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WSHERALD NEMORRISTHURSDAY December 3 , 2015 • $1 .00
MorrisHerald-News.com @MorrisHeraldYOUR NEW MORRIS DAILY HERALD
MODERN MADRIGALSTraditional Morris performances receive contemporary flair / 3
LOCAL NEWS
Holiday auctionOperation St. Nick starts Sunday morning / 4
Liquor licensesGrundy committee OKs five applications / 2
LOCAL NEWS
Lifelike exhibitMorris church reopens living Nativity scene / 6
LOCAL NEWS
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ON THE COVERMorris Community High School Madrigals rehearse Tuesday for the annual Madrigal Dinner on Friday and Saturday. See story on page 3 Photo by Mike Mallory – [email protected]
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COAL CITY – The Coal City Public Library District is the only Illinois stop that author Jan Brett will make on her 2015 tour to promote her new book, “The Turnip.”
The event came about when Danielle Diamond, head of the teen department, entered a contest where she had to answer many detailed essay questions to win a free visit from Brett, according to a news release from the li-brary. Brett’s other books in-clude “The Mitten” and “Gin-gerbread Baby.”
The event is scheduled for Dec. 5 at the Coal City High School auditorium.
Doors will open at 4 p.m. and Brett will do a drawing illustration and presentation at 5 p.m.
After the presentation, a book signing will take place.
The event is free, but ev-eryone attending is required to have a ticket.
Tickets may be reserved
over the phone and picked up at the Coal City Public Li-brary or the evening of the event.
Call the Coal City Public Library at 815-634-4552, ext. 112 or ext. 116, for information or to order tickets.
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Jan Brett’s tour bus will be parked at the Coal City High School parking lot beginning at 4 p.m. Dec. 5.
Grundy legislative committee reviews liquor licensesBy HEIDI LITCHFIELD
MORRIS – Grundy Coun-ty’s liquor commissioner asked to get more information from several Grundy County businesses that serve alco-hol. The Grundy County Leg-islative Committee accepted annual liquor license appli-cations Tuesday night and ap-proved five of the 10 pending applications.
“As we reviewed infor-mation in committee there were questions on some of the paperwork,” David Welter, board chairman and county liquor commissioner, said Wednesday. “The commit-tee approved allowing me to grant the licenses once the in-formation is gathered.”
A resident of Goose Lake who was at the meeting rep-resenting Goose Lake Associ-ation called into question the license for Gippers II, located on Pine Bluff Road in Grun-dy County, during the public speaking portion of the meet-ing.
The county liquor license requires owners or bar man-agers of an establishment sell-ing liquor in Grundy County to be a resident of the coun-ty. The resident questioned whether Gippers II met that requirement.
Pryor said they have checked with neighboring counties and municipalities within Grundy County and the requirement for the own-er or manager to live in the governing body of where the
license is drawn from is stan-dard.
Welter said the county fol-lows the ordinance, and an in-quiry will be made to ensure the business meets liquor li-cense requirements.
“We have to follow the or-dinance. Either the owner or manager has to live here,” Welter said. “It is my inten-tion to enforce the policy.”
Liquor license approval was made for Honest Abe’s, Morris American Legion, who sells alcohol at the Grun-dy County Speedway, Spar-row Development and Moose Lodge.
The committee has asked for further information from Nettle Creek Country Club, EJ Karz, Gippers II, Indian Creek Ranch and the Morris
Country Club. Welter said he anticipates
getting the information and approving the licenses. Li-quor license applications are done each December by the county.
The committee also sent an ordinance to the full board to be voted on at the December regular board meeting to al-low bars to serve until 2 a.m. on New Year’s Eve regardless of what night of the week it is. Currently, bars can serve until 1 a.m. Sunday through Thursday and 2 a.m. Friday and Saturday.
The ordinance will allow an extra hour if New Year’s Eve falls on Sunday through Thursday, but will not change the time if it falls on Friday or Saturday.
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By MIKE MALLORY [email protected]
MORRIS – The Morris Com-munity High School Madri-gal Singers have been in the Christmas spirit since August.
That’s when the singers started practicing for this year’s Madrigal Dinner, which will take place at 6 p.m. Friday and Saturday in the school’s cafeteria, or what is known for the dinner durations as “The Grande Hall.”
Although Christmas music might not be playing every-where yet, seniors Abby Ben-son and Aubrey Thomson and sophomore Collin Severson ar-en’t tired of the songs they’ve been singing for the past few months.
“I love them, they’re Christ-mas songs,” Benson said. “They lift our spirits and make us happy.”
During rehearsals this week, most singers didn’t need a lyric sheet. The few who did hold them while singing were just using them as a precau-tion.
What’s more difficult than remembering the words to songs in the show, the three said, is to remember when to deliver their lines. A little more than half the show is sung, while the rest is acted, they said.
“It’s hard to remember where your line comes up,” Benson said. “For example, mine is after an applause. I have to make sure the timing is right so the audience hears me.”
The plot of the show, which changes from year to year, in-volves three suitors who fight for the hand of a princess. While it features both a tra-ditional plot and traditional music, the cast has peppered in modern pop culture refer-ences.
