SERVINC. T!iF. PHOPLE OF HUNTLEY SINCE 1960 f^fie ^untlep jfarms^tbe UPS 580-360 THURSDAY September 4, 1997 - VOLUME 37 NUMBER 22 - HUNTLEY, ILLINOIS TWENTY-FIVE CENTS NICOR Proposes Natural Gas Transmission Project to Joliet, Illinois. The Viking- operations to begin by late 1999. NICOR, Inc has announced Voyageur Transmission Project The project will utilize existing agreement on a letter of intent lo proposal would affect McHenry, utility corridors for much of its join Calgary-based TransCanada Kane, Will and Kendall counties length. Its initial capacity will be PipeLines Limited and in the Northern Illinois Gas 1.2 billion cubic feet of natural Minneapolis-based Northem States service area. gas per day. Power Company (NSP) as a Future phases of the project Individuals who are interested in sponsor of the Viking Voyageur include extensive input from the the Viking-Voyageur Gas Gas Tiansmission project, a $1 public. Meetings have already Transmission Project may call billion pipeline designed to taken place with some local Julian Brown, Northern Illinois transport natural gas from the officials along the proposed Gas' community relations director Canadian border tothe Midwest pipeline route and several more at (630) 983-8676 extension 2763. IS^^^MMIW United States. meetings are scheduled with For specific landowner issues The Viking Voyageur project is landowners, environmental and and concems, call, toll free, 1-888- a proposed 800-mile, underground community groups. 242-1481. You can also visit the natural gas pipeline that will Current plans are to begin Viking Vayageur web site at originate in Emerson, Manitoba, seeking regulatory and other http://www.vikingvoyageur.com. Canada, then extend east and south approvals this fall, with Femvale Idelette 120 was named the reserve senior heifer calf champion at the 1997 Wisconsin State Fair Angus Show held August 2 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. James Marsh, Huntley, Illinois owns the winning entry. Harmony Road Harvesters to Campus to Hold Start New 4-H Open House Year The Board of Education of By Tim Hoeft Consolidated School District 158 will host an Open House and Dedication Ceremony for the new The Huntley Harvestors 4-H Huntley Middle School and Club will hold the first meeting of Huntley High School on Sunday, the '97-'98 4-H year on Thursday, Sept 7, l-4pm with the dedication Sept. 11 at 7pm in Fellowship at 2pm. The school is located at Hall of the First Congregational the Harmony Road Campus, Church of Hundey. We will be 13719 Harmony Road, west of having a Pizza Party to celebrate Huntley. For additional the installation of our new officers information, contact Dr. Pamela and the beginning of our new 4-H Kraus, assistant superintendent at year. We'll starf talking about 847-669-5248. some of our plans for activities this year, as well as receiving the "Clover" so we can decide which projects to register for. 4-H is open to any youth age 8- 19. To join for this year, you need to be 8 years old by Jan. 1, 1998. We strongly encourage parents to Youth Baseball attend with their youth. Board Election If you want to make new friends, leam about something that To Be Held has always interested you, serve your community, and HAVE FUN On Thursday, September 4, ...Come and leam what 4-H is all 1997 at 7:00pm the Huntley about! Our meetings are always Youth Baseball Board election the 2nd Thursday of the month. If you have any questions or want to Viking Voyageur will be held at the Huntley American Legion. This is an open verify the time and place of our Gas Transmission Project meeting for the election board 4-H meetings, contact our leader, Mc Henry County =»=• a Oonwan members for the 1998 season and Jan Hoeft at 847-669-3941 or 10 20 for any changes to be discussed for President Megan Sunderlage, 847- the next season. 669-3806. Page 2 THE HUNTLEY FARMSIDE-ILLINOIS September 4, 1997 Hard decisions always have to be made when solving problems. Being The opinions expressed open minded makes the task easier. f out MinuU ®00av^ Keeping happy memories when in articles and columns things change helps make life more pleasurable to deal with when our published in this needs change. Our past is a learning experience, our present is plarming newspaper are not new adventures, our future is always unknown. It's our daily presence, necessarily the opinions dealing for a better future. In Praise of Sorrow of The Huntley Living with God's presence in our hearts helps to make good decisions. Enjoying special people in our lives are to be foimd no matter where we To one who