street and Washington Street in downtown Oswego. This photo was taken in 1902.
Surviving the good old days REFLECTIONS Roger Matile
It is human nature to look back on a time in the past and decide that was the ideal era. Politically, folks on the right side of the political spectrum look back fondly on the Reagan era of the 1980s as an ideal, while those on the left are enamored of the New Deal 1930s. Most of us look back on our childhood years as some sort of ideal, which is not at all surprising. As kids, our parents (for the most part) took care of us, made sure we were housed and fed and had clothes to wear. We played with our friends and didn’t have all those pesky adult worries that seem to occupy our minds as we cope with making ends meet. Back in the 1960s and early ‘70s when my generation were young adults, young people looked back with fondness on our parents’ and grandparents’ eras when people lived close to the soil and experienced “natural” lives. If only, we heard from the back-to-nature crowd, all that nasty machinery and all those harmful fertilizers, insecticides and herbicides were eliminated, everyone would be healthier and happier. It would be thrilling to return to the days when everyone ate health food and no one suffered from a lack of
roughage in their diets. And while living in a chemical-free world sounded pretty good then – and now, actually – if those youngsters had bothered to study rural American history, they would have learned that life back in pre-machinery, pre-farm chemical times was not all that good or healthy. Compared to today’s agricultural operations, relatively little food was actually produced on those early farms, and since paved roads really didn’t exist in most areas of the country until the 1920s, it was difficult to get what was produced to market. In addition, life itself was dear. On a regular basis, terrible diseases swept through rural communities, killing whole families in those pre-antibiotic days when a splinter in a finger could prove fatal. Back in the “Good Old Days,” people preserved fruit, vegetables and meat all summer because they’d starve all winter if they didn’t. People didn’t live the way they did a century ago because they liked it; they did it because it was the most modern way of life in the world – just as our current way of life is. Kenyon T. Palmer, who grew up in and around Oswego during the early years of the 20th century, recalled later in life that he was happy to have had the experiences, but didn’t think the Good Old Days were all they were cracked up to be. In 1971,
he published his autobiography, “For Land’s Sake: The Autobiography of a Dynamic Arizonan,” in which he detailed small town and country life during that era. During the summer, Palmer worked on Roy Hettrick’s Oswego Township farm, shocking oats, hoeing weeds out of the corn, putting up hay, and all the other hard work farmers did back then, most of which is now done by machines. Palmer worked from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., and was not impressed with his closeness to nature. “I was so slow one summer,” Palmer wrote, “that I painfully remember I was still shocking the 100 acres of oats that had been cut and tied into bundles long after Roy had joined the threshing ‘ring’ and was helping his neighbors thresh. It was a hot, lonely job.” He recalled that a strapping 16-year-old Aurora youth (Palmer was only 14) hired lasted just half a morning shocking oats before quitting. Palmer didn’t like hoeing thistles out of the corn, either. Today, farmers, apply herbicides along with fertilizer when they plant, so you rarely see a thistle in a field. But in Palmer’s day, it was either hoe the thistles out by hand or be fined by the township weed commissioner. Palmer recalled that working in 10-foot-high rows of
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FORUM To the Editor: Last week, a group of Aldermen and I traveled to Springfield with the Metro West Council of Government to discuss issues and lobby our state government leaders on legislation that is important to Yorkville. I had meetings with Senate President Cullerton, Senate Republican Leader Christine Radogno, House Majority Leader Currie, House Republican Leader Jim Durkin and several other Senators and Representatives from our area. Some of the topics that were discussed include Home Rule authority for communities that have a population of over 5,000 residents, continuing appropriation authority for local funds, defining the term catastrophic injury in the Public Safety Employee Benefits Act (PSEBA) and reforming the state’s workers’ compensation laws. Of particular interest were the conversations with lawmakers on workers’ compensation laws. The state’s current laws directly affect the ability to attract and retain Yorkville businesses, especially small businesses, by putting an unfair burden on them. When it comes to attracting new jobs, new businesses, and keeping the ones we already have in Yorkville, along with Illinois as a whole, we are losing regionally, nationally, and globally. This has nothing to do with our people and nothing to do with our location. But, it has everything to do with our high costs of doing business. Specifically, one of the key policies that hinders our economic growth is the high rates of workers’ compensation. State and local governments pay nearly $900 million annually. Our neighboring states have decreased the cost of Workers’ Compensation and have effectively began to poach companies from our local communities. According to the 2014 Oregon Workers’ Compensation Premium Rate Ranking Summary, Illinois has the seventh highest workers’
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Continued from page 4 corn was, at best, unpleasant: ‘“If it was hot in the open hay field, it was hotter and more humid surrounded by the verdant corn. That was what farming meant to me. Blazing sun, hard physical labor, long hours, and low pay.” After deciding that farming was not his cup of tea, Palmer went to work at W.J. Morse’s store on Main Street in Oswego. Groceries were the biggest sellers at Morse’s, but the store’s reg-
compensation costs in the country. The rules in Illinois are so broad and the threshold is so low, employers assume risk for injuries that most of us would consider to be outside of the course of work. For example, we punish employers for injuries sustained on a lunch break, or even injuries that originated outside of the workplace. I believe that workers’ compensation is important to protecting employees injured on the job, and that should continue. However, we shouldn’t be holding employers accountable and paying workers’ compensation on injuries that occur outside of a factory, office or workplace. That just isn’t fair policy. That is why I support Gov. Bruce Rauner’s efforts to reform the workers’ compensation system here in Illinois. Reforming our workers’ compensation laws will make Illinois more business friendly and give businesses more money to invest and pay higher wages to their workers. Now is the time for our state legislators to get back to work and create an Illinois that can compete regionally, nationally and globally once again.