Thomson plays Lady Fe-licity, who is named after the “Bye, Felicia” meme phenom-
enon that grew from a line in the 2015 film “Straight Outta Compton.”
Benson plays Lady Gwe-nolyn, without a “d,” while
Morris Community High School Madrigal Dinner set for Friday, Saturday
Photos by Mike Mallory – [email protected]
ABOVE: Morris Community High School choir director Benjamin Brown leads the Madrigal Singers through Christmas songs Tuesday as they prepare for the Madrigal Dinner scheduled for Friday and Saturday. BELOW: Madrigal Singers from Morris Community High School rehearse Tuesday for the school’s annual Madrigal Dinner.
Songs of heart and holiday
See MADRIGALS, page 7
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n WHAT: Morris Community High School Madrigal Dinnern WHEN: 6 p.m. Friday and Saturdayn WHERE: Morris Community High School cafeteria, 1000 Union St., Morrisn COST: $15, includes dinner and show
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Morris’ Operation St. Nick auction set for SundayBy MIKE MALLORY
MORRIS – Operation St. Nick has given to those in need with its many programs for more than three decades, but it’s operating with a new motto.
“God gave us two hands – one to receive our blessings with, and the other to turn around and give blessings to those in need,” Operation St. Nick founder Joe Schmitz said.
Operation St. Nick is a non-profit that helps Grundy Coun-ty families in need throughout the year with programs for Christmas, back to school, vet-erans and more. From 8 a.m. to noon Sunday, the 33rd annual Operation St. Nick Auction will be broadcast live on WCSJ-AM 1550 and WCSJ-FM 103.1. The auction has raised about $120,000 annually in the past two years, Schmitz said.
For the first time, more than half the items up for bid in this year’s Operation St. Nick Auc-tion are not sports related, as
the organization continues to diversify its offerings to cover a broader range of interests.
A guitar made by Morris Community High School in-dustrial arts students and signed by Jimmy Stafford – a Morris native and guitarist of rock band Train – is one of the marquee items in this year’s auction.
“It’s something we could probably put on the Internet to sell and who knows what we’d get for it,” Schmitz said. “But Stafford wanted someone from Morris to have it and so do we.”
Other non-sports items in-
clude a trip to the American Girl Place in downtown Chi-cago with limousine service, a diamond white gold ring, and various works of art.
“We try to come up with some unique items each year to spark the interest,” Schmitz
said.For the sports fans, there
are many attractive items available in the auction, such
as a signed and framed Chicago Blackhawks Jonathan Toews jersey, embroidered as one of only 15 in the “Decade of Domi-nance” set commemorating the Blackhawks’ three Stanley Cup Championships in the last six seasons.
The hourly auction items are a Morris Country Club “social golf” 2016 membership, a Bill Buckner autographed framed jersey, a four-ticket package with limo service to a Blackhawks game, and an orig-inal Wrigley Field wooden seat that was removed in the 1980s.
The auction allows Opera-tion St. Nick to fund its many programs.
Next week, the process of gathering gifts starts for the 12 Days of Christmas Giving pro-gram, which helps fill Christ-mas lists for military veterans who have been honorably dis-charged and their families.
Mike Mallory – [email protected]
A signed, limited edition Chicago Blackhawks Jonathan Toews “De-cade of Dominance” jersey and a signed Eddie Olczyk jersey are just two of the items in the 33rd annual Operation St. Nick Auction, which will take place Sunday.
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n WHAT: 33rd annual Operation St. Nick Auctionn WHEN: 8 a.m. to noon Sundayn WHERE: Live broadcast on WCSJ-AM 1550 and WCSJ-FM 103.1 with call-inn COST: Varies – proceeds fund Operation St. Nick programs
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MORRIS – Members of the First Presbyterian Church in Morris want the public to par-ticipate in their living Nativi-ty scene by joining them Sun-day as actors and live animals re-create the night Jesus was born.
“It’s a unique way to present the story of the birth of Christ,” the Rev. Jeri Baker said. “It allows them to participate in the story and watch it as it un-folds.”
Baker once called it a live nativity scene, but now has dubbed the event a “living Na-tivity scene” to stress the im-portance of becoming part of the story.
She said having live actors and animals brings the typical Nativity scene from a picture to
a living, breathing stage. The shepherds will bring
forth sheep and goats and the wise men will be carried in on horses coming around the side of the church to join Joseph and Mary at the stable.
Rose Grossi, a member of the church, said she thinks it’s im-
portant to get the story to peo-ple early in December so that as they go forth into the Christmas season they remember the sto-ry that started it all.
“It’s more memorable when you see it life size and moving in front of you,” Grossi said. “It brings people back to the basics,
it reinforces our beliefs and sets your mind for Christmas.”
Baker said it takes church outside of the four walls and into the community that mem-bers live in. There will be three performances Sunday, each lasting about 15 minutes.
Last year, Baker said, people
drove by and saw the perfor-mance and several stopped to see what was going on and join in. She hopes the same thing will happen this year.
