The News-Sun - Waukegan (IL) back issues from March 1997:
ELWOOD "WOODY" MILLER
Mar 01, 1997 ... Elwood "Woody" Miller, 58 years old of Antioch, Illinois passed away Friday, February 28, 1997 on arrival at Victory Memorial Hospital, Waukegan, Illinois.He was born September 26, 1938 in Chicago, moving to Antioch in 1983. Woody served in the U.S. Marine Corp from 1956 until 1959. He was a ...
ALBIN PODOBNIK
Mar 01, 1997 ... Albin Podobnik, age 75, of North Chicago, Illinois, died Friday, February 28, 1997 at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in North Chicago.He was born April 8, 1921 in North Chicago, Illinois, and remained a lifelong resident. He retired in 1978 from U.S. Steel & Wire after 35 ...
IRENE E. STROHM
Mar 01, 1997 ... Irene E. Strohm, 88, of Gurnee, Illinois, died February 28, 1997 at Libertyville Manor.She was born on May 22, 1908 in Tampara, Finland. She was a member of the Gurnee Community Church. She was active in the Warren Township Center Senior Group, Waukegan Women's Club and was a ...
COMMUNITY CALENDAR
Mar 01, 1997 ... Monday, March 3Citizens Advisory Committee on Open Space: Meets 7:30 p.m., Libertyville Township Office, 359 Merrill Ct., Libertyville. Lake County Sheriff's Senior Advocate Group: Meets 10:30 a.m., Sheriff's Communication Center, 1303 N. Milwaukee Ave., Libertyville. Anyone ...
TITLE: POLICE BEAT
Mar 01, 1997 ... 1. BEACH PARKTRESPASS: Lake County sheriff's deputies arrested a Zion man after he broke into a Beach Park woman's home and refused to leave. John Serdar of 3006 Elim Ave., was arrested and charged with criminal damage to property, disorderly conduct, criminal trespass to a residence ...
DIMENSIONAL CONTROLS APPROVED
Mar 01, 1997 ... Highland Park -- Hoping to fight the growing trend to subdivide one large single-family lot into two to three single-family homes, the City Council accepted a Plan Commission recommendation this week for dimensional controls on future building.The commission guidelines limit maximum height of ...
TEACHERS UNION HAS MEMBERSHIP GROWTH SPURT
Mar 01, 1997 ... The Lake County Federation of Teachers, one of two unions representing educators in the county, grew by 10 percent this year to become the second-largest local for the union in Illinois.Membership in the union -- which represents teachers and non-certified school staff -- grew to 3,657 ...
PEOPLE ON THE MOVE
Mar 01, 1997 ... Patrick Sullivan has been named associate director of the North Chicago VA Medical Center.Sullivan's job will make him the chief operating officer of the medical center and full assistant to the center director. He will be responsible for direction and coordination of all ...
EIGHT-WEEK PARENTING PROGRAM AT EIGHT LOCATIONS
Mar 01, 1997 ... Charlotte Simmons, a prevention specialist for Northern Illinois Council on Alcoholism and Substance Abuse, is facilitating eight-week sessions of the agency's "Moms & Dads in Action" parenting program at the following locations:o Marion Jones Housing, 1401 Sherman, North Chicago, 9-11 a.m ....
WAUKEGAN MAN'S LIFE ENRICHED WITH LITERACY PROGRAM
Mar 01, 1997 ... Illiteracy paralyzed Waukegan resident Andy Schrader until Ann Hamlin healed him.Through a program called REACH (Reading Enables Adults to Climb Higher) offered by Literacy Volunteers of America, Hamlin taught Schrader to read, which will enrich the rest of his lifetime. "I used to sit ...
WAUKEGAN MAN GETS 12-YEAR PRISON TERM
Mar 01, 1997 ... A 28-year-old Waukegan man was sentenced to 12 years in prison on Friday by Lake County Associate Judge Victoria Rossetti.Tommie Williams was convicted of armed robbery in January by a jury that deliberated less than an hour. Williams was found guilty of yanking gold chains off the ...