To the Editor: Some people have asked why I haven’t written. Simply put, we have cancer in our household and a recent scan showed it spreading. We have become distracted. There is cancer in this country as well. It’s the cancer of apathy, confusion and abusive power. And like cancer in a body, it started so small we can be unaware until suddenly it is out of control. There are some courageous lawmakers trying to get a treatment plan passed before it’s too late. The treatment plan is based on our own Constitution. No one
vance our separation from persecution. It was shed to secure these documents and what they embodied. How can we ignore The Forum page provides our readers this? Today, we aren’t united about much with a weekly opportunity to express of anything. We marginalize groups of their opinions on topics of community people because they disagree with a pointerest. Here are our guidelines: litically rabid group busy constructing its • Letters must be no longer than 500 own set of laws for the rest of us to follow. words. They’ve built a machine more interested in • Letters must be accompanied by the their agenda than the thriving of our genwriter’s full name, address and home phone number. Only the author’s name eral population. Intolerance began small and city of residence will be printed. yet has grown like cancer into an out-of• We reserve the right to edit all control state. Anyone disagreeing is called letters for brevity and fairness, and to phobic. This cancer has been responsible withhold from publication letters that for jailing, fining and penalizing those we determine to be either libelous, obwho dissent. Don’t count on the media to scene, untrue, invade personal privacy, accurately portray these happenings. or are personal attacks. It isn’t just about one political party or an• Elected and appointed public officials who write letters will be other either. Like a cancer that grows out of identified with their titles listed under control, this is an ideology, a politically-cortheir names. Officials who wish to write rect world that will topple US shortly. It letters that are not necessarily repredemands its own way and tolerates nothing sentative of their agency’s view should else. It will not tolerate your “conscience” preface their letters accordingly. or your beliefs. It allows for no rights unless Send letters to letters@kendallthey are their rights, because their rights countynow.com or Record Newsare the “only way.” This forced acceptance papers, 109 W. Veterans Parkway, Yorkville, IL 60560. is the purest form of intolerance, something that would have enraged our founders. It stands against the Constitution. This should talks about that anymore because we’re confused as to its relevancy to our dayenrage us. We can tolerate without accepto-day lives. But we need a Constitution tance of a particular view. “infusion.” Our founders left a state of As we approach elections, listen carepersecution where they were marginalfully to arguments given. For instance, a ized, jailed, fined and taxed. They did not socialist can’t believe in the validity of our “found” a Christian nation; however, they current Constitution. Too much liberty founded one based on Christian princiinvolved. Make yourself aware of a candiples. Even non-Christians thrived here. date’s Constitutional position. We have a Mutual respect was the treatment of the few Patrick Henrys in Congress willing to day. Rights of conscience were critical to put their own necks on the line. They are survival, but other “rights” came down the conservatives by nature. We need more of pike: freedoms we cherish as our current- them because liberals have advanced us ly-under-attack Bill of Rights. into end-stage cancer with little chance of There isn’t much talk about these dochealing. I don’t want to be there. uments because too many people want Cindy Akre their own personal agendas advanced. Plano Everyone wants to benefit the ultimate “me,” instead of us. Blood was shed to ad• Continued on page 6
ular stock included boots and shoes, women’s wear, rock salt by the barrel, kerosene for lamp fuel, and gasoline for both stoves and the growing number of automobiles. Gasoline, stored in barrels, was pumped by hand into five-gallon cans and carried the full length of the store to be poured into waiting autos parked out front. The hardest jobs, Palmer recalled, were carrying 100-pound sacks of potatoes up the cellar steps, handling 100-pound sacks of sugar, and manhandling barrels of salt. “Nobody bought less than a dollar’s
worth of sugar – 12 to 16 lbs. according to the market – and many bought by the 100 lb. sack,” Palmer wrote. “Nor did anyone buy less than a bushel of potatoes. Bread we bought at our house by the half-dozen loaves.” A typical workday at Morse’s store was 6:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. on Saturdays when farmers came to town to trade. Palmer was paid $7 to start for a six-day week. After a year and a half on the job, he was making $11 a week. For most, the Good Old Days are a time we can’t remember very well, but which seems better than what’s
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currently happening. I remember the 1950s as a great time to grow up in my small, Midwestern town, but I was spared the racism, political extremism, and religious bigotry that so many had to cope with during those years. And those “back-to-nature” folks? Most of them are now retired stockbrokers, lawyers, teachers, or other professionals. Reinstalling past values and practices over top of modern life is never as easy as it might seem.