Morris church to bring Nativity to life
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Members of First Presbyterian Church in Morris will perform a living Nativity again this year on Sunday.
First Presbyterian Church of Morris to present living Nativity scene
If you go
n WHAT: First Presbyterian Church living Nativity scenen WHEN: 5, 5:20 and 5:45 p.m. Sundayn WHERE: First Presbyterian Church, 200 E. Jackson St., Morrisn INFO: Call 815-942-1871. Hot cocoa and cookies will be served.n COST: Free and open to the public.
“It’s more memorable when you see it life size and moving in front of
you. It brings people back to the basics, it reinforc-es our beliefs and sets
your mind for Christmas.”
Rose GrossiFirst Presbyterian Church member
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Minooka to host Madrigal Dinners
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MINOOKA – The 19th annu-al Madrigal Dinner at Minooka Community High School will take place at 6:30 p.m. Dec. 12 and 1 p.m. Dec. 13 in the Great Hall at Minooka Community High School – Central Campus.
The hosts are the King and Queen, played by Christian Jackson and Lizzy Murray, and they join the rest of the the MCHS Varsity Madrigal Sing-ers under the direction of Sir Randy Benware, the JV Mad-rigal Singers under the direc-tion of Dame Janis Tischer, the Court Players under the tute-lage of Sir Anthony Babich and the Madrigal Brass under the direction of Sir Tyler White, in seeking the presence of the com-munity at the Great English Castle of Deep Manor.
The feast includes wassail, ribs and chicken, oven roasted potatoes, steamed vegetables,
salad, rolls, scrumptious des-sert or even the glu vegetarian, gluten free or kid’s meal option.
The gates open a half hour before the festivities begin. Guests are advised to arrive early so they can be seated be-fore the royal procession be-gins. Renaissance attire is wel-comed but not required.
Visit www.mchschoir.org for information. For questions about the dinner or to inquire about reservations, call MCHS at 815-467-2140, ext. 279, no later than Monday. To order reser-vations, print one out from the MCHS Choir website, contact a Madrigal singer or go on the MCHS Web Store to make your payment and choice by Tues-day.
Cost is $24 for adults, $18 for seniors 65 and older, $18 for stu-dents 13 to 21 or children who would like to eat a full meal, and $13 for children ages 12 and younger.
Morris singers excited to work with new choir director• MADRIGALSContinued from page 3
Severson said his character has too small a role to get a name.
“But I do have a wife, though,” he said. “[I’m] the only one in the show, besides the king, to have a wife.”
Benson and Thomson, who sang for years under former choir director Alyssa Napoli-tano, said they enjoy the adjust-ing to new choir director Ben-jamin Brown.
“I encourage students to make suggestions or try com-ing up with jokes to keep the show interesting,” Brown said. “The jesters and knights have helped out quite a bit with that.”
Even with an extensive per-forming arts background, this is Brown’s first time doing a Madrigal Dinner. He said the process has gone relatively smoothly.
“It’s very important to be upbeat,” Benson said. “It can
get overwhelming because of conflicting schedules within the group. With a good director who has high spirits, it keeps our spirits up so that we have fun each day.”
Brown said he tries to keep rehearsals fun. Over the course of two months, anything can get repetitive, he said, so he tries to hit upon different parts of the show in each rehearsal.
“The key with rehearsing is to help the students keep some-thing called the ‘illusion of the first time,’” he said. “If students are over-rehearsed when the audience shows up, they have a tendency of flipping into au-topilot and just going through the motions. If you can keep the show fresh and exciting in their minds, then shows tend to be better for audiences.”
Seating for each show, one on Friday and one on Saturday, begins at 6 p.m. both days. Tick-ets, which are $15 and include the catered dinner, are limited and will be sold at the door on a first-come, first-served basis.
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MORRIS – Area residents are invited to attend a semi-nar this month to learn how to straighten out the twists and turns in trucking rules applying to farmers.
Federal truck regulations affect virtually all operating farmers in Illinois. As “farm vehicle drivers,” many farm-ers enjoy exemptions.
However, new exemptions from the Federal Motor Car-riers Safety Regulations were made effective in November 2013, with Illinois legislation bringing additional changes in 2014 and 2015 for those op-erating a “covered farm ve-hicle.”
Residents and farmers alike are invited to learn the differences in those sets of ex-emptions in a seminar.
After the past 18 months, the Off -Highway Vehicle Stamp program has been started, retracted, re-legislat-
ed and readied for a restart. New medical card rules have kicked in: one last January and another in May. The US-DOT Number & UCR regis-trations – and even the CDL – still are widely misunder-stood.
The Grundy County Farm Bureau will host a two-hour seminar beginning at 6:30 p.m. Dec. 15 to address those regulations.
Interested parties are en-couraged to join them at the Grundy County Farm Bureau office at 4000 N. Division St.
in Morris. The seminar will focus on trucking laws – new and old – that are important to farmers, focusing on the covered farm vehicle desig-nation.
Topics included in the pre-sentation will include new regulations such as farm ve-hicle exemptions, medical cards, pending regulations, interstate carrier informa-tion, a recap of fundamentals, as well as time for answering audience questions.
