Courier News (Elgin, IL) back issues from October 2008:
Obituaries for Oct 01, 2008
Oct 01, 2008; ... General Information Concerning the Obituary PageA detailed paid obituary may be ordered to appear in The Elgin Courier News when funeral arrangements are made, and must be submitted in writing. Information about charges for detailed obituaries may be obtained from area funeral directors or by ...
Marching forward
Oct 01, 2008; ... ELGIN - In the face of detours, potholes and bulldozers tearing up concrete downtown, homecoming king and queen nominees should stay afloat during Elgin High School's parade on Sunday, school officials say. The school's homecoming parade, which starts at 1 p.m. and runs through part of ...
Bruce and Smiley: Village's park names preserve memories of beloved leaders
Oct 01, 2008; ... HAMPSHIRE - Newcomers and out-of-towners may go to Bruce Ream Park to eat corn at Coon Creek Days. On the way to work the next day, they may drop off the kids at the preschool in Ralph Seyller Park. But they may leave wondering who these two men were whose names are memorialized in the entrance ...
2nd person in county has W. Nile
Oct 01, 2008; ... HUNTLEY - The second West Nile virus case of the season was reported in Kane County by the county health department Tuesday. A 74-year-old Huntley woman was hospitalized with the virus in mid-September, according to the department. She is expected to make a full recovery, spokesman Tom ...
PEOPLE Janet Jackson releasedfrom hospital Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel team up for Barack Obama
Oct 01, 2008 ... Janet Jackson was released from a Montreal hospital just two hours after she arrived, a spokeswoman for the facility said Tuesday, but it still was not clear why she was admitted. The 42-year-old singer became "suddenly ill" and was taken to Royal Victoria Hospital on Monday night ...
Elgin native a finalist in Air Force awards competition
Oct 01, 2008; ... SAN ANTONIO, Texas - The Beijing Olympics are over, but Tech Sgt. Arnie Dye still could win a gold medal. A 1996 graduate of Larkin High School in Elgin, Dye is a finalist in the U.S. Air Force's Sensor Olympics Recognition Program. He and the 65 other finalists were chosen from among ...
LOCAL DIGEST
Oct 01, 2008 ... Kane County Farm Bureau raises funds A silent auction raised more than $28,000 for the Kane County Farm Bureau Foundation at its annual meeting this week. According to the farm bureau, more than $20,000 in tuition assistance is being awarded in 2008-09 to 15 students from the ...
LOCAL DIGEST
Oct 01, 2008 ... Kane County Farm Bureau raises funds A silent auction raised more than $28,000 for the Kane County Farm Bureau Foundation at its annual meeting this week. According to the farm bureau, more than $20,000 in tuition assistance is being awarded in 2008-09 to 15 students from the ...
Renowned broadcaster Orion Samuelson talks change in farming, optimism in changing times
Oct 01, 2008; ... GENEVA - Change has been the operative word in the current presidential campaigns, just it has been the operative word in farming since the Kane County Farm Bureau formed 95 years ago. The year the farm bureau was born, "parcel post delivery started, Henry Ford introduced the moving ...
Library wants to hear from you
Oct 01, 2008; ... ELGIN - Attendance numbers are up, as is circulation, according to Gail Borden Public Library District officials. But even organizations that are doing well need to make sure they are offering everything the public wants, said Denise Raleigh, director of marketing, development and ...
Slurpers and shooters sought
Oct 01, 2008 ... Pudding slurpers and marshmallow shooters still are being sought for the city Parks and Recreation Department's third annual Youth Scholarship Team Challenge. The challenge, which raises money for disadvantaged young people, will start at 5 p.m. Oct. 17 at The Centre of Elgin, 100 ...
Police report
Oct 01, 2008 ... Carpentersville ? Residential burglary: Several items were reported stolen from a home in the 300 block of Tulsa Avenue between Sept. 16 and Monday. The owner of the home is deceased, and his son has been moving items from the home the past few weeks, according to reports. The son ...
Morning fires close Northwest Highway
Oct 01, 2008; ... Two major fires in southern McHenry County kept fire departments from throughout the Fox Valley scrambling Tuesday morning. A three-alarm fire at Gage Grinding Co., 30 S. U.S. 14 (Northwest Highway) in Cary, drew fire departments from as far away as Elgin and closed the highway for ...
