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Inspector missed fireplace repairsNov 24, 2007 10:00 pm - Q. When we bought our house, the home inspector said the bricks in the fireplace needed to be repointed. He said this meant filling in the gaps in the brick mortar. ...
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Options, alternative to foreclosureNov 24, 2007 10:00 pm - Second of two parts The first article in this series pointed out that when a mortgage borrower is unable to make the required payments, the servicing age...
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Holiday tips keep fliers' spirits up, stress downNov 24, 2007 10:00 pm - Last year when my neighbor decided to wing it and spend the holidays in Mexico, she was concerned about finding a place to enjoy a traditional Thanksgiving feast. I don'...
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Seeing Maui in depth on a honeymoonNov 24, 2007 10:00 pm - Q. I'm planning a fall 2008 wedding and I want to have a Hawaiian honeymoon. Some of my friends say after their wedding they wished they had stayed in one place and ...
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Parents need to know when to hold on or let goNov 24, 2007 10:00 pm - Holding on -- letting go. These are two of the most important, and difficult, dynamics of any relationship. In our families, friendships, jobs, there are times when we n...
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North Aurora firefighter not the only one who can benefitNov 24, 2007 10:00 pm - It helps to have friends in high places -- like at city hall. And Tricia Ordaz has a friend with the city of Batavia who is helping her with a charitable cause for her h...
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Get the buzz about services, programs at your libraryNov 24, 2007 10:00 pm - About two years ago, Mary Witt, our ace marketing person at the North Suburban Library System, got excited about an old marketing concept newly rediscovered. Buzz market...
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Decision to go solar will eventually prove worthwhileNov 24, 2007 10:00 pm - Q. We are thinking of installing solar energy because it's cheaper than PSEG for electricity. Overall, do you think solar is cheaper? What do you think, and do you k...
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A growing school investment providing very little to justify itNov 24, 2007 10:00 pm - If this newspaper's School Finance 101 series showed nothing else, it was that Illinois taxpayers have not been pinching pennies on education. Since 1996, state taxpayer...
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Brick by brick, Stortz builds a championNov 24, 2007 10:00 pm - CHAMPAIGN -- Leave it to a coach to turn an exercise in team-building into, well, an exercise. When the football players at Lake Zurich were handed bricks this summer an...