Presenting the seminar will be Kevin Rund who, for more than 30 years, has spe-cialized in farm transporta-tion issues for the Illinois Farm Bureau. In addition to his presentation, Rund will provide take-home materials addressing these topics.
The seminar is free cour-tesy of the county and state farm bureaus, but advance registration is requested by calling the Grundy County Farm Bureau at 815-942-6400.
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ATLANTA – A former business partner said con-cert promoter Alex Cooley, known as the “unofficial mayor of Atlanta music” who helped bring top performers to music festivals in Georgia, has died.
Peter Conlon said Cool-ey died Tuesday at a rental home in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. He was 74.
Cooley promoted rock and roll shows in Atlanta, where he was born and raised and in
Georgia. He made a splash in the music scene in 1969 with the Atlanta International Pop Festival, and an even bigger 1970 festival.
The events featured top acts including Janis Joplin, Led Zeppelin, the Allman Brothers Band, The Jimi Hendrix Experience and B.B. King.
Cooley and Conlon helped promote the inaugural Music Midtown in 1994.
Cooley was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame in 1987.
By KEN DILANIAN The Associated Press
WASHINGTON – Former national security adviser San-dy Berger, who helped craft President Bill Clinton’s for-eign policy and got in trouble over destroying classified doc-uments, died Wednesday.
He was 70. The cause of death was can-
cer, said a statement by his consulting firm, the Albright Stonebridge Group.
Berger was White House national security adviser from 1997 to 2001, when the Clinton administration car-ried out airstrikes in Kosovo and against Saddam Hus-sein’s forces in Iraq. Berger, a lawyer, also was deeply in-volved in the administration’s push for free trade, and in the response to al-Qaida’s bomb-ing of American embassies in East Africa.
He was deputy national security adviser during Clin-ton’s first term, and had previ-ously worked in the State De-partment in President Jimmy Carter’s administration.
“Today, his legacy can be seen in a peaceful Balkans, our strong alliance with Ja-pan, our deeper relationships with India and China,” Presi-dent Barack Obama said in a statement.
Bill Clinton, in a joint statement with Democratic presidential candidate Hillary
Clinton, called Berger a “ter-rific public servant” who “em-braced our common humani-ty and advanced our national interests.”
In 2005, Berger pleaded guilty to illegally removing classified documents from the National Archives by stuff-ing some papers in his pants leg. He cut up some of the documents with scissors, for reasons that remain unclear. He was sentenced to proba-tion and a $50,000 fine. He ex-pressed regret for his actions.
Out of government, he helped found an internation-al consulting firm that in 2009 merged with one run by for-mer Secretary of State Made-leine Albright.
“He cared deeply about
where this country was going and what we could do to solve problems,” Albright said in a telephone interview. “That was the basis of his life, was to make a difference.”
Berger presided over for-eign policy during what was a relatively serene period between the fall of the Soviet Union and the September 2001 terrorist attacks.
The biggest trouble spot was the Balkans, where the breakup of the former Yugo-slavia spawned a series of civ-il wars. The U.S. and its NATO allies took militarily action against what they viewed as Serbian aggression, first in the conflict over Bosnia, and then in Kosovo. Berger led White House meetings during
NATO’s 11-week bombing of Kosovo in 1999. He also played a key role in Operation Des-ert Fox, the four-day bombing of Iraq in 1998 over Saddam’s failure to comply with U.N. Security Council resolutions about weapons inspections.
Stephen Hadley, who had Berger’s job in the George W. Bush administration, once asked Berger what he remem-bered about it. “Its relentless-ness,” Berger responded.
Also in 1998, al-Qaida at-tacked U.S. embassies in Ken-ya and Tanzania. The Clinton administration responded with a cruise missile barrage against training camps in Af-ghanistan and a pharmaceuti-cal plant in Sudan. The strikes did little to disrupt al-Qaida and became a thread in a long-running criticism that Clinton and his team failed to properly respond to a bur-geoning terrorist threat.
But Berger was not blind to the problem. Briefing Had-ley and incoming Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in 2000 during the transition, Berger said they would be “spend-ing a lot of time dealing with al-Qaida,” Hadley recalled. “That was prophetic.”
Berger also played a key role in Operation Desert Fox, the four-day bombing of Iraq in 1998 over Saddam’s failure to comply with U.N. Securi-ty Council resolutions about weapons inspections.
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BOSTON – Jim Loscutoff, a seven-time NBA champion who played his entire nine-year career with the Boston Celtics, has died.
The team said in a state-ment that Loscutoff died Tuesday.
He was 85. The team did not disclose
a cause.He is the only Celtics play-
er to have his name, and not uniform number, retired “for his leadership and all-around
excellent play.”Affectionately nicknamed
“Loscy” or “Jungle Jim,” Loscutoff was the team’s first-round draft pick out of Oregon in 1955. The 6-foot-5 forward averaged 6.2 points and 5.6 rebounds in his ca-reer.
After he retired in 1964, Loscutoff and his wife, Lynn, founded Camp Evergreen, a children’s day camp in Ando-ver.
