Copyright 2013 Daily Herald, Paddock Publications, Inc. http://www.dailyherald.com/community/barrington/ en-us Sat, 18 May 2013 23:15:14 -0400 http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130518/news/705189894/ http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130518/news/705189894/ Sat, 18 May 2013 17:19:30 -0400 Included in the 550 or so students who donned caps and gowns Saturday at Harper College's commencement was a contingent not yet old enough to vote, but qualified to take vital signs, transfer patients and practice infection control. A total of 18 high-schoolers, 17 from Wheeling High School alone, walked after completing their Certified Nursing Assistant certificate, among the numerous fast-growing dual credit options that Harper offers. http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130517/news/705179735/ http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130517/news/705179735/ Fri, 17 May 2013 16:40:51 -0400 The Community Emergency Response Team of South Lake County, which serves Hawthorn Woods, Kildeer, Lake Zurich, Long Grove and Ela Township, hosts its 6th Annual All-U-Can-Eat Pancake Breakfast on Sunday, May 19 from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Lake Zurich Fire Station 1, 321 S. Buesching Road, Lake Zurich. http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130515/news/705159743/ http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130515/news/705159743/ Wed, 15 May 2013 16:13:16 -0400 Barrington trustees this week approved a four-year contract with the village's public works employees, which retroactively took effect on May 1. The 14 public works employees, who are members of the Teamsters Local 700 union, will receive annual 2 percent raises during all four years of the contract, Barrington Village Manager Jeff Lawler said. http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130515/news/705159839/ http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130515/news/705159839/ Wed, 15 May 2013 10:41:45 -0400 Parents in Barrington Community Unit School District 220 appear to be happy with the status quo — at least when it comes to the school calendar. Casting their votes with red stickers, parents at a public hearing Tuesday supported keeping the calendar as is instead of proposals that would move first-semester finals before winter break. http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130514/news/705149806/ http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130514/news/705149806/ Tue, 14 May 2013 17:48:39 -0400 Classmates cheered as Dominic Szymanski, a fifth grader at Hough Street School in Barrington, made a surprise visit Tuesday, almost two months after the 11-year-old survived being struck by a train. The unexpected reunion came during an all-school assembly for a student performance of "Romeo and Juliet," and a day after Dominic personally thanked the first-responders and good Samaritans who came to his rescue. http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130514/news/705149843/ http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130514/news/705149843/ Tue, 14 May 2013 17:48:22 -0400 Nobody was injured when two cars collided at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday near downtown Barrington. Barrington police said the accident occurred near the intersection of Hough Street and Hillside Avenue, causing midday traffic backups. Both drivers claimed they had a green light. As a result, police couldn't determine fault and didn't issue any citations. http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130513/news/705139580/ http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130513/news/705139580/ Mon, 13 May 2013 23:42:35 -0400 Dominic Szymanski, the 11-year-old Barrington boy who survived being struck by a train in the village on March 15, made his first public appearance Monday night as the police officers, paramedics and good Samaritans who came to his aid nearly two months earlier were honored. "Thank you very much, everyone!" Dominic told the group of well-wishers who gathered outside the meeting room at Barrington village hall. http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130513/business/705139700/ http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130513/business/705139700/ Mon, 13 May 2013 17:12:45 -0400 The Breast Center at Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital near Barrington has earned a full, three-year accreditation from the National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers. http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130518/sports/705189836/ http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130518/sports/705189836/ Sat, 18 May 2013 22:50:10 -0400 Ariel Valles pitched her final regular-season game on the varsity diamond where she has spent most of her high school softball career. The Maine West senior made it a game to remember by tossing a 5-0 shutout over visiting Schaumburg on Saturday in the first game of a doubleheader in Des Plaines. The Saxons took Game 2 behind a 7-hitter from sophomore Shannon Felde. http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130518/sports/705189779/ http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130518/sports/705189779/ Sat, 18 May 2013 22:49:30 -0400 Tess Wasowicz put her best foot forward — and didn't wince. In the end, all was well in a season that wasn't always well for the Palatine star. What the senior described as a "stress reaction" in her left foot kept her from competing on the track for half the season, but the perennial state qualifier left Eastern Illinois University's O'Brien Stadium with a runner-up state medal draped over her neck after joining 3,200-meter relay teammates Kara Burton, Liz Cox and Cassidy McPherson ran strong on the season's final day, finishing second (9:12.21) in the Class 3A race behind only New Trier (9:04.86). Another state veteran, Rolling Meadows senior thrower Morgan Keller, also left Charleston happy. She finished in second place in the discus (149 feet, 7 inches). http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130518/sports/705189795/ http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130518/sports/705189795/ Sat, 18 May 2013 21:43:30 -0400 Lauren Cohn scored 2 goals and Micaela Lonigro added one as