TITLE: AROUND THE STATE
Mar 01, 1997 ... BELLEVILLECUTS AT SCOTT AFB: The Air Force confirmed that Scott Air Force Base will lose 147 military and civilian jobs in its Combat Climatology Center. The service, in an attempt to downsize operations, decided to move the climatology center to Asheville, N.C., and share a building ...
PANEL FORWARDS TAX RELIEF RECOMMENDATION | REBATE:
Mar 01, 1997 ... Final decision up to Village Board Gurnee -- The Gurnee Tax Rebate Committee's final recommendation that the Village Board should pursue some kind of services tax relief instead of a cash grant will be forwarded to the Village Board for final decision.The committee, at the urging of the ...
CONSULTANT GUIDED VILLAGE AWAY FROM REVENUE SHARING PLAN
Mar 01, 1997 ... Gurnee -- At the time of Mayor Richard Welton's surprise announcement last summer, a rebate of 10 percent off the top of Lake County tax bills was estimated to mean $2.2 million for village residents living in owner-occupied homes.The blue-ribbon committee formed to study the proposal did not ...
NEW BRANCHES IN STORE FOR BANKS | DIFFERENT STRATEGY: REDUCE COST, ATTRACT NEW CUSTOMERS
Mar 01, 1997 ... It's way past 5 p.m. and you have a 7 p.m. class.But you need to pick up the drycleaning, do a little grocery shopping and go to the bank. But where will you find the time? Enter a local supermarket with a bank inside. Across the country banks and grocery stores are ...
FEDERAL PROGRAM MAY REPAIR ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE ON LAKEFRONT | `BROWNFIELD' REDEVELOPMENT: $1.5 BILLION U.S. CLEANUP EFFORT
Mar 01, 1997 ... Waukegan -- Community, business and government leaders got together Friday to learn how to to receive federal funds to repair areas of environmental damage on the lakefront.Known as "brownfield redevelopment," the federal grant program offers municipal-level funding to clean properties that ...
AROUND THE COUNTY
Mar 01, 1997 ... COUNTYWIDETREE SALE: The Soil and Water Conservation District of Lake County is currently holding its 15th annual tree sale. The goal of the program is to promote conservation by providing area residents with premium landscaping material while supplementing funding for district ...
THREAT OF THUNDERSTORMS HAS RIVER WATCHERS WORRIED
Mar 01, 1997 ... Like a bathtub so full that one big splash would soak the floor, the Des Plaines and Fox rivers are one downpour away from flooding residential areas.Light rains forecast for the early part of the weekend likely would not cause problems, but a heavy downpour, which is also a possibility in ...
DEFAMATION SUIT AGAINST MAYOR SEEKS $1 MILLION | LAKE ZURICH: FORMER VILLAGE ATTORNEY SEEKS PUNITIVE DAMAGES
Mar 01, 1997 ... Legal darts being fired by Waukegan attorney Richard Daniels at Lake Zurich Mayor Deborah Vasels have just gotten sharper.Not only has Daniels wanted to reclaim his job as village attorney since filing a lawsuit in December, but now he alleges that Vasels publicly defamed him before he was ...
SHUTDOWN AT FORMER MANVILLE SITE MAY IDLE 80
Mar 01, 1997 ... The Schuller International (formerly Manville) plant in Waukegan may close down its roofing materials operations next fall.Plant employees were notified this month by corporate officials in Denver, Colo., that a decision had been made "to discontinue our Waukegan roofing ...
SCHOOL VOWS
Mar 01, 1997 ... When they enrolled as freshmen, Melissa Dolan and Dave Fries probably never through thye would be getting married four years later.Thursday morning Dolan and Fries tied the know, sort of. With about 70 peopel in attendance the seniors took part in a mock wedding as part of a ...