The team says he is sur-vived by his wife and three children.
VERNA LEE BERGER
Verna Lee Berger (nee Thoma-son), age 95, of Chebanse, Illinois, formerly of Essex, Illinois passed away Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015, at Riverside Medical Center in Kanka-kee, Illinois.
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Fans mourn death of Japanese star Setsuko Hara
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
TOKYO – Precisely in keep-ing with her zeal for privacy, news of actress Setsuko Hara’s death on Sept. 5 was kept quiet until recently. The star of di-rector Yasujiro Ozu’s “Tokyo Story” and many other Japa-nese classics was 95.
Japanese fans laid flowers and other memorials outside Hara’s former studio after rel-atives disclosed news of her death last week, prompting an outpouring of affection for the reclusive actress dubbed the “eternal virgin.”
Hara’s poise and beauty en-deared her to fans who viewed her as a role model for modern Japanese women in the years after the country’s defeat in World War II.
She starred in many other Ozu films, such as “Early Sum-mer” and “Late Spring.” Hara withdrew from public life after she retired at age 42, spending the next 53 years in the quiet seaside city of Kamakura, near her birthplace, Yokohama.
Her family told media that Hara had not wanted a fuss, so they kept quiet for more than
SUBMITTED REPORT
MINOOKA – Heartland Bank and Trust Company in Minooka presented its 2015 Heart of Our Community award to Coach Bill Mikus-ka at the November Chamber Business After Hours.
The award was estab-lished to recognize Minooka residents who have stood out with their time and talent.
The Heart of Our Commu-nity award was presented by Terri Turney, retail manager for Heartland Bank in Minoo-ka. Heartland Bank recogniz-es its responsibility extends beyond providing financial services to the communities it serves.
“We strongly believe the ongoing success of a commu-nity involves good corporate citizenship and making a difference in the lives of oth-ers,” Turney said.
The award was designed to recognize local residents who have done something “ex-traordinary” by what orga-nizers describe as lending a helping hand or going above and beyond.
Building character, moral-ity and leadership of young adults and doing so with humor, compassion and de-votion to the students – this sums up Mikuska, organizers said.
Mikuska has had an im-pact on nearly every player he has come in contact with
by pushing them to do their personal best, organizers said.
For Mikuska, the game isn’t about winning or losing, but learning and growing skills and confidence. The be-lief he has instilled in them to reach their true potential and believe in themselves has changed many of their lives.
He takes the extra time with the students to teach not only athletic skills but tie those back to the bigger life lessons as well and all with his full effort and humor.
Mikuska received $100 Mi-nooka Chamber Gift Certifi-
cate and a “Heart” award.“What a great way to top
off our Business After Hours evening,” said Deanne Conte-rio, a retail support manager for Heartland Bank. “Present-ing our Heart of Our Commu-nity award and recognizing this deserving person was absolutely my favorite part of the night. Bill is very de-serving. Keeping community
in banking is what Heartland Bank and Trust Company is all about.”
Heartland Bank and Trust Company is an independent-ly owned community bank. Headquartered in Blooming-ton, the bank has offices in communities throughout Il-linois.
Learn more at www.hbt-bank.com.
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Morris Theatre Guild to hold spring auditions
MORRIS – The Morris Theatre Guild, Inc. will hold open auditions next week for its spring production of “Judgment Days,” a drama written by guild member Dennis Fisher.
Auditions are 7 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday at the Morris Theatre Guild, 516 W. Illinois Ave. in Morris. To prepare for auditions, applicants are allowed to read the audition script ahead of time on the Morris Theatre Guild Facebook group or by emailing the director for a copy. Applicants must be 18 or older.
The plot: As people stagger drunk in the streets of a small Illinois town at the height of the Great Depression, judgments are made and received while a small family tries to survive.
“Judgment Days” performs Feb. 19, 20, 21, 26, 27 and 28. Friday and Saturday performanc-es are at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday performances begin at 2:30 p.m. For information on auditions or house buyouts, contact Director Jeff Harris at [email protected] or visit www.morristheatre-guild.org.
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LATE RALLYFourth-quarter free throws help Morris past Seneca / 14
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Morris’ Matt Shaw goes up for a shot during the Redskins’ 38-33 win over Seneca on Tuesday night in Seneca.
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SENECA – For three quar-ters Tuesday, Morris never got to the foul line and Seneca rarely turned the ball over.
The script flipped in the fourth, to say the least.
Morris rallied from a defi-cit that spanned more than half the game to win, 38-33, in nonconference boys basketball largely by forcing 10 turnovers with pressing man-to-man de-fense in the fourth quarter.
And after being out-attempt-ed 5-0 at the foul line through three quarters, Morris shot all 12 of the free throws in the fourth, making eight.
“Part of me feels like I made about a 29-minute mistake, playing zone,” Morris coach Joe Blumberg said. “I don’t think we’re quick enough or deep enough to defend full court, but I thought Tommy Balentine did a great job of their point guard, taking him out of their sets late.”