St. Viator edged Vernon Hills, 3-2, on Saturday morning to claim the championship of the Class 2A Amundsen regional in Chicago. The No. 4-seeded Lions (11-7) advance to the Lakes sectional and will face top-seeded Deerfield in a semifinal at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday. http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130518/sports/705189825/ http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130518/sports/705189825/ Sat, 18 May 2013 21:23:25 -0400 Mid-Suburban League champion Rolling Meadows improved to 19-9-1 with a 1-0 victory over Addison Trail on Saturday in nonconference play. On senior day for the host Mustangs, senior Austin Reed tossed a complete-game 4-hitter. He induced 13 groundball outs, struck out four, walked none and the hits he allowed were all singles. It was a good thing Reed was so sharp, because Addison Trail's Zach Dowz allowed 2 hits and struck out 15 in a tough-luck complete-game loss. http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130518/sports/705189809/ http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130518/sports/705189809/ Sat, 18 May 2013 21:17:40 -0400 Scouting the upcoming softball postseason in the Fox Valley. http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130518/sports/705189827/ http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130518/sports/705189827/ Sat, 18 May 2013 20:37:51 -0400 The Harper College baseball team dropped its second game in the best-of-three regional championship series against host Waubonsee Community College on Saturday to force a decisive game three Sunday.Waubonsee, the top regional seed, got a dominant pitching performance and prevailed 8-1 to tie the series at one game apiece.Lee Breitzman and Mike Miguel had singles, and that was about the extent of the offense for the Hawks (20-21).The winner of Sunday's noon game advances to the NJCAA World Series in Tyler, Texas. http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130518/sports/705189865/ http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130518/sports/705189865/ Sat, 18 May 2013 18:21:33 -0400 There was nothing but black and green atop the victory stand Saturday afternoon when the Stevenson boys tennis sectional came to a close on the sun-kissed courts of the Vernon Hills Athletic Complex. The Patriots recorded a clean sweep at doubles, then watched a nearly three-hour match finally swing in favor of freshman Benjamin Bush over senior Varun Parekh (Barrington). That outcome gave the hosts Patriots a third-place singles medal to go along its championship singles hardware from Jeremy Bush as Stevenson wrapped up the team title. http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130517/sports/705179531/ http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130517/sports/705179531/ Fri, 17 May 2013 23:54:02 -0400 Trevor Ray held a small bundle of gift-wrapped goodies baked by Stephanie Rowells, wife of Lakes boys track coach Kurt Rowells, when a competitor stopped by to feed the speedy senior some sugary praise. It was none other than Ray's old middle-school relay teammate, Leroy Chapman of Antioch. "Mention that he beat me," Chapman said with a smile, as he patted Ray on the shoulders and back. "Smoked me." Chapman, who finished second to Ray in the 400-meter dash, wasn't the only one blown away by a Lakes runner. If this were a high school baseball game, it would have been called after five innings. Lakes piled up 144 points to capture Friday night's Class 2A Vernon Hills sectional. Defending sectional champ Grayslake Central (76 points) was way back in second. Vernon Hills (69), Antioch (52) and St. Viator (36) rounded out the top five. http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130517/sports/705179549/ http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130517/sports/705179549/ Fri, 17 May 2013 22:57:11 -0400 It took a while, but Hersey was able to defend its home turf in Class 3A girls soccer regional championship play Friday. The Huskies went to two overtimes, and Casey Weyhrich and Lauren Gierman found the the back of the net to propel Hersey past Stevenson 2-0. Morgan Harris earned her 12th shutout of the season for the Huskies. http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130517/sports/705179585/ http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130517/sports/705179585/ Fri, 17 May 2013 21:57:02 -0400 Nobody could have figured these two defensive giants would concede 7 goals Friday night. After all, No. 2 Carmel (19-1-1) had allowed just 8 before the start of its regional final at No. 7 Fremd, who themselves had given just 11 away to its opponents this season. But the defensive buzz leading up to this game quickly disappeared, and would continue to do so until the final whistle signaled the end of 100 minutes of soccer, with the Corsairs outlasting the host Vikings (12-6-3) 4-3 in OT to capture a Class 3A regional crown and a place in Tuesday's Mundelein sectional semifinal against No. 3 Hersey, which defeated Stevenson 2-0. http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130517/sports/705179591/ http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130517/sports/705179591/ Fri, 17 May 2013 21:40:04 -0400 With Barrington's Wyatt Trautwein and Rolling Meadows' Matt Dennis on the mound for their teams Friday in the Mid-Suburban League's baseball championship game, many in the overflow crowd at the Nelson Sports Complex in Rolling Meadows expected a pitchers' duel. They were wrong. What they got was a 17-run, 22-hit slugfest, with Rolling Meadows coming out on top 11-6. http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130517/sports/705179594/ http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130517/sports/705179594/ Fri, 17 May 2013 21:36:35 -0400 North Suburban Conference champ Stevenson dominated day one of its own tennis sectional Friday afternoon, but a pair of four-year veterans and a newcomer to the scene squeezed their way into the picture as play came to and end at the spacious Vernon Hills Athletic Complex. The Patriots are way ahead of the field in the team race with 16 points, and have qualified all four teams into next week's state tournament when Saturday's 9 a.m. semifinals begin day No. 2. http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130517/sports/705179610/ http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130517/sports/705179610/ Fri, 17 May 2013 21:12:07 -0400 It was Senior Day for the Barrington softball team Friday and the Fillies played their final game of the season at the Fields of Dreams. Or did they? "We hope we have one more game here," said Fillies' senior third baseman Loren Krzysko. If the Fillies do, it will mean they're playing in their own Class 4A supersectional on June 3. But there's a long road ahead before that and Barrington, ranked No. 2 in the Daily Herald Top 20 as well as the Class 4A Illinois Coaches Association poll, tuned up for the postseason with a 3-2 win over Burlington Central, the No. 6 team in the Daily Herald Top 20 and No. 3 in the ICA Class 3A poll. http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130517/sports/705179644/ http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130517/sports/705179644/ Fri, 17 May 2013 19:22:50 -0400 The second-seeded Harper College baseball team moved one step closer to reaching the NJCAA Division III World Series on Friday by defeating top-seeded Waubonsee Community College 9-2 in regional play in Sugar Grove. Harper collected 12 hits against the Chiefs. http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130518/news/705189838/ http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130518/news/705189838/ Sat, 18 May 2013 20:08:51 -0400 Karen Sarai Gonzalez came to the United States from Mexico when she was 16 years old knowing little English. Since then she has learned a new language, made new friends, become part of a second family, and earned a degree. Gonzalez was one of about 400 graduates honored at Elgin Community College Saturday, earning an associate of applied science degree in nursing. http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130517/news/705179823/ http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130517/news/705179823/ Fri, 17 May 2013 11:06:37 -0400 Elgin Community College will host students 6 to 16 this summer in week-long day camps offering enrichment opportunities while school is out. Budding lawyers, astronauts, filmmakers, writers, interior designers, artists, chefs, video game makers, actors and musicians will have the chance to hone their skills during the fifth year of ECC's Kids College. http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130516/news/705169737/ http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130516/news/705169737/ Thu, 16 May 2013 17:31:50 -0400 A portrait of Dr. Peter Pleotis still hangs in the doctors' lounge at Northwest Community Hospital, some 14 years after he retired. The former obstetrician and gynecologist, who practiced 37 years at the hospital, left a standard that his colleagues still measure themselves against. Dr. Pleotis died Monday from complications of Parkinson's disease. He was 82. http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130515/news/705159684/ http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130515/news/705159684/ Wed, 15 May 2013 18:30:57 -0400 A 19-year-old working as a volunteer at Willow Creek Church in South Barrington faces charges of aggravated criminal sexual abuse after authorities say he molested an 8-year-old boy. Robert Sobczak, was arrested May 10 and ordered held on $100,000 bail. http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130515/news/705149616/ http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130515/news/705149616/ Tue, 14 May 2013 23:24:34 -0400 Seniors at Jacobs, Hampshire and Dundee-Crown high schools will have the opportunity to take a new math class next year with a textbook designed especially for them. The course was developed by the Alliance for College Readiness which includes Elgin Community College and all of its feeder high school districts — Elgin Area School District U-46, St. Charles Community Unit District 303, Burlington-based Central Unit District 301, and Carpentersville-based Community Unit District 300, the only district to offer the course next year. http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130514/news/705149766/ http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130514/news/705149766/ Wed, 15 May 2013 12:02:43 -0400 An Inverness man pleaded guilty Tuesday to taking a flat screen television from a Palatine retirement home. In exchange for his guilty plea to burglary, Leonardo Adames was sentenced to 24 months probation and ordered to pay $500 restitution. http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130514/news/705149747/ http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130514/news/705149747/ Tue, 14 May 2013 17:07:48 -0400 Seniors at Jacobs, Hampshire and Dundee-Crown high schools will have the opportunity to take a new math class next year with a textbook designed especially for them. The course was developed by the Alliance for College Readiness which includes Elgin Community College and all of its feeder high school districts — Elgin Area School District U-46, St. Charles Community Unit District 303, Burlington-based Central Unit District 301, and Carpentersville-based Community Unit District 300, the only district to offer the course next year. http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130513/news/705139596/ http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130513/news/705139596/ Mon, 13 May 2013 23:14:57 -0400 Community Unit District 300 board members have moved from one charter school proposal to another, holding a public hearing for the Illinois Online Charter School. The charter would be for Northern Kane Educational Corp., which already runs the Cambridge Lakes Charter School in Pingree Grove and serves District 300 students, but also extend to others in the state. http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130513/news/705139846/ http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130513/news/705139846/ Mon, 13 May 2013 13:21:00 -0400 After two years of work, three homes built by Palatine-Schaumburg High School District 211 students are ready for families to move in. An open house will take place from 2 to 4 p.m. on Sunday, May 19, at the homes, located at 72 W. Illinois Ave., 86 W. Illinois Ave. and 151 Boynton Ave. in Palatine. The public will have an opportunity to bid on the houses at the open house events.