BELLE HAS A FRIENDLIER RING TO HIM
Mar 01, 1997 ... FORT MYERS, FLA. -- The season of promise begins with a telling sign, one beckoning the public to a stadium stuck in the middle of a cow pasture:"$2 -- ALBERT BELLE -- WHITE SOX." The adjacent highway is already a clogged artery of traffic, and inside, the reformed menace is patiently ...
BIRTHS
Mar 01, 1997 ... Home BirthMATHIESEN, Wendy and Frank of Winthrop Harbor, a daughter, Kaylin Susanne born Feb. 14. Brothers: Tanner, 5, Trace, 2. Grandparents: Ed and Diane Ambrose of Winthrop Harbor; Greg and Kaye Mathiesen of Rockwall, Texas. Lake Forest Hospital, Lake Forest BOYER-ECCLES, ...
GURNEE SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT
Mar 01, 1997 ... I confess a lack of sophistication when it comes to evaluating the many variables surrounding the Gurnee Grade School District's upcoming referendum on school improvements.I am attuned, however, to the level of commitment -- the value -- I place on my daughters' educational ...
GOTTA DO IT
Mar 01, 1997 ... Sunday, March 2VFW Breakfast: Breakfast will be served by the VFW Post No. 7448 and its Auxiliary from 8-11:30 a.m. Sunday at the Post Home, 1112 Sheridan Road, Winthrop Harbor. Cost: Adults: $4, children $2.75. A variety of foods are available. Parking is available at rear of ...
MAD TOMS, LOG PERCH INVADE LAKE
Mar 01, 1997 ... The Lake County Forest Preserve District has announced that there are some rare species of fish in one of the forest preserves.The area is in Grassy Lake in the Grassy Lake Forest Preserve near Lake Zurich which has Flint Creek flowing through it. The species have been identified as ...
YOU MAKE THE CALL
Mar 01, 1997 ... AT ISSUE: 3-1-1 is the new non-emergency number being set aside by the federal government.What's the easiest telephone number for you to remember? Your home phone? Your work phone? Probably 9-1-1 is the best known phone number in Lake County and in other parts of the ...
A GHOST AND THE GAS TAX
Mar 01, 1997 ... AT ISSUE: State's depleted road fund needs replenishing, eventually.The ghost of Richard Ogilvie is haunting the legislative leaders of Illinois, once again. Ogilvie, students of history and political science may recall, was the Republican governor, who in his first and only term from ...
FUNDING GRAYSLAKE PROJECT
Mar 01, 1997 ... The Grayslake mayor and trustees continue to be vague about the financing of their swimming pool/civic center.They are reluctant to announce, especially before an election, that Grayslake taxpayers must assume an $11 million burden to begin construction. To conceal this pending tax ...
CLONING HOCUS-POCUS MIGHT BE BAAAD
Mar 01, 1997 ... So, they cloned a sheep in Scotland.This is big news. Especially for Scotsmen, I suppose. Personally, I don't get all the excitement. Optimists -- those of the "glass is half full" ilk -- claim that this is quite a breakthrough. Well, I'm sorry. On this ...
PHONE SCAMS NOW NO. 1 STATE COMPLAINT
Mar 01, 1997 ... The fascinating world of phone scamming gets bigger and more imaginative each year.In one of the dumber frauds, a 976 (pay service) operator called pagers around the Chicago area last summer to his 976 number. The paged callers hung up when they realized it was a sex line, but they ...
ARMCHAIR QUARTERBACKING THE PRIMARY
Mar 01, 1997 ... Now that the dust has settled on this week's Waukegan Democratic primary, the focus becomes clearer as we runup toward the April Fool's Day general election.Waukegan Mayor William Durkin would appear to have a solid base of 3,000 voters to start with if one takes a look at what he received in ...
CONSERVATIVES WALK THE BIBLE BELT WALK
Mar 01, 1997 ... This was my last winter vacation that I will spend anywhere near that bastion of southern civility known as the Bible Belt. I mention this because my following remarks may not be taken kindly by Bible Belt peers more northerly.I walked the walk. Conservative political religionists say ...