The entire quarter did not belong to Morris – Seneca still was leading, 33-27, when Kole Gallick banked in a bas-ket with 3:14 to play – but the Redskins closed on an 11-0 run as the Irish often struggled to advance the ball beyond half-court. A steal and basket by Balentine at the 1:45 mark gave Morris its first lead since mid-way through the second quar-ter.
Coach Russell Witte said it was the second straight game in which the Irish (2-3) strug-gled to close in a tight game against an opponent with a larger enrollment. Seneca fell to Mendota, 44-41, in the third-place game Saturday in its own Turkey Tournament.
“We just gotta stop throw-ing the ball away,” Witte said. “Nothing else. There’s no fix. We just gotta stop throwing the ball to the other team. When we stop doing that, we’ll be all right. … We panicked a little bit, we tried to make some 40-
foot passes. We have to have kids that want to have the ball in their hands, and that comes with practice and comes with varsity repetitions.”
The teams had scored a combined 18 points – and the Irish none in the second quar-ter – before Owen Barnett banked in a 3 with 4:32 left be-fore halftime.
It began a 10-2 Irish run that had them threatening to pull away late in the half; a much-needed Matt Shaw 3 in the closing seconds kept Mor-ris within 18-15 at the break. The third quarter was much the same, with the Redskins
held scoreless until Shaw made a long basket more than five minutes in.
Morris is 4-1 in spite of of-fensive hiccups that surfaced throughout last week’s Coal City Thanksgiving Tourna-ment.
Shaw, who is one of the members of the team’s all-new starting backcourt, scored 16 points Tuesday, but was the only Morris player in double figures.
“We’ve tried to prepare for [replacing 2015 graduates], but we’ve gotten no continu-ity from our summer to our winter because guys that were there in the summer didn’t come out,” Blumberg said. “So we’re behind offensively, we’re behind defensively, and maybe that’s part of the problem … so we need to really go to work, and analyze some film and make some corrections.”
Seneca’s leading scorer was Sean Baker with 11 points.
BOYS BASKETBALL: MORRIS 38, SENECA 33
Late free throws trigger Morris comeback
“Part of me feels like I made about a 29-minute mistake, playing zone.”
Joe BlumbergMorris boys basketball coach
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ABOVE: Morris’ Aurelius Lennon-Rios looks for some room to drive in a 38-33 win over Seneca on Tuesday night in Seneca. BELOW: Morris’ Jack-son Shannon (left) and Seneca’s Brody Harty battle for the ball.
Redskins rally from the line to defeat Irish
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Morris wrestlers open with 2 wins
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PRINCETON – The Mor-ris wrestling team opened its season Tuesday night with a pair of victories, defeating nonconference rivals Princ-eton (39-34) and Knoxville (40-39).
Against Knoxville, Kole Foster (106) and Zach Sater (120) each won by forfeit for Morris, while Dakota Sater (126) won by fall over Isaiah Jenns in 1:57, Shaun Hennesy (170) won by fall in 2:00 over Jake Carlson, Cody Baldridge (182) won by ma-jor decision, 20-6, over Matt Thomas, R.J. Roderick (195) won by fall in 42 seconds over Tanner Ryan and Col-by Eschenbaum (220) won by fall in 3:20 over Les Gober.
Against Princeton, Abby Eisenbeis (106) won by for-feit, as did Andrew Wojcik (145) and Bobby Stubinger (285).
Michael Milton (113) won by fall in 4:43 over Shaylynn Hartmann, Ethan Elleson (138) won by fall in 1:05 over Jacob Ebne, Hennessy (170) won a 7-2 decision over Luke Hoffman, and Baldridge (182)
won by fall in 1:01 over Bro-dy Spencer.
GIRLS BASKETBALLMinooka 55, Oswego 42:
The Indians (3-2, 1-0) opened up Southwest Prairie Con-ference play Tuesday night with a home win.
They led 20-14 at halftime and increased their advan-tage to 44-27 at the end of three quarters. Brooklyn Bachmann scored a team-high 22 points, while Sydney Arlis chipped in 12 points.
BOYS BASKETBALLFamilies of Faith Christian
Academy 59, Parkview Chris-tian Academy 51: Families of Faith led 18-17 at halftime and 33-31 entering the fourth quarter. Amari Morgan led the Eagles with 18 points and 15 rebounds, while Cameron Latour added 10 points and Jordan Welsh scored nine. Jaylin Barnes contributed six assists and seven steals.
M o r r i s s o p h o m o r e s 4 0 , Seneca 32: Payton Voitik led Morris (5-0) with 11 points Tuesday night, while Nathan Wantland had 10 points and Colin Kingsbury added six.
THURSDAY’S EVENTSGIRLS BASKETBALL6:45 p.m. – Coal City at Herscher7 p.m. – Gardner-South Wilming-
ton at Beecher
WRESTLING5 p.m. – Oswego East at Minooka 5:30 p.m. – Morris at RochelleGIRLS BOWLING4 p.m. – Minooka at Romeoville
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Mitch Unrein carving out a niche for Chicago Bears’ goal-line offense
By ARTHUR ARKUSH [email protected]
LAKE FOREST – Top pick Kevin White participated in individual drills and ran routes at full speed for the first time Wednesday since undergoing surgery for a stress fracture in his left shin this offseason.