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Madigan’s wishes, why aren’t they after Madigan to explain where all the money magically disappeared when the state had a higher income tax under Quinn? Perhaps they could ask Madigan why the state taxpayers have one of the highest tax burdens in the country and yet has the worst credit rating of any state and the top pension deficit? Then they could ask why, when Quinn said he wasn’t going to pay them until there was The perfect storm Jo and Doug Pierce a balanced budget, they went running Yorkville To the Editor: to the Supreme Court to get that action With the continuing fiscal mess in declared unconstitutional and yet when Lions Club needs your help Illinois it has become obvious that the Rauner got elected they passed a budget To the Editor: media and the Dems want the state to The Yorkville Lions Club needs your help continue on its path to bankruptcy. They that was $4 billion short with no regard for the balanced budget requirement in to rebuild our blood drives to what they call for Rauner to be the bigger man used to be. Heartland Blood Centers have and give in to Madigan. It’s the Madigan the constitution. Then of course it was Rauner’s fault for not coming up with the arranged a great deal for those who join agenda that got the state into the mess money to pay for it. us. It is called Pint for a Pint. You donate it’s in today. Illinois, just like many other states, has a pint of blood and you will receive a cerAs usual there is the call for more a pension problem. In Illinois the problem tificate for a free pint of Baskin-Robbins taxes in the form of raising the income is pensions are so bloated there is no hand-packed ice cream. tax or going to a graduated income tax Come to the Beecher Center at 908 where the rich would pay a higher rate or way out but bankruptcy. The thousands Game Farm Road in Yorkville on Thursday, raising the gas tax etc., etc., etc. Instead of retired public employees getting May 26 from 3 to 7 p.m. Call me at 630of the media calling on Rauner to cave to six-figure pension payments is simply not
sustainable. The Dems and their lust for more taxes as the answer to everything are speaking to a smaller and smaller tax base. Illinois had the highest outflow of taxpayers in the country according to the latest stats and Cook County last year led the country in loss of taxpayers at the county level. It’s the perfect storm, just like Detroit, fewer and fewer taxpayers paying higher and higher taxes until they either get sick of it or simply can’t afford it and move out. Add to this all the businesses that have left or are looking at leaving or not growing because of the tax burden and all Madigan can come up with for the solving the problem is more taxes. If Madigan wants more taxes, why doesn’t he produce a balanced budget that includes all his new taxes. He has a super majority in the House and Senate so he could pass anything he wants. Then he can watch as the exodus from Illinois becomes a stampede. Bob Schwabauer Yorkville
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Boy Scout Troop 34 planning pancake breakfast fundraiser Tickets can be purchased in advance from Troop 34 Boy Scouts, or at the Bristol Boy Scout Troop 34 will host door. its 24th annual pancake breakfast fundBristol Troop 34 is sponsored by the raiser from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday, May Yorkville Moose Lodge. Proceeds from 22, at the Beecher Community Center, this event will be used to support the 908 Game Farm Road in Yorkville. activities of Troop 34. For information, Tickets are $5 a person, or $20 for call Kari at 630-742-8970 or Missy at 630a family. Kids 5 and younger eat free. 553-0712.
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A proposed new grading plan for Yorkville School District 115 drew concerns from some teachers and a parent at Monday’s Board of Education committee meeting. The proposal would limit grades on homework and for classroom behavior and give students more ways and more time to show they have mastered a subject. The 26 teachers and administrators on the district’s Curriculum Coordinating Council (CCC) have been researching and developing the plan over the past two years. If approved by the board, they plan to present it to teachers on an Institute Day on June 8 and have it go into effect when school begins again in August. CCC member Melissa Condon said the idea was to have students focus on “learning vs. earning” grades. It would give them multiple opportunities to demonstrate what they have learned. Derek Miller, another CCC member, said the group researched other districts’ grading plans and what are believed to be best practices. He said they believe that academic performance and skills are separate from academic behaviors and that grades should reflect the mastery of content. Condon said they believe homework should be meaningful and purposeful and – beyond reading outside the classroom – should take no more than 10 minutes per grade level. For example, no more than 50 minutes per day for a fifth-grader. This would include work done outside class, either at school or at home. Homework won’t be graded unless it is part of a larger classroom project. Only quizzes used to measure student mastery will be graded. There would not be comprehensive final exams – only a final assessment that is of similar point value to other assessments during the semester or year. Alison Strandell said any grades re-
lated to behavior, participation or attendance would not be used as part of the achievement grade. If students complete the work assigned, she said, that will probably correlate with mastery of the material. Assessments can be done to guide teacher planning, measure the growth of students receiving an intervention, or as checks to help guide instruction but which are not included as part of a student grade. Summative assessments, which are used to measure if a student has mastered the material, can be projects, portfolios, or labs, as well as tests. Grades in core subjects (math, language arts, etc.) in kindergarten to third grade are now given as M meets expectations, N does not meet, NA not applicable, or I incomplete. In physical education, music and art, grades are reported as M meets, P progressing, N does not meet, or I incomplete. That grading system would be extended through fifth grade in this proposal. The CCC will look at middle school and high school grading systems next year to see if it’s feasible to expand this system, instead of the letter grades A through F as used now. Grades would be communicated to parents as they are now, with as much of the communication as possible through the e-school electronic format. Parents would be notified of missing or late work and teachers would keep the information updated weekly. The committee recommends that extra credit not be offered. In the new plan, students would be allowed to retake or rewrite the assessments or show competency in a different but comparable way. Students and teachers will collaborate to make up learning activities and assessments missed due to absence. Students would have three weeks into the next marking period to complete any summative assessments. While zeroes are discouraged, failure to resolve an incomplete will result in zero after all other efforts have been