BIG MAN, BIG STRIDES | TYLER SMITHX: LAKE FOREST CENTER PART OF SCOUTS' SECOND-HALF RESURGENCE
Mar 01, 1997 ... Before the 1996-97 prep basketball season started, no one paid much attention to Lake Forest.Deerfield, Libertyville and Warren were the favorites to capture the big prizes like conference and sectional championships this season, while plenty of question marks surrounded the ...
CAPTION: WAUKEGAN'S JONATHON JONES, CENTER, BATTLES WITH EVANSTON'S NAMAMJABA
Mar 01, 1997 ... Caption Only. Waukegan's Jonathon Jones, center, battles with ...
CAPTION: MELISSA DOLAN AND DAVID FRIES, BRIDE AND GROOM, DANCE DURING THE
Mar 01, 1997 ... Caption Only. Melissa Dolan and David Fries, bride and groom, dance ...
HOMETOWN ROOTS PERMIT BUILDER TO SUPPLY HOUSING, BE SUCCESSFUL
Mar 01, 1997 ... Bryan M. Nooner is a home builder who has created a successful enterprise by sticking close to his hometown roots.The 36-year-old president of Hearthside Homes was born and raised in Lockport, where since 1987 his firm has built 1,100 single-family homes and townhouses in a number of ...
MAKING A SPLASH | 5 AREA SWIMMERS ADVANCE TO FINALS
Mar 01, 1997 ... Winnetka -- Eric vanGoethem was the top area performer Friday in qualifying for today's finals in the IHSA state swim meet being held here at New Trier High.Bill Koplos of Stevenson, diver Chris Helland of Libertyville, and diver Jeremy Hoders and Chris Koerner of Deerfield High also rode the ...
CLARENCE "C.W." HILSON
Mar 01, 1997 ... Clarence "C.W." Hilson, Sr., age 56, of North Chicago, Illinois, departed this life Wednesday, February 26, 1997 at home in North Chicago, Illinois.He was born in Albany, Georgia, on March 17, 1940 to the late Tom W. Hilson and Rosa Mae Hilson. He came to Babson Park, Florida, at an ...
MANUELA U. "ELLA" VELASCO
Mar 03, 1997 ... Manuela U."Ella" Velasco, 77, of North Chicago, Illinois passed away on February 28, 1997 at home. She was born June 19, 1919 in The Philippine Islands. She was a member of St. Joseph Holy Family Church, and was a member of Cagayan Circle, A.A.R.P. and Nortenian. She ...
J.D. LOVELL
Mar 03, 1997 ... J.D. Lovell, 90, of Mundelein, Illinois passed away Saturday, March 1, 1997 at the Winchester House in Libertyville.He was born May 19, 1906 in Obion County, Tennessee, and had lived in the Jackson, Tennessee area until 1959, when he moved to Mundelein. He was a member of the ...
WILLIAM J. BUTENSCHOEN
Mar 03, 1997 ... William J. Butenschoen, 79, of Waukegan, Illinois, passed away Sunday, March 2, 1997, at Victory Memorial Hospital, Waukegan, Illinois, following a brief illness.He was born in Des Plaines, Illinois, July 13, 1917 and had resided in Lake County, Illinois, for the past 47 years. On ...
LAURA M. HERTEL
Mar 03, 1997 ... Laura M. Hertel, age 90, of Wauconda, Illinois, passed away Sunday, March 1, 1997 at the Care Center of Wauconda.She was born August 9, 1906 in Fremont Township. A resident of Wauconda since 1994, she formerly resided in Round Lake, Illinois for 10 years, in Turtle Lake, Wisconsin and ...
WALTER "BILLY" MORGAN
Mar 03, 1997 ... Walter "Billy" Morgan, Jr. of Zion, Illinois died March 1, 1997 at Crown Manor in Zion at the age of 66.He was born February 14, 1931 in Tutwiler, Mississippi and came to this area in 1977 from Chicago. He was retired from Chrysler Motors in Kenosha, Wisconsin and was a member of the ...