Cubs welcoming role of favorites
Oct 01, 2008; ... From the first question of spring training about the 100-year drought and Cub curses, Lou Piniella has said the 2008 Cubs stand on their own merit. Now 7« months later, on their own merit, they open the playoffs against the Los Angeles Dodgers as heavy favorites to get to the World ...
Elgin finishes with flurry
Oct 01, 2008; ... ELGIN - Momentum can be a funny thing in volleyball. Once it starts swinging in one direction, sometimes there is no stopping it. That was the case for Elgin on Tuesday in its crosstown rival match at Larkin. The Maroons trailed 20-12 in the third game before rallying to score ...
Del Negro stresses unity in practices
Oct 01, 2008; ... CHICAGO - On Vinny Del Negro's count of three, the Bulls broke their first practice under their new coach Tuesday with one word: "Together!" Del Negro next had the players pair off for lunch, with the coaching staff giving each duo questions to ask each other. "We're doing a lot ...
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Oct 01, 2008 ... Football NFL AMERICAN CONFERENCE Buffalo 4001.00010963 New England210.6674958 N.Y. Jets220.500115116 Miami120.3336264 ...
St. Charles East captures UEC girls golf title
Oct 01, 2008 ... WEST CHICAGO - St. Charles East won the Upstate Eight Conference girls golf tournament Tuesday at St. Andrews with a team score of 322. Jenny Niemiec shot 77 to lead East and made the All-Conference team. St. Charles North finished second, shooting 354. Marin Beagley's 78 paced ...
Sandoval's dramatic goal saves Royals
Oct 01, 2008; ... ELGIN - With a recent loss to Upstate Eight Conference foe Neuqua Valley already in its pocket, Larkin knew it couldn't afford to drop another league match if it still wants to entertain serious thoughts of collecting at least a share of the program's first conference title in school history ...
Cabral leads Whips past Green Wave
Oct 01, 2008 ... ELGIN - Hampshire lit up the scoreboard in a non-conference match against St. Edward on Tuesday, winning 6-0. The Whip-Purs (5-6-1) received standout efforts from several players. Austin Buck scored the first two goals for Hampshire, one of which came on an assist from John Cabral, who ...
Oct 01, 2008 ... CONTINUED FROM PAGE B1 fans "It's pretty exciting," said the 40-year old Alvarenga. "It's tough what to say in the World Series, but I think they're gonna win it. I think they're strong everywhere. They have good pitching and good hitting. They're just a good team this year." Down a couple seats ...
Oct 01, 2008 ... CONTINUED FROM PAGE B1 cubs But the Cubs? They haven't been a favorite to win the championship in Piniella's or Torre's lifetimes. Not since 1935 anyway ? and that Cubs team might not have been as big a favorite as this one until Detroit's Hall of Fame first baseman, Hank Greenberg, broke his ...
Oct 01, 2008 ... CONTINUED FROM PAGE B1 sox On Bendan Harris' fly ball to shallow center field, the piranhas felt it was go time, testing Juniors' arm. In a play that was pass-fail, the Twins did the latter. Griffey threw a strike to Pierzynski, who gloved it, just as Cuddyer was looking to run through the ...
Check out these Web sites to help save more money
Oct 01, 2008; ... The Web is supposed to make shopping simple. Click, click, click and before you know it, that sweater, bag or box of T-bones is at the doorstep. When it works, it's like magic; but when it doesn't, consumers can end up surfing endlessly. The editors at ShopSmart, the shopping magazine ...
EPA SHOULD ENFORCE OUR E-WASTE RULES
Oct 01, 2008 ... A computer can be a lifeline. It can be a tool to increase productivity, educate the world and bring people closer. And increasingly, it also has become a source of contamination in the developing world. Like cell phones and other consumer electronics, computers and monitors contain ...
letters
Oct 01, 2008 ... Crespo for rewarding hard work, good companies As an entrepreneur and businesswoman, I admire state Rep. Fred Crespo's desire to reward hard-working people. Crespo believes that we should do all we can to reward work and reward companies that are creating jobs in Illinois. It is ...