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Runners help ‘Push for the Path’ KENDALL COUNTY RECORD More than 200 runners completed the PeppeRuni 5K Push for the Path in Yorkville on Saturday morning. Proceeds from the race will benefit
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Push for the Path, a nonprofit organization working to raise funds help pay for the construction of a 2.72-mile recreational trail planned for installation along Kennedy Road in Yorkville from Route 47 east to an existing trail
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Yorkville School District health insurance costs to fall for the district. There was a 1.4 percent increase in dental insurance premiums and also Health insurance premiums will an increase in the co-pay for pharmacy decrease 2.4 percent for the Yorkville costs for both the HMO and PPO plans. School District in the coming year. School Board members voted April Other business 25 to approve the recommendation • The board approved an amended from the district’s insurance consul- 2015-16 budget. It includes a transfer tant, GCG, to keep the Blue Cross Blue of $1,544,951 from the Operations and Shield health insurance plan. Maintenance Fund to Capital Projects. Human Resources Director Troy That money went toward paying the Courtney said there typically would final $3.5 million for recent construchave been a 10 to 14 percent increase tion of additions and remodeling at in premiums, however, based on the Yorkville High School. most recent 24 months of claims from A public hearing on the amended district employees, Blue Cross Blue budget is scheduled for the June 13 Shield agreed to a 9.3 percent decrease board meeting. •Another hearing at the June 13 for HMO plan premiums and a 9.1 percent increase in PPO plan premiums. meeting will be about a district reThat meant a net 2.4 percent decrease quest to waive the state limit on admin-
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istrative cost increases. School districts in Illinois cannot increase administrative costs from one year to the next by more than five percent. However, school districts with per pupil administrative costs in the lowest quartile – which includes Yorkville – may waive that limit after conducting a public hearing. This year, Yorkville added the new position of director of student services to assume responsibility for special education programming that now will be provided by the district since the Kendall County Special Education Cooperative is being dissolved. That addition put administrative cost increases at more than five percent. • Board members approved a proposed student trip to Spain and France in June 2017, to be led by Yorkville
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YORKVILLE POLICE REPORTS DUI, no insurance Yorkville police arrested Glen R. Bretzing, 28, of the 200 block of North Larch Avenue, Elmhurst, after stopping his vehicle for speeding in the 2000 block of South Bridge Street May 8 at 1:57 a.m. Police said the suspect has been charged with driving under the influence, speeding and driving without insurance.
injured after his vehicle hit a wooden pole on Alice Avenue approximately one-eighth of a mile west of Cannonball Trail May 3 at 11:45 a.m. Police said Glover was transported to Rush-Copley Medical Center in Aurora. Glover was cited for improper lane usage in the crash, according to police.
Warrant, cannabis charges Yorkville police arrested Austin G. DUI arrest Oidtman, 20, of the 3000 block of Yorkville police arrested Heather Lee Kenilworth Lane, Montgomery, while Watts, 42, of the 200 block of Main investigating an incident in the 1000 Street, Neshkoro, Wisconsin, May 6 at block of Canyon Trail Court May 5 12:16 a.m. after stopping her vehicle at 1:07 a.m. Police said the suspect on Route 47 near Landmark Avenue. wanted on warrant and charged with Police said Watts has been charged obstructing identification for providing with driving under the influence and no a false name to officers and unlawful valid registration. possession of cannabis, less than 2.5 grams. Medical products stolen An unknown male subject stole Warrant arrest approximately $1,314.49 in medical Yorkville police arrested Jordan Mcproducts from a supermarket in the Dowell, 24, of the 100 block of Harbor 200 block of East Veterans Parkway Drive, Oswego, after they stopped the in Yorkville May 5 at 6:43 p.m., police vehicle he was a passenger in on Route reported. Police said the offender fled 126 at Mill Street May 4 at 10:10 a.m. the store on foot. Police said McDowell was on a Kendall County Sheriff’s Office warrant. Boulder Hill man hurt Yorkville police said a Boulder Hill License violation resident, Shane M. Glover, 24, of the Yorkville police arrested Phillip Bel0-100 block of Long Beach Road, was lah, 37, of the 3000 block of Hoffman
Street, Plano, after they stopped the vehicle he was driving on Route 34 at Isabel Drive May 4 at 11:04 a.m. Police said the suspect has been charged with driving on a suspended license. Motorist cited in crash Yorkville police ticketed Lisa Casbarian 51, of the 3000 block of Manchester Drive, Montgomery, with failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident after the vehicle she was driving struck another vehicle in the rear in the northbound lane of Route 47 at Baseline Road May 4 at 4:27 p.m. Police said no one was hurt in the crash. Traffic violations • Jennifer Ashfield, 39, of the 500 block of South Johnson Avenue, Sheridan, driving while license suspended. • Elva Esparza, 24, of the 700 block of Second Avenue, Aurora, driving while license suspended. • Arties L. Titus, 49, of the 200 block of Mill Road, Joliet, driving while license suspended and operating an uninsured motor vehicle. • Sergio A. Figueroa, 20, of the 400 block of Seminary Avenue, Aurora, driving while license suspended, operating an uninsured motor vehicle and driving without tail lights.