NAOMI E. NEWBURY
Mar 03, 1997 ... Naomi E. Newbury, age 80, of Waukegan, Illinois died February 28, 1997 at St. Therese Medical Center in Waukegan.She was born April 28, 1916 in Chicago, Illinois. She was a member of Women of the Moose, Waukegan Lodge # 706. She retired from Tangley Oaks Education Center in 1980, ...
MALCOLM F. RINTOUL
Mar 03, 1997 ... Malcolm F. Rintoul, 84, of Mundelein, Illinois, passed away Saturday, March 1, 1997 at the V.A. Medical Center in North Chicago.He was born January 26, 1913 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and had been a Mundelein resident for the past 36 years. He was a U.S. Army veteran, having served as a ...
JOSEPH C. SCOLASTICO
Mar 03, 1997 ... Joseph C. Scolastico, 75, died Saturday, March 1, 1997, at St. Therese Medical Center, Waukegan, Illinois.He was a veteran of World War II, U.S. Army and a 45-year resident of Lake Villa, Illinois. Beloved husband of the late Rose (DeCicco), loving father of Gennaro Scolastico and ...
CHRISTINE MENCHACA
Mar 03, 1997 ... Christine Menchaca, 29, of Waukegan, Illinois, passed away March 1, 1997 at her home.She was born and raised in the Waukegan area, and was a member of Santa Maria del Popolo Church in Mundelein. She is survived by her parents, Alvaro Menchaca of Lake Villa, Illinois and Maria de la ...
CHAMBER GETS ON BANDWAGON FOR GAS TAX
Mar 03, 1997 ... Don't look for the local gas tax issue to go away anytime soon.Latest to weigh in on the subject is the Lake County Chamber of Commerce, which polled its membership and found a vast majority of respondents in favor of instituting a gasoline tax to fund local road improvements and ...
TITLE: POLICE BEAT
Mar 03, 1997 ... 1. ANTIOCH TOWNSHIPGIRL BEATEN: A 14-year-old girl told Lake County sheriff's deputies she was beaten Friday evening by two other juveniles, one a girl. Reports say that near Route 173 and 2nd Street the attacking girl grabbed the victim by the hair, struck her and tried to drag her ...
COMMUNITY CALENDAR
Mar 03, 1997 ... For MondayRound Lake Park Village Board: Meets 7 p.m., Village Hall, 203 E. Lake Shore Drive. Round Lake Building Department Committee: Meets 4:30 p.m., Village Hall, 442 Cedar Lake Road. Waukegan Public Library: Board of Trustees' Personnel Committee meets 3:30 p.m., executive ...
AMUSEMENT TAX MAY BE EXPANDED | TAX RELIEF: COMMITTEE DISCUSSING WAYS TO INCREASE VILLAGE REVENUES
Mar 03, 1997 ... Gurnee -- Movie theater tickets and proposed virtual reality-type games may be targeted for the village amusement tax.The Gurnee Tax Rebate Committee considered these ideas last week at a meeting discussing additional types of revenues to provide future tax relief to residents. While ...
VILLAGE SEES $1 MILLION FROM AMUSEMENT TAX
Mar 03, 1997 ... Gurnee -- Amusement taxes from Six Flags Great America yielded $1,045,300, or about 7 percent of village revenues, for the fiscal year that will end April 30.Each admission carries a 40-cent amusement tax, whether for a child or adult ticket, full price or discounted. In addition, a ...
SHOOTINGS KILL MOTHER, 2 MEN | ONE ARREST: SOURCES SAY JEALOUSY, GANGS RESPONSIBLE
Mar 03, 1997 ... Three people were killed in weekend shootings in Waukegan and North Chicago, each of them wounded in the head by a handgun fired at close range.Two men were apparently killed by a single bullet in the North Chicago case, and in the other incident, a 29-year-old mother of three was killed in ...