OMBUDSMAN
Oct 01, 2008 ... We feel your pain on getting latest sports scores I wish someone from the sports division would stay up past 10:30 p.m. to put in the scores from the Midwest, like the Sox, Cubs, Brewers. They are not a late game, but I understand - it is hard to make an 11 o'clock tee time when ...
Club News
Oct 01, 2008 ... Bartlett Woman's Club The Bartlett Woman's Club's next monthly meeting will begin at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Log Cabin, 102 N. Eastern Ave., Bartlett. It will start with a social, followed by a general meeting at 7:30 p.m. At 8:15, a presentation by Dr. Jose Torres, new ...
FRIGHTFULLY FUN
Oct 01, 2008 ... Frightfully fun The chill in the night air means one thing: The witching hour of Halloween - when witches, demons, ghosts and all creepy creatures are at their most powerful - is looming. You can run, but you can't hide from Halloween season. In suspense of this most ...
Massage clinic to introduce muscle release technique
Oct 01, 2008; ... ELGIN - Sometimes, nontraditional methods of dealing with pain can be the most effective. At least, that is what owners of Effective Massage, a massage clinic that opened last year on Elgin's west side, are saying about the muscle release technique, which was designed to provide ...
On and poppin'
Oct 01, 2008; ... Like Romeo and Juliet, Sonny and Cher, beer and pizza, and chocolate and peanut butter, movies and popcorn are a couple that forever will be linked. Because October is National Popcorn Month, one area chain is celebrating that marriage to mark its own 30 years in ...
For nutritional standouts this fall, look underground
Oct 01, 2008; ... There's something exciting underfoot. It's actually an annual earthly rite: the ripening of the land's hidden treasures. And now is the time to make the most of it. Farmers are digging out an abundant root-vegetable harvest and bringing it to area farm stands and farmers' ...
Obituaries for Oct 02, 2008
Oct 02, 2008; ... General Information Concerning the Obituary PageA detailed paid obituary may be ordered to appear in The Elgin Courier News when funeral arrangements are made, and must be submitted in writing. Information about charges for detailed obituaries may be obtained from area funeral directors or by ...
Village receives governor's award
Oct 02, 2008; ... SOUTH ELGIN - A village park dedicated to children who have died has garnered the village statewide recognition. The South Elgin Parks and Recreation Department has been awarded the 2008 Governor's Hometown Award for the "Footprints in Time" Plaza at LaFox (Illinois 31) and State ...
Sarto: Tear down mall
Oct 02, 2008; ... CARPENTERSVILLE - Tear down this mall! That's Village President Bill Sarto's plan to revitalize Carpentersville's Illinois 25 corridor. Earlier this week, Sarto took to his blog, About Carpentersville, to float the idea of tearing down Meadowdale Mall along Illinois 25, roughly ...
Miniature crime museum created at Elgin Law Enforcement Center
Oct 02, 2008; ... ELGIN - Today's criminals may fear heavy police batons or pepper spray. In the early part of the 20th century, they would have contended with 6-inch saps, which are leather strap weapons with lead balls on the end that were used in the 1800s and early 1900s. Much of Elgin's police ...
ALL IN THE NAME
Oct 02, 2008; ... Editor's note: Due to a production error, the jump for this story did not appear in Wednesday's newspaper. We are reprinting the story here in its entirety. HAMPSHIRE - Newcomers and out-of-towners may go to Bruce Ream Park to eat corn at Coon Creek Days. On the way to work the next day, they ...
New library director takes the reins in Hampshire
Oct 02, 2008; ... HAMPSHIRE - Launching a new Web site, offering electronic databases for research projects and small business development, and expanding the library's services to include adult programming are among the plans under way for the Ella Johnson Library District under its new director, Carol ...
PEOPLE No Phish tale: Jamband announces 3 shows
Oct 02, 2008 ... Those reunion rumors weren't just cut bait: Four years after disbanding, the time seems right to Phish. The Vermont-bred foursome on Wednesday announced three concert dates next March in Hampton, Va., a longtime favorite venue for the band and its fiercely loyal fans. Other 2009 dates ...