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Bogus text message An Oswego Township resident told sheriff’s police she received a fraudulent text message informing her that her bank credit/debit card had been locked. Upon calling the number provided in the text, police said the victim provided an automated telephone message with her personal information. Later the victim contacted her bank and was informed that the text message she had received had not been generated by the bank.
Resisting among charges County sheriff’s deputies arrested Ethan Clifford Carver, 26, of the 10th block of Amy Drive, Oswego, at his residence May 6 at 4:40 a.m. Police said Carver faces charges of domestic battery, resisting arrest and was wanted on an outstanding warrant.
Passenger charged County sheriff’s deputies arrested Caleb Stephen Lauer, 27, of the 200 block of North Orange Street, Orange, California, on a charge of unlawful possession of drug equipment after the vehicle he was a passenger in was involved in an accident on Route 71 and Hilltop Road at 12:56 p.m. May 9. Plano man injured, charged County sheriff’s deputies arrested Silvano Lopez, 25, of the 500 block of West Steward Street, Plano, after he crashed his vehicle on Galena Road west of Clark Road at 5:52 p.m. May 8 Police said Lopez’s vehicle left the road, struck a ditch, went airborne and rolled several times. Lopez was injured in the crash and taken to Rush-Copley Medical Center in Aurora. Police said Lopez has been charged with driving under the influence and was cited for improper lane usage, failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident, failure to wear a seat belt and illegal transportation of alcohol. Motorist arrested County sheriff’s deputies arrested Cesar Baca, 29, of the 3000 bock of Courtney Street, Plano, after stopping his vehicle for a traffic violation on Route 34 at Eldamain Road at 12:10 p.m. May 7. Police said Baca was
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Domestic arrest Sheriff’s deputies arrested Mayra Alejandra Delgado, 31, of the 0-40th block of Saugatuck Road, Boulder Hill, at her residence May 8 at 5:11 p.m. on a charge of domestic battery. Police said Delgado was also wanted on a warrant on a prior charge of domestic battery stemming from a previous incident.
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One hurt, one ticketed An Aurora resident, Armando Espino, 50, of the 700 block of County Line Road, was injured in a two-vehicle crash on Route 71 at Hilltop Road at 12:56 p.m. May 9, according to county sheriff’s reports. Police said Espino’s vehicle struck another vehicle driven by Lauren Michele Lundquist, 25, of the 2700 block of Ridgeline Drive, Corona, California. Police ticketed Lundquist for failing to yield turning left.
Warrant arrest County sheriff’s deputies arrested Daniel Gonzalez, 26, of the 500 block of Lake Street, Aurora, at 10:57 p.m. May 7 at a gas station-convenience store while conducting a business check. Police said Gonzalez was found to be wanted on a Kane County warrant for contempt of court. He was taken into custody and transported to the Kendall County Jail.
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Warrant arrest Sheriff’s deputies arrested Whitney Lee Bywater, 26, of the 1800 block of Lilac Lane, Aurora, after they stopped her vehicle for an equipment violation May 8 at 3:59 a.m. on Route 31 and Light Road. Police said Bywater was found to be wanted on a warrant and was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia and cannabis. Theft by credit card A resident of Bristol told county sheriff’s deputies May 4 that he had discovered an unknown person was using his credit/debit card in Canada. Police said they are investigating. Boulder Hill man hurt A Boulder Hill resident, Edwardo Jesus Perez, 18, of the 100 block of Boulder Hill Pass, received non-life-threatening injuries in a three-vehicle crash on Ridge Road at Holt Road in Seward Township at 9:48 p.m. May 5, sheriff’s deputies reported. Police said the crash occurred when Perez, who was traveling southbound on Ridge Road, struck the rear of a vehicle stopped in traffic. Perez’s vehicle then traveled into the northbound lane of Ridge Road and struck a second vehicle head on. Police said the drivers of the other vehicles were not hurt. • Continued on page 16
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DUI among charges County sheriff’s deputies arrested Joseph George Gomoll, 40, of the 10000 block of Lisbon Road, Yorkville, after the vehicle he was driving on Lisbon Road at Highpoint Road at 9:15 p.m. May 6 left the roadway and rolled over several times. Police said Gomoll has been charged with driving under the influence and was cited for failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident, improper lane usage, disobeying a traffic control device, unsafe equipment, operating an uninsured motor vehicle and failure to report an accident to police authority.
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Police Department and Great Lakes Regional Fugitive Task Force all worked together to locate McCullah. McCullah had been a fugitive in Kendall County since March 2016.
Minooka, in the 17000 block of Ridge Road in Seward Township at 7:11 a.m. May 5 on a DuPage County warrant for retail theft.