“He’s improving,” Bears head coach John Fox said. “He’s on target. We’ve got a three-week window, that you know, we just take one day at a time.”
The Bears opened the 21-day practice window for White last Tuesday. They have until Dec. 15 to decide whether to activate the rook-ie wide receiver or place him on season-ending injured re-serve.
When pressed on whether “on target” meant to play this season, Fox responded, “No, on target to practice again to-morrow.”
White admitted his leg was tight at times Wednesday, but it “was a good feeling” to be working with his teammates.
White stated adamantly he’s hopeful to play this sea-son.
“Yeah I’m pushing to play. If I wasn’t pushing to play, I wouldn’t be out there,” he said. “... Really important [to play this season]. If it wasn’t important, I’d be in the treat-ment room. I would’ve told Pace or Fox to IR me. I want to play. I want to help the team out.”
W h i t e a c k n o w l e d g e d Wednesday’s practice drills were as agile as he’s felt since June. Now the key is improv-ing his strength and getting comfortable running routes.
“I’m very aware [of the timeline to return],” he said. “I know exactly when so I’m pushing myself a little bit. Still being smart with it. I’m
aware,” he said.Injury report: Antrel Rolle
(knee) and Eddie Royal (knee) were the Bears’ only nonparticipants Wednesday. Rolle has missed the past two games and Royal hasn’t played since Week Eight.
Kyle Long (neck) and Per-nell McPhee (knee) were lim-ited. Ka’Deem Carey cleared the concussion protocol and, along with Matt Slauson (toe), practiced in full.
Fangio faces former club: As Vic Fangio prepares to face the team whose defense he co-ordinated over the past four seasons and that interviewed him for its head-coaching va-cancy in January, he said he doesn’t feel any extra moti-vation because the 49ers by-passed its coordinator to hire D-line coach Jim Tomsula.
“I just look back on the four years with the 49ers with really good memories,” said Fangio. “We had a nice run there. Got to a Super Bowl. Got to three championship games. Won a lot of football games over a four-year peri-od. I just look back there with a lot of fond memories.”
Bennett speaks: Martellus Bennett was inactive for the first time since 2011 Thurs-day and spoke with the media Wednesday for the first time since after Week 10.
Bennett said he was deal-ing with a “significant inju-ry,” though he likely could’ve played if the game was on Sunday instead of Thanksgiv-ing.
Bennett didn’t make the trip or even watch the game live, he said, but his wife was screaming and texting him from the other room.
“Just chilling. Rehabbing. A lot of people in town work-ing on my body and stuff like that,” he said. “All last week and leading into this week, so just getting healthy.”
BEARS NOTES BEARS
By KEVIN FISHBAIN [email protected]
LAKE FOREST – The Bears have a 6-4, 306-pound weapon for their goal-line package, and all he does is block for touchdowns.
“It’s fun,” defensive tackle and goal-line fullback Mitch Unrein said. “I never really grew up playing the offen-sive side of the ball. I played a little bit of tight end early on in high school. But other than that, I’ve always been a defensive guy.
“To get out there and get the opportunity to run some offensive plays is pretty fun. To see it from a different per-spective and also get to have the camaraderie with the of-fensive linemen as well.”
Unrein has played in six snaps on offense this season.
The Bears have scored a touchdown on all six of those snaps – four Jeremy Langford rushing touchdowns, Zach Miller’s touchdown catch in St. Louis, and Martellus Ben-nett’s grab in San Diego.
But don’t worry, super-stitious Bears fans. Unrein already knew the statistic, and while this season is off to a good start, he pointed out that he does not have an unblemished record as a full-back.
“I’ve been doing it for a
couple years and there were a lot of times in Denver that we never got in as well,” he said.
The Broncos actually only scored four touchdowns in Unrein’s nine offensive snaps in Denver in 2012, so stop rub-bing that rabbit’s foot. One of those touchdowns was a ca-reer highlight for Unrein.
“I was fortunate enough to catch a pass in 2012 from Peyton Manning so that’s kind of my claim to fame on the goal-line aspect of being a fullback,” he said.
Former Broncos offensive coordinator Mike McCoy first put Unrein on offense, and Adam Gase has carried the formation over to Chica-go. Whenever his defensive line teammates hear “No. 98 is eligible,” they get pretty fired up.
“We’re on the sideline and they’ll say, ‘Mitch Unrein, get in there’ so we cheer him on,” Jarvis Jenkins said. “Every
time, he doesn’t let us down. Pancake block, every time.”
Jenkins admitted that he would love a chance on offense, and he gets “pretty jealous” of Unrein’s opportu-nities, but he’s proud of his partner in the trenches.
“I think every time he’s had those plays, he’s had a pancake block or a signif-icant block. … I’ve kind of been lobbying, but Mitch has it on lockdown,” Jenkins said. “He’s pretty good at it.”