LOCAL DIGEST
Oct 02, 2008 ... Kane County Sheriff Perez honored Kane County Sheriff Pat Perez recently received the Hector Jordan Lifetime Achievement Award by the Hispanic Illinois State Law Enforcement Association. The award, presented Sept. 13, is given to an "individual who through the course of his/her ...
LOCAL DIGEST
Oct 02, 2008 ... Hampshire Santa coming to town The committee organizing the Santa Comes to Hampshire extravaganza is scheduled to meet this week. The meeting will be held at 8:30 a.m., Friday at the Rose Garden Restaurant, 199 S. State St. in downtown Hampshire. Santa Comes to Hampshire is a ...
Car show ready to roll
Oct 02, 2008; ... HUNTLEY - Street rods, muscle cars and Corvettes are just a few of the more than 100 cars rolling into Deicke Park this weekend for the annual Huntley Car Show. The car show will be Sunday at the park, located just south of Illinois 47 and Mill Street. It originally was set to ...
A family tradition
Oct 02, 2008; ... HAMPSHIRE - Eerie sounds coming from the Haunted Henpecked Mine didn't deter 88-year-old Mary Lake, who guided her walker through the haunted house Wednesday at Goebbert's Pumpkin Patch. The chains and coffin startled Lake, who said the Henpeck Mine was definitely "haunted." "I ...
All aboard for trolley fun
Oct 02, 2008 ... SOUTH ELGIN - The Fox Valley Trolley Museum is gearing up for some fall and winter specials. Pumpkin Trolley Special Pumpkin Trolleys will operate the weekends of Oct. 11-12 and Oct. 18-19 at the museum. Riders will be taken along the Fox River and into Kane County's Jon ...
POLICE REPORT
Oct 02, 2008 ... Elgin ? Fire investigation: Firefighters and police responded to an apartment fire around 9:15 p.m. Tuesday in the 1300 block of Getzelman Drive, according to the police report. Fire investigators found burned food, which they said might have caused a chair to catch fire, according to ...
Blaze destroys family home
Oct 02, 2008; ... CARPENTERSVILLE - A fire on the east side of the village left one Carpentersville family of four homeless and almost 60 families without power for several hours Tuesday evening. The blaze had spread from a detached garage to the house at 936 Chippewa Circle, as well as two power lines ...
Leaf collection season begins
Oct 02, 2008; ... ELGIN - It's that time of year again, when city workers begin hitting the streets as the first leaves of autumn begin hitting the ground. The city's Fall Leaf Collection Program begins Monday, Oct. 13. The service allows residents in designated neighborhoods to rake loose leaves onto the ...
Can't wear that here
Oct 02, 2008; ... ELGIN - What's in a name? Ask Chicago Cubs fan Jill Howe, 15. The Elgin High School sophomore had to remove her Kosuke Fukudome jersey and wear a gym class T-shirt in order to attend class Tuesday. It all involved a misunderstanding - since rectified - about the correct ...
Gordon mulling his only offer
Oct 02, 2008; ... The Bulls were expecting guard Ben Gordon to agree to a one-year contract Wednesday night. After all, it was the only offer the team had on the table: a $6.4 million tender offer that Gordon said in August he wouldn't sign. ''I'm definitely not taking it,'' Gordon told New York media ...
IN BRIEF
Oct 02, 2008 ... Defense rests in Simpson case LAS VEGAS - Both sides have rested in the O.J. Simpson kidnapping and armed robbery case after a last-minute dispute threatened to derail the trial. Judge Jackie Glass dismissed jurors for the day Wednesday. They're due to hear final arguments ...
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Oct 02, 2008 ... Football NFL AMERICAN CONFERENCE Buffalo 4001.00010963 New England210.6674958 N.Y. Jets220.500115116 Miami120.3336264 ...
Whips claim BNC girls golf title
Oct 02, 2008 ... POPLAR GROVE - With Taylor Ellett and Connie Ellett leading the way, Hampshire's girls golf team captured the Big Northern Conference girls golf championship. The Whip-Purs shot a 371 in Wednesday's conference meet at Timber Pointe Golf Course, finishing seven strokes behind Rockford ...