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Traffic citations • Kelsie Jean Carrigan, 30, of the 0-100 Fleeing, eluding arrest block of Primrose Lane, Oswego, driving on a County sheriff’s deputies arrested Kelly suspended license and no insurance. Burglary investigated Renee McCutcheon, 22, of the 3000 block of • Arties L. Titus, 49, of the 200 block of Mill County sheriff’s deputies are investigating Evans Court, Yorkville, at her residence May 5 Road, Joliet, failure to provide information and the burglary of two vehicles parked at a resi- at 2:31 a.m. Police said they initiated a traffic leaving the scene of a traffic crash without dence in the 300 block of Boulder Hill Pass in stop for a speeding violation on a vehicle notifying police. Boulder Hill on May 2. driven by McCutcheon in the area of Mill Road • Alexander Michael Herr, 21, of the 100 Warrant arrest and Tuscany Trail in Oswego Township. Police block of Eisenhower Drive, Oswego, driving on County sheriff’s deputies arrested a juvenile Respond to domestic said McCutcheon’s vehicle then accelerated, a suspended license. after stopping his vehicle for having no County sheriff’s deputies responded to a trying to elude deputies. Police said they • Remond Lee Hollis, 38, of the 400 block of license plate light at Sonora Road and Long domestic battery incident at residence in the apprehended McCutcheon after she had Gregory Lane, Plano, driving on a suspended Beach Road in Boulder Hill at 12:28 a.m. May 0-200 block of Boulder Hill Pass in Boulpulled into her residence and attempted to license and improper lane usage. 6. Police said the juvenile was found to be der Hill at 11:06 p.m. May 3. Police said no run into her house. Police said the incident is • Devontae O’Keefe Robb-Turner, 22, of wanted on an outstanding warrant. charges were filed. still under investigation. the 10-20 block of Greenbriar Road, Boulder Hill, driving on a suspended license, operatFugitive apprehended Harvey Road burglary Trespass complaint ing an uninsured motor vehicle and expired One of Kendall County’s most wanted Landscaping equipment valued at approxA representative for the Fox Metro Water registration. fugitives, Patrick McCullah, was apprehendimately $6,000 was stolen from several Reclamation District signed a complaint for • Camisha L. Gardner, 44, of the 300 block ed April 29 in Chicago by the Great Lakes maintenance trailers parked at a business in criminal trespass to a motor vehicle May 7 of Grapevine Trail, Oswego, improper lane usRegional Fugitive Task Force. the 900 block of Harvey Road in Oswego on against Matthew L. Leedy, 23, of the 11000 age, no insurance and driving on a suspended McCullah, a 34-year-old Montgomery resiMay 5, sheriff’s police reported. block of Route 71, Yorkville, according to the license. dent, was wanted on a Kendall County warcounty sheriff’s office. • Derrick Dion JR Anderson, 24, of the 700 rant. The warrant was issued by the Aurora Police said Leedy entered a vehicle owned block of Honeysuckle Lane, Aurora, driving on Police Department following the investigation Warrant arrest County sheriff’s deputies arrested Guillermo by Fox Metro on Brisbin Road in Kendall a suspended license, operating an uninsured of an aggravated battery incident. Aguilara, 33, of the 2200 block of Holt Road, Township in an effort to move it to get farm motor vehicle and having no front registration. The Kendall County Sheriff’s Office, Aurora Have footage of hit, run County sheriff’s deputies have obtained surveillance video and are continuing their investigation of a hit-and-run accident that occurred at a gas station in the 17000 block of Ridge Road near Minooka at 6:55 a.m. May 5.
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Atlas Xtreme Team Grappling Club recently hosted world renowned martial arts instructor Roy Dean. This is AXT’s second annual seminar event with Dean, in which he instructed attendees in the art of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. The event pulled in local and other Chicago-area students, as well as, participants from all over the country including Minnesota, Oklahoma, Mississippi and Arizona. With over 30 participants this
year, the event was sold out. XT head coach Chris Mikuta said, “This year surpassed our expectations. We had so many people sign up from outside the area. Plus, several individuals from outside the BJJ community attended as well. It was nice to get to meet new people and make some friends out of the experience. We can’t wait until next years event.� Anyone interested in trying out a class, or to sign up for membership, please call 630-917-0070 or send a message via the club website at www.atlasxtremeteam.com.
Jack Clausel, one of the best boys basketball players in Newark history, recently made his decision on where he wants to play in college. Clausel, a four-year varsity starter who departs Newark as the fifth all-time leading scorer, will continue playing at North Central College. He had recently nar- Jack Clausel rowed his choices down between playing for the Cardinals and Millikin University. “It was really hard [to make the final decision]. I visited both places a bunch of times, and I finally just made the decision to go to North Central. It was hard, but in the end, I’m really excited to be at North Central next fall.� Clausel was a big fan head coach Todd Raridon and assistant Mitch Raridon. In the 2015-16 season, the Cardinals finished 19-8 overall and 12-2 in the College Conference of Illinois and
Wisconsin. “I really liked the coaching staff. I got along with everyone really well,� Clausel said. “I think the team is going to be really good in the next couple of years.� “This is a good choice for Jack,� Newark head coach Rick Tollefson said. “CCIW is a good conference, with really good Division-III players and programs, good fan base, good rivals. I think he’ll enjoy that a lot.� Clausel, a 6-foot-7 forward/center, averaged 14.5 points per game as a freshman for the Norsemen, 17.2 ppg as a sophomore and 13.9 ppg in his junior year, which was shortened due to an injury. It was then he eclipsed the 1,000 point mark. He finished with 1,573 career points and 674 rebounds. In Clausel’s senior year, he averaged 15.8 points per game, as the Norsemen finished the season at 28-3. “It was a real pleasure having Jack for four years,� Tollefson said. “A lot of fun. Good memories. Just a hard-working kid. Even when he got hurt his junior year, he had a great attitude. I’m going to miss him.�
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Foxes win share of NIB12 title By KRISTIN SHARP ksharp@kendallcountynow.com Late into last Friday’s Northern Illinois Big 12 Conference meet in Sycamore, the Yorkville coaching staff wasn’t sure if they would have enough to catch Kaneland in the team standings. In the end, the Foxes did not have enough to overtake the Knights, but instead finished in a tie at 129 points to share the NIB12 championship – the third consecutive for the Yorkville program. DeKalb finished third with 114 points and Geneseo was a distant fourth with 51 points. “We knew it would be really, really close. It was just a matter of who had people step up and who didn’t,” Yorkville coach Ben Draper said. “Kaneland had a couple events where they really came through and events where they faltered. We had people step up, and events where we faltered. It shook out about how we expected.” Yorkville had multiple conference champions. Sydney Anderson cleared 5-6 to tie the school record and win the high jump ahead of DeKalb’s Jasmine Kemp (5-4). She also won the triple jump with a mark of 36-1¾ to set a new school record. She finished in a tie with Kemp in the event, and won the jump off to add 10 more points to the Foxes’ team total. “We’re really happy; she stepped up really big for us and scored a lot of points,” Draper said. “In high jump, she had been beaten by a girl from DeKalb two straight times. On [Kemp’s] last jump, she tied her with the same mark, so it went to a tiebreaker and Sydney had to jump one more time. She had already checked in for the 400 and had to jump 35 feet to break the tie and came in with 35-1.”