has brooded long over the mystery of this world and his own Farmside newspaper, its move to when its called for, and we never forget people we already know. soul no law is more salient and strange than the efficiency of sorrow. Country life is hard work, as well as enjoyable for its peace and open space. It It is joy we all foUow and praise and worship, but what a wastrel and ne'er- publisher or staff. seems like the walls are closing in on our space. It's hard to enjoy when do-well it is. We have laughed and danced and sung, but what has come of it? fighting traffic and the growth that surrounds country life. Everyone gets What indeed but certain mocking echoes, revealing the hollow emptiness of excited about all the changes, yet we forget how important it is to have space our prison of circumstance? While, on the contrary, whatever substantial Additional copies of this week's to take comfort in when needed. Going with my daughter near the city, we find steps mankind has made have been by the crutches of pain. issue of The Huntley Farmside patches of farm fields between all the growing. A little space is left, but how 'Tis the laborer sweating in the field that feeds the world, 'tis the soldier can be purchased at the following hard to get to just work God's fields to enjoy. dying in battle that cures diseased governments, 'tis the workman reeling in newsstands: As soon as everything goes well, we're on the treadmill to fight for more the heat of the steel-mill or riveting girders at dizzy heights that builds our Huntley Supermarket, Rt.47 money, so we go in circles all the time. More money, more space, more houses, 'tis the agonizing mother that brings forth the child, and the in Huntley Center building, higher prices companies need to pass on to consumers. Our high starving poet that furnishes our fancy. Union 76 Gas Station, Rt 47 earnings will cost more for products. The circle never stops. We seem to be What considerable value did we ever get from picnics? Was any scientific Papa G's Restaurant, Rt 47 lost without a compass to guide. We come back right where we started just to discovery, to bless mankind, ever thought out on a pleasure yacht? All the do it all over again. We never venture off the tract to find new paths of life that benefit to the human race that ever came from the piazzas of summer hotels, Copies are also available at the from cabarets and midnight frolics, from all games good or bad, from all can give us joy and happiness. We seem to always stick with the old ways Huntley Farmside newspaper office when times are good or bad. hours of satiety or hilarity, you could put in your eye. Hustle and bustle, cars in a hurry, blood pressure up, anger in the Only from the wounds and bruises of the world comes its healing. Only 11801 Main Street, Huntley response, stress on the job, hurry get the products off fast, more money given, from its sufferings comes its greatness. Only from its dark chambers of put our bodies through hell. We were meant to live a long life, but we push anguish emerge its abiding comforts and graces. ourselves beyond what our bodies can handle. We call this the good life; There was something of deep insight into the paradox of life that wanting more and never happy with what weve been blessed with already. characterized the Puritan's grimness. For cruelty is not far behind pleasure, With all our stress and extra money, we end up paying for ill health that takes lust is the child of lightness, and beneath the smooth surface of the Tfte it all. What price do we want to pay? sensualist lurks the horror of heartlessness. The old country mail wagon, drawn by one horse. By all means let us be happy when we may, abut let us not falter at the door Clip clop along the road, surprise package arwiously waiting. of sacrifice and pain, for only within the crypt of sorrow lie the rich and HuntCetf Time seems forever, yet grateful for the day. mystic treasures of the soul. Old cars bump one another, yet people came out fine. To suffer is to know life. Out of disappointment, disillusion, failure, Tarmside Not enough speed to hurt inside. humiliation, betrayal, bereavement, loneliness, out of such bitter moments Relax as they talked and went on their way. come those supernal, transforming, ennobling qualities that sit like starry How are you doing, compared to "Hey, get out of my way!" crowns upon us, and reveal us as sons of heaven. Suzanne L. Brown Faster and faster, watch out, no one stands a chance. That smile touches our hearts and wins us that is the ripple upon pensive Publisher We all loose in the end.