Judson's Burke ties NAIA win mark
Oct 02, 2008 ... PALOS HEIGHTS - Judson University men's soccer coach Steve Burke picked up his 437th career win, tying the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics record for most career victories, when the Eagles beat Trinity Christian 1-0 on Wednesday night. Burke, in his 25th year at the ...
Warriors eyeing league of their own next season
Oct 02, 2008; ... You can likely count the Westminster Christian boys soccer team as one program at the school that won't mind being realigned into a new conference next year with more like-sized schools. Right now, the Warriors are the only Class 1A squad in the Private School League and have yet to ...
Elgin improving quickly
Oct 02, 2008; ... While Elgin volleyball coach Keith Foster stops short of saying his squad is ready to seriously challenge the elite teams in the competitive Upstate Eight Conference, he realizes his youthful Maroons are steadily closing the gap. Thus far, Elgin is 10-9-2 overall after Tuesday's dramatic ...
Wild Dempster struggles
Oct 02, 2008; ... CHICAGO - Seven walks from Ryan Dempster any time, let alone at Wrigley Field, was never a part of the regular season. But the postseason started Wednesday. ''I don't know if I was trying to be too fine,'' the Cubs' best starter of the regular season said after suffering the ...
HAMELS STIFLES BREWERS
Oct 02, 2008 ... Hamels stifles Brewers PHILADELPHIA - Cole Hamels was so dominant the Milwaukee Brewers were glad to see Brad Lidge come in. The switch to their perfect closer nearly cost the Philadelphia Phillies. Behind their top two arms, the Phillies grabbed their first postseason victory in ...
Corners nursing injuries
Oct 02, 2008; ... The Bears limped to Ford Field last season without starting cornerbacks Charles Tillman and Nathan Vasher and left as part of NFL history after the Detroit Lions scored a record 34 fourth-quarter points. The 37-27 loss was the lowlight of the 2007 season - until the Lions came to town a ...
Kontiola, two other forwards sent down
Oct 02, 2008; ... Petri Kontiola, projected as the Blackhawks' second-line center when training camp opened two weeks ago, was among three forwards sent to Rockford on Wednesday as the Hawks used their first day off of the preseason to whittle their roster to 35 players. With wingers Evan Brophey and ...
Lower health risks regardless of age
Oct 02, 2008; ... The chances of coming down with a life-threatening disease change in some surprising ways across someone's life span, according to the editors of Consumer Reports On Health. CR On Health's analysis of the age-related mortality data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and ...
Kane Motorsports opening new site
Oct 02, 2008 ... Kane County Motor Sports will host the grand opening of a new 17,000-square-foot facility in Elgin on Saturday. The new facility, housed in the former Zylstra Harley-Davidson building at 920 S. McLean Blvd., offers a full lineup of motorcycles, ATVs, watercraft, scooters and snowmobiles ....
PALIN VS. BIDEN
Oct 02, 2008 ... By Al Kirkland Jr. Whom you now support for vice president and why? I favor Joe Biden. He and Barack Obama reflect in general my views about where this country ought to he headed and why we are where we are right now. Biden has a remarkably strong background in political ...
Palin vs. Biden The major parties' vice president candidates square off at 8 tonight in a televised debate on the major networks
Oct 02, 2008 ... The Courier News asked two regular contributors to our Viewpoint page to preview tonight's debate between the two vice-presidential candidates, Democrat Joe Biden and Republican Sarah Palin. Linda McDaniel-Hale of Sleepy Hollow is a Palin supporter. Al Kirkland Jr. of ...
THE CASE FOR PALIN
Oct 02, 2008 ... By Linda McDaniel-Hale Whom you now support for vice president and why? I was literally blown away when John McCain announced his running mate for president of the United States. He did not select any of the individuals mentioned by the media's short list. He chose an individual ...
'No' votes on bailout plan unacceptable
Oct 02, 2008 ... Those who believe the market should sort out the nation's financial crisis are about to find out what its solution is. With the U.S. House's rejection Monday of the massive financial bailout package and the resulting stock market plunge, the country could be headed for major financial ...