Langford was in awe the first time he ran behind Un-rein on the practice field – “You could tell if you run behind him, you can’t go wrong” – so, it makes sense that the rookie enjoys seeing Unrein running on the field.
“It’s a good thing to see No. 98 in front of you,” Lang-ford said. “He’s going to clear a hole.”
Not to make Jenkins and the other defensive linemen more jealous, but Unrein has more chances to take part in something defenders only dream of – end-zone celebra-tions.
“It’s just a great atmo-sphere,” he said. “When you score, everyone’s just going crazy. Fans are going crazy. It’s a really good feeling to be out there and actually con-tributing to putting points on the board.”
“I never really grew up playing the offensive
side of the ball. ... I’ve always been a
defensive guy.”
Mitch UnreinBears defensive tackle, fullback
Rolle, Royal remained sidelined with knee injuries Wednesday
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CROSSWORD SUDOKU BRIDGE by Phillip Alder
CELEBRITY CIPHER
Steve Spurrier, a Heisman Trophy winner and football guru, said, “I don’t want to coach too far into my 60s. By then, I’ll be playing golf four or five times a week.”
At the bridge table, you might have the choice of bidding a four-card or a five-card suit. Look at today’s North hand. After partner opens one club, would you respond one diamond or one spade?
In the old days, responder always bid the longest suit first. If partner had a four-card major, he would show it and a 4-4 fit would not be missed. These days, showing the major first is in vogue. A columnist recommended bidding one spade, not one diamond, with that North hand. As you can guess, I disagree. I think bidding the major first is right if two criteria are satisfied: The responder has below game-invitational values and a good-quality major. This hand, with 10 points, two aces and a five-card suit, is worth a game-invita-tion. And that is not such a great spade suit. In this admittedly constructed deal, if North responds one spade, South will raise to two spades (which might be with only three-card support and a singleton somewhere), and what would North do then? Probably three diamonds, but it isn’t clear-cut with only four spades.
If North bids one diamond, South will rebid one spade, and four spades will be reached. Note that four spades by North fails after East leads the heart queen. The defenders take one spade, two hearts and one club. But four spades by South is makable. West’s best lead is the club queen. Declarer wins with dummy’s ace, takes the two top trumps, then plays on diamonds, discarding a heart on the fourth round.
With 4-5, do youbid four or five?
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Dear Dr. K: I’m a 65-year-old woman. My doctor says my bones are strong, and he wants to keep them that way. So, for years I’ve been taking a daily 1,200 milligram calcium supplement. Now I hear that might be too much. How much calcium do I really need?
Dear Reader: I’ve gotten this question from so many pa-tients. As I assume is true for you, their bones have normal amounts of calcium. That is, they do not have osteoporosis (or “thin bones”). To prevent osteoporosis, they have been taking the recommended amount of calcium -- 1,000 mil-ligrams (mg) a day for women ages 50 and younger and 1,200 mg for women over 50 -- in an effort to preserve their bones.
It is true that the majority of studies show that a combi-nation of calcium and vitamin D supplements reduce the risk of developing osteoporosis. So far, so good.
But the main reason to pre-vent osteoporosis is to reduce the risk of bone fractures. And most studies find that calcium supplements (or even calcium plus vitamin D) do not reduce that risk. Worse, calcium sup-plements may even increase other health risks.
One study involved post-menopausal women enrolled
in the Women’s Health Initia-tive trial. Some 18,000 women were randomly assigned to take 1,000 mg of calcium and 400 international units (IU) of vitamin D each day. (Vitamin D works with calcium to build healthy bones.) Another 18,000 women got placebo pills. After seven years, women who took calcium and vitamin D were no less likely to break their hips than the women who took a placebo pill.
Another study analyzed the results of more than a dozen studies. It found that women (and men) who had a high calcium intake -- from food or pills -- did not have a lower hip fracture risk.
The studies also revealed that high-dose calcium supple-
ments can lead to an increased risk of kidney stones and heart attack. Calcium from food did not have the same risks.
What to do? My colleague Dr. Walter Willett, chair of the Department of Nutrition at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, recommends less calcium and more vitamin D than the guidelines suggest. He suggests 500 to 700 mg a day of calcium and 800 to 1,000 IU of vitamin D. Current guidelines recommend 600 IU of vitamin D between ages 19 and 70 years, and 800 IU after age 70.
While not everyone agrees with him, I regard Dr. Willett as one of the world’s most knowledgeable experts in this area. I’ve seen him proven right a lot more often than
wrong.At Dr. Willett’s suggested
amount, you can probably get all or most of your calcium from food. Dairy products are a great source. Kale, collard greens and salmon are good non-dairy calcium sources. (I’ve put a table listing more calcium-containing foods on my website, askdoctork.com.)
You can take a low-dose cal-cium supplement to make up what you don’t get from food. Keeping your calcium supple-ment dose lower should help you avoid the possible risks of higher-dose supplements.
• Write to Dr. Komaroff at askdoctork.com, or Ask Doctor K, 10 Shattuck St., Second Floor, Boston, MA 02115.
Low-dose calcium supplement reduces risk from higher dose
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