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Yorkville’s Sydney Anderson clears the high jump bar at 5 feet, 6 inches to win the event during the girls Northern Illinois Big 12 Conference meet. Louisa Washburn cleared 11-7 to win the pole vault by a foot. Nicole Greyer won the 1,600 with a time of 5:12.88 and Summer Pierson won the 3,200 in 11:18.24. All-Conference was awarded to the top five finishers in each event. Maddie Dearborn was the runner-up in the 3,200 (11:33). Mischara Palmer was fourth in the 200-meter dash (26.88) and Emily Eberhart was fifth in the 800 (2:27.51). Alexis Grandys was fifth in the 1,600 (5:32). Alainna Batres was third in the 100-meter hurdles (16.32) and Washburn was second in the 300-meter hurdles (46.86) while Becca Jasutis was fifth (48.35). Baylee Konen was fourth in the triple jump (32-6). Jade Volkart
took a second-place finish in the shot put (34-10½). Yorkville will now enter the Class 3A Ottawa Sectional on Thursday. Boys Track: The Yorkville boys scored 111.5 points to place third at DeKalb’s Tim Holt Invite last Friday behind DeKalb (159) and Moline (123). Gabe Arroyo won the 400 (54.40) and Trevor Wills won the 1,600 (4:32.11). Alexx Nauman took second in the 3,200 (10:00.11) while Peyton Frankenreider was second in the 110 hurdles (16.02) and fourth in the 300 hurdles (42.13). Yorkville also won the 4x800 in 8:26. Sterling will host the NIB12 Conference meet on Friday.
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With the Northern Illinois Big 12 Conference series tied, Yorkville won the decisive game against visiting Morris, 7-6, to take the series last Thursday. With the score tied in the bottom of the seventh inning, Travis Voelker hit a walk-off single to right field that allowed Michael Wojcik to score the winning run against the Redskins. Will Ferguson (two hits, two RBIs) and Brady Kauppila (two hits) also contributed to the win, and Jeffrey Freiberg was the winning pitcher in relief for Yorkville, which was 14-12 overall and 4-6 in the conference entering games this week against Kaneland and Andrew. “It was a playoff-like atmosphere, a very backand-forth type of game,” Yorkville coach Scott Luken said. “I’m pleased with how our guys didn’t fold or get rattled. It was nice to see things go so well for the guys. They came through in the clutch.” After Morris, however, Yorkville dropped two games to Oswego (12-5 last Friday) and Kaneland (13-0 in six innings on Monday). Against Oswego, the Panthers out-hit Yorkville 17-10. The Foxes were led by Ty Liaromatis (two hits, two RBIs), Mark Sommers (triple, two steals) and Cameron Van Boekel (double). “[Oswego’s] guys swung the bats, so they really responded. They made the plays,” Luken said. “This game became more about our guys getting opportunities.” Against Kaneland, pitcher Matt O’Sullivan allowed Yorkville just one hit. He struck out 10 batters. The Foxes also made five errors. The Knights posted 13 hits and scored twice in the first, six in the third, once in the fifth and four times in the sixth. “Their pitcher probably pitched one of his best outings of the year,” Luken said. “It was miserable outside, but you can’t use that as an excuse. I hope we play better next time.”
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Foxes top Rochelle to snap nine-game losing streak By CHRISTINE BOLIN DASCHER cbolin@kendallcountynow.com The Yorkville softball team snapped a nine-game losing streak with a big 11-1 win in five innings over Rochelle last Friday. The Foxes are 9-15 overall and 3-7 in the Northern Illinois Big 12 Conference with games against Morris and LaSalle-Peru this week. “I think it was nice to get a win. Hopefully, it will give us a spark going into the last couple weeks of regular season play,” Yorkville coach Jory
Regnier said. “If our hitting comes back alive like it was at the beginning of the season, we could make a good run to finish our season out. Our girls know it’s not how we start, it’s how we end.” Against Rochelle, the Foxes scored four runs in the first, three in the second and twice in both the fourth and fifth innings. They had eight hits and no errors and were led by Bekah Hahn and Ally Martin, who each had two hits. Allyson Johnson was the winning pitcher with six strikeouts. “They key to the Rochelle game was
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and this was just one game where our defense fell apart,” Regnier said. “We out-hit Sycamore, but gave them too many opportunities to come up to the plate by giving them extra outs as a result of errors.” Against DeKalb, Barbs’ pitcher Morgan Newport kept the Foxes hitless through 6 1⁄3 innings. “This was an extremely well-played defensive game by both teams,” Regnier said. “Morgan Newport is an excellent pitcher, and our hitters struggled to get the key hit when we had runners on.”