PARENTS, KIDS DRAW POLICE TO FIGHTS
Mar 03, 1997 ... Lake County sheriff's deputies investigated three incidents of domestic abuse involving parents and children over the weekend, two in rural Gurnee and one in Riverwoods.The result was one hair-pulling draw between a woman and heradult daughter, a knockdown of a mother by a juvenile son, and a ...
KIDS GET GOOEY GRIP ON ART AS POTTERS
Mar 03, 1997 ... Gurnee -- The sign on the wall reads Get Messy.Take Chances. Make Mistakes. And the students are taking the message to heart. William Stover, 12, brushing glaze onto his frog house -- a foot-long terra cotta tunnel -- stops and slathers the back of his hand with gooey ...
ENGINEERING FOR WATER TOWER PAINTING ON AGENDA
Mar 03, 1997 ... Gurnee -- Providing engineering services for the future painting of the HeatherRidge water tower will come up at 7:30 tonight before the Village Board.The board will also listen to a presentation by James Betustak on the University of Illinois Cooperative Extension Service. The Gurnee ...
FAST-GROWING VILLAGE LEAVING AGING SUBDIVISION BEHIND | THE MANOR: NO SIDEWALKS, SEWER BACKUPS GETTING OLD
Mar 03, 1997 ... Grayslake -- Chris Claussen likes his house.In the nine years he and wife Mary Lou have lived here, they've become parents to two children. Mary Lou's parents live around the corner, and the family has made a lot of friends. Their miniature dachshund, Peanut, is king of the ...
DESTINATION: FREEDOM | HISTORIC HOME JUST ONE COUNTY STOP ON UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
Mar 03, 1997 ... A certain uneasiness came over Keith Hicks as he stood in the middle of a Gurnee basement where runaway slaves had sought refuge in search of freedom."All kinds of things went through my mind," said the Waukegan resident. "I wondered what it must have been like, how they were ...
RESTORING CIVILITY
Mar 03, 1997 ... AT ISSUE: Congressional retreat is a hopeful sign among warring political factions.This coming weekend some 250 members of the U.S. House of Representatives will gather in Hershey, Pa., to try to get to know each other better. It's a great idea, the brain child of U.S. Rep. Ray LaHood, ...
GOTTA DO IT
Mar 03, 1997 ... Tuesday, March 4A Chat With the Author: The Zion-Benton Public Library presents "A Chat with Author Jenkins" at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the library, 2400 Gabriel Ave., Zion, has part of their 60th anniversary celebration. Jerry Jenkins of Beach Park, is the author of more than 90 books and ...
MUNDANE BILLS ALSO ARE ON THE AGENDA
Mar 03, 1997 ... In the next three months of the spring legislative session, most of the news to make its way out of the State Capitol will focus on weighty issues like changing the way the state funds education, cleaning up the prison system and reforming welfare.But don't jump to the conclusion elected ...
POSITIVE RESPONSE TO AGENCY'S FETE
Mar 03, 1997 ... The Volunteer Bureau of Lake Forest/Lake Bluff would like to thank the community for joining in the celebration of the organization's 30th birthday.A heartfelt thanks to merchants who made the festive evening possible. We gratefully acknowledge the many generous individuals who made ...
CHINA'S LEADERS PLOT A NEW COURSE
Mar 03, 1997 ... After 92 roller-coaster years during which he experienced everything from being a pariah -- under house arrest -- to being a national symbol, Deng Xiaoping's ashes are put away.Now, what does the passing of this final vestige of the 1932 creation of the Chinese Communist movement mean to ...
WHERE TO CALL OR WRITE
Mar 03, 1997 ... PRESIDENTWilliam Clinton, The White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., Washington, D.C. 20500. UNITED STATES SENATORS Carol Moseley-Braun, 320 Hart Senate Building, Washington, D.C., 20510; (202) 224-2854; or, 230 S. Dearborn St., Room 3996, Chicago, Ill., 60604; (312) ...