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Although her father, Don Duffy, was the Yorkville cross country and track coach while she was a student, Kerry (Duffy) Stillmunkes only ran one season of cross country. “Running was just always my form of exercise,” Stillmunkes said. “When I was in high school, my dad was the cross country coach and helped coach track. But miles were always intimidating.” On April 18, the Yorkville resident completed her first Boston Marathon with a time of 4 hours, 4 minutes and 14 seconds – good enough for an average pace of 9:19 per mile through the 26.2mile course. “You spend so much time preparing for it, and then it’s over so quickly,” Stillmunkes said. “The hardest part has been the last couple weeks trying to get back into your normal routine. You have to give your body time to recover. My normal outlet of running hasn’t really been available to me.” This was her fifth marathon, qualifying for Boston with her finish in the 2014 Chicago Marathon. Her 2015 Chicago finish this past fall has already qualified Stillmunkes to run in the 2017 Boston Marathon – if she decides to give it an-
other try. (The Chicago Marathon’s October date misses the qualifying deadline for the Boston race six months later, becoming a qualifier for the race 18 months ahead of time.) “It’s the hardest thing I’ve ever done. I enjoyed Boston so much more after I ran,” Stillmunkes said. “I definitely understand why you have to qualify to be there because it was so much more challenging. You start later in the day – I think I finally started around 11 a.m. – and the course itself is rolling hills. It’s really hard to find that kind of training here.” Stillmunkes, who was a member of Yorkville’s 1992 state championship 4x800-meter relay team, went back to her alma mater and asked to borrow a Yorkville jersey to represent her hometown as well as one of the top running programs in the Midwest to wear during her race last month. “I love the running program at Yorkville. They’ve really turned that program into something – they’ve just had so much success,” Stillmunkes said. “It was neat to be able to wear that jersey while I was there.” “I thought it would be really cool to represent my hometown where it all kind of started, at the Boston Marathon. It’s a huge honor to be able to go, and it’s a milestone in a marathon runner’s life.”
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SPORTS BOYS TENNIS
Finding a silver lining Foxes win twice in singles play, but fall 5-2 to Panthers
By CHRISTINE BOLIN DASCHER cbolin@kendallcountynow.com The one big positive from the Yorkville boys tennis team’s 5-2 loss to Oswego on Monday is No. 2 singles player Josh Tatum remains undefeated at 17-0. Tatum topped his opponent from Oswego, 8-1. The match was shortened due to the rainy weather. “[Tatum has] gotten stronger since the beginning of the year,” Yorkville coach Frank Yabsley said. “His backhand is improving, he’s very consistent and has been really competitive for us. He’s on a mission to remain undefeated.” Eric Naumann at No. 1 singles was Yorkville’s other winner. He topped his opponent from Oswego, 8-4, and improved to 9-9 this season. “He’s improving and getting better and better,” Yabsley said of Naumann. “He’s getting steadier and more confident playing all these very good players at No. 1 singles.” The Panthers swept all four of the doubles matches and improved to 9-5 overall heading into the Southwest Prairie Conference meet. “It was good to get a nice win like this,” Oswego coach Ryan Parr said. “This was a positive thing for us, especially because the last two weekend tournament [Oswego’s Panther Invite and Lockport’s Invite] were rained out and we lost a close one to Minooka [4-3 on May 3].” After duals against Plainfield Central and Plainfleld North, the Foxes will be a part of the Northern Illinois Big 12 Conference meet on Saturday. Geneseo is hosting but it will take place at Rochelle. The Foxes are currently 2-5 in duals in conference action (7-7 overall). “We are hoping to improve our current position and improve on how we’ve been playing,” Yabsley said of going into the conference meet. Notes: Prior to the dual with Oswego, Yorkville won the dual with Plainfield South, 6-1. Winners for the Foxes included Naumann (6-0, 6-0), Tatum (6-0, 6-0), the No. 1 doubles team of Alex Burks/ Zach Miesuk (6-0, 6-0), No. 2 doubles Ethan Piszczek/Clay Elleby (6-1, 6-1), No. 3 doubles Chase Aulis/Rey Castro (6-1, 6-1) and No. 4 doubles Spencer Snider/Antonio Bolanos (6-1, 6-1).
Photos by Eric Miller - emiller@shawmedia.com
ABOVE: Yorkville’s Eric Naumann returns the ball No. 1 singles on Monday against Oswego. BELOW, LEFT: Yorkville’s Clay Elleby hits a serve at No. 2 doubles against Oswego on Monday. BELOW, RIGHT: Yorkville’s Josh Tatum improved to 17-0 at No. 2 singles after his win against Oswego on Monday.
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